Antimonium arsenicosum
Alias: Ant-ar., Antimonium arsenicicum
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
Arsenite of Antimony
Found useful in emphysema with excessive dyspnoea and cough, much mucous secretion. Worse on eating and lying down. Catarrhal pneumonia associated with influenza. Myocarditis and cardiac weakness. Pleurisy, especially of left side, with exudation and pericarditis, with effusion. Sense of weakness. Inflammation of eyes and oedema of face.
Dose.--Third trituration.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke
Arseniate of Antimony. (Sb2 O3) As O5 + 3 p.c. Trituration.
Clinical.─Catarrhal pneumonia. Emphysema. Ophthalmia. Pericarditis. Phthisis. Pleurisy. Pneumonia. Sciatica.
Characteristics.─Antim. ars. is said to affect preferably upper left lung. Emphysema where the dyspnoea is excessive. Haarer is the chief authority for this drug. Mattes, who used it after him, says it is equally effective in right-side cases in old pneumonias and catarrhal pneumonias in children; in old pleuritic effusions, and in pericardial exudations. The cough is < by eating, and on lying down. Wandering pains in sciatic nerves. It has caused inflammation of the eyes and oedema of the face.
Relations.─Compare: Other antimony salts, Ars., Aur., Laches., Puls. (wandering pains), Sul.