Argentum nitricum Anhang
[Marion Walsdorff]
BLASS und geschwächt, sowohl körperlich als auch geistig. Hat einen hohen Anspruch an sich selbst und scheinen daran förmlich zu zerbrechen. Sobald sie eine Situation nicht mehr unter Kontrolle haben, versuchen sie zu fliehen. Die Angst zu Versagen, sich zu blamieren dominiert ihr Leben. Gerade vor Prüfungen sind die betroffenen Personen dermaßen nervös und reden sich förmlich ein, dass alles schief gehen wird, dass sie zur Prüfung oft gar nicht erst antreten.
Macht sich sprichwörtlich „vor Angst in die Hose“ und leiden unter nervösem Durchfall. Dann schafft es die betroffene Person nicht mehr, einen klaren Gedanken zu fassen. Jede Idee, die ihr in den Kopf kommt, wird sofort in die Tat umgesetzt. Jegliches Nachdenken ist ausgeschaltet (es kann passieren, dass der/die PatientIn vor lauter Angst aus dem Fenster springen möchte, um zu entfliehen. Wenn die betroffene Person auf dem Fensterbrett steht, kommt sie jedoch wieder zu sich).
Das Gefühl zu ersticken, treibt den/die PatientIn an die frische Luft. Er/sie möchte den unangenehmen Situationen möglichst schnell entgehen. Die dabei völlig übersteigerten Phantasien der betroffenen Person sind sehr charakteristisch und bringen oftmals in gefährliche Situationen.
Aber nicht nur vor Prüfungen hat der/die PatientIn Angst, auch andere kritische Situationen (Arztbesuch), machen ihm/ihr sehr zu schaffen. Es könnte ja eine ernsthafte Erkrankung vorliegen.
Krankheitsverlauf schleichend. Verschwinden in der gleichen Weise, wie sie gekommen sind. Die Symptome klingen also zumeist nach und nach wieder ab.
Leidet oft unter Migräne. Schmerz unerträglich, und „Als ob sich der Kopf aufbläht“. Begleitet wird der Schmerz von einer Art Schüttelfrost und Schwindelanfällen.
Es hilft dem/die PatientIn, den Kopf in das Kissen zu drücken oder ein Tuch eng um den Kopf zu binden. Auch der Druck mit den Händen hilft kurzzeitig, um den Schmerz auszuschalten.
Alle Schleimhäute gereizt, und es kommt häufig zu Entzündungen des Hals-Nasen-Rachenraumes oder auch zu Magen-Darm-Entzündungen.
Augen immer wieder gerötet und entzündet mit schleimig eitrigem Augenausfluss. Vor allem in warmen Räumen ist die Bindehaut stark gereizt.
Halsschmerz: stichartige Schmerz, „Als ob ein Glassplitter o. Ähnliches im Hals steckt“ + eitrig schleimigem Sekret.
Bauch AUFgebläht, und häufigis aufstoßen oder Winde entlassen. Magenschleimhaut betroffen, dann leidet die betroffene Person an starken, brennenden Schmerzen und Übelkeit. Auch hier hat der/die PatientIn das Bedürfnis aufzustoßen oder zu rülpsen, doch nicht immer gelingt es, und das aufgeblähte Gefühl bleibt. Besonders zu Beginn
der Menses leidet die betroffene Person an starken Bauchschmerzen.
Vor Prüfungen leidet der/die PatientIn an nervösem Durchfall. Die Erwartungsspannung ist ein großes Thema bei Arg-n. Der Stuhl ist dünnflüssig und schießt wie eine Fontäne aus dem Enddarm.
Bei Atembeschwerden leidet der/die PatientIn an Heiserkeit und trockenem Husten, der ihn/sie fast ersticken lässt. „Als ob Brust eingeklemmt“ + Kopf-/Bauchschmerzen.
Die Nacht vor Prüfungen UNruhig. Sie werden von heftigen (Alp)Träumen.
Im Fieber ständig kalt, und er/sie muss zugedeckt bleiben, was ihm/ihr jedoch wieder das Gefühl der Einengung gibt.
<: nachts/warmem Wetter/bei Aufregung; >: Luft aus seinem Bauch ablassen kann/im Freien/Druck/kaltes Baden;
Heißhunger auf Süßigkeiten, die jedoch gar nicht gut bekommen. Reaktion auf zuviel Zucker häufig Durchfall.
Höhenangst. Schwindel und Gleichgewichtsprobleme.
Mind: Weakness of memory, fear of dark and being
alone, crowds, heights, being late. Anticipatory anxiety, impulsive, hurried.
Blood -Destruction of red blood cells
Convulsion preceded by great restlessness.
Complaints appear gradually and cease gradually.
Left sided complaints.
Splinter like pains while swallowing in sore throat. Splinter like
sensation in uterus while walking.
Head: Congestive headache -with fullness.
Eructation + gastric complaints. Flatulent dyspepsia belching after
every meal.
Diarrhoea with green mucous after eating and drinking.
Impotence - erections fail when coition is attempted. Female :Coition
painful followed by bleeding. Metrorrhagia with nervous weakness at
menopause/in young widows.
Great weakness of lower extremeties with trembling.
<: Cold food/ice-cream/sugar/cold air/emotions/anxiety/mental
exertion/warmth/night/riding/after eating and drinking/ice cream/sugar/left
side;
>: Cool open air/cold/stimulants/tight bandage on head/washing with
cold water/eructation/sitting/bending double;
[Marion Walsdorff]
Arg-n. das Mittel der tausend Ängste. Die Ängste entsprechen einer Panikstörung. So kann ein Mensch, der das Mittel benötigt, Ängste auf überfüllten Plätzen haben/an hochgelegenen Orten/in öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln/vor Krankheiten/dass ein Verwandter stirbt/im Fahrstuhl/in engen Straßen usw. Bei manchen Menschen sind die Ängste so stark, dass sie kaum noch das Haus verlassen können.
Die Silberserie: Arg-n. in der Homöopathie
Arg-n.: Enge abgeneigt/steht unter einem immensem Druck, alles besonders gut zu machen. Gleichzeitig ertragen sie aber die Zuspitzung einer Situation nicht (Prüfung).
Das Nitrogen-Element bewirkt, dass alles schnell zu eng ist. Grundsätzlich eine starke Abneigung gegen räumliche und seelische Enge. Häufig zeigt sich dies auch auf der körperlichen Ebene. (Rollkragenpullis/Gürtel/enge Bekleidung am Bauch wird möglichst vermieden).
Arg-n.: EXtrovertiert und impulsiv/starken Ängsten vor einer Prüfung/UNruhig und aufgeregt.
Das körperliche Bild. Der Verdauungstrakt ist einer der Hauptbeschwerdebereiche von Arg-n.. Menschen, die konstitutionell Arg-n. benötigen, leiden unter starken Blähungen, unter krampfartigen Bauschmerzen und unter häufigem Durchfall. (vor Prüfungen oder Situationen, in denen sie sich beweisen müssen, haben sie regelrechte Durchfall-Attacken). So kann es sein, dass sie eine Prüfung verpassen, weil krampfhafte Bauchschmerzen mit Durchfall sie daran hindern, den Prüfungstermin wahrzunehmen.
Ein anderer Bereich ist der Hals. Hier kommt es häufig zu chronischen Entzündungen. Beim Halsentzündung, ist der Schmerz in der Regel wie von einem Splitter/r. o. l. macht das Schlucken so gut wie unmöglich).
Leben unter Zeitdruck: Arg-n.-Mensch ist Getriebene unserer Zeit. Nichts geht schnell genug. Alles muss in rasender Eile erledigt zu werden. Arg-n. gönnt sich keine Pause. Zu groß ist die Angst irgendwann festzusitzen (Angst vor Enge) und nicht mehr weiter voranzukommen.
Diese permanente Hektik, der Zeitdruck unter dem alles geschieht, verursacht häufig Magenprobleme (Sodbrennen/Aufstoßen/eine chronischen Gastritis). Arg-n. fällt es schwer, einen Gang zurückzuschalten und das Leben zu genießen. Zu groß ist der Druck erfolgreich sein zu müssen und sich keine Blöße zu geben.
Starkes Süßverlangen und Unverträglichkeit von Süßem (Arg-met.).
Der überreizte Magen-Darm-Trakt kann die großen Mengen an Süßigkeiten nicht verdauen. Die innere Hektik führt zusätzlich dazu, dass der Darm nicht mehr richtig arbeitet. Die Süßigkeiten führen zu Aufstoßen, zu Blähungen und zu Durchfall-Erkrankungen.
Kopfschmerzattacken: Die überreizte Nerven führen oft zu heftigen Kopfschmerzen. Gerade wenn Arg-n. einer Arbeit nachgeht, bei der volle geistige Aufmerksamkeit gefordert ist, können sich chronische Kopfschmerzen einstellen. Der Kopfschmerz ist häufig drückend oder berstend und linksseitig.
>: frischer Luft/durch Bewegung/durch Einhüllen; <: beim Sprechen/beim Singen/durch geistige Anstrengung/durch feuchte Kälte/gegen Mittag.
[Rajan Sankaran]
From the “The Soul of Remedies”. Fear of high places, fear of losing
control and fear of narrow places are among the keynote rubrics.
It is a mineral remedy belonging to the sycotic, tubercular and cancer miasms.
It is a compound silver (Ag), of Argentum whose main theme is performance and
Nitrate
whose main theme is the feeling of sudden danger. The two come together
in Argentum nitricum, whose main theme as “Performance in sudden danger or
crisis”.
There is a feeling as if the person will be accepted only if he can
perform at the time of crisis. There is a feeling of being neglected and
despised if he does not perform at the time of crisis. I call them “Crisis
Managers”. They are troubleshooters of the highest degree and see their role as
that, feeling very much neglected or isolated, and feeling
a failure if they can’t perform in a crisis.
The situational Materia Medica of Argentum nitricum is a situation in
which he himself has to struggle and nobody is going to help him; he is trying
but not succeeding.
This situation arose from being trapped alone in some circumstance, and
trying desperately to find a way out, in which case Argentum nitricum would be
a psoric remedy.
But by examining a little deeper we find the basis of all these fears.
He has a tremendous sense of fault within, which he is trying to cover up and
hence has several sycotic traits such as compulsion about time, about planning
things, about doing things in a particular way, such as obsessions with fixed
ideas that he cannot pass a certain place.
So we see fixed ideas and fixed actions.
It is important for him to keep control in a critical situation and find
his way out of the problem. This is shown in the rubric “Fear of losing
self-control”, which I consider one of the leading rubrics of this remedy. In
whichever situation self-control is needed, he becomes highly nervous, as he
lacks it; for example at the time of performance during crisis as is seen in
the rubrics:
Fear of high place.
Fear of narrow places
Fear when anticipating an
engagement.
Hurry, time, to arrive at
appointed
Anticipation
Fear of failure
Diarrhoea from anxiety
Fear of falling, etc.
Whichever situation in life reminds Argentum nitricum of a trap,
aggravates. They can act impulsively to get out of this trap. The expression
they like to use often is:
“There is no way out” or “I don’t see the way out”. Such situations
could be:
Crowds.
Closed spaces.
Bridges.
Tunnels.
High places: e.g. buildings on
fire
Aeroplanes
Any place where the exit is
blocked
Another situation is the stage. The patients are anxious to go on stage but
when persuaded, they feel isolated and trapped. They feel as if they are alone
and the exit is blocked.
The compensation is to see the way out all the time and to never enter a
situation where the exit is not seen, for example going on a journey only after
booking the return ticket, or sitting next to the door in a cinema. They are
especially particular about planning and confirm their appointments one or more
times before arriving, and usually arrive much before their appointed time.
When they come in, they sit as if ready to start running. They are quite
hurried and impatient.
Argentum nitricum also has a lot to do with suspense (= Spannung) . They
either crave for suspense or they can’t stand suspense and sometimes both. They
like challenging jobs in order to overcome the fear. When they feel trapped,
they do almost suicidal, impulsive things. In physical terms it is like
throwing yourself out of the window, but in psychological terms it means they
will impulsively get out of the situation in which they feel trapped. For
example. in their business if they feel anxious or tense, they can impulsively
and suddenly drop the whole thing and leave even though they may lose a lot. So
you have the rubric: “Indifferent to business affairs”.
Argentum nitricum can be compared with Gelsemium. They are complementary
remedies. If, for the Argentum nitricum person, the situation reaches the level
where he can do nothing about it, he goes into a Gelsemium state. In Argentum
nitricum there is restlessness, activity, hurry, impulsive acts. Gelsemium is
slow, sluggish, dull, paralytic and doesn’t want to be disturbed.
In clinical practice I have seen that Argentum nitricum can create, at
the physical level, a feeling of intense oppression and claustrophobia.
Rubrics:
Ailments from anticipation.
Delusion, corners of houses
project so that he fears he will run against them while walking in the street.
Delusion, deserted, forsaken.
Delusion, despised he is.
Delusion, place he cannot
pass, certain.
Excitement, anticipating
events, when.
Fear, crossing a bridge or
place, of.
Anticipation, stage fright.
Fear, diarrhoea, from.
Fear, failure, of.
Fear, falling, of.
Fear, late, of being.
Fear, narrow places, in.
Fear, ordeals of.
Fear, self-control, of losing.
Fear, undertaking anything.
High places, aggravate.
Hurry, time, hurry to arrive,
for appointed.
Hurry, walking, while.
Time passes too slowly,
appears longer.
Undertakes nothing, lest he
fail.
Anxiety, time is set, if a.
Phatak:
Suspense aggravates.
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Ursachen:
Lampenfieber vor öffentlichen Auftritten, Versagensängste und Flugangst (und große Unruhe),
DD.:
Gels.: (vorwiegend Schwäche) mit nervösem Herumlaufen
Ars.: Hastigkeit
Symptome:
Heißhunger auf Süßigkeiten, verträgt aber keine (Sodbrennen, Aufstoßen, Flatulenz)
Hauptmittel für Magenbeschwerden und Durchfall bei Erregung und Angst
Körperliche Symptome:
körperliche Begleiterscheinungen sind starkes Herzklopfen, Brustenge, Verdauungsstörungen (typisch: lautes Aufstoßen und/oder Flatulenz)
nervöses Asthma
Heiserkeit durch Reden oder Singen mit splitterartigen Halsschmerzen
Bindehautentzündung mit gelblicher Absonderung, besser durch Kühlen (in stofflicher Form wird Silbernitrat von der chemischen Medizin zur Desinfektion der Augen
von Neugeborenen verwendet und löst oft die Konjunktivitis aus)
<: geschlossene Räume
Zucker/Süßigkeiten
Liegen auf der re. Seite
Abwärtssehen
Menschenmengen
>: frische Luft
kaltes Baden
Bewegung
[P.I. Tarkas/Ajit
Kulkarni]
Excerpted
from their book: Absolute Homeopathic Materia medica
MIND
Nutrition
Absorption
Mucous Membranes: Gastrointestinal. Genitourinary. Upper respiratory. Larynx
Serous Membranes: Pleura
Nerves: Abdominal. Cerebrospinal. Vagus. Solar plexus. Ventral nerve root
(motor fibres) of the spinal nerve
Neuro-musculatures
Blood and blood vessels
Heart
Glands: Liver. Adrenal
Ocular apparatus
Periosteum. Small bones
Skin
One side; more left
WORSE:
Extremes of heat and cold
Heat: Of fire, sun, summer, room, clothes, bed, exertion, drinks
Cold: Wet or dry weather, cloudy, stormy
Uncovering. Closed places
Periodicity (not marked); 2,4,6,8,10,11,12, a.m. & p.m., alternate days;
menses
Lying on right side
Sleep: During, after, siesta, loss of
Riding in car. Exertion. Walking fast. Overlifting. Looking down. Hurrying.
Night watching
Depleting factors: Onanism. Sexual excesses. Bleeding. Menses
Depressing factors: Emotions (bad news, shock, fright, grief, strains, tension, worry,
occupation esp. of responsibility, anxiety, brain-fag, suspense, anticipation,
vexation, anger, disagreement, disgracement, excitement, mortification
Appearing
in public
Blocked
exits (crowds, closed places, bridges, tunnels, high places, aeroplanes,
precipice)
Toxins
[sugar, milk, rich heavy foods, (over) eating, breakfast, tea, tobacco,
alcohol, tubers (gastritis), mercury, long after eating. Dinner
BETTER
Mild, wet rainy weather. Spring
Cool: bath; open air; or water on face
Cold drinks. Ice-cream. Warm drinks. Stimulants. Eating, supper
Eructations. After stool
Diversion
Travel, riding in wind (Tub.), rapid walking in open air
Hard pressure. Bending double
Motion
MONOGRAM
CATARRHAL. ULCERATIVE. DYSPEPTIC. IMBALANCED. SYCOTIC. EPILEPTIC. NEURALGIC. PARALYTIC. DEGENERANT. RHEUMATIC. EMACIATED. SENILE. NEUROTIC. HEMORRHAGIC. SCLEROTIC. WARM-BLOODED. |
Highlights:
· Psycho-(genic) somatic disorders (like Caust.). Gastro-psycho-cardiac neuroses (like Ran-b.). Nervous catarrhs. Nervous breakdowns. Tremulous weakness.
·
Incoordination:
Mental and physical. Paralysis. Ulcerations (eyelids, cornea, nose, mouth,
stomach, bowels, bladder, genitals). Splinter-like stitches. Expanded, enlarged
sensations. Apprehensions. Sweet-craving. Hemorrhagic.
·
Suggestive
of a syphilo-sycotic and tubercular miasm (the metal is sycotic, just as is syphilitic.
Nat-m., a closest analogue and associate also, is syco-tubercular and
syphilitic).
Memorative:
·
Incoherence.
Imbalance. Indiscretion. Infirm. Irresolute. Insecured. Irrational.
Indirigible. Imperative. Indifferent. Insane. Intemperance. Incontinence.
Impatient. Irritable. Impulsive. Intuitive. Intoxicated. Illusions.
Incarcerated.
·
The
more I’s, the more Arg-n.
Memorative Ds:
· Dysthesia. Dyspraxia (like Lol., Onos.). Dysthrepsia. Dyspepsia. Dyspnea. Dysmenorrhea. Dysentery. Dyspareunia. Dyslexia.
Make-up:
· Feeble, scrawny, withered, dried up (dehydrated), mummy-like, old looking (infants); dwarfish, puny, stunted; with sunken faces; aged, esp. those who though looking very old resist ageing except in blood vessels (like Lach.). Thin fluoric or phospho-sulfo-fluoric or thin tuberculinic (R.Zissu). Carbo-nitrogenoid. Oxygenoid. Hydrogenoid.
·
Choleric,
melancholic, nervous, hysterical persons; tense, impulsive, suspense-hating,
impatient, hurried, fast-walkers. Nervous (11 am), restless, weak, tremulous;
professionals, artists, musicians, actors, tailors, typists.
·
The
over-wrought, worn-out. Neurotic sedentary brain-workers. Herpetic.
·
Gross-eating,
sweet-toothed, gassy dyspeptics. Victims of excesses of all sorts: in diet,
abuse of sugar, in addiction (tobacco etc.), in brain work, in sex, overstrain,
too many cares or shocks.
·
Timid,
shy, shirks any new or ambitious undertaking; looks childish or asinine.
Antirest. Anxious, fidgety, sighing, palpitating, fears both death and failure,
apprehensive.
Action:
·
Setting
off first from the mucous membranes, goes then straight to the nerves, first
vagus and solar plexus, later the cranial (esp. ocular) and spinal nerves.
·
In
the nervous system, Arg-n. has diphasic action:
·
A
phase of stimulation (contractions, spasms, cramps, sympatheticotonia);
followed by: A phase of depression (paresis or even paralysis, vagotonia).
·
Also,
alternation of these phases, producing instability, inconstancy,
incoordination, festination, dyspraxia.
·
Produces
functional and organic nervous diseases, neurotic affections, spinal cord
degeneration. Also produces an athrepsia, prostration, deep-in headaches, with
depression, vertigo, insomnia, spinal pain and weakness, convulsions, followed
by paralysis or paresis of limbs esp. lower (comparable to action of ); and
lastly disorganization in most organs.
·
Liver:
Increased bile flow and a degenerative congestion.
·
Blood:
Dilution, loss of hemoglobin resulting in defective oxidation with lowered
temperature.
Nerves:
· Universal Commotion: Formication of limbs. Tingling; soles. Trembling of body, mainly chest (internal), of affected part, of lips, hand while writing (professional neurosis) or after tea, with chest pain; periodical; from anxiety, fright etc.; after breakfast; from flatulence; with most complaints. A nervous tremulous faint-like sensation. Orgasms in whole body with heat (a glow, like ). Unsteadiness or shakiness in feeling or gait (Caust.).
·
Cramps:
In legs, calf (toes), (left) at night.
· Chorea; with tearing in legs; worse night. Fidgety hands, legs.
·
Pains:
Increase and subside gradually or quickly; radiating in spots (Lach.);
sensitiveness to (Cham.); after anger. Splinter-like. Lightning-like,
shooting, or shocks on beginning to move. Band or vise-like (compressing).
Bursting. Splitting. Grinding. Piercing. Gnawing.
·
Numbness:
Alternates with sensitiveness (Nat-m., Plb.); of left side; esp.
termini; of left face after shock of a frightening scene; of limbs esp. left
(like , Sumb., Tarax.), nightly, lying on it, from indigestion. Limbs;
arms, finger (tips), left leg, foot, toes. Numbness irrespective of pain.
·
Convulsions:
With vertigo and transient blindness; tonic spasms at night; during meningitis;
puerperal; hysterical (esp. at menses like Plat.). Anxious
restlessness between fits. Epilepsy: From fright, tobacco, alcohol; during
menses; with constipation; nightly, after heavy meals. Epileptic imbecility.
Before: trembling, restlessness, expanded feeling esp. of head and face,
dilated pupils. After: restless (or quiet), limbs (hands) tremble, sullen,
silly, deep sleep, headache.
· Weakness: Paralytic (and tremulous) heaviness; a shakiness or unsteadiness (esp. when not observed). Weakness after heavy meals or overeating, hard mental exertion, breakfast, with cold shuddering; followed by apathy and yawning. Left side weaker (Lach.). Weakness with oppression, anxiety, trembling, nervousness, diffidence; faint – like; Weakness < morning on rising. Weakness of legs while walking, with rigidity in calves; from flatulence. Faltering speech. Tottering.
· Neuromuscular Disorders: Locomotor ataxia; imbalance everywhere (Nat-m.), incoordination, festination, dyspraxia, faltering speech, gait, erections etc; post-malarial; lightning-like (fulgurating) pains. Gastric crises of locomotor ataxia (flatulence, tympanites, diarrhea). Renal crises, scanty (like Ars.) or copious urine. Tottering; staggering in dark or with eyes closed (Alum.).
· Functional Paralysis: (E.g. intestinal, respiratory) from debilitating / devitalizing / depleting causes; mental, spinal or abdominal troubles, excesses (dietetic, addictive or sexual), traumatic (fall, contusion, spinal compression etc., like Con.), pressure (as in Pott’s disease). Paralysis ascending; transitory; hysterical; epileptic; post-diphtheric, apoplectic (Paralysis or dementia), typhoid. Progressive spinal paralysis with mental and alimentary tract symptoms. Paralysis agitans. Creeping-jerking in paralysed parts. Localised paralysis: sphincters, diaphragm, ocular, arm (left with or after vertigo), lower limbs (with jerking of eyes), wrist drop (Plb.). Slowly developing paralysis ().
· Sclerosis: Disseminated. Multiple. Amyotrophic. Cerebral (also softening). Posterior spinal (locomotor ataxia). Spinal irritation, with sensory and motor paretic symptoms, nocturnal pains, from sexual excesses, in an aged person. Lateral spinal sclerosis (spastic paraplegia); after epilepsy.
Tissues:
· Mucous membranes: Everywhere irritated, causing catarrhs or congestions with (destructive) inflammation which may go on to ulceration (like Bufo, Merc., Nit-ac., Sil.). Red, bleeding.
·
Discharges:
Green, yellow, black, muco- purulent, copious, membranous, offensive (only
stool and urine), thick, tenacious, glairy.
· Blood: Defective oxidation, destruction of RBC, lowered temperature. Stagnated in vessels causing ecchymoses, cyanosis. Scorbusis. Bleeding from: nose, gums, stomach, bowels, bladder, uterus, lungs. Blood is thick, black, clotted; or diluted. A blood-cachexia from crude poisoning. Orgasms; after emotions; long walk. Thrombosis; cerebral.
· Muscles: Rheumatism; associated with flatulent dyspepsia. Cartilages show destructive inflammatory changes. Prolapses. (Hernia).
·
Glands:
Cervical, indurated, suspected syphilis. Seborrhea (Merc.). Enlarged
prostate. Thyrotoxicosis; goitre.
· Bones: Caries of small bones. Joints: sacroiliac notch, shoulder, left wrist, finger-joints, knee etc. painful. Gout.
·
Emaciation:
Withered, oldish look and (darkened) skin; marasmus; more of legs (more of
hands, Lyc.). A good builder and rejuvenator (like Con.).
Infant loses flesh, gets marasmus, even without apparent (or substantial)
cause; though eating well.
· Dropsy: Hepatic etc. Ascites. Oedema of legs etc. (Arg-met. may be more useful here). Elephantiasis (Caust.).
· Prolapsus: Rectum, uterus.
·
Growths:
Polypi; polypoid growths, in throat. Warts and condylomata. Neurofibroma.
Fibrositis: in pleura (heart). (Tumors). Malignancies: epithelioma, lupus,
melanosis, liver cirrhosis (malarial), gastric cancer. Excrescences. Prevents
excessive granulation in ulcers. Rice bodies. Nodules on voal cords.
· Degeneration: Fatty, of liver, kidneys, glands (). Pigmentary: abdomen, (retina?). Softening: brain, stomach. Degenerations find fulfillment in Aur-m., Bar-m., Caust., Nat-m. etc. Gangrenous tendency in stomach. Sclerosis. Atherosclerosis. Thickening [eyelids, cornea, skin (like Bar-c., Arg-met.)]. Melan (tongue, vomit, stool, skin). Melanotic cancer.
·
Nervous
symptoms prevail over organic changes.
Peculiar symptoms
· During neurosis (i.e. when thought or fears make him anxious) he is so restless (like Kali-i.) that he must eat, talk or walk. Will eat out worries, walk out anxiety and run out life, but will only partially talk them out. Wants umbrella when walking in moonlight.
·
Neuralgias
seldom acute, but widely spread and deeply seated; peripheral.
·
Sensitive
both to cold, low temperature exposures as well as heat. Welcomes cold washing
to head, eyes, face; but dislikes cold bath (though it >).
·
Wakes
well in morning but a little after, or after breakfast, gets nervous and
restless with hot head and tremulous weakness, oppression and distress. A
nervous, faintish and tremulous sensation, during day or night.
· Day-night modalities:
1.
During
day feels things are done very slowly and nights seem too long (in absence of
work).
2.
More
cough during day, more diarrhea during night.
3.
Makes
many pleasant plans during day, and have monstrous visions and riotous fancies
during night.
4.
Tensions
during day and nervousness (with fulness, dullness, heaviness and heat in head)
by night.
5.
Wants
cold applications during day and warm applications at night on eyes.
·
Anomalies:
Head feels tightened in a vise but is better tight bandage. Pharyngeal catarrh
of smokers better by smoking. Stools or urine comes not from straining, but
after giving up. Chilly when uncovered, but smothers when wrapped up. Increased
sensitiveness to contact (hyperaesthesia) but diminished power of
distinguishing sensations.
· Sympathizing troubles: Head sympathizes with other (e.g. gastric) troubles. Eyes sympathize with gastrointestinal or spinal troubles (opp. Euphr.). Nausea accompanies many symptoms. Chill or shuddering with many complaints (Puls.).
·
Sensations:
Adherent; ball like; cobweb-like tension; flowing like a hot current, or like
water; of dislocation; fullness; lameness, or laming pains; megalic (like ); of
being hemmed in (like Lach.); of a sudden push (Dudgeon); of shakiness
or unsteadiness; expanded feeling of the whole body, limbs, head, eyes, face,
teeth, ovaries, > eructation; stretched feeling in urethra, lumbar muscles,
calves; orgasms (or surgings) in the whole body with heat (a kind of
ebullition, glow or wave of warmth as after calcium injection).
·
The
hysterical quartet [Hysteria + Flatulence + Rheumatism + Heart (like ,
Kali-c.) is found here too.
·
Attacks:
Regular paroxysms of nervous and emotional disturbances. Sudden violent
piercing (or knife-like cutting) pain in chest; face and hands very cold; pulse
first gone, then rises; face reddened; whole body trembled; cries violently;
warm sweat then broke out; and finally slept out the attack. Pains or other
complaints appear and disappear suddenly (like ) or gradually (like Stann.).
· “Sinking downward from head” (Boger). “Narrow traction (= drawing?) in occiput extending into middle of brain” (T.F. Allen). “Shivers through bowels” (Boger).
·
Mental
phases: 1. The phase of excitability: State of perpetual agitation, hurried,
restless, tremulous, tense, instable characters and hallucinations etc.
·
2.The
phase of depression: sadness, slowness, sluggishness, neurasthenia,
melancholia, anxiety, progressive diminution of intellectual capacities etc.
Injuries:
· Straining from over-lifting. Sprain in back, joints. Falls. Scorpion bite, waves of chill and cold sweat. Paralysis.
Analysis:
Arg-n. case
may progress along
· Nutrition disorder, or
· Neurosis-psychic or cardiac, or
·
Nervous
degeneration: paralysis, sclerosis etc., or lastly
·
Tissue
degeneration or destruction: softening, sclerosis, ulceration, malignancy,
liposis, seborrhea.
·
Of
extensive use in sub-acute conditions esp. ophthalmic, gastro-enteric and
thoracic. Of but limited service in neuro or histic degenerations beyond early
phase (hence called ‘degenerant’), and when mental and gastric symptoms point
to it. Organic changes are resisted till late (like its psoric confrere ) and
appear only after exposure to other factors or poisons extraneous or intrinsic.
The only likely changes per se are those resulting from natural wear, tear and
torture. Stabilized changes may need the metal or other drugs of the cadre of Aur-m.
To malignancies the metal is more appropriate. This is however definite:
All pathologies are better first handled for the presenting symptoms. This is
as true for psycho or neuro-pathies as for physical ills like diabetes or
scirrhus. Is not (like Nat-m.) germane to suppressed eruptions; hands
over this task to Caust., Sulph., Zinc. etc.
Mentals:
·
The
arch solar plexus: Apprehension; fears or shocks (of bad news etc.) strike at
the pit of stomach (causing acidity, incarceration of gas, sweat, diarrhea or
anxious oppression in chest). Anxiety when anything is expected of him, e.g. an
interview, viva voce, a trial (ordeal), appearance before public, an engagement
or any responsibility (esp. one about a serious illness). Anxiety makes him go
into the open and better walk rapidly about, and better still go away on a
journey. Anxiety, in morning, with a nervous weak faintish and tremulous
sensation (or a curious feeling) which makes him walk (rapidly); irritability
and chilliness (like Nux-v.); from exaltation of fancies. Anxiety
neuroses after unhappy experiences; with hematemesis. A sort of tremulous hurry
or nervousness (bordering on the neurotic); esp. when anything is in the
making, or when required to arrive at a stipulated or appointed time (Ars.),
or after breakfast (with hot head) or when gas was forming and rising up (with
distress and melancholic depression). Agg. when riding in a car (due to
vibration and buzzing).
·
An
anticipatory anxiety masquerading as fears of a grave disease; failure in an
undertaking (which makes him shun any enterprise), becoming late (which makes
him hurry); heights, higher storeyed or projections of buildings (makes him
giddy and shaky); precipices [standing there causes anxiety and strumming
(trembling) in legs]; surgery or even unfavorable diagnosis (noticing her pulse
or BP enhances their fears); plots against him; snakes or animals; all sorts of
fears in short (Calc.).
·
Fears:
Of closed places (claustrophobia, like Lach.), of open space
(agoraphobia, like Gels.); sits in last row or near a door; bypasses
certain places to avoid a sensation; a fear of publicity. Howsoever afraid of
facing public straightway he is always at home in a closed place or in a crowd.
Scared of problems and difficulties, he seeks or prefers company of the happy.
·
A
timid approach to life (like ; but is not calculative or greedy; does
not harbor hatred, and is an easy victim to flattery and prone to trust anyone,
and is moreover driven by impulses). Down with depression and anxiety neurosis
(like Plat.), hence a shirker, escapist, a back-bencher, even a
coward, always willing to pass responsibilities (“bucket”) on to others.
·
Yet
tense (like ) and therefore impulsive, eccentric, whimsical, a quicksilver man
(Merc.), or (rarely) dictatorial. Always on the run (like Aur-m.,
lod.), restless and in a hurry; on the move and walking fast, though it
may increase his anxiety (and it may then make him walk faster still); can take
long walks without difficulty. A hustler; time for him seems to pass too
slowly, others work too slowly, hence takes the work himself, but does it
tremulously. He is impatient, intolerant of waiting, or of suspense, but also
unable to take the work successfully from others. This tension (coupled with a
lack of perseverance) makes him change occupation (a vagrant like Sulph.,
but is decidedly better after a bath, which opens up his appetite, though both
are sweet-cravers and lack method), but perhaps not places; travelling always
interests him.
·
He
begins a dyspeptic and ends a neurotic, and tension again backfeeds dyspepsia.
Begins with a “soldier’s diarrhea” (a bowel neurosis), and ends with a
“soldier’s heart” (a cardiac neurosis). Any excitement tells upon him; any
unwelcome news, event or entry causes an urging to stool, or sinking in pit of
stomach, or even a chest pain; an animated or prolonged dialogue causes
anxiety, polyuria, or ovaralgia etc., gluttony too takes him left and right.
·
In
spite of this extraordinary timorousness he has some tenacity within him, which
helps him to keep up a show of distinction so long as he can (e.g. an actor),
though somewhat unmethodically; he has not (unlike Lyc.), the cool,
calculated perseverance to accomplish the goal he may have set about (unlike
the more impressionable Calc.). Also, active, composed, conscientious
persons; or officious, but awkward, slipshod and hurrying, always feeling
amidst an unfriendly set-up or forsaken.
·
A
sort of perversion or irrationality; a pseudo-rational; ‘a prize rationalizer’
(i.e. a champion in rationalizing). Has hidden irrational motives for his
actions. He has strange notions, ideas, impulses and fears. May be a liar, or a
superstitious person. A cynic, loath to give credit, plays down others’ claims
or succor received. Have queerest objections or arguments against whatever was
proposed; ever ready with (unconvincing) explanations. He may have an artistic
temperament, a musical bent, yet not of a benevolent kind (and yet may not
perhaps be a cynic, may be officious, altruism does not contraindicate);
perhaps also a person with understanding winning over passion or sentiment, and
having a courage of conviction; lastly, deceitful; an “oh no” chronic liar.
·
Imagination
runs riot, various illusions. Delusion that everything will fail.
· Subsequently, depression and neurasthenia; of the overwrought, overtired, over-shocked; after fright or grief, over-eating, alcoholism or sex-excesses. This may be preceded by: hiccough, acidity, (pseudo-) angina pectoris, shocks in heart, headache, (tearing) pain (with stiffness) in calf or (broken) pain in tibia etc. Brain fag of scholars and professionals with tremulous weakness, mental depression or irritability; confusion; failing memory; hypochondriasis; tormented by a forsaken feeling, or as if surrounded by unfriendly people. Depression, after a heavy meal, esp. of fluids.
·
Stupor,
with dilated pupils, from flatulence; with vertigo.
·
Brain
deterioration/degeneration; GPI (general paresis, dementia paralytica).
Post-apoplectic dementia. An imbecility; does foolish things. Paranoid,
schizoid or obsessive states; preceded by attacks of strange ideas and emotions
(more at night); incoherent, ill-assorted and disquieting thoughts running riot
at night in bed (like , Sil.). Bouts of depression and suicidal mania
(Aur., continuous). Cyclothymic imbalance. Mental deterioration of
paranoiac type (Agar., Stry-p., Zinc-p.); after apoplexy; this usually
comes very late (later than in the metal), of disposition and behaviour comes
earlier; indicative of a syphilitic trait. Confusion, vanishing of thoughts,
failure of senses, with stupefaction, even loss of identity (thrombotic).
Additional Notes:
·
‘Anankastic’
personality (characterized by a hard sense of personal insecurity, associated
with excessive caution and conscientiousness) (cp. ).
·
‘Karoshi
syndrome,’ an occupational disease due to fast living, accelerated tempo of
life, chronic time shortage etc. make a person workaholic (work-maniac) – the
consequences of modern life style-show a correspondence to Arg-n.; as
evidenced by multiple fears; of health, of death, of being alone, of closed
places and heights, of crowds etc.; hurried in activities and time-conscious.
·
Represents
mental state of a ‘trapped’ person. The person feels that all exits are blocked
(e.g. claustrophobia), there is no way out of the situation (problem with
space). The person becomes impatient to get over the situation. Thus, any
suspense or waiting intensifies the anxiety and the person develops the feeling
that ‘time passes too slowly’ (problem with time) urging him to walk rapidly.
The person, thus, develops problem with both time and space.
Some Clinical Tips
·
A
good remedy for diarrhea in children due to lactose intolerance. The stools are
watery, green mucus (like chopped spinach) and are expelled with considerable
noise, force, gas and odor.
·
Near
specific in cases where sudden bad news, shock or fright results in involuntary
defecation or has to hurry for closet (Gels.).
·
A
prominent drug in the treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (I.B.S.), a
disorder of colonic motility influenced by several psychic factors.
·
A
good drug for acute ‘migraine’ type headaches, esp. if Nat-m. is the
chronic constitutional remedy.
·
As
a rejuvenator, revitalizer esp. after neuro-surgery, or cerebro-vascular
stroke; for improvement of nerve function.
·
Highly
indicated in cases of ‘cardiac neurosis’ where palpitation, pain, fear,
anticipation, anxiety with concomitant GIT disturbances are present.
·
Can
be tried in mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, microcephaly,
attention deficit hyperactive disorder, parkinsonism etc.
PARTICULARS
Head:
·
Vertigo:
With staggering (during headache which may alternate with stomach or chest
pain); nervous affection; sleepiness; epilepsy, transient blindness; buzzing in
ears; general debility of limbs and trembling; locomotor ataxia; on looking up,
or down from a height (with strumming in legs); walking in dark or with eyes
closed; (on turning in bed; in the act of lying).
·
Faintish
and tremulous; with brain fag; faintness (and/or vertigo, headache) from wind
pressing upward, incomplete eructation.
·
Headaches:
Various. Gastric. Congestive (Gels.); bursting; pressing; stitching;
boring-digging or dull stupefying. With expanded feeling, chilliness, cold
extremities, trembling, biliousness. < when constipated, in open air, in
Sun, exertion (mental or physical). Alternates with pain in stomach or chest.
> closing eyes, tight bandage, cold applications, warm (hand on forehead),
eating, eructations, stool. Apoplectic. Hemicrania: left sided periodical sick
headache, suddenly coming and going, cold forehead, vertex feels lifted off,
the patient has a post-grief (cardiac) angina too.
· Cerebro-spinal meningitis: First stage; vertigo, throbbing headache (with, shattered feeling in skull), fulness and ringing (or buzzing) in ears, chilliness, trembling, epileptiform convulsions; during epidemics (like yellow fever etc., where a prophylactic too), or typhoid. Meningitis rheumatica; with trembling (Lol.).
·
Scalp:
Constriction (as if drawn tight), itching, creeping, crawling; bones feel
enlarged or separated; boring; burning herpes on occiput. “Narrow traction in occiput
extending into middle of brain”? (T. F. Allen).
Eyes:
·
Opthalmias:
Syphilitic, of newborn, croupous (membranous); discharge muco-purulent, yellow,
bland, (scanty). Worse: fire, heat, warm room; better: open cold air, cold
applications.
· Conjunctiva hyperemic, red and swollen towards inner canthus like a ptepygium. Acute granular conjunctivitis, discharge profuse, muco-purulent; gonorrheal; catarrhal, pustular. Sub-acute conjunctivitis, every summer. Later atrophy. Chemosis, with strangulated vessels. Pterygiums; pink.
·
Chronic
hypertrophic blepharitis, bright red granulations or thick crusts on lids,
canthi red, red swollen caruncula like proud flesh, injection, bland tears.
Ulceration of margin of lids with thickening. Ciliary blepharitis; ectropion. Edema
of lids. Scaly tarsi. Pannus. Iritis, pustular keratitis, thickening.
Ulceration. Opacity (left); after exanthem. Tendency to slough. Fistula
(silver-nitrate touch). Retina, pigmentary inflammation. Retroubulbar neuritis.
Optic nerve atrophy in locomotor ataxia; paralysis. Glaucoma; eyestrain from
sewing etc. Cataract from nervous disturbance or disordered nutrition, abuse of
sugar, tobacco.
·
Pupils
dilated; unequal; with drowsiness; before convulsion; “pupilliary atrophy”
(Boger-Boennighausen.).
·
Aching,
tired feeling in eyes, > closing or pressing cold.
· Sudden hypermetropia from congestion. Weakness, atony, paretic condition of ciliary muscles (Caust.). Paralysis of internal rectus; suddenly becomes hypermetropic. Myopia, dim, after drugs for goitre. Paralysis of accommodation from errors of refraction, glasses failing; from eyestrain; after diphtheria. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily (Con.) due to muscular atony. Weak sight, after close thinking, with photophobia. Vanishing of sight, constantly tries to wipe mucus. Transient blindness, with confusion, buzzing in ears, nausea, trembling.
· Vision: Affected from gastric troubles (). Errors of perception (distance, size, etc.) from atony or imperfect coordination of muscles. Cloudiness over left eye. Grey spots and serpentine bodies before eyes. Black moles. Filaments. Flocks. Diplopia, vertical. Wavy vision.
· In general, eyes sympathize with gastrointestinal (or spinal) troubles (opp. Euphr.).
Ears:
·
Congestive
tinnitus; humming; with vertigo; Meniere’s disease.
Nose:
· Epistaxis; with palpitation (, Ictod.). Allergic rhinitis. Septal ulcer.
Face:
·
Swollen
(left). Numb one side. Likes cold air or cold water on.
Teeth:
· Sensitive to cold water. Toothache when chewing; eating cold or sour things. Tartar on.
Mouth:
·
Salivation,
mercurial, after sugar; or dryness with (or without) thirst. Unable to speak
from spasm of muscles of tongue and throat; stammering.
Throat:
· Clergyman’s sore throat.
·
Catarrhal
pharyngitis; of smokers or drunkards; fishbone or splinter sensations (Hep.,
Nit-ac.); ulcerated, scrofulous, syphilitic or mercurial.
Constricted-chocked feeling when preparing for something or when going to sleep
or walking.
·
Thyrotoxicosis;
(along with adrenal cortex malfunction) cause of metabolic disorder; goitre.
· Post-diphtheric paralysis.
Stomach:
· Craving for and troubles (including myocardial) after sweets. Appetite good, or on the diminishing side, but stimulated after bath or in pleasant company. Gastric troubles of brain workers or businessman. Alcoholic gastritis. Nausea with faintness, apprehension, oppression, palpitation; < or > eating. Gastric neuroses; catarrhs. Simultaneous vomiting and diarrhea (Ars-v.).
· Worse after: Sugar or candy (acidity, eructations, fetid flatus, diarrhea, low blood pressure etc.). Starches, (rice, new bread, tubers). Proteins (milk, esp. from cold), legumes, cabbage. Fats; fatted vegetable proteins (oil-seeds, nuts etc.); fatted starches (pastry). Cold-chilled foods and drinks (shocks in head, flatulence, fever, etc.). Tea (flatulence, tremors, insomnia). Coffee. Apples, sour foods. Brinjals (eggplant). Beans. Gourds. Heavy foods better tolerated than light (Nux-v.). Vegetables do not suit.
Miasms and Foods:
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· Fats Sycosis Syphilis/Psora Psora/Syphilis
· Proteins Psora Sycosis/Syphilis Sycosis/Syphilis
· Starch Syphilis Psora/Sycosis Sycosis/Psora
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· Psora Proteins Starch Fats
Proteins Fats Starch
· Syphilis Starch Proteins Fats
Starch Fats Proteins
· Sycosis Fats Proteins Starch
Fats Starch Proteins
·
Starches
are a major problem in the syphilitic, less in psoric (and sycotic) and none in
(psoric and) sycotic. Proteins are a major problem in psoric, less in sycotic
(and syphilitic) and none in (sycotic and) syphilitic. Fats are a major problem
for sycotic, less in (psoric and) syphilitic and none in syphilis (and psoric).
Fatted (lipo-) proteins (also vegetables) do not suit the psoro-sycotic, and
fatted starches the syco-syphilitic. The psoro-syphilitics are hostile to
starches and/or proteins.
· Flatulent (or atonic) dyspepsias, with anxiety, pulsation, palpitations, oppression and troubles akin to pent-up gases; flatulent twinges above diaphragm. Loud explosive belching (Coca). Gastralgia; pains accompanied by intense spasms of chest muscles, seizing shoulder or scapula and running down (left), arm, flatulence, a nervous feeling or a sensation as if squeezed in a vise. Hyperacidity; after emotions. Ulcerated; after emotions (e.g. during wartime); with palpitation. Flabbiness; dilatation. Softening (gastromalacia).
·
Pit
of stomach is a special butt: esp. of emotions; various sensations like
anxiety, distress, oppression, sinking, pulsations, trembling, vibrations (or a
‘working’) are felt there.
Abdomen:
·
Liver:
Tender; a band-like tension around hypochondria, (or in waist); pains,
periodical; degenerative congestion; enlarged; cirrhosis, from malarial
cachexia; pigmentary degeneration; fatty, with transitory paralysis, coma or
convulsions; liver diseases of brain workers.
·
Flatulent
distension, tympanites etc., hysterical (like , Tarax.); reaching up
into chest, even brain, long after eating (a colon dyspepsia); bursting (Lyc.);
pains felt in distant parts (radiate, Lyc.).
Rectum:
· Gastroenteritis, even pseudo-membranous enteritis or muco-membranous colitis, in the neurotic, when perturbed mentally. Diarrhea or urging from (various) shocks (affecting the vagus). Chronic (rather nervous) diarrheas after abuse of sugar; of children after weaning; worse after midnight. Cholera infantum. Cholera (or cholerine) with suppression of urine, spasms of diaphragm or respiratory muscles, easy suffocation, anguish, dehydration. Advanced dysentery with (suspected) ulceration, sans tenesmus.
·
Constipation:
Of sedentary brain workers; flat tape-like stools, with croupous-aphthous
proctitis; alteration with diarrhea; worse when constipated (opp. ).
Urinary:
·
Renal
congestion, calculus, inflammation (with gastrointestinal irritation); chronic
renal failure. Bladder paretic; retained, dribbling or involuntary urination.
Dysuria. Violent pains from kidneys to bladder. Sphincter paralysis.
Enlargement of prostate. Urethritis (simple or specific) with burning or
splinter-like pains; stricture.
·
Urine
copious in nervous troubles or diarrhea; scanty in daytime or in gastric
troubles; incontinence in paralysis.
· Diabetes insipidus or mellitus (in initial stages). Adrenal malfunction; Addison’s disease.
Male:
·
Gonorrhea
and orchitis; contusive pains. Syphilis; small chancre-like ulcers on prepuce;
secondary syphilis; gastric crises.
·
Coition
painful; urine and semen burning; impotence.
Female:
· Inflammation of all pelvic organs, with soreness. Ovaralgia (left) from excitement.
· Menses irregular; dysmenorrhea-gastralgia at beginning, spasm of chest muscles, nightly tormenting (vibration) in epigastrium and urging to stool which amel. (in short a solar plexus disturbance). Worse at the menses and free at all other times ( Lach.). Amenia; from depression. Metrorrhagia: periodical; in young widows; barren women; after coition, with nervous erethism, at climacteric (menopausal psychoses cp. Plat.). Nightly orgasms.
·
Leucorrhea:
Copious, yellow, corroding; with severe dysmenorrhea; from erosion of cervix.
·
Ulceration
of vagina, os and cervix.
·
Prolapsus
in scrawny dried-up, feeble women.
·
Mastodynia
(and sore nipples) from nursing. Suckling infants die early from marasmus.
Tendency to ulceration (‘proud flesh’) of mammae.
Respiratory:
·
Laryngeal
troubles alternate with uterine. Catarrh or chronic laryngitis; of singers
(raising tone causes cough; of smokers (with amel. from smoking). Phthisical
degeneration of cartilages of larynx. Aphonia from nervous excitement or
depression; clogging by a growth, during indigestion.
·
Dyspnea
in a warm close crowded room, better walking about and open air (Puls.); either
nervous, of acidity or flatulence; with gastric or cardiac pains; spasms (even
paralysis) of diaphragm or respiratory muscles. Respiration after catching,
gasping, deep sighing, hurried, panting. Asthma: pure nervous (i.e. spasmodic);
or also catarrhal (bronchial).
· Cough: Various coughs, generally loose but also dry, in single turns; agg. any exertion, emotions, on awaking, smoking; speaking; laughing; of tobacco heart; with soreness in (left) chest. Splinter sensation in throat provoking suffocating cough.
· Pleurisy: Subacute (left), with emaciation in phthisical subjects; adhesions, fibrosities, attacks of pressing pain for years after it (Ran-b. eating, exertion after). Congestion of chest; at climacteric. Pneumonia. Pleuro-pneumonia.
·
Chronic
pleurodynia or intercostal neuralgia; (left); pain almost about heart, causing
uneasiness (distress) in chest and forcing him to walk; from exertion with
arms; mainly tensive, splinter-like or sore. Cramps and spasms of chest
muscles, with cold face and hands, amel. eructations or sweat.
· A heavy distressed feeling; < midnight or towards morning; oppression with fullness, anxiety and sighing; atelectasia, chest feels stuffed, stony or solid; gastro-pectoral dyspepsia, flatulent twinges. Orgasm; from blocking of gas after an unpleasant emotion; a glow or burning feeling. Quivering, vibration, fluttering, tremulousness, or strumming (thrills) in chest or precordia (like , Lyc.). Threatened paralysis of lungs; with gastric involvement.
Heart:
·
Fullness,
heaviness with anxiety and disposition to sigh; paroxysmal anxiety in precordia
(also faintness) and a feeling of heart disease; restless sensation in heart,
anxiety at heart, when thinking of it, after dinner or sudden effort (,
Crot-h., Dig.); vibration, strumming, quivering, fluttering or trembling
(from nervousness, thinking of it or flatulence); orgasms, nightly, from
emotions, after long walking (opp. Carl.) accompanied by a glow.
Tormenting pressure or soreness in precordia, < night, > deflation or
stool.
· Beats: Irregular; intermittent; strong beats from exertion, when noticing it, lying on right side, amel. moving about (Gels.), when resting feels his heart stops beating. Palpitations; paroxysmal; with faintish nausea (qualmishness); from sudden emotions or shock or effort; riding in a wagon; after bath; wine; from incarcerated flatulence (Coca), < lying on right side (Lil-t., Plat., Spong.). Fluttering; when thinking of it.
·
Sub-pseudo
angina pectoris (a gastro-cardiac syndrome): Heart’s action disturbed by
stomach disorder (Ang., Carl., Lact.); gastric pain through precordia
to shoulder, scapula or left arm with tingling in palm; also pain in left
sternomastoid, on ulnar side of left hand and little finger, with cold and numb
toes (when walking); flatulent twinges.
· Pseudo-angina pectoris: Cardiac neurosis of the neurotics, tobacco addicts or sugar fiends. At night tormenting pressure, anguish in precordia; during menses. Hysterical irritable heart with flatulence etc. (Ictod.). Neurosis plus pains.
·
Angina
pectoris: Ischemia, from sudden emotions, or atherosclerosis. Intense
precordial or retrosternal pains, with suffocation, after meals or nightly.
(Contra Otto Leeser “Palpitation and unrest in cardiac region are functional,
with no special alteration of cardiac action”). Suggested in threatened
coronary thrombosis or after it to prevent recurrence or for post-infarct
anginas; myocardial degeneration, malarial, influenzal, or from abuse of sugar.
Threatened cardiac arrest. < in afternoon > walking in open air ( has
< walking).
·
Organic
heart (and liver) troubles of brain workers, businessmen, gluttons, sugar
fiends, tobacconists, victims of shocks and reverses (Arn.).
·
Blood
vessels: Full feeling in. Perceptible pulsations, < lying on left side; of
left temporal artery, abdominal aorta. Arteriosclerosis and atheroma (i.e.
atherosclerosis); unstable angina. High blood pressure with gastric overtones.
From sugar abuse, Low BP. Veins varicose; dilated. Sometimes “brain and spinal
cord degeneration is more severe than (or precedes) actual vascular or cardiac
degeneration”. ‘White-coat hypertension’ (blood pressure temporarily raised on
a visit to a doctor).
Back:
·
Heaviness
or fatigue. Pain after a fall; from flatulence; between scapulae; after eating.
Myelitis. Stiff, sensitive, sore. Spinal irritation after sexual excesses, in
aged, with sensory and motor paretic symptoms. Lumbago, > standing or
walking. Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia, during pregnancy, from flatulence. Heaviness
in sacrum as before menses, during stool; pain in.
Locomotor:
·
Heaviness,
weariness, soreness, jerk during sleep. Sciatica, periodical. Calves: cramps,
weary, stiff, tension in, twisting in, tormenting-tearing pains all night.
Unsteady-tottering-staggering gait, except when observed. Crawling in legs as
in incipient fever. Toes cramps. Lameness of (left.) arm during sleep. Arms
weaker than legs or vice versa.
Sleep:
·
Sleepless
from uncontrolled ideas, horrible dreams, or else a yawning soporous condition.
During sleep: catching respiration, jerking limbs, numbness of arms,
incarceration of flatulence, oppression of chest.
·
Dreams:
Of dead, snakes, frightful, ghosts, of being engulfed by something huge,
quarrels, creative.
Skin:
· Dried up, withered, wrinkled. Turns blue-grey, violet, bronze (as in Addison’s disease), to quite black; darkened and indented under constant pressure; brown, tense, hard. Irregular blotches. Drawing, tension, as from a cobweb or dried albumen (esp. of face). Inelastic, hide-bound.
·
Neuro-skins.
Emotional eczema. Pustulous ecthyma. Bluish black eruptions (comedones).
Scabies. Impetigo. Herpes zoster. Erysipelas. Urticaria. Wart-shaped
excrescences (secondary syphilis). Bed sores (erysipelatous). Rash. Dermatitis
liable to occur on the neck.
·
Ulcers:
Hard margin; excessive or warty granulations; splinter like or digging pains
< motion; angry, deep; corrosive bloody discharge.
Thermic states:
· Chilliness with many complaints; with nausea; when uncovered, yet smothers if wrapped up. A feverish coldness, subnormal temperature, from feeble circulation.
· Sudden profuse nervous sweats.
·
Fever:
Intermittents. Relapsing. Feverish sick feeling in afternoon, head hot, hands
cold, nausea. Yellow fever with black vomiting, meningeal symptoms. Typhoid
meningitis, with trembling, fullness and ringing in ears. Septic fever; after
scarlatina (bluish black eruptions). Stammering in typhoid.
·
Typhus:
Nervousness, oppression of chest, stupor with muttering delirium, (complete)
deafness, tongue black, fetid breath, voluntary motion impossible, general (but
esp. arm) trembling, erysipelatous bed sores at left shoulder etc. Utter
insensibility of body but sensibility to lowered temp, stays, involuntary stool
and urine, hemorrhage, temp, subnormal, no sordes.
· Mild lingering fevers (like ).
Relations:
· Close-ups: (in liver), Ran-b. (in chest), Dios. (in heart).
·
Nearest
analogues:, Caust, Con., Lach., Lyc., Puls.
·
Symbiotics:,
Calc., Glon., kali-i., Lach., Lyc., Med., Merc., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Puls., Syph.,
Sulph.
· Precede well:, Bry., Caust., Gels., Glon., Nux-v., Ran-b., Spig., Spong., Verat.
·
Counterparts:,
Caust., Chel., Ign., Kali-c., Lach., Lyc.
·
Follow
well: Bar-m., Cal-c., Carc., Hydr., Kali-c., Lyc., Merc., Nat-m., Puls.,
Sel., Sep., Sil., Sulph.
·
Antidotes:,
Bell., Calc., Cina, Iod., Lyc., Merc., Nat-m., Puls.
·
Acutes:,
Ant-c., Ars., Bry., Cact., Cham., Chel., Colch., Coloc., Dios., Gels., Glon.,
Lach., Merc., Naja., Puls., Ran-b., Rhus-t., Sep.
·
Similars:
Abrom-a., Aeth., Arg-i., Arg-m., Cupr-m., Dys., Lach., Lol., Nit-ac., Onos.,
Plb-met.r, Puls., Tarax., Zinc-met.
·
Arg-n., Caust., Con., Lyc.: a collateral quartet.
· Is an intensified sycotic
·
Is
a mild snake
(i.e. etc.); it is Lach. of Nat-m. people;
Arg-n. walks out while Lach. talks out (and Kali-i.
doing both) tensions.
·
Antidotes
to Arg-n : Am-c., Con., Nat-m. Ars., Cimic., Cina., Lyc., Tarent.
· Inimical: Vesp.
·
DD.:
Kali-bi., Merc. and Plat-met. in catarrhs and action on CNS. Merc.
has more active inflammations. Aur-met. and Plat-met. have
a slant for nervous system, Kali-bi. for mucous membrane. Arg-n. resembles
the ‘thin tuberculinic’ as opposed to Aur-met r. which suits the ‘ fat
psoro-luetic ‘ (Zissu).
·
Arg-n. is
restless, active, tense, hurried, impatient, impulsive while Gels. is
slow, sluggish, dull, and doesn’t want to be disturbed.
·
Arg-m.: Arg-m. is more chilly, more reserved and less impulsive than Arg-n. Arg-m. acts
more on cartilages, Arg-n. more on mucous membranes.
· is connected to Arg-n. through Gels, which is acute of both Bapt. and Arg-n. Bapt. – Arg-n.- Gels. a trio.
·
Phos: Both Arg-n.
and are open, enthusiastic, intelligent; have multiple fears and panic
attacks of anxiety; both crave salt, but Arg-n. has craving for sweet
and sugar while Phos. has aversion to both; Arg-n. warm
blooded while Phos. is chilly; ice-cream desire more marked in Phos.
than Arg-n.; Phos. is frankly hemorrhagic, tubercular and
destructive.
·
Nat-m.:
Touches tangentially, esp. in degenerations; exhibits salt abuse while Arg-n.,
exhibits sugar-abuse and has more cachexy. Nat-m. is pale, Arg-n.
is withered. It may be timid like Arg-n. but more often it is
bold. Nat-m. exhibits brooding and miserability; Arg-n. confusion
and tenseness; Nat-m. harbours resentment, Arg-n. Silver nitrate
is antidoted by Nat-m. Nat-m. patients require a preparatory course of
Arg-n. to bring up tone.
·
When
you are undecided between Arg-n. and , think of Sep.
·
Ars.: Both
are anxious, restless, active, sharp, hypochondriac and panicky; but is more
cautious, perfectionist and domineering; Ars. chilly, Arg-n. warm-blooded;
Ars. tubercular, Arg-n. more sycotic; offensiveness and
destructiveness more marked in Ars.
·
Nux-v.: (unlike
Arg-n.) starts from nerves and then goes to mucous membranes. Both
have anxiety but Nux-v. is more irritable, ambitious and abusive.
· activates Arg-n. and leads it to Calc. (in sycotic) or to Sil. (in syphilitic).
·
Ran-b. is a
remarkable blend of Arg-n. and Kali-c.
·
: Both are
anxious, apprehensive, impatient, restless and vagrant; both are warm
blooded, glandular, malnourished. lod. is a midway between Arg-n. and
Tub., also between Arg-n. and Kali-i.
· and Arg-n. often run on the same line making a choice sometimes difficult. Both Arg-n. and Lyc. have their focal points in the G.I. tract with flatulence and ailments from fright. Both crave sweets. But Arg-n. craves cold drinks while Lyc. craves hot drinks. Craving for salt in Arg-n. is a point of differentiation. In addition to GIT action, Arg.-n. affects the spinal cord and the cerebellum with resulting ataxia and involuntary movements. Arg-n. prefers the left side, Lyc. the right. However, there is no bar in Arg-n. ripening with Lyc. (which is an aged Arg-n.).
·
More
points of differentiation at the level of personality:
Arg-n. –
Recessive. Impulsive-emotional. Credulous. Trepid.
Lyc. – Dominant. Calculative. Sober thinker. Cautious. Fagged.
Arg-n. – Hustler-impatient. Generous. Sophist.
Initially neurotic.
Lyc. –Slow-steady. Greedy. Snobbish. Initially
neurasthenic.
Arg-n.-Insanity more. Shaky. Scrawny. Slipshod.
Unmethodical. Non- persisting. Inconstancy. Resists ageing. Not much
responsibility -sense.
Lyc. – Imbecility more. Puffy. Prone to ageing.
Greater sense of responsibility.
Arg-n. – Tense. Escapist. Deceptive-minded. Kleptomaniac.
Lyc. – Tranquil. Responsible. Honest. Sincere.
Arg-n. – Leads to Nat-m. Lyc. leads to Sulph.
Lyc. – Cognate with Sil. (But
Lyc. has fatigue in mediocre brains,
Sil. in the bright.) (Kent)
Arg-n. Cognate with Sulph. (But Sulph. is shabby,
careless and has ‘let go’ attitude).
Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.