Carbolicum Acidum

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Carbolicum Acidum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
GENERAL
  • Carb-ac., like the Carbons, is a powerful anti-septic and its use as such in surgery has led, incidentally, to the poisoning of both patients and surgeons.
  • These experienceshave provided a number of the symptoms indicating its medicinal use.
  • Carb-ac is a languid, painless, foul and destructive remed y.
  • Acts primarily on the central nervous system.
  • It affects the mucus membranes, heart, blood and respiration.
  • Stomach symptoms are also important.
  • Marked prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness., even paralytic with loss of sensation and motion.
  • Collapse.
  • Stupor.
  • ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. of sensation and motion.
  • Feeble pulse and depressed breathing.
  • Death due to paralysis of respiratory centers.
  • Malignant and septic conditions.
  • Physical exertion brings on abscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection. somewhere.
  • Dis charges are foul, burning.
  • Putrid discharges (Bapt.).
  • Bloody discharges.
  • Scarlet fever with marked tendency to destruction of tissue internally and fetid odor.
  • Terrible pains coming and going sudden ly.
  • Pricking, burning sensation.
  • Trembling with an uncertain, staggering walk.
  • ArthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age..
  • Mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study with headache like a band.
  • Very marked acuteness of smell.
  • In creased olfactory sensibility.
  • Spasmodic coughs.
  • Allergic reactions to bee stings (Apis).
  • In cholera when Verat is indicated but fails
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better from smoking.
  • Better strong tea.
  • Better rubbing, binding.
  • There is intolerance of a warm room, but also sensitiveness to cold air which aggravate many symptoms.
  • Worse from jar.
  • Worse readin g.
  • Worse pregnancy.
  • Worse combing hair
MIND
  • Mental and bodily languor.
  • Disinclination to do any mental or physical work.
  • Unfit for study, as reading aggravates all symptoms.
  • Periods of mental abstraction.
  • Mental exertion aggravates.
  • Unconsciousness.
  • Absent minded, starts when spoken to Difficulty of remembering passed eve nts.
  • Forgetful, can't remember anything, becomes easily confused.
  • Starts to do some thing and forgets it.
  • Entire disinclination to study, what he had accomplished seemed very trifling.
  • Very irritable.
  • Fear of impending disease at night in bed.
  • Sense of be wilderment.
  • Mental and physical exhilaration.
  • Constantly agitated, moaning continuously and occa sionally uttering a piercing cry recognizes no one, acute hydrocephalus.
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement., felt as if staggering, like a drunken man.
  • Giddiness, not better closing eyes.
  • Vertigo on going up and down stairs, better walking fast in open air, worse sitting down.
  • Vertigo with fear of falling, trembling.
  • COMMENTS - Anaphylactic shock from bee stings (Apis, Hist.).
  • The skin is inflamed, and o ther symptoms appear with burning, tingling, itching and numbness.
  • Pains come suddenly.
  • Burning, pricking, sticking pains.
  • Numbness and twitching.
  • Profound prostration and fatigue, con vulsions, collapse, cold, clammy sweat.
  • Constant yawning.
  • PalpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions. of the heart at night.
  • Putrid discharges.
  • The urine is very dark, black or black olivegreen, grass or olive-green.
  • Great flatulent distention of the abdomen with belching of wind.
  • Desire for stimulants.
  • Vomiting in alcoholic, in pregnant women, with viole nt frontal headache.
  • Many poisoning cases show pneumoniaLung infection with inflamed air sacsInflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs (alveoli), usually caused by infection. single or double, affecting the bases principally.
  • GangreneDeath of body tissue from lack of blood flowLocalized death and decomposition of body tissue, resulting from either obstructed circulation or bacterial infection. has been caused by the application of 2 to 5 percent solutions, prescribed by Dr.
  • Streintz.
  • Fahnestock observed a case of poisoning from inhaling the fumes.
  • The patient, a woman, feeling ill, ran across the street to a neighbor's.
  • Before reaching the house she fell prostrate, pale, gasping for breath.
  • When taken in, she had to be propped up in order to breathe, trembled all over, wanted h er hands held, “pricking like needles,” all over body, unable to raise right arm.
  • Cold hands and feet.
  • Wanted a drink of water every few minutes, nausea but no vomiting, pain in lumbar region.
  • Symptoms lasted four hours.
  • Allen noted that it relieved cases of cancer of the stomach, and epithelioma of the cheek and nose with hemorrhages.
  • Deschere found Carb-ac.
  • 30c of great service in uterine displacements with or without discharges but these, if present, are always offensive.
  • The symptoms first relieved are the agonizing backache across the loins with a dragging sensation down the buttocks into the thighs.
  • Cooper regarded it as specific in influenzaViral infection of the respiratory tract (flu)A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh. in the 3x for the attack and 30c for result ing debility.
  • Dr.
  • Proctor recorded a brilliant cure of a double bas al pneumonia with drop doses of the B.
  • P solution after failure of more com monly used remedies.
  • Nervous dyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux. of intensely painful character has frequently been cured by it.
  • R.
  • K.
  • Ghosh found it admirable in cases of cholera where V erat seems indicated and fails.
  • There is intolerance of warm room, but also sensitiveness to cold air which aggravates many symptoms.
  • Ghosh also reported great improvement in a case of diabetes when the remedy was given for something else.
  • Proell recorded his own case of idiopathic erysipelasAcute bacterial skin infectionAn acute, sometimes recurrent, bacterial skin infection characterized by large, raised red patches, especially on the face. affecting the back of the right hand, first three fingers and arm with violet colored swelling and roughness.
  • Rhus -t removed the fever, but did nothing to stop the erysipelas.
  • Carb-ac.
  • 30c did so promptly.
  • RELATIONS - AntidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy.: Alcohol, Vinegar, Chalk, Iodine.
  • Glauber’s Salt in watery solu tion.
  • Compare: (1) Apis, Gels.
  • Merc, and Sulph.
  • (2) In band -like headache, Ars., Carb -v., Chin, and Kreos.
  • (3) in bums, ulcers, unhealthy offensive discharges, Pic-ac.
  • (4) Ant-t and Vario, in smallpox.
  • (5) Chrysarobin, locally in ringworm of the scalp, 5 -10 per cent, in glycerin and alcohol.
  • Equal parts.
  • (6) Ars., Kreos., Carbo, Guano.
  • - Violent headache as from a band around head.
  • Itching of nostrils, back, thighs, genitals.
  • (6) Symp toms like hay fever, All -c, Ars.
  • Incompatible: Glycerin and vegetable oils.
  • In bums from carbolic acid, Elias Price found milk give immediate relief.
  • He suggests A draft of milk in poisoning cases.
  • REFERENCES - Boericke.
  • Clarke.
  • Murphy
HEAD
  • Orbital neuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. over right eye.
  • Headache, better from green tea, while smoking.
  • Headaches appearing at the time of menses.
  • Tight feeling as if compressed by a rubber band (Gels.).
  • As of a hot ball in forehead.
  • Tender scalp.
EYES
  • Severe orbital neuralgia over right eye.
  • Contraction alternating with dilatationStretching or widening of a vessel or organThe state of being dilated or stretched beyond normal dimensions (e.g., dilatation of the heart). of pupils in hydrocephalus.
  • NeuralgicRelating to sharp nerve painDescribe symptoms or pain that radiates along the path of one or more nerves. twitching in eyeballs.
  • PhotophobiaExtreme sensitivity to lightAn abnormal intolerance to light, causing eye discomfort, squinting, or pain in bright environments. during headache
FACE
  • Dusky face.
  • Pale about nose and mouth.
  • Face pale, pinched, with cold sweat.
  • Face cyanotic.
  • Lips covered with a white membrane.
  • Swelling of face and tongue from bee stings.
  • Twitching in cheeks and temples.
  • LupusAutoimmune inflammatory diseaseA chronic autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own tissues and organs.
MOUTH
  • Intensely foul breath with constipa tion.
  • Burning in mouth to stomach.
  • Lips dry, cracked, painful or black.
  • Nose - Smell very acute.
  • Putrid discharge.
  • Ozaena with fetor and ulceration.
  • Influenza and resulting debility.
  • Perspiration - Profuse, cold sweat.
  • Profoundprostration, collapse and bathed in cold sweat.
  • Clammy sweat on head, face and hands.
  • Profuse sweat with restlessness.
  • Sweats at night
THROAT
  • Glazed.
  • Fauces red and covered with exudationDischarge of fluid or pus from tissueThe process of fluid, cells, or other cellular substances slowly discharging from blood vessels or inflamed tissues..
  • Uvula whitened and shriveled.
  • Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks.
  • Burning in mouth to stomach.
  • Putrid discharge.
  • Almost impossible to swallow.
  • Diphtheria, fetid breath, regurgitationBackward flow of blood or fluidsThe casting up of undigested food from the stomach, or the backward flow of blood through a defective heart valve. on swallowing liq uids, but little pain (Bapt.).
  • Face dusky red, white about mouth and nose.
  • Rapid sinking of vital forces
CHEST
  • Heart worse after indiscretion in eating.
  • Stitches in region of heart.
  • Palpitation or violent action of heart at night.
  • Bellows murmur over mitral valves.
  • Organic valvular heart disease.
  • Thready pulse rapid, weak or intermittent, irregular.
  • Kidneys - Tired sensation in renal region.
  • Urine, scanty, green.
  • Urine alkaline.
  • Urine scanty and red, in scarlatinaScarlet fever bacterial infectionAnother term for scarlet fever, an acute contagious bacterial disease causing a red rash..
  • Urine dark , almost black.
  • Albuminuria.
  • Urine con tained albumen in meningitis.
  • Urinated freely an excessive quantity of saccharine urine.
  • Diabetes
ABDOMEN
  • Fermentative dyspepsia with bad taste and breath.
  • Heat rises up esophagus.
  • Constant belching, nausea, vomiting heartburn.
  • Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen.
  • Pa inful flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. often marked in one part of the bowel.
  • Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, from seasickness, cancer.
  • Dark, olive green vomit.
  • Sore stomach.
  • Temperature - General chilliness and coldness of surface.
  • Chills runs from head downward.
  • ChillyHypersensitive to cold temperaturesA constitutional state of feeling exceptionally cold, lacking vital heat, and needing warmth or heavy blankets. sensation while in a warm room.
  • Chilly in open air.
  • Flatulence.
  • ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. of nursing infants.
  • Soreness of hypochondria worse motion.
  • Abdominal muscles sore.
  • Appetite lost.
  • Cheerful while eating.
  • Desire for stimulants and tobacco.
  • Desire for whiskey.
  • Nausea from cold water.
  • Hiccough after dinner
GENITALS ETC
  • Discharges always offensive (Nit - ac., Nux-v., Sep.).
  • Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus.
  • Severe backache across loins with dragging down thighs, from uterine displacement.
  • Painful swelling of left ovary, worse walking in open air.
  • IndurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring. of cervix.
  • Erosions of cervix, fetid, acrid discharge.
  • Thick, irritating leucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection., causing itching and burning (Kreos.).
  • Leucorrhea in children (Cann -s., Merc., Puls., Sep.).
  • Puerperal fever with offensive discharge
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia, during walking.
  • Stiffness of limbs, hydrocephaloid.
  • Cold hands and feet.
  • Gnawing pains in shin bones.
  • Arthritis
BACK AND NECK
  • Aching between scapula.
  • Pains in loins, worse straightening up and better pressure.
  • Stitching pain, in right side of neck.
  • Drawing in muscles of neck.
  • Severe pain, in lumbosacral region.
  • Soreness of muscles of back and limbs.
  • Bladder - Frequent urination.
  • Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, of prostatic nature.
  • Straining on passing urine
SKIN
  • Burning, itching vesicles and pustules.
  • Bloody vesicles or pustules.
  • Burns tend to ulcerate.
  • Erysipelas
SLEEP
  • Very sleepy

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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