Anthracinum

Anthrax Poison

by William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory

This nosode has proven a great remedy in epidemic spleen diseases of domestic animals, and in septic inflammation, carbuncles and malignant ulcers . In boils and boil-like eruptions, acne. Terrible burning. Induration of cellular tissue, abscess, bubo, and all inflammation of connective tissue in which there exists a purulent focus.

Tissues

Hæmorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice. Glands swollen, cellular tissues œdematous and indurated . Septicæmia. Ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning . Erysipelas. Black and blue blisters. Dissecting wounds. Insect stings. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors. Gangrenous parotitis. Succession of boils . Gangrene. Foul secretions.

Relationship

Similar to Arsenic, which it often follows. Compare: Pyrogen; Lachesis; Crotalus; Hippozoen; Echinac; Silica follows well. In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah's carbuncle-i.e the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and apply.

Dose

Thirtieth potency. Tarant. Cubensis .

Anthracinum across the other classic books

Anthracinum appears in 6 of the 13 classic books on Similia. Each was written to do a different job — here is what each adds on this remedy, with the opening of its entry.

Allen HC — The keynotes that separate this remedy from its nearest neighbours.
“Anthrax Poison. (A Nosode) In carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning . When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy fails to relieve the burning pain of carbuncle or malignant ulceration. Haemorrhages: blood oozes from mouth, nose, anus or sexual organs; black…”
Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“Cellular tissue. Terrible burning pains, with great prostration. Malignancy. Sepsis. Suppuration. Carbuncle. Abscess of septum. Quinsy. Succession of boils. (Arn. Sul.). Black or blue blisters. Gangrene. Hard cellulitis. Related: Ars. Tarn-c.”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“An alcoholic extract of the anthrax poison prepared from the spleens of affected sheep. Acne / Boils / Carbuncles / Cynanche cellularis / Erysipelas / Gangrene / Malignant pustule / Parotitis gangrenosa / Phlegmonous inflammation and ulceration / Small-pox / Splenic fever / Ulcers / Whitlow Anthracinum is indicated in…”
Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“The alcoholic extract of the anthrax poison prepared from the spleen of cattle befallen with the disease. A nosode rejected by the Old School, and by a majority of the New, in spite of its being a remedy which bears out our theory, and one which has proved of the utmost use in practice. It has not yet been proved, but…”
Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: anthrax poison. It is one of the most efficacious remedies for boils, abscesses, felons, or swellings of any kind, when there are intense burning pains (Ars., Tarant-C., Sulph.) (N.). Hæmorrhages: black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice (Lach., Lept.) (C.). Malignancy: Terrible…”

Anthracinum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Anthracinum in 179 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (46), SKIN (38), GENERALITIES (14), FACE (13), MOUTH (10).

EXTREMITIES - FELON (Onychia,Paronychia,Panaritium,etc.)beginning in nail - panaritium - burning
FACE - ERUPTIONS - pustules - lips - black
EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Leg - gangrenous
EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Leg - painful
GENERALITIES - ABSCESSES - burning
BACK - ERUPTIONS - carbuncle
EXTREMITIES - FELON (Onychia,Paronychia,Panaritium,etc.)beginning in nail - sloughing,with
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - pustules - black
EXTREMITIES - CARBUNCLES
EXTREMITIES - ULCERS - Lower Limbs - burning
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - pustules - malignant
SKIN - ULCERS - black
FEVER - SEPTIC fever
EXTREMITIES - FELON (Onychia,Paronychia,Panaritium,etc.)beginning in nail - panaritium
SKIN - ULCERS - burning
HEAD - PAIN, - headache in general
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Knee - blebs
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Thigh - black blisters
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTION - Thigh - vesicles - black
FACE - ABSCESS - lip

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