Bismuth
By H.C. Allen тАФ Keynotes And Characteristics With Comparisons of some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica
Hydrated Oxide of Bismuth (Bi2O3OH2.)
Solitude is unbearable ; desires company , child holds on to its mother's hand for company (Kali c., Lil., Lyc.); Anguish ; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long in one place . Headache returning every winter; alternating with, or attended by gastralgia. Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the eyes. Toothache > holding cold water in mouth. (Bry., Coff., Puls.). Vomiting: of water as soon as it reaches the stomach , food retained longer (vomits food and water, Ars.); of enormous quantities , at intervals of several days when food has filled the stomach; of all fluids as soon as taken; and purging, offensive stools (watery stools, Ver.); with convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain, after laprotomy (Nux, Staph.). Stomach: pressure as from a load in one spot ; alternating with burning; pain crampy, spasmodic; with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis. Cholera morbus and summer complaint, when vomiting predominates ; stools foul; papescent, watery, offensive very prostrating (Ars., Ver.).