Argentum metallicum

Argentum metallicum
(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 orwithered 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 atrunning 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 throatsore 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 oppressionof chest.
Urine
- Diuresis.
- Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor.
- Frequent urination.
- Polyuria.
Extremities
- Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbowand knee.
- 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.
- Climateric haemorrhage.
- 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).
Dose
- Sixth trituration and higher.
- Not too frequent repetition.