Antimonium crudum appears in 12 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.
“Sulphide of Antimony. (SbS3.) For children and young people inclined to grow fat (Cal.); for the extremes of life. Old people with morning diarrhoea, suddenly become constipated, or alternate diarrhoea and constipation; pulse hard and rapid. Sensitive to the cold. < after taking cold . Child is fretful, peevish…”
- Allen TF — The raw proving record — symptoms as the provers reported them, unedited.
“("Stibium"). Sesquisulphide of antimony, Sb2S3 . (Native gray antimony ore). Authorities. [Dioscorides (in Hahnemann) only mentions the beneficial effect of its external application to ulcers of the eye; Plinius, ibid.; as Ant. was not used internally in his time, this must be as with Dioscorides.]”
- Boericke — The quick clinical read — keynotes, modalities and the conditions it is actually prescribed in.
“Black Sulphide of Antimony For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness , together with a thickly-coated white tongue , are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are…”
- Boger (Syn) — Generals and modalities in a short analytical portrait rather than a symptom list.
“STOMACH. DIGESTIVE TRACT. MIND. SKIN. Changing sides. COLD: BATHING. Dampness. WATER (on head). OVEREATING. Acids. Sweets. HEAT: SUMMER, of sun. Overheating. Radiated. Gross feeders (Ab-c.), showing gastric, mental and skin symptoms. Lumpy stools, leucorrhœa, skin, nails, etc. Strange absence of pain. Cracks in…”
- Clarke — The widest entry — sources, provings, clinical uses, relationships and antidotes in one place.
“Native Sulphide of Antimony. Sb 2 S 3 . Anus, irritation of / Callosities / Catarrh / Chorea / Constipation / Corns / Diarrhœa / Dyspepsia / Eczema / Feet, sore and horny / Fever / Gum-rash / Nails, degeneration of / Nettle-rash / Piles / Prolapsus recti / Red gum / Remittent fever / Stomach, disordered / Sunstroke /…”
- Hering — Graded symptoms, each weighted by how often provers and practice confirmed it.
“Native Sulphide of Antimony. SbS 3 . The sulphuret of antimony, a mineral, native in France and Germany, found also in the United States, see Stibnite of Dana, p. 29. What is to be had in the shops is obtained by simple fusion of the ore. Used by the ancients for dyeing hair and eyebrows. First known as a sulphuret by…”
- Kent — The mental and general picture — who the patient is, before what the remedy cures.
“Generalities: You will be surprised, when studying full provings of this substance, to notice that all the symptoms seem to centre about the stomach; it does not matter much what kind of complaints he suffers from the stomach takes part in it. The pains disturb his stomach and bring, on nausea; with his headache he is…”
- Lippe (KN) — Only the symptoms Lippe considered reliable enough to prescribe on.
“He is much concerned about his fate. Disposition to grow fat. Inflammation of the muscles. Aversion to be looked at, and to be touched. Horn-like excrescences and disposition to abnormal organizations of the skin. Gastric symptoms, worse in the afternoon and at night. When the symptoms reappear they change their…”
- Lippe (MM) — The strict Hahnemannian reading — the symptom picture without clinical interpretation.
“Ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate and inclination to shoot himself; worse when walking in the moonlight, and then his conduct is like that of an insane person. The child cannot bear being touched or looked at. Giddiness, with nausea, or bleeding of the nose. Congestion of blood to the head…”
- Lippe (Red) — Keynotes with the most-trusted ones marked as red-line symptoms.
“Common name: sulphide of antimony. For children and young people, inclined to grow fat (Calc., Graph.), for the extremes of life (Ant-T., Lyc., Op., Sil.) (A.). SENTIMENTAL MOOD IN THE MOON-LIGHT, PARTICULARLY ECSTATIC LOVE (N.). Gastric derangement, with tongue coated thickly white, accompanying different complaints…”
- Nash — The comparisons — the remedy set beside the ones it is most often confused with.
“Thick, milky white coating on tongue (in many complaints). Derangements from overloading the stomach, especially fat food; nausea. Crushed finger-nails: grow in splits like warts and with horny spots. Corns and callosities on soles, with excessive tenderness; can only walk with pain and suffering. Alternate…”
