Carbo Animalis compare in 12 dei 13 libri classici su Similia. Ognuno è stato scritto per svolgere un compito diverso — ecco cosa aggiunge ciascuno su questo rimedio, con l'inizio della relativa voce.
- Allen HC — I sintomi chiave che distinguono questo rimedio dai suoi rimedi più affini.
“Animal Charcoal Headache: as if a tornado in head; as if head had been blown to pieces; has to sit up at night and hold it together. Diseases of elderly persons with marked venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, and great debility. Circulation feeble, stagnated, and vital heat sinks to a minimum; cyanosis (Ant. t…”
- Allen TF — Il resoconto grezzo della sperimentazione patogenetica — i sintomi così come gli sperimentatori li riferirono, senza modifiche.
“Preparation , Place a thick piece of ox-hide between red-hot coals, where it must remain as long as it burns with a flame, then quickly put the glowing piece between plates of stone, to put a stop to the combustion (if allowed to cool gradually in the air most of the carbon would be consumed). Triturate. Authorities…”
- Boericke — La lettura clinica rapida — sintomi chiave, modalità e condizioni per cui viene effettivamente prescritto.
“Animal Charcoal 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…”
- Boger (GA) — Sotto quali rubriche generali rientra questo rimedio — l'impalcatura analitica.
“COMPANY, crowds, etc. Agg., Craves solitude, etc. EATING, affected by. EATING, a little, Agg. EATING, long after, Agg. EXERTION, Agg. FORCED, thru a narrow opening, as if GLANDS HARDNESS HOLDING, being held, etc., Amel. LIGHT, Amel. LOOSE, as if (Comp. Rolling, Swashing.) LYING, ON SIDE, AGG. LYING, left, Agg. OLD…”
- Boger (Syn) — Sintomi generali e modalità in un breve ritratto analitico, più che in un elenco di sintomi.
“NUTRITION. Glands. VEINLETS. Slight causes: Small depletions. Sprains. Lifting. Cold taking. WHILE EATING. Dry, cold air. Shaving (Ox-ac. Rad.). Old age. After menses. Laying hand on part. Old and feeble. Susceptible to colds, sprains or overaffected by small losses, etc . Venosity. Gummæ. Slow, hard painful…”
- Clarke — La voce più ampia — fonti, sperimentazioni patogenetiche, usi clinici, relazioni e antidoti in un unico luogo.
“Animal Charcoal. Made from charred ox-hide. Contains Calc. phos. C (impure). Trituration. Acne rosacea / Aneurism / Appetite, disordered / Breast, cancer of / Bubo / Cancer / Cataract / Constipation / Coccygodynia / Cough / Empyema / Eructations / Face, eruption on / Gangrene / Glandular indurations / Hæmorrhoids /…”
- Hering — Sintomi graduati, ciascuno ponderato in base alla frequenza con cui gli sperimentatori e la pratica lo hanno confermato.
“Animal charcoal. Burnt animal substances, porcupine, swallows, moles, human bones, etc., have been used in medicine, before and since the time of Dioscorides, for glandular affections, scirrhus, epilepsy, etc. 1708. Quesnot, Plusieurs secrets rare et curieux, p. 124. Paris. 1827. Introduced by Hahnemann in his Chronic…”
- Kent — Il quadro mentale e generale — chi è il paziente, prima ancora di ciò che il rimedio cura.
“Carbo animalis is one of the deep-acting, long-acting medicines. Suitable in complaints that come on insidiously, that develop slowly, that become chronic and often malignant in character. Complaints in anaemic, broken down constitutions. Vascular conditions. The Carbons affect the veins more or less, relaxing…”
- Lippe (MM) — La rigorosa lettura hahnemanniana — il quadro sintomatologico senza interpretazione clinica.
“Alternate cheerfulness and melancholy. Fright in the dark. Heaviness in the cerebellum; worse in the forenoon, -in the cold air,- relieved after dinner. Pain in the vertex, as if the skull were open. Tightness and tension of the skin of the forehead and vertex. Heat in the head in the evening in bed, better after…”
- Lippe (Red) — Sintomi chiave, con quelli più attendibili contrassegnati come sintomi a linea rossa.
“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…”
- Nash — I confronti — il rimedio accostato a quelli con cui viene più spesso confuso.
“Is another remedy whose great general characteristic is: Great weakness, want of energy, prostration. The subjects of it are often disposed to glandular swellings, indurations and suppurations. Benignant suppurations are inclined to become ichorous. The swellings to become schirrous in character. The swellings seem to…”
