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Arsenicum Album

30C / 200C / 1MArsenicum
Arsenic Trioxide · White Arsenic · "The Perfectionist's Remedy"
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🎯 A profoundly acting remedy for severe exhaustion, restlessness, and burning pains that are relieved by heat.
📖 Boericke writes:
Arsenious Acid-Arsenic Trioxide
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application. Among these the all-prevailing , exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important. Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability of fiber, gives the characteristic irritable weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. Seaside complaints (Nat mur; Aqua Marina). Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones. Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high . Fear fright and worry. Green discharges. Infantile Kala-azar (Dr. Neatby).
Ars should be thought of in ailments from , ptomaine poisoning, stings, dissecting , chewing tobacco; ill effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges is ; in complaints that return annually. and . Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition. Reduces the refractive index of blood serum (also China and Ferr phos). Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location. Malarial . Septic infections and low vitality.
👤 Constitution
•Typically thin, individuals who are anxious, restless, and prone to feeling cold, yet suffer from burning pains.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Among these the all-prevailing , exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important.
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Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion.
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Burning pains.
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Fear fright and worry.
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Septic infections and low vitality.
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Great anguish and restlessness.
mind
Changes place continually.
mind
Burning in eyes, with .
eyes
Intense ; better external warmth.
eyes
Thin, , offensive .
ears
Thin, watery, discharge.
nose
Gulping up of burning water.
mouth
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Indicated for states of extreme mental anguish, restlessness, and irrational fears.
Great anguish and restlessness.
Changes place continually.
Fears, of death, of being left alone.
Great fear, with cold sweat.
Thinks it useless to take medicine.
Suicidal.
Hallucinations of smell and sight.
Despair drives him from place to place.
Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage.
General sensibility increased (Hep).
Sensitive to disorder and confusion.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

3X
Decimal
🕒3 times a day after meals
📝lowest potencies for surface conditions
30C
Centesimal
📝higher potencies for neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Rhus Toxicodendron →Phosphorus →Thuja Occidentalis →Secale Cornutum →
🚫 Antidotes
China Officinalis →Opium →Hepar Sulphur →Nux Vomica →
🔄 Compare With
Sulphur →Mercurius Solubilis →Cenchris Contortrix →Iodium →Phosphorus →China Officinalis →Veratrum Album →Kalium Phosphoricum →Epilobium PalustreStrychnos Gaultheriana →

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Arsenicum Album is listed in 1,244 rubrics across 25 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 562 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Fever110Skin104Abdomen104Respiratory System100Stomach87Nervous System84Generalities75Female Sexual System57Urinary System52Eyes50Head46Locomotor System45Modalities44Nose41Circulatory System41Mind38Face32Male Sexual System31Tongue28Mouth23Throat22Ears12Teeth9Taste6Gums3

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