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Irritable,
peevish children who cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
Sweet, romantic and sentimental, moved by moonlight.
Soft, sensitive, emotional.
Moroseness and loathing of life after long illness or disappointment in love.
Aggravation from radiant heat (stove, open fire, heater, sun), cold bathing.
Thick, white coating of tongue, like a fur with gastric derangements.
Indigestion from dietary indiscretion, tendency to over eat.
Lumps, corns, warts, growths, callosities.
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COMMON NAME
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Black
sulphide of Antimony
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A/F
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| - | Too much river or cold bathing.
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| - | Alcohol, wine, water, acids, fats, fruits.
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| - | Deranged digestion, overeating.
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| - | Sunburn, extreme of heat and cold. |
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MODALITIES
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MIND
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| - | Bad
effects of disappointed love.
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| - | Great anxiety about his fate, inclination to shoot himself.
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| - | Fretful, cross and peevish.
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| - | Cries, if looked at, or touched, or washed, especially in children.
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| - | Adults are sulky, do not wish to speak with anyone.
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| - | Loathing; of life of food, bathing, etc.
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| - | Ecstasy and exalted love. Excitability.
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| - | Dreamy, sentimental mood in the moonlight and twilight, during diarrhoea,
before menses.
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| - | Angry at every little attention.
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| - | So busy with oneself, one forgets to urinate or defecate, eats only when
asked.
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| - | Talks in rhymes and verses.
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| - | Nervous, hysterical girls and women, who are overcome by mellow light from
stained glass windows.
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| - | Cross and contradictive, whatever is done fails to give satisfaction.
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| - | Nymphomania during suppressed menses.
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| - | Great sadness with weeping.
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| - | Anxious lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her, abject despair,
suicide by drowning.
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| - | Patient is always sleepy and weary. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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Nervous
symptoms, such as restlessness, twitches in the muscle and disposition
to start on slightest sound are also found.
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It
is suitable to infants and children; also to elderly persons and young
person who have a tendency to grow fat, for the extremes of life.
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There
is a tendency to formation of cracks - in canthi, nostrils, angles of
the mouth.
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It
produces strange absence of pain, where it should be expected, e.g.
bedsores.
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When
the symptoms group recur, they change their locality or go from one
side to other; they recur every five, six or twelve weeks.
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It
produces lumpy effects
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stools
are watery containing lumps,
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leucorrhoea
is watery mixed with lumps,
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lumps
appear upon the skin,
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nails
become thick, distorted and lumpy.
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Eats
beyond the capacity of his digestion or without discrimination,
therefore the mental and skin symptoms are due to gastrointestinal
disturbances. |
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Aversion
to cold bathing, child cries when washed.
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All
conditions are < heat and cold.
Worse in warm weather and from heat < radiant heat.
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Always
weary and sleepy.
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Head
- Aching in vertex on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach,
especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines.
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Heaviness
in forehead with vertigo, nausea and nosebleed.
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Eyes
- Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated canthi, raw and
fissured.
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Pustules
on cornea and lids.
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Face
- Pimple, pustules, boils on face.
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Yellow
crusted eruption on cheeks and chin.
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Cracks
in corner of mouth.
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Mouth
- Tongue coated thick white as it white washed.
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Saltish
salivation. Taste bitter.
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Toothache
in hollow teeth. Toothache before menses.
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G.I.T.
- Loss of appetite.
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Desire
for acids, pickles, wine, vinegar, cucumber.
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Eructation
tasting of the ingesta.
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Gastric
and intestinal complaints from bread, pastry, acids, vinegar, sour
wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather.
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Bloating
after eating. Sweetish waterbrash.
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Child
vomits its milk in curdled form after nursing and refuses to nurse
afterwards.
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Stomach
seems to be always overloaded.
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Digestion
disordered easily.
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Appetite
does not return after severe illness.
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Constant
discharge of flatus, up and down for years.
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Old
people with morning diarrhoea, suddenly become constipated, or
alternate diarrhoea and constipation.
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Stools
of hard lumps mixed with watery discharge. Catarrhal proctitis.
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Diarrhoea
after acids, sour, wines, bathing, overeating, slimy, flatulent, slow.
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Mucous
piles, continued oozing of mucus.
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Respiratory
system - Looking into the fire cause cough.
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Nostrils
chapped and covered with crusts.
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Eczema
of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.
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Much
thick, yellowish mucus from posterior nares.
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Rough
voice, from over use.
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Hoarseness
after cold water bath.
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Loss
of voice, harsh and badly pitched voice.
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Loss
of voice after being overheated.
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Cough
worse, coming into warm room, with burning and itching of chest.
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Whooping
cough < overheated, from cold washing.
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Extremities
- Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin of fingers.
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Nails
do not grow rapidly; crushed nails grow in split like warts, with horny
spots.
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Nails
grow out of shape. Nails brittle. Growth beneath nails.
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Horny
warts on hands and soles.
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Large
horny corns on soles of feet; very sensitive while walking, especially
on stone pavements.
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Arthritic
pain in finger.
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Weakness
and shaking of hands while writing, followed by offensive flatus.
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Skin
- Eczema with gastric derangements.
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Eruptive
tendency of pimples, vesicles and pustules.
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Urticaria,
measles like eruption.
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Itching
when warm in bed.
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KEYNOTES
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Sentimental mood in the moonlight.
- Thick, milky white coating of tongue.
- Loss of voice from becoming overheated.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | The
mental and gastric symptoms determine this remedy.
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| - | Eats beyond the capacity of his digestion or without discrimination,
therefore the mental and skin symptoms are due to gastro intestinal
disturbances.
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| - | Aversion to cold bathing, child cries when washed.
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| - | Aggravated from heat and cold bathing.
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| - | Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin.
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| - | Nails grow slowly, grow out of shape. Nails brittle. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- For
the people who have a tendency to grow at, for the extremes of life.
- Aversion to cold bathing.
- Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together, with a thickly coated,
milky white tongue.
- Craves acids, pickles, cucumbers.
- Warts on hands and soles.
- Horny corns on soles of feet, very sensitive while walking.
- Stools composed entirely of mucus.
- Nails grow slowly, grow out of shape, and are brittle.
- Loss of voice from becoming overheated.
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CLINICAL
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| - | Arthritis,
Callosities, Chicken pox, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Depression, Diarrhoea,
Gastritis, Glossitis, Headache, Impetigo, Menopausal complaints, Obesity,
Peptic ulcer.
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| - | Ant-crud 30 or 200 is almost specific for impetigo - Dr. Foubister and Dr.
Borland.
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| - | In the diarrhoea, often of old people, which alternates with constipation,
Ant-c is the only remedy - Dr. Tyler. |
| - | Arthritis deformans responds to Ant-c, a near specific - Dr. Shwatartz. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary:
Squil
Followed Well By: Merc, Puls, Sulph
Follows Well: Ip, Puls
Compare: Acon, Am-m, Apis, Ars, Bry, Carb-v, Cham, Euphr, Ferr, Hep,
Ip, Lyc, Merc, Nux-v, Puls, Ran-b, Rhus-t, Squil, Sulph
Antidoted By: Bry, Calc, Hep, Merc
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