Argentum Metallicum



Skin.

Burning itching, here and there, on the skin; for instance, upon the skin of the face, the hands, etc., not, however, making scratching necessary.

Frequent sticking in the skin, as from fleas (6th dil)..

Intolerable itching, as from a flea creeping over the head and the whole body.

Stitches here and there in the skin, as from electric sparks, through the day (3d trit)..

Itching biting, causing scratching on the skin of the forehead (5th dil)..

Pimple on the left temple, painful when touched.

A little blister on the tongue, sore and burning.

A furuncle formed on the lowest left rib, not painful, but sensitive to touch; it discharged after six days, but the hardness under the skin remained fourteen days (6th dil).

Stinging and itching burning under the skin, in the inner side of the wrist-joint (after thirty-two hours). (Several pimples on the tibia, with a burning pain).

Sleep and Dreams.

Dizzy drowsiness; his eyes closed.

Inclined to sleep, forepart of night, but could not, on account of heat and stinging, as of gnats, in the skin; when half asleep, was attacked with vertigo, so that he thought the head would fall out of the bed, followed by violent convulsive shaking of the body, as in epilepsy, with vertigo and sleeplessness.

On beginning the customary afternoon nap, a repeated sudden electric shock of the whole left lower limb, starting from the left knee-joint, interrupting the nap (5th dil)..

Wakes at 3.30, and cannot sleep again (3d trit)..

Night extremely restless (6th dil)..

Very restless, with night on account of many anxious dreams (5th dil)..

Extremely restless at night; dreamy; dreams of unpleasant things; not remembered (5th dil)..

Sleep full of dreams (1st trit). Sleep full of very active anxious dreams, which were not recalled in the morning (very unusual), (6th dil)..

Dreams about the events of the day.

Night full of dreams of the day’s business (4th dil)..

Many anxious dreams, causing nausea (3d trit)..

Frightful anxious dreams, at night (2d trit).

Anxious dreams; on waking up, still felt so anxious that he imagined he had suffered the accident he had dreamed about.

A dream that he was followed by a raging, powerful fiend; in the morning, he woke very early, and was very weak; the weakness seems to concentrate itself in the hip (5th dil).

Fever.

Shivering through the whole body (after one and a half hours).

Slight chilliness under the whole skin, mornings, in bed, after waking, etc. (6th dil)..

In the afternoon, chilliness until he went to sleep; even in bed, he could not get warm; sweat after midnight.

Chilliness on the back and on the feet, extending beyond the malleoli; it continued for two hours, and was very painful; walking did him no good (after six and a half hours).

Chills over the upper portion of the body, at night, when lifting the cover ever so little; when properly covered, he felt naturally warm (after four hours).

Slight creeping chills in the skin, on uncovering the upper part of the body (4th dil)..

In the forenoon, heat and feeling of heat over the whole body, less, however, about the head, without any thirst, with little sweat on the abdomen and some on the chest.

Hectic fever every day from 11 to 12 or 1 o’clock.

Sweats very easily, especially during and after eating (1st trit).

Conditions.- Aggravation.

(Morning), Early, stitching headache; early, after rising, itching of lobules of ears; early, mucus in throat; sensation of hunger; after waking, hunger; early, no appetite; burning in abdomen, etc.; cough; early, after rising, hacking cough; in bed, after waking, cutting across cartilages of false ribs; after waking, cutting in the cartilages of the false ribs; after waking, pain in back and loins; after waking, loss of power of limbs; when waking, muscular twitchings around right shoulder-joint; when walking, boring scratching in right shoulder-joint; after waking, in bed, stitches from left trochanter to socket; after waking, great weakness in the limbs, etc.

(Forenoon), Sensation of hunger, etc.; heat, etc., over whole body. (Noon), The symptoms reappear; at rest, pain in right side of chest.

(Afternoon), Stitch through skin., of left upper lid; itching in the folds of the concha, etc.; burning on tip of tongue; two vomitings; after long walk, pain, as if sprained, on the left side or pelvis; on writing, twitches in right thumb; chilliness. (Evening), After lying down, boring pain in left side of forehead; in bed, drawing in right half of brain, etc.; in bed, crushed pain in testicles; in bed, stitches under ribs; in bed, quick pulse, etc.; in bed burning stitches in left tibia.

(Night), Distension of the abdomen; rumbling in abdomen, etc.; when lifting the cover, ever so little, chills over upper part of body. (After midnight), sweat. (10 A.M)..

Confusion of head. (11 A.M)., Stitching in the side of left forearm, etc. (2 P.M)..

Drawing pains above the wrist.

(3 P.M)., At rest, tearings in lower end of left arm.

(6 P.M)., Burning pain on elbow; tearing in back of left middle toes.

(7 P.M)., At rest, after moderate walk, pain in left lumber region.

(Adduction of thigh), Pain in lumbo-sacral region.

(Draught of air), Pain in cricoid cartilage.

(Walking in open air), Pressure on side of neck; pain in condyle of tibia; lassitude, etc., all over.

(Bending arm), Tension at point of elbow.

(Sitting bent), Pain in felt side of sternum.

(Breathing), Pressive stitches in side of back.

(On coming in from a walk), Very dizzy, etc.

(Contact). Pain in region of temporal bones; pain in metacarpal bone of thumb, etc.; pain in flesh of upper arm.

(Coughing), Raw etc., in throat; rawness, etc., in upper part of larynx.

(Curving the back), Stitches at the termination of the ribs.

(During deglutition), Soreness, etc., in throat; (empty), scraping in velum pendulum.

(After dinner), Immediately, when blowing nose, violent bleeding.

(After eating), Coldness in right side of pelvis.

(During and after eating), Sweats very easily.

(During expiration), Soreness, etc., in throat.

(Extending arm), Pain in bend of right elbow.

(Muscular exertion), Pain in right axilla.

(Inspiration), Pressure from hypogastrium downwards; cutting in region of lowest ribs; pain under second and third ribs; stitches between ribs; stitches in chest, etc.

(Laughing), Produces mucus in larynx; excites cough.

(Lifting the part), Cramp in upper arm.

(Lying on back), Twitchings of the cardiac muscle.

(Masticating), Sense of cutting towards the parotid gland.

(Motion), Pressure on the sternum after waking, in the morning, tension on both sides of the foramen magnum; stitches in the side of back; morning, after waking, paralytic feeling in arms; pain in bend of right elbow; pain behind left hip; bruised, etc., pain in right knee; paralytic weakness.

(Motion after rising), Pain, as if sprained in rim of pelvis.

(After a meal), While sitting and standing, sensation as of a living worm boring through the anus.

(During afternoon nap), Sensation of hunger, etc.

(Pressure), Tendon of psoas muscle painful as if bruised; drawing on outside of left upper arm; pains in left wrist.

(Reading), Burning sensation at pit of stomach.

(Reflecting), Attacks of vertigo.

(Rest), Headache in right half of brain; drawing in fossa behind right lobule; drawing in pelvis; pain on right side of pelvis; at 4 P.M., drawing through right inguinal ring; 4 P.M. after short walk, pain along course of spermatic cord; pain deep in right testicle; irritation on left side of chest; twitching of muscles from clavicular region towards shoulder-joint; pain in left shoulder-joint; pains in left deltoid muscle; pains in muscles of right upper arms; muscular twitchings in bend of right elbow, etc.; 3 P.M., twitchings in left elbow-joint; at noon, drawing through the radial joint of right elbow; stitch in tip of elbow; drawing from radius up to elbow; pain in radial part of left wrist; drawing in ball of left on left thumb, etc.; 1 P.M., pain in right index finger, etc.,; at noon, pain in bone of ring finger; cramp-like pain over left knee; repeated pain in left tibia; drawing in left tibia; paralytic aching in periosteum of left fibula; cramp in left calf; drawing pain in left ankle; tearing pain in inner malleolus of left ankle; great turmoil, etc., in joints of the feet, etc.; drawing pain in the joints, etc.; drawing pain in forehead, etc.

(Rising from seat), Burning in the side of back.

(Rising after stooping), Pressure on the sternum.

(Resting foot on small support), Stitches in the external malleolus.

(Seizing something), Tearing in left fourth finger, etc.

(Setting down the foot), Stitches in hip-joint.

(Singing), Raw spot in windpipe.

(Sitting), Attacks of vertigo; drawing in right temple; pain in belly; stitch in the side of chest; tearing in left scapula; stitch in side of small of back; coldness on right side of pelvis; pain in knee-joint; knee painful; twitchings in outer side of left knee; tearing in left knee- joint; stitches in the external malleolus. (Sneezing), Pain, as if sprained in left hip. (Speaking), Raw spot in windpipe.

(Standing), Burning at pit of stomach, etc.; pain on surface of right knee; cutting pain in left fibula.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.