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
