Carbo vegetabilis

Common name: vegetable charcoal.

Especially adapted to adynamic diseases with great prostration (Ars.) (Bt.).

Low, grave, depraved or cachectic state (Ars., Chin., Phos., Sec.) (B.).

Inflammation of parotid gland (parotitis); with metastasis to the testes (Ars., Jab., Nat-M., Puls., Rhus-T.; with metastasis to the mammæ- Puls.) (K.).

Burning pain in exterior parts, in ulcers and in bones (Ars.).

Pressing sensation in inner parts (Bell., Coloc., Nux-V., Puls.).

In the morning, when rising from the bed, the limbs feel as though broken (Cocc., Eup-P., Plb.).

Paralytic tearing in the limbs with flatulency and difficulty of breathing (Lyc., Nux-V.).

BAD EFFECTS FROM THE LOSS OF FLUIDS (Carb-An., Cinch., Phos-Ac.).

Great debility, much worse from the smallest exertion of body or mind, worse towards noon (Ars.).

Pricking from above downwards.

Pain with anxiety, heat, despairing hopelessness, and debility after the pain.

Pulsations here and there in the body (Nat-M.).

Trembling and twitching of the limbs through the day.

BAD EFFECTS FROM WINE INTOXICATION THE DAY PREVIOUS (Cocc., Ipec., Nux-V., Puls.).

Bad effects from cold drinking whilst overheated (Ant-C., Bry., Puls.).

Chronic, mal-treated cases of ague; paroxysms irregular (Ipec., Puls.) (Bt.).

Intermittent fevers, with thirst only during the cold stage (Apis, Arn., Ign., Nat-M.).

Chill predominates in the hands and feet; complexion very sallow; great accumulation of flatus; stomach bloated; spleen swollen and painful; with sour and profuse sweats (Bt.).

Frequent sneezing, with constant and violent crawling and tickling in the nose (All-C., Ars., Sabad.) (N.).

SEVERE NOSE-BLEED, LONG CONTINUED, OR SEVERAL TIMES DAILY FOR WEEKS (Phos.) (N.).

Ears too dry (Calc., Graph., Lach., Nux-V.) (N.).

Deafness: after acute exanthemata, or abuse of mercury (Puls., Sil., Sulph.) (N.).

Discharges from the ears: bloody; brownish; excoriating; fetid; ichorous; offensive; purulent; suppressed; or watery (K.).

OTORRHŒA AS A SEQUELA OF MEASLES OR SCARLET FEVER (Bov., Crot-H., Lyc., Merc., Nit-Ac., Puls., Sulph.) (K.).

FACE: VERY PALE, GRAYISH YELLOW OR HIPPOCRATIC (Æth., Ant-T., Ars., Chin., Lach., Sec., Tab., Verat.) (N.).

AFTER A FEW MOUTHFUL THERE IS A SENSE OF REPLETION (Chin., Lyc., Plat., Sep., Sulph.) (D.).

FLATULENCY: VERY FETID SMELL; FLATULENT COLIC (Chin., Coloc., Dios., Mag-P., Nux-V., Puls.).

Gastralgia: stomach distended with flatulence; worse lying down (Dios., Nux-V., Puls.) (N.).

COLIC FROM FLATULENCE (Arg-N., Coloc., Dios., Nat-S., Nux-V., Sep.) (N.).

ABDOMEN FULL TO BURSTING (Arg-N., Chin., Lyc., Nux-V., Puls., Raph.) (N.).

Sensation as if the œsophagus was contracted (Cact., Ign., Kali-C., Merc-C., Phos., Sulph-Ac.) (Bt.).

The most innocent food disagrees (Calc-P., Chin., Hep., Lach., Lyc., Nux-M., Sep.) (G.).

FREQUENT ERUCTATIONS, WHICH AFFORD ONLY TEMPORARY RELIEF (Ant-T., Arg-N., Carb-S., Dios., Graph., Ign., Kali-B., Kali-C., Lyc., Sang.) (G.).

Neglected pneumonia, with expectoration of a dirty, yellow colour, and smelling badly (Kali-C.) (G.).

Has helped in a few desperate cases of pneumonia, last stage, with marked dyspnœa, cold breath, general coldness, weak pulse, and a tendency to collapse (R.).

Wheezing and rattling of mucus in the chest (Ant-T.) (Br.).

Great and long-lasting hoarseness (Caust.) (G.).

HOARSENESS IN THE EVENING (Arg-M., Brom., Carb-An., Carb-S., Caust., Graph., Kali-B., Mang., Phos., Rumx., Sulph.).

Indicated where the patient is troubled with occasional spells of long coughing attacks (Ars., Con., Kali-B., Kali-C., Lach., Phos., Seneg.).

Greenish and fetid expectoration (Kali-I., Sil.) (G.).

AIR HUNGER (Ars., Aur., Calc-I., Chin., Iod., Kali-I., Lach., Lyc., Puls., Sulph.) (B.).

Bronchitis of the aged with profuse, yellow and fetid expectoration (Bl.).

WANTS TO BE FANNED (Ant-T., Apis, Chin., Ferr., Med., Sulph.). (K.).

DYSPNŒA: WORSE WHILE LYING; WANTS DOORS AND WINDOWS OPEN; BETTER FROM ERUCTATIONS (Aur., Nux-V.) (K.).

Profuse and constant salivation of stringy saliva (Kali-B.) (Be.).

Tongue painfully sensitive when chewing; gums become loosened and retracted from the teeth (Kali-P., Merc., Nit-Ac., Staph.) (N.).

Burning in the chest as from glowing coals (Ars., Phos.) (R.).

Menstruation too early and too profuse (Ars., Bell., Bov., Calc., Calc-P., Chin., Cocc., Cycl., Ferr., Ipec., Nat-M., Nux-M., Nux-V., Phos., Plat., Rat., Rhus-T., Sab.).

Varicoseveins in the vulva and about the external genitals (Ambr., Calc., Ham., Lyc., Nux-V., Thuj., Zinc.) (N.).

Cough, with expectoration in the morning, greenish purulent, sometimes brownish (N.).

Great weakness or general prostration with cold knees at night in bed (N.).

Ulcers: secreting a foul, ichorous pus emitting an offensive odour (Nit-Ac.). (Bt.).

Frequent involuntary, putrid, cadaverous smelling stools, followed by burning in the anus (Aloe) (N.).

Large protruding, blue hæmorrhoids, sometimes suppurating, burning, and emitting a terrible odour (Lach.) (N.).

Dyspepsia: from over-eating or high living (Ant-C. Kali-M., Nux-V., Puls.) (D.).

Aversion to milk, which makes him flatulent (R.).

MUCH BELCHING OF SOUR, RANCID FOOD. (Alum., Bar-C., Calc., Cycl., Ferr-I., Graph., Kali-B., Laur., Merc., Phos., Puls., Sulph.) (G.).

Craves acids, sweets, and salted things (Arg-N., Calc., Calc-S., Med., Nat-M., Plb., Sulph.) (K.).

Burning distress in the stomach (Ars., Canth., Caps., Cic., Colch., Phos, Sec., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Chronic dyspepsia of the aged (Ant-C., Lyc., Sil.) (D.).

Cardialgia in nursing women (G.).

Stomach troubles from abuse of alcohol (Nux-V.) (D.).

UNCEASING EMISSIONS OF FLATULENCE BY THE RECTUM (Agar., Aloe, Arg-N., Carb-S., Chin., Coloc., Dios., Graph., Lyc., Nat-S., Olnd., Puls., Staph., Sulph.) (G.).

CAN NOT BEAR TIGHT CLOTHING AROUND THE WAISTAND ABDOMEN (Lach., Lyc., Nux-V.). (Br.).

Humidity of the skin (moist exanthemata).

Blue colour of the body with terrible cardiac anxiety and icy coldness of the surface (Dig., Lach., Phos.).

Indented tongue (Ant-T., Ars., Chel., Dulc., Hydr., Ign., Iod., Kali-I., Merc., Plb., Podo., Rhus-T., Sep., Stram., Syph.) (K.).

Looseness of the teeth, with bleeding from the gums, which are very sensitive when chewing (Hep.) (N.).

Hæmorrhage from broken down condition of the mucous membranes anywhere, attended with great paleness of the skin (N.).

Vital powers low, venous system predominates (Lach., Sec.) (N.).

GUMS BLEED READILY AND ARE SPONGY (Lach., Merc., Nit-Ac., Phos., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Pure blood flows into mouth after sucking the teeth (Amm-C., Bov., Kali-B., Nit-Ac., Rat., Zinc.) (R.).

Induration of the glands, inguinal and axillary, particularly of syphilitic origin, when the induration is hard as a stone (Bad., Carb-An., Iod., Merc-IF, Sil.) (D.).

Weakness of memory and slowness of thought (Bar-C., Calc., Con., Kali-P., Lyc., Nat-M., Phos., Sil.) (A.).

IN THE LAST STAGES OF DISEASE, WITH COPIOUS COLD SWEAT, COLD BREATH, COLD TONGUE, AND LOSS OF VOICE, THE REMEDY MAY SAVE A LIFE. (A.).

Ailments: from quinine, abuse of mercury, salt, salted meats, spoiled fish, meats or fats, or from getting over-heated (Ant-C.) (A.).

PULSE IMPERCEPTIBLE, SMALL OR SOFT (Camph., Verat.) (G.).

Pulmonary hæmorrhage, with burning pains in the lungs, coldness of the skin and desire to be fanned (Chin.) (R.).

Anæmic, especially after acute diseases, which have greatly depleted the patients (N.).

Useful for persons who have never fully recovered from the exhausting effects of some previous illness; has never recovered from the effects of typhoid, etc. (N.).

Want of susceptibility to well-selected remedies (Ambr., Laur., Psor., Op., Sulph., Valer.) (A.).

Dark, turbid urine (Apis, Arn., Ars., Benz-Ac., Kali-C., Op., Tereb.) (F.).

Is an excellent remedy for the terrible dyspnœa of chronic aortitis, especially when the patient has become very anæmic, dropsical, etc. (Ars., Cupr., Lach.) (F.).

May be administered in carbuncle, particularly when the affected parts are bluish or livid, and when the discharges are offensive and associated with burning pains. (F.).

Flatus: hot, moist and offensive. (Br.).

Acrid, corrosive moisture from the rectum (Pæon.) (Br.).

Discharge of blood from the rectum (Ham., Ipec., Nit-Ac., Phos.) (Br.).

Excoriation of anus (Aloe, Merc., Sulph.) (Br.).

Stools of foul blood and mucus (Ham., Merc-C., Nit-Ac., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Lymphatic swellings, with suppurations and burning pains (Ars-I., Lach.).

Morning leucorrhœa, discharges very acrid, excoriating the parts (G.).

Aphthæ of the vulva, with much itching, heat and redness (Calc., Kreos., Graph., Nit-Ac., Sulph.) (G.).

Extraordinary rush of voluptuous thoughts (Canth., Hyos., Phos., Plat.) (G.).

Frequent emissions (Dios., Kali-P., Nux-V., Phos-Ac., Sulph.) (Bt.).

Onanism during sleep (Camph., Plat., Thuj.) (G.).

Icy coldness of the parts; they have a livid, purple look (gangrena senilis) (Bt.).

AGGRAVATION: In the morning; at night; before falling asleep; from the abuse of quinine and mercury; on rising from the bed; while walking in the open air; from butter, pork or fat food; from singing or reading aloud; and in warm, damp weather.

AMELIORATION: From eructations; from being fanned; in the open air; from loosening the clothing around the waist; and lying down.

RELATIONSHIP. Complementary: China and Kali-C.

Antidotes: Ars., Camph., Coff., Lach., and Sp-Nitr-D.,

Carb-V., itself antidotes; Chin., Lach., and Merc.

Compare: Ant-T., Ars., Calc., Carbo-A., Chin., Ferr., Graph., Kali-C., Lach., Lyc., Merc., Nat-M., Nux-V., Phos., Phos-Ac., Sec., Sep., Sulph., and Verat.