====== NATRIUM ARSENICOSUM ======
{{anchor:s1}}Natrum Arsenicatum.
====== Sodium Arseniate. Na3AsO4 12H2O. ======
{{anchor:s4}}The arsenious acid becomes, during the process of preparation, converted into arsenic acid.
{{anchor:s5}}Introduced by Gourbeyre, who made proving with 6th trit. {{anchor:s6}}(L'Art Md., vol. 17, p. 440, 1863); more extensive provings were made by members of the Hom. Mat. Med. Club of Allegheny Co., Pa., Buffum, 30th and 3d dec.; Chapman, 30th and 12th; Crawford, 30th; King, 30th, 15th and tincture; Martin, 30th, 15th and 6th; Miller, 30th and 15th; Ramage, tincture; Shannon, tincture; Thomson, tincture (Hah. Mo., 1876); four provings (Hah. Mo., vol. 13, p. 599).
====== CLINICAL AUTHORITIES. ======
{{anchor:s8}}- Conjunctivitis, King, Hah. Mo., vol. 13, p. 603; Granular lids, Thompson, Hah. Mo., vol. 13, p. 601; Affection of throat, Thomson, Hah. Mo., vol. 13, p. 601; Diphtheria, Shannon, Hah. Mo., vol. 13, p. 604; Haematemesis, Haeseler, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 137; Miner's asthma, Haeseler, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 308; Tuberculosis, Gatchell, Haeseler, Raue's Rec., 1872, p. 118; Catarrh, King, Hah. Mo., vol. 13, p. 603; Catarrhal affections, Ramage, Hah. Mo., vol. 13, p. 606.
====== MIND. [1] ======
{{anchor:s10}}Nervous restlessness; as if something was impending.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Cannot concentrate mind; dull, listless; forgetful.
====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======
{{anchor:s13}}Confused feeling; head heavy, dull.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Feeling of heat and fullness in whole head.
====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======
{{anchor:s16}}Occasional shooting pains above right eye.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Severe sharp headache in forehead above eyes; agg. above right eye.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Boring headache in temples from without inward, agg. right side and extending to left, with nausea.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Head feels hot, on placing hands on forehead it seems cold.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Pain in right temple.\\ {{anchor:s21}}Dull pain over orbits, reaching into temporal region.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Dull aching in frontal region on awaking in morning; severe during day; indisposed to study or speak.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Aching across brown, over orbits and in eyeballs.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Fullness in forehead, with throbbing in top of head.\\ {{anchor:s25}}Vacant feeling in whole head, cannot concentrate mind on anything.\\ {{anchor:s26}}Feeling of heat and fullness in whole head.\\ {{anchor:s27}}Feeling of pressure over each side of posterior inferior part of occiput as from a photographer's head rest.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Every motion jars the head.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Headache agg. from heat, pressure and tobacco smoke, stooping.
====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======
{{anchor:s31}}Vision weakened from his condition of health; objects blur when he looks at them a short time; eyes sensitive to light.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Eyes soon tire and pain when he reads or writes.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Feels as if lids must be closed to protect weak eyes.\\ {{anchor:s34}}Eyes smart as from wood smoke; smarting and lachrymation on going into open air.\\ {{anchor:s35}}Bloodvessels of balls and lids much congested, whole orbital region swollen.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Edema of orbital region, especially of supraorbital.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Congestion of conjunctiva from least exposure to cold or wind; conjunctiva dry, painful.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Conjunctivitis after fever has subsided and when case tends to become chronic; eyes are weak; symptoms agg. in morning, as is often the case when eyes are subjected to night work.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Chronic conjunctivitis, membrane injected, small ruga running over it, whole eye dry and painful, all symptoms agg. in morning; granular lids from chronic inflammation of edges of lids, with agglutination.\\ {{anchor:s40}}Lids disposed to close; cannot open them as wide as usual.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Inner surface of (lower) lids granular.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Lids agglutinated on awaking, morning; edges chronically inflamed.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Aching through and over brows and orbits and in temples on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Eye symptoms agg. in morning.
====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======
{{anchor:s46}}Smell defective or lost.\\ {{anchor:s47}}Feels stuffed up, nose and chest.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Nose constantly stopped up, agg. at night and in morning; must breathe with mouth open at night.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Nasal discharge yellow, tough; hawks it or drops from posterior nares.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Pieces of hardened, bluish mucus flow from nose, after which mucous membrane feels raw.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Dry crust in nose, when removed blood flows.\\ {{anchor:s52}}Nasal mucous membrane thickened, can inhale air, but difficult to exhale.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Compressive pain at root of nose and in forehead; catarrh.\\ {{anchor:s54}}Dull, supraorbital headache; feeling of fullness of head and face; eyes heavy and at times soreness of eyeballs; burning of eyes and more or less congestion of conjunctiva; watery discharge from one or both nostrils, or stoppage of nose; dryness of fauces; dry cough; agg. in morning. {{anchor:s55}}~ Catarrh.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Pain in forehead and root of nose; dry, bloody crusts in nose; dropping of tough mucus from posterior nares; hawking up of mucus from larynx, agg. from dust, smoke and cold; fauces feel dry on inspiration and deglutition. {{anchor:s57}}~ Chronic naso-pharyngeal catarrh.
====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======
{{anchor:s59}}Face flushed and hot; feels puffed.\\ {{anchor:s60}}Malar bones feel large as if swollen.\\ {{anchor:s61}}Face swollen, edematous, more in orbital region, agg. mornings on awaking.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Puffing of face about eyes, glabella and forehead.
====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======
{{anchor:s64}}Corners of mouth fissured; also indurated.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Muscles of mastication stiff; painful to move jaw.
====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======
{{anchor:s67}}Tongue furred, coated yellow; deep red, corrugated, anterior part fissured; large, moist, fissured, flabby.
====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======
{{anchor:s69}}Hawking of tough, gelatinous, greyish yellow mucus from throat and posterior nares.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Uvula, tonsils and pharynx thickened; surface irregular, swollen, purplish red, covered with a yellowish grey mucus, which is hawked out.\\ {{anchor:s71}}Throat edematous and of a purple color; tonsils and fauces much pitted; at bottom of pits portions of diphtheritic formation; yellow coated tongue; no appetite; some obstruction of posterior nares; nasal sound of voice; surface of body cool and covered with cold, clammy sweat; feet cold; oppression about heart, especially on least exertion; pulse feeble, quick and intermittent; wishes to be let alone; mind without hope. {{anchor:s72}}~ Diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Fauces dry on swallowing and on inspiration, agg. {{anchor:s74}}A. M. and after a cold; pharynx looks red and glossy.\\ {{anchor:s75}}Tonsils, fauces and pharynx purplish and edematous, patched with yellow mucus. {{anchor:s76}}~ Diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s77}}After an attack of acute tonsillitis, which occurred three months previously, throat remained very much swollen; whole of fauces and upper part of pharynx swollen and of a dark red hue; tonsils greatly enlarged; uvula elongated; parts covered with a dirty looking mucus; constant dry sensation as if something lodged in throat; at times feeling as if a pin was sticking in throat; at others a feeling as of a lump, always agg. in morning.\\ {{anchor:s78}}Dark purplish hue of throat, great swelling and great prostration, but not much pain; uvula hangs down like a sac of water. {{anchor:s79}}~ Diphtheria.
====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======
{{anchor:s82}}Appetite excessive.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Drinks often, but little at a time; very thirsty, but agg. drinking.
====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======
{{anchor:s85}}Belching and sour eructations.\\ {{anchor:s86}}Nausea agg. from cold drinks of water; vomits large quantities of sour water, agg. after eating.
====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======
{{anchor:s88}}Sinking sensation in epigastrium, with dull feeling in supraorbital and frontal regions.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Extreme tenderness in epigastric region.\\ {{anchor:s90}}Epigastrium tender, agg. just below ensiform.\\ {{anchor:s91}}Stomach feels sore, warm things cause a sensation of burning and can be felt entering stomach; moderate dinner lies heavy; feeling of fullness.\\ {{anchor:s92}}Hematemesis.
====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======
{{anchor:s94}}Pain from time to time, shifting through bowels; agg. by escape of gas or passage of feces.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Gas forms rapidly, agg. only when bowels move, colic from flatus and before stool.
====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======
{{anchor:s97}}Stool: thin, soft, dark, followed by burning at anus; yellowish, watery; copious, painless; hurries him out of bed in morning, preceded by colic, relieved after; weak and nervous, hands tremble.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Alternate relaxation and constipation.
====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======
{{anchor:s100}}Dull aching in kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s101}}Sore feeling in region of bladder, agg. urinating.\\ {{anchor:s102}}Urine: copious, frequent, clear; heat precipitates phosphates; contains a few epithelial scales, a cast, fat globules.
====== FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [23] ======
{{anchor:s104}}Dull cutting along Poupart's ligaments, followed by sickening sensation in left testicle as from a blow, testicle very sensitive while pain lasts.
====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======
{{anchor:s107}}Mucus scanty, dark, slate colored and detached with difficulty.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Roughness causing hemming, with spasmodic cough.\\ {{anchor:s109}}During morning irritation in bronchi, with slight cough.
====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======
{{anchor:s111}}Lungs feel as though smoke had been inhaled.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Respiratory sound very indistinct, especially in lower lobes; percussion normal.\\ {{anchor:s113}}Miner's asthma produced by inhalation of coal dust; pneumonia and consumption.
====== COUGH. [27] ======
{{anchor:s115}}Teasing dry cough through day.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Dry cough, with feeling of tightness and oppression in middle and upper third of chest.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Dry, hacking cough from an uneasy feeling and soreness beneath cartilages to right of fourth and fifth ribs, agg. from exertion.
====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======
{{anchor:s119}}Lungs feel full and clogged, agg. behind sternum and from larynx to epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Feeling of fullness, oppression and soreness, agg. during exertion and on full inspiration.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Sharp, quick pain below seventh rib, anteriorly.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Supraclavicular regions sore on pressure.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Dry cough, with an oppressed feeling of chest; short, dry cough without expectoration; lungs feel as though smoke had been inhaled; nose dry and obstructed; patient feels stuffed up. {{anchor:s124}}~ Catarrhal affection.\\ {{anchor:s125}}Woman confined to bed with advanced tuberculosis, hectic, few night sweats, amphoric respiration, emaciation, pulse 128, respirations 40, cough racking, expectoration greenish and profuse; mental symptoms of bluest remorse.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Haemoptysis.
====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======
{{anchor:s128}}Can feel heart beat through chest distinctly.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Oppression about heart on least exertion. {{anchor:s130}}~ Diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Sounds heard through nearly every part of chest.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Pulse: irregular, variable in volume, slower than usual.
====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======
{{anchor:s134}}Neck stiff and sore.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Severe pain between scapulae; he inclines forward for relief; agg. from inspiration, it passes gradually around in front to ninth and tenth ribs.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Soreness at lower cervical vertebrae down to joints of and under both scapulae.
====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======
{{anchor:s138}}Neuralgic pains from axilla to little finger.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Rheumatic aching in right arm, agg. in shoulder and wrist.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Light, flying pains in fingers, palms and forearm.
====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======
{{anchor:s142}}Lower limbs feel heavy; weary feeling from ilium down outer side of thighs to knees, as from too much exertion; bruised feeling along left crural nerve, agg. from continued motion.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Aching anteriorly down legs, until restless, uneasy feeling is produced.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Pains shooting from acetabulum to knee, agg. moving about.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Pain, cramp-like, at junction of heads of gastrocnemius muscle, extending downwards.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Cramp in plantar surface of right foot.
====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======
{{anchor:s148}}Neuralgic pains recur frequently.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Joints feel stiff; pains erratic, agg. in joints and on left side.
====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======
{{anchor:s153}}Inclines forward for relief: from severe pain between scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s154}}Cannot sit still without great effort; restless.\\ {{anchor:s155}}Stooping: headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Motion: jars head; of jaw, painful; continued, bruised feeling along left crural nerve agg.; pains from acetabulum to knee agg.\\ {{anchor:s157}}Least exertion: oppression about heart; soreness beneath cartilages, right of fourth and fifth rib, agg.; feeling of fullness, oppression and soreness agg.
====== NERVES. [36] ======
{{anchor:s159}}Restless, nervous, cannot sit still without great effort.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Feels tired all over; desire to remain quiet.
====== SLEEP. [37] ======
{{anchor:s162}}Drowsy, heavy.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Restless sleep, when aroused awakes nervously as in affright.
====== TIME. [38] ======
{{anchor:s165}}Morning: dull aching in frontal region; eye symptoms agg.; lids agglutinated; nose stopped up; dry cough agg.; face swollen, edematous; fauces dry; throat symptoms agg.; stools hurry him out of bed.\\ {{anchor:s166}}Day: severe pain in frontal region; teasing dry cough.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Night: nose stopped up, must breathe with mouth open; chilly.
====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======
{{anchor:s169}}Heat: headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s170}}Disposed to wrap up, or get near fire.\\ {{anchor:s171}}Warm from exercise: itching of eruption agg.\\ {{anchor:s172}}Warm things: cause a sensation of burning in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Open air: smarting and lachrymation of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Cold drinks: nausea agg.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Cold: congestion of conjunctiva from least exposure; hawking up of mucus agg.; sensitive to air.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Wind: congestion of conjunctiva from least exposure.
====== FEVER. [40] ======
{{anchor:s178}}Chilly, disposed to wrap up or get near fire.\\ {{anchor:s179}}Chilly at night, then burning dry heat, skin hot and dry.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Surface cool, covered with cold, clammy sweat. {{anchor:s181}}~ Diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s182}}(OBS:) Intermittent fever.
====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======
{{anchor:s184}}Right: shooting above eye; headache agg. above eye; pain in temple; fourth and fifth ribs, soreness beneath cartilages; rheumatic aching in arm; cramp in plantar surface of foot.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Left: sickening sensation in testicle; bruised feeling along crural nerve; pains in limbs agg. on side.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Pains show preference for left leg.\\ {{anchor:s187}}From without inward: boring pains in temples.
====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======
{{anchor:s189}}As if something was impending; as if lids must be closed to protect weak eyes; eyes smart as if from wood smoke; malar bones as if swollen; as if something lodged in throat; as if a pin was sticking in throat; as of a lump in throat; sickening sensation as from a blow in left testicle; as though smoke had been inhaled into lungs; awakes nervously as in affright.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Pain: in right temple; in forehead and root of nose; in bowels; in joints; on left side.\\ {{anchor:s191}}Severe, sharp pain: in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s192}}Severe pain: between scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s193}}Sharp, quick pain: below seventh rib.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Shooting pains: above right eye; from acetabulum to knee.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Boring pain: in temples.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Neuralgic pains: from axilla to little finger.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Light, flying pains: in fingers, palms and forearms.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Rheumatic aching: in right arm.\\ {{anchor:s199}}Compressive pain: at root of nose and in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Cramp: in plantar surface of right foot.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Cramplike pain: at junction of heads of gastrocnemius muscle.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Aching: anteriorly down legs.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Dull cutting: along Poupart's ligaments.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Dull aching: in frontal region; over orbits and in eyeballs; in kidneys.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Throbbing: in top of head.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Smarting: of eyes.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Burning: of eyes; at anus.\\ {{anchor:s208}}Soreness: of eyeballs; of stomach; in region of bladder; beneath cartilages; of neck; at lower cervical vertebrae.\\ {{anchor:s209}}Raw feeling: of mucous membrane of nose.\\ {{anchor:s210}}Tenderness: in epigastric region.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Bruised feeling: along left crural nerve.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Irritation: in bronchi.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Heat: in whole head.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Clogged feeling: in lungs.\\ {{anchor:s215}}Pressure: over each side of occiput.\\ {{anchor:s216}}Heavy feeling: in lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s217}}Oppression: about heart; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s218}}Tightness: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Fullness: in whole head; in forehead; of face; in stomach; in lungs.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Weary feeling: from ilium down outer side of thighs to knees.\\ {{anchor:s221}}Dull feeling: in supraorbital and frontal regions.\\ {{anchor:s222}}Sinking sensation: in epigastrium.\\ {{anchor:s223}}Vacant feeling: in whole head.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Dryness: of eyes; of fauces.
====== TISSUES. [44] ======
{{anchor:s226}}Marked emaciation after previous embonpoint.\\ {{anchor:s227}}Mucous membrane affected; sensitive to cold air, dust, etc., they give him cold or aggravate existing cough, etc.; symptoms of subacute gastritis, chronic diarrhea, nasal catarrh, etc.\\ {{anchor:s228}}Catarrhal troubles of nasal mucous membrane, fauces, trachea and bronchi.\\ {{anchor:s229}}Edema.
====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======
{{anchor:s233}}Pressure: headache agg.; supraclavicular region sore.
====== SKIN. [46] ======
{{anchor:s235}}Squamous eruption, scales thin, white and when removed leave skin slightly reddened; if scales remain they cause itching; agg. when warm from exercise.
====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======
{{anchor:s237}}Woman, aet. 26; multipara; tuberculosis.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Woman, aet. 30, married, dark complexion, black hair and eyes, nervous temperament, scrofulous habit; diphtheria.\\ {{anchor:s239}}Mrs. M., subject to attacks of acute tonsillitis; affection of throat.
====== RELATIONS. [48] ======
{{anchor:s241}}Compare: Arsen., Kali carb. in edematous swelling about eyes and face; Apis in diphtheria with sac-like swelling of uvula; Arum triph. in diphtheria; Kali bich. and Natr. mur. in nasal or faucial catarrh with sensation of an irritating hair; Lycop. {{anchor:s242}}In stuffy catarrh.
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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 07, 1888 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r169|Natrium arsenicosum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r169|Natrium arsenicosum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1888 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}