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ARGENTUM NITRICUM

Common Name: Nitrate of Silver

Mental:

Extreme anxiety about health, fear of death, Hypochondriacal.

IMPULSIVENESS. He reacts with much intensity and cannot control himself. Mind is stuck on certain ideas, cannot control or stop these ideas from occurring. Patient may be sitting on a balcony when the idea comes to his mind, “What would happen if I were to jump off?”

FEARS heights, crowds, crossing bridges, narrow/closed places, being alone, fainting (lac-c, lach.).

Extroverted, expresses her feelings.

Anticipation anxiety leading to diarrhea, frequent urination.

Impulse to kill

When sick he may develop an irrational idea that he will die at some particular hour of the day

Physical:

Heat aggravates.

Desires sweets, sugar, salt.

Aggravation from sweets ( ign., graph).

Diarrhea; after eating candy or sugar;

Eructations loud and gas like a machine gun.

Severe distension accompany most gastric ailments.

Acute granular conjunctivitis in one spot; scarlet-red, like raw beef.

Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing

Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up;

Aggravation: from heat, sweets and unusual mental exertion.

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