Homeopathic Medicine :: Argentum Nitricum – Silver Nitrate

Indicated in chronic hoarseness of singers; in gastric ailments characterized by much gastric flatulency and noisy belching of gas; diarrhoea; spinal diseases; trembling and weakness of legs; neurasthenia; chorea; hysteria; affections of the eyes, with burning heat, photophobia, copious muco-purulent discharge; early stage of gonorrhoea.

Face aged, withered, bluish.

Pains increase and decrease gradually.

Always in a hurry.

Great longing for fresh air.

Great desire for sweets.

Apprehension and dread of meeting people, of being in a crowd. Going to some public entertainment brings on diarrhoea.

Erroneous perception; as to time, minutes seem hours; as to gait, a slow gait seems fast.

Feeling as though the affected parts were expanding.

Headache, relieved by tightly bandaging the head, with creeping, crawling sensation in the scalp.

Great heat in the eyes; it dries up the eyelashes.

Ophthalmia, with soreness and swelling of the lids, photophobia, heat in the eye, purulent discharge, agglutination of the lids in the morning. Ophthalmia neonatorum.

Itching in the nose, rubbing brings on bleeding.

Coughing when singing a high note; chronic hoarseness.

Ulcerative pain in the throat, with sensation as of a splinter in the throat.

Gastralgia; pain confined to a small spot between xyphoid cartilage and umbilicus, with sensitiveness to pressure, radiating into the back, shoulders, hypochondria.

Pain in the stomach, relieved by pressure with the clinched fist.

Excessive gastric flatulency; seems as though stomach would burst; gas belched up with great difficulty and much noise.

Diarrhoea, green like spinach, in flakes, as soon as he drinks or eats sweets.

Ulcerative soreness in the middle of the urethra as from a splinter. When passing the last drops of urine, cutting pain from the posterior urethra to anus.

Unsteadiness in walking and standing, seemingly from weakness and unreliability of the legs.

Worse from cold food; from sweets; from mental exertion; at night.

Better in the open air; when the wind blows in his face; from belching up of gas.

(First Lessons in the Symptomatology of Leading Homoeopathic Remedies by H. R. Arndt, M. D. Philadephia. Boericke and Tafel.)


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