ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM uses [Ant-t uses]
Note: Wherever it is found, "<" denotes aggravation (worse by), ">" denotes amelioration (better by), "<->" denotes alternation (alternates with) and A/F is an abbreviation of, "Ailments from"
Congestion
and catarrh of respiratory tract
Coarse rattling with wet sounding cough, but scanty, difficult expectoration,
unable to get it out. Suffocating. Cyanosis
Irritable, peevish
Overwhelming sleepiness
COMMON NAME
| - | Tartar Emetic |
| - | Tartarate of Antimony and Potash |
A/F
| - | Anger, vexation |
| - | Vaccination |
| - | Damp basement |
| - | Debility |
| - | Debauchery |
| - | After eating |
MODALITIES
| < | In evening |
| < | Lying down at night |
| < | From warmth |
| < | In damp cold weather |
| < | Sour things and milk |
| < | Morning |
| < | Sitting down |
| < | When seated |
| < | From rising from a seat |
| < | Change of weather in spring |
| > | Sitting erect |
| > | Eructations |
| > | Expectoration |
| > | Vomiting |
| > | Lying on right side |
| > | Motion |
| > | Cold, open air |
MIND
| - | Fear
of being alone |
| - | Bad humour. Despondent |
| - | Frightened at every trifle |
| - | Muttering delirium |
| - | Stupid on awakening |
| - | Apathy or easily annoyed; wants to be left alone |
| - | Peevish; whining and moaning |
| - | Despair of his recovery |
| - | Child continuously wishes to be carried erect, unwilling to be looked at, or
touched |
| - | Clings to attendants |
| - | Consciousness wanes on closing eyes |
| - | Melancholy, complains of numerous sufferings |
| - | Fretfulness, whining and crying before the attack of sickness |
| - | Restlessness in children > being carried about |
GUIDING INDICATIONS
| - | Adapted
to persons of hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl, torpid, phlegmatic
persons. It is suited to old people and children, to gouty subjects and
drunkards with respiratory affections |
| - | Ill-effects of vaccination when remedies fail and Silicea is not indicated |
| - | All complaints are attended with irresistible desire to sleep |
| - | Entire absence of thirst |
| - | Nausea, vomiting, coldness and drowsiness |
| - | Sweat runs through the whole of this remedy |
| - | Lack of reaction |
| - | Head - Vertigo alternates with drowsiness, with dullness and confusion |
| - | Band like feeling in forehead |
| - | Head hot and sweaty |
| - | Eyes - Eyes are sunken with dark rings around them, the lips pale and
shriveled |
| - | Nostrils are dilated and flapping with a dark sooty appearance inside them |
| - | Upper lip drawn up |
| - | Expression is that of suffering, anxious despairing |
| - | Face - Cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat |
| - | Incessant
quivering of chin and lower jaw |
| - | Mouth
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| - | G.I.T.
- Craving for apples, acids, acid fruit, sour things, strong liquor |
| - | Aversion to milk and tobacco |
| - | Nausea, retching and vomiting especially after food with deathly faintness
and prostration |
| - | Nausea comes in waves |
| - | Nausea produces fear with pressure in precordial region, followed by
headache with yawning and lachrymation |
| - | Vomiting in any position except lying on right side |
| - | Vomiting forcible, then exhaustion and sleep |
| - | Eructation like bad eggs |
| - | Spasmodic colic, much flatus |
| - | Cholera morbus. Diarrhoea in eruptive disease |
| - | Respiratory system - Ant-t affects the mucous membrane especially of bronchi
and lungs |
| - | Causing great accumulation of mucous with coarse rattling and bubbling rales
in the chest- coarse, like the death rattle; thereby respiration is impeded
and heart's action becomes laboured, defective oxygenation in the circulation
of blood occurs |
| - | All these conditions cause cyanosis, depression of vital power |
| - | Great rattling of mucus when very little is expectorated |
| - | Chest seems full, yet less and less in raised |
| - | Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus |
| - | Rapid, short, difficult breathing, abdominal breathing, seems as if he would
suffocate, must sit up to breathe or cough |
| - | Cough followed by vomiting or sleep |
| - | Emphysema of the aged |
| - | Oedema and impending paralysis of lungs |
| - | Coughing and gasping consecutively |
| - | Cough excited by eating, with pain chest and larynx < 3 a.m. |
| - | Dyspnoea relieved by eructation, by lying on right side |
| - | Asphyxia neonatorum, child breathless and pale when born |
| - | Nursing infants let go the nipple and cry out as if out of breath |
| - | Child coughs when angry |
| - | Child bends backward with cough |
| - | Expectoration thick and white |
| - | Thirstlessness with all these bronchial troubles with copious discharge of
mucus and great rattling in the chest |
| - | C.V.S. - Palpitation with uncomfortable hot feeling |
| - | Pulse rapid weak and trembling |
| - | Back - Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region < lifting |
| - | Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat |
| - | Sensation of heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time |
| - | Vertebrae seem to rub against each other |
| - | Extremities - Trembling of whole body |
| - | Chills and contractures and pain with music |
| - | Skin - Convulsions when eruptions fail to appear |
| - | Pustular eruptions, leaving a bluish red mark |
| - | Small pox |
| - | Warts on glands penis |
KEYNOTES
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
| - | Through
the pneumogastric nerve, it depresses the respiration and circulation,
causing great accumulation of mucus, great rattling of mucus. Death rattle,
but very little is expectorated |
| - | Nausea, vomiting, coldness, drowsiness, prostration, and sweat runs through the whole of this remedy |
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
CLINICAL
| - | Bronchitis, Chicken pox, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Congestive heart failure,
Cyanosis, Impetigo, Pertussis, Pneumonia, Respiratory infections, Sepsis |
| - | Ant-t 30X almost a specific for babies who had diarrhoea and also vomited - Dr. Starr |
| - | Ant-t 30 or 200 almost specific for impetigo - Dr. Foubister |
| - | Ill-effects of vaccination when Thuja and Silicea are not indicated |
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
Follows Well: Bar-c, Bell, Bry, Camph,
Caust, Ip, Merc, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Sulph
Compare: Acon, Ars, Bar-c, Brom, Camph, Ferr-p, Hep, Iod, Ip, Kali-i,
Lach, Lyc, Phos, Puls, Ter, Verat
Antidoted By: Asaf, Chin, Cocc, Con, Ip, Laur, Op, Puls, Sep
It Antidotes: Bar-c, Bry, Camph, Caust, Puls
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