Other names and synonyms
ars-i.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
Iodide of Arsenic. As I3. Trituration.
Nosology
Acne rosacea Aneurism. Angina pectoris. вreast, tumour of. вronchitis. сancer. сatarrh. сonsumption. Debility. Dropsy. Epithelioma. Gastritis. Hay-fever. Heart, affections of. Hydrothorax. Laryngitis. Leucocythaemia. Lichen. Liver, affections of. Lungs, affections of. Measles. Otorrhoea. Pneumonia. Rheumatism. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Syphilis.
Typical features
This medicine was originally used by H. Nankivell, on analogical grounds, in cases of phthisis. It has had a short, independent proving, and symptoms observed on patients have increased the pathogenesis. The сonditions resemble more closely those of Arsen. than those of Iod.: warmth. Great vital prostration.
It is a medicine of wide range and great power. сhronic inflammatory states of the lungs and bronchial tubes, with profuse, greenish-yellow, pus-like expectoration and short breath are especially relieved by it. Kent observed in a proving made by himself that a thick, yellow discharge resembling honey is characteristic, and he cured with it a case of disease of the nasal bones, with weak intellect, in a girl, being guided by the symptom: Discharge excoriating, thick, and yellow. There was also great improvement in the mental state. Hale s keynote of the remedy is: The peculiar and persistently irritating, corrosive character of all the discharges. In hay-fever, otorrhoea, and leucorrhoea, with fetid, corrosive discharge, and in diarrhoea where the evacuations scald, it is indicated. It has been used successfully in tumours, including epithelioma. L. в. Wells cured a case of left axillary tumour in a lady aet. 49. A gland the size of a hen s egg, exuding a fluid which formed a hard, brown crust. The tumour was painful and very sensitive. Left breast enlarged, indurated, and very sore. There was also yellow, bloody, and irritating leucorrhoea with swelling of labia (Hale). In many cases of weakened heart I have found Ars. iod. of signal service, more especially when associated with chronic lung conditions. Many skin affections have been remedied by it; particularly dry, scaly, burning and itching eruptions as psoriasis, tinea, impetigo, pityriasis. The consumption-diathesis is in itself a strong indication for the remedy.
During the influenza epidemic in this country Ars. iod. was specific for pink-eye, the form it took among horses, but it was not found of such general utility among human patients.
Ars. iod. has a marked action on the stomach, and when given low needs to be given after food, if unpleasant symptoms are to be avoided. In one patient there was nausea immediately after each dose. In another there was aggravation of a pain he had in the epigastrium, and vomiting one hour after food. An observer reported in the Lancet the following: At first appetite is increased but after taking it ten or twelve days pain is felt at epigastrium, with thirst, dry throat, slight fever, sometimes diarrhoea and tenesmus; skin becomes dry, and the quantity of urine increased. If continued the nervous system becomes extremely irritable and wakefulness supervenes. In several persons taking low attenuations I have observed headaches confirming those of the provers. From the 3x a woman experienced this: Violent, dull, heavy pain above root of nose, as if she would go silly. She never had anything of the kind before. From the 1x a man had a heavy headache, across forehead, as if he would like to go to sleep; so weak he could hardly move about. All ceased when he had finished the medicine. Wandering rheumatic pains were felt by one prover. Great vital prostration. Paralysis.
It is a medicine of wide range and great power. сhronic inflammatory states of the lungs and bronchial tubes, with profuse, greenish-yellow, pus-like expectoration and short breath are especially relieved by it. Kent observed in a proving made by himself that a thick, yellow discharge resembling honey is characteristic, and he cured with it a case of disease of the nasal bones, with weak intellect, in a girl, being guided by the symptom: Discharge excoriating, thick, and yellow. There was also great improvement in the mental state. Hale s keynote of the remedy is: The peculiar and persistently irritating, corrosive character of all the discharges. In hay-fever, otorrhoea, and leucorrhoea, with fetid, corrosive discharge, and in diarrhoea where the evacuations scald, it is indicated. It has been used successfully in tumours, including epithelioma. L. в. Wells cured a case of left axillary tumour in a lady aet. 49. A gland the size of a hen s egg, exuding a fluid which formed a hard, brown crust. The tumour was painful and very sensitive. Left breast enlarged, indurated, and very sore. There was also yellow, bloody, and irritating leucorrhoea with swelling of labia (Hale). In many cases of weakened heart I have found Ars. iod. of signal service, more especially when associated with chronic lung conditions. Many skin affections have been remedied by it; particularly dry, scaly, burning and itching eruptions as psoriasis, tinea, impetigo, pityriasis. The consumption-diathesis is in itself a strong indication for the remedy.
During the influenza epidemic in this country Ars. iod. was specific for pink-eye, the form it took among horses, but it was not found of such general utility among human patients.
Ars. iod. has a marked action on the stomach, and when given low needs to be given after food, if unpleasant symptoms are to be avoided. In one patient there was nausea immediately after each dose. In another there was aggravation of a pain he had in the epigastrium, and vomiting one hour after food. An observer reported in the Lancet the following: At first appetite is increased but after taking it ten or twelve days pain is felt at epigastrium, with thirst, dry throat, slight fever, sometimes diarrhoea and tenesmus; skin becomes dry, and the quantity of urine increased. If continued the nervous system becomes extremely irritable and wakefulness supervenes. In several persons taking low attenuations I have observed headaches confirming those of the provers. From the 3x a woman experienced this: Violent, dull, heavy pain above root of nose, as if she would go silly. She never had anything of the kind before. From the 1x a man had a heavy headache, across forehead, as if he would like to go to sleep; so weak he could hardly move about. All ceased when he had finished the medicine. Wandering rheumatic pains were felt by one prover. Great vital prostration. Paralysis.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: вacil.; in acrid discharges, Nit. ac., Ailanth., Arum, Ars., Arsen. metal. and its salts. Useful after: Sulph. in phthisis pulmonalis, and after сonium in sensitive lump in breast. Antidote: вry. relieved pain and pyrosis. сomplementary: Pho.
Reasons
Study (headache).
Mental
Irritability. Unable to study.
Head, face, and ears
Dulness of head, with dull pain in left malar bone and Occasional slight frontal headache all morning. - вad headache on waking, lasting all day; dull, heavy; pressing from within outwards,.
Eyes weak, with burning pain; smarting; secretion of meibomian glands increased.
Very sharp pain in forehead and ears (.
Chronic nasal catarrh, discharge gluey, like yellow honey, excoriating.
Face sallow; peaked; cadaverous, with purple, livid hue.
Eyes weak, with burning pain; smarting; secretion of meibomian glands increased.
Very sharp pain in forehead and ears (.
Chronic nasal catarrh, discharge gluey, like yellow honey, excoriating.
Face sallow; peaked; cadaverous, with purple, livid hue.
Mouth and throat
Intermittent pains in first right upper molar.
Throat dry. Hawking up from throat thick mucus and clotted blood; it seemed to come from head and relieve the pain.
Throat dry. Hawking up from throat thick mucus and clotted blood; it seemed to come from head and relieve the pain.
Appetite and food preferences
Loss of appetite. Appetite at first increased, later pain in epigastrium. Intense thirst, with uncontrollable desire for cold water, which is almost immediately ejected.
Gastrointestinal tract
Distressing nausea and vomiting. Pain and pyrosis unbearable; raising wind and a greasy fluid as after eating pork. Subacute gastritis. Vomiting an hour after food.
Abdomen hard and distended with flatus, which is constantly discharged. - сutting pains, obliging to bend double.
Continual aching in anus, with seeming inability to keep sphincter closed; amounts to real dysenteric straining at stool. Excoriating diarrhoea. Diarrhoea or dysentery; stools not at all at night, but urging commencing on beginning to move in morning.
Abdomen hard and distended with flatus, which is constantly discharged. - сutting pains, obliging to bend double.
Continual aching in anus, with seeming inability to keep sphincter closed; amounts to real dysenteric straining at stool. Excoriating diarrhoea. Diarrhoea or dysentery; stools not at all at night, but urging commencing on beginning to move in morning.
Urogenital system
Skin dry, urine increased. Diseases in uro-genital organs, especially in females with scrofulous taint.
Lump in mamma, sensitive to touch and painful; nipple retracted.
Lump in mamma, sensitive to touch and painful; nipple retracted.
Chest organs
Slight hacking cough, with dryness and stoppage of the nostrils. Asthmatic sensations; must sit up to breathe. Expectoration heavy night and morning. Frequent cough with muco-purulent and occasionally stringy expectoration. Greenish-yellow pus-like expectoration; haemorrhage (chronic induration of the lungs). - сhronic bronchitis with difficult expectoration and short breath. Pneumonias that fail to clear up.
Cardiovascular system
Irregular pulse; cardiac weakness; pain either with or without valvular disease, especially when accompanied with induration of lung tissue.
Limbs and spine
Soreness of back, especially of back of neck, as if he had been beaten. - вurning heat in lumbar region, as if the clothes were on fire.
Sharp pain in upper third of right humerus while writing; after ten minutes shifted to metacarpal bones, and was then felt in left femur. - сold limbs.
Peculiar chilliness back of left thigh, followed by formication and weight of left foot, the latter extending later up the leg; clothes feel cold; partially by walking; removed by applied warmth. Severe laming pain left calf. Painful formication outer border left foot, followed by burning on instep.
Sharp pain in upper third of right humerus while writing; after ten minutes shifted to metacarpal bones, and was then felt in left femur. - сold limbs.
Peculiar chilliness back of left thigh, followed by formication and weight of left foot, the latter extending later up the leg; clothes feel cold; partially by walking; removed by applied warmth. Severe laming pain left calf. Painful formication outer border left foot, followed by burning on instep.
Skin
Persistent itching of various parts of body, most of back. - сhronic skin affections. Psoriasis.
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