Carbo Vegetabilis
Vegetable Charcoal, Carbo Veg, Carboveg, Charcoal, Carbo-v
Homeopathic remedies are prescribed on the basis that in a tiny dilution like cures like, so while very dilute Carbo Vegetabilis may help, unprocessed Carbo Veg may be best avoided.
Below are the main rubriks (i.e strongest indications or symptoms) of Carbo Veg in traditional homeopathic usage, not reviewed by the FDA.
▲ MODALITIES ETC
Worse
WORSE, evening; night and open air; cold; from fat food, butter, Coffea Cruda Coffee, milk, warm damp weather; Wine.
Better
BETTER, from eructation, From fanning, cold.
≡ show all authors ...▲ RELATIONSHIPS
Compare
Compare: Carboneum Sulphuratum Carboneum - Lamp black ( Spasms commencing in tongue, down trachea and extremities. Tingling sensation.) Lycopodium Lycop.; Arsenicum Album Ars.; China China.
Complementary
Complementary: Kali Carb Kali-carb.; Drosera Rotundifolia Dros.
Antidotes
Antidotes: Spirits Nitre; Camphora Camph.; Ambra Grisea Ambra; Arsenicum Album Arsenic.
⥄ Show reverse lookup of Carbo Vegetabilis relationships from all sources▲ MIND
Mind
Aversion to darkness
Fear of ghosts
Sudden loss of memory.
Delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; desire for open air
Emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; indifference, apathy, etc.
indifference, apathy, etc.; to everything
irritability
Intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating
impaired thinking; confusion
forced to arouse himself
impaired thinking; dull, sluggish
Insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety
anxiety; evening
in bed
anxiety; on closing eyes
≡ more ...▲ HEAD
Head
Aches from any over-indulgence
Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight
Head feels heavy, constricted
Pimples on forehead and face.
Coldness; from being heated
Congestion (see pulsation)
Constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing)
as if in love
pressure of hat
when heated
like wearing a skull cap
Sensitive; head sensitive to cold air; while walking in cold air
Headache
Heaviness (see pain; pressing)
pressing); back of head (occiput)
Pain, headache; from emotions; from becoming heated
while lying down
from certain movements; movement in general
from suppressed perspiration
pressure; from pressure of hat
pulsating
from warmth; summer
warm room
back of head (occiput)
pressure of hat
shaking head
sides; right
dull pain; back of head (occiput)
pressing (see bursting, pulling)
back of head (occiput)
temples
top of head (vertex)
stunning
tearing, rending; back of head (occiput)
Scalp
Hair feels sore, Falls off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed
Hair; falling
Skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead; cold
≡ more ...▲ EYES
Eyes
Vision of black floating spots
Asthenopia
Burning in eyes
Muscles pain.
Pain; burning, smarting, gnawing, biting
Tears; with running nose
≡ more ...▲ EARS
Ear
Otorrhoea following exanthematous diseases
Ears dry
Malformation of cerumen with exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus.
Discharges from ear
after scarlet fever
following disease
suppressed
Noises in ear; ringing
roaring
Stopped sensation
Hearing
Impaired
after scarlet fever
≡ more ...▲ FACE
Face
Puffy, cyanotic
Pale, hippocratic, cold with cold sweat; blue ( Cup.; Opium N/A .) Mottled cheeks and red nose.
Coldness
Heat; during anxiety
Appearance as if dead (see sunken)
Inflammation; parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe)
Lips; chapped
cracked lips
Pain; pulling; jaws
jerking
cheek bones
cheek bone
tearing
cheek bone
Perspiration
cold
Skin; discoloration; bluish
discoloration; greenish (see iron deficiency anaemia (greenish-yellow discoloration))
discoloration; pale
discoloration; sallow
out-breaks on skin; acne
chronic, especially nose and cheeks
forehead
out-breaks on skin; red; erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour); gangrenous
Sunken
Twitching; lips; upper lip
≡ more ...▲ NOSE
Nose
Epistaxis in daily attacks, with pale face
Bleeding after straining, with pale face; tip of nose red and scabby, itching around nostrils
Varicose veins on nose
Eruption in corner of alae nasi
Nose bleed
night
dark, black blood
Catarrh
Coldness
Dryness; inside
Discharge
Coryza with cough, especially in moist, warm weather
Ineffectual efforts to sneeze.
Running or blocked nose (coryza)
blocked
with inflammation larynx
Sneezing
frequent
difficult to sneeze
≡ more ...▲ MOUTH
Mouth
Pyorrhoea.
Cold breath
during chill
Odour (halitosis, bad breath); offensive
Gums and teeth
Teeth very sensitive where chewing; gums retracted and bleed easily
Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth
Bleeding; gums
gums; easily
gums; when sucking them
Pain; sore; gums
Gums; teeth detached from gums
teeth detached from gums; and bleed easily
teeth detached from gums; scurvy-like
Teeth; looseness
pain; upper teeth
pain; pulling
pain; tearing
Saliva
Dryness
Tongue
Tongue coated white or yellow brown, Covered with aphthae
Sensation of coldness; tongue
Discoloration; tongue; black
tongue; bluish-white; and bleed easily
Taste
Taste; bitter
putrid
Palate
Pain; palate (roof of mouth)
pressing; palate (roof of mouth)
≡ more ...▲ THROAT
Throat
Catarrh
Irritation; larynx
larynx; cold air
larynx; recurrent
trachea (wind pipe)
Pain; sore; air passages
Roughness; air passage
larynx
Voice; deep
hoarseness
evening
with running nose
painless
lost
evening
on physical exertion
rough
≡ more ...▲ CHEST
Chest
Anxiety; region of heart
Constriction, tension
Heart; palpitations; visible
Inflammation; lungs
Lungs; tuberculosis; last stage
Oppressed feeling
burping, belching
Pain; during a cough
burning
sore, bruised; from coughing
Paralysis; heart
lung
Weakness
morning on waking
on waking
Respiration
Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging and vomiting of mucus
Whooping cough, especially in beginning
Deep, rough voice, falling on slight exertion
Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking; evening oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest
Wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest
Occasional spells of long coughing attacks
Cough, with burning in chest; worse in evening, in open air, after eating and talking
Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive expectoration, neglected pneumonia
Breath cold; Must be fanned
Hemorrhage from lungs
Asthma in aged with blue skin.
Accelerated
Difficult (dyspnea)
burping, belching
wants to be fanned
from wind
while lying down
Impeded, obstructed; from wind
Sighing
Wheezing
≡ more ...▲ COUGH
Cough
Evening
Night; before midnight
Hoarse
Sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); scraping; from larynx
Loose; morning
Comes on suddenly
night
Racking
Intermittent
Suffocating
Violent
Whooping
≡ more ...▲ EXPECTORATION
Expectoration
Morning
Bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage); brown
Greenish
≡ more ...▲ SKIN
Skin
Blue, cold ecchymosed
Marbled with venous over distension
Itching; worse on evening, when warm in bed
Moist skin; Hot perspiration; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily
Falling out of hair, from a general weakened condition
Indolent ulcers, burning pain
Ichorous, offensive discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins
Purpura
Varicose ulcers, carbuncles ( Arsenicum Album Ars.; Anthracinum Anthrac.)
Coldness; icy
Discoloration; bluish
Abnormal growths; ulcers
ulcers; black
ulcers; burning
ulcers; discharges; greenish
ulcers; discharges; offensive
ulcers; mottled with red circle
ulcers; phagedenic (spreading, obstinate ulceration)
ulcers; surrounded by pimples
Inflammation; skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour); gangrenous
Itching
Moisture
Out-breaks on skin; discharging, moist
discharging, moist; yellow
rash (see granular); scabies
≡ more ...▲ ABDOMEN
Abdomen
Temporary relief from belching
Burning in stomach, extending to back and along spine
Contractive pain extending to chest, with distention of abdomen
Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating
Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double
Distress comes on a half-hour after eating
Sensitiveness of epigastric region
sour, rancid belching
Aversion to milk, meat, and Fat things
Epigastric region very sensitive.
Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen
Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulae
Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind
Flatulent colic
Pain in liver.
Stool and Rectum.
Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum
Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum
a musty, glutinous moisture exudes
Soreness, itching, moisture of perineum at night
Discharge of blood from rectum
Burning at anus, burning varices ( Muriaticum Acidum Mur-ac.) Painful diarrhoea of old people
Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning
White hemorrhoids; excoriation of anus
BLUISH, burning piles, PAIN after stool.
Bloated; after eating
trapped wind
Sensation of fullness
Pain; during the heat of fever
extending to other parts; to leg
extending to other parts; to lower limbs
left
spleen; during heat
Skin; ulcers
Tension
Bladder; urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); anxious
Kidneys; suppression of urine
Stomach; contraction
desires, cravings; salt things
distended (swollen from inner pressure)
after eating
burping, belching
disordered
burping, belching
after eating butter
after eating
fullness; after eating
indigestion
pain; burping, belching
retching; with cough
tension
Eating
Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests
the simplest food distresses
Bloated; after dinner
Stomach; burping, belching; after rich food
Eructation
Eructations after eating and drinking
Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations
Flatus
Stomach; Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down
Water brash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence
Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence
Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus
Flatus hot, moist, offensive
Flatulence; behind lower ribs
Noises from abdomen; rumbling; passing flatulence
Nausea
Nausea in the morning
Stomach; nausea; morning
Vomiting
vomiting; blood
≡ more ...▲ RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL
Rectum
Dysentery
Flatulence
during diarrhoea
offensive
Haemorrhoids; bluish
Moisture
scratching
Skin and lining; excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed)
excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); must rub anus until raw
fistula (additional hole)
Stool
Copious
Odour; like a dead body
offensive
putrid
≡ more ...▲ GENITALS ETC
Urine
Albuminous (white, thick); after alcohol abuse
Cloudy
Odour; offensive
Male
Itching and moisture at thigh near scrotum.
Female
Vulva swollen; aphthae; varies on pudenda
Female; vaginal discharge; greenish
Genitals
Male; Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool
Female; metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding); passive
pain; sore, tenderness
Menses
Premature and too copious menses; pale blood
Leucorrhoea before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating ( Kreosotum Kreos.) During menstruation, burning in hands and soles.
Female; period; frequent
period; offensive smell
strong
period; protracted
≡ more ...▲ EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
Extremities, limbs
Heavy, stiff; feel paralyzed; Limbs, go to sleep; want of muscular energy; joints weak
Pain in shins
Cramp in soles; feet numb and sweaty
Cold from knees down
Toes red, swollen
Burning pain in bones and limbs.
Coldness
upper limbs; hands
lower limbs; knee
night
during chill
lower limbs; leg
lower limbs; foot; icy cold
Cramps; foot; sole
Pulling up limbs
Heaviness; lower limbs
lower limbs; while walking
Numbness (see tingling)
while lying down; on limbs
Pain; pulling
pulling; night
pulling; upper limbs; night
pulling; upper limbs; on the one lain on
pulling; lower limbs
paralytic
sore, bruised
tearing; during fever
tearing; forearm
tearing; wrist
tearing; fingers
Perspiration; foot
foot; cold
Skin; chicken pox (see swelling); lower limbs
chicken pox (see swelling); lower limbs; during pregnancy
chicken pox (see swelling); leg
discoloration; blue
itching; lower limbs
out-break on skin; hand
fine
itching
ulcers; lower limbs
black base
bluish with red circle
burning
offensive smelling
mottled
ulcers; leg
Weakness; after least exertion
≡ more ...▲ FEVER AND CHILL
Fever and chill
Coldness, with thirst
Chill begins in forearm
Burning in various places
Perspiration on eating
Hectic fever, exhausting sweats.
Chilliness (see also whole body; temperature)
When heated, overheated
Icy coldness of the body
the whole body, with cold breath
Periodic, recurring; annual chill
Sides, one-sided
left
Continued fever
night
before midnight
dazed from fever
External heat; desire to be fanned in place of thirst during the heat
Yellow fever
third stage, haemorrhages, with great paleness of face, violent headache, great heaviness of limbs and trembling of the body
≡ more ...▲ INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS
Injuries and accidents
Poisoning; poisoning by mercury
poisoning by quinine
≡ more ...▲ GENERALITIES
Sleep and dreams
Deep
Dreams; frightful
vivid
Sleepiness, tiredness
Sleeplessness, insomnia; night; from before midnight
Waking; from cold limbs
Perspiration
Morning
Night
Cold
With difficulty breathing
While eating
After eating
Odour; putrid
Profuse
Generalities
Morning
Evening
Night; before midnight
Desire for open air
Blood vessels; blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood)
septicaemia (blood poisoning - chills, fever, must lie down, inflammed lungs, liver, kidneys and other organs)
varicose veins
Collapse
after diarrhoea
Dehydration
Eating and food; while eating
butter
fat
pork
rich
Faintness, fainting; morning; on rising
on waking
Haemorrhage
Inflammation; indurated (hard from inflammation)
Lack of irritability
After measles
Mucous secretions increased
Pain; gnawing, biting
burning externally
pulling
pressing; internally
sudden, sharp; downward
tearing; internally
tearing; muscles
pressing in muscles
Pulse; imperceptible
small
soft
weak
Lack of reaction
Scurvy
Before sleep
Swelling; glands
Wet weather