====== ARSENICUM SULPHURATUM RUBRUM ======
<span tc1>{{anchor:s1}}Arsenicum Sulphuratum Rubrum.</span>

====== Realgar. As2S2. ======

{{anchor:s4}}Introduced and proved by Dr. Neidhard and his class in 1852; also proved by Patrick McNamara, Raymond, Howard, Preston and others.

====== MIND. [1] ======

{{anchor:s6}}Had an effect on his mind in making him crosser, and also to act with more energy; 4th day.

====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======

{{anchor:s8}}Increased heat of head and face, with a feeling of fullness, and heavy, dull sensation in head.\\ {{anchor:s9}}Falls in a deep swoon, with swelling of face; from inhalation.

====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======

{{anchor:s11}}Waking often with a dull pain in forehead over eyes, extending over top of head nearly to organ of self-esteem.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Heavy pain in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s13}}After three hours a general malaise, pain across forehead, and chilly pain, lasted till he went to bed; left him in night during sleep.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Severe continued pain extending deep into brain in right frontal region, also to right ear; very much agg. by stooping and exercise; amel. by application of cold; 5 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Dull pain in right frontal region, which increased in severity and became a sharp throbbing and shooting pain, extending to occiput on right side; agg. by motion and stooping; 4 P. M.\\ {{anchor:s16}}Headache similar to that of 2d day, with addition that pains were in whole frontal region, but most severe in right.\\ {{anchor:s17}}Pain commencing in back of head below philoprogenitiveness, and extending thence around sides of head; sometimes dull and sometimes sharp; 7 till 11 A. M.

====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======

{{anchor:s19}}Heat of head and face.

====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======

{{anchor:s21}}Sensation of fullness and pressing outward in right ear.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Snapping sound in ear corresponding to pulsation of temporal artery.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Scarlet redness and burning of upper half of left ear, with tingling similar to that produced by a frost-bite.\\ {{anchor:s24}}The ear feels hot to touch to himself and others.\\ {{anchor:s25}}A very unpleasant, quick beating, extending deep into left ear, with pain and scarlet redness and heat of upper half of ear; ear feels full, with pressing outward.

====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======

{{anchor:s27}}Sneezing occasionally, with a thin white discharge from both nostrils.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Sensation as if coryza was about to set in; sneezed several times during day, with tingling in right nostril.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Free discharge from nostrils, thin and white.

====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======

{{anchor:s31}}Has a better expression of countenance than before; used to look dull, but now looks brighter.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Sensible pulsation of arteries of right side of face and head.

====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======

{{anchor:s34}}Bitter taste in mouth on waking.

====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======

{{anchor:s36}}Mucous membrane of mouth and throat much inflamed; also lips and left side of tongue; left eye (conjunctiva) much inflamed and puffed out.

====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======

{{anchor:s38}}Inflammation of throat with deep redness, occasional pains and a raw feeling.\\ {{anchor:s39}}Enlargement of right tonsil.\\ {{anchor:s40}}At times intolerable itching in throat, inducing a short, dry, expulsive cough.

====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======

{{anchor:s43}}No inclination for supper.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Excessive thirst, continued for three days.\\ {{anchor:s45}}During this day and next had very little appetite, at times rather an aversion to food, otherwise well.

====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======

{{anchor:s47}}An hour after breakfast, fullness and weight at pit of stomach, low spirited, no disposition to talk all day.\\ {{anchor:s48}}Ate but little at dinner-time; disagreeable feeling in stomach till 8 P. M., when a burning sensation set in, which increased rapidly, and from 10 o'clock till 9 in morning was so intense as to almost deprive him of his breath; amel. in no position; feet and hands cold; trembling of whole body; twitching and jerking of lower extremities; anxiety, fear of death; stomach felt as if he had coals of fire in it; pain extended from cardiac extremity to left hypochondriac region; cold drinks increased burning in stomach; pulse depressed and threadlike; face pale and lived; could not bear least pressure on region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Sharp cutting pains in left abdominal region after each meal; agg. when walking, amel. by firm pressure with hand upon affected part.\\ {{anchor:s50}}After meals indisposed for mental or physical exertion.

====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======

{{anchor:s52}}Nausea in afternoon.

====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======

{{anchor:s54}}Heavy sensation and gnawing in region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s55}}Dull, heavy pain, extending from pit of stomach to back, with a sensation of a weight in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Very weak, much soreness over whole extent of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s57}}In evening, on returning home, felt symptoms of derangement of stomach; great weakness and trembling all over; had walked rather more than usual during day.

====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======

{{anchor:s59}}Large bluish spots over epigastric region, abdomen and thighs.

====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======

{{anchor:s61}}During afternoon dull pains in bowels, with feeling of fullness extending across into hypogastric region.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Most violent colic with terrible vomiting.\\ {{anchor:s63}}In smaller intestines round ulcers with blackish fundus.

====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======

{{anchor:s65}}A loose, small evacuation during day at an unusual hour; another one in evening.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Discharge from rectum of pure bile; urine saffron color.\\ <span grade3>{{anchor:s67}}Diarrhea of two months' standing; yellow, mushy stools in morning early, after getting up, and in evening before going to bed; a kind of tenesmus in anus is constant.</span>

====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======

{{anchor:s69}}Slight drawing pain for a short time in left spermatic cord.

====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======

{{anchor:s72}}Trachea and Bronchia. {{anchor:s73}}Hoarseness, with accumulation of tough, tenacious mucus in throat.

====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======

{{anchor:s75}}Awakes at 5 A. M. with a sharp cutting pain, commencing between cartilages of fifth and sixth ribs, extending inward and upward deep into chest: pain was so sharp that it did not admit of slightest motion; was obliged to suspend respiration as much as possible.

====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======

{{anchor:s77}}Occasional sharp pains, which appear to affect base of heart, impeding respiration.

====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======

{{anchor:s79}}After rising in morning, a heavy pressing pain, extending from point of os coccygis to anus; soreness of os coccygis; pain in anus agg. by efforts to evacuate bowels and when passing water; bearing down would produce a heavy, sickening sensation.

====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======

{{anchor:s81}}Rheumatism from right shoulder down arm, as if in bone; paralysis for three days.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Pain in bones of left upper arm, more towards morning, when he wakes up.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Coldness of hands.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Slight numbness of forearms and hands, with heaviness; dropped things.

====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======

{{anchor:s86}}Considerable pain in right hip, with lameness in leg.\\ {{anchor:s87}}Severe pain affecting inferior third of tibia of left leg; commences at lower point of malleolus internus, extends upward in shaft of bone; momentarily amel. by changing position of foot and by friction with hand.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Numbness and prickling affecting inner side of calf of right leg, heel, outer side of foot and little toe.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Violent itching of third toe of left foot, producing occasional spasms of muscles of foot and leg.\\ {{anchor:s90}}About 1 P. M. thighs and legs itched; agg. after scratching; seemed to leave in about two hours, and about 5 o'clock anterior muscles of thighs felt sore in descending stairs; about 9 o'clock legs and thighs commenced to itch again.

====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======

{{anchor:s94}}Rest: pain in chest amel.\\ {{anchor:s95}}Walking: pain in abdomen agg.\\ {{anchor:s96}}Motion: pain in chest agg.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Motion and friction: pain in tibia amel.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Stooping and exercise: pain in frontal region agg.

====== NERVES. [36] ======

{{anchor:s100}}Convulsions, with abdomen puffed up; offensive, bilious diarrhea, slimy vomit; death in four to six days; a child.\\ {{anchor:s101}}General heaviness of whole body, sleeps longer, and is more difficult to rouse.

====== SLEEP. [37] ======

{{anchor:s103}}Did not sleep so sound as usual, very restless, with many dreams.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Was very sleepy before taking medicine, but afterwards felt no desire to sleep, very restless through night, waking up often with a dull pain in head.\\ {{anchor:s105}}All symptoms develop more in night; very vivid dreams all night.

====== TIME. [38] ======

{{anchor:s107}}Morning: diarrhea; bone pains in arm.\\ {{anchor:s108}}At 5 A. M.: pain between fifth and sixth ribs.\\ {{anchor:s109}}At 7 to 11 A. M.: pain in head.\\ {{anchor:s110}}Afternoon: pain in bowels; nausea.\\ {{anchor:s111}}At 1 P. M.: thighs and legs itched.\\ {{anchor:s112}}At 4 P. M.: headache agg.\\ {{anchor:s113}}At 5 P. M.: pain in frontal region: thighs sore.\\ {{anchor:s114}}Evening: stomach weak; unusual stool.\\ {{anchor:s115}}At 8 P. M.: disagreeable feeling in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s116}}At 9 P. M.: thighs itch.\\ {{anchor:s117}}At 10 P. M. to 9 A. M.: stomach burning intensely.\\ {{anchor:s118}}Night: pain in head; dreams; all symptoms.

====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======

{{anchor:s120}}Cold: pain in frontal region amel.

====== FEVER. [40] ======

{{anchor:s122}}Towards night felt very cold and chilly, even before hot stove, lasted for three or four hours.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Heat and thirst; loss of appetite; frequent vomiting; a child.

====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======

{{anchor:s125}}Right: pain in frontal region; fullness in ear; tingling in ear and in nostril; pulsation in arteries; tonsil enlarged; rheumatism in shoulder; pain in hip; numbness in leg; throbbing and shooting in head.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Left: ear painful; eye inflamed; pain in spermatic cord; bone pains in arms; pain in tibia; third toe itches; tongue and eye inflamed.\\ {{anchor:s127}}Above downward: rheumatism in shoulder.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Below upward: pain in chest; pain in tibia.

====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======

{{anchor:s130}}As if he had coals of fire in stomach; as if coryza would set in.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Cutting: in left abdominal region; between cartilages of fifth and sixth ribs.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Shooting: in right side of head.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Sharp pain: at base of heart.\\ {{anchor:s134}}Pressing pain: from point of os coccygis to anus.\\ {{anchor:s135}}Drawing: in left spermatic cord.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Gnawing: in region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Throbbing: in right side of head.\\ {{anchor:s138}}Burning: of ear; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s139}}Soreness: of os coccygis; of anterior muscles of thighs.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Raw feeling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Rheumatic pain: in right arm.\\ {{anchor:s142}}Heavy pain: in forehead; in stomach; from point of os coccygis to anus.\\ {{anchor:s143}}Dull pain: in forehead, over eyes, to top of head; in right frontal region; from pit of stomach to back; in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Undefined pain: across forehead; deep into brain; in back of head; in bones of left arm; inferior third of left tibia; from cardiac extremity to hypochondriac region; in right hip.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Fullness in head; in right ear; at pit of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s146}}Heaviness: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s147}}Tingling: in ear; in right nostril.\\ {{anchor:s148}}Numbness: of forearms and hands; in right calf; in foot.\\ {{anchor:s149}}Heat: of head; in face; in ear.\\ {{anchor:s150}}Itching: in throat; of third toe of left foot; of thighs and legs.

====== TISSUES. [44] ======

{{anchor:s152}}All joints remain immovable after recovery from poison.\\ {{anchor:s153}}Rheumatic symptoms first twenty-four hours after taking medicine in morning.

====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======

{{anchor:s157}}Touch: ear feels hot.\\ {{anchor:s158}}Pressure: stomach agg.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Firm pressure: pains in abdomen amel.\\ {{anchor:s160}}Scratching: itching thigh agg.

====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======

{{anchor:s162}}Young man, aet. 18; headache in forehead and back of head, with vertigo and empty feeling in region of heart.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 02, 1880 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r745|Arsenicum Sulphuratum Rubrum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r745|Arsenicum Sulphuratum Rubrum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C. |
^ Year: | 1880 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}