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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 debility, exhaustion, andrestlessness, withnightly aggravation, are most important.Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability of fiber, gives the characteristicirritable 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 potency.Fear fright and worry. Green discharges. Infantile Kala-azar (Dr. Neatby).
Ars should be thought of in ailments from alcoholism,ptomaine poisoning, stings, dissecting wounds, chewing tobacco; ill effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges is putrid; in complaints that return annually. Anaemia and chlorosis. 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 cachexia.Septic infections and low vitality.
👤 Constitution
•Typically thin, cachectic 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 debility, 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 acrid lachrymation.
eyes
Intense photophobia; better external warmth.
eyes
Thin, excoriating, offensive otorrhoea.
ears
Thin, watery, excoriating 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
3X
Decimal
🕒3 times a day after meals
📝lowest potencies for surface conditions
Primary Dosage
30C
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝higher potencies for neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Rhus Toxicodendron →Phosphorus →
🚫 Antidotes
China Officinalis →
🔄 Compare With
Sulphur →Mercurius Solubilis →
📚 Sources & References

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