ARSENICUM



875. Only at night much thirst, on account of great dryness in the throat, which ceases in the morning.

In the evening (at night) while lying in bed, some pricking tearing in a corn.

Sleepless tossing about at night in bed, with a crawling in the abdomen.

In sleep he lies on his back, the left hand supporting the head.

In the evening in sleep loud moaning.

880. During sleep, turning about in bed, with moaning, especially about 3 a.m.

Grinding of the teeth in sleep.

She cannot get warm in bed at night.

After midnight feeling of anxious heat, with desire to throw off the clothes.

In the morning in bed, at sunrise, general heat, sweat on the face and dryness of the front of the mouth, without thirst.

885. In the morning in bed a dull headache, that goes off on getting up.

In the morning in bed qualmish, sick up into the chest, then vomiting of white mucus, but with bitter taste in the mouth.

After waking, great peevishness; she knew not how to compose herself, owing to ill-humour, pushed and threw the pillowsand bed-clothes away from her, and would look at and listen to nobody.

In the evening in bed, immediately before going to sleep, she has a choking feeling in the throat like sulphur fumes, making her cough.

In the evening after lying down, at the commencement of sleep, violent twitching in the limbs.

890. Movements of the fingers and hands in sleep.

Twitching on going to sleep.

Sleep restless; she wakes up very early. [Bhr.]

Could not get to sleep, and occasionally fell into faints [TIM, A GULEDKLEE. Opp., p. 280.]

Great inclination to sleep; he falls asleep again immediately after having had a conversation (from the 6th to the 10th day). [Fr. H-n.]

895. Sleep full of the most violent startings and shudderings. (After opium had been given as an antidote.) [THOMSON, l. c.] (See also KAISER, l. c., s. 64, “Sleepiness, which is interrupted by uneasy dreams and great anxiety.”)

Vivid vexations dreams (aft. 19 h.). [Lr.](See also Hartl. and Trinks, l. c., No. 25, “The night full of uneasy dreams.”)

Rambling at night. [SIEBOLD, l. c.]

Spasmodic starting of all the body. (aft. 36 h.) (As S. 895. Should be after 12, not 36 hours.) [THOMSON, l. c.]

In the evening, on going to sleep, startling twitches, like shaking blows on the affected part, which are excited by a slight ailment on a distant part, by a tearing, an itching, &c.. (aft. 4 d.).

900. Immediately after lying down he dreams that he was about to knock-his foot against a stone, whereupon he has a sudden jerk in the knee, and thereafter he is awakened as if by an electric shock.

When he is going to sleep an anxious dream, he would like to cry out, but can hardly bring out a word, and he suddenly wakes up by a call which he continues to hear.

He dreamed all night incessantly of storms, conflagration, black water, and darkness.

He sleeps disturbed by dreams full of care, distress, and fear.

At night anxious frightful dreams.

905. Dreams full of cares and dangers, from eah of which he wakes up, sometimes with a cry, and he always dreams something new.

In the morning slumber he hears every sound and every noise, and yet he dreams the same thing.

Dreams full of threatenings, and apprehension, or remorse.

Dreams accompanied by fatiguing reflections.

910. On awaking frequently at night she has burning in all the bloodvessels.

Towards evening drowsiness, with chilliness, with, at the same time, a disagreeable feeling of illness through the whole body, as in ague when the fit is quite or nearly over- recurring at the same hour two days later- after midnight profuse perspiration on the thighs.

Towards evening he feels evry uncomfortable in the body, like fever, and when he lies down his head becomes hot, especially the ears, but the knees are cold (aft. 36 h.).

Almost constant yawning.

Fever (See 815, note) [HEUN, l. c.]

915. (During the febrile attack) increased tension in the hypochodria, lying on the side is almost impossible. [EBERS, l. c., p. 68.]

Violent fever. [KNAPE, l. c. – DEGNER, l. c.]

(FATAL) fever. (See 815, note) [AMATUS LUSITANUS, l. c.]

Renewal of the same arsenical disease (More correctly in the Chr. Kr. “Arsenik-Beschwerden.” The recurrence only took place once.) in the quartan typr, at the same hour in the forenoon. [MORGAGNI, l. c. § 8.]

Thirst, fever. [MORGAGNI, l. c. § 6.]

920. Thirst. [PET. DE APONO, l. c. – RAU, l. c. – PREUSSIUS, l. c.]

Great thirst. [ALBERTI, l. c., tom. ii.]

He drinks much and often. [Stf.]

Incessant, great thirst. [BUTTNER, l. c.]

Sweat and excessive thirst; he is always wanting to drink. [Hbg.]

925. Violent thirst. [MAJAULT, l. c.]

He cries out about choking thirst. [FORESTUS, lib. 17, obs. 13.]

Burning thirst. [MAJAULT, l. c.]

He is thirsty, yet drinks but little at a time. [RICHARD, l. c.]

Unquenchable thirst. [BUCHHOLZ, Beitrage, l. c.- KELLNER, l. c. – GUILBERT, l. c. – CRUGER, l. c.]

930. Unquenchable thirst, with dryness of the tongue, fauces, and larynx. [TIM. A GULDENKLEE, Opp., p. 280.]

After the occurrence of diarrhoea thirst and internal heat (aestus). [MORGAGNI, l. c.]

Violent thirst not without appetite for food. [KNAPE, l. c.]

Violent rigor. [FERNELIUS, l. c.] (See also KAISER, l. c. S. 65, “Chilliness up to the greatest degree of cold.” – S. 66, “General coldness, with copious sweat on the skin.” – S. 67,” The body feels cold to the touch and dryness of the skin alternates with cold sweat.”)

Shivering. [BUCHHOLZ, Beitrage, l. c.]

935. Febrile rigor. [Medorrhinum Nat. Zeit., 1798, Sept.]

Febrile rigor through the whole body, with hot forehead, warm face and cold hands, without thirst and without subsequent heat (aft. 3 h.). [Lr.]

Rigor all over the body, with warm forehead, hot cheeks, and cold hands, not followed by heat (aft. 3.3/4 h.). [Lr.]

In the afternoon stretching and drawing in the limbs, with rigor in the integuments of the head, as in sudden shuddering from fear; thereafter chill, with goose skin. This was followed in th evening from 8 to 9 o’clock, by heat in the body, especially in the face, without sweat, with cold hands and feet.

After drinking a shudder as from disgust. [ALBERTI, l. c., tom. iii.]

940. The limbs are cold. [RICHARD, l. c. – FERNELIUS, l. c.]

External coldness of the limbs and internal heat, with anxious unrest and weak variable pulse. [ALBERTI, l. c., tom. iii.]

Chill, febrile rigor.

After dinner shivering.

A chilliness in the external skin over the face and feet.

945. After drinking, chill and shivering (immediately).

An attack of fever, which recurs daily at a certain hour.

Febrile rigor, without thirst (immediately).

By day much chilliness, after the chill thirst, in the evening much heat in the face.

Chilliness, with inability to get warm, without thirst, with crossness, and when she spoke or moved, a flush of heat ran over her, she became red in the face, and yet was chilly.

950. In the chill no thirst.

(In the forenoon violent rigor without thirst; he has at the same time spasms in the chest, pains throughout the body, and cannot collect his thoughts; after the chill heat with thirst, and after the heat persiration with roaring in the ears. (aft. 20 h.).

The rigor goes off after dinner. (A (rare) alternating action compared with more frequent one in which symptoms occur after dinner.)

Every afternoon about 3 o’clock chill attended with hunger; after eating the chill became still more severe.

(In the afternoon chill, cutting in the abdomen and diarrhoeic stool, and thereafter continued cutting in the abdomen.)

955. The rigor returns always about 5 p.m.

In the evening, immediately before lying down, rigor.

Towards evening chill with coldness.

Every evening a febrile rigor.

Chilliness internally, heat externally, with red cheeks, in the afternoon.

960. He was chilly, the feet were cold; he began to perspire.

In the evening coldness and chillinesson the legs, from the calves down to the feet.

She is either too cold in the whole body and yet is nowhere cold to touch; or she is too warm, and yet is nowhere hot to touch, except slightly in the palms.

In the evening, after lying down, great chilliness, in bed.

965. He cannot get warm in bed; thinks he has caught cold in bed.

During the febrile rigor tearing in the legs.

Shivering when out of bed.

When walking in the open air shiverring occurs.

When he comes into the room (Comp. 33.) from the open air there occurs chilliness followed by long-continued hiccup, then general perspiration, and then again hiccup.

970. During the pain, rigor, after the pain, thirst. (As, according to the characteristic peculiarity of the action of arsenic, another symptom occurs during the attack of the pain (See note to 176.), and here (970) chilliness and rigor in particular; so again, pains are associated with the arsenical febrile rigor, as we see in 960 and 995.)

At one time chilliness, at another heat. [ALBERTI, l. c., tom, iii.]

Internal heat. (See also KAISER, l. c., S. 69, “Great heat.” – S. 70, “Dry heat of the skin, after preceding chill.” – S. 71, “Skin dry and hot.”) [GORITZ, l. c.]

Heat all through the body, intenally and externally, as from drinking wine, with thirst for beer. [Myr.]

Samuel Hahnemann
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) was the founder of Homoeopathy. He is called the Father of Experimental Pharmacology because he was the first physician to prepare medicines in a specialized way; proving them on healthy human beings, to determine how the medicines acted to cure diseases.

Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.