Remedy

Antimonium tartaricum

Tartar emetic. tartrate of antimony and potash

17 health issues Boericke 1927

Main symptoms

  • Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar to itself.
  • Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatment of respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little phlegm coughed up has been a guiding symptom.
  • There is much drowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed.
  • Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty subjects.
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  • Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels.
  • Bilharziasis.
  • Antimonium tart is homoeopathic to dysuria, painful, drop-by-drop urination, haematuria, albuminuria, mucus discharge of bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, bloody mucous stools, etc.
  • Antimon. Tart. Acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of the protective substance.
  • By-effects following injection for Bilharziasis.
  • Chills and contractures and pain in muscles.
  • Trembling of whole body, great extreme weakness and faintness.
  • Low back pain.
  • Chills, contractures and muscular pains.
  • Warts on glans penis.

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Mind & mood

  • Dizziness alternates with drowsiness.
  • Great despondency.
  • Fear of being alone.
  • Muttering, delirium, and stupor.
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  • Dizziness, with dullness and confusion.
  • Band-like feeling over forehead.
  • Face pale and sunken.
  • Child will not be touched without whining.
  • Headache as from a band compressing.

What makes it better or worse

Worse

In eveningFrom lying down at nightFrom warmthIn damp cold weatherFrom all sour things and milk

Better

From sitting erectFrom belching and phlegm coughed up

Symptoms by body part

Tongue

Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges. Red and dry, especially in the center. Brown.

Face

Cold, blue, pale; covered with cold sweat. Incessant quivering of chin and lower jaw.

Stomach

Difficult deglutition of liquids. Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side. Nausea, retching, and vomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and extreme weakness. Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally. Nausea produces fear; with pressure in praecordial region, followed by headache with yawning and watering eyes and vomiting.

Abdomen

Spasmodic colic, much flatus. Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward. Diarrhoea in eruptive diseases.

Urinary

Burning in urethra during and after urinating. Last drops bloody with pain in bladder. Urging increased. Mucus discharge of bladder and urethra. Stricture. Orchitis.

Respiratory organs

Hoarseness. Great rattling of mucus, but very little is expectorated. Velvety feeling in chest. Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to throat. Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up. Emphysema of the aged. Coughing and gaping consecutively. Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus. Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx. Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling. Pulse rapid, weak, trembling. Dizziness, with cough. Dyspnoea relieved by belching.

Back

Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region. Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat. Sensation of heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time. Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous.

Skin

Pustular rash, leaving a bluish-red mark. Small-pox. Warts.

Fever

Coldness, trembling, and feeling cold. Intense heat. Copious perspiration. Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness. Fever that comes and goes with lethargic condition.

Sleep

Great drowsiness. On falling asleep electric-like shocks. Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.

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