Arsenicum Metallicum

Preparation , The pure metal, triturated.

Authority.

Lippe (N. Am. J. of Hom., 1, 301). Published provings of Dr. Stevenson, in Thesis, 1851.

MIND

• Depression of spirits.
• Despondency.
• Indifference.

HEAD

• A sensation as of vertigo (second day), (1st potency).
• Sensation as if the fumes of whisky had gone to the head (first day), (3d potency).
• Heavy and dull feeling in the forehead (first day), (1st potency).
• Pain in the left side of the head extending to the left ear and left eye, with nausea (third day), (1st potency).
• Head feels as if swollen in the morning when awaking (second day), (3d potency).
• Sensation of fulness in the head while sleeping, and worse when awaking in the night (fourth day), (1st potency). [10.]
• Headache worse when laughing.
• Itching of forehead which cannot be allayed but by pinching of the skin (twelfth day), (30th potency).
• Soreness of the scalp when even pulling but one hair (third day), (1st potency).

EYES

• Sensation of heaviness in the eyes.
• Eyelids slightly inflamed and swollen (first day), (1st potency).
• Eyes so painful that he cannot read much.

NOSE

• Fluent coryza.
• Scalding water runs from the nose, excoriating the nostrils (fifth day), (30th potency).
• The coryza returns in fifteen days with heat in the face and hoarseness, lasting three days, when it became accompanied with angina faucium, for which

Bell . 400, one dose was successfully administered.

FACE

• Itching and burning in the lower part of the face, as if an eruption would break out (fourth day), (30th potency). [20.]
• Face feels as if bloated (third day), (1st potency).
• Bloated face (third day), (1st potency).
• Itching all over the face, which can only be relieved by pinching the skin (for some days).
• Burning, itching, stinging in the face, with swelling; skin feels as if stiff, relieved by bathing the face with cold water; later, desquamation in small scales.
• The itching is relieved by pressing, but not by scratching.

MOUTH

• Ulcer on the right side of inner under lip (first day), (3d potency).
• Ulcer sore when touched with the tongue (first to second day), (3d potency).
• Ulcer on the left inner side of the under lip (first day), (3d potency).
• Dry mouth.
• Tongue coated white, covered with mucus (twelfth day), (1st potency). [30.]
• Tongue coated white, showing the imprint of the teeth on the edges (third day), (30th potency).
• Gums swollen and painful to the touch (first day), (1st potency).
• Gums swollen and feeling as if scalded, with accumulation of water in the mouth; aversion to wines and liquors.

STOMACH

• Nausea (third day), (1st potency).
• Hot eructations as of bile (third day), (1st potency).

ABDOMEN

• Bloated abdomen (first to third day), (1st potency).
• Tension and sensation of swelling in the abdomen (third day), (1st potency).
• Pulsation in the umbilicus.
• Numbness and sensation of paralysis in the right lumbar region, extending from the vertebræ to the crest of the ilium (first day), (30th potency).
• Lumbago. [40.]
• Varices on the right side of the anus, painful after stool (not bleeding), (twelfth day), (1st potency).
• Varices bleed a little (fourth day), (30th potency).
• Varices feel only sore, but neither pain after stool nor bleed (sixteenth day), (30th potency).
• After awaking in the morning at 6 o'clock, distressing, lancinating, griping pain in the bowels; afterwards, one sharp, burning, watery stool, relieving the abdominal pain, but leaving much debility; he falls asleep sitting on a chair, and has no appetite; pulse 60, much fuller than in health (second day), (1st potency).
• Constipated (sixteenth day), (30th potency).
• Itching in the right groin extending down to the knee (twelfth day), (30th potency).
• In the right groin a painful swelling, worse when extending the leg; pain goes up to the hip and continues for a long time. In the same place where this painful swelling appears, a bubo suppurated twenty-four years ago.

URINE

• Red sandy sediment in the urine (third day), (30th potency).
• Offensive sweat on the genitals (for some weeks).

CHEST

• Pulsation under the sternum (first day), (30th potency). [50.]
• Slight pains in the left side of the chest in the region of the heart (second day), (30th potency).
• Pain in the muscle of the left chest (second day), (30th potency).
• Hoarseness with coryza (twenty-first day), (30th potency).

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Sensation of swelling of hands and fingers (third day), (1st potency).
• Hands and fingers feel stiff; they feel as if they could not be closed (third to ninth day), (1st potency).
• Cracking of all the finger-joints (second to fourteenth day), (1st potency).
• Dry heat in the palms of the hands.
• A scab which had been on the first joint of the third finger of the left hand for twenty years, healed entirely; whereas, formerly, when the scab had been torn off, it left a spot of a liver color, and a new scab soon formed, [°].

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• Sensation of lameness in the right hip-joint (second day), (3d potency).
• Sensation as if he could not use the limb; but he can walk well enough after he has been on his feet a short time (second day), (3d potency). [60.]
• Pulsation in the right hip-joint, worse in the morning, better in the evenings (second day), (3d potency).
• Deepseated numbness in the right hip-joint (first day), (30th potency).
• Sensation of paralysis in the right hip-joint, extending to the pubic symphysis down inside of the thigh to the knee.
• Pulsation in the right anterior tibial artery at the superior extremity of its inferior third (first day), (30th potency).
• Sensation of dryness in the right knee-joint (fourth day), (3d potency).
• Feet burning hot, feel as if bloated (first day), (1st potency).
• Feet burning hot, without the least moisture (second day), (30th potency).
• Feet, usually icy cold, have become warm and sweat much.
• Feet burning more at night; he has to hold them out of bed; cannot have the least cover on them (first to fourteenth day), (1st and 3d potency).

GENERALITIES

• Debility; weariness; general prostration of strength. [70.]
• Emaciation.
• Pulsation all over the body.
• The symptoms appear first on the right and then on the left side.
• Morning exacerbations.
• The symptoms recur again after the weeks.
• Aggravation after drinking a small quantity of brandy, for which he had not the slightest desire.

SLEEP

• Unusually sound sleep at night (first day), (3d potency).
• Irresistible inclination to sleep in the daytime and early in the evening (second day), (3d potency).
• Great drowsiness in the morning after rising, having had a sound sleep (second day), (30th potency).
• Very reluctant to rise in the morning after a good night's sleep (third day), (3d potency). [80.]
• Feels as if he should fall asleep while walking in the street in the afternoon (second day), (30d potency).
• Stupor in the morning, notwithstanding a good sleep all night (third day), (30th potency).
• Very sleepy but cannot fall asleep (second day), (30th potency).
• During sleep a sensation as if he would have a headache when awaking in the morning.
• During sleep, dreams of danger, especially of danger on the water (fifth day), (1st potency).
• On awaking in the morning, sensation as if the head were swollen (first day), (1st potency).
• Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning (first day), (1st potency).
• Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning (second day), (1st potency).
• Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning (first day), (30th potency).
• Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated in the morning and falls down to 53 in the evening (second day), (3d potency). [90.]
• Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning, and lowered to 43 in the evening (fourth day), (1st potency).
• Normal pulse being 55, is now 72 in the morning, 64 in the evening (fifth day), (1st potency).
• Normal pulse being 55, is now, in the morning, 64, in the evening 48 (first day), (30th potency).
• Pulse after midnight 48, in the morning, after rising, 68 (third day), (3 0th potency).
• Pulse 64 in the morning (fourth day), (30th potency).
• The pulse continues to rise in the morning, and to fall in the evening for thirty days longer, without taking more medicine.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), General aggravation.
• Pulsation in right hip. On waking, head feels swollen.
• ( Brandy ), Aggravates.
• ( Laughing ), Headache.
• Amelioration.
• ( Evening ), Pulsation in right hip.
• ( Pinching or pressing the skin ), Itching.