Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum
Arsenic trisulfide (orpiment) · Mineral
Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum is a remedy for deep psoric and syphilitic conditions combining the restlessness and burning of Arsenic with the skin affectations and periodicity of Sulphur. It suits patients with skin chafing, offensive diarrhoea, sciatica, and leucoderma, particularly with afternoon and evening exacerbations.
Key symptoms
- Burning and gnawing pains combining characteristics of Arsenic and Sulphur
- Stitching, tearing, and rheumatic pains moving from place to place
- Chafing of skin about genitals and behind ears of children
- Diarrhoea with stools like water, green and slimy with offensive odour
- Gonorrhoea with terrible pains, copious yellow discharge, burning day and night
- Intense torturing anxiety and apprehension
- Skin itching, dry, cracked; jaundice; leucoderma
Worse (aggravation)
- Every afternoon and evening (periodic exacerbations)
Better (amelioration)
- Steam or hot water
- Lying down
Yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic. Orpiment (ARSENIC TRISULPH.)
Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead, right side. Sticking behind ear. Difficult respiration. Skin chafed about genitals.
Leucoderma and squamous syphilides. Sciatica and pain around the knee.
Relationship
Arsenic sulph rub (influenza with intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high temperature, purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne, and sciatica. Chilly even before a fire. Itching in various parts. Pellagra).
Dose
Third trituration.
Arsenious Sulphide. Orpiment. As2 S3. Trituration.
Clinical
Apoplexy. Caries. Children, emaciated. Diarrhœa. Gonorrhœa. Indigestion. Laryngeal phthisis. Walking, late.
Characteristics
The two sulphides of Arsenic, Orpiment and Realgar, have been used in a somewhat general way in cases combining prominent symptoms of both elements; but independent observations and provings have been made with the two salts. Orpiment has the burning pains and sensations of both Arsenic and Sulphur; stitching, tearing, and rheumatic pains moving from place to place. Lameness, staggering, trembling. Spasms, colic, vomiting, and diarrhœa. Annoying twitching. General debility. Chafing of skin about genitals and behind ears of children. Skin itching, dry, cracked; rhagades; itch. Jaundice. The periodicity of both Arsenic and Sul. are marked: < every afternoon and evening. > From steam or hot water. > Lying down.
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