Materia Medica

Arsenicum metallicum – Boericke

Arsenicum metallicum
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(Metallic Arsenic) Arouses latent syphilis. Periodicity very marked; symptoms recur every two and three weeks. Weakness. Swollen feeling of parts.

 

 

Head

Low spirited, memory weak. DESIRE TO BE ALONE. Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry. Head feels too large. Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears. Headache worse stooping and lying down. Oedematous swelling of forehead.

 

 

Face

Red, itching, burning and bloated. Eyes swelled and 86 ARSEN. MET. ARSEN. SUL. FLAV. ARTEM. VUL. watery, burn with coryza. Eyes weak, day and gas light unpleasant.

 

 

Mouth

The tongue coated white, and shows imprint of the teeth. Mouth sore and ulcerated.

 

 

Abdomen

Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders and spine. Pain in spleen down to groin. Pain in breast extends to hip and spleen. Diarrhoea, burning watery stools with relief of pain.

 

 

Dose

Sixth potency.