Cadmium Sulphuratum cadm.

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

Stomach. Respiration.

Worse

Raising up. Least motion. Cold.

General

Faintness on rising. Ozœna. Craves little drinks of cold water, which are vomited at once. Nausea, that compels quiet to avoid vomiting. Suffocates on dropping to sleep. Chest contracted; with asthma.

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Related

Related: Zin.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Cadmic Sulphate

General

Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, and extreme prostration, the disease runs deathward. Important gastric symptoms. Carcinoma ventriculi; persistent vomiting.

The attack is upon the stomach more especially. Patients must keep quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire.

Mind and Head

Unconscious. Vertigo; room and bed seem to spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.

Nose

Ozæna. Tightness at root. Nose obstructed; polypus. Caries of nasal bones. Boils on nose. Nostrils ulcerated.

Eyes

Opacity of cornea. Blue circle around eyes. One pupil dilated. Night blindness.

Face

Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis; more left side.

Mouth

Difficult swallowing. Œsophagus constricted (Bapt). Salty belching. Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.

Throat

Sore throat, constant tickling; gagging and nausea, worse deep breathing; chilliness and aching.

Stomach

Soreness in pit of stomach on pressure. Violent nausea; retching. Black vomit. Vomiting of mucus, green slime, blood, with great prostration, and great tenderness over the stomach. Burning and cutting pains in stomach. Carcinoma, helps the persistent vomiting. Coffee ground vomiting.

Abdomen

Sore, tender, tympanitic. Region of liver sore. Coldness. Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels. Pain in abdomen, with vomiting. Tenderness and tympanites.

Stool

Bloody, black, and offensive. Gelatinous, yellowish green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression.

Urine

Rawness and soreness in urethra, urine mixed with pus and blood.

Heart

Palpitation, with constriction of chest.

Fever

Icy coldness (Camph; Verat; Heloderm). Yellow fever (Crotalus; Carbo).

Skin

Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Itching; better scratching. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks; worse exposure to sun and wind. Chilblains.

Sleep

Stops breathing on going to sleep. Wakes up suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness.

Modalities

Worse, walking or carrying burdens; after sleep; from open air, stimulants. Better, eating and rest.

Relationship

Compare: Cadmium oxide; Cad brom (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting); Cadmium jodat (Itching of anus and rectum felt during the day only; constipation frequent desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated); Zinc; Ars; Carbo; Verat.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Text Book of Materia Medica

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Mind and Disposition

Great irritability. Aversion to be alone, or at work.

Head

Sensation of constriction in the head. Stitches and pulsations in the temples. Headache, with restlessness, icy coldness of the body, bleeding of the nose, constriction in the throat, thirst, nausea, and vomiting ; mostly present when awaking, in the open air, from a draft of air, in the sun.

Eyes

Cannot read small print. Night-blindness. Dimness of, or spots on the cornea. Hot tears.

Stomach

Vomiting of acid or yellow substances, with cold perspiration in the face, and cutting pain in the abdomen. Burning and cutting pain in the stomach.

Chest

Oppression ; sensation as if the lungs were in a state of adhesion.

Extremities

Upper. Perspiration in the palms of the hands.

Generalities

Cutting pains in the limbs.

Conditions

Aggravation, in the morning, forenoon ; after grief ; after intoxication ; when sitting or lying. Amelioration, from eating.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

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General

Sulphide of Cadmium. Cd S. Trituration.

Clinical

Apoplexy. Boils. Chilblains. Cholera infantum. Corneal opacity. Eyes, affections of. Facial paralysis. Indigestion. Meningitis. Nasal polypus. Ozœna . Yellow fever.

Characteristics

Cadmium is found in nature in intimate association with Zinc , which it nearly resembles in action, but Cadmium acts more powerfully. The profound action of Cad. s . on the stomach ─ burning and cutting pain, intense retching, gagging, bringing up tough mucus, intense nausea and vomiting ─ led to its being given in yellow fever with brilliant success. Black vomit is very characteristic. The least thing touching the lips will excite vomiting. Pitchy taste; food tastes like salt. Cadm . is a cross between Bry . and Ars .: it has the desire to keep quiet of Bry ., with the exhaustion and stomach irritability of Ars. (Kent). Cadmium is a chilly medicine. There is icy coldness ─ coldness even when near a fire. Horripilation: after drinking; with hot hands. Sweat in axillæ. Effect of a draught of cold air in checking sweat. < From cold air; itching of skin when cold. < Sunshine. < In morning and after sleep. < Walking; < ascending stairs. < When swallowing. < After grief. < After intoxication. > By eating. Effects of: anxiety, or fit of passion; of cold winds (facial paralysis). Acts well in drunkards. It is a notable antipsoric. There is much itching of skin; at night in bed; when touched; when cold; > scratching, which causes a voluptuous feeling. Skin blue; yellow; scaly, cracking, damp, suppurating herpes; chilblains. Cutting, lancinating pains are prominent; also a sense of constriction. The nasal symptoms are very important; no remedy has served me better in cases of ozæna and polypus.

Relations

Compare: Zn. (but in Zn. the action is primarily on brain; in Cadm. primarily on stomach); in constriction across chest with palpitation, K. chlo.; weakness, nausea, vomit and burning, Ars.; black vomit, affections of drunkenness, Ars., Lach.; in nausea and retching, Asar., Bry., Crot. t., Cup., Nux, Pod., Ant. t.; in deathly nausea, Ip., Tab.; greenish gelatinous vomit, Æthusa, Ars., Bry., Ip., Ver.; gelatinous stools, Alo., Cubeb., Hell., K. bich., Pod., Rhus, Sep. (green); loss of breath on going to sleep, Carb. an., Carb. v., Op., Grind., Lach. Followed well by: Bell. (rolling of head with open eyes in cholera infantum); Carb. v., Lob. inf. (in yellow fever); Nit. ac.; Alet. (nausea of pregnancy). Follows well: Ip., Ars., Bell.

Causation

Sun. Draught of air. Cold wind. Alcohol.

Mind

Excessive irritability. ─ Horror of solitude and of work.

Head

Constriction; stitches; pulsation. ─ Hammering in the head, preceding vomiting. ─ Headache with restlessness, icy coldness of body, epistaxis, constriction in throat, thirst, nausea, vomiting; mostly present when awaking, in open air, from draught of air, in sun. ─ Herpes on temples.

Eyes

Cannot read small type. ─ Night-blindness. ─ Scrofulous inflammation. ─ Opacity of cornea. ─ Hot tears. ─ Swellings of lids. ─ Hollow eyes; blue circles.

Ears

Sounds echo in head.

Nose

Ulcerative or cancerous smell (ozæna). ─ Tightness at root and tension in nose. ─ Obstruction of nose by swelling. ─ Numbness of nose. ─ Erysipelas. ─ Boils on nose. ─ Caries of nasal bones. ─ Ulceration of nostrils.

Face

Spasmodic movements of upper lip. ─ Facial paralysis from cold air ─ crawling sensation ─ chronic eruption on forehead, nose, and round mouth. ─ Swelling of lips.

8, 9. Mouth and Throat. ─ Salivation. ─ Taste first sweetish, then bitter and burning. ─ Fetid breath. ─ Ulcers; dryness; itching; burning; constriction in throat. ─ Dysphagia.

Stomach

Nausea; must lie quiet. ─ Nausea in mouth; chest; abdomen. ─ Saltish, rancid belchings, cold sweat on face. ─ Vomiting of acid or yellow substances, cold perspiration on face and cutting pains in abdomen. ─ Black vomit. ─ Burning and cutting pain in stomach. ─ Gastric symptoms < after drinking beer; in forenoon; during pregnancy; in drunkards; after cramps in stomach.

Abdomen

Pain in abdomen with vomiting. ─ Pain and pulsation in sides of abdomen. ─ Cutting pains in bowels and kidneys. ─ Lancinations in l. hypochondrium. ─ Symptoms of stomach and hypochondria < by walking or carrying burdens.

Stools

Stools, almost gelatinous, yellowish-green, semi-fluid. (Cholera infantum.)

Urinary Organs

Severe cutting in region of kidneys; urine suppressed, or scanty, or bloody.

Male Sexual Organs

(Too frequent seminal emissions checked by it.)

Female Sexual Organs

Acts well during pregnancy. ─ Erysipelas of mammæ. ─ Inflamed nipples.

17, 18. Respiratory Organs and Chest. ─ Chest feels dilated. ─ Feeling as if lungs adhered to chest. ─ Cough with loss of consciousness, agitation, red face, pain in stomach, or vomiting of bile. ─ Interrupted breathing during sleep. ─ Chest symptoms < squatting. ─ Brown spots on chest. ─ Swelling of external chest.

Limbs

Suppuration of axillary glands. ─ Brown spot on elbow. ─ Boils on buttocks. ─ Restlessness; jactitations; startings.

Sleep

Sleeps with eyes open. ─ Stops breathing on going to sleep; wakes up suffocating. ─ Symptoms < after sleep. ─ Annoying protracted sleeplessness.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

General

Sulphide of Cadmium. Cd S.
Discovered in 1817 by Stromeyer and Herrman as a constant associate of Zincum, especially in the Silesian ores. The best solvent is nitric acid.
Recommended in 1820 by Græfe in eye diseases in the place of Zincum ; afterwards by Tott in 1833. Experiments by Schubarth on dogs were published in Hufeland's Journal about 1821.
H. J. Burdock made an insignificant proving on himself in 1827. The first real proving was made by Petroz in 1854 and published in the May number of Journal de la Soc. Gallicane, including cured symptoms ; it appeared in the October number of the Allg. Hom. Zeitung, and in 1856 in Hirschel's Archiv, vol. ii. These were not followed by any other reports until 1878, when Dr. Hardenstein, of Vicksburg, used the remedy successfully in one of the most murderous epidemics of yellow fever, the application of the remedy proving him to be a master in prescribing. Cadmium is no doubt a so-called antipsoric of high rank.

Mind

Mostly unconscious. θ Cholera infantum.
Horror of solitude and of work.
Apprehension at approach of anybody.
Anxiety ; also before going to stool.
Excessive irritability.
Vexation, or a fit of passion < symptoms in general.

Sensorium

Vertigo ; room and bed seem to spin around. θ Yellow fever.

Inner head

Pain in vertex.
Lancinations in head.
Tingling, digging and drawing in head.
Hammering in head.
Pulsations in temples.
Inflammation of brain.
Apoplexy.

Outer head

Herpes on temples.

Sight and eyes

Inability to read small type.
Hemeralopia.
Looking steadily, symptoms in general < Rending pain in eyes.
Lancinations in eyes from within outward.
Dilatation of one pupil and contraction of another.
Blennorrheic affection of eyes.
Idiopathic chronic torpid conjunctivitis.
Swelling of conjunctiva remaining after blennorrhœa.
Scrofulous inflammation of eyes.
Macula corneæ (after removal of a fragment of iron which caused inflammation) covering half the pupil, bluish, much impeding sight. θ Boy, æt. 10 years.
Macula corneæ covering pupil after a conjunctivitis and keratitis traumatica. θ Girl, æt. 6 years.
Opacity of cornea connected with slow inflammation and blennorrhœa.
Cicatrix on cornea.
Burning lachrymation.
Inability to close eyes. θ Paralysis of face.
Pressure above eyes.
Tension in eyebrows.
Hollow eyes.
Blue circle around eyes.

Hearing and ears

Sounds echo in head.
Abnormal hearing, alternating with abnormal vision.
Clucking in ears.
Lancinations in ears.
Lacerating pain in ears.
Pressure behind ears.

Smell and nose

Ulcerative or cancerous smell.
Tightness at root of nose, and tension in nose.
Lacerating pain in nose.
Epistaxis.
Obstruction of nose by swelling.
Numbness of nose.
Erysipelatous inflammation of nose.
Caries of nasal bones.
Boils on nose, and ulceration of nostrils.

Upper face

Pain with cold sweat in face. See 16 . θ Yellow fever.
Painful drawing in face. θ Paralysis of face.
Crawling sensation in face.
Vexed look.
Gloomy countenance.
Greyish complexion.
Yellow spots on cheeks and nose.
Chronic eruption of forehead, on nose, and around mouth.

Lower face

Trembling of jaw.
Distortion of mouth to side. θ Paralysis of face.
Spasmodic motion of upper lip.
Swelling of lips.
Aphthæ on lips.

Taste, speech, tongue

Pitchy taste. θ Yellow fever.
Food tastes like salt.
Peculiar metallic taste after taking it.
Tongue shows traces of black vomit, dirty brown or black. θ Yellow fever.
Difficulty in talking and swallowing. θ Paralysis of face.

Inner mouth

Symptoms of mouth are < during deglutition. θ Salivation.
Frequent running together of saliva in mouth, has to spit it out often, and with much straining and retching brings up a tough phlegm.

Palate and throat

Constriction of œsophagus.
Deglutition aggravates symptoms in general.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Violent thirst.
In bed, at night, thirsty and hot.

Eating and drinking

After drinking : horripilation.
Getting drunk, symptoms < in general.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Salty, rancid belching. θ Yellow fever.
Rancid eructations, especially at noon.
Deadly nausea. θ Cholera infantum.
Intense retching and distressing nausea.
Nausea in mouth, chest and abdomen, often with pain and cold sweat in face. θ Yellow fever.
Nausea in chest, mouth and abdomen, generally accompanied by red face and trismus.
Gagging and retching up of tough mucus, every few minutes.
Excessive vomiting of yellowish-greenish semifluid masses, almost gelatinous. θ Cholera infantum.
Vomiting of sour, yellow and black matter, with pain in abdomen. θ Yellow fever.
Excessive nausea, gagging, retching ; so sensitive that least touch of lips will bring on vomiting. θ Yellow fever.
Deadly nausea, must lie quiet, to ward off black vomit, which is already in stomach and can he smelt. θ Yellow fever, early part of second stage.
Nausea ; or black vomit, when other medicines fail. θ Yellow fever.
Vomiting brown fluid after drinking cold water : dog.
Vomiting of food, bile and mucus.
Vomiting of acid matter, of black or yellowish matter, accompanied by cold sweat in face, and griping.
Violent pains in stomach, in region of navel, and tenesmus with urging to stool ; vomiting of all food taken and much phlegm and bile.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Burning and cutting pains in stomach. θ Yellow fever.
Useful after cramps in stomach. θ Yellow fever.
Gastric symptoms < : during pregnancy ; in drunkards ; after cramps in stomach ; after drinking beer ; in forenoon.
Intense burning in stomach ; also burning from œsophagus to stomach. θ Yellow fever.
Coldness in stomach and hypochondria.
Violent pains in stomach and navel, and urging to stool.

Hypochondria

Lancinations in left hypochondrium. θ Yellow fever.
Symptoms of stomach and hypochondria < by walking, or carrying burdens.

Abdomen and loins

Pain in abdomen, with vomiting. θ Yellow fever.
Pain and pulsation in sides of abdomen. θ Yellow fever.
Cutting pain in bowels and kidneys. θ Yellow fever.
Pressure in sides of abdomen.
Compressed feeling in abdomen.
Stretching pain in abdomen.
Griping in lower bowels.
Lancinations, bruised pain, or pulsation in abdomen.
Feeling of inertia in abdomen.

Stools and rectum

Alvine evacuations, almost gelatinous, of a yellowish-green semi-fluid character. θ Cholera infantum.

Urinary organs

Griping in region of kidneys.
Cutting pain in region of kidney and bowels. θ Yellow fever.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Acts well during pregnancy. θ Yellow fever.
Gastric symptoms during pregnancy.
Erysipelas of mamma.
Inflamed nipples.

Respiration

Interrupted breathing during sleep.
On waking, want of air.

Inner chest and lungs

Feeling of dilatation of chest.
Feeling as if lungs adhered to chest.
Contraction in chest.
Painful blows in chest.
Tingling in chest.
Weakness of chest.
Chest symptoms are considerably aggravated by a squatting posture.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Palpitation. θ Yellow fever.
Beating near heart.
Palpitation of heart, with constriction of chest.
Pulse 80 to 100 ; dogs.

Outer chest

Rheumatic pain in external chest.
Drawing in external chest.
Swelling of external chest.
Brown spots on chest.

Neck and back

Pain in muscles of neck, as from efforts to vomit.

Upper limbs

Suppuration of axillary glands.
Stretching of arms.
Sensation of swelling of arms.
Swelling of arm bones.
Brown spots on elbow.
Tension in forearm.
Tearing pain in metacarpal joints.
Gnawing in hands.
Jerking of fingers.
Sweat in palms.

Lower limbs

Boils on buttocks.
Numbness of thighs.
While asleep, feet are agitated by shocks.
Rheumatism of lower limbs.
Digging and boring in lower limbs.
Pressure, pain as if sprained, trembling, or cramps in knee.
Tearing pain in legs.
Cramp of calf.
Heaviness of feet.
Lancination in joints of lower limbs, and in toes.

Limbs in general

Red spots on extremities.

Rest. position. motion

He lies with his head low and hands under it.
Squatting posture : chest symptoms worse.
Walking : symptoms of stomach and hypochondrium < ; coldness.
Sitting ; chest symptoms from squatting posture ; drowsy.
Ascending stairs : symptoms < in general.

Nerves

Jactitations ; starting of limbs.
Restlessness.
Very uneasy ; changing his position often ; dog.
Weakness of affected parts, with horripilation.
Weak and thirsty ; dog.
Weakness after vomiting.
Great exhaustion after vomiting ; next morning, pain in muscles of neck and throat from great exertion in vomiting.
Child can hardly move a limb. θ Cholera infantum.

Sleep

Drowsiness when sitting.
Sleepiness in forenoon.
Somnolence, with broken dreams.
He sleeps with his eyes open.
Moaning and smiling during sleep.
Nightmare.
After sleep : symptoms < in general ; coldness.
Can hardly sleep ; sleep, if at all, with open eyes. θ Cholera infantum.

Time

Night : in bed, hot and thirsty ; itching of skin.
Before midnight : fever.
Morning : gastric symptoms < ; pain in throat and neck muscles from vomiting ; sleepy ; after sleep, symptoms in general <.
Forenoon : gastric symptoms ; sleepiness.
Noon : rancid eructations.

Temperature and weather

Sunshine : symptoms < in general.
Air : sweat checked after exposure.
Useful if any of the grave symptoms appear after being exposed to a draught of air, or when sweat is checked. θ Yellow fever.
A man after riding in a sharp northeast wind (in France) had a half-sided rheumatic paralysis of face, apparently suddenly ; treated by the old school four weeks without success, got well in eight days after two doses of 12th.
Cool air : symptoms < in general.
Cold : itching of skin.

Fever

Horripilation : after drinking ; with hot hands.
Icy coldness.
Coldness : even when near fire ; after sleeping, and after walking ; with heat in hands.
Fever, before midnight.
Sweat in axillæ.
When sweat is checked after exposure to a draught of air. θ Yellow fever.

Locality and direction

Within out : lancination in eyes.
Left : lancination in hypochondrium ;

Sensations

Sensation of inertia in abdomen ; as is lungs adhered to chest ; as of painful blows in chest.
Lancination : in head ; in eyes ; in ears ; in left hypochondrium ; in abdomen ; in joints of legs and toes.
Cutting : in stomach ; in bowels and kidneys ; in joints.
Rending : in eyes.
Tearing : in metacarpal joints ; in legs.
Lacerating : in ears ; in nose.
Boring : in lower limbs.
Digging : in head ; in lower limbs.
Gnawing : in hands.
Drawing : in head ; in face ; in external chest.
Cramping : in stomach ; in knee ; in calf.
Griping : with vomiting and cold sweat in face ; in lower bowels ; in kidneys.
Beating : near heart.
Cramps : in stomach ; in knee ; of calf.
Pulsating : in temples ; in sides of abdomen.
Hammering : in head.
Bruised : in abdomen.
Pressure : above eyes ; behind ears ; in sides of abdomen ; in lower limbs ; in knee.
Burning : lachrymation ; in stomach.
Pain : in vertex ; in face ; in stomach and navel ; in abdomen ; rheumatic, in external chest ; in neck ; sprain-like, in knee ; in muscles of neck and throat from vomiting.
Heaviness : of feet.
Tightness : at root of nose.
Tension : in eyebrows ; in nose ; in forearm.
Compression : in abdomen.
Constriction or contraction : of chest ; of œsophagus.
Dilatation : in chest.
Stretching : in abdomen.
Swelling : of arms.
Crawling : in face.
Tingling : in head ; in chest.
Numbness : of nose ; of thighs.
Coldness : in stomach and hypochondria.
Itching : of skin, at night.

Tissues

Cutting pains in joints.

Touch. passive motion. injuries

Touch : itching of skin.

Skin

Itching : at night, in bed ; when touched, and during cold ; ameliorated by scratching, which excites a voluptuous feeling.
Blueness of skin.
Yellow eruption.
Scaly, cracking, damp, suppurating herpes.
Chilblains.

Stage of life, constitution

Acts well with drunkards. θ Yellow fever.
Child, æt. 15 months, teething. θ Cholera morbus.

Relations

Cadmium has a strong resemblance to Zincum , the former acting more powerfully.
Compatible : Bellad . after Cadmium removed rolling of head with open eyes in cholera infantum ; Carb. veg . ; [Obs. I could give hundreds of cases of yellow fever where Cadmium relieved the most dangerous symptoms, but no case of that disease in its graver forms can he safely treated without Carbo vegetabilis . --HARDENSTEIN.]
Lobel. infl . after failure of Cadmium in yellow fever ; Nitr. ac .
Aletris relieved nausea of pregnancy after failure of Cadmium .
Cadmium 30 hourly, for fourteen hours, helped where Ipec., Arsen . and Bellad . failed. θ Cholera infantum.
Compare : in constriction across chest, with palpitation, Kali chlor . ; in weakness, nausea, vomit and burning, Arsen . ; in nausea and retching, Asar., Bryon., Crot. tigl., Cuprum, Nux vom., Podoph., Tart. emet . ; in deathly nausea, Ipec., Tabac ., in greenish, gelatinous vomit, Æthus., Arsen., Bryon., Ipec., Veratr . ; in gelatinous stools, Aloes, Colchic., Cubeb., Helleb., Kali bich., Podoph., Rhus tox., Sepia (green).

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

James Tyler Kent · Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Séror HTML text (Kent d. 1916; public domain)

Generalities

Cadmium sulph. has been only partially proved, so that only a limited amount of information can be given concerning it.

A medicine may be said to be thoroughly proved when it has left its impress upon all elements of man; when it has affected his memory and his intellect, when it has affected his organs and all their functions, i. e., when healthy man has taken a medicine until all these things are affected and the results are known as the effects of that medicine.

Every medicine affects in some way all these elements of man, and no medicine is well proved until it is known how all these elements are affected.

Mind

There is a dread of work; aversion to doing everything, mental and physical. Anxiety has been brought out more by cures than by the pathogenesis, so that it well enough known to be classed along with Arsenicum for its anxiety; it may well be classed with Arsenicum for its prostration also; it has great weakness; it might also be classed with Arsenicum, because of the organs that are affected, especially because of its action upon the stomach, which is somewhat like Arsenicum, great exhaustion, irritable stomach and vomiting.

It has such vomiting as is found in the lowest forms of fever, such irritable stomach as is found in yellow fever, with black vomiting, and just at this point is the place where the likeness to Arsenicum comes out in the low forms of the fever.

But unlike Arsenicum, running all through the remedy, he wants to be perfectly quiet; part of it is a state of indolence, part of it is an aversion to motion. He is worse from motion, which makes it like Bryonia. So we will see running all through the remedy the exhaustion of Arsenicum and aversion to motion, like Bryonia.

Running through it we find it is spasmodic and nervous; it affects the muscles like Zinc. It is found in its crude state associated with Zinc.

Hering made several observations whereby he tried to prove that substances found together had a relationship and illustrated it by Tellurium which occurs as the telluride of gold. It may be a fact that substances so associated are in some respects similar, but this is only a side thought, as each substance must be studied on its merits,

There must be no guesswork in the study of provings. Every remedy must be used for its own symptoms, and for these there is no substitute. If a remedy does not work, the homeopath can only examine the case anew and seek new symptoms and another remedy.

Head

Vertigo in the room; the bed spins round. The head symptoms, anxiety and vertigo are such as occur in low types of gastro-intestinal irritation, as in continued fevers, deep-seated, slow and sluggish; in yellow fever, with prostration, vomiting of blood, black vomit. Lancinating in the head, pulsating in the temples.

It is not so often called for in ordinary headaches, but in headaches occurring in the low forms of fever, with great rush of blood to the head. Cutting like knives as occurs in yellow fever.

Eyes

The eye symptoms are numerous. Inflammation of a local character; conjunctivitis with discharge, long continued, a chronic conjunctivitis.

Old "sore eyes," rousing up with every cold and change of weather. Thickening of the conjunctiva. Scrofulous sore eyes. Ulcer spots; old scars which break and heal up.

It does wonderful work in curing old eye troubles; opacities with slow inflammation. Pressure above the eyes. Paralysis of the lids; ptosis. It commonly affects one side of the face and one eye. It has paralytic conditions like Causticum; paralysis of one part or of one edge of the body. After an apoplectic attack when the patient recovers, but weakness of one arm and leg remains, it competes with Phos.

Changes in sensation here and there. Formication of the skin and deeper tissues.

"Asleep" sensation, or like ants crawling in the extremities, deep in the muscles and the skin. Hyperesthesia or anesthesia. Numbness of parts; the nose, one hand; numbness in spots. In this it is similar to Caust. Paralyzed parts are sometimes painful. Crawling in paralyzed parts.

Nose

Old nasal catarrh which has progressed till the nasal bones are being destroyed by caries. Ulceration. Pains in the bones. Sneezing; coryza, boils, abscesses.

Mouth and taste

Disturbances of the taste. It is suitable to low forms of continued fever; it has sordes, dark tongue, bleeding tongue and dry mouth, as in typhus, typhoid and yellow fever. Sluggish tongue; difficulty in moving it. Difficult swallowing. The muscles of the throat are affected causing dysphagia. Constriction of the oesophagus. Violent thirst. Every time he takes cold water, which he craves, goose-flesh comes on, a creeping or horripilation like Capsicum.

Stomach

The stomach gives us the strongest and most important symptoms. The stomach quits business; no digestion. Everything sours; fluids and the simplest things taken are changed and come up sour, mixed with blood or bile; rancid eructations; with great exhaustion.

The nausea is distressing. Nauseated all the way down to the abdomen like Ipec., Ant. t., and Asarum, extensive nausea. Cold sweat. Vomiting of yellow-green mucus.

Touching the lips brings on nausea. Looking over the symptoms narrated here an experienced practitioner would think of gastritis-vomiting of the simplest things. Irritation of the stomach after tedious sickness, like cerebro-spinal-meningitis, typhoid, yellow fever.

The stomach gives out; there is no digestion, and everything is vomited. He is convalescing, but his stomach is irritable. He wants to keep still. The Arsenic prostration and irritable stomach occur at the beginning of the fever, with heat and restlessness.

This medicine comes in after the fever, and, with his anxiety he wants to keep still. Arsenic has anxiety and wants to move from bed to bed, and from chair to chair, and he fears death.

In this medicine he seems to say:

"Don't speak to me; don't bother me; let me die in peace."

He wants to be perfectly quiet, and the state occurs at the close of a febrile disease. Many of these patients die because they cannot eat, but this remedy will save them. When you have a case of cancer, with burning, prostration, and vomiting, Cadmium sulph. will relieve these symptoms for weeks, I have seen them where the pains have been relieved by anodynes until nothing would stay on the stomach, and this medicine would relieve. It is a great remedy in the gastric irritation of carcinoma, a great palliative; coffee ground vomiting,

Burning and cutting pains in the stomach. Gastric symptoms, such as occur in pregnancy, in old drunkards. Burning in the stomach extending up into the oesophagus; fluids burn all the way up into the mouth and throat; sour, acid fluids. Cold sensation in the stomach. Cholera infantum with irritation of the stomach.

Pain in the abdomen with vomiting. Lancinating in the abdomen from these pains we see it is a medicine which profoundly affects the liver, spleen, stomach and other abdominal viscera. Gangrene threatens. The main remedy in the hands of good prescribers.

Relapses in fever, with vomiting, diarrhoea, and great prostration. At times a case of yellow fever gets along fairly well, but a draft causes a slight cold and on come sudden prostration, black vomit, death. In that state it competes with Carbo veg., which used to be the main remedy in the hands of good prescribers.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

Characteristic

Symptoms chiefly clinical, but have been verified in cholera infantum and malignant yellow fever.

Traumatic opacity of cornea; bluish maculæ; after a slow conjunctivitis and keratitis with blenorrhœa.

Cicatrix on cornea.

Craves cold water which is immediately vomited (Ars.).

Belching; salty, rancid.

Nausea: in mouth, throat, chest, abdomen; intense gagging and retching of tough mucus; deathly, must lie quiet to ward off black vomit; so sensitive that the least touch of the lips will bring on vomiting.

Nausea or black vomit when other medicines though well selected fail.

Vomiting: of black, sour or yellow matter; of all food taken, bile and stringy mucus; with cold sweat on face and griping pains in stomach and umbilical region and great prostration.

Intense burning, cutting pains in stomach and œsophagus.

Stool: Yellowish-green, semi-fluid, almost gelatinous.

Aggravation

Cool or cold air; draft of air; cold land wind (Acon., Bry., Hep.); checked perspiration, in the sunshine.

Gastric symptoms: in drunkards; after drinking beer; during pregnancy; after cramps in stomach.

Type

Malarial; yellow.

Dr. Hardenstein, of Vicksburg, used this remedy with great success in the malignant epidemic of yellow fever in 1878.

Time

Fever, before midnight.

Cause

Fevers prevailing during epidemic yellow fever.

Chill

Icy coldness. Blueness of skin.

Coldness: even when near the fire; after drinking; after sleep; after walking; with hot hands. Horripilation.

Sweat

Profuse and exhausting; while sleeping; in axillæ; staining yellow; acrid.

When sweat is checked and grave symptoms appear, after exposure to a draft of air during fever or convalescence.

Falls asleep during evening fever and wakes when it stops.

Analysis

Yellow and malarial fevers with deathly nausea, intense gagging and retching, and vomiting of black, sour or yellow matter.

When the best selected remedies fail.