Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum ars-s-f.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic. Orpiment (ARSENIC TRISULPH.)

General

Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead, right side. Sticking behind ear. Difficult respiration. Skin chafed about genitals.

Leucoderma and squamous syphilides. Sciatica and pain around the knee.

Relationship

Arsenic sulph rub (influenza with intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high temperature, purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne, and sciatica. Chilly even before a fire. Itching in various parts. Pellagra).

Dose

Third trituration.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Arsenious Sulphide. Orpiment. As 2 S 3 . Trituration.

Clinical

Apoplexy. Caries. Children, emaciated. Diarrhœa. Gonorrhœa. 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 diarrhœa. 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 diarrhœa.

Stool and Anus

Stools like water, green and slimy and terribly offensive. ─ Diarrhœa daily 8 a.m. and several times during day, but not at night. ─ Diarrhœa, with colic and backache and tenesmus.

Male Sexual Organs

Gonorrhœa, 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.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Orpiment. As S 3 .
Hahnemann published in his Materia Medica a single short proving, by Langhammer, one of the most trustworthy provers. Some reports of effects by the Old School physicians are given in Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 1, p. 556 ; also a symptom observed by Hencke.

Mind

Intense and torturing anxiety and apprehension greatest apprehension after a swoon.
Mind clearer than previously.

Sensorium

When walking he felt as if dancing up and down, as if he must fly.
Great weakness in head.
Vanishing of thought.

Inner head

Throbbing stitches in right frontal region.
Headache in middle of forehead, drawing and stinging.
Pain deep in, in left forehead, situated back of inner corner of eye and higher than eyebrow ; it extends towards left and deeper in, like a curve or drawn bowstring.
After drinking beer, pain above occiput in both sides ; violent pressure in two places, right and left side symmetrical.
Nausea, with neuralgic pains about head, when rising ; > while lying down.
Headache, nausea and vomiting of a whitish fluid ; extremities covered with cold sweat.
Serous apoplexy.

Outer head

External needle-like stitches in right frontal region.
Tearing pain from parietal to frontal region.
On stroking hair on occiput, a tensive feeling behind right ear, as if something stuck there and pressed it forward.

Sight and eyes

Gum in canthi.

Hearing and ears

Tensive feeling behind right ear on stroking hair.

Upper face

Forehead cold.

Teeth and gums

Teeth pain as if loose, when chewing food.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste bitter.
Tongue : furred, yellow white ; stiff, immovable ; swollen later dry, with disgust for all nourishment.

Inner mouth

Mouth and throat dry.
Pustules or herpetic ulcers, of a phagedenic character.

Palate and throat

Loss of appetite.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Nausea at noon after a meal ; and vomiting, with pain in stomach and abdomen ; diarrhœa and thirst.
Violent, persistent vomiting.
After vomiting offensive bile, was relieved.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Cramp in stomach, with fainting, colic, vomiting, diarrhœa. θ Gangrene of bowels.
Burning and gnawing in stomach, with vomiting and diarrhœa.
Indigestion.

Hypochondria

Violent griping, with convulsions.
Violent colic, as from a cold, morning on awaking.
Abdomen puffed ; blue spots in fundus of stomach ; reddish-brown erosions.
End of ileum more inflamed than duodenum.
Sensation as if diarrhœa would set in.

Stools and rectum

Stools like water, green and slimy, and terribly offensive.
Diarrhœa daily at 8 A. M. and several times during day, but not at night.
Diarrhœa with colic and backache and tenesmus.

Male sexual organs

Gonorrhœa, with terrible pains ; discharge copious, yellow, constant ; burning day and night, along entire urethra, with restlessness.
Seminal emissions. See 37 .

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Laryngeal phthisis. θ In a drunkard.

Respiration

Respiration difficult.
Indescribably unpleasant feeling, with oppression ; everything feels too tight, < about hypochondria ; ending in sweat.

Cough

Cough from tickling in throat ; with pain in left side ; soreness on chest ; with heat in left chest and face, circumscribed red cheeks.
Cough with soreness in chest and between shoulders.
Catarrhal cough with pains in chest and rattling.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Lungs overfilled with blood.
Needle-like stitches from within out in right side of chest.
Yellow serum in pericardium.
Pulse : frequent, hard, then small and thready ; slow, suppressed, quick, and scarcely perceptible.

Neck and back

Backache confining him to bed (with caries of sternum and cough. Sulphur partly cured caries, Psorin. cough, and Arsen. sulph. backache and remaining caries).
Pain in lumbar vertebræ when moving.

Upper limbs

Eruption on outer side of left wrist ; also on inner side, after Sulphur. (Sulphur did not cure, Arsenic-sulph. did).

Lower limbs

Pain in left knee, with chronic asthma.
Knees pain and totter.
Pain above left ankle bone.
Feet burn.

Limbs in general

Severe pain, now in toes, now in shoulders ; now here, now there, ending with sweat.

Rest. position. motion

Children are slow in learning to walk.
Worse when rising : neuralgic pains about head.
Better lying down : neuralgia in head.
When moving : pain in lumbar vertebræ.

Nerves

General debility.
Nerves severely affected.
Annoying twitching of thirty years' duration.
Spasms, colic, vomiting, diarrhœa, heat and thirst next day.
Faints after a convulsion.
General feeling of lameness, staggering, trembling ; all strength is gone.
Limbs paralyzed ; has itch and dropsy.

Sleep

Starting in sleep, also in falling asleep ; as if he would fall out of bed.
Restless at night, excited ; dreams with seminal emissions.

Time

At 8 A. M. : daily diarrhœa.
At noon : nausea after a meal, etc. See 16 .
Night : restless ; terrible heat.

Temperature and weather

Relieved by steam or hot water.

Fever

Chronic intermittent fever, < every afternoon and evening ; terrible heat at night.
Hectic without thirst.

Locality and direction

Left : pain in forehead.
Right : tensive feeling behind ear.

Sensations

Pain in teeth as if loose ; when walking felt as if dancing up and down ; as if he must fly ; as if something stuck behind right ear and pressed it forward ; as if he would fall out of bed.
Severe pain : now here, now there.
Needle-like stitches : in right frontal region.
Throbbing stitches : in right frontal region.
Terrible pains : with gonorrhœa.
Tearing pain : from parietal to frontal region.
Drawing : and stinging in middle of forehead.
Griping : in abdomen.
Burning : in stomach ; along entire urethra ; in feet.
Neuralgic pain : about head.
Soreness : on chest ; between shoulders.
Pressure : above occiput, right and left side.
Gnawing : in stomach.
Cramp : in stomach.
Tensive feeling : behind right ear.
Undefined pain : deep in left forehead ; in stomach and abdomen ; in left side with cough ; in shoulders ; in left knee ; above left ankle-bone ; in toes ; in joints.
Tickling : in throat, causing cough.
Heat : in left chest and face.

Tissues

Pain in joints. θ Rheumatism.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Everything feels too tight about hypochondria.
Emaciated children.

Skin

Icterus.
Chafing about genitals and behind ears, in children.
Skin scaly, blackish.
Skin itching, dry, cracked ; rhagades ; itch.

Stage of life, constitution

Case of caries of sternum with cough and backache of 15 years' standing. See 31 .
A drunkard with phthisis laryngea.

Relations

Similar to Calc. Carb . (children are slow in learning to walk). See 31 and 32 .