Argentum-Met
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1998 May / Jun VOL VII NO 4.
Dr P I Tarkas
Dr Ajit Kulkarni.
| Region | Worse | Better |
| Lower Tissues | COLD, winter, damp | Warmth, wrapping up |
| Joints & components [bones, cartilages, ligaments] white fibrous tissue | Sun[Stroke] periodically | open air |
| Daytime, noon, afternoon,. midnight | night [cough] lying [cough] | |
| Epithelial tissues. Mucous membranes, | 3-5 am; 11 am-1 pm;3-6 pm | walking continued |
| GIG-URT? | Rest, lying, sleep | deflation |
| LARNYX | Prolonged exertion | warm drink coffee |
| Glandular organs | Descending | |
| Kidneys, Ovaries(l).Testes(r), Nerves, sheaths | Riding in car | |
| Touch, mental strain; fright, anger, loss of fluids, | ||
| Spinal | Onanism | |
| neuro-musculatures | Eating | |
| [L] side | Mercury |
Silver is widely distributed in all tissues in the range of 0.002-0.008 micro gm/gm/wet/weight. Mean blood concentration of silver is 0.0081+ 0.0002 micro gm/gm.. Cow's milk contains 0.027+ 0.54 mg/lit.
Functions and requirements are not yet clearly known. Physiologically, silver gives protection against infection.
Historic Tale: In the 4th century BC, the army of Alexander the Great, conquered Persia and Phoenicia and invaded India. Here the Greek army was struck by an outbreak of a mysterious gastro-intestinal disease and the soldiers demanded to be sent home. Interestingly, the Greek military commanders fell victim to the disease far less frequently than their soldiers, although they shared all the burdens of camp life with the soldiers. More than two hundred years had passed before scientists found an explanation for it. The soldiers drank from tin cups and their superiors from silver ones. It was proved that silver dissolves in water forming a colloid solution that kills pathogenic bacteria and although the solubility of silver in water is low, it is quite enough for disinfecting.
This tale explains why silver has been used in making domestic utensils, water vessels, dinner dishes etc. for preservation of water and food since antiquity.
Acute Poisoning: Throat pain, gastro-enteritis, renal failure, convulsions and collapse.
Chronic Poisoning: Skin discoloration [Argyria] blue line on gums like of lead poisoning albuminuria, extensor muscle paralysis.
Dynamic Overdosing: Catarrhs, Arthralgia. Arthritis
Highlights: Slow, deep, low-grade processes like TB, Cancer; they come on lingeringly, insidiously, but progress steadily. (Sil). A very deep acting organic remedy...goes deep into life....affects all there is of man...low form of tissue making {Kent}
Constitutional effects of sunstroke, onanism etc. Lingering complaints with weak feeling in chest.
A dyscrasia of latent disease.
Make-Up: Businessmen, brain workers. Students and readers of all kinds (Sil). Broken down, emaciating progressively. Younger ones withering, wrinkling, aged looking, imbecile, bad inheritance. Tendency to catarrhs. Rheumatism, caries, tubercles, athrepsia, deep ulcers, cancer, tall, thin, pale, chilly, nervous, irritable, foggy, hollow eyed. Weak chested. Complaints hang on and become more and more serious. Mentally vain, a guller [?] Hysterical, confused, anxious.
Nerves: Deep seated troubles of nerves, growing increasingly sensitive to surroundings. Trembling in stomach, chest, heart, hands, legs [on descending]. Twitching, general nervous irritability amounting to convulsions. Tendency to spasmodic action of limbs. Convulsions - tonic, clonic or internal systemic epilepsy: < at noon, violent rage after attack, convulsive or electric like shocks in body, < talking; falling to or during sleep; when tired, or sudden from talking on falling into or during sleep, Hysterical neuralgia.
Pains, violent, rending, tearing, along the course of nerves, increase gradually, cease suddenly; < touch & rest, > warmth. Sudden momentary pains in belly, back [R] shoulder etc., spasmodic pains. Raw or sore, as if ulcerated. Sharp pains rarely. Sensation of soreness and rawness, as if ulcerated or of expansion in internal organs. Also painlessness from deepening pathology.
Numbness in arms, legs, Tendo Achilles, feet, heels.
Weakness: from pains, tremulous, paralysis of the whole body: morning, on waking or sudden lameness of limbs, upper arms; worse waking, motion. Legs crampy, weak, tremble and totter, < descending; a walk is exceedingly fatiguing, paralysis of arm and hand; partial paralysis fore-arm.
Sudden: shocks pains or their disappearance, weakness.
Tissues: Emaciation: gradual drying up. Cartilages: inflamed, thickened, knotty indurated. Infiltration in. Ulcers begin there. Growths on; epithelomata. Necroses.
Joints sore, tender, hysterical, joints [pains sans swelling], hip, knee etc. serum in hip joint disease. White swelling [fungus] articulosus, hydrops articuli, tumor albus genu. arthralgia, uterine reflex.
Bones: Pains pressing, gnawing, exostosis on skull. Caries resulting from stricture, closure or atrophy of smaller blood vessels.
Muscles: spasmodic action. Cramps in fingers [writer's cramp], in legs, calves, involuntary contraction of fingers. Rheumatism; < in cold, damp weather, < warmth.
Mucous Membranes: discharges passive, indolent; like boiled starch, gray thick tenacious mucus, or thin, offensive. Rarely a thick yellow or greenish discharge as gonorrhea. Growths: tumours, ovarian cysts, malignant: testes, ovaries, uterus, epithelioma, lupus. scirrhus. exostoses.
Softening: brain
Dropsy: scrotum; ankles esp in diabetes, feet, with anemia. Swollen centre of upper lip
Blood: general anemia, with oedema pedis. Smaller blood vessels become clogged, atrophied or strictured and various affections result. Arteries not affected.
Degeneration: infiltration. Thickenings, indurations. Ulceration, disposition to gangrene
To conclude: a very deep acting sycotic remedy of the cadre of Thuja, Med or X-ray to fight inveterate catarrhs, hypertrophies, new growths even malignancies, degenerations, caries, necroses, softening, phthisis. For sclerosis use the nitrate. Troubles start with inflammations from suppression of catarrhs, aided by a negative inheritance, a mercurial cachexia. A virtual rejuvenator this.
Select Particulars:
Mind: Depression of mental and intellectual faculties. Not affections, contrast Arg-n, though affected by emotions like anger, fright or anticipation. Memory and reasoning faculty disturbed increasingly to imbecility. Loquacity. Hypochondriacal restlessness. Profound nervous breakdown. Bewildered, disinclined to talk from fear of slipping into non-sense. Whimsical; foolish behaviour. Hasty, a hurried feeling within time passes too slowly, a state of nervous excitement. Vain, rather than conceited & deceitful.
Head: Vertigo, sudden with dim or cloudy vision and uncontrollable senses, whirling as if drunken < entering in room, mental exertion, reading, looking at running water.
Reflex headaches, deep unilateral, persistent, nursing, sick, worry, tension
Eyes: Lids main target. Inflammation, infiltration into, thickened, itching. Ophthalmia of children, purulent with photophobia, glaucoma. Stricture of lachrymal duct. Amaruosis. Mercurial.
Ears: Itching. Eustachian catarrh. Infiltration in. Buzzing, singing.
Nose: Copious, exhausting fluency, with sneezing < morning, Epistaxis, after dinner.
Face: Pale yellowish, with fetor oris. Bone pains.
Mouth: Gums flabby, loosen teeth, tender, bleed easily, sticky saliva, adhering teeth or tongue.
Throat: Chronic catarrhal sore throats; raw and sore, has to hawk often. Mercurial angina and stenosis stricture.
Stomach: great appetite, constant hunger, with nausea, without thirst or anorexia, dyspepsia, mercurial, ascending heartburn and pyrosis. Nausea all day, with uneasiness, from anxious dreams. Anxiety and pressure in pit of stomach.
Abdomen: Tenderness over urinary reflex, tension, and congestive pain <riding, jar> deflation. Rumbling with soreness in pelvic region. Flatulent colic as if incarcerated, the nitrate. Tabes mesenterica.
Rectum: stools frequent, sandy, scanty, but copious urine.
Urinary: spasmodic enuresis, bed wetting, Diabetes insipidus, D-mellitus, with dyspnoea and dropsy, burning, genital pruritus, albuminuria. Polyuria with pains.
Male: Gonorrheal syndromes. Urethritis. Testes; inflamed, harden infiltrate, crushed or bruised pain. Itching. Emissions involuntary, with impotence and atrophy after onanic indulgence. Lessened sex hormones with excess of thyroid and pituitary.
Female: Whole pelvic system engorged, sore. Cervix congested spongy or indurated. Eroded, ulcerated, cancer. scirrhus. Epithelioma. Discharge copious, putrid, burning, eroding, yellow green bloody. Metrorrhagia at climacteric.
Uterine disease with pains in joints and limbs, cancer, uterus sagging and prolapsed.
Ovarian troubles infiltration, hardness, cysts, tumors, indurations, pain esp 1t (Palladium rt)
Respiratory: Colds settle in larynx voice untime or hoarse. Aphonic from overuse.
Sporadic dry hacking mild or teasing coughs < in warm room, laughing, talking, > lying short rattling, by day. Winter chest colds.
Expectoration easy. Bland, gelatinous. paralytic weakness of chest muscles [L] side, perichondritis. Inherited or threatened phthisis, laryngeal, pulmonary hectic < at noon or between 11-1. Weakness of chest [Stan]
Heart: heart muscle sympathizes with neuralgic pains, frequent spasmodic though painless twitching a cardiac chorea, < lying on back , with fear of apoplexy. Irritable heart, neuralgia cordis sans anxiety, feels as if heart stops and then throbs or trembles < deep inspiration, occasional miss beat. Fluttering palpitation, with or sans anxiety, headache, trembling knees, during menses or pregnancy < night sudden exertion, lying on back; < motion, sighing. Pulse irregular in force but regular in rhythm.
Back: stiff neck. severe pain, with oppression of chest, walks stooped.
Locomotor: all the limbs feel stiff, numb, jerk, shocks esp when lying down to sleep. Rheumatic pains < sitting, lying down. Coxalgia. Hysterical joints.
Sleep: restless, non-refreshing. Has, in morning, to settle down to work with much effort of will, limbs feel limp. Dreams of emission with or cause nausea. Sleep < troubles , shocks, jerks, starting on falling into or during sleep.
Skin: neuro skins itching (Agar), unchanged, by scratching < tough or motion of skin in exanthema, disposed to gangrene. Ulcers. bleeding suppurating, abscesses; < warmth. Herpes Zoster.
Thermal: chill, noon, pm before midnight; begins in back; on uncovering. Fever, at or before noon 11am or 12 noon or 1 pm after meals, hectic; head, less hot than body [or heat of body minus head]; no thirst.
Sweat esp on trunk [ventral], easy at dinner or meals, on upper half of body oily
Relations: is a sycotic Sil
Antidotes Merc, Pul
It antidotes abuse of mercury. Metals are mutual antidotes, generally exhibit a single miasm.
Precede Well: Alu, Merc, Plat
Follow Well: Calc-c, Merc, Pul, Sep
Acute: Rhus-tox
Similar- Alu, Arg n, Fl ac, Kre, Mang, Osm, Plat, Pul, Sel, Sil, Stan, Zinc
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