Carbo Animalis

► Confused, did not know whether he had been asleep or awake ; morning. ► Desire to be alone ; she is sad, reflective ; avoids conversation, taciturn. ► Alternate cheerfulness and melancholy. ► Low-spirited. ► Anxiety : apprehensive, after an emission. ► Fright in the dark.

► Vertigo and confusion on sitting up ; better when reclining ; nausea. ► Brain feels as if loose, during motion.

► Pain in top of head, as if skull had been split or torn asunder ; worse during wet weather and at night ; must press the head with both hands. ► Heaviness : in head at night ; weary feet ; in the forehead on stooping ; especially in cerebellum, worse forenoon, in cold air ; better after dinner. ► Rush of blood to head ; confusion in head. ► Throbbing headache after menses ; worse in the open air.

► Skin of forehead and vertex feels tight.

► Dim sight, eyes feel weak. ► A net seems to swim before the eyes.

► Does not know from what direction sounds come. ► Ringing in ears when blowing nose. ► Ichorous otorrhoea. ► Periosteum behind the ear swollen. ► Parotid gland swollen ; lancinating pains.

► Nosebleed : every morning, preceded by dull feeling in head, preceded by vertigo. ► Dry coryza, cannot breathe through nose in morning, on walking, and for sometimes after. ► Coryza, scraping in throat, worse evening, night, and when swallowing. ► Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, yawning and sneezing. ► Tip of nose : red painful to touch ; skin feels tight, is chapped ; little boils inside. ► Hard, bluish tumor on end of nose.

► Face has cachectic appearance ; looks earthy. ► Heat in face and head ; in afternoon. ► Erysipelas of face. ► Copper-colored eruption. ► Acne ; young, scrofulous persons.

► Shooting and stitches in malar bone, especially left, running towards the ear. ► Lips swollen, burning. ► Vesicles, or cracks on the lips.

► Teeth loose, sensitive on chewing. ► Gums : red, swollen, painful ; bleeding. ► Gum-boils.

► Taste : bitter, especially morning ; sour. ► Burning on tip of tongue, and rawness in mouth. ► Burning blisters on tips and edges of tongue. ► Knotty indurations in the tongue.

► Blisters, burning. ► Mouth and tongue dry. ► Frequent biting of the inside of cheek.

► Mucus in throat, hawking. ► Raw sensation in throat and oesophagus, to pit of stomach ; not increased by swallowing. ► Raw feeling, like heart-burn, better after eating.

► Ravenous hunger. ► No appetite ; averse to fatty food.

► Eating causes : fatigue ; distress and burning in stomach ; inflation ; long-lasting nausea, after meat. ► Eating relieves rawness in throat. ► After dinner : 3. After eating : 13, 26, 29, 40.

► Eructations tasting of food long eaten. ► Heart-burn. ► Saltish water runs from the mouth, retching, vomiting, hiccough, cold feet. θ Cancer of stomach.

► Spasmodic cramps. ► Like a load or weight in stomach on waking, mornings. ► Sore feeling in pit of stomach. ► Pressing, clawing, griping, burning in stomach. ► Faint, gone feeling ; also from suckling the child ; eating does not relieve it. ► Fullness, cold feeling in stomach after slight meal, better lying hand on stomach.

► Aching, almost cutting in region of liver, even while lying down.

► Abdomen greatly distended ; much annoyed with flatus. ► Painful sensation in right lower abdomen, as if something would be squeezed through. ► Feeling in left groin on sitting down, as if a hard body were lying there ; relieved after pressure, by passage in flatus. ► Soreness in abdomen while coughing. ► Hard buboes, begin to suppurate ; or maltreated cases with callous edges, ichorous, offensive discharge.

► Severe burning in rectum, in evening. ► Anus sore ; viscid moisture, oozing also from perineum. ► Stitches in rectum and anus. ► Stool hard lumpy, scanty. ► Unsuccessful desire for stool ; passes only offensive flatus ; pain in the back, and feeling across abdomen as if there was no expulsive power. ► Blood passes during stool. ► Piles, burn and sting, worse during walking. Fissura ani with severe burning.

► Frequent desire, urine increased ; fetid ; some times interrupted ; more frequent at night. ► Inefficient urging, with painful pressure in loins, groins and thighs. ► During urination : burning soreness in urethra. ► Stitches and lancinating in the abdomen, better from urinating.

► Seminal emission ; parts feel weak ; exhausted mentally and bodily. ► Syphilis ; buboes.

► Tearing transversely across the pubes, and then through pudenda as far as the anus. ► Induration of neck of uterus ; burning. ► Menorrhagia from chronic induration of uterus ; also in delicate women, with glandular affections. ► Burning in thighs ; labor-like pains in pelvis and sacrum ; slimy, bloody discharge, very weak. θ Cancer uteri. ► Menses : too early, too long, not profuse. ► During menses : lameness in thighs ; pressing in small of back, groins and thighs, unsuccessful desire to eructate, chilly, yawning ; the flow weakens her, she can hardly speak ; blood dark. ► Leucorrhoea : stains linen yellow ; offensive ; burning, biting ; more when walking or standing ; causes weak feeling in stomach.

► Nausea, worse at night. ► Lochia long-lasting, thin, offensive, excoriating ; numb limbs. ► Mammae : darting pains of nursing women, arrest breathing, worse from pressure ; hard, painful spots swollen, inflamed (erysipelatous) during confinement. ► Tumor hard, uneven, skin loose ; burning pains ; dirty, blue-red spots ; pains drawing towards axilla ; night-sweat, low-spirited. θ Scirrhus mammae.

► Rawness and hoarseness, morning after rising. ► Hoarseness, worse evening ; loss of voice during night.

► Dyspnoea and anxiety ; low-spirited. ► Painting and rattling. ► Oppression in the morning and after eating.

► From tickling in the right side of chest, or lying on right side ; sputum green. ► Severe, dry cough, shakes the abdomen as if all would fall out, must support the bowels ; loose rales until something is coughed up ; morning on rising and nearly all day.

► Sensation of coldness in chest. ► Chronic bronchitis, with night-sweats. ► Burning (in right side of) chest. ► Pneumonia in right lung, suppuration beginning, green sputum. ► Pleurisy, lingering ; skin livid, emaciation, hectic ; or typhoid symptoms. ► Sharp burning stitches in chest.

► Palpitation after eating ; when singing in church ; morning on awaking, must lie still, with eyes closed. ► Pulse accelerated, especially evening ; beating in blood-vessels.

► Glands of neck indurated, swollen, painful. ► Pressing, drawing and stiffness in lumbar region, as if broken. ► Sharp drawing across small of back, sensitive to every step. ► Coccyx feels bruised ; burning when touched ; pain as from subcutaneous ulceration, worse sitting or lying.

► Axillary glands indurated. ► Arms painful to touch. ► Hands and fingers readily go to sleep. ► Wrists pain as if sprained. ► Hands numb ; often with chest affections. ► Gouty stiffness of finger-joints.

► Stitches in left hip when sitting. ► Sweat at night on thighs only. ► Painful tension in the calves, when walking. ► The foot turns under when walking, as from a weak ankle. ► Painful contraction of tendo-achillis. ► Pain in heels ; feet sore. ► Frost-bites ; inflamed, burning. ► Corns, painful to touch.

► Bruised feeling, especially during motion.

► Weak, want of energy ; head confused ; prostration. ► Easily sprained from lifting even small weights.

► Anxious ; frightful visions and restlessness keep him awake. ► Sleepy all forenoon ; yawning. ► Sleep full of vivid fancies ; talks, groans, sheds tears.

► Chill, especially in afternoon and after eating ; evening chill followed by sweat. ► Heat always after a chill, mostly at night, in bed. ► Sweat generally towards morning, also from slight exertion, even eating. ► Night-sweat fetid, debilitating, staining yellow.

► Right : 18, 19, 27, 28. Left : 9, 19, 33.

► Venous plethora : 47. ► Stinging in scars. ► Benignant change into ichorous suppurations. ► Glands indurated, swollen, inflamed, with lancinating, cutting or burning. θ Scirrhus. ► Joints weak ; easily sprained : 45. ► Gummata.

► Itching over whole body ; evening in bed. ► Erysipelatous swellings, with burning pain.

► Elderly persons, especially with venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, debility, etc. ► Young, scrofulous subjects.

► Antidotes : Arsen., Camphor., Nux vom., Vinum.