Carbo Vegetabilis

Carbo veg. is not frequently used in rheumatic troubles yet it has a field of usefulness in those patients who have lost great part of their vital forces from loss of fluids and as a result are much prostrated and suffer from rheumatic pains at every change of weather and when beginning to walk.

It is complementary with Kali carb.

NECK AND BACK . — (Carbo vegetabilis)

TEARING IN CERVICAL MUSCLES.

Drawing pain in nape up into head.

STIFFNESS OF NAPE.

Pain in scapular region.

Rheumatic drawing in back, < on stooping.

Drawing pain in back < on sitting.

Stiffness of back ; spine is bent.

SEVERE PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK ; unable to sit, with sensation of plug in back.

PINCHING PRESSING PAIN IN LOWER SPINE.

PRESSING CRAMP-LIKE PAIN IN SMALL OF BACK.

PRESSING PAIN BENEATH THE COCCYX.

RHEUMATIC DRAWING AND ACHING PAIN FROM LOINS TO COCCYX.

Burning about hips and scapula with aching along spine.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES . — (Carbo vegetabilis)

BURNING ON RIGHT SHOULDER AND SCAPULA.

STITCHES AND TEARING IN SHOULDERS < FROM MOTION AND IN MORNING.

Drawing rheumatic pains in right shoulder.

Cramp-like tension as if shoulders would be drawn together.

BRUISED PAIN IN BOTH ELBOW JOINTS, < BY TOUCH.

Drawing in arm on which he lies at night.

Drawing tearing in left arm from elbow to hand.

Arms weary when writing.

Paralytic weakness of right arm and shoulder.

DRAWING IN SHAFTS OF BONES, PAINFUL ON PRESSURE.

LANCINATING PAIN IN WRISTS WHEN GRASPING ANYTHING.

TEARING IN EITHER WRIST ; in fingers of left hand.

Pain in joints of hands, < in windy weather.

SENSATION AS IF TENDONS OF WRIST AND HAND WERE SHORTENED.

Sprained pain in right hand.

Cramps in fingers drawing them out of shape.

Boring, tearing, drawing, prickling stitches and burning in fingers and joints of fingers.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES .— (Carbo vegetabilis)

Tearing in and beneath hip extending to the sacrum.

Drawing pain in hip joints extending to thigh.

Drawing pain from abdomen down into leg.

Tearing in right hip and thigh.

STITCHES IN THIGH PASSING DOWNWARD WHEN WALKING.

Cramp-like pain on outside of left thigh when lifting it.

BURNING AND DRAWING IN THIGH.

Tension in thigh, in morning.

Sense of constriction in thigh.

Stiffness of thigh on standing.

Stitches in patella on rising.

PARALYTIC PAINS IN KNEES.

Lack of strength in knees.

KNEES GO TO SLEEP.

Tension in knees on waking.

Cramps in lower leg when walking.

Cramps in calves at night.

Stitches in ankle joint.

Cramps in soles evenings after lying down.

Stitches in right great toe.

TEARING PAINS IN TOES < WHEN WALKING.

TOES RED, SWOLLEN, STINGING.

SENSATION OF STIFFNESS IN LEGS AFTER SLEEP IN EVENING, ESPECIALLY ON FIRST BEGINNING TO WALK.

HEAVINESS OF LIMBS.

LIMBS GO TO SLEEP.

COLD LIMBS, ESPECIALLY THE KNEES.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL . — (Carbo vegetabilis)

BURNING IN LIMBS AND BONES.

HEAVINESS OF LIMBS.

Boring pains in limbs.

Drawing in limbs.

LIMBS ARE BRUISED AND GO TO SLEEP EASILY.

GREAT INCLINATION TO STRETCH LIMBS IN EVENING.

CONCOMITANTS . — (Carbo vegetabilis)

PAINFUL SENSATION AS IF HAT BAND WERE TOO TIGHT, WHICH REMAINS FOR A LONG WHILE AFTER HAT IS REMOVED.

SEVERE NOSEBLEED ALMOST DAILY.

HEARTBURN VERY PERSISTENT.

FLATULENT DISTENSION OF ABDOMEN.

GREAT HOARSENESS AND ROUGHNESS OF VOICE, ALMOST FAILS HIM AT TIMES.

GREAT DEPRESSION OF VITAL FORCES.

AGGRAVATIONS . — (Carbo vegetabilis)

CHANGE TO WARM DAMP WEATHER.

COLD.

BEGINNING TO WALK.