Antimonium crudum
H. A. Roberts tarafından — The Rheumatic Remedies
Historical reference for practitioners and students.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.
Antimonium crudum is of importance in acute or chronic gouty conditions of the hands and feet.
Always associated with these conditions are the gastric disturbances mentioned as concomitants.
Antipathy to cold water is very marked, as it is in Ammonium carb., but the symptomatology differs in all other respects.
Antimonium crud. follows well after Ipecac. and Pulsatilla.
After Antimonium crud.: Pulsatilla, Mercurius and Sulphur follow well.
NECK AND BACK
Arthritic pains in nape of neck and back.
Spasmodic stitches in right scapula while sitting.
Violent pains in small of back when rising from a seat, > while walking.
Heaviness as of a weight in coccyx.
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES
CRACKING IN ELBOW JOINT WHEN MOVING IT.
(Drawing pains: in arms, fingers and their joints.)
Must let arms hang down because of weight.
PAINFUL INFLAMMATION OF LIGAMENTS OF ELBOW JOINTS, with intense redness and contraction of arm.
Paralytic trembling of hands on motion and when writing.
Arthritic pains in fingers.
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES
Legs “ go to sleep “ while sitting.
SEVERE PAIN IN HIP JOINTS.
PAIN BELOW THE KNEE AS IF IT HAD BEEN TIED TOO TIGHTLY.
DULL PAIN: in knees; in lower part of tibia; IN HEEL WITH TEARING IN RIGHT GREAT TOE.
LARGE HORNY PLACES ON SOLES NEAR TOES.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
Arthritic pains.
LASSITUDE OF ALL THE LIMBS.
Heaviness of limbs.
CRACKING OF JOINTS.
JOINTS
Inflamed and swollen.
DEPOSITS IN TOE JOINTS.
CONCOMITANTS
FRETFUL AND PEEVISH; DOES NOT WISH TO BE TOUCHED.
TONGUE COATED WHITE.
LOATHING, NAUSEA AND DESIRE TO VOMIT.
STOMACH WEAK; EASILY DISTURBED DIGESTION.
ALTERNATE DIARRHŒA AND CONSTIPATION.
AGGRAVATIONS
FROM WINE.
AFTER BATHING.
COLD WATER EITHER EXTERNALLY OR INTERNALLY.
HEAT OF SUN.
AMELIORATIONS
IN OPEN AIR.