The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica
Antimonium Sulph. Auratum ant-s.
General
Golden Sulphuret of Antimony. Sb 2 S 5 .
Introduced by Glauber, 1654, and abused as a purgative and an emetic.
Proved by Mayrhoffer, in 1845 ; published by Buchner, in 1874.
Mind
Apprehensiveness with heaviness in precordium.
Inner head
Pressive headache.
Burning in head. θ Eye complaints.
Outer head
Reddish swelling behind right ear, leaving a redness and scurfiness.
Sight and eyes
Amaurosis, in beginning.
Spots on cornea.
Iris protruding through cornea.
Smell and nose
Bleeding from nose on washing.
Increased mucus from nose and throat.
Inner mouth
Pasty mouth and taste in morning.
Palate and throat
Burning and heat in fauces.
Mucus from throat becomes offensive to smell.
Pressure in throat as if a plug stuck in it.
Scratching, rough feeling in throat in morning.
Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions
Loss of appetite ; almost a loathing of food.
Scrobiculum and stomach
Pressure and fulness in stomach.
Abdomen and loins
Pressure, tension and fulness in abdomen ; umbilical region sensitive.
Stools and rectum
Passage of much flatus with sudden urging, followed by a stool solid at first, then bright yellow and pasty ; afterwards violent colic and rumbling around navel.
Constipation ; feces hard and passed with difficulty.
Urinary organs
Urine increased, dark red.
Male sexual organs
Pustular eruption on scrotum after much itching.
Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia
Accumulation of tough mucus in bronchi and larynx.
Increased mucous secretion with fulness in bronchi, and full, hard breathing.
Respiration
Respiration difficult.
Cough
Dry, hard cough, no expectoration.
Increased mucous sputum, mixed with blood, of a sweetish taste.
Inner chest and lungs
Passive congestion of upper lobe of left lung, with dry, hard cough.
Heart, pulse and circulation
Heaviness in precordium and apprehensiveness.
Upper limbs
Arms heavy in morning.
Boring and tearing in arms and hand joints.
Swelling of fingers.
Limbs in general
Itching on hands and feet.
Nerves
Malaise, fatigue and lassitude with nausea.
Sleep
Deep sleep.
Sleep dreamy ; wakes after midnight with dull headache ; with restlessness and sexual desire.
Awoke suddenly with heavy, confused head, pressure in stomach, difficult breathing, fulness of bronchi, restless tossing ; skin active, with slight warmth and even sweat.
Sleep dreamy with sudden waking after midnight, gouty and rheumatic pains increased.
Time
Morning : pasty taste in mouth ; scratching in throat ; arms feel heavy.
After midnight : awakens with dull headache ; restless ; sexual desire increased ; gouty and rheumatic pains <.
Temperature and weather
Washing causes nosebleed.
Locality and direction
Right : swelling behind ear.
Left : upper lobe of lung congested.
Sensations
As if a plug stuck in throat.
Boring : in arms and hand joints.
Tearing : in arms and hand joints.
Violent colic.
Pressive pain : in head.
Burning : in head ; in fauces.
Pressure : in stomach ; in abdomen.
Fulness : in stomach ; in abdomen ; in bronchi.
Heaviness in precordium.
Itching : on scrotum ; on hands and feet.
Skin
Dry, elevated pustules on inner surface of thighs.
Relations
Similar to : Antimonies (family relation) ; Aurum (chest) ; Arsen. ; Ferrum ; Merc. sulph. ; Sulphur ; Amm. carb . (nosebleed after washing).