Carboneum Oxygenisatum.

Carbonous Oxide. CO. Solution in water.

Clinical

Cramps / Headache / Herpes zoster / Paralysis / Pemphigus / Sciatica / Trismus

Characteristics

The effects of Carb. ox. have been noted in persons poisoned by the gas. It produces a state like intoxication. The person is confused, stupid. There is loss of consciousness. Anæsthesia, but the slightest touch with a hot iron recalls sensibility. Convulsions and cramps. Great sleepiness lasting for several days; interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes. Great coldness of surface, hands icy cold. Marked > of symptoms, especially of chest, in open air.

Relations

Compare: Carb. hydro.

1. Mind

Depressed: stupid; apathetic. Anxiety, with desire for air but too paralysed to seek it.

2. Head

Vertigo; inclination to turn in a circle. Headache, violent, persistent, with throbbing in temporal arteries. Frontal headache which extends over the whole head, but chiefly felt in forehead, which seems pushed out. Weight; throbbing; compression; sticking headache.

3. Eyes

Eyes protrude; sight dim with vertigo, and fluttering and flickering before sight.

4. Ears

Roaring in ears.

6. Face

Trismus; jaws firmly clenched.

8. Mouth

Paralysis of tongue.

11. Stomach

Stomach so irritable that everything eaten was immediately vomited.

13. Stool

Involuntary evacuations.

14. Urinary Organs

Paralysis of bladder. Urine contains sugar.

17. Respiratory Organs

Rattling of mucus in air-passages. Bloody mucus raised. Expired air feels cool to back of observer's hand. Breathing stertorous, slow. Sense of suffocation.

19. Heart

Intolerable pain in region of heart. Violent palpitation.

20. Back

Burning pain at right scapula.

23. Lower Limbs

Shooting pains in r. natis and down sciatic nerve to foot, not < by pressure or movement.

25. Skin

Whole skin covered with large and small vesicles of pemphigus. Purple maculation of skin. Herpes zoster l. side of face along branches of trigeminus.

26. Sleep

Great sleepiness for several days. Never slept so long before. Sleep deep, prolonged, interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes.