Carbo Animalis - Modalities Etc
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Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Carbo Animalis in traditional homeopathic usage, not approved by the FDA.
MODALITIES ETC
Worse
Moving head, after eating, early in morning, in cold, moist air, external pressure, touch.
WORSE, after shaving, loss of animal fluids.
Slight causes Small depletions
Sprains
Lifting
Cold taking
WHILE EATING
Dry, cold air
Shaving (Oxalicum Acidum Ox-ac)
Old age
After menses
Better
After dinner, in warm, open air, in a warm room, at rest.
Laying hand on part
Desires and aversions
Ravenous hunger.
No appetite; averse to fatty food.
Appetite
Increased appetite (first, second, and ninth days), (?).
Unnatural hunger,
Very great hunger, in the morning,
Longing for sour and refreshing things,
Appetite for raw sauerkraut, loss of appetite for other things,
Little appetite, but while eating, the appetite returns,
The appetite soon disappears, while eating,
Aversion to fat,
Fat meat completely spoils his appetite,
Thirst.
Thirst, even in the morning, quite unusual (sixth day),
Great thirst, especially for cold water, with dryness and heat in the throat,
Aversion to cold drinks,
Eructations and Hiccough.
Frequent eructations,
Many eructations from the stomach,
Empty eructations, every time after eating,
Frequent empty eructations, which change to hiccough,
Almost constant foul eructations,
Foul fishy eructations,
An attack of waterbrash, with which salty water rises from the stomach and runs out of the mouth, with retching and a spasmodic sensation in the jaws, followed by violent empty eructations, with cold feet, and at last hiccough, lasting half an hour,
Heartburn rises up from the stomach,
A scraping heartburn,
Thirst, at once in the morning, quite unusual (6th d.).
Great thirst, especially for cold water, with dryness and heat in the throat.
Little desire for eating, but the appetite comes while eating.
The appetite quickly passes off when eating.
No appetite, everything tastes to her alike.
There is hunger, but no relish for the food.
Repugnance to cold drinks.
Repugnance to fat.
Fat meat altogether spoils his appetite.
Appetite for raw sour-krout, while otherwise without appetite.
Desire for sour and refreshing things.
Increased appetite (1st, 2d, and 9th d.).
Intense hunger in the morning.
Ravenous hunger.
After an abundant dinner, in two hours there is again a good appetite and in the evening again hunger, and later on, thirst.
From smoking tobacco, nausea and repugnance to it.
Position etc
Sitting 2, 19, 31, 33. Motion 2, 34. Walking 20, 23, 31, 33. Slight exertion 40. After rising 25, 27. Standing 23. Stooping 3. Reclining 2. Lying 18, 31; on right side 27. Must lie still 29.
Morning 1, 7, 11, 25, 26, 27, 29. Forenoon 3, 37. Afternoon 8, 40. Evening 7, 20, 25, 29, 40, 46. Night 3, 7, 21, 24, 25, 33, 40. Toward morning 40. All day 27.