• Secretions of mucous membranes are thick, gray or tenacious, or like boiled starch
• Hoarseness of professional singers or public speakers with total loss of voice or alteration in timbre of voice
• Calf muscles feel too short on going downstairs

Source: Mineral kingdom
Synonyms: Pure silver, Silver leaf, Precipitated silver
Formula: Ag
Prover: Dr Samuel Hahnemann
Duration of Action: 30 days
Miasmatic Background: Syphilis as a background
Temperament: Inritable
Thermal Relationship: Chilly patient

Introduction and History: It is mainly a left sided remedy. It is Luna of the alchemists. It corresponds to deep seated insidious diseases. In the mental sphere, it affects the intellect more than the other spheres.

Preparation: It is prepared from precipitated silver.

Constitution and Physiognomy: It is suited to tall, thin, irritable people with constitutional effects of onanism and abuses of mercury.

Ailments From: Abuse of mercury, onanism.

Seat of Action (Pharmacodynamics): Mucous membrane of the throat and respiratory tract, cartilages, joints and bones, cartilage of the ear, nose, eustachian tube, male and female genital organs.

Physio-pathological Changes (Pathology)

1. Through the great sympathetic system, it especially acts upon the cartilaginous system affecting the cartilages of the ears, eustachian tube, tympanum, cartilage of the nose, false ribs, tarsal cartilages, muscles, tendons, ligaments, particularly those in the neighborhood of joints.
2. It also acts upon the heart, testicles, salivary glands and skin.

Characteristic Mental Symptoms (Psychology)

1. Patient is restless, anxious and ill-humoured.
2. Patient has a disinclination to talk.
3. Patient is extremely forgetful.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

Hoarseness: Hoarseness of voice, especially in professional singers and public speakers. When reading aloud, patient has to hem or hawk.

Soreness of throat: Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing or coughing.

Cough: Laughing excites cough and produces profuse mucous in the larynx; cough with easy expectoration of gelatinous, viscid mucous looking like boiled starch.

Rawness: There is a raw spot over the bifurcation of trachea; worse when using voice, talking or singing.

Weakness: Great weakness of the chest, worse on the left side.

Left-sidedness: It acts especially on the left chest, throat, larynx, ovary and back

Male: Seminal emissions, after onanism almost every night without erection with atrophy of penis.

Pain: Crushed pain in the testes.

Prolapse: Uterine prolapse with pain in left ovary and back extending forward and downwards. Haemorrhage during climacteric.

Bones and cartilage: It affects the cartilage, tarsal bones, ears, eustachian tube and the structures entering into the joints.

Headache: There is frontal headache of businessmen. It increases gradually and when at its height, ceases suddenly.

Urine: Frequent desire to urinate with profuse discharge of urine.

Dryness: Extreme dryness of the mouth.

Appetite and thirst: Great hunger after a full meal and thirst.

Important Characteristic Feature

Hoarseness, aphonia, soreness of throat: It acts especially on the throat and larynx causing hoarseness, particularly in professional singers and public speakers. Complete loss of voice. Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing or coughing. Laughing excites cough and produces profuse mucous in the larynx. When the patient has to read aloud, he has to hem and hawk. There is cough with expectoration of gelatinous, viscid mucous, looking like boiled starch. Alteration in the timbre of voice in singers and professional speakers. There is a raw spot over the bifurcation of trachea. Worse talking, singing, speaking, lying on back, after sleep, on entering a warm room.

Male sexual organs: It has a strong action over urinary organs. Indicated in impotency due to onanism. The organ is shrivelled and atrophied. Bruised feeling or a crushed pain in the testicles. Seminal emission after onanism, almost every night, without erection, with atrophy of penis.

Rheumatism: Affects the cartilages, joints and bones. Hence, it is a great remedy in rheumatic affections, especially arthritic rheumatism. Affected parts are swollen and feel bruised on pressure. Pains are tearing in nature. There are sometimes electric-like shocks in joints and limbs; cramps in muscles. Parts feel stiff and numb; calf muscles feel too short when going upstairs.

General Modalities

Aggravation: By rest, singing, reading, in cold wet weather, in a warm room, on exposure to sun during headache, descending stairs, eating sweets, drinking, eating.

Amelioration: Motion, open air, cough at night, while lying down, pressure, bandaging.

Remedy Relationships

Follows well: Calc, Puls and Sep.

Antidotes: Merc, Puls.

Comparison

Inflammation of cartilage: Arg-met, Nat-m.

Therapeutic Value: Aphonia, Brain fag, Cough, Diabetes, Exostoses, Heart affections, Hoarseness, Impotency, Laryngitis, Rheumatism, Throat affections, Uterine prolapse, etc.