Mineral
Antimonium Tartaricum
Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash
Repertory abbreviation: Ant-t.
Has many symptomis n common with Antimonium Crudum, but also many peculiar to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatinent of respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little expectoration has been a guiding symptoin. There is much drozwsiness, debility and srueal charac- teristic of the drug, which group should always be more or less present, when the druig is prercribed. Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty subjects. Cholera morbus. Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels. Bil- harsiasis. Antimonium tart is homeopathic to dysuria strangur
Face
Cold, blue, pale; covered zvith cold sweat. Incessant quivcring of chin and lozwer jaze. [Gclsem.]
Throat
Rapid, short, difficult breathing: seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up. Coughing and gaping Cos'r utiveIy. Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus. Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx. Fdcma und inpcnding paralysis of lungs. Much pal- pitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling. Pulse rapid, weak, trembling. Dizziness, with cough. Dyspncea rc- Jieved by eructation. Cough and dyspnoea better lying on right side — (opposite Badiaga).
Stomach
Difficult deglutition of liquids. Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side. Nausea, retching, and Tomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and prostration. Thirst for cold water, litlle and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally. Nausea produces s fear; with pressure in precordial region, followed by headache with yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.
Abdomen
Spasmodic colic, much flatus. Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward. Cholera morbus Diarrhoea in eruptive diseases.
Urinary
Burning in urethra during and after uri- nating. Last drops bloody with pain in bladder. Urging increased. Catarrh of lladder and urethra. Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness. Great rattling of mmcus, but very little is cxpectorated. Velvety feeling in chiest. Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to
Back
I'iolet pain in sacro-lumbar region. Slight- est effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat. Sensatios of hcaz'y zwcight at the coccyx, drag- ing downward all the tinc. Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous.
Skin
Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish-red mark. Small-pox. Warts.
Sleep
Great drowsiness. On falling asleep electric- like shocks. Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.
Fever
Coldness, trembling, and chilliness. Intense heat. Copious perspiration. Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness. Intermittent fever with lethargic con- dition.
Modalities
Worse, in evening: from iying down at night; from warmth; in damp cold weather; from all sour things and milk. Better, from sitting erect; from eructation and expectoration.
Relationships
Antidotes: Puls.; Sepia. Compare: Kali sulph.: Ipecac.
Dose
Second and sixth trituration. The lower po- tency sometimes aggravates.