Other names and synonyms
ars-s-f, as2s3 homeopathy, arsenicum sulfuratum flavum.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
Arsenious Sulphide. Orpiment. As2 S3. Trituration.
Nosology
Apoplexy. сaries. сhildren, emaciated. Diarrhoea. Gonorrhoea. Indigestion. Laryngeal phthisis. Walking, late.
Typical features
The two sulphides of Arsenic, Orpiment and Realgar, have been used in a somewhat general way in cases combining prominent symptoms of both elements; but independent observations and provings have been made with the two salts. Orpiment has the burning pains and sensations of both Arsenic and Sulphur; stitching, tearing, and rheumatic pains moving from place to place. Lameness, staggering, trembling. Spasms, colic, vomiting, and diarrhoea. Annoying twitching. General debility. сhafing of skin about genitals and behind ears of children. Skin itching, dry, cracked; rhagades; itch. Jaundice. The periodicity of both Arsenic and Sul. are marked: From steam or hot water. Lying down.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Sulph., сalc. c. (children slow in learning to walk).
Mental
Intense torturing anxiety and apprehension.
Head, face, and ears
Needle-like stitches in right frontal region.
Mouth and throat
Taste bitter. Tongue furred, yellow-white; stiff; swollen; later, dry with disgust for all nourishment. Mouth and throat dry, herpetic ulcers.
Gastrointestinal tract
Burning and gnawing in stomach, with vomiting and diarrhoea.
Stools like water, green and slimy and terribly offensive. Diarrhoea daily 8 p.m and several times during day, but not at night. Diarrhoea, with colic and backache and tenesmus.
Stools like water, green and slimy and terribly offensive. Diarrhoea daily 8 p.m and several times during day, but not at night. Diarrhoea, with colic and backache and tenesmus.
Urogenital system
Gonorrhoea, with terrible pains; discharge copious, yellow, constant; burning day and night along entire urethra, with restlessness.
Skin
Eruption on outer side of left wrist; also on inner side.
Sleep
Starting in sleep, also in falling asleep; as if he would fall out of bed. Restless at night, excited; dreams with seminal emissions.