Carboneum Oxygenisatum carb-o.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Carbonous Oxide

General

Herpes zoster, pemphigus, and trismus are produced by this drug. Coldness, sleepiness, loss of consciousness are marked. Vertigo.

Head

Cerebral congestion; hallucination of vision, hearing and touch. Inclination to turn in a circle. Jaws firmly clenched. Trismus. Heaviness of head. Sticking pain in temples. Roaring ears.

Eyes

Ocular paralysis, hemianopsias, disturbed pupillary reaction, optic neuritis and atrophy, subconjunctival and retinal hæmorrhages.

Skin

Anæsthesia; vesication along course of nerves; herpes zoster; pemphigus, with large and small vesicles. Hand icy cold.

Sleep

Deep. Prolonged; sleepiness for several days.

Dose

First attenuation.

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

Carbonous Oxide. CO. Solution in water.

Clinical

Cramps. Headache. Herpes zoster. Paralysis. Pemphigus. Sciatica. Trismus.

Characteristics

The effects of Carb. ox . have been noted in persons poisoned by the gas. It produces a state like intoxication. The person is confused, stupid. There is loss of consciousness. Anæsthesia, but the slightest touch with a hot iron recalls sensibility. Convulsions and cramps. Great sleepiness lasting for several days; interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes. Great coldness of surface, hands icy cold. Marked > of symptoms, especially of chest, in open air.

Relations

Compare: Carb. hydro.

Mind

Depressed: stupid; apathetic. ─ Anxiety, with desire for air but too paralysed to seek it.

Head

Vertigo; inclination to turn in a circle. ─ Headache, violent, persistent, with throbbing in temporal arteries. ─ Frontal headache which extends over the whole head, but chiefly felt in forehead, which seems pushed out. ─ Weight; throbbing; compression; sticking headache.

Eyes

Eyes protrude; sight dim with vertigo, and fluttering and flickering before sight.

Ears

Roaring in ears.

Face

Trismus; jaws firmly clenched.

Mouth

Paralysis of tongue.

Stomach

Stomach so irritable that everything eaten was immediately vomited.

Stool

Involuntary evacuations.

Urinary Organs

Paralysis of bladder. ─ Urine contains sugar.

Respiratory Organs

Rattling of mucus in air-passages. ─ Bloody mucus raised. ─ Expired air feels cool to back of observer's hand. ─ Breathing stertorous, slow. ─ Sense of suffocation.

Heart

Intolerable pain in region of heart. ─ Violent palpitation.

Back

Burning pain at right scapula.

Lower Limbs

Shooting pains in r. natis and down sciatic nerve to foot, not < by pressure or movement.

Skin

Whole skin covered with large and small vesicles of pemphigus. ─ Purple maculation of skin. ─ Herpes zoster l. side of face along branches of trigeminus.

Sleep

Great sleepiness for several days. ─ Never slept so long before. ─ Sleep deep, prolonged, interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes.