Anæmia. Bright's disease. Chlorosis. Liver, enlargement of. Spleen, enlargement of.
FERRUM ARSENICUM
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Remedy Origin / Source
Natural
Clinical Applications
Ferrum Arsenicicum. Arseniate of Iron. Triferric diarsenate. Fe3 2As O4. Clinical Anæmia. Bright's disease. Chlorosis. Liver, enlargement of. Spleen, enlargement of. Characteristics Hale was the first to use Fe. ars., giving the 2x with promptly curative result to an anæmic girl who had been give...
General Description
Ferrum Arsenicicum. Arseniate of Iron. Triferric diarsenate. Fe3 2As O4. Clinical Anæmia. Bright's disease. Chlorosis. Liver, enlargement of. Spleen, enlargement of. Characteristics Hale was the first to use Fe. ars., giving the 2x with promptly curative result to an anæmic girl who had been given Iron and Arsenic separately, under old-school treatment, in vain. P. C. Majumdar (Ind. Hom. Rev., v. 104) has put it to excellent use in cases of enlarged liver and spleen with fever. When there is no fever Fe. iod. is better. These are his indications for Fe. ars.: Enlarged spleen with high fever of a continued type; during fever the face is flushed and sweaty, but during the intermission the face is pallid. Disinclination to work, even to leave his bed; constipation, or, sometimes, colliquat...
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Clinical
Characteristics
Hale was the first to use Fe. ars., giving the 2x with promptly curative result to an anæmic girl who had been given Iron and Arsenic separately, under old-school treatment, in vain. P. C. Majumdar (Ind. Hom. Rev., v. 104) has put it to excellent use in cases of enlarged liver and spleen with fever. When there is no fever Fe. iod. is better. These are his indications for Fe. ars.: Enlarged spleen with high fever of a continued type; during fever the face is flushed and sweaty, but during the intermission the face is pallid. Disinclination to work, even to leave his bed; constipation, or, sometimes, colliquative diarrhœa, the stools consisting of undigested matter and mucus, no thirst during any stage of the fever; heat intense and prolonged with slight burning of the whole body, emaciation, and debility. Majumdar reports these two cases: (1) A robust, healthy man, 25, went into a very malarious district of Bengal and had his first attack of fever. He was given large doses of Quinine which suppressed the paroxysms for a time, but they continually recurred. After four years he returned home a changed man: pale, jaundiced, emaciated; abdomen filled with enlarged and indurated liver and spleen, slightly tender to pressure. These organs left no room for his food. He had obstinate constipation; high fever generally appearing in afternoon, no chill or thirst, but copious sweat without much relief to fever. Fe. ars. 6, twice daily, made an improvement in three days. It was continued for a month and a half with occasional stoppages, and in six months he was completely restored to health. (2) A boy, 15, suffered from fever and enlarged spleen. The liver was not enlarged. Voracious appetite, but no digestion, undigested diarrhœic stools. Continued fever, 102° to 104°, burning of body. Some thirst. Great emaciation. Fe. ars. 6 night and morning. He was cured perfectly in a year. Fe. ars. has been used with benefit in cases of albuminuria.
Relations
Compare: Fe. i., Fer., Ars., Calc. ars., Chi.
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 Plant
- Common Name N/A
- Origin Source Natural
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