Remedies – Arsenicum Album

Common name: Arsenic trioxide. Arsenous acid. White arsenic.

Chemical formula: As2O3

Arsenic is an element, located in row 4, column 15 of the Periodic Table of Elements. In the form of arsenic trioxide, it is a white poisonous powder that is used to kill weeds, insects, and rodents. For centuries, arsenic was used to secretly poison unwanted bishops, spouses, and political rivals. This murderous practice declined after a chemical method for detecting arsenic in the body was developed in the 1830s. Although its use as a poison was known, arsenic was used cosmetically during the 1800s to whiten complexions by bathing in arsenic water, used as a dusting powder or in a lotion, or eaten as an ingredient in wafers. Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a world wide problem, especially in Pakistan, China, and Bangladesh. Despite arsenic’s deadly qualities, today it is used medically to treat a type of leukemia.

Materials that are poisonous in their natural state become nontoxic when made into homeopathic remedies because only the energetic imprint of the substance remains. Arsenicum album is a powerful homeopathic remedy that is useful for a wide range of ailments when anxiety, burning pains, and restlessness are part of the symptom picture. People needing Arsenicum album want strong support from their family and friends. They tend to be fastidious and tidy, with a desire to perfectly control their environment. Although extremely chilly and sensitive to cold, they desire also fresh air. It is important to note that no one will have all characteristic symptoms or keynotes of a homeopathic remedy.

Keynotes:

• Fastidious, perfectionist, OCD, compulsive or ritualistic behavior, desires order
• Careful, economical, desires practical security
• Anxiety, especially about health, concerned about his own and other’s health and safety
• Desires cleanliness, concerned about germs and contamination, meticulously clean
• Restlessness, pacing, fidgeting, panic attack
• Fear of sickness, death, cancer, poverty, robbers, being alone
• Desires company, depends on other people
• Hay fever, colds, or respiratory flu with sneezing and watery acrid nasal discharge despite being stopped up
• Asthma, better sitting upright, worse midnight to 2 am
• Chilly, aggravated by cold, desires heat
• General aggravation at midnight to 2 am
• Burning pains
• Sudden weakness, prostration out of proportion to the problem
• Gastritis, peptic ulcers, gastric flu, stomach pains better from warm drinks or milk
• Food poisoning with burning diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting
• Exhaustion with restlessness
• Coldness of the extremities, Reynaud’s syndrome
• Thirsty for frequent small sips of a warm drink, unquenchable thirst

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