CARBO VEGETABILIS.
Preparation.
Triturations of any well-prepared charcoal (Hahnemann used charcoal from
birch for his own provings; some of the other provings were made with
charcoal from the red beech).
Authorities.
1,
Hahnemann, Chr. K., 3; 2, Adams,
ibid.; 3, Von Gersdorff, ibid.; 4, Caspari, ibid.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► Very much
excited in the evening, with distended veins, [1]. ►
Immoderately jovial, though easily put out of humor, [2]. ►
Sensitive weeping mood, [1]. ► Great weeping, in which he wished to
shoot himself, [1]. ► He became lachrymose; everything
frightened him, and he seemed to despair, [1].
► She feels unhappy, with very little
pain, [1]. ►
She desired death, she felt so unhappy, [1].
► *Anxiety, as if oppressed, for several
days, [1]. ► Trembling anxiety in the morning on
waking, [1]. [10.] ►
Inexpressible anxiety every afternoon from four to six, [1]. ►
Increasing anxiety for several hours in the evening, with heat in the
face, [1]. ►
Anxiety in the evening after lying down, as from oppression of the
chest, with heat in the head, heat in the hands, and sweat on the
forehead; she was unable to remain in bed on account of a sensation as
if the heart would be pressed downward; objects about her seem to become
constantly narrower and smaller, and when the room was dark horrible
visions passed before her sight, [1].
► In the evening after lying down he was
attacked with anxiety, so that he could scarcely remain lying
(after nineteen days), [1]. ► Anxiety during and after eating, [1]. ►
Anxiety after a stool, with sensation of trembling and involuntary
movements, [1]. ► Great anxiety and heat with the pains, [1]. ►
Anxiety as in fever; the hands become cold and she trembles, [1]. ►
Discouraged and frightened, [1]. ► Very sensitive and morose (after four
hours), [3]. [20.] ►
Sensitive, easily irritated mood, which was easily excited to foolish
mirth; when laughing the muscles of the arms and hands became relaxed, [3]. ►
Out of humor after eating, [2]. ► Great irritability, [1]. ► Violent
irritable mood, [1]. ► Very irritable through the day, inclined
to vexation, [1]. ► Exceedingly irritable; she seems to be
overhurried in her business, [1]. ► Very irritable and out of humor; he cried
easily over sad events, and just as easily laughed over the slightest
trifles till the tears came to his eyes, [1].
► Irritable and out of humor, with
mental exhaustion (after then hours), [4].
► Irritability and sensitiveness, [2]. ►
Peevishly irritable the whole day (second day), [1]. [30.] ► *Very peevish, irritable, and inclined to anger,
[1]. ►
Peevish, impatient, desperate; he would like to shoot himself, [1]. ►
Peevish irritability, with confusion of the head, [3]. ►
Impatience, [1]. ► Violent and irritable, in the
forenoon, [1]. ► Involuntary outbreaks of anger (after
thirty-six hours), [1]. ► Indifferent, no interested in anything, [2]. ►
*Indifference, he heard everything without feeling pleasantly or
unpleasantly about it, and without thinking of it, [1]. ►
Music, of which he is fond, does not interest him the whole day, [2]. ►
Intellectual. ► Mental
freedom. lightness, and general well feeling (curative action after
great confusion of the whole head, as with a coryza, and general
heaviness of the limbs and body), (after four hours), [4]. [40.] ► Ideas flow slowly; they constantly
turn about one object, with a sensation as if the head were tightly
bound, [2]. ► Want of memory, periodic, [1]. ►
Sudden loss of memory; he could not even recollect what he had just
spoken or what had just been told him, [2].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
*Confusion of the head, which makes thinking difficult, [1]. ►
Confusion of the head for several days, without pain, [1]. ► *Great
confusion in the head, in the morning immediately after rising; he was
unable to think easily, and was obliged to make a great exertion, as of
rousing himself from a dream; after lying down again it disappeared,
[3]. ►
Confusion of the head in the evening after walking (after nineteen
hours), [4]. ►
Confusion of the head after dinner, [4].
► Confusion in the head, with
pressure in the forehead, [1]. ► *Vertigo, so that he was obliged to hold on to
something (after fifteen days), [1]. [50.] ► An attack of vertigo in the forenoon,
with nausea and obscuration of vision, ringing in the ears, trembling,
warm sweat over the whole body, which stood in drops on the forehead;
shortly before this attack a few drops of nose-bleed, [1]. ► Vertigo
on the slightest motion, [1]. ► Vertigo on sudden motion of the head, [1]. ►
Vertigo only when sitting, as though the head reeled to and fro, [1]. ►
*Vertigo when stooping, as though the head reeled to and fro,
[1]. ►
Vertigo on stooping, on turning in bed, and on gargling, [1]. ► Vertigo
after waking from sleep, [1]. ► Vertigo and staggering when walking, [1]. ►
Vertigo when walking or sitting (fourth day), [1]. ►
Paroxysm as follows: In looking out of the window he was suddenly
attacked by a sickening vertigo; he fell down in consequence and lay for
several minutes, and when he recovered consciousness it seemed as if he
had lain in a deep sleep from which he could scarcely arouse himself;
after waking, nausea, which obliged him to lie down for two hours, and
which returned on rising; after this he was extremely lachrymose and
despondent (after six days), [1]. [60.] ►
Dizzy, befogged (third day), [1]. ► Dizzy in the evening after sleeping while
sitting, with trembling and quivering of the evening whole body and
feeling of faintness on rising from sitting, which, even after lying
down, lasted a quarter of an hour, [1].
► Dizziness in the head, as after
intoxication, spreading forward from the occiput, worse in the evening,
and involving the whole head, with aggravation on walking, [2]. ►
Whirling in the head the whole day, [1]. ► Sensations.
► Buzzing in the head, as from bees, [1]. ►
Dulness of the head after waking from the midday nap, [2]. ► *Heaviness
of the head, [1]. ► *The head feels as heavy as lead, [1]. ►
At night after falling asleep he awoke several times with a sensation as
if blood rushed to the head, with bristling of the hairs, anxiety,
accompanied by shivering and a sensation as if some one stroked the body
with the hand, and a kind of formication of the skin on every movement
in bed; together with such sensitive and acute hearing that the
slightest noise re-echoed in the ear, [1].
► Rush of blood to the head, [1]. [70.]
► Rush of blood to the head, with hot
forehead and confusion of the head, [1].
► Great rush of blood to the head,
with confusion of the head and hot forehead (after six hours), [4]. ►
Headache, as if the beginning of coryza, [1].
► Severe headache for five days; on
stooping it seems to press outward in the occiput and forehead, [1]. ►
Severe headache which contracts the eyes, during menstruation, [1]. ►
Headache at night, [1]. ► Headache after eating, [1]. ►
Headache from sudden change from warmth to cold, [1]. ►
Headache, which rises from the stomach into the head and destroys her
senses for a short time, [1]. ► Burning and violent pressing headache,
evenings, in bed, especially on the vertex, and extending forward to the
forehead, [3]. [80.] ►
Pain in the head, as if it were too full, [1].
► Tension in the brain, more like a
confusion than a pain, [1]. ► Spasmodic tension of the brain, [1]. ►
Contracting pain in the head, especially on motion, [1]. ► *Headache,
as from contraction of the scalp, [1]. ►
Headache, as from contraction of the scalp, especially after supper, [2]. ►
Compressive headache, [1]. ► Drawing, affecting the whole head,
arising from the occiput (after half an hour), [4]. ► Drawing
headache here and there, especially in the forehead, extending to just
above the root of the nose, [3]. ► Dull headache, with heaviness in the
forehead, [3]. [90.] ►
Pressive pain in different places in the head in slight attacks, which
soon passed off and seemed to be associated with flatulence (after
forty-eight hours), [4]. ► Paroxysmal pressure and drawings in the
head, [1]. ►
Sticking headache in the evening, in bed, extending into the occiput
(after sixteen hours), [1]. ► Stitches here and there extending into
the head, with general painfulness of the surface of the brain, [1]. ►
*When coughing, painful stitches through the head, [1]. ►
Tearing pain in the head (after twenty-four hours), [1]. ► Tearing
through the whole head, starting from a small spot in the occiput, [3]. ►
A tearing pain in the head, something starting from the limbs, and
seeming to end in the head, [4]. ► Throbbing headache in the afternoon, [1]. ►
Throbbing headache in the evening, in bed, with difficult breathing, [1]. [100.] ►
Painful throbbing of the head during respiration, and in the
teeth, [1]. ►
Was awake several times at night on account of pulsation in the head, as
if he would be attacked with apoplexy, with anxiety; soon after waking
he came to his senses and felt that it was an illusion, for the beating
of the head had disappeared; as he looked for further development of
this symptom while in a state of slumber, the limbs and knees were drawn
involuntarily upward and the back was bent, and he felt that if he
longer postponed waking he would faint, [1].
► Jerking headache, [1]. ► Severe
shocks in the head from reading, [1].
► Forehead. ► Heat and burning in the forehead, [1]. ►
Burning in the forehead, with heat in the mouth, with pains in the eyes,
[1]. ►
Boring and pressive headache in the forehead, [1]. ►
Tearing-drawing in the upper part of the anterior portion of the head, [3]. ►
Tearing-drawing through the head above the right eye, [1]. ►
Pressive headache in the forehead, which disappears and returns, [4]. [110.]
► Pressive headache over the eyes
extending into them, [3]. ► *Pressive headache in the forehead, especially
just over the eyes, which are sore on motion, the whole
afternoon, [3]. ► Pressive pain in the small spot, formerly
wounded, in the right side of the forehead (after four hours), [3]. ►
Sticking headache above the right eye, [1].
► Stitches in the forehead above the
right external canthus (after two hours), [2].
► Violent tearing in the forehead, in a
small spot near the temples, [3].
► Pulsating headache in the forehead
after eating, with pressure in the occiput, heat in the head, and
eructations, [1]. ► Temples. ►
Tension and pressure in both temples and in the forehead; he was unable
to hold the lids open, [1]. ► Boring headache beneath the left temple, [1]. ►
Pressure in the left temple, from within outward for several hours, [2]. [120.]
► Pressure in both temples,
and on the top of the head, [1]. ► Tearing in the temples, extending to the
back teeth, [3]. ► Tearing pains, in frequent attacks within
the head, extending to the right temple, [3].
► Throbbing in the temples and
fulness of the brain, after waking from a long deep sleep in the
afternoon, [2]. ► Vertex. ►
Headache over the whole vertex in the morning, in bed, with painfulness
of the ear, which disappeared after rising, [1]. ►
Pressure, as if something were lying upon the vertex, or as if the
integuments of the head were drawn too tightly together, which also
extended to the forehead, [2]. ► Pressure on the top of the head every
afternoon, [1]. ► Pressive pain on the vertex, with soreness of
the hair to touch, [3].
► Pressure on the top of the head,
followed by drawing about the whole head, though more pain on the left
side, [1]. ►
Severe stitches in the top of the head, [1].
[130.] ►
Stitches in the upper part of the head, extending to the temples, [1]. ►
Stitches in the upper part of the head from reading, [1]. ► Tearing
headache in the vertex and temples, by paroxysms, [3]. ► Parietals.
► Dull tearing stitches from side to
side, deep in the brain, on one side of the head, as from a nail driven
into it, [1]. ► (Pain in the right side of the head when
shaking it), [1]. ► Headache involving the whole of the right
side of the head and face, with chill, coldness, and trembling of the
body and the jaws, [1]. ► Biting-pressive headache, like a
sensation in the nose from a suppressed sneeze, in the morning on
waking, in the right half of the head on which he lay, and in the
occiput; on raising the head the pain was relieved; on rising from bed
it disappeared entirely, [3]. ► Pinching and cutting headache above and
behind the left ear, [3]. ► Tearing pain in the left side of the head
over the temples, [3]. ► Tearing in the left half of the head,
starting from the left half of the nose, [3].
[140.] ►
Tearing in the left half of the head, with drawing in the left arm, [3]. ►
Severe tearing through the whole left side of the head, [4]. ► Occiput.
► Crackling in the occiput while
sitting, [1]. ► Confusion in the occiput, as after
intoxication (after half an hour), [2].
► Confusion in the occiput, like a
tension from within (after half an hour), [2].
► Much severe pain in the occiput and
boring in the forehead at night, with sweat and pale face, cold,
trembling hands, and nausea of the stomach, [1]. ►
Pinching pain in the occiput, [1].
► Frequently repeated short drawing
pains in the right side of the occiput (after two hours), [3]. ► Drawing and
tearing in the left side of the occiput, [3]. ►►
*Dull headache in the occiput, [3].
[150.] ►
Pressive pain in the occiput, from time to time, [1]. ► *Violent
pressive pain in and on the occiput, in the lower portion, [3]. ►
Pressure in the occiput, especially after supper, [2]. ►
Pressive headache in the upper part of the right side of the occiput,
with pressure in the eyes, [3]. ► Pressive headache, first in the neck,
then in the forehead, followed by lachrymation of the eyes, with closure
of the lids, [1]. ► A burning-sticking in a small spot on the
occiput, [3]. ► Tearing in the right side of the occiput
(after four hours), [3]. ► Short tearing pains in the right side of
the occiput, [4]. ► Frequent tearing pain, here and there,
for example, in the left side of the occiput left half of the face, left
shoulder, left thigh etc., with severe pressure in the arms and legs, [3]. ►
Throbbing headache, very violent in the occiput, as if suppurating, from
morning till evening (after nine days), [1].
► External Head. [160.] ► The
hairs fall out, [1]. ► A place on the head as large as the hand
is very hot to the touch, with continued headache, [1]. ► Drawing
pains, here and there, over the head, externally, [3]. ►► *The
hat pressed upon the head like a heavy weight, and he continued to feel
the sensation even after taking it off, as if the head were bound up
with a cloth, [2]. ► Tearing in an old scar of a cut on the
top of the head, [3]. ► Crawling on the scalp, as if the hairs
moved, [2].
EYE.
►
Objective. ► Inflammation
of the right eye, [1]. ► Swelling of the left eye, [1]. ► Subjective.
► Burning in the eyes, [1]. ►
The eyes ache, in the evening, after lying down, [1]. [170.] ► Dull pain in the left eye, [3]. ►
Pressure in the eyes, with confusion of the head (after six hours and a
half), [1]. ►
Pressure, as from sand in the right eye, with feeling of soreness in the
canthi (after thirty-six hours), [4].
► Pressure, as from a grain of sand,
with sore pain, especially in the canthi, with biting in the eye, [3]. ►
A tearing pressure on the left eye, [3].
► *A heavy weight seemed to lie upon the
eyes, so that he must make a great exertion, when reading and writing,
in order to distinguish letters, [1]. ► Severe
stitches in both eyes, [1]. ► Pain in the eye, as if it would be torn
out, with headache, [1]. ► Itching in the right eye (after
thirty-six days), [4]. ► Itching in the right eye, with great
dryness of the lid (after fourteen days), [1].
[180.] ►
Itching in the left eye, with biting in it after rubbing, especially in
the inner canthus, [3]. ► Biting-itching, especially in the right
external canthus, [3]. ► Orbit. ►
*The muscles of the eye pain when looking up, [3]. ► Itching
about the eyes, [1]. ► Lids. ►
Trembling of the upper lid, [1]. ► Twitching of the left lid (after nine
days), [1]. ►
She was unable to open the eyes at night, even when unable to sleep, [1]. ►
The eyes are agglutinated, in the morning, [1]. ► The
left lid seemed agglutinated, which was not the case, [1]. ► Drawing
in the right lid (after thirteen days), [1].
[190.] ►
Pressure in the upper lids and in the upper half of both eyeballs, on
motion in the open air, [2]. ► Biting in the lids, with some redness of
the margins (after twenty-four hours), [4].
► *Itching in the margins of the lids,
[1]. ►
A biting pressure in the external canthus of the right eye, [3]. ►
Biting in the left canthus, [3]. ► Itching in the left inner canthus, [3]. ►
Lachrymal Apparatus. ►
Severe lachrymation, and biting of the right eye (after twenty-four
hours), [3]. ► Ball. ►
Sensitive pressure in the right eyeball from above downward (after half
an hour), [3]. ► Vision. ►
Very short-sighted; he could only recognize people within a few steps
(after three days), [1]. ► He became short-sighted after exerting the eyes
for some time, [1]. [200.] ► Flickering before the eyes in the
morning, immediately on rising, [3].
► Rings surrounding an internal
brighter field before the eyes, [1].
► Black floating spots before the eyes,
[1].
EAR.
►
Objective. ► A thick brown
substance comes out of the right ear, [1].
► Discharge of a thick, flesh-colored,
offensive moisture from the right ear, [1]. ► Subjective.
► Something heavy seems to lie in
front of the ears as if two sand-bags were there, [2]. ► *Something
heavy seems to lie along and in front of the ears; they seem stopped,
though without any diminution of hearing (after half an hour), [2]. ►
Heat and redness of the left ear, every evening, [1]. ►
Tearing-burning pain in the lobule of the left ear, [3]. ► Fine
pinching in the left ear, [4]. [210.] ►
Stitches extending inward in the left meatus (after forty-eight hours), [4]. ►
Tearing within the right ear, [3].
► Tearing pain in the fossa behind
the right ear, [3]. ► Twinges coming out of both ears (after
seventeen days), [1]. ► Twinges in the right ear, in the evening,
[3]. ►
Twinges in the left ear, [3]. ► Pulsating in the ears, [1]. ► Tearing
jerks, or some stitches, in the right inner meatus, [3]. ► Itching
in the ears, with inclination to relieve it by swallowing, [1]. ►
Severe crawling-itching within the right ear, after boring in with the
finger, suddenly returning, [3]. ► Hearing. [220.]
► Loud speaking is unpleasant to the
hearing, [2]. ► Severe humming before both ears, [1]. ►
Cracking in the ears, as from straw, on every motion of the jaws (during
breakfast), [1]. ► Chirping in the ears, as from crickets
(after seven days), [1]. ► *Ringing in the ears, [1]. ► Fine
ringing in the left ear, in the afternoon (after forty hours), [4]. ►
Ringing in the left ear, with whirling vertigo, [1]. ► Roaring in
the ears, [1]. ► Illusions of hearing at night; he thought
he heard some one walking who stepped up to his bed; he awoke
immediately, with anxiety, [1].® 2000
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