Anthracinum

Anthracinum.

An alcoholic extract of the anthrax poison prepared from the spleens of affected sheep.

Clinical (Anthracinum)

Acne.

Boils.

Carbuncles.

Cynanche cellularis.

Erysipelas.

Gangrene.

Malignant pustule.

Parotitis gangrenosa.

Phlegmonous inflammation and ulceration.

Small-pox.

Splenic fever.

Ulcers.

Whitlow.

Characteristics (Anthracinum)

Anthracinum is indicated in all conditions of boils and boil-like eruptions (as acne in some forms, and in carbuncles).

It was introduced into homoeopathic practice by Lux the veterinarian long before the experiments of Pasteur.

The keynote for its employment is "succession of boils" or carbuncles, but it is also of the greatest use in other cases.

"Terrible burning" with carbuncle.

The potentised virus is the best remedy for the disease from which it is obtained — "Splenic fever" in animals, and "Malignant pustule" in human beings.

"Hard, stony" swelling in region of right lower jaw and submaxillary gland.

Anthrax-quinsy.

Black or blue blisters.

Erysipelas of a foul kind, and gangrenous erysipelas ; cellulitis.

Glands painfully swollen.

Horribly offensive gangrenous ulcers.

Induration of cellular tissue.

Whitlow and sloughing.

A number of symptoms have been recorded from human patients affected with the anthrax disease.

Relations (Anthracinum)

Anthracinum bovum, Anthracinum suum, Laches. , Tarent. c. , Arsen. , Carb. v.

It follows well : Arsen. (burning and ulceration), Phos. ac.

Antidoted by : Camph. , Ars. , Rhus, Silic. , Laches. , Carb. v. , Puls. , Kreos. , Carbol. ac. , Salicyl. ac. , Apis.

Head (Anthracinum)

Headache with chill.

Headache, as if a smoke with a heating pain was passing through the head.

Swelling of head.

Face (Anthracinum)

Gland under chin painfully swollen.

Parotitis gangrenosa.

Stony swelling around lower jaw.

Abdomen (Anthracinum)

Bellyache with chill.

Enlargement of spleen.

Sensation as if diaphragm were pushed forward.

Stool and Anus (Anthracinum)

Cholera-like collapse.

Diarrhoea with fever.

Vomiting followed by a painless, often bloody diarrhoea.

Heart and Circulation (Anthracinum)

Blood does not coagulate.

Cyanosis.

Heart-beats frequent but weak.

Back and Limbs (Anthracinum)

Axillary glands swollen.

Oedema ; ulcers ; gangrene ; sloughing whitlows.

Severe pains in limbs and joints with the fever.

Generalities (Anthracinum)

Clonic and tetanic spasms (marked rigor mortis after death).

Exhaustion and collapse.

Restlessness.

Terrible burning pains.

Skin (Anthracinum)

Black or blue blisters.

Boils.

Carbuncles.

Crusty oozing eruption.

Itching with dry skin.

Sloughing ulcers.

Small-pox.