Antimonium Crudum ant-c.

STOMACH. DIGESTIVE TRACT. MIND. SKIN. Changing sides.

COLD: BATHING. Dampness. WATER (on head). OVEREATING. Acids. Sweets. HEAT: SUMMER, of sun. Overheating. Radiated.

Gross feeders (Ab-c.), showing gastric, mental and skin symptoms. Lumpy stools, leucorrhœa, skin, nails, etc. Strange absence of pain. Cracks in canthi, nostrils, angles of mouth, etc. Gouty metastases (Abro.).

Fat, fretful, cross and peevish; cries if looked at, touched (Stram.) or washed. Loathing; of life, food, bathing etc. Ecstatic, dreamy, sentimental. Pustules in tarsi. Canthi red, raw, moist (ext.). Sore , scabby nostrils. Pimples about mouth (Ast-r.). TONGUE THICKLY COATED, LIKE WHITEWASH (Ars. Bis. Bry. Kali-m. Pho.). Aphthæ. No thirst. DISORDERED DIGESTION; food leaves an after-taste or causes belching. VOMITING < eating or drinking; without nausea (Chel.) or relief. Stomach is painful to pressure; gout of. Fulness in abdomen. Pappy or watery stool, mixed with lumps. Gastro-intestinal catarrh. Voice lacks control, > using it. Aphonia from overheating. Violent cough, each bout a little weaker. Horny or split nails; growths beneath. Shiny elbows. Gouty pains in fingers. Footsweat; wilts the skin. Callosities on soles. Eruptive tendency. Warts; horny. Sleepy and weary.

Related: Sul.

For children and young people inclined to grow fat (Cal.); for the extremes of life. Old people with morning diarrhoea, suddenly become constipated, or alternate diarrhoea and constipation; pulse hard and rapid. Sensitive to the cold. < after taking cold. Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at; sulky, does not wish to speak or be spoken to (Ant. t., Iod., Sil.); angry at every little attention. Great sadness, with weeping. Loathing life. Anxious lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her (Puls.); abject despair, suicide by drowning. Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses. Sentimental mood in the moonlight, especially ecstatic love; bad effects of disappointed affection (Cal. p.). Nostrils and labial commissures sore, cracked and crusty. Headache: after river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks; deranged digestion, acids, fat, fruit; suppressed eruption. Gastric complaints from over-eating; stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed; a thick milky-white coating on the tongue, which is the red strand of the remedy; very subject to canker sores in the mouth (Arg. n., Sulph.). Longing for acids and pickles. Gastric and intestinal affections: from bread and pastry; acids, especially vinegar; sour or bad wine; after cold bathing; over-heating; hot weather. Constant discharge of flatus, up and down, for years; belching, tasting of ingesta. Mucus: in large quantities from posterior nares by hawking; from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow; mucous piles. Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin; fingernail do not grow rapidly; crushed nails grow is splits like warts and with horny spots. Large horny corns on soles of feet (Ran. b.); very sensitive when walking, especially on stone pavements. Loss of voice from becoming over-heated. Cannot bear the heat of the sun; worse from over-exertion in the sun. (Lach., Nat. m.); < from over-heating near the fire; exhausted in warm weather; ailments from sunburn. Whooping cough: < by being over-heated in the sun or in a warm room; from cold washing. When symptoms reappear they change locality or go from one side of the body to the other. Aversion to cold bathing; child cries when washed or bathed with cold water; cold bathing causes violent headache; causes suppressed menses; colds from swimming or falling into the water (Rhus).

Complementary: Squilla. Similar: to, Bry;, Ipec., Lyc., Puls., in gastric complaints. Follows well: after, Ant. c., Puls., Mer., Sulph.

After eating; cold baths, acids or sour wine; after heat of sun or fire; extremes of cold or heat.

In the open air; during rest; after a warm bath.

The "key-notes" of this remedy are found in the symptoms of the stomach and bowels, accompanied by the characteristic white coated tongue.

Exceedingly fretful and peevish, dislikes to be looked at or touched, or to be washed in cool water. Loathing of life. Irritable and anxious about one's self all day; at night disposed to shoot or destroy one's self. She is apathetic, very busy, wants nothing, will eat when asked, does not mind feces or urine; is so busy with herself.

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 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.

Moist eruption both on and behind the ears; otorrhœa.

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

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.

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.

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

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 diarrhœa 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 diarrhœa. Cramp-like pains in the stomach. Heartburn, with good appetite.

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

Vomiting and diarrhœa 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. Diarrhœa 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 areolæ, which itch fearfully. Measle-like eruptions, with marked gastric disturbance.

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

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.

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.

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

In the cool air.

Calc. carb., Pulsat., Laches., Sepia, Sulphur.

Hepar.

Child fretful and peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at. The child is delirious, drowsy, with nausea, red, hot face, irregular pulse and feverish heat, cries when washed or bathed. Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils, and corners of mouth. Decayed teeth ache generally worse at night, touching tooth with tongue causes pain, as if the nerve were torn. Stomach out of order, belching with the taste of food, nausea, and hard Tools, tongue coated thick white. Stools often liquid, containing portions of solid food. Alternate diarrhoea and constipation of old persons. Crushed fingernails grows in splits, and like warts with horny spots. Complaints After bathing, particularly in cold water.

Black Sulphide of Antimony

For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout with gastric symptoms.

Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vexed without cause. Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood.

Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed eruptions. Heaviness in forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair.

Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Canthi raw and fissured. Chronic blepharitis. Pustules on cornea and lids.

Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear.

Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.

Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.

Cracks in corners of mouth. Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed. Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily. Toothache in hollow teeth. Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus. Canker sores. Pappy taste. No thirst. Subacute eczema about mouth.

Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares. Hawking in open air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.

Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles. Thirst in evening and night. Eructation tasting of the ingesta. Heartburn, nausea, vomiting. After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather. Constant belching. Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash. Bloating after eating.

Anal itching (Sulpho-calc. Alum). diarrhœa alternates with constipation, especially in old people. Diarrhœa after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge. Catarrhal proctitis. Stools composed entirely of mucus.

Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor.

Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence. Atrophy of penis and testicles.

Excited; parts itch. Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region. Leucorrhœa watery; acrid, lumpy.

Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of chest, oppression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. Voice harsh and badly pitched.

Itching and pain of neck and back.

Twitching of muscles. Jerks in arms. Arthritic pain in fingers. Nails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny warts on hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence. Feet very tender; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.

Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts (Thuja; Sabina; Caust). Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.

Continual drowsiness in old people.

Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhœa. Hot sweat.

Worse, in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices. Better, in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.

Compare: Antimonium Chloridum. Butter of Antimony (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose-third trituration).

Antimon iodat (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy). In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister). Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed.

Compare: Kermes mineral-Stibiat sulph rub (Bronchitis). Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph.

Complementary: Sulph.

Antidote: Hepar.

Third to sixth potency.

Thick, milky white coating on tongue (in many complaints).

Derangements from overloading the stomach, especially fat food; nausea.

Crushed finger-nails: grow in splits like warts and with horny spots.

Corns and callosities on soles, with excessive tenderness; can only walk with pain and suffering.

Alternate constipation and diarrhœa in old people, especially with the characteristic tongue.

Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at, fretful, cross.

Feverish conditions at night.

Headache; after river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks; deranged digestion; acids, fat, fruit; suppressed eruptions. Mucus; from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow; mucous piles. Cannot bear heat of sun; < from exertion in sun; exhausted in warm weather.

This remedy, like the three of which we have been writing, has a strong affinity for the alimentary canal. Its leading characteristic is in its thickly-coated, white, very white, white as milk, tongue.

Many remedies have white tongue, but this one leads them all. It is also a great stomach remedy, and in disorders of this organ arising from over-eating, where there is much nausea, distress, and especially the characteristic tongue, it is to be thought of before any of the three of which we have written. It is especially to be considered if the gastric derangement is of recent date. The process of digestion is hardly under way; the eructations taste of the food as he ate it, and the sufferer feels as if he must "throw up" before there will be any relief. In such a case a few pellets of Antimonium crudum on the tongue will often settle the business, save the loss of a meal, and all further suffering.

Diarrhœa may often follow these dietetic errors, especially during the heat of the summer season, and then the stools are peculiar in that they are partly solid and partly fluid, showing that digestion has been only partially performed in the whole length of the canal Antimonium crudum and Bryonia sometimes present about equal claims in a case of summer complaint; but the case in its entirety must decide the choice between them.

There is a form of diarrhœa which alternates with constipation, oftenest found with old people, where Antimonium crudum is the only remedy. Then it is also one of the best remedies for mucous piles; there is a continuous oozing of mucus staining the linen, very disagreeable to the patient.

There are some mind symptoms that are very peculiar, "the greatest sadness and woeful mood with intermittent fever"; again, "sentimental mood in moonlight, ecstatic love," and again, "child cannot bear to he touched or looked at."

Of the first two symptoms I can say nothing from experience or observation, but of the last, that it is a gem. Many times in cases of gastric or remittent fever, for which Antimonium crudum is a very excellent remedy, I have been led to its use by this very condition of the mind: the child is cross, but not like Chamomilla wants to be carried and soothed, but will scream and cry, and show temper at every little attention. Another thing that I have noticed in many of these cases is, that the fever runs higher at night and is accompanied with great thirst; the white tongue is almost always present. Such children are quite apt, even when around the house, to have "sore, cracked and crusty nostrils, and corners of the mouth," and so this may appear when sick.

There is a peculiar constitutional condition found in some people which calls for this remedy. It is found in the extremities ; finger-nails grow in splits, like warts, with horny spots (Silicea nails crippled, on fingers and toes; Graphites nails become thick, crippled; Thuja nails brittle, crumbling, distorted), and if by accident one becomes injured or split, it does not repair as it should, but grows out of shape. Then the toe-nails are brittle and grow out of shape also, or shrivel up and do not grow at all. The feet are covered on the soles with corns and callosities which are VERY TENDER, can hardly walk on them on account of this tenderness.

Some of the worst cases of chronic rheumatism have been cured by this remedy, guided by the excessive tenderness of the soles of the feet. (Baryta soles get sore from foot sweat; Pulsatilla soles pain and are tender; Ledum heels and soles tender when walking; Medorrhinum couldn't walk except on knees; Lycopod. soles swollen and painful). Horny excrescences anywhere on the skin make one think of Antimonium crudum. The remedy is oftenest found indicated in the extremes of life, in children and old people.

Now the peculiar modalities which deserve particular mention are: First, the troubles are often caused or aggravated by heat, and especially by the heat of the sun. (Bryonia, Glonoine, Gelsem., Nat. carb). The patient feels exhausted during warm weather; the gastric troubles come on, or are worse; such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhœa. The cough is worse, and, like Bryonia, is worse on coming into a warm room from cold air. These affections are particularly worse in sunshine, but also from radiate heat of the fire, so that Antimonium crudum takes a high rank as a not weather remedy. Second, cold bathing aggravates or causes trouble. (Rhus tox., Sulphur) "Child cries when washed or bathed in cold water." Cold bathing causes headache, cold in the head, gastric catarrh, diarrhœa, suppressed menses, toothache, etc. When any case of long standing comes to us, and the patient dates the beginning of the trouble to going in swimming or falling into the water, we think of Antimonium crudum and examine for further indications for the drug.

Now a few scattering symptoms that have found their remedy in Antimonium crudum: "Copious hæmorrhage from the bowels, mixed with solid fæces; chronic redness of the eyelids; toothache in decayed teeth, worse at night; gastric trouble after acids, sour wine, vinegar," etc.

Ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate and inclination to shoot himself ; worse when walking in the moonlight, and then his conduct is like that of an insane person. The child cannot bear being touched or looked at.

Giddiness, with nausea, or bleeding of the nose. Congestion of blood to the head, followed by bleeding of the nose. Stupefying headache, with nausea ; worse in the evening ; after eating ; and smoking tobacco ; and better in the open air. Headache, from bathing.

Stitches in the eyes. Gum in the canthi of the eyes. Moist place on the outer canthus.

Redness, swelling and heat of the ears. Continual roaring in the ears. Deafness, as if a leaf were lying before the ears.

Sensation of coldness in the nose, when inspiring air. Soreness of the nostrils ; nostrils cracked and full of crusts. Bleeding of the nose (in the evening, after headache, with giddiness).

Sad countenance. Heat, especially on the cheeks, with itching. Red, burning, suppurating eruptions, with yellow crusts. Sore, cracked corners of the mouth.

Bleeding of the teeth and gums. Pain in decayed teeth, aggravated by cold water. Bitter taste in the mouth. Dryness of the mouth. Ptyalism (tasting salty). Tongue coated white.

Aversion to all food. Longing for acids. Thirst at night. Nausea and vomiturition, from overloading the stomach, or after drinking (sour) wine. Vomiting of mucus and bile -with convulsions- with diarrhœa. Cramp-like pains in the stomach.

Difficult evacuations ; the fæces are too large in size. Alternate diarrhœa and constipation, especially in aged persons. Watery diarrhœa, with cutting in the bowels. Continuous discharge of mucus from the rectum.

Increased and frequent discharge of urine at night, with discharge of mucus, burning in the urethra, and pain in the small of the back.

Rheumatic pains in the arms. Drawing (gouty) pains in the fingers and their joints.

Rheumatic pains in the legs. Painful stiffness of the knee (fungus of the knee). Large, horny corns on the soles of the feet. The soles of the feet feel sore when walking. Inflammatory redness of the heel.

Disposition to grow fat. Dropsical swelling of the whole body. Inflammation of the muscles.

Very sleepy during the day, especially in the forenoon.

Pulse very irregular, changing every few beats. Chilliness predominating, even in the warm room. Sensation of coldness in the nose when inhaling air. Heat, especially during the night, before midnight, with cold feet. Great heat from little exercise, especially in the sun. Perspiration, when awaking in the morning, returning periodically, (every other morning). Intermittent fevers, with desire to sleep, and want of thirst.

Horn-like excrescences, and disposition to abnormal organizations of the skin, (corns on the soles of the feet). Eruptions like boils and blisters ; as from the bites of insects ; like measles. Fistulous ulcers. Fungus of the joints.

When the symptoms re-appear, they change their locality, or go from one side of the body to the other. Aggravation, from drinking sour wine ; after eating (pork) ; after bathing ; in the heat of the sun ; or at night. Amelioration, during rest ; or in the open air.

Native Sulphide of Antimony. Sb 2 S 3 .

Anus, irritation of . Callosities. Catarrh . Chorea. Constipation. Corns. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Feet, sore and horny . Fever. Gum-rash. Nails, degeneration of. Nettle-rash . Piles. Prolapsus recti. Red gum. Remittent fever. Stomach, disordered . Sunstroke. Tendons inflamed. Tongue coated. Voice, low . Warts. Whooping-cough.

Antim. crud . corresponds in a sense to the race of swine, as Arsenic does to horses and Pulsatilla to sheep. It is preeminently a scrofulous medicine, corresponding to gross constitutions with tendency to rough scaling skin with horny patches. With these horny patches is great tenderness, the patient can hardly bear to walk on them. Analagous to these horny excrescences are warts, and Ant c . has cured many cases of these. A student, 17, had twenty-three on right hand and thirty four on left, mainly on backs and fingers, but a few on interior surface of fingers. In addition redness and inflammation of eyelids. Cured in seven weeks with Ant. c . 200x. In the same category may be mentioned the tendency of the nails to grow in splits. Ant. crud . is specially suited to infants and children (with coated moist white tongues) and also to elderly persons. Tendency to grow fat. When symptoms recur they change their locality or go from one side of the body to the other. Left side predominates, especially lower left and upper right. Among special symptoms are: Itching of scalp and falling out of hair. Tendency to take cold about head. Scrofulous ophthalmia, canthi especially affected ( Graph . the whole margin). Otorrhœa. Moist eruption behind ears ( Graph .). Slight noises startle. Nose-bleed with vertigo; after headache; after rush of blood to head. Children are peevish, won't bear to be touched or looked at. Adults are sulky or sad. Weeping and impressionable. Sentimental mood by moonlight. Amativeness. Suicidal. Gastric and remittent fevers, and fevers of children, with great thirst and the characteristic white tongue. The fever runs higher at night. The child is cross, but unlike the Cham . patient, who wants to be carried, this will scream and show temper at every little attention. There is a form of diarrhœa which alternates with constipation, often found in old people, to which Ant. crud . corresponds. "Stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed, in old people." It cures many cases of mucous piles: continuous oozing, staining linen. In connection with the intolerance of wine of the remedy, it may be mentioned that in one case it produced a feeling of intoxication like that of alcohol, so that the patient refused to take any more of it. A number of nervous symptoms appear in the provings — restlessness, jerking of muscles, &c. Dr. M. Jousset has recorded a severe case of chorea which resisted all the usual remedies and was cured with Ant. crud . prescribed on the digestive symptoms, particularly the characteristic white tongue. A notable characteristic of Ant. crud . is the thickly coated tongue. Generally it is thick and white; milky-white; or like whitewash evenly laid. The edges may be red and sore. Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils and corners of mouth. Abnormal hunger; not relieved by eating; emptiness at epigastrium and want of animal heat. Disgust for all foods. Nursing children throw up a little sour milk as soon as they take the breast or bottle ( Æthus c ., after vomiting the child sleeps and wakes hungry; Ant. c . the child refuses to nurse again). The sulphur element in Ant. crud . is strongly pronounced in the provings as in the constipation and other intestinal disorders of the drug. < By heat is a marked characteristic ( Apis, Puls., Cham., Secale, Camph .); also < from cold washing (less severe after warm washing), from cold water and cold food. In spite of the < from heat there is great sensitiveness to cold, hence it is suitable to the hydrogenoid constitutions. Moonlight < mental symptoms. Many symptoms are < at night. < By touch. < From wine, especially sour wine; from vinegar and acids (though tamarind water does not disagree); from fruits. < From pork, bread, and pastry. > By rest, by lying down; < rising up; < ascending stairs.

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Insensible ; bed-sores formed, yet he complained of no pain.
Imbecility more frequent than insanity.
Delirium.
Child delirious, drowsy with nausea, hot and red face ; pulse irregular ; feverish heat ; cries when washed in cold water ; > washed in warm water.
Loathing of life.
Inclined to suicide by shooting ; at night he is obliged to get out of bed, because he cannot free himself of the idea.
Anxious, lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her. θ Intermittent.
Ill humor ; irritability. θ Headache.
Sulky, does not wish to speak with any one.
Child is fretful and peevish, turns itself away, and cries when touched. θ Diarrhœa. θ Colic.
Indisposition to work, dull mood. θ Colic.
Dejection.
Aversion to work and pain in stomach, with gulping up.
Cheerfulness and activity of mind and body.
Sorrowful, irritable humor ; the sound of a bell, as well as the sight of those around him, excites him to tears ; he breathes wearily and short.
The greatest sadness and woeful mood. θ Intermittent fever.
Sadness, with weeping and impressibility.
Anxiety in relation to his present and future condition.
Feeling of grief.
Is driven to despair, resolved to drown himself.
Amativeness.
Sentimental mood in the moonlight, particularly ecstatic love.
Ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate, and inclination to shoot himself ; < when walking in moonlight, and then his conduct is like that of an insane person.
Sentimental or distrustful mood. θ Diarrhœa.
Peevishness. θ Chlorosis.
Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or verses. θ Intermittent.
Restless, inclined to be excited by least disturbance.
Consequences of disappointed love.
Anxiety produces sweat, with headache.

Rush of blood to head.
Vertigo, nausea, nosebleed.
Weakness of head.
Heaviness in forehead.
Vertigo with nausea and confused feeling, as if drunk. θ Headache.
Vertigo, from deranged stomach.

Headache, mostly in forehead, left side.
Slight, dull headache in forehead, and vertigo ; increased by ascending stairs.
Stupefying, dull headache in forehead, so violent that sweat broke out from anxiety ; > when walking in open air.
Stupefying headache with nausea in throat, < evening, < from smoking, > walking in open air. θ Headache.
In left temporal region : pressure inward ; drawing ; slow pulsation, with fine pricking.
Violent headache after bathing in river, with weakness of limbs and aversion to food.
Splitting sensation in forehead.
Lacerating pain in whole head.
Headache over one eye in a spot ; < at noon, > at night ; not > by vomiting.
Aching in forehead. θ Intermittent.
Congestion to head, followed by nosebleed.
Momentary drawing and boring in temples.
Dull, frontal headache on awaking.
Into head : toothache penetrates.
After headache with giddiness, nosebleed.
Aching headache, as if forehead would burst, from catarrh of frontal sinus, with stoppage of nose.
Tearing in forehead, temples and vertex.
Headache : after bathing in river, from deranging stomach, drinking alcoholic drinks, after a chill, after suppressed eruption, from taking cold ; with aversion to food, nausea, loathing, inclination to vomit, aching in limbs, weakness.
Gastric headache from fruit, acids or fat.

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You will be surprised, when studying full provings of this substance, to notice that all the symptoms seem to centre about the stomach; it does not matter much what kind of complaints he suffers from the stomach takes part in it.

The pains disturb his stomach and bring, on nausea; with his headache he is sick at the stomach; with all complaints his stomach is out of order, and, on the other band, whenever he disorders his stomach he is sick all over. Complaints that manifest themselves through the stomach very frequently need this medicine.

First in importance are the mental symptoms showing the type of constitution likely to need this remedy. It produces a very serious state in the mind, an absence of the desire to live. It is well known to physicians that the case is a serious one if the patient has no desire to live; life is a burden. When I hear a patient say:

"Oh, doctor, if I could only die."

I do not like such a case; there is some deep-seated trouble in the economy that is hard to remove. Something is threatening, and when it comes it is a common thing to see the patient actually die.

"Loathing of life."

You will find this especially in a low, lingering, continued fever, such as typhoid. This remedy has all the prostration of typhoid, and it has the continued type of fever as well as the intermittent and remittent. The prostration is similar to Arsenicum, but Ars. have overwhelming fear of death, while this medicine has loathing of life; and so they both part company. Ars, has overwhelming restlessness, this remedy is seldom restless. Ars. has an intense thirst, this medicine is thirstless.

So even though both these remedies have excessive exhaustion with continued fever, we see they have features dissimilar enough to make them wholly distinct. Such a typhoid will sometimes be seen in young girls about puberty who are threatening to go into chlorosis. They have loathing of life, but it is a hysterical loathing of life.

Moments of great exhaustion, sudden attacks of weakness and fainting. You will commonly find another feature with this, not coming at the same moment. but alternating with it, or only present at times, namely, these over excitable, intense, nervous, hysterical, ecstatic young girls and women are overcome by mellow lights such as flow through stained glass windows or the mellow light from the moon in the evening.

That is, what is meant when it says in the text:

"Sentimental mood in the moonlight."

It is a hysterical state, a disorderly outburst of the affections, such affections as can be aroused only in one who is sick, or one who is unbalanced in the general nervous system.

This kind of patient gives us the mental state and constitution of Ant. crud., and along with such mental states the physical conditions seems to strike to the stomach, as it were.

We have running through this remedy a general state that you should keep in mind, that is, a gouty or rheumatic state, in which the symptoms change with the changes of the weather; worse in cold, damp weather, worse from cold bathing, better from the heat of a hot bath, worse from taking sour wine, and worse from stimulants of any kind.

When you use the expression "worse from wine," it is not only important to know that the patient is worse from wine, but also the character of complaints that are worse from wine.

This patient becomes easily intoxicated, but the physical symptoms are more disturbed than the mental; his gouty symptoms are worse from sour wine; all the pains and aches of the body are worse from sour wine; headaches come from this cause and the gastric disturbances are greatly aggravated from sour wine.

This patient is worse at night, worse in damp weather, worse from damp cold, better from lying down quietly, better from applied heat, but much worse from over-heating and from radiated heat, and in a warm room.

Many of the symptoms come on in the sun's rays and from the heat of an open grate. The open fire is wholly against the Ant. crud. patient.

A child with whooping cough will cough more after looking into the fire. Such things are queer; they are so strange that there is no philosophical hypothesis to explain them, no theory that looks toward an explanation, but they are facts which we must accept.

The whole gouty nature of the case seems to change so suddenly that you wonder where the more exterior symptoms have gone to, for all at once in a night or a day the patient commences to vomit and you have persistent vomiting, lasting days and weeks, until the gouty symptoms come back into the extremities.

It is wonderful how quickly this old-fashioned metastasis will come on, this changing from one place to another. The gout suddenly ceases in the extremities and stomach symptoms come on, and you may call it gout in the stomach if you will.

There are catarrhal symptoms in this remedy; catarrh of the nose, stomach, rectum, etc., and an increased flow of mucus from any of these localities from drinking sour wine and from taking cold.

A distressing feature of the catarrh is the stuffing up of the nose at night. As soon as he gets into an overheated room, his nose gets stuffed lip.

The coryza has a tendency to become chronic, because of the low and feeble circulation and the poor constitution.

When it becomes chronic it is worse at night and is associated-with headaches. As the catarrh slackens up and becomes dry the headache becomes worse; he has neuralgia in the head, crushing pains and dreadful sickness at the stomach with vomiting.

He often has an attack of sick headache and it will be called by the family a gastric sick headache, but the condition just mentioned comes on from taking cold, which slacks up the thick discharge into a dryness of the nose and the inhaled air burns the nose like fire.

Sometimes these troubles pass off after an intense vomiting spell; sometimes they do not, but the headache may remain for days not relieved by vomiting, or relieved only after prolonged vomiting.

There are remedies full of headache and as soon as ho vomits he feels better, but in this remedy he vomits long, and becomes relaxed and exhausted.

The headache is worse moving about, worse at night better from lying down, from keeping quiet, better in the open air, worse in warm room, worse from overheating, worse from radiated heat and light. You see now how the catarrh, the headache and gastric symptoms all belong together.

It is because the patient is sick that you cannot take symptoms separately, you must prescribe for the whole man.

There is another feature belonging to the mucous membranes, and an important one; these membranes have a tendency to throw out a milky white exudation or deposit, and it is especially noticed upon the tongue.

The whole tongue is covered with a milk-white coating. This you find in all diseases where the remedy is indicated.

In the stomach disorders of children, in gastric fevers, in complaints with fever and much vomiting great irritation of the whole nervous system and in irritation of the stomach in typhoids, the tongue looks white. Upon the slightest provocation he will retch and gag.

Every thing seems to disturb him. He has loathing of food; the thought and smell of food disturb him. This is like Arsenicum.

He takes a cold bath at night on going to bed and gets up in the morning voiceless cannot speak a word.

This has come on in an apparently painless manner; he does not know that it is present until he attempts to speak in the morning. This may be present with spasms, of the larynx clutchings of the throat. Colds sometimes go down into the throat and into the trachea, producing a bronchitis or pneumonia.

Dry, hacking spasmodic cough in diminishing paroxysms.

I will explain that: The first paroxysm occurs with great violence, racking his whole frame, and lasting a longer or shorter period, to be followed by one with less violence and another with less violence; perhaps after a dozen or less paroxysms of diminishing violence, he ends up with a dry, hacking cough which is not a paroxysm.

When this first cough shakes the whole body, whether it is a bronchitis or whooping cough, and the tongue is white, and there are more or less gastric disturbances, Ant. crud. is the remedy.

It will change the whole aspect of the case at once. The chest remains sore, lame and bruised from the violence of the cough.

The stomach symptoms must be particularly considered.

Constant nausea, lump in the stomach, feeling all the time as if he had an overloaded stomach, as if he had eaten too much, and that is when he had not eaten at all.

The stomach feels distended although the abdomen is flat. He feels distended and vomits the contents of the stomach; he vomits slime after he has emptied the stomach of its contents; prolonged retching, nausea, sickening load in the stomach and it seems to go on and on.

The vomiting does not relieve and there is increasing exhaustion.

Inflammation and hardness of the liver or any portion of it.

Pain in the region of the gall bladder. Great pain in the region of the liver, rending, tearing pains in the liver, jaundice is associated with these symptoms at times.

In the abdomen we have a group of symptoms; violent abdominal pains, burning, great distension; there appears to be an increasing distension as if by a screw, gradually forcing down upon something gradually increasing the tension.

We find this state in the tympanitic condition of typhoid fever, we find it in cases of flatulence, we find it in summer diarrheas.

It will be associated with gastric symptoms and the white tongue, especially if such disturbance had been brought on by drinking sour wine, by taking a cold bath, in one who has a gouty constitution, where the nodules in the finger joints become painless and the stomach and bowels become distended and painful.

This remedy has a nondescript diarrhea, but also a lumpy and liquid diarrhea.

Diarrhea from sour wine. It seems to take a long time to empty the bowels. He hurries to stool and passes a little lump and some liquid, and is soon hurried again to stool and more lumps and liquid are passed, and this goes on in summer diarrheas until finally the bowel is emptied and then there is great tenesmus.

It is a diarrhea ending in dysentery; inflammation of the rectum and colon, with suffering, much tenesmus, prolonged efforts and great exhaustion.

Troublesome hemorrhoids in old gouty constitutions. They are always sore and inflamed from a cold, wet day, from cold bathing and, are always worse if he is foolish enough to drink sour wine or take sour food.

The stomach, bowel, rectum and hemorrhoidal complaints are all worse from disordering the stomach with sour wine, sour fruit or indigestible substances from cold bathing and wet weather.

The pelvic viscera become greatly relaxed, especially in women, so much so that there is a dragging down in the pelvis.

It seems as though the contents of the pelvis would be expelled, or would fall out. There is prolapsus of the uterus and a discharge resembling leucorrhoea .

Disturbances of various kinds at the menstrual period.

Irritable and painful ovaries, such as we find associated with hysterical girls; those who suffer from unrequited affections; dreamers.

This medicine produces sweating; copious, exhaustive sweats, night sweats, such as we find in lingering diseases.

Sweats from the slightest exertion. If he becomes slightly overheated he fairly boils with perspiration and then takes cold.

The skin is ulcerated and has a tendency to grow warts, callosities, bad nails and bad hair.

Hard, horny excrescences grow under the nail and are extremely painful. From the ends of the fingers little horn-like excrescences appear.

The slightest pressure will produce a callosity, or a sore place, and in working men you will find an unusual tendency to thickening of the skin on the soles of the feet.

They are very sore to walk upon, because these callous places are sensitive and have numerous centres of little corns. The tendency to build up and indurate belongs to the remedy.

Warts grow upon the hands. The hair is unhealthy. Pustules form upon the skin with red areola.

Pustular eruptions have an inflamed base that is red, and sensitive.

Now, if you will study the proving and get the particulars of the remedy, and fit them into this framework, you will understand something of Ant. crud.

Gastric complaints from over-eating; stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed; thick, milky-white coating on the tongue.

Young people disposed to obesity (Calc.). Old people with morning diarrhœa suddenly get costive; alternate diarrhœa and constipation (Nux).

Sensitive to cold; < after taking cold.

Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at; sulky, does not wish to speak (Ant. t., Iod., Sil.); angry at every attention.

Great sadness, with weeping.

Loathing life; abject despair, suicide by drowning.

Anxious, lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her (Puls.). Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses.

Headache: after river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks; deranged digestion, acids, fat, fruit; suppressed eruption.

Longing for acids and pickles.

Gastric and intestinal affections: from bread and pastry; acids, especially vinegar; sour or bad wine; after cold bath- ing; over-heating; hot weather.

Constant discharge of flatus, up and down, for years; belch- ing (Alum), tasting of ingesta.

Mucus: in large quantities from posterior nares by hawk- ing; from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow; mucous piles.

Disposition to abnormal growths of skin; finger nails do not grow as rapidly; crushed nails grow in splits, like warts, and with horny spots.

Large horny places (corns) on soles, which are very sensi- tive when walking, especially on stone pavements.

When symptoms re-appear, they change locality, or go from one side of body to the other.

Aversion to cold bathing; child cries when washed or bathed with cold water; causes headache; suppressed menses; colds or fevers from swimming or getting wet

(Rhus).

Cannot bear heat of sun; $<$ from exertion in sun; ex- hausted in warm weather.

After eating; cold bathing; sour wine or acids; heat of sun or fire; extremes of heat or cold.

During rest; in the open air; a warm bath.

Quotidian; double quotidian; tertian. Remittent of children. Continued: typhoid.

12 M. or afternoon. Sweat at same hour every other day.

Ushered in by gastric disturbances; with great melancholy, sadness, and a woeful mood.

Great sadness, and a woeful mood.

Thirst and diarrhœa at night.

Without thirst (Apis, Puls., Cinch.). Violent shak- ing at noon; or chill in the afternoon with shivering in the back; chill with sweat at same time; chill and shivering over the back, feet cold as ice, with sweat on rest of body; chilliness predominates (Meny.); even in a warm room, cold and chilly during the day (chill worse in warm room or near a stove, Apis---chill < external heat, motion, Ipec.). Painful coldness of nose during inspiration, as if inhaling cold air. Great desire to sleep (wants to sleep during hot stage, Apis). Drawing pain in sacrum.

Predominant, followed by sweat, then heat; or chill and sweat simultaneous; or chill and sweat, or sweat and heat, alternating.

Heat and sweat in usual order, but apt to run into each other. One-sided coldness. No two chills alike.

When sweat sets in with the heat; great heat for an hour, then sweat ceases suddenly, followed by dry heat for two hours, or even all night. Heat with sweat. Heat with thirst followed by sweat. Great heat from the least exercise, especially in the sun. Heat at night, before midnight, with cold feet. During heat, pain in chest. Vomiting during the heat (Nat. m.).

Sets in simultaneously with or immediately after the chill (Pod.). Sweat in the morning when awaking which causes shrivelling of tips of fingers (Canch., Ver.). Sweat which returns at precisely the same hour every other morning. Sweat alternating with chilliness, or vice versa. Sweat soon disappears, dry heat remaining. After sweat is over heat and thirst return.

Thickly coated: milky white is characteristic. Taste bitter. Great desire for pickles. Saliva saltish. Hunger, which eating does not relieve.

Thickly coated; milky-white. Diarrhœa or constipation.

No thirst in any stage.

Pulsatilla.

Coated with yellow mucus; feels sore, as if scalded. Diarrhœa. Thirst before chill.

Antimonium crudum will often relieve, where Pulsatilla or

Ipecacuanha seem indicated and fail. One of the few remedies where sweat follows chill and is followed by heat. Gastric symp- toms usually present; acts promptly and cures completely.

Relapses often occur from derangement of stomach. Quotidian or tertian fever with loathing, nausea, vomiting, cutting in bowels and diarrhœa or constipation (Puls., but no constipation).

Irregular; rapid, then slow; changing every few beats.

Predominance of gastric symptoms (Ipec., Puls., Nux). Want of appetite, nausea, vomiting and bitter taste in mouth (Ipec.); tension and pressure in region of the stomach; belching with taste of ingesta, pain in bowels with diarrhœa, or constipation: aversion to food; longing for acids, particularly pickles; (longing for salt, Nat. m.); disgust for drink and food; increasing sweat.

Antimonium crud.

The sad, woeful, suicidal mood. The gastric de- rangements from over eating. Tongue thickly coated; milky- white.

Aversion to food and drink.

Craving for acids, especially pickles.

Paroxysm mixed: chill predominates; followed by sweat, then heat; or chill and sweat, or sweat and heat; no thirst in any stage.

Frequent relapse from gastric derangement, in all types of fever, especially from over eating during typhoid convalescence.

Insensible; bed-sores formed, yet he complained of no pain.
Child delirious, drowsy, with nausea, hot and red face; pulse irregular; feverish heat; cries when washed in cold water; better washed in warm water.
Loathing of life.
Inclined to suicide by shooting himself.
Great sadness and woeful mood.
Anxious reflection in relation to his present and future.
Sentimental mood in moonlight, particularly ecstatic love.
Child is fretful and peevish, does not wish to be touched or looked at.
Sulky, does not wish to speak with any nosebleed.

Vertigo, nausea nosebleed.
Weakness of the head.
Heaviness in forehead.
Rush of blood to the head.

Slight, dull headache and vertigo, increased by ascending stairs.
Stupefying, dull headache in the forehead so violent that sweat broke out from anxiety, when walking in the open air.
In left temporal region: pressure inwards; drawing; slow pulsation with fine pricking.
Headache: after bathing in the river, with weakness of the limbs and aversion to food; from deranged stomach; drinking alcoholic drinks; after a chill; after suppressed eruption; from taking cold.

Small spot on left parietal bone, painful to touch.
Lentil-sized, flat tubercles here and there on the scalp, painful to pressure, crawling sensation around them.
Formicating itching on the scalp; losing the hair.
Disposition to take cold about the head after getting wet or bathing in cold water; worse in the evening and on getting warm; better in the open air and when at rest.

Looking into the fire increases cough.
Eyes red, inflamed, with itching and nightly agglutination.
Eyes worse from glare of the snow.
Redness of the left eye, with aversion to light.
Pustules on the cornea, with profuse mucus; pustules on margins of lids and on face.
Soreness of outer canthi.
Gum in the canthi, forenoon.
Small, moist spot at the outer canthus, very painful when sweat comes in contact with it.
Lids red and inflamed.
Chronic blephar-ophthalmia of children.

Ringing before the ears, roaring in the ears.
A kind of deafness of right ear, as if a leaflet was lying before the tympanum; boring with the finger does not relieve it.
Drawing pain in through the right ear, and into the eustachian tube, after dinner.
Redness, burning and swelling of the left ear.
Otorrhœa.

Stoppage in nose.
Nosebleed: evenings; after headache, with giddiness; with rush of blood to head.
Coryza: fluent or dry.
Nose painful when breathing, as from inhalation of cold air or of acrid vapors.
Sore, cracked or crusty nostrils.

Sad expression.
Face red. See 1.
Twitches in facial muscles.
Heat and itching on cheeks.
Pimples, pustules and boils on the face.
Eruption like nettle-rash.
Yellow crusted eruption on the left cheek, painful to touch and easily detached.
Suppurating and long-lasting eruption on cheeks.

Lips dry.
Cracks in the corners of the mouth.
Burning, stinging on the chin, as from a hot spark.
Small honey-colored granules on chin, with sore feeling when touched.

Toothache in hollow teeth, pain sometimes penetrates into the head; worse at night; after eating, and from cold water; touching the tooth with the tongue, causes pain as if nerve was torn; better walking in open air.
Stitches in the tooth when drawing air into mouth.
Jerking on gnawing pain in yellow teeth.
Gums detach from teeth and bleed easily.

Taste: bitter or lessened.
Tongue coated: thick and white; milky white; yellow.
Much saltish saliva in the mouth.
Sore feeling and redness on border of tongue.

Dryness of the mouth.
Ptyalism, excessive secretion of saltish-tasting saliva.

Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus when clearing throat.
Must draw quantities of thick, yellowish mucus from posterior nares into throat, and expectorate it.

Desire for acids and pickles.
Long-lasting loss of appetite, with disgust for all food.
Hunger early on waking, without appetite; eating does not relieve it; at the same time sense of emptiness in pit of stomach, and want of animal heat.
Intense thirst, with dryness of lips; more at night; or thirstlessness.

Bread and pastry particularly occasion nausea and cutting colic.
Laziness with desire to lie down, after eating.
Fulness and tension, after eating, alternating with lightness cheerfulness and activity of mind and body.
After bad, sour wine, vomiting. θ Gastric catarrh.
After nursing diarrhœa.
Nursing children throw up a little sour milk, as soon as they take the breast or bottle.
Worse from pork; from acids. θ Diarrhœa, whooping-cough.

Hiccough after smoking tobacco.
Belching with taste of what has been eaten.
Burning at pit of stomach like heartburn, with good appetite.
Nausea: after drinking a glass of wine; from overloading the stomach.
Vomiting: of mucus and bile; slimy; of drink only; renewed by food or drink; persistent, tongue white no thirst. θ Marasmus of children, gastric catarrh, etc.
Violent vomiting and diarrhœa.

Stomach weak, easily disturbed digestion.
Painful sense of fulness of stomach, which is sore to pressure.
Pain at stomach as after too much eating, with distended but not hard abdomen.
Cramp-like pains at the stomach.
Burning, spasmodic pain at pit of stomach, driving to despair; is resolved to drown himself.
Gastric catarrh; white tongue, nausea and vomiting; cough; bowels loose or stools in lumps caused by: overeating, sour wine, hot weather, bathing; during measles; metastasis of gout or rheumatism.

Slight tension in the hypochondria.

Abdomen very much distended.
Incarcerated flatus; costive.
Rumbling in the abdomen.
Pinching and sensation as if diarrhœa would come on.
Sensation of emptiness in intestines, going off after meal.
Colic, with loss of appetite, hard stool, red urine.
Violent cutting in abdomen, feeling of oppression coming from stomach, indisposition to work, dull mood and pain at stomach, with eructations.
Hard gland in left groin, painful to pressure.
Cutting in the bowls with watery diarrhœa.

Acrid diarrhœa.
Stools: watery, with vomiting; watery; profuse.
Watery, with little, hard lumps, or containing undigested food; mucous mornings.
Diarrhœa, worse from vinegar and other acids; sour wine; overheating; after cold bath; night and early morning.
Alternate diarrhœa and constipation, with old people.
Diarrhœa of old people.
Difficult, hard stool, feces too large, costive, with incarcerated flatus.
Stools white, dry, irregular.
Hard lumps of curd.
Sensation of copious stool, but only flatus escapes, with finally very hard stool.
Pain in rectum during stool; feeling of soreness as if an ulcer had been torn open.
Copious hemorrhage from bowels, with solid feces; hemorrhoidal.
Mucous piles, pricking, burning; continuous mucous discharge, staining yellow; sometimes ichor oozes out.

Tenesmus of the bladder rouses him from sleep at night.
Frequent urination, with much mucus, intense burning in urethra and backache during emission.
Cutting in urethra while urinating.
Urine: gold-yellow, with scarcely perceptible cloud; brown-red; with small red corpuscles after standing twenty-four hours.
Involuntary urination.

Excited sexual desire, with uneasiness of whole body, which prevents him sitting long.
Nightly pollutions, with or without voluptuous dreams.
Itching: of penis; of tip of glans.
Biting, itching, as from salt on left side of scrotum.

Tenderness over the ovarian region; after catamenia has been checked by taking bath.
Pressure in the womb, as if something would come out.
Menses commence at an early period, are profuse, then cease; subsequently chlorosis.
Before menses, toothache, with boring into the temples.
Discharge of acrid water from the vagina, which caused a smarting down the thighs.
Leucorrhœa watery and containing lumps.

During pregnancy: gastro-intestinal and hemorrhoidal affections.

Feebleness of voice.
Loss of voice; from getting overheated; better after rest.
Violent spasms in the larynx and pharynx as if the throat were filled with a plug, which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness.

Short, heavy breathing; dyspnœa.
Deep, sighing breathing, as from fulness of the chest, afternoon and after eating.
Oppression coming from stomach.
Constriction almost to suffocation.
When exhaling, sharp stitches in left cheek.

Frequent dry cough.
Cough shaking the whole body, with involuntary escape of copious urine.
Cough: after rising in the morning, in attacks; as if arising from the abdomen; the first attack is always most severe, the subsequent ones weaker and weaker until the last resemble only a hacking. θ Whooping-cough. θ Stomach cough.
Cough: in the hot sun; on coming into warm room from cold air; whooping-cough after measles.
Looking into the fire increases cough.

Oppression and pressive pains in chest, more right.
Stitches in the chest.
Pain in the chest with heat.
Burning and sticking in the chest.

Violent palpitation of the heart.
Pulse extremely irregular; now accelerated and again slow, changing every few beats.

Severe continual itching upon the chest the whole day.

Swelling of the cervical glands.
Spasmodic drawing pain in muscles of nape of neck, reaching to scapulæ, evening after lying down and in morning; aggravated by stooping, exerting arms and turning head to left.
Itching of neck and back.
Spasmodic stitches in right scapula when sitting.
Violent pain in small of back when rising from sitting; disappeared when walking.

Cracking in elbow-joint when moving it.
Drawing pain: in arms; in fingers and their joints.
Arthritic pains in fingers.
Finger nails do not grow as rapidly as formerly, and skin beneath the nail painfully sensitive.
Crushed finger nails grow in splits, and like warts, and with horny spots.

Legs fall asleep while sitting quietly.
Painful drawing in hip-joints.
Painful stiffness of the knee.
Pain just below the knee, as if it had been tied too tightly.
Drawing pain: in knee; in lower part of the left tibia; in left heel; and tearing through right great toe.
Gout.
Violent pain in lower limbs.
Large horny places on the soles, close to the toes.
Corns on soles and toes.
Great sensitiveness of soles when walking.

Convulsions and trembling of limbs.
Lassitude, tremulous fatigue and heaviness of all the limbs, as if coming out of the abdomen; with trembling of hands when writing and subsequent discharge of much stinking (excessively offensive) flatus; abdomen distended after dinner.
Rheumatic or gouty pains.

Rest: 4, 25. Sitting: 31, 33. Stooping: 31. Lying: 15, 31. Rising: 31. Ascending: 3. Walking: 10, 31, 33. Moving arm: 32. Writing: 34. Exerting arms: 31. Turning head: 31.

Disposition to start, even at slight noises.
Twitching of muscles; of many parts of the body.
Great lassitude.
Convulsions with the vomiting.

Great sleepiness during the day; mostly in forenoon.
At 7 P.M. feels overwhelmed with sleep.
Coma.
Deep, unfreshing sleep.
Slight raving during sleep.
Wakefulness, with shivering over the left side, on which he does not lie; or with sexual desire and erections when getting warm.
Frequent waking at night as from fright.
Dreams: of quarreling; voluptuous; anxious, as if he were to be hurt; horrible, about mutilation of men.

Morning: 14, 20, 27, 31, 40. Forenoon: 5, 37. Noon: 40. Afternoon: 6, 20. Evening: 4, 7, 31, 37. Night: 5, 10, 14, 20, 21, 22, 37, 40. Day: 40.

Getting warm: 4, 25, 37. Warm room: 27, 40. Heat of sun: 27. Warm water: 1. Bathing: 23; in river: 3, 4. Cold water: 1, 10, 20. Open air: 3, 4, 10.
Worse in warm weather; exhaustion with night-sweats, sleepiness, nausea, vomiting.
Cannot bear the heat of the sun.

Chill predominating during the day, even in warm room.
Violent, shaking chill toward noon, with thirst (for beer).
Shivering over the back; feet cold as ice, with sweat on rest of body.
Heat at night.
Sweat in the morning when awaking, which causes a shriveling of the tips of the fingers.
Sweat, which returns at precisely the same hour, usually every other (third) morning.
After the sweat is over, heat and thirst return.

Symptoms repeat every five, six or twelve weeks.
Returning periodically; coma, earache.
Sweat at same hour every other day.

Right: 6, 28, 31, 33. Left: 4, 5, 6, 8, 19, 22, 26, 33, 37.
Gout commencing right side going to the left.

Hemorrhages dark.
Dropsical swellings of the whole body.
Mucous membranes generally effected.
Swelling pain and redness of the glands.
External parts turn black; dry gangrene.
Obesity of the young.

Touch: 1, 4, 8, 9, 10. Pressure: 4, 17, 19. Boring in the ear: 6. Scratching: 46.

Eruption like boils and blisters.
Pustules like varicella.
Itching of skin, feels sore when scratched.
Pimples and vesicles as from stings of insects, especially on face and joints of extremities.
Measle-like eruption; smooth warts; horny excrescences.
Boils on the perineum; burning around them.
Deep, spongy ulcers.
Eruption with thick, hard scabs; often honey-yellow.
Bed-sores: 2.

Children.
Young people grow fat.
Old people: alternate diarrhœa and constipation.

Similar to Apis (skin); Arsen. (gastric catarrh, burning eruption, dropsy); Amm. mur. (mucous flux); Bryon. (rheumatism, gastric symptoms, effects of heat, etc.); Chamom.; Hepar; Ipec. (gastric ailments); Mercur.; Nux vom.; Pulsat. (gastric symptoms, relief in open air, mind, chills and fever, etc.); Ran. bulb. (horny exanthemata); Rhus tox.; Sulphur; Scilla.
Related to: Ipec., still more to Lycop. (Teste).
Similar in gastric vertigo to Pulsat.; gastric headache from sour things, to Pulsat. or Arsen.; inflamed eyes to Acon.; Euphras.; in toothache in hollow teeth, to Pulsat.; in lessened appetite from summer heat, to Bryon., Carb. veg.; cramp in stomach, to Pulsat. or Ipec.; watery diarrhœa, to Ferrum; after getting overheated, gastric symptoms, to Bryon., Antim. sulph. aurat., preferable for asthma from muco pus in bronchi.
Useful Ipec. or Pulsat. in intermittent.
Polypi with Pulsat. and Mercur.
After Ant. crud. follow well: Pulsat., Mercur., Sulphur.
Antidotes to Ant. crud.: Calcar., Hepar, Mercur.
Ant. crud. antidotes: stings of insects.
Complementary: Squilla.

The crude mineral, Stibnite, a crude ter-sulphuret of antimony, is pulverized under water, and the black insoluble powder is triturated with sugar of milk for use.

A general tissue remedy; its chief manifestations hitherto being on the mucous membranes and skin. ▶ Gastric catarrh, with very white tongue. ▶ The disposition generally determines its choice.

Sulphur, Ars., Lyc., Nux v., Puls., Zinc., Ran. b.

▶ Getting fat (Kali c.). ▶ Swelling of whole body. ▶ Emaciation and exhaustion. ▶ Lies on his back at night. ▶ Convulsions, with vomiting. ▶ Twitchings of muscles in many parts. ▶ Disposition to start at slight noise. ▶ Heavy, pressive pains, sometimes in chest, sometimes in back, sometimes in both these parts. ▶ Sensation of general vascular ebullition. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Weariness; in morning, with indisposition to rise; at 7 P.M., especially of feet, with peevishness. ▶ Indolence and disposition to lie down after dinner. ▶ Feels badly in heat of sun and in warm air, even on slight motion and work. ▶ Aggravation on left side of body; A. from wine (Ars., Lyc., Nux v., Zinc.). ▶ Feels best in rest and cold air (Lyc., Puls.).

There is general aggravation from cold water, whether taken internally or applied externally. ▶ Is suited to the bad effects of Rhenish sour wines.

Extreme irritability and fretfulness is the keynote to its use in a great variety of gastric disorders, especially in children; the child cannot bear to be touched or looked at.

Dementia, did not leave the bed, spoke nothing without being asked, desired neither to eat nor to drink but ate with pleasure of anything was offered, and she felt hungry, constantly pulled her neckcloth, or folded and unfolded a handkerchief, or pulled feathers out of the bed and gathered them together, with such insensibility that she did not feel the sores formed by the evacuations on which she was lying.

▶ Sulky (Sulph.), does not wish to speak. ▶ Does not speak. ▶ Peevish, vexed without cause. ▶ Disposition to shoot himself at night (Ars.), amel. leaving the bed. ▶ Anxiety from 3 to 5 A.M.; about himself during the day; in attacks. ▶ Discouragement, making the head feel warm in front. ▶ Dejection of spirits during the day. ▶ Sadness in evening. ▶ Grief in forenoon, with sound of bells and the sight of his surroundings move him to tears, with short and heavy breathing.

Apoplexy; with much watery foam from nose and mouth. ▶ Intoxication. ▶ Tearing, amel. walking in open air; here and there, from morning till night; at noon, with heat in it. ▶ Aching; after bathing in the river, with weakness of limbs and repugnance to food; then nosebleed; dull stupefying pain when smoking, with nausea in pharynx. ▶ Emptiness, as after continual working in a cold room. ▶ Vertigo; with nausea. ▶ Weakness.

▶ Aching, agg. ascending stairs, and in vertex; A. as if it would burst, with intoxicated feeling, sitting alone and refusing to speak; within skull, at right eyebrow, as if pressed asunder; stupefying, externally when walking in open air, with sweat from anxiety. ▶ Pressure inward in left side, at times drawing. ▶ Boring outward, and in temples. ▶ Heaviness.

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The chief manifestations of this one are seen on the digestive organs, with numerous general indications of sulphur.
The disposition is most characteristic.

Extremely fretful and impatient.
The child is cross if even looked at.

Rush of blood.
Bursting pains.
Headache from bathing (or after smoking).
General tendency to take cold from wetting the head.
Headaches, associated with disordered stomach.

General redness, with sore margins of lids.
Sticking pains.
Dried mucus in the corners.
Photophobia.

Dull hearing.

Nostrils sore, cracked, crusty.
Pain on inhaling cold air.

Vesicles, forming yellow crusts.
Corners of lips and nostrils cracked and sore.
Sub-maxillary glands swollen.

Pain in decayed teeth at night, aggravated by cold drinks, aggravated by touching with tongue.
Gums retract and bleed easily.
Tongue white.
Saliva increased, salty.
Taste bitter.

General disorder.
Eructations, tasting of the food.
Burning at pit of stomach.
Fullness, as if overloaded.
Nausea, retching and vomiting.
Pit of stomach sore; distended.
Distress after eating sweets.

Distention, after eating.
Rumblings.

Hæmorrhoids.
Sore, as from an open ulcer, during stool.
Itching.
Discharge of mucus.

Constipation; large, hard stool.
Constipation alternates with diarrhœa.

Urine profuse, micturition frequent.
Burning in the urethra.
Micturition involuntary when coughing.
Gritty sediment in the urine.

Pressure outward.
(Menses suppressed by cold bathing.)

Loss of voice on becoming overheated.
Heat in the larynx in the open air.

Burning pains with a dry cough.

Rheumatoid pains.
The finger nails grow slowly, become sore and horny.

The soles of the feet become sore, new corns develop.
The heels get red and sore.

Eruptions like insect bites.
Small vesicles become pustular.
Ulcers become fistulous.
Freckles become numerous.

Dull and sleepy day time.
Frequent waking in fright at night.

ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. (GRAY ORE OF ANTIMONY, TERSULPHATE OF ANTIMONY, STIBIUM SULPHURATUM NIGRUM.) [*].

The native ore of tersulphuret of antimony is found in blocks of parallel black needles with an almost metallic lustre, and composed of twenty-eight parts of sulphur combined with 100 parts of metallic antimony. Having been first chemically tested so as to insure its freedom from the admixture of other metals, it is prepared in the manner directed at the close of the first part for dry medicinal substances and raised to the 30th potency for homœopathic use. From the pure effects on the healthy human body as laid down here, the frequent usefulness of a minimum dose of it in appropriate cases of chronic diseases may readily be perceived. It is very much to be desired that also the pure metallic antimony may be proved most carefully as to its pure effects, as we may expect of it much help, as yet unknown, and of a kind differing from that of the sulphuret of antimony ; even as arsenic differing from that of the sulphuret of antimony ; even as arsenic is different in its effects from the yellow sulphuret of arsenic, and the metallic mercury from cinnabar, each one having its own usefulness as a The pharmaceutic remedies containing the sulphuret of antimony as kermes minerale, and sulphur auratum antimonii primæ, secundæ, tertiæ præcipitationis contain very different quantities of the sulphuret of antimony according to their varying mode of preparation. Where the crude ore of antimony is found homœopathic in its pure effects, it will be found the more serviceable if the following symptoms are at the same time present : Intolerance, in a child, of being touched and looked at ; rush of blood to the head ; troublesome itching of the head with falling out of the hair (Htb.) ; redness and inflammation of the eyelids ; sore nostrils ; heat and itching of the cheeks ; pains in the hollow teeth ; long continued loss of appetite ; eructation with the taste of the ingesta ; loathing, qualmishness and nausea from spoiled stomach ; colic with loss of appetite, hard stool and red urine, in a child ; pinching in the belly with a sensation as if diarrhœa was coming on ; alternating diarrhœa and constipation in older persons (Htb.) ; difficult, hard stool ; constant discharge of yellowish-white mucus from the anus (Htb.) ; frequent urination with much emission of mucus and burning in the urethra with pain in the small of the back (Htb.) ; cutting in the urethra during micturition ; stoppage of the nose ; painful inflammation of the tendons in the elbow-joint with severe redness and flexion of the arm ; going to sleep of the legs while sitting still ; violent pains in the lower limbs (Htb.) ; corns on the sole of the foot (Htb.) ; large, horny places on the sole of the foot, near the toes (Htb.) ; horny excrescence anteriorly under the nail of the big toe ; malformations of the skin (Htb.) ; sensitiveness to cold ; somnolence (Htb.). Hepar sulphuris and mercury according to Dr. Hartlaub, are the antidotes of crude antimony. The abbreviations of the names of my fellow-provers are ; C., Dr. Caspari ; Hlb. Dr. Hartlaub ; Lgh., Dr. Langhammer. [] As this drug appears here for the first time, the character of Hahnemann's -and probably of Langhammer's-contributions to its pathogenesis may be inferred. But more than four-fifths of it is due to the other two physicians mentioned, who published their observations in Hartlaub and Trink's Arzneimittellehre (Vol. i.) in 1829, stating that they were made on healthy persons taking fractional doses of the crude substance triturated with milk-sugar. -Hughes*.

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Ant. c. / Aunt.

Antimonium crudum, We
Find in nausea call for thee,
Call when in a drowsy heat,
Vomiting and gagging meet.
Thine, with tendency to doze,
Vertigo with bleeding nose,
Itching eyelids, gummed all o'er,
Outer angles cracked and sore,
Hollow teeth in aching plight,
Worse when eating and at night.
Mouth with corners sore and cracked,
Cheeks with scabs and pimples packed,
Tongue with coating white and thick,
Stomach belching, retching, sick.
Stools, when not in thin purgation,
Bound and loose in alternation.
Tender soles that hurt to walk,
Corns upon the feet in style,
Sore and tender all the while.
Joint-pains in the fingers seated,
Failing breath when overheated.
Ailments all are worse from wine,
Heat of sun, or in sunshine.
When an infant thou didst cry,
When a stranger caught thine eye.

Aunty,- Has Eructations.

Aunty Platt,- Is jawing the young spalpin, Jo Potter.

This Aunty,- Who is subject to a white tongue,- Is at Bishop Carbola's, on his pony, "Vim."

Eructations- Belchings: Ant. c., Plat., Arg. n., Alu., Arn., Nux v., Graph., Sul., Pul., Lyc., Phos., Iod., Kal. c. (Loud and painful Belching, Arg. n. Eructations with taste like rotten egg, Arn., Mag. m.)

Thick White Coating on the Tongue: Ant. c., Bis., Carbol. a., Pul., Nux. v., Verat. a., Mer., etc.

Indicated in gastric disturbances of children who are inclined to get fat and are subject to skin troubles; often useful in rheumatic and gouty pains and in chronic diseases due to the suppression of an eruption.

Excessively irritable, fretful, sulky.

Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at; objects to being washed.

Face covered with pimples; cracks in the corners of the mouth; yellowish crusts on cheek and chin.

Tongue coated thick white, as though covered with milk or whitewashed.

Moist eruption on and behind ears.

Finger-nails split easily; horny growth under the nails.

Horny excrescences over the body.

Gums spongy; bleed easily.

Appetite abnormal; craves acids and pickles.

Constant belching of gas.

Diarrhoea, watery, slimy, windy; stools mixed with hard lumps.

Cough from tickling in the chest, worse from going into a warm room.

Thick, hard scabs over the body; on the chin; bleed when touched.

Skin covered with pimples and vesicles.

Soles of feet very sensitive; horny growths on the feet.

Worse in the evening; when heated; in the heat of the sun; from cold bathing.

Better in the cool, open air.

Imbecility. Insanity. Ecstatic love and sentimental reveries in the moonlight. Apprehension and solicitude concerning his fate. Restlessness. Inclination to suicide by shooting.

Stupefying ache with nausea in throat. Congestion to. Distensive pressing ache. Bone pains in cranium, the periosteum is painful and swelled and the bone itself feels swollen. Takes cold in, from getting wet or bathing in cold water. Worse: Evening, warmth, becoming heated, after bathing, after eating, after his accustomed smoke. Better: Walking in cool, open air, at rest.

Inflammatory redness of, and of lids. Sticking in. Eye gum in canthi. Aversion to daylight.

Deafness as if a leaflet were lying before tympanum.

Sore, cracked, crusty nostrils. Sensation of coldness in, on inspiration.

Sad expression. Vesicular, suppurating eruptions on, which form a yellow crust. Angles of mouth are sore and cracked. Swelled submaxillary glands.

Bleeding from about, and from gums. Jerking pain in hollow teeth worse cold water. Gnashing.

Salty saliva. Salivation Dirty, white - coated tongue. Hot breath.

Taste, - Flat, disagreeably insipid. Bitterness in mouth.

Pains as from overloading. Deranged by gluttony. Spasm in, with sensitive pit and thirst. Weak.

Appetite, Long continued loss of, Loathes all food. Desires sour things. Intense thirst particularly at night.

Eructations: Tasting of ingesta.

Nausea, etc. - Loathing, qualmishness and nausea after derangement of stomach. Qualmishness after drinking only.

Distended and full after eating. Violent cutting in upper. Ascites.

Flatulence: Much, with grumbling and rattling in abdomen.

Hard, difficult. Faces too large. Diarrhoea: Alternating with constipation (in the aged), papescent or water, with cutting bellyache.

Hemorrhoids in. Continuous flow of mucus from.

Profuse discharge, containing mucus, with burning in urethra and lumbar pains. Dark. Involuntary urination when coughing. Kidney calculi.

Lustfulness and great sexual excitement. Uterine hemorrhage.

Deep sighing. Suffocative oppression of chest.

Seeming to come from deep in abdomen, the coughs gradually grow weaker as if from increasing closure of throat by a plug. Dry in evening, in morning expectoration of a flat - tasting tenacious mucus mixed with dark blood.

Heat in, during exercise in open air. Very weak voice. Aphonia from becoming heated.

Neck: Rheumatic pain in.

Burning and sticking pain in.

Rheumatic pain in arms. Swelling, sticking and tension in deltoid. Inflammatory swelling of forearm. Slowly growing finger - nails.

Rheumatic pain in legs. White swelling (hydrarthrosis) of knee. Soles sensitive when stepping. Large callous corns on ball of foot. Inflammatory redness of heel.

Excessive, corpulency (or emaciation). Dropsical swelling of entire body. Shattering of whole body. When they recur, complaints alternate from side to side of body. (Lac-c.). Gastric symptoms return most violent in afternoon, the others are worse from motion and warmth. Effects of wine, especially if sour. Results of auto - intoxication, intestinal.

Fatty itch. Popular and vesicular eruption like insect stings. Nettlerash. Chicken - pox. Arthritic nodes. White swelling. Fistulous ulcers. Liver spots and freckles.

Great day sleepiness. Somnolency particularly in forenoon.

Pulse: Exceedingly irregular, now accelerated, now slow, alternating every few beats. Chill: Predominates by day, even in a warm room. Toward noon violent shaking chill with thirst (for beer). Exquisitely cold sensation in nose during inspiration. Heat: Predominating at night, but with cold feet until midnight. Great, from slightest motion, especially in sunshine, Sweat: In morning when awaking, wrinkles the finger - tips. Returning at the same hour usually on alternate mornings. Intermittent fever with loathing, qualmishness, vomiting, bitter taste in mouth and diminished (or excessive) thirst.

Allied Remedies: Ars., Bism., Bro., HEP., Ip., MERC., Pul., Sep., SUL.

He is much concerned about his fate.

Disposition to grow fat.

Inflammation of the muscles.

Aversion to be looked at, and to be touched.

Horn-like excrescences and disposition to abnormal organizations of the skin.

Gastric symptoms, worse in the afternoon and at night.

When the symptoms reappear they change their locality, or go from one side of the body to the other.

Aggravation from drinking sour wine, in the heat of the sun, after eating (pork), at night or after bathing.

Amelioration during rest and in the open air.