Mineral
Antimonium Crudum
Black Sulphide of Antimony
Repertory abbreviation: Ant-c.
For homceopathic employment, the mental symptoms, and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is notice- able. Gout with gastric symptoms.
Mind
Much concerned about his fat. Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfac- tion. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vexed without cause.( Child cannot bear to bc touched or lookcd at. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood.
Head
Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordcrcd stomach, especially from eat- ing candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed erup- tions. Heaviness in forehead, with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair.
Eyes
Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutin- ated. Canthi raze and fissurrd. Chronic blcphiaritis. Pustules on cornea and lids.
Ears
Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear.
Nose
Nostrils chaptcd and covered with crusts. Lcsema of nostrils, sore. ciackcd and scurfy.
Face
Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Ycllov crustcd eruption on clucks and chin. Sallow and haggard.
Mouth
Cracks in corners of mouth. Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick zehitc, as if whitervashicd. Gums detach from teeth: bleed easily. Toothache in nollow teeth. Raw- ness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus. Cakcr sorrs. Pappy taste. Sub-acute eczema about
Throat
Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares Hawking in open air.
Stomach
Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, picklcs. Thirst in evening and night. Eruciation fast- ing of hic ingesta. Heartburn, nausea, vomiting. After nursing. the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather. Constunt belching. Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash. Bloating after eating.
Stool
Anal itching. ISulpho-Calc. Alum.] Diar- rhoea alternates verith constipution, especially in old peo- ple. Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, overeat- ing; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous piles, continued oosing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery dis- charge. Catarrhal proctitis. Stools composed entirely of mucus. Urine. -- Frequent, with burning, and backache; fur- bid and foul odor.
Male
Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Im- potence. Atrophy of penis and testicles.
Female
Excited ; paris itch. Before menses, tooth- ache; menses too early and profuse. Menses sup- pressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region. Leucorrhoea watery ; acrid, lumpy.
Respiratory
Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation ir chiest. itching of chest, op- pression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. Voice harsh and badly pitchied.
Back
Itching and pain of neck and back.
Extremities
Twitching of muscles. Jerks in arms. Arthrilic pain in fngcrs. Nails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny warts on hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence. Feet ery tender; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns.
Skin
Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria: measle-like eruption. Itching when in bed. Dry skin. Warts. [Thuja; Sa- warm bina; Caust.] Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.
Sleep
Continual drowsiness in old people.
Fever
Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with digust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhoea. Hot sweat.
Modalities
W'orse in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices. Better in open air, during rest.
Relationships
Compare: Antimonium Chloridum. Butter of Antimony. (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose — Third trituration.) .Jntimon. jodut. (Uterine hyperplasia ; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis: loss of strength and appetite, yeilowish skin.) I'uls.; Ipcc.; Sulph. Complementary : Sulph. Antidote: Hepar.
Dose
Third to sixth potency.