Ομοιοπαθητική ΒιβλιοθήκηCarbo Animalis
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General EN
THE symptoms of Carbo animalis are, however, in the main identical with those of Carbo' vegetabiHs.
In those of the eye long-sightedness is noted instead of myopia.
In the face, a copper-colored, dry eruption, and papules.
Swelling of the glands in the neck, axillae, inguina, and mammae, which are painful.
Teeth very loose ; cannot chew the softest food. Vesicles in the mouth, forming ulcers.
The carbons require trituration to develop their power.
[Authorities in materia medica have been accustomed to regard substances which are nearly or quite identical in chemical composition as so likely to be substantially identical in pathogenetic or thera- peutic action that they might be used interchangeably, or one substituted for another as convenience or cheapness might dictate. This notion is somewhat like that which ascribes similar or identical properties to plants of the same natural famiUes. There is a certain basis of truth at the foundation of the dogma, but the exceptions are so numerous and so trenchant that we dare not in any single case act upon it in practice.
When we come to a minute analysis of ■pathogenetic action, we find that even substances so nearly identical as the two carbons, the vegetable and the animal, present important differences, and may not be used with indifference the one for the other. Instances illustrating this fact are found in the Ranunculus and other famihes among plants, and notably in the carbonaceous group of remedies, which includes Sepia. Murex, Graphites, Carbo veg. and Carbo an. It will be an interesting exercise for the student to trace the resemblances and the differences.]
APIUM VIRUS.
OPHTHALMIA ; angina ; erysipelas ; diarrhoea; dysentery; cholera infantum ; urticaria; hsem- aturia ; dropsy ; intermittent fever ; hydrocephalus ; each accompanied by the characteristic absence of thirst and by drowsiness.
Disposition. Depressed.
Sensorium: Cannot collect nor direct his thoughts. Confusion of the head, especially just about the eyes.
Head EN
Feeling as if too full ; it appears too large.
Heaviness, aching-pressing, especially on rising from a sitting or lying posture ; worse in a warm room, better by pressure with the hand.
Pains in the head, extending to the eyes ; extend- ing over the eyes ; around the eyes.
During the headache, photophobia.
Eyes EN
Itching, burning, stinging in the eyes ; lachrymation, redness ; shooting, stinging pains and burning. Photophobia ; lids swollen and aggluti- nated, and the seat of itching, stinging, burning pains.
Watery erysipelatous swelling around the eye.
Ears EN
Stinging and burning ; sensitive to noise.
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Nose EN
Snee2;ing. Swelling and stinging of the nose ; dryness and swelling.
Face EN
Face pale ; also livid ; feeling of fullness ; tension and swelling.
Lips. Swelling and soreness and stinging; the swelling extends to the face, etc.
Mouth EN
Tongue as if scalded, especially on the edges.
Vesicles along the edges, especially the left, with burning, rawness and stitches.
Tongue dry, fiery red, burning, sticking and swelling.
Tongue coated, with diarrhoea.
Mouth, fauces and throat dry.
The surface is sensitive, as if scalded.
The saliva is tenacious and frothy.
Throat EN
Pressure in the roof of the pharynx, as from a hard body.
Sticking, itching and contraction in the throat, hindering deglutition.
As if raw in the throat, with tenacious saliva when hawking.
Burning, smarting, sticking in the throat, especially when swallowing.
Tonsils red, swollen, painful, smarting.
Stomach EN
Loss of appetite.
Absence of thirst, with dropsy.
During the heat the throat is dry.
Eructations, with water- brash and taste of food, worse after drinking water.
Disgust, nausea with vertigo, fainting, prostration even to vomiting, with headache, swelling of the head, pain in the stomach and diarrhoea.
Pressure in the stomach, prickings as with needles, and extreme sensitiveness to pressure.
Abdomen EN
Throbbing, boring over the left os-ileum, lessened by eructation.
Rumbling, sense of nausea in the abdomen.
Internal sense of raw-
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ness; external tenderness to pressure (cannot bear clothes). Abdomen full, sensitive to pressure ; the feet swell ; the urine is scanty.
Stool EN
Sensation as if diarrhoea were coming- • urgency, pressure, tenesmus.
Every morning, soft stool, light yellow.
Diarrhoea yellow, watery, slimy, without pain, especially in the morning.
Offensive diarrhoea, tenesmus, blood, also mucus.
Heat and throbbing in the rectum, and feeling as if the rectum were full and stopped.
Thin, yellow stools, with the greatest prostration and weakness ; the stool comes with every motion of the body, as though the anus stood open.
(Verified in the case of Dr.
B.
Dysentery. 1870.)
Electric shocks in the rectum before disposition to stool.
Rawness in the anus, with diarrhoea.
Insupportable itching, with swelling, shooting, boring pains in haemorrhoids ; a bloody oozing, with swelling of the anus.
Urme.
Little or none.
Frequent desire ; scanty and high colored.
Burning in the urethra (when the urine is scanty).
Genitals.
Pain in the ovarian region, as if dislocated ; tender to pressure ; cuttings in the left side, then in the right ; drawings, shootings and bearing down.
Bearing down in the uterine region, as if the menses would appear.
Swelling of the labia.
The menses are interrupted for a day, then re-appear again and again.
Respiration.
Hoarseness.
Larynx sensitive to pressure ; throat rough and dry.
Tickling in the
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throat-pit, producing evening cough ; cough before midnight ; after lying down and sleeping ; better by expectoration.
Respiration slow, difficult ; the throat constricted.
Worse by motion, going up- stairs, and walking ; soreness under the ribs, with heat, headache and drowsiness ; cannot bear a hot room ; chest full ; must sit up.
Pain in the left side near the sternum.
Shootings in the left side.
Pain in the region of the heart, shooting and impeding respiration.
Pulse full and strong, or small and rapid.
Tru7ik and Externally.
Stiffness of the loins.
Drawing pains in the shoulders, beginning in the shoulder and extending to the finger-ends.
Numb- ness, especially of the left arm.
Burning, shooting and stinging in the hands.
Redness, heat, swell- ing.
Itching, burning and chapping.
Drawing pain through the leg from the hip to the toes.
Aching and swelling of the knee.
The feet swell, are heavy, stiff, painful, swollen ; and itch as if they had been swollen.
They are sensitive to the least pressure,
Dispositio7i.
Irritable and restless ; weak and trembling.
Weakness in paroxysms, with vertigo.
Fainting, with pallor, coldness and diarrhoea.
Sleep EN
Yawning, and great desire for sleep.
Sleep restless, full of dreams.
Dreams of cares and trouble.
Long sleep in the morning.
Fever EN
Shaking chill, with urticaria after heat. Slight shiverings on the least movement while sit- ting in the evening; with headache, heat of the
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face and hands. Shivering increased by warmth ; followed by heat and cough.
Dr.
G. gives indications for Apis in intermit- tent : Chill at four p. m., increased by warmth ; renewed chilliness from slight movement ; heat of the face and hands.
No sweat.
Falls into a deep sleep.
Skin EN
Heat and redness in the evening and at night, with excitement, headache and diarrhoea, swellings and cough.
Itching, like prickling of needles, as from insects, recurring on every motion.
Burning, itching, sting- ing.
Bright red swelling, with red streaks, along the limbs.
Skin swollen, pale or red, puffed.
Flat swellings, with stinging, red or pale.
Nettle-rash.
CEdema.
Dropsical swelling.
General.
Warmth aggravates ; cold relieves.
Burning and stinging.
Sensibility to external touch and pressure.
Drowsiness.
Thirstlessness.
APPLICATIONS.
See ante.
Diphtheria, patches gray ; great debility ; puffy eyelids, and swollen feet ; drowsiness.
Hydrocephalus.
Meningitis tuberculosis of chil- dren.
" Child lies in a torpor ; delirium ; sudden shrill, piercing cries ; squinting ; grinding teeth ; boring the head in the pillow; one half of the body twitching, the other paralyzed ; head wet from sweating ; scanty urine."