Argentum Nitricum

▲   GENERAL

General

In Argentum Nitricum the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting themselves which give certain indications for its homeopathic employment. Symptoms of incoordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; Trembling in affected parts. Is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastro-enteritis. Very characteristic is the great Desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic. Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion. Head symptoms often determine the choice of Argentum Nitricum. Pains increase and decrease gradually. Flatulent state and prematurely aged look. Explosive belching, especially in neurotics. Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord. Intolerance of heat. Sensation of a sudden pinch (Dudgeon). Destroys red blood corpuscles, producing anemia.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, warmth in any form; at night; from cold food; SWEETS; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions, Left side.

Better

BETTER, from eructation; fresh air; COLD; pressure.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Merc Viv ^Merc.; Phosphorus ^Phos.; Pulsatilla ^Pulsat.; Argent. Cyanatum (angina pectoris; asthma, spasm of oesophagus); Argent- Jodat ( Throat disorders, hoarseness, gland affected.) Protargol (gonorrhoea after acute stage 2 percent. solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids, 10 percent solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10 percent. solution).; Argent. Phosphorus ^Phosph ( An excellent diuretic in dropsy.); Argent. Oxyd. Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhoea.).

Antidotes

Antidote: Nat Mur ^Nat-mur.

▲   MIND

Mind

Thinks his understanding will and must fail

Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window

Faintish and tremulous

Melancholic, apprehensive of serious disease

Time passes slowly ( Cann)

ind.) Memory weak

Errors of perception

Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry ( Lilium Tigrinum ^Lilium) Peculiar mental impulses

Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions.

Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions

about self

circumstances; is despised

about self; circumstances; deserted, forsaken

Desires, wants; company

Excitement

Mental exertion

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition

impulsive

indifference, apathy, etc.; when in society

sensitive, oversensitive

Hurry

for the appointed time to arrive

while walking

Intellectual faculties

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish

impaired thinking; dull, sluggish; children

Insecure, uncertain, scared

anxiety

anxiety; anticipating an engagement

anxiety; while walking; and so walks faster

fear

of being alone (see company)

when ready to go to church or opera

frightened easily

Memory; weakness of memory

Restlessness, nervousness

before convulsions

Talking, conversation

contrary (see obstinate, irritable)

obstinate

far-fetched objection against whatever was proposed

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections

▲   HEAD

Head

Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks

Sense of Expansion

Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling

Aching in frontal eminence, with Enlarged feeling in corresponding eye

Hemicrania; bones of head feel as if separated.

Expanded sensation (see swollen); enlarged sensation

enlarged sensation; during pregnancy

Headache

Headache with coldness and trembling

Headache from mental exertion, from dancing

Boring pain; Better on tight bandaging and pressure

Pain, headache

from emotions; nervous

pressure; constricting head

sides; one side

boring, digging, screwing; forehead; above eyebrows; left

Scalp

Itching of scalp

Skin and scalp; like insects crawling on skin

▲   EYES

Eyes

Inner canthi Swollen and red

Spots before the vision

Blurred vision

Photophobia in warm room

Purulent ophthalmia

Great swelling of conjunctiva; Discharge abundant and purulent

Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen

Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily

Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room

Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them

Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles

Paretic condition of ciliary muscle

Acute granular conjunctivitis

Cornea opaque

Ulcer in cornea.

Lids

lids turned outward

excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed)

thickening of lids

eyes closed; in melancholy

stuck together

morning

Conjunctiva (external lining of eye); swelling

Discoloration

redness

redness; open air

redness; while reading

redness; while sewing

redness; corner

redness; lids

Discharges of mucus or pus; from out-breaks on skin

Inflammation

cold

from being over fire. cold air and cold applications relieve

infants

wounds; corner

wounds; conjunctiva (external lining of eye)

granular

wounds; lids

Pain

open air

warm room

Intolerance of light (photophobia)

after straining the eyes

warm room

Pupils

dilated

dilated; before epilepsy

Swellings

painful boil, shedding skin and tissues (carbuncles)

lids

Vision

Colours and shapes in front of eyes; colours; grey; snake-like shapes

Exertion of vision

Long-sighted (near objects blurred)

Moving

▲   EARS

Ear

Noises in ear; buzzing

▲   FACE

Face

Sunken, old, pale, and bluish

Old man’s look; tight drawing of skin over bones.

Expression; old looking

Lips; discoloration; bluish

Skin

discoloration; dirty looking

discoloration; lead-coloured

discoloration; sallow

discoloration; yellow

▲   NOSE

Nose

Loss of smell

Itching

Ulcers in septum

Discharge

Coryza, will chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Canker sores.

Gums and teeth

Gums tender and bleed easily

Pain in sound teeth

Tongue

Tongue has prominent papillae; tip is red and painful

Discoloration; tongue; red; tip

Pain; tongue; tip

Taste

Taste coppery, like ink

Taste; sour

Tongue; taste buds; erect

▲   THROAT

Throat

Much Thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking

Raw, rough and sore

Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing

Dark redness of throat catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in throat

Strangulated feeling.

Larynx (voice box); scraping, clearing

Choking, constricting; when clearing the throat (see retching)

Discoloration

redness

redness; dark red

redness; uvula (lobe at back of mouth)

Hawks often

Inflammation

larynx

in singers

Irritation; larynx

Mucus

clinging

thick

larynx

Pain

rawness

larynx

sore

as from a splinter

Voice

hoarseness

hoarseness; from talking

lost

singers

▲   CHEST

Chest

Heart

angina pectoris

palpitations

night

after excitement

from exertion

tumultuous, violent, intense

Pain

feels like a splinter

heart

Respiration

High notes cause cough

Chronic hoarseness

Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat

Dyspnoea

Chest feels as if a bar were around it

Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on Right side; (Alumen ^Alumen.) Painful spots in chest

Angina pectoris, nightly worse

Many people in a room seem to take away his breath.

Asthma attack

Deep

▲   EXPECTORATION

Expectoration

Mucous

Thick

and sticky

▲   SKIN

Skin

Brown, tense, and hard

Drawing in skin, as from a spider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried up

Irregular blotches.

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Much pain

Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, (Oxalicum Acidum ^Oxal)

acid.) Paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.

Heaviness, weight; sacrum (base of spine); like a weight

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Belching accompanies most gastric ailments

Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the abdomen

Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction

Great craving for sweats

Gastritis of drunkards

Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs

Trembling and throbbing in stomach

Enormous distention

Ulceration of stomach, With radiating pain

Desire for cheese and salt.

Colic, With much flatulent distention

Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs.

Sensitive to clothing

Bloated

trapped wind

Emptiness

Pain

night; midnight

before stool

pressing; before stool

sore, bruised, tenderness, etc.; behind lower ribs; during diarrhoea

Sense of weakness

Bladder

urging to urinate (unhealthy desire)

urination; painful or difficult urination

urination; feeble stream (slow)

urination; frequent

urination; involuntary, incontinence

night, bed wetting

urination; unconscious; no feeling in urethra (urinary part of genitals)

Stomach

desires, cravings; salt things

desires, cravings; sweets

sugar

distended (swollen from inner pressure)

disordered

burping, belching

difficult

after eating

empty

large quantities of wind

loud

pain

after eating

on breathing in deeply

retching; during diarrhoea

retching; when hawking mucus from throat at back of mouth

thirst

extreme

Eructation

Ineffectual effort at eructation

Flatus

Flatulence; Painful swelling of pit

Flatulence

after eating

obstructed

Nausea

Stomach; nausea

Vomiting

Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus

Stomach

vomiting

vomiting; during diarrhoea

vomiting; mucus

during diarrhoea

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea

night

from emotions

excitement

as before theatre

after certain foods or drinks; from drinking water

after certain foods or drinks; sugar

Flatulence

loud

after sugar

after sugar

Stool

Watery, noisy, flatulent; Green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very offensive

Diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking

Fluids go right through him; after sweets

After any emotion with flatulence

Itching of anus.

Brown

Green

like spinach in flatulence

Mucous, slimy

green

Odour; offensive

Watery

night

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Urine passes unconsciously, day and night

Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter

Urine scanty and dark

Emission of a few drops after having finished

Divided stream

Early stage of gonorrhoea; profuse discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine.

Bloody

Copious

Urethra

Male; erections; painful (see urethra)

Urethra (urinary part of genitals); painful during erection

discharge

strong and sharp (acrid)

inflammation

numbness; sensation absent, when urinating

pain; burning; during urination

Female

Female

pain; vagina; during sexual intercourse

Womb

prolapse; womb

Genitals

Male; Impotence

Erection falls when coition is attempted

Desire waning

Genitals shrivel

Coition painful.

Intense spasm of chest muscles

Orgasms at night

Nervous erethism at change of life

Leucorrhoea profuse, with erosion of cervix

Bleeding easily

Male; pain

Female

metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding); after sexual intercourse

Menses

Gastralgia at beginning of menses

Uterine hemorrhage, two weeks after menses; painful affections of left ovary.

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Cannot walk with eyes closed

Trembling, with general debility

Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms

Rigidity of Calves

Debility in calves especially

Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved

Numbness of arms

Post-diphtheritic paralysis (after Gel.).

Cramps; calf

Heaviness

upper limbs

forearm

lower limbs; afternoon

Movements and positions

trembling

trembling; lower limbs

Numbness (see tingling)

foot

Paralysis; lower limbs

Weakness

lower limbs

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Chills with nausea

Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification

Drowsy stupor.

Comatose

Deep

Sleeplessness, insomnia

Convulsions

Convulsions

without consciousness

epileptic

Generalities

Night

before midnight

Open air

General physical anxiety

Blood vessels; excited, rapid blood flow

Eating and food; sweets

Inflammation; hair follicles

Pain

boring

pressing; internally

sensation of splinters

In women; symptoms during period

Sensitive; intolerance of clothing

Symptoms not symmetrical; left

Trembling

externally

periodical

Walking; in open air

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); periodical

trembling

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