CARBONEUM SULPHURATUM

  
CARBONEUM SULPHURATUM
Alcohol Sulphuris-Bisulphide of Carbon

This drug has a deep and disorganizing action and an immense range of
action judging from the symptomatology. Very useful in patients broken down by abuse of
alcohol. Sensitive patients worse cold, wasted muscles, and skin and mucous membranes
anćsthetic. Special affinity for eyes. Chronic rheumatism, sensitive and cold. Lack of
vital heat. Diarrhśa every four to six weeks. Paralysis with intense congestion of nerve
centers. Tabes. Sensory difficulties in limbs.

Impotence

, sciatica, come within the therapeutic sphere of
this remedy. Chronic plumbism. Diminished sensibility of
arms, hands and feet. Peripheral neuritis.

Mind.–

Irritable, anxious, intolerant; stupor.
Sluggishness of mind. Hallucinations of sight and hearing. Changeable mood. Dementia
alternating with excitement.

Head.–

Headache and dizziness. Aches as from a tight cap. Ears
feel obstructed. Noises in head. Ulceration of the lips,
anćsthesia of mouth and tongue.

Eyes.–

Myopia, asthenopia, and dis-chromotopia, cloudiness and
atrophy of optic disc and central scotoma for light and for red and green not for white.
Optic neuritis advancing toward atrophy. Arteries and veins congested. Retinal congestion;
optic disc pale. Everything seems in a fog. Vision greatly impaired. Color-blindness.

Ears.–

Hearing impaired. Buzzing and singing noises like an
ćolian harp. Tinnitus aurium. Meniere’s disease.

Abdomen.–

Pain with wandering
swellings as from flatus. Distention, with soreness and rumbling.

Male.–

Desire lost, parts atrophied. Frequent profuse
emissions.

Extremities.–

Herpes on dorsal surface of hands. Sore, bruised
limbs; anćsthesia of arms and hands. Cramps in limbs. Lightning-like pains, with cramps.
Fingers swollen, insensible, rigid, stiff. Gait
unsteady, tottering; worse in dark. Feet insensible. Sciatica.
Flying pains, returning regularly for a long time. Pain in lower limbs, with
cramps and formication. Neuritis.

Sleep.–

Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams.

Skin.–

Anćsthesia; burning; itching; ulcers; small wounds
fester. Useful to restrain the growth of cancer. Furunculosis. Chronic skin diseases with
much itching.

Modalities.–

Better, in
open air. Worse, after breakfast; bathing. Sensitive to
warm, damp, weather.

Relationship.–

Compare: Potass.
Xantate–(Similar in action. Acts on cortical substance; loss of memory, marked
blood degeneration; impotence and senility). Tuberculin; Radium;
Carbo; Sulph; Caust; Salicyl ac; Cinch. In eye symptoms compare: Benzin dinitric. Thyroidin (progressive diminution of sight
with central Scotoma).

Dose.–

First attenuation. Locally in facial neuralgia and
sciatica.