Arsenic alb
Cause:
Chill, in winter, taking ice, ice
cream, cold fruits
Symptoms indicating URI pyrexia
· Hay fever and coryza; worse in open air, better indoors
· Sneezing without relief.
· Thin, watery, excoriating discharge
· Nose feels stopped up. Burning and
bleeding.
· Throat swollen, edematous, constricted, burning, unable to
swallow.
· Suffocative catarrh. Unable to lie down; fears suffocation.
· Wheezing respiration.
· Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back
· Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking.
· Expectoration scanty, frothy.
· Darting pain through upper third of right lung.
· Fever with high temperature.
· Great heat at about 3 a. m.
· Periodicity well marked with adynamia.
Concomitants:
· Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation and intense
photophobia.
· Tongue dry, clean and red
· Mental restlessness with physical exhaustion
· Great prostration, sinking of strength out of proportion to
the degree of illness.
· Thirst for small quantities of water at short intervals.
· Mid-day, mid-night aggravation
Modalities:
< Wet weather,
after midnight, from cold, cold food and drinks. Right side.
> Heat, head
elevated, warm drinks.
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