Arsenicum Metallicum
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General
Arsenicum Metallicum.
Metallic Arsenic. As (A. W. 74.9). Trituration.
Clinical
Constipation. Coryza. Diarrhoea. Eyes, affections of. Haemorrhoids. Headache. Itching. Sciatica. Syphilis.
Characteristics
The symptoms of metallic arsenic are very like those of Ars. alb., but not entirely. The following may be regarded as the most peculiar: Symptoms recur every 14 days; coryza every 21 days. Pains extend from one part to another; or leave one part and appear in another. Attacks come suddenly and go slowly, or vice versâ.
Enlarged or swollen feeling of brain, head, eyelids, hands, and fingers. Cutting, burning, stinging pains. Itching in many parts, skin peels off in small scales. Hot bathing < pain in hip.
> Lying on l. side (heart). Washing > itching of anus. Cold bathing > itching of face. < On waking in morning.
Thinking of symptoms < Many symptoms appear on r. side. Ars. met. lights up syphilis after being many years dormant.
Relations
Compare: Iod., Merc., Nat. c. in syphilis; Nux v. (drowsy after sound sleep); Rhus (pain in back, hips, &c.); Sul. (pulse); Ars. alb. Useful in pterygium after failure of Nux v. and Spigel. Antidoted by: Bell. (sore throat); Nat. c. (syphilitic symptoms).
Causation
Laughing (headache). Thinking (headache).
Mind
Memory weak, esp. of what is read; cannot take in what he reads.—Fears will be poisoned.
Head
Heavy, dull feeling in forehead above frontal sinuses in morning
Fulness; on waking at night
As if brain were too large and it would burst
Glow over l. brow
Pain l. side extending to ear and eye, with nausea
Headache when writing, thinking, laughing
Hair falls off.
Eyes
Soreness of eyes; irritated and red or sore
Upper lid sore and feels swollen
Pterygium (r).
Nose
Coryza and hoarseness < in morning.—Eyes red, excoriating tears, nose swollen, head feels enlarged, full as if tied up; sneezing and dyspnoea increase every second day; return every two weeks.
Face
Swelling, itching, burning, stinging of forehead and face, < at night, > by cold washing.
Mouth
Tongue coated white; imprinted with teeth.—Mouth sore; ulcerated.
Throat
Inflamed and ulcerated, several small ulcers.—Violently inflamed throat, pain on swallowing, heat < r. side, after coryza.
11, 12.
Stomach and Abdomen.— < From brandy
Takes away, or causes desire for alcohol
Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders and spine
Pain in spleen down to groin, evening
Pain in breast extends to region of spleen
Bloated abdomen
On waking, cutting, shooting, tormenting belly-ache, followed by burning, watery stool and cessation of pain
Painful swelling in r. groin < on extending leg.
Stool And Anus
Diarrhoea, burning watery stools with, relief of pain, but leaving much debility falls asleep sitting
Constipation
Piles exceedingly painful, bleed a little itching in an us < after rubbing; extending to perineum and scrotum;
> washing with very hot water.
Urinary Organs
Urine hot in evening.—Red, sandy sediment.
Male Sexual Organs
Pain in groins; morning, r., evening, l
Bubo r.
< stretching leg;
> walking;
< sitting
Itching in glans, prepuce swollen
Chancres, with burning pain
Offensive sweat on genitals
Itching on scrotum.
Female Sexual Organs
Catamenia too early and too scanty
Heat in uterus and vagina; burning when touched
Pain in uterus and vagina during period.
Chest
Stitches in breasts; extending to hip; to spleen.—As if heavy load lying on chest all night; dreams of danger on water.
Heart
Cutting pain in heart (4 p.m.); can only lie on l. side.—Pulse accelerated in morning (Sul.).
Limbs
Hands and fingers feel swollen; feel stiff as if they could not be closed
Cracking of finger-joints
Icy coldness or burning of hands and feet
Lameness in r. hip-joint, and down thigh, < moving from seat, > continuing to walk;
< bathing;
< lying on r. side; throbbing < morning, > evening
Sensation of dryness in r. knee-joint.
Generalities
Prostration of strength, weariness.
Skin
Peels off in small scales
Rash on face; or abdomen
Small boils on face
Syphilitic symptoms reproduced.
Sleep
Excessive drowsiness all day after an unusually sound sleep at night.—Sleepy, but can't sleep (Bell).