Arsenicum album
(White Arsenic)

• Great prostration with extreme chilliness and a thirst for frequent small sips of water.
• The eyes and nose stream with watery, acrid discharges.
• Feels irritable and anxious.
• Burning pains relieved by heat, intense weakness.
• Symptoms are worst between 1-3 AM.

• Gastric flu with vomiting and diarrhea.
• Comes on suddenly.
• Feels sore and bruised all over.
• Profuse perspiration with a high fever and extreme thirst.
• Feels (and looks) dazed and sluggish.

• Flu comes on slowly.
• Aching pains in all the joints are worse for the slightest motion.
• Painful dry cough that makes the head hurt.
• Extreme thirst at infrequent intervals.
• Feels intensely irritable and wants to be alone.

• The pains are so severe it feels as if the bones are broken.
• The muscles ache and feel sore and bruised as well.
• A bursting headache with sore, aching eyeballs.
• The nose runs with much sneezing, and the chest feels sore and raw.
• Thirsty for cold water even though it brings on violent chills in the small of the back.

• A fever develops, a flu is likely but the symptoms are not clearly developed yet (and Aconite didn’t help).
• Take 3 doses every 2–4 hours.

• Flu comes on slowly especially when the weather changes from cold to warm.
• The muscles feel weak and achy.
• There’s a great feeling of heaviness everywhere—the head (which aches dully), limbs, eyelids etc.
• No thirst at all.
• Fever alternating with chills and shivers that run up and down the spine.
• Feels (and looks) apathetic, dull and drowsy.

• Fever with copious, extremely offensive perspiration which doesn’t provide any relief.
• The breath smells bad
• There is more salivation than normal and an extreme thirst.

• Gastric flu with vomiting and diarrhea.
• The limbs and back ache a
  great deal.
• The nose runs during the day and is stopped up at night.
• Fever with chills and shivering especially after drinking.
• Very chilly and sensitive to the slightest draught of air or uncovering.
• Feels extremely impatient and irritable.

• Serious flu with severe pains in the back and the limbs and a terrible, bursting headache.
• Feels beaten and bruised all over.
• Very restless and feels better on beginning to move.
• Chills in the back and the limbs with a thumping heart.

• Flu in cold damp weather.
• Great restlessness
• Aching and stiffness in the joints is worse for first motion, it eases with continued motion and then they feel weak and have to rest after which they stiffen and have to move again.
• Pains are better for warmth.
• Feels anxious and weepy.

• You can hear the child who needs Chamomilla down the hall and through a closed door.
• They are uncomfortable and irritable, and they want you to know it.
• There is something in their cry that puts you on edge; it’s the kind of cry that causes adults to think things like, ‘Would somebody please shut that kid up!?’
• The child demands to be carried and screams when put down.
• They demand this or that, but throw the object of their desire
  away when they finally get it.
• A peculiar symptom is that one cheek may be glowing red, while the other is pale.

• A child needing Pulsatilla is also tearful, but quite different from
  the Chamomilla patient described above.
• Here the cry is usually wimpier, creating a reaction in the surrounding adults of, “Oh, the poor thing!” The child clearly wants sympathy and nurturing.
• Discharges (such as a runny nose) are usually yellow or green, thick, and bland—not irritating.
• They typically have little thirst or appetite, and they generally feel better in fresh, open air.

• We think of Belladonna for illnesses with sudden, violent onset.
• The child is typically hot, red, and dry.
• The pupils are often dilated and the eyes seem very bright.
• Curiously, the head is often hot
  but the limbs are cold.
• The nervous system is affected in such a way that the child often experiences twitching or jerking—perhaps in their sleep— and is sensitive to light and jarring.
• They are often excited and restless.

• Listed in the homeopathic materia medica for Ferrum phosphoricum is the comment, “violent earache, acute otitis media when Belladonna fails.”
• That is, the child needing Ferrum phosphoricum may at first be mistaken for one needing Belladonna. Similar to Belladonna but less intense.
• The child is often excited, sensitive to light and jarring—but not to the extent of Belladonna.
• They are often red, but not as intensely red; hot, but not as burning; eyes red, but not so bright.
• And like Belladonna, Ferrum phosphoricum is commonly indicated in children with earaches.

• Think of Hepar sulphuris when the child is chilly, sweats
  easily, and often has an accompanying hoarse, barking cough.
• Discharges are typically thick and yellow, and pains are often sticking (like splinters).