ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. [Ant. tart.] Tart. Emetic. Stapf. 2[K(Sb O) C4H4O6] H2O.

► Confusion of the head ; with feeling as if he ought to sleep. ► The child will not allow itself to be touched without whining and crying. ► Bad humor. θ Bronchial catarrh. ► Wild gaiety toward evening. ► Apprehensive and restless. ► Dreads being left alone, lest he should be very nervous. ► Mental excitement. ► Frightened at every trifle.

► Vertigo : on closing the eyes ; on walking ; with flickering before the eyes ; when lifting the head, must lie down. ► Heaviness of head.

► Headache, as from a band compressing the forehead. ► Pressive pains in the forehead, stitching extending downwards into left eye. ► Throbbing in right side of forehead. ► Painful drawing in the right temple, extends down to the zygoma and upper jaw. ► Tearing pains in the head. ► Stitches in left parietal bone on stooping, extending forwards. ► Trembling of the head, particularly when coughing.

► Scalp very sensitive, with heaviness, of head.

► Flickering before the eyes. ► Sees only as through a thick veil. ► Vanishing of sight. ► Dim, swimming eyes. θ Diarrhoea. ► Inflammation of conjunctiva, with much lachrymation. ► Eyeballs pain, as if bruised. ► Eyes feel tired, as if the lids would close. ► Inclination to press the lids tightly together. ► Ophthalmia rheumatica or arthritica.

► Roaring in the ears. ► Fluttering before the left ear, as from a large bird ; at same time warmth of ear. ► Twitching, tearing in right concha, evening, on lying down ; disappears in bed.

► Sneezing, fluent coryza and chilliness, with loss of taste and smell. ► Stoppage of nose, alternating with fluent coryza. ► Nosebleed, followed by fluent coryza with sneezing. ► Stupefying tension over root of nose, as from a band.

► Face : pale, sunken ; pale, puffed, with coma ; bluish. ► Tearing pain in whole side of face, even head and neck of that side. θ Rheumatic toothache. ► Burning heat of face. ► Cold sweat on face. ► Warm sweat on forehead and head from efforts to vomit. ► Convulsive twitches in almost every muscle of the face.

► Lips dry, scurfy. ► Itching vesicles on lips. ► Burning, as from hot coal, on right side of chin.

► Violent toothache in the morning. ► Rheumatic toothache of intermittent type. ► Gums bleed. ► During dentition catarrhal hyperaemia.

► Taste : flat ; salty ; sour ; bitter ; as from rotten eggs. ► Food seems tasteless. ► Tobacco has no taste. ► Tongue : red, in streaks ; very red, and dry in centre ; covered with thick, white, pasty coat ; coated very thinly white, with reddened papillae, red edges. ► Difficult, even painful, to move the tongue.

► Mouth so sore, can scarcely swallow, morning after rising. ► Small circular patches like small-pox pustules, in and upon the mouth and tongue.

► Sensation of soreness on posterior part of palate when not swallowing. ► Much mucus in throat, with short breathing. ► Roughness in throat, with sensation as if a small leaf obstructed the windpipe on hawking. ► Swallowing painful or impossible.

► Extraordinary appetite for apples, and thirst for cold water. ► Desire for acids. ► Much thirst, drinks little and often, or, absence of thirst. ► Appetite diminished. ► No desire for his tobacco.

► Food relieves, somewhat, the pressure in the abdomen.

► Violent hiccough. ► Eructations : empty ; acid ; bitter ; salty, nauseous fluid, taste of the food taken. ► Qualmishness in stomach after dinner. ► Nausea : causing anxiety ; with slight pressure in pit of stomach, followed by headache in forehead ; and incessant vomiting whole night, with diarrhoea ; then yawning with profuse lachrymation, followed by vomiting. ► Vomiting in any position, except lying on right side ; with headache, trembling of hands ; with great effort. ► Vomit : green ; tough, watery mucus, then pasty food, then fluid, mixed with bile. ► Vomiting is followed with great languor, drowsiness, loathing, desire for cooling things. θ Diarrhoea. ► Retching, then vomiting, followed by great prostration.

► Sensation as if stomach had been "overloaded" ; eructations frequent, like foul eggs ; sleep restless. ► Violent pains at the epigastrium, which was tense. ► Cramps in the stomach. ► Pressure in pit of stomach. ► Beating and throbbing, particularly in pit of stomach or abdomen, with great concern about the future.

► Region of liver sensitive to touch. ► Icterus with pneumonia, especially of the right lung.

► Abdomen feels as if stuffed full of stones, though he has eaten nothing, and it does not feel hard. ► Pressure and aching in hypogastrium, with cold shivers. ► Violent colic, as if the bowels would be cut to pieces. ► Violent cutting and labor-like tearing, from above downwards across groins, through thighs down to knees. ► Colic around the umbilicus. ► Violent burning soreness in right groin. ► Shifting of flatulence, with rumbling in bowels, diarrhoea.

► Stitches in the rectum. ► Copious alvine evacuation. ► Stools ; yellowish-brown ; thin, bilious, mucous ; liquid greenish, with heat at the anus ; slimy, appear like yeast ; of cadaverous smell. ► Desire for stool ineffectual, through the bowels seem full and pressing.

► Urine : dark brownish-red, turbid, of strong odor ; becomes cloudy and deposits a violent-colored earthy sediment ; scanty, last drops bloody, violent pains in the bladder ; albuminous. ► Burning in the urethra during, also after urinating.

► Menses too early, weak, and only for two days. ► Before menses ; pain in the groins and cold creepings. ► Leucorrhoea of watery blood, worse when sitting ; comes in paroxysms. ► Pustules on external genitals.

► Gastric derangements -vomiting of mucus ; belching ; disgust for food ; salivation. ► Child at birth pale breathless, gasping, although the cord still pulsates. θ Asphyxia neonatorum.

► Voice weak and changed in the evening. ► Hoarseness in the morning, worse on talking. ► Rattling of mucus when coughing or breathing. ► Much rattling of mucus in trachea ; cannot get it up. ► Rattling, originating in upper bronchia, can be heard at a great distance. θ Bronchial catarrh. ► Catarrhal croup, croup of adults. ► Bronchioectasis and senile catarrh.

► Rapid ; short ; heavy and anxious. ► Dyspnoea ; must be supported in a sitting posture. ► Suffocated and oppressed about 3 A.M., must sit up to get air ; after cough and expectoration she became better. ► Child breathless and pale when born. ► Great difficulty in expiration. ► Respiration with great rattling of mucus.

► Coughing and gaping consecutively. ► Cough, if children get angry, also after eating ; child vomits food and mucus. ► Short cough with a shrill sound. θ Bronchial catarrh. ► Cough compels the patient to sit up, is moist and rattling, but no expectoration. ► Catarrh provokes cough, though she had no power to cough. ► Gasping for air, before every attack of cough. ► Cough : with copious frothy expectoration or without expectoration. ► Cough grows less frequent, patient shows signs of "carbonized blood". ► Scraping cough, with pus-like expectoration. ► Bloody, slimy expectoration after haemoptysis.

► Chest seems full of phlegm, without ability to expectorate it. ► Anxious, with oppression of the chest and rising of warmth from the heart. ► So warm about the heart that she must let the arms sink down with general weakness. ► Full feeling of the chest. ► Constriction of chest. ► Oedema of the lungs. ► Broncho-pneumonia.

► Palpitation of the heart. ► Great precordial anxiety, with vomiting of mucus and bile. ► Pulse : hard and quick, in old people ; rapid ; weak and trembling ; small, contracted.

► Crawling as of insects above the left mamma.

► Does not like anything to touch him ; inclination to unbutton the collar of his shirt. ► Cramp in the muscles of the neck. ► Pain in the back as from fatigue, especially after eating and while sitting. ► Sharp stitches in the region of kidneys on moving arms. ► Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region ; the slightest effort to move causes retching and cold, clammy sweat.

► Tearing and stitching pains. ► Pain as from dislocation, in the right shoulder. ► Trembling of the hands. ► Hands cold and moist. ► Finger tips appear dead, dry and hard ; without sensation.

► Numbness and coldness in the legs. ► Tension in the hamstrings on walking. ► Rheumatic pains about the hips, thighs and calves. ► Feet go "to sleep" immediately after sitting down. ► Weariness in the feet. ► Cold feet.

► Weakness ; insensibility and coldness ; heaviness. ► Constant inclination to touch. ► Rheumatic and bruised sensation in limbs, on and shortly before rising.

► On lying down : 6. Sitting : 23, 26, 31, 33. Lifting the head : 2. Rising : 34. Stooping : 3. Motion : 31, 36, 40. Moving the arms : 31. Inclined to stretch : 34. Walking : 2, 33.

► Trembling : of whole body ; internal ; of head and paralytic trembling of hands on every motion. ► Great restlessness. θ Bronchial catarrh. ► Great weakness and lassitude. ► Great prostration and sluggishness of the body. ► Faintness. ► Alternation of unsteadiness and syncope.

► Yawning ; great sleepiness ; irresistible inclination to sleep. ► Had scarcely fallen asleep when he was seized with shocks and jerks, all of the which came from the abdomen.

► 3 A.M. : 26. Morning : 10, 12, 25. Evening : 1, 6, 25. Night : 16, 40. During the day : 40.

► Open air : 2.

► Chill ; with external coldness ; coming on at all times of the day, with somnolency ; mostly with trembling and shaking ; frequently as if cold water was poured over one. ► Chill and heat alternating during the day. ► Violent but not long-lasting heat succeeding a long chill, aggravated by every motion. ► Long-lasting heat, after a short chill, with somnolency and sweat on the forehead. ► Profuse sweat all over, also at night. ► Sweat is frequently cold and clammy. ► The affected parts sweat most profusely. ► Sticky sweat.

► Wave-like increase and decrease of pain in forehead.

► Rheumatic pains first in right hand then through both legs from above downwards, especially in knees. ► Right : 4, 9, 16, 19, 32. Left : 3, 6, 30. Above downwards : 3, 19. Behind forwards : 3.

► Mucous membranes ; catarrhal inflammation ; conjunctivitis ; gastritis, enteritis ; laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, extending even into the air cells ; cystitis. ► Pustular eruption : on the conjunctiva ; face ; mouth and fauces ; oesophagus, stomach, jejunum ; genitals. See 46.

► The child wants to be carried, cries if any one touches it ; will not let you feel the pulse.

► Red itching rash over the body. ► Vesicular eruption over the body. ► Pustular eruption leaves bluish red marks on face, also similar eruption on genitals and thighs painful. ► Thick eruption like pocks, often pustular, as large as a pea. ► Itching pustules ; which soon dry up. ► Itching in the skin. ► Eruption fails to appear and convulsions set in ; varicella.

► Similar to : Acon. (croup, spasm of larynx) ; Arsen. (asthma ; heart symptoms ; gastric catarrh, etc.) ; Baryt. carb. ; Bromine (croup) ; Camphor ; Hepar ; Iodium ; Kali hydr. (oedema pulmon., pneumonia) ; Laches. (dyspnoea on awakening, sensitive larynx, asthma, asphyxia, etc.) ; Lycop. (catarrh on the chest, but the spasmodic motion of alae is replaced by dilated nostrils in Ant. tart.) ; Veratr. (both have diarrhoea, colic, vomiting, coldness, and craving for acids), Ant. tart. has more jerks, drowsiness and urging to urinate ; Veratr. more cold sweat and fainting. ► Similar to Ipec. (but has more drowsiness from defective respiration. It must supplant Ipec. when lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy and the cough ceases or becomes less frequent). ► Effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and Silic. is not indicated. ► With Phosphor. ; hydrocephaloid in worn out constitutions ; also similar in laryngitis, pneumonia, etc. ► Follow with Silic. for dyspnoea from foreign substances in the windpipe ; Pulsat. in gonorrhoeal suppression ; Tereb. in symptoms from damp cellars. ► Conium cures pustules on the genitals caused by Ant. tart. ► Camphor., Ipec., Pulsat. ; Sepia, Sulphur follow Ant. tart. well. ► Ant. tart. follows well after Baryt. carb., Pulsat., Camphor. and Caustic. ► Antidotes to Ant. tart. : Asaf., Cinchon., Coccul., Ipec., Lauroc., Opium, Pulsat. and Sepia, Ant. tart. antidotes : Sepia.