Arsenicum Iodatum

by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica

REGION

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: NOSE. Digestive tract. Lungs.
Heart.
Glands.
Skin.
Left side.
Nerves.

WORSE

Weather:Dry. Cold. Windy. Foggy.
Exertion.
In room.
Apples.
Tobacco smoke.

BETTER

Open air.

Erethistic weakness. BURNING. Profuse, acrid discharges; thin in acute, or thick, gluey, yellow (Hyds.) in chronic affections. Rawness. Scrofula. Consumptiveness (Tub.). Heaviness. Debility. .................... Dull, heavy headache, < occiput. Eyeballs feel heavy. Foul otorrhœa. Persistent, but unsatisfactory sneezing. Nose drips water; hot (Iod.); green; acrid; reddens upper lip (Merc.). Coryza; with dyspnœa (Nit-ac.), post-nasal catarrh. Hay fever. Colds, with hunger. Aching malar bones. Raw throat. Hoarseness. Goitre. Air hunger. Short of breath. Hacking cough. Yellow-green, foul expectoration. Asthma of phthisical or psoric persons. Beginning resolution (Sul-io.). Burning heat in chest. Tubercular pleurisy. Weak heart; with erethism. Dry, harsh or dusky skin. Psoriasis. Ichthyosis. Rapid, irritable pulse. Chilly. Night-sweats.

Complementary: Kali-io.

Related: Kali-bi.

Arsenicum Iodatum across the other classic books

Arsenicum Iodatum appears in 7 of the 13 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 — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“Arsenious Iodide, AsI3, Iodide of Arsenic. Preparation for use , Trituration. Authorities. Headache all over the head (after twenty-five hours), 2. Bad feeling in head, like a bad cold (third evening), 1. Woke in the morning with a bad headache, which lasted all day; dull, heavy, with pressing from within outwards…”
Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Iodide of Arsenic Is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges. The discharge irritates the membrane from which it flows and over which it flows. The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and burns. Influenza, hay-fever , old nasal…”
Boger (GA) — Which general headings this remedy belongs under — the analytical scaffolding.
“ACRIDITY, excoriations, etc. COLD TAKING DRY, clear or cold weather, Agg. SUPPURATION”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Iodide of Arsenic. As I 3 . Trituration. Acne rosacea / Aneurism / Angina pectoris / Breast, tumour of / Bronchitis / Cancer / Catarrh / Consumption / Debility / Dropsy / Epithelioma / Gastritis / Hay-fever / Heart, affections of / Hydrothorax / Laryngitis / Leucocythæmia / Lichen / Liver, affections of / Lungs…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Iodide of Arsenic. AsI 3 . In 1872, H. Nankinwell, residing at the seashore where patients came to be improved by the air, gave the report of cures of phthisical cases. In most all cases cold-liver oil was given daily. Introduced by friends of the lower, it has been given most in the third decimal and always repeated…”
Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Generalities and modalities: From a study of the elements making up this agent, it may be known that it is a deep-acting constitutional remedy. Its complaints come on in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, after midnight . In hectic conditions, with many abscesses. Extreme anaemia, such as belongs to tuberculous…”

Arsenicum Iodatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Arsenicum Iodatum in 898 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in GENERALITIES (119), EXTREMITIES (90), SKIN (64), MIND (54), HEAD (52).

NOSE - DISCHARGE, - yellow - honey,like
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - psoriasis - syphilitic
SKIN - EXCRESCENCES - fungus,cauliflower - syphilitic
FACE - ERUPTIONS - coppery
GENERALITIES - CANCEROUS affections - epithelioma
GENERALITIES - EMACIATION - children (marasmus)
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - syphilitic
CHILL - QUARTAN
GENERALITIES - SYPHILIS
SKIN - ULCERS - discharges albuminous - corrosive
FEVER - HECTIC fever
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - psoriasis
FEMALE GENITALIA - CANCER of - Uterus
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - dry
CHEST - CONSTRICTION,tension,tightness - Heart
MOUTH - CRACKED - Tongue fissured
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - eczema
PERSPIRATION - EXERTION - during slight
MOUTH - ODOR (breath), - putrid
GENERALITIES - WARM - agg.

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