Argentum metallicum may be used as a Homeopathic or used simply as a micro-nutritional (metal). Homeopathic potencies accredit their strength and efficacy to the electromagnetic signatures of the original substrate; these are scientifically created dilutions and succussions of medicines such that generally not even a molecule of the original substrate or medicine is present in the medicine.

As a Homeopathic or used simply as a micro-nutritional, argentum metallicum has demonstrated effectiveness against the following symptomology: hypochondriacal, prematurely old, greyish color of face; -hyposthenic with gastrohepatic troubles; -metabolic slackness, endocrinal insufficiency; -evolution toward cancerous diathesis; -tendency toward reticuloendothelial degeneration; -"the typology of Argentum metallicum is that of the 'Saturnine' type: lean person, static, introspective, who looks older than his age, 'precociously old', melancholic, sexual hyposthenia, introverted;" -general aggravation from touch, from pressure, after sleep; -diagnostic conditions: manic depressive conditions; presenile and senile dementia; encephalitis lethargic; encephalomyelitis of influenzal etiology; cerebro-medullar degeneration; ethylic hepatitis; chronic pharyngitis; bacillary dysentery; chronic laryngitis; chronic rhinitis; chronic urethritis; chronic cystitis; acute and chronic prostatitis; male sterility with absence of libido; salpingo-oophoritis; sclero-cystic ovaries; endometriosis; exo and endocervicitis; female anaphrodisia; juvenile o steochondritis; gonarthrosis and hydrarthrosis of knee; senile pruritus; diathesic pruritus (diabetic, hepatic, renal); -"Our clinical experience beginning 30 years ago allows us to affirm that Argentum metallicum is a very great polycrest, though not well known." (Julian).