Ars, Arsenicum Album

Ars in brief

• Suited to psoric constitutions
• Nervous temperaments with anxiety
• Great anguish and restlessness, Extreme nervous and anxious, Full of worries about trifles, Domineering and demanding.
• Sudden great weakness, Exhaustion and restlessness.
• Unquenchable thirst.

• According to Nash Ars is a member of Burning Triad.
• Ars is the most periodic remedy besides chin.
• Palliative remedy for Asthma. Here Ars acts like Acon. His sunken eyes and tired face tell us about his dyspnea.
• His croupy coughs also emphasis of his bad situation.

Core them

• The most important sign of Ars in Acute/Chronic disease is General weakness + Anorexia nervosa and high speed weight loss.
• Chronic non healing/ Phagedenic Ulcers in loose body tissues with bloody discharge
• Night agg: Night is symbol of insecurity is the worst time for him
• Restlessness and anxiety

Ars personality

• Conscience, as if a crime had been committed. Inconsolable anguish, with complaints and lamentation.
• Indecision and Changeable humour, which demands this at one time, that at another, and rejects everything after having obtained it.
• Restlessness + anguish esp at night
• Extreme sensibility of all the organs, all noise, conversation, and clear lights are insupportable Or great apathy and indifference.
• Great weakness of memory. Stupidity and dullness
• Delirium, with great flow of ideas.
• Madness from the abuse of alcoholic drinks.
• Fainting: Great Prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital forces
• The greater the suffering the greater the anguish, restlessness and fear of death.

Security problems

Ownership is so strong in his character. So

• He afraid of Robbers / Ghosts so Fear of solitude
• Delusion of being persecuted
• Fear of being injured. Anxiety about health, despair of recovery, Weariness of life, Inclination to suicide, or excessive fear of death, which is sometimes believed to be very near.
• Fear of being rejected and forsaken feeling
• Hypochondriasis, fear of all disease esp impeding ones /Fear about health of his own relatives

The law of all or non

He thinks if something should be good, why not better. He could not stop his perfectionism so he become

• Hesitant in his decisions
• Suspicious
• Obsessive
• Fastidious / Sensitive to details: Ars wants everything to be organized. He chooses his clothes carefully and sensitively.

Indications

• Vitiligo