Carbo vegetabilis

Vegetable Charcoal

Region

MUCOUS MEMBRANES [DIGESTIVE TRACT; STOMACH]. HEART [VENOUS

CIRCULATION; blood]. occiput. * Left side.

Modalities

Worse: WARMTH. DEPLETIONS [loss of fluids]. Cooling off. EXHAUSTING DISEASES.

Old age. HIGH LIVING. Rich foods. DEBAUCHERY. Overlifting. Pressure of clothes.
Weather [extreme temperatures; cold night air; frosty weather; warm

damp weather]. Cold air. Wind on head. Suppression [of discharges]. Flatus. Butter,
pork, fat food. Abuse of quinine, brandy, mercury. Singing or reading aloud. After
menses. Lying down. Morning. Night. Before falling asleep. Rising from the bed.

Walking in the open air.

Better: ERUCTATIONS. Cool air. Elevating feet. Passing wind. Being fanned.
Loosening clothing around the waist. Lying down.

Leading symptoms

M - "On the mental and emotional level, the asthenic disposition manifests itself in
different ways. The patient is listless, indolent, sluggish, indifferent, too inert to
have interest in anything, or otherwise can be irritable and easily excited, with
alternating moods. The latter stage shows itself especially in the evening or after
dinner. There is an aversion to darkness. The anxiety in the dark can be so acute
that the patient doesn't dare to lie down and close his eyes. A striking characteristic
is the fear of ghosts" [Gibson].

M - INDOLENCE, irresolution.

M - Fear in DARK.

G - agg. BEFORE SLEEP.

G - LOW vitality, exhaustion with cold and clammy skin; collapse. Persons never fully
recovered from exhausting diseases, loss of blood, injuries.

G - Desire for OPEN AIR.

G - Wants to be FANNED; craving for fresh air. Chronic Carb-v. is chilly.

G - agg. WARM WET weather. agg. Summer [2]; agg. exposure to sun [2].

G - ICY COLDNESS of whole body, especially nose, hands, feet and knees. Cold skin,
cold breath.

G - Cannot bear TIGHT clothing around the waist and abdomen.

G - Sensation as if blood STAGNATED [2].

G - VARICOSE VEINS - blue [2; Lycps.] - network in skin [2].

G - "Onanism during sleep" [Guernsey].

G - Ailments and DISORDERED DIGESTION [indigestion, nausea, eructations,
flatulence, pain in stomach, fullness]. Easily disordered digestion. "Persons who are
sensitive to any irregularity in their diet" [Mathur].

P - EXTREME FLATULENCE, especially in upper abdomen and stomach. One of

themost bloated remedies. ERUCTATIONS amel. temporary.

G - Internal burning and external coldness.

G - Intolerance of FAT and MILK.

G - General SLUGGISHNESS; sluggishness of digestion; sluggishness of circulation.

G - CYANOSIS; asthma and blue skin.

G - Easy satiety; fullness after eating a little.

G - Acute complaints after exhausting diseases.

G - "Bad effects from wine intoxication the previous day" [HANGOVER] [Lippe].

G - Food poisoning.

G - "SHOCK after operations; body cold, face pale, cold breath, profuse clammy
perspiration and desire to be fanned" [Mathur].

P - Sensation of FULLNESS [in stomach and abdomen], interfering with

RESPIRATION.

P - Hoarseness in the evening.

P - Bursting sensation in stomach after eating or drinking.

P - Falling of hair after delivery.

P - "Asthma from measles or pertussis in childhood" [Mathur].

P - Chronic hoarseness after acute affections of air passages [coryza, bronchitis].

P - Metastasis of mumps to mammae or testicles.

P - "Otorrhoea as a sequela of measles or scarlet fever" [Kent].

P - Asthma or dyspnoea and gall bladder problems; asthma or dyspnoea and hernia
diaphragmatica; asthma or dyspnoea during last months of pregnancy [on account
of increased pressure in abdomen from growing foetus]. [Ghegas]

P - Asthma and blue skin. Asthma agg. while lying, wants doors and windows open,
amel. eructations.

Repertory

Mind

Anxiety, closing eyes, on [2; Mag-m.], eating, after [2], strangers, in the presence of
[2]. Dullness, damp air, from [2]. Fear, accidents, of [2]. Timidity, appearing in
public, about [2].

Head

Coldness, heated, from being [3]. Cold air, head sensitive to, walking in

[3/1]. Constriction, hat, pressure of, agg. [3/1], uncovering head amel. [2/1], warm
room [2]. Pain, darkness agg. [2], fat food, from [2], measles, after [2], menses,
after, on cessation [2]; occiput, ascending steps [2], bending head backwards [2],
cold air amel. [2], fanning amel. [2/1], heat of stove agg. [2], heated, from becoming
[2].

Eye

Inflammation, measles, after [2].

Hearing

Impaired, scarlet fever, after [3].

Nose

Coryza, overheated, from becoming [2]. Epistaxis, morning, in bed [2], drunkards
[2], jarring [2/1], old people [2], stool, after straining at [2/1]. Pain, posterior nares,
blowing nose [2/1], coughing [2/1], swallowing [2/1]. Veins, varicose [2].

Face

Coldness, headache, during [2], pain in occiput, with [2/1]. Discoloration, red, wine,
the pale face becomes red after [2; Ferr.]. Heat, anxiety, during [3].

Mouth

Bleeding, gums, sucking them [3].

Stomach

Distention, eructations amel. [3]. Eructations, butter, after eating [3], rich food,
after [3]. Indigestion, ice cream [2]. Nausea, soup [2], sun, heat of [2/1]. Pain,
flatulent food, after [2/1], lactation, from [2/1]; burning, extending to

back [2/1].

Abdomen
Distention, drinking, after [2], eructations amel. [2]; stool, after [2]. Emptiness,
eructations amel. [2]. Flatulence, here and there [2; Lyc.].

Rectum

Diarrhoea, cold drinks, after, in summer [2], ice cream, after [2], measles, after [2].
Flatus, morning on waking [2/1].

Female genitalia

Menses, offensive, strong [3].

Larynx

Catarrh, measles, after [2/1]. Voice, hoarseness, croup, after [2], damp weather, in
[2], measles, after [2], wet weather agg. [2/1].

Respiration

Asthmatic, cold air amel. [2], measles, after [2], warm wet weather [2], winter
attacks [2]. Difficult, closing eyes, on [2], eructations amel. [3], flatulence, from [3].
Extremities

Fullness, leg, hanging down, when [2/1].

Sleep

Waking, cold limbs, from [3/1].

Perspiration

Anxiety, night [2]. Eating, after, breakfast [2].

Food

Aversion: Fats and rich food [2]; meat [2]; meat, fat [2]; milk [2]; salt food [2]; butter

[1]; coffee [1].

Desire: Salty things [3]; coffee [2]; sour [2]; sweets [2]; salt + sweets [1]; tobacco
[1];

warm drinks [1].

Worse: Butter [3]; fat [3]; pork [3]; rich food [3]; cold drinks [2]; cold food [2]; fish,
spoiled [2]; frozen food [2]; fruit [2]; meat, spoiled [2]; milk [2]; salt [2]; warm food
[2]; beer [1]; beans and peas [1]; coffee [1]; fish [1]; flatulent food [1]; hot food [1];
ice cream [1]; onions [1]; pastry [1]; salads [1]; sauerkraut [1]; soup [1].

Nucleus

1. Low vitality, sluggishness, indolence, coldness. Imperfect oxydation. Indolence

and irresolution.

2. Craving for fresh air [wants to be fanned]. agg. Warm wet weather [sultry
weather].

3. Icy coldness of extremities; blueness. Sensation as if blood is stagnated.

4. Extreme flatulence; fullness; temporary amel. by eructations.5. Cannot bear tight

clothing around waist.

6. Never well since some exhausting disease, loss of blood, prolonged nursing, etc.
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