Arsenicum

Arsenicum Album

Arsenic


Anxiety; restlessness; weakness out of proportion to the illness; BURNING PAINS WHICH ARE BETTER FOR HEAT; FOUL ODOURS; chilly; worse before and just after midnight.

Often fastidious, over-sensitive, over-critical, irritable; with despair of illness and anxiety about health.

Diarrhoea and Vomiting. NUMBER 1 REMEDY FOR FOOD POISONING.

Vomits everything with prostration and anxiety. Dry mouth; burning stomach pains.
Alternate with China for loss of fluid.

Worse after midnight.

Diarrhoea with exhaustion and restlessness. Foul smell. Rectum and anus burn and become raw.

Vomiting and diarrhoea simultaneously.

Fever with chills; violent rigor as if ice flowing through veins; always freezing.

ASTHMA with tight wheezy breathing. Seek medical help!

Shortness of breath; must sit up. Fears suffocation. Air passages constricted from allergies. Wheezing.

Varicose veins which burn at night. Veins burn like fire. Better for heat.

HAY FEVER with acrid burning tears and nasal discharge.

With headaches: must keep the body warm but the head cold.

Thirst for ice-cold water, little and often; just sips.

GASTRITIS: very sensitive stomach; better for heat.

Give in 6c or 30c potency. Try putting the remedy in water, shake or stir, and sip the water until symptoms subside (especially with diarrhoea and vomiting, or breathing difficulties).


© Liz Bevan-Jones, updated March 2009