Carboneum sulphuratum
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
Alcoholus sulphuris
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Mind
Irritable, anxious, intolerant; stupor. Sluggishness of mind. Hallucinations of sight and hearing. Changeable mood. Dementia alternating
with excitement.
General
Alcohol Sulphuris Bisulphide of Carbon This drug has a deep and disorganizing action and an immense range of action judging from the symptomatology. Very useful in patients broken down by abuse of alcohol. Sensitive patients worse cold, wasted muscles, and skin and mucous membranes anæsthetic. Special affinity for eyes. Chronic rheumatism, sensitive and cold. Lack of vital heat. Diarrhœa every four to six weeks. Paralysis with intense congestion of nerve centers. Tabes. Sensory difficulties in limbs. Impotence, sciatica, come within the therapeutic sphere of this remedy. Chronic plumbism. Diminished sensibility of arms, hands and feet. Peripheral neuritis.
Modalities
Better, in open air. Worse, after breakfast; bathing. Sensitive to warm, damp, weather.
Head
Headache and dizziness. Aches as from a tight cap. Ears feel obstructed. Noises in head. Ulceration of the lips, anæsthesia of mouth and tongue.
Eyes
Myopia, asthenopia, and dis-chromotopia, cloudiness and atrophy of optic disc and central scotoma for light and for red and green not for white. Optic neuritis advancing toward atrophy. Arteries and veins congested. Retinal congestion; optic disc pale. Everything seems in a fog. Vision greatly impaired. Color-blindness.
Ears
Hearing impaired. Buzzing and singing noises like an æolian harp. Tinnitus aurium. Meniere's disease.
Abdomen
Pain with wandering swellings as from flatus. Distention, with soreness and rumbling.
Male
Desire lost, parts atrophied. Frequent profuse emissions.
Extremities
Herpes on dorsal surface of hands. Sore, bruised limbs; anæsthesia of arms and hands. Cramps in limbs. Lightning-like pains, with cramps. Fingers swollen, insensible, rigid, stiff. Gait unsteady, tottering; worse in dark. Feet insensible. Sciatica. Flying pains, returning regularly for a long time. Pain in lower limbs, with cramps and formication. Neuritis.
Skin
Anæsthesia; burning; itching; ulcers; small wounds fester. Useful to restrain the growth of cancer. Furunculosis. Chronic skin diseases with much itching.
Sleep
Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams.
Relationships
Compare: Potass. Xantate––(Similar in action. Acts on cortical substance; loss of memory, marked blood degeneration; impotence and senility). Tuberculin; Radium; Carbo; Sulph; Caust; Salicyl ac; Cinch. In eye symptoms compare: Benzin dinitric. Thyroidin (progressive diminution of sight with central Scotoma).
Dose
First attenuation. Locally in facial neuralgia and sciatica.
What the other books say about Carboneum sulphuratum
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Carboneum sulphuratum in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Carboneum sulphuratum — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/carboneum-sulphuratum. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.