Argentum nitricum
Keywords
-
Anticipatory anxiety.
- Extreme
diffidence ( lack of self
confidence).
- Easy
fright
Synopsis
(identifying features)
- 1. Anticipatory
anxiety before any important engagement, e.g. examination, etc.
- Nervous diarrhoea.
- 2. Delusions : he is despised ( disliked); deserted and
forsaken; or is neglected; that he cannot succeed, does everything wrong.
- 3. Fear of
being alone; in a crowd; fear of high bldgs. (impulse
to jump).
- 4. Craving
for sweets and salt.
- 5. Agg. from warmth, heat, summer.
- 6. Fear of
narrow places, closed rooms.
- 7.
Undertakes nothing lest he fails.
- 8.
Splinter-like pains.
- 9.
Impulsive; fear of losing self-control.
- 10. Pains
shooting, lightning-like, radiating - increase and decrease gradually.
- 11. Expression : Dried up, withered, old looking - from disease.
Mind
- Anxiety of
anticipation, even diarrhoea (Gels. Med).
- Dreads
ordeals ( test or trial).
- Fear of
heights; of narrow places, of lifts, cinema halls.
- Fear he
will be trapped.
- Fear of
failure in exams.
- Delusion
he cannot succeed.
- Fear of
being alone; of appearing in public.
- Hesitates,
falters in speech, in gait, in erections.
- Fear that
he does everything wrong, and he cannot succeed.
- Hurry,
impulsive; must walk fast.
- Delusion
he is despised, deserted and forsaken.
- Tormented
by strange ideas, and by strange emotions; does strange things.
- Undertakes
nothing, lest he fails.
- Brain fag;
loss of ambition.
- Anxiety if
time is set; hurry for the appointed time to arrive; must walk fast.
- Obstinate
against whatever was proposed. Indifference to business affairs.
Objective
- Craves
sugar which aggravates.
- Flatulent
dyspepsia; belching after every meal.
- Violent,
purulent ophthalmia (inflammation of eye), with
thick, yellow, bland discharge; profuse discharge characteristic.
- Chronic
laryngitis of singers.
- Diarrhoea from anticipation of ordeals.
- Hurried,
impulsive.
- Stool
green mucus like chopped spinach.
Causation (a.f. )
-
Anticipation of ordeals; emotional excitement; anxiety, apprehension; fright;
mortification; prolonged mental
exertion.
Modalities
- Agg.
- From
closed places; sugar; lying on right side; warmth in any form.
- Looking
down from a height.
- Before and
during menses.
- Amel.
- Cool,
fresh air.
- Cold bath.
- Hard
pressure, bending double.
- Eructations amel.
- Chilly
when uncovered, yet smothers when wrapped; craves fresh air.
Food
- Appetite good,
but every kind of food disagrees.
- Desires:
SWEETS; sugar (which aggr); SALT; strong cheese.
- Aversion
food.
Male
- Impotence;
erection fails when coition is attempted (Agn., Calad., Sel.).
- Sexual
desire wanting; organ shrivelled.
Female
- Coition
painful in both sexes; followed by bleeding from vagina (Nit. acid).
-
Leucorrhoea profuse with erosion of cervix.
- Infant dies early after delivery Metrorrhagia (Abnormal
bleeding from the uterus
) after
coition; during menopause; in young widows; in sterility.
Child
- Ophthalmia neonatorum.
- Diarrhoea, green mucus; stool turns green after remaining
on diaper; after candy or sugar.
Peculiar,
uncommon, grand characteristics
- 1. Head
- Headache
(congestion) with throbbing carotids, obliging one to loosen collar; with a
feeling of expansion of head amel. by
tight bandage.
- 2. Eyes
- Ophthalmia neonatorum
(conjunctivitis contracted by newborn); purulent, thick yellow, profuse bland
discharge.
- 3. Throat
- Pain as
from splinter in throat when swallowing (Bell., Hep.s. , Nit. ac., Sil.).
- 4. Stomach
- Chronic
gastritis of alcoholics.
- 5. Stomach
- Eructations loud, explosive, accompany most gastric
complaints.
- Stomach as
if would burst with wind.
- Eructation
difficult.
- 6. Stomach
- Pain in small
spots (stomach), radiates in all directions.
- 7. Abdomen
- Flatulence
pressures up and causes dyspnoea.
- 8. Rectum
- Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks.
- 9. Rectum
- Diarrhoea, following colic, of greenish fetid mucus with a
quantity of noisy flatus.
- Or after
excitement, as before going to the theatre.
- 10.
Bladder
- Urine
passes unconsciously day and night (Caust.).
- 11. Gen.
Male
- Gonorrhoea (after Cann. i., Copaiva & Merc. have
failed - Hering).
- 12. Larynx
- Voice.
- Laryngitis
(voice lost) in singers and speakers.
- High notes
cause cough.
- 13. Chest
-
Palpitation after excitement; from exertion; amel. by pressure with the hand.
- Agg. lying on right side.
- 14.
Extremities
- Weakness.
- Great
weakness of lower extremities with trembling.
- Ataxia,
cannot walk with eyes closed.
- 15. Sleep
- Dreams
horrible, of snakes and sexual gratification, anxious; confused; of the dead;
of hunger.
- 16.
General
-
Convulsions
- Epilepsy
caused by fright, or occurring at menstrual period.
- Pupils dilated
days before attack.
- 17.
Generalities
- Left sided
symptoms (weakness).
Cases
- 56.
Argentum nit.:
- An
examination of Arg. nit. will disclose the fact that
all her symptoms were covered by this remedy.
- Now, while
other remedies have desire for sweets in various forms, such as China, Lyco. and Sulphur, only Arg. Nit
has it pathogenetically and curatively in just these words, "irresistible
desire for sugar."
- (E.B.
Nash, Hom. Recorder - H.H. 1985/210)