ARSENICUM



The child(An infant, whose mpther had taken arsenic, and was thereby cured of her ailments.) vomits after eating and drinking, and then will neither eat nor drink any more, but sleeps well.

290. Waterbrash (in the afternoon about 4 p.m.)

Incomplete excitation to flow of water from fauces and mouth, what is called waterbrash, shortly before and after dinner, with nausea (aft. 5 d.)

Frequent empty eructation.

Constant eructations. [GORITZ, l. c.]

Frequent empty eructation (aft. ½ h.). [Lr.]

295. Frequent hiccup and eructation. [MORGAGNI, l. c.]

After eating frequent hiccup, each time followed by eructation (aft. 3 h.). [Lr.]

Convulsive hiccup.[ALBERTI, l. c.]

Sickness. [MAJAULT, l. c.]

300. When sitting nausea; much water came into the mouth, as in waterbrash; when walking in the open air the nausea went off, and there ensued a copious pappy stool (aft. 7.1/2 h.). [Lr.]

Sour eructation after dinner (aft. 6 d.).

A quarter of an hour after breakfast and after dinner an aching in the stomach for three hours, with empty eructation, whereupon a relaxed condition of the body ensued, which produced nausea.

Much eructation, especially after drinking.

Flatulence rises upwards chiefly, and causes eructation.

305. Eructation after food.

Ineffectual efforts to eructate.

In the forenoon, a constant, severe, empty eructation, with confusion of the head (aft. 36 h.).

While eating, a compressive sensation in the chest.

At night on rising up, hiccup, with scraping, disgusting taste in the mouth.

310. In the hour when the fever should come on, a long-continued hiccup.

Vomiting. [MAJAULT, l.c. – GRIMM, and many others]

He vomits immediately after each meal, without nausea. [Fr. H-n.]

Vomiting of all food, for several weeks. [Salzb. M. ch. Zeitung.(From application of arsenic to a fungus on the head)]

Vomiting (immediately).(From arsenic sprinkled on an ulcer on the breast- after six days death.) [FERNELIUS, Th., lib. vi, cap. 18, p. 451. (From sprinkling arsenic on a cancerous ucler of the breast)]

315. Day and night constant vomiting with horrible cries. [HEIMREICH. l. c.]

On rising up in bed immediately uncontrollable qualmishness, nausea, and frequently rapid vomiting. [Stf.](See also Hartl, and Trinks, l. c., S. 8, “Nausea and several times violent vomiting (3rd d.)”)

Vomiting of a thick, glassy mucus. [RICHARD, l. c.]

He vomits mucus and green bile.(Literally, ” Vomiting of green matter at night, of whitish stuff next morning )[ALBERTI, l. c.]

During the vomiting complaints of severe (internal) heat and great thirst. [ALBERTI, l. c.]

320. Internally severe burning, thirst, and heat, with violent vomiting. [ALBERTI, l. c.. iii, p. 533.]

Excessive vomiting, with greatest effort, of drinks, yellowish-green mucus and water, with veru bitter taste in the mouth, which remained long after the vomiting had ceased. [Stf.]

Frequent vomiting with fear of death. [ALBERTI, l. c.]

Vomiting of bloody mucus. [Neue Wahrn. l. c.](See also KAISER, l. c., S. 30, “Nausea and violent vomiting of a brownish mass, often mixed with blood, with great straining of the body.” -S. 31, “Vomiting of a thin or thick, brownish dark mass, produced by violent effort and increase of the pains in the stomach, without subsequent relief. “-S. 32, “Violent vomiting of a thin, bluish, dirty yellow mass, followed by great weakness and prostration.”

Vomiting of blood. [KELLNER, in Bresl. Samml., 1727.(Poisoning of a girl of 20)]

325. Passed blood upwards and downwards [GERBITZ, in Eph. N. C., Dec. iii, ann. 5, 6, obs. 137 (From orpiment, in a woman)]

Excessive vomiting and purging. [PREUSSIUS, l. c.]

Violent continued vomiting and diarrhoea. [MORGAGNI, l. c.] (Ibid., S. 38, “The vomiting declines, whereupon a copious very watery diarrhoea ensues.”

When the syncope goes off, diarrhoea and vomiting. [P. FORESTUS, i, xvii, obs. 13.(From orpiment, in a woman.)]

Spasm in the stomach; syncope; very violent pain in the abdomen; diarrhoea.(From yellow arsenic) [Low, in Sydenham, Opera ii, p. 324. ]

330. Empty retching. [RAU, l. c.]

Pains in the stomach. [QUELMALZ, l. c.- RICHARD and several others.].

The stomach very painful. [Neue Wahrn, l. c.]

Stomachache causing nausea. [RICHARD, l. c.]

Praecordial ahing; aching pain in the scrobiculucs cordis. [KELLNER, l. c. – GORITZ, l. c. – BUCHHOLZ, in Hufel. Journ., l. c.]

335. Pain in the stomach, as if it were forcibly distented in its whole extent, and would be torn. [D. H., in Kopp’s Jahrb. d. Staatsarzn., ii, p. 182.]

He felt as if the heart were pressed down. [Stf.]

Sensation of pressing weight in the stomach, without thirst and without fever. [MORGAGNI, l. c.]

Great oppression of the stomach as if it were troubled with flatulence, that seems, indeed, to be relieved by vomiting and diarrhoea, but afterwards becomes all the worse. [MORGAGNI, l. c.,§ 3.]

A very violent cardialgia with thirst. [BUCHHOLZ, in the last l. c.]

340. Burning pain in the stomach. [EBERS, l. c. Octob., 5, 8.](See also KAISER, l. c., S. 39, “Burning feeling in the scrobiculus cordis”)

Incessant burning and great oppression in the stomach and chest. [BORGES (Poisoning of an adult) in Kopp’s Jahrb., l. c., p. 222.]

Aching and burning pain in the scrobiculus cordis. [GORITZ, l. c.]

Pressive pain like a weight and burning in the stomach. [MORGAGNI, l. c. § 6.]

Burning in the stomach ilke fire. [RICHARD, l. c.]

345. Burning in the scrobiculus cordis. [BUCHHOLZ, in the last l. c.]

Eroding, gnawing pain in the stomach. [RICHARD, l. c.]

Uncommon pains in the region of the scrobiculus cordis. [J. PH. WOLFF, Actea N. C., v, obs. 29(Poisoning of two women. “Pains” shoul be anxietas.”)]

The region under the ribs (hypochondria) and the stomach aretense and distented before the bowels are moved. [RICHARD, l. c.](Ibid., S. 40, “Inconsiderable distention in the gastric region,” ahd. S. 41,”The stomach begins to rise, and is warmer than the rest of the body.”)

(Complaints and lamentations about indescribable Intheoriginal, “inexplicabilis.” anxiety in the region of the scrobiculus cordis, without distention or pain in the stomach. [MORGAGNI, l. c.]

350. Great anxiety in the region of the scrobiculus cordis. [MORGAGNI, l. c. – BERNARD VERSACH, Obs. Medorrhinum, obs. 66(Not accessible) – JACOBI, l. c.]

After a meal an aching at the mouth of the stomach and in the oesophagus, as if the food was retained up above; then empty eructation.

When speaking an aching in the anterior wall of the stomach (aft. ¼ h.).

A hard pressure above the scrobiculus cordis (immediately).(Ibid., S. 37, “Hot feeling, pain and pressure in the scrobiculus cordis,” and S. 38, “Hot aching sensation in the praecordia”)

Her heart feels pressed down.

355. In the evening, when sitting, drawing pain from the scrobiculus cordis around beneath the left ribs, as if something was forcibly torn away there.

Dull tearing transversely across the gastric region, when walking, in the afternoon.

Cutting pain in the stomach. [THILENIUS, l. c.]

Spasmodic pain in the stomach, two hours after midnight.(See also KAISER, l. c., S. 34, “Disagreeable sensation in the stomach, which soon afterwards changes into an aching, tearing, also spasmodic pain, and continues; “further, S. 35, “Periodical spasmodic pains in the stomach and bowels;” finally, S. 36, “Violent, tearing, boring pain, and spasm in the stomach and the rest of the bowels.”

When he eats anything it pressses in and about the stomach, so that he cannot bear it; the pressure occurs always some time after, not immediately upon eating.

360. Gnawing (Comp. 995.) and pecking (fine and sharp throbbing) pain in the scrobiculus cordis, with tense feeling.

Anxiety in the scrobiculus cordis, which rises up, all night.

Burning pain round about the scrobiculus cordis.

In the evening she disliked eating, she was so full; she had pain in the stomach when she ate.

Fulnessin the epigastrium, with pinching in the abdomen.

365. Pressing ache in the liver, when walking in the open air.

Before eating nausea, and after eating or drinking distension of the abdomen, also aching and cutting.

After a meal weight in the stomach, as from a stone. [Hbg.]

The abdominal pain is fixed in the left side of the abdomen.

After a meal great distension of the abdomen, without pain; he must lean his back on something in order to relieve himself.

370. After eating yawning and exhaustion, which compelled him to lie down and sleep.

He cannot keep himself warm enough, he has always an internal chilliness in the epigastric region, although that part feels warm to the touch.(Comp. 525)

A rumbling in the abdomen as from much flatulence, but without pain (aft. 1 h.).

Drawing pain in the umbilical region. (aft. 2 h.).

Frequently a spasmodic jerk, making him start, from the scrobiculus cordis into the rectum.

375. Every morning flatulent distension; the flatus is discharged only after some hours (aft. 14 d.).

Discharge of much flatus, preceded by loud rumbling in the abdomen (aft. 9 h.). [Lr.]

Discharge of putrid smelling flatus (aft. 11 h.). [Lr.]

In the evening, after lying down, like spasms and pinching in the abdomen, with an outburst of perspiration, followed by discharge of flatus, and then quite thin stool. (Many arsenic symptoms occur only in the evening and after lying down to sleep, some a couple of hours after midnight, many in the morning after rising, not a few after dinner.)

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.