Arsenicum Album: The Remedy for Anxiety, Burning Pain, and Restlessness
Key Features and Uses:
Anxiety and Fear: Intense anxiety, restlessness, and fear of death, especially at night or when alone.
Burning Pains: Burning sensations throughout the body, relieved by warmth (except head).
Exhaustion: Profound weakness and prostration, even after minimal exertion.
Digestive Issues: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, often with burning pains and thirst for small sips of water.
Fastidiousness: A meticulous nature, desiring everything to be clean and in order.
Memory Tips:
ARSENICUM:
Attractive order: Fastidiousness and desire for cleanliness.
Restlessness: Mental and physical restlessness.
Severe prostration: Weakness and exhaustion.
Excessive burning: Burning pains and thirst for sips of water.
Nausea: From smell or sight of food.
Incurable: Fear of incurable disease and death.
Cadaveric: Foul-smelling discharges.
Usually annual onset: Complaints returning periodically.
Modalities: Worse at midnight and midday, better with heat.
FASTIDIOUS: (For Mental Symptoms)
Fear of death and solitude.
Anxious and restless.
Sad and melancholic.
Time modality: Worse at 1-2 a.m. and p.m.
Incurable disease: Fear of.
Dreads solitude: Wants company.
Irritable.
Orderly mania: Needs everything neat and tidy.
Unnatural: Oversensitive.
Suicidal tendency.
Additional Insights:
Homeopathic Preparation: Arsenicum album is most commonly used in a potentized (diluted) form.
Consult a Professional: Seek guidance from a qualified homeopathic practitioner for proper diagnosis and treatment.
Cautions:
Toxicity: Arsenic in its raw form is highly poisonous. Use only homeopathic preparations.