A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homœopathy

Bismuthum bism.

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Mind

Morose, discontented and complaining.

Head

Confusion.
Pressing and drawing here and there.
Attacks of vertigo, as if the anterior half of the brain were turning in a circle.
Cutting pains above right eye, extending to occiput.
Pressure in the occiput < motion, with heaviness.
(The headaches sometimes seem to alternate with the pains in the stomach.)

Mouth

Tongue coated white, without heat or thirst.
Taste nauseous and metallic, or sweetish-sour or bitter.

Stomach

Eructations of gas, with discomfort in the stomach.
Nausea worse after eating, with pressure.
Burning pains after eating.

Clinical:
Gastric catarrh, with terrible gastralgia, the pain extending from the stomach through the body to the spine.
The gastric disorders requiring Bismuth vary, but usually are burning, with a feeling of a load or hard lump in stomach (compare with Abies); vomiting of food and of mucus; gastric symptoms relieved by cold drinks (Puls.).
Very valuable for inflammation of the stomach occurring during the progress of chronic diseases; for instance, scirrhus.
A marked indication for Bismuth is that while taking cold drinks there is relief, yet when the stomach becomes full there is vomiting of enormous quantities.

Abdomen

Flatulence.
Rumbling and grumbling in the abdomen.
(Painless diarrhœa, with white-coated tongue, vomiting, etc.)

Urinary organs

Frequent micturition, with copious, watery urine.

Respiratory organs

Tightness of breath, caused by burning constriction in the chest.
Cough, with free expectoration, day and night.

Chest

Pinching in the region of the diaphragm, extending transversely through the chest.
Boring and burning pains in the chest.
Violent palpitation.

Back

Boring and burning pains in the back.

Extremities

General weariness.
Tearing pains > motion.

Sleep

Sleepiness in the forenoon, but cannot sleep as usual after eating.
Night sleep restless on account of vivid dreams, or waking in fright.