Argentum metallicum
Acts on cartilages, joints, and mucous membranes. Hoarseness of professional speakers and singers. Thick, tenacious, gray mucus discharges. Cartilage and joint affections.
Source
Trituration of pure metallic silver (Ag).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Hoarseness of speakers and singers — voice gives out when talking or singing. Thick, jelly-like, gray-white or tenacious mucus. Cartilage affections. Left ovarian pain. Bruised, sore pain in cartilages. Copious, profuse discharges. Weakness and trembling. Noon aggravation.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Hurried feeling. Anxiety about health. Depression. Propensity to argue. Mental fatigue. Nervous restlessness. Apprehensive.
General Symptoms
Acts predominantly on cartilages and joint surfaces. Discharges are thick, tenacious, gray. Gradually increasing debility. Worse at noon. Raw, sore feeling in larynx and trachea. Affects speakers and singers. Left-sided ovarian affections.
Physical Symptoms
Throat
Laryngitis of speakers and singers. Total loss of voice. Raw, sore feeling in larynx. Voice cracks on high notes. Tickling in throat provoking cough.
Respiratory
Chronic laryngitis. Hoarseness. Cough from laughing. Expectoration of thick, gray, jelly-like mucus.
Female Genitalia
Left ovarian pain. Prolapsus uteri. Disease of cartilage of uterus. Eroded cervix. Leucorrhea profuse.
Urinary
Frequent urination. Copious turbid urine. Urine sweet-smelling.
Extremities
Stiffness and pain in joints, especially knee cartilages. Bruised soreness in cartilages. Writer's cramp.
Skin
Elastic tumors. Skin looks prematurely old.
Modalities
Better From
Open air. Coffee. Wrapping up. Motion.
Worse From
Noon. Touch. Pressure on cartilages. Using voice. Riding in carriage. Mental exertion.
Constitutional Type
Thin, pale individuals who look prematurely old. Professional speakers and singers. Persons with joint and cartilage complaints. Left-sided complaints in women.
Clinical Indications
Professional hoarseness. Laryngitis of singers. Ovarian disease (left). Cartilage degeneration. Prolapsus uteri. Chronic laryngitis. Writer's cramp.
Comparative Materia Medica
Compare Argentum nitricum (anxiety, impulsiveness, sweet cravings), Stannum (weakness of voice with exhaustion on talking), Phosphorus (hoarseness with inability to talk). Arg-m. is distinguished by cartilage affections and thick, tenacious gray mucus.
Safety Information
Mercury. Pulsatilla.
Metallic silver is relatively non-toxic. Chronic ingestion can cause argyria (permanent blue-gray skin discoloration). In trituration form, extremely small amounts of silver are present.
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