4. ARSENICUM This is your go-to remedy for food-poisoning. A keynote of this remedy is anxiety, and the patient is likely to be very co...
4. ARSENICUM
This is your go-to remedy for food-poisoning. A keynote of this remedy is anxiety, and the patient is likely to be very cold. Pains might be described as burning.
Arsenicum Album (Arsen. Alb.) is a common remedy for both acute and chronic problems. It is found in homeopathic kits for good reason.
Arsenicum treats a variety of issues including tiredness due to anemia or asthma, weakness, restlessness, burning pains, irritating discharges, food poisoning, indigestion, diarrhea, gastroenteritis from overconsumption of ripe produce and excess alcohol, mouth ulcers, asthma, headaches with dizziness or vomiting and fluid retention especially around extremities.
Arsenicum is commonly used for:
Cold’s and Flu:
Arsenicum is useful for colds that leave you exhausted with burning mucous and skin around the nostrils that is red and sore. It helps the mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive systems. Arsenicum is beneficial for hay fever with sneezing, coughing and watery, burning secretions. Arsenicum is used for illness and Flu with diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, burning in stomach.
Intestinal Distress:
Arsenicum is used for food poisoning, and can help with indigestion and heartburn. It can be used to relieve burning in rectum, involuntary diarrhea with frequent and burning stools and is useful for Colitis – that is worse after midnight. Arsenicum is used when symptoms include burning sensations, burning discharges. Arsenicum relieves symptoms that burn yet are improved by heat application.
Arsenicum also relieves feeling anxious and restless. Arsenicum helps when one desires small sips of water.
Arsenicum’s Personality Profile:
Those that will respond the best to Arsenicum as a homeopathic remedy tend to show a great attention to detail. They work hard to combat insecurity; as this is something that tends to give them a lot of problems. They may be hoarders as they are constantly working to protect themselves against great misfortune and always want to be prepared if that should occur. They are perfectionists by nature and this can often cause them to feel isolated because of their actions.
Arsenicum’s Materia Medica:
Anxiety: Anxious & restless. Moves about all the time. Thinks it’s worthless to take remedy.
Asthma: Shortness of breath. Feeling of suffocation on lying down; Onset midnight or soon after.
Colds: Profuse, burning, watery nasal discharge with sneezing, irritating nose & upper lip; eyes & nose red; cold tends to go down into chest.
Diarrhea: Scanty, dark, offensive stool with burning pain in anus, followed by great weakness; after eating or drinking; from too much fruit or iced drinks
Eyes: Aching, burning and shooting pains in the eyes. Watering eyes worse in bright light or motion. Pink eye- red, swollen. Granulated lids; tears hot & burning with intense aversion to light
Flu: Chilly, restless, anxious, peevish; prostrated; fears death; burning pains relieved by heat; thirsty for sips of cold water; red hot, needle-like pains; feels as if ice-water or boiling water running through veins
Food Poisoning: Prime remedy in ptomaine poisoning; especially after tainted meat or spoiled food; vomiting & purging, “going both ways at once”
Skin: Top remedy for skin ailments-psoriasis, flakey scalp, dry eczema. Symptoms that burn yet improved by heat application. Feels better in the summer. Children who have skin that is dry and rough. Symptoms are often worse on the right side, with cold applications, and after eating offending foods or drinking alcohol. Itching, burning, swelling, skin eruptions. Dry, scaly skin.
The greater the suffering, the greater the anguish, restlessness and fear of death. Mentally restless, but physically too weak to move; cannot rest in any place: changing places continually; wants to be moved from one bed to another, and lies now here now there. Anxious fear of death; thinks it useless to take medicine, is incurable, is surely going to die; dread of death, when alone, or, going to bed. Attacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed, < after midnight. Burning pains; the affected parts burn like fire, as if hot coals were applied to parts (Antr.), > by heat, hot drinks, hot applications. Burning thirst without special desire to drink; the stomach does not seem to tolerate, because it cannot assimilate cold water; lies like a stone in the stomach. It is wanted, but he cannot or dare not drink it. Cannot bear the smell or sight of food (Colch., Sep.). Great thirst for cold water; drinks often, but little at a time; eats seldom, but much. Gastric derangements; after cold fruits; ice cream; ice water; sour beer; bad sausage; alcoholic drinks; strong cheese. Teething children are pale, weak, fretful, and want to be carried rapidly. Diarrhoea, after eating or drinking; stool scanty, dark-colored, offensive, and whether small or large, followed by great prostration. Haemorrhoids: with stitching pain when walking or sitting, not at stool; preventing sitting or sleep; burning pain < by heat; fissures make voiding urine difficult. Breathing: asthmatic; must sit or bend forward; springs out of bed at night, especially after twelve o'clock; unable to lie down for fear of suffocation; attacks like croup instead of the usual urticaria. Rapid emaciation: with cold sweat and great debility (Tub., Ver.); of affected parts; marasmus. Anasarca, skin pale, waxy, earth-colored (Acet. ac.). Excessive exhaustion from least exertion. Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still; when he moves he is surprised to find himself so weak. Symptoms generally worse 1-2 p. m., 12-2 a. m. Skin: dry and scaly; cold, blue and wrinkled; with cold, clammy perspiration; like parchment; white and pasty; black vesicles and burning pain. Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, whether by inoculation, olfaction or ingestion. Complaints return annually (Carbo. v., Lach., Sulph., Thuja).
Relation. - Complementary: Allium s., Carbo. v., Phos., Pyr. Ars. should be thought of in ailments from: chewing tabacco; alcoholism; sea bathing; sausage poisoning; dissecting woulds and anthrax poison; stings of venomous insects.
< After midnight (1 to 2 a. m. or p. m.); from cold; cold drinks or food; when lying on affected side or with the head low.
> From heat in general (reverse of Sec.) except headache, which is temporarily > by cold bathing (Spig.); burning pain > by heat.
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