Nitrate of Silver
- In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting; themselves which give certain indications for its homeopathic employment.
- Symptoms of incoordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; trembling in affected parts.
- Is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastro-enteritis.
- Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes.
- Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic.
- Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion.
- Head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy.
- Pains increase and decrease gradually.
- Flatulent state and prematurely aged look.
- Explosive belching especially in neurotics.
- Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion.
- Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord.
- Intolerance of heat.
- Sensation of a sudden pinch (Dudgeon).
- Destroys red blood corpuscles, producing anemia.
Mind
- Thinks his understanding will and must fail.
- Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window.
- Faintish and tremulous.
- Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease.
- Time passes slowly (Cann ind).
- Memory weak.
- Errors of perception.
- Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry (Lilium).
- Peculiar mental impulses.
- Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions.
Head
- Headache with coldness and trembling.
- Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks.
- Sense of expansion.
- Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling.
- Headache from mental exertion, from dancing.
- Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections.
- Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye.
- Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure.
- Itching of scalp.
- Hemi-crania; bones of head feel as if separated.
Eyes
- Inner canthi swollen and red.
- Spots before the vision.
- Blurred vision.
- Photophobia in warm room.
- Purulent ophthalmia.
- Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent.
- Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen.
- Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily.
- Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room.
- Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them.
- Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles.
- Paretic condition of ciliary muscle.
- Acute granular conjunctivitis.
- Cornea opaque.
- Ulcer in cornea.
Nose
- Loss of smell.
- Itching.
- Ulcers in septum.
- Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.
Face
- Sunken, old, pale, and bluish.
- Old man's look; tight drawing of skin over bones.
Mouth
- Gums tender and bleed easily.
- Tongue has prominent papillae; tip is red and painful.
- Pain in sound teeth.
- Taste coppery, like ink.
- Canker sores.
Throat
- Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking.
- Raw, rough and sore.
- Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing.
- Dark redness of throat.
- Catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in throat.
- Strangulated feeling.
Stomach
- Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.
- Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus.
- Flatulence; painful swelling of pit.
- Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the abdomen.
- Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction.
- Ineffectual effort at eructation.
- Great craving for sweets.
- Gastritis of drunkards.
- Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs.
- Trembling and throbbing in stomach.
- Enormous distention.
- Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain.
- Desire for cheese and salt.
Abdomen
- Colic, with much flatulent distention.
- Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs.
Stool
- Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very offensive.
- Diarrhea immediately after eating or drinking.
- Fluids go right through him; after sweets.
- After any emotion with flatulence.
- Itching of anus.
Urine
- Urine passes unconsciously, day and night.
- Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter.
- Urine scanty and dark.
- Emission of a few drops after having finished.
- Divided stream.
- Early stage of gonorrhea; profuse discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine.
Male
- Impotence.
- Erection fails when coition is attempted.
- Cancer-like ulcers.
- Desire wanting.
- Genitals shrivel.
- Coition painful.
Female
- Gastralgia at beginning of menses.
- Intense spasm of chest muscles.
- Organs at night.
- Nervous erethism at change of life.
- Leucorrhea profuse, with erosion of cervix bleeding easily.
- Uterine hemorrhage, two weeks after menses.
- Painful affections of left ovary.
Respiratory
- High notes cause cough.
- Chronic hoarseness.
- Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat.
- Dyspnea.
- Chest feels as if a bar were around it.
- Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on right side; (Alumen).
- Painful spots in chest.
- Angina pectoris, nightly aggravation.
- Many people in a room seem to take away his breath.
Back
- Much pain.
- Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, (Oxal acid) paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.
Extremities
- Cannot walk with eyes closed.
- Trembling, with general debility.
- Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms.
- Rigidity of calves.
- Debility in calves especially.
- Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved.
- Numbness of arms.
- Post-diphtheritic paralysis (after Gelsem).
Skin
- Brown, tense, and hard.
- Drawing in skin, as from a spider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried up.
- Irregular blotches.
Sleep
- Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification.
- Drowsy stupor.
Fever
- Chills with nausea.
- Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.
Modalities
- Worse, warmth in any form; at night; from cold food; sweets; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions, left side.
- Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.
Relationship
- Antidote: Nat mur.
- Compare:
- Ars; Merc; Phos; Pulsat.
- Argent cyanatum (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of esophagus).
- Argent iodat (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland affected).
- Protargol (gonorrhea after acute stage 2 per cent solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids, 10 per cent solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10 per cent solution).
- Argent phosph (An excellent diuretic in dropsy).
- Argent oxyd (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhea).
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses. This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide.
