Argentum Metallicum

The Metal (Pure Silver)

  • Tall, thin, irritable persons. 
  • Ailments from abuse of Mercury. 
  • Constitutional effects of onanism. 
  • Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose, eustachian; the structures entering into joints. 
  • Seminal emissions: after onanism; almost every night; without erection; with atrophy of penis. 
  • Crushed pain in the testicles (Rhod.). 
  • Prolapsus; with pain in left ovary and back, extending forward and downward (right ovary, Pall.); climacteric haemorrhage. 
  • Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing. 
  • Hoarseness; of professional singers, public speakers (Alum., Arum. t.). 
  • Total loss of voice of professional singers. 
  • Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing or coughing. 
  • Laughing excites cough (Dros., Phos., Stan.) and produces profuse mucus in larynx. 
  • When reading aloud has to hem and hawk; cough with easy expectoration of gelatinous, viscid mucus, looking like boiled starch. 
  • Great weakness of the chest (Stan.); worse left side. 
  • Alternation in timbre of voice with singers and public speakers (Arum t.). 
  • Raw spot over bifurcation of the trachea; worse when using voice, talking or singing.

Relation.

  • Follows well: after, Alum. 
  • Similar: to, Stann. in cough excited by laughing.

Aggravation.

  • Riding in a carriage (Cocc.); when touched or pressed upon; talking, singing, reading aloud.