Anthracinum

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Anthracinum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
GENERAL
  • Anthracinum was introduced into homeopathic practice by Lux, a veterinarian, long before the experiments of Pasteur.
  • The potential anthrax nosode is the best remedy for the disease from which it is obtained, “splenic fever” in animals and “malignantpustule” in human beings.
  • Epi demic spleen diseases of domestic animals and in septic inflammation, carbuncles and malignant ulcers.
  • This nosode is a very valuable remedy in malignant or septic inflammati on of connective or cellular tissue.
  • It produces boils or boil -like eruptions, carbuncles, malignant ulcers, abscesses, bubo, where there is purulent focus.
  • For boils and boil like eruptions, acne.
  • Succession of boils or carbuncles.
  • Suppurating, burning abscesses, fetid pus.
  • Recurrent abscesses.
  • AbscessCollection of pus inside body tissuesA swollen area within body tissue, containing an accumulation of pus, typically caused by bacterial infection. of nasal septum.
  • Quinsy.
  • GangreneDeath of body tissue from lack of blood flowLocalized death and decomposition of body tissue, resulting from either obstructed circulation or bacterial infection., dissecting wounds.
  • Offensive gangrenous ulcers.
  • Parotiditis.
  • Foul secretions.
  • Ulceration, sloughing andintolerable burning.
  • Hard, stony swelling in region of right lower jaw and submaxillary gland.
  • Anthrax quinsy.
  • WhitlowPainful abscess on finger or toe tipA highly painful, localized infection or abscess near the fingernail or fingertip. and sloughing.
  • Glands painfully swollen.
  • Black or blue blisters.
  • Foul erysipelasAcute bacterial skin infectionAn acute, sometimes recurrent, bacterial skin infection characterized by large, raised red patches, especially on the face. and gangrenous erysipelas, cellulitis.
  • Septicemia.
  • Hemorrhages are thick, black tar-like from any orifice.
  • Glands swollen, cellular tissue edematous and indurated.
  • Terrible burning with great .prostrationExtreme physical weakness or exhaustionA state of extreme physical weakness, collapse, or exhaustion, often accompanying severe illness..
  • Black and blue Wisters.
  • Insect stings.
  • Bad effects from inhaling foul odors.
  • IndurationHardening of body tissueThe hardening of normally soft organic tissues, usually due to chronic inflammation, infiltration, or scarring.,, cellular tissue, glands, muscles.
  • Lymphangitis.
  • Inflammation after surgery.
  • Injuries, blows, falls and bruises.
  • Injuries to bones, fractures.
  • Compound fracture.
  • Pain in cancerous affections.
  • Burning pain, external.
  • Pyemia.
  • Swelling of glands.
  • Trembling, paroxysmal.
  • Benign tumors.
  • Angioma.
  • Fungus hematodes.
  • Hemangioma.
  • Atheroma.
  • Steatoma.
  • Disorganization of blood.
  • Congestion of blood.
  • Convulsions, spasms, particularly in alcoholics.
  • Clonic spasms.
  • External dropsyFluid retention and swelling (edema)An old medical term for edema, which is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues..
  • Weakness, enervation, exhaustion, pros tration, infirmity.
  • Weakness during fever.
  • Weakness from perspiration.
  • Wounds.
  • Bites of dogs, poisonous animals.
  • Snakes bites.
  • Ailments from inhaling foul odors.
  • Poisoning with sewer gas.
  • In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah's carbuncleCluster of boils under the skinA severe abscess or multiple boil in the skin, typically infected with staphylococcus bacteria. i.e., the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and applied
MIND
  • Anxiety, withfever.
  • Confusion of mind.
  • Disinclined to work, aversion to mental work.
  • Depression, with debility and chill.
  • Silent grief.
  • Irritability, restlessness, ner vousness, at night.
  • Sadness, despondency, depression, melancholy.
  • DeliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations. and excitement during fever.
  • Oversensitive.
  • Presentiment of death.
  • Thinks she feels death approaching.
  • Hy drophobia.
  • Makes animals howls, bite, run about, become greatly excited, followed by paralytic symptoms.
  • Collapse, unconsciousness, coma.
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Dizziness with headaches.
  • VertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. with loss of consciousness.
  • COMMENTS - Great restlessness.
  • Debility and depression with pains in limbs and general sense of malaise, followed by disturbance of the intestines.
  • Restlessness.
  • Clonic and tetanic spasms.
  • Exhaustion and collapse.
  • Terrible burning pains.
  • Malignant boils.
  • Severe boils that are very painful, with a tendency toward gangrene or cancer, or that refuse to heal (Tarant., Sil., Hep., and Bell.).
  • Boils that come in crops all over the body.
  • Keynote severe burning pains (Canth.).
  • Ulcers with terrible burn ing.
  • Induration of tissues.
  • Hypersensitivity to the least touch, so they can't wear any clothes.
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  • Completely exhausted, think they feel death.
  • Collapse, with difficulty of br eathing, loss of consciousness, death.
  • CyanosisBluish discoloration of the skinA bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to low oxygen levels in the blood., asphyxia and the most extreme collapse, followed by death in all cases of bleeding.
  • HemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. of dark blood (Croc.), keynote black, stringy hemorrhages.
  • RELATIONS»- Antidoted by: Camph., Ars., Rhus -t., Sil.?
  • Lach., Carb -v., Puls., Kreos., Carb -ac., Sal-ac., Apis.
  • Similarto: Ars., which it often follows.
  • Tarent -c.
  • Compare: ( 1) Ars., Tarent -c., Carb-v., Pyrog., Lach., Crot-h., Hippozaen, Echi.
  • Follows well: Ars.
  • - burning and ulceration, Ph -ac.
  • Followed well by: Aur-m-n.
  • - periosteal swelling of lower jaw, Sil.
  • - cellulitis.
HEAD
  • Dullness in head ak from narcotics.
  • Headache, as if a smoke With a heating pain was passing through the head.
  • Headache w ith chill.
  • Carbuncles on head, near the ears or temples.
  • Swelling of head.
  • Cere bral hemorrhage.
  • Erysipelas.
  • Swelling of dura mater.
EYES
  • 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.
  • Pale yellowish or greenish swelling.
  • Pale redness above the brows along the forehead
EARS
  • Ringing in ears.
  • Swelling of ears
FACE
  • Acne, boils and pustules.
  • Parotiditis gangrenosa, after scarlatinaScarlet fever bacterial infectionAnother term for scarlet fever, an acute contagious bacterial disease causing a red rash..
  • Abscess, lips.
  • I Cancer.
  • Gland under chin painfully swol - !
  • len.
  • Tearing pain.
  • Earthy discoloration.
  • I Red face and nose.
  • Swelling, face glands, lymphatic tissue.
  • Erysipelas.
  • Indurations.
  • Sycosis barbae
MOUTH
  • Flabby taste.
  • Dark red, bloody ecchymoses of mouth.
  • Hemorrhage, oozing of blood.
  • Abscess, lips.
  • Pustules, lips.
  • Black, lips.
  • Erysipelas, lips.
  • Offensive odor from mouth could not be opened.
  • Induration of salivary, submaxillary glands.
  • Inflammation of parotid gland.
  • Saliva increased.
  • Cancer of glands, salivary, submandibular.
  • Swelling of salivary, submaxillary glands.
  • Nerves - Epileptiform convulsions.
  • Parox ysms of trembling.
  • Clonic spasms, trismus or opisthotonos.
  • Tetan ic spasms in upper limbs.
  • Debility and depression, with pain in the limbs.
  • Nose - Eruptions, inside nose, boils, fu runcles.
  • Nose swollen and red, fetid smell from it.
  • Bloody mucus membranes of nose.
  • Red discoloration of nose extending to cheek.
  • CoryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge..
  • Discharge, offensive, fetid.
  • Smells putrid odors, imaginary and real.
  • Swelling, nose.
  • Perspiration - Sweat all over with debility.
  • Night sweats.
  • Cold sweats.
  • Debilitating, exhausting sweats.
  • Sticky, viscid sweats.
  • Perspiration, suppressed
THROAT
  • Right tonsil painful.
  • Anth rax quinsy.
  • Malignant sore throat.
  • Swallowing difficult.
  • Bleeding, oozing, tonsils.
  • Sore throat.
  • TonsillitisInflammation of the tonsilsInflammation of the tonsils, typically of sudden onset, causing sore throat and fever..
  • Swelling, edematous.
  • Tongue ofteirfurred, with a thick brown coat, dry.
  • Urine - Pale urine.
  • Profuse, increased urine.
  • Scanty urine.
  • Watery, clear as water
CHEST
  • Sensation as if diaphragm were pushed forward.
  • Sensation of anxiety and constriction, in the précordia.
  • Swelling of axillary lymphatic tissue.
  • Heartbeats frequent but weak.
  • Soft, scarcely frequent pulse.
  • Blood does not coagulate.
  • Jaws - Tearing pain in tower jaws.
  • Lockjaw, trismus.
  • Stiffness in jaws.
  • Stony swelling around lower jaw.
  • Kidneys swollen with edemaSwelling caused by excess fluid in tissuesA condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body..
  • Suppression of urine, anuriaFailure of kidneys to produce urineA severe condition where the kidneys stop producing urine or produce less than 100 ml per day..
  • Swelling
ABDOMEN
  • Belching with nausea, and inclination to vomit.
  • Nausea and vomiting with chill.
  • Vomiting of bilious and slimy masses.
  • Vomiting followed by diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day..
  • Pressure and burning in the region of the stomach.
  • Burning pains.
  • Vomiting of bile, mucus.
  • Temperature - Creeping' chills.
  • Debility with chills, alternating with heat.
  • Great weakness with fever with diarrhea.
  • Continued fever, typhus fever.
  • Typhoid fever, with rapidly sinking pulse, loss of strength, fainting, delirium.
  • Puerperal fever.
  • Septic fevers.
  • Zymotic fevers.
  • Distension.
  • Swelling of the abdomen.
  • Colicky pains.
  • Bellyache with chill.
  • Rumbling noises.
  • Abdominal soreness, in epigastrium with vomiting, cold limbs, dull head.
  • Intestinal anthrax.
  • Mesenteric glands enlarged, size of a walnut.
  • Dark red carbuncle in the omentum.
  • Bubo.
  • Burning, smarting pain.
  • Appetite wanting.
  • Diminished appetite with fever.
  • Loss of a ppetite with chills and gastralgia.
  • Aversion to eggs, odor of eggs.
  • Excessive thirst, but can hardly swallow.
  • Thirst with fever
GENITALS ETC
  • Erections, troublesome.
  • Erections, continued, priapism
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Burning pains.
  • Coldness of lower limbs.
  • Cramps.
  • Severe pains in limbs and joints with the fev er.
  • Convulsions, spasms.
  • Tetanic spasms of upper limbs.
  • 1, Cracked skin.
  • Arms and hands covered with a crusty eruption, full of cracks.
  • Felon with sloughing, severe torturing pain and great prostration.
  • Boils, blisters, and vesicles.
  • Pustules.
  • Whitlow.
  • Gangrene from burns or scalds.
  • Gangrenous ulcers with black base on lower limbs.
  • Swelling of limbs.
  • ( Liver engorged.
  • Congestion, liver.
  • Lungs - Cyanosis.- Breathing frequent, laborious and spasmodic.-
BACK AND NECK
  • Axillary glands swollen.
  • Eruptions.
  • Carbuncles.
  • Opisthotonos.
  • Blood - Septicemia, blood poisoning.
  • Tendency to hemorrhage.
  • Blood does not coagulate, hemophilia.
  • Bleeding from orifices.
  • Bleeding, clots, dark, ropy, tenacious.
  • Rapidly decomposing blood
SKIN
  • Itching with dry skin.
  • Dryness.
  • Ec- chymosis.
  • Boils, painful.
  • Blood boils.
  • Carbuncles, burning.
  • Edema, ulcers, gangrene, sloughing whitlows.
  • Blackish eruptions.
  • Black or blue blisters.
  • Crusty oozing eruption.
  • Sloughing ulcers.
  • Small pox.
  • Bluish spots, with bu rning.
  • Red spots.
  • Erysipelas.
  • Pustules and vesicles.
  • Gangrene from bums’or scalds.
  • Gangrenous ulcers, cancerous.
  • Ulcers with offensive discharges
SLEEP
  • Sleeplessness because of the pain.
  • Sleepless, restless and irritated at night.
  • Delirium with sleepiness.
  • Sleep short, not refreshing, more like a stupor.
  • Comatose.
  • Unrefreshing sleep.
  • Spleen, complaints of Enlarged spleen.
  • Epidemic spleen diseases of cattle or horses

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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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