ARSENICUM SULFURATATUM FLAVUM----A REMEDY FOR LEUCODERMA
CHEMICAL
NAME— Arsenic
trisulphide
DESCRIPTION —A
yellow or orange powder; odorless. Insoluble in water and alcohol; soluble in
alkalies; slowly soluble in hot hydrochloric acid and decomposes in boiling
dilute nitric acid with separation of sulphur.
It is found in nature and
is also prepared by the action of hydrogen chloride on aqueous solution of
arsenious oxide.
HISTORY
AND AUTHORITY—Proved by Hahnemann. Allen’s Encyclop. Mat. Med. Vol.1, 556. Hering,
Guiding Symptoms, Vol. 11, 145
MATERIA
MEDICA
MIND—Patient
is very irritable, quarrelsome, very sensitive and touchy. Fear at night of
dark, of evil and ghosts. Fear of cloud also. Suspicious of his friends and
family. Weeping at night and
occasionally weeps during sleep. Intense torturing anxiety and apprehension.
HEAD—Needle-like
stitches in right frontal region.
RESPIRATION—Needle
like pricks within outwards in chest. Difficult respiration.
MOUTH—Taste
bitter. Tongue furred, yellow-white, stiff, swollen,later, dry with disgust for
all nourishment. Mouth and throat dry, herpetic
ulcers.
DIGESTIVE
SYSTEM--- Burning and gnawing in stomach with vomiting and
diarrhea. Ravenous appetite with easy satiety , aversion to fat food, meat and
stimulant. Very thirsty. Milk upsets the stomach . Desires warm things,
constipation alternating with diarrhea.
STOOL—Diarrhea
with colic and backache and tenesmus. Diarrhea daily at 8 a.m. and several
times during day, but not at night.Stool
like water , green, and slimy and terribly offensive.
URINE—Dribbling
painful difficult and at times involuntary at night. Must hurry up or urine
escapes
MALE--Stitches
in glans penis and scrotum. Gonorrhea with terrible pains, discharge copious,
yellow, constant, burning day and night along entire urethra with restlessness.
Perspiration genetalia. Ulcers prepuce.
Itching of vulva.
FEMALE--
Leucorrhea excoriating. Menses copious and too frequent.
EXTREMITIES—Cold
hands and feet, cramps, calf muscles and soles, pain in the limbs after
midnight. Sciatica and pain around the knee.
SLEEP—Deep,
dreams amorous anxious of death and of the dead. Wide awake 3 a.m. and start to
sleep after. Startling in sleep , also in falling asleep , as if he would fall
out of bed. Restless at night, excited, dreams with seminal emissions.
SKIN—Skin
itching, dry, cracked, cracks, itch.Marked coldness of the skin of the body.
Discoloration of skin. Blotches of blue , liver spots and white spots.
Eruptions itching, moist modular urticaria. Purpura haemorrhagia. Eruptions on
outer side of left wrist, also on inner side.
MODALITIES-Worse
before midnight or after midnight. Scratching worst, drafts of cold air. Better
warmth of bed, lying down. He is a chilly patient.
CAUTION—Poison.
Not to be dispensed below 3x
POTENCY—3X
and higher
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