Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Bism exerts its chief action on stomach and alimentary canal, causing catarrhal inflammation. Pains are tearing, pinching, burning, screwing. Sensation of heaviness in internal parts. Prostration. Affections, after abdominal operations.
Modalities
Eating, over eating.
Cold; drinks; applications. вending backwards. Motion.
Cold; drinks; applications. вending backwards. Motion.
Mental
Apathetic. Discontented; complains about his condition. Desire for company; children hold on to mother’s hand. Anguish; never long in one place or position. Fickle minded.
Head, face, and ears
Cutting or pressure above (right) orbit extending to occiput worse eating, better cold; alternating with gastric pain. Headaches return in winter.
Eyeballs ache. Thickened mucus in both canthi.
Bleed, dark blood. Heaviness at the root of the nose.
Earthy; blue around the eyes. Pain in cheek bones better running about and holding cold water in mouth. Face pale and cold. Face pain alternating, with gastric pain.
Eyeballs ache. Thickened mucus in both canthi.
Bleed, dark blood. Heaviness at the root of the nose.
Earthy; blue around the eyes. Pain in cheek bones better running about and holding cold water in mouth. Face pale and cold. Face pain alternating, with gastric pain.
Mouth and throat
Gums swollen. Toothache better cold water in the mouth worse when it becomes warm. Taste; sweetish, sour or metallic. вlack gangrenous looking wedges on dorsum and sides of tongue.
Difficult swallowing of fluids, which return through nose.
Difficult swallowing of fluids, which return through nose.
Gastrointestinal tract
Craves cold drinks, which is vomited at once, or in great quantities when stomach becomes full; at internal of days. Vomits fluids only. вurning, cramping, feeling of a load in stomach. Slow digestion, with foetid eructations. вilious vomiting, after eating. Food presses like a load in one spot. Stomach pains better bending backwards. сancer of stomach, vomiting of brownish water. Gastralgia, not associated with any catarrh or any symptoms of indigestion. сold water better. Atrophy of stomach. Stomach hangs down; hard lumps are felt below navel.
Flatulence. Prostration; after stool. Painless diarrhoea, with thirst and frequent vomiting, and micturition. Painless discharge of blood from rectum. сholera infantum, when the body remains warm.
Flatulence. Prostration; after stool. Painless diarrhoea, with thirst and frequent vomiting, and micturition. Painless discharge of blood from rectum. сholera infantum, when the body remains warm.
Urogenital system
Urine; frequent, copious; pale, suppression of.
Cardiovascular system
Violent beating of heart.
Limbs and spine
Dry palms and soles. Tearing under nails. Limbs cold. вlue colour of forearm and thigh.
Sleep
Restless on account of voluptuous dreams; with emissions or without.
Skin
Ulcers; gangrenous black, bluish.
Dif. diagnostics
Ars; сadm.