Antimonium Crudum

Black Sulphide Of Antimony, Ant crud, Ant. Cr

Available in 3C-200C, 6X-200X, 1M-10M, CM from $6.50

HPUS label indication: Warts

Below are the strongest indications of Antimonium Crudum in traditional homeopathic usage, not reviewed by the FDA.

For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms, and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a Thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by Heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout with gastric symptoms.
BETTER in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.
WORSE in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices.
Relationships
Compare: Antimonium Chloridum. Butter of Antimony ( A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose - third trituration.)
Antimon. jodat ( Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy.) In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister). Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed.
Compare: Kermes mineral - Stibiato Sulph. rub ( Bronchitis.) Also Puls., Ipecac, Sulph.
Complementary: Sulph.
Antidote: Hepar.

▲ ▼ MIND (click for more)

Angry at every little attention

Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at

Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction

Aversions, dislikes; being touched

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; ecstatic; night; walking in moonlight

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; irritability

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; loathing; life (see desires, death)

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; sentimental

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; sentimental; in moonlight

Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; sulky

Much concerned about his fate

Peevish; vexed without cause

Sentimental mood.

Sulky; does not wish to speak

▲ ▼ HEAD (click for more)

Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, From bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wine

Pain, headache; from cold (including cold parts); after cold bathing

Pain, headache; from emotions; from becoming heated

Pain, headache; from warmth; from exposure to sun

Pain, headache; from warmth; when heated by a fire or heater

Pain, headache; from washing; after bathing

Pain, headache; walking; in open air

Pain, headache; with stomach complaints

Headache with great loss of hair.

Heaviness in forehead, with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed

Suppressed eruptions

▲ ▼ EYE (click for more)

Chronic Blepharitis

Pustules on cornea and lids.

Canthi raw and fissured

Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated

Discoloration; redness; corner; outer

Discoloration; redness; lids

Inflammation; fire

Inflammation; wounds; lids

Pain; burning, smarting, gnawing, biting; corner; outer

Pain; sore, bruised, tender; corner; outer

▲ ▼ EAR (click for more)

Moist eruption around ear.

Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube

Ringing and deafness

▲ ▼ NOSE (click for more)

eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked, and scurfy.

Nose bleed

Running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked; warm room

Skin or lining of nose; cracks; nostrils

Skin or lining of nose; ulcers; inside

Nostrils Chapped and covered with crusts

▲ ▼ FACE (click for more)

Sallow and haggard.

Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin

Lips; dryness

Skin; discoloration; red; during heat of fire

Skin; drawn, pulled

Skin; out-breaks on skin

Skin; out-breaks on skin; boils; corner of mouth

Skin; out-breaks on skin; cheeks

Skin; out-breaks on skin; eczema; heat of heater

Skin; out-breaks on skin; forehead

Skin; out-breaks on skin; generating pus

Skin; out-breaks on skin; powdery flaking skin

Skin; out-breaks on skin; pus-filled pimples

Pimples, pustules, and boils on face

▲ ▼ MOUTH (click for more)

Discoloration; tongue; white

Discoloration; tongue; white; milky

Discoloration; tongue; yellow

Teeth; decay, hollow

Teeth; pain; after eating

Teeth; pain; as if being bitten

Teeth; pain; as if being bitten; after eating

Teeth; pain; evening; in bed

Teeth; pain; extending to other parts; head

Teeth; pain; from cold; from cold drinks

Teeth; pain; from touch; of tongue

Teeth; pain; in bed

Teeth; pain; walking; in open air

Teeth; sensitive, tender; cannot bear dental operation

▲ ▼ THROAT (click for more)

Hawking in open air

Laryngitis

Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares

Rough voice from over use.

Voice; lost

▲ ▼ ABDOMEN (click for more)

Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels

Heartburn, nausea, vomiting

Thirst in evening and night

Bloating after eating.

Constant belching

Eructation tasting of the ingesta

Pain; during the heat of fever

Stomach; burping, belching; empty

Stomach; burping, belching; tasting like food

Stomach; disordered

Stomach; emptiness, weak feeling, faintness, hungry feeling

Stomach; gout, spread of malignant tumour

Stomach; indigestion; after sour food

Stomach; loathing of food (see nausea)

Stomach; nausea

Stomach; nausea; after drinking; wine; sour wine

Stomach; nausea; after eating; black bread

Stomach; nausea; during headache

Stomach; vomiting

Stomach; vomiting; after drinking

Stomach; vomiting; after drinking; after drinking sour wine

Stomach; vomiting; during measles

Stomach; vomiting; intermittent

After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross

desire for acids, pickles

Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather

Stomach; Loss of appetite

Sweetish water brash

▲ ▼ RECTUM (click for more)

Constipation; alternating with diarrhoea

Constipation; alternating with diarrhoea; in aged people

Constipation; difficult stool

Diarrhoea

Diarrhoea; after being over-heated

Diarrhoea; after certain foods or drinks; from wine; sour

Diarrhoea; aged people

Moisture

▲ ▼ STOOL (click for more)

) Diarrhea alternates with constipation, especially in old people

Stools composed entirely of mucus.

Alum

Anal itching ( Sulpho-Calc

catarrhal proctitis

Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, over eating; slimy, flatulent stools

hard lumps mixed with watery discharge

Mucous piles, Continued oozing of mucus

Hard

Lumpy and liquid (see knotty)

Thin, liquid

Thin, liquid; lumpy and liquid

Watery

▲ ▼ URINE (click for more)

Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor.

▲ ▼ GENITALS (click for more)

Female; Excited; parts itch

Atrophy of penis and testicles.

Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse

Impotence

Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy.

Male; Eruption on scrotum and about genitals

Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region

▲ ▼ RESPIRATION (click for more)

Voice harsh and badly pitched.

Cough worse Coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, Itching of chest, oppression

Loss of voice from becoming overheated

▲ ▼ COUGH (click for more)

On becoming warm; in a warm room; entering warm room, from open air

▲ ▼ CHEST (click for more)

Lungs; tuberculosis; full of mucus

Pain

Pain; during heat

Skin; itching

▲ ▼ BACK (click for more)

Skin; itching

Itching and pain of neck and back.

▲ ▼ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS (click for more)

Nails brittle; grow out of shape

Arthritic pain in fingers

Feet very tender; covered with large horny places

Coldness; lower limbs; foot

Hands and feet; corns

Hands and feet; corns; soles

Hands and feet; horny callous; on soles

Hands and feet; nails; split nails

Pain; fingers; joints

Pain; joints; after drinking sour wine

Pain; pulling; fingers

Pain; pulling; fingers; joints

Pain; pulling; hip; left

Pain; sore, bruised; foot; sole

Pain; sore, bruised; foot; sole; while walking

Skin; abnormal growths; on soles of feet

Skin; out-break on skin; blisters; containing fluid

Skin; skin cracks at bends of joints; fingers; on nails

Horny warts on hands and soles

Inflamed corns

Jerks in arms

Pain in heels.

Twitching of muscles

Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence

▲ ▼ SLEEP (click for more)

Continued drowsiness in old people.

Sleepiness, tiredness

Sleepiness, tiredness; late morning

▲ ▼ CHILL (click for more)

With fever, but chill predominating

▲ ▼ FEVER (click for more)

Chilly even in warm room

Localised; stomach (gastric fever)

Hot sweat.

Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhoea

▲ ▼ PERSPIRATION (click for more)

Morning; during sleep

▲ ▼ SKIN (click for more)

Urticaria; measly-like eruption

Warts ( Thuja; Sabina; Caust.) Dry gangrene

Dry skin

Eczema with gastric derangements

Itching when warm in bed

Pimples, vesicles, and pustules

Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.

Sensitive to cold bathing

Abnormal growths; cauliflower-like fungus

Abnormal growths; horny

Abnormal growths; warts; horny

Abnormal growths; warts; smooth

Hard; with thickening

Inflammation; indurated (hard from inflammation), nodules, etc.

Out-breaks on skin; blisters

Out-breaks on skin; chicken-pox

Out-breaks on skin; crusty

Out-breaks on skin; discharging, moist; yellow

Out-breaks on skin; generating pus

Out-breaks on skin; like nettle rash; after meat

Out-breaks on skin; pimples

Swelling; fluid in tissues

Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs

▲ ▼ GENERALITIES (click for more)

Bathing

Becoming heated

Cold bathing

Dread of bathing

Eating and food; sour

Eating and food; vinegar

Evening

Fluid build up; external

From getting wet; wet applications

From sun; exertion in sun

From sun; from exposure to sun

Pulse; irregular

Sour wine

Swelling; puffy

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); warm weather

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Homeopathic remedies are prescribed on the basis that in a tiny dilution like cures like, so while the very dilute homeopathic remedy may help, the raw product is often best avoided.

Sources
Entries on a white background are from Boericke's Materia Medica. Entries on a green background are from a reversed Kent's repertory, with some alterations to modernise the language. Uses are based on traditional homeopathic practice and have not been reviewed by the FDA.