Aurum Arsenicum - Generalities symptoms - T.F. Allen

GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Suddenly, great lassitude, in the afternoon when sitting or lying down; he fell asleep on account of it; on waking, the lassitude had disappeared (after nine hours),

Early in the morning, very tired; her legs ached so that she would have liked to lie down immediately,

Sleep and dreams

Continual sleepiness,

Drowsiness by day,

Slumber, with weakness of head, when sitting, by day,

Invincible sleep after dinner; during this sleep his mind was thronged with ideas (after four hours),

He sobs aloud in sleep,

Uneasy sleep, during which he feels the pains,

Frequent waking, at night, as by fright,

After 4 o'clock in the morning, he cannot sleep well, turns from side to side, because he cannot remain long in one position, and the hand on which he lies soon gets tired,

Awake the whole night, but without pain; nevertheless, no sleepiness or lassitude in the morning,

Sleeplessness; nightly restlessness,

Agreeable and sensible dreams, but which cannot be remembered,

Vivid dreams at night, which cannot be remembered,

Dreams with constant erection, every night,

She dreamed the whole night that she was in darkness,

She dreamed much in the evening, immediately after falling asleep, as if some one were talking to her; she was yet half awake,

Dreams full of disputes,

He wakes in violent dreams,

Troublesome, fatiguing dreams,

He dreams that he would fall from a great height,

Frightful dreams,

Frightful dreams at night,

Frightful dreams about thieves, with loud screams while asleep,

Horrid dream, at night,

Dreams about dead men,

Generalities

Tremulous agitation of the nerves, as in joyous hope,

He trembles when he cannot express his anger,

(When thinking of a motion, he makes small motions without knowing it),

Inclination to move from place to place,

He is constantly impelled to be in motion, and regrets his inactivity, although he cannot do any work,

At night he could lie neither on the left nor on the right side,

Internal emptiness and weakness of the whole body,

Early on waking, very feeble,

Mental labor wears him out; he feels exhausted,

All his sensations are fine and acute,

Excessive sensitiveness in the whole body; susceptibility to every sort of pain; on thinking of it, he imagines he already feels it; everything is disagreeable to him,

Comfortable feeling in the whole body (reaction),

Simple pain, or pain as from a bruise, early in the morning, in bed, in all the joints, especially the small of the back and knees; the pain increases by lying still; and passes off after rising,

Great anguish and weakness; they think him near dying,

In the afternoon, painful drawing in the veins with exhaustion,

Pressure on the left side, near the lumbar vertebrae, and on the upper border of the os innominatum,

Peeking, very rapid, almost stitching, between to thumb and the index,

Itching and burning shootings, here and there, almost like stitches,

All the joints feel bruised, early in the morning and the whole forenoon,

Pain as from bruises in the head and all the limbs, early in bed, most violent when at rest; passes off immediately after rising,