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Feebled
circulation, lowered vitality, glands indurated, veins distended, skin blue,
ulceration, decomposition, offensiveness.
Easily strained from lifting. Weak joints, turn easily.
Stitch remaining after pleurisy.
Local congestion without heat.
Hearing confused, cannot tell direction of sound.
Weak digestion.
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COMMON NAME
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Animal
Charcoal
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SOURCE
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The
remedy is prepared from charred ox-hide and contains a small quantity of Calc
phos in it.
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A/F
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| - | Bad
effects of spoiled fish, decayed vegetables and ptomaine poisoning |
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MODALITIES
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MIND
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| - | Desires to be alone, avoids conversation.
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| - | Alternate gaiety and despondency.
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| - | Fearful, easily frightened.
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| - | Afraid of the dark < closing eyes.
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| - | Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.
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| - | Confused and dull, does not know where the sound comes from.
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| - | Anger about former vexation. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Useful
in scrofulous and venous constitutions, in old persons, greatly debilitated
by disease.
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| - | Enlargement of veins in different parts of the body, blueness of skin with
weak circulation and lowered vitality.
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| - | Diseases which have an insidious onset, are chronic and sluggish in
development and may assume malignancy in the long run.
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| - | Weak anaemic and broken down constitutions.
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| - | Indurations, glands swollen, painful, in neck, axillae, groins, mammae,
uterus. Buboes with hardness, with pains, which are lancinating, cutting,
burning.
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| - | Burning-Burning pains, the inflamed parts. Burn intensely like fire, are
indurated and bluish.
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| - | Burning and drawing pains in mammary cancer.
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| - | Malignant ulcerations in the cervix with burning.
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| - | Decomposition and ulcerations, gangrene with foul discharges and much
blueness.
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| - | Ulcers indurated, especially of glands. Benign suppurations change into
malignant conditions. Greenish, foul smelling, purulent acid discharges.
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| - | Great exhaustion from slightest causes, from loss of vital fluids.
Exhaustion in females most marked after menses. During menses so weak, can
hardly speak or walk. Leucorrhoea, menses, diarrhoea all exhausting.
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| - | Head-Headache as if a tornado in the head, with a loose sensation of the
brain, as if the head had been blown up, must sit up and hold it together.
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| - | Pain > eating, night < wet weather.
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| - | Headache with dimness of vision > rubbing eyes.
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| - | G.I.T. - Desire for refreshing things.
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| - | Aversion to fats, tobacco.
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| - | Flatulence, eructations taste of ingesta. Pyrosis.
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| - | Respiratory system-Useful in late stages of pneumonia pthisis, pleurisy of a
typhoid character.
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| - | In pneumonia with greenish, ichorous, offensive pus with a suffocating,
hoarse cough, causing shaking in the brain as if loose.
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| - | Female genitalia-Menstrual flow dark, flows only in the morning, black,
offensive, with cancerous ulcers in the uterus or cervix.
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| - | Menses too early, too long, too profuse, followed by great exhaustion (can
hardly speak).
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| - | Nausea of pregnancy, worse at night.
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| - | Darting in breast, painful indurations in breast, especially right.
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| - | Back-Pain in coccyx, burns when touched.
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| - | Extremities-Ankles turn easily.
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| - | Great debility from straining and overlifting.
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| - | Easy dislocations of hands and legs, or go to sleep easily.
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| - | Corns painful, numerous.
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| - | Skin - Spongy ulcers, copper colored eruptions.
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| - | Verrucae on hands and face of old people, with bluish colour of extremities.
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| - | Night sweat foetid and profuse. |
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KEYNOTES
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Indurations especially, of glands with stony hardness and blueness.
- A gone feeling in the stomach especially, after loss of vital fluids.
- Menses flow only in the morning, followed by exhaustion.
- Ankles turn in easily.
- Stitch remains after pleurisy.
- Nosebleed in the morning, preceded by menses.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Sad,
fearful, debilitated and broken down constitutions, in late stages of
exhausting diseases.
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| - | Slow, chronic malignant disorders < from slight cause.
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| - | Indurations, burnings, ulcerations and degenerations.
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| - | Great weakness, exhaustion from loss of vital fluids. |
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CLINICAL
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| - | Acne
rosacea, Bubo, Flatulence, Glandular indurations, Metrorrhagia, Pleurisy,
Ptomaine poisoning, Ulceration, Verruca.
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| - | Affections caused by wearing leather made articles. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Calc-p
Compare: Bad, Brom, Calc-p, Carb-v
Antidoted By: Ars, Camph, Nux-v
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