Adven Arsenicum album (White Arsenic)

A supportive remedy for profound weakness, burning pains, anxiety, digestive disturbances, and respiratory exhaustion

Arsenicum album, commonly known as White Arsenic, is a homoeopathic medicine prepared from Arsenic trioxide. It is known for its deep and wide-ranging action on the digestive system, respiratory organs, nervous system, skin, circulation, and vitality.

It is especially useful in conditions marked by extreme exhaustion, restlessness, burning pains, anxiety, digestive irritation, and septic or debilitated states.

It is particularly suited to individuals who are physically weak yet mentally restless, with symptoms often worsening at night, from cold, or near sea-shore environments.

Common Name:

English: White Arsenic

Key Indications

Profound Weakness & Restlessness

• Helpful in severe exhaustion from minimal exertion
• Persistent restlessness despite weakness and fatigue
• Symptoms worse at night with marked irritability
• Supports vitality in debilitated and exhausted constitutions

Burning Pains & Heat Relief

• Useful in burning sensations throughout the body
• Burning pains often relieved by warmth or heat applications
• Helpful in systemic burning discomfort affecting multiple organs
• Supports comfort in inflammatory and irritated conditions

Digestive Complaints & Gastric Irritation

• Helpful in nausea, vomiting, and burning in the stomach
• Digestive upset triggered by certain foods
• Aversion to food with weakness after eating
• Dark, offensive stools with intestinal irritation
• Useful in dysentery and cholera-like conditions
• Supports digestion during severe gastric exhaustion

Respiratory Complaints & Asthmatic States

• Useful in asthma and suffocative catarrhal conditions
• Tightness and constriction of the chest
• Dry cough worse around midnight
• Difficulty breathing, especially while lying down
• Supports respiratory comfort in weakened constitutions

Skin Eruptions, Itching & Burning

• Helpful in intense itching and burning skin eruptions
• Rough, scaly, inflamed skin conditions
• Useful in ulcers, malignant pustules, and gangrenous inflammation
• Swelling with marked burning sensation
• Supports healing in chronic ulcerative and septic skin states

Fever, Septic States & Collapse

• Useful in high fevers with exhaustion and cold perspiration
• Septic and typhoid-like states with profound weakness
• Restlessness and anxiety accompanying fever
• Supports recovery during toxic and exhausting illnesses

Mental Anxiety & Nervous Disturbance

• Helpful in extreme anxiety and fear of death
• Restlessness with despair and mental anguish
• Hallucinations, confusion, and hopelessness
• Supports emotional stability in nervous exhaustion states

Anemia & Nutritional Weakness

• Useful in anemia, chlorosis, and gradual emaciation
• Poor nourishment with declining vitality
• Weakness from impaired nutritional absorption
• Supports constitutional recovery in debilitated individuals

Cardiac Weakness & Circulatory Complaints

• Helpful in palpitations and cardiac weakness
• Angina-like chest discomfort with exhaustion
• Faintness, cyanosis, and circulatory weakness
• Supports heart function in weakened constitutions

Urinary Complaints & Renal Weakness

• Useful in burning, scanty urine and albuminuria
• Weakness after urination
• Helpful in renal irritation and Bright’s disease tendencies
• Supports urinary comfort in exhausted individuals

Female Complaints & Leucorrhoea

• Helpful in excessive menstruation with weakness
• Burning pain in ovarian region
• Acrid leucorrhoea with irritation
• Supports female reproductive comfort in debilitated constitutions