Carbo animalis
Animal charcoal
Main symptoms
- Seems to be especially adapted to scrofulous and venous constitutions, old people, and after debilitating disease, with feeble circulation and lowered vitality.
- Glands are indurated, veins distended, skin blue.
- Stitch remaining after pleurisy.
- Easily strained from lifting.
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- Weakness of nursing women.
- Ulceration and decomposition.
- All its secretions are offensive.
- Causes local congestions without heat.
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- Desire to be alone, sad and reflective, avoids conversation.
- Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.
What makes it better or worse
Worse
Symptoms by body part
Head
Headache, as if head had been blown to pieces. Rush of blood with confusion. Sensation as if something lay above eyes so that she could not look up. Bluish cheeks and lips. Dizziness followed by nose-bleed. Hearing confused; cannot tell direction of sound.
Stomach
Eating tires patient. Weak, empty feeling in stomach. Burning and griping. Weak digestion. Gas. Ptomaine poisoning. Repugnance to fat food. Sour water from mouth. Pyrosis.
Female
Nausea of pregnancy; worse at night. Discharge after childbirth offensive. Menses too early, frequent long lasting, followed by great exhaustion, so weak, can hardly speak. Flow only in morning. Burning in vagina and labia. Darting in breast; painful indurations in breast, especially right.
Respiratory
Ulceration of lung, with feeling of coldness of chest. Cough, with discharge of greenish pus.
Skin
Spongy ulcers, copper-colored rash. Acne rosacea. Cold-induced itchy swelling, worse in evening, in bed and from cold. Verruca on hands and face of old people, with bluish color of extremities. Glands indurated, swollen, painful, in neck, axillae, groin, mammae; pains lancinating, cutting, burning. Burning, rawness and fissures; moisture. Bubo.
Extremities
Pain in coccyx; burns when touched. Ankles turn easily. Straining and over-lifting produce great debility. Joints weak. Easy discoloration. Pain in hip joints at night. Night sweat fetid and profuse. Wrist pain.
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