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'Chronic intoxication and pathogenetic experimentation have revealed nuances of symptomatology accompanying the organic or tissue disorders corresponding to the affinities of arsenic trioxide. These characteristics, when encountered in the reactive mode of a patient, will guide the prescriber toward Arsenicum album, in accordance with the phenomenon of similars. ARSENICUM ALBUM - SENSATIONS intense burning, ''as from burning coals'' considerable weakness, out of proportion with the medical condition extreme chilliness (the patient asks to be covered, but needs fresh air)ARSENICUM ALBUM - MODALITIES Aggravation
- between 1 and 3 a.m.
- from the cold (except headaches and cranial congestion) Improvement
- from heat in all its forms: hot compresses, ambient warmth, hot food and drink
- by changing place or position (which often provokes a certain amount of agitation in the patient) Rhythm
- alternation in the same day of periods of weakness and of sthenia, of optimism and of pessimism
- periodic repetition of pathological phenomena (every day at the same time, every two or three days)
- alternation of cutaneous manifestations with internal disturbances (primarily respiratory: asthma, spasmodic coryza)ARSENICUM ALBUM - ACCOMPANYING SIGNS excretions or secretions are scanty but burning, corrosive, nauseous in acute forms, thirst during the fever: ''drinks little but often'' craving for hot drinks and food, even very hot intense weakness and chilliness the patient is anxious about his fate, because of the intensity of the general and functional symptoms which raise fears of a fatal outcome'
References:
CD - Homeopathy - Therapeutics & Materia Medica
from CEDH and Editions Boiron
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