Arsenicum Album

1. Fat, plethoric persons ; usually dark ; easy disposition to diarrhoea, vegetarians ; old people.

2. Combination of sadness and irritability ; sometimes suicidal tendency ; great fastidiousness ; fear of the dark ; < alone ; hyperaesthesia of the special senses.

3. In adynamic fevers ; rapid and great prostration yet marked restlessness from anxiety and fear of death (Acon.) ; wants to be moved from place to place ; obviously ill and lacking in vital power. Septic states.

4. Burning, lancinating pains and sensations, > heat (rev. Phos.).

5. Discharges burning, excoriating offensive, debilitating, thin, watery ; generally scanty.

6. Periodicity and malignancy of symptoms.

7. Great thirst ; calls for small quantities at frequent intervals.

8. Gastric ailments with loathing of food ; vomits everything even a spoonful of water ; ill-effects of eating fruit, ices, etc., also ptomaine and similar poisonings. Patient dislikes meat but desires fat.

9. Skin troubles of all kinds, especially scaly eruptions.

10. Patient very chilly, < cold and damp ; lying with head low ; midnight to 3 a.m. ; rest : > heat, except head symptoms.

Note : Thuja is sometimes its chronic.

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