Dr. Reckeweg Argentum Nitricum 30 CH

Dr. Reckeweg Argentum Nitricum

Common Name: Nitrate of Silver, Lunar Caustic.

Causes & Symptoms for Dr. Reckeweg Argentum Nitricum

• Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnoea, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic of Argentum Nitricum.
• The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligament's. 
• The larynx is also a special center for Argentum Nitricum.

Causation

• Apprehension, fear or fright, Eating ices, Intemperate habits.
• Mental strain and worry.
• Onanism and Sugar, Tobacco.

Mind

• Mental anxiety. Very impulsive, always in a hurry but accomplishes nothing, in continual motion, he walks fast.
• Hurries restlessly to fulfil engagements, fears to be late when there is plenty of time.
• Frequent errors of perception, mistakes distances, fears house-corners.
• Time seems to pass very slowly.
• Apprehension when ready to go to church or opera, bringing on diarrhoea.
• Easily angered or excited, anger brings on symptoms, cough, pain, etc.
• Complete loss of consciousness. Memory impaired, cannot find the right word.

Head

• Vertigo, with headache.
• Morning headache, Excessive congestion of blood to the head.
• Sensation of constriction of scalp, as if something tightly drawn over skull.
• Headache, with chilliness. Headache relieved by tying a handkerchief tightly around the head.
• Headache worse in the open air.

Eyes

• Photophobia. Cloud over left eye, grey spots and serpent-like bodies before sight, black motes (especially right).
• Sight and eyes seem to suffer as abdominal sufferings increase.

Ears

• Deafness, ringing, buzzing noises, feeling of distraction (left), earache.
• Whizzing in left ear with feeling of obstruction and hard hearing.

Nose

• Violent itching, obliged to rub until it looks raw.
• Coryza with chilliness, lachrymation, sickly look, sneezing and stupefying headache (over the eyes), has to lie down.
• Discharge of (whitish) pus with clots of blood.
• Ulceration of nostrils. Bruised pains in bones indicates Argentum Nitricum.

Face

• Sunken, pale, bluish countenance, yellow, dirty-looking.
• Lips dry and viscid without thirst.

Teeth

• Gums swollen, inflamed, bleed easily, painful when touched.
• Gums tender and bleed easily, but neither painful nor swollen.
• Teeth sensitive to cold water. Toothache when chewing, eating cold or sour things.

Mouth

• Dry tongue with thirst, Thick phlegm in mouth.
• Mouth coated inside whitish grey.

Throat

• Sensation as if a splinter were stuck in when swallowing, breathing, or moving the neck.
• Thick, tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging him to hawk.
• Rawness, soreness, and scraping in the throat.

Appetite

• Irresistible desire for sugar (but it worse), in the evening. Desire for cheese.
• Eating relieves nausea, but worse stomach pains.
• Warm drinks better, cold drinks or ices worse stomach pains.
• Nausea after each meal, especially after dinner.

Stomach

• Gnawing pain in the left side of the stomach.
• Pressure with heaviness (sensation of lump) and nausea, Trembling and throbbing in stomach.
• Most gastric complaints are accompanied by violent belching.
• Stinging, ulcerative pain in left side of stomach, worse from touch and deep inspiration.

Abdomen

• Sensation as of a ball ascending from abdomen to throat.
• Stitches through the abdomen (left side) like electric shocks, especially when changing from rest to motion.
• Pain in abdomen as if sore, with great hunger, better after eating, but a trembling sets in its place.
• Fullness, heaviness, and distension with anxiety.

Stool and Anus

• Stools green, slimy, noisy, flatulent, worse at night. Like spinach in flakes.
• Constipation and dry feces.

Urinary Organs

• Urine dark red, contains deposit of renal epithelium and uric acid crystals indicates Argentum Nitricum.
• Quick urging to urinate, frequent and copious emission of pale urine. Incontinence night and day.
• Urine burning while passing, urethra feels as if swollen.
• Inability to pass urine in a projecting stream.
• Stitches in extremity of urethra, cutting from posterior part of urethra to anus, when emitting last drop of urine.
• Ulcerative pain in middle of urethra, as from a splinter indicates Argentum Nitricum.

Male Sexual Organs

• Erections, but they fail when coition is attempted. Want of desire, organs shrivelled.
• Coition painful, urethra as if put on stretch or sensitive at orifice.
• Urethra swollen, hard, knotty, painful.
• Burning in spot in anterior of rectum (prostate gland).

Female Sexual Organs

• Ovarian pains, feels as if an enormous swelling in side affected.
• Menses irregular, scanty, Menses too copious or too scanty, too soon or too late.
• All symptoms worse before and during menses. Coition painful, followed by bleeding from the vagina.
• Metrorrhagia, During pregnancy, stomach as if it would burst with wind, head feels expanded.

Respiratory Organs

• Expectoration purulent, mixed with light blood.
• Marked hoarseness, sometimes loss of voice, feeling as if something clogging vocal cords.
• Cough with sense of soreness in left side preventing lying on it.
• Evening cough worse from tobacco smoke. Cough better evening and night.

Chest

• Aching, tensive pain in various parts of chest in small spots.
• Violent cramps and pain in muscles of chest.

Neck and Back

• Muscles of right side of neck sore and stiff.
• Pain in small of back, worse rising from sitting, better standing or walking.

Limbs

• Trembling, Lassitude, Weariness of forearms and legs.

Upper Limbs

• Drawing in shoulders. Pain in left shoulder and arm.
• Numbness of finger tips.

Lower Limbs

• Lassitude of lower limbs with dizziness as if intoxicated. Pain in calves all night, weary as after a long journey.
• Heaviness and debility of the legs. Limbs, especially knees, start up at night.

Generalities

• Fatigue, Tremulous weakness, accompanied with general debility.
• Expanding sensation, especially in face, in head, with feeling as if bones of skull separated, with increase of temperature.
• Loss of voluntary motion. Sensation of splinters in various parts, especially in mucous membranes.

Skin

• Wart-shaped excrescences, Itching, Small-pox, Urticaria is well checked by Argentum Nitricum.

Sleep

• Restless at night, stupefied sleep, with horrid dreams of serpents, etc.
• Nightly nervousness with heat of head.

Side effects of Dr. Reckeweg Argentum Nitricum

There are no such side effects. But every medicine should be taken following the rules as given.