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ANTHRAKOKALI. – THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PURE MATERIA MEDICA By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.

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ANTHRAKOKALI.

Prepared by the action of Caustic Potassa upon Fünfkirchen coal. (See
Hom. Dispensatory.)


Authorities.

A. H. Z., 18, 235; (extracted from Polya,
Klinger, Isensee, etc.) Several persons proved it (Nos. 12
and 13, females).

MOUTH.

► Tongue soon
furred, with nauseous taste, [10]. ► Furred tongue, appetite lost, nausea, [12]. ► Tongue furred, with
vomiting and colic, [13]. ►
Dryness of mouth and throat, [4], [8]. ► Taste unpleasant, [5]. ► Taste nauseous, [1].

THROAT.

► Pain in throat,
with coated tongue, [9]. ►
Burning in throat, with slight dysphagia, [3]. ► Burning in throat, soon followed by anorexia, nauseous taste,
and violent colic, without diarrhœa (after ten days repeated doses), [7]. [10.] ►
Dysphagia and dryness of the throat, [10].

STOMACH.

► Anorexia, nausea,
vomiting, colic, and flatulence, [2]. ► Burning thirst, [4]. ► Almost unquenchable thirst, [10].
► Nausea after eating, [3].
► Nausea, with intercurrent vomiting, [5]. ► Vomiting bilious, mixed
with blackish mucus, [13]. ►
Sensation of warmth in stomach, [2]. ► Cramps in the stomach, and colic pains, [3].

ABDOMEN.

► Violent burning,
deep in the abdomen, [12]. [20.]
► Violent colic, increased at night, so that he had to
apply a cataplasm, which relieved (seventh day), [8]. ► Colic, borborygmi, tympanitic distension of the abdomen, [3]. ► Colic, borborygmi,
[1].

STOOL AND ANUS.

► Diarrhœa
three times a day, [9]. ►
Diarrhœa instead of usual constipation, [8]. ► Copious diarrhœa, with colic and borborygmi, [11]. ► Diarrhœa for several
days, with increased urine, [4]. ►
Two fluid stools, [13]. ►
Stool pasty, preceded by colic and borborygmi, [1].

URINARY ORGANS.

► Burning
in urethra on urinating, [2]. [30.]
► Ischuria; urine pale, [12].
► Urine increased, [5],
[8], [9]. ► Urine profuse, [1]. ► Profuse watery urine, [10].
► Copious evacuation of pale, clear urine, [1], [2]. ► Urine less profuse, [13].
► Urine pale, acid, profuse, [2]. ► Peculiar odor to the urine,
[3].

SEXUAL ORGANS.

► Frequent
erections
, [1], [2], [5].

HEART AND PULSE.

► Pulse
and temperature feverish, [12].

GENERALITIES.

[40.] ► Feels generally sick, [11].
► Weakness of whole body and restlessness, with heaviness
of the head, [11].

FEVER.

► Creeping chills
alternating with heat followed by slight sweat, with accelerated pulse, [3]. ► Increased warmth of body at
evening, with accelerated full pulse, [3]. ► Warmth and heat sensation, beginning in the throat, and
extending down to the stomach; from hence it migrated to the skin where it did not remain
long; was not followed by sweat, [1]. ► Moist skin, [2]. ► Copious sweat in the evening, lasting till morning, with
restlessness, headache, prostration, and accelerated pulse, [4].
► Copious sweat, with slight vascular excitement
(sixteenth day), [7]. ►
Moderate night-sweat, beginning at evening, with sleeplessness and excited pulse, [11]. ► The burning of
the skin was (on eighth day) followed by nightly sweat (continued several days), [1]. [50.] ► Nightly sweat returning every twenty-four hours, as long as
the proving lasts, without itching of the skin, [10]. ► Profuse night-sweat, with headache, and accelerated pulse
(thirteenth day after increasing doses), [6]. ► Profuse night-sweats, and renewed diarrhœa, which again
ceased without stopping the dosing (seventh day), [8].
► Copious night-sweat, with loss of sleep, and excessive
restlessness, but relief of the pain in the abdomen, [12].
► Profuse warm night-sweat, with confusion of the head, [13]. ► No sweat, [5].

CONDITIONS.

► Aggravation.
► (Evening), Warmth
of body, etc.; copious sweat. ► (Night),
Colic; profuse sweats, etc. ► (After
eating
), Nausea. ► (Urinating),
Burning in urethra. ► Amelioration. ► (Cataplasm), Colic.

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