Antimonium Sulph. Auratum ant-s.

Golden Sulphuret of Antimony

A remarkable remedy for many forms of chronic nasal and bronchial catarrh. Acne. Amaurosis.

Nosebleed on washing. Increased secretion in nose and throat. Rough and scrapy feeling. Loss of smell. Metallic styptic taste.

Tickling in larynx. Increased mucus with fullness in bronchi. Respiration difficult, pressure in bronchi, with constriction. Tough mucus in bronchi and larynx. Dry hard cough. Congestion of upper lobe of left lung. Winter coughs patient is sore all over. Pneumonia, when hepatization occurred and resolution failed to take place.

Acne (pustular variety). Itching on hands and feet.

Second or third trituration.

Golden Sulphuret of Antimony. Sb 2 . S 5 . Trituration.

Acne. Amaurosis. Catarrh. Constipation. Cornea, spots on. Diarrhœa. Indigestion. Iris, prolapse of. Itching. Nose-bleed. Lung, congestion of.

Ant. sul. aur . has been proved. Its most notable effects were produced on the eye and chest. Burning in head (with eye complaints). Amaurosis (commencing). Spots on cornea and hypopion. Acute and chronic nasal and bronchial catarrh. Acne. Nose-bleed on washing. As with the other antimonies there is disordered digestion, pasty mouth and taste in morning. Increase of tough mucus in larynx and bronchi, respiration difficult. Dry, hard cough with passive congestion of upper lobe of left lung. Itching on hands and feet.

Compare: Other Antimonies; Aur. (chest), Ars., Ferr., Merc. sul., Sul., Amm. c. (nose-bleed after washing).

Amaurosis, commencing. — Spots on cornea. — Iris protruding through cornea.

Bleeding from nose on washing. — Increased mucus from nose and throat.

Pustular acne.

Pasty mouth and taste in morning.

Burning or heat in fauces. — Mucus from throat becomes offensive to smell. — Pressure in throat as if a plug stuck in it. — Scratching, rough feeling in throat in morning.

11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen. — Pressure and fulness in stomach and abdomen; umbilical region sensitive.

Passage of much flatus with sudden urging, followed by a stool solid at first then bright yellow and pasty; afterwards violent colic and rumbling round navel. — Constipation, fæces hard and passed with difficulty.

Urine increased, dark red.

Pustular eruption on scrotum with much itching.

Accumulation of tough mucus in bronchi and larynx. — Increased mucous secretion with fulness in bronchi and full, hard breathing. — Respiration difficult. — Dry, hard cough, no expectoration. — Increased mucous sputum, mixed with blood, of a sweetish taste. — Passive congestion of upper lobe l. lung, with hard, dry cough.

Malaise, fatigue, lassitude, with nausea.

Itching on hands and feet. — Pustular acne.

Sleep deep; dreamy with sudden waking. — Sudden waking after midnight, with general aggravation of symptoms, heavy, confused head, slight sweat.

Golden Sulphuret of Antimony. Sb 2 S 5 .
Introduced by Glauber, 1654, and abused as a purgative and an emetic.
Proved by Mayrhoffer, in 1845 ; published by Buchner, in 1874.

Apprehensiveness with heaviness in precordium.

Pressive headache.
Burning in head. θ Eye complaints.

Reddish swelling behind right ear, leaving a redness and scurfiness.

Amaurosis, in beginning.
Spots on cornea.
Iris protruding through cornea.

Bleeding from nose on washing.
Increased mucus from nose and throat.

Pasty mouth and taste in morning.

Burning and heat in fauces.
Mucus from throat becomes offensive to smell.
Pressure in throat as if a plug stuck in it.
Scratching, rough feeling in throat in morning.

Loss of appetite ; almost a loathing of food.

Pressure and fulness in stomach.

Pressure, tension and fulness in abdomen ; umbilical region sensitive.

Passage of much flatus with sudden urging, followed by a stool solid at first, then bright yellow and pasty ; afterwards violent colic and rumbling around navel.
Constipation ; feces hard and passed with difficulty.

Urine increased, dark red.

Pustular eruption on scrotum after much itching.

Accumulation of tough mucus in bronchi and larynx.
Increased mucous secretion with fulness in bronchi, and full, hard breathing.

Respiration difficult.

Dry, hard cough, no expectoration.
Increased mucous sputum, mixed with blood, of a sweetish taste.

Passive congestion of upper lobe of left lung, with dry, hard cough.

Heaviness in precordium and apprehensiveness.

Arms heavy in morning.
Boring and tearing in arms and hand joints.
Swelling of fingers.

Itching on hands and feet.

Malaise, fatigue and lassitude with nausea.

Deep sleep.
Sleep dreamy ; wakes after midnight with dull headache ; with restlessness and sexual desire.
Awoke suddenly with heavy, confused head, pressure in stomach, difficult breathing, fulness of bronchi, restless tossing ; skin active, with slight warmth and even sweat.
Sleep dreamy with sudden waking after midnight, gouty and rheumatic pains increased.

Morning : pasty taste in mouth ; scratching in throat ; arms feel heavy.
After midnight : awakens with dull headache ; restless ; sexual desire increased ; gouty and rheumatic pains <.

Washing causes nosebleed.

Right : swelling behind ear.
Left : upper lobe of lung congested.

As if a plug stuck in throat.
Boring : in arms and hand joints.
Tearing : in arms and hand joints.
Violent colic.
Pressive pain : in head.
Burning : in head ; in fauces.
Pressure : in stomach ; in abdomen.
Fulness : in stomach ; in abdomen ; in bronchi.
Heaviness in precordium.
Itching : on scrotum ; on hands and feet.

Dry, elevated pustules on inner surface of thighs.

Similar to : Antimonies (family relation) ; Aurum (chest) ; Arsen. ; Ferrum ; Merc. sulph. ; Sulphur ; Amm. carb . (nosebleed after washing).

The golden sulphuret of Antimony, a reddish-brown powder, is triturated for use.

A tissue remedy similar to Antimony and Sulphur. ▶ Its clinical application has hitherto been confined mainly to diseases of the respiratory apparatus, coughs, etc., one case of chronic pleuro-pneumonia, with extensive pleuretic effusion, is reported cured.

Thick crusts, could only be removed with pain. ▶ Burning sticking in whole left side, especially in lumbar muscles. ▶ Rheumatic symptoms in all parts. ▶ Weakness in morning; in morning, amel. afternoon, with tendency to tremor, etc., with disposition to stretch and yawn.

Of very great value in acute and chronic nasal and bronchial catarrh and in acne.

Apprehensiveness.

▶ Aching; with fulness and pain in right ear heavy; one-sided, especially in left temporal region. ▶ Tightness, with restlessness. ▶ Confusion; on account of urging in abdomen; especially in cerebrum. ▶ Vertigo and stopped feeling as from fresh catarrh, mind sluggish, with singing in left side of head, dull feeling in front of head. ▶ Forehead confused. ▶ Forehead heavy at 10 P.M. with singing, flushed face, ill uhumor and rather an independent, indifferent, reckless kind of feeling.

Lancinating pain in right side in evening, extending to right inner angle of eye. ▶ Aching in morning, with rush of blood to head on stooping, producing throbbing headache, with weakness; in right side during rest, throbbing and severe during motion, extending to back of ear; during motion, agg. any jar while walking, when it seemed as if the skull would be raised to relieve the pressure on the brain; pulsative, and in frontal region, with feeling as if the skull would be raised with every pulsation of arteries.

Eyes weak, afterwards moist. ▶ Increased secretion in nose and throat. ▶ Coryza in morning, with impeded respiration; C., with loss of smell; fluent, with confused head, impeded respiration and impaired appetite. ▶ Nosebleed on washing. ▶ Lips dry.

Boring tearing toothache. ▶ Tongue coated reddish-yellow; thick white coat, with dryness of mouth and much saliva. ▶ Salivation. ▶ Taste pasty in morning; P., with slimy-coated tongue; sweetish bitter and flat taste. ▶ Metallic styptic taste; extending into pharynx; extending to stomach; extending to lower part of pharynx, with nausea, fulness in head, heaviness about eyebrows and dull feeling in centre of forehead.

Increased secretion of mucus in back part. ▶ Offensive-smelling mucus. ▶ Pressure as from a plug. ▶ Pressure and tensive feeling, agg. at larynx. ▶ Scraping pain, especially in larynx, with heat in fauces. ▶ Scraping slimy feeling. ▶ Scratching rough feeling in morning. ▶ Soreness, with hard cough; S. in morning after getting out of bed, with hacking cough and expectoration of much mucus.

Hunger. ▶ Appetite at dinner too much then stupid feeling, with sleepiness, A. strong again at 6 P.M., with a good deal of thirst (fever?). ▶ Appetite lost; with almost loathing of food; with nausea. ▶ Nausea; amel. cup of tea; with tearing in the stomach, the latter amel. rest. ▶ Vomiting. ▶ Weakness, disordered digestion, with nausea. ▶ Pressure; in pit; in epigastric region. ▶ Fulness. ▶ Emptiness. ▶ Feeling as of an acid, with nausea; feeling as of an acid, which appeared to increase and boil up. ▶ Weight in lower part of epigastrium, with nausea, excitement and ill humor.

Flatulency. ▶ Passage of much flatus, with sudden urging to stool, stool at first solid, then bright yellow, pasty, then colic and rumbling around navel. ▶ Tension and fulness; T. and sensitiveness, especially about navel. ▶ Colic as from a drastic purge. ▶ Twisting. ▶ Pressure in region of navel, with fulness. ▶ Sensitiveness of colon and especially at anus.

Constant urging to stool. ▶ Smarting and aching in rectum and anus. ▶ Pressing in R. after stool, with smarting; pressing in R. after stool, with burning smarting. ▶ Stools soft, reddish-brown; half solid, half soft; irregular, in hard balls, then pain and smarting in rectum, felt for several hours when walking; in hard balls; hard, difficult; hard and difficult, then smarting, pressing and throbbing in rectum; hard and delayed; hard and delayed, then heat and pressure in rectum. ▶ Stools increased, with nausea. ▶ No stool. ▶ Constipation, with tenesmus and burning pain in anus.

Heat in urethra during micturition, then smarting extending about in inch into urethra. ▶ Tickling in urethra, with twitching and increased urine. ▶ Urine increased, dark-red; increased, reddish-brown; increased, with tension and tickling in penis. ▶ Sensitiveness of genitals. ▶ Itching of genitals, anus and perineum. ▶ Itching of scrotum, agg. towards morning, then redness, next day dry pustulous eruption, with constipation, afterwards the itching and eruption extended more towards perineum. ▶ Desire excited.

Tickling in larynx as from mucus without ability to expectorate; in larynx and trachea as from mucus. ▶ Increased mucus, with fulness in bronchi and full, hard breathing; increased tough mucus during the restless night; tough mucus in bronchi and larynx. ▶ Pressure in bronchi, with constriction. ▶ Fulness in bronchi; with difficult respiration. ▶ Increased mucous expectoration mixed with blood, of a sweetish taste. ▶ Respiration difficult; difficult, full; hard, full of râles.

Heaviness in præcordium, with apprehension. ▶ Pulse soft; small, suppressed; slower in evening than in the morning.

Tensive pressing feeling in cervical vertebræ, nape of neck and thoracic ribs. ▶ Tensive drawing pain in loins.

Tensive feeling in muscles of shoulder and thigh. ▶ Tensive and tickling sensation. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Joints, drawing tearing; gouty, rheumatic, drawing tearing; rheumatic pains; stiff tensive pains, in morning; tension, with increased sensitiveness, especially in shoulders and knees. ▶ Tensive pain in left shoulder-joint. ▶ Arm, boring tearing in joints and in wrist; rheumatic pains in joints; heavy in morning; painful immobility of left. ▶ Twitchings in ulnar nerves like electric shocks, especially in elbow. ▶ Pressure in forearm, with heaviness and pain. ▶ Fingers swollen; tensive swollen feeling in F. ▶ Lower limbs weary and heavy. ▶ Tensive rheumatic troubles in hip-joint and inguinal region. ▶ Swelling of ankles and especially knees.

Reddish swelling behind right ear, which leaves redness and scurfiness. ▶ Elevated, dry pustules on inner surface of thighs, which itch feel tense, pain on walking and involve the whole leg in sympathy, after nearly three weeks they dry and desquamate. ▶ Itching, especially on scrotum and inner surface of thighs; in bend of right arm in afternoon, with redness like scarlet rash, of one, then another finger.

Deep sleep, with sweat. ▶ Soporous S., not refreshing. ▶ Heavy S., from which he was several times partially aroused by headache, mostly in right frontal eminence. ▶ Sleepy early, but after going to bed wakeful, restless, with aching in legs, from knees to feet, with paralyzed feeling, and tingling and itching over face, on thighs and hips. ▶ Restless night. ▶ Broken, soporous sleep. ▶ Disturbed and restless S. at night, with headache, amel. rising in morning. ▶ Sudden waking at midnight, with confused head and pressure above forehead towards vertex, fulness in stomach, pressure and tense feeling in throat, especially larynx, pasty taste, bronchi full, hard respiration, then slumber soporous, not refreshing; sudden W. after midnight, with excitement, restlessness, sexual desire, then light sleep; after three hours sleep, with heavy, confused head, pressure in stomach, difficult breathing, fulness of bronchi, tossing about, warmth and sweat.

▶ Dreamy sleep; and waking after midnight with dull headache; with sudden wakings after midnight, with gouty and rheumatic troubles in limbs and frequent waking with confused head, tension and dullness in brain. ▶ Vivid dreams, with sudden waking after midnight, with restlessness, drawing tensive, rheumatic pains over thorax and spine, difficult and rattling respiration with profuse mucus.

General chilliness, with shivering down over whole spine. ▶ Febrile symptoms, which started along spine, extended towards the whole abdomen and limbs, then heat, with sweat, pulse full and soft, lungs sensitive, agg. left lung. ▶ Chill alternates with heat; towards evening. ▶ Heat. ▶ Sweat at night.