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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| COMMON NAME |
: | -Vegetable
Charcoal -Wood Charcoal. |
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| Ailments from |
: | 1)
Loss of vital fluids. 2) Ailments from quinine, suppressed intermittents. 3) Abuse of mercury salt, meats, salted-spoiled fish, fats. 4) Bad effects of being overheated. 5) Bad effects of exhausting diseases. 6) Bad effects of a long ago injury. |
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| MODALITIES |
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Warmth < Depletions < Loss of vital fluids < Cooling off < Exhausting diseases < Overlifting < High living < Rich foods < Walking in open air < Pressure of clothes < Cold night air < Frosty; humid climate < Suppressions < Air - wind on the head < Lying flat < Weather, extreme temperature > Eructations > Cool air > Elevating feet > Sitting up |
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| MIND |
: | -Mentally
as well as physically much SLUGGISHNESS,
laziness, slowness of thoughts, comprehension, dullness, sudden loss of
memory. Concentration difficult. -INDIFFERENCE, hears everything without feeling about it. Indifference to music which he loves. -Great IRRITABILITY, especially directed at the family. -Harsh and cutting remarks. -Haughtiness. -Anxiety in the evening accompanied by shuddering. Anxiety on closing eyes. -Easily frightened or startled. Fear of ghosts; of darkness, of accidents, of people. Restlessness. Oversensitiveness to noise. Timidity appearing in public. -Peevish irritable angry. Child bites, strikes and kicks. Confusion > mental exertion. -Sensation of being smaller before an epileptic fit. -Sees frightful images in the dark. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Wood
charcoal by itself is a product of imperfect
oxidation and therefore IMPERFECT OXIDATION and DISINTEGRATION are
keynotes of this remedy. It contains a small quantity of Kali carb. It
has deodorant disinfectant and antiseptic qualities, and has a cheif
action on venous circulation. -Useful at the extremes of life, in old persons, or prematurely old individuals with a puffy bluish cachexic look, with coldness of the body, anaemia. Persons who have never recovered from the exhausting effects of the previous illness, typhoid, tuberculosis, asthma. -A chronic, deep acting anti- psoric medicine with imperfect oxidation and blueness. Ecchymoses and passive haemorrhages. -Prostration and exhaustion at all levels from previous illness or loss of vital fluids. A state of collapse. Last stage of diseases. -Surface of body very cold to touch, COLDNESS of sweat, breath, skin, tongue etc. Cold knees even in bed. Air hunger - GASPING FOR AIR wants to be fanned hard. -BURNING pains, burning heat in internal parts in veins, chest, lungs, skin, stomach. Burning in gangrenes. -DECOMPOSITIONS - Ulcerations, gangrenes, relaxation of tissues. Humid gangrene in cachexic persons. -Putrid or septic phenomena, associated with burning sensation. FOULNESS of discharges - Cadaverous smelling stools. Acrid and corrosive discharges. -Haemorrhage from any mucous outlet, in broken down debilitated subjects, with thin foetid, black blood, passive flowing. -BLUENESS of parts - venous stagnations. Varicosites, piles. -Desire to be FANNED rapidly and from a CLOSE distance. -Flatulance and fullness with weak digestion, accompanies all complaints. Simplest food disagrees. Flatulence upper abdomen. -Craving for coffee; acids; sweets and salted things, alcohol. Aversion to meat; fats; milk. -G.I.T.-Looseness of teeth with early bleeding gums. -Simplest food disagrees with much bloating of upper abdomen. -Sour and rancid erucations. -Flatulence obstructed. Loathes even the thought of food. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist >eructations of flatus < lying down. -Faeces -escape with flatus, frequent, involuntary, cadaverous smelling stools. Moisture on perineum. -Painful diarrhoea of old people. Soft stools passed with great difficulty; with burning in the rectum. -Respiratory system-HOARSENESS < EVENINGS, damp air, warm wet weather, with roughness in larynx. -Laborous quick short breathing with burning in chest with haemoptysis. -Expectoration thick, sticky, yellowish, profuse with desire to take a deep breath. -Cold breath, cold tongue and lost voice. -Skin-Blueness ecchymoses. -Varicose ulcers, burnings. -Wounds which open up again after healing, gangrenes boils, carbuncles with putridity. |
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| KEYNOTES |
: | 1)
Craves things which make him sick. 2) > rapid fanning; wants to be fanned. 3) Hoarseness in the evening. 4) Coldness of the body especially the legs. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Useful
in the old or prematurely old; debilitated,
broken down persons, with lack of reaction who have never been well
since a previous exhaustive illness. -Disintegration and imperfect oxidation are the cause of most of the symptoms. -General venous stasis. -Much coldness, blueness, burnings and prostration in late stages of disease with decomposition. -Weak, exhausted with haemorrhages of dark blood. -Flatulent dyspepsia in upper abdomen with all complaints. |
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| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | 1)Internal
burning with external coldness with
desire for fanning rapidly. 2)Flatulence in upper abdomen with temporary relief from eructations. 3)Great debility and decompositions. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -Asthma,
Chronic fatigue syndrome, Collapse, Coma,
Congestive heart failure, Cyanosis, Fainting, Gangrene, Gastritis,
Obesity, Pneumonia, Post-surgical, Syncope, Varicose veins and ulcers. -An excellent remedy for the terrible dyspnoea of chronic aortitis especially when the patient has become very anaemic, dropsical etc. (Dr. Farrington.) -When the patient is a barbiturate addict Carb-v is an almost sure antidote-Dr.T.K.Moore. |
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| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Arg-n,
Ars alb, Calc, Camph, Carb-an,
Chin, Colch, Kali-c, Lyc, Nit-ac, Sep. -Complementary-Ars alb, Kali-c, Phos. |
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