The Arsenicum Album Type
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• APPEARANCE: Usually thin or slim. Often well groomed and stylish. Fine facial features with fine, delicate skin. Frown lines can appear on the forehead.

• MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS: Restless person. Perfectionist at work and at home. Can be critical and intolerant. Strong opinions. Can have a deep fear of being alone. Obsessive and compulsive behavior, especially concerning cleanliness and tidying-up; this can hide a hoarding mentality. Can pull out of plans early if they think it is not going to work 100%. Pessimistic in nature with a need for constant reassurance.

• PHYSICAL WEAKNESSES: Digestive system. Skin. Respiratory system (coughs, asthma and colds)

• DIETARY FACTORS: Likes fatty foods, warm foods and drinks, in particular coffee, candy, alcohol and sour tasting foods. Dislikes large amount of fluid.

• THE ARSENICUM ALBUM CHILD: Highly sensitive and highly-strung. Easily upset by loud noise. Can become exhausted after periods of exertion. Active imagination can create nightmares in dreams. Increasingly mentally and physically agile with age. Can worry overly about parent’s well being. Dislikes mess and being messy, keeps room tidy.

• GENERALITIES: Warm drinks and sweet foods are favored by them.

People requiring Arsenicum album generally fit a particular profile. They are anxious, restless, weak, pale, emaciated, faint, chilled, and catch colds easily. Their eyes are sunken and glassy; their faces is yellowish or ashy pale, and mouth, lips, and tongue are parched and dry. They desire liquids in small, frequent amounts. The forehead, face, chest, knees, hands, and feet are often cold, so people
 crave warmth. They may suffer from burning, pressing pains throughout the entire body. These pains are aggravated by cold and reduced by heat. Weakness is sudden and is reduced by lying down, although the other symptoms are worsened by it.

Other physical characteristics of this remedy include burning, offensive, and watery discharges; palpitations; profuse, sour sweat; and a red-tipped tongue. There is a tendency to bleed easily and from any place, and vomiting of blood and bleeding from lungs, throat, and mucous membranes are not uncommon.

Arsenicum album is a useful remedy for mental disorders with symptoms of melancholy, irritation, intense anxiety, and restlessness. The patient may be prone to violent fits of anger or rage or have an impulse to commit murder. It also can have a positive effect on alcoholism and can improve diarrhea, weakness, stomach irritation, and emaciation.

The mental and emotional symptoms of the Arsenicum include:

• Anxiety, nervousness, suspicion, impulsiveness, irritability, sadness, hopelessness, and depression.

• People requiring this remedy are often difficult people. They are critical and argumentative, easily offended, easily startled, insecure, forgetful, sensitive to pain, and often suffer from delusions or hallucinations.

• They think their ailment is more serious than it is and despair of ever getting well, often fearing that they are going to die.

• They desire company and are afraid of being alone.

• people may be unable to sleep due to their restlessness and anxiety or from physical discomforts such as fever or cough. When they do sleep, they may have anxious dreams or nightmares.

• Even though they are extremely weak, Arsenicum album people are clean and tidy, partially to relieve their restlessness.

• The symptoms are aggravated by a change in temperature, wet weather, cold food and drink, and by the slightest exertion. They are worse after midnight, upon waking, with alcohol use, and during menstruation.

• Symptoms are improved by heat, hot beverages, the warmth of the bed, fresh air, and lying down.

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