Carbo Animalis

▲   GENERAL

General

Seems to be especially adapted to scrofulous and venous constitutions, old people, and after debilitating disease, with feeble circulation and lowered vitality. Glands are indurated, veins distended, skin blue. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Easily strained from lifting. Weakness of nursing women. Ulceration and decomposition. All its secretions are offensive. Causes local congestions WITHOUT heat.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE, after shaving, loss of animal fluids.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Badiaga ^Badiaga; Sepia ^Sepia; Sulphur ^Sulph.; Plumbum Metallicum ^Plumb. Iodium ^Iod.

Complementary

Complementary: Calc Carb ^Calc. Phosphorus ^Phos.

Antidotes

Antidotes: Arsenicum Album ^Ars.; Nux Vomica ^Nux.

▲   MIND

Mind

Desire to be alone, sad and reflective, Avoids conversation

Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.

Aversions, dislikes; company

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; unhappy; sadness, mental depression

Home-sickness (see desires home)

Preoccupied; absorbed, buried in thought; meditation

Talking, conversation; dislike of talking, desire to be silent, taciturn

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Vertigo followed by nose-bleed

Morning

▲   HEAD

Head

Rush of blood with confusion

Sensation as if something lay above eyes so that she could not look up

Bluish cheeks and lips

Nose swollen, tip bluish, small tumor on it

Hearing confused; Cannot tell direction of sound.

Headache

Headache, as if head had been blown to pieces

Pain, headache

top of head (vertex)

bursting; top of head (vertex)

pressing (see bursting, pulling); top of head (vertex); outward

as if torn

top of head (vertex)

▲   EARS

Hearing

Illusions of where sound comes from; as if tone came from another world

Impaired

confusion of sounds

▲   FACE

Face

Skin

out-breaks on skin; acne

out-breaks on skin; acne; chronic, especially nose and cheeks

out-breaks on skin; acne; forehead

out-breaks on skin; coppery

out-breaks on skin; pimples

out-breaks on skin; blisters; nose; in right side

spots (see outbreaks)

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nose bleed; morning

Skin or lining of nose; discoloration; redness; tip

▲   MOUTH

Gums and teeth

Teeth; looseness

Tongue

Growths, blisters, swellings; small swellings; tongue

▲   THROAT

Throat

External throat; glands indurated (hard from inflammation)

▲   CHEST

Chest

Arm pit; indurated (hard from inflammation), glands

Breast; indurated (hard from inflammation)

Inflammation; lung lining

Lumps

sensitive nodules

sensitive nodules; in breast

Pain; stitching, sudden, sharp; breast

Skin; out-breaks on skin

Respiration

Ulceration of lung, with feeling of coldness of chest

Cough, with discharge of greenish pus.

▲   COUGH

Cough

Dry cough

night

▲   SKIN

Skin

Spongy ulcers, copper-colored eruption

Acne rosacea

Chilblains, worse in evening, in bed and from cold

Verruca on hands and face of old people, with bluish color of extremities

Glands indurated, swollen, painful, in neck, axillae, groin, mammae; pains lancinating, cutting, burning ( Conium Mac ^Con.; Merc Viv ^Merc)

Iodium ^Iod

flav.) Burning, rawness and fissures; moisture

Bubo.

Discoloration; red; spots; coppery

Abnormal growths

cauliflower-like fungus; haematodes

ulcers; discharges; offensive

ulcers; spongy

Out-breaks on skin; coppery

▲   BACK AND NECK

Back

Pain

sacrum (base of spine); during stool

pressing; sacrum (base of spine)

Tension; dorsal (shoulder level); shoulder blades

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Eating tires patient

Weak, empty feeling in stomach

Burning and griping

Weak digestion

Ptomaine poisoning

Sour water from mouth

Pyrosis.

Pain; sudden, sharp (sticking, etc.); groin region

Bladder; urination; frequent; night

Kidneys; pain; cutting; ureters (tubes between kidneys and bladder)

Eating

Repugnance to fat food

Stomach; burping, belching; tasting like food

Flatus

flatulence

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Rectum

Haemorrhoids

large

walking

▲   GENITALS ETC

Female

Female

vaginal discharge

Womb

inflammation; indurated (hard from inflammation); womb; cervix

Genitals

Nausea of pregnancy; worse at night

Darting in breast; Painful indurations in breast, especially right

Menses

Lochia offensive (Kreosotum ^Kreos; Rhus Tox ^Rhus; Secale Cornutum ^Secale) Menses too early, frequent long lasting, Followed by great exhaustion, so weak, can hardly speak (Cocculus Indicus ^Cocc)

Female

period; frequent

period; protracted

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Pain in coccyx; burns when touched

Ankles turn easily

Straining and over-lifting produce great debility

Joints weak

Easy discoloration

Pain in hip joints at night

Night sweat fetid and profuse

Wrist pain.

Hands and feet; corns; sore

Numbness (see tingling); hand

Pain

pulling; leg; calf

pulling; leg; calf; walking

as if sprained; wrist

stitching, sudden, sharp; hip

left

while sitting

Weakness

ankle

ankle; children learning to walk

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever and chill

Afternoon

Night

in bed

In bed

After eating

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Dreams; fantastic

Perspiration

Night

While eating

After eating

Odour

offensive

offensive; night

Profuse

Staining the linen; yellow

Generalities

Morning

Evening

Night

Eating and food; while eating

Inflammation

indurated (hard from inflammation)

indurated (hard from inflammation); glands

Straining of muscles and tendons, from lifting

Lying down; lying on side

Numbness; internally; in single parts

Swelling; glands

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); cold feeling; lack of vital heat

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); from lifting

during period

from perspiration

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