Carbo Vegetabilis carb-v.

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: DIGESTIVE TRACT. STOMACH. HEART: VENOUS CIRCULATION. Blood. Occiput.

WARMTH. DEPLETIONS. Cooling off. EXHAUSTING DISEASES. Old age. HIGH LIVING. Rich foods. DISSIPATION. Overlifting. Walking in open air. Pressure of clothes. Weather: Extreme temperatures. Cold night air; frosty; humid. Air. Wind on head. Suppression.

ERUCTATIONS. Cool air. Elevating feet.

Low, grave, depraved, or cachectic states. Atony, failing reaction or obstinate sequelæ. Complaints of old age. WEAKNESS, FLATULENCE, FETOR OR AIR HUNGER, with most complaints. Tremulous, WEAK, SICK AND EXHAUSTED; suddenly; with pulselessness. Fainting. Collapse. Easily chilled. Cold, yet wants air or to be fanned, or thirsts for cold water. BLUENESS and decomposition. Sepsis. Ulceration (aphthous). HÆMORRHAGE; dark oozing. Overfulness. Venosity. Thick, acrid discharges (Hyds.). Old catarrhs. General bruised soreness or heavy aching burning; in bones, ulcers, etc. Numbness, of parts lain on.

Slow, anxious and irritable. Dejected. Unhappy. Dull, compressive, heavy (leaden) headache; < occiput; < overheating, lying or pressure of hat. Sneezing from irritation in larynx; < blowing nose or sneezing. Colds go downward (Pho.). PINCHED, HIPPOCRATIC or DUSKY FACE. Twitching upper lip. Mumps with metastasis. Loose teeth. Scorbutic gums. Small, painful aphthæ. Black tongue. Loathes even the thought of food. BELCHINGS; RANCID; loud, without >; with cough. EXCESSIVE FLATULENCE; obstructed; distending; < upper abdomen (Pul.); < lying. All food turns to gas. Dyspepsia. Colic. Burning in rectum. Itching anus. Septic albuminuria. Sore, hot itching, swelled vulva. Hoarse in evening. Spasms of tormenting, hollow or choking cough, with headache and vomiting; < cold drinks and in bed; expectorates with retching. Pertussis and its effects. Heavy, sore or weak chest; on awaking. Senile asthma. Destructive lung diseases. Continuous, anxious palpitation. Sore ribs. As of a plug in back. Weak fingers. Raw or mottled skin. Ulcers, foul, burning and bleeding. Varicosis. Horrors during sleep. Thready pulse. Alternate chill and heat. ICY COLD; tongue; knees; legs, at night; breath; foot (l); unilateral, etc. Warm head, cold limbs. Internal, burning heat; at heart; in chest; with icy skin, < coughing. Icy, but wants air.

Complementary: Chin. Kali-c. Follows: Caust. Antidote: Nat-m. Related: Am-c. Ars. Colch. Grap. Lyc.

For the bad effects of exhausting diseases, whether in young or old (Cinch., Phos., Psor.); cachetic persons whose vitality has become weakened or exhausted. Persons who have never fully recovered from the exhausting effects of some previous illness; asthma dates from measles or pertusis of childhood; indigestion from a drunken debauch; bad effects of a long ago injury; has never recovered from effects of typhoid (Psor.). Ailments: from quinine, especially suppressed intermittents; abuse of mercury, salt, salt meats; spoiled fish, meats, or fats; from getting overheated (Ant. c.). Bad effects from loss of vital fluids (Caust.); haemorrhage from any broken down condition of mucous membranes (Cinch., Phos.). Weakness of memory and slowness of thought. Epistaxis in daily attacks, for weeks, worse from exertion; face pale before as well as after a haemorrhage. Haemorrhage from any mucous outlet; in systems broken down, debilitated; blood oozes from weakened tissues; vital force exhausted. Hippocratic face; very pale, grayish-yellow, greenish, cold with cold sweat; after haemorrhage. Looseness of teeth, easily-bleeding gums. Patients crave things that make them sick; old topers crave whiskey or brandy; want clothing loose around abdomen. Weak digestion; simplest food disagrees; excessive accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines < lying down; after eating or drinking, sensation as if stomach would burst; effects of a debauch, late suppers, rich food. Eructations give temporary relief. Diseases of the venous system predominate (Sulph.); symptoms of imperfect oxidation (Arg. nit.). Deficient capillary circulation causes blueness of skin and coldness of extremities; vital powers nearly exhausted; desire to be constantly fanned. Hoarseness: < evenings; damp evening air; warm, wet weather; fails when exerted (< morning, Caust.). Awakens often from cold limbs and suffers from cold knees at night (Apis). Frequent, involuntary, cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning; soft stool voided with difficulty (Alum.). In the last stages of disease, with copious cold sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, voice lost, this remedy may save a life.

Complementary: Kali carb. Want of susceptabilty to well-selected remedies (Opium, Val.). Compare: Cinch., Plumb., in neglected pneumonia, especially in "old toppers;" Ant. t. in threatened paralysis from inability to expectorate loosened mucus. Opium: with lack of reaction after well-selected remedies fail to permanently improve (Val.). Phos. in easily bleeding ulcers. Puls., bad effects from fat food and pastry. Sulph., acrid-smelling menstrual flow and erysipelas of mammae.

From butter, pork, fat food; abuse of quinine, bark and mercury; from singing or reading aloud; in warm, damp weather.

From eructation; being fanned.

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.

Anguish; irritable; peevish; desperation.

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.

Sensation as of a grain of sand; morning agglutination. Black flying spots. Angles of the eye.

Sensation as of stopped; roaring in.

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.

Complexion becomes grayish-yellow; great paleness of; chapped lips, with much pain in; swollen lips.

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.

Sensation as if closed; aphonia; hoarseness;

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.

Affections of the anus, as itching hæmorrhoids, etc.; perineum; stinking stools. Painful diarrhœa of old people.

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.

Falling asleep late; complaints preventing sleep; sleeplessness before midnight.

Pulse imperceptible; small; soft.

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.

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 œsophagus; 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.

Menstruates too early. Scurvy.

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.

From eructation.

Acon., Nux vom., Lycop., Pulsat., Sepia. Sulphur.

Spirits of Nitre, Camphor, Dulcam.

Head painfully sensitive to pressure, especially of the hat; sensation remains after hat is taken off, as if bound up with a cloth. Gums painfully sensitive while chewing. A version to meat, fat and milk which cause flatulency. Excessive flatulence, abdomen full to bursting; worse from least food; better from eructations and passing flatus. Violent, almost constant, empty, sour and rancid eructations. Great roughness in the larynx, with deep rough voice, which failed, if he exerted it; worse evenings. Hoarseness and rawness worse evenings; aphonia worse mornings. Burning in the chest as from glowing coals, with rawness and soreness. Vital forces nearly exhausted, cold surface, especially from knees to feet; lies as if dead breath cool; pulse intermittent, thready; cold sweat on limbs. Ailments from quinine, especially suppressed chills and lever; from abuse of mercury, from salt and meats, from putrid meat or fish or rancid fats. Desire to be fanned, must have more air. Abdomen feels as if hanging heavily; must walk bent. Vertigo, must hold onto something; when stooping; also from flatulence Morning leuchorrhoea, milky, acid and excoriating the parts.

Vegetable Charcoal

Disintegration and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy. The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints. Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis. Body becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless stream and sepsis and typhoidal state ensues.

A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions; states of collapse in cholera, typhoid; these are some of the conditions offering special inducements to the action of Carbo veg. The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open. This is a typical state for Carbo veg. The patient faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air. Hæmorrhage from any mucous surface. Very debilitated. Patient seems to be too weak to hold out. Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness. Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; putrid (septic) condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation. General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold.

Aversion to darkness. Fear of ghosts. Sudden loss of memory.

Aches from any over-indulgence. Hair feels sore, falls off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed. Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight. Head feels heavy, constricted. Vertigo with nausea and tinnitus. Pimples on forehead and face.

Puffy, cyanotic. Pale, hippocratic, cold with cold sweat; blue (Cup; Opium). Mottled cheeks and red nose.

Vision of black floating spots. Asthenopia. Burning in eyes. Muscles pain.

Otorrhœa following exanthematous diseases. Ears dry. Malformation of cerumen with exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus.

Epistaxis in daily attacks, with pale face. Bleeding after straining, with pale face; tip of nose red and scabby, itching around nostrils. Varicose veins on nose. Eruption in corner of alæ nasi. Coryza with cough, especially in moist, warm weather. Ineffectual efforts to sneeze.

Tongue coated white or yellow brown, covered with aphthæ. Teeth very sensitive where chewing; gums retracted and bleed easily. Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth. Pyorrhea.

Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down. Eructations after eating and drinking. Temporary relief from belching. Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations. Waterbrash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence. Nausea in the morning. Burning in stomach, extending to back and along spine. Contractive pain extending to chest, with distention of abdomen. Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating. Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double. Distress comes on a half-hour after eating. Sensitiveness of epigastric region. Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests. Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence, sour, rancid belching. Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things. The simplest food distresses. Epigastric region very sensitive.

Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus. Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen. Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulæ. Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind. Flatulent colic. Pain in liver.

Flatus hot, moist, offensive. Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum. Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum. A musty, glutinous moisture exudes. Soreness, itching moisture of perineum at night. Discharge of blood from rectum. Burning at anus, burning varices (Mur ac). Painful diarrhœa of old people. Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning. White hæmorrhoids; excoriation of anus. Bluish, burning piles, pain after stool.

Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool. Itching and moisture at thigh near scrotum.

Premature and too copious menses; pale blood. Vulva swollen; aphthæ; varices on pudenda. Leucorrhœa before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating (Kreos). During menstruation, burning in hands and soles.

Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging and vomiting of mucus. Whooping cough, especially in beginning. Deep, rough voice, failing on slight exertion. Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking; evening oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest. Wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest. Occasional spells of long coughing attacks. Cough, with burning in chest; worse in evening, in open air, after eating and talking. Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive expectoration, neglected pneumonia. Breath cold; must be fanned. Hæmorrhage from lungs. Asthma in aged with blue skin.

Heavy, stiff; feel paralyzed; limbs, go to sleep; want of muscular energy; joints weak. Pain in shins. Cramp in soles; feet numb and sweaty. Cold from knees down. Toes red, swollen. Burning pain in bones and limbs.

Coldness, with thirst. Chill begins in forearm. Burning in various places. Perspiration on eating. Hectic fever, exhausting sweats.

Blue, cold ecchymosed. Marbled with venous over distension. Itching; worse on evening, when warm in bed. Moist skin; hot perspiration; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily. Falling out of hair, from a general weakened condition. Indolent ulcers, burning pain. Ichorous, offensive discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins. Purpura. Varicose ulcers, carbuncles (Ars; Anthrac).

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

Antidotes: Spirits Nitre; Camph; Ambra; Arsenic.

Compare: Carboneum-Lampblack (Spasms commencing in tongue, down trachea and extremities. Tingling sensation). Lycop; Ars; China.

Complementary: Kali carb; Dros.

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

Vital force nearly exhausted; complete collapse.

Blood stagnates in the capillaries; venous turgescence; surface cold and blue.

Hæmorrhages (nose, stomach, gums, bowels, bladder or any mucous surface), with indescribable paleness of the surface of the body.

Mucous membranes break down, become spongy, bleed ulcerate and become putrid.

Excessive flatulence, pressing upward, stomach and abdomen.

Hunger for oxygen, decarbonized blood; cries, "fan me, fan me hard!"

Anæmic, especially after acute diseases, which have greatly depleted the patients; chronic effects.

Persons who have never fully recovered from the exhausting effects of some previous illness; has never recovered from effects of typhoid, weak digestion; the simplest food disagrees; eructations give temporary relief.

Bad effects from loss of vital fluids (Caust.); hæmorrhage from any broken-down condition of mucous membrane.

Looseness of teeth, easily bleeding gums.

In the last stages of disease, with copious cold sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, voice lost, this remedy may save a life.

Coldness of the knees, even in bed (Apis); of left arm and left leg; very cold hands and feet; finger-nails blue.

Persons who have never recovered from effects of some previous illness or injury; suppression by Quinine or drugging; typhoid or yellow fever.

China is its great complementary.

In our remarks upon China we said that for flatulent conditions the choice lay often between it, Carbo veg. and Lycopodium. Carbo vegetabilis also ranges alongside China for debilitated states. The weakness of Carbo vegetabilis is not surpassed by any other remedy. This, with Arsenicum and Muriatic acid form a trio of remedies which according to well-known indications has snatched many a patient from the very jaws of death. Picture of Carbo veg.: Vital forces nearly exhausted, cold surface, especially from knees down to feet; lies motionless, as if dead; breath cold; pulse intermittent, thready; cold sweat on limbs. This is truly a desperate condition. Then add to these symptoms, blood stagnates in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness and ecchymoses; the patient so weak he cannot breathe without being constantly fanned. Gasps: "Fan me ! Fan me !" Carbo veg. has saved such cases. This is a picture of a case of typhoid fever, and in one case we saw added still to this, hæmorrhage of dark, decomposed, unclotted blood; could not clot on account of its broken down condition; blood oozing from gums and nostrils, and an indescribable paleness not only of the hippocratic face, but also of the skin of the whole body, yet Carbo veg. restored to health, and in an aged woman at that. I have here, as faithfully as I can, portrayed the wonderful power of this remedy in such a desperate case. Of course no remedy can raise the dead, no matter how strong the indications before death; but no remedy can come nearer than this and the dominant school know little or nothing about it, and never can until they will consent to use it in the homœopathic form and according to homœopathic indications.

The sphere of this remedy is not by any means limited to low or weakening states in connection with acute diseases. To give an idea of its use when indicated by the symptoms in chronic ailments, I can do no better than quote from Henry N. Guernsey: "No truer remark was ever written than that Carbo vegetabilis is especially adapted to cachectic individuals whose vital powers have become weakened. This remark is made particularly clear when considered in the light of those cases in which disease seems to be engrafted upon the system by reason of the depressing influence of some prior derangement. (Psorinum). Thus, for instance, the patient tells us that asthma has troubled him ever since he had the whooping cough in childhood; he has dyspepsia ever since a drunken debauch which occurred some years ago; he has never been well since the time he strained himself so badly (Rhus tox., Calcarea ost.); the strain itself does not now seem to be the matter, but his present ailments have all appeared since it happened; he sustained an injury some years ago, no traces of which are now apparent, and yet he dates his present complaints from the time of the occurrence of that accident; or again, he was injured by exposure to damp, hot air and his present ailments result from it. It will be well for the physician to think of Carbo vegetabilis in similar cases which are numerous and may present very dissimilar phenomena, as these circumstances being suggestive of Carbo veg. it in all probability will be found to be the appropriate remedy which the agreement of the other symptoms of the case with those of the drug will serve to corroborate." This is from the pen of one of the best prescribers that ever lived, and I feel justified in quoting it entire.

This remedy seems to affect deeply the whole alimentary tract, and the same broken down, weakened condition appears. The gums break down, become spongy, bleed on touching or sucking them or become retracted from the teeth, lower incisors and are painfully sensitive or sore on chewing or even pressing the teeth hard together. The stomach also becomes weak. acidity and pyrosis is frequent; the plainest food disagrees, fat foods especially. Here Carbo vegetabilis succeeds when Pulsatilla fails.

The most marked and valuable place for this remedy is in its power to relieve complaints from excessive flatulence in the stomach. "Great accumulations of flatulence in the stomach." "Stomach feels full and tense from flatulence." Great pain in stomach on account of flatulence, worse especially on lying down, should always call attention to this remedy. All this may occur in different affections ranging from a simple dyspepsia to incurable cancer of the stomach. In the latter case, and even in cases not so serious, we may have added burning in stomach. This flatulence is also generated in the abdomen, but, in the Carbo vegetabilis cases, is most troublesome in upper part; yet may extend so far as to cause great meteoristic distention, especially in typhoid fevers, dysenteries, etc. It is a remedy of inestimable value in hæmorrhage from any broken down condition of mucous membranes. This action upon the mucous membranes does not stop with the alimentary tract, but attacks those of the respiratory tract also. Beginning with the larynx, it causes and cures great hoarseness, which is characteristically worse in the damp air, especially of evening. It may be very bad even (if the air is damp) in the morning; but morning hoarseness is oftener reached by Causticum. This condition may go on extending and increasing until it reaches the bronchia.

This is particularly true in case of elderly people of broken down constitutions, venous system predominating. It is a great remedy for the bronchitis of old people; also for asthma of the same, in very desperate cases where the patient appears as if dying. Here the choice must be sometimes made between this remedy and China.

In the chest there is sometimes "burning as from glowing coal " and again, "weak, fatigued feeling in chest," where the choice may fall between it and Phosphoric acid, Stannum and Sulphur.

It has been found very efficacious in desperate cases of pneumonia, and comes in quite naturally after Tartar emetic has failed to assist the patient to clear his lungs of the great quantities of loosened mucus, when cyanosis and paralysis threaten from weakness. Its sputa then is apt to be fœtid with cold sweat and breath and the characteristic wanted-to-be-fanned condition.

Before we leave this remedy I want to emphasize its power over hæmorrhages, which may occur from lungs, nose, stomach, bowels, bladder or any mucous surface. No remedy can take its place in broken down, greatly debilitated constitutions where the surfaces from which the blood oozes seem too weak and spongy to hold the blood in them. Their vitality is gone with the patient's nervous vitality. The patient's face and skin is very pale, even before the hæmorrhage has occurred. China and Carbo vegetabilis are decidedly complementary.

Restlessness and anxiety (in the evening, 4-6 P.M.). Periodical weakness of the memory. Sensitiveness and irritability.

Giddiness when moving the head. Congestions to the head. Pressing headache, with tears in the eyes ; they are painful when moving them ; the hairy scalp is painful to the touch ; worse in the afternoon and evening, and after eating. Spasmodic tension in the brain. The external head is painfully sensitive to pressure, especially the pressure of the hat ; worse from taking cold, or when getting warm in bed. Falling off of the hair, with itching of the scalp in the evening, when getting warm in bed.

Weakness of the eyes from using them too much, and from fine work. Hæmorrhage from the eyes, with congestion to the head. Nightly agglutination of the eyes. Burning arid pressing in the eyes. Itching of the margins of the eyelids. Black, flying spots before the eyes.

Every evening heat and redness of (the right) the external ear. Deficiency of wax. Suppuration (fetid) of the inner ear. Pulsations in the ears. Swelling of the parotid gland.

Frequent and continuous bleeding from the nose, especially in the morning, or after straining to stool, with paleness of the face before and afterwards. The tip of the nose is red and scabby. Itching around the nostrils ; coryza, with hoarseness.

Greenish color of the face. Great paleness of the face. Swollen face and lips. Lips swelled, chapped.

Looseness of the teeth. Tearing toothache from salt food. The gums recede from the teeth, (incisors). The gums bleed easily and often.

Dryness of the mouth, without thirst. Tongue coated white or yellow-brown. Stomacace. Sensation of constriction in the throat. Feeling of coldness of the throat. Burning ; roughness ; rawness in the throat. The throat is full of mucus, which can be hawked up, easily. Swelling and inflammation of the uvula, with stitches in the throat.

Excessive hunger or thirst. Great desire for coffee. Aversion to meat and fat things. Bitter or salty taste. The food tastes too salt. Acidity in the mouth after eating. Weakness of digestion ; the plainest food inconveniences him.

Nausea in the morning. Eructations of the (fat) food. Bloated abdomen after eating and drinking. Vomiting of blood ; of the food in the evening. Colic, with the sensation of a burning pressure ; much flatulence and sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach. Pain in the stomach after loss of fluids, (while nursing). Stitches under the ribs, especially in the region of the liver. Pain in the liver, as if bruised. Distention of the abdomen from flatulency, with heat, frequent discharge of very fetid flatus. Pain in the abdomen from riding in a carriage. He cannot bear any tight clothing around his waist and abdomen.

Constipation ; hard, tough, scanty stool. Diarrhœa ; thin, pale, mucous. The stool, even if it be soft, is passed with difficulty. Discharge of blood from the rectum. Burning varices. Burning at the anus, (after stool). Soreness of, and oozing of moisture from the perinæum.

Frequent and anxious urging to pass urine. Copious emission of light-yellow urine, (diabetes). Wetting of the bed at night. Constriction of the urethra every morning. Red, dark urine, as if mixed with blood.

Men. Frequent, involuntary seminal emissions. Rapid discharge of semen during edition, followed by roaring in the head. Women. Itching, burning and soreness of the parts. Aphthæ and itching at the pudendum. Menses too early and too profuse, (blood pale). Menstrual blood thick ; corrosive ; of an acrid smell. Thick, yellowish white leucorrhœa. Varices on the parts, (pudendum). Disposition to miscarriages.

Hoarseness aggravated by talking ; worse in the evening. Roughness of the throat, causing cough. Soreness and ulcerative pain in the larynx and pharynx. Loss of voice at night, or when talking.

Oppression of breathing. Sensation of rawness and soreness in the chest. Burning, pressing, and stinging in the chest, (hydrothorax). Wheezing and rattling of mucus in the chest. When breathing, painful throbbing in the head and teeth. Spasmodic, hollow cough, (hooping-cough) ; four to five attacks every day, caused by a tingling irritation in the larynx ; expectoration only in the morning, yellow, like pus, -brownish, -bloody, -tasting putrid, sour, salt, and of offensive smell. Cough, with spitting of blood and burning pain in the chest. Cough, with expectoration of pus. The cough is worse in the evening ; till midnight ; from movement ; when walking in the open air ; from cold, wet weather ; from going from a warm to a cold place ; after lying down ; after eating and drinking, especially cold things ; from talking. Brown-yellow blotches on the chest. Palpitation of the heart, especially when sitting. Erysipelatous inflammation of the mammæ.

Stitches in the back. Rheumatic tearing in the back. Painful stiffness of the back in the morning, when rising. Swelling of the cervical glands.

Upper. Pain, as from contusion in the elbow joints. Tearing in the wrists. Paralytic weakness of the fingers when seizing any thing. Heat in the hands ; burning in the hands. Icy-cold hands. The tips of the fingers are covered with cold sweat. Lower. Heaviness in the lower extremities. The legs go to sleep. Cramps in the legs, and especially the soles of the feet. Perspiration of the feet. Toes red, swollen, stinging, as if they had been frozen. Ulcerated tips of the toes.

Numbness of the limbs. Burning pains (limbs, bones, ulcers). The limbs go to sleep easily. Great debility and weakness as soon as he makes the least exertion.

Sleepiness in day-time (forenoon) with sleeplessness at night, on account of great restlessness. No sleep, with inability to open the eyes.

Pulse small, weak, imperceptible ; uneven ; intermitting. Chilliness and chill, especially in the evening, with thirst-sometimes on one side only ; with great debility and icy coldness of the body. (Intermittent fever, with thirst only during the chill). Heat after the chill, or by itself, in the evening and at night, in bed ; flushes of heat ; burning heat, generally without thirst. Perspiration smelling putrid, or sour ; easily excited, even when eating ; cold. Night-sweat. Morning sweat smelling sour.

General itching all over in the evening, when getting warm, in bed. Burning on different parts of the skin. Ulcers ; bleeding readily ; putrid ; with burning pain ; with acrid, corroding pus. Lymphatic swelling, with suppuration and burning pain. Glands swollen, indurated.

Evil effects from the loss of fluids. The rheumatic pains in the limbs are often accompanied by flatulency. The great debility is worse at noon. Bad effects from over-lifting, and from getting cold in cold, wet weather. The soreness in the limbs is worse in the morning, on riding. Bad effects from the abuse of China, or Chininum sulphuricum. It follows well after Veratrum, especially in hooping-cough. China follows well after Carbo vegetabilis.

Vegetable Charcoal. C (impure). Trituration.

Acidity. Acne. Angina Pectoris . Aortitis. Aphonia. Asthenopia. Asthma. Breasts, erysipelas of. Bronchitis . Burns. Carbuncle . Catarrh. Chilblains. Cholera. Constipation. Cough . Deafness. Debility . Diarrhœa. Distension . Dysentery. Dyspepsia . Emphysema. Erysipelas. Eructations. Feet, cold. Flatulence. Gangrene . Hæmorrhages. Hæmorrhoids . Hair, falling out. Headache. Heart, diseases of . Influenza. Intermittents. Intertrigo. Irritation . Laryngitis. Lungs, congested . Measles. Mumps. Nose, bleeding of . Œsophagitis. Orchitis. Otorrhœa. Pregnancy, disorders of . Purpura. Scabies. Scurvy. Shiverings. Sleep, disorders of. Starting. Stomach, disordered . Stomatitis. Trachea, dryness of. Tympanites . Typhus. Ulcers . Yellow fever.

The deodorant and disinfectant properties of charcoal in bulk had already been discovered when Hahnemann was at work on his Materia Medica . Provings with the crude and the potentised substances showed that the latter were much more powerful in their effect on the animal organism. These brought out the fact that there is an exact correspondence between the effect of crude charcoal and potentised Carbo veg . Both are antiseptic and deodorant. The signs and symptoms of decay and putrefaction are the leading indications for its medicinal use: Decomposition of food in the stomach; putrid diseases and ulcerations; symptoms of imperfect oxygenisation of the blood. Carbo veg . antidotes the effects of putrid meats or fish, rancid fats, salt or salt meats, and also the pathogenetic action of Cinchona, Lachesis , and Mercurius . It is suited to conditions where there is lack of reaction (like Opium ); to low states of the vital powers, where the venous system is engorged; debility of greater intensity than Carbo an .; to children after exhausting diseases; to old people. Leading symptoms are: Numbness of limbs. Burning pains (as also Carb. an . — both the products of a burning process). Great debility as soon as he makes the least effort. Guernsey considers Carb. v . especially suited to cachectic individuals whose vital powers have become weakened. In cases where disease seems to have been engrafted on the system by reason of the depressing influence of some prior derangement. "Thus, for instance, the patient tells us that asthma has troubled him ever since he had whooping-cough in childhood; he has dyspepsia ever since a drunken debauch which occurred some years ago; he has never been well since the time he strained himself so badly; the strain itself does not now seem to be the matter, but his present ailments have all appeared since it happened; he sustained an injury some years ago, no traces of which are now apparent, and yet he dates his present complaints from the time of the occurrence of that accident; or, again, he was injured by exposure to damp, hot air, and his present ailments result from it." Another form of debility is that following childbirth, causing falling out of hair.

Among other effects of Carbo v. are: Aversion to darkness. Fear of ghosts. Excessive accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines. "Stomach feels full and tense from flatulence." "Great pain in stomach on account of flatulence, < especially on lying down ." Great desire for air; must be fanned; wants to be fanned hard . < From warmth: on the other hand it has cough < entering cold air from a warm room. < From brandy. Coldness is characteristic: cold breath (as in cholera); cold knees; cold, but wants to be fanned.

The mental state of Carb. v . is one of torpor and indolence, which distinguishes it from Ars . in many cases; slow thinking; < in morning on waking. Indifference. There is also peevishness; easily angered. Vertigo from stomach, with fainting, especially at meals. Lividity is a common indication; mottled skin round ulcers; indolent gangrene; varicose veins of arms, legs, vulva. Hippocratic countenance; cold breath. Collapse; with cold knees. Dull headache in occiput with confusion of mind; proceeding from occiput to forehead dull, heavy aching over eyes; in warm room; buzzing in ears very sensitive to pressure of hat. The congestive symptoms of Carb. v . are those of poisoning by carbonic acid; pulse thready; face pale, covered with cold sweat; desire to be fanned; anxiety without restlessness; dyspnœa. Hæmorrhages are frequent; epistaxis; hæmorrhage from throat in dysentery; from bowels; menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with burning pains across sacrum and spine; hæmorrhage from the lungs; dyspnœa from chronic aortitis. It corresponds to fever of many types: typhoid, intermittent, yellow fever, hectic, and cholera. In intermittents of long standing where quinine has been abused; thirst only during chill; feet ice-cold up to knees; heat in burning flushes; sweat sour or offensive; weak, mind befogged. A. H. Birdsall has recorded a typical case of Carb. v . intermittent. A man, 36, had had fever eight months, partially suppressed by Arsenic and Quinine . Type, tertian. Headache for one or two hours before chill. Chill always from 9 to 10 a.m., beginning in feet and hands, spreading over body; nails very blue. Thirst with chill. Cold stage lasts two to three hours, followed immediately by hot stage; much heat in head and face, which is flushed red; thirstlessness . Sweating stage short; sweat sour. Apyrexia: sweats easily, especially from least warmth; awakens in morning always with slight sour-smelling sweat. Weak; dispirited; flatulent. A single dose of Carb. v . cured. There were only three more attacks, each of diminished intensity. There is catarrh from warm, moist atmosphere. The cough of Carb. v . is < on entering cold air from a warm room. Hoarseness from damp air < morning or evening. Cough caused by a sensation as if sulphur fumes were in larynx. There is leucorrhœa, greenish yellow, < in morning. The leucorrhœa excoriates. Many symptoms occur during menses: headache; itching, burning soreness and smarting at vulva and anus; hæmorrhoids. A carbon ointment, made by carbonising a wine cork by plunging it into a clear fire and then, in its still glowing state, into vaseline and mixing thoroughly, is regarded as a sovereign remedy in anal irritation and hæmorroidal troubles. The menstrual discharge is corrosive and has a strong pungent odour. Premature and profuse. Preceded and followed by Leucorrhœa. Perinæum moist, raw, oozing. Carbo v . has weak digestion with enormous production of flatulence, > by eructations. Flatulence accompanies many other complaints, as asthma and heart affections. Heaviness, full feeling and burning. Aversion to fat, to meat; to milk, which causes flatulence. Desire for coffee (which does not relieve); for acids; for sweet and salt things. Effects of alcohol; of fish, especially if tainted; ice-water; vegetables; salt or salt meats. Disorder from high living, and especially butter -eating. Burning itching on skin; frozen limbs; chilblains; excoriations between toes. Tinea capitis or scald-head. Scalp very sensitive, feels as if bruised. Whooping-cough with pain at base of brain. Excessive gagging cough in the morning, compelling him to vomit everything in his stomach immediately after breakfast. Dros . is complementary to Carbo v . in this. Enuresis, which is < in morning after the first sleep.

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Falls down insensible.
Stupor, collapse.
Memory feeble, flow of ideas slow ; tendency to fixed ideas.
Periodical want of memory ; headache as if integuments of head were contracted ; hat presses on head as a heavy burden ; when taking off hat, he feels as if a handkerchief were tied round head ; creeping in integuments of occiput as if hairs were in motion.
Confusion of head, making thinking difficult ; morning on waking ; he had to make great exertion, as if arousing himself from a dream.
When it became dark in her room, frightful shapes appeared before her eyes ; started from anxious dreams.
Flightiness at night.
Voluptuous fancies.
Quiet delirium. θ Typhus.
Frequent screaming.
Indifference ; heard everything without feeling pleasantly or unpleasantly, and without thinking of it.
Lack of cheerfulness in evening.
Feels unhappy with every little pain.
Nightly fear of ghosts. θ Worm affections.
Anxiety : as if oppressed ; with heat in face ; accompanied by shuddering ; on closing eyes ; in evening after lying down ; on awaking.
Great anxiety and heat with pains.
Trembling anxiety in morning.
Anxiety and uneasiness causing him to tremble all over, as if he had committed a crime, ending in weeping, even before strangers ; painful hiccough in œsophagus.
Very irritable, excitable and inclined to anger.
Peevish, wrathful ; child wishes to vent itself in rage, strikes, kicks, bites. θ Worm affections.
Obstinacy.
Much excited in evening, with distended veins.
Restless, anxious ; 4 to 6 P. M.
Easily frightened or startled. θ Dysentery.
Starting with fright on going to sleep.
Worse after mental exertion.

Vertigo : with momentary attacks of fainting ; had to hold on to something ; from quick movements of head ; with dark color of face ; with nausea, particularly on looking out of window ; when stooping, < walking and
sitting ; from flatulence ; venous stasis, especially after a debauch ; in bed ; when sitting up after sleep.
Vertigo, with pain in forehead. θ Chronic catarrh.
Whirling in head, whole day.
Confusion of head, which makes thinking difficult.
Fainting after sleep, after rising, or while yet in bed, mornings ; belching ; caused by debilitating losses, or abuse of mercury.

Violent tearing in forehead, at a small spot near temple.
Pain in right side of forehead and head. θ Intermittent fever.
Aching or beating over eyes, or in whole head, commencing at nape of neck ; < evening after a meal, with congestion to head ; after a debauch.
Pressive headache just over eyes, with tears ; eyes pain on moving them.
Pressure across forehead, weighing down eyelids, < by weight of hat.
Pressure in forehead, temples and vertex.
Frontal headache with vertigo.
Sensation as if a strap was drawn tightly across forehead.
Pressive pain on vertex, with soreness of hair to touch.
Stitching headache extending to occiput in evening.
Tearing and drawing in left side of occiput.
Dull headache in occiput ; violent pressive pain in lower portion of occiput ; feeling of weight.
Sensation of emptiness in head, with hunger.
Burning in head ; head and hands hot.
Head feels heavy as lead.
Sensation of electric shocks in head.
Painful throbbing in head, during inspiration.
Throbbing with head in head and fulness, after a meal and in evening.
Pulsating in head, as though he would be attacked by paralytic stroke.
Headache as form constriction of scalp.
Constrictive headache, with nausea.
Painful stitches through head, when coughing.
Headache : causing nausea ; with great weakness, faintness and pain in every limb ; from becoming overheated ; on awaking from sleep ; with burning here and there on body, in morning.
Rush of blood to head followed by nosebleed.
Congestion to head, with spasmodic constriction, nausea and pressure over eyes, feeling of coryza ; from overheated rooms.
Awakes with sensation of congestion of brain.
Acute pain in head extending to upper maxilla.

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We will take up the study of Vegetable Charcoal - Carbo veg.

It is a comparatively inert substance made medicinal and powerful, and converted into a great healing agent, by grinding it fine enough. By dividing it sufficiently, it becomes similar to the nature of sickness and cures folks.

The Old School use it in tablespoonful doses to correct acidity of the stomach. But it is a great monument to Hahnemann. It is quite inert in crude form and the true healing powers are not brought out until it is sufficiently potentized. It is one of those deep acting, long-acting antipsoric medicines. It enters deeply into the life, in its proving it develops symptoms that last a long time, and it cures conditions that are of long standing-those that come on slowly and insidiously.

It affects the vascular system especially; more particularly the venous side of the economy, the heart, and the whole venous System.

Sluggishness is a good word to think of when examining the pathogenesis of Carbo veg.

Sluggishness, laziness, turgescence, these are words that will come into your mind frequently, because these, states occur so frequently in the symptomatology. Everything about the economy is sluggish, turgid, distended and swollen.

The hands are puffed; the veins are puffed; the body feels full and turgid; the head feels full, as if full of blood. The limbs feel dull, so that the patient wants to elevate the feet to let the blood run out. The veins are lazy, relaxed and paralyzed. Vaso-motor paralysis. The veins of the body are enlarged; the extremities have varicose veins.

The whole mental state, like the physical, is slow. The mental operations are slow. Slow to think; sluggish; stupid; lazy. Cannot whip himself into activity, or rouse a desire to do anything. Wants to lie down and doze.

The limbs are clumsy; they feel enlarged. The skin is dusky. The capillary circulation is engorged. The face is purple. Any little stimulating food or drink will bring a flush to that dusky face. When you see people gather round a table where wine is served you can pick out the Carbo veg. patients, because their faces will be flushed; in a little while it passes off and they get purple again dusky - almost a dirty duskiness. The skin is lazy; sluggish.

Running through the remedy there is burning. Burning in the veins, burning in the capillaries, burning in the head, itching and burning of the skin. Burning in inflamed parts. Internal burning and external coldness.

Coldness, with feeble circulation, with feeble heart. Icy coldness. Hands and feet cold and dry, or cold and moist.

Knees cold; nose cold; ears cold; tongue cold. Coldness in the stomach with burning. Fainting. Covered all over with a cold sweat, as in collapse.

Collapse with cold breath, cold tongue, cold face.

Looks like a cadaver. In all these conditions of coldness the patient wants to be fanned.

Bleeding runs all through the remedy. Oozing of blood from in flamed surfaces. Black bleeding from ulcers. Bleeding from the lungs; from the uterus; from the bladder. Vomiting of blood.

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Best adapted to persons, young or old, who have suffered from exhausting diseases (exhausted from loss of vital fluids, Cinch., Phos. ac., Phos.). Cachectic, with weak vitality.

Persons who have never fully recovered from the exhaust-ing effects of some previous illness; asthma dates from measles or pertussis of childhood; indigestion from a drunken debauch; bad effects of a long ago injury; has never re-covered from effects of typhoid (Psor.).

Weakness of memory and slowness of thought.

Ailments: from Quinine, especially suppressed intermit-tents; abuse of mercury, salt, salt meats, or spoiled fish, meats, fats (Cepa); getting overheated (Ant. c.).

Diseases of venous system predominate (Sul.); symptoms of imperfect oxidation (Arg. nit.); deficient capillary circula-tion causes blueness of skin and coldness of extremities; vital powers nearly exhausted; desires to be constantly fanned, must have more air.

Patients crave things that make them sick; old topers crave whiskey or brandy; want clothing loose around abdo-men.

Weak digestion; the simplest food disagrees. Excessive accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines; after eating or drinking, sensation as if stomach would burst. Eructations give temporary relief. Effects of a debauch, rich food, late suppers.

Bad effects from loss of vital fluids (Caust.); hemorrhage from any broken down condition of mucous membrane.

Hemorrhage from any mucous outlet; in systems broken down, debilitated; blood oozes from weakened tissues; vital force exhausted.

Epistaxis in daily attacks, for weeks, worse from exertion; face pale before as well as after a hemorrhage.

Hippocratic face; very pale, grayish-yellow, greenish, cold with cold sweat; after hemorrhage.

Looseness of teeth, easily-bleeding gums.

Awakens often from cold limbs, especially cold knees.

In the last stages of disease, with copious cold sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, voice lost, this remedy may-save a life.

Generally worse in changes of weather, especially warm damp weather; or in protracted sultry heat of summer or autumn; butter, pork, fat food; abuse of quinine, bark, mercury; mornings.

From being fanned; cool air; eructations.

Complementary: Kali carb.

Want of susceptibility, lack of reaction to well selected remedies (Laur., Op., Val.).

Compare: Cinch., Plumb. in neglected pneumonia, especially in “old topers;” Ant. t. in threatened paralysis from inability to expectorate loosened mucus; Caps., Carbo v. in fevers.

Periodicity not marked. Quotidian, tertian or quartan. Hectic, septic, typhoid, typhus. pernicious yellow fever.*

10 or 11 A. M.—evening.

Yearly return of paroxysm (Lach., Sul.).

Fevers from getting over-heated; from living in damp dwellings.

Headache, throbbing in temples, backache, tearing toothache, and tearing pain in the limbs; cold feet; the two latter may attend the entire paroxysm.

With thirst; at times left sided; begins in left hand and arm (begins in right arm, Merc. per.). Chill with headache and unusual lassitude; with icy-coldness of the body and cold breath (with terrible coldness as if lying on ice, Lyc.—as if a piece of ice were lying on the back between the shoulders, Lachn.); shiver-

In Memphis during the epidemic of 1873, charcoal came much into favor as a prophylactic; out of more than fifty persons who took it and were constantly exposed to the fever, not one was attacked. The usual dose was half a teaspoonful of the crude powder two or three times a day.—DR. MORSE. ing and chills in the evening, mostly only on left side (Caust.—right side, Bry.); evening chill with tired, weary feeling and flushes of heat. Coldness of the knees, even in bed (Apis); of left arm and left leg; very cold hands and feet; finger nails blue. Irregular paroxysm, sometimes sweat first, followed by chill* (Nux).

Without thirst. Sensation of heat with great anxiety in the evening, although she was cold to touch all over; flushes of burning heat in the evening, with headache, flushed face, vertigo and nausea; tired, aching pain in legs; pain in stomach, abdomen, spleen; oppressed breathing (Apis, Ars.). Heat and chill are distinct and independent; rarely heat and sweat commingled together or alternate (chill and heat are mingled, Ars.—heat and chill alternate, Cal.). Flushes of burning heat in evening, usually without thirst. Headache continues after the heat (continues after the sweat, Ars., Eup.). Loquacity during hot stage (Lach.—during chill and heat, Pod.).

"Chill with a marked degree of thirst; no thirst, or but slight during the fever, but to compensate for lack of thirst, the patient wishes to be constantly fanned."—GUERNSEY.

Profuse, of a sour or putrid odor; at night; great disposition to sweat even when eating (Carbo a.). Moist on upper parts of body. Sour morning-sweat, which makes his person offensive; feet sweat when walking; sweats easily in a warm room, and is just as easily chilled. Tearing pain in the legs and teeth.

Coated with white, yellow fur; dry, fissured, lead-colored (Ars.); cold and contracted. Bitter taste before and after eating. Aversion to milk, which causes flatulence, to meat and fat things (longing for them, Carbo a.—longing for coffee, sweet and salt things, Nitr. ac.).

Weak, irregular, intermitting, indicative of rapid sinking.

Prostration, paleness, weakness of memory, melancholic disposition. Gastric symptoms; stomach and abdomen distended with gas after eating (least mouthful fills up to the chin,

Lyc.). Sensation as if stomach or abdomen would burst after eating or drinking. Great foulness of the excretions (Bap.).

"In cachectic patients with profuse sour-smelling perspiration, thirst only during the chill, excitability of nervous symptoms. Patients debilitated from previous drugging, and frequent suppression of paroxysm by Quinia. One-sided chill (left) during afternoon, great prostration; with icy coldness of the body; thirst and rapid sinking; small pulse, contracted, cold and cadaverous tongue and face, with cold breath."—T. D. STOWE.

This picture very closely resembles a so-called "pernicious" or "congestive fever."

In patients who have been exhausted by some deep-seated cachexia or exhausting disease, abuse of mercury, salt, quinine, vital powers low, great prostration.

Chill; with thirst; one-sided, l. hand and arm; icy coldness of the body, rapid sinking, cold breath.

Heat; without thirst; flushed face, loquacity; desire to be fanned.

Sweat; profuse, sour, offensive; sweats when eating (Carbo a.).

Persons who have never recovered from effects of some previous illness or injury; suppression by Quinine or drugging; typhoid or yellow fever.

Confusion of head, making thinking difficult; morning on waking; he had to make great exertion, as if arousing himself from a dream.
Ideas flow slowly.
Stupor, collapse.
Anxious, as if oppressed, with heat in the face.
Nightly fear of ghosts.
Indifference; heard everything without feeling pleasantly or unpleasantly, and without thinking of it.
Very irritable, excitable and inclined to anger.
Peevish, wrathful.
Restless, anxious; 4 to 6 P.M.

Vertigo: had to hold on to something; also when stopping; from flatulence; venous stasis; specially after a debauch; whirling in head, the whole day.
Fainting after sleep, after rising, or while yet in bed, mornings; belching; caused by debilitating losses, or abuse of mercury.

Head feels heavy as lead.
Rush of blood to head, nosebleed.
Congestion to head, with spasmodic constriction, nausea and pressure over eyes, feeling of coryza; from overheated rooms.
Painful throbbing in the head, during inspiration.
Pressive headache just over the eyes, with tears; eyes pain on moving them.
Aching and beating over eyes, or in whole head, commencing at nape of neck; worse evening; after a meal, with congestion to head; after a debauch.
Pressure in both temples and on top of head.
Violent tearing on forehead, at small spot near temple.
Dull headache in occiput; violent pressive pain in lower portion of occiput.
Tearing and drawing in left side of occiput.
Headache like from constriction of the scalp.

Head painfully sensitive to pressure, especially of the hat; worse from taking cold and from getting warm in bed.
Scalp painful to touch.
Hair falls out; worse on back of head; scalp itches in evening when warm in bed.

Eyes dull, lustreless, pupils do not react to light.
Shortsighted from overexerting eyes; eyes become weak from overwork or fine work.
Black spots float before the eyes.
Heavy weight seems to rest on the eyes; must make exertion to distinguish letters when reading.
Burning in the eyes.
Hemorrhage from eyes, with congestion to head. θ Whooping-cough.
Muscles of eye pain, when looking up.
Margins of lids itch; morning.

Ringing in ears; buzzing.
Something heavy seems to lie before the ears; they seemed stopped, hearing not diminished.
Deafness after acute exanthema; abuse of mercury; ears too dry.
Offensive otorrhœa.
Deficient or badly-smelling cerumen, also with exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus.
Left ear hot and red every evening.
Pain from right ear down the neck on turning the head.
θ After itch-like eruptions.
Parotitis, swelling grows hard.

Nose pointed; hippocratic face.
Frequent and easy epistaxis; worse at night or in forenoon, followed by pain over the chest.
Nosebleed: several times daily for weeks; face pale before and after every attack; after straining at stool; small, intermittent pulse; after debauch; in old or debilitated people.
Frequent sneezing with constant and violent crawling and tickling in the nose.
Fruitless irritation to sneeze, with crawling in left nostril.
Severe coryza, with hoarseness and rawness on the chest.
Dry coryza.

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The finest birth (or beech) charcoal is triturated for use.

A tissue remedy. ▶ It seems to have a marked effect on the digestion and in a general way acts as a tonic in conditions of great prostration. ▶ It seems also to control hæmorrhages, especially in older persons.

Compare The Carbons, Lycopod., Phosph., Sepia, Sec. c.

A wound from a stab began to bleed again at various times. ▶ Trembling every afternoon from uneasiness and anxiety, with feeling as if he had committed a great crime, ending in violent weeping, even in the street; T. from uneasiness and anxiety, with inability to remain in any place; with prostration. ▶ Starting at night on account of noises, with shivering in back. ▶ Stitches over whole body in warmth of bed; itching, in the side on which he was lying in evening. ▶ Tearing in various places at night in bed; in various places, with drawing pain; in morning on waking, in left shoulder, then in right hand, then in right upper incisors; here and there, in left side of occiput, left half of face, left shoulder, left thigh, etc., with pressure in arms and legs.

▶ Rheumatic drawings in whole body, with coldness of hands and feet. ▶ Rheumatic pains and lameness, worse in arms and thighs. ▶ Drawing pain in most parts, especially below breast, in neck and arms. ▶ Every member of the body hurts, also the back, with headache and weakness. ▶ Anguish in all vital organs. ▶ Uneasiness; in evening; at night, with drawing pains in limbs; preventing sleep. ▶ Inability to rest in any other position than with limbs drawn up against abdomen. ▶ Disinclination for physical exertion. ▶ Indolence in morning, with weariness, trembling in all limbs and sweating easily; I. in evening, with sleepiness and indisposition. ▶ Sick and weary, as if he had just risen from a serious illness.

▶ Weakness; in morning in bed; in morning in bed, especially in joints, amel. rising; in morning on rising; in morning, with trembling of limbs and feeling about stomach as after too much wine; in morning, with stretching of limbs; towards noon, with inclination to lean head against something and to rest, empty feeling in head and hunger; in evening; after breakfast; after dinner; after stool; after the pains; after a short walk in open air; agg. morning, with faintness; agg. walking, amel. sitting, mostly in arms when writing; sudden, when walking in open air; sudden attacks of faintlike; in forenoon, as from stupefaction; in evening, as after great loss of blood; tremulous, after stool especially in limbs. ▶ Attacks of faintness, even to sinking down, with vertigo, then griping in abdomen as in diarrhœa, though he had an ordinary stool. ▶ Numbness of all external parts. ▶ Most symptoms appear when walking in open air.

Tendency to hæmorrhage in low types of disease, as in pernicious anæmia, purpura, typhoid fever, etc. ▶ Tendency to putrid decomposition. ▶ Sometimes indicated after excesses. ▶ Faints readily, especially as the result of debilitating diseases. ▶ In the collapsed stage of various diseases the patient wants to be fanned constantly, with general fetid odors, bluish appearance of the skin. ▶ Senile gangrene, humid leg; varicose ulcers burn at night, offensive discharge, purple all around. ▶ The veins are swollen and livid.

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Weakness in the morning, and stretching of the limbs; after a short walk in the open air; mostly in arms when writing; < walking, > sitting.
Sudden attacks of faint-like weakness.
General exhaustion towards noon.
Tearing pains in various parts of the body.
Rheumatic drawing pains, with coldness in the hands and feet.
Paralytic tearings in limbs, with flatulent symptoms.
Burning pains in the limbs, bones and in ulcers.
The limbs feel bruised in the morning after rising from bed.

Clinical:
Tendency to hæmorrhage in low types of disease, as in pernicious anæmia, purpura, typhoid fever, etc.
Tendency to putrid decomposition.
Sometimes indicated after excesses.
Sequelæ of strains and of becoming cold.
Faints readily, especially as the result of debilitating diseases.
In the collapsed stage of various diseases the patient wants to be fanned constantly, with general fetid odors, bluish appearance of the skin.
Senile gangrene, humid leg; varicose ulcers burn at night; offensive discharge, purple all around.
The veins are swollen and livid.

Anxiety in the evening; could scarcely remain lying still.
Irritable mood.
Easily excited to anger and violence.
Fear of ghosts in the night.
Ideas flow slowly; periodic weakness of memory.

Stitches through the head on coughing.
The hat presses on the head like a heavy weight, and the sensation continues even after taking it off, as if the head were bound up with a cloth.
Heaviness; confusion in the morning after rising, > lying down, with inability to think easily and necessity to make a great exertion, as if rousing from a dream.
Rush of blood to the head.
A feeling of cramp-like tension in the brain.
Drawing pains in the head, coming up from the nape of the neck, with nausea.
Vertigo, so that he is obliged to hold on to something; when stooping, as if the head reeled.
Painful sensitiveness of the external head to pressure.
Hair falls out.

Pain, as from over-strain.
Pressing and burning in the eyes.
A heavy weight seems to lie upon the eyes; has to make great effort when reading and writing.
The lids are agglutinated at night.
Muscles painful when looking up.
Black floating spots before vision.
Short-sighted.

Heat and redness of the external ear every evening.
Offensive, flesh-colored discharge from the right ear.
Ears seem stopped, as from something heavy lying in front of them.
Roaring and ringing in the ears.

Clinical:
Offensive otorrhœa.
Usually in malsecretion of cerumen, with exfoliation of epidermoid cells.
Deafness after exanthematous diseases.

Tip of the nose red and scabby.
Ineffectual attempts to sneeze, with crawling in the nose.
Violent, persistent nose-bleed, especially in the morning, preceded and followed by pallor of the face.

Clinical:
Recurring nose-bleed in persons who have been overtaxed with anxiety, especially in elderly people.
Varicose veins on nose.

Face pale, greenish-yellow.
Swelling of the face and lips.
Lips cracked.
Drawing pains in both sides of the face and jaws.
Soreness of the jawbones.

Drawing, tearing toothache, < salt food.
Persistent looseness of the teeth.
Gums loose and retracted from the incisors.
Gums bleed easily and frequently.
Gums sensitive when chewing.
Tongue coated white, coated yellowish-brown.
Tongue sensitive and raw.

A feeling of constriction in the throat, which hinders swallowing.
Much mucus in the throat, which is easily brought up on hawking.

Immoderate hunger or thirst.
Persistent aversion to meat and fat.
Aversion to milk, which causes flatulence.
A bitter taste in the mouth.
Salty taste.
Food tastes of salt.
The mouth is sore after eating.
Eructations of food, especially of fat food, for a long time.
Nausea in the morning, vomiting, even of blood.
Constriction of the stomach at night, extending into the chest, with distention of the abdomen.
Cramp in the stomach, with sensation of a burning pressure.
Great sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach.
Much flatulence in the stomach.
The slightest food distresses.
Acidity of the stomach when lying on the back and when walking.

Clinical:
Flatulent dyspepsia, with sour eructations; stomach is swollen like a drum; the distress comes on half an hour or an hour after eating; every sort of food disagrees, the stomach seems to be suffering from inertia, is unable to digest the simplest article.
Acid dyspepsia, with heartburn, coldness of the surface of the body, feeble pulse, etc.
Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence, sour and rancid belching, vomiting of food.
The sensitiveness in the stomach or burning sometimes extends into the small of the back, with excessive distention by gas.

Distention after dinner; with rumbling; griping; much motion in the abdomen of flatulence.
Bruised pain in the hypochondria, especially in the region of the liver.
Intolerant of tight clothing around the hypochondrium.
Stitches in the ribs, especially in the region of the liver.
Griping in the abdomen below the navel, extending from the left towards the right side, with a paralyzed feeling in the right leg.
Flatulent colic and great moving about of flatulence; a discharge of excessive amounts of foul flatulence.
(Colic from riding in the car or carriage.)

Gnawing, stitches, crawling in the rectum.
Stitches during stool.
Tenesmus.
Pressure and ineffectual urging, but only evacuation of gas.
Bleeding during stool.
Itching and burning of the anus.
Soreness and moisture of the perineum.
Stool enveloped in yellowish mucus, at last bloody.

Clinical:
Diarrhœa brown, yellow or slimy, of a putrid odor, often involuntary.
The diarrhœa is generally the accompaniment of low types of fever, associated with tendency to coldness in the extremities, cold tongue, lips, etc., tendency to collapse, desire to be fanned, pulse weak, voice lost.

Frequent, anxious desire to urinate, day and night.
Incontinence of urine at night.
Urine red, dark-colored, turbid; deposits a red sediment.

Aphthæ on the pudenda.
Itching, burning and soreness of the pudenda.
Varicose veins of the pudenda.
Menstruation too early and too profuse, pale; preceded by cramp-like pains in the abdomen.
Acrid leucorrhœa, milky; worse in the morning on rising, causing soreness and rawness of the labia.
Menses too thick and of strong odor.

Roughness of the larynx, with a deep, rough voice, which fails on exertion, without pain.
Rawness in the larynx from frequent clearing of the throat, with soreness.
Pain in the larynx, as if ulcerated when coughing.
Hoarseness, so that speaking aloud was difficult.
Hoarseness, worse in the morning and evening, < continued talking.
Cough in the evening in bed; also in the morning after rising, from itching in the larynx.
Expectoration; tenacious, salt.
Spasmodic cough three to four times a day.
Expectoration of green mucus; expectoration of blood.
Dyspnœa, with a fullness of the chest, and palpitation on the slightest motion.

Clinical:
Aphonia from relaxation of vocal cords.
Chronic laryngeal catarrh, with rawness and soreness in larynx, particularly in old people.
Has been prescribed in the last stage of membranous croup.
Chronic bronchial catarrh of old people; burning in the chest, choking when coughing, ameliorated by heat.
Cough, generally spasmodic, suffocative.
Asthma, particularly in old people who are debilitated, with flatulence, etc., especially with blue color of the skin.
Hæmorrhage from the lungs, with burning pain in chest, oppression, desire to be fanned all the time; cold skin.
Sometimes useful in a late stage of pneumonia, with excessive dyspnœa and tendency to collapse.

Oppression of the chest on waking, with weakness of it; after disappearance of coryza, with wheezing and rattling, inability to remain in bed on account of want of air, and the cough, which caused vomiting and was difficult to loosen.
Burning pains in the chest, as from glowing coal.
Weariness of the chest on waking.

Palpitation.
Weak pulse.

Clinical:
Useful in weak heart with fatty degeneration with cold sweat, desire to be fanned, tendency to hæmorrhages.

Tearing pains in the muscles.
Cervical glands swollen.
Drawing pains in the nape, extending up into the neck, with nausea and rush of water from the mouth.
Drawing pains in the back, < sitting or stooping.
Pinching pain near the lowest part of the spine.
Pain across the loins, as from a plug; can not sit, must put pillow under it.
Sore pain beneath the coccyx.

Drawing pains.
Extremities go to sleep, especially the one on which one lies.
Tearing pains in the forearms and wrists.
Heat in the hands.
Paralytic weakness of the fingers when grasping anything.
Paralytic tearings in the lower extremities.
Drawing pains in the hips, extending down the thighs, < when walking.
Heaviness of the lower extremities; stiffness after evening nap, so that the gait was unsteady until he had walked a little.
Paralyzed sensation.
Cramp in the soles, numbness of feet.
Feet sweaty.
Toes red and swollen, with stinging pains, as if they had been frozen.

Burning pains in various places.
Burning in ulcers, with offensive discharge, which is corrosive.
Itching, worse in the evening when warm in bed.

Sleepiness during the day, > moving about.
Falls asleep late.
Loss of sleep at night on account of restlessness.
Frequent waking at night, with cold knees and limbs.

General chilliness and coldness; thirst only during the coldness.
Flushes of heat and burning in various places in the skin.
Perspiration on eating; of a sour odor in the early morning hours.

CARBO VEGETABILIS. WOOD CHARCOAL.

The charcoal of any kind of wood, thoroughly heated to redness, seems to manifested itself uniformly in its effects on the human health, when it has been prepared and potentized in the manner which Homœopathy uses. I employ the charcoal of birch wood ; in some of the provings by others the charcoal of the red beech was used. Formerly charcoal was considered by physicians as non-medicinal and powerless. Empiricism only added it in its most highly composite powders, e. g., for epilepsy, the charcoal of the linden tree, without being able to adduce any proof of the efficacy of this particular substance. Only in recent times, since LOWITZ, in St. Petersburg, discovered the chemical properties of wood charcoal, especially its power of removing from putrid and mouldy substances their bad odor, and of preserving fluids from fetid smell, physicians began to use it externally (iatro-chemically). They advised rinsing the mouth of fetid odor with powdered charcoal, and covered old putrid ulcers with the same powder, and the fetor was in both instances almost instantaneously alleviated. Also when administered internally in the dose of several drachms it removed the fetor of the stools in autumnal dysentery. But this medicinal use was, as before mentioned, only a chemical use, but not a dynamic employment penetrating into the internal sphere of life. The mouth rinsed out with it only remained odorless for a few hours ; the ill smell returned every day. The old ulcer was not improved by its application, and the fetor, chemically removed from it for the moment, was always renewed ; it was no cure. The charcoal powder taken in autumnal dysentery. But this medicinal use was, as before mentioned, only a chemical use but not a dynamic employment penetrating into the internal sphere of life. The mouth rinsed out with it only remained odorless for a few hours ; the ill smell returned every day. The old ulcer was not improved by its application, and the fetor, chemically removed from it for the moment, was always renewed ; it was no cure. The charcoal powder taken in autumnal dysentery only chemically removed the fetor of the stools for a short time, but the disease remained and the nauseous smell of the stools quickly returned. In such a coarse, pulverized state, charcoal can exercise no other than a chemical action. A considerable quantity of wood charcoal in its ordinary crude form may be swallowed without producing the slightest alteration in the health. It is only by prolonged trituration of the charcoal (as of many other dead and apparently powerless medicinal substances) with a non-medicinal substance, such as sugar of milk, and by dissolving this preparation and potentizing (shaking) these solutions, that the dynamic medicinal power concealed within, and which in the crude state is combined, and so to say slumbering and sleeping (latent), can be awakened and brought to life ; but then its material external must vanish. The various degrees of potency are employed according to the varying intention in healing, down from the decillion-potency to the million-powder attenuation, using one, two or three fine pellets moistened therewith as a dose. Arsenic, camphor and raw coffee have been found antidotes of charcoal, but the spirits of nitre seem to be more efficient. In healing the diseases to which this remedy is homœopathically appropriate, the following symptoms were chiefly relieved or removed : Anguish, irritability ; fearfulness ; fear of ghosts at night ; peevishness ; headache from overheating ; heaviness of the head ; rush of blood to the head ; headache from nausea ; tendency of the head to colds ; eyeache from strained vision ; burning in the eyes ; heat and pressure in the eyes ; burning and pressure in the canthi ; closing of the eyes by suppuration, at night ; roaring in the ears ; suppuration of the inner ear and discharge from it ; itching of the nose ; continued epistaxis ; herpes in the face ; chapping of the lips ; bleeding of the gums ; toothache from taking cold or warm things in the mouth ; contractive toothache ; gnawing toothache ; clucking toothache ; chronic looseness of the teeth ; dryness, or gathering of saliva in the mouth ; [or aphthæ] ; scraping in the throat ; hawking up of much phlegm from the throat ; bitter taste in the mouth ; salty taste in the mouth ; long-continued loathing of meat ; lack of appetite ; excessive hunger or thirst ; empty eructation ; bitter eructation ; eructation tasting of the fat eaten ; regurgitation of the ingesta ; perspiration while eating ; acidity in the mouth after a meal ; chaotic sensation and pressure in the stomach after a meal ; nausea in the morning ; constant nausea ; waterbrash ; at night ; stitches under the ribs ; lancinative pain in the liver ; stitches in the spleen ; pain as from a bruise in the hypochondria ; tension of the abdomen ; inflation of the abdomen ; pain above the navel, when touched ; colic from driving out ; excessive discharge of flatus ; thin, pale stool ; light-colored mucous stools ; scant stools ; constipation ; itching of the anus ; varices of the anus ; pain in the varices of the anus ; blood from the anus at every stool ; diminished secretion of urine ; frequent anxious tenesmus of the bladder, by day and night ; wetting the bed ; urine too dark ; excoriative pain in urinating ; pressure in the testes ; too frequent pollutions ; unnatural abundance of voluptuous thoughts ; too rapid emission of semen in coitus ; soreness and itching on the pudenda ; itching and burning of the genitals ; swelling of the pudenda ; too early menses ; menses too copious ; scanty menses ; paleness of the blood in the catamenia ; vomiting during the menses ; flux from the vagina ; leucorrhœa before the menses ; stoppage of the nose ; discharge of water from the nose ; severe cold ; constant hoarseness ; morning hoarseness ; catarrh and sore throat with the measles ; asthma, dyspnœa ; short breath during walking ; dropsy of the chest ; stitches in the chest ; chaps and pains as from soreness in the chest ; brownish spots on the chest ; drawing pain in the back ; itching pimples on the back ; stiffness of the nape of the neck ; pain in the elbow on grasping it ; heat in the hands ; restlessness in the legs ; the knees go to sleep ; herpes on the knee ; cramp in the calves, at night ; continued insensibility of the feet ; sweat of the feet ; redness and swelling of the toes, with lancinating pains as after freezing them ; pain in the limbs as from spraining and straining ; pain in the left hypogastrium from a strain in lifting ; the limbs go to sleep ; worn-out feeling of the limbs, in the morning on rising from bed ; throbbing here and there in the body ; tremulousness ; jerking of single limbs, by day ; after-effects from yesterday's wine-spree ; chronic ailments from the abuse of cinchona bark ; tendency to take cold ; neetle-rash ; herpes ; ulcers (on the legs) fetid and bleeding readily ; great drowsiness by day ; sleep in the forenoon ; insomnia on account of restlessness of the body ; phantasies at night and starting from anxious dreams ; frequent rushes of transient heat ; coldness and chill of the body ; night-sweat ; morning-sweat. Any excessive action can be quickly removed by repeated smelling of camphor, and still more surely by smelling of spirits of nitre. The symptoms marked Ad. were observed by Dr. Adams, a physician of St. Petersburg ; those marked Gff. by the Royal Counselor, Baron von Gersdorff, M. D., and those with C. by the late Dr. Caspari, of Leipzig. [*].

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Carb. v. / (Car.) / Carver

Carbo veg.-Denotes decay,
Points with Kreosote that way.
Foul and burning every flow,
Every sore and ulcer so.
Burnings inwardly prevail,
While the skin is cold and pale.
Event death-door state at hand,
With the need of being fanned.
Countenance of greenish cast,
Stools unnoticed being passed.
Bloated are the bowels with gas,
Heart-burn pangs the stomach has.
Burning lungs, and bleeding nose,
Tender gums, and freezing toes,
Further indication shows.
All the ills are worse by heat,
Use of milk, and fat of meat.

The Carver,-Has Wind Bloat.

The Carver, Val-Asa, the Chinaman, is apt to lurk with Rob Knight, the coachman.

This Carver,-Who is subject to a greenish cast of countenance,-Is a the Consul's in view of Ferri.

Wind Bloat-Meteorism-Tympanitis: Carb. v., Val., Asa., Chin., Pho., Tereb., Lyc., Rhus., Kal. c., Rob., Arg. n., Colch. (Sudden bloat-hysteric, Arg. n., Asa., Cic., Val., ZN.)

Greenish Color of the Face: Carb. v., Con., Verat. a., Ars., Ferr. io. (Green spots on the skin, Ars., Con.)

Indicated in condition of great debility, in the aged; in those who are recovering imperfectly from a severe illness (China, Phos. ac.). being unable to rally; state of collapse, as in cholera and typhoid fever; in coughs with great fetor of expectoration; asthma; in foul, old ulcers, carbuncles; gastric and intestinal complaints with much flatulency.

Face cold, hippocratic; everything pressing from the head, even the hat feels heavy. Headache from every indiscretion.

Great wish to be fanned constantly.

Burning pain in different parts.

Coldness, with thirst.

Weak digestion; stomach full of gas, with oppression; better from belching.

Burning in stomach, extending to back and spine. Contractive pains in stomach, extending into chest, with abdominal distension.

Eructations of sour, rancid substance; water-brash.

Putrid changes in the food before it digests.

Intestinal colic; from flatulency.

Diarrhoea, often involuntary, of cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning in the rectum and trembling weakness.

Hoarseness in the evening; rawness in the chest; cough with burning in the chest.

Asthma; breath cold; wants to be fanned, in the aged.

Cough with very fetid expectoration; after neglected pneumonia; with burning in chest; in the aged.

Thick, greenish leucorrhoea before menstruation.

Itching of the skin; indolent, old ulcers with ichorous discharge and burning pain; carbuncles.

Worse in the evening, before midnight; from eating fats, as butter, pork.

Better from eructations; after sleep.

Slow flow of ideas. Periodical weakness of memory. Full of unnatural voluptuous fancies. Easily aroused to anger and vehemence. Anxiety and restlessness in evening. Attacks of anxious despondency, amounting to despair, in evening. Fear of ghosts at night.

Vertigo when moving head.

Pressive ache now here now there, with lachrymation and painful eyes when moved. Violent congestion to. Headache from overheating. Heavy Tight, crampy feeling in brain. Drawing pain extending from nape forwards, with qualmishness. Thrusts and stitches in. Worse: Afternoon, after eating.

Tearing, especially on occiput and forehead. Very painfully sensitive to pressure, i. e. of hat, etc. Pressive burning, tearing, especially in muscles of occiput, nape and forehead. Sense of contraction in integuments. Hair falls (after severe illness or abuse of Mercury), with violent itching. Takes cold in, especially after it has been hot and sweating. Worse: Early on awaking, evening, becoming warm in bed, every chilling of, becoming heated: touch. Better: Uncovering, sitting quietly in a warm room.

Pain from eye strain. Pressure and burning in. Hemorrhage from. Nightly purulent agglutination of. Myopia. Lachrymation.

Heat and redness and concha every evening. Offensive discharge from. Deficient wax.

Scurfy red tip. Continuous, violent nosebleed, especially early in evening preceded and followed by a pale face. Crawling in, with coryza and hoarseness. Stopped in evening. Fluent coryza in evening. Sneezing.

Pale. Greenish - yellow. Swelled face and lips. Cracked lips. Drawing in cheeks.

Contractive or tearing ache excited by salty food. Persistently loose. Gums are detached and retracted from about incisors. Gums bleed easily and frequently, scorbutus.

Aphthae.

Scraping and burning in. Sense of constriction in, impending swallowing. Much mucus in, easily dislodged by hawking. Sore, on swallowing. Redness in, and in fauces.

Taste: Bitter, in mouth. Salty. Sour, in mouth after eating. Foods taste too salt.

Spasm in, with a sense of burning pressure, much flatulence and great sensitiveness of pit. Cramps in, after loss of vital fluids, i. e. in childbed.

Hypochondriac: Sticking in ribs, especially in hepatic region. Bruised pain in, especially in hepatic region. Jaundice. Intolerance of tight clothes around.

Appetite: Either excessive hunger or thirst. Long - continued repugnance to fat food and meat. Craves coffee.

Eructations: Prolonged, of ingesta, especially of fat food. Retching.

Nausea: In early morning. vomits: Blood and bile, ingesta, in evening, mucus.

Heat, with great inflation and tenseness of, from flatus. Pinching below navel, moving from left to right side, with paralytic sensation in right thigh. Bellyache from riding. Sticking in.

Flatulence: Extraordinary generation of flatus. Excessive discharge of foul smelling flatus. Flatulent colic. (Arg-n., Lyc.)

Thin, pale, mucus. Difficult, although soft, with violent urging and burning in anus. (Hep.) Constipation.

Itching and burning in. Hemorrhoids which burn and bleed with each stool. Excoriation and moisture on perineum.

Red, dark. Frequent, anxious urging to urinate, day and night. Polyuria. Nocturnal enuresis.

Too frequent pollutions. Itching, burning and soreness of pudendum. Varicose veins on pudendum.

Menses: Of pale blood, too early and too profuse, preceded by spasmodic abdominal colic. Acrid leucorrhoea.

Short when walking. Oppression of chest with hydrothorax.

In short fits and frequent (4 to 5) daily attacks, as if excited by sulphur fumes or a crawling irritation in throat or larynx, dry in evening, in morning, with yellow - greenish or purulent, sometimes brownish bloody, rarely tenacious white mucus or watery expectoration, of a foul, sour or salty taste and bad odor. Persistent in evening. Hemoptysis with burning in chest.

Hoarseness, especially in early morning or evening, worse by continued talking. Phthisis of larynx and trachea. Soreness and ulcerative pain in, and in trachea. Voice fails when talking. Aphonia at night.

Constriction. rawness in. Whistling rattling of mucus in. Pressure. Burning and painful soreness in. Brownish spots on. Hydrothorax. Pulmonary phthisis. Inflammation of female mammae. Palpitation.

Rheumatic tearing in. Stitches in.

Neck: Tearing in muscles of, and in nape. Ulcerative pain in thyroid gland.

Tearing in. forearms and wrists. Burning heat in hand. Paralytic weakness of fingers when grasping anything.

Paralytic tearing in legs. Sweaty feet. Red, swollen toes with sticking pains as though' frozen.

Asleep sensation in limbs. Bruised pain in limbs, in early morning after rising from bed. Paralytic tearing in limbs with flatulent symptoms. Burning pains in limbs, bones and ulcers. After effects of over - lifting or taking cold. Consequences of loss of vital fluids or abuse of China. Sense of great general physical relaxation, towards noon. Weariness on beginning to move. Worse: Motion, walking in open air. Damp cold or cold frosty weather. Better: In a warm room. Want off irritability and reaction, especially in old people.

General itching on becoming warm in bed in evening. Burning in many spots on. Easily bleeding and offensive ulcers with burning pain and biting, ichorous pus.

Day sleepiness, especially in AM, disappearing during motion. Late falling to sleep and nightly sleeplessness on account of physical restlessness.

Pulse: Weak and languid, often imperceptible. Intermittent. Irregular, at times greatly accelerated, then again, as if entirely suppressed. Chill: And shivering, mostly in evening, usually with thirst, sometimes on left side only. Extraordinary weariness during. With joy coldness of body. Heat: After the chill but also in evening or at night in bed, with many concomitants Attacks of flying, burning heat in evening, usually without thirst. Sweat: Profuse, mostly offensive or sour smelling. Great inclination, to, even while eating. Night - sweat. Sour smelling in early morning. Cold, on face.

Allied Remedies: Arg-n., Ars., Bry., Carb-a., CHIN., Dulc., Ferr., Ign., Ip., Kali-c., Lach., MERC., Nat-m., Nat-s., Nat-ac., Nux-v., Op., Petr., Puls., Rhod., Sept., Sul., Verat-a.

Complementary: Chin., Kali-c.

Burning pain in exterior parts, in ulcers and in bones.

Pressing sensation in inner parts.

Paralytic tearing in the limbs with flatulency and difficulty of breathing.

In the morning, when rising from the bed, the limbs feel as though broken.

Bad effects from the loss of fluids.

Great debility much worse from the smallest exertion of body or mind, worse towards noon.

Pricking from above downwards.

Pain and anxiety, heat, despairing hopelessness, and debility after pain.

Pulsations here and there in the body.

Trembling and twitching of the limbs through the day.

Bad effects from wine-intoxication the day previous.

Bad effects from cold drinking whilst overheated.

Intermittent fevers, with thirst only during the cold stage.

Flatulency - very putrid smell - flatulent colic.

Hoarseness in the evening.

Indicated where the patient is troubled with occasional spells of long coughing attacks.

Menstruation too early and too profuse.

Humidity of the skin (moist exanthemata).

Aggravation in the morning, at night before falling asleep, from the abuse of quinine (Lippe had it Peruvian Bark in the posthumous manuscript) and mercury, on rising from the bed, and while walking in the open air.

Amelioration from eructations.