Re: Silver Nitrate Poisoning
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HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D.
ARGENTUM NITRICUM
Nitrate of Silver
In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and
spinal symptoms presenting; themselves which give certain indications
for its homeopathic employment. Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of
control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically;
trembling in affected parts. Is an irritant of mucous membranes,
producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastro-
enteritis. Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the
splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed
and ulcerated mucous membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding
and other errors of perception are characteristic. Withered up and
dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action,
especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental
exertion. Head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy.
Pains increase and decrease gradually. Flatulent state and prematurely
aged look. Explosive belching especially in neurotics. Upper abdominal
affections brought on by undue mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis
and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord. Intolerance of heat.
Sensation of a sudden pinch (Dudgeon). Destroys red blood corpuscles,
producing anæmia.
Mind.--Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and
nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous.
Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes slowly (Cann
ind). Memory weak. Errors of perception. Impulsive; wants to do things
in a hurry (Lilium). Peculiar mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and
hidden irrational motives for actions.
Head.--Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional disturbances
cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-
fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental
exertion, from dancing. Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous
affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in
corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and
pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemi-crania; bones of head feel as if
separated.
Eyes.--Inner canthi swollen and red. Spots before the vision. Blurred
vision. Photophobia in warm room. Purulent ophthalmia. Great swelling
of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent. Chronic ulceration of
margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed
steadily. Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room. Aching, tired
feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them. Useful in
restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles. Paretic condition of
ciliary muscle. Acute granular conjunctivitis. Cornea opaque. Ulcer in
cornea.
Nose.--Loss of smell. Itching. Ulcers in septum. Coryza, with
chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.
Face.--Sunken, old, pale, and bluish. Old man's look; tight drawing of
skin over bones.
Mouth.--Gums tender and bleed easily. Tongue has prominent papillæ;
tip is red and painful. Pain in sound teeth. Taste coppery, like ink.
Canker sores.
Throat.--Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking. Raw,
rough and sore. Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing. Dark
redness of throat. Catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in
throat. Strangulated feeling.
Stomach.--Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Nausea,
retching, vomiting of glairy mucus. Flatulence; painful swelling of
pit. Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the
abdomen. Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction.
Ineffectual effort at eructation. Great craving for sweets. Gastritis
of drunkards. Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs. Trembling and
throbbing in stomach. Enormous distention. Ulceration of stomach, with
radiating pain. Desire for cheese and salt.
Abdomen.--Colic, with much flatulent distention. Stitchy ulcerative
pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs.
Stool.--Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with
shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very offensive.
Diarrhœa immediately after eating or drinking. Fluids go right through
him; after sweets. After any emotion with flatulence. Itching of anus.
Urine.--Urine passes unconsciously, day and night. Urethra inflamed,
with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter. Urine scanty and
dark. Emission of a few drops after having finished. Divided stream.
Early stage of gonorrhœa; profuse discharge and terrible cutting
pains; bloody urine.
Male.--Impotence. Erection fails when coition is attempted. Cancer-
like ulcers. Desire wanting. Genitals shrivel. Coition painful.
Female.--Gastralgia at beginning of menses. Intense spasm of chest
muscles. Organs at night. Nervous erethism at change of life.
Leucorrhœa profuse, with erosion of cervix bleeding easily. Uterine
hæmorrhage, two weeks after menses; Painful affections of left ovary.
Respiratory.--High notes cause cough. Chronic hoarseness. Suffocative
cough, as if from a hair in throat. Dyspnœa. Chest feels as if a bar
were around it. Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse
lying on right side; (Alumen). Painful spots in chest. Angina
pectoris, nightly aggravation. Many people in a room seem to take away
his breath.
Back.--Much pain. Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, (Oxal acid)
paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.
Extremities.--Cannot walk with eyes closed. Trembling, with general
debility. Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms. Rigidity of
calves. Debility in calves especially. Walks and stands unsteadily,
especially when unobserved. Numbness of arms. Post-diphtheritic
paralysis (after Gelsem).
Skin.--Brown, tense, and hard. Drawing in skin, as from a spider-web,
or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried up. Irregular
blotches.
Sleep.--Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible
dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification. Drowsy stupor.
Fever.--Chills with nausea. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered
if wrapped up.
Modalities.--Worse, warmth in any form; at night; from cold food;
sweets; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions, left side.
Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.
Relationship.--Antidote: Nat mur.
Compare: Ars; Merc; Phos; Pulsat. Argent cyanatum (angina pectoris,
asthma, spasm of œsophagus) Argent iodat (throat disorders,
hoarseness, gland affected). Protargol (gonorrhœa after acute stage 2
per cent solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids,
10 per cent solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2
drops of 10 per cent solution).
Argent phosph (An excellent diuretic in dropsy).
Argent oxyd (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhœa).
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.
Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses. This
solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh,
these readily decompose into the oxide.
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