ARSENICUM ALBUM
Source indications
Boericke's Materia Medica
- Debility
- Exhaustion
- Restlessness
- Nightly aggravation
- Great exhaustion after slightest exertion
- Irritable weakness
- Burning pains
- Unquenchable thirst
- Burning relieved by heat
- Seaside complaints
- Injurious effects of fruits
- Fear fright and worry
- Green discharges
- Alcoholism
- Ptomaine poisoning
- Stings
- Dissecting wounds
- Chewing tobacco
- Ill effects from decayed food or animal matter
- Putrid odor of discharges
- Complaints that return annually
- Anemia
- Chlorosis
- Degenerative changes
- Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition
- Malarial cachexia
- Septic infections
- Low vitality
- Great anguish
- Changes place continually
- Fears of death
- Fears of being left alone
- Great fear with cold sweat
- Thinks it useless to take medicine
- Suicidal
- Hallucinations of smell and sight
- Despair drives him from place to place
- Miserly
- Malicious
- Selfish
- Lacks courage
- General sensibility increased
- Sensitive to disorder and confusion
- Headaches relieved by cold
- Other symptoms worse
- Periodical burning pains
- Restlessness
- Cold skin
- Hemicrania
- Icy feeling of scalp
- Great weakness
- Sensitive head in open air
- Delirium tremens
- Cursing and raving
- Vicious
- Head is in constant motion
- Scalp itches intolerably
- Circular patches of bare spots
- Rough dirty sensitive scalp
- Scalp covered with dry scales
- Nightly burning and itching of scalp
- Dandruff
- Scalp very sensitive
- Cannot brush hair
- Burning in eyes
- Acrid lachrymation
- Lids red ulcerated scabby scaly granulated
- Edema around eyes
- External inflammation
- Extreme painfulness
- Burning hot and excoriating lachrymation
- Corneal ulceration
- Intense photophobia
- Better external warmth
- Ciliary neuralgia
- Fine burning pain
- Skin within ears raw and burning
- Thin excoriating offensive otorrhea
- Roaring in ears during paroxysm of pain
- Thin watery excoriating nasal discharge
- Nose feels stopped up
- Sneezing without relief
- Hay-fever
- Coryza
- Worse in open air
- Better indoors
- Burning and bleeding nose
- Acne of nose
- Lupus
- Swollen pale yellow cachectic sunken cold face
- Face covered with sweat
- Expression of agony
- Tearing needle-like pains in face
- Burning face
- Lips black livid
- Angry circumscribed flush of cheeks
- Unhealthy easily-bleeding gums
- Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat
- Epithelioma of lips
- Tongue dry clean and red
- Stitching and burning pain in tongue
- Tongue ulcerated with blue color
- Bloody saliva
- Neuralgia of teeth
- Teeth feel long and very sore
- Worse toothache after midnight
- Better toothache warmth
- Metallic taste
- Gulping up of burning water
- Swollen edematous constricted burning throat
- Unable to swallow
- Diphtheritic membrane looks dry and wrinkled
- Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
- Great thirst
- Drinks much but little at a time
- Nausea retching vomiting after eating or drinking
- Anxiety in pit of stomach
- Burning pain in stomach
- Craves acids and coffee
- Heartburn
- Gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat
- Long-lasting eructations
- Vomiting of blood bile green mucus or brown-black mixed with blood
- Stomach extremely irritable
- Stomach seems raw as if torn
- Gastralgia from slightest food or drink
- Dyspepsia from vinegar acids ice-cream ice-water tobacco
- Terrible fear and dyspnea with gastralgia
- Faintness
- Icy coldness
- Great exhaustion
- Malignant symptoms
- Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the esophagus
- Esophagus seems closed
- Ill effects of vegetable diet melons and watery fruits generally
- Craves milk
- Gnawing burning pains in abdomen like coals of fire
- Relieved by heat in abdomen
- Liver and spleen enlarged and painful
- Ascites
- Anasarca
- Abdomen swollen and painful
- Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing
- Painful spasmodic protrusion of rectum
- Tenesmus
- Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus
- Small offensive dark stool
- Stool with much prostration
- Stool worse at night
- Stool worse after eating and drinking
- Stool from chilling stomach alcoholic abuse spoiled meat
- Dysentery dark bloody very offensive
- Cholera with intense agony prostration and burning thirst
- Body cold as ice
- Hemorrhoids burn like fire
- Relieved by heat hemorrhoids
- Skin excoriated about anus
- Scanty burning involuntary urine
- Bladder as if paralyzed
- Albuminous urine
- Epithelial cells in urine
- Cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood in urine
- After urinating feeling of weakness in abdomen
- Bright's disease
- Diabetes
- Menses too profuse and too soon
- Burning in ovarian region
- Leucorrhea acrid burning offensive thin
- Pain as from red-hot wires
- Worse least exertion female
- Causes great fatigue female
- Better in warm room female
- Menorrhagia
- Stitching pain in pelvis extending down the thigh
- Unable to lie down
- Fears suffocation
- Air-passages constricted
- Asthma worse midnight
- Burning in chest
- Suffocative catarrh
- Cough worse after midnight
- Cough worse lying on back
- Expectoration scanty frothy
- Darting pain through upper third of right lung
- Wheezing respiration
- Hemoptysis with pain between shoulders
- Burning heat all over respiratory
- Cough dry as from sulphur fumes
- Cough after drinking
- Palpitation
- Pain heart
- Dyspnea heart
- Faintness heart
- Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers
- Pulse more rapid in morning
- Dilatation heart
- Cyanosis
- Fatty degeneration heart
- Angina pectoris with pain in neck and occiput
- Weakness in small of back
- Drawing in of shoulders
- Pain and burning in back
- Trembling extremities
- Twitching extremities
- Spasms extremities
- Weakness extremities
- Heaviness extremities
- Uneasiness extremities
- Cramps in calves
- Swelling of feet
- Sciatica
- Burning pains extremities
- Peripheral neuritis
- Diabetic gangrene
- Ulcers on heel
- Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy
- Itching skin
- Burning skin
- Swellings skin
- Edema skin
- Eruption skin
- Papular skin
- Dry skin
- Rough skin
- Scaly skin
- Worse cold and scratching skin
- Malignant pustules
- Ulcers with offensive discharge
- Anthrax
- Poisoned wounds
- Urticaria with burning and restlessness
- Psoriasis
- Scirrhus
- Icy coldness of body
- Epithelioma of the skin
- Gangrenous inflammations
- Disturbed sleep
- Anxious sleep
- Restless sleep
- Must have head raised by pillows
- Suffocative fits during sleep
- Sleeps with hands over head
- Dreams are full of care and fear
- Drowsy sleeping sickness
- High temperature fever
- Periodicity marked with adynamia
- Septic fevers
- Intermittent fever
- Paroxysms incomplete with marked exhaustion
- Hay-fever
- Cold sweats
- Typhoid fever
- Complete exhaustion fever
- Delirium fever
- Worse after midnight fever
- Great restlessness fever
- Great heat about 3 am
- Worse wet weather
- Worse after midnight
- Worse from cold
- Worse cold drinks
- Worse cold food
- Worse seashore
- Worse right side
- Better from heat
- Better from head elevated
- Better warm drinks