Arsenicum. This being a direct poison to the red blood corpuscles takes first rank in cases of pernicious anaemia or in anaemias due to a malarial or toxic influence.
Dr. Blackley, of England, reported four cases of pernicious anaemia cured with small doses of the remedy. It does not correspond to simple anaemias so well.
Its indications are excessive prostration, considerable oedema, violent and irregular palpitation, marked appetite for acids and brandy, extreme anxiety and rapid emaciation.
There is irritable stomach and intense thirst. When the allopathic school uses Arsenic as a blood tonic, and Dr. Bartholow says, “it is one of the most valuable remedies in the treatment of chlorosis and anaemia,” it does so on strictly homoeopathic principles.
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