Carbo Animalis carb-an.

NUTRITION. Glands. VEINLETS.

Slight causes: Small depletions. Sprains. Lifting. Cold taking. WHILE EATING. Dry, cold air. Shaving (Ox-ac. Rad.). Old age. After menses.

Laying hand on part.

Old and feeble. Susceptible to colds, sprains or overaffected by small losses, etc . Venosity. Gummæ. Slow, hard painful processes; burning like fire (Ars.), or threatening malignancy. Sense of looseness. Foul acrid discharges. Hæmorrhage.

Whining. Brain seems loose or as if crown would split, > eating. Pains down through (r) eyeball (Gel.). Can't locate sounds. Nose, hard, red, swelled; hot, brown stripe across, with itching pimples and desquamation. Goneness in stomach; while suckling. All food distresses stomach. Abdomen, distended after operations. Right ovary seems a heavy ball. Neglected bubo. Pelvic bones pain on sitting. Dark menses; in A.M. only; then great weakness. Sore, moist anus (Carb-v.). Indurated os (Sep.). Suffocation on closing eyes; nervous dyspnœa. Hard, painful nodes in breasts. Bluish skin; cheeks, lips, affected parts, etc. Coppery eruptions on forehead. Crawling, as of bugs. Hard, swelled glands. Surgings or hot flushes. Foul, exhausting sweats; at night; staining yellow.

Complementary: Calc-p. Related: Calc-fl. Grap.

Headache: as if a tornado in head; as if head had been blown to pieces; has to sit up at night and hold it together. Diseases of elderly persons with marked venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, and great debility. Circulation feeble, stagnated, and vital heat sinks to a minimum; cyanosis (Ant. t., Carbo v.). Glands: indurated, swollen, painful; in neck, axillae, groin, mammae; pains lancinating, cutting, burning (Con.). Benign suppurations change into ichorous or malignant conditions. Easily strained from lifting, even small weights; straining and overlifting easily produce great debility; ankles turn when walking. Joints weak; easily sprained by slight exertion (Led.). Aversion to open, dry, cold air. After appearance of menses so weak she can hardly speak (Alum., Coc.); menses flow only in the morning. Hearing confused; cannot tell from what direction a sound comes. A stitching pain remains in chest after recovery from pleurisy (Ran. b.); Menstruation, leucorrhoea, diarrhoea are all exhausting (Ars. - are all offensive, Psor.).

Complementary: Calc. phos. Similar: to, Bad., Brom., Carbo v., Phos., Sep., Sulph. Carbo animalis is often useful after bad effects from spoiled fish and decayed vegetables (Carbo v., Cepa).

After shaving ( > after, Brom.); slightest touch, after midnight.

We think of this remedy for complaints found in scrofulous or venous constitutions; hypertrophy; glandular enlargements.

Sadness and melancholy; not disposed to say much; excessively merry.

Heaviness of, especially of occiput; pain in, as if had been blown to pieces, or were open. Has to hold the head to keep it from falling to pieces, especially in damp weather. Red spotted face.

Much looseness of teeth. Bitter taste in the morning, going off after rising.

Ichorous discharge from the ears often accompanied by swelling of the parotid gland; dull and confused hearing, especially where sounds appear to come from some direction, but the patient can't tell exactly where; ringing in the ears when blowing the nose; humming and singing in.

Dry coryza in morning, going off in rising; tip of the nose (it may be bluish or purplish, or may have a small tumor on the tip, etc.).

Roughness and hoarseness in morning. Dry cough at night.

Pleurisy assuming a typhoid character; sickly bluish color of skin, expectoration puriform, often putrid in character. Far gone pleurisy. In pleurisy where everything is cured but the stitch, and that remains. Green pus from chest. Right side most liable, stitches in right side. Acts deeper and more lasting than Carb. veg.

Repugnance to greasy food; eating meat causes nausea; smoking produces nausea and repugnance to tobacco. Eructations taste of food which had been eaten long time before. Stomach, contracting spasms of; clawing and griping in; digestion is weak and the food causes distress; act of taking the food tires the patient exceedingly, and often causes perspiration.

Distension of; audible rumbling in.

Stool scanty and delaying; pain in small of back during. Varices much distended while walking, with burning pain; humor oozes out. Constipation where the patient thinks the bowels will be moved, but only wind comes away.

Female: Nausea of pregnant females, coming on principally at night; faint and empty sensation in the pit of the stomach is produced by nursing. Lochia become too thin, scanty and very offensive. (This remedy is especially adapted to these symptoms when occurring in a scrofulous or venous constitution.) Menses are followed by great exhaustion. Leucorrhœa burning, biting, watery; while walking, or standing. Uterine hæmorrhages where there is much affection of the glands.

Affections of the perineum; viscid humor from; oozing from, often accompanied with oozing from the rectum.

Spongy ulcers; copper-colored exanthema; fungus hæmatodes; spongy excrescences; copper-colored spots. Painful nodosities.

Right chest; mammæ; axillæ. Sensation as if single parts were gone to sleep. Profuse night-sweat.

After shaving; during eating; lying on the side.

Arsen., Bellad., Bryon., Carb. veg., Pulsat., Phosphor., Silic., Sepia, Sulphur.

Nux vom., Arsen.

Eructations tasting of food eaten long before. Teeth loose and sensitive on chewing. Offensive, debilitating night sweats, staining linen yellow. Glandular diseases of the schirrhous nature, with fetid discharges, accompanied by great prostration and debility.

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.

Desire to be alone, sad and reflective, avoids conversation. Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.

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 nose-bleed. Nose swollen, tip bluish small tumor on it. Hearing confused; cannot tell direction of sound.

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.

Nausea of pregnancy; worse at night. Lochia offensive (Kreos; Rhus; Secale). 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.

Pleurisy, typhoid character, and remaining stitch. Ulceration of lung, with feeling of coldness of chest. Cough, with discharge of greenish pus.

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, axillæ, groin, mammæ; pains lancinating, cutting, burning (Con; Merc iod flav). Burning, rawness and fissures; moisture. Bubo.

Pain in coccyx; burns when touched. Ankles turn easily. Straining and over-lifting produce great debility. Joints weak. Easy discoloration. Pain in hip joints at night. Night sweat fetid and profuse. Wrist pain.

Worse, after shaving, loss of animal fluids.

The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and exhalations. All act on the skin, causing interrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements and catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation.

Carbon Tetrachlorid is said to cause fatty liver (Phosph; Ars; Chlorof). Paralysis of interosseus muscles of feet and hands. Wonderful clinical results in the treatment of Hook worm disease. See Thymol (Relationship).

Complementary: Calc phos.

Antidotes: Ars; Nux.

Compare: Badiaga; Sepia; Sulph; Plumb iod.

Third to thirtieth potency. The third trituration for insufflation in aural polypi.

Is another remedy whose great general characteristic is: Great weakness, want of energy, prostration. The subjects of it are often disposed to glandular swellings, indurations and suppurations.

Benignant suppurations are inclined to become ichorous. The swellings to become schirrous in character.

The swellings seem to have a choice for the axillary, inguinal or mammary regions. Then the sexual organs come markedly under its influence. Old suppurating, bluish colored (Lach., Tarant. Cub.), offensive bubœs. Menses too early and too long. Menorrhagia from chronic induration of the uterus; also in cachectic women with glandular swellings.

The flow always weakens so that she call hardly speak.

Mammary tumors in hard nodules in the breast.

Copper colored eruptions on the skin.

Weak ankles in children (Nat. c., Sil.).

Easily sprained from lifting (Calc. ost.).

Alternate cheerfulness and melancholy. Fright in the dark.

Heaviness in the cerebellum ; worse in the forenoon, -in the cold air,- relieved after dinner. Pain in the vertex, as if the skull were open. Tightness and tension of the skin of the forehead and vertex. Heat in the head in the evening in bed, better after rising.

Sensation as if the eyes were lying loose in their sockets.

Hardness of hearing ; the sounds appear confused, does not know from what direction they come. Discharge of pus from the ears. Swelling of the parotid gland.

The tip of the nose is red, chapped, burning, the skin feels tight.

Erysipelas of the face. Red, smooth, elevated blotches in the face. Vesicles and cracks on the lips. Heat of the face and head in the afternoon. Swelled, burning lips.

Burning blisters in the mouth and on the tongue. Gums red, swollen, painful. Looseness of the teeth. Dryness of the mouth and tongue.

Ravenous hunger. Repugnance to greasy food. Bitter taste in the morning.

Weak digestion ; almost all food causes distress. Pressure in the stomach, even in the morning and in the evening, in bed. Spasmodic cramp in the stomach. Considerable inflation after a meal. Audible rumbling in the abdomen.

Constipation ; unsuccessful desire for stool ; he passes only very offensive flatus. Stools hard, knotty. During stool, pain in the small of the back, with inflation of the abdomen. Varices, burning ; stinging. A viscid, inodorous humor oozes out of the rectum, and from the perinæum.

Frequent desire to urinate, with increased secretion of urine. Burning soreness in the urethra when urinating. Involuntary discharge of fetid-smelling urine.

Women. Menses too early. Fluor albus, leaving yellow stains on the linen. Mammæ swollen, inflamed (erysipelatous) during confinement. Hard, painful nodosities in the mammæ.

Hoarseness and roughness in the throat in the morning, after rising. Loss of voice (during the night). Breathing, panting and rattling. Oppression of breathing in the morning, and after eating. Soreness in the chest. Burning in (right side of) the chest. Sensation of coldness in the chest. Cough, with discharge of greenish pus (suppuration of the lungs).

Painful swelling and induration of the glands of the neck, and of the parotid glands. Stitches in the small of the back when drawing a long breath.

Upper. Swelling and induration of the axillary glands. Oozing of moisture from the arm-pits. Gouty stiffness of the joints of the fingers. Pain in the wrist-joint, as if sprained. The hands go to sleep. Lower. Stitches in the left hip when sitting. Drawing and sensation of contraction under the knee. The ankle-joint and toes bend easily when walking. Frost-bitten feet and toes, inflamed ; burning.

Numbness of all the limbs. Burning pains.

Cannot go to sleep in the evening, from restlessness, anxiety and frightful visions. During sleep, groaning talking and shedding of tears.

Pulse accelerated, especially in the evening. Chill, especially in the afternoon, in the evening, and after eating. Chill in the evening, followed by perspiration. Heat after a chill, mostly at night, in bed. Perspiration after the heat, especially towards morning. Perspiration of bad odor ; debilitating ; coloring the linen yellow ; more on the upper legs.

Erysipelatous swellings, with burning pain. Inflammation, swelling and induration of the glands. Itching over the whole body in the evening, in bed.

Easy straining ; great debility and spraining of the joints. Aversion to the open, cold, dry air.

Animal Charcoal. Made from charred ox-hide. Contains Calc. phos. C (impure). Trituration.

Acne rosacea . Aneurism. Appetite, disordered . Breast, cancer of. Bubo . Cancer. Cataract. Constipation. Coccygodynia. Cough. Empyema. Eructations. Face, eruption on . Gangrene. Glandular indurations. Hæmorrhoids . Headache. Home-sickness. Hypertrophy. Lactation, effects of. Legs, pains in . Leucorrhœa. Lumbago. Nose, affections of . Otorrhœa. Pancreas, indurated. Perspiration, altered . Pleurisy. Polypus. Scrofula. Strabismus. Syphilis. Tongue, affections of. Trachea, affections of . Ulceration. Uterus, cancer of. Vision, disorders of.

Carb. an . is suited to old persons, greatly debilitated, especially when there is venous plethora, and blueness of skin. Complaints occurring in scrofulous or venous constitutions. Ulceration, gangrene, and decomposition are marked, and may be looked upon as the counterpart of the antiseptic properties of the crude substance. Copper-coloured eruptions show the appropriateness of the drug to many cases of constitutional syphilis. Glands of stony hardness. Buboes. It is often indicated in the last stage of pneumonias, bronchitis, phthisis. Right chest is most affected. Cancer of breast with burning, drawing pains through breast. Cancer of uterus, burning pains down thigh. Affections from loss of animal fluids, especially nursing women. Weakness of nursing women; can hardly walk across the room. "Gone" feeling from loss of fluids. Too weak to eat. Weeps when she eats. Nausea at night. Hunger in early morning. The goneness of Carb. a . is not > by eating ( Carb. v . > eating). Constipation where patient thinks bowels will be moved but only wind passes. There is a smothering feeling on closing eyes. Aversion to dark. A peculiar symptom is: A feeling of looseness — of eyes in sockets; of brain on motion or coughing. Far-sighted ( Carb. v . is near-sighted). Objects seem farther apart and brighter. Aversion to cold ( Carb. v . to heat). There are many sensations of coldness: in chest; about stomach. Discharges are ichorous; but the discharge from piles is inodorous. Carb. an . 3x trit. has been used for insufflation in aural polypi. The leucorrhœa stains linen yellow. Sweat stains yellow. Expectoration is greenish, purulent, offensive ( Carb. v . yellow, more fetid). Gnawing pains in tibiæ (during the night), such as usually followed cold feet. A. W. K. Choudhury reports a case of cough of two years' duration, in an unhealthy boy of twelve, cured by Carb. a . The symptoms were: "Cough evening and morning, or after lying down , especially at night , thick or frothy whitish or yellowish sputa, sweetish when thick; < lying on r. side; < from exposure to air, to which he is very sensitive. Great tendency to catch cold." The pains in the coccyx are peculiar; a dragging, bruised pain, when touched it becomes burning. It has cured many cases of injured coccyx and of neuralgia of the bone. The lumbago of Carb. an . occurs when walking, standing, and lying; feels as if the back were broken. The mental state is one of low spirits, sadness; weeps when she eats; easily frightened, afraid in the dark; home-sick; wants to be alone. Fear of the dark and < on closing eyes is very marked. Hearing is confused; cannot tell the direction from which sounds come. There is an ichorous otorrhœa; and swelling of the periosteum over the mastoid bone is very characteristic. Tip of nose red; or blue. Disagreeable smoothness of the teeth. There is a hoarse, suffocating cough producing a shaking of the brain as if it were loose. Green, purulent, horribly offensive expectoration. Axillary glands inflamed buboes in groins. Pressure with hand > coldness of stomach. Symptoms are < in cold air; > in warm room. < From sprains from touch. < After shaving. Rest < head symptoms. < Lying on r. side (cough). After menses, throbbing headache, < in open air. Weakness < during menses.

Compare: Calc. phos. (nearest analogue; Carb. an. contains Calc. ph.); in indurations, suppurations, &c., Bad., Bro.; loss of fluids, Chi.; Graph.; nostrils adhere to septum, Pho.; gone feeling, loss of fluids, induration of cervix, pressure an back, groins, and thighs during menses, Sep. (Sep. has not the venosity, the copper-coloured face, flatulent gastric disturbances, or offensive ichorous discharges, or throbbing headache after menses of Carb. an.; Carb. v. has not the indurations of Carb. an. or Sep.); Coccul. has the same weakness and prostration as Carbo an., but in the case of the latter the weakness is in consequence of the loss of fluid, whilst with Coccul. it is part of the general effect of the remedy. Puls.; Sil.; in vertigo with epistaxis, Sul.; aversion to darkness, Am. m., Bar. c., Calc., Stro., Stram.; hunger in early morning, Ant. c., Asar., Calc., Sabad.; swelling behind ear, Caps., Aur.; burning pains, Caps.; weakness of nursing women, Oleand. Antidoted by: Ars., Camph., Nux, Vinegar. Antidote to: Effects of Quinine. Complementary: Calc. phos.

Loss of fluids. Lifting. Strain. Eating. Eating spoiled fish. Eating decayed vegetables. Quinine.

Nostalgia and mournful feeling of isolation, with tears. — Weeps during a meal. — Fear and apprehension, esp. in the evening. — Discouragement and despair. — Disposition to be frightened. — Fright in the dark. — Alternate feeling of gaiety and gloom, or of irascibility and ill-humoured taciturnity. — Confusion of ideas and dulness, esp. in the morning.

Vertigo, esp. in the evening or in the morning, and sometimes with nausea in the act of rising, after remaining long in a recumbent posture, or with obscuration of the eyes, on moving the head. — Headache in the morning, as after a debauch. — Headache at vertex as if skull torn open. — Headache in the open air, and aggravated by damp weather. — Heaviness, esp. in the occiput, with bewilderment. — Pressive headache, even after a meal, forces the closing of the eyelids. — Congestion and internal heat of the head. — Sensation of wavering of the brain, at every movement. — Sensation of torpor in the head. — Acute, drawing pains in the teguments of the right side of the head. — Tension of the skin of the forehead, and of the crown of the head. — Sensibility of the scalp to the pressure of the hat. — Scabs and eruption on the head.

Sensation as if the ball of the eye were detached from the socket, with weakness of sight. — Presbyopia with dilatation of the pupils. — A net seems to swim before the eyes.

Running from the ears. — Discharge of pus from the ears. — Confusion of hearing; sounds reach the ears indistinctly, does not know from what direction they come. — Buzzing in the ears. — Swelling of the periosteum behind the ear. — Swelling of the parotids.

End of the nose red and cracked, with burning pain. — Nose swollen, with scabby pimples (as at the commencement of a cancer?). — Desquamation of the skin of the nose. — Painful sensibility of the bones of the nose. — Epistaxis, preceded by vertigo, or pressive headache. — Stoppage of the nose. — Dry coryza. — Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, sneezing and frequent yawning.

Spots in the face, which are smooth, palpable to the touch, and rose-coloured. — Shootings in the cheek-bones, in the teeth and jaws. — Painless copper-coloured eruption in the face. — Erysipelas in the face. — Swelling of the mouth and of the lips, with burning pain. — Heat of the face and head in the afternoon. — Blisters on the lips. — Lips cracked and bleeding.

Pulling odontalgia on eating bread, or with dull pulsation after drinking anything cold. — Excessive looseness of the teeth. — Tractive pains in the gums. — Red and painful swelling and bleeding of the gums. — Purulent vesicles in the gums.

Fetid smell from the mouth. — Burning vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue. — Dryness of the tongue and of the palate.

Sore throat, as from excoriation, with scraping and shooting from the throat to the stomach. — Accumulation of mucus in the throat, with coughing and rattling.

Bitterness in the mouth, esp. in the morning. — Acid and mucous taste. — Repugnance to fat and tobacco smoke, which cause nausea. — Great weakness of digestion, to such an extent that almost all food occasions suffering.

Risings with taste of food, or else acid. — Empty risings with pain. — Pyrosis, with scraping in the throat. — Hiccough after a meal. — Considerable inflation after a meal. — Flow of sour water from the mouth. — Nausea, also at night. — Faint, gone feeling; also from suckling child, not > by eating. — Water-brash. — Pressure at the stomach, as if from a weight, when fasting, and in the evening, after lying down. — Cramp-like or contractive pains in the stomach. — Burning pain in the stomach. — Squeezing in the stomach, as if by claws. — Noisy grumbling in the stomach.

Pain in the liver, as if from excoriation, when the region is touched. — Pressure and cuttings in the hepatic region. — Abdomen inflated and extended. — Constriction and squeezing, as if by claws, in the abdomen. — Cuttings and shootings in the groins. — Inguinal hernia. — Loud rumbling in the abdomen. — Incarceration of flatus. — Fetid flatulency.

Ineffectual efforts to evacuate; discharge of wind only. — During stool, pain in the small of the back, with inflation of the abdomen. — Fæces hard and knotty. — Frequent evacuations during the day. — Before the evacuation, traction from the anus to the vulva. — Sacral pains during the evacuation. — Burning hæmorrhoidal tumours in the anus. — Burning pains and shooting in the anus, and in the rectum. — Excoriation and oozing (inodorous) at the anus. — Discharge of tenia. — Viscid oozing at the perinæum. — Tendency to galling at the anus from riding on horseback.

Urgent desire to make water, with abundant emission. — Emission of urine at night. — Involuntary emission of urine. — Fetid urine. — Burning urine. — Burning soreness in the urethra when urinating.

Absence of sexual desire. — Frequent pollutions, followed by weakness and anxious inquietude.

Premature catamenia. — Leucorrhœa burning, smarting, or which imparts a yellow tinge to the linen. — Serous and fetid lochia. — Painful nodosities and indurations in the mammæ. — Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts. — Nausea of pregnant females, coming on principally at night; faint and empty sensation in the pit of the stomach is produced by nursing. — Menses are followed by great exhaustion. — Uterine hæmorrhages where there is much affection of the glands.

Oppression of the chest, esp. in the evening and at night. — Aphonia at night. — Matutinal hoarseness. — Hoarse cough, with pain as of excoriation in the throat; in the morning, after rising. — Dry cough at night. — Suffocating cough, esp. in the evening, after having slept. — Matutinal cough with expectoration, excited by a sensation of dryness in the throat. — Cough, with purulent expectoration, and shootings in the r. side of the chest. — Cough, with discharge of greenish pus (suppuration of the lungs). — Cough < lying on r. side.

Panting respiration. — Rattling in the throat, in bed in the evening. — Oppressed respiration, esp. in the morning and after a meal. — Suffocating constriction of the chest, esp. in the morning, in bed. — Sharp burning stitches. — Shootings in the chest, as from an abscess, esp. on breathing. — Pleurisy assuming a typhoid character, sickly bluish colour of skin, expectoration puriform, often putrid in character. — Far gone pleurisy. — In pleurisy where everything is cured but the stitch, and that remains. — Green pus from chest. — R. side most affected, stitches in r. side. — Sensation of cold in the chest.

Palpitation of the heart, in the morning, in the evening, and on singing in a public place. — (Atheroma and aneurism.)

Painful swelling and induration of the glands of the neck, and of the parotid glands, with shooting pain. — Tetters under the arm-pit. — Moisture in the arm-pit. — Induration of the axillary glands. — Nocturnal pains in the back. — Pressure and shooting in the loins, esp. on breathing deeply. — Burning pain in the sacrum. — Contusive pain, with straining in the coccyx, or aching pain which increases towards evening, so violent as to force the patient to curve his body; with pain as of an ulcer when the part is pressed. — Burning in the coccyx, when it is touched. — Burning pain in the back.

Aching in the bones, digging pains in the arms. — Pressure on the shoulders. — Pain as of dislocation in the wrist. — Torpor and numbness of the hands and of the fingers. — Painful tension and arthritic stiffness of the joints of the fingers. — Shootings in the fingers.

Shooting pain in the (l.) hip when seated (the pain causes limping). — Tension and contraction in the groins, which do not permit the legs to be extended. — Tension in the hams and the instep, with contraction of the parts. — Drawing and sensation of contraction under the knee. — Pain as from excoriation in the knees. — Cramps in the calves of the legs the legs and the toes. — Pullings and shootings in the legs. — Loss of strength in the joints of the feet, which give way readily when walking. — Pain as of dislocation when walking or moving the limbs. — Coldness of the feet. — Inflammatory swelling of the feet and of the toes, as if they had been frozen with heat and burning. — Burning pain in the toes.

Pressive pains in the joints, and the muscles of the limbs. — Burning pains. — Nocturnal pains in the joints. — Pain as from a bruise, want of strength, and cracking in the joints, which yield easily. — Arthritic stiffness and gouty nodosities in the joints. — Tension in some limbs, as if from contraction of the tendons. — Spasmodic contraction of several parts. — Tendency to strain the loins. — Numbness of all the limbs. — Torpor of all the members, esp. of the head. — Great fatigue and weakness, produced esp. by walking, with easily produced perspiration, chiefly on eating and on walking in the open air. — Excessive sensibility to the open air, and especially to the cold air of winter. — Ebullition of the blood, and tendency to become easily overheated.

Itching over the skin of the whole body, esp. in the evening in bed. — Erysipelatous inflammations. — Chilblains. — Hard and painful swelling of the glands. — Swelling of the external parts, with burning pain.

Sleep deferred, and nocturnal sleeplessness, caused, by inquietude, anguish, ebullition of the blood, and fear of being stifled. — Frightful visions before going to sleep. — Sleep, with unquiet dreams, tears, talking, and hollow groans.

Pulse accelerated, esp. in the evening. — Chill, esp. in the afternoon, in the evening, and after eating. — Shiverings, esp. in the evening, in bed, with perspiration during sleep. — Excessive cold in the feet and in the hands in the evening. — Nocturnal heat. — Easily produced perspiration during the day, esp. at a meal, or when walking. — Debilitating, and fetid sweat, esp. at night and in the morning, principally on the thighs. — Sweat, which stains the linen a yellow colour.

Unclouded consciousness and great anguish with sinking of vital forces.
Sensation of stupefaction in head with dulness in occiput, < from motion in cold, damp air, > when at rest in warm room.
Confused, did not know whether he had been asleep or awake ; morning.
Loss of memory, forgets word just spoken.
Desire to be alone ; she is sad, reflective ; avoids conversation.
Variable mood ; alternate cheerfulness and melancholy.
Low-spirited.
Easily frightened.
Fearful in the dark.
Anxiety and orgasm of blood at night, so severe that she was obliged to sit up.
Anxiety ; apprehensive, after an emission.
Homesick.
Head heavy and dull early in morning, with irritable mood.

Vertigo and confusion on sitting up ; > when reclining.
Vertigo : with vibrating of all objects, staggering ; with falling backward ; with epistaxis ; early in morning ; after shaving ; with nausea, on rising up after morning.

Brain feels as if loose, during motion ; < after eating and in cold ; > when lying in bed and in warmth.
Darting pains through head, like lightning.
She has sensation as of a tornado in head.
Roaring in head.
Sensation in forehead as if something lay above eyes, on account of which she could not look up.
Heaviness in forehead on stooping, with sensation as if brain would fall forward ; vertigo on rising, so that she soon feel down.
Pain in top of head, as if skull had been split or torn asunder ; < during wet weather and at night ; must press head with both hands.
Tearing in right side of head.
Pain in left side of head.
Stupefying headache in occiput, early in morning and in forenoon.
Heaviness of head, especially in occiput, and of left temple, with confusion.
Stupefaction in head, with vertigo ; had to close her eyes, when rising after stool.
(In sick :) Headache, with red eyes and stopped nose.
Pressure in whole brain ; on head after eating.
Throbbing headache after menses ; < in open air.
In morning, head is confused, so that he does not know whether he has been sleeping or waking ; sense as of splashing in left hemisphere of brain, when walking fast ; pain in vertex, as if brain had been torn to pieces, or was open.
In morning, his head was very much confused ; did not know whether he had been asleep or awake.
Heaviness in head, in morning, with dim vision and watery eyes.
Heaviness : in head, at night ; weary feet ; in forehead ; on stooping ; especially in cerebellum ; < forenoon, in cold air ; > after dinner.
Rush of blood to head ; confusion in head.
Nervous and congestive headache and pressure in occiput soon after eating ; sensitiveness of scalp ; pains with rumbling of wind in abdomen.

Tenseness of scalp on forehead and vertex, with great sensitiveness of these parts to dry, cold air ; < from pressure and touch ; > in warmth.
Cold creeps on head, before stool.
Eruptions on head.
Indurations on scalp in scrofulous children.
Scirrhous cancer on forehead.

Farsightedness with dilated pupils.
Dim sight, eyes feel weak.
(In sick :) Begins to squint.
A net seems to swim before eyes.
(In sick :) Left eye becomes red and burning ; can scarcely open lids ; pus wells out ; violent stitches preventing sleep at night ; in morning, eye is closed.
Sensation as if eyes were lying loose in sockets.
Senile cataract.
Broken up cataract was absorbed.
Scirrhus of lachrymal glands.

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Carbo animalis is one of the deep-acting, long-acting medicines. Suitable in complaints that come on insidiously, that develop slowly, that become chronic and often malignant in character.

Complaints in anaemic, broken down constitutions. Vascular conditions. The Carbons affect the veins more or less, relaxing, paralyzing. This one has its own peculiar feature of infiltrating little veins. just as sure, as an organ in the Carbo animalis patient becomes congested it becomes hard and purple from infiltration, and has a tendency to remain so.

In an inflammation of a gland the veins become weak, and infiltrated, the gland itself becomes hard and sore, the tissues around it indurate, and the skin over it becomes purple. The glands of the throat and axilla grow purple and indurated with no tendency to soften.

Some of these medicines, after infiltrating a gland, will hurry up the inflammatory action, produce sloughing, rapid breaking down, with pus-like Hepar, Mercurius and Sulphur.

But this medicine paralyzes and infiltrates the little veins in the inflamed part, and there seems to be no tendency to suppuration.

We see that the economy. of this patient is in a sluggish state there are no rapid changes; but everything is slowed down. Even the inflammatory process is a passive one. Very often a slow quasi-erysipelatous inflammation comes on, the part becomes purple and will pit upon pressure. just think what a contrast this to Belladonna.

Belladonna will inflame all the glands, they will swell, become hot and so, sensitive that they can hardly be touched; at first bright red, then purple, with a tendency to resolution if let alone. But the Carbo animalis inflammation comes on slowly, its progress is slow, and there is no tendency to repair.

Enlargement of veins here and there over the body, varicose veins. There is intense burning in the part inflamed. which is indurated and purple. The glands of the throat burn.

Sluggish buboes in old broken down constitutions, in early stages of syphilis, inflame, become enlarged, purple, hard and burn. Lumps in the mammary glands. A purple lump the size of a hen's egg will form in the mammary gland.

It does not go on to suppuration, as you would expect it to, it just stays there. It does not enlarge much, but it is hard.

The woman has so much burning in the vagina that she persuades the physician to make a more careful examination than he has done. He will probably find the whole cervix inflamed, purple and somewhat, enlarged. She says it burns like coals of fire.

Carbo animalis eventually produces ulceration of the tissues in various parts, especially in glands.

After a while-but not early in the case - an ulcer forms, and perhaps after ulcerating for a time it comes to a standstill; it has become a sluggish ulcer. Indurated ulcers.

A bubo breaks down and forms an ulcer. All at once it stops suppurating and around about the tissues become hard and purple. The laudable discharge ceases, a bloody, ichorous discharge takes its place, and, the surrounding parts burn.

Now in ulcers and fistulous openings, where the walls become hard and burn, and the discharge becomes acrid, Carbo animalis is frequently the remedy.

It is not surprising that this remedy has been one of the most suitable for old, stubborn cancerous affections; for cancerous ulcers. They all burn, they are all surrounded by infiltrated, hardened, dark-colored tissue, and they all ooze an acrid ichorous fluid.

It has cured these troubles in old feeble constitutions with night-sweats and much bleeding. It has relieved in incurable cases, and has apparently removed the cancerous condition for years, even though it comes back afterward and kills. This remedy is often a great palliative for the pains that occur in cancer, the indurations and the stinging, burning pains.

Of course we do not want to teach, nor do we wish to have you infer, that a patient with a well-advanced cancerous affection, such as scirrhus, may be restored to perfect health and the cancerous affection removed. We may comfort that patient, and restore order at least temporarily, so that there is freedom from suffering in these malignant affections.

Most patients that have cancer are really in such a state of disorder that only a temporary cessation of "hostilities" can be expected; and anyone who goes around boasting of the cancer cases he has cured ought to be regarded with suspicion.

Do not dwell upon the cancer, for it is not the cancer but the patient that you are treating. It is the patient that is sick, and whenever a patient is sick enough to have a cancer his state of order is too much disturbed to be cured.

The proving of Carbo animalis presents the appearance of a broken down constitution. it brought out in the provers just such symptoms as occur in old, feeble constitutions with poor repair and lack of reaction.

Hence the medicine has been a great palliative for patients suffering from malignant infiltrations and indurations; suspicious indurations round about and under the bases of ulcers; suspicious indurations in glands.

A gland becomes inflamed, hard and remains so. Carbo animalis stands at the head of the list of remedies that have that condition.

All through the remedy there is hypertrophy. Tissues pile up here and there into hard nodules; tissues pile up in glands and in organs. The economy has lost its balance, and the result is a disorderly distribution of material. Great prostration, want of energy, associated with palpitation, anxiety and disorders of the pulse.

Weak pulse, rapid pulse, irregular pulse. Beating in blood vessels. There is turmoil in the economy, sometimes described as heat. A rushing of heat as though the body was full of steam.

Awful sensation through the chest and in the head, like some great earthquake taking place. These are due to abnormal conditions of the venous side of the heart.

Flushes of heat; pulsations here and there. Hemorrhages. And of course the woman is more likely to bleed than the man; hence we have menses too early, too long, too copious. Prostration with every menstrual flow.

The Carbo animalis woman sinks down at every menstrual period as if she would die. Such striking weakness is not at all accounted for by the quantity of the flow.

Chronic induration, with enlargement of the uterus, which gradually grows from year to year (Aur. m. n.). Induration of the cervix and the whole uterus.

Copious flow of the leucorrhoea. Offensive uterine discharges. Ulceration of the uterus, going gradually toward the malignant state. The menses are black and offensive. Finally this poor, feeble woman, who has been plodding along for years with this condition, goes into malignant ulceration of the cervix, which burns, bleeds constantly and oozes a foetid watery flow. The burning pains in the uterus extend down to the thighs.

Whenever this patient puts the child to the breast she has a sensation of emptiness in the stomach, sinking in the pit of the stomach, and she must take the child away.

There are many uterine troubles, with burning, stinging, smarting, a yellow brown saddle over the bridge of the nose, something like the mottled yellow saddle of Sepia. All sorts of disordered conditions of the uterus.

Surging of blood upward to the head, rousing up in sleep, with horrible dreams. This poor mortal is suffering from troubles in the base of the brain, has tearing pains in the head, and especially of the occiput, growing increasingly sensitive to cold, increasingly chilly, increasingly waxy, until we have phthisis or cancer, with varicose veins and all the conditions that I have described.

Adapted to scrofulous subjects, especially the young; or the venous plethora of elderly persons, with blue cheeks, blue lips and great debility; circulation feeble, stagnated, and vital heat sinks to a minimum.

Glands indurated, swollen, painful; in neck, axillæ, in- guinal region, mammæ; pains lancinating, cutting, burning

(Con.).

Benignant suppurations change into ichorous conditions.

Easily strained from lifting even small weights; straining and overlifting easily produce great debility.

Joints weak; easily turned or sprained (Led., Psor.).

Headache at night; has to sit and hold head with both hands to prevent it from falling to pieces.

Aversion to open, dry, cold air.

After appearance of menses, so weak she can hardly speak (can hardly stand, Alum., Coc.); menses flow only in morning.

A stitching pain remains in chest after recovery from pleu- risy (Ran. b.).

Menstruation, leucorrhœa, diarrhœa are all exhausting

(Ars.—are all offensive, Psor.).

After shaving (> after shaving, Brom.); slightest touch; after midnight.

From warmth; eating.

Periodicity not marked.

Evening paroxysm 5 to 8, and 11 P. M.

Without thirst. Great chilliness during the day. Chill after eating (Bell.—after drinking, Caps.—after eating and drinking, Asar.). Internal chill on beginning to eat; chill awoke her at night; commencing in the chest (Apis), with shivering down the back; with ice cold feet; chilly when a little air entered the room (Camph., Canth.). Could not bear being uncovered because she immediately became chilly (Acon., Nux). Chill with goose-flesh, from 5 till 8 in the evening, afterwards at 11 P. M., waking with profuse sweat lasting till 2 o'clock, during which she could not tolerate the bed-clothes. Great chilliness during day.

Without thirst; with redness and burning of the cheeks in the evening; frequent flushes of heat in the cheeks, with redness. Heat always after a chill, mostly at night in bed. Head and upper part of the body were hot, with cold limbs; which only gradually became warm towards morning. Averse to uncovering during heat.

Offensive night-sweat ; stains the linen yellow (flies trouble him very much on account of the perspiration, Calad.). At night or towards morning. Fœtid ; debilitating ; exhausting ; profuse sweat (Psor.); when walking ; slightest exertion even when eating. Sweat in hollows of knees (Bufo); profuse of the feet and thighs.

Symptoms of this stage always guiding and predominant. (Bry. and Cinch. have profuse, debilitating sweat, but lack the offensiveness of Carbo a.)

Complementary: Calc. phos.

Blisters on the tongue and sides of the tongue (Canth.), which pain as if burnt. Burning on tip of the tongue and rawness of the mouth, relieved by eating. Ravenous hunger (Cina, Phos.).

Never clear. All the constitutional troubles are aroused, and every disease is extremely prostrating. Leucorrhœa stains linen yellow.

The profuse, debilitating, offensive, exhausting sweat, is characteristic.

Carbo an. will rarely be indicated, unless the fever be developed after or upon some constitutional trouble. The sweating stage is very exhausting, and out of all proportion to the chill and heat.

The fever generally accompanies some dyscrasia, with glandular swellings or where benign tend to malignant diseases.

Compare: Caps., Carbo v.

Confused, did not know whether he had been asleep or awake; morning.
Desire to be alone; she is sad, reflective; avoids conversation, taciturn.
Alternate cheerfulness and melancholy.
Low-spirited.
Anxiety: apprehensive, after an emission.
Fright in the dark.

Vertigo and confusion on sitting up; better when reclining; nausea.
Brain feels as if loose, during motion.

Pain in top of head, as if skull had been split or torn asunder; worse during wet weather and at night; must press the head with both hands.
Heaviness: in head at night; weary feet; in the forehead on stooping; especially in cerebellum, worse forenoon, in cold air; better after dinner.
Rush of blood to head; confusion in head.
Throbbing headache after menses; worse in the open air.

Skin of forehead and vertex feels tight.

Dim sight, eyes feel weak.
A net seems to swim before the eyes.

Does not know from what direction sounds come.
Ringing in ears when blowing nose.
Ichorous otorrhœa.
Periosteum behind the ear swollen.
Parotid gland swollen; lancinating pains.

Nosebleed: every morning, preceded by dull feeling in head, preceded by vertigo.
Dry coryza, cannot breathe through nose in morning, on walking, and for sometimes after.
Coryza, scraping in throat, worse evening, night, and when swallowing.
Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, yawning and sneezing.
Tip of nose: red painful to touch; skin feels tight, is chapped; little boils inside.
Hard, bluish tumor on end of nose.

Face has cachectic appearance; looks earthy.
Heat in face and head; in afternoon.
Erysipelas of face.
Copper-colored eruption.
Acne; young, scrofulous persons.

Shooting and stitches in malar bone, especially left, running towards the ear.
Lips swollen, burning.
Vesicles, or cracks on the lips.

Teeth loose, sensitive on chewing.
Gums: red, swollen, painful; bleeding.
Gum-boils.

Taste: bitter, especially morning; sour.
Burning on tip of tongue, and rawness in mouth.
Burning blisters on tips and edges of tongue.
Knotty indurations in the tongue.

Blisters, burning.
Mouth and tongue dry.
Frequent biting of the inside of cheek.

Mucus in throat, hawking.
Raw sensation in throat and œsophagus, to pit of stomach; not increased by swallowing.
Raw feeling, like heart-burn, better after eating.

Ravenous hunger.
No appetite; averse to fatty food.

Eating causes: fatigue; distress and burning in stomach; inflation; long-lasting nausea, after meat.
Eating relieves rawness in throat.
After dinner: 3. After eating: 13, 26, 29, 40.

Eructations tasting of food long eaten.
Heart-burn.
Saltish water runs from the mouth, retching, vomiting, hiccough, cold feet. θ Cancer of stomach.

Spasmodic cramps.
Like a load or weight in stomach on waking, mornings.
Sore feeling in pit of stomach.
Pressing, clawing, griping, burning in stomach.
Faint, gone feeling; also from suckling the child; eating does not relieve it.
Fullness, cold feeling in stomach after slight meal, better lying hand on stomach.

Aching, almost cutting in region of liver, even while lying down.

Abdomen greatly distended; much annoyed with flatus.
Painful sensation in right lower abdomen, as if something would be squeezed through.
Feeling in left groin on sitting down, as if a hard body were lying there; relieved after pressure, by passage in flatus.
Soreness in abdomen while coughing.
Hard buboes, begin to suppurate; or maltreated cases with callous edges, ichorous, offensive discharge.

Severe burning in rectum, in evening.
Anus sore; viscid moisture, oozing also from perineum.
Stitches in rectum and anus.
Stool hard lumpy, scanty.
Unsuccessful desire for stool; passes only offensive flatus; pain in the back, and feeling across abdomen as if there was no expulsive power.
Blood passes during stool.
Piles, burn and sting, worse during walking. Fissura ani with severe burning.

Frequent desire, urine increased; fetid; some times interrupted; more frequent at night.
Inefficient urging, with painful pressure in loins, groins and thighs.
During urination: burning soreness in urethra.
Stitches and lancinating in the abdomen, better from urinating.

Seminal emission; parts feel weak; exhausted mentally and bodily.
Syphilis; buboes.

Tearing transversely across the pubes, and then through pudenda as far as the anus.
Induration of neck of uterus; burning.
Menorrhagia from chronic induration of uterus; also in delicate women, with glandular affections.
Burning in thighs; labor-like pains in pelvis and sacrum; slimy, bloody discharge, very weak. θ Cancer uteri.
Menses: too early, too long, not profuse.
During menses: lameness in thighs; pressing in small of back, groins and thighs, unsuccessful desire to eructate, chilly, yawning; the flow weakens her, she can hardly speak; blood dark.
Leucorrhœa: stains linen yellow; offensive; burning, biting; more when walking or standing; causes weak feeling in stomach.

Nausea, worse at night.
Lochia long-lasting, thin, offensive, excoriating; numb limbs.
Mammæ: darting pains of nursing women, arrest breathing, worse from pressure; hard, painful spots swollen, inflamed (erysipelatous) during confinement.
Tumor hard, uneven, skin loose; burning pains; dirty, blue-red spots; pains drawing towards axilla; night-sweat, low-spirited. θ Scirrhus mammæ.

Rawness and hoarseness, morning after rising.
Hoarseness, worse evening; loss of voice during night.

Dyspnœa and anxiety; low-spirited.
Painting and rattling.
Oppression in the morning and after eating.

From tickling in the right side of chest, or lying on right side; sputum green.
Severe, dry cough, shakes the abdomen as if all would fall out, must support the bowels; loose rales until something is coughed up; morning on rising and nearly all day.

Sensation of coldness in chest.
Chronic bronchitis, with night-sweats.
Burning (in right side of) chest.
Pneumonia in right lung, suppuration beginning, green sputum.
Pleurisy, lingering; skin livid, emaciation, hectic; or typhoid symptoms.
Sharp burning stitches in chest.

Palpitation after eating; when singing in church; morning on awaking, must lie still, with eyes closed.
Pulse accelerated, especially evening; beating in blood-vessels.

Glands of neck indurated, swollen, painful.
Pressing, drawing and stiffness in lumbar region, as if broken.
Sharp drawing across small of back, sensitive to every step.
Coccyx feels bruised; burning when touched; pain as from subcutaneous ulceration, worse sitting or lying.

Axillary glands indurated.
Arms painful to touch.
Hands and fingers readily go to sleep.
Wrists pain as if sprained.
Hands numb; often with chest affections.
Gouty stiffness of finger-joints.

Stitches in left hip when sitting.
Sweat at night on thighs only.
Painful tension in the calves, when walking.
The foot turns under when walking, as from a weak ankle.
Painful contraction of tendo-achillis.
Pain in heels; feet sore.
Frost-bites; inflamed, burning.
Corns, painful to touch.

Bruised feeling, especially during motion.

Sitting: 2, 19, 31, 33. Motion: 2, 34. Walking: 20, 23, 31, 33. Slight exertion: 40. After rising: 25, 27. Standing: 23. Stooping: 3. Reclining: 2. Lying: 18, 31; on right side: 27. Must lie still: 29.

Weak, want of energy; head confused; prostration.
Easily sprained from lifting even small weights.

Anxious; frightful visions and restlessness keep him awake.
Sleepy all forenoon; yawning.
Sleep full of vivid fancies; talks, groans, sheds tears.

Morning: 1, 7, 11, 25, 26, 27, 29. Forenoon: 3, 37. Afternoon: 8, 40. Evening: 7, 20, 25, 29, 40, 46. Night: 3, 7, 21, 24, 25, 33, 40. Toward morning: 40. All day: 27.

Wet weather: 3. Open air: 3. In bed: 40, 46. Aversion to open air.

Chill, especially in afternoon and after eating; evening chill followed by sweat.
Heat always after a chill, mostly at night, in bed.
Sweat generally towards morning, also from slight exertion, even eating.
Night-sweat fetid, debilitating, staining yellow.

Right: 18, 19, 27, 28. Left: 9, 19, 33.

Venous plethora: 47.
Stinging in scars.
Benignant change into ichorous suppurations.
Glands indurated, swollen, inflamed, with lancinating, cutting or burning. θ Scirrhus.
Joints weak; easily sprained: 45.
Gummata.

Touch: 7, 31, 32, 33. Pressure: 3, 17, 19, 24. Chewing: 10. Lifting: 36.

Itching over whole body; evening in bed.
Erysipelatous swellings, with burning pain.

Elderly persons, especially with venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, debility, etc.
Young, scrofulous subjects.

Antidotes: Arsen., Camphor., Nux vom., Vinum.

Animal charcoal, obtained from charred ox-hide, is triturated for use.

A tissue remedy, like all the Carbons.

Compare Carbo veg., Aurum, Caps., Carbon. s.

Spasm, vertigo, she screamed, opened her mouth and bent backward to the right side and threw up her hands. ▶ She came near falling, opened the mouth and raised her eyes, with heat over whole body, sweat on face and whining mood. ▶ Stitches in the scar of a burn. ▶ Aching in joints and muscles. ▶ All joints feel bruised, pulled apart and powerless. ▶ Throbbing in whole body, agg. evening. ▶ Orgasm of blood, without heat. ▶ Uneasiness, with haste. ▶ Indolence.

Weakness in morning on waking after a good sleep; in morning on rising, with such sadness that she could have cried; in morning, especially in lower limbs, with bruised feeling; in forenoon, even in sinking down; from eating; while walking; from walking, especially in hypochondrium; after walking, with sleepiness; agg. afternoon, with apprehension and melancholy; with want of energy and confusion of head; so that she could scarcely speak after appearance of menses, with yawning and stretching; at night as if bruised; of mind and body after an emission, with apprehension. ▶ Weaker every day, although he eats and drinks.

Especially suited to old people. ▶ Sometimes indicated after debilitating disease. ▶ Veins distended skin blue, especially on hands and feet. ▶ Indurations of the glands. ▶ Indolent tumors, especially with burning pain.

▶ Desire to be along, she is sad and reflective and avoids conversation (Aur.). ▶ Frightful images in evening before sleep. ▶ Fear; in evening, causing shuddering and weeping; and shyness. ▶ Apprehension in afternoon, with heaviness in body, so that walking was difficult. ▶ Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood, so that she was obliged to sit up; A. agg. evening and night, with depression, the A. preventing sleep, she felt best in the morning; so that he was constantly obliged to rock back and forth on his chair. ▶ Homesick (Caps.). ▶ Feeling in morning as if abandoned and homesick. ▶ Thoughts of death. ▶ Hopelessness. ▶ Lachrymose; at times, foolishly jovial at other times; he cannot weep enough. ▶ Discouragement and sadness, everything seems so sad and lonely that she desires to weep. ▶ Melancholy; in morning on waking, with anxiety; with feeling as if abandoned.

Anger. ▶ Ill humor; in morning on waking; ill humor, with aversion to talking. ▶ Sullen mood and ill humor about the present and past, with weeping. ▶ Obstinate, and no one could do anything to suit him. ▶ Indifference, then irritability for passionate impressions. ▶ Jovial. ▶ Involuntary jolly whistling.

Stupidity in forenoon, agg. after dinner, with drowsiness. ▶ Stupefaction while sitting eating, with lightness of head and dread lest he should fall down unconscious; sudden S. when moving head and on walking; sudden, he did not hear, nor see and had no thoughts. ▶ Inability to write a letter and to express his thoughts. ▶ Forgot the word he was about to speak.

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General lack of energy; also, after the appearance of the menses, so that she can scarcely speak, with yawning and stretching.
The pains are generally burning.
Great sensitiveness to open, cold, dry air.

Desires to be alone, feels sad and avoids conversation.
Anxiety in the evening, with dread of being in the dark.
Homesickness, with weeping.
Alternations of mood and over-excitability, alternating with fretful sadness.

General heaviness, particularly in the occiput, with confusion; at night, with weariness in the feet, which she can scarcely lift.
Pressive headaches, worse in the cold air.
A feeling of tension of the skin of the forehead and vertex; a sensation as if something lay above the eyes, so that she could not look up.
Pain in the vertex as if the skull had been split open, so that she holds it with her hands.

A feeling as if the eyes lay loose in their orbits.
Very far-sighted, with dilated pupils.
A net seems to swim before the eyes.

Roaring in the ears.
Difficult hearing; sounds become confused, and one cannot tell the direction from which they come.
(Discharge from the ears.)

Redness of the tip of the nose, which is painful when touched.
The nasal bones become painful.
A catarrh, with scraping in the throat, worse in the evening and at night and on swallowing.
Nose-bleed in the morning follows vertigo, preceded by pressure and confusion in the head.

Copper-like eruption on the face.
Smooth, elevated spots like erysipelas.
Cracks and blisters on the lips.

Teeth become loose.
The gums swollen, red, painful.
Blisters on the gums, which become ulcers.
Burning on the tip of the tongue, with rawness in the mouth.
Burning blisters on the tongue and mouth.

Frequent hawking and raising of much mucus in the throat.
Rawness of the throat nearly every morning, extending to the pit of the stomach.
Burning in the throat.
Swallowing painful, as from blisters.

At times a ravenous hunger, at times aversion to food, especially to fat food and to tobacco.
Bitter taste in the morning.
Taste of the food which had long been eaten.
Ineffectual eructations.
Nausea at night, or after eating meat, or from the customary tobacco.
Qualmishness, with faintness.
Heartburn which rises from the stomach.
Digestion very feeble.
Every sort of food causes distress.
Violent pressure in the stomach, even when fasting and in the evening in bed.
Griping and clawing in the stomach.
Constriction, like a cramp, in the stomach.
Audible rumbling in the stomach.

Distention, flatulent.
Many symptoms from flatulence.
Tearing transversely across pubes and then through pudenda as far as anus.
Sticking pains in the groins.
A sensation after sitting down as if a large heavy body were in the groins, better after the passage of gas from the bowels.

Clinical:
Inflamed and enlarged inguinal glands, very hard or suppurated, with hard, elevated margins and offensive discharges.
Pains extending from bubœs to the thighs, with chilliness, etc.

Swollen hæmorrhoids, with burning pain on waking.
Burning in the rectum and anus.
Oozing of sticky moisture from the anus.
Sticking pains, with soreness; soreness in the evening, with moisture.
A sticky moisture oozes on the perineum, behind the scrotum.
Stool scanty and delayed.
Passage of blood with the stool.

Burning in the urethra when urinating.
Urging to urinate, with increased flow.
Involuntary discharge of offensive urine.

Menses scanty the first day, afterwards more copious; discharge dark colored.
Menstruation accompanied by pains in the sacrum, groins, labia and thighs.
Extreme prostration from menstruation; can hardly speak.
Leucorrhœa, staining yellow; offensive and corrosive; worse when walking or standing.

Clinical:
Chronic metritis, with induration of the neck of the uterus.
True scirrhus of the uterus; painful induration in the mammary gland, with stinging pain.
Induration of right ovary, which feels like a heavy ball.
Sometimes indicated in disorders following suppression of the menses, with feeling of goneness, desire to be alone, etc.
(Compare Sepia.)
The pains in the sexual organs are generally burning or sometimes tearing, with heaviness and pressure.
Sometimes indicated in syphilis, with copper-colored eruptions or with bubœs, which have a blue look.
Old bubœs which will not heal, but which secrete an offensive ichor.
Scirrhous nodule in mammary gland; skin looks bluish and mottled; axillary glands involved, with burning, drawing pains.

Hoarseness in the morning after rising, with rawness and dry cough.
Hoarseness worse in the evening, loss of voice during the night.
Cough from tickling and constriction in the larynx and chest.
Cough dry, worse in the morning on rising, lasting all day; shaking abdomen as if everything would fall out; she is obliged to hold the bowels with the hands and sit down; loose rales in chest until something is coughed up; in evening from tickling in the larynx; only at night when lying on right side.
Suffocative cough in the evening after falling asleep.
Cough dry at night, but with a grayish, purulent expectoration in the morning.
Burning pains in the chest.
Tightness of the chest, especially in the morning and after eating.

Painful indurations in the neck.
Pressing, drawing pains in the small of the back, or a feeling as if it were broken.
Dragging, bruised pain in the coccyx.
Pain in the coccyx; on touch it becomes a burning.

Numbness of all the limbs.
A gouty stiffness of the joints.
All the joints are powerless, and easily give out, and one gets sprains easily.
Bruised pains in the joints, < motion.
Indurated glands in the axilla.
Burrowing bone pains in the arms.
Gouty-like stiffness of the joints.
The hands fall asleep.
Trembling of the hands.
Stitches in the left hip when sitting.
Tension in the groins and hollows of the knees.
The ankles become sprained easily.
The legs, far up as the calves, fall asleep during the day.
Numerous corns appear and become very painful to the touch.
Inflammation and burning pains like chilblains on feet and toes.

Sleepiness the whole forenoon, with frequent yawning.
Unable to sleep in the evening on account of restlessness, anxiety and frightful images.
Anxious sleep, with weeping, groaning and talking.

Chilliness during the day, waking at night, cold feet.
Chilliness in the evening in bed, with cold hands and feet, followed by sweat during sleep.
Sweats easily on the slightest exertion.
Offensive sweat at night.
Night sweats very exhaustive.
Perspiration colors the linen yellow.

CARBO ANIMALIS. ANIMAL CHARCOAL. [*].

[*] To prepare the animal charcoal, lay a thick piece of ox-leather between the red-hot coals and allow it to burn, until the flame disappears and then quickly place the glowing piece between two flat stones, so that it may be suddenly extinguished, as else it would continue to glimmer in the open air, destroying the coat for the most part.

However much similarity there may be found in the effects of animal charcoal and of vegetable charcoal on the state of human health, there are, nevertheless, so many variations in the effects of animal charcoal from those found in vegetable charcoal, and so many particular symptoms, that I have thought it useful to add here what I have been able to observe.

The animal charcoal is prepared like the other antipsoric remedies up to the decillionth, potentized attenuation, and one or two small pellets, moistened with it, are given as a dose in the various degrees of potency. Camphor has proved itself an antidote and a means of relieving its too violent action with persons who were too sensitive.

In treating diseases to which this medicine is appropriate the following symptoms have been relieved or cured :

Timidity ; morning-vertigo ; pressure in the whole of the brain ; pressure on the head after a meal ; eruptions on the head ; roaring in the ears ; discharge from the ears ; erysipelas in the face ; stinging in the cheek-bones, the lower jaw and the teeth ; drawing pain in the gums ; bleeding of the gums ; suppurating blisters on the gums ; dryness of the palate and of the tongue ; bitter taste in the mouth ; incomplete eructations with pain ; sour eructation ; hiccup after a meal ; faintish qualmishness ; nocturnal nausea ; weakness of digestion in the stomach, where almost everything partaken of causes trouble ; pressure in the stomach, as from a load ; clutching and griping in the stomach ;pressure and cutting in the hepatic region ; rumbling in the abdomen ; obstruction of the flatus ; frequent stools every day ; stinging in the anus ; fetor of the urine ; leucorrhœa ; burning, smarting leucorrhœa ; stoppage of the nose ; dry coryza ; painful induration of a gland in the chest ; burning in the back ; induration of a cervical gland, with lancinating pain ; herpes under the axilla ; gouty stiffness of the finger-joints ; pain in the hip, causing halting ; drawing and stitches in the legs ; sensitiveness to the open air ; tendency to strains ; chilblains ; sweat when walking in the open air ; fatiguing sweats, especially on the thighs ; morning sweat.

The symptoms marked Ad. were observed by Dr. Adams, in Russia ; those market Whl. by the Practitioner Wahle ; those with Htb. und Tr. by Drs. Hartlaub and Trinks, in their Reine Arzneimittellehre. [*].

[] A pathogenesis of this substance, probably (as with its vegetable congener), made with the 3d trituration, first saw the light in Vol. VI of the second edition of the Materia Medica Pura (1827). It contained 191 symptoms contributed by Hahnemann himself and a Dr. Adams. It reappeared in Vol. III of the Chronic Diseases. The symptoms of Hartlaub and Trinks (254 in number) in the third volume of their Arzneimittellehre, have no name attached, but are probably Henning's. From these printed sources, from his own later observations on patients and from 23 symptoms (probably of the same kind), supplied by Wahle, Hahnemann has compiled the present list. -Hughes*.

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Liveliness as from overexcitement, alternating with peevish sadness Easily started, timidity. Anxiety in evening and fear in the dark. Homesickness with tearfulness.

Especially early in morning.

Numbness in. Stupefying pain or heaviness in occiput with dull confusion therein. Feeling as if brain were loose. Pressive ache, worse in cold air. Scald head. Tightness of scalp on forehead and vertex with great sensitiveness of these parts to cold, dry, open air. Worse: Moving head, after eating, early in morning, in cold, moist air, external pressure, touch. Better: After dinner, in warm, open air, in a warm room, at rest.

Feel loose in their sockets. Pronounced farsightedness with dilated pupils.

Destructive suppuration of. Roaring in. Difficult hearing, the tones commingle and nothing is heard distinctly.

Tip cracked, red and burning. Painful nasal bones. Stuffed coryza with complete stoppage. Nosebleed. Sneezing.

Copper - colored eruption on. Smooth. elevated, erysipelatous spots on. Erysipelas of. Fissures and vesicles on lips. Swollen, burning lips.

Loose. Gums: Swollen, red and painful, pustules on.

Burning vesicles in and on tongue. Offensive odor from.

Appetite: Aversion to tobacco and fat food.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth in early morning.

Roughness in. Soreness and rawness in.

Eructations: Ineffectual, with pain.

Nausea, etc. - Qualmishness at night. Faint - like squeamishness at stomach.

Great weakness of digestion, almost all foods cause distress. Pressure in, even when fasting, and in evening when in bed. Grasping and clutching in. constrictive spasm of. Audible growling in.

Hypochondria: Pressure and cutting in hepatic region.

As if shattered. Soreness in. Outward pressure in.

Flatulence: Audible rumbling in abdomen. Flatulent colic. obstructed flatus. Protrusion of inguinal hernia from flatulence.

Hard, knotty. Constipation with ineffectual urging, he passes offensive flatus only.

Burning and sticking in. Burning hemorrhoids. Oozing of a sticky, odorless moisture from perineum.

Intense urging to urinate with increased discharge. Involuntary discharge of offensive urine.

Menses: Too early. Leucorrhoea staining the linen yellow.

Wheezing, with rattling i chest. Tightness of chest early in morning, and after eating.

Suffocative, hoarse, excited by rawness and dryness in larynx and trachea. In evening after falling to sleep. Dry at night, but by day, with a gray - greenish sometimes purulent expectoration, of an offensive, somewhat sour taste.

Loss of voice at night. Hoarseness in early morning. Constriction of.

Ulcerative pain in, with suppuration of lungs. Cold feeling in. Sticking and constriction in. Rattling in. Palpitation. Erysipelatous inflammation of breasts of nursing women. Hard, painful nodes in female mammae.

Stitches in lumbar region when breathing deeply.

Neck: Painful swelling and induration of cervical and parotid glands.

Much moisture in axillae. Indurated axillary glands. burrowing pain s in bones of arms. Gouty stiffness of finger joints.

Tension in popliteal space and groin. Feet and toes turn under easily. Frostbites on feet and toes, with burning pains as though' inflamed.

Numbness of all limbs. Gouty stiffness in joints. The joints are weak and snap easily. Parts are easily sprained. Burning pains. Very sensitive to dry, cold, open air. Sense of looseness or weakness in many parts. Excoriating discharges. Great debility from small losses of vital fluids.

Glands inflamed, swollen and indurated.

Erysipelatous swelling with burning pains. Itching of entire body, in morning while in bed. Blue, over affected parts.

Full of vivid fancies with weeping, groaning and talking. Inability to go to sleep in evening, on account of restlessness, anxiety and frightful vision.

Pulse: Excited and accelerated, with throbbing in blood vessels, mostly toward evening. Chill: Especially in afternoon, after eating and in evening. Shuddering every other day in evening continuing while in bed. In evening, then sweat during sleep. Heat: Following every chill, mostly at night in bed. Sweat: After the heat, usually toward morning. During day, from slightest motion, even when eating. Nightsweat, offensive, debilitating, staining the linen yellow. Most profuse on thighs.

Allied Remedies: Carb-v., Rhod., Thuj

Sensation of numbness, as if, in fact, the part had gone to sleep in many parts, especially the head.

Rheumatic stiffness of the joints.

Pressing pain in the joints and muscles of the limbs.

Pain in the hip joints at night.

Burning pains.

Weakness and easy dislocation of the joints.

Great sensitiveness to open, cold, dry air.

Tension and contraction of the parts.

Great weakness of digestion (a very valuable remedy for a host of digestive ailments).

Great production of flatulency.

Painful induration of the glands, of the mammae.

Copper colored exanthemata.

Spongy ulcers and excrescences.

Aggravation while eating and when lying on the side.