# Arsenicum Bromatum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Ars-br. has proven a great anti-psoric andanti-syphilitic remedy. Hansen said it is useful for 
“Acne rosacea with violet papules on the nose. Diabetes mellitus.” 
Herpetic eruptions, syphilitic growths, glandular tumors and indurations. Car cinoma, locomotor ataxia and 
obstinate intermittent fevers. Acne rosacea with violet papules on nose, worse in the spring. Acne in. young 
people. 
Great restlessness, wants to be carried continually. Larynx and trachea invaded; the effort to breathe causes 
profuse sweat ing. Irregular brownish stripe on center of tongue, more toward base. Great thirst for large 
quantities. 
COMMENTS - Anshutz's best successes were in obstinate cases of syphilis, in the first stages of tabes 
dorsalis, in the reconvalescence from exhausting acute diseases, in gastric suppura tions inactivity of bowels, 
tardy digestion, constipation. 
In those cases where Chin -s. failed in intermittent fevers, he prescribed Ars -br. twice daily, four drops, each 
time in a full glass of water. Gradually diminishing it to 
one daily dose and in four weeks. 
Even the most obstinate cases yielded to this treatment. The patient felt encouraged by his increasing vigor, 
the fever-cakes disappear, the bowels moved regularly and appetite left nothing to be desired. Those mean 
obstinate cases of intermittent fevers often appearing in the form of unbearable neuralgias, yielded more 
rapidly to it than to the Quinine. 
Anshutz noted the case of “S. T., age 46 years old, contracted syphilis some years ago and was relieved of it 
by mercurial treat ment and by Zittman's decoction. About six years ago he felt out of sorts and a papular 
eruption appeared on foreh ead, temples and especially at the root of the nose. Though treatment was 
immediately instituted, still in a few weeks the face of the patient was covered by ugly, foul -smelling crust. 
“Cod liver oil was now taken internally and applied externally until th e scurfs fell off and the eruption 
concentrated on three points. For six months that treatment was kept up, but after being omitted for a few 
weeks, the eruption spread again to its former extent. Every treatment was tried in rotation without the least 
benefit. 
“In the spring 1856 he entered my clinic. In the center of the forehead, at the root of the nose, on both eyebrows 
on the temples and right cheek there are moist herpetic eruptions covered with crusts, exuding on least 
pressure an acrid, burning discharge, with easily bleeding. 
“Around these eruptions the skin is injected, reddened interspersed with a large network of veins. Cough and 
expectoration hint to a beginning of tuberculosis, an heirloom in the family. Little appetite, disturbed digestion, 
tardy defecation and evening fever. 
“He is ordered Solutio Ars -br. twice a day, four drops in a glass of water and already after two weeks the 
eruption begins to dry up, appetite returns and bowels are regular. 
“After two months two crusts fall off and the  skin under them is soft, shining, some what red. About July all 
eruption had gone and the cough greatly improved.” 
He continued by noting that “Ars-br. is also a powerful remedy in diabetes mellitus and insipidus, cured cases 
where the patient had already been reduced from 138 pounds to 98 and where the urine could be condensed, 
 
 
by boiling into syrupy consistency. 
“A diabetic patient needs fresh pure air if he wishes to get well, confinement in a room or in the office prevents 
the action of any treatment, for it needs ozone to reduce the sugar of the blood into carbonic acid and water.  
“Let the patient take three drops thrice daily in a glass of water and after a week the insatiable burning thirst 
will be quenched and these doses must be continued until the  quantity of sugar in the urine is reduced, when 
the remedy might be taken twice a day and continued for a long time.” REFERENCES - Anshutz. Boericke. 
Clarke.

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