Has proven a great anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic remedy. Herpetic eruptions, syphilitic excrescences, glandular tumors and indurations, carcinoma, locomotor ataxia, and obstinate intermittents, and diabetes are all greatly influenced by this preparation.
Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Key Symptoms & Indications
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Has proven a great anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic remedy. Herpetic eruptions, syphilitic excrescences, glandular tumors and indurations, carcinoma, locomotor ataxia, and obstinate intermittents, and diabetes are all greatly influenced by this preparation.
Physical Symptoms
Face
Acne rosacea , with violet papules on nose; worse in the spring. Acne in young people.
Mentions in Classic Materia Medicas
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ARSENICUM BROMATUM
Face
Acne rosacea, with violet papules on nose; worse in the spring. Acne in young people.
Dose
Tincture, two to four drops daily in water. In diabetes, three drops three times a day in a glass of water.
Arsenicum Bromatum.
Clinical
Acne. Diabetes.
Characteristics
"Acne rosacea, with violet papules on the nose. Diabetes mellitus" (Hansen).
Arsenicum Bromatum
(Arsenic Bromide)
Pharmacy
ars-br. Arsenicum bromatum. Arsenic bromide. Historical dose: Trituration, all potencies.
Clinical
- Acne
- Cancer
- Constipation
- Diabetes mellitus
- Herpes
- Intermittent fevers
- Locomotor ataxia
- Neuralgias
- Tumors
Homeopathic
Ars-br. has proven a great anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic remedy. Hansen said it is useful for "Acne rosacea with violet papules on the nose. Diabetes mellitus."
Herpetic eruptions, syphilitic growths, glandular tumors, and indurations. Carcinoma, locomotor ataxia, and obstinate intermittent fevers. Acne rosacea with violet papules on the nose, worse in the spring. Acne in young people.
Great restlessness, wants to be carried continually. Larynx and trachea invaded; the effort to breathe causes profuse sweating. Irregular brownish stripe on the center of the tongue, more toward the base. Great thirst for large quantities.
Comments
Anshutz's best successes were in obstinate cases of syphilis, in the first stages of tabes dorsalis, in the reconvalescence from exhausting acute diseases, in gastric suppurations, inactivity of bowels, tardy digestion, constipation.
In those cases where Chin s. failed in intermittent fevers, he prescribed Ars-br. twice daily, four drops, each time in a full glass of water. Gradually diminishing it to eruption appeared on forehead, temples, and especially at the root of the nose. Though treatment was immediately instituted, still in a few weeks the face of the patient was covered by ugly, foul-smelling crust.
"Cod liver oil was now taken internally and applied externally until the scurfs fell off and the eruption concentrated on three points. For six months that treatment was kept up, but after being omitted for a few weeks, the eruption spread again to its former extent. Every treatment was tried in rotation without the least benefit."
"In the spring 1856 he entered my clinic. In the center of the forehead, at the root of the nose, on both eyebrows, on the temples, and right cheek there are moist herpetic eruptions covered with crusts, exuding on least pressure an acrid, burning discharge, with easily bleeding."
"Around these eruptions the skin is injected, reddened interspersed with a large network of veins. Cough and expectoration hint to a beginning of tuberculosis, an heirloom in the family. Little appetite, disturbed digestion, tardy defecation, and evening fever."
"He is ordered Solutio Ars-br. twice a day, four drops in a glass of water and already after two weeks the eruption begins to dry up, appetite returns, and bowels are regular."
"After two months two crusts fall off and the skin under them is soft, shining, somewhat red. About July all eruption had gone and the cough greatly improved."
He continued by noting that "Ars-br. is also a powerful remedy in diabetes mellitus and insipidus, cured cases where the patient had already been reduced from 138 pounds to 98 and where the urine could be condensed, by boiling into syrupy consistency."
"A diabetic patient needs fresh pure air if he wishes to get well, confinement in a room or in the office prevents the action of any treatment, for it needs own to reduce the sugar of the blood into carbonic acid and water."
"Let the patient take three drops thrice daily in a glass of water and after a week the insatiable burning thirst will be quenched and these doses must be continued until the quantity of sugar in the urine is reduced, when the remedy might be taken twice a day and continued for a long time."
References
- Anshutz
- Boeneke
- Clarke
Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights
"ARSENICUM seems especially adapted to loss of vision dependent upon the use of tobacco, and has proven clinically to be of the first value in retro-bulbar neuritis."
By Dr. Norton, M.D.
Retro-bulbar Neuritis
"ARSENIC ALB. is very efficacious in the 30th potency, given every half an hour, for 4 to 6 doses, for the usual colds due to change of temperature."
By Dr. Marjorie Blackie, M.D.
Common cold
"ARSENIC is one of the most valuable agents which we possess in the treatment of chlorosis and anaemia, especially adapted to those cases in which iron does not agree or fails to effect."
By Dr. Bartholow
Chlorosis & Anaemia
"Peptic ulcer: ARSENICUM deserves to be classed in foremost rank."
By Dr. Boehr
Peptic Ulcer
"For acute gastritis you cannot have a better drug than ARSENICUM."
By Dr. Hughes, L.R.C.P.
Acute Gastritis
"Use ARSENICUM ALBUM high to relieve the mental distress (fear) of the dying."
By Dr. R.A.F.Jack
Fear
"ARSENICUM ALBUM gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency."
By Dr. Boericke, M.D.
Collapse - Near death
"Our experience certainly is that ARSENICUM far excels all other drugs in the treatment of idiopathic neuralgia. Such a neuralgia you often meet as a consequence of malaria or influenza but more frequently as a symptom of pure debility."
By Dr. Hughes, L.R.C.P.
Idiopathic Neuralgia
"In simple, uncomplicated cases of chorea, ARSENICUM is only by far the best remedy."
By Dr. Ringer
Chorea
"ARSENICUM is our most important diuretic. It is suitable in all forms of dropsy, more particularly in dropsy depending upon heart disease and oedema of the lungs. After giving ARSENICUM, a copious diuresis will sometimes set in with astonishing rapidity, after which the dropsical swelling speedily disappears. The result is most doubtful if we have only ascites to contend against, and in as much as the medicine shows its good effects in a few days itself after a few doses have been taken, it is useless to continue it for a longer period in the vain hope of eliciting good effects from it by persisting in its use."
By Dr. Bahr
Dropsy
"When peptic ulcer is at pyloric end, ARSENICUM is the drug."
By Dr. Pope
Peptic Ulcer
"In various advanced septic cases with persistent vomiting (and possibly diarrhoea) ARSENICUM ALBUM possesses considerable virtue. I have known it to work almost miraculously in several desperate cases of this kind."
By Dr. H.L.Northrop, M.D..,F.A.C.S.,
Sepsis
"As a prophylactic, ARSENIC or CEPA may be given for sometime before the expected time for the hay fever."
By Dr. Custis, M.D.
Hay Fever
"In psoriasis, the first influence of ARSENIC is to make the eruption redder and more inflamed. This fact, if not known, would lead to the suspension of the medicine just when it commenced to do good; at the same time, it is unnecessary to give it in doses sufficiently large to do this."
By Dr. Ringer
Psoriasis
"ARSENIC ALB. is very valuable for the weak heart which is irritable; rapid action on slightest provocation."
By Dr. H.C.Allen, M.D.
Palpitation
"Angina pectoris better by standing"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
Angina Pectoris
"Aphthae under the lips"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
Aphthae
"AIDS"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
AIDS
"Aphthae, in measles"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
Aphthae, Measles
"Hair falling in patches"
By Dr. Balbir Singh (Rare Collection with Rare Medicines)
Alopecia
"Gangrene better by warmth"
By Dr. Sunirmal Sarkar
Gangrene
Remedy Profile
- Type Remedy
- Common Name N/A
- Origin Source Natural
Dosage & Potency
Tincture, two to four drops daily in water. In diabetes, three drops three times a day in a glass of water.
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