HomeoRemedyCarbolicum acidum
Phenol-carbolic acid
Main symptoms
- Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anaesthetic.
- A languid, foul, painless, destructive remedy.
- Acts primarily on the central nervous system.
- Increased olfactory sensibility.
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- Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study, with headache like a band.
- Very marked acuteness of smell is a strong guiding symptom.
- Stomach symptoms are also important.
- Pains are terrible; come and go suddenly.
- Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere.
- Putrid discharges. Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destruction of tissue internally, and fetid odor.
- Spasmodic coughs.
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Head
Disinclined to mental work. Tight feeling, as if compressed by a rubber band. Orbital neuralgia over right eye. Headache, better, by green tea; while smoking.
Nose
Smell very acute. Putrid discharge. Ozaena, with fetor and ulceration. Influenza and resulting debility.
Throat
Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks. Burning in mouth to stomach. Fauces red, and covered with exudation. Uvula whitened and shriveled. Putrid discharge. Almost impossible to swallow. Diphtheria, fetid breath, regurgitation on swallowing liquids, but little pain. Face dusky red; white about mouth and nose. Rapid sinking of vital forces.
Stomach
Appetite lost. Desire for stimulants and tobacco. Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green. Heat rises up oesophagus. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Painful gas often marked in one part of the bowel. Fermentative indigestion with bad taste and breath.
Stool
Constipation, with very offensive breath. Bloody, like scrapings of intestines. Great constant urge to pass stool. Diarrhoea; stools thin, black, putrid.
Urine
Almost black. Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, of probable prostatic nature. Use 1x.
Female
Discharges always offensive. Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus. Agonizing backache across loins, with dragging-down thighs. Pain in left ovary; worse walking in open air. Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid discharge. White vaginal discharge in children. Puerperal fever, with offensive discharge. Irritating white vaginal discharge, causing itching and burning.
Extremities
Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia during walking. Gnawing pains in shin bones.
Skin
Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.
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