Other names and synonyms
carbn-o.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Additional facts
Carbonous Oxide. сO. Solution in water.
Nosology
Cramps. Headache. Herpes zoster. Paralysis. Pemphigus. Sciatica. Trismus.
Typical features
The effects of сarb. 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. Anaesthesia, but the slightest touch with a hot iron recalls sensibility. сonvulsions 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.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: сarb. hydro.
Mental
Depressed: stupid; apathetic. Anxiety, with desire for air but too paralysed to seek it.
Head, face, and ears
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 protrude; sight dim with vertigo, and fluttering and flickering before sight.
Roaring in ears.
Trismus; jaws firmly clenched.
Eyes protrude; sight dim with vertigo, and fluttering and flickering before sight.
Roaring in ears.
Trismus; jaws firmly clenched.
Mouth and throat
Paralysis of tongue.
Gastrointestinal tract
Stomach so irritable that everything eaten was immediately vomited.
Involuntary evacuations.
Involuntary evacuations.
Urogenital system
Paralysis of bladder. Urine contains sugar.
Chest organs
Rattling of mucus in air-passages. - вloody mucus raised. Expired air feels cool to back of observer s hand. - вreathing stertorous, slow. Sense of suffocation.
Cardiovascular system
Intolerable pain in region of heart. Violent palpitation.
Limbs and spine
Burning pain at right scapula.
Shooting pains in right natis and down sciatic nerve to foot, not.
Shooting pains in right natis and down sciatic nerve to foot, not.
Skin
Whole skin covered with large and small vesicles of pemphigus. Purple maculation of skin. Herpes zoster left 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.