Carlsbad Aqua
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General
Carlsbad.
The waters of the Sprudel and Muhlbrünnen Springs. Dilutions.
Clinical
Blushing after eating. Constipation. Cramp. Debility. Diabetes. Gout. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Sprains. Urine, urging to pass.
Characteristics
Carlsbad water is a very complicated solution containing the sulphite, bicarbonate and chloride of sodium in preponderating quantity, with carbonates, sulphates, phosphates, fluoride and oxides of Calcium, Magnesium, Strontium, Ferrum, Manganum, Potassium, Aluminium, Silicon, and Carbon, with traces of iodide and bromide of sodium, of Caesium, Rubidium, Lithium, and Boracic oxide. Its chief fame has been gained by its action on the liver, and in the treatment of obesity and diabetes.
Its action has been observed on some healthy persons, but the bulk of the symptoms, many of which are strikingly peculiar, have been obtained from patients under treatment. They are, however, sufficiently characteristic and have furnished the indications for many homoeopathic cures. Most prominent are the following: Sensation of prostration; of weakness so that she trembled and could hold nothing securely. Tired, dejected, sluggish; anxious trembling.
Weakness of all organs; of organs of speech (Sermo abdominalis); of bladder (stream weak and slow, only passed with assistance of abdominal muscles); of rectum (stool slow and only passed with help of distant parts of intestinal canal; peristaltic motion seemed to cease not far from end of intestines and no amount of pressure was of any avail; faeces seemed held back rather than pushed forward.) General discomfort. General anxious sensation as if blood in artery would stagnate, with constant flushes of heat.
Pains: dislocated and spraining; drawing; tearing, stitching; burning; dull shocks and jerks. I have found Carlsb. in the potencies admirably respond to its indications. W. J.
Guernsey cured with it sciatica in an old man, with cramp in left ankle. About a month after ceasing the remedy the patient complained that he felt paralysed in the loins for several hours after rising from bed, better as the day advanced. This was a new symptom very like the Carlsb. effects. Periodicity is noted: effects repeated after from two to four weeks.
The skin has red spots and streaks, frequently burning like fire. Pimples and pustules. Crawling and prickling on various parts, with breaking out of sweat. Itching on various parts.
Much itching and increased sweat of genitals. Increased sensitiveness of the skin. Sensitiveness to cold air; great liability to take cold. Frequent alternations of shuddering, chilliness, and heat.
Flushes of heat all over, especially in face, with sweat on forehead. Heat of head with redness of face and creeping shudders. Sweats more easily. Sweat, stains linen yellow.
Symptoms < morning and evening; after eating and drinking; on ascending; after lying down in bed. > In open air; on motion. Even the headaches are > by motion.
Relations
Compare: Nat. sul. (sensitive to cold); Carb. an. (sweat staining yellow); Cepa (lachrymation); Nux (< after eating); Puls., Carb. v. > in open air); Bell., Glo. (headache); Anac., Apis, Nux mosch., Pho. ac. (absent-minded); Alo. (cracking in head).
Mind
Excited and peevish (in the morning on rising), often as if beside himself about trifles, with flushes of heat all over
Self-satisfied, very talkative and uncommonly good-humoured
Sensitive, affected to tears by the sorrows of others
Painful dejection with full stomach
Constrictive anxiety in a room;
> open air
Discouraged and anxious about domestic duties
Difficult thinking; indisposition to all mental exertions
Absent-minded; heedless; forgets names; great difficulty in expressing himself in writing; often omits letters.
Head
Dizzy confusion and heaviness < after eating;
> open air
Momentary attacks of vertigo, had to hold himself up; also turning as if in a circle;
> open air
Rush of blood to head, with heaviness and confusion
Cracking as if something breaking in head < evening on lying down
Pressing, stupefying, tearing headache
Tearing headache, now r. now l., in temples and occiput, > motion
Throbbing and beating in head, vertex and occiput with bluish red face, < ascending
Headache, forehead, and temples, with swollen temporal veins
Headache < in room, > open air, > on motion
Drawing creeping in cranial periosteum
Sensitiveness of periosteum
Hair falls out
Smoothing down hair is very painful
Sensation as if something cold ran over whole head, and hair bristled up.
Eyes
Heat streams from eyes with burning and pressing in them and an appearance of black spots swimming about
Burning and pressing, as if eyes were being pressed downwards; as if too large for orbits
Violent pressure above orbits
Twitching, quivering in upper lids, causing rubbing, as if a foreign body were there
Excessive lachrymation, < using eyes
Eyes weak, water; lids agglutinated; cannot do fine, near work
Objects swim before sight
Quivering, flickering before sight; fiery sparks; zigzags; bifurcated bodies and grey spots; clouds; veils.
Ears
Increased warmth in ear, which itches
Fine twitching stitches from Eustachian tube to tympanum > boring with fingers
Humming, roaring, ringing, changing at times into transient loss of hearing.
Nose
Bluish colour of nose; swelling of nasal veins
Habitual bleeding of nose
Nose-bleed on suppression of menses
Frequent sneezing; blowing out thick mucus
Catarrh of nose and throat, with hoarseness
Stopped catarrh
Sensitiveness of nose, as in incipient catarrh
Loss of smell after stoppage of nose.
Face
Face yellow; sallow; changes colour; redness and heat; somewhat swollen
R. cheek quivering and prickling; tearing, drawing; cutting drawing in zygomatic process below r. eye., as if zygomatic processes distended; r. zygomatic process, sensation of cobwebs as if he must constantly rub something away
Lower jaw pressed against upper in sleep; even grinding of the teeth.
Teeth
Thick pappy mucus coating on teeth
Teeth loosen and fall out; prominent, gums painfully swollen
Tearing in roots of upper molars;
< after every meal > olfaction of Cham.)
Toothache < cold or warmth.
Mouth
Tongue coated white with offensive smell from mouth
Dryness of whole mouth, esp. roof, as if dried up with increased thirst
Flow of saliva and frequent spitting
In morning, after waking, the entire mouth is often lined with mucus which sticks like paste to the teeth and causes a furry sensation in the mouth
Clayey, pappy taste with salivation
Everythings tastes as if salted.
Throat
Constantly much hawking up of mucus.
Stomach
Appetite and thirst much increased
Frequent eructations; sometimes smelling and tasting of the food, sometimes very bitter
Hiccough and yawning at same time, < after drinking and eating
Frequent heartburn with accumulation of much water in the mouth; also with eructation of almost corroding liquid and long-lasting sour taste in mouth
Nausea with salivation and shuddering
Sensation as of emptiness and afterwards canine hunger
Pressure and heaviness after eating; contraction; distension; smarting; scraping, rancid sensation.
Abdomen
Pressing, pinching now in hypochondria, now shooting thence towards navel
Twitching stitches in jerks
Burning pain in spleen
Sensation of ring stretched round abdomen esp. on deep inspiration
Transient stitches from region of small of back through pelvis towards the pubes and inguinal region
Griping and wind colic.
Stool And Anus
Flowing haemorrhoids
Burning in rectum with constant pressure; the rectum is often pressed out
Shooting pain in rectum and anus frequently extending to penis
Lumps as large as hazelnuts at anus, with burning after stool and impeded walking
Discharge of bloody mucus with itching and burning in anus, extending up towards rectum
Discharge of blood in drops or in a stream, even without stool when walking
Mucous diarrhoea
Pappy soft stools
Stools green, or dark green
Gall-stones passed
Sensation during a thin stool as though it passed in pieces
Constipation, stool missed for several days, hard lumps, very difficult
Stool slow, only evacuated with help of distant muscles; peristaltic action seemed to cease near end of intestine: faeces seemed held back.
Urinary Organs
Frequent urging with discharge of copious watery urine
Urine flows slowly in a weak stream, with help of abdominal muscles
Sediment at times brick-red, at times tenacious like frog-spawn; at times thick mucus, and even containing small lumps of blood
Urine stains linen dark yellow.
Male Sexual Organs
Testicles swollen without sign of inflammation; pressive pain.
Female Sexual Organs
Three days after cessation of menstruation discharge of lumps of tenacious black blood, and later, uncommonly violent leucorrhoea.
Respiratory Organs
Frequent hawking of mucus
Sensation of soreness; sensitiveness; scraping and tickling
Hoarseness and roughness of voice
Difficult breathing on ascending steps; and on carrying a slight and customary burden.
Chest
Weakness in the chest whilst writing, > walking
Heaviness; fulness; oppression; anxiety
Peculiar sensation of oppression in lower part of chest, as if lung had not room enough to expand, had to respire deeply
Stitching in chest
Painfulness in heart, frequent transient stitching and painful drawing.
Heart
Tension and contraction in heart region
Pressing and burning with warm ebullition and rush of blood
Sudden momentary twitching stitches through heart without special cause, so that he has to stop while walking.
Neck And Back
Drawing pain in nape of neck and shoulder-blade
Stiffness; paralysis; pressure
Heat and burning and at times a shudder over back
Tensive and pressing pains from small of back towards the region of the privates.
Limbs
Cracking in all the joints
Trembling and crawling in the joints and limbs
Restlessness; now extending, now flexing; with yawning
Sensation of falling asleep; stiffness
Heaviness of the arms after writing, with coldness and going-to-sleep sensation in finger-tips
Varicoses of superficial veins of lower limbs.
Sleep
Constant yawning and sleepiness;
< after a meal
Dreams frightful with tossing
Unremembered dreams.