Arsenicum album is used to treat serious acute ailments, chronic diseases, and acute colds, bronchitis, and fevers. Homeopaths prescribe this remedy to treat asthma, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, skin infections, boils, burns with blisters, cystitis, eye inflammations, chickenpox, colds, coughs, indigestion, Crohn's disease, herpes simplex, flu, insomnia, measles, mumps, sore throats, allergies and hay fever, food poisoning, and fevers. Arsenicum album has also been used to treat malarial and septic infections, alcoholism, syphilis, lupus, and early stages of cancer.