ARGENTUM NITRICUM

Source indications

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Inco-ordination
  • loss of control
  • want of balance
  • trembling in affected parts
  • violent inflammation of the throat
  • gastro-enteritis
  • great desire for sweets
  • splinter-like pains
  • free muco-purulent discharge
  • expanding sensation
  • flatulent state
  • prematurely aged look
  • explosive belching
  • upper abdominal affections from mental exertion
  • paraplegia
  • myelitis
  • disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord
  • intolerance of heat
  • sensation of a sudden pinch
  • anmia
  • thinks his understanding will fail
  • fearful
  • nervous
  • impulse to jump out of window
  • faintish
  • tremulous
  • melancholic
  • apprehensive of serious disease
  • time passes slowly
  • memory weak
  • errors of perception
  • impulsive
  • wants to do things in a hurry
  • peculiar mental impulses
  • fears and anxieties
  • hidden irrational motives
  • headache with coldness and trembling
  • emotional disturbances cause hemi-cranial attacks
  • sense of expansion in head
  • brain-fag
  • general debility
  • headache from mental exertion
  • headache from dancing
  • vertigo
  • buzzing in ears
  • aching in frontal eminence
  • enlarged feeling in eye
  • boring pain in head
  • itching of scalp
  • bones of head feel separated
  • inner canthi swollen and red
  • spots before the vision
  • blurred vision
  • photophobia in warm room
  • purulent ophthalmia
  • great swelling of conjunctiva
  • abundant and purulent discharge from eyes
  • chronic ulceration of margin of lids
  • sore
  • thick
  • swollen eyelids
  • unable to keep eyes fixed steadily
  • eye-strain from sewing
  • aching, tired feeling in eyes
  • weakened ciliary muscles
  • paretic condition of ciliary muscle
  • acute granular conjunctivitis
  • cornea opaque
  • ulcer in cornea
  • loss of smell
  • itching of nose
  • ulcers in septum
  • coryza
  • chilliness
  • lachrymation
  • headache from coryza
  • sunken face
  • old face
  • pale face
  • bluish face
  • tight drawing of skin over bones
  • gums tender
  • gums bleed easily
  • tongue prominent papill
  • tip of tongue red and painful
  • pain in sound teeth
  • taste coppery
  • taste like ink
  • canker sores
  • thick mucus in throat and mouth
  • raw throat
  • rough throat
  • sore throat
  • sensation of splinter in throat
  • dark redness of throat
  • catarrh of smokers
  • tickling as of hair in throat
  • strangulated feeling in throat
  • belching accompanies gastric ailments
  • nausea
  • retching
  • vomiting of glairy mucus
  • flatulence
  • painful swelling of pit of stomach
  • painful spot over stomach radiating to abdomen
  • gnawing ulcerating pain
  • burning stomach
  • constriction of stomach
  • ineffectual effort at eructation
  • great craving for sweets
  • gastritis of drunkards
  • ulcerative pain in left side under ribs
  • trembling stomach
  • throbbing in stomach
  • enormous distention of stomach
  • ulceration of stomach with radiating pain
  • desire for cheese
  • desire for salt
  • colic
  • much flatulent distention
  • stitchy ulcerative pain on left side below short ribs
  • watery stool
  • noisy stool
  • flatulent stool
  • green stool
  • stool like chopped spinach
  • shreddy mucus in stool
  • enormous distention of abdomen from stool
  • very offensive stool
  • diarrha immediately after eating
  • diarrha immediately after drinking
  • fluids go right through him
  • diarrha after sweets
  • diarrha after emotion
  • itching of anus
  • urine passes unconsciously
  • urethra inflamed
  • pain in urethra
  • burning in urethra
  • itching in urethra
  • pain as from a splinter in urethra
  • urine scanty
  • urine dark
  • emission of a few drops after urinating
  • divided stream of urine
  • early stage of gonorrha
  • profuse discharge from urethra
  • terrible cutting pains in urethra
  • bloody urine
  • impotence
  • erection fails
  • cancer-like ulcers on genitals
  • desire wanting
  • genitals shrivel
  • coition painful
  • gastralgia at beginning of menses
  • intense spasm of chest muscles
  • organs at night
  • nervous erethism at change of life
  • leucorrha profuse
  • erosion of cervix
  • cervix bleeds easily
  • uterine hmorrhage
  • painful affections of left ovary
  • high notes cause cough
  • chronic hoarseness
  • suffocative cough as if from hair in throat
  • dyspna
  • chest feels as if a bar were around it
  • palpitation
  • pulse irregular
  • pulse intermittent
  • painful spots in chest
  • angina pectoris
  • nightly aggravation of angina
  • many people in a room seem to take away his breath
  • much back pain
  • spine sensitive
  • nocturnal pains in spine
  • paraplegia
  • posterior spinal sclerosis
  • cannot walk with eyes closed
  • trembling with general debility
  • paralysis with mental and abdominal symptoms
  • rigidity of calves
  • debility in calves
  • walks unsteadily
  • stands unsteadily
  • numbness of arms
  • post-diphtheritic paralysis
  • brown skin
  • tense skin
  • hard skin
  • drawing in skin
  • spider-web sensation on skin
  • dried albuminous sensation on skin
  • withered skin
  • dried up skin
  • irregular blotches on skin
  • sleepless
  • fancies before imagination
  • horrible dreams of snakes
  • dreams of sexual gratification
  • drowsy stupor
  • chills with nausea
  • chilly when uncovered
  • feels smothered if wrapped up