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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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COMMON NAME |
: | White
oxide of Arsenic. |
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PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION | : | 1)
Mucous membrane - Destrutive inflammation. 2) Serous membrane - Oedematous inflammation. - Copious effusion 3) Kidney - Fatty degeneration, Albuminuria. 4) Skin - Eczema, gangrene. 5) Blood - Haemolysis
-Haemorrhage
6) Heart
- Fatty degeneration.
- Motor Paralysis
7) Circulation- Vasomotor paralysis 8) Liver - Fatty degeneration; disorganization. 9) Lungs - Asthma. -Congestion
- Malignant Catarrh. 10) CNS
- Motor and Sensory
paralysis.
- Neuralgia.
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A/F |
: | -Cold
fruits 3, watery fruits,-Sour beer -Bad
sausage 3 melons ice-cream, ice -Alcoholic drinks -Strong cheese -Chewing tobacco -Sea bathing -Dissecting wounds -Anthrax poison -Stings of venomous insects -Poor diet -Quinine -Travelling -Mountain climbing -Care 3 -Grief -Fright -Ptomaine poisoning -Vegetable diet. |
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MODALITIES |
: | <
After midnight < Exertion < Cold, cold drinks and food < Sea shore < Periodically, 14 days, yearly < Alcoholism < lying on affected side / with head low < Watery fruits < Bad meat, food > Warm wraps > Open air > Company > Sweating > Motion > Walking |
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MIND |
: | -RESTLESS
mentally but physically too weak to move,
restlessness in affected part. Restlesness, cannot relax, anxious. -FEARS being alone, cancer, robbers, poverty, DEATH. Fear of death, comes at the later stage of disease, thinks it useless to take medicine, disease is incurable. -Worry things will go wrong, anxiety for others. -ANXIOUS. Highly sensitive. Anguish. Anxiety about health. Later despair of recovery. Anorexia nervosa (first remedy) (Nat-m, Sep, Nux-v, Ign, Verat, Abrot, Sulph). -Insecurity, feels vulnerable in an unsafe world. -FASTIDIOUS, obsessed with order and tidiness. Faultfinding. -Violence, self-torture, pulls her hair, bites her nails, suicidal impulses, mania, wants to be held. Suicidal. Impulse to kill, fear of killing. -Selfish. Seeking security. -Demanding help, company. -Delusion that she is being watched. Hears voices and sees animals, after taking alcohol. -Mixture of depression and irritation. -Immaculate outer appearance. -Avaricious, collecting. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Extremely
CHILLY, wants to be wrapped up warmly,
hugs the fire. Chilly with rheumatic complaints warm blooded in
headaches. -Great prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital forces, out of proportion to the rest of his illness. -BURNING pains, affected parts burn like fire, pains maddening, even felt during sleep, cause shortness of breath. Burning > Heat, hot drinks, hot applications. -Thirst - Burning 3, for cold water, but it lies like a stone in stomach, drinks often but little at a time, it can't assimilate, gurgling in oesophagus when drinking. Thirstlessness in chronic diseases. -Can't bear smell or slight or thought of food. (Colch, Sepia). -Discharges of mucous membrane - ACRID, thin, SCANTY - coryza, saliva, sweat. Putrid cadaveric odours of discharges. -Haemorrhages - black, offensive. -Tendency to ulcerations, phagedenic with intense burning. WEAKNESS and emaciation rapid. -Dryness, skin, dry, or rough like parchment, lips dry, dry gangrene. Scanty discharges. -Sleep- RESTLESS, anxious, disturbed, talk in sleep. Dreams of death, full of care, sorrow and fear. -Sweat- COLD or CLAMMY. -Periodicity mid day or midnight,- everyday, 3/4th day, every fortnight, every 6 weeks, every year. -Hydrogenoid - < water in any form eg. watery fruits, damp places etc. -Craving - sour, brandy, coffee, milk. Aversion - sweets, butter, fat, meat. -Dropsical states - anasarca, skin pale, waxy or earth coloured. Acts as a trocar. -Head-Headache congestive > cold temporarily. -Restless head, its in constant motion. -Scalp very sensitive. -Early graying and falling of hair. -Eye-Oedema around eyes. -Intense photophobia. -Burning with acrid lachrymation. -Everything appears green, sees as through a white gauze. -Face- pale, anxious, sunken, hippocratic, tearing needle like pains, covered with cold sweat. -Tongue- bluish white, taste bitter to water, after drinking or eating - sour, saltish, sweet in morning. -Vomiting and stools simultaneously < eating and drinking. Vomiting immediately after eating or drinking of (especially cold) water or mucus to bile, blood and coffee ground substances. -Rectum-Haemorrhoids with stitching pain < walking or sitting not at stool with burning pain < by heat. -Stools- Rice water, foul, small, acrid, involuntary, burning, black, mucus, lienteric, cadaveric 3. < cold drinks with prostration 3. -Nose-Thin, watery, excoriating nasal discharges, sneezing without relief. -Colds descend to chest. -Dyspnoea felt in nose. -Respiratory system-Cough dry <-> loose, dry at night < drinking > sitting up. -Asthmatic breathing < after 12 o'clock, unable to lie down for fear of suffocation.> sitting up / bent forward. -Darting pain through upper third of right lung. -Extremities-Sciatica > walking, > hot application. -Skin -Dry, scaly, cold, blue, wrinkled, like parchment, burning pain, black vesicles. -Psoriasis or gangrenous inflammations itching without eruption. -Fever -Low grade like typhoid. -Externally cold with internal burning. -Coldness in spots > open air. -Dyspnoea with chill, sweat with great thirst. |
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KEYNOTES |
: | 1)
Restlessness 3 mentally but physically too weak. 2) Rapid prostration 3, out of proportion to disease. 3) < after midnight 3. 4) Burning thirst 3 for sips of cold water at short interval. 5) Burning pains > heat. |
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Old
broken down constitutions, extremely
prostrated, chilly who hug the fire all the time with evidence of
destruction of tissues causing ulcerations, putridity, acridity or
irritability. -Mentally anxious and restless with great anguish and fears especially of death. A mixture between depression and irritation. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -
Restlessness. - Thirst. - < after midnight. - Burning > heat. - Anxiety and anguish. |
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CLINICAL |
: | -Lower
potencies are used in malignant tissue and
blood diseases. -Higher potencies for nervous and mental ailments. -Shouldn't be used in patients with low vitality even though characteristic symptoms are present, as it may produce rapid death without pain. 1. Post partum retention of urine.- Dr. Chaudhary 2. As a diuretic in all forms of dropsy. - Dr. Bahr. 3. When peptic ulcer is at the pyloric end - Dr. Pope 4. For the very severe form of multiple neuritis with paralysis, Ars. 30 will be called for. - Dr. Joseph. T. O. Conner. 5. Ars. is proved specific to counteract effect of penicillin - Dr. M. B. Desai. 6. For pellagra in low potency - Dr. Honder Shiles. 7. Ars. for nail biting - Dr. Dixm. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | Complementary:
All-s,
Carb-v, Phos Followed Well By: Aran-d, Iod, Nux-v, Rhus-t, Sulph Follows Well: Acon, Arn, Bell, Bry, Calc, Carb-v, Cinch, Ferr, Hep, Iod, Ip, Lach, Lyc, Merc, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sil, Sulph, Verat Similar: Acon, Apoc, Arg-n, Ars-m, Bell, Bism, Calc, Cann-i, Carb-v, Cinch, Ferr, Hyos, Ip, Kreos, Lach, Lyc, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Rhus-t, Sil, Tab, Verat Antidoted By: Camph, Chin, Chin-s, Ferr, Graph, Hep, Iod, Ip, Nux-v, Sambu, Tab, Verat It Antidotes: Carb-v, Chin, Ferr, Graph, Hep, Iod, Ip, Lach, Merc, Nux-v, Phos, Samb, Stry, Tab, Verat |