From Boericke's materia medica:

(Reed) A remedy for catarrhal states. Hay-fever. 

Head
Itching; falling off of hair; roots of hair painful. Pustules. Pain in occiput, extends to right ciliary region. Deep seated pain in sides of head. 

Ears
Burning and itching in auditory canals. Eczema behind ears. 

Nose
Hay-fever begins with burning and ITCHING OF PALATE and conjunctiva. ANNOYING ITCHING IN THE NOSTRILS AND ROOF OF THE MOUTH. (WYETHIA.) Coryza; loss of smell. (NAT. MUR.) Sneezing, ITCHING OF NOSTRILS. 

Mouth
Burning and itching; bleeding of gums. Ulcers and exfoliations in the commissures. Fissures in tongue. 

Stomach
Coldness in stomach. Longing for acids. 

Abdomen
Movement as from something alive. Flatulence pain at pubic region. 

Stool
Greenish. Burning at anus. Diarrhoea of nursing children. (CHAM.; CALC. PHOS.) Urine. Burning. Red sediment. (LYC) 

Male
Pain in spermatic cord after embrace. 

Female
Menses too early and profuse. Neuralgic pains from face to shoulders and pubis. Desire with vaginal pruritus. 

Respiratory
Dyspnoea; cough; bluish expectoration. Burning and pain in nipples. 

Extremities
Itching, burning; oedema of hands and feet. Burning and swelling of soles. Copious and offensive sweat of feet. 

Skin
Eczema; itching and crawling, especially of chest, upper extremities. Fissures in fingers and heels. 

Relationship
Compare: ANTHOXANTUM-sweet vernal grass (a popular medicine for hay-fever and coryza). LOLIUM; CEPA; SABAD.; SILICA.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Reed) A remedy for catarrhal states. Hay-fever. 

Head
Itching; falling off of hair; roots of hair painful. Pustules. Pain in occiput, extends to right ciliary region. Deep seated pain in sides of head. 

Ears
Burning and itching in auditory canals. Eczema behind ears. 

Nose
Hay-fever begins with burning and ITCHING OF PALATE and conjunctiva. ANNOYING ITCHING IN THE NOSTRILS AND ROOF OF THE MOUTH. (WYETHIA.) Coryza; loss of smell. (NAT. MUR.) Sneezing, ITCHING OF NOSTRILS. 

Mouth
Burning and itching; bleeding of gums. Ulcers and exfoliations in the commissures. Fissures in tongue. 

Stomach
Coldness in stomach. Longing for acids. 

Abdomen
Movement as from something alive. Flatulence pain at pubic region. 

Stool
Greenish. Burning at anus. Diarrhoea of nursing children. (CHAM.; CALC. PHOS.) Urine. Burning. Red sediment. (LYC) 

Male
Pain in spermatic cord after embrace. 

Female
Menses too early and profuse. Neuralgic pains from face to shoulders and pubis. Desire with vaginal pruritus. 

Respiratory
Dyspnoea; cough; bluish expectoration. Burning and pain in nipples. 

Extremities
Itching, burning; oedema of hands and feet. Burning and swelling of soles. Copious and offensive sweat of feet. 

Skin
Eczema; itching and crawling, especially of chest, upper extremities. Fissures in fingers and heels. 

Relationship
Compare: ANTHOXANTUM-sweet vernal grass (a popular medicine for hay-fever and coryza). LOLIUM; CEPA; SABAD.; SILICA.

From Boericke's materia medica:

(Jack-in-the-Pulpit) Arum maculatum, Italicum, Dracontium, have the same action as the Triphyllum. They all contain an irritant poison, causing inflammation of mucous surfaces and destruction of tissue. ACRIDITY is the keynote of the kind of action characteristic of Arum. 

Head
Bores head in pillow. Headache from too warm clothing, from hot coffee. 

Eyes
Quivering of upper eyelids, especially left. 

Nose
Soreness of nostrils. ACRID, EXCORIATING DISCHARGE, producing raw sores. NOSE OBSTRUCTED; MUST BREATHE THROUGH INOUTH. BORING IN THE NOSE. Coryza; discharge blood-streaked, watery. Nose completely stopped, with fluent, acrid discharge. Hay-fever, with pain over root of nose. Large scabs high up on right side of nose. Face feels chapped, as if from cold wind; feels hot. CONSTANT PICKING AT NOSE UNTIL IT BLEEDS. 

Mouth
RAW FEELING AT ROOF AND PALATE. Lips and soft palate sore and burning. Lips chapped and burning. CORNERS OF MOUTH SORE AND CRACKED. Tongue red, sore; whole mouth raw. Picking lips until they bleed. Saliva profuse, acrid, corroding. Throat. Swelling of sub-maxillary glands. CONSTRICTED AND SWOLLEN; BURNS; raw. Constant hawking. HOARSENESS. Expectoration of much mucus. Lungs feel sore. Clergyman's sore throat. Voice uncertain, uncontrollable. Worse, talking, singing. 

Skin
Scarlet rash; RAIV, BLOODY SURFACES anywhere. Impetigo contagiosa. 

Modalities
WORSE, NORTHZVEST WIND; lying down. 

Relationship
Compare: AMMON. CARB.; AILANTHUS; CEPA Antidotes: BUTTERMILK; ACET. AC; PULS.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Mugwort) Has some reputation as a remedy for epileptic conditions, and convulsive diseases of childhood and girls at puberty. Locally and internally is injurious to eyes. PETIT MAL. Epilepsy without aura; after fright and other violent emotions and after masturbation. Several convulsions close together. Somnambulism. Gets up at night and works, remembers nothing in the morning. ( KALI PHOS. ) 

Head
Drawn back by spasmodic twitchings. Mouth drawn to left. Congestion of brain. 

Eyes
COLORED LIGHT PRODUCES DIZZINESS. Pain and blurring of vision; better, rubbing; worse, using eyes. 

Female
Profuse menses. Violent uterine contractions. Spasms during menses. 

Fever
Profuse sweat, SMELLING LIKE GARLIC. 

Relationship
Compare: ABSINTH.; CINA; CICUTA.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Iodide of Arsenic) Is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges. The discharge irritates the membrane FROM which it flows and OVER which it flows. The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and bums. Influenza, HAY-FEVER, old nasal catarrhs, and catarrh of middle ear. Swelling of tissues within the nose. Hypertrophied condition of eustachian tube and deafness. Senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration. Pulse shotty. Chronic aortitis. Epithelioma of the lip. Cancer of breast after ulceration has set in. It seems probable that in Arsenic iod., we have a remedy most closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis. In the early stages of tuberculosis, even though there is an afternoon rise in temperature, ARS. IOD. is very effective. It will be indicated by a profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and sweats, emaciation; tendency to diarrhoea. Chronic pneumonia, with abscess in lung. Hectic; debility; night sweats. This remedy is also to be remembered in phthisis with hoarse, racking cough and profuse expectoration of a purulent nature, and attended with cardiac weakness, emaciation and general debility; in chronic, watery diarrhoea in phthisical subjects; in cases of emaciation with good appetite; in amenorrhoea, with anaemic palpitation and dyspnoea. In chronic pneumonia, when abscess is about to form. Great emaciation. Arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile heart. Threatened pyaemia. (PYROG.; METHYL, BLUE.) 

Head
VERTIGO, with tremulous feeling, especially in aged. 

Nose
THIN, WATERY, IRRITATING, EXCORIATING DISCHARGE FROM ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR NARES; SNEEZING. Hay-fever. Irritation and tingling of nose constant desire to sneeze. (POLLANIN.) CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH; swollen nose; profuse, thick, yellow discharge; ulcers; MEMBRANE SORE AND EXCORIATED. Aggravation by sneezing. Throat. Burning in pharynx. Tonsils swollen. Thick-membrane from fauces to lips. Breath fetid, glandular involvement. Diphtheria. Chronic follicular pharyngitis. Eyes and 

Ears
Scrofulous ophthalmia. Otitis, with fetid, corrosive discharge. Thickening of tympanum. BURNING, acrid coryza. 

Stomach
Pain and pyrosis. Vomiting an hour after food. Nausea distressing. Pain in epigastrium. Intense thirst; water is immediately ejected. 

Respiratory
Slight hacking cough, with dry and stopped-up nostrils. Pleuritis exudativa. Chronic bronchitis. Pulmonary tuberculosis. Pneumonia that fails to clear up. Broncho-pneumonia after grippe. Cough dry, with little difficult expectoration. Aphonia. 

Fever
Recurrent fever and sweats. DRENCHING NIGHT-SWEATS. Pulse rapid, feeble, weak, irregular. Chilly, cannot endure cold. 

Skin
Dry, scaly, itching. MARKED EXFOLIATION OF SKIN IN LARGE SCALES, leaving a raw exuding surface beneath. ICHTHYOSIS. ENLARGED SCROFULOUS GLANDS. VENEREAL BUBO. Debilitating night-sweats. Eczema of the beard; watery, oozing, itching; worse, washing. Emaciation. Psoriasis. Acne hard, shotty, indurated base with pustule at apex. 

Relationship
Compare: TUBERCULINUM; ANTIMON. IOD. In hay-fever, compare: ARALIA; NAPHTHALAN.; ROSA; SANG. NIT.

 From Boericke's materia medica: (Bromide of Arsenic) Has proven a great anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic remedy. Herpetic eruptions, syphilitic excrescences, glandular tumors and indurations, carcinoma, locomotor ataxia, and obstinate intermittents, and DIABETES are all greatly influenced by this preparation. 

Face
Acne ROSACEA, with violet papules on nose; worse in the spring. ACNE in young people.

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Arsenious Acid)-Arsenic Trioxide A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application. Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and RESTLESSNESS, with NIGHTLY AGGRAVATION, are most important. GREAT EXHAUSTION AFTER THE SLIGHTEST EXERTION. This, with the peculiar irritability of fibre, gives the characteristic IRRITABLE WEAKNESS. BURNING PAINS. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. SEASIDE COMPLAINTS (NAT. MUR.; AQUA MARINA). Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones. Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency. FEAR FRIGHT AND WORRY. Green discharges. Infantile Kala-azar. (Dr. Neatby). ARS. should be thought of in ailments from alcoholism, PTOMAINE POISONING, stings, dissecting wounds, chewing tobacco; ill effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges is PUTRID; in complaints that return annually. Anaemia and chlorosis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition. Reduces the refractive index of blood serum (also CHINA and FERR. PHOS.). Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location. Malarial cachexia. SEPTIC INFECTIONS AND LOW VITALITY. 

Mind
GREAT ANGUISH AND RESTLESSNESS. CHANGES PLACE CONTINUALLY. FEARS, of death, of being left alone. Great fear, with cold sweat. Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him from place to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. General sensibility increased (HEP.). Sensitive to disorder and confusion. 

Head
Headaches relieved by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with RESTLESSNESS; with cold skin. Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness, Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp ITCHES intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair. 

Eyes
BURNING IN EYES, WITH ACRID LACHRYMATION. Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated. Oedema AROUND eyes. External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; BURNING, HOT, and excoriating lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. INTENSE PHOTOPHOBIA; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain. 

Ears
Skin within, raw and burning. THIN, EXCORIATING, OFFENSIVE otorrhoea. Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain. 

Nose
THIN, WATERY, EXCORIATING discharge. Nose feels STOPPED UP. Sneezing WITHOUTrelief. Hay-fever and coryza; worse in open air; better indoors. BURNING and bleeding. Acne of nose. Lupus. 

Face
Swollen, pale, yellow, CACHECTIC, sunken, cold, and covered with sweat. (ACETIC ACID.) Expression of agony. Tearing, NEEDLE-LIKE pains; burning. Lips black, livid. Angry, circumscribed flush of cheeks. 

Mouth
Unhealthy, easily-bleeding gums. Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat. Epithelioma of lips. Tongue dry, clean, and red; stitching and burning pain in tongue, ulcerated with blue color. Bloody saliva. Neuralgia of teeth; feel long and very sore; worse after midnight; better warmth. Metallic taste. GULPING UP OF BURNING WATER. Throat. Swollen, oedematous, constricted, BURNING, unable to swallow. Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled. 

Stomach
CANNOT BEAR THE SIGHT OR SMELL OF FOOD. GREAT THIRST; DRINKS MUCH, BUT LITTLE AT A TIME. Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking. Anxiety in pit of stomach. BURNING PAIN. Craves acids and coffee. Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat. Long-lasting eructations. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely instable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco. Terrible fear and dyspnoea, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion. Malignant symptoms. Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the oesophagus, which seems as if closed and nothing would pass. ILL EFFECTS OF VEGETABLE DIET, MELONS, AND WATERY FRUITS GENERALLY. Craves milk. 

Abdomen
Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved by heat. LIVER AND SPLEEN ENLARGED AND PAINFUL. Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing. 

Rectum
Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Tenesmus. BURNING pain and pressure in rectum and anus. 

Stool
SMALL, OFFENSIVE, DARK, WITH MUCH PROSTRATION. Worse AT NIGHT, AND AFTER EATING AND DRINKING; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst. Body cold as ice. (Verat.) Haemorrhoids burn like :fire; relieved by heat. Skin excoriated about anus. Urine. Scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed. ALBUMINOUS. Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood. After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen. Bright's disease. Diabetes. 

Female
Menses too profuse and too soon. Burning in ovarian region. Leucorrhoea, acrid, burning, offensive, thin. Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better in warm room. MENORRHAGIA. Stitching pain in pelvis extending down the thigh. 

Respiratory
Unable to lia down; fears suffocation. Air-passages constricted. Asthma worse midnight. Burning in ichest. Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back. Expectoration scanty, FROTHY. DARTING PAIN THROUGH UPPER THIRD OF RIGHT LUNG. Wheezing respiration. Haemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; AFTER DRINKING. 

Heart
Palpitation, pain, dyspnoea, faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. PULSE MORE RAPID IN MORNING. (SULPH.) Dilatation. Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration. Angina pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput. 

Back
Weakness in small of back. Drawing in of shoulders. Pain and burning in back. (OXAL. AC.) 

Extremities
Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene. Ulcers on heel (CEPA; LAMIUM). Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy. 

Skin
Itching, burning, swellings; oedema, eruption, papular, DRY, ROUGH, SCALY; WORSE COLD and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. PSORIASIS. Scirrhus. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin. Gangrenous inflammations. 

Sleep
Disturbed, anxious, restless. Must have head raised by pillows. Suffocative fits during sleep. Sleeps with hands over head. Dreams are full of care and fear. Drowsy, sleeping sickness. 

Fever
High temperature. PERIODICITY MARKED WITH ADYNAMIA. Septic fevers. INTERMITTENT. PAROXYSMS INCOMPLETE, WITH MARKED EXHAUSTION. HAY-FEVER. Cold sweats. Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; worse after midnight. Great restlessness. Great heat about 3 a. m. Sordes.

Arsenicum is a homeopathic medicine indicated for:

• Anxiety
• Restless legs syndrome
• Food poisoning
• Diarrhea
• Eczema
• Psoriasis
• Traveller's diarrhea 

From Boericke's materia medica:

(Leopard's Bane) Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, fails, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. PUTRID PHENOMENA. Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection. Apoplexy, red, full face. It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble. AFTER TRAUMATIC INJURIES, overuse of any organ, strains. Arnica is disposed to cerebral congestion. Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnoea. A muscular tonic. Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden realization of financial loss. Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained. Bed feels too hard. Marked effect on the blood. Affects the venous system inducing stasis. Echymosis and hemorrhages. Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. Tendency to haemorrhage and low-fever states. Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature. SORE, LAME, "BRUISED FEELING. Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric. Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders. Aversion to tobacco, INFLUENZA. Thrombosis. Hematocele. 

Mind
Fears touch, or the approach of anyone. Unconscious; when spoken to answers correctly, but relapses. Indifference; inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious. Nervous; cannot bear pain; whole body oversensitive. Says there is nothing the matter with him. Wants to oe let alone. Agoraphobia (fear of space). After mental strain or shock. 

Head
HOT, WITH TOLD BODY; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains. Scalp feels contracted. Cold spot on forehead. Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when walking. 

Eyes
Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal haemorrhage. Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work. Must keep eyes open. Dizzy on closing them. Feel tired and weary after sight-seeing, moving pictures, etc. 

Ears
Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head. Shooting in and around ears. Blood from ears. Dullness of hearing after concussion. Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised. 

Nose
Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood. Nose feels sore; COLD. 

Mouth
FETID BREATH. Dry and thirsty. Bitter taste. (COLOCY.) TASTE AS FROM BAD EGGS. Soreness of gums after teeth extraction. (SEPIA.) Empyema of maxillary sinus. 

Face
SUNKEN; very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in face. 

Stomach
Longing for vinegar. Distaste for milk and meat. Canine hunger. Vomiting of blood. Pain in stomach during eating. Repletion with loathing. Oppressive gases pass upward and downward. Pressure as from a stone. FEELING AS IF STOMACH WERE PASSING AGAINST SPINE. FETID vomiting. 

Abdomen
Stitches under false ribs. Distended; offensive flatus. Sharp thrusts through abdomen. 

Stool
STRAINING OF TENESMUS IN DIARRHOEA. OFFENSIVE, brown, BLOODY, putrid, involuntary. Looks like brown yeast. Must lie down after every stool. Diarrhoea of consumption; worse lying on left side. Dysenteric stools with muscular pains. Urine. Retained from over-exertion. Dark brick-red sediment. Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition. 

Female
Bruised parts after labor. Violent after-pains. Uterine haemorrhage from mechanical injury after coition. Sore nipples. Mastitis from injury. Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise. 

Respiratory
Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise. Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula. Pneumonia; approaching paralysis. Hoarseness from overuse of voice. Raw, sore feeling in morning. Cough produced by weeping and lamenting. Dry, from tickling low down in trachea. Bloody expectoration. DYSPNOEA with haemoptysis. All bones and cartilages of chest painful. VIOLENT SPASMODIC COUGH, WITH FACIAL HERPES. Whooping cough, child cries before coughing. PLEURODYNIA (RANUNC; CIMICIF.) 

Heart
ANGINA PECTORIS; pain especially severe in elbow of left arm. Stitches in heart. Pulse feeble and irregular. Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnoea. Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore. Fatty heart and hypertrophy. 

Extremities
Gout. Great fear of being touched or approached. Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten. Sprained and dislocated feeling. Soreness after overexertion. Everything on which he lies seems too hard. Deathly coldness of forearm. Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region. Rheumatism begins low down and works up. (LEDUM.) 

Skin
BLACK AND BLUE. Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples. CROPS OF SMALL BOILS. (ICHTHYOL; SILICA.) Ecchymosis. Bed sores. (BOVININE LOCALLY.) Acne indurata, characterized by SYMMETRY IN DISTRIBUTION. 

Sleep
Sleepless and restless when overtired. Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible. Horrors in the night. Involuntary stools during sleep. 

Fever
Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid. Shivering over whole body. Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body. Internal heat; feet and hands cold. Nightly sour sweats. 

Modalities
WORSE, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold. BETTER, LYING DOWN, OR WITH HEAD LOW. 

Relationship
Antidotes: CAMPH. VITEX TRIFOLIA. Indian Arnica. (Sprains and pains, headache in temples, pain in joints; pain in abdomen; pain in testicles.) Complementary: ACON.; IPEC. Compare: ACON.; BAPT.; BELLIS; HAMAM; RHUS.; HYPERIC.

Arnica is a great homeopathic remedy indicated for:

• Bruising
• Bleeding
• Swelling
• Pain
• Muscle aches
• Trauma and shock
• Traditionally used by homeopaths and midwives for pain and bleeding during labour
• Pain after surgery
• Head injuries

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(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 incoordination, 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 anemia. 

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 papillae; 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, VNTH 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. Diarrhoea 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 gonorrhoea; profus6 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. Orgasms at night. Nervous erethism at change of life. Leucorrhoea profuse, with erosion of cervix, bleeding easily. Uterine haemorrhage, 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. Dyspnoea. 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 mentsrual period; from emotions, LEFT SIDE. BETTER, from eructation; fresh air; COLD; pressure.

Argentum nitricum is a homeopathic remedy indicated for:

• Anxiety
• Panic attacks
• Phobias
• Claustrophobia
• Fear of public speaking
• Performance anxiety

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Silver) Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnoea, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic. The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligaments. Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result. They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress. The larynx is also a special center for this drug. Mental. Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy. 

Head
Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch. Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water. HEAD FEELS EMPTY, HOLLOW. Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting coryza, with sneezing. Pain in facial bones. Pain between left eye and frontal eminence. Throat. Raw, hawking, gray, JELLY-LIKE MUCUS, and throat sore on coughing. PROFUSE AND EASY morning expectoration. 

Respiratory
HOARSENESS Aphonia. Raw, sore feeling when coughing. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx feels sore and raw. EASY EXPECTORATION, LOOKING LIKE BOILED STARCH. FEELING OF RAW SPOT NEAR SUPRA STERNAL FOSSA. WORSE FROM USE OF VOICE. COUGH FROM LAUGHING. Hectic fever at noon. On reading aloud, must hem and hawk. GREAT WEAKNESS OF CHEST; worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice. Pain in left lower ribs. 

Back
Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of chest. Urine. Diuresis. Urine PROFUSE, LURBID, sweet odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria. 

Extremities
Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knoe. Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs. Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer's cramp. SWELLING OF ANKLES. 

Male
Crushed pain in testicles. SEMINAL EMISSIONS, WITHOUT SEXUAL EXCITEMENT. Frequent micturation with burning. 

Female
Ovaries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of womb. ERODED SPONGY CERVIX. LEUCORRHOEA foul, excoriating. Palliative in scirrhus of uterus. Pain in left ovary. CLIMACTERIC HEMORRHAGE. Sore feeling throughout abdomen; worse by jarring. Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs. 

Modalities
WORSE from touch, toward noon. BETTER in open air; cough at night when lying down (opposite HYOSCY.) 

Relationship
Antidotes: MERCUR.; PULS. Compare: SELEN.; ALUM.; PLATINA; STANNUM; AMPELOPSIS. (Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients.)

 From Boericke's materia medica:

(Papal-Cross Spider) All spider poisons powerfully affect the nervous system. (See tarentula, Mygale, etc.) All symptoms of Aranea are characterized by PERIODICITY, AND COLDNESS, and great susceptibility to dampness. It is the remedy for the constitution favorable to malarial poisoning, where every damp day or place favors chilliness. Patient feels cold to the very bones. Coldness not relieved by anything. FEELING AS IF PARTS WERE ENLARGED AND HEAVIER. Wake up at night with hands feeling twice their natural size. Spleen swollen. HYDROGENOID Constitution, i. e., Abnormal sensitiveness to damp and cold, inability to live near fresh water, lakes, rivers, etc., or in damp, chilly places. (NAT. SULPH. THUJA.) 

Head
Pain in right trifacial nerve from periphery inwards. Confusion; BETTER BY SMOKING IN OPEN AIR. Heat and flickering in eyes; worse in damp weather. Sudden violent pain in teeth at night immediately after lying down. 

Female
MENSES TOO EARLY, TOO COPIOUS. Distention of abdomen. Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia. 

Chest
Pain in intercostal nerve from nerve endings to spine. Bright red haemorrhage from lungs. (MILLEFOL.; FERR. PHOS.) 

Stomach
Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to pressure. 

Abdomen
Enlarged spleen. Colic returns same hours. Heaviness in lower abdomen, as of a stone. Diarrhoea. Arms and legs feel as if asleep. 

Extremities
Bone-pains in extremities. Pain in OS CALCIS. SENSATION OF SWELLING, and of parts going to sleep. 

Sleep
Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms were swollen and heavy. 

Fever
COLDNESS, WITH PAIN IN LONG BONES, and feeling of stone in abdomen at the same hour daily. CHILLY DAY AND NIGHT; always worse during rain. 

Modalities
WORSE, damp weather; late in afternoon, and at midnight. BETTER, smoking tobacco. 

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