PERNICIOUS ANEMIA
Arsenicum
album
Blood is
disorganized causing pernicious anemia and severe septic conditions. Aresenic
alb retards the waste of RBC. Gradual weight loss and decrease of appetite.
Looks pale due to destruction of RBC. Face swollen, pale, yellow, cachetic, and
sunken. Face is covered with cold sweat. Swollen bleeding gums, painful to
touch. Tongue dry, ulcerated with burning. Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen
swollen and painful. Liver and spleen enlarged and painful. Skin dry, rough,
scaly, worse cold and scratching. Disturbed sleep. Anguish and restlessness.
Palpitation, pulse more and rapid in the morning. Impaired muscular power.
Severe weakness.
Carcinosin
Family
history of pernicious anemia. Weariness and fatigue. Trembling in morning on
waking. Sighing breath, causing the heart to constrict. Palpitations audible,
tremultuous, violent and visible.
Crotalus horridus
Disorganization
of blood causes hemorrhages and jaundice. Hemorrhages from every part of body.
Face yellow with death like pallor. Tongue fiery red, dry in centre, smooth and
polished. Ulcerations of stomach with constant nausea and vomiting. Trembling
feeling of heart with palpitation. Feeble pulse. Skin cold and dry. Purpura hemorrhagica.
Easily tired by slight exertion. Old age nutritional troubles. Severe
prostration and trembling. Vertigo with weakness and trembling.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus
causes disorganization of blood. Polycythemia. Purpura hemorrhagic. Petechial
spots in the skin. Face pale, sickly, blue rings under the eyes. Paleness in
the skin and mucous membranes. Tongue dry, smooth, red or white, not thickly
coated. Hunger soon after eating. Craves ice cold drinks and food. Tightness in
chest. Palpitation and anxiety of heart.
Picric acid
Progressive
pernicious anemia. Heavy, tired feeling. Neurasthenia. Muscular debility.
Burning pain in many parts, along spine in legs. Degeneration of the spinal
cord with paralysis. Anesthesia of legs as if one has on elastic
stockings. Great weakness, tired, heavy
feeling all over body, especially limbs. Feet cold. Prickling as of needles. Loss of appetite.
Thyroidinum
Pernicious
anemia with goiter. Anemia, emaciation, muscular weakness, sweating, headache,
nervous tremor of face and limbs, tingling sensation and paralysis. Persistent headache. Flushed face. Lips, dry,
red, burn, with free desquamation. Heart
rate increased. Heart’s action weak with numbness of fingers. Coldness and
cramps in extremities. Aching of lower limbs. Itching without eruptions.
Peeling of the skin of lower limbs. Edema of legs. Amenorrhea in young girls.
Tired and irritable.
Trinitrotoluenum
Destruction
of RBC is responsible for anemia and jaundice with their secondary symptoms. The
hemoglobin is changed so it cannot act satisfactorily as an oxygen carrier and
as a result have breathlessness, dizziness, headache, faintness and
palpitation. Tendency to hemorrhage under the skin. Undue fatigue, muscle
cramps and cyanosis. Drowsiness, depression and insomnia.
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