Calcarea Arsenica calc-ar.

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

H. C. Allen · Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Medi-T HTML text; edition not stated by the mirror (first edition 1898, Allen d. 1909)

Keynote

Great mental depression. The slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart (Lith. c.). Rush of blood to head and left chest (Amyl., Glon.). Epilensies, from valvular diseases of the heart. Complaints of drunkards, after abstaining; craving for alcohol (Asar., Sul. ac.). Complaints of fleshy women when approaching the menopause.

Relations

Compare: Con., Glon., Lith. c., Puls., Nux. Follows well: after Conium, in lymphatic, psoric or tubercular persons.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Arsenite of Lime (CALCAREA ARSENICA)

General

Epilepsy with rush of blood to the head before attack; aura felt in region of heart; flying sensation. Complaints in fat women around climacteric. Chronic malaria. Infantile enlarged liver and spleen. Nephritis, with great sensitiveness in kidney region. Complaints of drunkards after abstaining (Carbon sulph). Fleshy women at climacteric, slightest emotion causing palpitation. Dyspnœa, with feeble heart. Chilliness. Albuminuria. Dropsy. Affections of spleen and mesenteric glands. Hemoglobin and red corpuscles are low.

Mind

Anger, anxiety. Desire for company. Confusion, delusions, illusions. Great depression.

Head

Violent rush of blood to head with vertigo. Pain in head better by lying on painful side. Weekly headache. Benumbling headache mostly around ears.

Stomach

Region of stomach distended. Enlarged liver and spleen in children. Pancreatic disease; relieves burning pain in cancer of pancreas. Belching with saliva and beating of heart.

Urinary

Kidney region sensitive to pressure. Albuminuria, passes urine every hour.

Heart

Constriction and pain in region of heart, suffocating feeling, palpitation, oppression and throbbing and pain in back extending to arms.

Female

Offensive, bloody leucorrhœa. Cancer of uterus; burning pain in uterus and vagina.

Back

Pain and stiffness near nape of neck. Violent backache, throbbing, drives out of bed.

Extremities

Removes inflammatory products in veins of lower extremities. Weariness and lameness of lower limbs.

Modalities

Worse from slight exertion.

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

Arsenite of Lime. Tricalcic Diarsenite. Ca 3 2 AsO 4 . Trituration.

Clinical

Acidity. Albuminuria. Asthma. Cholera. Cirrhosis of liver. Constipation. Consumption. Corpulency . Dropsy. Embolus. Epilepsy. Gastric ulcer. Headache. Heart, disease of. Indigestion. Intermittent fever. Kidneys, affections of. Liver, affections of. Obesity. Palpitation. Pancreas, cancer of. Tumours . Typhoid.

Characteristics

Calc. ars . was prepared and proved by Hering in the 4th centesimal tincture in 1848. It has also been tested clinically. It has many head symptoms: Vertigo when moving the head. Flying or swimming sensation as if feet did not touch the ground indescribably well; most wonderful visions pass before the eyes, manifold but lasting only a second; passing like lightning, but is infinitely much." Rush of blood to head before an epileptic attack. Epilepsy with heart disease. Weight an vertex, later on occiput. The headaches go from before backward; < mornings going out of doors; < on aspect opposite to the one lain on, whether front or back, or either side. > By mental exertion but < after. < After slightest error in diet. Headache and palpitation are < and > together. Violent pains over right eye; stitches in right forehead, recurring weekly. Head is hot. Delirium in the dark. Blue rings under eyes. Swelling of inguinal glands, with tearing pains in legs. General dropsical swelling, temples, face, backs of hands, with albuminuria. Drawing as with a thread from larynx backwards. Burning and heat in chest; feeling as if he would suffocate with palpitation; pains in heart region followed by shooting in back extending to feet and arms. Every fourth beat of pulse omits with great regularity. The fever symptoms are well marked ─ intermittent, remittent, hectic, and masked malarious. Chilliness is marked, originates inwardly, with a sensation as if skin and adjoining parts were hot. Chilly cramps over back towards arms and chest. Night sweat after 3 a.m. Liver and spleen somewhat enlarged. It is the most efficient remedy, according to P. C. Majumdar, in the infantile enlarged liver and spleen of India. In albuminuria cases there is great sensitiveness of the kidney region. Cholera with impeded respiration from heart embolism. Suited to lymphatic, scrofulous, and tuberculous persons; fat women, approaching the climaxis; fat persons; complaints of drunkards after leaving off alcohol. It is a chilly medicine, the symptoms being < in cold weather; when out of doors.

Relations

Compare: Lith. c. (mental symptoms, palpitation); Graph. (obesity); Glo., Puls., Sep., Sul. (headache); Ars. (alcohol-drinking); Nux (desire for wine); Ars., K. iod., Pho. (gastric ulcer); Ars., Ip. (asthma); Ars., Carb. v., Dig., Glo. and Lith. c. (heart). Antidoted by: Carb. v. (palpitation); Glo. (headache); Puls. (headache, tearing pains in face). Compatible: Con., Glo., Op., Puls. Acts well in: Cases which have been heavily dosed with Quinine.

Mind

Depression and anxiety. ─ Delirium, evenings in the dark. ─ Slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart ( Lith .).

Head

Vertigo on moving the head. ─ Rush of blood to head before an epileptic attack. ─ Digging, pressive beating through l. half of head, from before backwards. ─ Headache over r. eye. ─ Weekly headache.

Mouth

Lips dry. ─ Tongue dry; burning on tip. ─ Salivation with tasteless belching. ─ Sour taste.

11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen. ─ No appetite. ─ Great thirst, but when she drinks too much, pain in belly and diarrhœa ensue. ─ Region of stomach distended. ─ Gastric ulcer with scanty menses. ─ Pancreatic disease (cancer); with burning pain and albuminuria. ─ Enlarged liver and spleen in children. ─ Swelling of inguinal glands with tearing pains in legs.

Stool

Diarrhœa at midnight after sweet potatoes. ─ Looseness and colic also during pregnancy. ─ Infantile diarrhœa. ─ Hard and difficult stool for months. ─ Faintness; cold hands followed by a stool without relief.

Urinary Organs

Sensitive to pressure in kidney regions. ─ Frequent micturition; burning with scanty urine; albuminuria.

Male Sexual Organs

Pain in spermatic cords after great exertion and drinking wine; hands cold; faintness and stool without relief.

Female Sexual Organs

During pregnancy, bearing-down, prolapsus vaginæ.

Respiratory Organs

A kind of asthma; awakens soon after midnight. ─ Drawing as with a thread from larynx backward, with headache; chest feels full.

Heart

Pains in heart region, burning and shooting, extending to arms and legs. ─ Constriction of heart. ─ Palpitation; with suffocation; synchronous with headache. ─ Palpitation and heart pains preceding epileptic attack.

Neck and Back

Stiffness of neck, with headache, on waking in morning. ─ Throbbing in back drives out of bed at night. ─ Violent backache between shoulders and sacrum; cannot straighten back.

Upper Limbs

Lame pain as if beaten in l. shoulder and arm.

Lower Limbs

Pain in l. knee of neuralgic character. ─ Weariness amounting to lameness in lower limbs.

Sleep

Sleepless, cannot bear to lie down. ─ After 3 a.m. sleepless, restless, and perspiring.

Fever

Chilly crawl over back towards arms and chest; it originates always inwardly with a sensation as if skin and adjoining parts were hot. ─ Shuddering or shivering running over back; has sometimes gooseflesh, esp. at night, and is sleepless. ─ Fever in afternoon with sensation as if abdomen were puffed up; much thirst for cold water and afterwards loss of appetite. ─ Heat in chest with palpitation. ─ Sweat after 3 a.m.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

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

Mind

Mind seems dull and unable to digest any subject.
Unable to attend to any business, on account of headache.
Delirium evenings in dark. θ Typhoid with albuminuria.
Great depression of mind.
Mind much depressed with great anxiety, about still greater evils in future. θ Albuminuria.
With exertion of mind headache lessens but is much < afterwards.
The slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart. Comp. Lith.

Sensorium

Vertigo when moving head. See 11 .
In sudden attacks he feels as if he was flying or swimming in the air, as if his feet did not touch the ground ; feels indescribably well, as if in heaven, the most wonderful visions pass before his eyes, it seems to be a great many different things but lasts only a second, it
passes like lightning, but is infinitely much.
A pressing heaviness first on top of head, then in occiput.
Head seems to get heavier and heavier.
Congestion to head before an epileptic attack.

Inner head

Dull stupefying headache in different parts of head, but principally above and behind ears.
Head gets heavier and heavier, and quick movement makes him giddy.
Rush of blood to head before an epileptic attack.
(In sick :) Violent pains over right eye.
The headache was worst in front and above left ear, most on a place where he had a headache before.
Between ear and right forehead a burning, lasting some months.
Boring-jerking in front over right ear and on lower border of acquisitiveness and in occiput in region of sociableness, with a chill, has to go to bed ; after getting cold outdoors in winter.
Stitches in left side of head, above neck towards region of temples and across forehead from right to left.
Pressing heaviness ; first in vertex, afterwards in occiput.
Mornings, going out-doors, very peculiar headache ; boring-shooting in occiput in regular measure, and simultaneously a sensation as if one was drawing on a thread in larynx from front backward, and repeated once soon afterwards.
Violent headache beginning at noon, < towards evenings, < after supper ; a digging, pressing beating throughout left half of head, from front backward ; lying on forehead it is < in occiput over nape of neck ; lying
on back it is < in forepart of head, same lying on either side, always < opposite side. It causes a feeling of lameness in whole body ; it was followed by a tearing pain in upper and lower jaw, as if jerking down from head ; relieved by Pulsat.
Headache commencing very slightly, but gradually increasing to such violence that he is unable to do any business ; it is most in forehead, as if it would split the head and tear it to pieces. The beating of pulse gradually has increased from 80 to 100 ; each beat of heart he
felt in head as if every beat was striking against a wedge. Stooping and going out-doors < he had to go home again, on the 7th day, could do nothing and felt exceedingly weak. From the 4th day of the proving it had increased gradually up till noon of 7th day.
Burning in head, first left then right.
Headache : > with mental exertion, but < after ; < after slightest error in diet ; and palpitation of heart < and > together ; with stiffness of neck, wakens him towards 4 A. M. ; he had no sleep after it and could not lie ; weekly, stitches
in right forehead.
Beating in head and back drive him out of bed.

Outer head

Temples œdematous. θ Albuminuria.
Head is hot. θ Albuminuria.

Sight and eyes

Letters seem to run together.
Delirium in the dark.
Eyes have little brilliancy. θ Albuminuria.
Violent pain in right eye and above it.
Headache over left eye.
Blue rings under eyes.

Hearing and ears

Headache and toothache extend into ears.
Benumbing headache is most above and behind ears.

Smell and nose

Sneezing with fluent coryza in morning.
Sneezing with a jerking-shooting pain near left side of breast bone, region of 4th and 5th ribs.
Before breakfast, catarrh in head, spitting of mucus, which falls down from choanæ.
At 3 A. M., wakefulness, restlessness, sweat and running catarrh, next morning frequent sneezing.
No phlegm through nose, only from choanæ.
Crusts are formed in choanæ. See 25 .

Upper face

Tearing pain in upper and lower jaw ; jerking down from head ; after Glonoine taken for headache, Pulsat. relieved.
Heat in face with palpitation.
Pale face and blue rings under eyes with palpitation.
Looks pale and suffering. θ Albuminuria.
Face swollen, especially about eyes. θ Albuminuria.

Lower face

Tearing pain in upper and lower jaw from head down.
Itching on upper lip.
Lips dry. θ Albuminuria.

Teeth and gums

Toothache in decayed molars, extending into ears, recurring weekly.

Taste, speech, tongue

Flat unpleasant taste, sometimes metallic, sometimes alkaline.
Sour taste with sore throat.
Taste like garlic during swallowing.
Tongue dry. θ Albuminuria.
Burning on tip of tongue.

Inner mouth

Saliva runs together in mouth like water, with a tasteless belching.
Sour taste. See 13 .

Palate and throat

Choanæ. See 7 .
Tickling in back of throat. See 25 .
After belching a burning in œsophagus as from pepper, with garlicky taste when swallowing.
A roughness and scratching in throat as if he had eaten nuts.
A sensation as if a scab was in upper part of throat and occasioned tickling and cough, which shakes whole chest and feels as if bruised.
Copious hawking of tough white phlegm.
Dryness in pit of throat and roughness of voice.
Pressing pain in throat, in clavicular region, with sour taste and waterbrash.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

No craving for food for body or mind.
No appetite during evening after fever, with thirst in afternoon. See 40 .
No appetite, with pain in loins and groins. See 19 .
Thirst for cold water.
No appetite, can enjoy only soup, eating which often causes eructations and vomiting.
Great thirst, but when she drinks too much, pain in belly and diarrhœa supervene. θ Albuminuria.
Desire for wine or other spirituous drinks.

Eating and drinking

Can bear turnips now and cornmeal, even when costive ; had given him headache since 20 years and pain in sternum ; after sweet potatoes, diarrhœa in night.
After drinking wine, pain in groins or in spermatic cords.
After least error in diet headache increases.
Torpid condition of body and mind ; the food he eats seems to lie in stomach without digesting.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Pressing as if to belch, ending with a sudden beat of heart. See 20 .
Belching, followed by burning in pharynx ; with a running together of saliva.
Nausea when sitting down.
Waterbrash with sour taste.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Acidity of stomach.
Burning heat in stomach.
Anxiety in pit of stomach.
Dull pressing stitches below stomach, with cutting across abdomen.
Digging in pit of stomach.
Painful stitches in pit of stomach, started by some movements of arm ; pain is followed by a cutting in right side.
Sensation as if stomach was expanded.
Region of stomach distended. θ Albuminuria.
Gastric ulcer, in a girl with scanty menstruation.
May be indicated in pancreatic diseases with albuminuria.
Cancer of pancreas, when there is burning pain.

Hypochondria

Cirrhosis of liver in typhus with albuminuria.
Sensation of fulness below short ribs, at 1 P. M. ; feels weary and drowsy.

Abdomen and loins

Sensation as if diarrhœa would appear ; soon after colicky pain around navel with pressure downward.
Colic and looseness of bowels.
Sensation in both groins and loins as if a hernia would be forced out, with loss of appetite after drinking some wine ; lasting ten weeks.
Bowels very tense. θ Albuminuria.
Swelling of inguinal glands, with tearing pain in legs.
Very painful shooting, cutting jerk across abdomen going from right to left.
Sensation as if abdomen was expanded, with fever. See 40 .

Stools and rectum

Faintness ; cold hands followed by a stool without relief.
Urging to stool with palpitation and oppression of chest.
Burning with the passage.
Stool with ascarides, and itching at anus from evening until midnight.
Diarrhœa at midnight after sweet potatoes.
Looseness and colic ; also during pregnancy.
Infantile diarrhœa.
Stool tardy, but not hard.
Hard and difficult stool for months.

Urinary organs

Great sensitiveness to pressure in region of kidneys. θ Albuminuria.
Must pass urine every hour ; urine containing very much albumen. θ Albuminuria.
Burning with scanty urine.
Albuminuria.

Male sexual organs

Pain in spermatic cords after great exertion and drinking some wine ; has to go home ; hands turn cold ; faintness and stool without relief.

Female sexual organs

Scanty menses. θ Gastric ulcer.
Bearing down and prolapsus. See 24 .

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

During pregnancy bearing down, prolapsus vaginæ and other complaints. See 30 and 31 .
Albuminuria during pregnancy.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Drawing as with a thread from larynx backward, with headache.
Dryness in pit of throat and roughness of voice, followed by a feeling as if a crust was in upper part of throat, which caused a tickling and a cough, shaking the whole chest ; feeling all over chest as if beaten.
Loses voice and afterwards consciousness ; before an epileptic attack.

Respiration

Kind of asthma, awakens soon after midnight with difficulty in breathing as from fulness in chest ; gets uneasy, turns all night in bed from side to side, falls asleep and gets awake again ; has such an attack every night, but each night
somewhat later until it reaches the morning, after he rises ; breathing not free all day, but without palpitation.
Feeling as if he would suffocate, with palpitation.

Cough

Cough shaking whole chest, caused by a tickling from a crust in upper part of throat ; chest feels as if beaten.

Inner chest and lungs

In clavicular region pain in throat.
Dull pressure on chest, with roughness of throat.
Fulness in chest. See asthma, 26 .
Chill extends from back towards chest. See 40 .
Burning and heat in chest. See 29 .
Precursory symptoms, with violent pains on left side. θ Epilepsy.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Immediately oppression and increased soreness of heart, with palpitation.
Rush of blood towards left chest.
Jerking shooting pain about 4th and 5th ribs, left, side, near breast bone. See sneezing, 7 .
The prover never took a medicine which acted so strongly on the vascular system ; two nights in succession, throbbing in head and back drove him out of bed.
Pains in region of heart and fearful palpitation, with burning and heat in chest, followed by shooting in back, extending to feet and arms.
Attacks of pains in heart, with violent attacks of palpitation and fear of suffocating ; face pale, deep rings below eyes. θ After suppression of intermittent by opium.
Pains in heart ; before epileptic attack. See 36 .
Constriction of heart. θ Before an epileptic attack.
Constriction of heart like from a rush of blood to left chest, with palpitation and urging to stool.
(In sick :) His habitual palpitation, not caused by an organic disease, increases very much.
Beat of heart very strong. θ Albuminuria.
Frequent attacks of palpitation, with heat of face, lasting several days, after each, even slight emotion of mind ; before such an attack always heat of hands and tremulousness.
Violent palpitation, with an urging to belch and unable to get wind up, as if something in heart prevented it ; suddenly follows a violent beat, like an explosion, commencing in pit of stomach and extending up into head, after which he feels every beat of pulse. Carb. veg.
antidoted.
Palpitation and headache increase and decrease together.
Palpitation, with oppression of chest, disturbing sleep. See 37 . θ Before epilepsy.
Every fourth beat of pulse omits with great regularity. See 36 .
Pulse increased in number continually from 80 to 100, is quicker and harder ; he feels with it all beats of heart during 3 to 4 days ; somewhat > on 5th day.
Pulse 120, easily compressed. θ Albuminuria.

Outer chest

Dull pressure on chest.

Neck and back

Pain very near nape of neck.
Stiffness of neck with headache, on waking in morning.
Shuddering over back extending into feet and arms.
Throbbing in back, drives out of bed at night.
Violent backache between shoulders and sacrum.
Could not straighten back. θ Albuminuria.
Frequent shooting in small of back, after diarrhœa with colic ; in 6th month of pregnancy after 30 cent.

Upper limbs

Lame pain as if beaten, in left shoulder and arm, morning in bed ; > after lying on it.
Lame feeling of left arm, with a painful drawing about 3 inches above wrist to upper arm and into shoulder ; later same feeling in right arm, but less marked.
Backache extends into arm.
Pains in left hand and arm before epileptic attack.
Cold hands and fainting after pain in spermatic cords.
Chill from back to arms.
Heat of hands before palpitation.
Back of hands œdematous. θ Albuminuria.

Lower limbs

Pain in his left knee of a neuralgic character.
Backache extends into lower limbs.
Tearing pain in legs, with swelling in groin.
Lower extremities œdematous. θ Albuminuria.
Weariness in lower limbs, most in knees.
Weariness amounting to lameness of lower limbs.
Feet heavy.

Rest. position. motion

Stooping causes headache, like pulse beating against a hedge.
Sitting down : nausea.
Lying down : throbbing in head and back ; sleeplessness ; causes headache on opposite side lain on ; on left arm > ; pain as if beaten ; epileptic attack ceased.
Motion : of head causes vertigo ; giddy, from quick motion ; of arm causes stitch in pit of stomach and cutting in right side.
After great exertion : fainting ; pain in spermatic cord.

Nerves

Weary, with fulness under ribs.
Lame sensation in whole body, with headache.
Great weariness and drowsiness.
Bodily and mental relaxation.
Collapse, in heart and kidney affections.
Very weak, with headache.
Restless in morning, with difficult breathing.
Tremulousness before palpitation.
Lightness of whole body, as if swimming or flying in air.
Fainting, after great exertions.
Epileptic attacks since 10 years, begin with a pain in l. arm, appear only at daytime.
Epileptic attacks, commence with a pain in heart or a constriction ; without any organic disease of heart.
Epileptic attacks, most at night, appeared first after total abstinence, in a drunkard, commenced with strong palpitation, rush of blood to head, loss of speech and consciousness ; every fourth beat of pulse omits regularly.
Epileptic attacks appeared earlier, more violent and at shorter intervals, and then ceased on lying down.
Strength pretty well gone. θ Albuminuria.
Epilepsies proceeding from valvular diseases of heart.

Sleep

Drowsy and weary, with a sensation of fulness under short ribs.
Desire to sleep in middle of day, with heavy legs.
Sleep at night very restless, disturbed by headache and palpitation ; he turns from one side to another.
Rolls about all night, sleeps and wakes, with asthma.
After 3 A. M., sleepless, restless and perspiring ; followed next morning by a running coryza and frequent sneezing.
For weeks nearly without sleep ; he could not bear to lie down.
Every night an attack of difficult breathing ; each night later.
Dreams of people he had not seen for twenty years and had not in his mind the day before ; often repeated.
Throbbing in head and back drives him out of bed for two nights.

Time

Evening : delirium ; headache < after supper ; no appetite after fever ; until midnight itching at anus.
Morning : headache ; headache wakens him 4 A. M. ; sneezing, fluent coryza ; catarrh in head and choanæ ; 3 A. M., wakefulness, restlessness, sweat, catarrh ; pain in shoulder and arm in bed ; restless, difficult breathing.
Noon : headache towards evening ; chill, < towards evening and after supper.
At 1 P. M. : weary and drowsy ; fulness below short ribs.
Afternoon : thirst ; fever and distended abdomen.
Midnight : diarrhœa ; asthma, after, later each night ; throbbing in back.
All day : breathing not free.

Temperature and weather

Winter : chill after getting cold out-doors.
Out of doors : headache.

Fever

Chilly crawl over back towards arm and chest ; it originates always inwardly with a sensation as if skin and adjoining parts were hot.
Chill with headache from getting cold. See 30 .
She feels a shuddering or shivering running over back ; sometimes has gooseflesh, especially at night, and is sleepless. θ Albuminuria.
Fever in afternoon, with sensation as if abdomen was puffed up ; much thirst for cold water and afterwards loss of appetite in evening.
Heat in chest, with palpitation. See 29 .
Night sweat after 3 A. M. See 37 .

Attacks, periodicity

Every hour : must pass urine.
Commencing slightly, increasing to violent splitting headache.
Weekly : headache ; toothache.

Locality and direction

Left side is generally most affected.
From right to left stitches in forehead ; cutting jerks in abdomen.
First left then right : burning in head ; drawing in upper arms.
From front to back : headache.
Right : pain over eye ; burning between ear and forehead ; boring jerking front of ear ; stitches in forehead ; arm and shoulder, lame pain.
Left : above ear, headache ; stitches in side of head ; digging, pressing beating through half of head ; violent pain in chest before epilepsy ; shoulder and arm, lame pain ; hand and knee pain ; neuralgia.

Sensations

As if flying or swimming in air ; as if feet did not touch ground ; as if a scab was in upper part of throat ; as if stomach was expanded ; as if diarrhœa would appear ; as if a hernia would be forced out in groins and loins ; as if one was
drawing on a thread in larynx, from front backward ; as if beaten in left shoulder and arm ; as if skin and adjoining parts of back were hot.
Boring jerking : over right ear and in occiput.
Boring shooting : in occiput.
Jerking shooting : over left side of breast bone.
Jerking : from head to jaw.
Tearing : in upper and lower jaw ; in head ; in legs.
Digging : through left half of head ; in pit of stomach.
Cutting : across abdomen.
Stitches : in left side of head ; across forehead ; in right forehead ; in pit of stomach.
Shooting : across abdomen ; in small of back ; in occiput.
Colicky pain : around navel.
Splitting : in head.
Dull pressing stitches : below stomach.
Neuralgia : in left knee.
Drawing : of arms.
Soreness : of heart.
Burning : between ear and right forehead ; in head, first left then right ; on tip of tongue ; in œsophagus ; in pharynx ; in stomach ; in cancer of pancreas ; with passage ; with scanty urine ; in chest.
Bruised : in chest.
Pressing : through left half of head ; in throat ; in clavicular region ; on chest.
Bearing down : with prolapsus and during pregnancy.
Undefined pain : over right eye ; in right eye ; over left eye ; in groins or spermatic cords ; in left chest before epilepsy ; in region of heart ; in heart ; near nape of neck ; left hand and arm.
Stupefying : different parts of head ; behind ears.
Beating : through left half of head ; in head ; in back.
Throbbing : in head and back.
Pressing heaviness : on top of head, then in occiput.
Heaviness : of head : feet.
Fulness : below short ribs ; in chest.
Scratching : in throat.
Roughness : in throat.
Weariness : in lower limbs.
Constriction : of head ; of heart.
Tickling : in back of throat.
Stiffness : of neck.
Benumbing : headache above and behind ears.
Lameness : in whole body ; of left arm.
Itching : on upper lip ; at anus.
Heat : in face ; in stomach ; in chest ; in hands.
Shuddering : in back ; to feet and arms.
Chilly crawl : over back towards arms and chest.
Dryness : in pit of throat.

Tissues

Emboli in albuminuria.
Obesity ; fatty degeneration.
Heart and kidney diseases.

Stage of life, constitution

Infantile diarrhœa.
Scrofulous, tuberculous diseases with albuminuria.
Complaints of drunkards after abstaining.
Complaints of fat women when approaching the climaxis.
In lymphatic, scrofulous and tuberculous persons after Conium.

Relations

Antidotes : Carb. veg . (palpitation), Glonoin (headache), Pulsat . (headache, tearing pains in face).
Compatible : Conium, Glonoin, Opium, Pulsat .
Compare : in mental symptoms, palpitation, Lith. carb . ; in headache, Glonoin, Pulsat, Sepia, Sulphur ; in bad effects from drinking, Arsen . ; in desire for
wine and alcoholic drinks, Nux vom . ; in gastric ulcer, Arsen., Kali jod., Phosphor . ; in asthma, Arsen., Ipec . ; in heart, beat intermittent, constriction, palpitation,
spasms, Arsen., Carb. veg., Digit., Glonoin, Lith. carb .

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica

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

Lecture

As this remedy is a chemical union of two well proved deep acting remedies it would most likely appear at once to the mind as a long acting remedy, well suited to many chronic diseases.

In fact, it is deep acting enough to cure some of our most stubborn cases of epilepsy. It has made its record in this class of cases.

Great mental and physical weakness. Tremulous and paralytic weakness. Sense of lightness of the body as if floating in the air. Fainting spells. Epileptic convulsions where the aura is felt in the region of the heart. Marked lassitude. Pain and sinking in the region of the heart followed by spasms. Weakness, or vertigo, or momentary blindness.

Convulsions with valvular disease of the heart. Evening and night aggravations are common. The patient is sensitive to cold-a lack of vital heat. Aversion to the open air.

General physical anxiety. Many symptoms from ascending stairs. It has many burning pains like Arsenicum.. It has cured many cases of albuminuria in the early stages.

It is a useful remedy in chlorosis. Dropsy is a strong feature, as it is in Arsenicum and Calcarea . Complaints are worse from slight exertion; faintness, palpitation, dyspnea and weakness come on. The left side of the body is most affected.

Mind

The following mental symptoms are often a guide to its use. Anger and complaints from anger and vexation.

Anxiety in evening, at night, in bed, and during a chill, and on waking. Apprehensiveness; about the future, about his salvation, at night. Inclined to criticize.

Desire for company. Confusion of mind on waking. Inability to concentrate the mind. Delusions. Sees dead people, phantoms, images. Illusions of fancy.

Sees visions of fire, worse at night, and on closing the eyes. Despair of recovery, of salvation. Discontented. Excitable. Fear of death at night, of solitude, of insanity.

Becomes indifferent to pleasure. Insanity. Irresolution. Irritable. Lamenting. Loathing of life; weary of life. Weakness of memory.

Mischievous. Obstinate. Sensitive, easily offended. Extreme restlessness, especially at night, tossing about in bed; during heat; and during menses. Extreme sadness in evening, and during fever. Easily startled. Timidity. Weeping, at night.

Head

There is violent rush blood to the head with vertigo and general spasm. It has caused and cured many chronic headaches.

A very peculiar feature of the pain in the head is that it moves from the side lain on and goes to the side not lain on, and continues to change about by changing position.

Not all of its headaches do this way. It has many peculiar little symptoms. Pain in the head ameliorated during mental exertion, but much worse afterwards. Oedema of face, lids, temples and ears.

Eczema of face and scalp. Coldness of head. Pale, sickly, bloated face. Fluent coryza. Sneezing.

Loss of all desire for food, but thirst for cold water. Eructations and vomiting after food. Stomach easily disordered, especially after milk and cold food.

Pain in stomach after drinking cold water. Load in stomach after eating. Pain in groin after drinking wine. Waterbrash and spur stomach. Anxiety and burning in stomach. Stitching pain in stomach. Gnawing pain in stomach. Distension of stomach and abdomen. It has cured gastric ulcer.

Much soreness in region of kidneys. Scanty, burning urine, contains albumin and casts.

Pain in the spermatic cords, after exertion, and after drinking wine.

Excoriating, yellow leucorrhoea. Offensive, bloody leucorrhoea. For offensive leucorrhea, it compares with Kali ars. and Kali phos, it is useful in cancer of the uterus when there is burning and acrid offensive bloody flow.

It restores the menstrual flow, when the symptoms agree. Copious menstrual flow, or scanty flow, too frequent and protracted.

Pain at the approach of the menses. Metrorrhagia. Burning pain in uterus and vagina.

Drawing as with a thread from larynx backward. Dryness in larynx. Loses the voice before an epileptic convulsion. Suffocation and palpitation at night in bed.

Burning heat in chest and pain in region of heart before an epileptic convulsion.

Orgasm of blood in region of heart. Throbbing in the blood vessels, especially in head and back; it drives him out of bed. Pain in heart with palpitation. Angina pectoris.

Grasping pain in heart. Palpitation, with heat of face. Palpitation from least excitement or exertion; worse evening and night. Every fourth beat of pulse omits. Rapid pulse.

Violent headache between scapula and sacrum. Pain in back extends to arms. Pain in chest extends to arms. Oedema of the hands and feet. Weakness of lower limbs.

The sleep is disturbed by violent dreams. Palpitation and suffocation. Latter part of night wakeful, and much sweat.

If this wonderful remedy is studied with the mind on Arsenicum and Calcarea, a broader knowledge will be gained. It needs further proving in potencies.