Bismuthum subnitricum
Bismuth subnitrate (basic bismuth nitrate) · Bismuth, precipitated subnitrate of bismuth,Bismuthum metallicum · Mineral
Bismuth met. is most suited to those who are experiencing great anguish, fear, and restlessness, with poor concentration. They have a desperate need for company and cannot bear to be alone. They often crave cold drinks.
This remedy is generally used for violent abdominal pains, possibly with burning and ulceration in the stomach, bowels, and throat. The pains may be accompanied by frequent belching and rumbling flatulence. Sleep is restless, with frequent waking and feelings of fright or a sensation of falling.
Key symptoms
- Water vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach
- Burning with feeling of a load in stomach; inexpressible pain
- Better from cold drinks but vomiting when stomach becomes full
- Gastralgia with pain from stomach through to spine
- Solitude unbearable; intense desire for company
- Headache alternates with gastralgia
- Tongue white and swollen; profuse salivation; teeth loose
- Must bend backwards from pain in stomach
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Precipitated Sub-Nitrate of Bismuth (BISMUTHUM)
Irritation and catarrhal inflammation of the alimentary canal, is the chief and action of this drug.
Mind
Solitude is unbearable. Desire for company. Complains about his condition. Anguish. Discontented.
Head
Headache alternates with gastralgia. Neuralgic pain, as if torn by pincers; involves face and teeth; worse, eating; better, cold; alternate with gastralgia. Cutting or pressure above right orbit extending to occiput. Pressure in occiput; worse, motion; with heaviness.
Mouth
Gums swollen. Toothache; better, cold water in mouth (Coff). Tongue white. Swollen. Black, gangrenous looking wedges on dorsum and sides of tongue. Profuse salivation, teeth loose. Thirst for cold drinks.
Stomach
Vomits, with convulsive gagging and pain. Water is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach. Eructation after drinking. Vomits all fluids. Burning; feeling of a load. Will eat for several days; then vomit. Slow digestion, with fetid eructations. Gastralgia; pain from stomach through to spine. Gastritis. Better, cold drinks, but vomiting when stomach becomes full.
Tongue coated white; sweetish, metallic taste. Inexpressible pain in stomach; must bend backwards. Pressure as from a load in one spot, alternating with burning, crampy pain and pyrosis.
Stool
Painless diarrhœa, with great thirst, and frequent micturition and vomiting. Pinching in lower abdomen, with rumbling.
Respiratory
Pinching in middle of diaphragm, extending transversely through chest. Angina pectoris; pain around heart, left arm to fingers.
Extremities
Cramps in hands and feet. Tearing in wrist. Paralytic weakness, especially right arm. Tearing in tips of fingers under nails (Berb). Itching erosion near tibia and back of feet near joints. Cold limbs.
Sleep
Restless on account of voluptuous dreams. Sleepy in morning, a few hours after eating.
Relationship
Antidotes: Nux; Capsic; Calc.
Compare: Antimon; Ars; Bellad; Kreosot.
Dose
First to sixth potency.
Bismuth (including the Subnitrate "Magistery of Bismuth" Bi2 O3. 2HNO3; the Nitrate Bi O2 HNO5; and the Oxide Bi 03). Trituration.
Clinical
Abdominal operations, vomiting after. Angina pectoris. Cholera. Cough. Cystitis. Delirium tremens. Diaphragmitis. Diarrhœa. Gangrene. Gastralgia. Gastritis. Headache. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Stomach, cancer of. Stomatitis. Toothache. Vomiting.
Characteristics
Bismuth exerts its chief influence in the stomach and stomach region. It causes a pure gastralgia, not associated with catarrh like that of Nux. There is vomiting of large quantities and intense thirst, with ejection of water immediately after it is taken; food is retained a little longer. Burning, griping, lancinating, with dull pain in back or spasmodic vomiting. The pains are chiefly piercing, tearing, burning, cramping, and screwing. Headache alternating with gastralgia. There are tearing pressing pains in the bones of the hands and feet, spasmodic affections of the muscles of face and limbs. …
Hydrated Oxide of Bismuth (Bi2O3OH2.)
Solitude is unbearable; desires company, child holds on to its mother's hand for company (Kali c., Lil., Lyc.); Anguish*; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long in one place*. Headache returning every winter; alternating with, or attended by gastralgia. Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the eyes. Toothache > holding cold water in mouth. (Bry., Coff., Puls.). Vomiting: of water as soon as it reaches the stomach, food retained longer (vomits food and water, Ars.); of enormous quantities, at intervals of several days when food has filled the stomach; of all fluids as soon as taken; and purging, offensive stools (watery stools, Ver.); with convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain, after laprotomy (Nux, Staph.). Stomach: pressure as from a load in one spot; alternating with burning; pain crampy, spasmodic; with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis. Cholera morbus and summer complaint, when vomiting predominates; stools foul; papescent, watery, offensive very prostrating (Ars., Ver.).
Mind
Solitude is unbearable, desires company; child hold on to its mother’s hand for company (Stram.).
Mind
Anguish; sits, walks, lies, never staying long in one place.
Stomach
Cardialgia; crampy pains or hard pressure at one spot.
Stomach
Vomits all fluids as soon as taken.
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