White Oxide of Arsenic (As2O3)
- Great prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital forces; fainting.
- The disposition is:
- a-Depressing, melancholic, despairing, indifferent.
- b-Anxious, fearful, restless, full of anguish.
- c-Irritable, sensitive, peevish, easily vexed.
- The greater the suffering, the greater the anguish, restlessness and fear of death.
- Mentally restless, but physically too weak to move; cannot rest in any place: changing places continually; wants to be moved from one bed to another, and lies now here now there.
- Anxious fear of death; thinks it useless to take medicine, is incurable, is surely going to die; dread of death, when alone, or, going to bed.
- Attacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed, < after midnight.
- Burning pains; the affected parts burn like fire, as if hot coals were applied to parts (Antr.), > by heat, hot drinks, hot applications.
- Burning thirst without special desire to drink; the stomach does not seem to tolerate, because it cannot assimilate cold water; lies like a stone in the stomach.
- It is wanted, but he cannot or dare not drink it.
- Cannot bear the smell or sight of food (Colch., Sep.).
- Great thirst for cold water; drinks often, but little at a time; eats seldom, but much.
- Gastric derangements; after cold fruits; ice cream; ice water; sour beer; bad sausage; alcoholic drinks; strong cheese.
- Teething children are pale, weak, fretful, and want to be carried rapidly.
- Diarrhoea, after eating or drinking; stool scanty, dark-colored, offensive, and whether small or large, followed by great prostration.
- Haemorrhoids: with stitching pain when walking or sitting, not at stool; preventing sitting or sleep; burning pain < by heat; fissures make voiding urine difficult.
- Breathing: asthmatic; must sit or bend forward; springs out of bed at night, especially after twelve o'clock; unable to lie down for fear of suffocation; attacks like croup instead of the usual urticaria.
- Rapid emaciation: with cold sweat and great debility (Tub., Ver.); of affected parts; marasmus.
- Anasarca, skin pale, waxy, earth-colored (Acet. ac.).
- Excessive exhaustion from least exertion.
- Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still; when he moves he is surprised to find himself so weak.
- Symptoms generally worse 1-2 p. m., 12-2 a. m.
- Skin: dry and scaly; cold, blue and wrinkled; with cold, clammy perspiration; like parchment; white and pasty; black vesicles and burning pain.
- Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, whether by inoculation, olfaction or ingestion.
- Complaints return annually (Carbo. v., Lach., Sulph., Thuja).
Relation.
- Complementary: Allium s., Carbo. v., Phos., Pyr.
- Ars. should be thought of in ailments from: chewing tabacco; alcoholism; sea bathing; sausage poisoning; dissecting woulds and anthrax poison; stings of venomous insects.
Aggravation.
- After midnight (1 to 2 a. m. or p. m.); from cold; cold drinks or food; when lying on affected side or with the head low.
Amelioration.
- From heat in general (reverse of Sec.) except headache, which is temporarily > by cold bathing (Spig.); burning pain > by heat.
