Antimonium Tartaricum

▲   GENERAL

General

Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum ^{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, haematuria, 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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, in evening; from lying down at night; from warmth; in damp cold weather; from all sour things and milk.

Better

BETTER, from sitting erect; from eructation and expectoration.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Antidotes

Antidotes: Pulsatilla ^Puls.; Sepia ^Sepia.

▲   EYES

Eyes

Dullness

Inflammation; arthritic (gouty and rheumatic)

Sunken

▲   FACE

Face

Cold, blue, Pale; covered with cold sweat

incessant quivering of chin and lower jaw ( Gelsemium Sempervirens ^Gels.)

Appearance as if dead (see sunken)

Lips; discoloration; bluish

Skin; discoloration; pale

Sunken

Twitching; when coughing

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

Red and dry, especially in the center

Brown.

Gums and teeth

Teeth

sensation of elongated teeth

pain; intermittent (see comes on suddenly)

pain; rheumatic

Tongue

Tongue coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges

Discoloration; tongue; blue

▲   THROAT

Throat

Larynx (voice box); scraping, clearing

scraping, clearing; night

Catarrh

Mucus

larynx

trachea (wind pipe)

Sounds; rattling trachea (wind pipe, see respiration)

Voice; weak

▲   CHEST

Chest

Anxiety; region of heart

Catarrh

Heart; accumulation of fluid, pulmonary

Inflammation

bronchial tubes (bronchitis)

lungs

pleura-pneumonia (affecting lung lining)

Lungs

collapsed lung (atelectasis)

emphysema

tuberculosis; full of mucus

Paralysis; lung

Weakness

Respiration

Abdominal

Accelerated

Asphyxia

in new-born infant

Difficult (dyspnea)

night

after midnight; 3 a.m.

with cough

expectoration

wants to be fanned

from mucus in the wind pipe

Intermittent, unequal

Interrupted; coughing

Rattling

▲   COUGH

Cough

Asthmatic

Rattling

▲   SKIN

Skin

Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish-red mark

Smallpox

Warts.

Out-breaks on skin

pus-filled pimples

small-pox

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Violent pain in sacro-lumber 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.

Pain; sacrum (base of spine)

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Difficult deglutition of liquids

Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally

Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward

Cholera morbus

Diarrhoea in eruptive diseases.

Urinary Organs.

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

Edema and impending paralysis of lungs

Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling

Pulse rapid, weak, trembling

Dizziness, with cough

Cough and dyspnoea better lying on right side - (opposite Badiaga ^Badiaga).

Inflammation

Pain; cutting; before stool

Pulsation

Stomach

burping, belching

inflammation

pulsation

without thirst

Eructation

Dyspnoea relieved by eructation

Flatus

Spasmodic cough, much flatus

Nausea

Stomach

nausea

nausea; with intermittent diseases

Vomiting

Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side

Nausea produces fear; with pressure in precordial region, followed by headache with yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.

Stomach

vomiting

vomiting; on coughing

vomiting; difficult

vomiting; during heat

vomiting; intermittent

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Diarrhoea

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

Colour; dark

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Coldness

lower limbs; foot

Movements and positions; trembling; hand

Skin; out-break on skin; blisters; containing fluid

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Coldness, trembling, and chilliness

Intense heat

Copious perspiration

Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness

Intermittent fever with lethargic condition.

At certain time of day or night; from 3 p.m.

Trembling and shivering

Localised; stomach (gastric fever)

Intermittent, chronic; with long-lasting heat

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Great drowsiness

On falling asleep electric-like shocks

Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.

Comatose

Deep

Sleep between heat of fever

Sleepiness, tiredness

with cough

Yawning; after coughing

Convulsions

Convulsions; when small-pox fails to break out

Perspiration

On parts affected with other conditions

Cold

Rapidly exhausting

Profuse

Profuse; on affected parts

Generalities

Evening

Pulsation; internally

Pulse

full

soft

trembling

weak

Trembling; externally

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

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