Homeopathy LibraryCarbo Vegetabilis
Reason for use
This remedy very often proves of great use at late stage of typhus fever, or cholera, where the patient is in a state of collapse, and is almost gone; wants to be fanned, wants the windows open, his head is hot, etc.
Also troubles resulting from some other disease, as in complaints caused from the checking of chills by Quinine, etc.; or may have had the measles, and years after say that he has been troubled ever since with the asthma, or something else; or he may have been strained by lifting, and never fully recovered.
Mental.-- Anguish; irritable; peevish; desperation.
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Head
Internal head, right side; occiput, internal and external. Pains, boring; throbbing; aching; tearing. Aching with sore hairs on scalp. Headache from over indulgence (of any kind); falling off of the hair after a severe illness; takes cold in the head easily.
Eyes
Sensation as of a grain of sand; morning agglutination. Black flying spots. Angles of the eye.
Ears
Sensation as of stopped; roaring in.
Nose
Nose, tip of, left side; stoppage of; frequent sneezing with violent tingling tickling; rose-cold and hay-asthma, where there is frequent sneezing, creeping in the nose, much coryza, etc. Epistaxis, when producing great paleness of the face; creeping in the nose; itching around nostrils.
Face
Complexion becomes grayish-yellow; great paleness of; chapped lips, with much pain in; swollen lips.
Mouth
Drawing tearing in molar teeth; affections of the upper teeth and upper jaw. Gums recede; bleeding of; ulceration of. Increased flow of saliva. Biting and burning of fauces. Bad smell from.
Pharynx.-- Sensation as if closed; aphonia; hoarseness;
Stomach And Abdomen
Complaints from obstructed flatulency (may be pain in the head, around the heart or anywhere, which is relieved by the discharge of flatus), flatus has a putrid and very stinking smell; flatulency in general; flatulent colic; rich food, butter, or milk causing flatulency; colic brought on by riding in the cars or in a carriage (usually relieved by passing flatus). Troubles of the inner lower belly; sides of the inner belly.
Stool And Anus
Affections of the anus, as itching haemorrhoids, etc.; perineum; stinking stools. Painful diarrhoea of old people.
Chest and Lungs.-- Respiration oppressed; having some kind of bad smell; quick; cough with expectoration in the morning, with no-expectoration in the evening; neglected pneumonia, with expectoration of a dirty yellow-color, and smelling badly.
Sleep
Falling asleep late; complaints preventing sleep; sleeplessness before midnight.
Pulse
Pulse imperceptible; small; soft.
Skin
Itch in general; moist exanthema; humid skin: ulcers with ichorous pus; senile gangrene which begins in the toes and works all the way up the limb; gangrenous spots from lying in bed; old wounds having healed, break out again; punctured wounds which won't heal.
Sensations
Biting pain (pungent); burning pain of parts; pressing, and sensation of roughness (or scraping), in the inner parts; darting from above downward; drawing, and drawing with pressure, in the muscles; sensation as of constriction of oesophagus; of downward pressure in the lower stomach; and wants a bandage; unable to sit down, owing to a sensation of a plug in the back.
Generalities
Menstruates too early. Scurvy.
Worse.-- In the morning; before midnight; before falling asleep; during eating; from butter, fat food, pork; from abuse of Peruvian bark, and mercury; from reading aloud; on rising from the bed; from singing.
Better.-- From eructation.
Remedies following:-- Acon., Nux vom., Lycop., Pulsat., Sepia. Sulphur .
Antidotes
Spirits of Nitre, Camphor, Dulcam .
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