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Antimonium Crudum

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General

Antimonium Crudum.

Native Sulphide of Antimony. Sb2 S3.

Clinical

Anus, irritation of. Callosities. Catarrh. Chorea. Constipation. Corns. Diarrhoea. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Feet, sore and horny. Fever. Gum-rash. Nails, degeneration of. Nettle-rash. Piles. Prolapsus recti. Red gum. Remittent fever. Stomach, disordered. Sunstroke. Tendons inflamed. Tongue coated. Voice, low. Warts. Whooping-cough.

Characteristics

Antim. crud. corresponds in a sense to the race of swine, as Arsenic does to horses and Pulsatilla to sheep. It is preeminently a scrofulous medicine, corresponding to gross constitutions with tendency to rough scaling skin with horny patches. With these horny patches is great tenderness, the patient can hardly bear to walk on them. Analagous to these horny excrescences are warts, and Ant c. has cured many cases of these.

A student, 17, had twenty-three on right hand and thirty four on left, mainly on backs and fingers, but a few on interior surface of fingers. In addition redness and inflammation of eyelids. Cured in seven weeks with Ant. c. 200x. In the same category may be mentioned the tendency of the nails to grow in splits.

Ant. crud. is specially suited to infants and children (with coated moist white tongues) and also to elderly persons. Tendency to grow fat. When symptoms recur they change their locality or go from one side of the body to the other. Left side predominates, especially lower left and upper right.

Among special symptoms are: Itching of scalp and falling out of hair. Tendency to take cold about head. Scrofulous ophthalmia, canthi especially affected (Graph. the whole margin). Otorrhoea.

Moist eruption behind ears (Graph.). Slight noises startle. Nose-bleed with vertigo; after headache; after rush of blood to head. Children are peevish, won't bear to be touched or looked at.

Adults are sulky or sad. Weeping and impressionable. Sentimental mood by moonlight. Amativeness.

Suicidal. Gastric and remittent fevers, and fevers of children, with great thirst and the characteristic white tongue. The fever runs higher at night. The child is cross, but unlike the Cham. patient, who wants to be carried, this will scream and show temper at every little attention.

There is a form of diarrhoea which alternates with constipation, often found in old people, to which Ant. crud. corresponds. "Stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed, in old people." It cures many cases of mucous piles: continuous oozing, staining linen. In connection with the intolerance of wine of the remedy, it may be mentioned that in one case it produced a feeling of intoxication like that of alcohol, so that the patient refused to take any more of it. A number of nervous symptoms appear in the provings—restlessness, jerking of muscles, &c.

Dr. M. Jousset has recorded a severe case of chorea which resisted all the usual remedies and was cured with Ant. crud. prescribed on the digestive symptoms, particularly the characteristic white tongue. A notable characteristic of Ant. crud. is the thickly coated tongue.

Generally it is thick and white; milky-white; or like whitewash evenly laid. The edges may be red and sore. Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils and corners of mouth. Abnormal hunger; not relieved by eating; emptiness at epigastrium and want of animal heat.

Disgust for all foods. Nursing children throw up a little sour milk as soon as they take the breast or bottle (Aethus c., after vomiting the child sleeps and wakes hungry; Ant. c. the child refuses to nurse again). The sulphur element in Ant. crud. is strongly pronounced in the provings as in the constipation and other intestinal disorders of the drug.

< By heat is a marked characteristic (Apis, Puls., Cham., Secale, Camph.); also < from cold washing (less severe after warm washing), from cold water and cold food. In spite of the < from heat there is great sensitiveness to cold, hence it is suitable to the hydrogenoid constitutions. Moonlight < mental symptoms. Many symptoms are < at night.

< By touch. < From wine, especially sour wine; from vinegar and acids (though tamarind water does not disagree); from fruits. < From pork, bread, and pastry. > By rest, by lying down;

< rising up; < ascending stairs.

Relations

Compare: Aethiops ant., Ant. tar., Am. mur., Apis, Bry., Graph., Puls., Ran. b., Rhus t., Sul., Variol.; Cham., Chi, and Stram. (averse to be looked at); Hep., Rhus, Sep., Spi. and Sul. (averse to be washed). Complementary: Scilla. Follows well: Puls., Ipec. Followed by: Puls., Merc., Sul. Antidote to: Stings of insects. Antidoted by: Calc., Hep., Merc. Bry. compares very closely in digestive condition, loaded tongue and < from warmth; in summer complaint.

Causation

Gluttony. Hot weather. Heat of sun. Getting over-heated. Disappointed love. Suppressed eruptions.

Mind

Ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate and inclination to shoot himself; worse when walking in the moonlight, and then his conduct is like than of an insane person

Desponding reflections upon one's condition

Disgust of life, with an inclination to blow one's brains out, or to drown oneself

Tendency to be frightened

Peevish humour, ill-humour

To be looked at and to be touched are unbearable (in the case of a child)

Dull intellect, imbecility

Madness.

Head

Confusion of head, as after long labour in the cold

A feeling of intoxication

Dizziness with nausea, or bleeding of the nose

Attack of apoplexy, with frothy salivation

Cephalalgia, after bathing in running water

Cephalalgia with dizziness from the smoke of tobacco; better in the open air

Sensation, as if the forehead were going to burst

Dull pain in the sinciput and vertex, increased by going upstairs

Cramp-like pain in the head, ameliorated by walking in the open air

Piercing pain in the forehead and in the temples

Sharp pains as from knives in head and under l. breast

Congestion in the head, painful and followed by epistaxis

Pain in the bones at the vertex, as if from a swelling in the periosteum

Teasing itching in the head, with failing off of the hair.

Eyes

Shooting in the eyes

Red, inflamed eyelids

Inflammation of the eyes, with itching and nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids

Slight oozing of the skin near the external angle of the eye

Humour in the corners of the eyes

Enlargement of the eyes

Sensibility of the eyes to the light of day

Blindness

Chronic sore eyes of children.

Ears

Shooting in the ears

Redness, swelling, and heat in the ear

Otorrhoea

Digging and murmuring in the ears

Deafness, as if one had a bandage over the ears; as if a leaf were lying before the ears

Buzzing in the ears

Continual roaring in the ears.

Nose

Eruption in the nose

Excoriation of the nostrils, and of the corners of the nose

Nostrils chapped and scurfy

Stoppage of the nose

Bleeding at the nose, esp. in the evening

Sensation of coldness in the nose, when inspiring air

Dryness of the nose, chiefly on walking in the open air

Accumulation of thick yellowish mucus in the nostrils.

Face

Sad countenance

Heat in face, and chiefly in the cheeks, with itching

Red, burning, suppurating eruptions on the face, with yellowish scurf

Lumps and blisters on the face, as if from the stings of insects

Granular eruptions, yellow as honey, on the skin of the face

Eruption, like conoid chicken-pox, on the face and on the nose

Sensation of excoriation of the chin

Painful fissures at the commissures of the lips

Pimples on the upper lip

Dryness of the lips.

Teeth

Pains in carious teeth, with dull pricking, successive pullings and gnawing, even in the head, renewed after every meal, increased by cold water, and mitigated in the open air

Jerking toothache in the evening, in bed, and after a meal

Grinding of the teeth while sleeping in a sitting posture

Stitches in and about the teeth when inspiring cold air

Bleeding of the teeth and of the gums, which become detached.

Mouth

Bitter taste in the mouth

Ptyalism (tasting salty)

Dryness of the mouth

Accumulation of water on the tongue and in the mouth

Salivation

Tongue loaded; with a white coating

Pain, as of excoriation at the edges of the tongue

Blisters on the tongue.

Throat

Soreness of the throat, as if there were a plug in it

Inability to swallow

Dryness and scraping, or an accumulation of viscid mucus in the throat.

Appetite

Aversion to all food

Longing for acids

Thirst chiefly in the night

Loss of appetite

Sensation of hunger and of emptiness in the epigastrium, in the morning especially, and which is unappeased by eating

After a meal, dejection, lassitude, fulness and tension in the abdomen

Great desire to take food, which is not appropriated to strength.

Stomach

Eructations with taste of food, or very acid

Regurgitation of a watery fluid

Hiccough on smoking tobacco

Loathing of food, nausea, and inclination to vomit, as if caused by indigestion

Heartburn with good appetite

Nausea after taking wine

Nausea and vomiturition, from overloading the stomach, or after drinking (sour) wine

Vomiting of mucus and of bile, sometimes accompanied by diarrhoea, great anxiety, and convulsions

Pain, burning, and cramp-like in the pit of the stomach, sometimes with despair and inclination to drown oneself

Tension and pressure in the pit of the stomach

Painful sensation, as if the stomach were overloaded with food

Pain in the region of the stomach on being touched

Gastric catarrh with characteristic white tongue; even if caused by metastasis of rheumatism or gout.

Abdomen

Inflation of the abdomen, with a sensation of fulness, chiefly after a meal

Violent cutting pains, sometimes with want of appetite; urine red and stools hard

Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, as after violent diarrhoea

Sensation of swelling and of hardness in the inguinal region, on its being pressed

Accumulation of flatus in the abdomen, with rumbling and borborygmi.

Stool And Anus

Difficult evacuation of hard stools

Difficult evacuations; the faeces are too large in size

Urgent inclination to go to stool

Stool of the consistence of pap

Diarrhoea, generally watery, with cutting pains

After vinegar or acid wine, loose stool

Alternate diarrhoea and constipation, esp. in aged persons

Constant secretion of yellowish-white mucus by the anus

Flow of black blood from the anus

Haemorrhoidal excrescences, blind and running, with burning and tingling

Burning itching and fissures in the anus

Expansive pressure in the rectum (during stool as if an ulcer had been torn open) and the anus

Burning furunculus in the perineum.

Urinary Organs

Frequent inclination to make water, with scanty emission

Frequent and abundant emission of urine, with abundant flow of mucus, and burning in the urethra, accompanied by pains in the loins

On coughing, involuntary emission of urine

Urine aqueous, or of a gold colour, or reddish brown, and sometimes mixed with small red corpuscles

Incisive pain in the urethra, on making water.

Male Sexual Organs

Excitement of sexual desire, and great lasciviousness.—Pollutions.

Female Sexual Organs

Metrorrhagia

Sharp and corrosive discharge from the vagina

Nymphomania from checked catamenia

Tenderness over ovaries after menses checked by a bath

Gastro-intestinal disorders of pregnancy

Pressure in the uterus as if something would come out of it, esp. during uterine haemorrhage

Toothache before the menses, with boring in the temples

Quite solid lumps in a watery leucorrhoea, which sometimes causes a smarting down the thighs

Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea during pregnancy.

Respiratory Organs

Great heat in the throat while moving in the open air

Great weakness, or entire loss of voice, chiefly on becoming warm

Looking into the fire increases cough

Sensation of a foreign substance in the larynx, with inability to expectorate

Violent spasm in the larynx, with sensation of excoriation

Cough, with burning in the chest

Morning cough, dry and shaking

Whooping-cough

Cough as if arising from abdomen.

Chest

Stifling oppression and paralytic orthopnoea

Respiration deep, with sighing

Shootings in the chest, when drawing breath and at other times

Pain, as of contusion, in the pectoralis major, on raising the arm, and on pressure

Sharp pain under l. breast.

Neck And Back

Cramp-like drawing in the muscles of the neck and of the nape of the neck

Rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck

Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck, in the shoulder-blades, and behind the ears.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in the arms

Red vesicles on the arms, with itching

Painful inflammation of the tendons of the elbow, with great redness and curvature of the arm

Hot and red swelling of the forearm, with shooting tension

Sensation of drawing in the forearm, the fingers, and the joints of the fingers

Arthritic pains in the joints of the fingers

Painful sensibility of the skin under the nails, and slow growth of the nails themselves

A horny growth under the nail

Crushed finger-nails grow in splits, with horny spots.

Lower Limbs

Sensation of drawing in the lower limbs, esp. in the coxo-femoral joint

Lumps, with red rings, on the buttocks and legs

Violent pain in the lower extremities

Numbness of the legs after sitting for some time

Shooting pain in the knee and in the tibia

Drawing pain in knees, lower part l. tibia, in l. heel, and tearing through the r. great toe

Tumour or white swelling of the knee

Painful stiffness in the knee, preventing the extension of the leg

Vesicles on the knee after scratching it

Sensibility of the soles of the feet, when walking on the pavement

Red swelling of the heel, with burning shootings, which are aggravated by walking

Corns on the soles of the feet, and callous excrescence at the tips of the toes

Pressive pain in the corns

Burning in the fleshy part of the great toe

Callous excrescence under the nail of the great toe.

Generalities

Rheumatic pains and inflammation of the tendons, with redness and contraction of the part affected Inflammation of the muscles Drawings or shootings and tension, principally in the limbs Restlessness, uneasiness

Disposition to start even at slight noises Twitching of muscles of many parts of the body Convulsions with vomiting The symptoms are aggravated in the heat of the sun, after having drunk wine, after a meal, night and morning; amelioration during repose and in the fresh air

Great sensibility to cold Heaviness of all the limbs General weakness, esp. at night, on waking Emaciation, or great obesity

Dropsical swelling of the whole body Mucous membranes generally affected Anasarca Marasmus

Children cannot bear to be touched or looked at Chronic affections traceable to suppressed eruptions or ulcers.

Skin

Itching, esp. in the neck, chest, back and limbs

Eruptions which appear chiefly in the evening, or which itch in the heat of the bed, and prevent sleep

Miliary eruptions and nettle-rash

Tumours and blisters, as if from the stings of insects

Measles-like eruption

Eruptions, similar to chicken-pox, with shooting pain on pressure

Thick, hard scabs, often honey-yellow, here and there a crack oozing a green sanious fluid, burning as if immersed in hot embers

Urticaria white, with red areolae, which itch fearfully

Pustules with yellowish or brown scurf

Freckles

Hepatic spots

Deep spongy ulcers with gastric ulcers

Fistulous ulcers

Horn-like excrescences and disposition to abnormal organisations of the skin

Corns and callous excrescences on the feet

Nails discoloured and deformed

Red and hot swellings

Degeneration of the skin

Fungus of the joints.

Sleep

Strong inclination to sleep during the day, and somnolency, chiefly in the evening or morning

Coma with delirium

Waking with fright during the night

Dreams, anxious, horrible, voluptuous, or painful, and full of quarrelling.

Fever

Chilliness predominating even in the warm room

Sensation of coldness in the nose when inhaling air

Heat, esp. during the night, before midnight, with cold feet

Great heat from little exercise, esp. in the sun

Intermittent fever, with gastric or bilious affections, principally with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, loaded tongue, bitterness of the mouth, with moderate thirst, diarrhoea, tension and pressure at the pit of the stomach, with cutting pains

Tertian fever

Hot sweat, early in the morning every second day

Pulse irregular, sometimes quick, sometimes slow.