Carbo Animalis

Carbo Animalis.

Animal Charcoal.

Contains Calc. phos. C (impure).

Made from charred ox-hide.

Trituration.

Clinical (Carbo animalis)

Acne rosacea.

Aneurism.

Appetite, disordered.

Breast, cancer of.

Bubo.

Cancer.

Cataract.

Coccygodynia.

Constipation.

Empyema.

Eructations.

Face, eruption on.

Gangrene.

Glandular indurations.

Haemorrhoids.

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 (Carbo animalis)

Carb. an. is suited to old persons, greatly debilitated, especially when there is venous plethora, and blueness of skin.

"Gone" feeling from loss of fluids.

A peculiar symptom is : A feeling of looseness — of eyes in sockets ; of brain on motion or coughing.

Affections from loss of animal fluids, especially nursing women.

Aversion to cold (Carb. v. to heat).

Aversion to dark.

Axillary glands inflamed buboes in groins.

Buboes.

Cancer of breast with burning, drawing pains through breast.

Cancer of uterus, burning pains down thigh.

Complaints occurring in scrofulous or venous constitutions.

Constipation where patient thinks bowels will be moved but only wind passes.

Copper-coloured eruptions show the appropriateness of the drug to many cases of constitutional syphilis.

Disagreeable smoothness of the teeth.

Discharges are ichorous ; but the discharge from piles is inodorous. Carb. an. 3x trit. has been used for insufflation in aural polypi.

Expectoration is greenish, purulent, offensive (Carb. v. yellow, more fetid).

Far-sighted (Carb. v. is near-sighted).

Fear of the dark and < on closing eyes is very marked.

Glands of stony hardness.

Gnawing pains in tibiae (during the night), such as usually followed cold feet.

Green, purulent, horribly offensive expectoration.

Hearing is confused ; cannot tell the direction from which sounds come.

Hunger in early morning.

It has cured many cases of injured coccyx and of neuralgia of the bone.

It is often indicated in the last stage of pneumonias, bronchitis, phthisis.

Nausea at night.

Objects seem farther apart and brighter.

Right chest is most affected.

Sweat stains yellow.

The goneness of Carb. a. is not > by eating (Carb. v. > eating).

The leucorrhoea stains linen yellow.

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.

The pains in the coccyx are peculiar ; a dragging, bruised pain, when touched it becomes burning.

There are many sensations of coldness : in chest ; about stomach.

There is a hoarse, suffocating cough producing a shaking of the brain as if it were loose.

There is a smothering feeling on closing eyes.

There is an ichorous otorrhoea ; and swelling of the periosteum over the mastoid bone is very characteristic.

Tip of nose red ; or blue.

Too weak to eat.

Ulceration, gangrene, and decomposition are marked, and may be looked upon as the counterpart of the antiseptic properties of the crude substance.

Weakness of nursing women ; can hardly walk across the room.

Weeps when she eats.

< After shaving.

< From sprains from touch.

< Lying on right side (cough).

After menses, throbbing headache, < in open air.

Pressure with hand > coldness of stomach.

Rest < head symptoms.

Symptoms are < in cold air ; > in warm room.

Weakness < during menses.

Relations (Carbo animalis)

Antidoted by : Ars. , Camph. , Nux, Vinegar.

Antidote to : Effects of Quinine.

Calc. phos.

Causation (Carbo animalis)

Eating decayed vegetables.

Eating spoiled fish.

Eating.

Lifting.

Loss of fluids.

Quinine.

Strain.

Mind (Carbo animalis)

Alternate feeling of gaiety and gloom, or of irascibility and ill-humoured taciturnity.

Confusion of ideas and dullness, esp. in the morning.

Discouragement and despair.

Disposition to be frightened.

Fear and apprehension, esp. in the evening.

Fright in the dark.

Nostalgia and mournful feeling of isolation, with tears.

Weeps during a meal.

Head (Carbo animalis)

Acute, drawing pains in the teguments of the right side of the head.

Congestion and internal heat of the head.

Headache at vertex as if skull torn open.

Headache in the morning, as after a debauch.

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.

Scabs and eruption on the head.

Sensation of torpor in the head.

Sensation of wavering of the brain, at every movement.

Sensibility of the scalp to the pressure of the hat.

Tension of the skin of the forehead, and of the crown of the 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.

Eyes (Carbo animalis)

A net seems to swim before the eyes.

Presbyopia with dilatation of the pupils.

Sensation as if the ball of the eye were detached from the socket, with weakness of sight.

Ears (Carbo animalis)

Buzzing in the ears.

Confusion of hearing ; sounds reach the ears indistinctly, does not know from what direction they come.

Discharge of pus from the ears.

Running from the ears.

Swelling of the parotids.

Swelling of the periosteum behind the ear.

Nose (Carbo animalis)

Desquamation of the skin of the nose.

Dry coryza.

End of the nose red and cracked, with burning pain.

Epistaxis, preceded by vertigo, or pressive headache.

Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, sneezing and frequent yawning.

Nose swollen, with scabby pimples (as at the commencement of a cancer?).

Painful sensibility of the bones of the nose.

Stoppage of the nose.

Face (Carbo animalis)

Blisters on the lips.

Erysipelas in the face.

Heat of the face and head in the afternoon.

Lips cracked and bleeding.

Painless copper-coloured eruption in the face.

Shootings in the cheek-bones, in the teeth and jaws.

Spots in the face, which are smooth, palpable to the touch, and rose-coloured.

Swelling of the mouth and of the lips, with burning pain.

Teeth (Carbo animalis)

Excessive looseness of the teeth.

Pulling odontalgia on eating bread, or with dull pulsation after drinking anything cold.

Purulent vesicles in the gums.

Red and painful swelling and bleeding of the gums.

Tractive pains in the gums.

Mouth (Carbo animalis)

Burning vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue.

Dryness of the tongue and of the palate.

Fetid smell from the mouth.

Throat (Carbo animalis)

Accumulation of mucus in the throat, with coughing and rattling.

Sore throat, as from excoriation, with scraping and shooting from the throat to the stomach.

Appetite (Carbo animalis)

Acid and mucous taste.

Bitterness in the mouth, esp. in the morning.

Great weakness of digestion, to such an extent that almost all food occasions suffering.

Repugnance to fat and tobacco smoke, which cause nausea.

Stomach (Carbo animalis)

Burning pain in the stomach.

Considerable inflation after a meal.

Cramp-like or contractive pains in the stomach.

Empty risings with pain.

Faint, gone feeling ; also from suckling child, not > by eating.

Flow of sour water from the mouth.

Hiccough after a meal.

Nausea, also at night.

Noisy grumbling in the stomach.

Pressure at the stomach, as if from a weight, when fasting, and in the evening, after lying down.

Pyrosis, with scraping in the throat.

Risings with taste of food, or else acid.

Squeezing in the stomach, as if by claws.

Water-brash.

Abdomen (Carbo animalis)

Abdomen inflated and extended.

Constriction and squeezing, as if by claws, in the abdomen.

Cuttings and shootings in the groins.

Fetid flatulency.

Incarceration of flatus.

Inguinal hernia.

Loud rumbling in the abdomen.

Pain in the liver, as if from excoriation, when the region is touched.

Pressure and cuttings in the hepatic region.

Stool and Anus (Carbo animalis)

Before the evacuation, traction from the anus to the vulva.

Burning haemorrhoidal tumours in the anus.

Burning pains and shooting in the anus, and in the rectum.

Discharge of taenia.

During stool, pain in the small of the back, with inflation of the abdomen.

Excoriation and oozing (inodorous) at the anus.

Faeces hard and knotty.

Frequent evacuations during the day.

Ineffectual efforts to evacuate ; discharge of wind only.

Sacral pains during the evacuation.

Tendency to galling at the anus from riding on horseback.

Viscid oozing at the perinaeum.

Urinary Organs (Carbo animalis)

Burning soreness in the urethra when urinating.

Burning urine.

Emission of urine at night.

Fetid urine.

Involuntary emission of urine.

Urgent desire to make water, with abundant emission.

Male Sexual Organs (Carbo animalis)

Absence of sexual desire.

Frequent pollutions, followed by weakness and anxious inquietude.

Female Sexual Organs (Carbo animalis)

Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts.

Leucorrhoea burning, smarting, or which imparts a yellow tinge to the linen.

Menses are followed by great exhaustion.

Nausea of pregnant females, coming on principally at night ; faint and empty sensation in the pit of the stomach is produced by nursing.

Painful nodosities and indurations in the mammae.

Premature catamenia.

Serous and fetid lochia.

Uterine haemorrhages where there is much affection of the glands.

Respiratory Organs

Aphonia at night.

Cough < lying on right side.

Cough, with discharge of greenish pus (suppuration of the lungs).

Cough, with purulent expectoration, and shootings in the right side of the chest.

Dry cough at night.

Hoarse cough, with pain as of excoriation in the throat ; in the morning, after rising.

Matutinal cough with expectoration, excited by a sensation of dryness in the throat.

Matutinal hoarseness.

Oppression of the chest, esp. in the evening and at night.

Suffocating cough, esp. in the evening, after having slept.

Chest (Carbo animalis)

Far gone pleurisy.

Green pus from chest.

In pleurisy where everything is cured but the stitch, and that remains.

Oppressed respiration, esp. in the morning and after a meal.

Panting respiration.

Pleurisy assuming a typhoid character, sickly bluish colour of skin, expectoration puriform, often putrid in character.

Rattling in the throat, in bed in the evening.

Right side most affected, stitches in right side.

Sensation of cold in the chest.

Sharp burning stitches.

Shootings in the chest, as from an abscess, esp. on breathing.

Suffocating constriction of the chest, esp. in the morning, in bed.

Heart (Carbo animalis)

(Atheroma and aneurism. )

Palpitation of the heart, in the morning, in the evening, and on singing in a public place.

Neck and Back (Carbo animalis)

Burning in the coccyx, when it is touched.

Burning pain in the back.

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.

Induration of the axillary glands.

Moisture in the arm-pit.

Nocturnal pains in the back.

Painful swelling and induration of the glands of the neck, and of the parotid glands, with shooting pain.

Pressure and shooting in the loins, esp. on breathing deeply.

Tetters under the arm-pit.

Upper Limbs (Carbo animalis)

Aching in the bones, digging pains in the arms.

Pain as of dislocation in the wrist.

Painful tension and arthritic stiffness of the joints of the fingers.

Pressure on the shoulders.

Shootings in the fingers.

Torpor and numbness of the hands and of the fingers.

Lower Limbs (Carbo animalis)

Burning pain in the toes.

Coldness of the feet.

Cramps in the calves of the legs the legs and the toes.

Drawing and sensation of contraction under the knee.

Inflammatory swelling of the feet and of the toes, as if they had been frozen with heat and burning.

Loss of strength in the joints of the feet, which give way readily when walking.

Pain as from excoriation in the knees.

Pain as of dislocation when walking or moving the limbs.

Pullings and shootings in the legs.

Shooting pain in the (left) 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.

Generalities (Carbo animalis)

Arthritic stiffness and gouty nodosities in the joints.

Burning pains.

Ebullition of the blood, and tendency to become easily overheated.

Excessive sensibility to the open air, and especially to the cold air of winter.

Great fatigue and weakness, produced esp. by walking, with easily produced perspiration, chiefly on eating and on walking in the open air.

Nocturnal pains in the joints.

Numbness of all the limbs.

Pain as from a bruise, want of strength, and cracking in the joints, which yield easily.

Pressive pains in the joints, and the muscles of the limbs.

Spasmodic contraction of several parts.

Tendency to strain the loins.

Tension in some limbs, as if from contraction of the tendons.

Torpor of all the members, esp. of the head.

Skin (Carbo animalis)

Chilblains.

Erysipelatous inflammations.

Hard and painful swelling of the glands.

Itching over the skin of the whole body, esp. in the evening in bed.

Swelling of the external parts, with burning pain.

Sleep (Carbo animalis)

Frightful visions before going to sleep.

Sleep deferred, and nocturnal sleeplessness, caused, by inquietude, anguish, ebullition of the blood, and fear of being stifled.

Sleep, with unquiet dreams, tears, talking, and hollow groans.

Fever (Carbo animalis)

Chill, esp. in the afternoon, in the evening, and after eating.

Debilitating, and fetid sweat, esp. at night and in the morning, principally on the thighs.

Easily produced perspiration during the day, esp. at a meal, or when walking.

Excessive cold in the feet and in the hands in the evening.

Nocturnal heat.

Pulse accelerated, esp. in the evening.

Shiverings, esp. in the evening, in bed, with perspiration during sleep.

Sweat, which stains the linen a yellow colour.