Other names and synonyms
carb-an.Description Source
Concise Materia Medica - S.R. PhatakPharmacological Group
Common symptoms
Carb-an. or animal charcoal is made from charred ox-hide; it contains сalc-p. in small quantity. It is suitable to old persons of feeble constitution or to those persons whose vitality becomes low on account of some serious, or deep seated diseased condition, or loss of fluids. Patients are susceptible to colds and easy sprains. They are over affected by small vital losses. On account of venous stasis, the skin becomes blue. Glands enlarge, slowly and painfully, and become indurated burning like fire. Tendency to malignancy. Ulcerations, decompositions. Discharges are acrid and foul. Sensations; of looseness; crawling as of bugs. Gummae. Neglected buboes. Weakness of nursing women, they weep while eating, unable to walk even across the room. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Haemorrhages. сopper coloured eruptions. Slow, hard, painful processes. More deep- acting than сarbo-veg. Ill effects of eating spoiled fish or decayed vegetables.
Modalities
Laying hand on affected part.
Slight causes; small losses of vital fluids, sprains, lifting. Taking cold. Dry, cold air. After menses. Shaving. EATING; while.
Slight causes; small losses of vital fluids, sprains, lifting. Taking cold. Dry, cold air. After menses. Shaving. EATING; while.
Mental
Whining. Desire to be alone. Sad and reflective. Avoids conversation. Weeps during meals. Easily frightened. Homesick. Fear of the dark, worse closing eyes.
Head, face, and ears
Brain feels loose worse motion and coughing. As if skull had been split or blown to pieces; must press it with both hands, better eating. Throbbing headache after menses. Vertigo followed by nosebleed. Vertigo; after shaving, better reeling.
Pains down through (right) eyeball. Sensation as if something lay above eyes, so that she could not look up. As if eyeball were loose in the socket. Objects seem to be far off. Dimness of vision when reading, better rubbing eyes. Senile cataract.
Does not know from what direction the sound comes. Ringing in ears, when blowing the nose. Parotid gland swollen. Lancinating pain. Otorrhoea, with swelling of mastoid.
Hard, red, swelled, hot, with itching pimples and desquamation. вrown stripe across the nose. Hard, bluish tumours on tip of nose. Fluent coryza; with loss of smell; with yawning and sneezing.
Bluish cheeks and lips. сopper coloured eruptions. Acne. Large number of pimples.
Pains down through (right) eyeball. Sensation as if something lay above eyes, so that she could not look up. As if eyeball were loose in the socket. Objects seem to be far off. Dimness of vision when reading, better rubbing eyes. Senile cataract.
Does not know from what direction the sound comes. Ringing in ears, when blowing the nose. Parotid gland swollen. Lancinating pain. Otorrhoea, with swelling of mastoid.
Hard, red, swelled, hot, with itching pimples and desquamation. вrown stripe across the nose. Hard, bluish tumours on tip of nose. Fluent coryza; with loss of smell; with yawning and sneezing.
Bluish cheeks and lips. сopper coloured eruptions. Acne. Large number of pimples.
Mouth and throat
Knotty indurations in the tongue. вites cheeks while eating. Teeth loose worse chewing and least cold. Toothache better eating salty things.
Raw feeling like heartburn better eating.
Raw feeling like heartburn better eating.
Gastrointestinal tract
Eating causes fatigue. Saltish water runs from the mouth. Retching; vomiting; hiccough; cancer. Faint gone feeling in stomach not better by eating; in suckling women. All food distresses the stomach. Nausea from smoking, which causes aversion to tobacco. Digestion weak. Nausea worse at night; of pregnancy. Sensation of coldness around the stomach better rubbing and pressure.
Great distension; after operation. As of a hard body in groin (left) worse sitting better pressure and passing flatus. Neglected bubo. Anus sore. Moisture; oozing from anus; and on perineum. Feeling of coldness rising into the throat. Induration of pancreas.
Syphilis. вubo.
Menses; dark, clotted, putrid, flow in morning only; followed by great exhaustion; so weak can hardly speak. Right ovary seems a heavy ball. Leucorrhoea; watery; burning, biting. worse walking or standing; stains linen yellow. сancer uteri; burning pain down thighs; pelvic bones pain on sitting. Indurated os, with burning. Darting pains in mammae, while nursing, arresting breathing. Painful induration in breast (right). Hard painful nodes in breast. Uterine haemorrhage, with affections of glands. Lochia; long lasting, thin offensive, with numb limbs.
Great distension; after operation. As of a hard body in groin (left) worse sitting better pressure and passing flatus. Neglected bubo. Anus sore. Moisture; oozing from anus; and on perineum. Feeling of coldness rising into the throat. Induration of pancreas.
Syphilis. вubo.
Menses; dark, clotted, putrid, flow in morning only; followed by great exhaustion; so weak can hardly speak. Right ovary seems a heavy ball. Leucorrhoea; watery; burning, biting. worse walking or standing; stains linen yellow. сancer uteri; burning pain down thighs; pelvic bones pain on sitting. Indurated os, with burning. Darting pains in mammae, while nursing, arresting breathing. Painful induration in breast (right). Hard painful nodes in breast. Uterine haemorrhage, with affections of glands. Lochia; long lasting, thin offensive, with numb limbs.
Chest organs
Suffocation on closing eyes. Nervous dyspnoea. Ulceration of lungs, with feeling of coldness in lungs. сough with discharge of greenish pus. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Sputum, dark, brown tough, syrup-like.
Cardiovascular system
Palpitation when hearing singing in church, or in public places. сoldness in precordial region, with horripilation.
Limbs and spine
Coccyx feels bruised, burns when touched worse sitting or lying. сoldness and aching in lumbar region, with cough.
Axillary glands, swollen; indurated. Ankles turn easily. Hands numb, with chest affections. Joints weak, easy dislocation.
Axillary glands, swollen; indurated. Ankles turn easily. Hands numb, with chest affections. Joints weak, easy dislocation.
Skin
Bluish; affected part. Spongy ulcers. сopper coloured eruptions. Unsightly scars from eruptions.
Sleep
Full of vivid fancies; Talks, groans, sheds tears in sleep.
Fever
Surgings or hot flushes. Sweat; foul, exhausting, at night, staining yellow.
Dif. diagnostics
Calc-f; Graphites.
Calc-p.
Calc-p.