(White Oxide of Arsenic)
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and
tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many
severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and
certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful
application. Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and
restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important.
Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the
peculiar irritability of fibre, gives the characteristic irritable
weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat.
Seaside complaints. [Nat-m.] 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. Infantile Kala-azar. (Dr. Neatby.) | ||
| Mind. Great
anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death,
of being left alone. Great fear, with cold sweat. 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.] Sensitive to disorder
and confusion. | ||
| Head. Headaches
relieved by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with
restlessness; with cold skin. 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. | ||
| Eyes.
Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation. Lids red, ulcerated,
scabby, scaly, granulated. Edema around eyes. External inflammation,
with extreme painfulness; burning, hot, and excoriating
lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. Intense photophobia; better
external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain. | ||
| Ears. Skin
within, raw and burning. Thin, excoriating, offensive otorrhea.
Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain. | ||
| Nose. Thin,
watery, excoriating discharge. Nose feels stopped up. Sneezing
without relief. Hay fever and coryza; worse in open air; better
indoors. Burning and bleeding. Acne of nose. Lupus. | ||
| Face. Swollen,
pale, yellow, cachetic, sunken, cold, and covered with sweat.
Expression of agony. Tearing, needle-like pains; burning. Lips
black, livid. Angry, circumscribed flush of cheeks. | ||
| Mouth.
Unhealthy easily bleeding gums. Ulceration of mouth with dryness and
burning heat. Epithelioma of lips. Tongue dry, clean, and red; stitching
and burning pain in tongue, ulcerated with blue color. Bloody saliva.
Neuralgia of teeth; feel long and very sore; worse after midnight; better
warmth. Metallic taste. Gulping up burning water. | ||
| Throat.
Swollen, edematous, constricted, burning; unable to swallow.
Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled. | ||
| Stomach.
Cannot bear the sight or smell of food. Great thirst; drinks much, but
little at a time. Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking.
Anxiety in pit of stomach. Burning pain. Craves acids and coffee.
Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate
the throat. Long lasting eructations. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus,
or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as
if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar,
acids, ice cream, ice water, tobacco. Terrible fear and dyspnea, with
gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion. Malignant
symptoms. Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the esophagus, which seems
as if closed and nothing would pass. Ill effects of vegetable diet,
melons, and watery fruits generally. Craves milk. | ||
| Abdomen.
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. | ||
| Rectum.
Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Tenesmus. Burning pain and
pressure in rectum and anus. | ||
| Stool.
Small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at night, and after
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.] Hemorrhoids 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
blood. After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen. Bright's disease.
Diabetes. | ||
| Female. Menses
too profuse and too soon. Burning in ovarian region. Leucorrhea, acrid,
burning, offensive, thin. Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion;
causes great fatigue; better in warm room. Menorrhagia. Stitching
pain in pelvis extending down the thigh. | ||
| Respiratory.
Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Air passages constricted. Asthma
worse midnight. Burning in chest. Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after
midnight; worse lying on back. Expectoration scanty, frothy. darting
pain through upper third of right lung. Wheezing respiration.
Hemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry,
as from sulphur fumes; after drinking. | ||
| Heart.
Palpitation, pain, dyspnea, faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and
tobacco chewers. Pulse more rapid in morning. [Sulph.] Dilatation. Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration. Angina
pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput. | ||
| Back. Weakness
in small of back. Drawing in of shoulders. Pain and burning in
back. | ||
| Extremities.
Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in
calves. Swelling of feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis.
Diabetic gangrene. Ulcers on heel. [All-c.] Paralysis
of lower limbs with atrophy. | ||
| Skin. Itching,
burning, swellings; edema, 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
of the skin. Gangrenous inflammations. | ||
| Sleep.
Disturbed, anxious, restless. Must have head raised by pillows. Suffocative
fits during sleep. Sleeps with hands over head. Dreams are full of care and
fear. Drowsy, sleeping sickness. | ||
| Fever. High
temperature. Periodically 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. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, wet weather, after midnight; from cold, cold drinks, or food.
Seashore. Right side. Better, from heat; from head elevated; warm
drinks. | ||
| Relationship.
Complementary: Rhus-t.; Carbo-v.; Phos.; Thuj. Antidotal to Lead poison. Antidote: Op.; Carbo-v.; Chin.; Hep.; Nux-v. Chemical Antidote: Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron; Lime Water. Compare: Phos.; Chin.; Verat.; Carbo-v.; Kali-p. | ||
| Dose. Third to
thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies often yield brilliant
results. Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin. But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies 2X to 3X trituration. Repeated doses advisable. |