Carbo vegetabilis Anhang
[Robin Murphy]
Planets:
Saturn, Moon, Venus.
Carb-v. or vegetable charcoal
is itself a product of imperfect oxidation and disintegration are the keynotes
of this remedy. It contains small quantity of Kali-c. = potasium
carbonate.
The
deodorant and disinfectant properties of charcoal in bulk had already been
discovered when Hahnemann was at work. Its a deodorant, disinfectant and antiseptic.
These properties
are more enhanced in potencies. Provings with the crude Carb-v. and the potentized substances
showed that the latter were much more powerful in their effect
on the
organism. These brought out the fact that there is an exact correspondence
between the effect of crude charcoal and potentized Carb-v. Both are anti-septic and deodorant.
The signs
and symptoms of decay and putrefaction are the leading indication for its medicinal
use: Decomposition of food in the stomach, putrid diseases and ulcerations,
symptoms
of imperfect oxygenation of the blood. Carb-v. antidotes the effects of putrid
meats or fish, rancid fats, salt or salt meats and also the pathogenetic
action of Chin., Lach.
and Merc.
A carbon
ointment made by carbonizing a wine cork by plunging it into a clear fire and then
in its still glowing state into vaseline
and mixing thoroughly is regarded as a sovereign
remedy in
anal irritation and hemorrhoid troubles.
Carb-v. acts upon the venous
circulation and capillaries. Blood seems to stagnate, causing blueness,
coldness and ecchymoses. Vitality becomes low from
loss of vital fluids.
Weakness from grave or serious diseases from effects of drug and disease
or from obstinate complications.
Body
becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless blood
stream and sepsis and typhoid state ensues. A lowered vital power from loss of
fluids after drugging
after other
diseases in old people with venous congestions. States of
collapse in cholera or typhoid. These are some of the conditions covered
by the action of Carb-v.
May be
almost lifeless, but the head is hot, coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible,
oppressed and quickened respiration. Must have air, must be fanned hard,
must have
all the windows open. Typical state for Carb-v.
The patient faints easily is worn out and must have
fresh air. Hemorrhage from any mucous surface. Very debilitated.
Patient
seems to be too weak to hold out. Persons who have never
fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness. Sense of
weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and
eyelids,
before the ears in the stomach and elsewhere in the body, putrid (septic)
condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation. General
venous stasis, bluish skin,
limbs cold.
Collapse in cholera, typhoid or other grave diseases. Patient almost lifeless, cold body,
breath cold, pulse imperceptible, respiration quickened. Must be fanned
very hard,
but head remains hot.
Hemorrhage, blood dark,
oozing from shock after surgical operations (hours or days). Numbness of parts lain on. Burning, sense of weight or heavy aching in bones, ulcers etc.
Weakness,
flatulence, fetor or air hunger, are present with most of the complaints.
Tremulous. Always weak, sick and exhausted, but those states may
occur
suddenly. Fainting fits. Thick acrid discharges.
Lack of
reaction after some violent attack, violent shock, violent suffering. Never
well since. Cold, but wants air to be fanned or thirst for cold water. Septic
conditions. Sensation
of fullness.
Venous stasis. Blueness and decomposition. Ulcerations, aphthous.
General bruised soreness, old catarrhs. Lymphatic glands, are swollen, indurated or suppurating.
Gangrene, humid, senile.
CLINICAL - Acidity, Acne. Air hunger. Angina Pectoris. Asphyxiation. Aortitis. Aphonia. Asthenopia. Asthma. Breast, erysipelas. Blood loss. Breathing, labored. Bronchitis.
Burns. Carbuncle. Catarrh. Chilblains. Cholera. Colds. Collapse.
Coma. Constipation. Cough. Deafness. Debility. Diarrhea. Distention. Dysentery.
Dyspepsia. Emphysema. Erysipelas.
Belchings.
Fainting. Feet, cold. Flatulence. Gangrene. Hemorrhages.
Hemorrhoids. Hair, loss.
Headache. Heart, diseases. Influenza. Intermittents. Intertrigo. Irritation. Laryngitis.
Lungs,
congested. Measles. Mumps. Nosebleeds. Esophagitis. Orchitis. Otorrhea. Pregnancy, disorders.
Purpura. Scabies. Scurvy. Shiverings.S/zoc&.
Sleep, disorders. Starting.
Stomach disordered.
Stomatitis. Trachea, dryness. Tympanites.
Typhus. Ulcers. Yellow fever. Weakness.
Causations:
Carbon monoxide poisoning. Blood loss. Shock. Surgery. Effects of alcohol, meat,
fish (tainted), ice-water, vegetables, salt or salt meats. Disorders from
high
living and butter-eating.
Constitutions
- It is suitable to atonic conditions where there is
lack of reaction. The typical Carb-v, patient is fat,
sluggish, lazy and has a tendency to chronicity of
complaints.
Complaints
of old people. Persons who have never fully recovered from
the effects of some previous illness. School girls and boys are
sluggish, slow to learn, suffer from night
terrors,
will not sleep alone or go to bed in the dark.
Modalities:
>: belchings, cool air from fanning, elevating
feet; <: high living/rich food/decayed food/fat food/butter/coffee/milk/wine/poultry;
<: warmth/depletions/cooling off/
exhausting
diseases/dissipation/overlifting/walking in open air/pressure
of clothes/from weather extremes (temperature)/cold night air/frosty/warm damp
weather/humidity/wind on head.
<: suppressions/old
age/reading aloud/singing/icy drinks.
Mind: Aversion to darkness. Fear of
ghosts. Sudden loss of memory. Slow thinking. Indolent.
Anxious. Irritable. Dejected. Unhappy. Indifference, hears everything without
pleasure or
pain. Sluggish, stupid, lazy. Easily frightened or startled.
Vertigo: with nausea and tinnitus.
Head:Cold sweat on forehead. Head hot with cold limbs. Takes
cold in head easily. Dull, compressive, heavy. Headaches, < in occiput/overheating/lying/pressure
of hat/over-indulgence.
Pimples on forehead and face. Hair, sore, falls off easily
in handfuls after severe illness after childbirth. Scalp itches when
warm in bed. Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight.
Eyes: As of heavy weight on eyes. Hemorrhages from
eyes with congestion to head. Muscles of eyes painful
when looking up. Pupils do not react to light.
Vision; floating
black spots.
Burning in eyes. Asthenopia.
Ears: Deafness or otorrhea,
following exanthemata. Ears dry. Something heavy seems to lie before the ears. Deficient or badly smelling yellow wax. Mumps
with metastass.
Nose: Nosebleed in daily attacks with
pale face. Bleeding after straining with pale face, tip of nose red and scabby,
itching around nostrils. Varicose veins on nose. Eruption in
corner of
nose. Descending colds. Nose cold,
hay asthma. Coryza with cough (in moist, warm weather). Sneezing from
irritation in larynx, < blowing nose.
Ineffectual effort to sneeze.
Face: blue, cold with cold sweat. Puffy,
cyanotic. pale, hippocratic, pinched. (Cupr./Op.) Mottled cheeks and red
nose. Twitching upper lip, Brown or black looking, cracked
lips. Great
paleness of face.
Mouth: Breath cold. Tongue, cold, black,
swollen, covered with white yellow brown mucus. Aphthae, bluish, black ulcers with
burning. Loose teeth. Teeth pain while eating
hot or
cold things. Teeth very sensitive when chewing.
Scorbutic gums. Blood oozes from gums when cleaning teeth. Pyorrhea. Taste bitter,
sour. Bad smell from. Increases saliva.
Gums
retracted and bleed easily, painful while chewing. Gums black. Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth. Pyorrhea.
Stomach: Digestion slow, food putrefies
before it digests. The simplest food distresses. Belchings after
eating and drinking, temporary relief from belching. Belchings,
heaviness,
fullness and sleepiness, tense from flatulence with pain, < lying down. Rancid, sour or putrid belchings. Waterbrash,
asthmatic breathing from flatulence.
Loathes even the thought of food. Nausea in the morning.
Burning in stomach ext. back along spine with coldness.
Contractive pains ext. to chest with distention of
abdomen.
Faint empty feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating. Crampy
pains forcing patient to bend double. Distress comes on a half-hour after eating.
Sensitiveness of epigastric region.
Stomach pain of nursing women. Epigastric region is
very sensitive. Vomiting of blood, ulcers, cancer.
Abdomen: Greatly distended (upper part), <
lying down. > passing wind. Flatulent colic, forcing the
patient to bend double. Obstructed flatulence with complaints.
Pain as from lifting a weight. Colic from riding in a
carriage, excessive discharge of fetid flatus. Abdomen feels as if
hanging down, walks bent.
Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen. Ailments from
intestinal fistulae. The smallest portion of food <
sufferings in abdomen. Epigastric region very
tender.
Rectum: Flatus hot, moist offensive. Itching,
gnawing and burning in rectum and anus. Acrid, corrosive
moisture from rectum. Moisture on perineum. A
musty, glutinous
moisture
exudes. Soreness, itching, moisture of perineum at night.
Discharge of blood from rectum. Burning at anus, burning Varicose
veins. (Mur-ac.) Painful diarrhea of old
people. Frequent involuntary cadaverous, smelling stools, followed by
burning. Excoriation of anus. Bluish, white,
burning hemorrhoids, pain after stools. Stools,
putrid ineffectual
urging,
even soft passed with difficulty. Feces escape with
flatus.
Kidneys: Albumin, protein in the urine. Nephritis, septic or from alcohol.
Urin:
copious of clear yellow color or thick and whitish,
diabetes. Bedwetting, at night. suppressed
in cholera and retained from standing on the cold pavements.
Male
organs: Discharge
of prostatic fluid, while straining at stool. Itching and moisture at thigh near scrotum. Seminal discharge too soon during sex, followed by roaring in head.
Swelling of testes from metastasis of mumps.
Female
Organs: Menses too
early and too copious menses, pale blood. During menses burning
in hands and soles. Menorrhagia, burning
across sacrum,passive flow.
Leucorrhea, thick, greenish,
milky, causing itching and burning, < before menses. Feels best when
she has a free leucorrhea. Sore,
hot, itching, swollen, vulva. Vulva swollen,
aphthae. Varicose veins on pudendum and vulva with
burning, bluish ulcers. Vaginal fistula, burning pains.
Throat: “As if closed”. Aphthous, sore. Hawking of bloody black
mucus. Painful on swallowing food.
Chest: Heavy sore or weak chest, on
awakening. Burning in chest with hemoptysis.
Brown yellow spots on chest. Sore
ribs.
Lumps in breasts with indurations of axillary
glands. Breasts, hard, swollen with impending abscess. Prostration after nursing.
Lungs -
Breathing, laborious, quick and short, worse walking. Wants
to take a deep breath. Breath cold, must be
fanned. Cough with itching in larynx, spasmodic with gagging and
vomiting
of mucus. Cough with burning in chest, worse in evening in open air after eating
and talking. Spasmodic cough, bluish face offensive expectoration, neglected
pneumonia.
Whooping cough, especially in beginning with bluish face and
its complications. Occasional spells of long coughing attacks.
Hoarseness, < evening/talking,
evening
oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest. Roughness in
larynx with deep rough voice. Asthma in aged with blue
skin. Wheezing and rattling of mucus in
chest. Expectoration with retching. Expectoration
very thick, sticky, yellow and profuse. Hemorrhage
from lungs. Destructive lung diseases. Cheyne-Stokes breathing in
organic
heart disease.
Heart -
Continuous anxious palpitation, < eating/sitting. Pulse, thread like, weak and
small intermittent. Burning around the heart.
Pulsation throughout the body
Back: Severe pain in small of back with
a sensation of a plug, unable to sit down, had to put a pillow under it when
lying. Burning behind shoulder.
Sleep - Awakes
often from cold limbs especially cold knees. Unrefreshing.
Comatose sleep
with
rattling in throat. Frequent yawning and stretching which seems to better.
Horror
during
sleep.
Limbs: Heavy, stiff, feel paralyzed,
limbs, go to sleep, want of muscular energy, joints weak. Numbness,
when lying on limbs. Paralytic weakness of the wrists and of the
fingers,
when seizing anything. Burning pain in bones and limbs.
Arms weary when writing. Pain in shins. Cramp in soles. Feet numb and sweaty.
Cold from knees down.
Senile gangrene of fingers and toes with fiery burning vesicles, oozing
bloody water.
Foul foot sweat, < walking. Toes red, swollen.
Pain in liver. Jaundice from over eating or eating too rich food.
Temperature: chill # heat. Chill begins in
forearm. Burning in various places. Icy
coldness, unilateral of tongue, knees, legs, foot, at night. Coldness
with thirst. Warm
head and
cold limbs. Internal burning heat, at heart, chest with cold
icy skin and cold sweat. Sweats easily, on'eating.
Sweat sour, cold < coughing, on face. Yellow fever.
Hectic
fever, exhausting sweats.
Skin: Wounds heal and break out again. Blue, cold and bruised. Marbled with
venous over distention. Burning
in various places. Fine moist rash with burning.
Itching < evening,
when warm
in bed. Moist skin, hot perspiration, senile gangrene beginning in toes, bed
sores, bleed easily. Falling out of hair from a general
weakened condition.
Indolent ulcers, burning pain. Ichorous offensive discharge. Tendency to gangrene
of the margins. Senile gangrene beginning in toes.
Bedsores, bleed easily. Purpura. Ulcers,
foul,
burning
and bleeding. Varicose ulcers, carbuncles. (Ars., Anthr.) Ulcers, varicose, easily bleeding, pus smelling
like Asafetida, heal and break out again. Varicose
veins during
pregnancy.
Generals: Food - Aversion o milk which
causes flatulence, meat and fat things. Aversion to most
digestible
and the best kind of food. Desire for salty, sour things or
sweet things, coffee.
< brandy.
COMMENTS -
It is suited to conditions where there is lack of reaction (Op.) to low states
of the vital powers, where the venous system is engorged, debility of greater
intensity
than Carb-an. to children after exhausting diseases to old
people.
Leading
symptoms: Numbness of limbs. Burning pains (Carb-an.).
Great debility as soon as he makes the least effort.
by reason
of the depressing influence of some prior derangement.
Another
form of debility is that following childbirth, causing falling out of hair.
Among other effects of Carbo v. are: Aversion to
darkness. Fear of ghosts. Excessive accumulation
of gas in
stomach and intestines. "Stomach feels full and tense from flatulence. Great pain in stomach on account of flatulence, worse especially on
lying down."
Great
desire for air, must be fanned, wants to be fanned hard. < warmth: on the other hand it has cough < entering cold
air from a warm room. Coldness is characteristic:
cold
breath (as in cholera), cold knees, cold, but wants to be fanned.
Mental state of Carb-v. is one of torpor and indolence,
which distinguishes it from Ars. in
many cases, slow thinking, < morning on waking. Indifference. There is also
peevishness, easily angered.
Vertigo from stomach with fainting (meals). Lividity
is a common indication, mottled skin round ulcers indolent gangrene, varicose
veins of arms, legs, vulva. Hippocratic
countenance,
cold breath. Collapse with cold knees. Dull headache in occiput
with confusion of mind, proceeding from occiput to
forehead, dull, heavy aching over eyes in
warm room,
buzzing in ears, very sensitive to pressure of hat.
The
congestive symptoms of Carb-v. are those of poisoning
by carbonic acid, pulse thready, face pale, covered
with cold sweat, desire to be fanned, anxiety without restlessness,
Dysponoea. Hemorrhages
are frequent. Nosebleeds or hemorrhage from throat,
in dysentery from the bowels, menorrhagia and metrorrhagia with burning pains across sacrum and
spine, hemorrhage from the lungs, Dyspnea
from chronic aortitis. It corresponds to fever of
many types: typhoid intermittent, yellow fever, hectic and
cholera. In
intermittents of long standing where quinine has been
abused, thirst only during
chill, feet
ice-cold up to knees, heat in burning flushes, sweat sour or offensive, weak,
mind
befogged.
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