ARGENTUM NITRICUM



LEADING INDICATIONS.

      (1) Fear of crowd, of passing corners, high buildings; apprehension about keeping appointments, catching trains, &c., may cause diarrhoea.

(2) Feeling of hurry, inducing rapid walking, but walking is unsteady.

(3) Pains are liable to be periodic and come and go slowly; as a corollary time seems long.

(4) Mental and physical effects of over-study, mental strain or anxiety.

(5) Palpitation from lying on the right side, forcing patient to change position.

(6) Acts chiefly on left side-except eye.

(7) Headaches, unilateral, relieved by cold bathing and tight bandaging.

(8) Anaemia with ecchymoses.

(9) Gastrodynia and gastric and duodenal ulceration.

(10)Inflammation of mucous membranes, especially eyes and urethra.

(11) Sacral pain extending down thigh.

(12) Diarrhoea with greenish mucus.

(13) Inflamed fauces and larynx.

(14) Acts well in thin, dried up, prematurely old people.

AGGRAVATION:

      Generally: from heat and close rooms (like apis and puls., &c.), from cold food and ices; mental exertion; eating sugar; drinking (diarrhoea).

AMELIORATION:

      From open air, bathing with cold water (except toothache), from movement (back), tightly binding (head).

Edwin Awdas Neatby
Edwin Awdas Neatby 1858 – 1933 MD was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital, Consulting Physician at the Buchanan Homeopathic Hospital St. Leonard’s on Sea, Consulting Surgeon at the Leaf Hospital Eastbourne, President of the British Homeopathic Society.

Edwin Awdas Neatby founded the Missionary School of Homeopathy and the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1903, and run by the British Homeopathic Association. He died in East Grinstead, Sussex, on the 1st December 1933. Edwin Awdas Neatby wrote The place of operation in the treatment of uterine fibroids, Modern developments in medicine, Pleural effusions in children, Manual of Homoeo Therapeutics,