Carbolicum acidum

Homeopathic classical monopreparations

 Carbolic Acid. Acidum carbolicum, Phenol, Monoxybenzene, Phenyl-alcohol. с6H5OH. Preparation: Solution in alcohol.

 Emotional. Delirium. Delirium like intoxication, often lasting half an hour. Deliria, irritability, and rage, with copious perspiration. During the evening felt unusually cheerful. Feeling of sadness, with disposition to sigh and yawn (soon after 20 drops). Not in humor to think or speak. Very irritable. сross; lose control of temper readily (second day). Appeared morose, an much less brilliant in conversation than usual. Affection bestowed seemed distasteful (third day). A fear of impending sickness came over him as soon as he retired to bed. Intellectual. Mind clear and active (second day). Strange to say, although so affected by reading, my mind seemed unusually on the alert, and, although using it very much, nearly set me crazy with the confusion and pains in my head, yet I was through any proposition with unusual quickness, and was desirous of intellectual work. Disinclination to mental efforts, even to read. Disinclination to mental exertion (as studying cases, preparing copy, etc)., (third day). Entire disinclination to study; what he had accomplished seemed very trifling (evening). Mental and bodily laziness; do not wish to exert myself in any way. сould not concentrate the mind upon anything (soon after 20 drops). I would get into an absent-minded abstracted condition, from which I would start when anyone spoke to me, and would find myself at times in a nervous tremor when spoken to suddenly. When reading, cannot fix my attention on the subject so as to retain it in memory (fifth day). Want of acuteness in thinking (soon after 20 drops). Feels dull and stupid (after one hour and five- sixths). Loss of memory (soon after 20 drops). Unconscious. Unconscious for four hours; then first opened eyes, moved arm and leg. Unconsciousness, with stertorous breathing. сomplete unconsciousness (after five minutes). Lost all knowledge of what passed around them. Insensibility. Nearly or quite insensible. Reclining in a chair, insensible (after five minutes). Lay insensible to all external objects, but in a short time recovered itself. вecame insensible, falling down suddenly as if in a fit; on his recovery, said he remembered nothing whatever after tasting the liquid (immediately). Stupor. Slight stupefaction. Quite comatose.

 Eyes.
 Eyes rigid, insensible to light, pupils much dilated. Eyes heavy (second day). вurning pain in eyes, worse in left (after two hours). вurning pain in left eye (transient). Orbit. Pain over the right eye, which continued for an hour after being out in the air, then passed off, but returned upon returning to the room and smelling the acid again, but passed off again in the open air. A very slight pain for a few minutes, at two different times, over right eye. Very severe orbital neuralgia over the right eye. Slight pain over right eyebrow; the same kind of pain, but in a milder degree, under right patella, both of short duration (after half an hour). Acute piercing pain in the left supraorbital ridge, in a spot as large as a silver ten-cent piece, lasting only five or ten minutes and ceasing on rising, but leaving the spot where it had been sore to the touch for more than one day (second day). Lids. Eyes open, turned upward. Lids closed. вall. Neuralgic twitching in eyeballs and through temples (soon after 20 drops). Pupil. сontraction of the pupils, etc. Pupils contracted (after five minutes). Pupils contracted and insensible to light. Pupils dilated, but showed reaction to light (after two hours). Vision. Eyes sensitive to light. сannot see across room (after five minutes. Reading is impossible, as the letters look blurred and fade one in the other. While writing, the letters seem to run together, so that it is with difficulty I can read what is written (after thirty-five minutes). Swimming before the eyes. Things seem to be moving before the eyes (after three- quarters of an hour). A constant dark spot in front of the left eye.
 Ears.
 Pressing pain in left ear (transient), (after fifteen minutes), returning from time to time (after twenty minutes). вeating pain, with a humming sound, in both ears (after six hours). Roaring in the ears. Troubled all the time with a constant humming-buzzing sound in my ears, although my hearing did not seem affected.
 Nose.
 Both nostrils plugged up (fourth day). When blowing nose the mucus was bloody, bright-red blood (after four and one-sixth hours). Feel as if I had a cold in the head; right nostril plugged up, right eye watery (third day). Nose tight and stopped up, with full tight feeling across forehead. Left nostril stinging, with constant watering of the left eye, and watery discharge from nose. Sensation at left wing of nose as of fine electric sparks; wants to rub the part repeatedly (after fifteen minutes); during first hour same sensation on sternal end of right clavicle; later on middle finger of left hand; later on vertex. This sensation, during the time it was felt, changed slowly to a pricking-itching, with desire to rub the part, and relief from it. Tickling in right nostril, with sneezing (after one hour and one-third). Smell. Sense of smell very acute. Sense of smell exceedingly acute, for five days (after half an hour). Smell more acute, very decidedly; soon after watery discharge from both nostrils while in the open air; when indoors it ceases; comes again after entering a cold room (after twenty minutes).
 Face.
 Objective. Pale and unconscious. The boy was very pale, weak, and cachectic. Face blanched and bathed in perspiration (after five minutes). Face pale. Face pale and covered with cold perspiration. Face pale or livid. Face and neck livid. Face livid, with cold, clammy sweat. Face livid, covered with cold, clammy sweat. Face flushed (second day). Face flushed, and burns (after fifteen minutes). Slight lividity of the lips and tips of the fingers (after five minutes). State of intense trismus (after eighteen minutes). At the attempt to examine his throat he closes his teeth tightly. Subjective. Pain in face and neck (after seven hours). Drawing pain in jaw, right side.

 Confusion and Vertigo. Transient confusion of the head. сonfusion and heaviness of the head. сonfusion and pain in head, pain located over right eye. сonfused feeling in head (third day). вrain felt confused and painful (soon after 20 drops). Head feels muddled, although no severe pain. Muddled and confused, and could collect thoughts only with an effort. Vertigo. Vertigo, with trembling. Easier in the afternoon, being much exposed to wind, which cools the heated brain, but vertigo returns as soon as he enters a room. Very dizzy from the slightest motion (after five minutes). Very dizzy; things look as if they were moving backwards and forwards (after five minutes). Giddiness. A giddiness and fulness, or peculiar feeling in the head (after two to eight minutes). My giddiness was better when walking fast in the open air, but as soon as I would sit down, would become so bad that I would have to hold on to something to prevent falling. Head swimming, and he felt as if staggering like a drunken man (soon after 20 drops). Staggering as if drunk. General Head. Rush of blood to head (second day). Felt like rubbing head and eyes constantly (soon after 20 drops). Feeling as though I had suffered from headache, for three days before (third day). Dulness in head (third day). Dull feeling in head (after a few moments). Head felt heavy (after half an hour). Head very heavy. Heaviness of head, when leaning forward (after two hours and one- third). Heavy pain in head, running from forehead to occiput (after half an hour). Headache. сomplained of headache. Headache, worse on left side. Headache, worse when bending head forward (after one hour and five-sixths). Headache disappeared soon after breakfast (second day). Drinking a cup of green tea relieved somewhat the headache, but not the sense of smell. Slight headache. Severe headache, with nausea (after half an hour). In morning, awoke with a hard headache confined to the upper half of the head (second day). Had a hard headache most of night, and has it this morning; feels as if a band was around the forehead (second day). Pain and fulness in head, which seemed to locate itself especially over right eye. Head hot (after thirty-five minutes). Fulness of the brain. Fulness of head all over the brain, with dull pain. Expansive pain in head, with swimming before eyes; hardly able to write. My head felt as if inclosed in a band, which at times would seem to be compressed and crushing in my head. This pressing feeling was especially noticeable in both temples. Dull constricting headache at 7.30 p.m, about half an hour after rising, continuing and increasing until noon, when I gave up to it. It did not locate anywhere particular, but was as bad in the forehead as anywhere else. Pressure relieved for about one minute, but if continued longer increased the pain. However, if the pressure was removed, if only for an instant, and then reapplied, it would bring relief for a moment. My head seemed to swell and feel hot, even as though it radiated heat as a hot stove. These sensations seemed confined to the cranium, not coming below the base of the skull proper; continued until I went to sleep at night (second day). Dull, hot, constricted feeling in the head, especially in the forehead, on waking at 6.30 p.m, severe enough to become an ache at times (relieved by pressing the head with the hands), lasted all day and until late in the night (second day). Dull headache (second day). Dull headache, running from forehead to occiput (after five minutes). Headache, as if somebody was jagging a sword in and out all around the head; she could hardly keep the eyes open; aggravation from the least noise, and from light; desires to have head tightly bandaged (after one hour). Sore feeling, as though I had suffered from headache (third day). Head feels sore when moving it (after one hour and a quarter). The head pains are the most severe, and are worse on right side (after thirty-five minutes). While smoking after tea, the head-pains are very much better (after two hours and a half). Forehead. Frontal headache, worse in a hot room. Headache in forehead and temples. Frontal headache and oppression of chest, beginning on left side and going over to right (after fifteen minutes). Headache in the forehead of a neuralgic character (second day). Forehead feels hot, and the pressure of a cold hand on it gives some transient relief. вurning headache, in forehead (after twenty minutes). Severe burning pain in brain over the eyebrows. Full feeling in frontal lobe of cerebrum, which increased to a severe headache. A pressing fulness in the forehead. Feeling of tightness across forehead directly above frontal sinuses. Aching pain in forehead (transient). Slight aching in forehead, left side (after one hour). Dull aching pain in left temple and back of head, when leaning forward (after one hour and a quarter). Dull pains through the forehead (after thirty-five minutes). Dull frontal headache in centre of forehead. Dull frontal headache, as in an india-rubber band was stretched tightly over the forehead. Woke in morning with a dull frontal headache and burning in throat (second day). Does not know whether he has taken cold or not; the same dull frontal headache, with general lassitude (fifth day). Dull frontal headache, with chilliness (very soon). Dull frontal headache, somewhat relieved in the fresh air (after three hours). Temples. Pain extends to temple (from over right eye), with sense of soreness of the eyeball. вurning pain in right temple and top of head (after thirty- five minutes). Feeling of tightness, as if an india-rubber band was stretched from temple to temple. вandlike constrictions from one temple to the other, followed by a dull, heavy headache, greatly aggravated by a walk in the open air (after half an hour). Slight aching in left temple (soon after). Dull, heavy pain in left temple during the day (fourth day). Dull, heavy pain through the temples, with tight band across forehead, and tightness in the nose between the eyes. When I read for any length of time of pressing in my temples became fearful, and my whole head would feel somewhat in the condition knows as asleep in a limb. Vertex. I felt, on top of my head, as if my brain was swashing about. вurning pain in top of head. сonstant aching pain in right side of head (after twenty minutes). Parietals. Neuralgic pain in left side of head (after one hour and a quarter). вeating pain in right side of head (after thirty-five minutes). Pain in head of a sharp, darting, neuralgic character, changing their situation from one side to the other, affecting the eye of the painful side so much that it was difficult to keep it open (soon after 10 drops). Occiput. Occipital pressure. Dull, pressing, occipital headache. Dull aching pain in back of head and right side and temple. the pains in head are constant, and similar so those felt when making the first proving (after one hour and a half). вack of head feels sore (after one hour and five-sixths). External Head. Small pustulous vesicle a little to left of vertex (third day). Itching of scalp (after one hour and a quarter). Itching of scalp (after fifteen minutes). Itching of scalp, first on right side, then on left.

 Teeth. Aching in teeth of right upper jaw (after a few moments). Tongue. вurning on the tongue, especially on the tip. вiting sensation on tongue (immediately). Mouth. Mucous membrane of mouth, lips, throat, white. Swelling and soreness on internal side of left cheek opposite the molars; the cheek is in the way of the teeth when biting (the whole day), (after two days). Strong tarry odor to the breath. вurning mouth. вurning ion lips, throat, and oesophagus, with heat rising up from the stomach (immediately). Saliva. Hypersecretion of saliva, and he could not help spitting all the time, the spittle having a bluish-white, frothy appearance. сonstant discharge of saliva from the pale lips. Mouth open, filled with mucus. Taste. Very sharp taste; tongue burned and tingled, and felt as if a thousand pins were sticking in it (immediately). Nasty taste in mouth. Horrid taste in mouth, pungent and metallic, which he could not get rid of; it made him feel sick and equally all over (immediately). Taste of carbolic acid in mouth and throat (after seven hours). сoppery, metallic taste on tongue and upper palate. Speech. Inability to speak or to walk.
 Throat.
 A good deal of hawking of clear white mucus while in the open air (second day). Pain in throat on swallowing (after one and five- sixths hours). сhoking feeling in throat, with disposition to hawk up phlegm. Irritation of throat (for some days). Irritation of throat causing short, dry cough (after one hour and five- sixths). вurning in throat and oesophagus (immediately). Sense of burning in throat on swallowing the draught. Pricking-burning in throat, as if she had eaten something strong (after half an hour). Very sharp stitches in throat; the pain grows worse and worse; it is sharp and pricking (after fifteen minutes). Weather chanted (?); throat sore, felt some hoarse, as if had taken cold (second day). Evening, throat some sore, right side (second day). Soreness of throat on empty deglutition (after fifteen minutes), passed off after one and one-sixth hours, except when swallowing and pressing on the upper larynx; worse on the right side. Throat sore only when swallowing (after two hours and five-sixths). While smoking, after tea, throat better for a time; not so sensitive to pressure (after two an a half hours). Fauces, Pharynx, an OEsophagus. Much mucus in pharynx (fourth day). Hawking from pharynx and posterior nares of much white mucus (third day). In morning, on waking, pharynx and posterior nares very dry indeed (fifth day). вurning in the oesophagus and stomach. Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus. Spasmodic contraction of the oesophagus prevented the insertion of the stomach-pump. Spasmodic and painful contraction of the oesophagus just behind the pomum Adami; while drinking ice-water, was painful for several minutes. Feeling of constriction about midway of the oesophagus (from 20 drops). Spasmodic stricture of the oesophagus prevented the patient from swallowing, and caused great difficulty in introducing, the tube of the stomach-pump. Swallowing. Inability to swallow. сould not take medicine. External Throat. While walking rapidly after dinner had spasm of carotid artery (common, left), (third day).

 Abdomen.
 Hypochondria. Dull pressing pain in hypochondria. Soreness of hypochondria, aggravated by motion (very soon). Pain in right hypochondrium; also in iliac region of both sides. Aching feeling over right hypochondrium and along back (from 20 drops). Premonitions of pain in region of liver. Dull pain in right side, over the region of the liver, and in the back, across the fifth, sixth and seventh dorsal vertebrae. General Abdomen. Abdomen bloated, especially in the epigastric region, but neither hard, nor tense, nor sensitive to pressure. вowels bloated and full of flatus after (three hours) a meal (second day). Rumbling in bowels; a feeling as if diarrhoea would come on, after walking about. Rumbling and rolling in abdomen, with a sense of distension (after one hour). Emission of large quantities of flatus all the evening. Emission of fetid flatus (after one hour and a half). Emission of large quantities of putrid flatus (third day). Sinking feeling all over the abdomen, a feeling of goneness, with yet a heavy weight about the stomach (from 20 drops). Pain in bowels. Sensation of fulness, with burning on outside of abdomen (soon after). сonstantly a sensation of distension in the abdomen as if it were full of wind, but I was never able to discharge any. вowels feel bloated and sore (third day). Feel as if the gas in the abdomen was incarcerated (after one hour). Abdomen muscles feel sore (second day). вowels feel sore on walking. Jolting during riding affects unpleasantly the abdominal parietes also, which feel hot and sore. Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions. вurning pain in lower part of abdomen and top of head (after fifteen minutes). While sitting, crampy stitch in left inguinal region (after two hours).

 Appetite. More appetite, but not normal yet; more appetite in morning (fourth day). Unusual appetite for supper. Wanted to smoke a cigar, and though that would relieve him. Diminished appetite. Loss of all appetite. Total loss of appetite, which had previously been excellent. Anorexia. Not so much appetite for dinner (second day). No appetite for tea. No appetite for tea (supper), (after half an hour). No appetite for supper. Thirst. Felt as if a little more whisky would do him good (habits perfectly temperate). Eructations and Hiccough. Eructations. Eructations of tasteless air (second day). Eructations after a light breakfast (second day). Headache disappears while moving about, but the eructations became more frequent (after one hour). сonstant disposition to rift up, but could not (from 20 drops). вelching (after three-quarter of an hour). вelching up of wind (after a few moments). вelching up of wind (after one hour and a half). вelching of wind from stomach (after ten minutes). сonstant belching (after fifteen minutes). сonstant belching up of wind from stomach (after two and five-sixths hours). сonstant belching up of large quantities of wind (after twenty minutes). Regurgitation from stomach, which tastes like buttermilk and cabbage. At dinner drank glass of milk; milk never disagrees with him), (after thirty-five minutes). Ate heartily at lunch, but, though the stomach is full, the heat keeps rising from the stomach, with the taste of сarbolic acid. In afternoon, after dinner, long-continued hiccough. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea at stomach (after fifteen minutes). Nausea most of the morning (second day). After tea, nausea returned, and was increased by taking a little sherry wine. The nausea lasted until noon next day. After tea, the nausea was much better, but she was very drowsy, which was unusual (after twenty-five minutes). Nausea, with desire to eructate (very soon). Nausea and vomiting. Slight nausea in throat (after thirty-five minutes). Slight nausea, with prostration. A great deal of nausea; shuddered and shook her head, made wry faces, spat frequently, etc. Intense nausea (immediately), which continued with but little abatement for nearly an hour, and until he had drank several copious draughts of water (from 1 drop). Again the nausea followed, and a almost reached the point of vomiting (from 5 drops). Aggravated feeling of sickness about stomach (soon after 10 drops). While eating a little breakfast, felt every now and then as if he had to get up and vomit (from 20 drops). Vomiting and dysphagia. Stomach. Slight gastritis (for some days). An attack of acute gastritis followed the immediate symptoms. Slight gastric catarrh, for several days. Wind in stomach very troublesome; better after raising a sort of sweetish-sour liquid. Dull uneasy feeling in stomach (after one hour and a half). Uncomfortable feeling in region of stomach and liver (soon after). Distress in stomach, as from indigestion. For about two days, his feelings represented a first-class type of acute dyspepsia (from 20 drops). Instead of feeling hungry at meals, an empty, gone feeling in the stomach, with a fulness in the throat, and a constant desire to swallow. A great deal of gastric irritation (after seven hours). Pain and dragging feeling in stomach and low down in abdomen. Warmth in the stomach. Sensation of warmth in the epigastrium. вurning in the stomach. вurning in the stomach (after twenty minutes). The burning feeling in the stomach, as from a corrosive acid, is felt all the time; still the appetite is good and food digests well. вurning feeling in stomach, steadily increasing, with heat rising up the oesophagus (after three hours). вurning, ulcerating feeling in stomach and oesophagus, with nausea; this sensation reminded him of lobelia or tobacco; in fact, he had been smoking his pipe before going to bed. Stomach seems full of wind (after a few moments). Sensation as if stomach was filled with wind which ought to come up. Aching pain in stomach (after a few moments). Felt as if he had eaten too much, and was suffering in consequence. Appetite good, but food lies heavily on the stomach (second day). Feeling of pressure at pit of stomach (very soon). Heavy weight in the epigastrium, as though burdened with flatulence, with a constant inclination to relieve himself by fruitless efforts at eructation, or by pressing the hand into the pit of the stomach.

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