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Bismuthum Homeopathic Materia Medica

Guiding symptoms of Matria Medica

Bismuthum

Common name: Hydrated oxide of bismuth - B12 O3 OH2, Precipitated subnitrate of bismuth


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
Clinical: 
  • Acidity
  • Cholera
  • Cough
  • Diarrhoea
  • Delirium
  • Headache 
  • Gangrene
Mind: 
  • 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
Mouth: 
  • 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: 
  • 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
Extremities:
  • 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
Sleep: 
  • Sleepy in the morning a few hours after eating
  • Restless on account  of a voluptuous dream
General modality:
  • 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

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