Bismuthum bism.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

DIGESTIVE TRACT: Stomach. Intestines.

Worse

Eating; overeating.

Better

Cold; drinks; applications. Bending back. Motion.

General

Apathetic and prostrated. Tearing, pinching pains. Internal heaviness.

Particulars

Swelled gums. Craves cold drink, which is vomited at once, or in great quantities when stomach becomes full. Foul belching. Vomits liquids only, or bilious after eating. Atrophia ablactatorum (Kre. Ox-ac.). Gastric, alternating with head or face pains. Violent gastralgia (Atro. Chin.); with cramping or burning. Food presses like a load on one spot. Prostration; after stool. Cholera infantum, when the body remains warm. Black ulcers. Dry palms and soles.

Related

Related: Ars. Cad-s.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica

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Keynote

Solitude is unbearable ; desires company, child holds on to its mother's hand for company (Kali c., Lil., Lyc.); Anguish ; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long in one place. Headache returning every winter; alternating with, or attended by gastralgia. Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the eyes. Toothache > holding cold water in mouth. (Bry., Coff., Puls.). Vomiting: of water as soon as it reaches the stomach, food retained longer (vomits food and water, Ars.); of enormous quantities, at intervals of several days when food has filled the stomach; of all fluids as soon as taken; and purging, offensive stools (watery stools, Ver.); with convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain, after laprotomy (Nux, Staph.). Stomach: pressure as from a load in one spot; alternating with burning; pain crampy, spasmodic; with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis. Cholera morbus and summer complaint, when vomiting predominates; stools foul; papescent, watery, offensive very prostrating (Ars., Ver.).

Key-Notes to the Materia Medica

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General

This remedy has a great affinity for affections of the right upper extremity or forehead. Boring pains. Sensation of heaviness in inner parts. Lymphatic, torpid constitutions.

Mental

Peevish and dissatisfied with his condition. Vertigo, as if the anterior half of the brain were turning in a circle.

Face

Looks as if one had been very ill.

Mouth

White coated tongue in the evening, without heat or thirst.

Gastric

Gastralgia, with the sensation of a great pressing heaviness; as from a load in one spot. Nausea, feels as if would vomit, especially after eating. Vomiting at intervals of days when food has filled the stomach; then vomits large quantities, lasting all day. Vomiting with oppressive anxiety, small pulse, vertigo and prostration; vomiting and diarrhœa, with gagging and burning in throat; violent convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain in stomach. Vertigo, headache, belching of wind, flatulence, warm surface, etc.; vomiting and horrible pain in stomach, vomiting and purging with prostration, and the surface of the patient is warm. Cancer of stomach.

Very useful in complaints of children. Flatus with a cadaverous smell; same smell to the stools. Desire for company; a child will hold on to the mother's hand to keep her company.

Urine

Frequent; copious; pale; retention of.

Chest

Aching in right half of, near sternum, in a small spot.

Extremities

Upper: Tearing in right index finger, also in tips and joints of fingers; under the nails. Lower: Itching in tibia, near ankle, worse by scratching, till it bleeds. Tearing in maleolus of right foot, in paroxysms, terminating in tendo achillis.

Sleep

Languor and weakness. Frequent waking as if in a fright. Night sleep disturbed by lascivious dreams, with emissions, or without.

Remedies following

Bellad., Calc. carb., Pulsat, Sepia.

Antidote

Calc. carb.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Precipitated Sub-Nitrate of Bismuth (BISMUTHUM)

General

Irritation and catarrhal inflammation of the alimentary canal, is the chief and action of this drug.

Mind

Solitude is unbearable. Desire for company. Complains about his condition. Anguish. Discontented.

Head

Headache alternates with gastralgia. Neuralgic pain, as if torn by pincers; involves face and teeth; worse, eating; better, cold; alternate with gastralgia. Cutting or pressure above right orbit extending to occiput. Pressure in occiput; worse, motion; with heaviness.

Mouth

Gums swollen. Toothache; better, cold water in mouth (Coff). Tongue white. Swollen. Black, gangrenous looking wedges on dorsum and sides of tongue. Profuse salivation, teeth loose. Thirst for cold drinks.

Stomach

Vomits, with convulsive gagging and pain. Water is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach. Eructation after drinking. Vomits all fluids. Burning; feeling of a load. Will eat for several days; then vomit. Slow digestion, with fetid eructations. Gastralgia; pain from stomach through to spine. Gastritis. Better, cold drinks, but vomiting when stomach becomes full.

Tongue coated white; sweetish, metallic taste. Inexpressible pain in stomach; must bend backwards. Pressure as from a load in one spot, alternating with burning, crampy pain and pyrosis.

Stool

Painless diarrhœa, with great thirst, and frequent micturition and vomiting. Pinching in lower abdomen, with rumbling.

Respiratory

Pinching in middle of diaphragm, extending transversely through chest. Angina pectoris; pain around heart, left arm to fingers.

Extremities

Cramps in hands and feet. Tearing in wrist. Paralytic weakness, especially right arm. Tearing in tips of fingers under nails (Berb). Itching erosion near tibia and back of feet near joints. Cold limbs.

Sleep

Restless on account of voluptuous dreams. Sleepy in morning, a few hours after eating.

Relationship

Antidotes: Nux; Capsic; Calc.

Compare: Antimon; Ars; Bellad; Kreosot.

Dose

First to sixth potency.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

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Leaders

Diarrhœa; stools watery, profuse, painless and offensive or cadaverously smelling.

Vomiting of large quantities and intense thirst; water is vomited the moment it reaches the stomach; food is retained a little longer.

Restlessness, anguish, great prostration; pale with blue rings around the eyes; surface covered with sweat, but it is warm sweat.

Bismuth is one of our best remedies for cholera infantum; genuine cholera infantum, where the disease is sudden in its onset, and rapid it its course. Such cases die in a night or even a few hours, unless Bismuth, Veratrum, Kreosote or some remedy of such rapid action saves them. With Bismuth the stools are watery, profuse, painless and very offensive; cadaverous smelling. There is also vomiting of large quantities and the intense thirst is accompanied with vomiting of the water drunk the moment it touches the stomach. Water only is so vomited. Food is retained a little longer (with Arsenicum, both water and food are vomited). There is prostration equal to that of Arsenicum or Veratrum album, but the surface is warm and often covered with warm sweat. The face is deathly pale, with rings around the eyes. This is a perfect picture of Bismuth, and no other remedy need be confounded with it.

Again, Bismuth is a remedy for purely nervous gastralgia The pain is of a pressing nature, sometimes pressing between the shoulders and sometimes there is much burning in the stomach (Arsenicum). It is also often of benefit in cancer of the stomach, when there is at times vomiting of enormous quantities of food that seems to have lain in the stomach for days. In such cases there is much burning and pain. It has a restlessness and anguish, similar to Arsenic, wants to move around, can't stay long in one place. In the neuralgic form of gastralgia the lower triturations have served me best, but in cholera infantum I never use lower than the 200th and have seen remarkable results. Solitude is unbearable, child wants mother to hold its hand for company (Stramonium).

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Apathy and continual complaints, with peevish dissatisfaction. Solitude is intolerable to him.

Head

Sensation of weight in the forehead, temples and occiput.

Face

Earthy paleness of face, with distorted features, and blue borders around the eyes.

Mouth

White-coated tongue in the evening. Sensation of soreness in the mouth.

Appetite and Taste

Great thirst in the evening for cold drinks (without heat).

Stomach

Nausea after every meal. Vomiting (of bile) with oppressive anxiety, small pulse, vertigo and prostration. Vomiting and diarrhœa. Vomiting of all fluids children). Pressure in the stomach, especially after a meal. Burning in the stomach. (Inflammation of the stomach).

Stool and Anus

Urging to stool in the evening, without any evacuations.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and copious micturition ; the urine is watery.

Sexual Organs

Pressing, aching in the (right) testicle.

Generalities

Sensation of heaviness in the inner parts. Screwing pains. Pressing pains (eyes, head, abdomen, testicles). Pressing-tearing (bones of the hands and of the feet).

Fever

Flushes of heat, especially on head and chest.

Conditions

Most symptoms disappear during motion.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Bismuth (including the Subnitrate "Magistery of Bismuth" Bi 2 O 3 . 2 HNO 3 ; the Nitrate Bi O 2 HNO 5 ; and the Oxide Bi 0 3 ). Trituration.

Clinical

Abdominal operations, vomiting after. Angina pectoris. Cholera. Cough . Cystitis. Delirium tremens. Diaphragmitis. Diarrhœa. Gangrene. Gastralgia. Gastritis. Headache. Phlegmasia alba dolens . Stomach, cancer of. Stomatitis. Toothache. Vomiting.

Characteristics

Bismuth exerts its chief influence in the stomach and stomach region. It causes a pure gastralgia, not associated with catarrh like that of Nux . There is vomiting of large quantities and intense thirst, with ejection of water immediately after it is taken; food is retained a little longer. Burning, griping, lancinating, with dull pain in back or spasmodic vomiting. The pains are chiefly piercing, tearing, burning, cramping, and screwing. Headache alternating with gastralgia. There are tearing pressing pains in the bones of the hands and feet, spasmodic affections of the muscles of face and limbs. Hæmorrhages; the blood being dark, pitchy. Anæmia, and with this there is an itch-like eruption. Corrosive itching on side of tibia. Gangrene and gangrenous ulcers, bluish; or dried, parchment-like. Piedvache has recorded a case in which a Bismuth dressing applied to a burn produced the following results: Pseudomembranous stomatitis, with disseminated plaques, the membranes resting on black spots. Black borders on gums; loosening of the teeth. Pharyngeal angina (uvula, tonsils, and palatine arch); false membrane, slightly adherent, and of slight consistency; slate-coloured spots all over; later, sphacelus of soft palate. Vomiting, hiccough. Pain along œsophagus. Diarrhœa, albuminuria.

O. W. Smith has verified: "Pain in stomach > bending backward"; and "eructation tasting of food eaten twenty-four hours before." Cold drinks and cold bathing > headache; toothache. When the water in the mouth becomes warm it < toothache. Summer complaints. Headache returning in winter. Motion relieves most symptoms and < some headaches. > Bending backward (pressure in spine). The patient is restless, moving about; anxiety.

Bism . has a great affinity for affections of r. upper extremity or forehead. Sensation of heaviness in inner parts. With gastralgia there is pressing heaviness . In gastric affections with vomiting, purging, and prostration, the surface of the patient is warm . In summer complaint of children there is cadaverous smell of flatus and of stool. Desires company; child holds on to its mother's hand. According to Teste, Bism . corresponds to slow digestion, with fetid eructations; it is hardly ever indicated where eructations are inodorous or sour; or when gastralgia is accompanied by habitual constipation, without vomiting, or with vomiting of insipid ropy mucus. The stools are preceded by crampy, pinching pains in the stomach. Teste cured with the oxide a wearing, nightly cough in a hysteric lady; and a case of sub-acute cystitis, with irregular paroxysms of crampy pains in the bladder; also a case of phlegmasia alba dolens (left); Petroz having cured another.

Relations

Bismuth is antidoted by: Calc., Caps., Coffee, Nux. Is isomorphic with: Ant c., Ars., Phos. Similar to: Ant. c. (vomiting, white tongue, gastritis); Ars. (anxiety, gastritis, cancer, gangrene, vomiting); Bell. (gastralgia, cancer, flatus in ridges); Bry. (toothache, gastritis); Calc., Caps., Chi., Ign., Kali c., Kre., Lach. (sore throat, sleep, ulcers); Lyc., Merc., Nux (gastralgia, urging to stool); Phos. (vomiting: Bism. vomits immediately; Pho. vomits water as soon as it becomes warm in stomach); Plumb. (abdomen in ridges, gastralgia; > bending backward; heart disease); Puls., Rhus > by motion); Sep., Sil., Staph. Useful after: Euonymus (headache).

Causation

Abdominal operations.

Mind

Discontented, morose, and complaining humour. ─ Inconstancy. ─ Aversion to solitude. ─ Delirium. ─ Delirium tremens. ─ Loss of consciousness. ─ Moral apathy and insensibility.

2, 3. Head and Eyes. ─ Giddiness in the morning. ─ Vertigo, as if the brain were turning in a circle. ─ Stupor, with mist before the eyes. ─ Headache, chiefly in the sinciput, and extending even to the eyes. ─ Cutting pain in brain, beginning above, r. orbit, extending to occiput. ─ Pressive heaviness on the head, esp. on the forehead, above the root of the nose and in the temples. ─ Constant digging and piercing in the forehead, which extends to the eyes and point of the nose. ─ Headache attended by, or alternating with, gastralgia. Burning contraction in the head, esp. in the forehead and in the eyes. ─ Aching of the eyeballs. ─ Secretion of humour in the corner of the eyes.

Nose

Nose-bleed, dark blood.

Face

Earth-coloured, sickly, and wan (with distorted features), with livid circle round the eyes. ─ Aching pain in the cheek-bones; > running about and holding cold water in the mouth. ─ Face pale and cold.

7, 8. Teeth and Mouth. ─ Pressive, tractive odontalgia. ─ Toothache > taking cold water into the mouth, < when the water becomes warm. ─ Gums swollen, with pain like excoriation. ─ Painful sensibility of the interior of the mouth, as if from excoriation. ─ Constant secretion of a brownish, thick saliva, of a metallic taste. ─ In the morning, taste of blood in the mouth, with spitting of sanguineous mucus. ─ In the evening, tongue white and loaded (without heat or thirst). ─ In the evening, great thirst, with preference for cold drinks.

Throat

Inflammation of the whole throat. ─ Burning pain in the throat, sometimes insupportable. ─ Phagedenic ulceration of uvula, with burning and tearing; difficult swallowing of fluids, which return through nose.

11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen. ─ Nausea after every meal. ─ > By cold water (drink). ─ Water is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach. ─ Vomiting, convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain in stomach (after operations on abdomen). ─ Nausea, with inclination to vomit, esp. after having eaten. ─ Violent risings of a putrid smell. ─ Strong inclination to vomit, with violent retching. ─ Cancer of stomach. ─ Vomiting of brownish matter. ─ Vomiting (of bile) with oppressive anxiety, small pulse, vertigo and prostration. ─ Vomiting and diarrhœa. ─ Vomiting of all fluids (children). ─ Cramp-like and pressive pains in the stomach, esp. after having cater. ─ Pressure like a load in the stomach, esp. after a meal. ─ Burning in the stomach. ─ (Inflammation of the stomach.). ─ Borborygmi and rumbling in the abdomen. ─ Colic with pinching, pressure, and an inclination to go to stool. ─ Great inflation of the abdomen. ─ Abdomen bloated in ridges; rumbling of wind along colon, passes rarely, but then relieves. ─ Painful sensibility of the abdomen to the touch.

Stool and Anus

In the evening, ineffectual efforts to go to stool. ─ Aqueous diarrhœa of a putrid smell. ─ Stools: cadaverous smell. ─ Cholera; cholerine; fluids vomited as soon as taken.

Urinary Organs

Frequent and copious emission of aqueous urine. ─ Emission of urine entirely suppressed.

Male Sexual Organs

Aching pains in the testes. ─ Nocturnal pollutions without dreams. ─ Pressing, aching in the (r.) testicle.

Chest

Cough, day and night, with copious expectoration. ─ Aching in r. half of chest, near sternum, in a small spot. ─ Pressure and squeezing across the chest, in the region of the diaphragm. ─ Hot, burning constriction of the chest, with difficulty of respiration and of speech. ─ Burning and piercing in the chest and in the back.

Heart

Beating of the heart.

Limbs

Pressive and drawing pain, with paralytic weakness in the forearms and in the bones of the wrist. ─ Trembling of the hands after eating. ─ Tearing in r. index finger, also in tips and joints of fingers. ─ Acute drawing pains under the nails of the fingers. ─ Excessive dryness of the palms of the hands and of the soles of the feet. ─ Cramp-like contraction of the hands and of the feet. ─ Sharp and pressive pains in the bones of the foot. ─ Itching and gnawing in the tibia and in the back of the foot, increased by scratching. ─ Tearing in maleolus of r. foot., in paroxysms, terminating in tendo-Achillis. ─ Thighs and feet bluish.

Generalities

Sensation of heaviness in the inner parts. ─ Screwing pains. ─ Pressing pains (eyes, head, abdomen, testicles). ─ Pressing-tearing (bones of the hands and of the feet). ─ Cramp-like contractions in all the muscles. ─ Aching pains, or aching and pulling pains together.

Skin

Ulcers, gangrenous bluish. ─ Dry gangrene; parchment-like. ─ Burning smarting in the skin.

Sleep

Languor and weakness. ─ Frequent waking, as if in a fright. ─ Night sleep disturbed by lascivious dreams, with or without emissions. ─ Great sleepiness in the morning after rising. ─ Awaking from sleep with a start, and in a fright. ─ Voluptuous dreams. ─ Lassitude on awaking in the night.

Fever

Coldness of the whole body, externally. ─ Great heat. ─ Flushes of heat, esp. on head and chest. ─ Intermittent, small pulse.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Hydrated oxide of Bismuth. Bi 2 O 3 OH 2 .
Hahnemann proved with his students, and published the result in 1827, what he supposed to be pure wismuth oxide, but what now is known as the basic bismuthi subnitras, or magisterium bismuthi. The symptoms (4 and 97) reappeared in the second edition, in 1807 (11 and 97).
Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 2, p. 183 , give also the collection of Wibmer, partly of the acid bismuthum nitricum as magisterium. As here are principally to be given the cured symptoms, which are from Hahnemann's preparations, we omit the other. Women are often poisoned with the oxide, used as a cosmetic.

Mind

Unconsciousness.
Stupefaction ; dulness ; mist before eyes.
Dulness ; heaviness of head.
Delirium. θ With gangrene, or internal ulceration.
Delirium tremens.
Desire for company ; child holds on to its mother's hand.
Solitude is unbearable.
Anguish ; at times he sits, then walks, then lies down, never long in one place.
Apathy, with peevish dissatisfaction.
Unstable-minded ; begins now this, again that, holds but short time to any one thing.
Ill humor ; he is morose and discontented with his condition, and complains about it.

Sensorium

Dulness ; heaviness of head.
Confusion of head.
Vertigo ; sensation as if anterior half of brain was turning in a circle.
Violent vertigo, with pressing pain in forehead ; redness of conjunctivæ ; dimness of vision ; tinnitus ; pressing pain in stomach and spasmodic pulse.
Dulness in head, heat, small, tense, accelerated pulse.
Dizziness in morning after a restless night.

Inner head

Pressing pain in forehead ; vertigo from violent exercise.
Sensation of weight in forehead, temples and occiput.
Pressure and sensation of heaviness in forehead, at times also in occiput : pressure on eyeballs ; < after lying down and during rest ; from motion and touch.
Violent, pressive, heavy pain in forehead.
Continual pressure in forehead, over eyes.
Dull, pressive pain in head, now here, now there.
Pressure and sensation of heaviness in occiput, more violent on motion.
Dull cutting pain in brain, begins above right orbit and extends to occiput.
Headache extending into root of nose.
Alternate contraction and distension in forehead, eyes and nose.
Frequent inflammatory headache, with fever.
Headache returning in winter season.
Incipient hydrocephalus.
Boring headache, from within outward, in forehead, orbits and root of nose, extending down nose ; < afternoon and after eating ; > from motion, cold drinks and bathing.
Headache alternating with or attended by gastralgia.
Concomitants of headache : apathetic, sullen, dissatisfied, complaining mood ; earthy pale face ; blue rings around eyes ; great thirst for cold drinks in evening ; nausea and pressure in stomach after eating ; ineffectual urging to stool in evening ; boring and burning in chest and back ; great drowsiness in forenoon ; flushes of heat over head and chest ; prostration.

Sight and eyes

A fog before eyes, with stupefaction.
Pressure in right eyeball, from before backward and from below upward.
Thickened mucus in both canthi.
Redness of conjunctiva, with dim vision, vertigo, and tinnitus.

Hearing and ears

Pressure and drawing in left external meatus.

Smell and nose

Nosebleed, dark blood.
Pressive heaviness at root of nose.

Upper face

Pale, cold face ; earthy complexion ; blue borders around eyes ; features changed, as if he had been very sick.
Pressure in region of malar bones ; better running about and holding cold water in mouth. θ Prosopalgia.
(In sick :) Tremor of muscles of face and limbs.

Teeth and gums

Toothache relieved by taking cold water in mouth ; < when water becomes warm.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : sweetish, sour, or metallic on back part of tongue.
Red tongue.
In evening white-coated tongue, without heat or thirst.

Inner mouth

Inflammation of mouth, with whitish excoriations and fissures.
Slight salivation, with marked tumefaction of inner surface of cheek, left gum and side of tongue.
Copious secretion of brown, thick, metallic-tasting saliva.
Pyrosis.

Palate and throat

Inflammation of pharyngeal cavity.
Burning in throat.
Difficult swallowing.
Inflammation of throat awaking at night and paining very much, with short cough and retching.
Phagedenic ulceration of uvula, with burning and tearing ; difficult swallowing of fluids, which return through nose.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Desire for cold drinks in evening.
Intolerable thirst.

Eating and drinking

Nausea after eating and pressure in stomach.
Cold water relieves.
Water is vomited as soon as it reaches stomach. θ Summer diarrhœa. θ Gastralgia.
Pressure like a load in stomach after eating. θ Gastralgia.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Hiccough.
Violent eructations, sometimes fetid and cadaverous smelling. θ Gastralgia.
Nausea in stomach ; he feels as if he would vomit, especially violent after eating.
Nausea, with gulping up of bile.
Violent retching, followed by fearful vomiting.
Nausea after every meal.
Vomiting (of bile), with oppressive anxiety ; small pulse ; vertigo and prostration.
Vomiting and diarrhœa.
Vomiting of all fluids as soon as taken. θ During dentition. θ Summer complaint.
Vomiting, with retching ; disgusting taste in mouth ; pain in throat when swallowing ; inflammation of pharyngeal cavity ; diarrhœa, with small pulse, cold extremities, and cramps in hands and feet.
Vomiting of bile without effort. θ Gastritis.
Vomits a brownish fluid.
Vomits : only at intervals of days when food has filled stomach ; then vomits enormous quantities, lasting all day ; vomits all fluids. θ Cancer of stomach.
Vomiting, convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain in stomach. θ After operations on abdomen.
Vomiting and purging (or vomiting alone), with great prostration ; warm surface ; flatulency ; white tongue ; cadaverous-smelling stools ; patient desires company.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Pressure in stomach, especially after a meal.
Distressing pressure and burning in region of stomach.
Pressure in region of stomach and empty eructations.
Pressure as from a load in one spot. θ Gastralgia.
Spells of cardialgia, with which abdominal muscles are spasmodically contracted ; retching to vomit ; dyspnœa ; trembling of limbs and convulsions ; pain is so violent as to induce fainting.
Burning, stinging, crampy pains ; stomach hangs down to crest of ilium ; hard lumps between navel and edges of lower ribs, right side. θ Cancerous affections.
Crampy, spasmodic pains in stomach ; burning, alternating with pressure ; pressure in spine, must bend backward.
Gastralgia nervosa.
Burning in stomach. θ Inflammation of stomach.
Uncomfortable feeling in stomach.
Intense malaise in stomach, with burning ; red or white tongue ; restlessness ; prostration. θ After blood-letting.
Gastric irritation, with pyrosis.
Gastromalacia.

Abdomen and loins

Pain in umbilical region.
Pinching pressure, now here, now there, in lower abdomen, with rumbling and grumbling, and a sensation as if he must go to stool.
(In sick :) Colic.
Abdomen painful to touch.
Abdomen bloated in ridges ; rumbling of wind along colon, passed rarely, but then relieves. θ Cancerous affections.
Fearfully distended abdomen.
Flatulence ; frequent passing of wind.

Stools and rectum

Ineffectual urging to stool in evening ; rumbling, pressure and pinching in abdomen.
Frequent passage of flatus.
Watery diarrhœa.
Stools : papescent, foul ; watery, cadaverous-smelling.
Summer complaint of children when fluids are vomited as soon as they are taken.
Cholera, when vomiting predominates.
Bilious evacuations, with colic.
(In sick :) Diarrhœa or constipation.
Painless discharge of blood from rectum in large quantities.

Urinary organs

Frequent and copious micturition ; urine watery.
Suppression or retention of urine.

Male sexual organs

Seminal emissions, with lascivious dreams.
Nightly pollutions without erections.
Gonorrhœa.

Female sexual organs

Menstrual blood dark, pitchy.

Respiration

Dyspnœa.
(In sick :) Anxiety and extraordinary oppression.

Cough

Sputa dark, bloody, or blood-streaked.

Inner chest and lungs

Pain in chest and back, with burning and boring.
Pinching-pressive pain in region of diaphragm, extending transversely through chest when walking.
Boring pain in right chest anteriorly, near seventh rib. θ Pregnancy.
Boring and burning in chest ; backache.
Flushes of heat in chest and head.
(In sick :) Intolerable heat on chest.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Violent beating of heart. θ Endocarditis with gastritis.
Pulse : contracted, somewhat spasmodic, and at times small and intermittent ; sinking.

Outer chest

Fine stitches in centre of sternum, not affected by breathing.

Neck and back

Tensive pressure on right side of neck near cervical vertebræ, in motion and rest.
Pain in left side of back, as after stooping too long.

Upper limbs

Paralytic weariness and weakness in right arm.
Laming-tearing pressure of right forearm ; more towards outer side, at times more in upper part ; passes off by motion and touch.
Tearing in metacarpal bones of right fore and middle fingers.
Fine tearing in finger tips of right hand, particularly under nails.
Arms bluish, lame, weak.
Tearing and pressure in right shoulder.
Lameness and pressure of right arm, especially in carpal bones.
Hands feel weak, as if he could not hold pen.

Lower limbs

Bluish thighs.
Tearing pain below external malleolus of right foot, terminating at tendo-achillis.
Tearing : in toes ; in heels, more left.
Corrosive itching near tibia and backs of both feet near joints, which become much < on scratching ; is obliged to scratch himself till it bleeds.

Limbs in general

Screwing, boring, tearing pressure in bones of Hands and feet.
Hands and feet contracted spasmodically.
Blue color of forearm and thighs.
Marked dryness of palms of hands and soles of feet.

Rest. position. motion

Sitting : pain left side of back.
Lying down and during rest : headache worse.
Must bend backward from pressure in spine.
Running about : pain in molar teeth better.
Motion : headache > ; lame forearm > ; most symptoms disappear.
Violent exercise : vertigo.
Walking : pain in region of diaphragm extends transversely through chest.

Nerves

Restless, moving about ; anxiety.
All muscles of body, particularly those of legs, from toes to thighs, spasmodically contracted.
(In sick :) Constant tremor.
Great debility ; languor ; prostration.

Sleep

In morning, a few hours after rising, an excessive sleepiness ; but after eating he was unable to take his accustomed nap for several days.
Drowsy while working.
Frequent waking at night : as from fright ; as from tire.
Restless sleep ; lascivious, vivid dreams, sometimes without, more frequently with seminal emission.
Starts in sleep ; thinks that he is falling ; awakes in a fright.
Sleep unrefreshing.

Time

Morning : dizziness ; great drowsiness ; flushes of heat after rising.
Afternoon : headache worse.
Evening : great thirst for cold drinks ; ineffectual urging to stool, white tongue without thirst.
Night : inflammation of throat awakens ; pollutions without erections ; awakens frequently.

Temperature and weather

Cold drinks and bathing : headache better.
Holding cold water in mouth : toothache better.
When water in mouth becomes warm : toothache worse.
Cold water : relieves faceache.
Summer complaints.
Headaches return in winter.

Fever

Chilliness.
Chilliness intermittent, periodical.
Chill, with deathly coldness of whole body.
Flushes of heat over whole body, mostly on head and chest, after rising in morning.
External dry, burning heat.
Heat in entire body, with accelerated, contracted pulse ; temperature not increased ; no perspiration ; coated tongue ; vertigo ; pressure in forehead and reddened conjunctiva.
Disagreeable heat in chest ; vertigo ; drowsiness ; vomiting ; diarrhœa, or constipation.

Locality and direction

Right : headache above orbit ; pressure in eyeball ; hard lumps between navel and edges of lower ribs of side ; pain in chest near 7th rib ; pressure side of neck ; weakness of arm ; lameness of forearm ; tearing in metacarpal bones of fore and middle fingers ; fine tearing in finger tips ; tearing pressure in shoulder ; tearing in foot.
Left : pressure and drawing in meatus auditorius externus ; tumefaction of gum and side of tongue ; pain side of back ; tearing in heel.
Within outward : frontal headache.
Before backward : pressure in right eyeball.
Below upward : pressure in right eyeball.

Sensations

As if an anterior half of brain was turning in a circle.
Cutting : in brain.
Stitches : in sternum.
Stinging : in stomach.
Boring : in forehead, orbits and root of nose ; in chest and back ; in right chest ; in bones of hands and feet.
Screwing : in bones of hands and feet.
Pinching : in abdomen.
Drawing : in left external meatus.
Tearing : in uvula ; in metacarpal bones of right fore and middle fingers ; in finger tips ; in right shoulder ; below external malleolus of right foot ; in toes ; in heels.
Burning : in throat ; in uvula ; in stomach ; in chest and back.
Pressing : in forehead ; in stomach ; in head, here and there ; in right eyeball ; in left external meatus ; in malar bones ; in spine ; in abdomen ; in right shoulder ; of right arm.
Laming-tearing pressure : of right forearm.
Tensive pressure : on right side of neck.
Pinching pressure : in lower abdomen ; in region of diaphragm.
Crampy pains : in stomach ; in hands and feet.
Undefined pains : in umbilical region ; in chest and back ; in stomach.
Heat : in chest.
Contraction : in forehead ; eyes and nose.
Distension : in forehead, eyes and nose.
Heaviness : of head ; weight in forehead, temple and occiput ; at root of nose.
Itching : corrosive near tibia and bones of both feet near joints.
Paralytic sensation : in right arm.

Tissues

Tearing and pressing in bones of hands and feet.
Gastric affections.
Has been given in cancer of stomach.
Anemia.
Spasmodic affections of muscles of face and extremities.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : headache > ; abdomen painful ; lameness right forearm better.
Scratching : < itching on feet.

Skin

Itch-like eruption ; anemia.
Dry gangrene ; delirium.
Ulcers gangrenous, bluish ; or dried, parchment-like.
Corrosive itching on side of tibia. See 33 .

Relations

Antidotes to Bismuth : Calc. ostr., Capsic., Coffee, Nux. vom .
Bismuth is isomorphic with Ant. crud., Arsen., Phosphor .
Compare : Ant . crud . (vomiting, white tongue, gastritis) ; Arsen . (anxiety, gastritis, cancer, gangrene, vomiting, etc.) ; Bellad . (gastralgia, cancer, flatus "in ridges," etc.) ; Bryon . (toothache, gastritis) ; Calc. ostr., Capsic., Cinchon., Ignat., Kali carb., Kreosot . (cancer, vomiting, cholera infantum) ; Laches . (sore throat, sleep, ulcers) ; Lycop., Mercur., Nux vom . (gastralgia, urging to stool) ; Phosphor . (vomiting, gastralgia) ; Plumbum (abdomen in ridges, gastralgia, better bending backward, heart disease, etc.) ; Pulsat., Rhus tox . (effect of motion) ; Sepia, Silic., Staphis .
Useful after Evonymus . θ Headache.