Homeopathy Remedy Argentum Metallicum


These conditions have been found mostly in old people $ Argentum Metallicum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Argentum Metallicum…


      Pure precipitated silver is prepared for use by trituration with sugar of milk.

General Action

      silver exerts a marked and general action on the mucous membrane from the pharynx through stomach nd bowels, genito- urinary tact and respiratory apparatus. Independently also it seems to cause spinal irritability, with tendency to spasmodic action of muscles.

Allied Drugs-Aluminum, Ferrum, Zinc, Lycopodium,China, sulf., Gelsem., Hyperic, Agaric.

Generalities

      Electric shocks, through upper part of body, in forenoon, exploding close to foramen magnum (compare Chin, Sulf). Twitching and pulsation of several muscles, especially in r. thigh; or r. temporal, e. frontal muscles, muscles of neck near thyroid cartilage and towards nape, it repelled the hand, with quivering pain.

Burrowing, tensive, stiff, bruised and broken feeling in bones. Drawing pain, now in 1 forehead, now in occiput, now in I. elbow, when at rest; alternately in different joints, upper arm, calf and forehead, when at rest. Soreness between nates, around anus and in groin, when walking. Painful tension alternating between tendon of r. psoas and triceps humerus, with bruised pain on pressure.

Weakness in morning on waking (China, Alumin.) with depression; after waking, especially of upper arm; at 11 A.M., especially of upper arms, with sleepiness; when sitting or walking, especially of thighs, with sleepiness; when walking in open air, with heat and anguish as if the clothes were too tight; paralytic W. on motion; in limbs in morning, (>) rising, with tensive bruised pain in nape. the attacks recur every day at noon (Gelsem).

Clinical General tendency to emaciation, with sallow, pale complexion. General anaemia, with oedematous feet. Rheumatic pains in limbs and back, generally (<) lying down. General; loss of power, threatening paralysis.

Mind

      Cheerful and talkative (reaction). Merry when pleased, by crying long about a trifle. Ill humored.

Head

      (Stitches in morning, with redness of one eye.) Shooting and tearing. Stinging burning pain in head. Intoxicated condition; dizzy sleepy intoxication. Creeping and crawling, a s if tipsy. dizzy stupefaction. Confusion; at 10 a.M.; as from smoke in brain; as from vertigo. Hollow feeling, with aching in brain and chilliness. Soreness on pressure. Vertigo, with difficulty in controlling his senses; when sitting and reflecting; on coming in from a walk, with shivering; suddenly, with mist before eyes (Gelsem.).

Forehead-Tearing in r.; deep in r. eminence, extending towards r. temple; in I. eminence; under I eminence, with compression in globe of eye. Aching, with drawing pressure in occiput and stupor; over brows; deep in. eminence extending obliquely to r temporal; region; drawing, in eminences Intermittent boring anteriorly in I. side, (<) evening after lying down.

Temples-Cutting stitches in skull or on surface of brain, in front of l. ear, forward. Tearing in l.; region of r. and l. bone, (<) touch; in l. bone and over l. mastoid process. Aching in l.; externally on bones; over r. ear, extending backward, with drawing; drawing in l. temple, also at rest, also when sitting. Inward. Drawing downward from mastoid process for an inch, (>) on pressure when at rest.

Parietals-Aching externally in bones; externally in l. bones; drawing throbbing, deep in r. half of brain during rest; drawing. in l. side of head, as if in brain substance, at 8 P.M. when crossing the room, becoming a tearing as if a nerve were torn out, ending suddenly. Drawing deep in r. half of brain in evening, increasing to tearing and extending towards forehead and occiput.

Occiput-Drawing pain in l. when at rest, alternating with the same in ball of l. thumb drawing pain externally from bone obliquely across r. temporal bone to middle of frontal bone; between l. protuberance and mastoid process when at rest.

Clinical Attacks of vertigo, with crawling and whirling in head as if intoxicated; on looking at running water; feeling of emptiness in head.

Eyes

      (Redness and thickness of lids) Sticking vertically through l. upper lid in afternoon; in canthi; l. inner canthus at 3 P.M.; l, canthi, with itching. Itching in inner canthi stinging, in canthi.

Clinical Sometimes useful in blepharitis, but rarely in purulent ophthalmia, the edges of the lids thickened.

Ears

      Stitches in fossa behind r. lobule, penetrating head; inward in fossa behind l; lobule; cutting in l. middle as far as brain. Tearing over l. Drawing pain within l,.; in fossa behind r. lobule, extending down ward in a crescent form, during rest; drawing pain from fossa under r. lobule to skin of cheek, extending to lower jaw, as if in periosteum; intermittent drawing, in fossa behind l. lobule; drawing, extending downward from mastoid process, (>) at rest on pressure. Stopped sensation in r.

Nose

      Throbbing in fore part of l. nostril, with tension in external skin of nose as if bones were compressed and tickling prickling in I., nostril, causing violent sneezing. Biting in l nostril. Irritation as if a cold would come on. Obstruction in fore part. Tingling and itching in, then bleeding. Fluent coryza; with frequent sneezing. Bleeding on blowing nose.

Face

      Stitches in r. malar-bone. Tearing on l. zygoma; drawing T. in r. zygoma. Gnawing pressure in bones of r. side, especially malar-bone. Drawing pain in muscles, especially in region of cheek-bones. Throbbing over l., cheek, as if muscles would be raised, with swollen feeling in l. cheek, chilly burning in skin, and redness of both cheeks. Swelling of lip under nose (Hepar, Mercurius c) Cutting stitches inward under r, lower jaw, apparently in gland.

Mouth

      Teeth. Lower row sticks to upper, as if covered with sticky cement (Zinc). Aching in the hollow l.lower wisdom tooth; in an incisor on pressure forward. Gum painful, (<) touch. Tongue sore and burning vesicle (Lycopodium ); dryness, and of hard palate; dry in middle; dry feeling, with moisture; burning on tip, in afternoon nap, then dryness of mouth so the tongue stuck to the palate; with shaking chill; viscid, impeding speech.

Clinical-Sticky, tough saliva on palate, causing scratching.

Throat

      Swelling of region of submaxillary gland, making neck stiff, with tension on motion and difficult swallowing as from internal swelling of throat. Mucus, viscid, gray, jellylike, in morning, easily hawked up (alumina). Cutting towards parotid gland as after an acrid acid, when chewing, felt in Eustachian tube. Boring and digging. Drawing pain in r. submaxillary and parotid glands; drawing pain in l. parotid gland. Rawness and soreness; during expiration and deglutition. Roughness, with scratching. Scraping constantly in velum pendulum palati, as if a rough body were glued to it, worse during empty swallowing than when swallowing a morsel, forcing him to swallow saliva, afterwards descending deeper into fauces. Painful tension when yawning, as from a swelling. Itching crawling in pharyngeal orifice of r. Eustachian tube, extending to tympanum, r. then l. (compare Gelsemium). Pulsation of carotids, (<) l. Nausea then general heat, especially about head, with red face, without thirst.

Clinical Catarrhal sore throat. Chronic pharyngeal catarrh, with hawking of jellylike mucus which is viscid and gray, (<) morning. Rawness and soreness when coughing, not on swallowing.

Stomach

      Hunger in morning;a t 6.30- on waking; in forenoon, with nausea as from emptiness of stomach and scraping irritation in bronchial tubes, causing dry cough; during afternoon nap, with nausea; with nausea, contraction of pharynx and inclination to swallow saliva with drawing-in pit of stomach. Excessive appetite; even when stomach feels full (Lyc); in paroxysms. Appetite gone; in morning; gone, with loathing of food when thinking of it. (Great desire for wine). Hiccough when smoking. Nausea; caused by anxious drams. Retching, by which a bitter, acrid, bad-tasting liquid is brought into mouth, leaving behind scratching, roughness and burning in fauces. Vomiting in afternoon during stool.

Pinching over S. and in l., hypochondrium. Pressure in pit. Burning; sudden in pit, when standing and reading, with dull compression of brain from all sides, approaching vertigo, nausea in region of sternum, sudden heat in whole body, but more in face, and sweat on chest and face.

Abdomen

      Painful distention at night, (>) emission of flatus (Lyc). Tumbling; at night, with emission of flatus; with fermenting, as if water were poured from one intestine to another. cutting transversely across internally. Contractive pain when sitting after morning stool. Pain as in diarrhoea. Tension in muscles when walking, so that he has to stoop, with contraction. Burning in morning as far as chest.

Flatulence in upper, with fulness and hungry feeling (Lyc). Tympanic distention of r. side of A., with bruised pain in hard pressure, (>)emission of flatus. Rumbling in l. like the croaking of frogs. Stitching between r. hypochondrium and epigastrium, then hunger and rumbling in bowels; cutting, in rings; extending outward in muscles near two last ribs, ending in pinching, (>) rubbing. Bruised feeling on l. surface when walking, with sprained feeling.

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.