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Argentum Cyanatum
6XArg-cArgentum Cyanatum · Silver Cyanide · "The Angina & Asthma Silver"
MineralRareSyphilitic
Source
🎯 It acts primarily as a potent irritant to the respiratory tract and throat, causing spasmodic constriction and severe pain.
📖 Clarke writes:
Silver Cyanide. Ag CN. Trituration.
👤 Characteristics
Sphere of Action & Core States
•Severe poisoning symptoms resulting from inhaling fumes whilst silvering with 'Argentine'
•Scraping in throat
•Sense of constriction and burning in throat
•Violent pain in supra-sternal fossa
•Violent pain under manubrium sterni every time she turned to one side
•Suffocative attack
•Respiration difficult and short
•Constant dry, spasmodic cough
•Inability to articulate more than one word at a time due to cough
•Painful cramps in feet
Temperament & Physical Profile
•Face very red
•Tongue very red
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Severe scraping, constriction, and burning in the throat.
Clarke
Violent pain in the supra-sternal fossa and under the manubrium sterni.
Clarke
Constant dry, spasmodic cough.
Clarke
Respiration is difficult, short, and accompanied by suffocative attacks.
Clarke
Ability to articulate only one word at a time due to cough.
Clarke
Painful cramps in the feet.
Clarke
Face and tongue appear very red.
Clarke
Symptoms arise from inhaling silvering fumes.
Clarke
🩺 Systems & Indications
⚙️Generals
Use for acute, violent, and spasmodic conditions involving the respiratory system, throat, and digestive tract.
Vertigo.
Violent headache in the vertex.
Itching in the nose, with profuse secretion of mucus.
Face very red.
Tongue very red.
Taste pungent, gaseous.
Scraping in the throat.
Toothache.
Sense of constriction and burning in the throat.
Violent pain in the suprasternal fossa, and under the manubrium sterni, every time she turned to one side.
Nausea, with such general discomfort that she had to lie down.
Vomiting, with retching.
Suffocating attack.
Respiration difficult and short.
Cough constant, dry, spasmodic, allowing her to articulate but one word at a time.
Pulse 90.
Painful cramps in the feet.
Great weakness.
Profuse sweating through the night.
Slept scarcely any.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
Turning to one side
violent pain in supra-sternal fossa
pain under manubrium sterni
📚 Sources & References
✓ Clarke's Dictionary↗✓ Allen's Encyclopedia↗Boericke's Materia MedicaHering's Guiding SymptomsHahnemann's Materia Medica PuraKent's Materia MedicaPhatak's Concise MM
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