Argentum nitricum

Argentum nitricum
(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 homoeopathic employment.
* Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of control andwant 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 mucopurulent 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 thisremedy.
* 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 orpressing 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, with 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; profuse discharge andterrible 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 menstrual
period; from emotions, left side. Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.
Relationship
- Antidote : Nat. mur.
- Compare : Ars.; Merc.; Phos.; Pulsat. Argent. cyanatum (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of
oesophagus) Argent. iodat. (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland affected.)
- Protargol (gonorrhoea after acute stage 2 per cent. solution; syphilitic mucous patches,
chancres and chancroids, 10 per cent. solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2
drops of 10 per cent. solution).
- Argent. phosph. (An excellent diuretic in dropsy.)
- Argent. oxyd. (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhoea.)
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses.
- This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose
into the oxide.