Argentum Nitricum



Chest

Aching, tensive pain in various parts of chest in small spots. Weight as of a stone in middle of sternum. Burning in chest, sensation of warmth between scapulae and sternum. Violent cramps and pain in muscles of chest.

Heart

Palpitation of the heart in paroxysms, with nausea. Violent palpitation of the heart, in afternoon with faintish nausea, caused by any emotional excitement or any sudden muscular exertion, from lying on right side. Angina pectoris, intense pain in chest and about heart, can hardly breathe. Irregular (intermittent) action of heart (with an unpleasant sensation of fullness), worse when noticing it, better when moving about in open air.

Neck and Back

Muscles of right side of neck sore and stiff. Soreness in lumbo- sacral region. Heaviness in os sacrum, extending along pelvis with painful drawing. Heaviness, with paralytic sensation, preventing long sitting, and obliging him, when walking, to stretch the dorsal spine. Pain in small of back, worse rising from sitting, better standing or walking. Pain in sacroiliac symphyses, feeling as if bones were loose there. Fatigue in back. Pressure in back at night.

Limbs.

Trembling. Lassitude. Weariness of forearms and legs.

Upper Limbs

Drawing in shoulders. Pain in left shoulder and arm. Rheumatic pain in left wrist. Left arm heavy. Nightly boring pain in ulna. Hyperaesthetic numbness of arms and shoulders. Pain in wrist, and finger joints. Hands tremble. Numbness of finger tips.

Lower Limbs

Staggering gait. Lassitude of lower limbs with dizziness as if intoxicated. Pain in calves all night, weary as after a long journey. (Paralytic heaviness and debility, so that he did not know where to put them.) Heaviness and debility of the legs. Limbs, especially knees, start up at night. Weariness with rigidity. oedema of feet.

Generalities

Insensibility; face and upper limbs convulsed, trismus, pupils dilated. Epileptic attacks caused by fright, or during menstruation (at night, or in the morning when rising). Chorea- like convulsive motion of all the limbs. Fatigue. Tremulous weakness, accompanied with general debility. Expanding sensation, especially in face, in head, with feeling as if bones of skull separated, with increase of temperature. Anaesthetic- hyperaesthetic condition of surface. Sticking sensations in various parts. Emaciation. Dropsy, oedema of legs and ascites. Loss of voluntary motion. Paraplegia from debilitating causes. Sensation of splinters in various parts, especially in mucous membranes.

Skin

Wart-shaped excrescences. Skin blue-grey, violet, or bronze to real black. Bluish-black eruption, (in scarlet fever). Itching. Itching pimple. Impetigo. Zona. Small-pox. Erysipelas. Urticaria. Skin brown, tense, and hard. Warts.

Sleep

Restless at night, when he does sleep has all sorts of troubled dreams. Restless, stupefied sleep, with horrid dreams of serpents, etc. Prevented falling asleep by fancies and images. Wakes in the morning, dreams he is hungry and wakes with flatulence and spasms and twinges. Soporous condition. Nightly nervousness with heat of head. Restless sleep with stupefaction and headache.

Fever

Chilliness and nausea. Chills, shifting or constant, are more lasting than the heat and return quickly on uncovering, both stages without thirst. Chilliness. Chilly down back, at noon, extending from occiput to tip of coccyx up back and over shoulder. Night sweat. Morning sweat. Scarlet fever.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica