Arsenicum Metallicum

• ▸Antim.
• ▸ars.
• ▸is said to affect preferably upper left lung.
• ▸Emphysema where the

dyspnoea is excessive. Haarer is the chief authority for this drug. Mattes, who used it after him,

says it is equally effective in right-side cases in old pneumonias and catarrhal pneumonias in

children; in old pleuritic effusions, and in pericardial exudations. The cough is < by eating, and

on lying down. Wandering pains in sciatic nerves. It has caused inflammation of the eyes and

cedema of the face.

Memory weak, esp. of what is read; cannot take in what he reads.—Fears will be

poisoned.

• ▸Low spirited, memory weak.
• ▸Desire to be alone.
• ▸Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry.
• ▸Head feels too large.
• ▸Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears.
• ▸Headache worse stooping and lying down.
• ▸OEdematous swelling of forehead.

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 |.
• ▸brow.
• ▸—Pain I.
• ▸side

extending to ear and eye, with nausea.—Headache when writing, thinking, laughing.—Hair falls

off.

Soreness of eyes; irritated and red or sore.—Upper lid sore and feels

swollen.—Pterygium (r).

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.

Red, itching, burning and bloated. Eyes swelled and watery, burn with coryza. Eyes weak, day and gas light unpleasant.

Swelling, itching, burning, stinging of forehead and face, < at night, > by cold

washing.

The tongue coated white, and shows imprint of the teeth. Mouth sore and ulcerated.

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.

• ▸Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders and spine.
• ▸Pain in spleen down to groin.
• ▸Pain in breast extends to hip and spleen.
• ▸Diarrhoea, burning watery stools with relief of pain.

Diarrhcea, 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.

Catamenia too early and too scanty.—Heat in uterus and vagina;

burning when touched.—Pain in uterus and vagina during period.

Pain in groins; morning, r., evening, 1—Bubo r. < stretching leg; >

• ▸walking; < sitting.
• ▸—Itching in glans, prepuce swollen.
• ▸—Chancres, with burning pain.
• ▸—Offensive

sweat on genitals.—Itching on scrotum.

Stitches in breasts; extending to hip; to spleen.—As if heavy load lying on chest all

night; dreams of danger on water.

• ▸Cutting pain in heart (4 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸); can only lie on 1.
• ▸side.
• ▸—Pulse accelerated in morning

(Sul.).

• ▸Peels off in small scales.
• ▸—Rash on face; or abdomen.
• ▸—Small boils on face.
• ▸—Syphilitic

symptoms reproduced.

Excessive drowsiness all day after an unusually sound sleep at night—Sleepy, but

can't sleep (Bell).

Antimonium Arsenicicum.

• ▸Arseniate of Antimony.
• ▸(Sb2 O3) As Os + 3 p.
• ▸c.
• ▸Trituration.

• ▸Catarrhal pneumonia.
• ▸Emphysema.
• ▸Ophthalmia.
• ▸Pericarditis.
• ▸Phthisis.
• ▸Pleurisy.

Pneumonia. Sciatica.

• ▸Compare: Other antimony salts, Ars.
• ▸, Aur.
• ▸, Laches.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸(wandering pains), Sul.

Sixth potency.

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.