# Carbo Animalis

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Chilly
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Source:  Derived  from  charred  animal  tissue  or  bone,  typically  ox  or  cow  hide,  prepared  for. homeopathic use through trituration, serial dilution, and succussion to enhance therapeutic action. Traditional Context: Historically employed in homeopathy for chronic degenerative conditions,. glandular  disorders,  and  emotional  exhaustion,  particularly  those  involving  induration,. weakness, and melancholic states. It is noted for symptoms such as hard swellings, burning pains,. and  profound  debility,  often  aggravated  by  cold,  damp  weather,  or  night,  and  ameliorated  by. warmth, rest, or gentle pressure. Modern Context: Indicated for glandular disorders (e.g., lymphadenopathy, thyroid dysfunction),. chronic inflammatory conditions  (e.g., arthritis, ulcers), oncological conditions (e.g., malignant. or  benign  tumors),  dermatological  issues (e.g.,  chronic  eczema,  indurated  ulcers),  and. psychological conditions  (e.g., depression, anxiety). It suits patients with chronic or subacute. symptoms  characterized  by  induration,  burning  pains,  profound  weakness,  or  emotional. melancholy, typically exacerbated by cold, damp conditions, overexertion, or emotional stress, and. often seen in individuals with a history of chronic illness, glandular dysfunction, or emotional. trauma. The remedy is particularly relevant for those with a chilly, debilitated constitution, often. presenting with physical symptoms like hard swellings or chronic fatigue alongside emotional traits. like sadness or hopelessness, commonly observed in elderly patients with degenerative diseases,. individuals with chronic infections, or those with stress-related emotional exhaustion.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Worse from: Cold  (air,  weather,  drinks),  damp  weather,  night,  rest,  overexertion,. emotional stress, isolation, pressure, touch, scratching, menstruation, contradiction.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Alternations of mood and overex citability, alternating with fretful sadness.
- Sadness in m orning.
- Aversion to company.
- Desire to be alone, sad and reflective.
- Avoids conversation.
- Weeps during meals.
- Whining.
- Cheerfulness alternating with sadness.
- Homesickness, longing for the past.
- Home sickness in morning.
- Forsaken feeling in morning.
- Anger about former vexations, about past events.
- Easily frightened.
- Fear of the dark, worse on closing eyes.
- Anxiety at night with or gasm of blood.
- Fearofsuffocation on closing eyes.
- Frightful images before sleep.
- Starting on falling asleep.
- Stupefaction, with vertigo, has to close eyes, when rising after stool.
- Confusion better epistaxis.
- Confusion in 
morning, did not know whether he had been asleep or awake.
- Difficulty in expressing ideas when writing.
- Hastiness.
- Irritability in morning, with heavy and dull head.
- Alternations of mood and overex citability, alternating with fretful sadness.
- Sadness in m orning.
- Aversion to company.
- Desire to be alone, sad and reflective.
- Avoids conversation.
- Weeps during meals.
- Whining.
- Cheerfulness alternating with sadness.
- Homesickness, longing for the past.
- Home sickness in morning.
- Forsaken feeling in morning.
- Anger about former vexations, about past events.
- Easily frightened.
- Fear of the dark, worse on closing eyes.
- Anxiety at night with or gasm of blood.
- Fearofsuffocation on closing eyes.
- Frightful images before sleep.
- Starting on falling asleep.
- Stupefaction, with vertigo, has to close eyes, when rising after stool.
- Confusion better epistaxis.
- Confusion in 
morning, did not know whether he had been asleep or awake.
- Difficulty in expressing ideas when writing.
- Hastiness.
- Irritability in morning, with heavy and dull head.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo after shaving, better reeling.
- Vertigo followed by nosebleed.
- COMMENTS - Carb-an.
- is animal charcoal (Carb -v.
- is plant ash) and has similar affects as Bufo.
- Swollen 
glands with suppuration.
- Glands become indurated, have bluish color.
- Often used in the last s tages of cancer 
with decomposition of tissue and sloughing off of tissue.
- Swollen inguinal glands that sup purate.
- Inflamed 
axillary glands.
- Buboes.
- Affections from loss of animal fluids, especially nursing women.
- Weakness of nursing women, can hardly walk 
across the room.
- “Gone” feeling from loss of fluids.
- Too weak to eat.
- Weeps when eating.
- Aversion to dark.
- Aversion to cold (Carb - v.
- to heat).
- Sensations of coldness, particu larly in chest, about 
stomach.
- Coldness of the stomach, better pressure from hand.
- Nausea at night.
- Hunger in early morning.
- Emptiness, not better by eating (Carb-v.
- bettereating).
- Constipation 
where patient thinks bowels will be moved but only wind passes.
- Discharges are ichorous, but the discharge from hemorrhoids is odorless.
- Secretions stain yellow, particularly 
sweat and leucorrhea.
- Ichorous otorrhea and swelling of the periosteum over the mastoid bone.
- Hearing is confused, cannot tell the 
direction from 
which sounds come.
- Carb-an.
- 3x trituration has been used for ear polyps.
- Hoarse, suffocating cough producing a shaking of the brain as if it were loose.
- Ex pectoration is greenish, 
purulent offensive (Carb-v.
- yellow, more fetid).
- Tip of nose red or blue.
- Disagreeable smoothness of the teeth.
- Smothering feeling on closing eyes .
- Feeling of looseness of eyes in sockets, on motion or coughing.
- Far -
sighted (Carb-v.
- is near-sighted).
- Objects seem farther apart and brighter.
- Neuralgia of the bone.
- Injured coccyx, with a dragging, bruised pain, burning when touched.
- Gnawing pains in 
tibia (during the night), such as usually followed cold feet.
- Lumbago when walking, standing and lying, feels 
as if the back were broken.
- A.
- W.
- K.
- Choudhury reports a case of cough of two years' duration in an un healthy boy of twelve, cured by 
Carb-an.
- The symptoms were: “Cough evening and morning or after lying down, especially at night, thick or 
frothy whitish or yellowish sputa, sweetish when thick, worse lying on right side, worse from exposure to air to 
 
 
which he is very sensitive.
- Great tendency to catch cold.”

### Head
- Rush of blood with confusion.
- Headache, As if skull had been split or blown to pieces, must press it 
with both hands, better eating.
- Brain feels loose, 
worse motion and coughing.
- Throbbing headache after menses.
- Sensation as if something lay above eyes so 
 
 
that she could not look up.
- Rush of blood with confusion.
- Headache, As if skull had been split or blown to pieces, must press it 
with both hands, better eating.
- Brain feels loose, 
worse motion and coughing.
- Throbbing headache after menses.
- Sensation as if something lay above eyes so 
 
 
that she could not look up.

### Eyes
- Pains down through (right) eyeball.
- Sensation as if something lay above eyes, so that she could not 
look up.
- As if eyeball were loose in the socket.
- Objects seem to be far off .
- Dimness of vision when read ing.
- better rubbing eyes.
- Senile cataract.

### Ears
- Parotid gland swollen.
- Otorrhea with swelling of mastoid.
- Sharp pain.
- Hearing confused , cannot tell 
direction of sound.
- Ringing in ears, when blowing the nose.

### Face
- Bluish cheeks and lips.
- Copper colored eruptions.
- Acne, large number of pimples.

### Mouth
- Salty or sour water runs from th mouth.
- Knotty indurations in the tongue Bites cheeks while eating.
- Teeth loose worse chewing and least cold.
- Toothach better eating salty th ings.
- Nose - Hard, red, swollen, hot with itchin pimples and desquamation.
- Brown strip across the nose.
- Nose 
swollen, tip bluisl small tumor on it.
- Fluent coryza with los of smell with yawning and sneezing.

### Throat
- Raw feeling like heartburn, better eating.

### Chest
- Palpitations when hearing singing in church or in public places.
- Coldness in precordial region with 
goose bumps.
- Nervous dyspnea.
- Suffocation or closing eyes.
- Pleurisy, ty phoid character with remaining stitch.
- Ulceration of lung: with feeling of coldness in lungs.
- Cougl with discharge of greenish pus.
- Sputum dark, brown 
tough, syrup-like.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- All food distresses the stomach.
- Repugnance to fat food.
- Eating tires patient.
- Weak, empty feeling 
in stomach.
- Burning and griping.
- Weak digestion, flat ulence.
- Heartburn.
- Retching, vomiting, hiccough with 
stomach cancer.
- Sensation of coldness around the stomach better rub bing and pressure.
- Nausea from 
smoking, whichcauses aversion to tobacco.
- Nausea, worse at night,  of pregnancy.
- Faint gone feeling in 
stomach not better by eating in nursing women.
- Ptomaine poisoning.
- Temperature - Hot flushes.
- Sweat, foul, exhausting, at night, staining yellow.
- Great distention after a opera tion.
- As of a hard body in groin (left) worse sitting, better pressure 
and passing flatus.
- Feeling of coldness rising into the throat.
- Induration of pancreas.
- Neglected bubo.

### Urinary & Genital
- Syphilis.
- Bubo.
- Menses too early, frequent, long lasting, dark, clotted, putrid, followed by great exh austion.
- So 
weak can hardly speak (Cocc.).
- Flow only in the morning (Bor., Sep.).
- Leucorrhea, watery, burning, biting.
- Worse walking or standing, stains linen yellow.
- Nausea of pregnancy, worse at night.
- Offensive lochia (Kreos., 
Rhus-t., Sec.), thin, long lasting, with numb limbs.
- Right ovary seems a heavy ball.
- Burning in vagina and labia.
- Indurated os with burning.
- Uterine hemorrhage with disorders of glands.
- Cancer of uterus, burning pain down 
thighs, pelvic bones pain on sitting.

### Extremities
- Axillary glands, swollen, indurated.
- Night sweat fetid and profuse.
- Wrist pain.
- Hands numb with chest 
disorders.
- Joints weak, easy dislocation.
- Ankles turn eas ily.
- Pain in hip joints at night.
- Pain in coccyx, burns 
when touched.
- Straining and over-lifting produces a great debility Easy discoloration.

### Neck & Back
- Coccyx feels bruised, burns when touched, worse sitting or lying.
- Coldness and aching in lumbar region 
with cough.
- Breasts - Weakness of nursing women.
- Darting in breast, painful indurations in breast, especially right, while 
nursing, arresting breathing.
- Hard painful nodes in breast.
- Last stages of breast cancer.
- Causations - Ill effects of eating spoiled fish or decayed vegetables.
- They are over affected by small vital 
losses.
- Sprains.
- Constitutions - Constitutional syphilis.
- Suited to old persons, greatly debilitated, especially when  there is 
venous plethora and blueness of skin.
- Persons whose vitality becomes low on account of some serious or 
deep seated diseased condition or loss of fluids.

### Skin
- Chronic  fatigue  or  profound  weakness,  with  a  sensation  of  collapse,  resembling.
- chronic fatigue syndrome or post-inflammatory exhaustion, worse after exertion,.
- cold, or damp weather.
- Cold intolerance, with aggravation in cold, damp conditions and a strong desire for.
- warmth or dry environments.
- Profuse, cold, or fetid sweating, particularly during pain, fever, or anxiety episodes,.
- worse at night or in cold conditions.
- Tendency to low-grade fever or cachexia, with a sensation of internal burning, worse.
- with cold or emotional stress.

### Sleep
- Full of vivid fancies.
- Talks, groans, sheds tears in sleep.
- Talking and weeping in sleep.