The ulcer is so putrid that it smells like decomposing flesh. Arsenic produces a tendency to bleeding . The patient bleeds easily and may bleed from any place. Haemorrhage of black blood and discharges that are offensive. Gangrene and sudden inflammatory conditions like gangrenous and erysipelatous inflammations are common in Arsenic.
Parts suddenly take on erysipelas, or parts that are injured suddenly take on gangrene.
Gangrene in internal organs, malignant inflammations, erysipelatous inflammation. No matter how you look upon the condition, no matter what it is called, if it is a sudden inflammation that tends to produce malignancy in the part it belongs to Arsenicum . Inflammation will go on in the bowels for a few days attended with a horribly offensive discharge, vomiting of clots of blood, great burning in the bowels with tympanitic condition. You may almost look upon this as a gangrenous inflammation, so violent, sudden and malignant is it, and it has the anxiety, prostration, fear of death, and chilliness, the patient wanting to be covered warmly. When with this inflammation of the bowels the patient is relieved by heat, it means Arsenic .