# Bismuthum (HMT)

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

## Keynote Indications
In olden days, Bismuth was used by allopathic doctors for the
treatment of diarrhoea.  Although it controls th e diarrhoea it does not
cure the disease of the intestine ca using diarrhoea.  The pain stays
nonetheless.  In homoeopathy, the mental symptoms of Bismuth are
more pronounced.  The patient does not like to be alone for even a
moment.  He must have somebody nearby.  In old age, many such
patients need somebody by their side at all times.  They want to relate
their story to them.

Bismuth is useful in toothache.  The gums are swollen; the tongue is
whitish and swollen.  On its margins are darkish ulcers, resembling
those of gangrene.

The Bismuth patient has poor digestion , and like Phosphorus and
Aethusa, the stomach does not accept water.  As soon as the fluid
becomes warm, the patient vomits.  However, the patient does not
vomit after solid food.  The patient belches out foul gas.  The pain in
the abdomen resembles that of dioscorea.  The patient bends
backwards.  The nature of the pain  in the abdomen is different from
ordinary pain but the patient canno t explain it.  Du ring diarrhoea,
there is no pain in the abdomen.  When, after administration of
Bismuth the diarrhoea stops, the pain  in the abdomen returns.  The
stomach feels inflamed.

Bismuth is also useful in the treatment of angina.  In the case of
Bismuth, the chest pain starts at the left side of the heart and radiates
to the shoulder and down to the fingertips, instead of the pain
normally starting from the sternum.  Many a time, chest pain can be
due to ulcers in the stomach or inflammation of the stomach .  In
both conditions, Bismuth can be used.

In Bismuth, as in Hyoscyamus, ther e is a tendency of experiencing
violent sexual dreams.  It seems as if there is some kind of injurious
material in the diarrhoea of Bismut h, which after being absorbed from
the intestines into the blood affects the mind, as a result of which the
person experiences strange dreams.

Adjuvants:
Arsenic, Belladonna, Kreosotum
Antidotes: Nux Vomica, Capsicum
Potency: 30 to 200

## Symptoms by System