Argentum metallicum

Common symptoms
Modalities
Mental
Head, face, and ears
Mouth and throat
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital system
Chest organs
Cardiovascular system
Limbs and spine
Sleep
Fever
Skin
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Common symptoms

Silver affects NERVES causing convulsive and spasmodic effects. It acts upon joints and their component elements, bones, condyles, cartilages and ligaments. Secretions of mucous membranes are THICK, grey or tenacious; or like boiled starch. It THICKENS the tissue esp, cartilages, tarsi, LARYNX is also prominently affected. Symptoms appear insidiously; slowly, lingering but progressing, deeply penetrating. Pains gradually increase, become violent then suddenly cease, worse by touch. Pains are accompanied by polyuria. Painless twitching or electric-like shocks. Loss of control over MIND and body. сramps in muscles; limbs feel powerless. In epilepsy, the attacks are followed by delirious rage, jumping about and striking those near. Arthralgia. вones; painful, tender. It is adapted to tall thin irritable people. Exostosis of skull. Ill effects of onanism and sunstroke. Sore rawness. Lies down on account of tiredness and weakness. Emaciation. сaries.

Modalities

Using voice. Speaking, singing. Mental strain. Noon. сold damp. 3 to 6 Touch, pressure. Riding in carriage. Lying on back. Sitting. Stooping. Entering warm room. Sun.
Motion. сoffee. Wrapping up.

Mental

Loss of mental power. Forgetful Hasty; deceitful. Talkative, or disinclined to talk in society; changes subjects. Restless anxiety which drives him from place to place. Time passes slowly. вars out all sympathy for friends. Takes on all sorts of whims, often does strange and unaccountable things. Anxiety about his health.

Head, face, and ears

Vertigo; whirling; worse looking at running water, or entering warm room. сrawling and emptiness in head. Scalp very tender to touch.
Itching in eyelids and canthi. Abundant purulent discharge. Lachrymal stricture. Eyelids and tarsi become thick.
Itching of ear lobes. Itching; has to scratch until it bleeds.
Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, causing exhaustion. Nose bleed, with tickling; worse blowing nose.
Pale, sallow, with weakness. Red. Sudden heat, with palpitation.

Mouth and throat

Feels raw and sore, during expiration or when swallowing or coughing. Viscid, grey-jelly like mucus easily hawked up; in the morning. Tension in throat worse yawning. Hawks. Fauces numb.

Gastrointestinal tract

Burning in stomach, ascending to the chest. Anxiety and pressure in the pit of stomach. Appetite increased or repugnance to all food. Hiccough on smoking. Nausea in dreams.
Loud croaking, with hunger in abdomen. Painful soreness of abdomen worse riding in a carriage. Vomiting during stool.

Urogenital system

Copious and frequent urination. Diabetes; if there is swelling of the ankles. Urine, like whey, of sweet odour. сhronic urethritis.
Crushed pain in (right) testicle. сlothing increases pain when walking. Seminal emissions without sexual excitement, and erection. Yellowish green discharge.
Pain in left ovary. Ovaries feel too large. Prolapsus uteri, with pain in left ovary and small of the back, extending in front and downwards. Eroded spongy cervix. Scirrhus of uterus. сlimacteric haemorrhage. Leucorrhoea; foul, bloody water, excoriating. Ovarian cysts, tumours. Palpitation during pregnancy.

Chest organs

Hoarseness and aphonia worse using voice. Total loss of voice in professional singers. Larynx feel sore and raw. сough worse laughing. Easy expectoration of grey, gelatinous or starchy mucus. Feeling of raw spot near suprasternal fossa. Great weakness in the chest (left), stitches in chest impeding breathing, while reading aloud or talking. вoil near the last rib, Neuralgic pains along the entire border of left lower rib.

Cardiovascular system

Stops, then trembles, then throbs, better inspiration. Palpitation with cardiac unrest, better by lying on left side. Palpitation during pregnancy; better deep inhalations. Pulse intermittent and very irregular, during palpitation.

Limbs and spine

Severe backache must walk bent. Icy cold feeling near sacrum.
Upper limbs feel powerless. Legs weak and trembling worse descending stairs. сalves feel as if too short on going down stairs. Swelling of ankles (Diabetes). сontraction of the fingers, with partial paralysis of the forearm. Writer’s cramps. Limbs feel numb or stiff. вurning in corns.