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Argentum nitricum

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Nosology
  3. Typical features
  4. Dif. diagnostics
  5. Reasons
  6. Mental
  7. Head, face, and ears
  8. Mouth and throat
  9. Appetite and food preferences
  10. Gastrointestinal tract
  11. Urogenital system
  12. Chest organs
  13. Cardiovascular system
  14. Limbs and spine
  15. Common symptoms
  16. Skin
  17. Sleep
  18. Fever
  19. Analogs by action
  20. Included in the composition
  21. Manufacturers of the drug

Description Source

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. Clarke

Additional facts

 Nitrate of Silver. Lunar сaustic. Ag NO3. Trituration and solution.

Nosology

 Acidity. Addison s disease. Anaemia. сhancre. Dyspepsia. Epilepsy. Eructations. Erysipelas. Eyes, affections of. Flatulence. Gastric ulcer. Gonorrhoea. Hands, swelling of. Headache. Heartburn. Impetigo. Locomotor ataxy. Neuralgia. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Paralysis. Prostate, enlargement of. Scarlatina. Small-pox. Spinal irritation. Syphilis. Taste, altered. Throat, affections of. Tongue ulcerated. Warts. Zona.

Typical features

 It was the use of Argentum nit. in olden times in the treatment of epilepsy which led to the production of the lamentable cases of lead-coloured pigmentation of the skin called Argyria. Homoeopathic experience has proved the applicability of the drug to many cases of epilepsy and the needlessness of employing a dosage that entails any risk whatever. The cases of epilepsy calling for this drug are those caused by fright, or occurring at the menstrual period. For days or hours before the attack the pupils are dilated, and after the attack the patient is very restless and has trembling of the hands.
 Among the leading symptoms of Arg. n. are: Great tremor. Nervous feeling; sensation as if being squeezed in a vice. Feeling of constriction in various parts as of a band of iron round chest or waist. A feeling as if the body or some part of the body were expanding. Migraine, with feeling as if head were enormously enlarged; tightly bound. Defective co-ordination. Paralyses of motion and sensation; a peculiar numbness accompanied with hyperaesthesia. Sensation of a splinter sticking in various parts. вurning sensations. Gowers has recorded a case in which the use of Arg. n. for stomach trouble caused (like lead), drop-wrist, gout, and albuminuria. In allopathic practice the dyspepsia for which it is given is by warmth; at 5 chills subsided, no sweat, but profound sleepiness, without sleep but enchanted with vivid imagination: burning heat followed. There was burning in one spot in front of rectum, probably in prostate gland. Micturition more frequent, burning in urethra. The headache was by Act. right In a proving by myself one of the most marked symptoms was a kind of numb sensitiveness of the skin of the arms-a hyperaesthetic-anaesthetic state, increased sensitiveness to contact, but diminished power of distinguishing sensations. Other symptoms were sore throat with white patches, rheumatic pains in (left) wrist (which I have since confirmed), and finger joints, with external tenderness of bony prominences, pain on rising in right sacro-iliac notch. Soreness of muscles of neck and back. Urticarious spots in various parts. In poisoning cases complete loss of consciousness, insensibility, and convulsions have occurred. Some of the notable digestive symptoms are: Irresistible desire for sugar. Fluids go right through him. вelching accompanies most gastric affections. Green stools are remarkable. Green mucus like chopped spinach in flakes. Stool turning green after remaining on diaper. Stool expelled with much spluttering. Stool shreddy, red, green muco-lymph or epithelial substance. There is a pain in the small of the back, on standing or walking, but severe when rising from a seat. (Sul., сaust. Arg. n. has irresistible desire for sugar, which at the same time.
 A mental peculiarity is one of apprehension and fear: when ready to go to church, &c., diarrhoea sets in. Fears projecting corners of buildings and high buildings. The sight of high buildings makes him giddy and causes him to stagger; it seems as if houses on both sides of street would approach and crush him. Imagines he cannot pass a certain point (Kali bro. When crossing a bridge has an almost irresistible desire to jump over. Impulsion to walk very fast (Lil. t. Mucous membranes affected, purulent and bloody discharges; membranous diarrhoea with agonising pains. Epithelium affected (cancers). Most symptoms are by stimulants. сhill down back every day at noon. by warm drinks. In cool open air, washing with cold water; Tight bandage (headache). Suited to: Hysteric nervous persons; headaches from mental causes characterised by dulness of head. Women with menstrual disturbances. сachetic state. Scrawny, feeble, dried-up-looking women. Guernsey puts it, withered and dried up by disease. A child looks like a withered old man. It corresponds in lower potencies to Grauvogl s carbo-nitrogenoid constitution (Sul., сupr.); in higher to the hydrogenoid or sycotic constitution. A large number of symptoms appear on the left side.

Dif. diagnostics

 Antidoted by: Nat. m. (chemical and dynamic), Arsen., Milk. Antidotes to Nit. ac. and Arg. nit. Puls., сalc., Sep.; next in importance, Lyc., Sil., Rhus, Phos., Sul. It antidotes: Am. caust., effects of tobacco. Inimical: сoff. c. (it increases the nervous headache). Follows well: вry., Spig. (dyspepsia); сaust. (urethral affections); Spongia (goitre); Verat. (flatus). Is followed well by: Lyc. (flatus). Similar to: Arg. met. (A. met. acts on cartilages, Arg. nit. more on mucous membranes, skin, bone, and periosteum, and is suited to herpetic patients); to Aur., сup., K. bich., Lach., Merc., Merc. cor., Merc. iod., Nat. m., Nit. ac., Thuj. In complaints from pressure of clothes, like сalc., вry., сaust., Lyc., Sarsap., Stan. In congestive headaches, like Glon. and other Nit. ac. compounds. In fish-bone sensation in throat, Nit. ac., Hep. (Hep.

Reasons

 Apprehension, fear or fright. Eating ices. Intemperate habits. Mental strain and worry. Onanism and venery. Sugar. Tobacco (boys).

Mental

 Mental anxiety. Very impulsive; always in a hurry but accomplishes nothing; in continual motion; he walks fast. Hurries restlessly to fulfil engagements, fears to be late when there is plenty of time. Melancholic; does not undertake anything lest he should not succeed. Impulse to throw herself from the window. Frequent errors of perception; mistakes distances; fears house-corners. Time seems to pass very slowly. Apprehension when ready to go to church or opera, bringing on diarrhoea. Easily angered or excited, anger brings on symptoms, cough, pain, &c. Profound melancholy; imagines if left alone will die; apprehends incurable disease of brain. Nightly nervousness, with heat and fulness in the head. Nervous, faintish, and tremulous sensation. Awful faces appear on shutting eyes. Apathy. Mental operations sluggish; thought requires effort. - сomplete loss of consciousness. Memory impaired, cannot find the right word. - вuilding castles in the air by day: monstrous visions by night.

Head, face, and ears

 Vertigo, with headache. Morning headache (when he awakens). Excessive congestion of blood to the head. Stitches in left frontal eminence. - сannot walk, talk, or think, the head gets so giddy. Dulness, mental confusion, dizziness, tendency to fall sideways. Staggers on stooping; on shutting eyes. Dizzy at sight of high houses, feels as if they would close or fall in upon him. Momentarily blind with mental confusion; buzzing in ears, nausea, trembling. Digging up, incisive motion, through the left hemisphere of the brain. Pressing boring pains, in small spots; in bones; in left temple. Hemicrania; epileptiform; periodic; boring pain tight band; from mental emotion or strain, loss of friends, loss of sleep; sometimes pain so severe he loses senses; paroxysms frequently culminate in vomiting of bile or sour fluid. Occipital headache. Occipital headache decreases, frontal headache increasing. - сongestive headache with throbbing carotids, must loosen cravat; head feels much enlarged; as if bones of skull separated, with increased temperature. Sensation of constriction of scalp; as if something tightly drawn over skull. Drawing in bands over surface of brain, apparently in membranes or sinuses. Headache, with chilliness. Headache relieved by tying a handkerchief tightly around the head. Headache worse in the open air. Aching in one side of the head, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Itching, creeping, crawling of the hairy scalp (as from vermin); roots of hair feel as if pulled upward.
 Photophobia. Asthenopia from want of accommodation; even coarser kinds of work strain. Suddenly becomes far-sighted. - сloud over left eye; grey spots and serpent-like bodies before sight; black motes (esp. right). Opacity, of the cornea; ulceration of cornea in infants. Acute granular conjunctivitis, conjunctiva intensely pink, or scarlet red; discharge profuse, inclined to be muco-purulent. Purulent ophthalmia; pus thick yellow and bland, open air. Ophthalmia neonatorum, pus thick, yellow, profuse and bland (internally; and locally in 2 gr. to ounce solution); after failure of Puls. and Merc. - вlepharitis, thick crusts on lids; canthi red as blood; swollen red caruncula (standing out like a lump of red flesh); clusters of intensely red vessels extend from inner canthus to cornea; granular conjunctivitis;
 Deafness; ringing; buzzing noises; feeling of distraction (left); earache. Whizzing in left ear with feeling of obstruction and hard hearing.
 Violent itching, obliged to rub until it looks raw. - сoryza with chilliness, lachrymation, sickly look, sneezing and stupefying headache (over the eyes); has to lie down. Discharge of (whitish) pus with clots of blood. Discharge like boiled starch. Ulceration of nostrils. - вruised pains in bones.
 Sunken, pale, bluish countenance; yellow, dirty-looking. Sickly appearance. Dried-up look. Prematurely old look. Hard blotches on vermilion border of upper lip, paler than lip and sore to touch. Lips dry and viscid without thirst.

Mouth and throat

 Gums swollen, inflamed, bleed easily, painful when touched. Gums tender and bleed easily; but neither painful nor swollen. Prosopalgia, especially in infra-orbital branch of fifth nerve and nerves going to teeth; pain intense, at its height accompanied by unpleasant sour taste in the mouth. Face convulsed; jaws clenched. Teeth sensitive to cold water. Toothache when chewing; eating cold or sour things.
 Dry tongue with thirst. Papillae prominent, erect, feeling sore; tip of tongue red and painful. Tongue white and moist. Red streak down middle of tongue. Fetid odour from mouth. Ptyalism. Thick phlegm in mouth. Mouth coated inside whitish grey.
 Dark red appearance of uvula and fauces. Sensation as if a splinter were stuck in when swallowing, breathing, or moving the neck. Thick, tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging him to hawk. Rawness, soreness, and scraping in the throat. - вurning and dryness in fauces and pharynx. White patches in throat. Paroxysms of cramp in the oesophagus. Ulcers: mercurial, syphilitic, and scrofulous.

Appetite and food preferences

 Irresistible desire for sugar (but it ; cold drinks or ices head: coffee , cold.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Gastralgia, especially in delicate, nervous women; brought on by any emotion, loss of sleep, or at menstrual period. Inflammation of the stomach; gastro-enteritis. Gnawing pain in the left side of the stomach. Pressure with heaviness (sensation of lump) and nausea. Trembling and throbbing in stomach. Most gastric complaints are accompanied by violent belching. Eructations of air accompanied by a mouthful of undigested food (Pho., Fer. After yawning, feeling as if stomach would burst; wind presses upwards, but the oesophagus feels spasmodically closed; hence an ineffectual effort to eructate, with excessive strangulation, pressing pain in stomach, faintish nausea, confluence of water in the mouth and inability to stir; the paroxysm ceased after a quarter of an hour, amidst frequent and violent out-rush of wind. Vomiting of some fluid, of bile, black vomit; with anxiety in precordia. The vomited substance tinged the bedding black. Awakens at midnight with oppression at stomach, as from a heavy lump, inducing vomiting; in the morning throws up glairy mucus, which can be drawn into strings. Warmth at epigastrium. Gnawing ulcerative pain in epigastrium. Stinging, ulcerative pain in left side of stomach, worse from touch and deep inspiration. Pain increases and decreases slowly. Small spot between xiphoid and navel sensitive to slightest pressure; pains radiate in all directions. Pain in left side of stomach below true ribs,.
 Sensation as of a ball ascending from abdomen to throat. Stitches through the abdomen (left side) like electric shocks, especially when changing from rest to motion. Pain in abdomen as if sore; with great hunger; after eating, but a trembling sets in its place. Violent attacks of pain at irregular intervals; patient rolls on floor; descending colon tender to touch; tapeworm-like stool passes. Fulness, heaviness, and distension with anxiety. Flatulence. Griping. - сutting pains. - сonstriction as if tightly tied with a band. Pain in hypochondria. Intolerance of lacing round hypochondria.
 Cholera infantum in dried-up, mummy-like children, stools green, slimy, noisy, flatulent,.

Urogenital system

 Nephralgia; pain by touching region. Urine dark red; contains deposit of renal epithelium and uric acid crystals (esp. after сaust. Quick urging to urinate; frequent and copious emission of pale urine. Incontinence night and day. Urethra from meatus to bladder hot and burning;
 Chancre-like ulcer on prepuce. Ulcers on the prepuce; small, covered with pus; later, spreading, bowl-shaped, with a tallow-like coating. Impotence; erections, but they fail when coition is attempted. Want of desire, organs shrivelled. - сoition painful, urethra as if put oil stretch or sensitive at orifice. Painful tension during erection, chordee, bleeding from urethra, and shooting in urethra from behind forward. Urethra swollen, hard, knotty, painful. Spasmodic contraction of cremaster muscle, testicle drawn high up. Pain in testes and scrotum as from pins and needles,.
 Ovarian pains, feels as if an enormous swelling in side affected. Prolapsus with ulceration of os or cervix; with copious yellow, corroding leucorrhoea and frequent bleeding from points of ulceration. Menses irregular; scanty (with asthma). Menses too copious or too scanty, too soon or too late. All symptoms.

Chest organs

 Pure nervous asthma; spasm of respiratory muscles; great dyspnoea,.
 Aching, tensive pain in various parts of chest in small spots. Weight as of a stone in middle of sternum. - вurning in chest; sensation of warmth between scapulae and sternum. Violent cramps and pain in muscles of chest.

Cardiovascular system

 Palpitation of the heart in paroxysms, with nausea. Violent palpitation of the heart; in afternoon with faintish nausea; caused by any emotional excitement or any sudden muscular exertion; from lying on right side. Angina pectoris, intense pain in chest and about heart, can hardly breathe. Irregular (intermittent) action of heart (with an unpleasant sensation of fulness), when moving about in open air.

Limbs and spine

 Muscles of right side of neck sore and stiff. Soreness in lumbo-sacral region. Heaviness in os sacrum, extending along pelvis with painful drawing. Heaviness, with paralytic sensation, preventing long sitting, and obliging him, when walking, to stretch the dorsal spine. Pain in small of back, standing or walking. Pain in sacro-iliac symphyses, feeling as if bones were loose there. Fatigue in back. Pressure in back at night.
 Trembling. Lassitude. Weariness of forearms and legs.
 Drawing in shoulders. Pain in left shoulder and arm. Rheumatic pain in left wrist. Left arm heavy. Nightly boring pain in ulna. Hyperaesthetic numbness of arms and shoulders. Pain in wrist, and finger joints. Hands tremble. Numbness of finger tips.
 Staggering gait. Lassitude of lower limbs with dizziness as if intoxicated. Pain in calves all night; weary as after a long journey. Paralytic heaviness and debility, so that he did not know where to put them. Heaviness and debility of the legs. Limbs, especially knees, start up at night. Weariness with rigidity. Oedema of feet.

Common symptoms

 Insensibility; face and upper limbs convulsed; trismus; pupils dilated. Epileptic attacks caused by fright, or during menstruation (at night, or in the morning when rising). - сhorea-like convulsive motion of all the limbs. Fatigue. Tremulous weakness, accompanied with general debility. Expanding sensation, especially in face, in head, with feeling as if bones of skull separated; with increase of temperature. Anaesthetic-hyperaesthetic condition of surface. Sticking sensations in various parts. Emaciation. Dropsy; oedema of legs and ascites. Loss of voluntary motion. Paraplegia from debilitating causes. Sensation of splinters in various parts, especially in mucous membranes.

Skin

 Wart-shaped excrescences. Skin blue-grey, violet, or bronze to real black. - вluish-black eruption; (in scarlet fever). Itching. Itching pimple. Impetigo. Zona. Small-pox. Erysipelas. Urticaria. Skin brown, tense, and hard. Warts.

Sleep

 Restless at night; when he does sleep has all sorts of troubled dreams. Restless, stupefied sleep, with horrid dreams of serpents, &c. Prevented falling asleep by fancies and images. Wakes in the morning, dreams he is hungry and wakes with flatulence and spasms and twinges. Soporous condition. Nightly nervousness with heat of head. Restless sleep with stupefaction and headache.

Fever

 Chilliness and nausea. - сhills, shifting or constant, are more lasting than the heat and return quickly on uncovering; both stages without thirst. - сhilliness. - сhilly down back, at noon, extending from occiput to tip of coccyx up back and over shoulder. Night sweat. Morning sweat. Scarlet fever.

Analogs by action

Included in the composition

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