Arsenicum metallicum

Arsenicum metallicum
(metallic arsenic)
* Arouses latent syphilis.
* Periodicity very marked; symptoms recur every two and three weeks.
* Weakness.
* Swollen feeling of parts.
Head
- Low spirited, memory weak.
- Desire to be alone.
- Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry.
- Head feels too large.
- Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears.
- Headache worse stooping and lying down.
- Oedematous swelling of forehead.
Face
- Red, itching, burning and bloated.
- Eyes swelled and watery, burn with coryza.
- Eyes weak, day and gas light unpleasant.
Mouth
- The tongue coated white, and shows imprint of the teeth.
- Mouth sore and ulcerated.
Abdomen
- Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders andspine.
- Pain in spleen down to groin.
- Pain in breast extends to hip and spleen.
- Diarrhoea, burning watery stools with relief of pain.
Dose
- Sixth potency.