Antimonium Tartaricum
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General EN
Antimonium Tartaricum.
Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash 2[K (Sb O) C4 H4 O6] H2O. Trituration and solutions.
Clinical EN
Alcoholism. Aphthae. Asphyxia neonatorium. Asthma. Bilious affections. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Chicken-pox. Cholera. Cholera morbus. Coccygodynia. Cough. Group. Delirium-Tremens. Dyspepsia. Ecthyma. Eyes, inflamed. Impetigo. Intermittent fever. Laryngitis. Lumbago. Lungs, affections of. Myalgia. Paralysis agitans. Plica-polonica. Pneumonia. Psoriasis. Rheumatism. Ringworm. Screaming. Small-pox. Stiff-neck. Sycosis. Synovitis. Taste, altered. Thirst. Tongue, coated. Tremors. Varioloid. Vomiting. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics EN
Antim. tart. resembles closely Antim. crud. and the other Antimonies in its action, though the modalities differ. Antim. tart. was the favourite emetic of olden times, and consequently it is one of our best remedies in states of nausea. The nausea is as intense as that of Ipec., but less persistent, and is > by vomiting. Nash has found it the nearest thing to a specific in cholera morbus, the indications being "nausea, vomiting, loose stools, prostration, cold sweat, stupor, or drowsiness." In chest affections of all kinds it is indicated where there is great accumulation of mucus with coarse rattling and inability to raise it.
Drowsiness and even coma may accompany cases of all kinds in which Ant. t. is called for. The face is pale or cyanotic and the breathing stertorous. There is heat about heart and warmth rising up from it. A sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels.
A correspondent of the Chemist and Druggist (May 21, 1892) related the case of an apprentice who had been employed for a week making up "cough-balls" and diuretic balls for horses, both containing powdered antimony. He had been cautioned not to inhale the powder, but his employer believes he did. At the end of the week he was seized with an illness, due, his employer thinks, and no doubt correctly, to the antimony. The symptoms are very characteristic.
First, there was nausea, lassitude, and a desire for sleep. He was sent to bed, and during the night his fellow apprentice said he got up and struggled to relieve himself of an imaginary load on the chest. On being put to bed again, a profuse perspiration broke out, and also a peculiar rash on his face and chest; after that he vomited freely and felt better. Temperature 104, pulse 120.
A fever-mixture of liq. ammon. acet. and Sp. aether. nit. was given. A doctor who was called in found undoubted symptoms of pneumonia of left lung, but confessed he had never seen the rash before and would not venture an opinion regarding it. For two days the temperature kept at 104, then both temperature and the pulse became normal, the rash disappeared, and with it the pneumonic cough; in six days the boy was perfectly well. "A child coughs when angry" is characteristic.
Heath cured a case of whooping-cough in a child who was very fretful before the cough. The mother said that if the child got angry she immediately had a fit of coughing. "Cough at 4 a.m." is another indication which I have found true. Further leading indications for this remedy are: attacks of fainting, internal trembling.
It causes relaxation of sphincters and muscles, with nausea or without. Os uteri dry, tender, undilatable, with distress, moaning, and restlessness with every pain (Aco.), feeling of sickness. Convulsive twitching. Convulsions.
Great heaviness in all the limbs and great debility. Rheumatic pains (fever), with perspiration, which does not relieve. Inflammation of internal organs. Gastric and bilious complaints.
Constant nausea—nausea felt in chest (Puls.). Sensation of weight or heaviness in many parts; head, occiput, coccyx, limbs. Pulsations in all the blood-vessels. The child wants to be carried and cries if any one touches it.
Peevishness, whining, and crying. Inquietude, apprehension, agitation. Dulness and bewilderment of head as if benumbed. Chronic trembling of head; of head and hands (as in paralysis agitans).
The tongue has a thick, white, pasty coat with red papillae showing through. Intense nausea and vomiting with great effort; with perspiration on forehead. Fulness and sensation of stones in abdomen especially when sitting bent forward. The skin is notably affected.
The typical eruption is like that of small-pox, the symptoms of which disease are so closely reproduced in the proving that it has been used instead of vaccine for inoculation purposes, and prophylactic power has been claimed for it. (Compare Variolinum.) The terrible backache of small-pox is paralleled by the back-pains of Ant. t., which I have found to correspond to more cases of lumbago than any other remedy. Ant. t. is also a "sycotic," and I have verified a symptom given in Hering, "warts at the back of the glans penis." Antim. tart. has < by warmth, but not the excessive sensitiveness to heat and sun of Ant. c., and some of the rheumatic symptoms are > by warmth.
Warm drink < cough, also lying in bed, especially becoming warm there. There is also < from cold and damp, but not the ill effects of cold washing found in Ant. crud. Also cold washing > the rheumatic toothache of Ant. t. Both have < from touch and even from being looked at.
Ant. t. has < on sitting down; when seated; and on rising from a seat; < sitting bent forward; > sitting erect. < Lying on side affected.
< Motion, on every effort to move. A characteristic of Ant. t. in lung affections is "lies with head back." There is not the > from rest which is apparent in many symptoms of Ant. c. The Ant. t. headache is < by rest; also earache and respiration. < At night is more marked with Ant. t. than Ant. c.
Cough is < 4 a.m. > from eructations.
Relations EN
Compare: Acon. (croup); Aethus. c. and Ipec. (expression of nausea);
Am. c.; Arsen. (asthma, heart symptoms, gastric catarrh); Bry.
(pneumonia < l., Ant. t. < r.,-chest and brain symptoms after retrocession of eruption—Bry., measles and scarlatina; Ant. t. small-pox). Laches.
(dyspnoea on waking); Lyc (catarrh of chest, flapping of nostrils Ant. t. has nostrils dilated); Verat.
(colic, vomiting, coldness, craving for acids—Ant. t. has more jerks, drowsiness, urging to urinate; Ver. more cold sweat and fainting); Op. (cough with drowsiness and yawning);
Sang. c. (pneumonia, face livid); Ipec. (Ant. t. has more drowsiness and tendency of lungs to collapse);
Thuja (effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and Silic is not indicated. Ant. t. develops small-pox pustule; Thuja dries it up). Compatible: Phos. in hydrocephaloid, worn-out constitutions, laryngitis, pneumonia.
Follows well: Silic. in dyspnoea from foreign substances in larynx; Puls. (nausea in chest, gonorrhoeal suppressions); Tereb.
(symptoms from damp cellars); Variolinum. Antidoted by: Asaf., Chi., Coccul., Con. (pustules on genitals), Ipec., Lauro., Op.
(Opium in large doses is the best antidote in poisoning), Puls., Sep. It antidotes: Baryt. c., Bry. (dyspepsia), Camph., Caust. (dyspepsia), Puls.
Ant. t. differs from Mercury in producing a purely local action on the mouth similar to its action on the skin. The action of Merc. on the mouth is indirect.
Causation EN
Effects of anger (cough) or vexation.
Mind EN
During the day hilarity, in the evening anxious and timid
Inquietude and agitation, with palpitation of the heart, and trembling
Anxious apprehension respecting the future (in the evening)
Pitiful whining before and during the attack
Bad humour
Excessively peevish and quarrelsome
Child will not allow itself to be touched
Discouragement and despair
Lethargy
Suicidal mania
Wild gaiety (by day only)
Consequences of anger and vexation.
Head EN
Dulness, confusion, and bewilderment in the head, which is, as it were, benumbed, with inclination to sleep
Fits of vertigo with sparkling before the eyes, and dizziness when walking
Dulness of all the senses
Headache, with palpitation of the heart, and vertigo
Heaviness of the head, esp. in the occiput
Semi-lateral headache
Pressive pains in the head, with compressive tension, as if the brain were contracted into one hard mass, often with dizziness, extending into the root of the nose, sometimes in the evening, and at night; with stupefaction and lethargy; better when exercising and washing the head
Pulsation in the right side of the forehead; worse in the evening, when sitting stooped, and from heat; better from sitting erect, and in the cold air
Drawing, tearing, and digging in the head
Stitches in the head
Lancinating pains in the head, sometimes extending into the eyes, with necessity to shut them
Boring in the forehead
Semi-lateral throbbing in the forehead
Chronic trembling of the head
Trembling with the head, esp. when coughing, with an internal sensation of trembling, chattering of the teeth, and an irresistible somnolency; worse in the evening, and from heat
Trembling with the head and hands, with great debility; worse when lying and getting warm in bed, better when sitting up erect and in the cold
Neck stretched out, head bent back.
Eyes EN
Eyes fatigued, requiring sleep, and to be firmly closed
Pain, as of a bruise in the eyeball, on touching it
Aching of the eyes
Shootings, burning sensation, and smarting in the internal canthi, with redness of the conjunctiva
Eyes confused, swimming in tears; sunken, surrounded by dark circles
In pneumonia when the edges of the lids are covered with mucus
Rheumatic ophthalmia or from gonorrhoea
Incipient amaurosis
Confused sight, with sparkling before the eyes, especially on rising from a seat.
Ears EN
Humming in the ears.
Nose EN
Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, ulcerated nostrils, shivering, loss of smell, and of taste
Uncontrollable epistaxis with spongy gums
Nose dry
Nose pointed
Nostrils widely dilated
Nostrils black; alae flapping.
Face EN
Face pale and wan, or red and bloated, with anxious expression
Face pale, sunken
Dull, drawing pressure, in the zygomatic process
Convulsive jerking of the muscles of the face
Parched lips, with desquamation
Eruption round mouth
Cracked lips.
Teeth EN
Odontalgia, with very violent pain in the morning
Rheumatic toothache of intermittent type
Scurvy.
Mouth EN
Copious accumulation of saliva in the mouth
Tongue moist, clean, or loaded with a brown coating
Tongue: red, dry in middle; red in streaks, thick, white, pasty coat; thick white fur
Aphonia.
Appetite EN
Fatty taste in the mouth
Insipidity of food
Salt taste in the mouth
Bitter taste in the mouth
Thirst for cold water
Moderate appetite with burning thirst
Good appetite, with speedy disgust, on partaking of any food
Bulimy, when walking in the open air
Craving for acid things, or for raw fruits (apples); for cold drinks or thirstlessness
Aversion to all food, esp. milk
Every mouthful produces a painful sensation, extending to the stomach
After drink: nausea; cough.
Stomach EN
Empty risings
Sobbing risings
Risings with taste of rotten eggs, at night
Regurgitation, of acrid, or salt, or else sourish fluid
Regurgitation after partaking of milk
Constant nausea, sometimes with inclination to vomit, anguish, pressure in the scrobiculus, and headache, mitigated by expulsion of flatus, upwards and downwards
Violent retching, with copious flow of saliva, sweat on the forehead, and lassitude in the legs, or else with diarrhoea, and excessive debility
Much vomiting, with violent efforts, pain in the stomach and abdomen, trembling of the body, necessity to bend double, shiverings, and strong inclination to sleep
Vomiting of mucus, with mucous diarrhoea
Acid vomiting, containing food
Vomiting of sour and bitter substances, esp. at night
Excessive sensibility of the stomach; the smallest mouthful causes a painful sensation
Pain in the stomach, as if it were overloaded
Uneasiness and emptiness in the stomach
Pressure in the stomach and scrobiculus, esp. after a meal
Violent throbbings and pulsations in the region of the stomach
Shootings in the pit of the stomach.
Abdomen EN
Pains in the abdomen, with great moral and physical agitation, and dislike to all kinds of labour
Uneasiness in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, which compels the patient to lie down and to stretch himself
Fulness and pressure in the abdomen, as if it contained stones, esp. on stooping forward, while in a sitting posture
Spasmodic colic in the abdomen, with violent contraction of the eyelids, and irresistible inclination to sleep
Incisive pains in the abdomen, as if the intestines were being cut
Pulsations in the abdomen
Abundant production of flatus, with grumbling, borborygmi, and pinchings in the abdomen.
Stool And Anus EN
Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea
Diarrhoea in pneumonia, small-pox, and other eruptive diseases, esp. if the eruption has been suppressed
Diarrhoea and vomiting
Faeces of the consistence of pap
Slimy diarrhoea, or yellow, bright brown, or else watery, often preceded by gripings and movements in the abdomen
Sanguineous faeces
Involuntary evacuations
During the evacuation, palpitation of the heart
Violent burning tickling, extending from the rectum into the glans penis
Lancinations in the rectum
Tenesmus during and after Stool, frequent burning at the anus.
Urinary Organs EN
Very profuse and distressing emission of urine, with tension in the perineum, burning sensation in the urethra, and scanty stream, which is sanguineous towards the end of the emission, with violent pains in the bladder
Nocturnal calls to urinate, with burning thirst and scanty emission
Involuntary emission of urine
Red, fiery urine, which forms blood-red filaments after standing
Deep-brown, acrid, turbid urine
Pressure and tension on the bladder
Shootings in the urethra and lower part of the bladder.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Excitation of sexual system
Pain in testicles after checked gonorrhoea
Warts behind glans penis; with ulcers elsewhere (sycosis)
Pustules on genitals and thighs
Syphilis.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Catamenia of watery blood
Severe bearing-down in vagina
Chronic metritis with feeling of weight tugging at coccyx
Eruption of pimples or) the genital organs
Itching of pudenda.
Respiratory Organs EN
Catarrh, with irritation, which excites coughing, copious accumulation of mucus, and rattling of mucus in the chest
Hoarseness
Painful tenderness of the larynx when touched
Cough, excited by violent tickling in the trachea
A child coughs when angry
Paroxysms of coughing, with suffocating obstruction of respiration (suffocating cough)
Dyspnoea, compelling one to sit up
Shortness of breathing from suppressed expectoration
Suffocating attacks with sensation of heat at the heart
Whooping-cough, preceded by the child crying, or after eating or drinking, or when getting warm in bed; after the attack somnolency
Cough, with heat and moisture of the hands, and perspiration on the head, chiefly on the forehead
Cough, with vomiting of food, after a meal
Hollow cough, with rattling of mucus in the chest
Cough, with expectoration of mucus, sometimes at night only, chiefly after midnight.
Chest EN
Velvety feeling in the chest
Frequent fits of obstructed respiration, esp. in the evening or in the morning, in bed, almost to the extent of suffocation
Shortness of breath
Difficult respiration
Paralysis of the lungs
Anxious oppression of the chest, with a sensation of heat, which ascends to the heart
Rattling of mucus in the chest when breathing
Fitful pain, as from excoriation in the chest, esp. on the l. side
Rheumatic pain in the l. side of the chest
Burning sensation in the chest which ascends to the throat
Inflammation of the lungs
Miliary eruption on the chest.
Heart And Pulse EN
Visible and anxious palpitation of the heart (also without anxiety), sometimes during an evacuation
Palpitation with loose stools
Heat about heart and warmth rising up from it
Sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels
Pulse: hard, quick, and small; or weak, quick, and trembling; small, threadlike: imperceptible
Twisting, digging, and blows in the region of the heart, at night, which do not cease till perspiration breaks out.
Neck And Back EN
Weakness of the muscles of the neck, which prevents the head from being held up
Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck
Pain in the back and loins when seated, as from fatigue
Violent pain in the sacro-lumbar region; slightest effort to move causes retching and cold, clammy sweat
Pain in sacrum with sensation of lameness
Sensation as if a heavy load was hanging on end of coccyx, dragging downwards all the time
Rheumatic pain in the back.
Limbs EN
Heaviness in limbs followed by leprous eruption
Limbs over-fatigued, a sensation coming from back
Jerking up of limbs during sleep with loose stools
Small ulcers on tips of fingers and toes, spreading, livid edges (leprosy).
Upper Limbs EN
Cracking in the joints of the shoulder, with tearing in the arms, extending into the hands
Excessive heaviness of the arms
Jerking of the muscles in the arms and hands
Miliary eruption on the arms
Itching pimples on the arms and wrists
Red spots on the hands, like fleabites
Trembling of the hands
Coldness of the hands
Icy coldness in the tips of the fingers, as if dead
Finger-ends dead, dry, and hard
Spots of a deep yellow on the fingers
Distortion of the fingers.
Lower Limbs EN
Heaviness and rheumatic pains in the hips and legs
Painful weakness in the knee-joint, in bed, in the morning
Dropsy of the l. knee-joint
Tension of the tendons of the ham, and of the instep, when walking
Cramp in the calf of the leg
Coldness of the feet
Numbness of the feet, on sitting down.
Generalities EN
Rheumatic pains (fever) with perspiration, which does not relieve Inflammation of internal organs Gastric and bilious complaints Arthritic and rheumatic tearings and drawings in the limbs, with sensation as of a fracture
Collection of synovial fluid in joints Contraction of the limbs Jerking of the muscles Convulsive jerks and spasm
Epileptic fits Trembling of the limbs; long-continued of the head and hands after every exertion or motion Internal trembling Shootings in the varices
Aggravation of the symptoms when sitting down, or else when seated, and when rising from the seat In some forms of asthma one has to sit in a chair and lean his head on a table In some forms of pneumonia so great is the prostration that the patient is constantly slipping down in bed Heaviness in all the limbs, and great indolence
Violent pulsations throughout the body Great debility, weakness, and excessive lassitude; feels best when sitting still doing nothing A child continually wishes to be carried Syncope
Excessive tenderness of the whole body A child, when touched, utters piercing cries.
Skin EN
Itching in the skin
Itching pimples, and miliary eruption
Eruptions like scabies
Eruption of pustules, like varioloids, as large as peas, filled with pus, with red areola (like small-pox), and which afterwards form a crust, and leave a scar
Itching round inveterate ulcers
Pustular eruption on different portions of the body, leaving a bluish-red mark.
Sleep EN
Urgent inclination to sleep during the day, with frequent stretching and yawning
Invincible drowsiness, with deep and stupefying sleep
In the morning, sensation as from insufficient sleep
Retarded sleep, and nocturnal sleeplessness
Light sleep, with many fantastic dreams
Much talking during sleep
Cries during sleep, with fixed eyes, and trembling limbs
Shocks and blows during sleep, which occasion jerking, sometimes of a single limb, at others of the whole body
Lying on the back while sleeping, with the left hand passed under the head.
Fever EN
Predominance of shivering and coldness
Shiverings, with excessive paleness of the face, and trembling of the whole body
Violent but not long-continuing heat, preceded by a long-lasting chill; worse from every exertion; or long-continued heat, with lethargy and perspiration on the forehead following a short-lasting chill
Burning heat of the whole body, chiefly in the head and face, increased by the least movement
Pulse quick, weak, or full; hard and accelerated; at times trembling
The fever ceasing, the pulse becomes often slow and imperceptible
The least exertion accelerates the pulse
Fever, with adipsia, and excessive drowsiness
Profuse, frequent, and sometimes cold perspiration
Perspiration on the parts affected
Profuse nocturnal perspiration
Perspiration on the whole body
Perspiration frequently cold and clammy
Intermittent fevers, with lethargic condition.