Argentum phosphoricum [Arg-p]:
- Jan Scholten
Boericke mentions Argentum phosphoricum as an excellent remedy against oedema.
Concepts
Argentum Phosphoricum
Preservation of art Communicative
Preservation of ideas Sympathetic
Mecenas Brothers
Conservative Friends and neighbours
Arrogant Learning Curiosity
Condescending Travelling
Homesickness
Group analysis
Holding on to ideas in order to communicate.
Preserving art in order to learn.
Preservation of art for friends.
Sympathetic towards other peoples art.
A brother who is a mecenas.
An arrogant brother.
An artistic friend.
Having to be arrogant in order to be allowed to study.
Failure through open communication.
Picture of Argentum phosphoricum
Essence: preservation of arts in order to communicate.
Preservation of arts in order to communicate
They want to be very special and they love to show how talented they are. They have to hold on to these talents in order to stay in contact with their friends and family. If their talent dries up their friends and acquaintances might lose interest in them and go and look for a more interesting artist to talk to instead.
They keep an eye on everyone, they are very sympathetic and concerned about their friends, but at the same time they like to be the centre of attention themselves with an interesting story or an unusual piece of work.
Artistic friends
They like to make friends with other artists or scientists. They are interested in the artistic performances of all their relations and love to have an intelligent conversation with interesting people. This stimulates their own creativity, it is as if they can work better and can hold on to their talents better when they are in the company of like minded friends. Their relationships are often very deep and passionate.
A brother who is a mecenas
Perhaps they have got a brother who is an artist or a sportsman who has to prove himself and who might be very arrogant, wanting to attract all the attention to himself. Or perhaps one of their family members, like a brother or sister, is a mecenas who wants to preserve the arts.
Preservation of art in order to learn
They are often high achievers at school, wanting to be noticed for their artistic talents. This may lead to the feeling that they have to achieve something very special in the artistic or scientific field in order to be allowed to continue their studies.
Or they will become teachers themselves, preferably in the art subjects. They like to play around with language and may even make it their profession. They tend to have a natural air of authority, especially as long as they are convinced of their aptitude for the subject. When they get into unknown territory they are not so sure whether they can maintain their learned image.
Failure through open communication
They are very sensitive to criticism, especially when they are on unknown territory. As long as they can successfully display their creative talents everything will be fine, but when the criticism comes a bit too close to home they get very nervous.
They may fail by talking too openly about their ideas. Their so called friends may run off with one of these ideas and develop it for himself, creating competition and eventually overtaking him.
Trying to keep up and stay ahead of these development eventually proves to be too exhausting for them.
Expressions
Fears: heights, narrow spaces, performances, speeches, alone, dark, thunder, twilight, disease and death of family and friends, fears come and go easily; easily frightened.
Dreams: heights, falling.
Irritability: (<) humiliation. Mood: haughty, timid, yielding; lively, cheerful; excited, hurried, impatient; changeable, hysterical, hypersensitive; soft, calm, serene, peaceful; worried, serious, gloomy, crying, nervous, restless, discontented. Mental: clear, confused, lack of concentration, forgetful, precise, delirious, exhausted, numb, insane, dementia; curious, restless, imaginative, exhausted. Contacts: (>) talking, speech hurried, (<) consolation by friends, hard; (>)(<) large company, (<) intimacy. Hobbies: singing, art, music, violin, anthroposophy, bowling. Professions: artist, painter, writer, musician, teacher, scientist, doctor, priest, vicar, bishop, shaman, governor, secretary, representative, public relations officer, advertising agent, top sportsman or woman. Causes: disaster, humiliation, wounded pride. Generals Type: thin, tall, red haired. Locality: right. Weather: warm; but (<) heat and sun, (<) inside, (>) outside, (<) damp and cold, (<) wind, (<) thunder. Time: (<) 9 am and 9 pm. Desires: sweet (3), fruit, fresh (2), sour, chocolate, alcohol, wine, whiskey, coffee, salt, sauces (2), spices, salt, fish (3), ice-cream, chicken, cold drinks. Aversion: fat (2), meat, (2), sour, drinks, salt, fish, oysters. Food: (<) peppers (2), cabbage (2), sprouts, cucumber (2), tobacco, alcohol, apple, meat; (>) coffee.
Menses: profuse.
Sleep: difficulty falling asleep, (<) beautiful images; on right side; sleepy; (>) short nap; somnambulism.
Physical: (>)(<) motion, walking, lying on left side; (>) rubbing, (<) cats, smells, wool, (<) rest (3), sitting, (>)(<) touch; (<) coition. Complaints Pains: bruised, burning; itching, stiff, tight, band, constriction, electric shocks. Discharges are grey,bright red blood. Cancer. Weakness, anxiety, paralysis. Neurological complaints, shocks, Parkinsons. Headache, migraine (3); in forehead, temples and vertex; (<)(<) school. Neuralgia with shooting electric pains, tingling, numbness. Eye infections. Strabismus, divergent, left. Lazy eye, poor vision. Ear: infections, blocked. Nose: colds with watery coryza, nosebleeds. Hayfever. Throat infection left side, (<) swallowing, (>) cold drinks.
Laryngitis, hoarseness, (<) talking, singing; loss of voice, hoarseness, stammering. Lung complaints, bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis. Hyperventilation. Palpitations (>) lying on left side, (>) inspiration. cerebral haemorrhage, petechia.
Stomach complaints. Vomiting (<) drinking; Bowels: rumbling, flatus, odourless or stinking, diarrhoea and constipation. Inflammation of bladder. Kidney diseases with oedema. Incontinence (<) coughing. Inflammation of vagina, ovaries, testicles, may lead to cancer. Bone problems, growing pains, rickets, osteoporosis. Cartilage problems, thickening, deformities, arthritis, ribs. Pain in neck and stiffness (<) morning. Pain in arms. neck feels swollen. Writers cramp. Pain on the front of the left shoulder, radiating and shooting through arm to hand, accompanied by feeling of paralysis, numbness and tingling, (<) rest or staying in same position for a long time, (>) motion. Tennis elbow. Stiff hands.
Back ache, sciatica, shooting down leg, (<) sitting (3), (<) drawing up legs, (>) motion.
Skin: eczema, itching. Melanoma. Hair loss.
DD: Silicium series, Silver series, Stage 11-15, Carcinosin, China, Lycopodium, Manganum, Palladium, Plumbum, Pulsatilla, Silica, Zincum.
Case by Rienk Stuut
A 6 year old girl has frequent headaches and stomach aches with nausea. Eating temporarily relieves the pains. She is always tired. She also has stitching pains below the sternum. She wants to do everything as best as she can, and always gives herself totally to whatever she is doing. Everything has to look beautiful, her drawings, the way she dances, the way she swims, etc. She likes to be an example to everyone. When she is criticised she gets very angry and starts to cry. When she is good at something she doesn't hesitate to say this, for instance shell say: I am very good at drawing. But she needs a warming up period for everything she undertakes. Once she has mastered something she suddenly becomes very good at it. She is always afraid before she starts something new, stays quietly in the background in unknown situations.
But at all other times people can't fail to notice her because she never shuts up, even when other people are talking. She does this because she is afraid shell forget what she wanted to say if she has to wait. She is always burbling, singing, playing, talking to her dolls in bed. Her family has noticed that she is very inventive with language, she jokes and plays with words in an extraordinary way. She likes teasing others, but hates being teased herself. She loves school, but comes home very tired. She wants to be grown up. She has always tried hard in everything, she was potty trained by the age of 18 months, which may have been the reason that she had cystitis when she was very little. She doesn't want to use the school toilet, or any other toilet that is very small, she feels too embarrassed. She has an elder brother who is autistic and he needs a lot of attention. She has to work hard to get the attention she needs for herself. She is afraid of the dark and of scary animals. Her mother started her own acupuncture practice when she was pregnant and worked until just before the birth. As a baby she used to wake up frequently and needed to be comforted. Her mother thinks she already had headaches even then. She once had double pneumonia but underwent it without any fuss. It took her 4 months to get over it, the fever kept coming back every morning, in spite of the antibiotics she was given.
Generals
Weather: warm; fear of thunder.
Sleep: difficulty falling asleep, sees images of scary animals and small red dots.
Physical: (<) narrow spaces, small bed; (<) noise. Analysis This little girl loves to be special, she wants to dance and make beautiful drawings. This indicates a remedy from the Silver series. A striking symptom is that she doesn't feel happy until she has mastered it, she wants to learn it well before she has the courage to present it to the public. This is typical of Stage 11, hence the choice of Argentum. But besides this aspect we also see many symptoms that belong to Phosphorus: the theme of learning, school, tiredness and headaches and stomach pains. And so we get to Argentum phosphoricum. The ability to play on words may also be a typical Argentum phosphoricum quality. Other striking aspects: she does her best (Silver series), to attract attention (Silicium series) because her brother (Phosphorus) is very much in the foreground. Other Argentum symptoms: drawing, dancing, (<) ordinary things, anticipation, talkative, (>) being convinced, acupuncture practice, pneumonia, stitching pain in sternum (Tietze), (<) narrow spaces.
Phosphorus symptoms: talkative, pneumonia, fear of thunder.
Reaction
After Argentum phosphoricum 1M she got a short sharp attack of fever and after that the morning fevers stopped. She also had diarrhoea for a short time. The headache disappeared after a few weeks. She feels very well mentally and emotionally.
Boericke mentions Argentum phosphoricum as an excellent remedy against oedema.
Concepts
Argentum Phosphoricum
Preservation of art Communicative
Preservation of ideas Sympathetic
Mecenas Brothers
Conservative Friends and neighbours
Arrogant Learning Curiosity
Condescending Travelling
Homesickness
Group analysis
Holding on to ideas in order to communicate.
Preserving art in order to learn.
Preservation of art for friends.
Sympathetic towards other peoples art.
A brother who is a mecenas.
An arrogant brother.
An artistic friend.
Having to be arrogant in order to be allowed to study.
Failure through open communication.
Picture of Argentum phosphoricum
Essence: preservation of arts in order to communicate.
Preservation of arts in order to communicate
They want to be very special and they love to show how talented they are. They have to hold on to these talents in order to stay in contact with their friends and family. If their talent dries up their friends and acquaintances might lose interest in them and go and look for a more interesting artist to talk to instead.
They keep an eye on everyone, they are very sympathetic and concerned about their friends, but at the same time they like to be the centre of attention themselves with an interesting story or an unusual piece of work.
Artistic friends
They like to make friends with other artists or scientists. They are interested in the artistic performances of all their relations and love to have an intelligent conversation with interesting people. This stimulates their own creativity, it is as if they can work better and can hold on to their talents better when they are in the company of like minded friends. Their relationships are often very deep and passionate.
A brother who is a mecenas
Perhaps they have got a brother who is an artist or a sportsman who has to prove himself and who might be very arrogant, wanting to attract all the attention to himself. Or perhaps one of their family members, like a brother or sister, is a mecenas who wants to preserve the arts.
Preservation of art in order to learn
They are often high achievers at school, wanting to be noticed for their artistic talents. This may lead to the feeling that they have to achieve something very special in the artistic or scientific field in order to be allowed to continue their studies.
Or they will become teachers themselves, preferably in the art subjects. They like to play around with language and may even make it their profession. They tend to have a natural air of authority, especially as long as they are convinced of their aptitude for the subject. When they get into unknown territory they are not so sure whether they can maintain their learned image.
Failure through open communication
They are very sensitive to criticism, especially when they are on unknown territory. As long as they can successfully display their creative talents everything will be fine, but when the criticism comes a bit too close to home they get very nervous.
They may fail by talking too openly about their ideas. Their so called friends may run off with one of these ideas and develop it for himself, creating competition and eventually overtaking him.
Trying to keep up and stay ahead of these development eventually proves to be too exhausting for them.
Expressions
Fears: heights, narrow spaces, performances, speeches, alone, dark, thunder, twilight, disease and death of family and friends, fears come and go easily; easily frightened.
Dreams: heights, falling.
Irritability: (<) humiliation. Mood: haughty, timid, yielding; lively, cheerful; excited, hurried, impatient; changeable, hysterical, hypersensitive; soft, calm, serene, peaceful; worried, serious, gloomy, crying, nervous, restless, discontented. Mental: clear, confused, lack of concentration, forgetful, precise, delirious, exhausted, numb, insane, dementia; curious, restless, imaginative, exhausted. Contacts: (>) talking, speech hurried, (<) consolation by friends, hard; (>)(<) large company, (<) intimacy. Hobbies: singing, art, music, violin, anthroposophy, bowling. Professions: artist, painter, writer, musician, teacher, scientist, doctor, priest, vicar, bishop, shaman, governor, secretary, representative, public relations officer, advertising agent, top sportsman or woman. Causes: disaster, humiliation, wounded pride. Generals Type: thin, tall, red haired. Locality: right. Weather: warm; but (<) heat and sun, (<) inside, (>) outside, (<) damp and cold, (<) wind, (<) thunder. Time: (<) 9 am and 9 pm. Desires: sweet (3), fruit, fresh (2), sour, chocolate, alcohol, wine, whiskey, coffee, salt, sauces (2), spices, salt, fish (3), ice-cream, chicken, cold drinks. Aversion: fat (2), meat, (2), sour, drinks, salt, fish, oysters. Food: (<) peppers (2), cabbage (2), sprouts, cucumber (2), tobacco, alcohol, apple, meat; (>) coffee.
Menses: profuse.
Sleep: difficulty falling asleep, (<) beautiful images; on right side; sleepy; (>) short nap; somnambulism.
Physical: (>)(<) motion, walking, lying on left side; (>) rubbing, (<) cats, smells, wool, (<) rest (3), sitting, (>)(<) touch; (<) coition. Complaints Pains: bruised, burning; itching, stiff, tight, band, constriction, electric shocks. Discharges are grey,bright red blood. Cancer. Weakness, anxiety, paralysis. Neurological complaints, shocks, Parkinsons. Headache, migraine (3); in forehead, temples and vertex; (<)(<) school. Neuralgia with shooting electric pains, tingling, numbness. Eye infections. Strabismus, divergent, left. Lazy eye, poor vision. Ear: infections, blocked. Nose: colds with watery coryza, nosebleeds. Hayfever. Throat infection left side, (<) swallowing, (>) cold drinks.
Laryngitis, hoarseness, (<) talking, singing; loss of voice, hoarseness, stammering. Lung complaints, bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis. Hyperventilation. Palpitations (>) lying on left side, (>) inspiration. cerebral haemorrhage, petechia.
Stomach complaints. Vomiting (<) drinking; Bowels: rumbling, flatus, odourless or stinking, diarrhoea and constipation. Inflammation of bladder. Kidney diseases with oedema. Incontinence (<) coughing. Inflammation of vagina, ovaries, testicles, may lead to cancer. Bone problems, growing pains, rickets, osteoporosis. Cartilage problems, thickening, deformities, arthritis, ribs. Pain in neck and stiffness (<) morning. Pain in arms. neck feels swollen. Writers cramp. Pain on the front of the left shoulder, radiating and shooting through arm to hand, accompanied by feeling of paralysis, numbness and tingling, (<) rest or staying in same position for a long time, (>) motion. Tennis elbow. Stiff hands.
Back ache, sciatica, shooting down leg, (<) sitting (3), (<) drawing up legs, (>) motion.
Skin: eczema, itching. Melanoma. Hair loss.
DD: Silicium series, Silver series, Stage 11-15, Carcinosin, China, Lycopodium, Manganum, Palladium, Plumbum, Pulsatilla, Silica, Zincum.
Case by Rienk Stuut
A 6 year old girl has frequent headaches and stomach aches with nausea. Eating temporarily relieves the pains. She is always tired. She also has stitching pains below the sternum. She wants to do everything as best as she can, and always gives herself totally to whatever she is doing. Everything has to look beautiful, her drawings, the way she dances, the way she swims, etc. She likes to be an example to everyone. When she is criticised she gets very angry and starts to cry. When she is good at something she doesn't hesitate to say this, for instance shell say: I am very good at drawing. But she needs a warming up period for everything she undertakes. Once she has mastered something she suddenly becomes very good at it. She is always afraid before she starts something new, stays quietly in the background in unknown situations.
But at all other times people can't fail to notice her because she never shuts up, even when other people are talking. She does this because she is afraid shell forget what she wanted to say if she has to wait. She is always burbling, singing, playing, talking to her dolls in bed. Her family has noticed that she is very inventive with language, she jokes and plays with words in an extraordinary way. She likes teasing others, but hates being teased herself. She loves school, but comes home very tired. She wants to be grown up. She has always tried hard in everything, she was potty trained by the age of 18 months, which may have been the reason that she had cystitis when she was very little. She doesn't want to use the school toilet, or any other toilet that is very small, she feels too embarrassed. She has an elder brother who is autistic and he needs a lot of attention. She has to work hard to get the attention she needs for herself. She is afraid of the dark and of scary animals. Her mother started her own acupuncture practice when she was pregnant and worked until just before the birth. As a baby she used to wake up frequently and needed to be comforted. Her mother thinks she already had headaches even then. She once had double pneumonia but underwent it without any fuss. It took her 4 months to get over it, the fever kept coming back every morning, in spite of the antibiotics she was given.
Generals
Weather: warm; fear of thunder.
Sleep: difficulty falling asleep, sees images of scary animals and small red dots.
Physical: (<) narrow spaces, small bed; (<) noise. Analysis This little girl loves to be special, she wants to dance and make beautiful drawings. This indicates a remedy from the Silver series. A striking symptom is that she doesn't feel happy until she has mastered it, she wants to learn it well before she has the courage to present it to the public. This is typical of Stage 11, hence the choice of Argentum. But besides this aspect we also see many symptoms that belong to Phosphorus: the theme of learning, school, tiredness and headaches and stomach pains. And so we get to Argentum phosphoricum. The ability to play on words may also be a typical Argentum phosphoricum quality. Other striking aspects: she does her best (Silver series), to attract attention (Silicium series) because her brother (Phosphorus) is very much in the foreground. Other Argentum symptoms: drawing, dancing, (<) ordinary things, anticipation, talkative, (>) being convinced, acupuncture practice, pneumonia, stitching pain in sternum (Tietze), (<) narrow spaces.
Phosphorus symptoms: talkative, pneumonia, fear of thunder.
Reaction
After Argentum phosphoricum 1M she got a short sharp attack of fever and after that the morning fevers stopped. She also had diarrhoea for a short time. The headache disappeared after a few weeks. She feels very well mentally and emotionally.
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