Arsenicum Metallicum

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Arsenicum Metallicum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
GENERAL
  • The symptoms of Ars-met are very like those of Ars., but not entirely.
  • The following are the most peculiar: symptoms recur every 14 days, coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge. every 21 days.
  • Pains extend from one part to another or leave one part and appear in another.
  • Attacks come suddenly and go slowly or vice versa.
  • General weakness and debility.
  • Thinking of symptoms aggravates.
  • Many symptoms appear on right side.
  • Swollen feeling of parts.
  • Enlarged or swollen feeling of brain, head, eyelids, hands and fingers.
  • Syphilis wakes up after being many years dormant.
  • Itching in many parts, skin peels off in small scales.
  • Cutting, burning, stinging pains
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better darkness.
  • Better pinching, sitting erect.
  • Washing helps the itching - of anus.
  • Cold bathing helps the itching of face.
  • Worse stooping.
  • Worse light.
  • Worse on waking in morning.
  • Worse lying on left side (heart).
  • Worse thinking of symptoms.
  • Worse right side.
  • Hot bathing aggravates the pain in hip
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Antidoted by: Bell., Nat-c. Compare: (1) lod., Merc., Nat-c. in syphilis, Nux-.v. - drowsy after
sound sleep. (2) Rhus -t. - pain in back, hips, etc., Sulph. (pulse), Ars. (3) Useful in pterygium after failure of
Nux- v. and Spig.

MIND
  • Memory weak for what he has read, has to read everything two or three times before he comprehends it.
  • Thinking of symptoms aggravates.
  • Moody, doesn't wish to see anybody.
  • Desire to be alone.
  • Depression with exhaustion.
  • Low spirited.
  • Sad with tearful eyes, but can't weep, even during most painful events.
  • Fear of being poisoned.
  • Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry.
  • Fearful visions of spectres in bright daylight.
  • Sees threatening people after her and screams horribly.
  • Feels as if she has to run away.
  • Abdomen - Bloated abdomen.
  • Pain in spleen down to groin.
  • Red rash on abdomen.
  • Painful swelling in right groin.
  • Pulsation in navel.
HEAD
  • Writing and thinking aggravates headaches.
  • Headache over eyes, with chilliness.
  • Head feels too large.
  • Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears.
  • Head aches, worse stooping and lying down.
  • Edematous swelling of forehead.
  • Laughing aggravates.
  • Falling off of hair.
EYES
  • Eyes, red, swollen and watery, burn with coryza.
  • Hot and corroding lachry mation during coryza.
  • Pterygium, with enlarged bloodvessel.
  • Eyes weak.
  • Can't look into bright light.
  • Eyes painful after reading, sewing.
  • Eye pain from walking in wind
EARS
  • Numbness below ears
FACE
  • Face bloated, red and hot, during coryza.
  • Red, itching, burning and swol len.
  • Stiffness in lower jaws when biting.
  • Twitching in left lower jaw
MOUTH
  • Dry mouth.
  • Hot breath.
  • Mouth sore and ulcerated.
  • Lips dry and hot.
  • Gums swollen and sore.
  • Gums feel as if scalded, with salivation.
  • Gums painful when touched.
  • Nose - Coryza with hot face, itching and hoarseness.
  • Coryza, burning hot wa ter runs from nose, excoriating edges of nostrils.
  • Sore nose.
  • Thick, yellow discharge.
  • Violent itching in tip of nose
THROAT
  • Hoarseness during coryza.
  • Sore throat during coryza.
  • Violently inflamed throat, with pain when swallowing, worse right side.
  • AnginaChest pain from reduced heart blood flowA condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often also spreading to the shoulders, arms, and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart. with much heat in throat and several little ulcers.
  • Itching of external throat.
  • Tongue - The tongue coated white and shows imprint of the teeth.
  • Tongue white slimy, furred
CHEST
  • Chilliness extending into chest.
  • Pulsation under sternum.
  • Small blisters filled with blood on left side of chest.
  • Sensation as if a heavy load were lying on chest.
  • Pains in region of heart after mental disturbances.
  • Sharp pain in heart.
  • Can lie only on left side in heart disease.
  • Pulse accelerated in morning (Sulph.).
  • Great difficulty in breathing, with sneezing, coryza, lachrymation.
  • Kidneys - Hot urine in evening.
  • Red, sandy sediment
ABDOMEN
  • Hot eructations as of bile, with throbbing through whole body.
  • Pressure in region of stomach.
  • Empty retching and ■cutting in belly.
  • Nausea towards morning.
  • Nausea with headache, in morning.
  • Temperature - Chilliness on occiput, neck and chest.
  • No appetite.
  • Aversion to wine and alcoholic drinks.
  • Great desire for brandy or alcoholic drinks.
  • Worse after brandy
GENITALS ETC
  • Itching on scrotum.
  • Itching on glans.
  • Prepuce swollen.
  • Chancres with burning pain.
  • Offensive sweat on genitals.
  • Menses too early and too long - lasting.
  • Menses too scanty.
  • Heat in uterus a nd vagina.
  • Burning when touched.
  • Pains in uterus and vagina during menses
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Limbs feel heavy.
  • Liver - Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders and spine
BACK AND NECK
  • Chilliness in neck, during headache.
  • Numbness and lameness sensation of right lumbar region.
  • Pain in spine between scapulae.
  • Sharp pain behind scapulae.
  • Crawling sensation on back.
  • Feeling as if a furuncleA painful boil or pus-filled skin noduleA painful, pus-filled bump under the skin caused by infected hair follicles. would form.
  • Weakness of neck.
  • Itching in neck during coryza.
  • Breasts - Itching of breasts.
  • Pain in breast extends to hip and spleen
SKIN
  • Itching, has to pinch spot.
  • Skin peels off in small scales.
  • Bluish -red eruptions.
  • Rash and red smooth spots.
  • Red spots over whole body.
  • Small furuncles in face
SLEEP
  • Great drowsiness in morning.
  • Falling asleep on sitting down.
  • Very sleepy, but can't fall asleep.
  • Dreams of danger on the water

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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