ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM
Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash
Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar
to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatment
of respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little expectoration
has been a guiding symptom. There is much drowsiness, debility and
sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always be more or less
present, when the drug is prescribed. Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty subjects. Cholera morbus. Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels. Bilharziasis. Antimonium tart is homeopathic to dysuria,
strangury, hæmaturia, albuminuria, catarrh of bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, bloody
mucous stools, etc. Antimon tart acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing
action of the protective substance. By-effects following injection for Bilharziasis. Chills and contractures and pain in muscles.
Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness. Lumbago. Chills,
contractures and muscular pains. Warts on glans penis.
Mind and Head.–
Vertigo alternates with drowsiness. Great
despondency. Fear of being alone. Muttering, delirium, and stupor. Vertigo, with dullness and
confusion. Band-like feeling over forehead. Face pale and sunken. Child will not be touched
without whining. Headache as from a band compressing (Nit ac).
Tongue.–
Coated, pasty, thick white,
with red edges. Red and dry, especially in the center. Brown.
Face.–
Cold, blue, pale; covered with
cold sweat. Incessant quivering of chin and lower jaw (Gelsem).
Stomach.–
Difficult deglutition of liquids. Vomiting in any
position, excepting lying on right side. Nausea, retching, and
vomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and prostration. Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and
acids generally. Nausea produces fear; with pressure in præcordial region,
followed by headache with yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.
Abdomen.–
Spasmodic colic, much flatus. Pressure in abdomen,
especially on stooping forward. Cholera morbus. Diarrhœa in eruptive diseases.
Urinary.–
Burning in urethra during and after urinating. Last
drops bloody with pain in bladder. Urging increased. Catarrh of bladder and urethra.
Stricture. Orchitis.
Respiratory Organs.–
Hoarseness. Great
rattling of mucus, but very little is expectorated. Velvety feeling in chest.
Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to throat. Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems
as if he would suffocate; must sit up. Emphysema of the aged. Coughing
and gaping consecutively. Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus. Cough excited by
eating, with pain in chest and larynx. Œdema and impending paralysis
of lungs. Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling. Pulse rapid, weak,
trembling. Dizziness, with cough. Dyspnœa relieved by eructation. Cough and dyspnœa better
lying on right side–(opposite Badiaga).
Back.–
Violent pain in sacro-lumbar
region. Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat. Sensation of heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time.
Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous.
Skin.–
Pustular eruption,
leaving a bluish-red mark. Small-pox. Warts.
Fever.–
Coldness, trembling, and chilliness. Intense heat.
Copious perspiration. Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness. Intermittent fever with
lethargic condition.
Sleep.–
Great drowsiness. On
falling asleep electric-like shocks. Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all
complaints.
Modalities.–
Worse, in
evening; from lying down at night; from warmth; in damp cold weather; from all sour things and
milk. Better, from sitting erect; from eructation and
expectoration.
Relationship.–
Antidotes: Puls; Sepia.
Compare: Kali sulph; Ipecac.
Dose.–
Second and sixth trituration. The lower potencies
sometimes aggravate.