Natrium arsenicosum
Sodium arsenite (sodium meta-arsenite) · Sodium arsenate. · Mineral
A history of grief and suppressed emotions is typical in people for whom Nat. ars. is best suited. Despite being high achievers and ambitious perfectionists, they are prone to forgetfulness and poor concentration. Often suspicious, they tend to bottle up their emotions, and are easily frightened or startled. Their sleep may be restless or heavy, and they may wake as if from fright.
The key affinity for Nat. ars. is with the chest, which generally feels dry, tight, and oppressed. There may be breathlessness or a dry, hacking cough, great sensitivity to smoke or dust, restlessness, and chilliness with a preference for wrapping up warmly and sitting by a fire.
Key symptoms
- Nasal catarrh with pain at root of nose and dry, painful eyes
- Post-nasal dropping of thick, bland, yellowish mucus
- Dry crusts in nose; raw mucous membrane on removal
- Racking cough with profuse greenish expectoration
- Oppression of chest and about heart; miner's asthma
- Headache worse from pressure and tobacco smoke
Worse (aggravation)
Better (amelioration)
Arseniate of Sodium (NATRUM ARSENICUM)
A remedy for nasal catarrh, with headache, pain at root of nose, dry and painful eyes. Psoriasis (Ars; Chrysoph ac; Thyroid). Bronchitis of children over seven years. Facilitates the termination of the cold and conserves strength and appetite (Cartier).
Head
Floating sensation on turning head quickly; aching in frontal region and root of nose, over orbits. Headache; worse pressure and tobacco smoke.
Nose
Watery discharge; drops into throat. Feels stopped; pain at root. Dry crusts, on removal, leave mucous membrane raw. Post-nasal dropping of thick, bland, yellowish mucus. Crusts in nose.
Ears
Catarrhal conjunctivitis and blepharitis marginalis. Eyes feel weak, stiffness of balls and tendency of lids to close. Feel heavy and droop. Lachrymation in wind. Agglutination in morning. Dry, painful, burning; soon tire. Œdema of orbital region. Supraorbital pain.
Throat
Dark, purplish, swollen, œdematous; red and glassy.
Respiratory
Racking cough, with profuse greenish expectoration. Oppression of chest and about heart, and also larynx. Miner's asthma. Lungs feel as though smoke had been inhaled.
Extremities
Aching in arms; worse in shoulder. Pain in anterior crural nerves. Joints stiff. Feels tired all over. Knee-joints crack.
Relationship
Compare: Ars; Kali carb; Apis.
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
Modalities
The symptoms of this remedy appear in the daytime, in the MORNING, in the forenoon, evening, nightand after MIDNIGHT.
The symptoms are worse in the cold air, but warm open air ameliorates; the mental symptoms are better in the open air; worse from cold in genera l; in cold air; becoming cold; in cold, wet weather; the patient takes cold easily.
The symptoms are worse ascending. Anemia and weakness and dropsy of the limbs. Complaints worse after eating. The body is losing flesh. The symptoms come on FROM EXERTION. Worse from butter, cold drinks, cold food, fats, fruits, milk, pork, vinegar.
Formication all over the body and in the limbs; induration of glands; inflammation in any part. Marked physical irritability and irritable weakness. Jarring aggravates many symptoms. Lassitude prevails throughout the provings.
Sodium arsenate. Hydric, di-sodic arsenate. Na2HAsO412H2O.
Clinical
Coryza. Diphtheria. Eyes, inflammation of; granular lids. Hæmoptysis. Interscapular pain. Miner's asthma. Nose, affections of; root of, pain in. Œsophagus, constriction of. Pityriasis rubra. Post-nasal catarrh. Testicles, neuralgia of. Tuberculosis.
Characteristics
Nat. ars. has been very extensively proved, notably by Imbert Gourbeyre. The irritating arsenical effects preponderate. The principal clinical use of Nat. ars. has been in diphtheria (dark purple throat, great swelling, much prostration, not much pain) and in affections of the eyes and nose, and root of nose. Some of the Peculiar Symptoms are: Wavering, floating sensation on turning head. Eyeballs feel stiff feel too large for lids to close over. Scratching beneath lids on rolling eyeballs. Pain at root of nose. Feeling as if thyroid body were compressed by thumb and finger. Feeling of lump in throat; of blow on testicle; as if smoke inhaled into lungs. Emaciation. Œdema. …
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