Anthrokokali anthro.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Anthracite Coal Dissolved in Boiling Caustic Potash (ANTHRAKOKALI)

General

Useful in skin affections, scabies, prurigo, chronic herpes, cracks and ulcerations. Papular-like eruption with a vesicular tendency, especially on scrotum, also on hands, tibia, shoulders and dorsum of feet. Intense thirst. Chronic rheumatism. Bilious attacks, vomiting of bile, tympanic distention of abdomen.

Dose

Low triturations.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Anthracite coal of a certain kind dissolved in boiling caustic potash. Trituration.

Clinical

Caries. Cracks. Diabetes. Diuresis. Ecthyma. Eczema impetigenoides. Gout. Herpes. Impetigo. Lichen. Nostrils, cracked. Priapism. Prurigo. Rheumatism. Scabies. Scrofula. Sycosis. Urticaria.

Characteristics

"A very absurd combination," says Hering, "proved on many people, but in a very superficial way." It has been principally used in skin affections, scabies, prurigo, chronic herpes, and chronic cracks and ulcerations of nostrils. Eruptions decrease with the full of the moon. The intense thirst and diuresis suggest a place for the remedy in diabetes.

Relations

Compare: The Carbons; the Antimonies; Rhus, Dulc., Ferrum iod. (eczema impetigenoides).

Nose

Chronic cracks and ulcerations of nostrils.

Mouth

Dryness of the mouth; foul tongue.

Throat

Dryness of the throat; internal heat, extending to the stomach; deglutition slightly impeded.

Stomach

Want of appetite. ─ Surfeit. ─ Disagreeable taste in the mouth; great thirst; retching; vomiting of bile, and of black mucus; sensation of heat in the stomach; pressure within; cramps of the stomach.

12, 13. Abdomen and Stool. ─ Inflation of the abdomen, as in tympanitis; colic. ─ Blackish stools; evacuations like pap, with colic and borborygmi; diarrhœa, which continues several days.

Urinary Organs

Increase in the secretion of urine; abundant flow of pale urine without sediment; burning in the urethra while passing water; or itching at the orifice; retention of urine.

15, 16. Male and Female Sexual Organs. ─ Frequent erections. ─ Catamenia beyond the usual period.

Skin

Increased activity of the skin; nettle-rash. ─ Chronic erysipelas; purulent pimples, like papulæ, with considerable itching, appearing during the night and disappearing in the daytime; dropsy.

Sleep

Sleeplessness, with agitation and excited pulse.

Fever

Febrile shivering, alternating with heat, followed by gentle perspiration, and quickness of the pulse. ─ Redness and heat of the skin, disappearing on the supervention of sweat. ─ Perspiration all over the body, with pain in the head, agitation, and bruise-like sensation, and quickness of the pulse; nocturnal sweat, sometimes general, sometimes limited to the parts affected; viscid sweating of the feet; before the sweat, oppression of the chest and violent palpitations of the heart; the skin continues moist for a long time after the perspiration has ceased.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

A very absurd combination ; anthracite coal of a certain kind, dissolved in boiling caustic potash, invented by Joseph Polya, in Pesth, in 1835 ; proved on many people, but in a very superficial way.
Applied according to Old School notions, but seldom alone.
Polya was followed by several others, and in 1839 a thesis by one C. F. Klinger ; in 1840, an extract by our Dr. G. Piper, in the A. H. Z., Vol. XVIII., p. 235 and 253. It was mentioned as a "renal" remedy by Reil, the forerunner of Sharp, of organopathic notoriety, and in 1849 Chapman mentions it as having been "useful", but says nothing but "herpes."
It has never been much regarded and was of very little use. The Old School made one of their experiments in 1841, and gave it to eight hundred patients with "tetter", in the Vienna hospital, without success.

Smell and nose

Chronic cracks and ulcerations of nostrils.

Taste, speech, tongue

Taste : unpleasant, nauseous, disgusting.
Dirty tongue, no appetite, nausea.
Dirty tongue, with retching and colic.

Inner mouth

Dry mouth and pharynx.

Palate and throat

Warmth and hot feeling in pharynx, going down into stomach.
Burning in pharynx : followed by anorexia ; with dysphagia.
Pain in pharynx with a dirty tongue.
Dysphagia with dry throat.
Sensation of gnawing and scraping in œsophagus, soon disappearing and going down to stomach.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Anorexia, nausea, vomituritio.
Increased appetite.
Burning thirst ; before sweat.
Insatiable thirst.
At first no appetite, but soon after it grew sharper.

Eating and drinking

After eating, nausea.
After an error in diet, a gastro-bilious fever, with erysipelas.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Anorexia, nausea, vomiting, colic and flatulence.
Nausea and vomituritio.
Vomiting and bilious stools.
Bilious vomiting, with black phlegm, followed by too fluid stools.

Scrobiculum and stomach

Cramplike pain in stomach.
Warm sensation in stomach.

Abdomen and loins

Colic with flatulence.
Violent colic at night > by a warm poultice.
Violent burning deep in abdomen, in evening.
Griping bellyache without diarrhœa.
Tympanitic distension.

Stools and rectum

After colic and rumbling several mushy stools.
Copious diarrhœa with colic and rumbling.
Diarrhœa for several days with increased secretion of urine.
Three times during the day a brown stool with increased quantity of pale urine.
(OBS :) Cholera.

Urinary organs

Tickling and burning in urethra and at orifice, while water passes.
Ischuria, urine pale.
Some diuresis.
Copious evacuations of pale, clear urine, without a sediment.
Urine pale, acrid, increased.
Urine pale, honey-colored, of unpleasant odor, strongly alkaline reaction, rarely saturated and sharp, very seldom with a nubecula, never a sediment.
When urinating orifice of urethra itches.

Male sexual organs

Very often long lasting painful erections.
Frequent erections.
(OBS :) Sycosis.

Female sexual organs

Catamenia appeared before the time.

Heart, pulse and circulation

Orgasm with heat of skin.
Slight vascular irritation.
Pulse excited.
In evening increased heat with frequent, full pulse.
Pulse and temperature feverish.
The beating of heart sometimes stronger, with oppression, pressing headache nightly, restlessness and no sleep.
Pulse quicker, frequent and more full.

Upper limbs

Eruption on hands.

Nerves

Debility of whole body, with restlessness and heavy head.
Complete malaise.

Time

Eruptions decrease with full of moon.
Evening : increased, heat with frequent full pulse ; night sweats begin.
At night : colic ; copious warm sweat ; skin itches.

Temperature and weather

Colic at night relieved by warm poultices.
After baring skin night sweat.

Fever

Horripilation alternating with heat, followed by slight sweat and frequent pulse.
Heat and pressure in stomach.
Febris evanida, with disturbed digestion.
After baring of skin, night sweats, continuing for several days.
Skin moist for two successive days.
Evening copious sweat lasting till morning.
General night sweat, returning every night.
Local cold or warm sweat on parts affected by an eruption.
After a viscous night sweat remission of fever.
Sweat viscous, skin remains shining, glistening.
After heat and itching skin moist.
Often a general sweat commencing at night and continuing till morning hours.
Copious warm night sweat with dizzy head.
Night sweat copious with sleeplessness and greatest restlessness, but less pain in bowels.
With sweat restlessness, headache, debility and frequent pulse.
Moderate night sweats beginning in evening with sleeplessness and excited pulse.

Attacks, periodicity

Sweats : return every night ; pressing headache.
Three times a day : brown stool.
Sweats continue for several days.
A reaction takes place always before the eighteenth day.
Pain : in pharynx.
Hot feeling : in pharynx, going down into stomach.
Burning : in pharynx.
Cramplike pain : in stomach.
Violent colic.
Violent burning : deep in abdomen.
Pressure : in stomach.

Tissues

(OBS :) Chronic rheumatism, gout, caries, scrofulosis.

Skin

Itching at night.
Eruptions increase with general sweat, get more red and ooze out more.
Urticaria or erysipelas.
(OBS :) Scabies : with ecthyma ; with prurigo.
Scabies.
Prurigo.
Eczema impetiginoides.
Impetigo scabida.
(OBS :) Lichens.
Useful in cases of chronic herpes.
Herpes circumscriptus.

Relations

Compare with the carbons.
Similar to : Acon . (diarrhœa with copious flow of urine) ; Antim. crud . and Arsen . (thirst, burning and nausea, skin) ; Bryon., Carbo an., Carbo veg . and Kali carb . (in flatulency, etc.) ; Rhus tox . (in skin symptoms) ; Veratr . (in nausea, vomiting, colic and diarrhœa).
Given in connection with Dulcam . in sycosis, scabies, prurigo, and impetigo ; with Ferrum jod . in eczema, impetigonoides.
Tapeworm has been removed by pulverized anthracite coal.