Antimonium tartaricum

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

Tartar Emetic.

Adapted to torpid, phlegmatic persons; the hydrogenoid constitution (of Grauvogl).

Diseases originating from exposure in damp basements or cellars (Ars., Aran., Tereb.).

Through the pneumogastric nerve it depresses the respiration and circulation, thus producing the keynote of the remedy, viz., when the patient coughs there appears to he a large collection of mucus in the bronchi; it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes up.

Child : clings to those around ; wants to be carried ; cries and whines if any one touches it; will not let you feel the pulse (Ant. c., Sanic.).

Face cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat (Tab.).

Tongue coated, pasty, thick, white, with reddened papillae and red edges ; red in streaks ; very red, dry in for acids, pickles. Ant. c.).

Vomiting: in any position except lying on right side; until he faints; followed by drowsiness and prostration; of cholera morbus with diarrhoea and cold sweat, a dose after each attack (Ver. ).

Asphyxia: mechanical, as apparent death from drowning; from mucus in bronchi; from impending

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paralysis of lungs ; from foreign bodies in larynx or trachea ; with drowsiness and coma.

Great sleepiness or irresistible inclination to sleep, with nearly all complaints (Nux m., Op.).

Child at birth pale, breathless, gasping; asphyxia neonatorum. Relieves the “death-rattle” (Taran.).

Icterus with pneumonia, especially of right lung.

Relations. — Similar: to, Lycopodium; but spasmodic motion of alae is replaced by dilated nostrils; to Veratrum, both have diarrhoea, colic, vomiting, coldness and craving for acids; to Ipecac., but more drowsiness from defective respiration; nausea, but > after vomiting.

When lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy, cough declines or ceases, it supplants Ipec.

For bad effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and Silicea is not indicated.

Before Silicea in dyspnoea from foreign bodies in the larynx or trachea; Puls, in suppressed gonorrhoea; Tereb. from damp basements.

Children not easily impressed when Ant. tart, seems indicated in coughs, require Hepar.

In spring and autumn, when damp weather commences, coughs of children get worse.

Aggravation. — In damp, cold weather; lying down at night; warmth of room; change of weather in spring (Kali s., Nat. s.).

expectorating; lying on right side (Tab.).

What the other books say about Antimonium tartaricum

The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.

Antimonium tartaricum in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Antimonium tartaricum in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Antimonium tartaricum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
Antimonium tartaricum 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 tartaricum — Keynotes, pp. 35–38. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/allen/antimonium-tartaricum. 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.