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

Security problems

Ownership is so strong in his character. So

• He afraid of robbers
• Delusion of being persecuted
• Fear of being injured. Anxiety about health, despair of recovery
• Fear of being rejected and forsaken feeling
• Hypochondriasis, fear of all disease esp impeding ones
• Fear about health of his own relatives
• Fear of Death

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