Arsenicum Album

William Boericke 1922

Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire ; relieved by heat. Liver and spleen enlarged and painful. Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing.

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Acrid, offensive diarrhoea with burning anus and exhausting prostration — worse after midnight. Hepatic tenderness with great weakness.

William Boericke 1922

Bright^ disease. Diabetes.

William Boericke 1922

Expectoration scanty, frothy. Darting pain through upper third of right lung. Wheezing respiration. Hjemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking.

William Boericke 1922

[Oxal. ac.]

William Boericke 1922

Drawing in of shoulders. Pain and burning in

William Boericke 1922

Weakness in small of

William Boericke 1922

After urinating, feeling of weakness in

William Boericke 1922

Stomach ^extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia

William Boericke 1922

Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on

William Boericke 1922

Cenchris contortrix; lod.; Phosph.; China; Verat. all.: Carlo; Kali phos. Epilobium (intractable tliarrhoea of typhoid), //omu; Nan. — Strychnos Gaultheriana (Exhaustion with vertigo, numbness and tingling in hands and feet; involuntary action of lower jaw. Pustules and boils, tertiary syphilis and cancer of glandular structures). Atoxyl. — Sodium arsanilate 3x, sleeping sickness ; commencing optic atrophy. • Levico Water — (containing Ars., Iron and Copper). (Chronic and dyscratic skin diseases, chorea minor and spasms m scrofulous and anaemic children.) Sarcolactic acid (influenza with violent vomiting).

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From 6C upward depending on depth; in chronic states infrequent repetition of high potencies is traditional.

William Boericke 1922

Third to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies have often yielded brilliant results. Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases ; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and

William Boericke 1922

Skin within, raw and burning. Thin, excoriaiing, offensive otorrhoea. Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain.

William Boericke 1922

Trembling, twitching, spasms, v/eakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene.

William Boericke 1922

External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning, hot, and excoriating lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. Intense photophobia ; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain.

William Boericke 1922

Swollen, pale, yellow, cachectic, sunken, cold, and covered with

William Boericke 1922

Menses too profuse and too soon. Burning in ovarian region. Leuconhoea, acrid, burning, offensive, thin. Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better in warm room. Menorrhagia.

William Boericke 1922

High temperature. Periodicity marked with adynamia. Septic fevers. Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion. Hay-fever. Cold sweats. Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; worse after midnight. Great restlessness. Great heat about 3 a. m. Sordes. ARSENICUM ALBUM — ARSENICUM BROMATUM 95

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Great prostration with rapid sinking of vitality; burning relieved by warmth except the head. Periodicity around midnight and after midnight is characteristic.

William Boericke 1922

Air-passages constricted. Asthma worse midnight. Burning in

William Boericke 1922

haustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important. Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability of fiber, gives the characteristic irritable weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Seaside complaints [Nat, mur.; Aqua Marina]. Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones. Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency. Fear fright and worry. Green discharges. Ars. should be thought of in ailments from alcoholism, ptomaine poisoning, stings, dissecting wounds, chewing tobacco ; ill effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges is putrid; in complaints that return annually. Anaemia and chlorosis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition. Malarial cachexia. Septic infections and low vitality.

William Boericke 1922

from slighest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, icewater, tobacco. Terrible fear and dyspnoea, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion. Malignant symptoms. Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the oesophagus, which seems as if closed and nothing would pass. Ill effects of vegetable diet, melons, and watery fruits generally. Craves milk.

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Thin, excoriating nasal discharge with sneezing in the open air; headache relieved by cold applications paradoxically while other complaints need heat.

William Boericke 1922

Dreams are full of care and fear. Drowsy, sleeping sickness.

William Boericke 1922

Headaches relieved by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold

William Boericke 1922

Palpitation, pain, dyspnoea, faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. Pulse more rapid in morning. [Sulph.] Dilatation. Cyanosir. Fatty degeneration. Angina pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput.

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Prostration out of proportion to the illness, burning pains better from heat, and restless anxiety about health and security.

William Boericke 1922

Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone. Great fear, with cold

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Anguish about health, fortune and family; fear of being left alone, especially at night, yet irritable with visitors. Fastidious about order; oversensitive to disorder and mess. Restless, moves constantly from place to place.

William Boericke 1922

Worse, wet weather, after midnight ; from cold, cold drinks, or food. Right side. Better from heat; from head elevated; warm drinks. Complementary: Rhus; Carlo; Phos.; Thuja; All. sat. Antidotal to lead poison. Antidotes: Opium; Carlo; China; Hepar; Nux. Chemical Antidotes: Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron ; Lime Water.

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Worse: after midnight, cold drinks and food, wet weather, exertion. Better: heat generally, warm drinks, elevated shoulders while sitting.

William Boericke 1922

Thin, watery, excoriating discharge. Nose feels stopped up. Sneezing without relief. Hayfever and coryza; worse in open air; better indoors. Burning and bleeding. Acne of

William Boericke 1922

Tenesmus. Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus. StooL — Small, offensive, dark, with much prostra^ tion. Worse at night, and a^ter eating and drinking; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst. Body cold as ice. [Verat.] Hsrmorrhoids burn like fire; relieved by heat. Skin excoriated about anus. Urine. — Scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed. Albuminous. Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and

William Boericke 1922

Painful, spasmodic protrusion of

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Compare Phosphorus (tall slender types, haemorrhagic), Carbo vegetabilis (collapse with coldness), Nux vomica (similar irritability without the burning).

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Asthma worse after midnight, lying on the back, better sitting bent forward with elbows on knees; thin watery coryza excoriating the upper lip.

William Boericke 1922

Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. 94

William Boericke 1922

But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to 3x trit.

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Dry, rough, scaly eruptions with burning; itches violently when warmed; chronic urticaria after shellfish.

William Boericke 1922

Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness. Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp itches intolerably ; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair. Byes. — Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrytnation. Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated. CEdema 92

William Boericke 1922

Itching, burning, swellings ; cedema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis. Scirrhus. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma. [Nat. cacodyl.]

William Boericke 1922

Sleeps with hands over

William Boericke 1922

Disturbed, anxious, restless. Suffocative fits during

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Burning pains like coals of fire; violent thirst for small sips of cold water taken often, though the stomach tolerates little. Food poisoning states with simultaneous collapse.

William Boericke 1922

Cannot bear the sight or smell of food. Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time. Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking, ^.nxiety in pit of

William Boericke 1922

Burning pain. Craves acids and coffee. Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the

William Boericke 1922

Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him from place to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. General sensibility increased [Hep,]

William Boericke 1922

[Acetic acid.] Expression of agony. Tearing, necdU-like pains; burning. Lips black, livid. Angry, circumscribed flush of cheeks. Mouthu — Unhealthy, easily-bleeding gums. Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat. Tongue dry, clean, and red ; stitching and burning pain in

William Boericke 1922

fee! long and very sore; worse after midnight; better warmth. Metallic taste. Gulping up of burning water.

William Boericke 1922

A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homoeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful ap- «plication. Among these the all-prevailing debility, ex-

William Boericke 1922

Swollen, cedemalous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow. Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled.

William Boericke 1922

Longlasting eructations. Vomiting of blood, bile, green .ilflucus, or brown-black mixed wdth

William Boericke 1922

Bloody saliva. Neuralgia of