Carbo vegetabilis
Vegetable charcoal
Main symptoms
- Disintegration and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy.
- The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints.
- Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis.
- Body becomes blue, icy-cold.
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- Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless stream and sepsis and typhoidal state ensues.
- The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open.
- This is a typical state for Carbo veg.
- The patient faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air.
- Haemorrhage from any mucous surface.
- Very debilitated.
- Patient seems to be too weak to hold out.
- Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness.
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Symptoms by body part
Head
Aches from any over-indulgence. Hair feels sore, falls off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed. Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight. Head feels heavy, constricted. Dizziness with nausea and tinnitus. Pimples on forehead and face.
Face
Puffy, cyanotic. Pale, hippocratic, cold with cold sweat; blue. Mottled cheeks and red nose.
Eyes
Vision of black floating spots. Asthenopia. Burning in eyes. Muscles pain.
Ears
Ear discharge following exanthematous diseases. Ears dry. Malformation of cerumen with exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus.
Nose
Nosebleed 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. Rash in corner of alae nasi. Runny nose (cold) with cough, especially in moist, warm weather. Ineffectual efforts to sneeze.
Mouth
Tongue coated white or yellow brown, covered with mouth ulcers. Teeth very sensitive where chewing; gums retracted and bleed easily. Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth. Pyorrhoea.
Stomach
Belching, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from gas, with pain; worse lying down. Belching after eating and drinking. Temporary relief from belching. Rancid, sour, or putrid belching. Waterbrash, asthmatic breathing from gas. Nausea in the morning. 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.
Abdomen
Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus. Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen. Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulae. Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind. Flatulent colic. Pain in liver.
Rectum and stool
Flatus hot, moist, offensive. 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. Painful diarrhoea of old people. Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning.
Male
Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool. Itching and moisture at thigh near scrotum.
Female
Premature and too copious menses; pale blood. Vulva swollen; mouth ulcers; varices on pudenda. White vaginal discharge before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating. During menstruation, burning in hands and soles.
Respiratory
Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging and vomiting of mucus. Whooping cough, especially in beginning. Deep, rough voice, failing 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 phlegm coughed up, neglected pneumonia. Breath cold; must be fanned. Haemorrhage from lungs.
Extremities
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.
Fever
Coldness, with thirst. Chill begins in forearm. Burning in various places. Perspiration on eating. Hectic fever, exhausting sweats.
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.
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