Common Name: Vegetable Charcoal
Introduction.-- A remedy to be thought during last stages of debilitating diseases where in cold sweat, cold breath, cold tongue and loss of voice are main indications.
Other Indications.-- Bad effects of exhausting illness like typhoid; loss of vital fluids; long ago injury.
Constitution.-- Poor nourished sickly persons with lack of vital energy and suffering from debilitating diseases.Sluggish persons.
Generalities.-- Great exhaustion from chronic diseases and loss of vital fluids. Haemorrhage from mucous outlets especially in broken down conditions. Affections of the Venous system. Venous stasis. Desires to be constantly fanned
Causation.-- Ailments from abuse of quinine, mercury, salt; from meats, fat rich foods; from getting over heated
Mind.-- Loss of memory.
Nose.-- Epistaxis from exertion.
Face.-- Face pale. Hippocratic face. Yellowish or greenish.Cold with cold sweat.
Teeth.-- Teeth loose. Gums bleeding.
Stomach.-- Desires things which worsen his condition. Excess gas accumulation, worse on lying. Sensation as if the stomach would burst after eating and drinking. Indigestion; Simplest food disagrees. Bad effects of late suppers, debauch and rich food. Eructations relieve complaints.
Abdomen.-- Must loosen the clothes around abdomen.
Stool.-- Frequent, involuntary stools. Very offensive, like cadaverous. Burning in rectum and anal region after stool. Constipation; Soft stool voided with difficulty.
Respiratory.--Hoarseness from damp, warm wet weather; worse evening. Asthma dates back to attack of measles or pertusis during childhood.
Skin.-- Skin bluish colored due to deficient circulation.
Extremities.-- Cold extremeties from improper circuation. Cold knees at night.
Aggravation.-- From fat foods; abuse of quinine bark and mercury; from singing or speaking loud; in warm and damp weather.
Amelioration.-- From eructation; when fanned.
Relationship.-- Complementary: Kali carb.
Compare : Phos. in haemorrhages, Puls. in bad effects of fat food and pastry, Opium in lack of vital reaction.