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Antimonium crudum

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  1. Additional facts
  2. Mental
  3. Head, face, and ears
  4. Mouth and throat
  5. Gastrointestinal tract
  6. Urogenital system
  7. Chest organs
  8. Analogs by action
  9. Included in the composition
  10. Manufacturers of the drug

Other names and synonyms

stibium sulphuratum nigrum.

Description Source

Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica - TF Allen

Additional facts

 ( Stibium . Sesquichloride of antimony, Sb2S3.
 (Native gray antimony ore).

Mental

 Mind.
 (Delirium and death, in consequence of an emetic of сroc.
 Metal).
 (* Not found, Hughes.
 Decided disposition to shoot himself in the night, not to any other kind of suicide; this forced him to leave his bed, otherwise he was unable to get rid of it.
 Continual condition of ideal love and ecstatic longing for some ideal female being, which wholly filled his fancy; more when walking in the open pure air than in the room; this symptom disappeared after a few days, the sexual desire apparently diminished at the time.
 Dejection of spirit during the day.
 He felt discouraged; this made his head feel warm in front.
 Attacks of anxiety.
 Anxious reflections about himself, his present and future fate, during the day.
 Anxiety in bed, at night, from 3 to 5 o’clock.
 Uneasy (second day).
 Irritated state of mind, feeling of grief, the whole forenoon; the sound of the bells, as well as the sight of that which surrounds him, moves him to tears; his breathing is short and heavy.
 Peevish; vexed without any cause (second day).
 Out of humor; sad in evening.
 Ill-humor the whole day.
 He is sulky; does not wish to speak with any one.
 He does not speak (second day).
 Dementia, 6 (same case as S. 17).
 Dementia, idiocy; she did not leave her bed, spoke nothing without being asked, desired neither to eat nor to drink, nevertheless ate with pleasure if anything was offered to her and she felt hungry; she declined eating when she did not feel hungry; at the same time she was all the time pulling her neck cloth, or she folded a handkerchief and then unfolded it again, or she pulled little feathers out of the bed and then gathered together; so obtuse was her sensibility that when, from the acrimony of the evacuations and her position of the back, a large and foul ulcer formed over the sacrum and coccyx, she complained of no pain from it.

Head, face, and ears

 Head.
 Vertigo.
 Weakness of the head.
 Violent headache.
 Violent headache after bathing in the river, with weakness in the limbs and repugnance to food.
 Headache, and subsequently a little bleeding at the nose (after seven and a half hours).
 Feeling of emptiness in the head, as after continual working in a cold room (fourth day).
 The rush of the blood to the head becomes less (curative effect).
 Violent tearing in the whole head, with heat in it, towards noon (sixth day).
 Tearing pain in the whole head, here and there, from morning till night.
 The tearing in the head becomes less when walking in the open air.
 Dull, stupefying pain in the whole head, with nausea in the pharynx, when smoking, to which he is accustomed.
 Heaviness in the forehead.
 Headache, as if her forehead would burst; at the same time, she felt intoxicated, sat alone, and would not speak. Not found. *) сontinual pain in the forehead and the temples, boring from within outwards, unchanged by touching the parts (after five hours).
 Slight dull headache in the forehead, and vertigo, increased by ascending stairs.
 Stupefying, dull headache, rather externally, in the forehead, so violent that sweat broke out from anxiety, when walking in the open air (after six hours).
 Pressure inwards, at times drawing, in the left side of the forehead.
 Momentary drawing pain over the left temporal bone; went off by pressure, and then returned much more violent, immediately after.
 Slow pulsation externally, at the left temple, with fine prickings, several times in succession, extending towards the eyebrows; this symptom is most severe when it is not especially noticed.
 Upon the left parietal bone there is a small spot which, when touched, causes pain in the bone as if the periosteum were swollen.
 Small, flat tubercles here and there upon the scalp, of the size of small peas, painful to pressure, and with a feeling of crawling all around.
 Single sharp stitches on the scalp (for one minute).
 Eyes.
 Red, inflamed eyes, with itching, and nightly agglutination.
 Redness of the left eye, with dread of light on rising early in the morning, and a secretion of mucus in the inner canthus.
 Inflammation of the eyes.
 Pain at the right eyebrow, within the skull, as if the parts were pressed asunder.
 Sharp pressive stitches below the left eyebrow.
 Reddened eyelids, with fine stitches in the eyeball.
 Twitching in the left eyelids.
 Gum in the canthi of the eyes, in the forenoon (after three hours and a half).
 Much mucus in the right canthus, early in the morning, with dry gum in both lids.
 Small moist place at the outer canthus, very painful upon sweat coming in contact with it.
 Itching in the external canthus of the eye, which obliges one to rub (after two hours).
 Fine stitches in frequent succession, without pain, in the forepart of the eyeball, in the forenoon (ninth day).
 Incurable blindness. Not found.
 Ears.
 Redness, burning, and swelling of the left ear, as from the bite of a mosquito.
 Swelling and redness of the whole of the internal concha with periodical itching.
 Itching stitches at the border of the right concha, above the helix, going off on being touched (after one hour and a half).
 In the evening something seemed to block up the right ear.
 Drawing pain through the right ear into the Eustachian tube, almost reaching the mouth, after dinner (sixteenth day).
 Stitches in the ears.
 Crawling in the right meatus auditorius (second day).
 Sensation of burrowing or swarming (of animals) in the ears, especially when lying still (fifth day).
 Violent din in the ears, as if some one were beating against the door of the house.
 Smashing in the ear, as of a few drops of water, when moving the jaws.
 Ringing before the ears (second day).
 Continual roaring in the ears, especially during stillness (second day).
 Roaring in the ears, most in the afternoon.
 An old roaring in the ears disappeared (curative effect).
 Painful roaring in the ears, (preceding S.68).
 Loss of hearing.
 (After violent vomiting, left ear soon recovered, but right remained permanently deaf; reporter ascribes it to rupture of membrana tympani).
 A kind of deafness of the right ear, as if a leaflet were placed before the tympanum; this symptom cannot be removed by boring with the finger in the ear (after fourteen hours).
 Nose.
 Both nostrils become chapped and covered with crusts.
 The left nostril becomes chapped and painful.
 Obstruction of the nose in the evening, as in coryza, for several days.
 Coryza.
 Coryza, with sore, crusty nostrils.
 Fluent coryza early in the morning, for some hours, with sneezing.
 Dry coryza.
 Fluent coryza.
 Blowing out blood.
 Bleeding at the nose, several days in succession.
 Bleeding at the nose every evening.
 Dryness of the nose when walking in the open air, so that he can hardly speak.
 The nose is painful when breathing, as if from inspiring cold air, or from inhaling acrid vapors.
 Sore nostrils, with drawing pain.
 Feeling of soreness in the nostrils when inspiring air, especially in the right nostril, which is a little obstructed.
 Soreness of the right nostril in the anterior angle, with pain as in a cold.
 Face.
 Slight twitches in the muscles of the left side of the face (after nine hours).
 Cracks in the corners of the mouth, painful like sores, returning after five, eight, and twelve weeks.
 Twitches of the muscles at the corners of the mouth.
 The lips are dry.
 Formication upon the upper lip (nineteenth and twenty-fourth days).
 Burning, stinging, as from a red-hot little spark on the chin and the upper lip (seventh and ninth day).
 Sensation at, and below the chin, when touching it, as if the hand were moved over many small sore places, and small, honey-colored granules upon the skin here and there.

Mouth and throat

 Waking from the siesta with and by dull grinding of the teeth (second day).
 Severe bleeding of the teeth.
 Twinging toothache, in the evening when in bed, and after dinner.
 Stitches in the tooth when inspiring air.
 Toothache in a hollow tooth, worse at night than in daytime; a fine stinging, pulling, and grinding, as if in the nerve, which moves downwards and then upwards into the head; if he touches the tooth with the tongue, he feels pain, as if the nerve were torn.
 The nightly toothache is accompanied by great warmth, which seems to come from the chest.
 The toothache is renewed immediately after eating even soft things, is worse by applying cold water, and is relieved in the open air.
 The gums stand off from the teeth, and bleed easily.
 Dryness of the mouth, at night (sixth day).
 Rawness of the palate, with expectoration of much mucus, when clearing the throat (after fifth week).
 Blisters upon the tongue.
 Tongue coated white in the forenoon (after two hours).
 Accumulation of water upon the tongue.
 After dinner some fine, sharp stitches in the tongue, in front on the left border, following in succession (after thirty- three hours).
 Feeling of soreness, and redness at a small place on the right border of the tongue for several days, frequently going off and suddenly returning (sixth day).
 Accumulation of water in the mouth. Much saltish saliva in the mouth.
 Profuse ptyalism from nose and mouth, (same as S.383).
 Ptyalism, without any fetid odor, and without looseness of the teeth.
 (* Not mentioned by James in his treatise on the fever powders. The mouth smells as in ptyalism from mercury.
 Fine pinching on the palate the whole night, especially painful during deglutition; early in the morning the symptom disappeared only after hawking up the phlegm, which had collected on the sides of the palate during the night, except a feeling of roughness which remained.
 Throat.
 Much viscid phlegm collects in the throat the whole day.
 He is obliged the whole day to draw a quantity of thick yellowish mucus from the posterior nares into the throat, and expectorate it (ninth day).
 Clearing the throat and hawking when walking in the open air.
 A foreign body seems to hang in the throat; he tries in vain to swallow or expel it.
 Early in the morning, roughness and dryness in the throat (sixth day).
 Sore throat on the left side, as from a swelling or a plug.
 Sensation as of scraping on the velum palati, as if much phlegm were upon it, which could only be expelled after clearing the throat for a long time; often it was not expelled at all, for several days (seventh day).
 Impeded deglutition.

Gastrointestinal tract

 Strong sense of hunger in the region of the stomach, early on waking, without appetite; eating does not remove the symptom; at the same time disagreeable sense of emptiness in the pit of the stomach, and want of animal heat, for two days (after fourth week).
 Want of appetite.
 Complete loss of appetite.
 Appetite extremely little.
 Immense thirst.
 Thirst in the evening, and desire to drink.
 Much thirst at night (after sixth day).
 Drinks much only at night.
 Violent thirst, with dryness of the lips.
 Goat’s milk refreshes him agreeably.
 Loud eructations (after one-quarter of an hour and one hour and a half).
 Eructations having a raw taste.
 Bitter eructations like bile (after three hours).
 Gulping up of fluid, tasting of the ingesta, in the afternoon (second and third days).
 Hiccough (after one hour).
 Frequent hiccough when smoking tobacco (after ten hours and a half).
 Violent nausea.
 Nausea after drinking a glass of wine.
 Nausea, with vertigo.
 Nausea and vomiting.
 Terrible vomiting, which nothing can stop.
 Vomiting of mucus and bile.
 Violent vomiting, with attacks of anxiety.
 Fearful vomiting, with convulsions.
 Violent vomiting and diarrhoea.
 Violent vomiting and diarrhoea, with excessive anguish.
 Fullness and inflation after dinner; often alternates with lightness, cheerfulness, and activity of both mind and body.
 Pain at the stomach, as from excessive fullness, without, however, any fullness, and accompanied by appetite.
 Pain at the stomach, as after too much eating, with distended but not hard abdomen (after three days).
 Cramp of the stomach.
 Cramplike pains at the stomach.
 Cramp of the stomach, in several persons, during the whole of their lives.
 Transient pinching in the region of the stomach.
 Feeling of tightness below the stomach, with empty eructations.
 Pressure at the stomach, which is more like a dull cutting, especially when drawing in the abdomen.
 Pressure at the stomach early in the morning, with thirst (twentieth day).
 Several attacks of cutting pain in the region of the stomach.
 Painful feeling in the stomach, when pressing upon it.
 Burning at the pit of the of the stomach, like heartburn, with good appetite.
 Burning, spasmodic pain, at the pit of the stomach, in attacks of half an hour, which drove him to despair and to the resolution of drowning himself.
 Pinching pains on the right side, over and by the side of the pit of the stomach.
 Abdomen.
 Slight tension in the hypochondria.
 Pinching pain on the left side of the navel.
 Distended, big abdomen.
 Abdomen very much distended; this causes a pain as from internal pressure.
 Great inflation of the abdomen, especially after a meal.
 (Hernia). Hernia ventriculi, after violent vomiting. Loud rumblings in the abdomen (after one hour and a half).
 Slight rumbling in the abdomen, as when bubbles of air arise in the water.
 Loud rumbling in the abdomen, as from emptiness, in the forenoon (after three hours).
 Much rumbling flatus, bursting forth immediately after a meal; some smells badly; some before it passes moves downwards and meets other flatus, especially in the right side (ninth day).
 Inconsiderable flatus passed off, with a sensation as of pressing asunder, as if a copious expulsion of faeces would take place (after five hours and a half).
 Much flatus immediately after dinner; it moves about audibly, especially in the right side of the abdomen, some being expelled (after six hours).
 Sensation of emptiness in the intestines, going off after a meal.
 Sensation in the intestines as after a violent diarrhoea; the symptom is transitory but exhausting.
 The most intolerable pain in every part of the abdomen.
 Pinching at a small place on the left side of the abdomen, low down, like the beat of the pulse, in the afternoon (third day).
 Pinching in the abdomen, especially on the right side, towards the back, beginning suddenly in the evening, and increased by motion (after three weeks).
 Violent cutting in the abdomen (twenty-second day).
 Cutting in the abdomen, with a feeling of nausea there, and accumulation on the tongue.
 Cutting in the abdomen the whole day, with a feeling of oppression coming from the stomach, indisposition to work, dry humor, and pain at the stomach on eructations.
 Sudden, compressive colic, with gulping up of water.
 The symptoms in the abdomen recommence again, all of them (after two weeks and a half).
 Hard gland in the left groin painful to pressure; the gland appears to lie over Poupart’s ligament, and to run parallel to.
 It.
 Pain as from swelling in the cartilage, or the periosteum, of the upper portion of the crest of the ilium.
 Pain in the groins, as from swelling, felt on pressure; the place felt hard, as from swollen glands.
 Anus and Stool.
 The varices of the rectum protruded more than usual (eleventh day).
 Protrusion of the rectum during stool, for some time.
 Discharge of mucus from the rectum, with emission of flatulence.
 Expulsion of black blood by the rectum.
 Continual discharge of blood and solid portions of the intestines by the rectum. Not found. Pain in the rectum during stool: feeling of soreness; as if an ulcer had been torn open.
 Frequent tenesmus, although little urine is passed (after five days).
 Sharp itching in the rectum (seventh day).
 Burning, itching, and smarting in the anus at night (after three days).
 Drawing pain in the anus.
 Crawling and burning of the haemorrhoids, in the evening when in bed till falling asleep (after eleven days and after five weeks).
 Itching of the anus.
 Severe, urgent desire for stool after dinner, and quick expulsion of ordinary faeces, with straining (four days).
 Disposition to diarrhoea, which, however, does not take place.
 Diarrhoea at night and early in the morning; every time, however, only one evacuation.
 Pappy, frequent stool (after one hour and a half).
 Very difficult, hard stool.
 Difficult expulsion of hard stool, without previous straining (after eleven hours).
 Difficult evacuation of hard stools, with previous pressing in the rectum, two minutes (after twelve hours).
 The stools, which had previously been very consistent, now become very thin.
 Very thin stools after taking vinegar, with pain in the rectum during stool.
 Very liquid stools.
 Hard stool early in the morning.
 Hard stool in the evening, with violent pressing in the rectum, and cutting in the abdomen.
 Stool, first natural, then several small, loose evacuations, then as small but hard evacuations, with violent straining in the rectum and anus until all are passed.
 Constipation for three days.

Urogenital system

 Tenesmus of the bladder rouses him from sleep at night.
 Sensation of painful contraction at the bottom of the canal (neck of the bladder).
 Burning in the urethra.
 Constant urging to urinate, with extreme dysuria.
 Desire to urinate, frequent and violent; expelling much urine every time (after one, two hours and a half).
 Expels the urine but rarely.
 Frequent micturition.
 Long continuing, frequent micturition, little urine being expelled in great haste (eighteenth day).
 Frequent urination, with intense burning in urethra during emission.
 Frequent micturition, with discharge of a small quantity of watery urine (fourth day).
 Copious micturition at night, three times.
 Copious and frequent micturition (in a dog).
 At night he passes a small quantity of urine, in an intermitting stream, with painful erections.
 Gold-yellow, thin urine, with a scarcely perceptible cloud.
 Brown-red urine.
 Dark-colored, frequent urine (after seven hours).
 Small, red corpuscles in the urine after having stood twenty four hours.
 Sexual Organs.
 Erections (after six hours).
 Burning at the glans penis.
 Fine itchings of the penis (after fourteen hours).
 Violent itching of the extremity of the glans.
 Biting-itching, as from salt, of the left side of the scrotum, frequent, lasting fourteen days (after fourteen days).
 Continual drawing in the spermatic cord, while there was a boil at the perineum; the pain was most violent when standing, and became less when stooping.
 Excited sexual desire, with uneasiness in the whole body, which prevents him from sitting long (after six hours).
 Afterwards the sexual desire appears to be less for several days.
 Even upon leaning the back against something, there is an irritation, as if pollution would come on.
 Nightly pollutions, without any voluptuous dreams.
 Pollution at night, with many dreams (eleventh day).
 Pressure in the womb, as if something would come out.
 Discharge of an acrid water from the vagina, which caused a sensation as of biting down along the thighs.

Chest organs

 Violent spasms in the larynx and the pharynx, as if the throat were filled with a plug, which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness.
 Rough voice.
 Speech and singing are not firm, but weak.
 Extreme feebleness of voice; he can only speak in a low tone.
 Loss of voice as often as he became hot; the voice came back by resting himself.
 Cough, early in the morning after rising, in paroxysms; it seems to come out of the abdomen; the first attack is always the most violent; the following become weaker and weaker, so that the last attack resembles a mere hacking cough.
 Frequent, dry cough.
 Severe, dry cough, with a sense as of scratching in the larynx, in a sudden short attack.
 Cough, with discharge of viscid, thin phlegm, deep out of the chest, early in the morning.
 Deep sighing, breathing, as from fullness of the chest, for several days, in the afternoon and after eating.
 Dyspnoea.
 Difficulty of breathing during supper.
 Difficulty of breathing after supper.
 Asthma.
 Very troublesome asthma.
 Suffocating asthma in four young men. Suffocating catarrh).
 (* сoming on fifteen days after amputation of foot (S.
 351, 352), and ending in death; see next symptom. Death produced by suffocating catarrh in fifteen days, occasioned by a few grains of antimony.
 Chest.
 Burning in the chest at every cough, as of fire, with a glowing, hot breath from the mouth.
 Burning in the chest, with dry cough, and dyspnoea almost to suffocation.
 (* Not found. Oppression on the chest.
 Oppression at the chest, early on waking.
 Half pressive, half sticking pain under the left clavicle, apparently in the air-passages, when breathing.
 Pain as from contusion, or as from too great an effort, in the pectoralis major muscle, early in the morning when rising, and a few hours after, when extending and lifting the arm, or when pressing upon it.
 Dull stitches in the chest, when breathing deeply, first on the right side under the two first ribs, then under the upper part of the sternum.
 Stitches, with constrictive pinching in the middle of the chest (third day).
 Severe, continual itching upon the chest the whole day.
 Itching upon the chest, as if a blister were healing.
 He was frequently roused from sleep by an intolerable itching upon the chest, where he felt pimples.
 Stitches in the left side of the chest when breathing, with a little cough and headache.
 Sharp stitches in the left chest, when expiring in a standing position (after five hours).
 Pressive pain in the interior of the right chest, in the evening when lying down.

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