Carbo Vegetabilis

Mind

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Anxiety and oppression.

Peevish, irritable, and inclined to anger. ( Bry., Cham .)

Indifference to everything he hears or sees. (Berb., Phos.)

Ideas flow slowly.

Head

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Confusion of the head, which makes thinking difficult. ( Amm . carb ., Kreos.)

Vertigo ; had to hold on to something ; also when stooping. (Acon., Bell.)

Head feels heavy as lead. (Lach.)

Headache, as from contraction of the scalp.

Painful stitches through the head when coughing. (Bry.)

Painful throbbing in the head during inspiration.

Pressive headache in forehead, just over the eyes.

Dull headache in the occiput.

Drawing and tearing in left side of occiput.

Pressive pain in lower portion of occiput.

Head painfully sensitive to pressure, especially of hat (Nitr. ac., Mez.) ; sensation remains after hat is taken off, as if bound up with cloth.

Hair falls out ; worse on back of head.

Eyes

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Heavy weight seems to rest on the eyes (Caust., Coni., Gels.) ; must make exertion to distinguish letters when reading.

Black, floating spots before the eyes.

Muscles of the eye pain when looking up.

Itching on the margins of the lids. (Calc. c., Sulph.)

Short-sighted, from overtaxing the eyes.

Ears

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Ringing in the ears. (Acon., Bell., Cinch., Sulph .)

Something heavy seems to lie before the ears ; seem stopped (Chel.), but hearing not diminished.

Heat and redness of left ear every evening.

Nose

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Severe nosebleed, several times daily, for weeks ; face pale before and after every attack.

Frequent sneezing, with constant and violent crawlings and tickling in the nose.

Drawing in root of nose ; dry coryza.

Face

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Face very pale ( Ars .), grayish-yellow color ; Hippocratic. (Verat. alb.)

Soreness of facial and maxillary bones. (Hep. s., Kali bi., Nitr. ac.)

Drawing in the upper and lower face.

Tearing in left cheek. (Puls.)

Swelling of the upper lip and cheek, with jerking pain.

Jerking tearing in right upper maxillary.

Twitching of the upper lip.

Mouth

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Easily bleeding gums. ( Merc ., Nitr. ac., Phos.)

Gum boils.

Drawing, tearing pain in molars.

Gums become loosened from the teeth, and retracted.

Gums painfully sensitive when chewing. ( Caust ., Merc.)

Tongue coated white (Ant. crud., Bry., Merc., Nux v., Puls .) ; yellowish brown.

Tongue sensitive and raw. (Nitr. ac.)

Mouth hot, with rawness and dryness of tip of tongue.

Increase of saliva.

Bitterness in palate ; dry tongue.

Bitter taste before and after eating. ( Bry., Nux v., Puls .)

Throat

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Much hawking of mucus.

Scraping rawness and burning in the throat. (Ammon. carb., Caust., Phos., Puls.)

Swallowing, coughing, or blowing the nose causes pain in posterior nares and fauces, as if sore.

Sensation of contraction in pharynx. (Bell., Caps., Hyos.)

Stomach

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Aversion to meat (Alum., Arn., Graph.), and fat things ( Puls .) ; to milk, which causes flatulence. (Cinch., Sulph.)

Violent, almost constant, eructations ; sour (Ambr., Nux v ., Phos., Sulph .), rancid, or empty. (Puls.)

Nausea in the morning with qualmishness in stomach.

Feels acidity in stomach while lying on the back and when walking.

Burning in stomach. (Ars., Camph., Canth., Lob., Sulph.)

Stomach feels tense and full.

Contrastive cramp, extending into chest, with distension of abdomen.

Epigastric region very sensitive. (Ant. crud., Ars., Bell.)

Abdomen

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Hypochondria painful to touch ; clothing oppresses him and is unendurable. ( Calc. c ., Lach., Graph .)

Tension and stitches in liver. (Bry., Kali carb., Cinch., Nux v., Sep.)

Colic from flatulence ; abdomen full to bursting ; worse from least food ; better from passing flatus. (Coloc., Lyc ., Cinch ., Sulph .)

Abdomen greatly distended ; better from passing wind up or down. (Sulph.)

Abdomen feels as if hanging heavily ; walks bent.

Flatus collects here and there in abdomen, under short ribs in hypogastrium, etc. ( Lyc .)

Stool And Anus

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum. (Merc. cor.)

In rectum gnawing, crawling ; tenesmus.

Bleeding from anus.

Much offensive flatus. ( Aloe , Bry., Colch., Mez., Sil .)

Burning in anus after stool. ( Ars ., Canth., Caps .)

Sticking, stitching soreness in anus.

Even soft stool passed with difficulty. ( Alum., Nux m .)

Stools ; mucous with much urging ; cadaverous, putrid, offensive, involuntary. ( Ars .)

Urine

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Red sediment in urine. (Bell., Lyc., Kreos., Sep .)

Urine dark-red, as if mixed with blood. (Acon., Canth.)

Wetting bed at night. ( Caust., Puls .)

Male Organs.- (Carbo vegetabilis)

Onanism during sleep.

Seminal discharge too soon during coitus.

Prostatic discharge while straining at stool.

Female Organs.- (Carbo vegetabilis)

Menses too early and too profuse (Amm. carb., Ars., Calc. c., Nux v.) ; blood too thick and of a strong odor.

Leucorrhoea thin in morning on arising, not through day ; milky, excoriating. (Ars., Coni., Kreos.)

Red, sore places on pudenda ; aphthae ; itching ; sore and raw during leucorrhoea. (Merc.)

Vaginal fistula, burning pains.

Debility from nursing. ( Cinch .)

Lumps in mammae, with induration of axillary glands, and with burning pains, anxiety, want of breath.

Respiratory Organs.- (Carbo vegetabilis)

Great roughness in the larynx, with deep rough voice, which failed if he exerted it. (Caust., Cinch., Phos ., Kali bi.)

Hoarseness and rawness, worse evenings ; aphonia, mornings. ( Caust ., Phos.)

Difficult breathing ; fullness of the chest, and palpitation on slightest motion.

Desires to be fanned ; must have more air. ( Ars ., Bapt.)

Cough ; spasmodic, hollow ; involuntary, rough, caused by roughness and crawling in throat ; caused by itching in larynx.

Expectoration mucous ; yellow green ; tenacious, salty. (Ambr., Lyc ., Phos., Sep.)

Sensation of weakness and fatigue of the chest. (Stan.)

Burning in the chest as from glowing coals ; rawness, soreness.

Oppression of the chest with wheezing and rattling. ( Ant. tart .)

Pressive pain in upper right chest.

Oppressive tearing in left chest.

Heart and Pulse.- (Carbo vegetabilis)

Pulse thread-like ; weak and faint. (Acon., Ars., Camph.)

Palpitation of the heart.

Cheyne-stokes breathing in organic heart disease.

Neck and Back.- (Carbo vegetabilis)

Cervical glands swollen and painful ( Baryt ., Calc. c.) ; especially those near the nape.

Tearing in cervical muscles.

Rheumatic drawing pains in neck and back.

Burning in right shoulder blades.

Severe pain in small of back ; she was unable to sit, then felt like a plug in back, had to put a pillow under it.

Pressive, sore pain in coccyx and lower spine.

Limbs

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Numbness in all the limbs ; go to sleep while lying on them.

Drawing and tearing pains in all the limbs. (Bry., Coloc., Lyc., Merc.)

All the limbs feel bruised.

Upper Limbs.- (Carbo vegetabilis)

Burning on right shoulder.

Bruised pain in both elbow joints.

Drawing, tearing in left forearm, from elbow to hand.

Tearing in either wrist.

Tearing in fingers of left hand.

Lower Limbs.- (Carbo vegetabilis)

Drawing pain in hip joints, extending to thighs.

Stiffness of legs, unsteady when first attempting to walk.

Left lower leg feels paralyzed.

Paralytic, drawing pain from abdomen to left leg.

Cramp in soles of feet (Sil.) ; evenings after lying down. ( Sulph .)

Generalities

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Vital forces nearly exhausted (Caps., Laur.) ; cold surface, especially below knees to feet ; lies as if dead ; breath cool ; pulse intermittent, thready ; cold sweat on limbs.

Great debility and weakness as soon as he makes the least exertion.

Attacks of faint-like weakness.

Tearing, drawing pains in various parts of the body.

Sepsis, sunken features, sallow complexion, hectic, typhoid symptoms.

Blood stagnates in capillaries, causing blueness, coldness ; ecchymoses.

Anaemia after summer complaint ; feeble ; pallid, white skin.

Atrophy, body cold ; lies as if dead, yet conscious.

Lymphatic glands swollen ; indurated, or suppurating ; burning pains.

Skin

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Fine moist rash, with burning at spots where there is no eruption.

Ulcers ; bleeding easily ( Asaf., Merc .) ; putrid ; with burning pain. ( Ars .)

Sleep

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Great sleepiness and yawning during the day ; sleepless at night.

Night full of dreams.

Fever

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Shivering in evenings, with weariness.

Chill, generally with thirst, cold hands and feet ; mostly evenings.

Fever generally without thirst. ( Puls .)

Hectic fever.

Exhausting sweat. ( Cinch., Phos. ac .)

Aggravation

Therapeutic Range.- (Carbo vegetabilis)

Ailments from Quinine , especially suppressed chills and fever ; ailments from abuse of Mercury ; from salt or salt meats ; from putrid meat or fish, or rancid fats ; scorbutis, pyrosis, dyspepsia, cardialgia, diarrhoea, constipation, haemorrhoids, hoarseness, aphonia, emphysema, bronchitis, asthma, phthisis, intermittent fever, typhoid, ulcers, eczema, glandular diseases, chlorosis, gangrene, senile or humid.

Conditions

(Carbo vegetabilis)

In persons whose vital powers are low, venous system predominant ; especially old people ; children after exhausting diseases.

Compare

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Ars., Calc. c., Carb. an., Cinch ., Ferr., Graph., Lach., Lyc ., Kali carb., Merc., Nux v., Phos. ac., Sep., Sulph., Verat. alb .

Antidotes

(Carbo vegetabilis)

Ars., Camph., Coff., Lach., Sp. nitr. d.

Carbo Vegetabilis Antidotes.-

Cinch., Lach., Merc.

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