Antimonium Crudum
Black Sulphide Of Antimony, Ant crud, Ant. CrHomeopathic 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.
Below are the strongest indications of Antimonium Crudum in traditional homeopathic usage, not reviewed by the FDA.
▲ GENERAL
General
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.
≡ show all authors ...▲ MODALITIES ETC
Worse
WORSE in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices.
Better
BETTER in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.
≡ show all authors ...▲ MIND
Mind
Much concerned about his fate
Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction
Sulky; does not wish to speak
Peevish; vexed without cause
Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at
Angry at every little attention
Sentimental mood.
Aversions, dislikes; being touched
Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; ecstatic; night; walking in moonlight
irritability
loathing; life (see desires, death)
sentimental
in moonlight
sulky
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Head
Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, From bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wine
Suppressed eruptions
Heaviness in forehead, with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed
Headache with great loss of hair.
Pain, headache; from cold (including cold parts); after cold bathing
from emotions; from becoming heated
with stomach complaints
walking; in open air
from warmth; when heated by a fire or heater
from warmth; from exposure to sun
from washing; after bathing
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Eye
Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated
Canthi raw and fissured
Chronic Blepharitis
Pustules on cornea and lids.
Discoloration; redness; corner; outer
redness; lids
Inflammation; fire
wounds; lids
Pain; burning, smarting, gnawing, biting; corner; outer
sore, bruised, tender; corner; outer
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Ear
Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube
Ringing and deafness
Moist eruption around ear.
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Nose
Nostrils Chapped and covered with crusts
eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked, and scurfy.
Nose bleed
Running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked; warm room
Skin or lining of nose; cracks; nostrils
ulcers; inside
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Face
Pimples, pustules, and boils on face
Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin
Sallow and haggard.
Lips; dryness
Skin; discoloration; red; during heat of fire
drawn, pulled
out-breaks on skin
cheeks
forehead
boils; corner of mouth
eczema; heat of heater
pus-filled pimples
powdery flaking skin
generating pus
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Mouth
Discoloration; tongue; white
tongue; white; milky
tongue; yellow
Teeth; decay, hollow
pain; evening; in bed
pain; in bed
pain; from cold; from cold drinks
pain; after eating
pain; from touch; of tongue
pain; walking; in open air
pain; extending to other parts; head
pain; as if being bitten
after eating
sensitive, tender; cannot bear dental operation
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Skin
Eczema with gastric derangements
Pimples, vesicles, and pustules
Sensitive to cold bathing
Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs
Urticaria; measly-like eruption
Itching when warm in bed
Dry skin
Warts ( Thuja; Sabina; Caust.) Dry gangrene
Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.
Abnormal growths; cauliflower-like fungus
horny
warts; horny
warts; smooth
Inflammation; indurated (hard from inflammation), nodules, etc.
Hard; with thickening
Out-breaks on skin; blisters
chicken-pox
crusty
discharging, moist; yellow
pimples
generating pus
like nettle rash; after meat
Swelling; fluid in tissues
≡ more ...▲ THROAT
Throat
Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares
Hawking in open air
Laryngitis
Rough voice from over use.
Voice; lost
≡ more ...▲ RESPIRATION
Respiration
Cough worse Coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, Itching of chest, oppression
Loss of voice from becoming overheated
Voice harsh and badly pitched.
≡ more ...▲ ABDOMEN
Abdomen
Stomach; Loss of appetite
desire for acids, pickles
Thirst in evening and night
Eructation tasting of the ingesta
Heartburn, nausea, vomiting
After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross
Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather
Constant belching
Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels
Sweetish water brash
Bloating after eating.
Pain; during the heat of fever
Stomach; emptiness, weak feeling, faintness, hungry feeling
disordered
burping, belching; empty
burping, belching; tasting like food
gout, spread of malignant tumour
indigestion; after sour food
loathing of food (see nausea)
nausea
after drinking; wine; sour wine
after eating; black bread
during headache
vomiting
after drinking
after drinking; after drinking sour wine
intermittent
during measles
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Rectum
Constipation; alternating with diarrhoea
alternating with diarrhoea; in aged people
difficult stool
Diarrhoea
aged people
after certain foods or drinks; from wine; sour
after being over-heated
Moisture
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Stool
Anal itching ( Sulpho-Calc)
) Diarrhea alternates with constipation, especially in old people
Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, over eating; slimy, flatulent stools
Mucous piles, Continued oozing of mucus
hard lumps mixed with watery discharge
catarrhal proctitis
Stools composed entirely of mucus.
Hard
Lumpy and liquid (see knotty)
Thin, liquid
lumpy and liquid
Watery
≡ more ...▲ GENITALS
Genitals
Male; Eruption on scrotum and about genitals
Impotence
Atrophy of penis and testicles.
Female; Excited; parts itch
Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse
Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region
Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy.
≡ more ...▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Extremities, limbs
Twitching of muscles
Jerks in arms
Arthritic pain in fingers
Nails brittle; grow out of shape
Horny warts on hands and soles
Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence
Feet very tender; covered with large horny places
Inflamed corns
Pain in heels.
Coldness; lower limbs; foot
Hands and feet; horny callous; on soles
corns
soles
nails; split nails
Pain; joints; after drinking sour wine
fingers; joints
pulling; fingers
joints
pulling; hip; left
sore, bruised; foot; sole
while walking
Skin; skin cracks at bends of joints; fingers; on nails
abnormal growths; on soles of feet
out-break on skin; blisters; containing fluid
≡ more ...▲ SLEEP AND DREAMS
Sleep and dreams
Continued drowsiness in old people.
Sleepiness, tiredness
late morning
≡ more ...▲ FEVER AND CHILL
Fever and chill
Chilly even in warm room
Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhoea
Hot sweat.
With fever, but chill predominating
Localised; stomach (gastric fever)
≡ more ...▲ GENERALITIES
Generalities
Evening
Dread of bathing
Bathing
Cold bathing
Becoming heated
Eating and food; sour
vinegar
Fluid build up; external
Pulse; irregular
From sun; from exposure to sun
exertion in sun
Swelling; puffy
From getting wet; wet applications
Weakness (see lethargic, weariness); warm weather
Sour wine
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