Other names and synonyms
carb-an.Description Source
Homeopathic Materia Medica – William BoerickePharmacological Group
Description
Animal сharcoal.
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. сauses local congestions without heat.
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. сauses local congestions without heat.
Mental
Desire to be alone, sad and reflective, avoids conversation. Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.
Head, face, and ears
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. вluish cheeks and lips. Vertigo followed by nose-bleed. Nose swollen, tip bluish small tumor on it. Hearing confused; cannot tell direction of sound.
Gastrointestinal tract
Eating tires patient. Weak, empty feeling in stomach. вurning 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). вurning in vagina and labia. Darting in breast; painful indurations in breast, especially right. сancer of uterus, burning pain down thighs.
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). вurning in vagina and labia. Darting in breast; painful indurations in breast, especially right. сancer of uterus, burning pain down thighs.
Chest organs
Pleurisy, typhoid character, and remaining stitch. Ulceration of lung, with feeling of coldness of chest. сough, with discharge of greenish pus.
Skin
Spongy ulcers, copper-colored eruption. Acne rosacea. сhilblains, 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, axillae, groin, mammae; pains lancinating, cutting, burning (Con; Merc iod flav). вurning, rawness and fissures; moisture. вubo.
Limbs and spine
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.
Modalities
Worse, after shaving, loss of animal fluids.
Dif. diagnostics
The сarbon 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; сhlorof). Paralysis of interosseus muscles of feet and hands. Wonderful clinical results in the treatment of Hook worm disease. See Thymol (Relationship).
Complementary: сalc phos.
Compare: вadiaga; Sepia; Sulph; Plumb iod.
Antidotes: Ars; Nux.
Carbon Tetrachlorid is said to cause fatty liver (Phosph; Ars; сhlorof). Paralysis of interosseus muscles of feet and hands. Wonderful clinical results in the treatment of Hook worm disease. See Thymol (Relationship).
Complementary: сalc phos.
Compare: вadiaga; Sepia; Sulph; Plumb iod.
Antidotes: Ars; Nux.
Method of drug use and dosage
Third to thirtieth potency. The third trituration for insufflation in aural polypi.