Carbo animalis

Common name: animal charcoal.

Diseases of elderly persons with marked venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips and great debility (A.).

Sensation of numbness, as if, in fact, the part had gone to sleep in many parts, especially the head (Caust., Kali-Br., Nux-V., Phos., Rhus-T.).

RHEUMATIC STIFFNESS OF THE JOINTS (Agar., Ars., Bell., Calc., Caust., Colch., Form., Kali-C., Led., Lyc., Nat-M., Petr., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Staph., Sulph.).

Pressing pain in the joints and muscles of the limbs (Alum., Calc., Clem., Coloc., Kali-C., Led., Nat-S., Par.).

Pain in the hip-joints at night (Bell., Coloc., Ferr. Kali-B., Kali-C., Kali-I., Lach., Merc., Nat-S., Petr., Rhus-T., Sulph., Syph., Tarant.).

Burning pains (Apis, Ars., Caps., Carb-V., Lach., Phos., Sep., Sulph.).

WEAKNESS AND EASY DISLOCATION OF THE JOINTS (Calc., Caust., Coloc., Lyc., Puls., Rhus-T., Sulph., Thuj.).

Tension and contraction of the parts (Cupr., Mag-P., Rhus-T., Sec.).

Earthy coloured face, with copper coloured spots on both the face and body (Bt.).

GREAT SENSITIVENESS TO OPEN, COLD, DRY AIR (Bell., Hep., Sil.).

Often troubled with severe headache (Bell., Bry., Ferr., Gels., Kali-B., Lach., Nat-M., Nux-V., Puls., Rhus-T., Sep., Sil., Verat-V.) (Bt.).

Teeth very sensitive to the least cold air (Acon., Bell., Calc., Mag-P., Nat-M., Ox-Ac., Sin-N.) (Bt.).

Tearing pains in the teeth from salt food (Bt.).

Ankles turn when walking (A.).

Joints weak: easily sprained by slight exertion (Led.) (A.).

Easily strained from lifting even small weights (Rhus-T.) (A.).

Sour taste in the mouth (Arg-N., Calc., Ign., Lyc., Mag-C., Nat-Ars., Nat-C., Nux-V., Phos.) (K.).

LOOSENESS OF THE TEETH (Amm-C., Bry., Carb-V., Caust., Hyos., Lyc., Merc., Merc-C., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sil., Staph.), WITH BLEEDING GUMS (Bar-C., Bov., Calc., Carb-V., Crot-H., Lach., Merc., Merc-C., Nat-M., Nit-Ac.) (Bt.).

Great weakness of digestion (a very valuable remedy for a host of digestive ailments).

WEAK, SORE, EMPTY FEELING AT THE PIT OF THE STOMACH (Ant-C., Cocc., Dig., Hell., Hydr., Ign., Lac-C., Merc., Murx., Nux-V., Phos.).

Glandular diseases of a scirrhous nature with fetid discharges, accompanied with great prostration and debility (Bt.).

PAINFUL INDURATION OF THE GLANDS OF THE MAMMÆ (Aster., Bell., Bry., Calc., Caust., Cham., Con., Graph., Iod., Merc., Phyt., Sil., Sulph., Thuj., Ust.).

HARD, PAINFUL NODES IN BREASTS (Bell-P., Bufo, Calc-F., Carb-V., Con., Cund., Graph., Iod., Kreos., Lac-C., Lyc., Nit-Ac., Phyt., Sil.) (B.).

SPONGY ULCERS AND EXCRESCENCES (Lach., Phos., Thuj.).

Great numbness and languor in the thighs, particularly during the menses (G.).

FOUL, EXHAUSTING SWEATS AT NIGHT, STAINING YELLOW (Graph., Lach., Merc., Sil.) (B.).

Copper coloured exanthemata (Alum., Ars., Ars-I., Aur., Calc., Cor-R., Kali-I., Kreos., Lyc., Merc., Mezer., Nit-Ac., Psor., Sulph.).

In all the female diseases the patient is extremely prostrated; can hardly stand up (Cocc., Sep., Stann.) (Bt.).

THE MENSTRUAL FUNCTION SEEMS TO EXHAUST HER REMARKABLY, SO THAT SHE IS HARDLY ABLE TO SPEAK (Alum., Cocc., Stann., (G).

Menses; too soon; last long, but not profuse; feels so exhausted during its continuance, she is hardly able to speak (G.).

Violent pressing in the loins, the small of the back, and the thighs, during the menses (Kali-C., Nux-V., Sab., Vib-O.) (G.).

WATERY, ACRID, BURNING LEUCORRHŒA (Alum., Bor., Calc., Calc-S. Kreos., Puls., Sep., Sulph.). PARTICULARLY WHEN WALKING (Æsc., Alum., Aur., Bov., Calc., Graph., Kreos., Lac-C., Mag-M., Nat-M., Phos., Sars., Sep., Sulph., Tub.); TURNS THE LINEN YELLOW (Chel., Kreos., Prun.). (G.).

Uterus hard and swollen (Alum., Alumn., Aur., Aur-M., Bell., Chin., Con., Helon., Iod., Kali-Br., Lyss., Pall., Plat., Sep., Tarant.). (Bt.).

MALIGNANT ULCERATIONS OF THE NECK OF THE WOMB, WITH FOUL DISCHARGES (Ars., Ars-I., Con., Graph., Hydr., Kreos., Lach., Lyc., Murx., Phos., Sep., Sil., Thuj.) (G.).

Lochia too long continued, acrid, excoriating the parts, and very offensive (Bapt., Kreos., Pyrog., Rhus-T., Sep.) (G.).

A stitching pain remains in the chest after recovery from pleurisy (Bor., Kali-C., Ran-B.) (A.).

All the glands may become more or less indurated (Bad., Bar-M., Brom., Calc., Calc-F., Clem., Con., Iod., Phyt., Spong., Sulph.) (Bt.).

GLANDS: INDURATED, SWOLLEN, PAINFUL; IN NECK, AXILLÆ, GROIN, MAMMÆ; PAINS LANCINATING, CUTTING, BURNING (Ars-I., Con., Phyt.) (A.).

Benign suppurations change into ichorous or malignant conditions (Calc., Hep., Sil.) (A.).

Hearing confused; cannot tell from what direction a sound comes (Phos., Puls.) (A.).

Headache: as if a tornado in the head; as if the head had been blown to pieces; has to sit up at night and hold it together (Syph.) (A.).

Vertigo followed by nose-bleed (Br.).

Acne rosacea (Aur-M., Calc-Sil., Carb-V., Caust., Eug., Lach., Psor., Rhus-T.) (Br.).

Redness of the tip of the nose (Aur., Bell., Calc., Crot-H., Lach., Nit-Ac., Sulph.) (K.).

Buboes: indurated and mal-treated (Bad.); refuse to heal (Sulph.); suppurating; and accompanied by burning (Ars., Ars-I., Bell., Tarant.) (K.).

Ichorous discharge from the ears, often accompanied by swelling of the parotid gland (Alum-C., Ars., Carb-V., Lyc., Nit-Ac., Psor., Sep., Sil.) (G.).

Ringing in the ears when blowing the nose (Teucr.) (K.).

Humming and singing in the ears (Acon., Amm-M., Bell., Calc., Chin., Ferr., Graph., Hyos., Kali-C.) (G.).

MAY BE INDICATED IN CONSTITUTIONAL OR TERTIARY SYPHILIS, AFTER ABUSE OF MERCURY (Aur., Nit Ac.) (F.).

While walking along the street objects seem to him to be far off (F.).

Dimness of sight on attempting to read, relieved by rubbing the eyes (Sulph.) (F

AGGRAVATION: While eating; when lying on the side; after shaving; from slightest touch; after midnight; from loss of animal fluids; in dry, cold air; from lifting; and during menses.

AMELIORATION: Laying hand on part; and rubbing the eyes.

RELATIONSHIP. Similar to: Bad., Brom., Carb-V., Iod., Merc-I-F., Phos., Sep., Sulph.

COMPLEMENTARY: Calc-P.

It is often useful after bad effects from spoiled fish and decayed vegetables.

Antidotes: Ars., Camph., Nux-V.