Bismuthum subnitricum
Remedy of solitude-dread and gastric complaints. Intense restlessness — clings to companions, cannot bear to be alone. Pressure and burning in stomach with vomiting of enormous quantities. Gastric pain radiating to spine.
Source
Prepared from bismuth subnitrate (BiONO3), triturated and potentised.
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Dread of solitude — clings to companion's hand, holds onto them, cannot bear to be alone even for a moment. Gastric complaints — pressure in stomach with burning, vomiting of enormous quantities of food and water. Pain in stomach shooting through to spine. Headache alternating with gastric pain. Prostration with cold limbs and warm head.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Cannot bear to be alone — intense anxiety when alone. Clings to companions. Restless, must move about but aimlessly. Solitude is unbearable. Moaning, complaining. Anguish.
General Symptoms
Gastric remedy with intense fear of solitude. Worse from eating, solitude, after surgery. Better from cold drinks, bending backward, company, motion.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Headache alternating with gastric symptoms. Boring, cutting pain. Heavy forehead.
Stomach
Pressure, burning in stomach. Vomiting of enormous quantities — water is vomited as soon as it reaches the stomach. Food remains for days then is vomited. Gastralgia — pain shoots through to spine. Nausea after operations.
Abdomen
Pinching, griping, burning. Rumbling.
Extremities
Cold hands and feet. Restless limbs.
Modalities
Better From
Cold drinks, bending backward, company, motion, pressure
Worse From
Eating, solitude, after surgery, warm drinks
Constitutional Type
Not strongly constitutional. Used for gastric complaints with fear of solitude. Post-surgical nausea.
Clinical Indications
Gastritis, vomiting, gastric ulcer, post-operative nausea, fear of solitude, stomach cancer (palliative)
Comparative Materia Medica
Arsenicum album has gastric burning but more restless and thirsty for sips. Phosphorus has vomiting when water warms in stomach but more sociable normally. Stramonium fears solitude but with terror and violence.
Safety Information
Calcarea carbonica, Capsicum, Nux vomica.
Bismuth compounds are relatively low in toxicity. Bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol) is widely used. Large doses can cause darkening of tongue and stool, and rarely bismuth encephalopathy. Safe in all potencies.
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