Carbo animalis
carb-aniAnimal Charcoal Seems to be especially adapted to scrofulous and venous constitutions, old people, and after debilitating disease, with feeble circulation and lowered vitality. Glands are indurated, veins distended, skin blue. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Easily strained from lifting. Weakness of nursing women. Ulceration and decomposition. All its secretions are offensive. Causes local congestions without heat.
Carbo animalis — Materia Medica
Carbo animalis — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Carbo animalis — mind · William Boericke
Desire to be alone, sad and reflective, avoids conversation. Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.
Carbo animalis — general · James Tyler Kent
Carbo animalis is one of the deep-acting, long- acting medicines. Suitable in complaints that come on insidiously, that develop slowly, that become chronic and often malignant in character. Complaints in anaemic, broken down constitutions. Vascular conditions. The Carbons affect the veins more or less, relaxing, paralyzing. This one has its own peculiar feature of infiltrating little veins. just as sure, as an organ in the Carbo animalis patient becomes congested it becomes hard and purple from infiltration, and has a tendency to remain so. Glands and veins: In an inflammation of a gland the veins become weak, and infiltrated, the gland itself becomes hard and sore, the tissues around it indurate, and the skin over it becomes purple. The glands of the throat and axilla grow purple and indurated with no tendency to soften. Some of these medicines, after infiltrating a gland, will hurry up the inflammatory action, produce sloughing, rapid breaking down, with pus-like Hepar, Mercurius and Sulphur. But this medicine paralyzes and infiltrates the little veins in the inflamed part, and there seems to be no tendency to suppuration. We see that the economy. of this patient is in a sluggish state there are no rapid changes; but everything is slowed down. Even the inflammatory process is a passive one. Very often a slow quasi-erysipelatous inflammation comes on, the part becomes purple and will pit upon pressure.
Carbo animalis — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: After shaving (> after, Brom.); slightest touch; after midnight.
Carbo animalis — modalities worse · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Slight causes: Small depletions. Sprains. Lifting. Cold taking. WHILE EATING. Dry, cold air. Shaving (Ox-ac. Rad.). Old age. After menses.
Carbo animalis — modalities better · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
Laying hand on part.
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