Antimonium Crudum

▲   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 Antimonium Crudum. 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.

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Worse

WORSE in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices.

Better

BETTER in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.

▲   RELATIONSHIPS

Compare

Compare: Kermes mineral - Stibiato Sulphur ^Sulph. rub ( Bronchitis.) Also Pulsatilla ^Puls., Ipecacuanha ^Ipecac, Sulph.

Complementary

Complementary: Sulphur ^Sulph.

Antidotes

Antidote: Hep Sulph Calc ^Hepar.

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▲   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

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

Heaviness in forehead, with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed

▲   HEAD

Head

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

Suppressed eruptions

Headache

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

Scalp

Headache with great loss of hair.

▲   EYES

Eyes

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

▲   EARS

Ear

Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube

Ringing and deafness

Moist eruption around ear.

▲   FACE

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

▲   NOSE

Nose

Nostrils Chapped and covered with crusts

eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked, and scurfy.

Nose bleed

Skin or lining of nose

cracks; nostrils

ulcers; inside

Discharge

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

▲   MOUTH

Gums and teeth

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

Tongue

Discoloration

tongue; white

tongue; white; milky

tongue; yellow

▲   THROAT

Throat

Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares

Hawking in open air

Laryngitis

Rough voice from over use.

Voice; lost

▲   CHEST

Chest

Lungs; tuberculosis; full of mucus

Pain

during heat

Skin; itching

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.

▲   COUGH

Cough

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

▲   SKIN

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 ^Thuja; Sabina ^Sabina; Causticum ^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

▲   BACK AND NECK

Neck

Itching and pain of neck and back.

Back

Skin; itching

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Stomach; Loss of appetite

desire for acids, pickles

Thirst in evening and night

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

gout, spread of malignant tumour

Eating

burping, belching; tasting like food

indigestion; after sour food

loathing of food (see nausea)

Eructation

Eructation tasting of the ingesta

Nausea

Stomach

nausea

nausea; after drinking; wine; sour wine

nausea; after eating; black bread

nausea; during headache

Vomiting

Heartburn, nausea, vomiting

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

Stomach

vomiting

vomiting; after drinking

after drinking sour wine

vomiting; intermittent

vomiting; during measles

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

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

Stool

Anal itching ( Sulpho-Calc Carb ^Calc)

Alumina ^Alum

) 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

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

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

Male

Male; Eruption on scrotum and about genitals

Atrophy of penis and testicles.

Genitals

Impotence

Female; Excited; parts itch

Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy.

Menses

Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse

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

▲   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

▲   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)

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep and dreams

Continued drowsiness in old people.

Sleepiness, tiredness

late morning

Perspiration

Morning; during sleep

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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