Antimonium arsenicosum
Antimony arsenate · Mineral
The Antimonium Arsenicosum patient presents with severe pulmonary disease, particularly emphysema with excessive breathlessness and profuse mucous secretion, alongside cardiac weakness. Pleurisy and pericarditis with effusion, especially left-sided, are characteristic. The general sense of weakness and aggravation of cough from eating and lying down are guiding features.
Key symptoms
- Emphysema with excessive dyspnoea and much mucous secretion
- Cough worse on eating and lying down
- Catarrhal pneumonia associated with influenza
- Myocarditis and cardiac weakness
- Pleurisy especially of left side with exudation
- Pericarditis with effusion
- Inflammation of eyes and oedema of face
- Wandering pains in sciatic nerves
Worse (aggravation)
- Worse on eating (cough)
- Worse on lying down (cough)
Arsenite of Antimony
Found useful in emphysema with excessive dyspnœa and cough, much mucous secretion. Worse on eating and lying down. Catarrhal pneumonia associated with influenza. Myocarditis and cardiac weakness. Pleurisy, especially of left side, with exudation and pericarditis, with effusion. Sense of weakness. Inflammation of eyes and œdema of face.
Dose
Third trituration.
Arseniate of Antimony. (Sb2 O3) As O5 + 3 p.c. Trituration.
Clinical
Catarrhal pneumonia. Emphysema. Ophthalmia. Pericarditis. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Sciatica.
Characteristics
Antim. ars. is said to affect preferably upper left lung. Emphysema where the dyspnœa is excessive. Haarer is the chief authority for this drug. Mattes, who used it after him, says it is equally effective in right-side cases in old pneumonias and catarrhal pneumonias in children; in old pleuritic effusions, and in pericardial exudations. The cough is < by eating, and on lying down. Wandering pains in sciatic nerves. It has caused inflammation of the eyes and œdema of the face.
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