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Carbo Vegetabilis
CARB V
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Origin Mineral · Simple
Habitat impure
ClarkePreparation Trituration.
Sources 19 entries across 17 books: Boericke, Kent, Clarke, Hering, Nash …

Dose
30X
First to third trituration in stomach disorders. Thirtieth potency and higher in chronic conditions, and in collapse.

Reason for useBoericke

Disintegration and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy. The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints. Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis. Body becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless stream and sepsis and typhoidal state ensues. A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions; states of collapse in cholera, typhoid; these are some of the conditions offering special inducements to the action of Carbo veg. The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open. This is a typical state for Carbo veg. The patient faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air. Haemorrhage from any mucous surface. Very debilitated. Patient seems to be too weak to hold out. Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness. Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; putrid (septic) condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation. General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold.


▲ Worse evening; night and open air; cold; from fat food, butter, coffee, milk, warm damp weather; wine
▼ Better from eructation, from fanning, cold

By regionBoericke
Mind Aversion to darkness. Fear of ghosts. Sudden loss of memory.
Head Aches from any over-indulgence. Hair feels sore, falls off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed. Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight. …
Eyes Vision of black floating spots. Asthenopia. Burning in eyes. Muscles pain.
Stomach Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down. Eructations after eating and drinking. …
Female Premature and too copious menses; pale blood. Vulva swollen; aphthae; varices on pudenda. …
Respiratory Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging and vomiting of mucus. Whooping cough, especially in beginning. …
Extremities Heavy, stiff; feel paralyzed; limbs, go to sleep; want of muscular energy; joints weak. Pain in shins. Cramp in soles; feet numb and sweaty. …
Fever Coldness, with thirst. Chill begins in forearm. Burning in various places. Perspiration on eating. Hectic fever, exhausting sweats.
Skin Blue, cold ecchymosed. Marbled with venous over distension. Itching; worse on evening, when warm in bed. …

Books*
Antidoted by Camphora 4, Arsenicum Album 2, Cinchona Officinalis 2 +13
Complementary Kali Carbonicum, Drosera Rotundifolia, Arsenicum Album +5
Follows well Cinchona Officinalis, Veratrum Album
Compare Arsenicum Album, Cinchona Officinalis, Lachesis +23

* Number of books that state the relation, where more than one. Historical text from the classical materia medica (1828–1950). Not medical advice, and not a claim that any remedy works.
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