Materia Medica de A a Z

ARGENTUM NITRICUM (Arg-n)

Region

MIND. NERVES (Cerebro-spinal. ABDOMINAL). MUCOUS MEMBRANE (STOMACH. Bowels. Eyes. Throat. Urethra). Periosteum. Skin. Left side.

Worse

EMOTIONS (ANXIETY. Suspense). In room. Sugar. Shut in places. Lying on R side. Looking down. Drinking. Crowds.

Better

COOL (AIR; open. Bath). Hard pressure. Motion.

General

Old, dried up, tremulous and weak. Progressive emaciation. Paralysis, ascending. Parts seem ENLARGED or bound up (Glon). VIOLENT PAINS; LIKE DEEPLY STICKING SPLINTERS; sharp shooting, like lightning; agg. down back or legs; cause starting; grinding or radiating. Sinking downward from head. Ulceration, with much yellow, bloody pus (Hep)..................... Conjoined mental and digestive symptoms. Tormented by strange ideas or emotions. Nervous, impulsive and hurried, yet timid and anxious (Ars). Fearsome. Dreads ordeals, impending evil, passing a certain point, dark (Stram), etc. Incoherence. Faltering speech, gait, erections, etc. Nervous headache and nervous diarrhoa. Brain-fag. Head as if in a vise; amel. tight bandage. Vertigo; epileptic, agg. night. Compressive or deep head pains; loses his senses (Laur). Boring in l. frontal eminence, 11-12 A.M. Migraine. Scaly tarsi. Eyeballs feel big (Guaj). Swelled carunculæ; chemosis. Photophobia. Violent purulent ophthalmia. Dilated pupils. Sickly, grayish, muddy color. Painful, red tip of tongue, or (dry) aphthæ on edge. Food lodges in pharynx. Throat sensitive; as of a rough stick (Phyt.) or splinter in, amel. cool drinks. Dark red fauces and uvula. Craves sugar, which agg.. Astringent sour or bitter-sour taste and vomitus. Alcoholic gastritis. Gastralgia; in a spot. Eructates ingesta. FLATULENCE; bursting (Lyc); loud explosive belching (Coca), discharged upward and downward; noisy diarrhoa. Emotional diarrhoa. Shreddy, mucus stools, turning green; agg. drinking. Violent pains from kidneys to bladder. Cutting in urethra, with painful priapism. Yellow, bloody gonorrhoa. Painful coition. Cough from laughing. Dyspnoa, nervous or flatulent; agg. gastric pains. Palpitation, agg. lying on r. side. Craves fresh air. Laryngitis. Throbbing or weak spine. Trembling limbs. Peripheral neuralgias. Ischias antica. Weakness, rigidity or twisting in calves. Ulcers, angry, deep; hard edges; warty granulations. Adherent crusts. Chill if uncovered, yet smothers when wrapped up. Shivers through bowels; up back.

Complementary: Nat-m.

Antidotes: Cina, Nat-m.

Related: Lyc, Puls.