Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum
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General
Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum.
Arsenious Sulphide. Orpiment. As2 S3. Trituration.
Clinical
Apoplexy. Caries. Children, emaciated. Diarrhoea. Gonorrhoea. Indigestion. Laryngeal phthisis. Walking, late.
Characteristics
The two sulphides of Arsenic, Orpiment and Realgar, have been used in a somewhat general way in cases combining prominent symptoms of both elements; but independent observations and provings have been made with the two salts. Orpiment has the burning pains and sensations of both Arsenic and Sulphur; stitching, tearing, and rheumatic pains moving from place to place. Lameness, staggering, trembling. Spasms, colic, vomiting, and diarrhoea.
Annoying twitching. General debility. Chafing of skin about genitals and behind ears of children. Skin itching, dry, cracked; rhagades; itch.
Jaundice. The periodicity of both Arsenic and Sul. are marked: < every afternoon and evening. > From steam or hot water. > Lying down.
Relations
Compare: Sulph., Calc. c. (children slow in learning to walk).
Mind
Intense torturing anxiety and apprehension.
Head
Needle-like stitches in r. frontal region.
Mouth
Taste bitter
Tongue furred, yellow-white; stiff; swollen; later, dry with disgust for all nourishment
Mouth and throat dry, herpetic ulcers.
Stomach
Burning and gnawing in stomach, with vomiting and diarrhoea.
Stool And Anus
Stools like water, green and slimy and terribly offensive
Diarrhoea daily 8 a.m. and several times during day, but not at night
Diarrhoea, with colic and backache and tenesmus.
Male Sexual Organs
Gonorrhoea, with terrible pains; discharge copious, yellow, constant; burning day and night along entire urethra, with restlessness.
Skin
Eruption on outer side of l. wrist; also on inner side.
Sleep
Starting in sleep, also in falling asleep; as if he would fall out of bed.—Restless at night, excited; dreams with seminal emissions.