Antimonium Crudum

Head

Headache, mostly in the forehead, often followed by nosebleed; from anything that seems to damage the stomach, bathing, alcoholic drinks, taking cold, suppressed eruptions, etc.; as if the forehead would burst, from catarrh of frontal sinus, stoppage of the. nose. Dull aching in the forehead, and vertigo, increased by going up-stairs. Itching of scalp and falling of hair, Vertigo, nausea, nosebleed and heaviness in head.

Eyes

Eyes and lids inflamed, itching, nightly agglutination and morning photophobia. Soreness of outer canthi. Inflammation of the lachrymal gland and ducts. Chronic sore eyes of children.

Ears

Moist eruption both on and behind the ears; otorrhoea.

Nose

Sore. Cracked and crusty nostrils, often stoppage of the nostrils. Every inhalation through the nostrils is painful.

Face

Eruption of the face generally, chronic, suppurating. Cracks or painful sores in the corners of the mouth, coming and going at long intervals. Honey-colored sores on chin, sore when touched. Dry lips.

Mouth

Severe bleeding about the teeth. Stitches in and about the teeth when inspiring cold air; pain in decayed teeth, worse at night by touching them with the tongue or anything else, better in open air; the pain, at times, shoots far up into the head. Rawness of the palate and expectoration of much mucus. Gnawing or jerking pain in the carious teeth, worse after eating. Much saltish saliva in the mouth. The tongue is coated white, sometimes quite thickly.

Throat

Feels as if something had lodged in the throat, which causes a frequent desire to swallow.

Stomach

Great desire to take food which is not appropriated to strength. Loss of appetite, with disgust of food. Desire for acids and for pickles. Nausea and vomiting, and sometimes diarrhoea from taking vinegar or bad sour wine. Bread and pastry cause nausea and cutting colic, wine aggravates the gastric symptoms. Frequent discharges of wind upward and downward; belching, with taste of ingesta. In intermittent fever, between the paroxysms, nausea, vomiting, aching in the stomach, disgust for food or drink, often with a bitter taste. The nausea and vomiting, or vomiting without nausea is very persistent and striking. Stomach is easily deranged and feels overloaded, or as if had eaten too much; feels sore or oppressed, even from taking a bad cold. Gastric catarrh with the characteristic white tongue; even if caused by metastasis of rheumatism or gout. Violent thirst, often with dry lips. Excessive vomiting of mucus and bile, with convulsions or diarrhoea. Cramp-like pains in the stomach. Heartburn, with good appetite.

Abdomen

Very much distended. Cutting in the bowels, with diarrhoea, sometimes with constipation.

Stool And Anus

Vomiting and diarrhoea of children, yellow stools, smelling very badly. Watery stools, with little hard lumps, or containing undigested food, or large portions of solid matter, or fluid blood with portions of solid matter. Diarrhoea from acids, overeating, overheating, cold bathing, at night and early mornings; of old people, also alternating with constipation. Difficult, hard stools, too large, with incarcerated flatus, white, dry, in nursing children, like lumps of cord. Pricking, burning piles, discharging mucus, staining yellow, sometimes oozing of ichor, Sometimes the heat of summer produces constipation. Pain in the rectum during stool as if an ulcer had been torn open.

Urine

Frequent, much mucus, burning in urethra, backache and sometimes diarrhoea. Urine clear and golden yellow, or brown-red, or with small red corpuscles after standing a few hours.

Sexual.-- Female : Pressure in the uterus as if something would come out of it, especially during uterine haemorrhage. Toothache before the menses, with boring into the temples. Quite solid lumps in a watery leucorrhoea, which sometimes causes a smarting down the thighs. Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea during pregnancy.

Chest

Violent spasms in the larynx and pharynx as if the throat were filled with a plug, which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied with a feeling of soreness. Extreme feebleness of voice, can only speak in a low tone; voice often lost by becoming overheated, but is regained after resting. Paroxysmal coughing spells early in the morning, the first attack very hard, but each successive one becomes lighter and lighter. Whooping cough, when aggravated by becoming overheated. Severe itching on the chest. Expectoration of large quantities of mucus, which seems to exhaust the patient. Violent itching upon the back.

Extremities

Upper : The skin beneath the finger-nails becomes very sensitive. A horny growth under the nail. Crushed finger-nails grow in splits, with horny spots. Arthritic pains in fingers. The ligaments of the elbow become inflamed and painful, with redness and contraction of the arm. Lower : Drawing pain in knees, lower part left tibia, in left heel, and tearing through the right great toe. Tumor or white swelling of the knee. Large horny places on the soles, close to where the toes commence. Soles very tender to walk upon. Corns on the soles and toes which are often inflamed.

Skin

Eruptions like boils or blisters. Pimples and blisters like stings of insects. Deep spongy ulcers, with gastric ulcers, thick, hard scabs, often honey-yellow, here and there a crack oozing a green, sanious fluid, burning as if immersed in hot embers. Horny excrescences. Smooth warts, which are often soft. Urticaria white, with red areolae, which itch fearfully. Measle-like eruptions, with marked gastric disturbance.

Sleep

Great sleepiness during the day, can hardly rise in the morning, so sleepy. Almost irresistible sleep in the evening.

Fever

Intermittent fevers with decided gastric symptoms during apyrexia. Sweat breaks out during the heat, which soon disappears, and then dry heat continues. Violent chill without thirst; heat with thirst followed by sweat. After the sweat is over, heat and thirst return.

Generalities

Tendency to get fat. Rheumatic or gouty pains with gastric symptoms. Must lie down for hours. Convulsions, with jactitation, vomiting, rattling of mucus. After severe illness if appetite does not return. Much exhausted from warm weather; cannot bear the heat of the sun. Complaints returning periodically. Mucous membranes generally affected. Anasarca. Marasmus. Children cannot bear to be touched or looked at. Chronic affections traceable to suppressed eruptions or ulcers.

Worse.-- From cold bathing and from taking cold from wet poultices and from washing. Sensitive to cold air.

Better.-- In the cool air.

Remedies following:-- Calc. carb., Pulsat., Laches., Sepia, Sulphur .

Antidote

Hepar.