Arsenicum Metallicum ars-m.

Metallic Arsenic

Arouses latent syphilis. Periodicity very marked; symptoms recur every two and three weeks. Weakness. Swollen feeling of parts.

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. Œdematous swelling of forehead.

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

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

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

Sixth potency.

Metallic Arsenic. As (A. W. 74.9). Trituration.

Constipation. Coryza. Diarrhœa. Eyes, affections of. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Itching. Sciatica. Syphilis.

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.

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).

Laughing (headache). Thinking (headache).

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

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.

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 dyspnœa increase every second day; return every two weeks.

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

Tongue coated white; imprinted with teeth. — Mouth sore; 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.

Diarrhœa, 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.

Urine hot in evening. — Red, sandy sediment.

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.

Catamenia too early and too scanty. — Heat in uterus and vagina; burning when touched. — Pain in uterus and vagina during period.

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 l. side. — Pulse accelerated in morning ( Sul .).

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.

Prostration of strength, weariness.

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 ).

Weakness of memory, especially in retaining what he has read.
He has to read everything two or three times before he comprehends it.
Dulness, too much exertion to think.
Fearful visions of spectres in bright daylight ; she sees threatening people after her, and screams horribly ; is in greatest distress even when her mother is with her ; after 30[c]. Girl, æt. 12. θ During
recovery from typhus.
Feels as if she had to run away, far away, and as if she would hardly touch ground.
She would very much like to die, or fall asleep, never to awaken.
So lazy that she would rather sit up than have trouble of going to bed.
Sad, with tearful eyes, but she cannot weep ; even during most painful events.
Depression with exhaustion, feels much depressed and vexed, wants to be alone ; followed by pain in heart.
Moody, does not wish to see anybody.
Afraid she will be poisoned.
She feels a glow over left brow, as often as she thinks about it, most forenoon, less afternoon.

As if whisky fumes had gone to head.
Heavy, dull feeling in forehead, above frontal sinuses, in morning.
Fulness : when awaking at night ; with coryza.
As if brain were too large and it would burst.

Pain in left side, extending to ear and eye, with nausea.
Headache < when laughing.
Headache from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., with diminished pulse.
Pain in left half of head, extending to eyes, nose and ears, with nausea and throbbing in whole body.
Headache over eyes, with chilliness extending to occiput, neck and into chest.
As if water was gushing forward, when stooping.
Headache < when writing and thinking.

Itching only allayed by pinching skin, in forehead.
Scalp feels sore even when pulling a single hair.
Falling off of hair. θ Tertiary syphilis. --Lippe.
As if head was swollen on waking in night or morning, as if he could not get his hat on head.
Numbness on right occiput, later on left vertex ; evening.
Numbness from nose to forehead, and in a streak along vertex backward, more to left.

Heaviness in eyes.
Eyes pain, cannot read much.
Upper lid sore and feels swollen.
Lids slightly inflamed and swollen, more with coryza.
Eyes reddened with coryza.
In region of brows numbness, extending to nose.
Glowing sensation on a small spot over left brow.
Sight weak, gaslight troubles him, cannot look into bright light.
Eyes hurt, cannot read in morning.
Eyes hurt in afternoon and evening ; < after sewing.
Her weak eyes improve two weeks after, so that she can use them, and even bear exertion she could not bear last four years.
Eyes pain from walking in wind.
Headache extends to eye ; pains from facial bones, or go from eye to back part of ear.
Lids cannot be opened as wide as usual.
Eyes much swollen, or slightly reddened for two days ; running of tears, sometimes hot and corroding ; dark circles under eyes ; coryza.
Pterygium, with enlarged blood-vessel, right eye ; after Nux and Spigel. had failed.

Pain into ears from side of head and facial bones ; numbness below ears.

Coryza and hoarseness returned in two weeks with heat in face, lasting three days, and ending in angina of fauces ; Bellad. [4c] helped.
On rising in morning he feels as if he would get a violent coryza ; nose stopped up ; eyes burn ; hoarse ; gone in evening.
Coryza with hot face, itching and hoarseness ; returns 21st day.
Coryza ; burning hot water runs from nose, excoriating edges of nostrils ; greatest prostration.
Violent coryza ; reddened eyes ; running of tears, and of water from nose, excoriating, 11 A. M. ; after four hours nose stopped ; eyes inflamed without discharging tears ; head very full and as if tied up ; 8 P. M. nose begins to run again, with violent
sneezing, throat aches, breathing difficult, till 11 P. M. ; at 4 A. M. wakens with same coryza, still worse, sensation as if head and face were swollen, some sore throat.
Coryza lessened after eyes were inflamed ; nose swollen for several hours, lessened suddenly, but feels as if beaten all over.
Coryza with running of tears ; sneezing and difficult breathing, increases 2d day ; discharge thick yellow ; eyes swollen and puffed ; feels as if head had suddenly become too large, lasts for days, then ceasing slowly ; watery discharge hot or warm several times
a day, causes biting and stinging ; suddenly a burning as if scalded.
Pain in nose from headache ; pains in left side in evening ; Pains from cheek bones, with it a fine streaming like warm air on left side.
Violent itching in tip of nose, 1 P. M. ; evening, more to the left.

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Pure metallic Arsenic is triturated with sugar of milk for use.

See Arsenicum alb.

Emaciation. ▶ Pulsation over whole body; especially under sternum; especially in right hip-joint, agg. morning, amel. evening. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Disinclination to rising in morning after sound sleep. ▶ Recurrence of symptoms after two weeks. ▶ Aggravation in morning; after brandy. ▶ Appearance of symptoms of right, then left side.

Stupor in morning after sound sleep all night. ▶ Despondency. ▶ Depression of spirits. ▶ Indifference.

Aching, agg. when laughing. ▶ Swollen feeling morning on waking. ▶ Sensation as from fumes of whisky. ▶ Heaviness like vertigo. ▶ Swollen feeling in forehead, with immovable skin. ▶ Heaviness in forehead, with dull feeling. ▶ Aching in left side of head, extending to left ear and eye, with nausea. ▶ Soreness of scalp when pulling even one hair.

Pain so that he could not read much. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Lids swollen and inflamed.

Coryza; with hoarseness, then with angina faucium; fluent. ▶ Discharge of scalding water, which excoriates nostrils.

Bloated; feeling as if. ▶ Ulcer on left inner side of lower lip; on right inner side of lower lip, with soreness on touch of tongue.

Gums swollen and painful to touch; gums swollen and feeling as if scalded, with salivation. ▶ Tongue coated white and covered with mucus; coated white and showing imprint of teeth. ▶ Dryness.

Aversion to wines and liquors. ▶ Eructations of hot bile. ▶ Nausea.

Bloated. ▶ Lancinating griping after waking at 6 A.M., amel. sharp, burning, watery stool, then debility, sleeping in his chair, loss of appetite and full pulse. ▶ Tension and sensation of swelling. ▶ Pulsation in umbilicus. ▶ Painful swelling in right groin, where a bubo had suppurated twenty-four years before, agg. extending leg, the pain goes to hip, agg. sitting, when the leg goes to sleep, amel. walking.

Sore feeling in A. ▶ Bleeding varices; V. on right side, painful after stool (not bleeding). ▶ Constipation. ▶ Red, sandy sediment in urine. ▶ Pain in region of heart; P. in left muscles of chest.

Full and hard; at 9 A.M., and rapid. ▶ Rapid; in morning, rapid in morning, after rising.

Lumbago. ▶ Numbness in right lumbar region from vertebræ to crest of ilium, and inside of right thigh down to knee.

Cracking of finger-joints. ▶ Swollen feeling in hands, fingers and feet, with feeling as if he could not close hand. ▶ In lower limb sensation as if he could not use it, but he could walk well after using it. ▶ Hip-joint, lame feeling in right; numbness in right, extending to pubes; paralyzed feeling in right hip-joint extending to pubic symphysis and down inside of thigh to knee. ▶ Dry feeling in right knee. ▶ Pulsation in right anterior tibial artery at superior extremity of its inferior third.

Scales. ▶ Itching of forehead; on face, amel. pinching; on face, amel. pressure, but not by scratching; on lower part of face, with burning, as before eruption; on face, agg. night, amel. bathing with cold water, with burning, stinging and swelling, then desquamation in small scales; in right groin, extending to knee.

Very sound at night. ▶ Sleepiness in morning after rising; in daytime and evening; afternoon when walking in street; S., with little sleep. ▶ Restless sleep; with fulness in head, which was agg. on waking in night. ▶ Sensation in sleep as if he would have headache in morning on waking. ▶ Dreams of danger, especially by water, that he is in danger of drowning, etc.

Dry heat in palms of hands. ▶ Burning of hands and feet. ▶ Heat of feet, with a bloated feeling; dry heat of feet, also at night. ▶ Sweat of feet; offensive S. on genitals.

Low-spiritedness and weakness of memory.

Desire to be alone - the patient is annoyed by visions, which cause her to cry.

Sensation of fullness in the head, as if the head were too large.

Left-sided headache up to the eyes and into the ear.

Headache aggravated when stooping and when lying down.

Oedematious swelling of forehead and face with itching, which can only be allayed by pinching.

The face is red, itching, burning and bloated.

Eyes swelled and watery (with coryza).

Eyes burn with coryza.

The eyes are weak - day and gas-light are very unpleasant.