Anthracinum
as H.C. Allen recorded it in Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica, 1899
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Keynotes
Anthracinum
Anthrax Poison. A Nosode.
In carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with idceration, sloughing and intolerable burning.
When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy fails to relieve the burning pain of carbuncle or malignant ulceration.
Haemorrhages : blood oozes from iriouth, nose, anus or sexual organs; black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing (Crot.).
Septic fever, rapid loss of strength, sinking pulse, delirium and fainting (Pyr.).
Gangrenous ulcers; felon, carbuncle, erysipelas of a malignant type.
Felon; the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible burning pain (Ars., Garb, ac., Lach.).
Malignant pustule; black or blue blisters; often fatal in twenty-four or forty-eight hours (Lach., Pyr.).
Carbuncle; with horrible burning pains; discharge of ichorous offensive pus.
Dissecting wounds, especially if tendency is to become gangrenous ; septic fever, marked prostration (Ars., Pyr.).
Suspicious insect stings. If the swelling changes color and read streaks from the wound map out the course of lymphatics (Lach., Pyr.).
Septic inflammation from absorption or pus or other deleterious substances, with burning pain and great prostration (Ars., Pyr.).
Epidemic spleen diseases of cattle, horses and sheep.
Bad effects from inhaling foul odors of putrid fever or dissecting-room; poisoning by foul breath (Pyr.).
Hering says : “To call a carbuncle a surgical disease is the greatest absurdity. An incision is always injurious and often fatal. A case has never been lost under the right kind of treatment, and it should always be treated by internal medicine only.”
Relations. — Similar: to, Ars., Garb, ac., Lach., Sec., Pyr., in malignant and septic conditions.
Compare: Euphor. in the terrible pains of cancer, carbuncle or erysipelas when Ars. or Anth. fail to >.
What the other books say about Anthracinum
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- Anthracinum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Anthracinum in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Cite this page. H.C. Allen. Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica. 3rd edition (1910). Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel. Anthracinum — Keynotes, pp. 30–34. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/anthracinum. Published 1910: public domain in the US (before 1931) and in India (author died 1909). Replaces B. Jain's 2005 "rearranged and classified" edition (© the publisher), per the owner's decision of 13 Sep 2026. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.