Carbo vegetabilis
carb-vegVegetable Charcoal Disintegration and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy. The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints. Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis. Body becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless stream and sepsis and typhoidal state ensues. A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after other diseases; in old people
Carbo vegetabilis — Materia Medica
Carbo vegetabilis — keynotes · Cyrus Maxwell Boger
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.
Carbo vegetabilis — mind · William Boericke
Aversion to darkness. Fear of ghosts. Sudden loss of memory.
Carbo vegetabilis — general · H.C. Allen
For the bad effects of exhausting diseases, whether in young or old (Chin., Phos., Psor.); cachectic persons whose vitality has become weakened or exhausted. Persons who have never fully recovered from the exhausting effects of some previous illness; asthma dates from measles or pertussis of childhood; indigestion from a drunken debauch; bad effects of a long ago injury; has never recovered from effects of typhoid (Psor.). Ailments: From quinine, especially suppressed intermitents; abuse of mercury, salt, salt meats; spoiled fish, meats or fats; from getting overheated (Ant-c.). Bad effects from loss of vital fluids (Caust.); hemorrhage from any broken down conditions of mucous membranes (Chin., Phos.). Patients crave things that make them sick; old topers crave whiskey or brandy; want clothing loose around abdomen. Vital powers nearly exhausted; desire to be constantly fanned. In the last stages of disease, with copious cold sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, voice lost, this remedy may save a life. Hemorrhage from any mucus outlet; in systems broken down, debilitated; blood oozes from weakened tissues; vital force exhausted.
Carbo vegetabilis — black letter · Margaret Lucy Tyler
Indifference ; heard everything without feeling pleasantly or unpleasantly, and without thinking of it. Anxiety ; as if oppressed witfc heat in face ; accompanied by shuddering ; on closing eyes ; in evening, after lying down ; on awakening. Fainting after sleep ; after rising, or while yet in bed, mornings ; belching ; caused by debilitating losses, or abuse of mercury. Dull headache in occiput ; violent pressive pain in lower portion of occiput ; feeling of weight. Head feels heavy as lead. Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight, and he continued to feel the sensation even after taking it off, as if head was bound up with a cloth. Sweat on forehead, often cold. Burning in eyes. Parotitis. Looseness of teeth, with bleeding of gums, which are very sensitive. Tongue turns black. Tongue cold. Stomacace. Great accumulation of flatus in stomach. Stomach feels tense and full ; flatulence. Distension of stomach and abdomen. Burning in rectum. Itching of anus. Rawness and chafing of children in hot weather. Cholera Asiatica, stage of collapse. After sexual excesses and onanism. Soreness, itching, and burning and swelling of pudenda. Debility from nursing.
Carbo vegetabilis — introduction · Margaret Lucy Tyler
{Wood Charcoal) From the earliest times, Hahnemann tells us, physicians considered charcoal to be non-medicinal, and powerless. Then came the curious discovery of the chemical properties of wood charcoal in. especial, its power of removing from putrid and mouldy substances their bad smell, and preserving fluids from fetid odours. Then physicians began to employ it externally. In fetor of the breath they caused the mouth to be rinsed with powdered charcoal, and applied powdered charcoal to putrid ulcers, and in both cases the fetor was immediately removed. Again, administered internally in autumn dysentery it removed the evil odour of the stools. But, he tells us, this is merely a chemical use of wood charcoal, which takes away the foul odour of putrid water when mixed with it in coarse lumps, and does so most effectually in coarse fragments. But this was merely a chemical, not dynamical employment, penetrating the inner vital sphere. The mouth rinsed only re mained free from fetor for a few hours. The old ulcer was not improved, and the fetor, chemically removed for the moment, always recurred. The powder taken in autumn dysentery removed the fetor of the stools only for a short time ; the disease remained, and the disgusting smell of the stools soon returned. Pulverized wood charcoal, he says, can exercise almost none other than a chemical action. And a considerable quantity of wood charcoal may be swallowed without producing the slightest alteration in health. And yet Carho vegetabilis is one of our most powerful and precious remedies : at times " a veritable corpse-reviver ” , as one has seen : and it is one of the striking proofs of the value of Hahne mann’s great discovery in regard to the liberation of power, in inert substances, by dynamization or sub-division of particles. He puts it thus . . .
Carbo vegetabilis — modalities · H.C. Allen
Aggravation: From butter, pork, fat food; abuse of quinine bark and mercury; from singing or reading aloud; in warm, damp weather. Amelioration: From eructation; being fanned.
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