• Discharges irritate the membrane from which it flows and over which it flows; excoriation of mucous membranes
• Discharges cause burning on the parts on which they flow
• Hay fever, influenza and old nasal catarrh
• Marked emaciation, weakness and debility
• Cancer of breast, lungs

Source: Mineral kingdom
Synonyms: Iodide of arsenic
Prover: E. W. Beebe

Introduction and History: This is a synthetic remedy having an affinity for the glands. It suits people with a tendency for allergies, hay fever and asthma. Tubercular constitution.

Characteristic Physical Guiding Symptoms

1. This drug is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges. The discharge irritates the membrane FROM which it flows and OVER which it flows. The discharge may be foetid, watery and the mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and burns.
2. Influenza, HAY FEVER, old nasal catarrh and catarrh of middle ear. Swelling of tissues within the nose. Hypertrophied condition of eustachian tube and deafness.
3. Senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration. Pulse shotty. Chronic aortitis.
4. Epithelioma of the lip. Cancer of breast after ulceration has set in.
5. It seems probable that in Arsenicum iodatum, we have a remedy most closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis. In the early stages of tuberculosis, even though there is an afternoon rise in temperature.
6. Arsenicum iodatum is very effective when indicated by a profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and sweats, emaciation and a tendency for diarrhoea.
7. Chronic pneumonia, with abscess in lungs. Hectic debility; night sweats, This remedy is also to be remembered in phthisis with a hoarse, racking cough and profuse expectoration of a purulent nature, attended with cardiac weakness, emaciation and general debility; in chronic, watery diarrhoea in phthisical subjects; in cases of emaciation with a good appetite; in amenorrhoea, with anaemic palpitation and dyspnoea. In chronic pneumonia, when abscess is about to form. Great emaciation. Arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile heart. Threatened pyaemia.

Important Characteristic Features

Head: VERTIGO, with a tremulous feeling, especially in the aged.

Nose: THIN, WATERY, IRRITATING, EXCORIATING DISCHARGE FROM ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR NARES; SNEEZING. Hay fever, Irritation and tingling of nose, constant desire to sneeze (Poll). CHRONIC NASAL CATARRH; swollen nose; profuse, thick, yellow discharge; ulcers; MEMBRANE SORE AND EXCORIATED. Aggravation by sneezing.

Throat: Burning in pharynx. Tonsils swollen. Thick membrane from fauces to lips. Breath foetid, glandular involvement. Diphtheria. Chronic follicular pharyngitis.

Eyes and ears: Scrofulous ophthalmia, Otitis, with foetid, corrosive discharge. Thickening of tympanum. BURNING, acrid coryza.

Stomach: Pain and pyrosis, Vomiting an hour after food. Nausea distressing. Pain in epigastrium. Intense thirst; water is immediately ejected.

Respiratory: Slight hacking cough, with dry and stopped up nostrils. Pleuritis exudativa. Chronic bronchitis. Pulmonary tuberculosis. Pneumonia that fails to clear up. Broncho-pneumonia after grippe, Cough dry, with little and difficult expectoration. Aphonia.

Fever: Recurrent fever and sweats. DRENCHING NIGHT SWEATS. Pulse rapid, feeble, weak, irregular. Chilly, cannot endure cold.

Skin: Dry, scaly, itching. MARKED EXFOLIATION OF SKIN IN LARGE SCALES, leaving a raw exuding surface beneath. ICHTHYOSIS. ENLARGED SCROFULOUS GLANDS. VENEREAL BUBO. Debilitating night sweats. Eczema of the beard; watery, oozing, itching; worse Washing. Emaciation. Psoriasis. Acne hard, shotty, indurated base with pustule at apex.

Remedy Relationships

Compare: Tub, Ant-i.

Comparison

In hay feyer, compare: Aral, Napht, Ros-d, Sang-int.

Potency: 3x, 6x, 12x, 30, 200, 1000.

Arsenicum Iodatum Dosage

• Second and third trituration. Ought to be prepared fresh and protected from light. Continued for some time.
• Clinically, it has been found advisable in tuberculosis to begin with; start with 4x and gradually go lower to the second decimal trituration.

Repetition: 5 grains, 3 times a day.

Therapeutic Value: Allergies, Anaemia, Breast tumour, Bronchitis, Bronchopneumonia, Cancer, Catarrh, Coryza, Cough, Debility, Dyspnoea, Eczema, Emaciation, Epithelioma, Fever, Hay fever, Influenza, Laryngitis, Lung cancer, Otitis media, Otorrhoea, Pharyngitis, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, Weakness.