Argentum Nitricum



Burning in throat very severe (1 grain), Rawness and soreness in the throat.

Scraping sensation in the throat caused hawking and cough (1/2 grain).

Scraping sensation in the throat (2d potency).

Roughness in the throat, occasioning a short hawking (6th potency).

Roughness and scraping of the throat, as if raw and sore (6th potency, first day).

Roughness and dryness of throat, with ulcerative pain, at night (2d potency).

Dryness and strangulation in the throat, with shortness of breath, at night (30th potency, fifth day).

Pain in the right side of the throat, as of an ulcer, drawing and tension upward and downward; sensation as if a splinter were lodged in the throat when swallowing, eructations, breathing, stretching, and moving the neck; sometimes an undulating jerking and pulsating was felt in the throat, continuing for several days (2d potency).

Titillation in the throat, as if caused by a little feather, obliging one to hawk (6th potency).

Redness of the velum palati, posterior nares, and isthmus (6th potency).

Dark redness of the uvula and fauces (2d potency).

Burning pain in the region of the velum palati and the posterior nares, as if sore or as if corroded by pepper (fourth day).

Sensation as if the velum pendulum palati were swollen, not per se, but when moving the tongue and during deglutition.

Ulcerative pain of a small spot in the velum pendulum palati (6th potency).

Burning and dryness in the fauces and pharynx (1st potency). Very unpleasant metallic taste and slight burning in pharynx (1/8 grain).

Burning in pharynx lasted longer (1/2 grain ).

Burning in pharynx became severe (1/2 grain. three times in third day).

Spasm and strangulation in the pharynx (30th potency, fourth day).

Troublesome strangulation in the pharynx.

Sore feeling in the pharynx when drinking cold water or during empty deglutition (2d potency).

Seated ulcerative pain in the pharynx, apparently in the posterior wall; changed to an aching pain when yawning and taking a deep inspiration (2d potency, third day).

Intense titillation of the palate and pharynx, causing the eye to water, and occasioning a fatiguing, short, hacking cough, at noon (2d potency);.

Paroxysm of cramp in the oesophagus (in the forenoon, at 10 1/2 o’clock).

Sore throat when swallowing, as if swollen, or as if a splinter were sticking in the throat (1st potency, fifth day).

Stomach.

Strong appetite.

Unusual appetite (6th potency).

In morning, violent, insatiable hunger (second day). In the evening, uncommonly violent, insatiable hunger (first day).

Urging desire for acrid cheese.

Irresistible desire for sugar, in the evening.

Appetite rather poor (fifth, sixth, and seventh days).

Diminished appetite (2d potency).

No appetite; many eructations (1st potency).

No appetite; food tastes to him like straw (1st potency).

Speedy repletion (2d potency).

No appetite at breakfast (1st potency).

Loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting.

Eructations insipid (1/2 grain).

Violent belchings (1st potency).

Belching immediately (30th potency).

Much belching in the morning (30th potency, third day).

(Most of the gastric derangements are accompanied by belching).

Continuous repulsive sensation in the stomach and pharynx.

Nausea,. – Nausea transient (1 grain).

Slight nausea, which disappears after eating (1/2 grain).

Nausea and gagging without real vomiting (1 grain).

Nausea arising from the stomach and the praecordia, with desire to vomit (30th potency, third day).

Slight nausea in the stomach, with chilliness and shuddering, and accompanied with a peculiar sensation of rigor in the lower limbs (1st potency, first day).

Nausea, resembling hunger (6th potency).

Nausea, with gurgling in the abdomen (1st potency, first day).

Faintish nausea, with violent palpitation of the heart, of which she had three paroxysms on the same day (1st potency, third day).

Nausea, heaviness, and pressure in the stomach.

Nausea, heaviness, and pressure in the stomach (three hours after).

Nausea after each meal for a long time, especially after and during dinner; in the evening, very severe for an hour (thirty).

Gagging.

Constant nausea, and frequent and extremely troublesome efforts of vomit.

Vomiting.

Frequent vomiting.

Violent vomiting Vomiting, the substances which were thrown up tinging the bedclothes black.

Great irritation of the stomach, anxiety in the praecordial region, and vomiting.

Vomiting and diarrhoea, with violent colicky pains.

Retching and vomiting of mucus accompanying the diarrhoeic stools (30th potency, fourth day).

She wakes about midnight from the oppressive sensation of having a heavy lump in the region of the stomach, inducing vomiting; not till morning does she throw up glairy mucus, which can be drawn into threads; she had two paroxysms of that kind of vomiting, after which she felt the whole afternoon a desire to vomit, a tremulous weakness, and a sensation in the head as if it were in a vice (30th potency, sixth day).

Vomiting which stains the bedclothes black.

Attacks the stomach.

Excites the nerves of the stomach.

Oppresses, cools, and injures the stomach.

Contraction of the stomach; it is less spacious.

Inflammation of the stomach.

Gastro-enteritis. Slight spasm of the stomach before breakfast (30th potency, fourth day).

Slight spasm of the stomach at 5 0Clock in the morning (30th potency, fourth day).

Shifting of wind, and twisting in the stomach, with frequent empty eructations (30th potency, first day).

Pains in the stomach.

Pain in the stomach, transient.

Some pains in the stomach.

Stomach; the patient experiences very severe epigastric pains.

Violent cardialgia.

Cardialgia and nausea before breakfast, early (30th potency, third day).

Cardialgia and internal chilliness, early in the morning, before breakfast, accompanied with a very bad appearance (30th potency, second day). Warmth in stomach (1 grain).

Increased warmth in stomach (1/2 grain).

Burning in stomach.

Burning heat in the stomach.

Burning ascending from the stomach (30th potency, third day).

Momentary feeling of warmth in the stomach, accompanied with slight nausea.

Warmth in the stomach, with rumbling in the intestines and emission of flatulence. Burning sensation, nausea and pain in the stomach. Burning heat in the stomach.

Burning in the stomach and chest.

Heartburn.

Sensation of heaviness, and pains in the stomach, with nausea.

Sensation as if the stomach and oesophagus were filled with food (30th potency, second day).

Tension and pressure in the stomach, causing anxiety, and a sensation as if the stomach were filled unto bursting (30th potency, second day).

After yawning, a sensation is experienced in the stomach as if it would burst; wind presses upwards, but the oesophagus feels spasmodically closed; hence an ineffectual effort to eructate, with excessive strangulation, pressing pain in the stomach, faintish nausea, confluence of water in the mouth, and inability to stir; the paroxysm ceases after a quarter of an hour, amidst frequent and violent belching of wind (6th potency, fourth day).

Periodic, constrictive sensation in stomach (1 grain).

Gnawing pain in the stomach, on the left side (6th potency).

Wild gnawing at the stomach, a sort of hunger with nausea (30th potency, second day).

Violent cardialgia; griping and burning, momentarily (30th potency, first day).

Several attacks of pressure in stomach (fourth day).

Oppression of the stomach.

Increased pressure at the stomach (30th potency).

Violent pressure at the stomach, in the afternoon (30th potency, fourth day).

Hard pressure near the pit of the stomach, on the right side, which is more intense during a deep inspiration (30th potency, first day).

Pressure, heaviness, and dragged-down sensation in the stomach (30th potency, second day).

Pressure in stomach, better towards evening (next day), (1 grain).

Weak stomach; food oppresses the stomach like a weight, and drags it downward; sensation as if the stomach and oesophagus were filled with food; eructations tasting of the ingesta even eight hours after a meal (30th potency, second day).

Violent cardialgia, waking her in the night; twisting of the stomach, which extends down into the abdomen (1st potency, first day).

Ulcerative pain in the stomach, after dinner (30th potency, second day).

Stinging ulcerative pain on the left side of the stomach, directly below the parts (6th potency).

Trembling and throbbing in the stomach (1st potency).

On cessation of the attack (which lasts from two to three hours). Painful swelling of the pit of the stomach, with great anxiety (in a sensible girl of twenty odd years).

Constant sense of fullness in pit of stomach.

8.30 A.M., violent pressure in the pit of the stomach, for several minutes (fourth day).

Abdomen.

Abdomen swollen and distended (thirtieth).

He wakes in the morning, from shifting of flatulence, rumbling, and a sensation in the intestines as if he had to go to stool (1st potency, first day).

Emission of flatulence immediately (2d potency).

Emission of much flatulence, after dinner (30th potency, first day).

Flatulence (30th potency, second day).

Coldness in the abdomen, which is painfully irritated (30th potency, fourth 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.