ARGENTUM METALLICUM
Silver
Emaciation, a gradual drying up, want for sparkling air, dyspnoea, sensation of enlargement and left-sided pains are characteristic. The chief motion is founded on the articulations and their issue elements, bones, cartilages, and ligament’s. Here the small blood vessels come to be closed up or withered and carious affections result. They come on insidiously, lingering, however progress. The larynx is additionally a exceptional core for this drug.
Mental.–Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.
Head.–Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, steadily growing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very gentle to touch. Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on searching at strolling water. Head feels empty, hollow. Eyelids purple 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 throat sore on coughing. Profuse and handy morning expectoration.
Respiratory.–Hoarseness Aphonia. Raw, sore feeling when coughing. Total loss of voice of expert singers. Larynx feels sore and raw. Easy expectoration, searching like boiled starch. Feeling of uncooked spot close to supra sternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon. On analyzing aloud, need to hem and hawk. Great weak point of chest; worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice. Pain in left decrease ribs.
Back.–Severe backache; have to stroll bent, with oppression of chest.
Urine.–Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid, candy odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria.
Extremities.–Rheumatic affections of joints, specially elbow and knee. Legs susceptible and trembling, worse descending stairs. Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer’s cramp. Swelling of ankles.
Male.–Crushed ache in testicles. Seminal emissions, barring sexual excitement. Frequent micturation with burning.
Female.–Ovaries sense 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; all through abdomen; worse by way of jarring. Uterine disorder with ache in joints and limbs.
Modalities.–Worse from touch, towards noon. Better in open air; cough at night time when mendacity 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 generic repetition.
