Argentum Metallicum 出现在 Similia 的 13 部经典著作中的 11 部。每部书的写作目的各不相同 — 以下是每部书对该药物的补充内容，以及其条目的开头。
- Allen HC — 将此疗剂与最相近疗剂区分开的关键症状。
“The Metal. (Pure Silver) Tall, thin, irritable persons. Ailments from abuse of Mercury. Constitutional effects of onanism. Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose, Eustachian; the structures entering into joints. Seminal emissions: after onanism; almost every night; without erection; with atrophy of penis. Crushed…”
- Allen TF — 原始药物试验记录 — 症状按验药者报告原样呈现，未经编辑。
“Metallic silver. Preparation , The pure precipitated metal for trituration (Hahnemann used the leaf silver). Authorities. He is all the time in a kind of intoxication; he knows not how to define it, 3. Increased cheerfulness and disposition to talk the whole day (after three hours), (reaction), 8. When pleased…”
- Boericke — 快速临床解读 — 关键症状、加重与缓解因素，以及实际处方所针对的病症。
“Silver Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnœa, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic. The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligament's. Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious…”
- Boger (GA) — 此疗剂归属于哪些全身总类目 — 分析性的框架。
“BONES. EXHALATION. Agg. GRAYISH, dirty, etc. LAUGHING, Agg. LYING, on back, Agg. MUCOUS SECRETIONS, altered. RAWNESS SPOTS, pain, etc., in (Comp. Mottled.) THICK, discharges, etc. VAPOR, smoke, fumes, etc.., as of (Comp. Dust.) 12 NOON”
- Boger (Syn) — 以简短的分析画像呈现全身症状与加重缓解因素，而不是症状列表。
“NERVES. Cartilages, mucous membranes: LARYNX. Bones. Condyles. Joints. Genito-urinary. Left side; ovary. Testis (R). USING VOICE. Mental strain. Noon. Cold damp. 3 to 5 A.M. Motion. Coffee. Wrapping up. Slow, deep, low grade processes. THICKENED SECRETIONS, cartilages, tarsi, etc. Gray or tenacious mucus. Sore…”
- Clarke — 最广泛的条目 — 来源、药物试验、临床用途、关系与解毒剂一处尽览。
“Silver Leaf and Precipitated Silver. Ag (A. W. 107.66). Trituration. Blepharitis / Brain-fag / Caries / Chlorosis / Cough / Diabetes / Enuresis nocturna / Epilepsy / Epithelial tissue, affections of / Exostosis / Heart, affections of / Hit-joint, disease of / Hysterical joint / Joints, affections of / Laryngitis /…”
- Hering — 分级症状，每一项都按验药者与临床实践确认的频率加权。
“Pure Metallic Silver. Hahnemann published in 1813, in the fourth volume of his Materia Medica Pura, the first proving made by him and his class, with the Argentum foliatum , or the silver leaf of the gold beaters, after having collected a few symptoms from the nitrate. But like he had experienced with the gold, and…”
- Kent — 精神与全身图像 — 在疗剂所能治愈的内容之前，先看患者是谁。
“Generalities: We will take up the study of Metallic silver. No wonder that this remedy is a very deep acting remedy, for it has been used symbolically, and medically throughout all history. It has been a valuable substance throughout all history. It is an anti psoric and from its symptoms. I believe it to be an…”
- Lippe (MM) — 严格的哈内曼式解读 — 不含临床解释的症状图像。
“Restlessness, anxiety, which directs him from place to place. Ill-humor, with disinclination to talk. Pressing, tearing pain in the skull, principally in the temporal bones, renewed every day at noon, with soreness of the external head, aggravated by pressure and contact, ameliorated in the open air. Painful sensation…”
- Lippe (Red) — 关键症状，其中最受信任的标为红线症状。
“Common name: silver. Has strong effects upon the secretions of the mucous membranes (Hydr., Kali-B., Nat-M., Puls., Rhus-T.). Produces spasms, which simulate those of epilepsy. The attacks are followed by delirious rage (Stram.). The patient jumps about and tries to strike those near him (Bell., Canth., Stram.) (F.)…”
