Carbo vegetabilis

as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931

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Keynotes

Low, grave, depraved, or cachectic states. Atony, failing reaction or obstinate sequelæ. Complaints of old age. WEAKNESS, FLATULENCE, FETOR OR AIR HUNGER, with most complaints. Tremulous, WEAK, SICK AND EXHAUSTED; suddenly; with pulselessness. Fainting. Collapse. Easily chilled. Cold, yet wants air or to be fanned, or thirsts for cold water. BLUENESS and decomposition. Sepsis. Ulceration (aphthous). HÆMORRHAGE; dark oozing. Overfulness. Venosity. Thick, acrid discharges (Hyds.). Old catarrhs. General bruised soreness or heavy aching burning; in bones, ulcers, etc. Numbness, of parts lain on. .................... Slow, anxious and irritable. Dejected. Unhappy. Dull, compressive, heavy (leaden) headache; < occiput; < overheating, lying or pressure of hat. Sneezing from irritation in larynx; < blowing nose or sneezing. Colds go downward (Pho.). PINCHED, HIPPOCRATIC or DUSKY FACE. Twitching upper lip. Mumps with metastasis. Loose teeth. Scorbutic gums. Small, painful aphthæ. Black tongue. Loathes even the thought of food. BELCHINGS; RANCID; loud, without >; with cough. EXCESSIVE FLATULENCE; obstructed; distending; < upper abdomen (Pul.); < lying. All food turns to gas. Dyspepsia. Colic. Burning in rectum. Itching anus. Septic albuminuria. Sore, hot itching, swelled vulva. Hoarse in evening. Spasms of tormenting, hollow or choking cough, with headache and vomiting; < cold drinks and in bed; expectorates with retching. Pertussis and its effects. Heavy, sore or weak chest; on awaking. Senile asthma. Destructive lung diseases. Continuous, anxious palpitation. Sore ribs. As of a plug in back. Weak fingers. Raw or mottled skin. Ulcers, foul, burning and bleeding. Varicosis. Horrors during sleep. Thready pulse. Alternate chill and heat. ICY COLD; tongue; knees; legs, at night; breath; foot (l); unilateral, etc. Warm head, cold limbs. Internal, burning heat; at heart; in chest; with icy skin, < coughing. Icy, but wants air.

Worse

WARMTH. DEPLETIONS. Cooling off. EXHAUSTING DISEASES. Old age. HIGH LIVING. Rich foods. DISSIPATION. Overlifting. Walking in open air. Pressure of clothes. Weather: Extreme temperatures. Cold night air; frosty; humid. Air. Wind on head. Suppression.

Better

ERUCTATIONS. Cool air. Elevating feet.

Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES: DIGESTIVE TRACT. STOMACH. HEART: VENOUS CIRCULATION. Blood. Occiput.

Relationships

Complementary: Chin. Kali-c. Follows: Caust. Antidote: Nat-m. Related: Am-c. Ars. Colch. Grap. Lyc.

What the other books say about Carbo vegetabilis

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

Carbo vegetabilis in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
Carbo vegetabilis in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
Carbo vegetabilis in Farrington — Lectures that teach remedies in families, by comparing them with each other.
Carbo vegetabilis in Kent — Kent teaching a class, one remedy at a time — fewer remedies, far more on each.

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Cite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Carbo vegetabilis — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/carbo-vegetabilis. 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.