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Arsenicum Album

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General Characteristics

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Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion.

Irritable weakness.

Burning pains.

Unquenchable thirst.

Burning relieved by heat.

Seaside complaints.

Injurious effects of fruits, especially watery ones.

Arsenicum Album gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency.

Fear, fright, and worry.

Green discharges.

Infantile Kala-azar.

Septic states.

Emaciation, rapid and excessive.

Ailments from ptomaine poisoning.

Periodicity of symptoms.

Marked prostration, out of proportion to the apparent illness.

Offensive discharges.

Complaints appearing on the left side.

Tendency to gangrene.

A state of collapse.

Great anxiety and restlessness.

Great sensitiveness to cold.

Debility following acute diseases.

Pains are often worse at night.

Thirst for small quantities, frequently.

Discharges are acrid and excoriating.

Great prostration with rapid sinking of vital forces.

Cachexia.

Extreme anxiety and restlessness, cannot remain in one place.

Fear of death, incurable disease, being alone.

Irritable, easily angered, and critical.

Despair of recovery.

Mental restlessness, changing place continually.

Delusions of being poisoned or having an incurable disease.

Great anguish and weeping.

Fastidious and meticulous; everything must be in its place.

Suicidal thoughts, but fears death.

Easily frightened, especially at night.

Depression with anxiety.

Avarice, miserly.

Religious melancholy.

Feeling of insecurity.

Hypochondriacal.

It feels forsaken.

It feels as if it has committed the unpardonable sin.

The patient cannot bear to be contradicted.

Impatient.

The patient desires company but is cross and irritable.

Memory weak.

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Burning headache, relieved by cold applications.

Vertigo with nausea and vomiting.

The head feels heavy.

Neuralgic headaches, especially after mental exertion.

Scalp sensitive to touch.

Headaches are often periodic.

Pressure in the forehead.

Headache better from wrapping head up warmly.

Heaviness, weakness, and confusion, chiefly in a room, > in open air.

Vertigo, principally in the evening, on shutting the eyes, on walking, or in the open air.

Throbbing, oppressive, stunning, drawing, shooting, and burning pains.

Headache > by applying cold water or walking in open air.

Periodical headaches, especially after meals, in the morning, at night, and in the evening in bed.

Pain in scalp and integuments as if ulcerated or bruised.

Erysipelatous burning swelling, with great weakness and coldness; worse at night.

Burning itching, scurfy eruptions, pustules, and corroding ulcers on scalp.

Head feels too heavy.

Headache with nausea and vomiting.

Burning pains in the eyes, relieved by cold compresses.

Photophobia, aversion to light.

Swollen eyelids, especially in the morning.

Lachrymation, acrid and burning.

Ulceration of the cornea.

The eyes feel dry and burning.

Margins of lids red and swollen.

Aching, burning, and shooting pains, < by light and eye movement.

Inflamed and red, with redness of conjunctiva or sclera.

Inflammatory or edematous swelling of eyelids.

Great dryness of eyelids.

Corrosive tears.

Agglutination of eyelids.

Excessive photophobia.

Specks and ulcers on cornea.

Eyes dull and deep sunk.

Dim vision.

Burning in eyes.

Lachrymation, acrid.

Burning pains in the ears.

Offensive discharge from the ears.

Noises in the ears, ringing or buzzing.

Hearing impaired.

The ears feel stopped up.

Squeezing, sharp pains, shootings, voluptuous tickling, and burning.

Tinkling, roaring, buzzing, and sound as of bells.

Sensation as if ears were stopped, and hardness of hearing.

Offensive discharge from ears.

Acrid, watery discharge from the nose, excoriating the nostrils.

Obstruction of the nose.

Sneezing without relief.

Epistaxis, bleeding from the nose.

Coryza with thin, watery discharge.

Nostrils ulcerated and painful.

Aching pains and swelling of nose.

Violent bleeding.

Desquamation of skin in furfurs.

Ulceration at top of nostrils, with fetid ichor and bitter taste.

Violent sneezing.

Great dryness of nostrils.

Fluent coryza with stopped nose, burning, and secretion of serous, corrosive mucus.

Nose feels stopped up, even with fluent discharge.

Sensitive to odors.

Throat

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Burning pain in the throat, relieved by warm drinks.

Dryness of the throat.

Ulceration of the throat.

Difficulty in swallowing.

Hoarseness.

The throat feels constricted.

Tonsils swollen and inflamed.

Burning, scraping, sharp pain.

Inflammation and gangrene.

Spasmodic constriction of throat and esophagus, with inability to swallow.

Deglutition painful and difficult.

Sensation of great dryness, inducing continual drinking.

Accumulation of grayish or greenish mucus of salt or bitter taste.

Throat feels constricted.

Respiratory

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Asthma, worse at night, relieved by sitting up and bending forward.

Dry, hacking cough, especially at night.

Burning pain in the chest.

Shortness of breath.

Rattling mucus in the chest.

Pneumonia with great prostration.

Cough worse lying down.

Cough after drinking.

Respiration rapid and shallow.

The lungs feel constricted.

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Cardiac:

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Palpitations with anxiety and fear.

Irregular pulse.

Angina pectoris, with burning pain.

Weak heart.

Pulse feeble and rapid.

The heart feels enlarged.

Chest

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Oppression of the chest.

Burning sensation in the chest.

Hydrothorax.

# Stomach

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Burning pain in the stomach, relieved by warm drinks.

Vomiting and diarrhea, both occurring simultaneously.

Unquenchable thirst, but drinks little and often.

Aversion to food.

Gastric ulcers.

Hematemesis, vomiting of blood.

Stomach sensitive to touch.

Nausea and vomiting after eating.

Belching, sour and offensive.

Abdomen

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Burning pain in the abdomen.

Distention of the abdomen.

Colic.

Ascites.

Abdomen tender to pressure.

Rumbling in the bowels.

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Rectum:

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Burning pain in the rectum.

Diarrhea, watery, dark, offensive, and exhausting.

Dysentery.

Involuntary stools.

Prolapsus ani.

Hemorrhoids, burning and painful.

Stools black and bloody.

Constipation alternating with diarrhea.

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Urinary:

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Burning pain in the bladder and urethra.

Scanty urine.

Albuminuria.

Hematuria, blood in the urine.

Incontinence of urine.

Diabetes.

Urine dark and offensive.

Frequent urging to urinate.

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Retention, as from paralysis of bladder.

Frequent inclination to make water, even at night, with abundant emission.

Incontinence, which escapes almost involuntarily, even at night, in bed.

Difficult and painful emission.

Burning in urethra on making water.

Urine scanty and dark.

Albuminuria.

Males

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Impotence.

Burning pain in the testicles.

Prostatitis.

Genitals cold and clammy.

Females

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Burning pain in the uterus and ovaries.

Leucorrhea, acrid and offensive.

Metrorrhagia, uterine hemorrhage.

Prolapsus uteri.

Menses too early and profuse.

Vagina dry and burning.

Burning pain in the back.

Weakness of the back.

Pain in the small of the back.

Extremities

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Burning pain in the limbs, relieved by heat.

Weakness and trembling of the limbs.

Coldness of the extremities.

Numbness of the extremities.

Edema of the extremities.

Sciatica.

Ulcers on the legs.

Joints swollen and painful.

Cramps in the calves.

Restless legs.

Dry, scaly skin.

Eruptions, papular, vesicular, or pustular.

Burning itching, relieved by scratching.

Urticaria.

Eczema.

Psoriasis.

Carbuncles.

Gangrene.

Skin sensitive to touch.

Skin pale and cold.

Vesicles that turn into ulcers.

Sleep

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Restless sleep.

Sleeplessness, especially after midnight.

Anxious dreams.

Dreams of death and funerals.

The patient wakes up frightened.

Sleep unrefreshing.

Worse (<):

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After midnight.

Cold.

Cold drinks or food.

Lying down (especially on the affected side).

Exertion.

Seaside.

Damp weather.

Suppressed eruptions.

Fruit, especially watery fruit.

Right side.

From being alone.

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Cold and damp weather.

Lying on the affected side or with head low.

Night aggravation; < midnight and after; < 3 AM.

Cold drinks.

Eating ices, poor diet, fruits.

Sea-bathing and sea-travelling.

Climbing mountains.

Strains.

Fit of passion, care, grief, fright.

Out of doors (coryza).

Conversation.

After meals.

Morning on rising.

Evening in bed.

Repose after prolonged exercise.

Suppressed eruptions.

Alcohol.

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Better (>):

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Heat.

Warm drinks or food.

Sitting up and bending forward.

Motion (slight).

Company.

Dry weather.

Wrapping up warmly.

Warmth; loves warmth.

Lying with head high.

External heat.

Standing posture.

Walking.

Movement of body.

Warm drinks.

Wrapping up warmly.

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Complementary

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Rhus; Carbo; Phos; Thuja; Secale

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Allium Sativum, Carbo Veg, Phosphorus.

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Antidotal to:

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Lead poison

Antidotes

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Opium; Carbo; China; Hepar; Nux

Chemical Antidotes

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Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron; Lime Water

Compare

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Arsenic stibatum 3x (Chest inflammations of children, restlessness with thirst and prostration, loose mucous cough, oppression, hurried respiration, crepitant rales)

Cenchris contortrix; Iod; Phosph; China; Verat alb; Carbo; Kali phos

Epilobium (intractable diarrhea of typhoid)

Hoang Nan

Atoxyl Sodium arseniate 3x, sleeping sickness; commencing optic atrophy

Levico Water (containing Ars, Iron and Copper of South Tyrol): Chronic and dyscratic skin diseases, chorea minor and spasms in scrofulous and anćmic children. It favors assimilation and increases nutrition. Debility and skin diseases, especially after the use of higher potencies where progress seems suspended. Ten drops in wine glass of warm water 3 times a day after meals (Burnett)

Sarcolactic acid (influenza with violent vomiting)

Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin.

But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to 3x trit. Repeated doses advisable.

Other remedies to consider: Ipecacuanha, Bryonia, Nux vomica, Sulphur.

Anthracinum (septic conditions, boils, carbuncles).

Extreme debility and prostration

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Acts on the entire alimentary tract.

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Marked restlessness, even in stupor, with anxious moaning

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Acts more powerfully on those subsisting on vegetable-based diets.

Hemorrhagic tendencies; acts on both blood and blood vessels.

Great thirst, but drinks little and often, wants cold water, but rejects it when warm.

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Great anxiety and fear of death

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Puffiness and dropsical conditions.

Irritation of mucous membranes.

Periodic sufferings.

Predominantly right-sided affections.

Cold and clammy skin.

Cancerous diathesis; has cured epithelioma of the lips.

Fine skin and glossy hair (in contrast to dry, rough skin in disease).

Emaciation with ravenous hunger.

Burning sensation internally and externally.

Great prostration out of proportion to the disease.

Cachexia, marasmus.

Sensitive to cold.

Faintness and sinking spells.

Offensive discharges.

Nightly aggravation.

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Fear of death; believes death is near

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Melancholy, sadness, care, and chagrin; cries and complaints.

Religious melancholy at times.

Anguish, driving out of bed at night and from place to place in the daytime.

Anxiety of conscience, as if a crime was committed.

Inconsolable anguish with lamentations.

Hypochondriacal humor with restlessness and anxiety.

Indecision and changeable humor; demands one thing, then another, rejecting everything after obtaining it.

Despair, finds no rest, especially at night, with anguish.

Despondency, despair, weariness of life, inclination to suicide.

Excessive sensibility and scrupulousness of conscience; gloomy ideas.

Ill-humor, impatience, vexation, inclination to anger, repugnance to conversation, inclination to criticize, and great susceptibility.

Caustic and jesting spirit.

Extreme sensibility of all organs; noise, conversation, and bright lights are unbearable.

Great apathy and indifference.

Great weakness of memory.

Stupidity and dullness.

Delirium, with a great flow of ideas.

Loss of consciousness and sensation; dotage; maniacal actions and frenzy.

Madness; loss of mind from alcohol abuse.

Avarice, miserly.

Fastidious; great orderliness; everything must be in its place.

Irritability.

Suspicious; thinks they are being poisoned.

Pale, hollow, and cadaverous.

Yellowish, bluish, or greenish color.

Discomposed, with distortion of features, deep-sunk eyes with dark circles, and pointed nose.

Redness and bloated appearance.

Hard and elastic swelling, chiefly above eyelids, especially in the morning.

Swelling, with fainting and vertigo.

Papules, pimples, scurfy ulcers.

Rosacea and mealy tetters.

Lips bluish or black, dry, and chapped.

Cancer of face and lips with burning pain.

Mouth

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Offensive smell.

Secretion of abundant tough, fetid, bloody saliva.

Great dryness, or accumulation of saliva, sometimes bitter or bloody.

Tongue bluish or white, brownish or blackish, dry, cracked, and trembling; or a bright red.

Ulceration on anterior edge.

Swelling, inflammation, or gangrene.

Aphthae.

Gums bleed easily.

• Catarrh, with hoarseness, coryza, and sleeplessness

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Voice rough and hoarse.

Tenacious mucus in larynx and chest.

Sensation of dryness and burning in larynx.

Spasmodic constriction of larynx.

Dry cough, sometimes deep, fatiguing, and shaking, principally in the evening after lying down, or at night.

Respiration oppressed, anxious, short.

Oppressed, labored breathing, esp. when ascending a height; in cold air; when turning in bed.

Shortness of breath, difficulty of respiration, choking, dyspnea, and attack of suffocation.

Violent and insupportable throbbings of the heart, chiefly when lying on the back, especially at night.

Irregular beatings, sometimes with anguish.

Palpitation with anguish, cannot lie on back; < going upstairs.

Asthma, worse at night.

Cough with bloody expectoration.

Hydrothorax.

Angina pectoris.

Bitter taste, chiefly after drinking or eating.

Complete adypsia; or violent burning, choking, and unquenchable thirst, drinking constantly but little at a time.

Want of appetite and hunger, frequently with burning thirst.

Nausea and vomiting after eating.

Frequent eructations, particularly after drinking or eating, mostly empty, acid, or bitter.

Vomitings, sometimes very violent, principally after drinking or eating, or at night, towards morning; vomiting of food and drink, or of mucous, bilious, or serous matter.

Excessive pain in epigastrium and stomach, chiefly on being touched.

Pressure in stomach as from stone, or as if heart would burst.

Sensation of constriction, cramp-like pains, pulling, piercing, and gnawing.

Burning in pit of stomach.

Excessive pains in abdomen, principally on left side, often with great anguish.

Violent cutting pains, cramp-like pains, digging, pulling, tearing, and gnawing in abdomen.

Constipation, with frequent, but ineffectual inclination to evacuate.

Violent diarrhea, with frequent evacuations, nausea, vomiting, thirst, great weakness, colic, and tenesmus.

Burning stools, with violent pains in bowels, with tenesmus, thirst, worse after eating.

Prolapsus of rectum with much pain.

Itching, pain as from excoriation, and burning in rectum and anus, as well as in hemorrhoidal tumors, chiefly at night.

Stools dark, offensive.

Dysentery.

Colic, doubled up.

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Male Sexual Organs

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Itching, shooting, and burning in glans and prepuce.

Inflammation, painful and gangrened swelling of genital parts.

Erections painful.

Female Sexual Organs

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Catamenia too early and too copious, attended by much suffering.

Leucorrhea acrid, corrosive, thick, and yellowish.

Metrorrhagia.

Painful menstruation.

Musculoskeletal

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Acute drawing pains in arms and hands.

Cramps in fingers.

Sensation of fullness and swelling in palms at night.

Acute drawing pains in hips, extending to groins, thighs, and sometimes anklebones.

Tearing and stinging in hips, legs, and loins.

Cramp in legs.

Old ulcers, with burning and lancinating pains.

Contraction of tendons of ham.

Cramps in calves.

Burning and shooting ulcers in leg.

Swelling of foot, burning, hard, and shining, with burning vesicles of a blue-blackish color on instep.

Joints feel weak.

Restlessness in limbs, must move them constantly.

Gout, burning pains.

Neuralgia, burning pains.

Skin dry, scaly, and cold.

Eruptions papular, vesicular, pustular, eczematous.

Burning, itching eruptions.

Ulcers with burning pains, sensitive to touch.

Herpes.

Erysipelas.

Urticaria, itching intensely.

Psoriasis.

Offensive perspiration.

Sleep restless, disturbed by dreams.

Insomnia, especially after midnight.

Dreams anxious, fearful, of death, of robbers.

Sleepy during the day, sleepless at night.

Night sweats.

Animal Affinity:

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Considered the "horse's remedy."

Antidotes (Poisonous Doses)

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Milk, albumen, demulcent drinks, emetics of mustard, Zinc Sulfate or Copper Sulfate. Castor oil. Animal charcoal, Hydrated peroxide of iron, Magnesia, Limewater.

Antidotes (Potencies)

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Camphora, China, China Sul, Ferrum, Graphites, Hepar, Iodum, Ipecacuanha, Nux Vomica, Sambucus, Tabacum, Veratrum.

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Is Antidoted By:

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Carbo Veg, China, Ferrum, Graphites, Hepar, Iodum, Ipecacuanha, Lachesis, Mercurius, Nux Vomica, Phosphorus, Sambucus, Strychninum, Tabacum, Veratrum.

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Follows Well:

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Aconitum, Agaricus, Arnica, Belladonna, Chamomilla, China, Ipecacuanha, Lachesis, Veratrum.

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Followed Well By:

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Aranea Diadema, Nux Vomica, Iodum, Sulphur.

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Similar To:

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Aconitum, Apocynum, Argentum Nitricum, Belladonna, Bismuthum, Calcarea Carbonica, Cannabis Indica, Carbo Veg, China, Ferrum, Hyoscyamus, Ipecacuanha, Kreosotum, Lachesis, Lycopodium, Nux Vomica, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Rhus Tox, Silica, Tabacum, Veratrum.

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Differential:

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Restlessness differs from Magnesia Carbonica: Arsenicum goes from room to room, bed to bed; Mag-c. must get out of bed and walk the floor.

Fear of death differs from Aconitum: Arsenicum is anxiety and feeling that medicine is useless.

Bryonia drinks much and seldom; Arsenicum little and often.

Arsenicum eats much at a time, Bryonia often and little.

Useful in cases of poisoning, especially food poisoning.

Suited to persons of a nervous, irritable temperament.

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