Carboneum hydrogenisatum

Carburetted Hydrogen

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

Historical reference for practitioners and students. The statements below reflect the named author’s homeopathic teaching and do not establish treatment effectiveness. This text is not medical advice and must not replace appropriate diagnosis or care.

Symptoms resemble an apopletic attack. Spasm as in lockjaw. Trismus. Involuntary stools and urine.

Mind

Stupefaction. Extraordinary sensation of contentment. All thoughts appear in a moment as if seen in an inner mirror.

Eyes

Lids half closed. Oscillation of eyeballs. Pupils insensible to light.

Carboneum hydrogenisatum across the other classic books

Carboneum hydrogenisatum appears in 3 of the 21 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 TF — A compiled symptom record drawing on proving reports and other named observations.
“Carboneum hydrogenisatum. Carburetted hydrogen, Ethene, Olefiant gas, C2H4 . This gas is sparingly soluble in water, but considerably soluble in alcohol. Authorities. [To the proving of Sir Humphrey Davy are added some selected cases of poisoning by illuminating gas ; this latter gas is of complex and somewhat…”
Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Carburetted Hydrogen. Ethene. Olefiant gas. C 2 H 4 . Solution in alcohol. Apoplexy / Eyes, convulsions of / Tetanus / Whooping-cough This gas, which was experimented with by Sir Humphrey Davy, produces a condition almost resembling an apoplectic attack. Stupefaction: comatose; surface cold and completely insensible…”

Carboneum hydrogenisatum in Kent's Repertory

Kent's Repertory lists Carboneum hydrogenisatum in 55 rubrics. These are the ones where it carries the highest grade — the symptoms Kent treated as most characteristic. Most of them sit in EXTREMITIES (14), FACE (8), MIND (8), EYE (4), GENERALITIES (3).

SLEEP - DEEP
EYE - MOVEMENT,eye balls,constant - pendulum like,from side to side
EXTREMITIES - RELAXATION
FACE - DISCOLORATION - brown - spots
EXTREMITIES - TINGLING,prickling,asleep - Leg
EYE - OPEN, - half open
COUGH - PAROXYSMAL
RESPIRATION - RATTLING
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - Hand
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS
MIND - UNCONSCIOUSNESS
EAR - NOISES in - roaring
SLEEP - INTERRUPTED - cramps in toes
VISION - COLORS before the eyes - dark - objects - moving
MIND - DELUSIONS, - annihilation,about to sink into
EXPECTORATION - GLAIRY
BACK - CONGESTION - Cervical region
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING - convulsive
EYE - PAIN - between
EXTREMITIES - FLEXED

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