Arsenicum Album

► Weakness of memory. ► Confusion of the head. ► Aversion to meeting acquaintances because he imagines having formerly offended them, though he knows not how. ► Sad, tearful anxious mood. ► Fears to be left alone, lest he do himself bodily harm. ► Determined to commit suicide he suffers so. ► Fears he will have to murder some one. ► Sees vermin ; throws away bugs by the handful. ► Tears his body injuries his own person ; insanity. ► Dread of death when alone, or on going to bad. ► Anxious and depressed, fears permanent loss of health. ► Intense anxiety and with restlessness, worse after midnight driving out of bed. ► Great anxiety with constriction of chest and dyspnoea. ► Great fear, restlessness, trembling, cold sweat, prostration. ► Self-willed and tearful. ► Vexation with anxiety, restlessness and chilliness. ► Child captious wants to be carried. ► Cannot find rest anywhere changes place continually, wants to go from one bed to another.

► Sensation as if the brain moved and beat against skull during motion. ► Vertigo as if he would fall. ► Vertigo of malarial origin, with hyperaesthesia of hearing or during pregnancy ; lips and face bluish ; jugular veins undulate. ► Vertigo with loss of consciousness during coughing fits, in asthmatics. ► Heaviness in the head with humming in the ears ; goes off in open air, but returns on entering the room.

► Intense frontal headache with vertigo. ► Drawing pressive pain in right side of forehead. ► Pain as if bruised or sore, over the sore the nose and in the forehead rubbing relieves temporarily. ► Throbbing frontal headache over root of nose. θ Ozaena. ► Headache : beating ; or pressure as from a load on brain ; rising up in bed or motion aggravates ; cold washing relieves temporarily, walking in open air permanently. ► The pain in head and face is especially severe on left side ; cannot lean or rest on that side.

► Erysipelatous burning an swelling of the head with great weakness and coldness worse at night. ► Cannot scarcely bear hair to be touched scalp so sensitive. ► Falling out of the hair. ► Great sensitiveness of head to open air ; wraps up head warmly. ► Chronic eruptions, with pustules and vesicles filled with pus.

► Sensitive to light ; photophobia. ► Snow dazzles with lachrymation. ► Flickering before the eyes. ► Everything appears green ; sees as through a white gauze. ► Weakness of sight ; dim sight. ► Pupils contracted or dilated. ► Eyes sunken or protruding. ► Yellowness of the sclerotica. ► Pain in right eyeball particularly during motion. ► Pulsative throbbing in eyes (at midnight) at every pulsation a stitch. ► Feeling of sand in eyes. ► Violent burning in eyes. ► Chronic trachoma, inner surface of lids rubs eyeballs ; burning, etc. ► Croupous conjunctivitis from ophthalmia neonatorum. ► Conjunctiva looks like a piece of raw beef. ► Trembling of upper eyelid, with lachrymation. ► Eyelids oedematous and spasmodically closed ; also for non-inflammatory oedema (like Apis). ► Agglutination of lids. ► Edges of lids painful during motion, as if dry and rubbing on the ball. ► Extreme redness of inner surface of lids, with uneasy sensation rather than pain. ► Burning in margins of eyelids. ► Ophthalmia of children skin rough, dry and dirty looking photophobia and profuse, acrid lachrymation ; relieved by hot applications.

► Unusual sensitiveness to sound. ► Ringing in the ears. ► Roaring in the ears with each paroxysms of pain. ► Hardness of hearing cannot hear the human voice. (Compare Phosphor.). ► Stitching, tearing from left meatus auditorius outwards, more in the evening. ► Yellow discharge from the right ear, with dryness of the nose the hearing is not weakened. ► Discharge of cadaverous odor, profuse ichorous.

► Offensive smell before the nose. ► Smells of pitch and sulphur alternately, before the nose. ► Cannot bear the smell or sight of food. ► Dryness of the nasal cavity. ► Discharge of burning mucus from the right nostril. ► Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing ; with hoarseness and sleeplessness ; with swollen nose ; alternating with stoppage. ► Watery discharge causes and smarting at nostrils as if sore. ► Distressing stoppage at the bridge of the nose. ► Nosebleed a fit of passion or vomiting. ► Knotty swelling of the nose.

► Expression anxious but not wild ; distressed ; of suffering ; mental agony ; surly ; wild ; hippocratic ; sunken. ► Appearance very pale ; yellow, waxy ; grey ; earthy ; livid, bluish ; flushed ; red and swollen. ► Oedematous swelling of face. ► Twitching of facial muscles. ► Tearing in left half of face. ► Burning, stinging pains, as from red-hot needles. ► Pimples and vesicles, with acrid discharge ; itching, burning ; worse at night, in cold air, better from warmth. ► Cancerous ulcers on the face ; scabbing ; burning pain.

► Severe pains along inferior maxillary nerve. ► Bites tumbler when drinking. ► Sore lips and ulcers in the mouth. ► Eruptions on the lips. ► Contractive quivering or jerking on one side of upper lip, especially when falling asleep.

► Grinding of the teeth while asleep. ► Teeth seem longer, become loose, and are sensitive to pressure and to cold water. ► Pain in some of the teeth, as if loose and would fall out, pain not increased by chewing. ► Jerking toothache extending to the temple relieved or removed by sitting up in bed and by external warmth. ► Toothache relieved by heat of stove. ► Swollen bleeding gums, painful to touch.

► Taste : woody, dry ; unpleasant ; sweetish in throat ; sour ; metallic ; bitter ; putrid. ► Food taste : too salty ; not salty enough ; insipid ; sour. ► Beer tastes flat. ► Less of power of speech. ► Violent burning on the tongue. ► Swelling about root of tongue externally and internally. ► Coating : sides furred, with red streak down the middle and redness of tip ; thickly furred, edges red ; whitish ; yellowish-white ; as if painted white ; brown. ► Tongue : dry, and morbidly red, with papillae considerably raised at the tip ; lead-colored. ► Pale, doughy, takes print of teeth ; neuralgia. ► Edge of tongue red, takes imprint of teeth. ► Gangrene of tongue ; spots on tongue, burning like fire.

► Dryness of mouth with violet thirst. ► Burning in mouth pharynx and oesophagus. ► Much saliva ; must spit often. ► Saliva decreased. ► Aphthae in mouth ; they become livid or bluish. ► Painful blisters in mouth and on tongue.

► Dryness, soreness, scraping and burning in fauces and throat. ► Sensation of constriction of throat. ► Swallowing very difficult and painful. ► Paralytic condition of pharynx and oesophagus. ► Burning when swallowing ; food goes down to region of larynx, when it is ejected again. ► Diphtheritic membrane is dry looking and wrinkled.

► Appetite increased. ► Desire for : sour things ; brandy ; coffee ; milk ; lard. ► Loss of appetite with increased thirst. ► Aversion : to food ; to butter. ► Thirst and dryness of mouth, with peculiar thick while saliva. ► Excessive thirst, drinking does not refresh. ► Drinks often, but a little at a time ; or may drink much and often. ► Frequent unquenchable thirst. ► Great thirst but water molests the stomach. θ Dropsy. ► Burning thirst, without especial desire to drink.

► Gastro-intestinal symptoms worse ; after ice ; ice cream ; ice water ; vinegar ; sour beef ; tobacco (chewing) ; alcoholic drinks ; bad sausages ; cheese ; fruits. ► Bad effects from inordinate use of spirituous liquors. θ Delirium tremens ; vomiting ; diarrhoea ; hemorrhages.

► Hiccough frequent ; also when fever ought to have come. ► Abortive eructations fruitless retching ; irregular, convulsive action of stomach, instead of ordinary peristalsis. ► Qualmishness 11 A.M. and 3 P.M. ► Nausea and complete loss of appetite. ► Long-lasting nausea, with faintness, tremor ; heat all over and shuddering. ► Violent vomiting of food and gastric fluids ; vomits usually scanty. ► Vomit bitter green yellow liquid ingesta ; brown turbid matter ; streaked with blood ; blood ; black first water, then thick glairy, or grass green mucus, lastly blood. ► Also immediately after food or drink. ► Frequent vomiting with apprehension of death.

► Pressure in the region of the stomach ; weight, as of a stone. ► Stomach tender to pressure. ► Intense heat and burning in stomach and pit of stomach. ► Violent, tearing, boring pain and cramp, in the stomach and intestines. ► Pain in the stomach relieved by sweet milk. ► Great anxiety about the epigastric region. ► Epigastrium distended and hard ; umbilicus sensitive to touch. ► Pain in the pit of the stomach arresting breathing.

► Painful bloatedness in the right hypochondrium, with burning pain. ► Pain in region of liver increased on pressure. ► Stitches in right hypochondrium, extending to region of stomach, ending as violent pressure over whole abdomen. ► Drawing, stitching pain under the left hypochondrium. ► Tensive, pressive pain in spleen. ► Induration and enlargement of spleen and liver.

► Abdomen distended and painful. ► Rumbling in bowels. ► Cutting pains in abdomen. ► Violent pains in abdomen, with great anguish, has no rest anywhere, rolls about on floor and despairs of life. ► Pains about navel, aggravated by lying on back. ► Pain in right side of abdomen, near lumbar region, spreading through abdomen to right groin and same side of scrotum. ► Groins : contractive pain in left ; as if sprained in right, when stooping ; digging, burning like a boil ; stitches. ► Swelling of inguinal gland.

► Involuntary stools and urine. ► Diarrhoea after chilling stomach by taking cold substances. ► Diarrhoea : slimy, green mucus ; of pieces of mucus, with tenesmus and cutting pain in anus ; stools small, with tenesmus, first dark green feces, afterwards dark green mucus ; black mucus, with persistent vomiting ; black, acrid and putrid ; yellow, with tenesmus and burning pain ; like dirty water ; of blood and water. ► Purging, with extreme coldness of the extremities. ► Diarrhoea worse after midnight, also in morning after rising. ► Anus red and sore. ► Burning in anus. ► Constipation with pain in the bowels. ► Hemorrhoids : with stitching pain when walking or sitting, not when at stool ; with burning pain, relieved by heat. ► Hemorrhages from bowels, dark, offensive. θ Typhus.

► Frequent urging, with profuse discharge. ► Involuntary micturition. ► Urine scanty, passed with difficulty, burning during discharge. ► Retention of urine, as if the bladder were paralyzed. ► Urine : dark brown ; dark yellow ; turbid ; sediment of red sand ; mixed with pus and blood. ► Haematuria. ► Albuminuria. ► Uraemia, anguish with thoughts of murder, especially in drunkards.

► Glans blue-red, swollen and cracked. ► Excessively painful inflammation and swelling of the genitals, increasing almost to gangrene. ► Herpes preputialis chronic (after failure of Rhus). ► Scrotum oedematous. ► Emissions during diarrhoeic stool.

► Increased sexual desire, with involuntary discharge of mucus. ► Menses : too early ; too profuse ; exhausting menorrhagia. ► Hemorrhage, with lancinating, burning pains ; sudden, of profuse dark blood. ► During menses, sharp sticking in rectum, thence to anus and pubes. ► Painful menses. ► Amenorrhoea. ► Scanty pale menses. ► Thin, whitish, offensive discharge instead of the menses. ► Leucorrhoea : profuse, yellowish, thick and corroding. ► Stitches from the abdomen down into the vagina. ► Burning or tensive pain in the ovary. ► Pressive, stitching pains in region of right ovary. ► Drawing, stitching pain from region of ovary into the thigh, which feels numb and lame ; worse from motion, bending, or sitting bent. ► Burning, throbbing, lancinating pain in uterine region.

► Burning pains in mammae ; relief from motion.

► Voice : trembling ; weak ; unequal, now strong and again weak ; hoarse ; rough ; hollow ; loss of voice. ► Simulating membranous croup ; caused by checked or non appearing eruptions, especially by hives or urticaria. ► Laryngeal lining dirty red or anaemic, with bluish-red patches ; indolent, or burning ulcers ; laryngeal phthisis. ► Sudden catarrh, threatening suffocation at night.

► Respiration short and anxious. ► Difficult breathing with much anxiety. ► Breathing asthmatic ; must incline the chest forward ; must spring out of bed at night. θ Asthma. ► Air passages seem constricted, cannot breathe fully. ► Dyspnoea increased after coughing, with sensation of constriction of chest or stomach. ► Loss of breath immediately on lying down, in the evening, with whistling and constriction in the trachea. ► Oppression increased by stormy weather and heavy air ; walking quickly ; ascending ; warm and tight clothing ; but especially from discharges of warmth and cold. ► Wheezing respiration, with cough and frothy expectoration, looking like beaten white of egg. ► Great dyspnoea ; face cyanotic and covered with cold sweat ; great anxiety. θ Emphysema. ► Whistling expiration.

► Excited by smoky sensation or as of vapors of sulphur in larynx, or by constant titillation in larynx. ► Preceded by jerking in hips, which seemed to excite cough. ► Cough : when going into cold, open air ; especially after drinking ; evenings, directly after lying down ; has to sit up ; afterwards contractive pain in the epigastric region, causing the cough to continue ; weakness. ► Cough with bloody sputum. ► Night cough ; must sit up as soon as cough commences ; 1 A.M., with gasping for breath. ► Deep, dry, unceasing cough ; coughs dependent upon asthma, cyanosis, heart diseases ; also associated with great exhaustion, collapse, anaemia, nervous irritability. ► Expectoration ; frothy saliva ; thick yellow ; green, bitter ; salty ; mucus streaked with blood. ► Haemoptysis after loss of blood ; burning heat all over, especially with pain between scapulae ; in drunkards or from suppressed menses.

► Tightness of chest as if bound with a hoop. ► Constriction of chest : with great anxiety and restlessness, evenings ; when going up hill. ► Stitches in upper right chest ; in left chest only during inspiration. ► Stitching pain in sternum, from below up, when coughing. ► Pleurisy with tendency to syncope. ► Chilliness in chest, evenings. ► Burning in the chest. ► Catarrh on the chest, great suffocation ; child tosses about in agony. ► Gangrene of the lungs with green, ichorous sputum.

► Palpitation ; after suppressed herpes or foot-sweat ; with small, irregular pulse ; strong, visible and audible, chiefly at night. ► Palpitation of heart, with anguish, cannot lie on back ; increased by going up stairs. ► Heart beats more rapidly and stronger when lying on back. ► Angina pectoris ; sudden tightness above the heart ; agonizing precordial pain ; pains into the neck and occiput ; anxiety, oppression ; breathing difficult, fainting spells ; least motion makes him lose his breath ; sits bent forward or with head thrown back ; worse at night, especially from 1 to 5 A.M. ► Hydropericardium with great irritability, anguish and restlessness ; especially in uraemia, etc. ► Pulse : accelerated ; quick and small ; quick and weak ; rapid and weak ; small, very frequent, and irregular, sometimes imperceptible ; thread-like.

► Yellow spots on chest. ► Stitches and pressing in sternum.

► Nape stiff, as if bruised or sprained. ► Neuralgic pains on left side of neck. ► Drawing pains : between scapulae ; necessitate lying down ; from small of back to the shoulders. ► Stiffness of the spinal column, beginning in the region of the os coccygis. ► Loss of strength in small of back. ► Bruised pain in small of back.

► Tearing-jerking pain in right shoulder-joint and shoulder. ► Pain in the arm of the side on which one rests, at night. ► Drawing, jerking and tearing from the tips of the fingers into the shoulder. ► Hands and lower half of forearm dark and livid. ► Small reddish spot on left elbow-joint, soon forming a blister, becoming in a few hours as large as a hazelnut and turning black ; similar blisters appear on right elbow and next day on left leg. ► Trembling of hands. ► Ulcers in finger tips with burning pains. ► Tingling in fingers.

► Violent shooting-tearing pain in the tip, thigh, groin and left foot. ► Pain back of great trochanter, extending down the thigh, posteriorly, then toward the knee, anteriorly, embracing the patella, down the tibia to the ankle ; pain relieved somewhat by flexion of the knee. ► Cracking of knee when walking. ► Swelling and pain of knees. ► Stiffness of knees and feet, alternating with tearing pains. ► Pain as if beaten in knee-joint. ► Coldness, especially of knees and feet. ► Itching tetters in the bend of the knees. ► Cramp in calves. ► Drawing pain in legs when resting feet upon the floor, while sitting. ► Swelling of feet, oedematous. ► Weakness or weariness of feet, numbness. ► Tearing in the heels. ► Intolerable itching of feet and thighs. ► Toes drawn downwards. ► Ulcers on soles of feet and toes. ► Sore pain in ball of toes, while walking, as if chafed. ► Sensation as if the lower limbs would break down, on going up stairs. ► Uneasiness in lower limbs, cannot lie still at night, has to change, position of feet constantly or walk about to get relief. ► Gressus galinaceous.

► Twitching ; trembling ; violent starting while falling asleep ; numbness ; lassitude ; weariness. ► Excessive weakness and exhaustion of limbs oblige him to lie down. ► Violent tearing in the upper and lower limbs ; cannot rest on the affected side ; pain least felt when moving affected part.

► Great restlessness, cannot find rest in any position. ► Starting when falling asleep. ► Hysterical spasms, followed by exhaustion. ► Frequent fainting. ► Convulsions with opisthotonos ; from at mouth. ► Chorea, uncomplicated cases. ► Child lies as if dead ; pale but warm ; breathless for sometime. ► Epileptic convulsions ; tetanic spasm. ► Exhaustion from the slightest exertion. ► After great exertions ; climbing mountains, etc. ► Very rapid sinking of strength.

► Yawning and stretching. ► Frequent startings in and from sleep ; awakened by pains, worse 12 P.M. ► Sleeplessness with restlessness and moaning ; mal-nutrition ; nerves exhausted. ► After sleep, feels as if he had not slept enough ; eyes are weary ; cannot get out of bed. ► Dreams : full of care, sorrow and fear ; about thunder-storms ; fire ; of black water and darkness ; of death.

► Undefined development of chill (and heat) ; either simultaneously, or in alternation. ► Shuddering without thirst, worse in open air. ► Chill in forenoon not relieved by anything. ► Internal chill, with external heat and red cheeks. ► Chill without thirst, followed by heat with much thirst and no sweat ; a sweat comes hours afterwards whereupon ailments increase ; liver and spleen swollen. θ Dropsy. ► External coldness, with cold, clammy sweat. ► During chill (and during heat) aggravation of symptoms which existed previously, but were a slight importance. ► Nursing children having no distinct chill must be covered ; are very thirsty. ► Blue nails and lips during chill. ► Internal burning, dry heat ; inclination to uncover. ► Dry heat, evening and night, with thirst and frequent drinking of but a small quantity at a time. ► Excessive heat with small, feeble and very frequent pulse ; mouth dry, tongue so dry it is painful to move it ; thirst followed by adipsia. θ Typhoid. ► Heat at night, as if hot water were poured over one. ► Sweat at the end of fever, with cessation of all previous symptoms ; sweat relieves with pains ; rheumatism. ► Sweat in the morning without relief ; cold clammy or sour and offensive smelling. ► Sweats on going to sleep ; goes off after sweating a little. ► Profuse sweat about the knees, at night. ► During the sweat unquenchable thirst.

► Periodically returning complaints. ► Typhus tertianus antepones.

► Burning in internal and external parts. ► As if hot water flowed through the blood-vessels, preventing sleep. ► Sense of warm air streaming up the spine into the head. θ Preceding epileptic attacks.

► Great emaciation, clay-colored face, blue margins around eyes, great weakness of all limbs, want of disposition to do anything and constant inclination to rest. ► Muscles lax. ► General dropsy or of thoracic or abdominal cavities. ► Post-Scarlatinal dropsy ; waxy skin. θ Morbus Brightii.

► Skin very white and pasty looking, later yellow, scaly. ► Skin dry and scaly. ► Blue spots on skin. ► Burning, itching parts painful after scratching. ► Very painful black eruption. ► Pimples burning violently, causing almost unendurable anguish. ► Herpetic eruption itching and burning ; eczema, dry desquamation burning pruritus. ► Urticaria, large and very prominent. ► Eruption resembling red petechiae, from the size of a fleabite to that of a lentil. ► Eruption delays or suddenly pales, becomes livid or intermixed with petechiae, malignant sore throat : dropsy ; or eruption well out, but with disproportionate weakness, mild delirium, vomiting, etc. θ Scarlatina. ► Black vesicles causing burning pain. ► Variola, asthenic cases ; pustules sink, areolae grow livid ; also in hemorrhagic and septic forms. ► Ulcer, with high edges ; discharges black, coagulated blood. ► Ulcer on leg covered with grey crust and surrounded with an inflamed border ; burning and painful. ► Painful sensitiveness of old ulcers. ► Purulent, fetid secretions from eruptions. ► Gangrenous aspect of sores. ► Carbuncles. ► Cancers with burning pain. ► Itch-like eruption in bend of knees.

► Hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl. ► Suits the complaints of drunkards.

► Cognates : Anthrac. (carbuncle ; anthrax ; pyaemia, etc.) ; Acet ac. (dropsy) ;

Acon. (fever, paralysis, sudden chilling) ; Apis, Apoc. can. ; Baptis.

(sepsis ; typhoid) ; Bismuth (vomiting) ; Borax (psoriasis) ; Cinchon.

(debility, loss of fluids, dropsy, ague, gangrene ulcers, haemoptysis, diarrhoea, effects of putrid water, marsh-poisons, etc.) ; Carb. an. (debility, glandular affections) ; Carbo veg.

(debility, want of reaction, sepsis, especially ailments from putrid meats, fish or water, etc.) ; Calc. ars. (in epilepsy with heart symptoms) ; Camphor.

(collapse, coldness, etc.) ; Capsicum (stomacace) ; Crotal. (blood poisoning) ;

Cuprum (cholera, lack of reaction, paralysis, etc.) ; Cupr. ars. (neuralgia of viscera) ; Ferrum (eruption lienteria, dropsy, chlorosis, neuralgia, etc.) : Graphit.

(chronic eruptions) ; Hydrast. (superior in lupus) ; Ipec.

(chills and fever ; asthma ; catarrh of nose or chest with suffocation, summer complaint, especially in fat children ; diarrhoea ; vomiting, etc.) ; Iris vers. ; Kali bichr. (often superior in lupus ;

Laches. (in sepsis, etc.) ; Mur. ac. Nitr. ac.

(typhoid state ; great debility, ulcers easily bleeding, diphtheria, etc.) ; Nux vom. (better in neuralgia, worse in morning) ; Phosphor. ;

Plumbum (paralysis, colic, tremors) ; Rhus tox. (mild delirium, erysipelas, ophthalmia, typhoid fever, with prostration and involuntary stool ; skin symptoms, etc.) ; Secal.

(cholera, diarrhoea ulcers, gangrene, etc.) ; Sulphur ; Sulph. ac. ; Tabac. ;

Tereb. (metritis, stupor with dark, turbid urine, etc.) ; Ver. alb. (coldness, cholera, cholera morbus, cold sweat). ► Complementary to All. sat. ► Bad effects from tobacco-chewing ; abuse of quinine ; iron or iodine. ► Antidotes to Arsen. of large doses : sesquioxide of iron ; hydrated peroxide of iron, or precipitated carbonate of iron ; juice of sugar-cane, or honey-water.

Limewater in copious draughts, emetics of sulphate of zinc. Carbonate of potash and magnesia, shaken in oil, Infusion of astringent substances. Large quantities of diluent drinks. ► Of small doses : Camphor., Cinchon., Chin. sulph., Ferrum, Hepar, Iodium, Ipec., Nux vom., Sambuc., Tabac., Veratr. ► Arsen. antidotes : Carb. veg., Cinchon., Ferrum, Graphit., Iodium., Laches., Mercur., Nux vom., Verat. ► Lead poisonings, and evil effects of alcohol.