ARGENTUM NITRICUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Argentum Nitricum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Vertigo and buzzing in the ears, and general debility of the limbs and trembling.

Headache relieved by binding something tightly around the head.

Boring in left frontal eminence.

Intolerance of light.

Serpent-like bodies move before the vision.

Canthi red as blood; clusters of intensely red vessels extend from inner canthus to cornea.

Tip of the tongue red and painful; papillae erect, prominent.

Thick tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging him to hawk.

Rawness, soreness, and scraping in the throat.

Sensation as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing, breathing or moving the neck.

Uvula and fauces dark red.

Nausea, with loud eructations.

Ineffectual efforts to eructate, causing strangulation, which is finally relieved by loud belching; the paroxysm is preceded by yawning and followed by exhaustion and deep sleep.

Painful swelling of the pit of the stomach, with great anxiety.

Stools: Green mucus, like chopped spinach, in flakes; turning green remaining on diaper.

Masses of epithelial substance, connected by muco-lymph, red, green, shreddy, thin, unshapely strips or shaggy lumps.

Stools expelled forcibly with much sputtering.

Stools worse from or caused by, eating freely of sugar or candy.

Nightly pains in the back.

Great debility and weariness of the lower extremities.

Drowsiness or stupor, with dilated pupils.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.