ARGENTUM NITRICUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- acute or chronic diseases from unusual or long-continued mental exertion
- withered, dried-up, old-looking patients
- thin, scrawny
- emaciation, progressing every year
- emaciation most marked in lower extremities
- marasmus
- apprehension when ready for church or opera, diarrhoea sets in
- time passes slowly
- impulsive, wants to do things in a hurry
- must walk fast
- is always hurried
- anxious, irritable, nervous
- headache: congestive, with fullness and heaviness
- headache with sense of expansion
- habitual gastric headache of literary men
- headache from dancing
- hemicrania, pressive, screwing in frontal eminence or temple
- hemicrania ending in bilious vomiting
- headache worse from any exhaustive mental labor
- headache better by pressure or tight bandaging
- acute granular conjunctivitis
- conjunctiva scarlet-red, like raw beef
- discharge profuse, muco-purulent
- ophthalmia neonatorum: profuse, purulent discharge
- cornea opaque, ulceration
- lids sore, thick, swollen
- lids agglutinated in morning
- eye strain from sewing, worse in warm room, better in open air
- diseases due to defective accommodation
- craves sugar
- child is fond of sugar, but diarrhoea results from eating
- craves salt or smoked meat
- belching accompanies most gastric ailments
- flatulent dyspepsia: belching after every meal
- stomach as if it would burst with wind
- belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence
- diarrhoea: green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes
- stool turning green after remaining on diaper
- diarrhoea after drinking
- diarrhoea after eating candy or sugar
- masses of muco-lymph in shreddy strips or lumps
- diarrhoea with much noisy flatus
- diarrhoea as soon as he drinks
- urine passes unconsciously day and night
- impotence: erection fails when coition is attempted
- coition: painful in both sexes
- coition followed by bleeding from vagina
- metrorrhagia in young widows
- metrorrhagia in sterility
- metrorrhagia with nervous erethism at change of life
- great longing for fresh air
- chronic laryngitis of singers
- the high notes cause cough
- great weakness of lower extremities, with trembling
- cannot walk with the eyes closed
- walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he thinks himself unobserved
- convulsions preceded by great restlessness
- sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing
- sensation of a splinter in or about uterus when walking or riding
- chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up
- craves fresh air
- worse from cold food
- worse from cold air
- worse from eating sugar
- worse from ice cream
- worse from unusual mental exertion
- better in open air
- craves the wind blowing in his face
- better from bathing with cold water