Arsenicum album



Sleep

      Disturbed, anxious, restless. Shocks on dropping to sleep. Dreams; of death, full of care, sorrow, and fear. Sleeps with hands over head. Yawning, with stretching of limbs. Sleeping sickness. Talks in sleep. Awakened by pains.

Fever

      Externally COLD, with internal burning heat. Coldness, in spots. Sensitive to cold, yet better in open air. Chills irregular, shaking; craves hot drinks during chill; dyspnoea during chill. Heat as of hot water in veins; or they burn like lines of fire. High fever, hectic fever. Sweat, with great thirst, dyspnoea or exhaustion. Sweat cold. Waves of icy coldness in blood vessels or intense boiling heat. Intermittent fever, yellow fever.

Skin

      Dry, rough, scaly, dirty, shrivelled. Looks seared Eczema. Acuminate eruptions. Free desquamation. Hives worse eating shell fish. Ulcers; chronic, with burning, with cutting pain and bloody discharge. Gangrene. Phagedena. Carbuncles. Psoriasis. Skin, like parchment. Skin symptoms alternate with internal affections. Spots; blue, black, white. Pimples, vesicles, burning violently.

Related

      Sul-ac; Veratrum

Complementary

      All-s; Carb-v; Lach; Nat-s; Phos; Puls; Sulph; Thuja

S.R. Phatak
A pioneer of Homoeopathy in Maharashtra, Dr Shankar Raghunath Phatak was born on 6th September, 1896. He did his MBBS from Grant Medical College, in 1924. Started his practice but somehow not satisfied with Allopathic Treatment.

He was convinced about Homoeopathy while going through Sir William Osler's writings on 'History of Medicine' so switched over to an entirely Homoeopathic Practice in 1932. He also started working on Homoeopathic literature along with his Practice.

He has contributed immensely to homoeopathic literature. He was an ardent follower of Dr Boger. His Repertory is based on Boger's ''A Synoptic key to Materia Medica'.