Carbo animalis
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
This is one author on one remedy. A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative. Read Carbo animalis in every book at once →
Keynotes
Old and feeble. Susceptible to colds, sprains or overaffected by small losses, etc. Venosity. Gummæ. Slow, hard painful processes; burning like fire (Ars.), or threatening malignancy. Sense of looseness. Foul acrid discharges. Hæmorrhage. .................... Whining. Brain seems loose or as if crown would split, > eating. Pains down through (r) eyeball (Gel.). Can't locate sounds. Nose, hard, red, swelled; hot, brown stripe across, with itching pimples and desquamation. Goneness in stomach; while suckling. All food distresses stomach. Abdomen, distended after operations. Right ovary seems a heavy ball. Neglected bubo. Pelvic bones pain on sitting. Dark menses; in A.M. only; then great weakness. Sore, moist anus (Carb-v.). Indurated os (Sep.). Suffocation on closing eyes; nervous dyspnœa. Hard, painful nodes in breasts. Bluish skin; cheeks, lips, affected parts, etc. Coppery eruptions on forehead. Crawling, as of bugs. Hard, swelled glands. Surgings or hot flushes. Foul, exhausting sweats; at night; staining yellow.
Worse
Slight causes: Small depletions. Sprains. Lifting. Cold taking. WHILE EATING. Dry, cold air. Shaving (Ox-ac. Rad.). Old age. After menses.
Better
Laying hand on part.
Region
NUTRITION. Glands. VEINLETS.
Relationships
Complementary: Calc-p. Related: Calc-fl. Grap.
What the other books say about Carbo animalis
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Carbo animalis in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Carbo animalis in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Carbo animalis in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
- Carbo animalis 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. Carbo animalis — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/carbo-animalis. 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.