Guiding symptoms of Matria Medica
Bismuthum
Founder: Hahnemann
Miasm: Psora and syphilis
Introduction:
- It is a metal
- It mostly uses for stomach problem
- The chief action of this drug is catarrhal inflammation and irritation of the alimentary canal
- Mind
- Nervous system
- Acidity
- Cholera
- Cough
- Diarrhoea
- Delirium
- Headache
- Gangrene
- Desire to company always
- Great anguish and restlessness
- Solitude is unbearable is most imp symptoms
- Complain about his condition.Discontented
- Notice in children who hold mother’s hand for company and would not let her go away
- He sits, walks and then lies, never remain for long in one place
- Delirium tremens with loss of consciousness
- Mental apathy with insensibility
- Mental complaint aggravate in summer, heat, abdominal operation
- Tooth pain better by cold water in the mouth
- Gums swollen also called scorbutic
- White coated the tongue. Swollen tongue
- Black and gangrenous looking wedges on dorsum and side of tongue
- Profuse salivation
- Loose teeth
- Thirst for a cold drink
- Sweetish metallic taste in the mouth
- Stomach pain is crampy and spasmodic in nature
- Irritation cardialgia and pyrosis
- Accumulation of a large number of solid food particles and stool there is a great pressure as from a load in one spot
- Vomit with pain and convulsing gagging
- Water is vomited out as soon as it reaches the stomach
- Vomit all fluid. Eructation start after drinking
- Will eat several days after that vomits
- Slow digestion. Fetid eructation
- Gastralgia
- Pain from the stomach to the spine
- Gastritis better by a cold drink
- Vomited when stomach become full
- Inexpressible pain in the stomach must bend backwards
- Offensive smell vomiting
- Pain may appear after laparotomy
Stool:
- Food get accumulate in the stomach for several days so stool becomes very profuse
- Offensive and cadaverous smelling
- Painless diarrhoea with thirst and micturition and vomiting
- Cholera
- Pinching in lower abdomen with rumbling
Chest:
- Angina pectoris
- Pain around heart
- Heart pain extending to arm and fingers
- Pinching in middle of diaphragm extending transversely through the chest
- Tearing pain in the wrist
- Cramp in feet and hand
- Tearing pain in tips of the finger under the nail
- Paralytic weakness in the right arm
- Itching erosion near tibia and dorsum of feet near joint
- Cold limbs
- Sleepy in the morning a few hours after eating
- Restless on account of a voluptuous dream
- Aggravation: by heat summer weather
- Amelioration: by cold application, cold bathing, open-air, motion relieves most symptoms except headache
Relationship:
- Antidote: Nux vomica, Capsicum, Calcarea carbonica, Coffea
- Compare: Antim crud, Arsenicum album, Belladonna, Kreosotum, Bryonia alba
Dose:
- First to sixth potency