CARBO ANIMALIS

  
CARBO ANIMALIS
Animal 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.

Mind.–

Desire to be alone, sad and reflective, avoids conversation. Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.

Head.–

Headache, as if head had been blown to pieces. Rush of
blood with confusion. Sensation as if something lay above eyes so that she could not look
up. Bluish cheeks and lips. Vertigo followed by nose-bleed. Nose swollen, tip bluish small
tumor on it. Hearing confused; cannot tell direction of sound.

Stomach.–

Eating tires patient. Weak, empty feeling in
stomach. Burning and griping. Weak digestion. Flatulence.
Ptomaine poisoning. Repugnance to fat food. Sour water from mouth. Pyrosis.

Female.–

Nausea of pregnancy; worse at night. Lochia offensive
(Kreos; Rhus; Secale). Menses too early, frequent long
lasting, followed by great exhaustion, so weak, can
hardly speak (Cocc), flow only in morning (Bor; Sep). Burning in vagina and labia. Darting in breast; painful indurations in breast, especially right. Cancer of
uterus, burning pain down thighs.

Respiratory.–

Pleurisy, typhoid character, and remaining
stitch. Ulceration of lung, with feeling of coldness of chest. Cough, with discharge of
greenish pus.

Skin.–

Spongy ulcers, copper-colored eruption. Acne rosacea.
Chilblains, worse in evening, in bed and from cold. Verruca on hands and face of old people,
with bluish color of extremities. Glands indurated,
swollen, painful, in neck, axillć, groin, mammć; pains lancinating, cutting, burning (Con; Merc iod flav). Burning, rawness and fissures; moisture. Bubo.

Extremities.–

Pain in coccyx; burns when touched. Ankles turn
easily. Straining and over-lifting produce great debility. Joints weak. Easy discoloration.
Pain in hip joints at night. Night sweat fetid and
profuse. Wrist pain.

Modalities.–

Worse, after
shaving, loss of animal fluids.

Relationship.–

The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and
exhalations. All act on the skin, causing interrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements
and catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation.

Carbon Tetrachlorid

is said to cause fatty liver (Phosph; Ars; Chlorof). Paralysis of interosseus muscles of
feet and hands. Wonderful clinical results in the treatment of Hook worm disease. See Thymol (Relationship).

Complementary: Calc phos.

Antidotes: Ars; Nux.

Compare: Badiaga; Sepia; Sulph; Plumb iod.

Dose.–

Third to thirtieth potency. The third trituration for
insufflation in aural polypi.