Arsenious Sulphide. Orpiment. As2S3. Trituration.
Clinical
Apoplexy. Caries. Children, emaciated. Diarrhoea. Gonorrhoea. Indigestion. Laryngeal phthisis. Walking, late.
Characteristics
The two sulfides of *Arsenic, *Orpiment and *Realgar, have been used in a somewhat general way in cases combining prominent symptoms of both elements, but independent observations and provings have been made with the two salts. *Orpiment has the burning pains and sensations of both *Arsenic and *Sulphur, stitching, tearing, and rheumatic pains moving from place to place. Lameness, staggering, trembling. Spasms, colic, vomiting, and diarrhoea. Annoying twitching. General debility. Chafing of skin about genitals and behind ears of children. Skin itching, dry, cracked, rhagades, itch. Jaundice. The periodicity of both *Arsenic and *Sulph. are marked: worse every afternoon and evening. better From steam or hot water. better Lying down.
Relations.
*Compare: Sulph., Calcarea c. (children slow in learning to walk).
Mind
Intense torturing anxiety and apprehension.
Head
Needle-like stitches in right frontal region.
Mouth
Taste bitter. Tongue furred, yellow-white, stiff, swollen, later, dry with disgust for all nourishment. Mouth and throat dry, herpetic ulcers.
Stomach
Burning and gnawing in stomach, with vomiting and diarrhoea.
Stool and Anus
Stool like water, green and slimy and terribly offensive. Diarrhoea daily 8 a.m. and several times during day, but not at night. Diarrhoea, with colic and backache and tenesmus.
Male Sexual Organs.
Gonorrhoea, with terrible pains, discharge copious, yellow, constant, burning day and night along entire urethra, with restlessness.
Skin
Eruption on outer side of left wrist, also on inner side.
Sleep
Starting in sleep, also in falling asleep, as if he would fall out of bed. Restless at night, excited, dreams with seminal emissions.
