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homeopathic remedy
Arsenicum album
homeopathy
definition
source: chemical compound of arsenic and oxygen
organ affinities: mind, nerves, heart, blood, lymphatics, spleen, lungs, mucous membranes, skin
associated conditions: alcoholism, food poisoning, stings, anemia, delirium, herpes zoster, as an organ drainage remedy
miasms: syphilitic
indications:
» GREAT PROSTRATION WITH RAPID sinking of vital force
» AILMENTS WITH ANXIETY, FEAR OF DEATH, RESTLESSNESS mentally but physically too weak to move
» BURNING PAINS > by warmth, hot drinks
» GREAT THIRST, DRINKS OFTEN BUT LITTLE, unquenchable thirst
» cannot bear smell or sight of food
» DIARRHEA after eating or drinking, followed by great prostration
» HEMORRHOIDS with stitching pain when walking, burning pain
» ASTHMATIC breathing: must sit or bend forward, unable to lie down
» wakes around 12:00-2:00 am
» skin dry, scaly, COLD AND CLAMMY PERSPIRATION
» headache alternating with arthritis, eczema, allergies and asthma
» bad effects from food
» complaints return annually
as an organ drainage remedy:
» action on the liver
pulse:
» rapid, non-resistant, wavers up and down; "rat-tail" pulse when severe (Wood)
» open, tremulous (Scudder, 1903, p. 154)
modalities:
» worse: AFTER MIDNIGHT, wet weather, from cold, cold drinks or food, seashore, right
» better: from heat (except headache > cold), from head elevated, warm drinks
relationships:
» complementary: All-s., Carb-v., Phos., Nat-s., Rhus-t., Sec., Thuja.
» remedies precede well: Apis, Bell., Cham., Chel., Ferr., Ip., Kali-bi., Merc., Nux-v., Rhus-t.
» remedies follow well: Acon., Agar., Arn., Bell., Cham., Chin., Ip., Lach., Verat.,
» antidotes: Carb-v., Chin., Ferr., Graph., Hep., Ip., Merc., Nux-v., Verat.
dosage: low potency in blood diseases (anemia, leukemia, cancer), gastric, intestinal and kidney disease; high potency in nervous and mental ailments and skin
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