ARGENTUM METALLICUM
Common
Name: Silver
Mental:
Anxiety about health. Nervous sensitive person.
Prostration of mind from
mental exhaustion, forgetful and confused. Sudden loss of memory.
Too tired
to talk (Stann, Mur-Ac, Sepia,
Phos-Ac).
Want to lie down when
depressed.
Anxiety that clothes are
too tight when walking in open air.
Delusion that head will
fall out of bed and that he is drunk all the time. Loquacity
alternating with sadness.
Unsympathetic towards friends.
Physical:
Broken down nervous
constitutions. Weakness
and prostration. No stamina to face stressful situations.
Symptoms appear SLOWLY, insidiously, progressing slowly but penetrating the
organism deeply.
SENSATION (Violent Jerking) esp. in sleep or going to sleep.
Affects nerves causing
convulsive and spasmodic effects.
It acts upon the joints,
bones, cartilages and ligaments.
Thickening and inflammation of cartilages. Hypertrophy
of cartilages.
Disturbing palpitations or arrhythmias which are regulated by the patient sighing.
Weakness in
chest, left sided, difficult to breath,
talk and cough. Secretions of mucous membranes are thick, grey like starch , hawked up easily. Come out like a small
ball which is viscid and sticky.
Loss of voice/hoarseness from overuse.
Full of
tearing pains along nerves esp. lower
extremities.
Cramps in muscles- limbs
feel powerless.
Pains and aches
aggravate at noon and early morning.
Back pain < on sitting.
Thickened margins of the eyelids with purulent discharge and
photophobia.
BLEPHARITIS.
Face looks tired and
worn out.
No rest can ameliorate
this tiredness- will go from one bed to another.
Drying up of the
organism, the emotions, thinking faculties, the skin and the sex
drive.
Affects the testes/ovaries. It affects specially left ovary and right testes.
KEY NOTES:
Swelling on left side of
face with heat and burning
Pain in testes with
pressure of clothing
Testes feel crushed on
right while walking
Pain and rawness in
trachea from talking
Sensitiveness of cartilages