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
Materia Medica — Keynotes
Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus. Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen. Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulæ. Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind. Flatulent colic. Pain in liver.
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. Gastralgia. Great roughness in larynx, with deep, rough voice, which failed if he exerted it, though without pain in throat. Breathing short, with cold hands and feet. Desires to be fanned, must have more air. Weak, fatigued feeling of chest, particularly on waking. Pneumonia ; third stage, fetid sputum ; cold breath and sweat ; wants to be fanned ; threatened paralysis of lungs. Fine itching eruption on hands. Cold knees, particularly in night. Ulcer on leg bums at night; discharge offensive; mottled. Purple. Awakens often from cold limbs, especially cold knees. Adynamic and gastric fevers, occurring in hot weather from abuse of ice-water and other summer beverages. Typhoid and yellow fever patients ; cyanotic, and coldness of limbs, almost in agony of death ; impending paralysis of heart and collapse. Yellow fever ; third stage, haemorrhages, with great paleness of face, violent headache, great heaviness in limbs and trembling of body. Swelling of glands, in scrofulous or syphilitic persons. Sepsis, sunken features, sallow complexion, hectic, typhoid symptoms. Blue colour of body, with terrible cardiac anxiety and icy coldness of whole surface. (Cyanosis.) Ulcerations, with burning pain. Vital powers low, venus system predominant. 2 1 4
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