ARSENICUM ALBUM.pdf - Dr. Gheorghe Jurj - Homeopatie

Dr Gheorghe Jurj, MD, DScCourse: Visual SemiologyXXIX Brazilian Congress of HomeopathySão Paulo, 2008

• 65 years-old patient, with diagnosis of depression, treated withconventional therapy• Antecedents:– TB 6 years before– Depression appeared after the husband was diagnosed with cancer• During interview, described numberless symptoms, from headacheto suffocation, from fatigue to lack of appetite• Evident anxious background, with themes of disease, anticipationand sadness

• Although it was a warm day, sheis overdressed. In no moment sheuncovered her head. Admits sheis extremely sensitive to cold.• Tells she has a cold, which elicitsfeelings of suffocation, needs todrink a few sips of water torecover breath.

Red nevi on the chestDeep crack in middleline of tongue; tongueseems bifidThin, dry hands; longfingers

• Clinical diagnosis: anxious depressive syndrome• Fears: of disease; of diagnosis; of intoxication; of floods; of cancer. Depression wastriggered by husband’s disease• Panic syndrome: triggered by anticipation; by feeling that something wrong willhappen• SAI: “mist in brain”; “suffocation”; “asphyxia” – needs to drink small amounts of waterat short intervals• Sleeplessness after midnight• Conscientious, attention to detail; need of exactness• Cold; sensitive to cold• Dry skin, fine desquamation• Pale, earthy face, rings around eyes; oily skin on surface• Antecedent of TB• Crack in middle line of tongue• Thin• Pigmented nevi