– Tarkas P. and Ajit Kulkarni.
Iodide of Arsenic
Region
Mucous membranes
Respiratory tract
Digestive tract
Genito-urinary
Glands
Lymphatic
Liver
Blood. Aorta
Heart
Nerves
Skin
Side: R.; lung
L .
Worse
Cold dry or wet
weather; winds;
Winter
Foggy weather
(Cold) bath, drinks
Cold and heat
(extremes)
Warmth ( exc.colic)
Room, in. Sneezing
Motion. Exertion
Lying on painful side
Apples
Tobacco smoke
Better
Warmth; colic
Wrapping-up
Summer
Cold (to
(Cold) bath, drinks abscess)
Open air
Rest
Eating
Scrofulous. Syphilitic
Exudative. Tuberculous
A deep- acting constitutional remedy of a wide range: 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 fairly eating. Rapid and profound debility; prostration with nervous erethism (Sil.). Scrofulous anemic persons: chronic catarrhal processes; enlarged tonsils, mesenteric or other lymphatic glands (cervical etc.). Chlorotic girls. Women subject to faintings. Children hyperactive; tear things.
Catarrhal inflammations; in eyes, ears, nose, throat, lungs. Discharges: copious, acrid, greenish, thin, later thick, gluey, yellow (like honey).
Region Worse Better
Mucous membranes Cold dry or wet Warmth; colic
Respiratory tract weather; winds; Wrapping-up
Digestive tract Winter Summer
Genito-urinary Foggy weather Cold (to
Glands (Cold) bath, drinks abscess)
Lymphatic Cold and heat Open air
Liver (extremes) Rest
Blood. Aorta Warmth ( exc.colic) Eating
Heart Room, in. Sneezing
Nerves Motion. Exertion
Skin Lying on painful side
Side: R.; lung Apples
L . Tobacco smoke
Scrofulous. Syphilitic
Exudative. Tuberculous
A deep- acting constitutional remedy of a wide range: 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 fairly eating. Rapid and profound debility; prostration with nervous erethism (Sil.). Scrofulous anemic persons: chronic catarrhal processes; enlarged tonsils, mesenteric or other lymphatic glands (cervical etc.). Chlorotic girls. Women subject to faintings. Children hyperactive; tear things.
Catarrhal inflammations; in eyes, ears, nose, throat, lungs. Discharges: copious, acrid, greenish, thin, later thick, gluey, yellow (like honey).
Mucous membranes : Red, angry, swollen.
Glands : Enlarged. Suppurating. Venereal buboes. Tabes mesenterica. Lymphoma; malignant. Axillary gland tumor.Goitre.
Blood : Infectious blood diseases. Scurvy. Anaemia. Sepsis.Threatened pyemia (Pyr.). Abscesses.
Oedemas.Elephantiasis. Hydrocele. Hydrothorax. Hydroperi- cardium.
Paralysis. Fatty degenerations, liver, kidney, heart.
Tumors; sensitive, tender.
Malignancies : Cancers of lips; epiglottis (after operation for piles in a smoker having t.b.of nails already), uterus, mammae. Burning pains. Open cancers, puckering of skin over the tumor. Lupus. Lymphoma. Epithelioma. Leukemia. Hodgkin’s disease. Tubercular background.
Nerves : Fainting attacks. Chorea, in girls. Burning pains. Constrictions; in orifices. Formication.
In general chilliness of Ars. ion predominates over the 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, flurry and peevish nervousness (Med.). Anxiety, more nervous than mental. A person reticent, not fussy or apprehensive, but amiable and officious. Averse to being spoken to (Ant-c.). Fear: of insanity, misfortune, people. Confused; impulse to kill. Delusions about dead people.
Head : Vertigo; in aged; with tremulous feeling (in precordia). Catarrhal congestive headaches; syphilitic; malarial periodic (the brow-ague) ; with heart trouble; (