Antimonium crudum
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
Antimonium crudum
Sulphide of Antimony. ShSz>
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 ; fingernails do not grow rapidly; crushed nails grow in 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 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).
Similar: to, Bry., Ipec., Lyc., Puls., in gastric complaints.
Follows well: after, Ant. c.. Puls., Mer., Sulph.
Aggravation. — After eating; cold bath; acids or
.36 sour wine ; after heat of sun or fire; extremes of cold or heat.
Amelioration. — In the open air ; during rest ; after a warm bath.
What the other books say about Antimonium crudum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Antimonium crudum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Antimonium crudum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Antimonium crudum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
- Antimonium crudum 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. Antimonium crudum — Keynotes, pp. 34–35. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/antimonium-crudum. 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.