Carbo Animalis
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General
Carbo Animalis.
Animal Charcoal. Made from charred ox-hide. Contains Calc. phos. C (impure). Trituration.
Clinical
Acne rosacea. Aneurism. Appetite, disordered. Breast, cancer of.
Bubo. Cancer. Cataract. Constipation.
Coccygodynia. Cough. Empyema. Eructations.
Face, eruption on. Gangrene. Glandular indurations. Haemorrhoids.
Headache. Home-sickness. Hypertrophy. Lactation, effects of.
Legs, pains in. Leucorrhoea. Lumbago. Nose, affections of.
Otorrhoea. Pancreas, indurated. Perspiration, altered. Pleurisy.
Polypus. Scrofula. Strabismus. Syphilis.
Tongue, affections of. Trachea, affections of. Ulceration. Uterus, cancer of.
Vision, disorders of.
Characteristics
Carb. an. is suited to old persons, greatly debilitated, especially when there is venous plethora, and blueness of skin. Complaints occurring in scrofulous or venous constitutions. Ulceration, gangrene, and decomposition are marked, and may be looked upon as the counterpart of the antiseptic properties of the crude substance. Copper-coloured eruptions show the appropriateness of the drug to many cases of constitutional syphilis.
Glands of stony hardness. Buboes. It is often indicated in the last stage of pneumonias, bronchitis, phthisis. Right chest is most affected.
Cancer of breast with burning, drawing pains through breast. Cancer of uterus, burning pains down thigh. Affections from loss of animal fluids, especially nursing women. Weakness of nursing women; can hardly walk across the room.
"Gone" feeling from loss of fluids. Too weak to eat. Weeps when she eats. Nausea at night.
Hunger in early morning. The goneness of Carb. a. is not > by eating (Carb. v. > eating). Constipation where patient thinks bowels will be moved but only wind passes.
There is a smothering feeling on closing eyes. Aversion to dark. A peculiar symptom is: A feeling of looseness—of eyes in sockets; of brain on motion or coughing. Far-sighted (Carb. v. is near-sighted).
Objects seem farther apart and brighter. Aversion to cold (Carb. v. to heat). There are many sensations of coldness: in chest; about stomach. Discharges are ichorous; but the discharge from piles is inodorous.
Carb. an. 3x trit. has been used for insufflation in aural polypi. The leucorrhoea stains linen yellow. Sweat stains yellow. Expectoration is greenish, purulent, offensive (Carb. v. yellow, more fetid).
Gnawing pains in tibiae (during the night), such as usually followed cold feet. A. W. K.
Choudhury reports a case of cough of two years' duration, in an unhealthy boy of twelve, cured by Carb. a. The symptoms were: "Cough evening and morning, or after lying down, especially at night, thick or frothy whitish or yellowish sputa, sweetish when thick; < lying on r. side; < from exposure to air, to which he is very sensitive.
Great tendency to catch cold." The pains in the coccyx are peculiar; a dragging, bruised pain, when touched it becomes burning. It has cured many cases of injured coccyx and of neuralgia of the bone. The lumbago of Carb. an. occurs when walking, standing, and lying; feels as if the back were broken. The mental state is one of low spirits, sadness; weeps when she eats; easily frightened, afraid in the dark; home-sick; wants to be alone.
Fear of the dark and < on closing eyes is very marked. Hearing is confused; cannot tell the direction from which sounds come. There is an ichorous otorrhoea; and swelling of the periosteum over the mastoid bone is very characteristic. Tip of nose red; or blue.
Disagreeable smoothness of the teeth. There is a hoarse, suffocating cough producing a shaking of the brain as if it were loose. Green, purulent, horribly offensive expectoration. Axillary glands inflamed buboes in groins.
Pressure with hand > coldness of stomach. Symptoms are < in cold air; > in warm room. < From sprains from touch.
< After shaving. Rest < head symptoms. < Lying on r. side (cough). After menses, throbbing headache, < in open air.
Weakness < during menses.
Relations
Compare: Calc. phos. (nearest analogue; Carb. an. contains Calc. ph.); in indurations, suppurations, &c., Bad., Bro.; loss of fluids, Chi.; Graph.; nostrils adhere to septum, Pho.; gone feeling, loss of fluids, induration of cervix, pressure an back, groins, and thighs during menses, Sep.
(Sep. has not the venosity, the copper-coloured face, flatulent gastric disturbances, or offensive ichorous discharges, or throbbing headache after menses of Carb. an.; Carb. v. has not the indurations of Carb. an. or Sep.); Coccul. has the same weakness and prostration as Carbo an., but in the case of the latter the weakness is in consequence of the loss of fluid, whilst with Coccul. it is part of the general effect of the remedy. Puls.;
Sil.; in vertigo with epistaxis, Sul.; aversion to darkness, Am. m., Bar. c., Calc., Stro., Stram.; hunger in early morning, Ant. c., Asar., Calc., Sabad.; swelling behind ear, Caps., Aur.; burning pains, Caps.; weakness of nursing women, Oleand. Antidoted by: Ars., Camph., Nux, Vinegar. Antidote to: Effects of Quinine. Complementary: Calc. phos.
Causation
Loss of fluids. Lifting. Strain. Eating. Eating spoiled fish. Eating decayed vegetables. Quinine.
Mind
Nostalgia and mournful feeling of isolation, with tears
Weeps during a meal
Fear and apprehension, esp. in the evening
Discouragement and despair
Disposition to be frightened
Fright in the dark
Alternate feeling of gaiety and gloom, or of irascibility and ill-humoured taciturnity
Confusion of ideas and dulness, esp. in the morning.
Head
Vertigo, esp. in the evening or in the morning, and sometimes with nausea in the act of rising, after remaining long in a recumbent posture, or with obscuration of the eyes, on moving the head
Headache in the morning, as after a debauch
Headache at vertex as if skull torn open
Headache in the open air, and aggravated by damp weather
Heaviness, esp. in the occiput, with bewilderment
Pressive headache, even after a meal, forces the closing of the eyelids
Congestion and internal heat of the head
Sensation of wavering of the brain, at every movement
Sensation of torpor in the head
Acute, drawing pains in the teguments of the right side of the head
Tension of the skin of the forehead, and of the crown of the head
Sensibility of the scalp to the pressure of the hat
Scabs and eruption on the head.
Eyes
Sensation as if the ball of the eye were detached from the socket, with weakness of sight
Presbyopia with dilatation of the pupils
A net seems to swim before the eyes.
Ears
Running from the ears
Discharge of pus from the ears
Confusion of hearing; sounds reach the ears indistinctly, does not know from what direction they come
Buzzing in the ears
Swelling of the periosteum behind the ear
Swelling of the parotids.
Nose
End of the nose red and cracked, with burning pain
Nose swollen, with scabby pimples (as at the commencement of a cancer?)
Desquamation of the skin of the nose
Painful sensibility of the bones of the nose
Epistaxis, preceded by vertigo, or pressive headache
Stoppage of the nose
Dry coryza
Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, sneezing and frequent yawning.
Face
Spots in the face, which are smooth, palpable to the touch, and rose-coloured
Shootings in the cheek-bones, in the teeth and jaws
Painless copper-coloured eruption in the face
Erysipelas in the face
Swelling of the mouth and of the lips, with burning pain
Heat of the face and head in the afternoon
Blisters on the lips
Lips cracked and bleeding.
Teeth
Pulling odontalgia on eating bread, or with dull pulsation after drinking anything cold
Excessive looseness of the teeth
Tractive pains in the gums
Red and painful swelling and bleeding of the gums
Purulent vesicles in the gums.
Mouth
Fetid smell from the mouth
Burning vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue
Dryness of the tongue and of the palate.
Throat
Sore throat, as from excoriation, with scraping and shooting from the throat to the stomach.—Accumulation of mucus in the throat, with coughing and rattling.
Appetite
Bitterness in the mouth, esp. in the morning
Acid and mucous taste
Repugnance to fat and tobacco smoke, which cause nausea
Great weakness of digestion, to such an extent that almost all food occasions suffering.
Stomach
Risings with taste of food, or else acid
Empty risings with pain
Pyrosis, with scraping in the throat
Hiccough after a meal
Considerable inflation after a meal
Flow of sour water from the mouth
Nausea, also at night
Faint, gone feeling; also from suckling child, not > by eating
Water-brash
Pressure at the stomach, as if from a weight, when fasting, and in the evening, after lying down
Cramp-like or contractive pains in the stomach
Burning pain in the stomach
Squeezing in the stomach, as if by claws
Noisy grumbling in the stomach.
Abdomen
Pain in the liver, as if from excoriation, when the region is touched
Pressure and cuttings in the hepatic region
Abdomen inflated and extended
Constriction and squeezing, as if by claws, in the abdomen
Cuttings and shootings in the groins
Inguinal hernia
Loud rumbling in the abdomen
Incarceration of flatus
Fetid flatulency.
Stool And Anus
Ineffectual efforts to evacuate; discharge of wind only
During stool, pain in the small of the back, with inflation of the abdomen
Faeces hard and knotty
Frequent evacuations during the day
Before the evacuation, traction from the anus to the vulva
Sacral pains during the evacuation
Burning haemorrhoidal tumours in the anus
Burning pains and shooting in the anus, and in the rectum
Excoriation and oozing (inodorous) at the anus
Discharge of tenia
Viscid oozing at the perinaeum
Tendency to galling at the anus from riding on horseback.
Urinary Organs
Urgent desire to make water, with abundant emission
Emission of urine at night
Involuntary emission of urine
Fetid urine
Burning urine
Burning soreness in the urethra when urinating.
Male Sexual Organs
Absence of sexual desire.—Frequent pollutions, followed by weakness and anxious inquietude.
Female Sexual Organs
Premature catamenia
Leucorrhoea burning, smarting, or which imparts a yellow tinge to the linen
Serous and fetid lochia
Painful nodosities and indurations in the mammae
Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts
Nausea of pregnant females, coming on principally at night; faint and empty sensation in the pit of the stomach is produced by nursing
Menses are followed by great exhaustion
Uterine haemorrhages where there is much affection of the glands.
Respiratory Organs
Oppression of the chest, esp. in the evening and at night
Aphonia at night
Matutinal hoarseness
Hoarse cough, with pain as of excoriation in the throat; in the morning, after rising
Dry cough at night
Suffocating cough, esp. in the evening, after having slept
Matutinal cough with expectoration, excited by a sensation of dryness in the throat
Cough, with purulent expectoration, and shootings in the r. side of the chest
Cough, with discharge of greenish pus (suppuration of the lungs)
Cough < lying on r. side.
Chest
Panting respiration
Rattling in the throat, in bed in the evening
Oppressed respiration, esp. in the morning and after a meal
Suffocating constriction of the chest, esp. in the morning, in bed
Sharp burning stitches
Shootings in the chest, as from an abscess, esp. on breathing
Pleurisy assuming a typhoid character, sickly bluish colour of skin, expectoration puriform, often putrid in character
Far gone pleurisy
In pleurisy where everything is cured but the stitch, and that remains
Green pus from chest
R. side most affected, stitches in r. side
Sensation of cold in the chest.
Heart
Palpitation of the heart, in the morning, in the evening, and on singing in a public place.—(Atheroma and aneurism.)
Neck And Back
Painful swelling and induration of the glands of the neck, and of the parotid glands, with shooting pain
Tetters under the arm-pit
Moisture in the arm-pit
Induration of the axillary glands
Nocturnal pains in the back
Pressure and shooting in the loins, esp. on breathing deeply
Burning pain in the sacrum
Contusive pain, with straining in the coccyx, or aching pain which increases towards evening, so violent as to force the patient to curve his body; with pain as of an ulcer when the part is pressed
Burning in the coccyx, when it is touched
Burning pain in the back.
Upper Limbs
Aching in the bones, digging pains in the arms
Pressure on the shoulders
Pain as of dislocation in the wrist
Torpor and numbness of the hands and of the fingers
Painful tension and arthritic stiffness of the joints of the fingers
Shootings in the fingers.
Lower Limbs
Shooting pain in the (l.) hip when seated (the pain causes limping)
Tension and contraction in the groins, which do not permit the legs to be extended
Tension in the hams and the instep, with contraction of the parts
Drawing and sensation of contraction under the knee
Pain as from excoriation in the knees
Cramps in the calves of the legs the legs and the toes
Pullings and shootings in the legs
Loss of strength in the joints of the feet, which give way readily when walking
Pain as of dislocation when walking or moving the limbs
Coldness of the feet
Inflammatory swelling of the feet and of the toes, as if they had been frozen with heat and burning
Burning pain in the toes.
Generalities
Pressive pains in the joints, and the muscles of the limbs Burning pains Nocturnal pains in the joints Pain as from a bruise, want of strength, and cracking in the joints, which yield easily
Arthritic stiffness and gouty nodosities in the joints Tension in some limbs, as if from contraction of the tendons Spasmodic contraction of several parts Tendency to strain the loins
Numbness of all the limbs Torpor of all the members, esp. of the head Great fatigue and weakness, produced esp. by walking, with easily produced perspiration, chiefly on eating and on walking in the open air Excessive sensibility to the open air, and especially to the cold air of winter
Ebullition of the blood, and tendency to become easily overheated.
Skin
Itching over the skin of the whole body, esp. in the evening in bed
Erysipelatous inflammations
Chilblains
Hard and painful swelling of the glands
Swelling of the external parts, with burning pain.
Sleep
Sleep deferred, and nocturnal sleeplessness, caused, by inquietude, anguish, ebullition of the blood, and fear of being stifled
Frightful visions before going to sleep
Sleep, with unquiet dreams, tears, talking, and hollow groans.
Fever
Pulse accelerated, esp. in the evening
Chill, esp. in the afternoon, in the evening, and after eating
Shiverings, esp. in the evening, in bed, with perspiration during sleep
Excessive cold in the feet and in the hands in the evening
Nocturnal heat
Easily produced perspiration during the day, esp. at a meal, or when walking
Debilitating, and fetid sweat, esp. at night and in the morning, principally on the thighs
Sweat, which stains the linen a yellow colour.