Argentum Nitricum



Uneasiness in the abdomen, several times a day (1st potency).

Peculiar uncomfortableness and emptiness in the abdomen, with nausea (6th potency).

Fullness, heaviness, and distension of the abdomen, with anxiety, impeding respiration, after supper (30th potency).

Painful tension and pressure in the abdomen, as if sore and ulcerated (30th potency).

Troublesome colic, like cramp, after a slight catarrh (30th potency).

Colic previous to the diarrhoea.

Oppressive drawing pain in the whole abdomen down to the groin, with tension, as in ascites (6th potency).

Sensation as of a ball ascending from the abdomen into the throat (30th potency, third day).

Extremely disagreeable drawing down the whole left side of the abdomen, when standing (1st potency, first day).

Stitches dart through the abdomen like electric sparks, especially during a sudden transition from rest to motion, on the left side (6th potency).

Pain in the abdomen, as if sore, accompanied with great hunger, abating after eating, but a trembling setting in the place (1st potency, second day).

Pain in the hypochondria (1st potency).

Hard pressure in the left hypochondrium (30th potency, first day), Stinging in the liver (2d potency, second day).

Stitches in the liver, coming on with a jerk (1st potency, first day).

Cutting and stinging in the liver (1st potency).

Peculiar fullness in the liver, painful, with occasional drawing and stinging, especially when walking, often reaching into the chest (1st potency, first day).

Periodical dull stitches in the anterior surface of the liver (30th potency, first day). (Affection of the liver, ending in fatal dropsy).

Stitches in the spleen, recurring several evenings (1st potency, fifth day).

Fine stitches in the spleen, coming on at intervals (1st potency, first day).

Colic around the umbilicus, for several days (1st potency).

Intermittent dull pressure in the transversalis muscle of the abdomen, near the crest of the ilium, as if made with a foreign body (6th potency).

Pressing pain in the groins, more violent when touching them (6th potency).

Stool and Anus.

Stitches in the rectum (third day).

Creeping and burning in the anus (1st potency).

A good deal of frequently repeated itching of the anus, inducing him to rub until he became sore (30th potency).

Discharge of a quantity of ascarides.

Discharge of taenia.

Discharge of several yards of taenia.

A good deal of urging during the diarrhoea.

Stool copious, fluid, followed by vomiting.

Two or three stools daily, softer than usual.

Liquid stools, dark-colored, and quite frequent.

Frequent stools, with slight pains in the hypogastrium.

Three diarrhoeic stools at short intervals, the first being papescent and copious, the next scanty and of a watery mucus of dark color (1st potency, first night).

Six liquid, brown evacuations of a fetid smell (first and second nights).

A slight colic wakes him from his uneasy slumber, and he had sixteen evacuations of a greenish, very fetid mucus, accompanied with emission of a quantity of noisy flatulence, in one night (1st potency).

6 A.M., awakened by sudden urging to stool; the discharge copious, half-liquid, and bright yellow, without pain or straining; soon after, the same urging again; besides this, two stools daily (fifth, sixth, and seventh days).

Diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea (1 grain).

Diarrhoea, transient.

Shifting of flatulence in the abdomen, in the morning, followed by two diarrhoeic stools (1st potency).

Two diarrhoeic stools in the evening (1st potency).

Four evacuations of green mucus, with retching, vomiting of mucus, pain in the stomach, and drawing pain in the abdomen; during all this time she could not bear being laced around the hypochondria (30th potency, fourth day).

After having eaten sugar greedily in the evening, he was attacked with scanty, watery diarrhoea about midnight, accompanied with flatulent colic, and much of noisy flatulence during then evacuation (6th potency).

Diarrhoeic stool after breakfast (2d potency, second day).

Acts powerfully upon the intestinal canal, occasioning from four to five stool a day.

Frequent evacuations, with slight pains in the abdomen.

Diarrhoea, with colic.

Violent diarrhoea,; ( like spinach in flakes, Lippe)..

Bloody evacuations.

Bloody stools, with great debility.

Several evacuations of bloody mucus, without any particular pain, towards morning (1st potency, first day). Small stool, with copious discharge of mucus from the rectum.

Constipation.

Sometimes constipation.

Violent constipation.

Constipation: the substances evacuated were dry and of a firm consistence, whereas his bowels were generally loose (after taking small doses, and on the last days of the proving).

Slowness and diminution of the fecal and urinary discharges.

Dry, firm. alvine evacuation (30th potency, on the last days).

Diarrhoea or constipation.

Urinary Organs.

Stricture of the urethra (from cauterizing).

Oozing of mucus from the urethra (1st potency).

In the night, quite an abundant secretion of thick, white mucus; in about ten hours discharge of thinner mucus; micturition is free and no longer painful; at noon the mucous membrane is dry.

The urinary apparatus was at first greatly irritated. (* Not mentioned by this author. Hughes.*) Inflammation and violent pains of the urethra, with increased gonorrhoea, priapism, dysuria, bloody urine, fever.

Heat, itching, and titillation, in the morning, which urinating for the first time (2d potency, fifth day).

Burning during micturition, and sensation as if the anterior portion of the urethra were constricted (2d potency).

Burning micturition and feeling in the urethra as if swollen; the last portion of the urine passes off with difficulty (2d potency, second day).

Burning after micturition (2d potency).

Slight burning in the whole course of the urethra, increased gonorrhoea, burning during micturition, painful tension during erections, chordee, bleeding from the urethra, shootings in the same from behind forward.

The urethra feels swollen, hard, and knotty (2d potency, third day).

The urethra is painful, as if closed up by swelling, and ulcerated (2d potency).

Drawing through the end of the urethra (after one hour).

Sore feeling in the urethra, even after micturition (2d potency, third day).

After urinating, a burning drop ran along the urethra (2d potency, second day).

Sensation as if something fluid were running along the urethra from behind forward (2d potency).

When emitting the last drop of urine, a cutting from the posterior portion of the urethra as far as the anus (2d potency).

Dragging pains during micturition (2d potency, third day).

Painful pushing in the urethra (3d potency).

The urethra is painful between the acts of micturition, as if ulcerated (6th potency).

Ulcerative pain in the middle of the urethra, as if a splinter had been pushed in (6th potency).

As a diuretic and diaphoretic.

The urine is passed with a ease as never before, and which was almost pleasant; the stream seemed to be more voluminous (1st potency, third day).

Pressure to urinate early (after an hour and a quarter).

4 and 6 A.M., hurried urging to urinate, with very little urine, which was dark-yellow (second day).

In the night, woke, with urging to urinate (second day).

Quick urging to urinate; urine copious and clear-yellow (after one hour).

Frequent urging to urinate, with much yellow urine, followed by cutting in the end of the urethra (first day).

Frequent micturition (1st potency).

Frequent urination (second day).

All day frequent and increased urination (first day).

In forenoon, more frequent and copious urination in proportion to the amount of taken (first day).

Frequent and copious urination in the daytime, the stream being sometimes divided (1st potency).

A good deal of urination at night (1st potency).

Copious urination at night (2d potency, first day).

Urine does not pass so easily or freely.

In emitting the urine it was longer before it made its appearance (2d potency, second day).

In the night, urinated three times, with much urgency to do so, but little urine passed (second day).

After urinating, during which an ulcerative pain was felt in the urethra, a second but ineffectual urging to urinate was experienced (2d potency).

Emission of a few drops of urine after he had done, with a sensation as if the interior of the urethra were swollen (1st potency).

Inability to pass the urine in a projecting stream (2d potency, fifth day).

At 7 A.M., difficult urination, with severe burning, and discharge of white pellicle, shreds of epithelium from the mucous membrane.

In evening, decidedly less urine than usual (first day).

The urine passed at 5 P.M., is clear and yellow (second day).

Frequent and copious emission of pale urine (2d potency).

Frequent emission of a pale, strong-smelling urine (1st potency).

Accelerated and increased emission of pale yellow urine (1st potency, first day).

Scanty and rare emission of a dark-yellow urine (after taking the higher potencies, and on the last days of the proving).

Urine dark-yellow (first day).

Urine dark-yellow and acid.

The urine passed at noon becomes clouded from mucus, and vessel, as far as the urine reaches, is lined with a thin, light- red sediment (second 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.