ARGENTUM NITRICUM


ARGENTUM NITRICUM homeopathic remedy keynotes and indications from the Decachords by Gladstone Clarke, of the medicine ARGENTUM NITRICUM…


Symptoms

      1. Subject, withered, old-looking through disease, esp. after unusual or long- continued mental exertion; children. 2. hypochondriasis; lacks self-confidence;l apprehensive, hurried, discontented; time passes slowly; suicidal impulses.

3. General debility with nervous tremors.

4. Strange sensations; (a) of expansion in various parts, (b) as of splinter, esp, in the throat, (c) as if objects project towards the patient.

5. Catarrhal conditions of the mucous membranes; profuse, muco- purulent discharge (Pulsatilla). and ulceration.

6. Gastric ailments with much flatulence and violent, difficult belchings; (<) food. great craving for sweets which (<).

7. Diarrhoeas; psychic (Gelsemium); catarrhal, spluttering, grass- green, (<) drinking, sweets; also dysentery, advanced cases.

8. Spinal complaints; sensitiveness of the spine; defective co- ordination of muscles esp. of lower limbs; lightning-like pains; epileptiform convulsions; paralysis.

9. Metrorrhagia with nervous erythism at climaxis.

10. Patient (<) heat, must have fresh air yet chilly when uncovered; (<) mental exertion; at M.P.; pains esp. h/a (<) dancing (>) tight pressure; backache (>) standing.

A. Gladstone Clarke
Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.