LITHIUM CARBONICUM

  
LITHIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Lithium

Chronic rheumatism connected with heart lesions
and asthenopia offer a field for this remedy. Rheumatic nodes. Uric acid diathesis Whole
body is sore. Gout and tophi.

Head.–

Tension, as if bound; better, sitting and going out.
Externally sensitive. Headache ceases while eating.
Trembling and throbbing. Pain in heart; extends to head. Dizzy states with ringing in ears.
Both cheeks covered with dry, bran-like scales.

Eyes.–

Half vision; invisible right half. Photophobia. Pain
over eyes. Dry lids. Eyes pain after reading.

Stomach.–

Acidity, nausea, gnawing,
relieved by eating (Anacard). Cannot endure
slightest pressure of clothes (Laches).

Urine.–

Tenesmus. Turbid urine, with mucus and red deposit.
Pain in region of right kidney. Free and colorless. While urinating, pressure in heart.
Cystitis, subacute and chronic.

Respiratory.–

Constriction of chest. Violent cough when lying
down. Air feels cold when inspired. Pain in mammary glands, which
extend into the arms and fingers.

Heart.–

Rheumatic soreness in cardiac region. Sudden shock in
heart. Throbbing, dull stitch in cardiac region. Pains in heart before menses, and
associated with pains in bladder, and before urinating; better, after. Trembling and
fluttering in heart, extending to back.

Urinary.–

Soreness of bladder; pain in right kidney and
ureter. Turbid urine with mucus, scanty and dark, acrid; sandy deposit.

Extremities.–

Paralytic stiffness all over. Itching about
joints. Rheumatic pains throughout shoulder-joint, arm, and fingers and small joints
generally. Pain in hollow of foot, extending to knee. Swelling and tenderness of finger and
toe joints; better, hot water. Nodular swellings in joints. Ankles pain when walking.

Skin.–

Scabby, tettery eruption on hands, head, and cheeks,
preceded by red, raw skin. Dull stitch, ending in itching. Barber’s
itch (use high). Rough rash all over body, much loose epithelium, tough, dry,
itchy skin.

Modalities.–

Worse, in
morning, right side. Better, rising and moving about.

Relationship.–

Compare: Lyc; Ammon
phos; Benz ac; Calc; Lithium chlor (symptoms of cinchonism, viz.: Dizzy head, full, bluring of vision
Ringing in ears; marked tremors; general weakness;
marked muscular and general prostration; no gastro-intestinal effects. Nose sore, heartburn,
pain in teeth). Lithium lacticum (rheumatism of
shoulder, and small joints relieved by moving about; worse, resting). Lithium
benzoicum (deep-seated pains in loins; in small of back; uneasiness in bladder.
Cystic irritation. Gallstones. Frequent desire. Diminishing uric acid deposit). Lithium bromatum (cerebral congestion, threatened apoplexy,
insomnia and epilepsy).

Dose.–

First to third trituration.