Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum ars-s-f.

Yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic. Orpiment (ARSENIC TRISULPH.)

Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead, right side. Sticking behind ear. Difficult respiration. Skin chafed about genitals.

Leucoderma and squamous syphilides. Sciatica and pain around the knee.

Arsenic sulph rub (influenza with intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high temperature, purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne, and sciatica. Chilly even before a fire. Itching in various parts. Pellagra).

Third trituration.

Arsenious Sulphide. Orpiment. As 2 S 3 . Trituration.

Apoplexy. Caries. Children, emaciated. Diarrhœa. Gonorrhœa. Indigestion. Laryngeal phthisis. Walking, late.

The two sulphides of Arsenic , Orpiment and Realgar , have been used in a somewhat general way in cases combining prominent symptoms of both elements; but independent observations and provings have been made with the two salts. Orpiment has the burning pains and sensations of both Arsenic and Sulphur ; stitching, tearing, and rheumatic pains moving from place to place. Lameness, staggering, trembling. Spasms, colic, vomiting, and diarrhœa. Annoying twitching. General debility. Chafing of skin about genitals and behind ears of children. Skin itching, dry, cracked; rhagades; itch. Jaundice. The periodicity of both Arsenic and Sul . are marked: < every afternoon and evening. > From steam or hot water. > Lying down.

Compare: Sulph., Calc. c. (children slow in learning to walk).

Intense torturing anxiety and apprehension.

Needle-like stitches in r. frontal region.

Taste bitter. — Tongue furred, yellow-white; stiff; swollen; later, dry with disgust for all nourishment. — Mouth and throat dry, herpetic ulcers.

Burning and gnawing in stomach, with vomiting and diarrhœa.

Stools like water, green and slimy and terribly offensive. — Diarrhœa daily 8 a.m. and several times during day, but not at night. — Diarrhœa, with colic and backache and tenesmus.

Gonorrhœa, with terrible pains; discharge copious, yellow, constant; burning day and night along entire urethra, with restlessness.

Eruption on outer side of l. wrist; also on inner side.

Starting in sleep, also in falling asleep; as if he would fall out of bed. — Restless at night, excited; dreams with seminal emissions.

Orpiment. As S 3 .
Hahnemann published in his Materia Medica a single short proving, by Langhammer, one of the most trustworthy provers. Some reports of effects by the Old School physicians are given in Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 1, p. 556 ; also a symptom observed by Hencke.

Intense and torturing anxiety and apprehension greatest apprehension after a swoon.
Mind clearer than previously.

When walking he felt as if dancing up and down, as if he must fly.
Great weakness in head.
Vanishing of thought.

Throbbing stitches in right frontal region.
Headache in middle of forehead, drawing and stinging.
Pain deep in, in left forehead, situated back of inner corner of eye and higher than eyebrow ; it extends towards left and deeper in, like a curve or drawn bowstring.
After drinking beer, pain above occiput in both sides ; violent pressure in two places, right and left side symmetrical.
Nausea, with neuralgic pains about head, when rising ; > while lying down.
Headache, nausea and vomiting of a whitish fluid ; extremities covered with cold sweat.
Serous apoplexy.

External needle-like stitches in right frontal region.
Tearing pain from parietal to frontal region.
On stroking hair on occiput, a tensive feeling behind right ear, as if something stuck there and pressed it forward.

Gum in canthi.

Tensive feeling behind right ear on stroking hair.

Forehead cold.

Teeth pain as if loose, when chewing food.

Taste bitter.
Tongue : furred, yellow white ; stiff, immovable ; swollen later dry, with disgust for all nourishment.

Mouth and throat dry.
Pustules or herpetic ulcers, of a phagedenic character.

Loss of appetite.

Nausea at noon after a meal ; and vomiting, with pain in stomach and abdomen ; diarrhœa and thirst.
Violent, persistent vomiting.
After vomiting offensive bile, was relieved.

Cramp in stomach, with fainting, colic, vomiting, diarrhœa. θ Gangrene of bowels.
Burning and gnawing in stomach, with vomiting and diarrhœa.
Indigestion.

Violent griping, with convulsions.
Violent colic, as from a cold, morning on awaking.
Abdomen puffed ; blue spots in fundus of stomach ; reddish-brown erosions.
End of ileum more inflamed than duodenum.
Sensation as if diarrhœa would set in.

Stools like water, green and slimy, and terribly offensive.
Diarrhœa daily at 8 A. M. and several times during day, but not at night.
Diarrhœa with colic and backache and tenesmus.

Gonorrhœa, with terrible pains ; discharge copious, yellow, constant ; burning day and night, along entire urethra, with restlessness.
Seminal emissions. See 37 .

Laryngeal phthisis. θ In a drunkard.

Respiration difficult.
Indescribably unpleasant feeling, with oppression ; everything feels too tight, < about hypochondria ; ending in sweat.

Cough from tickling in throat ; with pain in left side ; soreness on chest ; with heat in left chest and face, circumscribed red cheeks.
Cough with soreness in chest and between shoulders.
Catarrhal cough with pains in chest and rattling.

Lungs overfilled with blood.
Needle-like stitches from within out in right side of chest.
Yellow serum in pericardium.
Pulse : frequent, hard, then small and thready ; slow, suppressed, quick, and scarcely perceptible.

Backache confining him to bed (with caries of sternum and cough. Sulphur partly cured caries, Psorin. cough, and Arsen. sulph. backache and remaining caries).
Pain in lumbar vertebræ when moving.

Eruption on outer side of left wrist ; also on inner side, after Sulphur. (Sulphur did not cure, Arsenic-sulph. did).

Pain in left knee, with chronic asthma.
Knees pain and totter.
Pain above left ankle bone.
Feet burn.

Severe pain, now in toes, now in shoulders ; now here, now there, ending with sweat.

Children are slow in learning to walk.
Worse when rising : neuralgic pains about head.
Better lying down : neuralgia in head.
When moving : pain in lumbar vertebræ.

General debility.
Nerves severely affected.
Annoying twitching of thirty years' duration.
Spasms, colic, vomiting, diarrhœa, heat and thirst next day.
Faints after a convulsion.
General feeling of lameness, staggering, trembling ; all strength is gone.
Limbs paralyzed ; has itch and dropsy.

Starting in sleep, also in falling asleep ; as if he would fall out of bed.
Restless at night, excited ; dreams with seminal emissions.

At 8 A. M. : daily diarrhœa.
At noon : nausea after a meal, etc. See 16 .
Night : restless ; terrible heat.

Relieved by steam or hot water.

Chronic intermittent fever, < every afternoon and evening ; terrible heat at night.
Hectic without thirst.

Left : pain in forehead.
Right : tensive feeling behind ear.

Pain in teeth as if loose ; when walking felt as if dancing up and down ; as if he must fly ; as if something stuck behind right ear and pressed it forward ; as if he would fall out of bed.
Severe pain : now here, now there.
Needle-like stitches : in right frontal region.
Throbbing stitches : in right frontal region.
Terrible pains : with gonorrhœa.
Tearing pain : from parietal to frontal region.
Drawing : and stinging in middle of forehead.
Griping : in abdomen.
Burning : in stomach ; along entire urethra ; in feet.
Neuralgic pain : about head.
Soreness : on chest ; between shoulders.
Pressure : above occiput, right and left side.
Gnawing : in stomach.
Cramp : in stomach.
Tensive feeling : behind right ear.
Undefined pain : deep in left forehead ; in stomach and abdomen ; in left side with cough ; in shoulders ; in left knee ; above left ankle-bone ; in toes ; in joints.
Tickling : in throat, causing cough.
Heat : in left chest and face.

Pain in joints. θ Rheumatism.

Everything feels too tight about hypochondria.
Emaciated children.

Icterus.
Chafing about genitals and behind ears, in children.
Skin scaly, blackish.
Skin itching, dry, cracked ; rhagades ; itch.

Case of caries of sternum with cough and backache of 15 years' standing. See 31 .
A drunkard with phthisis laryngea.

Similar to Calc. Carb . (children are slow in learning to walk). See 31 and 32 .

Triturate with Sach. lach. for use.

Cramps, grips, vomiting, diarrhœa, with thirst and fever. ▶ Falling down in spasms. ▶ Faintness. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Anxiety and fear. ▶ Apprehension. ▶ Confusion of head, too many thoughts crowed upon him. ▶ Vertigo on walking in open air, feeling through head as from drunkenness. ▶ Stitches externally in right frontal region; throbbing stitches in right frontal region. ▶ Gum in canthi. ▶ Tensive feeling behind right ear, as if something stuck there and pressed the ear forward, on brushing hair on occiput. ▶ Teeth pain as if loose on chewing food. ▶ Tongue white; T. swollen, afterwards dry; stiff, immovable. ▶ Taste bitter. ▶ Mouth and throat dry.

Disgust for all nourishment. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Nausea after dinner, at noon. ▶ Nausea and vomiting. ▶ Vomiting offensive bile, then feeling better. ▶ Cramp in stomach, with faintness, griping, diarrhœa and vomiting. ▶ Abdomen distended, soft, painless. ▶ Colic as from a cold, morning on waking. ▶ Tenesmus. ▶ Liquid, profuse stool on touching abdomen.

▶ Respiration difficult. ▶ Stitches extending outward in right chest. ▶ Pulse frequent, hard, afterwards small, thready; slow, suppressed, afterwards rapid, scarcely to be felt. ▶ Pains in left knee. ▶ Fright on falling asleep in evening as if he fell out of bed. ▶ Cold forehead. ▶ Cold, stiff body.

This is one of our deepest remedies and is to used against psora and syphilis, especially in old broken constitutions.

The Encyclopedia and Guiding Symptoms furnish valuable fragmentary provings.

This study is based also upon new provings and extensive clinical observations.

The symptoms are worse in morning, forenoon, afternoon, evening, in twilight, NIGHT, before midnight, after midnight.

It has a marked tendency to form abscesses.

Aversion to open air. Aversion to open air alternating with a desire for open air. Extremely sensitive to a draft. Open air makes some symptoms better and some worse.

ANAEMIA and PHYSICAL ANXIETY.

Weakness and suffocation from going up stairs. Parts feel constricted as with a band. He takes cold from bathing and all symptoms are worse.

It is a most useful remedy in combating the symptoms of epithelioma, lupus and scirrhus, even where ulceration is far advanced. The appearance of the face and skin is much like chlorosis.

Choreic action of the muscles all over the body. In general the patient is cold, worse from cold air, from becoming cold, from cold, wet weather; takes cold easily.

Convulsions, abdomen puffed up; offensive bilious diarrhoea, slimy vomiting. Discharges from all mucous membranes and outlets very excoriating, offensive, thin and yellow. Dropsy of the extremities and in abdomen.

The symptoms are worse before and AFTER EATING. There is marked emaciation of the body. Slight exertion increases all conditions and symptoms. Faintness from many causes, but especially after stool.

Worse from cold drinks, sour food, cold food, fat food, fruit and milk. Formication all over the body. The mucous membranes bleeding easily. The body feels heavy and loggy. Sometimes he is too warm and sometimes chilly.

Inflamed parts and base of ulcers indurate. Inflammation of organs and glands. Lassitude and lack of reaction. He always desires to lie down. He feels worse lying worse after lying awhile, worse lying on back, yet he feels better in bed.

Symptoms all worse during menstruation. Motion in general ameliorates, yet motion aggravates some symptoms. The patient dreads motion. Old people much broken down, seem to rally under its action. Pains are cutting, BURNING, internal and external, PRESSING, stitching,

It is a most useful medicine in old cases of malaria, in great weakness following the abuse of quinine. When eruptions have been suppressed from local treatment, and there is great weakness and lack of reaction, tearing ; tearing downward, tearing in muscles.

Thrusting pains. Periodicity is very marked. Perspiration gives no relief. Complaints after suppressed sweat. Pulsations all over the body.

The pulse is fast, irregular, intermittent, small, weak. Running or fast walking increases all symptoms. Extremely sensitive to pain. Shocks felt throughout the body ; many symptoms worse on right side of the body.

Complaints worse sitting. Symptoms before sleep, on going to sleep and during sleep. Standing aggravates. Stiffness in body and limbs. Dropsical swelling and swelling of glands. Affected parts sore to touch. Trembling of body and limbs.

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