Arsenicum Album



Mouth

Offensive smell from the mouth. Secretion of abundant tough, fetid, bloody saliva. Great dryness of the mouth, or accumulation of saliva, sometimes bitter or bloody. The mouth is reddish-blue,

inflamed, burning. Tongue bluish or white. Ulceration of the tongue, with blue colour. Torpor and insensibility of the tongue, as if were burnt Tongue brownish or blackish, dry, cracked, and trembling. Tongue a bright red. Tongue white as chalk, as if painted white. Tongue red with a silvery white coat. Tongue stiff like a piece of wood. Ulceration of the tongue on the anterior edge. Swelling, inflammation, or gangrene of the tongue. Angina gangrenosa (with aphthae). Aphthae in the mouth. Speech rapid, precipitate.

Throat

Burning in the throat. Scraping, sharp pain, with burning in the throat. Inflammation and gangrene of the throat. Spasmodic constriction of the throat and of the oesophagus, with inability to swallow. Deglutition painful and difficult, as if from paralysis of the esophagus. Sensation of great dryness in the throat and in the mouth, which induces continual drinking. Accumulation of greyish or greenish mucus of salt or bitter taste in the throat.

Appetite

Bitter taste in the mouth, chiefly after having drunk or eaten, also in the morning. Astringent, or putrid, or acid taste in the mouth. Food appears acid, insipid, or too salt. Insipidity of food. Bitter taste of food, particularly of bread and beer. Complete adipsia, or violent burning, choking, and unquenchable thirst, making it necessary to drink constantly, but little at a time. Desire for cold water, for acids, for brandy, for coffee and milk. Want of appetite and of hunger, frequently with burning thirst. Insurmountable dislike to all food, chiefly meat and butter. Everything that is swallowed causes a pressure in the oesophagus, as if it had stopped there. Continual craving, with want of appetite and prompt satiety. After a meal, nausea, vomiting, eructations, pains in the stomach, colic, and many other sufferings. After having drunk, shivering or shuddering, return of vomiting and diarrhoea, eructations and colic.

Stomach

Frequent eructations, particularly after having drunk or eaten, mostly empty, acid, or bitter. Regurgitation of acrid matter, or of bitter greenish mucus. Frequent and convulsive hiccoughs, principally in the night. Frequent and excessive nausea, sometimes rising even to the throat, with inclination to vomit, necessity for lying down, sleep, swooning, trembling, shuddering, or heat, pains in the feet, etc. Flow of water from the stomach, like water-brash. Vomitings, sometimes very violent, and principally after having drunk or eaten, or at night, towards the morning, vomiting of food and of drink, or of mucous, bilious, or serous matter, of a yellowish, greenish, brownish, or blackish colour, vomiting of sanguineous matter. While vomiting, violent pains in the stomach, sensation of excoriation in the abdomen, cries, burning internal heat, diarrhoea, and fear of death. Inflation and tension of the precordial region and of the stomach. Excessive pain in the epigastrium, and in the stomach, chiefly on being touched. Pressure in the stomach as from a stone, or as if the heart would burst, and excessive anguish in the precordial region, with complaints and lamentations. Sensation of constriction, cramp-like pains, pulling, piercing, and gnawing in the stomach. Burning in the pit of the stomach and stomach. Inflammation or induration of the stomach. Cramp in the stomach (2 a m.). Cancer in the stomach. Sensation of cold, or insupportable heat and burning in the precordial region, and in the stomach. The pains in the stomach manifest themselves mostly after a meal, or in the night. Tetters on the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen

Compression in the region of the liver. Swelling of the spleen. Excessive pains in the abdomen, principally on the left side, and often with great anguish in the abdomen. Inflation of the abdomen. Ascites. Swelling of the abdomen as in ascites. Hard bloated abdomen. Violent cutting pains, cramp-like pains, digging, pulling, tearing, and gnawing in the abdomen. Attacks of colic occur chiefly after having drunk or eaten, or in the night, and are often accompanied by vomiting or diarrhoea, with cold, internal heat, or cold sweat. Burning pains with anguish. Sensation of cold, or insupportable burning in the abdomen. Pain, as from a wound in the abdomen, chiefly on coughing and laughing. Swelling and induration of the mesenteric glands Much flatulency, with rumbling in the abdomen. Flatulency of a putrid smell. Painful swelling of the inguinal glands. Ulcer above the naval.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, with frequent, but ineffectual inclination to evacuate. Tenesmus, with burning in the anus. Involuntary and unperceived evacuations. Violent diarrhoea, with frequent evacuations, nausea, vomiting, thirst, great weakness, colic, and tenesmus. Nocturnal diarrhoea, and renewal of the diarrhoea, after having drunk of eaten. Burning stools, with violent pains in the bowels, with tenesmus, thirst, worse after eating. Burning and corrosive evacuations, faeces with mucus, or bilious, sanguineous, serous, painless, involuntary, etc., of greenish, yellowish, whitish colour, or brownish or blackish, fetid and putrid evacuations, evacuations of undigested substances. Emission of mucus by the anus, with tenesmus. Prolapsus of the rectum: with much pain. Itching, pain as from excoriation, and burning in the rectum and in the anus, as well as in the haemorrhoidal tumors, chiefly at night. Shootings in the haemorrhoidal tumors.

Urinary Organs

Retention of urine, as from paralysis of the bladder. Frequent inclination to make water, even at night, with abundant emission. Incontinence of urine, which escapes almost involuntarily, even at night, in bed. Difficult and painful emission of urine. Scanty urine, of a deep yellow colour. Urine aqueous, greenish, brownish, or turbid, with mucus-like sediment. Sanguineous urine. Burning in the urethra on making water. Involuntary discharge of burning urine.

Male Sexual Organs.

Itching, shooting and burning in the glans and in the prepuce. Inflammation, painful and gangrened swelling of the genital parts. Glans swollen, cracked and bluish. Swelling of the testes. Erysipelatous inflammation of the scrotum. Nocturnal pollutions. Flowing of the prostatic fluid during loose stools.

Female Sexual Organs.

Venereal desire in women. Catamenia too early and too copious, attended by much suffering. Catamenia suppressed, with pains in the sacrum and in the shoulders. Leucorrhoea acrid, corrosive, thick, and yellowish. Scirrhus uteri.

Respiratory Organs

Catarrh with hoarseness, coryza, and sleeplessness. Voice rough and hoarse. Voice trembling or unequal, at one time strong, at another weak. Tenacious mucus in the larynx and the chest. Bronchitis, with difficult secretion of mucus. Sensation of dryness and burning in the larynx. Spasmodic constriction of the larynx. Dry cough, sometimes deep, fatiguing, and shaking, principally in the evening after lying down, or at night, obliging the patient to assume an erect posture, also after drinking, on being in the fresh and cool air, during movement, or during expiration, and often with difficulty of respiration, suffocating, contractive pain, or sensation as of excoriation in the pit of the stomach and the chest, pain, as from a bruise in the abdomen, shootings in the hypochondria, in the epigastrium, and in the chest, etc. Arrest of breathing with cough. Cough excited by a sensation of constriction and suffocation in the larynx, as if by the vapour of sulphur. Respiration oppressed, anxious, short. Oppressed, laboured breathing, especially when ascending a height, in cold air, when turning in bed. Periodical attacks of cough. Cough with expectoration of sanguineous mucus, sometimes with burning heat over the whole body. Difficult expectoration, or scanty and frothy.

Chest

Shortness of breath, difficulty of respiration, choking, dyspnoea, and attack of suffocation, sometimes with cold sweat, spasmodic constriction of the chest or of the larynx, anguish, great weakness, body cold, pain in the pit of the stomach, and paroxysm of cough. The sufferings occur chiefly in the evening in bed, or at night, when lying down, also in windy weather, in the fresh and cold air, or in the heat of a room, or when warmly clothed, on being fatigued, on being angry, on walking, on moving and even on laughing. Respiration anxious, stertorous, and wheezing. Oppression of the chest on coughing, on walking and on going upstairs. Constriction and compression of the chest, sometimes with great anxiety, inability to speak, and fainting fits. Tension and pressure in the chest. Stitches and pressing in the sternum. Shooting pains in the chest and in the sternum. Chilliness or coldness in the chest. Shivering, or great heat and burning in the chest. Heat, burning, itching in the chest. Yellowish spots on the chest.

Heart

Violent and insupportable throbbings of the heart, chiefly when lying on the back, and especially at night. Irregular beatings of the heart, sometimes with anguish. Cramp in the heart. Heart- beats irritable. Palpitation with anguish, cannot lie on back, worse going upstairs. Palpitation and trembling weakness after stool, must lie down. Palpitation after suppressed herpes or foot-sweat. Angina pectoris. Hydropericardium. Fatty degeneration.

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