Carbo Vegetabilis

► Confusion of head, making thinking difficult ; morning on waking ; he had to make great exertion, as if arousing himself from a dream. ► Ideas flow slowly. ► Stupor, collapse. ► Anxious, as if oppressed, with heat in the face. ► Nightly fear of ghosts. ► Indifference ; heard everything without feeling pleasantly or unpleasantly, and without thinking of it. ► Very irritable, excitable and inclined to anger. ► Peevish, wrathful. ► Restless, anxious ; 4 to 6 P.M.

► Vertigo : had to hold on to something ; also when stopping ; from flatulence ; venous stasis ; specially after a debauch ; whirling in head, the whole day. ► Fainting after sleep, after rising, or while yet in bed, mornings ; belching ; caused by debilitating losses, or abuse of mercury.

► Head feels heavy as lead. ► Rush of blood to head, nosebleed. ► Congestion to head, with spasmodic constriction, nausea and pressure over eyes, feeling of coryza ; from overheated rooms. ► Painful throbbing in the head, during inspiration. ► Pressive headache just over the eyes, with tears ; eyes pain on moving them. ► Aching and beating over eyes, or in whole head, commencing at nape of neck ; worse evening ; after a meal, with congestion to head ; after a debauch. ► Pressure in both temples and on top of head. ► Violent tearing on forehead, at small spot near temple. ► Dull headache in occiput ; violent pressive pain in lower portion of occiput. ► Tearing and drawing in left side of occiput. ► Headache like from constriction of the scalp.

► Head painfully sensitive to pressure, especially of the hat ; worse from taking cold and from getting warm in bed. ► Scalp painful to touch. ► Hair falls out ; worse on back of head ; scalp itches in evening when warm in bed.

► Eyes dull, lustreless, pupils do not react to light. ► Shortsighted from overexerting eyes ; eyes become weak from overwork or fine work. ► Black spots float before the eyes. ► Heavy weight seems to rest on the eyes ; must make exertion to distinguish letters when reading. ► Burning in the eyes. ► Hemorrhage from eyes, with congestion to head. θ Whooping-cough. ► Muscles of eye pain, when looking up. ► Margins of lids itch ; morning.

► Ringing in ears ; buzzing. ► Something heavy seems to lie before the ears ; they seemed stopped, hearing not diminished. ► Deafness after acute exanthema ; abuse of mercury ; ears too dry. ► Offensive otorrhoea. ► Deficient or badly-smelling cerumen, also with exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus. ► Left ear hot and red every evening. ► Pain from right ear down the neck on turning the head. ► θ After itch-like eruptions. ► Parotitis, swelling grows hard.

► Nose pointed ; hippocratic face. ► Frequent and easy epistaxis ; worse at night or in forenoon, followed by pain over the chest. ► Nosebleed : several times daily for weeks ; face pale before and after every attack ; after straining at stool ; small, intermittent pulse ; after debauch ; in old or debilitated people. ► Frequent sneezing with constant and violent crawling and tickling in the nose. ► Fruitless irritation to sneeze, with crawling in left nostril. ► Severe coryza, with hoarseness and rawness on the chest. ► Dry coryza.

► Face : very pale ; greyish-yellow ; greenish ; hippocratic. ► Cold sweat on face ; face cold, tongue cold, contracted. ► Cheeks red and covered with cold sweat. ► Tearing in left cheek ; jerking-tearing in right upper maxilla. ► Facial and maxillary bones sore.

► Quivering in the upper lip. ► Swelling of upper lips and cheeks, with jerking pain. ► Brown, or blackish-looking cracked lips.

► Drawing and tearing pain in the molars. ► Tearing in teeth from hot, cold or salt food ; worse when touched with tongue ; whole row too long and tender. ► Teeth decay rapidly. ► Gums : bleed, also when sucking them ; pain as if sore ; recede from (lower) incisors ; sensitive when chewing ; gum-boils.

► Bitterness on palate, tongue dry. ► Bitter taste before and after eating ; salty taste. ► Glossitis when tongue becomes indurated. ► Tongue heavy, with difficult speech. ► Tongue : white ; coated with yellow-brown mucus ; lead-colored, blue, sticky, moist ; dry, parched, fissured. ► Tip of tongue raw and dry ; heat in mouth. ► Tongue turns black.

► Mouth and breath cold. ► Increase of saliva. ► Mouth hot, tongue almost immovable, saliva bloody ; edges of gums yellow, indented ; gums loose, receding, ulcerated. ► Hemorrhage from nose and mouth.

► Scraping, rawness, burning in throat. ► Sloughing of some parts of swollen fauces ; fetid ichor. ► Swallowing, coughing or blowing nose, cause pain in posterior nares and fauces ; as if sore. ► Food cannot be easily swallowed, throat seems constricted, no pain. ► Swelling and inflammation of uvula, with stitches in the throat.

► Want of appetite ; eats only dinner ; feeling of relaxation and weakness of muscles of limbs. ► Longing for coffee ; acids, for sweet and salt things. ► Aversion to meat and fat things ; to milk, which causes flatulence.

► After eating ; acidity in mouth ; plainest food disagrees ; heaviness, fulness (more after supper), sleepiness ; nausea, vomiting ; feels as if the abdomen would burst ; worse after debauch ; from rich living. ► After milk, sour eructations. ► Dreads to eat because of pains, burning in epigastrium and deep in abdomen. ► Gastric symptoms from wine ; coffee ; too much milk ; excessive use of butter, or from rancid butter, from fats in general ; fish, especially if tainted ; from ice water or different waters ; from flatulent vegetables. ► Bad effects from abuse of salt or salt meats. ► Hot, cold or salt food : 10. Eating or drinking : 27.

► Frequent, empty eructations, also when preceded by pinching in the abdomen. ► Pyrosis, great flow of water. θ Catarrh. ► Sour or rancid eructations. ► Nausea in morning, with qualmishness in stomach. ► Vomiting : of blood ; of food, in evening ; of sour, bilious or bloody masses.

► Aching in pit of stomach. ► Burning in stomach, spreading down to small of back and up to the shoulders. ► Contractive cramp, also at night, extending to the chest ; abdomen distended ; must bend double, worse lying down ; pain paroxysmal, takes away the breath. ► Feels acidity in stomach while lying on the back and when walking ; stomach feels very heavy and as if hanging down. ► Tense, full feeling ; flatulence. ► Haematemesis ; body icy-cold ; breath cool ; pulse thready, intermittent ; fainting ; hippocratic face. ► Pain in stomach from nursing, or other loss of fluids.

► Painful to touch ; clothing oppresses him, is unendurable. ► Tension, or stitches in region of liver. ► Jaundice : after too much or too rich food ; from abuse or mercury. ► Pressing, pinching in region of spleen ; quick, lightning like stitches ; abdomen bloated.

► Colic from flatulence, abdomen full to bursting ; pain worse about bladder, or left of epigastrium ; worse from least food ; better from passing flatus, or hard stool. ► Abdomen distended, better from passing wind upwards or downwards. ► Burning, lancinating in epigastrium and deep in abdomen ; worse from eating ; with anguish, flatulency, diarrhoea. ► Abdomen feels as if hanging heavily ; walks bent. ► Meteorism, with loud rumbling ; fetid or odorless flatus.

► Acrid, corrosive moisture from the rectum. ► Gnawing in the rectum when not at stool ; crawling. θ Ascarides. ► Flatus, hot, moist, offensive. ► Stools : burning, light-colored, fetid, watery, bloody, with tenesmus ; covered with filamentous yellow mucus, last part bloody ; putrid, cadaverous smelling, involuntary ; dysenteric, terribly offensive ; thin, pale mucus ; in fragments, tough, scanty, with urging and tingling in rectum, and pressure on bladder and uterus. ► Even soft stool passed with difficulty. ► Cholera asiatica, stage of collapse. ► Hemorrhoids : protrude ; blue ; suppurating and offensive ; with burning ; after debauchery ; cause dysuria.

► Morbus Brightii, from abuse of alcohol. ► Blenorrhoea vesicae ; old people. ► Urine : reddish turbid ; as if mixed with blood ; with red sediment ; bloody, with varices of anus and bladder ; copious, light yellow, diabetic ; milky. ► Wetting bed at night.

► Onanism during sleep. ► Seminal discharge too soon, during coitus, followed by roaring in the head. ► Prostatic discharge, while straining at stool. ► Swelling of testicles from metastasis of mumps.

► Menses : too early, too profuse ; blood pale or thick, corrosive, acrid-smelling. ► Menorrhagia, burning across sacrum, passive flow. ► Leucorrhoea : thin in morning on arising, not through day ; milky, excoriating ; thick, yellow. ► Vaginal fistula, burning pains. ► Erectile tumors, blue, hard, pricking. ► Varices of vulva, itching of vulva and anus ; cause dysuria. ► Red, sore places on pudenda ; aphthae ; also during leucorrhoea.

► Labor-pains weak, or ceasing, with great debility ; especially after violent disease or great loss of fluids. ► Debility from nursing. ► Lumps in the mammae, with induration of axillary glands, and with burning pains, anxiety, want of breath ; whining mood. ► Brown, foul-smelling lochia.

► Deep voice, failing if exerted, no pain. ► Hoarseness and rawness, worse evenings ; aphonia mornings ; in damp, cool weather ; chronic ; worse from damp evening air, warm, wet weather, and from talking. ► Dingy, purplish, swelling of the lining of the larynx. ► Ulcerative pain or scraping and titillation in larynx. ► Unusual feeling or dryness in trachea, not relieved by hawking.

► Breath cold. ► Breathing short, with cold hands and feet. ► Desires to be fanned, must have more air. ► Difficult breathing, fulness of chest, and palpitation on slightest motion. ► Asthma of old people, weakness, trembling ; looks as if dying ; full of wind, but cannot raise it ; better in cold air ; worse in morning. ► Cheyne-stokes breathing in organic heart disease. ► Loud, rattling breathing ; cough ceases ; oedema pulmonum impending. ► Great dyspnoea, great anxiety, but not restless ; cough in violent spells, watery, profuse expectoration. θ Emphysema.

► Cough : spasmodic, hollow ; in short, hard spells ; caused by a feeling as of vapor of sulphur ; worse evening or before midnight ; at times dry, painful ; at others with purulent, slimy, offensive sputa ; with copious sputa night and morning ; and vomiting after other symptoms and whooping-cough are gone ; with painful stitches through the head ; worse going from warm too cold places ; motion ; walking in open air after lying down ; evening in bed ; eating or drinking, especially cold food or drink ; talking. ► Sputa : yellow-green or purulent ; brown, bloody ; or less often tenacious, whitish mucus, or watery ; of sour or saltish taste ; or, of unpleasant odor.

► Burning in chest, as from glowing coals ; rawness and soreness. ► Congestion to chest and head. ► Weak, fatigued feeling of chest. ► Burning under sternum ; rattling of large bubbles ; dyspnoea ; cold knees in bed. ► Bronchial catarrh, hoarse, mucous rales ; chest and ribs feel as if bruised. ► Oppressive tearing in the left chest. ► Pressive pain in the upper right chest, through to scapula. ► Haemoptysis, burning in chest, paroxysms of violent cough, hoarse ; face pale ; skin cold ; slow, intermittent pulse ; wants to be fanned.

► Palpitation : excessive, for days, after eating ; when sitting. ► Blood stagnates in capillaries, cyanosis ; cold face and limbs, cold sweat ; complete torpor ; impending paralysis of heart. ► Pulse : thread-like ; weak and small ; intermittent.

► Brown-yellow blotches on chest.

► Cervical glands swollen and painful, especially those near the nape. ► Tearing in cervical muscles. ► Drawing in nape, up into head, with nausea and rush of water from the mouth. ► Rheumatic drawing in back, worse when stooping. ► Stiffness of back. ► Severe pain in small of back, she was unable to sit ; then sensation as of a plug in back, had to put a pillow under it. ► Pinching, pressive pain near lowest portion of spine. ► Pressive, sore pain beneath the coccyx.

► Burning on right shoulder. ► Drawing in the arm on which he is lying at night. ► Bruised pain in both elbow-joints. ► Arms weary when writing. ► Drawing, tearing in left forearm, from elbow to hand. ► Tearing : in either wrist ; in finger of left hand. ► Hands : burn ; icy-cold ; tip of fingers covered with cold sweat. ► Paralytic weakness of fingers when seizing anything.

► Heaviness in the lower limbs. ► Severe laming, drawing pain from abdomen down left leg. ► Tearing near and beneath left hip, extending to sacrum. ► Hip disease, third stage ; back, ichorous, offensive discharge ; great weakness. ► Ulcer on leg burns at night ; discharge offensive ; skin around mottled, purple. ► Left lower leg feels paralyzed. ► Toes red, swollen, stinging, as if frosted. ► Cramp in soles, evening after lying down. ► Tips of toes ulcerated.

► Limbs : feel bruised ; numb ; "go to sleep" when lying on them. ► Drawing pain in limbs. ► Burning : in limbs ; in hands and soles, during menses. ► Rheumatic pains, with flatulency.

► Vital force nearly exhausted, cold surface, especially below knees to feet ; lies as if dead ; breath cold ; pulse intermittent, thready ; cold sweat on limbs. ► Want of nervous irritability, of susceptibility to medicines. ► Weary after a short walk. ► Faint-like weakness in attacks. ► Indolent, weary, in the morning, in bed. ► Prostration towards noon, head feels empty, sensation of hunger. ► Worse from loss of fluids. ► Uneasy feeling in the legs, in the evening, in bed ; had to stretch them often.

► Yawning, stretching. ► Sleepiness in forenoon while sitting, and when reading ; removed by motion. ► Sleepy during day ; had to sleep before and after noon, at night, sleep full of fancies. ► Legs drawn up during sleep, which is restless and disturbed by frequent waking. ► Sleepless, from uneasiness in the body ; from orgasm of blood. ► Does not fall asleep until 1 A.M. ► Awakens often from cold limbs, especially cold knees. ► Night full of dreams.

► Shivering in the evening, with weariness and flushes of heat before sleep. ► Chill, generally with thirst ; mostly evenings, at times left-sided. ► Chill with icy-coldness of the body. ► Heat, after or independent of the chill. ► Flushes of burning heat, evening ; generally without thirst. ► Hectic fever. ► Heat and sweat commingled. ► Exhausting night or morning sweats. ► Sweats easily, especially about the head and face. ► Sweat : profuse ; putrid or sour.

► Pains fly all over the body. θ Neuralgia. ► Drawing and tearing pains in various part of the body.

► Sepsis, sunken features, sallow complexion, hectic, typhoid symptoms. ► Blood stagnates in capillaries, causing blueness, coldness ; ecchymoses. ► Anaemia after summer complaints ; feeble pallid, white skin. ► Atrophy, body cold, lies as if dead, yet conscious. ► Gangrene : humid ; senile. ► Lymphatic glands swollen, indurated or suppurating ; burning pains. ► Chlorosis, with itch-like rash and fluor albus (leucorrhoea) ; scorbutic gums ; so weak, can scarcely stand.

► Nettle-rash. ► Dry rash, like itch. ► Fine moist rash, with burning at spots where there is no eruption. ► Folds of skin become raw and ulcerated. ► Ulcers : varicose ; scorbutic ; livid, easily bleeding, fetid. ► Decubitus in typhus, from decomposition of the blood. ► Aneurisms bright red, round, flat, bleeding violently from least wound. ► Single, scattered, red spots on the neck. ► Itching and soreness in the axillae.

► Vital powers low, venous system predominant. ► Old people. ► Children, after exhausting diseases.

► Carb. veg. follows well : after Sulphur and Mercur., when itch is dry ; after Veratr. in beginning of whooping-cough ; after Laches., Kali carb., Sepia. ► After Carb. veg. : Arsen., Cinchon. Drosera, Kali carb., Phosph. ac. are frequently indicated. ► Ailments from quinine, especially suppression of chill and fever. ► Ailments from abuses of mercury, salt or salt meats. ► Carb. veg. antidotes : effects of putrid meat or fish, rancid fats ; Cinchon., Laches., Mercur. ► Antidotes to Carb. veg. ; Arsen., Camphor., Coffea, Laches, Spir. nitr. dulc.