Remedy

Antimonium crudum

Black sulphide of antimony

13 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • For homoeopathic 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.
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  • Tendency to grow fat.
  • An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable.
  • Gout with gastric symptoms.

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Mind & mood

  • 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.
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  • Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
  • Angry at every little attention.
  • Sentimental mood.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

In eveningFrom heatAcidsWineWaterWashingWet poultices

Better

In open airDuring restMoist warmth

Symptoms by body part

Head

Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed rashes. Heaviness in forehead with dizziness; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair.

Eyes

Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Canthi raw and fissured. Chronic blepharitis. Pustules on cornea and lids.

Ears

Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Moist rash around ear.

Nose

Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.

Face

Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Yellow crusted rash on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.

Mouth

Cracks in corners of mouth. Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed. Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily. Toothache in hollow teeth. Rawness of palate, with phlegm coughed up of much mucus. Canker sores. Pappy taste. No thirst. Subacute eczema about mouth.

Throat

Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares. Hawking in open air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.

Stomach

Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles. Thirst in evening and night. Belching 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 waterbrash. Bloating after eating.

Stool

Anal itching. Diarrhoea alternates with constipation, especially in old people. Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge. With mucus proctitis. Stools composed entirely of mucus.

Urine

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

Male

Rash on scrotum and about genitals. 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. White vaginal discharge watery; acrid, lumpy.

Respiratory

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.

Back

Itching and pain of neck and back.

Extremities

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 gas. Feet very tender; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.

Skin

Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Hives; measle-like rash. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts. Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular rash with burning and itching, worse at night.

Sleep

Continual drowsiness in old people.

Fever

Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, belching, coated tongue, diarrhoea. Hot sweat.

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