Other names and synonyms
ars-met.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
Metallic Arsenic. As (A. W. 74.9). Trituration.
Nosology
Constipation. сoryza. Diarrhoea. Eyes, affections of. Haemorrhoids. Headache. Itching. Sciatica. Syphilis.
Typical features
The symptoms of metallic arsenic are very like those of Ars. alb., but not entirely. The following may be regarded as the most peculiar: Symptoms recur every 14 days; coryza every 21 days. Pains extend from one part to another; or leave one part and appear in another. Attacks come suddenly and go slowly, or vice versâ. Enlarged or swollen feeling of brain, head, eyelids, hands, and fingers. сutting, burning, stinging pains. Itching in many parts, skin peels off in small scales. Hot bathing Lying on left side (heart). Washing itching of anus. сold bathing itching of face.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Iod., Merc., Nat. c. in syphilis; Nux v. (drowsy after sound sleep); Rhus (pain in back, hips, &c. Sul. (pulse); Ars. alb. Useful in pterygium after failure of Nux v. and Spigel. Antidoted by: вell. (sore throat); Nat. c. (syphilitic symptoms).
Reasons
Laughing (headache). Thinking (headache).
Mental
Memory weak, especially of what is read; cannot take in what he reads. Fears will be poisoned.
Head, face, and ears
Heavy, dull feeling in forehead above frontal sinuses in morning. Fulness; on waking at night. As if brain were too large and it would burst. Glow over left brow. Pain left side extending to ear and eye, with nausea. Headache when writing, thinking, laughing. Hair falls off.
Soreness of eyes; irritated and red or sore. Upper lid sore and feels swollen. Pterygium (r).
Coryza and hoarseness.
Swelling, itching, burning, stinging of forehead and face, by cold washing.
Soreness of eyes; irritated and red or sore. Upper lid sore and feels swollen. Pterygium (r).
Coryza and hoarseness.
Swelling, itching, burning, stinging of forehead and face, by cold washing.
Mouth and throat
Tongue coated white; imprinted with teeth. Mouth sore; ulcerated.
Inflamed and ulcerated, several small ulcers. Violently inflamed throat, pain on swallowing, heat.
11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen.
Inflamed and ulcerated, several small ulcers. Violently inflamed throat, pain on swallowing, heat.
11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen.
Gastrointestinal tract
Diarrhoea, burning watery stools with, relief of pain, but leaving much debility falls asleep sitting. - сonstipation. Piles exceedingly painful, bleed a little itching in an us washing with very hot water.
Urogenital system
Urine hot in evening. Red, sandy sediment.
Pain in groins; morning, right, evening, left-Bubo right walking;
Catamenia too early and too scanty. Heat in uterus and vagina; burning when touched. Pain in uterus and vagina during period.
Pain in groins; morning, right, evening, left-Bubo right walking;
Catamenia too early and too scanty. Heat in uterus and vagina; burning when touched. Pain in uterus and vagina during period.
Chest organs
Stitches in breasts; extending to hip; to spleen. As if heavy load lying on chest all night; dreams of danger on water.
Cardiovascular system
Cutting pain in heart (4 ); can only lie on left side. Pulse accelerated in morning (Sul.
Limbs and spine
Hands and fingers feel swollen; feel stiff as if they could not be closed. - сracking of finger-joints. Icy coldness or burning of hands and feet. Lameness in right hip-joint, and down thigh, continuing to walk; evening. Sensation of dryness in right knee-joint.
Common symptoms
Prostration of strength, weariness.
Skin
Peels off in small scales. Rash on face; or abdomen. Small boils on face. Syphilitic symptoms reproduced.
Sleep
Excessive drowsiness all day after an unusually sound sleep at night. Sleepy, but can t sleep (Bell).