by C.M. Boger — A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica
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.
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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.
“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…”
“Anthrax Poison 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…”
“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…”
“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…”
“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…”
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).
