Animal
Carbo Animalis
Animal Charcoal
Repertory abbreviation: Carb-an.
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. 195 Weakness of nursing women. Ulceration and decom- position. Causes local con?tions without lieat.
Mind
Desire to be alone, sad and refective, az'oids convcrsation. Anxiety at night. with orgasm of blood.
Head
Headache, as if hiead had been blow to pieces. Rush of blood with confusion Sensation as if something lay above eyes so that she could not look up. Bluish cheeks and lips. Vertigo followed by nose- bleed. Nose swollen, tip bluish — small tumor cn it. Hearing confused; cannot tell dircction of sounti
Stomach
Eating tires patient. Weak, empty feel- ing in stomach. Burning and griping. Weak digcslion. Flatulence. Ptomaine poisoning. Repugnance to fat food. Sour water from mouth. Pyrosis.
Abdomen
Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus. Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdcmenl. Ailments accompanying intestinal fistula. Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind. Flatulent colic. Pain in liver. Rectum and Stool. Flatus hot. moist, offensive. Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum. Acrid, cor- rosivc moisture from rectum. A musty, glutinous moisture exudes. S Soreness, itching and moisture of perineum at night. Discharge of blood from rectum. Burning at anus, burning varices. [MIur. ac.] Painful diarrhcea of old people. Frequent, involuntary ca- daverous-sinelling stools, followed by burning. White haemorrhoids; excoriation of anus. Bluish, burning piles, pain after stool.
Male
Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool. Itch- ing and moisture at thigh near scrotum.
Female
Nausea of1 pregnancy; worse at night. Lochia offensive. [Kreos.: Rhns; Srcule.] Menses followed by grcut crhaustion, so weak, can hardly speak. [Cocc.], flow only in morning. [Bor.; Sep.] Burning in vagina and Jabia. Darting in breast; pain- ful'indurations in breast, especially right. Cancer of uterus, burning pain down thighs. Premature and too copious menses; pale blood. Vulva swollen; aphitha; varices on pudenda. Leucorrhoea before menses, thick, greenish, milky, ex- coriating. [Krcos.] During menstruation, burning in hands and soles. 199
Respiratory
Pleurisy, typhoid character, and re- maining stitch. Ulceration of lung, with feeling of coldness of chest. Cough, with discharge of greenish pus. Cough with itching in larynx; spas- modic with gagging and vomiting of mucus. Whoop- ing cough, especially in beginning. Deep, rough voice, failing on slight exertion. Hoarseness; worse, eve- nings, talking; evening oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest. Wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest. Occasional spells of long coughing attacks. Cough, with burning in chest; worse in evening, in open air, after eating and talking. Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive expectoration, neglected pneumonia. Breath cold; must bc fanned. F Hxemorrhage from lungs. Asthma in aged zeith blue skin.
Extremities
Pain in coccyx; burns when touched. Ankles turn easily. Straining and over-lifting produce from flatulence. Nausea in the morning. Burning in stomach, extending to back and along spine. ( Contrac- tive pain cxlcnding to chest, with distention of ab- domen. Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating. Crampy pains s forcing patient to bend double. Distress comes on a half-hour after eating. Sensitiveness of epigastric region. Digestion slow; food putrcfies before it digests. Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence, sour, rancid belch- ing. Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things. The simplcst food distresses. Epigastric region very sen- sitive. Heavy, stiff ; feel paralyzed ; limbs, go to sleep; want of muscular energy; joints weak. Pain in shins.( Cramp in soles: feet numb and sweaty. Cold from rces down. Toes red, swollen.
Skin
Spongy ulcers, . copper-colored eruption. Acne rosacea. Chilblains, 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, axillx, groin, mamma; pains lancinating, cutting, burning. [Con.; Merc. iod. flav.] Blue, cold, ecchymcsed. Itching; worse in evening, when warm in bed. Moist skin; hot perspira- tion; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily. Falling out of hair, from a general weak- ened condition. Indolent ulcers, burning pain. 1 Ichor- ous, offensive discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins. Purpura. V'aricose ulcers, carbuncles. [Ars.; Anthrac.]
Fever
Coldness, with thirst. Chill begins in fore- arim. Burning in various places. Perspiration on eat- ing. Hectic fever, exhausting sweats.
Modalities
Worse, evening; from fat food, butter, coffee, milk, warm damp weather; wine. Better, from eructation, from fanning, cold.
Relationships
Antidotes: Spirits Nitre; Camph.: Ambra: Arsenic. Compare: Lycop.: Ars.: China. Complermentary: Kali carb.; Dros.
Dose
First to third trituration in stomach dis- orders. Thirtieth potency and higher in chronic con- ditions, and in collapse.