Materia Medica

Lithium Carbonicum

Carbonate of Lithium

Chronic rheumatism connected with heart lesions and asthenopia offer a field for this remedy. Rheumatic nodes.

Head

Tension, as if bound; better, sitting and go- ing out. Externally sensitive. Headache ceises wlule eating. Trembling and throbbing. Pain in heart; ex- tends to head. Inspired air feels cold.

Eyes

Half vision; invisible right half. Photophobia. Pain over eyes. Dry lids.

Stomach

Acidity, nausea, gnarwing, rclicvcd by cat- ing. [Anacard.] Cannot endure slightest pressure of clothes. [Laches.] Urine.-- Tenesmus. Iurhid urine, with mucus and red deposit. Pain in region of right kidney. Free and colorless. While urinating. pressure in heart. Cystitis, subacute and chronic. 463

Respiratory

Constriction of chest. Violent cough when lying down. Air feels cold when inspired. Pain in mammary glands, ohich crtcnd into the arms and fingers.

Heart

Rheumatic soreness in cardiac region. Sudden shock in heart. Throbbing. dull stitch in car- diac region. Pains in heart before menses, and asso- ciated with 1 pains in bladder, and before and after urinating. Trembling and fluttering in heart, extending to hack.

Extremities

Paralytic stiffness al! over. Itching about joints. Rheumatic pains throughout shoulder- joint, arm, and fingers. Pain in hollow of foot, extend- ing to knee. Swelling and tenderness of finger and toe joints; better, hot water. Nodular swellings in joints. Ankles pain when walking.

Skin

Scabby, tettery eruption on hands, head, and rheeks, preceded by red raw skin. Dull stitch, ending m itching.

Modalities

Worse, in morning, right side. Better, rising and moving about.

Relationships

Compare : Lyc.; Ammon. phos.; Bens. ac.; Calc.; Lithium chlor. (symptoms of cinchonism, viz.: Diss head, full, blurring of vision. F Ringing in ears; marked tremors; geneial weakness; marked mus- cular and general prostration; no gastro-intestinal ef- fects. Nose sore, heartburn, pain in teeth). Lithium lacticuin (rheumatism of shoulder, and small joints re- lieved by moving about; worse, resting). Lithium ben- coicum (deep-seated pains in loins: in small of back; uneasiness in bladder, frequent desire. Diminishing uric acid deposit).

Dose

First to third trituration.