Antimonium Crudum

► Insensible ; bed-sores formed, yet he complained of no pain. ► Child delirious, drowsy, with nausea, hot and red face ; pulse irregular ; feverish heat ; cries when washed in cold water ; better washed in warm water. ► Loathing of life. ► Inclined to suicide by shooting himself. ► Great sadness and woeful mood. ► Anxious reflection in relation to his present and future. ► Sentimental mood in moonlight, particularly ecstatic love. ► Child is fretful and peevish, does not wish to be touched or looked at. ► Sulky, does not wish to speak with any nosebleed.

► Vertigo, nausea nosebleed. ► Weakness of the head. ► Heaviness in forehead. ► Rush of blood to the head.

► Slight, dull headache and vertigo, increased by ascending stairs. ► Stupefying, dull headache in the forehead so violent that sweat broke out from anxiety, when walking in the open air. ► In left temporal region : pressure inwards ; drawing ; slow pulsation with fine pricking. ► Headache : after bathing in the river, with weakness of the limbs and aversion to food ; from deranged stomach ; drinking alcoholic drinks ; after a chill ; after suppressed eruption ; from taking cold.

► Small spot on left parietal bone, painful to touch. ► Lentil-sized, flat tubercles here and there on the scalp, painful to pressure, crawling sensation around them. ► Formicating itching on the scalp ; losing the hair. ► Disposition to take cold about the head after getting wet or bathing in cold water ; worse in the evening and on getting warm ; better in the open air and when at rest.

► Looking into the fire increases cough. ► Eyes red, inflamed, with itching and nightly agglutination. ► Eyes worse from glare of the snow. ► Redness of the left eye, with aversion to light. ► Pustules on the cornea, with profuse mucus ; pustules on margins of lids and on face. ► Soreness of outer canthi. ► Gum in the canthi, forenoon. ► Small, moist spot at the outer canthus, very painful when sweat comes in contact with it. ► Lids red and inflamed. ► Chronic blephar-ophthalmia of children.

► Ringing before the ears, roaring in the ears. ► A kind of deafness of right ear, as if a leaflet was lying before the tympanum ; boring with the finger does not relieve it. ► Drawing pain in through the right ear, and into the eustachian tube, after dinner. ► Redness, burning and swelling of the left ear. ► Otorrhoea.

► Stoppage in nose. ► Nosebleed : evenings ; after headache, with giddiness ; with rush of blood to head. ► Coryza : fluent or dry. ► Nose painful when breathing, as from inhalation of cold air or of acrid vapors. ► Sore, cracked or crusty nostrils.

► Sad expression. ► Face red. See 1. ► Twitches in facial muscles. ► Heat and itching on cheeks. ► Pimples, pustules and boils on the face. ► Eruption like nettle-rash. ► Yellow crusted eruption on the left cheek, painful to touch and easily detached. ► Suppurating and long-lasting eruption on cheeks.

► Lips dry. ► Cracks in the corners of the mouth. ► Burning, stinging on the chin, as from a hot spark. ► Small honey-colored granules on chin, with sore feeling when touched.

► Toothache in hollow teeth, pain sometimes penetrates into the head ; worse at night ; after eating, and from cold water ; touching the tooth with the tongue, causes pain as if nerve was torn ; better walking in open air. ► Stitches in the tooth when drawing air into mouth. ► Jerking on gnawing pain in yellow teeth. ► Gums detach from teeth and bleed easily.

► Taste : bitter or lessened. ► Tongue coated : thick and white ; milky white ; yellow. ► Much saltish saliva in the mouth. ► Sore feeling and redness on border of tongue.

► Dryness of the mouth. ► Ptyalism, excessive secretion of saltish-tasting saliva.

► Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus when clearing throat. ► Must draw quantities of thick, yellowish mucus from posterior nares into throat, and expectorate it.

► Desire for acids and pickles. ► Long-lasting loss of appetite, with disgust for all food. ► Hunger early on waking, without appetite ; eating does not relieve it ; at the same time sense of emptiness in pit of stomach, and want of animal heat. ► Intense thirst, with dryness of lips ; more at night ; or thirstlessness.

► Bread and pastry particularly occasion nausea and cutting colic. ► Laziness with desire to lie down, after eating. ► Fulness and tension, after eating, alternating with lightness cheerfulness and activity of mind and body. ► After bad, sour wine, vomiting. θ Gastric catarrh. ► After nursing diarrhoea. ► Nursing children throw up a little sour milk, as soon as they take the breast or bottle. ► Worse from pork ; from acids. θ Diarrhoea, whooping-cough.

► Hiccough after smoking tobacco. ► Belching with taste of what has been eaten. ► Burning at pit of stomach like heartburn, with good appetite. ► Nausea : after drinking a glass of wine ; from overloading the stomach. ► Vomiting : of mucus and bile ; slimy ; of drink only ; renewed by food or drink ; persistent, tongue white no thirst. θ Marasmus of children, gastric catarrh, etc. ► Violent vomiting and diarrhoea.

► Stomach weak, easily disturbed digestion. ► Painful sense of fulness of stomach, which is sore to pressure. ► Pain at stomach as after too much eating, with distended but not hard abdomen. ► Cramp-like pains at the stomach. ► Burning, spasmodic pain at pit of stomach, driving to despair ; is resolved to drown himself. ► Gastric catarrh ; white tongue, nausea and vomiting ; cough ; bowels loose or stools in lumps caused by : overeating, sour wine, hot weather, bathing ; during measles ; metastasis of gout or rheumatism.

► Slight tension in the hypochondria.

► Abdomen very much distended. ► Incarcerated flatus ; costive. ► Rumbling in the abdomen. ► Pinching and sensation as if diarrhoea would come on. ► Sensation of emptiness in intestines, going off after meal. ► Colic, with loss of appetite, hard stool, red urine. ► Violent cutting in abdomen, feeling of oppression coming from stomach, indisposition to work, dull mood and pain at stomach, with eructations. ► Hard gland in left groin, painful to pressure. ► Cutting in the bowls with watery diarrhoea.

► Acrid diarrhoea. ► Stools : watery, with vomiting ; watery ; profuse. ► Watery, with little, hard lumps, or containing undigested food ; mucous mornings. ► Diarrhoea, worse from vinegar and other acids ; sour wine ; overheating ; after cold bath ; night and early morning. ► Alternate diarrhoea and constipation, with old people. ► Diarrhoea of old people. ► Difficult, hard stool, feces too large, costive, with incarcerated flatus. ► Stools white, dry, irregular. ► Hard lumps of curd. ► Sensation of copious stool, but only flatus escapes, with finally very hard stool. ► Pain in rectum during stool ; feeling of soreness as if an ulcer had been torn open. ► Copious hemorrhage from bowels, with solid feces ; hemorrhoidal. ► Mucous piles, pricking, burning ; continuous mucous discharge, staining yellow ; sometimes ichor oozes out.

► Tenesmus of the bladder rouses him from sleep at night. ► Frequent urination, with much mucus, intense burning in urethra and backache during emission. ► Cutting in urethra while urinating. ► Urine : gold-yellow, with scarcely perceptible cloud ; brown-red ; with small red corpuscles after standing twenty-four hours. ► Involuntary urination.

► Excited sexual desire, with uneasiness of whole body, which prevents him sitting long. ► Nightly pollutions, with or without voluptuous dreams. ► Itching : of penis ; of tip of glans. ► Biting, itching, as from salt on left side of scrotum.

► Tenderness over the ovarian region ; after catamenia has been checked by taking bath. ► Pressure in the womb, as if something would come out. ► Menses commence at an early period, are profuse, then cease ; subsequently chlorosis. ► Before menses, toothache, with boring into the temples. ► Discharge of acrid water from the vagina, which caused a smarting down the thighs. ► Leucorrhoea watery and containing lumps.

► During pregnancy : gastro-intestinal and hemorrhoidal affections.

► Feebleness of voice. ► Loss of voice ; from getting overheated ; better after rest. ► Violent spasms in the larynx and pharynx as if the throat were filled with a plug, which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness.

► Short, heavy breathing ; dyspnoea. ► Deep, sighing breathing, as from fulness of the chest, afternoon and after eating. ► Oppression coming from stomach. ► Constriction almost to suffocation. ► When exhaling, sharp stitches in left cheek.

► Frequent dry cough. ► Cough shaking the whole body, with involuntary escape of copious urine. ► Cough : after rising in the morning, in attacks ; as if arising from the abdomen ; the first attack is always most severe, the subsequent ones weaker and weaker until the last resemble only a hacking. θ Whooping-cough. θ Stomach cough. ► Cough : in the hot sun ; on coming into warm room from cold air ; whooping-cough after measles. ► Looking into the fire increases cough.

► Oppression and pressive pains in chest, more right. ► Stitches in the chest. ► Pain in the chest with heat. ► Burning and sticking in the chest.

► Violent palpitation of the heart. ► Pulse extremely irregular ; now accelerated and again slow, changing every few beats.

► Severe continual itching upon the chest the whole day.

► Swelling of the cervical glands. ► Spasmodic drawing pain in muscles of nape of neck, reaching to scapulae, evening after lying down and in morning ; aggravated by stooping, exerting arms and turning head to left. ► Itching of neck and back. ► Spasmodic stitches in right scapula when sitting. ► Violent pain in small of back when rising from sitting ; disappeared when walking.

► Cracking in elbow-joint when moving it. ► Drawing pain : in arms ; in fingers and their joints. ► Arthritic pains in fingers. ► Finger nails do not grow as rapidly as formerly, and skin beneath the nail painfully sensitive. ► Crushed finger nails grow in splits, and like warts, and with horny spots.

► Legs fall asleep while sitting quietly. ► Painful drawing in hip-joints. ► Painful stiffness of the knee. ► Pain just below the knee, as if it had been tied too tightly. ► Drawing pain : in knee ; in lower part of the left tibia ; in left heel ; and tearing through right great toe. ► Gout. ► Violent pain in lower limbs. ► Large horny places on the soles, close to the toes. ► Corns on soles and toes. ► Great sensitiveness of soles when walking.

► Convulsions and trembling of limbs. ► Lassitude, tremulous fatigue and heaviness of all the limbs, as if coming out of the abdomen ; with trembling of hands when writing and subsequent discharge of much stinking (excessively offensive) flatus ; abdomen distended after dinner. ► Rheumatic or gouty pains.

► Disposition to start, even at slight noises. ► Twitching of muscles ; of many parts of the body. ► Great lassitude. ► Convulsions with the vomiting.

► Great sleepiness during the day ; mostly in forenoon. ► At 7 P.M. feels overwhelmed with sleep. ► Coma. ► Deep, unfreshing sleep. ► Slight raving during sleep. ► Wakefulness, with shivering over the left side, on which he does not lie ; or with sexual desire and erections when getting warm. ► Frequent waking at night as from fright. ► Dreams : of quarreling ; voluptuous ; anxious, as if he were to be hurt ; horrible, about mutilation of men.

► Chill predominating during the day, even in warm room. ► Violent, shaking chill toward noon, with thirst (for beer). ► Shivering over the back ; feet cold as ice, with sweat on rest of body. ► Heat at night. ► Sweat in the morning when awaking, which causes a shriveling of the tips of the fingers. ► Sweat, which returns at precisely the same hour, usually every other (third) morning. ► After the sweat is over, heat and thirst return.

► Symptoms repeat every five, six or twelve weeks. ► Returning periodically ; coma, earache. ► Sweat at same hour every other day.

► Right : 6, 28, 31, 33. Left : 4, 5, 6, 8, 19, 22, 26, 33, 37. ► Gout commencing right side going to the left.

► Hemorrhages dark. ► Dropsical swellings of the whole body. ► Mucous membranes generally effected. ► Swelling pain and redness of the glands. ► External parts turn black ; dry gangrene. ► Obesity of the young.

► Eruption like boils and blisters. ► Pustules like varicella. ► Itching of skin, feels sore when scratched. ► Pimples and vesicles as from stings of insects, especially on face and joints of extremities. ► Measle-like eruption ; smooth warts ; horny excrescences. ► Boils on the perineum ; burning around them. ► Deep, spongy ulcers. ► Eruption with thick, hard scabs ; often honey-yellow. ► Bed-sores : 2.

► Children. ► Young people grow fat. ► Old people : alternate diarrhoea and constipation.

► Similar to Apis (skin) ; Arsen. (gastric catarrh, burning eruption, dropsy) ; Amm. mur.

(mucous flux) ; Bryon. (rheumatism, gastric symptoms, effects of heat, etc.) ; Chamom. ;

Hepar ; Ipec. (gastric ailments) ; Mercur. ;

Nux vom. ; Pulsat. (gastric symptoms, relief in open air, mind, chills and fever, etc.) ; Ran. bulb.

(horny exanthemata) ; Rhus tox. ; Sulphur ; Scilla. ► Related to : Ipec., still more to Lycop.

(Teste). ► Similar in gastric vertigo to Pulsat. ; gastric headache from sour things, to Pulsat. or Arsen. ; inflamed eyes to Acon. ; Euphras. ; in toothache in hollow teeth, to Pulsat. ; in lessened appetite from summer heat, to Bryon., Carb. veg. ; cramp in stomach, to Pulsat. or Ipec. ; watery diarrhoea, to Ferrum ; after getting overheated, gastric symptoms, to Bryon., Antim. sulph. aurat., preferable for asthma from muco pus in bronchi. ► Useful Ipec. or Pulsat. in intermittent. ► Polypi with Pulsat. and Mercur. ► After Ant. crud. follow well : Pulsat., Mercur., Sulphur. ► Antidotes to Ant. crud. : Calcar., Hepar, Mercur. ► Ant. crud. antidotes : stings of insects. ► Complementary : Squilla.