(Animal Charcoal)
Seems to be especially adapted to scrofulous and
venous constitutions, old people, and after debilitating disease, with
feeble circulation and lowered vitality. Glands are indurated, veins
distended, skin blue. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Easily
strained from lifting. Weakness of nursing women. Ulceration and
decomposition. All its secretions are offensive. Causes local congestions
without heat. | ||
| Mind. Desire to
be alone, sad and reflective, avoids conversation. Anxiety at night,
with orgasm of blood. | ||
| Head. Headache,
as if head had been blown to pieces. Rush of blood with confusion.
Sensation as if something lay above eyes so that she could not look up.
Bluish cheeks and lips. Vertigo followed by nosebleed. Nose swollen, tip
bluish small tumor on it. Hearing confused; cannot tell direction of
sound. | ||
| Stomach. Eating
tires patient. Weak, empty feeling in stomach. Burning and griping. Weak
digestion. Flatulence. Ptomaine poisoning. Repugnance to fat food. Sour
water from mouth. Pyrosis. | ||
| Female. Nausea
of pregnancy; worse at night. Lochia offensive. [Rhus-t.] Menses too early, frequent long lasting,
followed by great exhaustion, so weak, can hardly speak [Cocc.], flow only in morning. [Bor.; Sep.] Burning in vagina and
labia. Darting in breast; painful indurations in breast, especially
right. Cancer of uterus, burning pain down thighs. | ||
| Respiratory.
Pleurisy, typhoid character, and remaining stitch. Ulceration of lung, with
feeling of coldness of chest. Cough, with discharge of greenish
pus. | ||
| Skin. Spongy
ulcers, copper colored eruption. Acne rosacea. Chilblains, worse in
evening, in bed and from cold. Verruca on hands and face of old people,
with bluish color of extremities. Glands indurated, swollen,
painful, in neck, axillae, groin, mammae; pains lancinating, cutting,
burning. [Con.] Burning, rawness and fissures;
moisture. Bubo. | ||
| Extremities.
Pain in coccyx; burns when touched. Ankles turn easily. Straining and
overlifting produce great debility. Joints weak. Easy discoloration. Pain
in hip joints at night. Night sweat fetid and profuse. Wrist
pain. | ||
| Modalities.
Worse, after shaving, loss of animal fluids. | ||
| Relationship.
The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and exhalations. All act on the
skin, causing intertrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements and
catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation. Complementary: Calc-p. Antidote: Ars.; Nux-v. Compare: Sep.; Sulph. | ||
| Dose. Third to
thirtieth potency. The third trituration for insufflation in aural
polypi. |