Arsenicum Metallicum ars-m.

Pure metallic Arsenic is triturated with sugar of milk for use.

See Arsenicum alb.

Emaciation. ▶ Pulsation over whole body; especially under sternum; especially in right hip-joint, agg. morning, amel. evening. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Disinclination to rising in morning after sound sleep. ▶ Recurrence of symptoms after two weeks. ▶ Aggravation in morning; after brandy. ▶ Appearance of symptoms of right, then left side.

Stupor in morning after sound sleep all night. ▶ Despondency. ▶ Depression of spirits. ▶ Indifference.

Aching, agg. when laughing. ▶ Swollen feeling morning on waking. ▶ Sensation as from fumes of whisky. ▶ Heaviness like vertigo. ▶ Swollen feeling in forehead, with immovable skin. ▶ Heaviness in forehead, with dull feeling. ▶ Aching in left side of head, extending to left ear and eye, with nausea. ▶ Soreness of scalp when pulling even one hair.

Pain so that he could not read much. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Lids swollen and inflamed.

Coryza; with hoarseness, then with angina faucium; fluent. ▶ Discharge of scalding water, which excoriates nostrils.

Bloated; feeling as if. ▶ Ulcer on left inner side of lower lip; on right inner side of lower lip, with soreness on touch of tongue.

Gums swollen and painful to touch; gums swollen and feeling as if scalded, with salivation. ▶ Tongue coated white and covered with mucus; coated white and showing imprint of teeth. ▶ Dryness.

Aversion to wines and liquors. ▶ Eructations of hot bile. ▶ Nausea.

Bloated. ▶ Lancinating griping after waking at 6 A.M., amel. sharp, burning, watery stool, then debility, sleeping in his chair, loss of appetite and full pulse. ▶ Tension and sensation of swelling. ▶ Pulsation in umbilicus. ▶ Painful swelling in right groin, where a bubo had suppurated twenty-four years before, agg. extending leg, the pain goes to hip, agg. sitting, when the leg goes to sleep, amel. walking.

Sore feeling in A. ▶ Bleeding varices; V. on right side, painful after stool (not bleeding). ▶ Constipation. ▶ Red, sandy sediment in urine. ▶ Pain in region of heart; P. in left muscles of chest.

Full and hard; at 9 A.M., and rapid. ▶ Rapid; in morning, rapid in morning, after rising.

Lumbago. ▶ Numbness in right lumbar region from vertebræ to crest of ilium, and inside of right thigh down to knee.

Cracking of finger-joints. ▶ Swollen feeling in hands, fingers and feet, with feeling as if he could not close hand. ▶ In lower limb sensation as if he could not use it, but he could walk well after using it. ▶ Hip-joint, lame feeling in right; numbness in right, extending to pubes; paralyzed feeling in right hip-joint extending to pubic symphysis and down inside of thigh to knee. ▶ Dry feeling in right knee. ▶ Pulsation in right anterior tibial artery at superior extremity of its inferior third.

Scales. ▶ Itching of forehead; on face, amel. pinching; on face, amel. pressure, but not by scratching; on lower part of face, with burning, as before eruption; on face, agg. night, amel. bathing with cold water, with burning, stinging and swelling, then desquamation in small scales; in right groin, extending to knee.

Very sound at night. ▶ Sleepiness in morning after rising; in daytime and evening; afternoon when walking in street; S., with little sleep. ▶ Restless sleep; with fulness in head, which was agg. on waking in night. ▶ Sensation in sleep as if he would have headache in morning on waking. ▶ Dreams of danger, especially by water, that he is in danger of drowning, etc.

Dry heat in palms of hands. ▶ Burning of hands and feet. ▶ Heat of feet, with a bloated feeling; dry heat of feet, also at night. ▶ Sweat of feet; offensive S. on genitals.