ARSENICUM



Anxious heat. (The original of both these symptoms is “Exuastuatio,” the real meaning of which is best rendered in 979.) [PET. DE. APONO, l. c.]

975. General anxious warmth. [Hbg.]

Sensation as if the blood ran too quickly and too hot through the blood-vessels, with small, quick pulse. [Stf.]

In the evening, at 10 o’clock, heat and redness all over the body; after the heat, sweat. [Stf.]

Violent palpitation in the night. [Bhr.]

Excessive ebullition of the blood. (The original of both these symptoms is “Exuastuatio,” the real meaning of which is best rendered in 979.) [GRIMM, l. c.]

980. After the febrile heat, sick feeling. (aft. 15 h.)

Nocturnal heat without thirst and without perspiration. (Characteristic for arsenic.)

At 7 p.m. heat of face lasting an hour.

In the evening after a short sleep she wakes with toothache.

At the commencement of sleep, in the evening after lying down, perspira, which goes off during subsequent sleep.

985. At the commencement of sleep (Characteristic) perspiration only on the hands and thighs, which goes off during subsequent sleep, and is not percieved any more after waking (aft. 6 h.)

About 2 a.m. increased warmth, sweat on face and between the legs, and colic-like painful tension in the epigastrium and the region beneath the ribs, which causes anxiety.

The perspiration each time comes on only when the fever has come to the end. (Characteristic, and to be met with almost only with arsenic.)

Morning sweat from waking until rising, all over the body.

Sweat in three successive nights.

990. Sweat only on the face, on waking in the morning.

(The perspiration exhausts him, as he lies in bed, almost to the production of syncope.)

During the perspiration his skin, and especially his eyes, acquired a yellow tinge. (See note to S. 118.) [EBERS, l. c., p. 69.]

Perspiration. (With vomiting) [MAJAULT, l. c.]

Cold clammy sweat. (Stated to be the effect of aniseed given as an antidote.) [HENNING, l. c.] (See also KAISER, l. c., No. 72, “Cold swea alternating with sold dryness of the skin.)

995. Along with febrile rigor and shivering and heat of the external ear, anxiety and gnawing (Comp. 360.) pain in the scrobiculus cordis, as from fasting long, mingled with nausea.

Fever every alternate day; the first afternoon, about 6 o’clock, chilliness and fatigue, and bruised feeling in the thighs; the third afternoon, about 5 o’clock, a first inclination to lie down, then rigor all over without thirst, then heat without thirst, with aching pain in the forehead.

In the morning rigor alternating with heat.

In the forenoon perspiration, heaviness of the head, roaring in the ears, rtembling.

Very slow pulse, only thirty-eight beats in the minute. [PEARSON, l. c.]

1000. Small, quick pulse. [N. Wahrn., l. c. – MAJAULT, l. c. ]

Quick, weak pulse. (Not found.) [MAJAULT, l. c.]

Very rapid, small, weak pulse. [MORGAGNI, l. c.]

Tense pulse. [KNAPE, l. c.]

Extremely quick, intemittent, (Rather, “irregular.” ) weak pulse. [GUILBERT, l. c.]

1005. Very febrile pulse. {KNAPE, l. c.] (The variations of the pulse are given thus by KAISER, l. c., SS. 73-78: “Small, quick, hard pulse.” – Pulse weak and small.” – Pulse small and intermitting.” – “The pulse becomes irregular, intermittent, small, and at last quite extinct.” – “Pulse frequent, not full, and irritated. The heart’s beat is very violent, tumultuous.” – “Absence of the pulse, with quick, very irritated, frequent beat of the heart.”)

After dinner a sad melancholy disposition with headache (aft. 80 h.).

The child is full of restlessness, cross, and whines.

He can find rest in no place, continually changes his position in bed, will get out of one bed and into another, and lie now here, now there.(Scarcely occurs so markedly in any other medicine.)

About 1 a.m. excessive anxiety; sometimes she is hot, sometimes as though she would vomit.

1010. She cannot fall asleep before midnight on account of anxious heat, for many days.

In the evening, afyer lying down, and at about 3 a.m. (after waking), anxiety. (Characteristic.)

Anxiety, anxietates. [ N. Wahrn., l. c. – Medorrhinum nat. Zeit., l. c. – MYRRHEN, l. c. – QUELMALZ, l. c.]

Anxiety so that he frequently fainted, besides a violent pain in the place, and black pocks on the spot. (When arsenic was worn in a bag on the bare chest for four days.) [BERN. VERZASCH, Obs. Medorrhinum, obs. 66].

The most intolerable anxiety. (Not found.) [FORESTUS, l. c.]

1015. Talks little, only complains of anxiety. [ALBERTI, l. c.]

Deathly anxiety. (With vomiting.) [HENNING, l. c.]

Praecordial anxiety, interrupted by the occurrence of faintings. (See note to S. 1024.) [FRIEDRICH, l. c.]

Long-continued anxiety. (In the original “praecordiorum angustia.”) [TIM. A GULDENKLEE, l. c.]

Anxiety, trembling, and quaking, with cold sweat in the face. [ALBERTI, l. c.]

1020. Anxiety and restlessness in the whole body (aft. 1 h.). [RICHARD, l. c.]

On account of increasing pains he appeared to lie at the last grasp, with unspeakable anxiety. [MORGAGNI, l. c.]

Restlessness, with pains in the head, abdomen, and knees. [RICHARD, l. c.]

Sadness and restlessness and tossing about in bed, with unquenchable thirst § 9aft. 24 h.). [BUTTNER, l. c.]

Piercing lamentation, interrupted by the occurrence of faintings. (The attacks were of weakness (Schwachheiten), not faintings (Ohnmachten) [FRIEDRICH, l. c.]

1025. he wept and howled, and spoke little and but few words at a time. [Stf.]

Piteous lamentations, that the most intolerable anxiety, with extremely disagreeable sensation in the whole abdomen, took away his breath and compelled him to curl himself together now here now there, then again to rise up and walk about. [MORGAGNI, l. c. § 8]

Trembling, anxious, he is afraid that he cannot refrain from killing some one with a sharp knife. [A. F. MARCUS, Ephem. d. Heilk., pt. iii] (In a fever patient, after taking arsenite of potash.)

Driven by great anxiety he turns and twists about in bed. [BUTTNER., l. c. – TIM. A. GULDENKLEE, Opp., p. 280.]

He wants to get out of one bed into another. [MYRRHEN, l. c.]

1030. Great anxiety, trembling, and shaking, with severe tearing in the abdomen. [ALBERTI, l. c., iii, p. 533.]

He became furious, must be bound, and seeks to run away. (See 815, note.) [AMATUS LUSITANUS, l. c.]

Mania: first headache, horrible anxiety, noise before the ears, as from a number of large bells, and when he opened the eyes, he always saw a man who (formerly) hung himself on the ground-floor of the house, who incessantly beckoned him to cut him down; he ran thither with a knife, but as he could not cut him down, he became overwhelmed with despair and wished (as his friends assured him) to hang himself; but beingprevented from doing so, he became so restless that he could hardly be kept in bed, he lost the power of speech, though complete consciousness remained, and on attempting to express himself by writing, he could only put down unmeaning signs, whilst he trembled, wept, his forehead bedewed with the sweat of anxiety, and he knelt down and raised his hands in a supplicating manner. [EBERS, l. c.]

He despairs of his life. (Not found.) [RICHARD, l. c.]

Hypochondriac anxiet, suc as is wont to occur from sitting much in a room, just as if it came from the upper part of the chest; without palpitationof the heart (aft. some minutes).

1035. He is cold, shivers and weeps, and thinks, in his despair, that nothing can help him, and he must die; followed by general exhaustion.

In the evening, in bed, anxious sad fancies, e.g. that something bad must have happened to his relatives.

Easily startled.

When he is alone he is beset by thoughts about disease and other thoughts of an indifferent character, of which he cannot get rid.

Persistent anxiety, like a qualm of conscience, just as if he had failed to do his duty, but without knowing wherein. (See also KAISER, l. c.., SS. 1-3, “Internal anxiety,” – Great feeling of anxiety.” – High degree of anxiety, oppression of the chest and difficulty of breathing.”)

1040. Over-sensitiveness and excessive tenderness of disposition; dejected, sad, lachrymose, is distressed and anxious about the slightest trifle.

Very sensitive to noise.

Irritated state of the disposition, he vexes himself about trifles and cannot leave off talking about the faults of others.

Discomfort, he has pleasure in nothing.

Recurring fits of irresolution; he wishes something and when one attempts to gratify his wish the merest trifle will alter his resolution, and he wishes it no longer.

1045. Her desire is greater than her need; she eats and drinks more than is good for her; she walks further than she need do or can bear.

Having not the least appetite, she allows herself to be pressed to take something, but gets furiously angry about it (aft. 7 d.).

Very cross, irritable, whimsical, takes every word in bad part, and becomes angry when she should answer.

Cross about trifles.

Discontented with everything, finds fault with everything; everything is too strong and too irritating, all conver, all noise, and all light.

1050. Anxiously impatient.

Ill-humour in bed in the morning; he peevishly knocks the pillows about, throws off the bed-clothes and uncovers himself, he looks at nobody and does not ant to know about anything.

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.