ARGENTUM NITRICUM.
STOMACH.
► Strong appetite,
[4], [6]. ► Unusual appetite (6th potency), [4]. ► In morning, violent,
insatiable hunger (second day), [53]. ► In the evening, uncommonly violent, insatiable hunger (first
day), [53]. ►
Urging desire for acrid cheese, [5]. ► *Irresistible desire for sugar, in the evening, [4]. ► Appetite rather
poor (fifth, sixth, and seventh days), [53]. [310.] ► Diminished appetite
(2d potency), [4]. ►
No appetite; many eructations (1st potency), [2]. ► No appetite; food tastes to him like straw (1st potency), [2]. ► Sleepy repletion
(2d potency), [4]. ►
No appetite at breakfast (1st potency), [2]. ► Loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting, [57]. ► Eructations insipid (1/2
grain), [55]. ►►
*Violent belchings (1st potency), [8]. ► Belching immediately (30th potency), [6]. ► Much belching in the
morning (30th potency, third day), [5]. [320.] ► (Most of the gastric
derangements are accompanied by belching). ►
Continuous repulsive sensation in the stomach and pharynx, [11].
► Nausea, [13], [27]. ► Nausea transient
(1 grain), [55]. ►
Slight nausea, which disappears after eating (1/2 grain), [56].
► Nausea and gagging without real vomiting (1 grain), [56]. ► Nausea arising
from the stomach and the præcordia, with desire to vomit (30th potency, third day), [5]. ► Slight nausea in
the stomach, with chilliness and shuddering, and accompanied with a peculiar sensation of
rigor in the lower limbs (1st potency, first day), [4].
► Nausea, resembling hunger (6th potency), [4]. ► Nausea, with gurgling in
the abdomen (1st potency, first day), [4]. [330.] ► Faintish nausea, with
violent palpitation of the heart, of which she had three paroxysms on the same day (1st
potency, third day), [5]. ►
Nausea, heaviness and pressure in the stomach, [10]. ► Nausea, heaviness, and pressure in the stomach (three hours
after), [10]. ► *Nausea
after each meal, for a long time, especially after and during dinner; in the
evening, very severe for an hour (thirty), [52]. ► Gagging, [13]. ► *Constant nausea, and frequent and extremely troublesome efforts to
vomit, [20]. ►
Vomiting, [21]. ►
Frequent vomiting, [66]. ►
Violent vomiting, [22]. ►
*Vomiting, the substances which were thrown up tinging the bedclothes back, [14]. [340.] ► Great irritation of the stomach, anxiety in the præcordial
region, and vomiting, [32]. ►
*Vomiting and diarrhœa, with violent colicky pains, [13]. ► Retching and vomiting of
mucus accompanying the diarrhœa stools (30th potency, fourth day), [6]. ► *She wakes about midnight from
the oppressive sensation of having a heavy lump in the region of the stomach, inducing
vomiting; not till morning does she throw up glairy
mucus, which can be drawn into threads; she had two paroxysms of that kind of
vomiting, after which she felt the whole afternoon a desire to vomit, a tremulous weakness, and a sensation in
the head as if it were in a vice (30th potency, sixth day), [6]. ► *Vomiting which stains the
bedclothes back, [59]. ► Attacks the stomach, [24].
► Excites the nerves of the stomach, [33]. ► Oppresses, cools, and
injures the stomach, [25]. ►
Contraction of the stomach; it is less spacious, [27].
► *Inflammation of the stomach, [35]. [350.] ► Gastro-enteritis, [11].
► Slight spasm of the stomach before breakfast (30th
potency, fourth day), [4]. ►
Slight spasm of the stomach at 5 o’clock in the morning (30th potency, fourth day), [4]. ► Shifting of wind,
and twisting in the stomach, with frequent empty eructations (30th potency, first day), [6]. ► Pains in the
stomach, [14]. ►
Pain in the stomach, transient, [57]. ► Some pains in the stomach, [61].
► Stomach; the patient experiences very severe epigastric
pains, [59]. ► *Violent
cardialgia, [35]. ►
Cardialgia and nausea before breakfast, early (30th potency, third day), [4]. [360.] ►
Cardialgia and internal chilliness, early in the morning, before breakfast, accompanied with
a very bad appearance (30th potency, second day), [4].
► Warmth in stomach (1 grain), [56]. ► Increased warmth in
stomach (1/2 grain), [56]. ►
Burning in stomach, [56]. ►
Burning heat in the stomach, [26]. ► Burning ascending from the stomach (30th potency, third day),
[6]. ► Momentary
feeling of warmth in the stomach, accompanied with slight nausea, [34]. ► Warmth in the stomach,
with rumbling in the intestines and emission of flatulence, [11].
► Burning sensation, nausea, and pain in the stomach, [27]. ► Burning heat in
the stomach, [26]. [370.]
► Burning in the stomach and chest, [18]. ► Heartburn, [55]. ► Sensation of
heaviness, and pains in the stomach, with nausea, [34].
► Sensation as if the stomach and œsophagus were filled
with food (30th potency, second day), [4]. ► Tension and pressure in the stomach, causing anxiety, and a
sensation as if the stomach were filled unto bursting (30th potency, second day), [4]. ► After yawning, a
sensation is experienced in the stomach as if it would burst; wind presses upwards, but the
œsophagus feels spasmodically closed; hence an ineffectual effort to eructate, with
excessive strangulation, pressing pain in the stomach, faintish nausea, confluence of water
in the mouth, and inability to stir; the paroxysm ceases after a quarter of an hour, amidst
frequent and violent belching of wind (6th potency, fourth day), [4]. ► *Periodic, constrictive
sensation in stomach (1 grain), [56]. ► Gnawing pain in the stomach, on the left side (6th
potency), [4]. ►
Wild gnawing at the stomach, a sort of hunger with nausea (30th potency, second day), [4]. ► *Violent cardialgia;
griping and burning, momentarily (30th potency, first day), [4]. [380.] ►
Several attacks of pressure in stomach (fourth day), [53].
► Oppression of the stomach, [11]. ► Increased pressure at the
stomach (30th potency), [7]. ►
Violent pressure at the stomach, in the afternoon (30th, fourth day), [6]. ► Hard pressure near the pit
of the stomach, on the right side, which is more intense during a deep inspiration (30th
potency, first day), [4]. ►
Pressure, heaviness, and dragged-down sensation in the stomach (30th potency, second day), [4]. ► Pressure in
stomach, better towards evening (next day), (1 grain), [56].
► Weak stomach; food oppresses the stomach like a weight,
and drags it downward; sensation as if the stomach and œsophagus
were filled with food; eructations tasting of the ingesta even eight hours after
a meal (3 0th potency, second day), [4]. ► *Violent cardialgia, waking her in the night, twisting of the
stomach, which extends down into the abdomen (1st potency, first day), [5]. ► *Ulcerative pain in
the stomach, after dinner (30th potency, second day), [4]. [390.] ► *Stinging ulcerative pain on the left side of the stomach, directly
below the short ribs, more intense during a deep inspiration, and when touching the parts
(6th potency), [4]. ►
*Trembling and throbbing in the stomach (1st potency), [8]. ► On cessation of the attack
(which lasts from two three hours), *painful swelling of the pit of
the stomach, with great anxiety (in a
sensible girl of twenty odd years), [54]. ► *Constant sense of fulness in pit of stomach, [56]. ► 8.30 A.M.,
violent pressure in the pit of the stomach, for several minutes (fourth day), [53].
ABDOMEN.
► *Abdomen swollen and
distended (thirtieth), [52]. ► He wakes in the morning, from shifting of flatulence,
rumbling, and a sensation in the intestines as if he had to go to stool (1st potency, first
day), [2]. ► Emission
of flatulence immediately (2d potency), [8].
► Emission of much flatulence, after dinner (30th
potency, first day), [4]. ►
*Flatulence (30th potency, second day), [4].
[400.] ►
Coldness in the abdomen, which is painfully irritated (30th potency, fourth day), [6]. ► Uneasiness in the
abdomen, several time a day (1st potency), [5]. ► Peculiar uncomfortableness and emptiness in the abdomen, with
nausea (6th potency), [4]. ►
*Fulness, heaviness, and distension of the abdomen, with anxiety, impeding
respiration, after supper (30th potency), [4]. ► Painful tension and pressure in the abdomen, as if sore and
ulcerated (30th potency), [4]. ►
Troublesome colic, like cramp, after a slight catarrh (30th potency), [4]. ► Colic previous to the
diarrhœa, [4]. ►
Oppressive drawing pain in the whole abdomen, down to the groin, with tension, as in ascites
(6th potency), [4]. ►
Sensation as of a ball ascending from the abdomen into the throat (30th potency, third day),
[6]. ► Extremely
disagreeable drawing down the whole left side of the abdomen, when standing (1st potency,
first day), [4]. [410.]
► Stitches dart through the abdomen like electric sparks,
especially during a sudden transition from rest to motion, on the left side (6th
potency), [4]. ►
Pain in the abdomen, as if sore, accompanied with great hunger, abating after eating, but a
trembling setting in in the place (1st potency, second day), [5].
► Pain in the hypochondria (1st potency), [8]. ► Hard pressure in
the left hypochondrium (30th potency, first day), [4].
► Stinging in the liver (2d potency, second day), [8]. ► Stitches in the
liver, coming on with a jerk (1st potency, first day), [4].
► Cutting and stinging in the liver (1st potency), [8]. ► Peculiar fulness
in the liver, painful, with occasional drawing and stinging, especially when walking, often
reaching into the chest (1st potency, first day), [4].
► Periodical dull stitches in the anterior surface of the
liver (30th potency, first day), [4]. ► (Affection of the liver, ending in fatal dropsy, [36].) [420.] ► Stitches in the spleen, recurring several evenings (1st
potency, fifth day), [5]. ►
Fine stitches in the spleen, coming on at intervals (1st potency, first day), [4]. ► Colic around the umbilicus,
for several days (1st potency), [8]. ► Intermittent dull pressure in the transversalis muscle of the
abdomen, near the crest of the ilium, as if made with a foreign body (6th potency), [4]. ► Pressing pain in
the groins, more violent when touching them (6th potency), [4].
STOOL AND ANUS.
► Stitches
in the rectum (third day), [53]. ►
Creeping and burning in the anus (1st potency), [8]. ► A good deal of frequently repeated
itching of the anus, inducing him to rub until he became sore (30th potency), [4]. ► Discharge of a
quantity of ascarides, [30]. ►
Discharge of tænia, [31]. [430.]
► Discharge of several yards of tænia, [40]. ► A good deal of urging
during the diarrhœa, [4]. ►
*Stool copious, fluid, followed by vomiting, [66].
► Two or three stools daily, softer than usual, [53]. ► Liquid stools,
dark-colored, and quite frequent, [61]. ► *Frequent stools, with slight pains in the hypogastrium, [65]. ► Daily, two or
three liquid stools, with much mucus, [53]. ► Three diarrhœic stools at short intervals, the first being
papescent and copious, the next scanty and of a watery mucus of dark color (1st potency,
first night), [2]. ►
*Six liquid, brown evacuations of a fetid smell (first and second nights), [2]. ►► *A slight colic
wakes him from his uneasy slumber, and he had sixteen evacuations of a greenish, very fetid
mucus, accompanied with emission of a quantity of noisy flatulence, in one night (1st potency), [8].
[440.] ► 6 A.M., awakened by sudden urging to stool; the discharge copious, half-liquid, and
bright yellow, without pain or straining; soon after, the same urging again;
besides this two stools daily (fifth, sixth, and seventh days), [53]. ► Diarrhœa, [61]. ► Diarrhœa (1 grain), [56]. ► Diarrhœa,
transient, [57]. ►
Shifting of flatulence in the abdomen, in the morning, followed by two diarrhœic stools
(1st potency), [8]. ►
Two diarrhœic stools in the evening (1st potency), [8].
► *Four evacuations of green
mucus, with retching, vomiting of mucus, pain in the
stomach, and drawing pain in the abdomen; during all this time she could not bear being laced around the hypochondria (30th
potency, fourth day), [6]. ►
*After having eaten sugar greedily in the evening, he was attacked with scanty, watery diarrhœa about midnight, accompanied with flatulent colic,
and much of noisy flatulence during the evacuation (6th potency), [4]. ► Diarrhœic stool after
breakfast (2d potency, second day), [4]. ► Acts powerfully upon the intestinal canal, occasioning from
four to five stools a day, [37]. [450.] ► Frequent evacuations,
with slight pains in the abdomen, [28]. ► Diarrhœa, with colic, [38].
► Violent diarrhœa, [39];
(*like spinach in flakes, [°].
Lippe). ► *Bloody evacuations, [34]. ► Bloody stools, with great
debility, [29]. ►
*Several evacuations of bloody mucus, without any particular pain, towards
morning (1st potency, first day), [5]. ► Small stool, with copious discharge of mucus from the rectum,
[53]. ►
Constipation, [57]. ►
Sometimes constipation, [62]. ►
Violent constipation, [11]. [460.]
► Constipation; the substances evacuated were dry and of a
firm consistence, whereas his bowels were generally loose (after taking small
doses, and on the last days of the proving), [4]. ► Slowness and diminution of the fecal and urinary discharges, [4]. ► Dry, firm, alvine
evacuation (30th potency, on the last days), [7]. ► Diarrhœa or constipation, [34].
URINARY ORGANS.
► Stricture
of the urethra (from cauterizing), [45]. ► Oozing of mucus from the urethra (1st potency), [8]. ► In the night,
quite an abundant secretion of thick, white mucus; in about ten hours discharge of thinner
mucus; micturition is free and no longer painful; at noon the mucous membrane is dry, [67]. ► The urinary
apparatus was at first greatly irritated, [18]. (Not
mentioned by this author. -Hughes) ► Inflammation and
violent pains of the urethra, with increased gonorrhœa, priapism, dysuria, bloody urine
fever, [43]. ►
Heat, itching, and titillation, in the morning, when urinating for the first time (2d
potency, fifth day), [4]. [470.]
► *Burning during micturition, and sensation as if
the anterior portion of the urethra were constricted (2d potency), [4]. ► *Burning, micturition and
feeling in the urethra as if swollen; the last portion of the urine passed off
with difficulty (2d potency, second day), [4]. ► *Burning after micturition (2d potency), [4]. ► Slight burning in the whole
course of the urethra increased gonorrhœa, burning during micturition, painful tension
during erections, chordee, bleeding from the urethra, shootings in the same from behind
forward, [44]. ►
The urethra feels swollen, hard, and knotty (2d potency, third day), [4]. ► The urethra is painful,
as if closed up by swelling, and ulcerated (2d potency), [4].
► Drawing through the end of the urethra (after one
hour), [53]. ► Sore
feeling in the urethra, even after micturition (2d potency, third day), [4]. ► After urinating, a
burning drop ran along the urethra (2d potency, second day), [4].
► Sensation as if something fluid were running along the
urethra from behind forward (2d potency), [4]. [480.] ► When emitting the
last drop of urine, a cutting from the posterior portion of the urethra as far as the anus
(2d potency), [4]. ►
Dragging pains during micturition (2d potency, third day), [4].
► Painful pushing in the urethra (3d potency), [4]. ► The urethra is
painful between the acts of micturition, as if ulcerated (6th potency), [4]. ► *Ulcerative pain in the middle
of the urethra, as if a splinter had been pushed in (6th potency), [4]. ► As a diuretic and
diaphoretic, [42]. ►
The urine is passed with an ease as never before, and which was almost pleasant; the stream
seemed to be more voluminous (1st potency, third day), [4].
► Pressure to urinate early (after an hour and a
quarter), [53]. ► 4
and 6 A.M., hurried urging to urinate, with very little urine, which was dark-yellow (second
day), [53]. ► In
the night, woke, with urging to urinate (second day), [53].
[490.] ► *Quick urging to
urinate; urine copious and clear-yellow (after one hour), [53]. ► Frequent urging to
urinate, with much yellow urine, followed by cutting in the end of the urethra (first day), [53]. ► Frequent
micturition (1st potency), [8]. ►
Frequent urination (second day), [53]. ► All day, frequent and increased urination (first day), [53]. ► In forenoon, more
frequent and copious urination in proportion to the amount of liquid taken (first day), [53]. ► Frequent and
copious urination in the daytime, the stream being sometimes divided (1st potency), [8]. ► A good deal of
urination at night (1st potency), [8]. ► Copious urination at night (2d potency, first day), [8]. ► *Urine does not
pass so easily or freely, [52]. [500.] ► *In
emitting the urine it was longer before it made its appearance (2d potency,
second day), [4]. ►
In the night, urinated three times, with much urgency to do so, but little urine passed
(second day), [53]. ►
After urinating, during which an ulcerative pain was felt in the urethra, a second but
ineffectual urging to urinate was experienced (2d potency), [4].
► Emission of a few drops of urine after he had done,
with a sensation as if the interior of the urethra were swollen (1st potency), [2]. ► Inability to pass the
urine in a projecting stream (2d potency, fifth day), [4]. ► At 7 A.M., difficult
urination, with severe burning, and discharge of white pellicles, shreds of epithelium from
the mucous membrane, [63]. ►
In evening, decidedly less urine than usual (first day), [53].
► The urine passed at 5 P.M. is clear and yellow (second
day), [53]. ►
Frequent and copious emission of pale urine (2d potency), [4].
► Frequent emission of a pale, strong-smelling urine (1st
potency), [2]. [510.]
► Accelerated and increased emission of pale yellow urine
(1st potency, first day), [4]. ► *Scanty and rare emission of a dark-yellow urine (after
taking the higher potencies and on the last days of the proving), [4], [7]. ►
Urine dark-yellow (first day), [53]. ► Urine dark-yellow and acid, [53].
► *The urine passed at noon becomes clouded from mucus,
and the vessel, as far as the urine reaches, is lined with a thin, light-red sediment
(second day), [53]. ►
Urine diminished, but concentrated, and no diminution of the salts, except
uric acic; which after a time entirely disappeared from urine, [56]. ► The inorganic salts
increase in urine, [56].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
► Male.
► Chancre-like ulcers on the prepuce; at first their tips
were covered with pus, but afterwards the ulcers became diffused through a pretty spacious
depression, exhibiting the tallow-like coating of chancres (1st potency, on the ninth day), [8]. ► *Sensitiveness near
the orifice of the urethra, [52]. ► Painful coition; the urethra felt as if put upon the stretch;
absence of pleasure (6th potency), [4]. [520.] ► In from twenty-five
to thirty seconds, terrible pains, continuing at the same intensity for five minutes, then
gradually diminishing and becoming very endurable at the end of an hour, extending even into
and along the course of the spermatic cords, [63]. ► The right testicle is enlarged and hard (2d potency, third
day), [4]. ► *Want of
sexual desire, the genital organs having shrivelled (30th potency, fourth day), [4]. ► Frequent nightly
emissions, sometimes accompanied with lascivious dreams, [4].
► Three copious emissions in one night (1st potency), [3]. ► Female. ► Hemorrhages from the uterus, [41].
► Hemorrhages from the uterus (a fortnight before the
menses), only a few hours (1st potency, fourth day), [5].
► Excites the capillaries of the uterus, [46]. ► Congestions to the uterus,
[41]. ► Pain during
coition and violent bleeding afterward (from injection of a weak solution for a profuse
leucorrhœa), [52]. [530.]
► She had two orgasms at night, which she had never had
before (30th potency, fourth day), [5]. ► Suppression of the mucous leucorrhœa; it reappears in a few
weeks, but less and milder, [5]. ►
Suppression of the menses, miscarriage, and metrorrhagia, [47].
► The menses appear at the usual period, but they are
much more copious than usual, and are accompanied with cutting pains in the small of the
back and groin, and contractive sensation in the latter (30th potency, sixth day), [6].® 2000
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