Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Orpiment. As S 3 .
Hahnemann published in his Materia Medica a single short proving, by Langhammer, one of the most trustworthy provers. Some reports of effects by the Old School physicians are given in Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 1, p. 556 ; also a symptom observed by Hencke.
MIND [1]
Intense and torturing anxiety and apprehension greatest apprehension after a swoon.
Mind clearer than previously.
SENSORIUM [2]
When walking he felt as if dancing up and down, as if he must fly.
Great weakness in head.
Vanishing of thought.
INNER HEAD [3]
Throbbing stitches in right frontal region.
Headache in middle of forehead, drawing and stinging.
Pain deep in, in left forehead, situated back of inner corner of eye and higher than eyebrow ; it extends towards left and deeper in, like a curve or drawn bowstring.
After drinking beer, pain above occiput in both sides ; violent pressure in two places, right and left side symmetrical.
Nausea, with neuralgic pains about head, when rising ; > while lying down.
Headache, nausea and vomiting of a whitish fluid ; extremities covered with cold sweat.
Serous apoplexy.
OUTER HEAD [4]
External needle-like stitches in right frontal region.
Tearing pain from parietal to frontal region.
On stroking hair on occiput, a tensive feeling behind right ear, as if something stuck there and pressed it forward.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
Gum in canthi.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Tensive feeling behind right ear on stroking hair.
UPPER FACE [8]
Forehead cold.
TEETH AND GUMS [10]
Teeth pain as if loose, when chewing food.
TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE [11]
Taste bitter.
Tongue : furred, yellow white ; stiff, immovable ; swollen later dry, with disgust for all nourishment.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Mouth and throat dry.
Pustules or herpetic ulcers, of a phagedenic character.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Loss of appetite.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Nausea at noon after a meal ; and vomiting, with pain in stomach and abdomen ; diarrhœa and thirst.
Violent, persistent vomiting.
After vomiting offensive bile, was relieved.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Cramp in stomach, with fainting, colic, vomiting, diarrhœa. θ Gangrene of bowels.
Burning and gnawing in stomach, with vomiting and diarrhœa.
Indigestion.
HYPOCHONDRIA [18]
Violent griping, with convulsions.
Violent colic, as from a cold, morning on awaking.
Abdomen puffed ; blue spots in fundus of stomach ; reddish-brown erosions.
End of ileum more inflamed than duodenum.
Sensation as if diarrhœa would set in.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Stools like water, green and slimy, and terribly offensive.
Diarrhœa daily at 8 A. M. and several times during day, but not at night.
Diarrhœa with colic and backache and tenesmus.
MALE SEXUAL ORGANS [22]
Gonorrhœa, with terrible pains ; discharge copious, yellow, constant ; burning day and night, along entire urethra, with restlessness.
Seminal emissions. See 37 .
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
Laryngeal phthisis. θ In a drunkard.
RESPIRATION [26]
Respiration difficult.
Indescribably unpleasant feeling, with oppression ; everything feels too tight, < about hypochondria ; ending in sweat.
COUGH [27]
Cough from tickling in throat ; with pain in left side ; soreness on chest ; with heat in left chest and face, circumscribed red cheeks.
Cough with soreness in chest and between shoulders.
Catarrhal cough with pains in chest and rattling.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Lungs overfilled with blood.
Needle-like stitches from within out in right side of chest.
Yellow serum in pericardium.
Pulse : frequent, hard, then small and thready ; slow, suppressed, quick, and scarcely perceptible.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Backache confining him to bed (with caries of sternum and cough. Sulphur partly cured caries, Psorin. cough, and Arsen. sulph. backache and remaining caries).
Pain in lumbar vertebræ when moving.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Eruption on outer side of left wrist ; also on inner side, after Sulphur. (Sulphur did not cure, Arsenic-sulph. did).
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Pain in left knee, with chronic asthma.
Knees pain and totter.
Pain above left ankle bone.
Feet burn.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Severe pain, now in toes, now in shoulders ; now here, now there, ending with sweat.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
Children are slow in learning to walk.
Worse when rising : neuralgic pains about head.
Better lying down : neuralgia in head.
When moving : pain in lumbar vertebræ.
NERVES [36]
General debility.
Nerves severely affected.
Annoying twitching of thirty years' duration.
Spasms, colic, vomiting, diarrhœa, heat and thirst next day.
Faints after a convulsion.
General feeling of lameness, staggering, trembling ; all strength is gone.
Limbs paralyzed ; has itch and dropsy.
SLEEP [37]
Starting in sleep, also in falling asleep ; as if he would fall out of bed.
Restless at night, excited ; dreams with seminal emissions.
TIME [38]
At 8 A. M. : daily diarrhœa.
At noon : nausea after a meal, etc. See 16 .
Night : restless ; terrible heat.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Relieved by steam or hot water.
FEVER [40]
Chronic intermittent fever, < every afternoon and evening ; terrible heat at night.
Hectic without thirst.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Left : pain in forehead.
Right : tensive feeling behind ear.
SENSATIONS [43]
Pain in teeth as if loose ; when walking felt as if dancing up and down ; as if he must fly ; as if something stuck behind right ear and pressed it forward ; as if he would fall out of bed.
Severe pain : now here, now there.
Needle-like stitches : in right frontal region.
Throbbing stitches : in right frontal region.
Terrible pains : with gonorrhœa.
Tearing pain : from parietal to frontal region.
Drawing : and stinging in middle of forehead.
Griping : in abdomen.
Burning : in stomach ; along entire urethra ; in feet.
Neuralgic pain : about head.
Soreness : on chest ; between shoulders.
Pressure : above occiput, right and left side.
Gnawing : in stomach.
Cramp : in stomach.
Tensive feeling : behind right ear.
Undefined pain : deep in left forehead ; in stomach and abdomen ; in left side with cough ; in shoulders ; in left knee ; above left ankle-bone ; in toes ; in joints.
Tickling : in throat, causing cough.
Heat : in left chest and face.
TISSUES [44]
Pain in joints. θ Rheumatism.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Everything feels too tight about hypochondria.
Emaciated children.
SKIN [46]
Icterus.
Chafing about genitals and behind ears, in children.
Skin scaly, blackish.
Skin itching, dry, cracked ; rhagades ; itch.
STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]
Case of caries of sternum with cough and backache of 15 years' standing. See 31 .
A drunkard with phthisis laryngea.
RELATIONS [48]
Similar to Calc. Carb . (children are slow in learning to walk). See 31 and 32 .