Antimonium crudum
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
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Keynotes
leucorrhœa, skin, nails, etc. Strange absence of pain. Cracks in canthi, nostrils, angles of mouth, etc. Gouty metastases (Abro.). .................... Fat, fretful, cross and peevish; cries if looked at, touched (Stram.) or washed. Loathing; of life, food, bathing etc. Ecstatic, dreamy, sentimental. Pustules in tarsi. Canthi red, raw, moist (ext.). Sore, scabby nostrils. Pimples about mouth (Ast-r.). TONGUE THICKLY COATED, LIKE WHITEWASH (Ars. Bis. Bry. Kali-m. Pho.). Aphthæ. No thirst. DISORDERED DIGESTION; food leaves an after-taste or causes belching. VOMITING < eating or drinking; without nausea (Chel.) or relief. Stomach is painful to pressure; gout of. Fulness in abdomen. Pappy or watery stool, mixed with lumps. Gastro- intestinal catarrh. Voice lacks control, > using it. Aphonia from overheating. Violent cough, each bout a little weaker. Horny or split nails; growths beneath. Shiny elbows. Gouty pains in fingers. Footsweat; wilts the skin. Callosities on soles. Eruptive tendency. Warts; horny. Sleepy and weary.
Worse
COLD: BATHING. Dampness. WATER (on head). OVEREATING. Acids. Sweets. HEAT: SUMMER, of sun. Overheating. Radiated. Gross feeders (Ab-c.), showing gastric, mental and skin symptoms. Lumpy stools,
Region
STOMACH. DIGESTIVE TRACT. MIND. SKIN. Changing sides.
Relationships
Related: Sul.
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 Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- 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.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Antimonium crudum — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/antimonium-crudum. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.