Argentum Nitricum


Argentum Nitricum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

Silver nitrate, A8. NO3 Preparation: Solution on the crystals in distilled water, for lower dilutions.

Mind.

Imbecile appearance; he looks at people with a foolish expression of countenance, even while conversing with them on some serious subject; he behaves shyly and sillily, and talks in a childish manner.

On lying down for the purpose of relieving his head, visions and distorted faces hover before his imagination, although his eyes are closed, even in day-light (30th potency, second day).

Apathy, with great debility, and tremulous weakness (1st potency).

Hypochondriac and gloomy mood; drawing pain in the forehead; yellowish complexion; sweetish-bitter taste in the mouth; dry, viscid lips; feebleness and febrile sensation; debility and weariness of the lower limbs (in the forenoon, at 11 o’clock, for one hour), (30th potency, third day).

Hypochondriac taciturnity, accompanied with dulness of the head, and beating in the whole body (30th potency).

Anxiety, which makes him walk rapidly.

He feels very much affected bodily and mentally; he does not undertake anything lest he should not succeed (6th potency).

Irritated and anxious mood, in the morning after rising, accompanied with great nervousness, feeling or weakness and tremulousness (6th potency).

Dulness of sense absence of thought, inability to think; he is unable to find suitable words for his ideas; hence he falters in his speech (2d potency, second day).

Difficulty to collect his senses; he found it extremely difficult to conceive an idea, with heat and fullness in the head (2d potency, third day).

He feels dull, as if he would do nothing.

Stupid feeling in the head when writing (30th potency, first day).

Weakness of memory; he is unable to think connectedly, and falter in his speech (30th potency, second day).

Stupefaction, with suffering look (30th potency, second day) Total loss of consciousness.

Coma, difficult to describe.

Head.

Confusion of the head (2d potency, first day).

The whole day his head feels confused, especially the occiput, the left region of the vertex, and the forehead (2d potency, second day.

On waking in the morning from a sleep full of dreams, his head aches and feels confused (2d potency, first day).

The head feels confused, accompanied with whizzing in the ears, and hard hearing (30th potency, sixth day).

Confusion of the head, with feeling of stupidity, over night; in the morning, when waking, it is changed to fullness in the forehead, with stinging, digging in the same, increasing after rising (1st potency, fifth day).

Dull and confused state of the head, with beating in the whole body, and hypochondriac taciturnity, after dinner (30th potency, second day).

The head feels confused after drinking coffee.

Vertigo.

Vertigo in the morning (30th potency, fourth day).

Vertigo with headache.

In the morning she was attacked with vertigo, as if she were turning in a circle, inducing her to squat down, lest she should fall; accompanied with headache (30th potency, second day).

Vertigo, more before the eyes (1st potency, first day).

Vertigo, with complete though transient blindness.

Vertigo, and buzzing in the ears, and general debility of the limbs and trembling.

Vertigo and staggering gait.

Attack of fleeting vertigo, as if intoxicated (1st potency, first day).

Giddiness, as if intoxicated, accompanied with lassitude and debility of the lower limbs (30th potency, first day).

Vertigo, with nausea and confusion of the sense (30th potency, second day).

Giddiness in the head, as if he would faint, the body feeling tired, but not disagreeably so (30th potency, first day).

Giddy, dulness of sense, and as if he had lost all sensations; accompanied with drowsiness (30th potency, first day).

Dizziness before falling asleep (1st potency, first day).

There is no region in the head which was not painfully affected by the drug.

Headache all the time (2d potency, second day).

Sensation in the head, as if the epileptic fit were approaching.

When waking in the morning, he has a terrible headache, obliging him to gnash his teeth (1st potency, third day).

Strong and agreeable odors appear to increase the headache remarkably (second day).

The headache is worse in the open air.

Headache and toothache (30th potency, third day).

The headache is relieved by the binding something tightly around the head.

(Aust. provings). Headache, with eructations and chilliness.

Generally the headache is accompanied by chilliness, and sometimes by a general increase of the temperature of the body.

(Aust. provings). The whole night his head feels heavy and dull, with heat in the head, inducing him to lay his head on cool places, in order to obtain relief (30th potency, second day).

Painful fullness in the brain (30th potency, first day).

Painful fullness and heaviness in the head, with inability to recollect, and glowing heat of the heat of the head and cheeks, in the afternoon (2d potency, third day).

He wakes with a headache in the morning; the head feels full, heavy, and continues the whole day (2d potency, second day).

Fullness and heaviness of the head (2d potency, second day).

Fullness and heat in the head, at night, with great excitement (30th potency, fourth day).

Fullness, pushing, and heat in the head, relieved by pressing upon the head (30th potency, third day).

Excessive congestion of blood to the head, with throbbing of the carotid arteries, obliging him to loosen his cravat, accompanied with heaviness, stupefying dulness of the head, great melancholy, (30th potency, second day).

Pain in the head; the head seems enlarged (30th potency, third day).

If the pains is felt all over the head, it appears to him enlarged; if the pain is felt only on one side of the head, the eye of the affected side appears enlarged (30th potency, second day).

Pain in the head, as if it would burst, occasioned by mental labor (2d potency, second day).

Slight digging-up moving about in the parenchyma of the brain, (6th potency, fourth day).

Drawing, in streaks or bands, over the surface of the brain, apparently in the membranes or the sinuses (6th potency, fourth day).

Headache dull, tormenting, especially in the forehead, with dejection and restlessness (1 grain).

Since waking, his forehead, feels painful and dull, which abates after dinner (1st trit., second day).

She wakes with a headache, pressure deep in the brain, accompanied with chilliness, the whole forenoon (30th potency, first day).

Pressing, digging headache, with chilliness, and great bruised feeling in the limbs.

Nocturnal pressing, stupefying pain about in the head, especially extending to the temples and forehead, with heaviness in the whole body, restless dreams and nausea (in a woman of thirty).

Pressing pains in the whole head, occasioned by mental exertion (30th potency, second day).

Sensation as if a cool current were blowing from the right frontal eminence into the right eye (30th potency, first day).

Pain in the forehead and vertex, as if grasped together (30th potency, first day).

Aching pain in the forehead, in the daytime, increasing considerably in the evening (30th potency, fourth day).

Aching pain, extending to the eyes, with sneezing (30th potency, third day).

Violent boring in the left forehead, when walking (after six and a half hours).

Boring in the left frontal eminence (immediately).

Drawing in the forehead.

Drawing over the whole forehead, lasting only a short time (after two and a half hours).

Constant drawing and digging in the left frontal eminence, afterwards accompanied with a drawing tearing, extending along the whole left arm (6th potency).

Almost all day, pressure and heaviness in the forehead.

Heaviness and pressure in forehead, lasting the whole day (after one hour).

Heaviness and pressure in the forehead, the whole day, worse on walking in the open air, ceasing toward evening; not increased by eating (after one hour).

All day, pressure and heaviness in forehead, by stooping.

Pressure in the forehead (30th potency, first day).

Pressing in the frontal bone, to the forehead (30th potency, first day).

Pressing in the frontal bone, to the left, especially on the frontal eminence, at times more violent; it is constant, and appears at times like band over the forehead; worse on walking.

Pressure in the upper right forehead; and outward from the right nipple (immediately).

Pressing and drawing over the forehead and below the left eyes.

Pressure in the right half of the forehead, especially in the eyebrows, in the morning, when waking (30th potency, third day).

Pushing in the right side of the forehead, as of a load (30th potency, second day).

Tearing in the left side of the forehead (immediately).

Wandering tearing in the skin of the upper forehead (after one and a half hours).

Sticking and afterwards digging pain in the frontal and vertex region, extending as far as the malar bone (2d potency).

Stitches and digging in the left frontal eminence, every day, at different periods, but more frequently in the afternoon (6th potency).

Undulating throbbing in the whole forehead (6th potency, third day).

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.