ARSENICUM ALBUM



SENSORIUM.

Diminished memory. Stupid and weak feeling of the head, as in catarrh of the head. Weakness of the mind. *Delirium. Many thoughts crowd upon him; morbid activity of the organs of sense; he lies down without consciousness; articulating unintelligible sounds, with staring eyes, cold sweat on the forehead, tremor, and small, hard, quick pulse. Loss of sensation; loss of consciousness; loss of speech. Delirium with open eyes; mania, with headache, anguish, ringing in the ears, with disposition to hang one’s self, writing down unmeaning characters, with

trembling, weeping, sweat as from anguish on the forehead. Rage, with mania to escape, he has to be confined. Dullness of the head in the evening; *weakness of the head, sometimes arising from the head in the evening; *weakness of the head, sometimes arising from an excess of pain, with qualmishness and weakness in the pit of the stomach; dizzy and dull feeling in the head after sleep; muddled condition of the head; stupefaction, sometimes with loss of sense and vertigo, or with restlessness, as arises from an excess of activity. *Vertigo: with reeling, during a walk in the open air, with stupid feeling in the forehead, as if intoxicated; vertigo as if one would full, only when walking, or every evening when closing the eyes; with obscuration of sight; with vanishing of sight

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when raising the head; with nausea and disposition to vomit in a recumbent posture, less when sitting up; with headache.

HEADACHE.

Violent headache; for several days, with vertigo smile headache in the occiput; semilateral headache *after dinner, *periodical headache, diminished by the application of cold water; headache over the eye, very violent in the evening and night. Stupefying pain in the forehead, generally of an oppressive nature. Pain as if bruised: on one side, early in the morning when rising, as if the region of the forehead over the nose were sore. *Great weight in the head; *particularly in the forehead; especially when standing or sitting; *with humming in the ears, particularly in the room, going off in the open air, or early in the morning after rising with pressure as from a load. Tensive pain in the head; crampy pain over the eyes. *Lacerating in the head; with heaviness of the head, weariness, and drowsiness. *Beating pain in the head; with nausea and inclination to vomit when raising one’s self in the bed; hammering in the temples, particularly in the forehead over the root of the nose. Sensation as if the brain were moved; snapping in the head as of electric sparks, above the ear, wen walking.

SCALP.

*The hair is painful; *touching the scalp; it feels painful as from subcutaneous ulceration;burning of the part which is touched; contractive pain;l creeping in the occiput as if the roots of the hairs were in motion; *violent pain in the left temple and side of the forehead, with weeping and moaning; the intolerance of contact, and a brownish-red spot on the left frontal eminence, with a black tip in the middle. *Swelling of he head and face; excessive. Corrosive, burning itching of the hairy scalp, as if ulcerated; *pimples, covered with scurf, and painful as if ecchymosed when touched, innumerable red pimples; *pustules with burning pain, on the scalp and face; pimples filled with a bloody water, on the forehead and temples, with painful soreness after friction; spreading ulcers and suppurating crusts on the hairy scalp, as far as the middle of the forehead; *tinea- capitis, *with swelling of the cervical and posterior cervical glands.

EYES.

Pain deep in the eye, with violent stitches when moving the eye- ball; *pain which oblige him to lie down; *aggravated by moving the eyes, *by light; pain in the eye as from sand. Lacerating in the eyes; throbbing in the eyes after midnight, every throb being accompanied with a stitch; drawing pain, with twitching of the lids; jerking in the left eye.- *Stinging burning in the eyes; itching burning around the eyes and temples, as of red hot needles; corrosive itching in the eyes; *burning in the eyes, and in the upper margin. Ophthalmia; violent, with intense redness; inflammation of the conjunctiva and sclerotica, with dark redness and congestion of the vessels; scrofulous inflammation of the eyes; rheumatic inflammation; arthritic; catarrhal; inflammation from having been standing in the water. Speaks and ulcers on the cornea. Violent swelling of the lids; inflammatory; oedematous swelling; the eyes close and swell in consequence; soft swelling under the left eye, obliging the eye to close. Yellowness of the sclerotica, as in jaundice; faint,

protruded, staring eyes, without lustre, and turned upwards; staring, wild look. Contracted pupils. Dryness of the lids, especially the margins, with pain when moving them, as if the eye were rubbed by the lids. Lachrymation, the eyes water profusely; the tears are acrid and corrosive. Nightly agglutination. The eyes close, as from weariness; spasmodic closing of the eyes, especially when looking into the light; tremor of the upper lids, with lachrymation. Photophobia, excessive. Weakness of sight; dim-sightedness, as through white gauze; vibrations of light before the eyes and obscuration of sight; sparks, white spots, or points before the eyes; almost complete blindness, with dullness of sense.

EARS

Dragging, lacerating burning in the ears. Hardness of hearing, as if the ear were stopped up; the ear becomes closed during deglutition; deafness. Roaring in the ears, particularly during the paroxysms of pain; noise as of rushing water; tingling, also in the head; singing in the right ear, when sitting.

NOSE

Pain in the root of the nose; stitches in the bone; burning in the nose; swelling of the nose, with pain to the touch; hard tumor in the nose; scaling off of the epidermis; cancer of the nose. Violent bleeding from the nose. Ulcerated condition of the nostrils, high up, with discharge of fetid and bitter-tasting ichor. Frequent continued sneezing. Dryness of the nose, or else discharge of an acrid fluid. Coryza; every morning, when waking, with sneezing; profuse fluent coryza, with stoppage of the nose; excessive coryza, with hoarseness and sleeplessness; with discharge of a watery mucus, occasioning a biting, burning, and soreness in the nose.

FACE

Sunken countenance; pale, death-colored face; yellow, livid, bluish, sickly color of the face; lead-colored. greenish; with green and blue spots and streaks; disfigured, death-like; distorted features, as if dissatisfied; with sunken eyes, surrounded with blue margins, and with a pointed nose. Bloated, puffed, red face; swelling; sometimes elastic, especially under the eyes, and particularly early in the morning, or accompanied with fainting and vertigo; hard swelling on the frontal eminences, resembling a nut, worse in the evening. Drawing and stinging in the face; convulsions of the face; itching; eruption on the forehead, blotches; ulcers all over the face; wart-shaped ulcer on the cheek: cancer of the face, crusta-lactea; herpes- furfuraceous; acne-rosacea. Bluish lips; with black dots; blackish color around the mouth; dry and parched lips; brown streak through the vermilion border of the lower lips, as if burnt. Twitchings of the upper lip when falling asleep; swelling of the lips; swelling of the upper lip, preceded by a burning-stinging itching as of red-hot needles; extending as far as under the nose. Red herpetic skin around the mouth; eruption along the margin of the vermilion border; burning eruption around the mouth; ulcerated eruption around the lips; cancerous eruption with a thick crust, and a basis which has the appearance of lard, on the lower lip; spreading ulcer on the lip, with pain in the evening, in bed, with tearing and biting in the daytime during movement, most violent when touching it, and in the open air, disturbing the night’s rest. Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with pressure and pain as from contusion, or painful only when pressing upon the gland.

TEETH

Drawing pressure in the teeth; violent lacerating in the teeth, with tearing in the head, immediately before the catamenia; painful looseness of the teeth, with soreness of the gums when touching them, and swelling of the cheeks. Falling out of the teeth. Spasmodic grinding of the teeth. Nightly lacerating pain in the teeth, when lying on the affected side, removed by the

warmth of the stove, succeeded by a painful swelling of the nose. The gums bleed readily.

MOUTH

The tongue is bluish or white; coated white; red and dry; brown or blackish; cracked and trembling; insensible; as if burnt and having no taste; pain in the tongue as if covered with burning vesicles; the anterior portion of the border of the tongue feels corroded, with a biting sensation in the part. Fetid smell from the mouth and tongue, frequently accompanied with a violent thirst. Feeling of roughness in the region of the palate; tasting bloody saliva. Aphthae in the mouth. Slow and tardy speech; or else hurried, anxious speech. Stomacace?.

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.