ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM
Black Sulphide of Antimony
For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms and those of the gastric
sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness,
together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true
guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are
aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of
sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout
with gastric symptoms.
Mind.–
Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive;
whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vexed
without cause. Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood.
Head.–
Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach,
especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed eruptions. Heaviness in
forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair.
Eyes.–
Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Canthi raw and fissured. Chronic blepharitis.
Pustules on cornea and lids.
Ears.–
Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and
deafness. Moist eruption around ear.
Nose.–
Nostrils chapped and covered
with crusts. Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.
Face.–
Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.
Mouth.–
Cracks in corners of mouth.
Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick
white, as if whitewashed. Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily. Toothache in hollow
teeth. Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus. Canker
sores. Pappy taste. No thirst. Subacute eczema about mouth.
Throat.–
Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares.
Hawking in open air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.
Stomach.–
Loss of appetite. Desire for
acids, pickles. Thirst in evening and night. Eructation
tasting of the ingesta. Heartburn, nausea, vomiting. After nursing, the child
vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric and
intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot
weather. Constant belching. Gouty metastasis to stomach
and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash. Bloating after eating.
Stool.–
Anal itching (Sulpho-calc. Alum).
diarrhśa alternates with constipation, especially in old
people. Diarrhśa after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous
piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery
discharge. Catarrhal proctitis. Stools composed entirely of mucus.
Urine.–
Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul
odor.
Male.–
Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence.
Atrophy of penis and testicles.
Female.–
Excited; parts itch. Before menses, toothache; menses
too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis
and tenderness in ovarian region. Leucorrhśa watery; acrid, lumpy.
Respiratory.–
Cough worse coming into
warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of
chest, oppression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. Voice
harsh and badly pitched.
Back.–
Itching and pain of neck and back.
Extremities.–
Twitching of muscles. Jerks in arms. Arthritic pain in fingers. Nails brittle; grow out of shape.
Horny warts on hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive
flatulence. Feet very tender; covered with large horny
places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.
Skin.–
Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and
pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria;
measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts
(Thuja; Sabina; Caust). Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and
itching, worse at night.
Sleep.–
Continual drowsiness in old
people.
Fever.–
Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust,
nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhśa. Hot sweat.
Modalities.–
Worse, in
evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices. Better,
in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.
Relationship.–
Compare: Antimonium
Chloridum. Butter of Antimony (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed.
Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose-third trituration).
Antimon iodat
(Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and
bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy). In
sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and have fastened
themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze
and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister).
Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed.
Compare: Kermes mineral-Stibiat sulph
rub (Bronchitis). Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph.
Complementary: Sulph.
Antidote: Hepar.
Dose.–
Third to sixth potency.