ARSENICUM SULFURATUM FLAVUM.

By Timothy F. AllenThe Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica

Arsenious Sulphide (AsS3 ). Orpiment.

Preparation , Triturations.

Authority.

1 , "Lhr." in Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 2, 118; 2 , Forestus, Obs., etc., 1619 (taken from Wibmer); 3 , Löw, Sydenham II (ibid); 4 , Gerbizius, Ephem., 1700 (ibid); 5 , Van Swieten, Crantz, Mat. Med. (ibid); 6 , Welper, Hufel. J., 1831, from the fumes (ibid); 7 , Henke, Zeitschrift (Z. f. hom. Kl., 1, 88).

MIND

  • Intense anxiety and fear, 6.
  • Great apprehension, 2.

HEAD

  • Confusion of the whole head; too many thoughts crowd upon him (eight and a quarter hours), 1.
  • Violent dizziness on walking in the open air, felt through the whole head as from drunkenness (five and a half hours), 1.
  • Forehead cold, 6.
  • Needle stitches, externally, in the right frontal region (five hours), 1.
  • Throbbing stitches in the right frontal region (five hours), 1.

EYES

  • Gum in the canthi (thirty-three hours), 1.

EARS

  • On brushing the hair on the occiput, a tensive feeling behind the right ear, as if something stuck behind the ear and pressed it forward (one and a half hours), 1.

MOUTH. [10.]

  • The teeth pain as if they were loose, on chewing the food (five hours), 1.
  • Tongue whitish-yellow, 6.
  • Tongue swollen, after several hours it becomes dry, 7.
  • Tongue stiff, immovable, 6.
  • Mouth and throat dry, 6.
  • Taste bitter, 6.

STOMACH

  • Total disgust for all nourishment, 7.
  • Thirst, 2.
  • Thirst slight, 7.
  • Excessive nausea after dinner, at noon (five and three-quarter hours), 1. [20.]
  • Nausea and vomiting, 6.
  • Violent and persistent vomiting, 7.
  • Vomiting and diarrhœa, 2, 3, 4.
  • Burning and gnawing in the stomach, 4.

ABDOMEN

  • Abdomen distended, soft, painless, 7.
  • Violent gripings, 2, 3.
  • Violent colic as from a cold, morning on waking (twenty-five hours), 1.

STOOL AND ANUS

  • Tenesmus, 7.
  • Stool thin, liquid, frequent, 7.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

  • Respiration difficult ; this lasted several years, 6.

CHEST. [30.]

  • Needle stitches from within outward, in the right side of the chest (six hours), 1.

HEART AND PULSE

  • Pulse frequent, hard; afterward small, thready, 7.
  • Pulse slow, suppressed; afterward rapid, scarcely to be felt, 6.

LOWER EXTREMITIES

  • Pains in left knee (twenty-five minutes), 1.

GENERALITIES

  • Twitchings, 2.
  • Twitchings for thirty years after taking it, 5.
  • General weakness, 6.
  • Fainting, 2, 3.
  • Body cold, stiff, 6.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

  • A start on falling asleep in the evening, as if he would fall out of bed (eighteen hours), 1.

FEVER. [40.]

  • Heat, 2.

CONDITIONS

  • Aggravation.
  • ( Morning on waking ), Violent colic.
  • ( Brushing hair ), Tensive feeling, etc.
  • ( Chewing ), Toothache.
  • ( After dinner ), Nausea.
  • ( Walking in open air ), Violent dizziness.

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