CARBO VEGETABILIS (Vegetable
Charcoal)
HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by William BOERICKE, M.D
Disintegration
and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy. The typical Carbo
patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his
complaints. Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness,
coldness, and ecchymosis. Body becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich
soil in the nearly lifeless stream and sepsis and typhoidal 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, typhoid; these are some of the conditions offering special
inducements to the action of Carbo veg. The patient may be almost lifeless,
but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed
and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must
have all the windows open. This is a typical state for Carbo veg. The
patient faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air. Hćmorrhage
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.
Mind.--Aversion to darkness. Fear of
ghosts. Sudden loss of memory.
Head.--Aches from any
over-indulgence. Hair feels sore, falls off easily; scalp itches when
getting warm in bed. Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight. Head feels
heavy, constricted. Vertigo with nausea and tinnitus. Pimples on forehead
and face.
Stomach.--Eructations, heaviness,
fullness, and sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying
down. Eructations after eating and drinking. Temporary relief from
belching. Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations. Waterbrash, asthmatic
breathing from flatulence. Nausea in the morning. Burning in stomach,
extending to back and along spine. Contractive pain extending to chest,
with distention of abdomen. Faint gone 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. Digestion slow;
food putrefies before it digests. Gastralgia of nursing women, with
excessive flatulence, sour, rancid belching. Aversion to milk, meat, and
fat things. The simplest food distresses. Epigastric region very sensitive.
Abdomen.--Pain as from lifting a weight;
colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus.
Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen. Ailments accompanying
intestinal fistulć. Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind.
Flatulent colic. Pain in liver.
Rectum and Stool.--Flatus hot, moist, offensive.
Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum. Acrid, corrosive moisture from
rectum. A musty, glutinous moisture exudes. Soreness, itching moisture of
perineum at night. Discharge of blood from rectum. Burning at anus, burning
varices (Mur ac). Painful diarrhśa of old people. Frequent, involuntary
cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning. White hćmorrhoids;
excoriation of anus. Bluish, burning piles, pain after stool.
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HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA
by
William BOERICKE, M.D.
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