# Carbolicum Acidum

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

## Keynote Indications
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 prostration, even paralytic with loss of sensation and motion. Collapse. Stupor. Paralysis of sensation 
and motion. Feeble pulse and depressed breathing. Death due to paralysis of respiratory centers.  
Malignant and septic conditions. Physical exertion brings on abscess 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. Arthritis. 
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 (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
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.

## Symptoms by System

### 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.
- 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
- Vertigo, 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.
- Palpitations 
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 pneumonia.
- single or double, affecting the bases principally.
- Gangrene 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 influenza 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 dyspepsia 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 erysipelas 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 - Antidote: 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 neuralgia 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.
- Orbital neuralgia 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 dilatation of pupils in hydrocephalus.
- Neuralgic twitching in eyeballs.
- Photophobia 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.
- Lupus.

### 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 exudation.
- 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, regurgitation  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.
- Pulse rapid, weak 
or intermittent, irregular.
- Kidneys - Tired sensation in renal region.
- Urine, scanty, green.
- Urine alkaline.
- Urine scanty and red, in 
scarlatina.
- Urine dark , almost black.
- Albuminuria.
- Urine con tained albumen in meningitis.
- Urinated freely an 
excessive quantity of saccharine urine.
- Diabetes.

### Stomach & 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 flatulence 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.
- Chilly  sensation 
while in a warm room.
- Chilly in open air.
- Flatulence.
- Colic 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- 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.
- Induration of cervix.
- Erosions of cervix, fetid, acrid discharge.
- Thick, irritating 
leucorrhea, causing itching and burning (Kreos.).
- Leucorrhea in children (Cann -s., Merc., Puls., Sep.).
- Puerperal fever with offensive discharge.

### Extremities
- 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.

### Neck & Back
- 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.