Argentum Metallicum: Boericke & Allen’s Keynotes with Clinical Tips

Source: Pure silver
Family: Elemental metal
Miasm: Psoro-syphilitic
Thermal State: Chilly
Abbreviation: Arg. met.


KEYNOTE SYMPTOMS (Boericke + Allen Combined)

"Loss of voice from overuse of vocal cords — especially in singers, speakers."
"Sensation as if body parts were expanding — especially head and joints."
"Pain in bones, cartilages, and joints with cracking and weakness."
"Brain feels as if it were loose, beating against the skull."

“A voice remedy” – For professional speakers & singers with hoarseness and fatigue. 


CLINICAL INDICATIONS

Voice & Throat:

  • Hoarseness, rawness of larynx
  • Loss of voice, especially in singers, orators, teachers
  • Voice fatigued easily
  • Larynx sore and sensitive to pressure
  • Mucus tough and difficult to expectorate

Head & Brain:

  • Headache with a sense of expansion or fullness
  • Vertigo with nausea, worse from standing
  • Brain feels loose, as if it struck the skull walls when walking or shaking head
  • Headache from mental exertion or loss of sleep

Bones & Joints:

  • Cracking in joints, especially knees, ankles, elbows
  • Pain in bones of face, arms, legs
  • Pain in cartilage (esp. thyroid, ribs, larynx)
  • Weakness of lower limbs with trembling
  • Hip-joint feels dislocated on rising from a seat

Mind:

  • Great mental excitement, with loquacity
  • Emotional, impulsive, often with lack of confidence
  • Nervous exhaustion in students, writers, thinkers
  • Fear of being alone or neglected
  • Forgetful, loses train of thought

Stomach & Abdomen:

  • Nausea with metallic taste
  • Flatulence with distention and loud rumbling
  • Craving for sweets and salt


MODALITIES

Worse From

Better From

Mental exertion, singing, speaking

Open air

Standing or walking

Rest, lying down

Emotions, especially excitement

Firm support or pressure

Afternoon

Cold applications for head pain

MEMORY TRICK — “SILVER WINS”

  • S – Singers’ laryngitis
  • I – Insecurity (mental)
  • L – Loose brain feeling
  • V – Vertigo with expansion
  • E – Expanding pain in head, joints
  • R – Raw larynx with voice loss
  • WINS – Weakness In Nerves & Speech


POTENCY & DOSE

  • Frequently used in 6C, 30C potency
  • For chronic cases, 200C or 1M under supervision
  • Repeated in voice fatigue cases during acute stage


CONSTITUTIONAL TYPE

  • Thin, overworked, mentally exhausted, chilly persons
  • Suffering from nervous and vocal overexertion
  • Often seen in sensitive, emotional artists or students


COMPARE WITH:

Remedy

Differentiation

Argentum nitricum

More gastrointestinal and anxiety symptoms

Phosphorus

Voice loss with burning, hemorrhagic tendency

Causticum

Hoarseness better from cold drinks

Arum triphyllum

Raw larynx but with burning and constant desire to talk

Stannum met.

Voice loss with weakness and chest emptiness

CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS

  • Headache with feeling of expansion
  • Hoarseness with raw, sore larynx
  • Brain feels loose; reverberates with movement
  • Joint pains with cracking and weakness
  • Mental fatigue with forgetfulness and impulsiveness


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Prepared by: Dr. Akshay Kumar Kewat
Website: https://bhmsstudentlibrary.blogspot.com
Email: drakshaykewat@gmail.com

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