- Source: Silver nitrate, extensively diluted and succussed.
- Potencies: Commonly used in potencies from 30C to 200C.
- Key Effects: Notable for its neurotic effects, it often presents with symptoms affecting the brain and spinal cord, leading to a loss of control and coordination.
General Overview
In this drug, the neurotic effects are very marked, with many brain and spinal symptoms presenting themselves, which give certain indications for its homeopathic employment. Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of control, and want of balance are evident everywhere, mentally and physically, along with trembling in affected parts. It acts as an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat and marked gastro-enteritis.
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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 also characteristic.
Withered 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 is especially noted in neurotics.
Upper abdominal affections may be brought on by undue mental exertion. Conditions such as paraplegia, myelitis, and disseminated sclerosis of the brain and cord are also considered. Intolerance of heat and a sensation of a sudden pinch (Dudgeon) are significant. It can destroy red blood corpuscles, leading to anæmia.
Mental Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Mind: Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of a 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 with hidden irrational motives for actions.
Head Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Head: Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional disturbances can cause the appearance of hemi-cranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion and from dancing. Vertigo, with buzzing in the ears and nervous affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with an enlarged feeling in the corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of the scalp. Hemi-crania; bones of the head feel as if separated.
Eye Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Eyes: Inner canthi swollen and red. Spots before the vision. Blurred vision. Photophobia in a warm room. Purulent ophthalmia. Great swelling of conjunctiva; abundant and purulent discharge. Chronic ulceration of the margin of the lids; sore, thick, swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily. Eye strain from sewing; worse in a warm room. Aching, tired feeling in the eyes, better with 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, Face & Mouth Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Nose: Loss of smell. Itching. Ulcers in septum. Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.
Face: Sunken, old, pale, and bluish. Old man’s look; tight drawing of skin over bones.
Mouth: Gums tender and bleed easily. Tongue has prominent papillæ; tip is red and painful. Pain in sound teeth. Taste is coppery, like ink. Canker sores.
Throat Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Throat: Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking. Raw, rough, and sore. Sensation of a splinter in the throat on swallowing. Dark redness of the throat. Catarrh of smokers, with a tickling sensation as of hair in the throat. Strangulated feeling.
Stomach Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Stomach: Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Nausea, retching, and vomiting of glairy mucus. Flatulence; painful swelling of the pit. Painful spot over the 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 the left side under ribs. Trembling and throbbing in the stomach. Enormous distention. Ulceration of the stomach, with radiating pain. Desire for cheese and salt.
Abdomen & Stool Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Abdomen: Colic, with much flatulent distention. Stitchy, ulcerative pain on the left side of the stomach, below short ribs.
Stool: Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of the abdomen; very offensive. Diarrhœa immediately after eating or drinking. Fluids go right through him after sweets. After any emotion with flatulence. Itching of the anus.
Urine Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Urine: Urine passes unconsciously, day and night. Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter. Urine is scanty and dark. Emission of a few drops after finishing. Divided stream. Early stage of gonorrhœa; profuse discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine.
Male Symptoms & Female Of Argentum Nitricum
Male: Impotence. Erection fails when coition is attempted. Cancer-like ulcers. Desire is wanting. Genitals shrivel. Coition is painful.
Female: Gastralgia at the beginning of menses. Intense spasm of chest muscles. Organs at night. Nervous erethism at the change of life. Leucorrhœa profuse, with erosion of the cervix bleeding easily. Uterine hæmorrhage two weeks after menses; painful affections of the left ovary.
Respiratory Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Respiratory: High notes cause cough. Chronic hoarseness. Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in the throat. Dyspnœa. Chest feels as if a bar were around it. Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on the right side (Alumen). Painful spots in the chest. Angina pectoris, with nightly aggravation. Many people in a room seem to take away his breath.
Back Symptoms & Extremities Of Argentum Nitricum
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, Sleep, Fever Symptoms Of Argentum Nitricum
Skin: Brown, tense, and hard. Drawing in the 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
Modalities: Worse from warmth in any form; at night; from cold food; sweets; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions, left side. Better from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.
Relationship
Relationship: Antidote: Nat mur.
Compare: Ars; Merc; Phos; Pulsat. Argent cyanatum (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of œsophagus) Argent iodat (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland affected). Protargol (gonorrhœa after acute stage, 2 percent solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids, 10 percent solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10 percent solution).
Argent phosph (an excellent diuretic in dropsy).
Argent oxyd (chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhœa).
Dose
Dose: Third to thirtieth potency.
Best form: An aqueous solution 1 to 9, with 2 or 3 drops doses. This solution in water is preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide.