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Carbo vegetabilis
[Carb-v.]
Mind.-- Slow flow of ideas. Periodical weakness of memory. Full of unnatural voluptuous fancies. Easily aroused to anger and vehemence. Anxiety and restlessness in evening. Attacks of anxious despondency, amounting to despair, in evening. Fear of ghosts at night.
Vertigo.-- Vertigo when moving head.
Head.-- Pressive ache now here now there, with lachrymation and painful eyes when moved. Violent congestion to. Headache from overheating. Heavy Tight, crampy feeling in brain. Drawing pain extending from nape forwards, with qualmishness. Thrusts and stitches in. Worse: Afternoon, after eating.
External Head.-- Tearing, especially on occiput and forehead. Very painfully sensitive to pressure, i. e. of hat, etc. Pressive burning, tearing, especially in muscles of occiput, nape and forehead. Sense of contraction in integuments. Hair falls (after severe illness or abuse of Mercury), with violent itching. Takes cold in, especially after it has been hot and sweating. Worse: Early on awaking, evening, becoming warm in bed, every chilling of, becoming heated: touch. Better: Uncovering, sitting quietly in a warm room.
Eyes.-- Pain from eye strain. Pressure and burning in. Hemorrhage from. Nightly purulent agglutination of. Myopia. Lachrymation.
Ears.-- Heat and redness and concha every evening. Offensive discharge from. Deficient wax.
Nose.-- Scurfy red tip. Continuous, violent nosebleed, especially early in evening preceded and followed by a pale face. Crawling in, with coryza and hoarseness. Stopped in evening. Fluent coryza in evening. Sneezing.
Face.-- Pale. Greenish - yellow. Swelled face and lips. Cracked lips. Drawing in cheeks.
Teeth.-- Contractive or tearing ache excited by salty food. Persistently loose. Gums are detached and retracted from about incisors. Gums bleed easily and frequently, scorbutus.
Mouth.-- Aphthae.
Throat.-- Scraping and burning in. Sense of constriction in, impending swallowing. Much mucus in, easily dislodged by hawking. Sore, on swallowing. Redness in, and in fauces.
Taste: Bitter, in mouth. Salty. Sour, in mouth after eating. Foods taste too salt.
Stomach.-- Spasm in, with a sense of burning pressure, much flatulence and great sensitiveness of pit. Cramps in, after loss of vital fluids, i. e. in childbed.
Hypochondriac: Sticking in ribs, especially in hepatic region. Bruised pain in, especially in hepatic region. Jaundice. Intolerance of tight clothes around.
Appetite: Either excessive hunger or thirst. Long - continued repugnance to fat food and meat. Craves coffee.
Eructations: Prolonged, of ingesta, especially of fat food. Retching.
Nausea: In early morning. vomits: Blood and bile, ingesta, in evening, mucus.
Abdomen.-- Heat, with great inflation and tenseness of, from flatus. Pinching below navel, moving from left to right side, with paralytic sensation in right thigh. Bellyache from riding. Sticking in.
Flatulence: Extraordinary generation of flatus. Excessive discharge of foul smelling flatus. Flatulent colic. (Arg-n., Lyc.)
Stool.-- Thin, pale, mucus. Difficult, although soft, with violent urging and burning in anus. (Hep.) Constipation.
Anus.-- Itching and burning in. Hemorrhoids which burn and bleed with each stool. Excoriation and moisture on perineum.
Urine.-- Red, dark. Frequent, anxious urging to urinate, day and night. Polyuria. Nocturnal enuresis.
Sexual Organs.-- Too frequent pollutions. Itching, burning and soreness of pudendum. Varicose veins on pudendum.
Female.-- Menses: Of pale blood, too early and too profuse, preceded by spasmodic abdominal colic. Acrid leucorrhoea.
Respiration.-- Short when walking. Oppression of chest with hydrothorax.
Cough.-- In short fits and frequent (4 to 5) daily attacks, as if excited by sulphur fumes or a crawling irritation in throat or larynx, dry in evening, in morning, with yellow - greenish or purulent, sometimes brownish bloody, rarely tenacious white mucus or watery expectoration, of a foul, sour or salty taste and bad odor. Persistent in evening. Hemoptysis with burning in chest.
Larynx, etc.-- Hoarseness, especially in early morning or evening, worse by continued talking. Phthisis of larynx and trachea. Soreness and ulcerative pain in, and in trachea. Voice fails when talking. Aphonia at night.
Chest.-- Constriction. rawness in. Whistling rattling of mucus in. Pressure. Burning and painful soreness in. Brownish spots on. Hydrothorax. Pulmonary phthisis. Inflammation of female mammae. Palpitation.
Back.-- Rheumatic tearing in. Stitches in.
Neck: Tearing in muscles of, and in nape. Ulcerative pain in thyroid gland.
Upper Extremities.-- Tearing in. forearms and wrists. Burning heat in hand. Paralytic weakness of fingers when grasping anything.
Lower Extremities.-- Paralytic tearing in legs. Sweaty feet. Red, swollen toes with sticking pains as though' frozen.
Generalities.-- Asleep sensation in limbs. Bruised pain in limbs, in early morning after rising from bed. Paralytic tearing in limbs with flatulent symptoms. Burning pains in limbs, bones and ulcers. After effects of over - lifting or taking cold. Consequences of loss of vital fluids or abuse of China. Sense of great general physical relaxation, towards noon. Weariness on beginning to move. Worse: Motion, walking in open air. Damp cold or cold frosty weather. Better: In a warm room. Want off irritability and reaction, especially in old people.
Skin.-- General itching on becoming warm in bed in evening. Burning in many spots on. Easily bleeding and offensive ulcers with burning pain and biting, ichorous pus.
Sleep.-- Day sleepiness, especially in AM, disappearing during motion. Late falling to sleep and nightly sleeplessness on account of physical restlessness.
Fever.-- Pulse: Weak and languid, often imperceptible. Intermittent. Irregular, at times greatly accelerated, then again, as if entirely suppressed. Chill: And shivering, mostly in evening, usually with thirst, sometimes on left side only. Extraordinary weariness during. With joy coldness of body. Heat: After the chill but also in evening or at night in bed, with many concomitants Attacks of flying, burning heat in evening, usually without thirst. Sweat: Profuse, mostly offensive or sour smelling. Great inclination, to, even while eating. Night - sweat. Sour smelling in early morning. Cold, on face.
Relationship.-- Allied Remedies: Arg-n., Ars., Bry., Carb-a., CHIN., Dulc., Ferr., Ign., Ip., Kali-c., Lach., MERC., Nat-m., Nat-s., Nat-ac., Nux-v., Op., Petr., Puls., Rhod., Sept., Sul., Verat-a.
Complementary: Chin., Kali-c.
