Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

Yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic. Orpiment

(ARSENIC TRISULPH.)

Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead, right side. Sticking behind ear. Difficult respiration. Skin chafed about genitals.

Leucoderma and squamous syphilides. Sciatica and pain around the knee.

Relationship

Arsenic sulph rub (influenza with intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high temperature, purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne, and sciatica . Chilly even before a fire. Itching in various parts. Pellagra).

Dose

Third trituration.

Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum across the other classic books

Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum appears in 4 of the 21 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Arsenious Sulphide (AsS3 ). Orpiment. Preparation , Triturations. Authority. Intense anxiety and fear, 6. Great apprehension, 2. 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…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Arsenious Sulphide. Orpiment. As 2 S 3 . Trituration. Apoplexy / Caries / Children, emaciated / Diarrhœa / Gonorrhœa / Indigestion / Laryngeal phthisis / Walking, late The two sulphides of Arsenic, Orpiment and Realgar, have been used in a somewhat general way in cases combining prominent symptoms of both elements…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“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. Intense and torturing anxiety and…”

Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum in 20 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in MOUTH (10), EXTREMITIES (4), URETHRA (3), GENERALITIES (2), BACK (1).

MOUTH - DRYNESS
GENERALITIES - SYPHILIS
MOUTH - SWELLING - Tongue
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Joints - rheumatic
MOUTH - DRYNESS - Tongue
BACK - PAIN - aching - bed - confines him to
MOUTH - ULCERS - herpetic
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - yellow - white - thick
MOUTH - ULCERS - phagedenic
MOUTH - PUSTULES
MOUTH - MOTION - Tongue,difficult - wanting,immovable
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - profuse
MOUTH - STIFF,Tongue
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - yellow
EXTREMITIES - HEAT - Foot - sole
URETHRA - DISCHARGE - gonorrheal
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - burning - Foot - sole
EXTREMITIES - STIFFNESS
MOUTH - TASTE - bitter
GENERALITIES - WEAKNESS,enervation

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