Arsenic Iodatum.
Tarkas P I.
Materia Medica.
` Ars-i.
Mucous Membranes
Respiratory tract
Digestive tract
Genito-urinary
Glands - Lymphatic,
Liver
Blood - Aorta,
Heart
Nerves
Skin
Side : Rt. Lung,
Lt. Lung
Aggravations
Cold dry weather;winds; Winter
Foggy weather (cold)
bath, drinks cold
and heat (extremes)
Warmth (exc colic) Room, in Motion
Lying on painful side
Apples
Tobacco smoke
Scrofulous. Syphilitic
Exudative. Tuberculous
Ameliorations
Warmth; colic
Wrapping-up
Summer
Cold (to abscess)
Open air
Rest
Eating
Exertion
A deep-acting constitutional remedy of a wide range of action; from catarrhs to ulcerative destruction. All stages of syphilis: primary, secondary, tertiary; buboes; ulcers; eruptions.
Make-up: Persons with pale delicate skin, enlarged tonsils (with tendency to induration), defective nutrition, skin troubles, passive oedemas (puffy eyelids), tubercular diathesis; malarial or cancerous cachexia. Always taking cold. Thin wiry anxious persons of cachectic appearance, with poor appetite and digestion, wasting (emaciating) inspite of fair eating. Rapid and profound debility; prostration with nervous erethism (Sil). Scrofulous anaemic persons; chronic catarrhal processes; enlarged tonsils, mesenteric or other lymphatic glands (cervical etc.). Chlorotic girls. Women subject to faintings.
Catarrhal inflammation: in eyes, ears, nose, throat, lungs. Discharges: copious, acrid, greenish, thin, later black, gluey, yellow (like honey).
Glands: Enlarged. Suppurating. Venereal buboes.
Tabes mesenterica. Lymphoma; malignant: Axillary gland tumor.
Blood: Infectious blood diseases. Scurvy, Anaemia. sepsis. Pyemia Abscesses.
Oedemas: Elephantiasis, Hydrocele. Hydrothorax, Hydropericardium.
Paralysis. Fatty degenerations, liver, kidney, heart.
Tumors; sensitive, tender.
Malignancies: Cancers of lips; epiglottis (after operation for piles in a smoker having
tuberculosis of nails already), uterus, mammae. Burning pains. Open cancers, puckering of
skin over the tumor. Lupus, Lymphoma, Epithelioma. Leukemia. Hodgkins disease, Tubercular
background.
Nerves: Fainting attacks. Chorea; in girls. Burning pains. constrictions; in orifices.
In general chilliness of Ars ion predominates over the ion of Iod (an exception to the warm bloodedness of all Iodides) but is more catarrhal, has more glandular involvement and is indicative of a later (suppurating) stage.
SELECT PARTICULARS:
MIND - Impatience, hurry, fussy and peevish nervousness (Med). Anxiety, more nervous than mental. Reticent, not fussy or apprehensive, but amiable and officious.
HEAD - Vertigo; in aged; with tremulous feeling (in precordia). Catarrhal congestive headache; syphilitic; malarial periodic (the brow-ague); with heart trouble; worse fasting, mental exertion, feels cold.
EYES - Chronic catarrhal conditions. Scrofulous inflammations; parenchymatous Keratitis. Heavy feeling. Ulcerative tendency.
EARS - Catarrhal otitis, chronic, of ME and ET: after exanthemas, chronic irritability of ME; thickening of tympanum. Hypertrophy of (opening of) ET, and of nasal tissues. Discharging acrid and fetid. Pain, worse driving in a cold wind.
NOSE - Obstinate catarrhs, first dripping, then collecting, finally snuffy. Typical, annual, hay fever (or asthma); tubercular or malarial background; flu type with (like Lob-s) unrelenting sneezing; burning (and in throat); pain over root of nose and frontal sinuses; pungent irritation in nose and eyes; soreness; hunger.
FACE - Sickly, oldish, sunken, sallow and emaciated. Aching malar bones. Swollen; submaxillaries. Acne rosacea; inveterate; indurated base and pustular at apex.
MOUTH - Salivation, worse morning. Fetor Aphthae; in last stage of phthisis. Scorbutic gums. Tongue brown, or white with red tip and edges; cracked.
THROAT - Follicular pharyngitis, with raw burning; ulceration (syphilitic). Tonsillitis with swelling. Membrane (from lips to fauces) thickened, hypertrophies. Diptheria, later stage, putrefactive degeneration.
STOMACH - Catarrhal gastritis. Thirst for (cold) water, which is ejected at once, but food an hour after. Pyrosis. Distressing nausea (rarely, better cold water). Craves stimulants. Raised appetite. Pains.
ABDOMEN - Tympanitic distension, better deflation, stool. Tubercular peritonitis. Inguinal megaly, bubonic plague. Splenomegaly (malarial).
Liver - Inflammation; damaged function; tender; enlarged; abscess (syphilitic); lardaceous.
Rectum - Diarrhoea, worse in the morning after moving about, better at nights; of phthisis; relaxed sphincter; stool excoriating (in the aged). Cholera infantum with watery stools, cold limbs and vomiting (like Ars). Abscess, fistula, cancer.
URINARY - Kidney; Brights disease, from cardiac disturbance or pleuritic effusions, Addisons disease Lardaceous kidney. Urine increased (skin dry; opp. Op); diabetes. Catarrhal conditions in uro-genitalia; in scrofulous subjects.
MALE - Indurated testes. Syphilitic chancres.
FEMALE - Leucorrhoea acrid, burning, bloody. Menses pale; membranous; crampy dysmenorrhea; stopped. Labia indurated, swollen, metastasing to axilla; abscess. Ovarian tumor. Ulcers in Os. Mammae: abscess; tumour; nipple retracted, tender; ulcerated, cancer.
RESPIRATORY - A Homoeopathic antibiotic here. Catarrhal Laryngitis; hoarseness; aphonia; diptheric (membranous) or spasmodic croup.
Air hunger; asthma in psoric or phthisical persons; agg. 11 p.m. to 2 a.m.; worse when first lying down, must sit up. Bronchitis; loose coarse rales, Cough hacking; winter; chronic. Sputa heavy, purulent, yellow-green, (may be) stringy.
Acute - chronic catarrhal pneumonia; delayed or slow resolution; abscess; caseous degeneration fibrosis; with valvular disease, epp. mitral. Flu, broncho-pneumonia. Pleurisy; exudative; tubercular.
Burning heat in chest. Hydrothorax secondary to heart disease. Morbid cellular irritation in lungs. Oppression; in a warm room.
Phthisis; inherited; haemorrhagic; miliary; with profound prostration, recurring fevers, night-sweats, cardiac debility, dilatation, rapid irritable pulse, ulcerative conditions; after pleuro-pneumonia. "Non-tubercular phthisis".
HEART - Myocardial weakness, with erethism, syphilitic or rheumatic; degeneration, after myocarditis. Senile hearts; arteriosclerosis, with HBP (Aur-i); emphysema; precordial anxiety tremulousness; enlarged area of cardiac dullness; vertigo, pulse irregular, shotty, rapid, tremulous, fluttering; tendency to faint; pulsations. Aneurism of aorta.
Mild carditis, endocarditis (Malignant) Pericarditis.
Angina pectoris; shooting precordial pains, from sternum to back. Post-infarct sub-sternal soreness (chest wall syndrome). chronic coronary artery disease, leading to infarcts. Liver, kidneys, lungs and heart.
LOCOMOTOR - Gouty and rheumatic pains. Muscles twitch on quick walking;
SKIN - Dry, harsh, dusky; scaly, itching. A legion of (chronic) skin affections. Boils. Ichthyosis. Acne. Eczema, desquamating; barbers itch. Urticaria. Erysipelas. Abscesses and ulcers; indolent, foul, indurated, watery oozing; worse by washing; better by cold. Syphilitic. Suppressed.
Leprosy - dirty - looking tubercules; dropping off of fingers, toes; enlarged glands.
Psoriasis in the syphilitic or tubercular; exfoliation of large scales leaving a raw exuding surface beneath; of scalp, crust thick dry but much inflammation underneath. Lichen Scrofulosum.
THERMIC - Constitutional coldness and chilliness; too cold to get warm. Cold damp hands and feed. True influenza; with ENT symptoms; chills, flushes of heat, sweat; respiratory type, tendency to lung abscesses, h-o T B; alternate heat and chills or heat and sweat.
Recurrent fevers and sweats; Night sweats of debilitating diseases. Suspicious fevers and coughs. Intermittents; h-o Hectic conditions, with abscesses; febrile in evening and night and remission in morning as one begins to move about. Septic fevers; continued high temperature; dry yellow-skin, or debilitating night sweats (Chin-a). Feverish coldness.
"Pink eye" influenza in horses. (Arsenic has a reputation as the horses remedy.)
Relationship:
Complimentary: Aur, Cal-ph, Kali-i, Pho, Sul, Syph, Tub.
Similar - Ant-i, Carb-an, Dig, Gall-ac, Hep, Kali-bi, Kali-i, Cist, Pho, Tub.
In hay fever - All-c, Ambros, Cist, Hep, Lob-s, Naph, Nat-a, Nat-i, Nat-m, Pho, Psor, Ran-b, Rosa-d, Sabad, Sang-n, Sin-n, Sol-i, Stic, Sul-i, Tub, Wye.
Antidotes - Bry.
Symbiotics - Calc-c, Aur, Con, MERCs, Phos, Psor, Pyro, Sil, SUL, Syph, Tub.
