# Carbolic Acid (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
At one time Carbolic acid soap was us ed in hospitals and dispensaries
as an antiseptic.  It has a very pungent smell.  Usage in homoeopathy
is quite different.  Carbolic Acid in Homoeopathic form is the best
treatment for severe allergic reaction to a sting by a bee or a wasp.  A
dose or two can offer complete cure.

Carbolic Acid acts on the sensory perceptions of the body .  Its
patient has an unusually sharp sense of smell.  The normally
imperceptible smell may easily be noticed by the patient of Carbolic
Acid.

In Carbolic Acid, the pain is severe and sudden in nature.  It comes on
suddenly and disappears just as fast .  Some parts of the body may be
numb.  Some parts feel as  if tied in a rubber ba nd.  Carbolic Acid has
been found very useful in the treatment of mouth ulcers.

There is neuralgic type of pain in and around the eye .  Carbolic
Acid would prove very useful in tr eating such a pain that has settled
inside the eye.

One symptom of Carbolic Acid is that there is complete loss of
appetite.  The abdomen becomes distended with gas .  Excessive
amount of distension of the abdomen in  a localised area is typical of
Carbolic Acid because Carbolic Acid causes spasmodic constriction of
the intestines at different places.  The gas gets loculated between the
so formed constriction rings. Ca rbolic Acid should be well-
remembered for treating such sicknesses.

The Carbolic Acid patient has a ba d taste in the mouth.  There is no
sense of thirst, and a loss of appe tite.  Sometimes, he experiences
severe constipation and at  other times, severe diarrhoea.  The stools
smell very offensive.  In the case of constipation, even the breath
smells foul.  What this shows is th at the foul gases cannot be expelled
naturally.  Instead, they become absorbed through the walls of the
intestines and reach the lungs via the blood, resulting in bad breath.

Carbolic Acid is very important for treating albumin in the urine.
Some patients excrete so much albu min in the urine that it becomes
dark like black ink.  Terebinthina t oo, is very useful in treating this
condition.  The Carbolic Acid patien t frequently gets up at night to
pass urine, which may ve ry well be due to enlargement of the
prostate gland . Carbolic Acid is very useful in the treatment of
infections of kidneys, as well as prostate gland. Carbolic Acid must
be kept in mind for any increase in  the frequency of passing urine at
night.  Some physicians advise Carbo lic Acid to be used in potency
1X; I however do not have any personal experience of that.

Carbolic Acid may be very useful in the treatment of severe
backache, especially when it is  radiating down to both the
buttocks.  This is its typical characteristic.

Carbolic Acid may be the curative treatment for leucorrhoea
developing before puberty.  Typically, the periods and leucorrhoeal
discharge smell foul.

Carbolic Acid would cure cramps in the feet and legs, as well as
generalized bone pains, if the patie nt has the general disposition of
Carbolic Acid.  The skin signs of Carbolic Acid are the development
of blisters with itching, burning and pain.

Antidotes:  Vinegar, Chalk, Iodum
Potency:  30

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