Silver
- Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnea, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic.
- The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligaments.
- Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result.
- They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress.
- The larynx is also a special center for this drug.
Mental
- Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.
Head
- Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly.
- Scalp very tender to touch.
- Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water.
- Head feels empty, hollow.
- Eyelids red and thick.
- Exhausting coryza, with sneezing.
- Pain in facial bones.
- Pain between left eye and frontal eminence.
Throat
- Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore on coughing.
- Profuse and easy morning expectoration.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness.
- Aphonia.
- Raw, sore feeling when coughing.
- Total loss of voice of professional singers.
- Larynx feels sore and raw.
- Easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch.
- Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa.
- Worse from use of voice.
- Cough from laughing.
- Hectic fever at noon.
- On reading aloud, must hem and hawk.
- Great weakness of chest; worse left side.
- Alteration in timbre of voice.
- Pain in left lower ribs.
Back
- Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of chest.
Urine
- Diuresis.
- Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor.
- Frequent urination.
- Polyuria.
Extremities
- Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee.
- Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs.
- Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer's cramp.
- Swelling of ankles.
Male
- Crushed pain in testicles.
- Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement.
- Frequent micturition with burning.
Female
- Ovaries feel too large.
- Bearing-down pain.
- Prolapse of womb.
- Eroded spongy cervix.
- Leucorrhea foul, excoriating.
- Palliative in scirrhus of uterus.
- Pain in left ovary.
- Climacteric hemorrhage.
- Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring.
- Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs.
Modalities
- Worse from touch, toward noon.
- Better in open air; cough at night when lying down (opposite Hyoscy).
Relationship
- Antidotes: Mercur; Puls.
- Compare:
- Selen; Alum; Platina; Stannum;
- Ampelopsis (Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients).
Dose
- Sixth trituration and higher.
- Not too frequent repetition.
