Antimonium Crudum

Mind

(Antimonium crudum)

Child delirious, drowsy, with nausea ; hot and red face ; pulse irregular ; feverish heat ; cries when washed in cold water ; better washed in warm water.

Child is fretful and peevish ; does not wish to be touched ( Cina ) or looked at.

Great sadness and woeful mood ; loathing of life.

Sentimental mood in moonlight, particularly ecstatic love.

Sulky ; does not wish to speak with anyone.

Head

(Antimonium crudum)

Heaviness of the forehead ; vertigo ; nausea (Lob.) ; nosebleed. (Bry.)

Slight, dull headache, and vertigo, increased by ascending stairs. (Calc. c.)

Violent headache, after bathing in the river, with weakness of the limbs and aversion to food.

Eyes

(Antimonium crudum)

Eyes red, inflamed, with itching and nightly agglutination ; morning photophobia . ( Lyc ., Sulph.)

Redness and inflammation of eyelids. ( Arg. nit., Graph., Merc., Lyc ., Sulph.)

Soreness of outer canthi.

Nose

(Antimonium crudum)

Sore, cracked, and crusty nostrils. (Ailanth., Graph., Kali bi., Nitr. ac., Puls .)

Nose painful when breathing, as if from inspiring cold air (Hydras., Psor.), or inhaling acrid vapors.

Face

(Antimonium crudum)

Cracks in corner of mouth ; painful-like sores. ( Graph ., Lyc ., Merc., Nitr. ac .)

Suppurating and long-lasting eruptions on cheeks. ( Graph ., Mez.)

Mouth

(Antimonium crudum)

Toothache in hollow teeth ; worse at night (Bell.) ; worse after eating ( Lach ., Nux v.), and from cold water (Calc. c., Coccul., Staph., Sulph.) ; touching the tooth with the tongue causes pain, as if the nerve were torn.

Stitches in tooth when inspiring air.

Dryness of the mouth. (Ailanth., Ars., Bry., Nux m., Hyos ., Kali bi.)

Much saltish saliva in the mouth. ( Cycl ., Merc. cor ., Sep., Sulph.)

Rawness of the palate, with expectoration of much mucus when clearing the throat.

Tongue coated thick white. (Acon., Ailanth., Bry., Merc., Nux v ., Sulph.)

Stomach

(Antimonium crudum)

Violent thirst, with dryness of the lips. (Acon.,. Ars., Bry .)

Belching with taste of what has been eaten ( Carb. an., Calc. c., Cinch ., Graph., Puls.) ; vomiting of mucus and bile.

Aversion to food (Arn., Ars., Coccul .) ; longing for acids. Ant. tart., Cinch.)

Pain at stomach after too much eating, with distended, but not hard abdomen. (Cinch.)

Cramp-like pains at stomach. (Ars.)

Loathing, nausea, and desire to vomit. (Ars., Ant. tart., Ipec.)

Stomach weak ; easily disturbed digestion. (Ars. ; Puls.)

Burning at pit of stomach ( Ars .), like heartburn, with good appetite.

Painful sense of fullness of stomach, which is sore to pressure. (Ars., Bry ., Lyc., Nux v .)

Abdomen

(Antimonium crudum)

Abdomen very much distended ; much rumbling.

Violent cutting in abdomen ; feeling of oppression coming from stomach ; indisposition to work ; dull mood and pain at stomach, with eructations.

Stool And Anus

(Antimonium crudum)

Stool watery, with little hard lumps, or containing undigested food. ( Calc. c., Cinch., Podo .)

Diarrhoea worse from vinegar and other acids, sour wine, overheating, after cold bathing, at night and early mornings.

Alternate diarrhoea and constipation (Cimic., Card. m., Natr. ars., Nux v., Podo.) of old people .

Difficult, hard stool ; feces too large. (Bry.)

Mucous piles, pricking and burning ; continuous mucous discharge from the anus ; haemorrhage from haemorrhoids.

Pain in the rectum during stool ; feeling of soreness as if an ulcer had been torn open.

Itching of the anus. (Nux v., Sil., Sep., Sulph .)

Respiratory Organs.- (Antimonium crudum)

Loss of voice ( Carb. v., Caust., Phos .) ; from getting overheated ; better after rest.

Feebleness of voice.

Violent spasms in the larynx and pharynx, as if the throat were filled with a plug, which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness.

Cough after rising in the morning ; in paroxysms ; as if arising from the abdomen ; the first paroxysm always most severe ; the subsequent ones weaker and weaker, until the last only resemble a hacking.

Pain in the chest, with heat.

Generalities

(Antimonium crudum)

Worse in warm weather ; exhaustion with night sweats ; sleepiness ; nausea ; vomiting.

Cannot bear the heat of the sun.

After the sweat is over heat and thirst return.

Upper Limbs.- (Antimonium crudum)

Arthritic pains in the fingers.

Finger nails do not grow as fast as formerly ; skin beneath the nails painfully sensitive.

Crushed finger nails grow in splits, and like warts, with horny spots.

Lower Limbs.- (Antimonium crudum)

Rheumatic pains in legs. Numbness of legs during rest and while sitting.

Large, horny places on the soles, close to the toes.

Great sensitiveness of the soles when walking. (Alum.)

Sleep

(Antimonium crudum)

Great sleepiness during the day ; mostly in forenoons.

Skin

(Antimonium crudum)

Eruptions like boils and blisters.

Horny excrescences ; smooth warts.

Pimples and vesicles as from stings of insects. ( Apis , Arn., Led .)

Measly-like eruptions. (Coff. c., Puls.)

Amelioration

Therapeutic Range.- (Antimonium crudum)

Affections of the mucous membranes in general-mucous flux without fever ; may appear as catarrh (nasal, bronchial, gastric, or enteric) ; dyspepsia, diarrhoea, etc.

It is also of great service in some forms of skin disease, when pustules or pocks arise, and when there is pricking and itching of the skin ; eczema of face, ears, nose, cheeks, etc. ; corns and callosities ; chronic blepharophthalmia of children ; whooping cough.

Conditions

(Antimonium crudum)

Children ; young people who grow fat ; old people ; bad effects from getting cold ; from washing or bathing, particularly in cold water.

Compare

(Antimonium crudum)

Amm. mur., Apis, Ant. tart., Ars., Cham., Coff. c., Graph., Kali bi., Hep. s., Ipec., Merc., Nux v., Petrol., Puls., Sulph.

Antidotes

(Antimonium crudum)

Hep. s., Merc., Puls. ; stings of insects.

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