Arsenicum metallicum

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Preparation: The pure metal, triturated.

 Mind.
 Depression of spirits.
 Despondency.
 Indifference.

 Head.
 A sensation as of vertigo (second day), (1st potency).
 Sensation as if the fumes of whisky had gone to the head (first day), (3rd potency).
 Heavy and dull feeling in the forehead (first day), (1st potency).
 Pain in the left side of the head extending to the left ear and left eye, with nausea (third day). (1st potency).
 Head feels as if swollen in the morning when awaking (second day), (3d potency).
 Sensation of fullness in the head while sleeping, and worse when awaking in the night (fourth day), (1st potency).
 Headache worse when laughing.
 Itching of forehead which cannot be allayed but by pinching of the skin (twelfth day), (30th potency).
 Soreness of the scalp when even pulling but one hair (third day), (1st potency).
 Eyes.
 Sensation of heaviness in the eyes.
 Eyelids slightly inflamed and swollen (first day), (1st potency).
 Eyes so painful that he cannot read much.
 Nose.
 Fluent coryza.
 Scalding water runs from the nose, excoriating the nostrils (fifth day), (30th potency).
 The coryza returns in fifteen days with heat in the face and hoarseness, lasting three days, when it became accompanied with angina faucium, for which вelladonna, one dose was successfully administered.
 Face.
 Itching and burning in the lower part of the face, as if an eruption would break out (fourth day), (30th potency).
 Face feels as if bloated (third day), (1st potency).
 Bloated face (third day), (1st potency).
 Itching all over the face, which can only be relieved by pinching the skin (for some days).
 Burning, itching, stinging in the face, with swelling; skin feels as if stiff, relieved by bathing the face with cold water; later, desquamation in small scales.
 The itching is relieved by pressing, but not by scratching.

 Ulcer on the right side of inner under lip (first day), (3d potency).
 Ulcer sore when touched with the tongue (first to second day), 93d potency).
 Ulcer on the left inner side of the under lip (first day), (3d potency).
 Dry mouth.
 Tongue coated white covered with mucus (twelfth day), (1st potency).
 Tongue coated white, showing the imprint of the teeth on the edges (third day), (30th potency).
 Gums swollen and painful to the touch (first day), (1st potency).
 Gums swollen and feeling as if scalded, with accumulation of water in the mouth; aversion to wines and liquors.

 Nausea (third day), (1st potency).
 Hot eructations as of bile (third day), (1st potency).
 Abdomen.
 Bloated abdomen (first to third day), (1st potency).
 Tension and sensation of swelling in the abdomen (third day), (1st potency).
 Pulsation in the umbilicus.
 Numbness and sensation of paralysis in the right lumbar region, extending from the vertebrae to the crest of the ilium (first day), (30th potency). Lumbago.
 Varices on the right side of the anus, painful after stool (not bleeding), (twelfth day), (1st potency).
 Varices bleed a little (fourth day), (30 potency).
 Varices feel only sore, but neither pain after stool nor bleed (sixteenth day), (30th potency).
 After awaking in the morning at 6 o’clock, distressing, lancinating, griping pain in the bowels; afterwards, one sharp, burning, watery stool, relieving the abdominal pain, but leaving much debility; he falls asleep sitting on a chair, and has no appetite; pulse 60, much fuller than in health (second day), (1st potency).
 Constipated (sixteenth day), (30th potency).
 Itching in the right groin extending down to the knee (twelfth day), (30th potency).
 In the right groin a painful swelling, worse when extending the leg; pain goes up to the hip and continues for a long time.
 In the same place where this painful swelling appears, a bubo suppurated twenty-four years ago.

 Red sandy sediment in the urine (third day), (30th potency).
 Offensive sweat on the genitals (for some weeks).

 Pulsation under the sternum (first day), (30th potency).
 Slight pains in the left side of the chest in the region of the heart (second day), (30th potency).
 Pain in the muscle of the left chest (second day), (30th potency).
 Hoarseness with coryza (twenty-first day), (30th potency).

 Sensation of swelling of hands and fingers (third day), (1st potency).
 Hands and fingers feel stiff; they feel as if they could not be closed (third to ninth day), (1st potency).
 Cracking of all the finger-joints (second to fourteenth day), (1st potency).
 Dry heat in the palms of the hands.
 A scab which had been on the first joint of the third finger of the left hand for twenty years, healed entirely; whereas, formerly, when the scab had been torn off, it left a spot of a liver color, and a new scab soon formed.
 Lower Extremities.
 Sensation of lameness in the right hip-joint (second day), (3d potency).
 Sensation as if he could not use the limb; but he can walk well enough after he has been on his feet a short time (second day), (3d potency).
 Pulsation in the right hip-joint, worse in the morning, better in the evenings (second day), (3d potency).
 Deep seated numbness in the right hip-joint (first day), (30th potency).
 Sensation of paralysis in the right hip-joint, extending to the pubic symphysis down inside of the thigh to the knee.
 Pulsation in the right anterior tibial artery at the superior extremity of its inferior third (first day), (30th potency).
 Sensation of dryness in the right knee-joint (fourth day), (3d potency).
 Feet burning hot, feel as if bloated (first day), (1st potency).
 Feet burning hot, without the least moisture (second day), (30th potency).
 Feet, usually icy cold, have become warm and sweat much.
 Feet burning more at night; he has to hold them out of bed; cannot have the least cover on them (first to fourteenth day), (1st and 3d potency).

 Debility; weariness; general prostration of strength.
 Emaciation.
 Pulsation all over the body.
 The symptoms appear first on the right and then on the left- side.
 Morning exacerbations.
 The symptoms recur again after two weeks.
 Aggravation after drinking a small quantity of brandy, for which he had not the slightest desire.

 Unusually sound sleep at night (first day), (3d potency). Irresistible inclination to sleep in the daytime and early in the evening (second day), (3d potency).
 Great drowsiness in the morning after rising, having had a sound sleep (second day), (30th potency).
 Very reluctant to rise in the morning after a good night’s sleep (third day), (3d potency).
 Feels as if he should fall asleep while walking in the street in the afternoon (second day), (3d potency).
 Stupor in the morning, notwithstanding a good sleep all night (third day), (30th potency).
 Very sleepy but cannot fall asleep (second day), (30th potency).
 During sleep a sensation as if he would have a headache when awaking in the morning.
 During sleep, dreams of danger, especially of danger on the water (fifth day), (1st potency).
 On awaking in the morning, sensation as if the head were swollen (first day), (1st potency).
 Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning (first day), (1st potency).
 Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning (second day), (1st potency).
 Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning (first day), (30th potency).
 Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning and falls down to 53 in the evening (second day), (3d potency).
 Normal pulse being 55, is accelerated to 68 in the morning and lowered to 43 in the evening (fourth day), (1st potency).
 Normal pulse being 55, is now 72 in the morning, 64 in the evening (fifth day), (1st potency).
 Normal pulse being 55, is now, in the morning, 64, in the evening 48 (first day), (30th potency).
 Pulse after midnight 48, in the morning, after rising, 68 (third day), (3oth potency).
 Pulse 64 in the morning (fourth day), (30th potency).
 The pulse continues to rise in the morning, and to fall in the evening for thirty days longer, without taking more medicine.

 Conditions. Aggravation.
 (Morning), General aggravation.
 Pulsation in right hip.
 On waking, head feels swollen.
 (Brandy), Aggravates.
 (Laughing), Headache.
 Amelioration.
 (Evening), Pulsation in right hip.
 (Pinching or pressing the skin), Itching.