Carboneum Sulphuratum

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Carboneum Sulphuratum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
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GENERAL
  • Carbn-s combines many characters of its two elements.
  • It was first brought into notice by its effects on workers in rubber works.
  • This remedy has a deep and disorganizing action and an immense range of action and symptomatology.
  • Lack of vital heat.
  • Sensitive to warm, damp weather.
  • Wors e from warmth.
  • Sensi tive patients, worse cold, wasted muscles Carboneum sulphuratum and skin and mucus membranes anesthetic.
  • Tabes.
  • Anesthesia of skin and mucus membranes.
  • Chronic rheumatismJoint, muscle, or tissue painInflammatory pain, stiffness, and swelling in joints, muscles, or surrounding connective tissues..
  • SciaticaNerve pain radiating from the lower back down the legsPain radiating along the sciatic nerve, which runs down one or both legs from the lower back..
  • ParalysisLoss of voluntary muscle functionThe loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body. with intense congestion of nerve centers.
  • Sensory difficulties in limbs.
  • Diminished sensibility of arms, hands and feet.
  • Periph eral neuritisInflammation of a nerveInflammation of one or more nerves, causing pain, tenderness, numbness, or tingling in the affected area..
  • Tremor.
  • Muscular weakness AtaxiaLoss of full control of bodily movementsA neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality..
  • Strong increase of mechanical muscular irritability.
  • A feeling of vibration and trembling in whole body, particularly in hands.
  • Burning, tearing, jerking, and stitching pains, apt to return at regular intervals for a long time.
  • Pains come and go quickly.
  • Special affinity for eyes.
  • Disturbance of sight and sensibility.
  • Vision better in eve ning, in twilight, after eating.
  • “Toothache brought on by warm food” (Caib-v., Sulph.).
  • Ringing in the ears with poor hearing.
  • Eruptions of herpes and impetigo, discharges excoriating and producing violent itching.
  • Herpetic diathesis.
  • Flatulency (Carb-v.) and abdominal soreness (Sulph.).
  • Di arrhea every four to six weeks.
  • Digestive disorders of extreme severity.
  • Periodic diarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day., comes every six weeks.
  • Incontinence of urine.
  • Inability to sleep is restless with tossing in bed.
  • Giddiness.
  • Impotence.
  • Chronic lead poisoning.
  • Useful in patients broken down by abuse of alcohol
MODALITIES ETC
  • Better in open air.
  • Better warm drinks.
  • Worse after breakfast.
  • Worse at night.
  • Worse from slightest motion.
  • Worse walking.
  • Worse bathing.
  • Worse during and after eating.
  • Worse from warmth
RELATIONSHIPS
📊 Side-by-Side Comparison:

Compare: (1) Kali xantate - Similar in action. Acts on cortical substance, loss of memory,
marked blood degeneration, impotence and senility. (2) Tuberculinum, Radium, Carbo -v., Sulph., Caust.,
Salicyl, ac., Chin. (3) In eye symptoms, vision - Benz- d-n. (4) Thyr. - in progressive diminution of sight with
central scotoma. (5) Caust., Chin., and Nat -sal. in Meniere’s disease, Carb -v. in flatulence. (6) Sulph., Lyc. -
sensitiveness of abdomen. (7) Anae. - hears voices. (8) Cann- i. - opening and shutting sensation in head. (9)
Kali-bi., Sil. (10) Sulph. - hair sensation in throat.

MIND
  • Irritable, anxious intolerant, stupor.
  • Sluggishness of mind.
  • Confusion during headache.
  • Memory lost.
  • Dullness in children.
  • Childish behavior.
  • Idiocy and childishness.
  • Anxiety in morning, on waking.
  • Anxiety in bed.
  • Anxiety at night.
  • Oversensitive to noise.
  • Fear while walking in the dark.
  • Changeable mood.
  • Extravagant gaiety or destructive anger.
  • Dementia alternating with excitement.
  • Great excitement at night has to be confined.
  • Doesn't know what to do with things in the hands.
  • Hallucination of sight and hearing.
  • Visions of magnificent grandeur.
  • DeliriumAcute state of confusion and disorientationA sudden, severe state of mental confusion, anxiety, and disorientation, often accompanied by hallucinations., with incoherent talking.
  • Singing.
  • Delusions, surrounded by enemies.
  • Delusions he is about to receive an injury.
  • Delirium talks Carboneum sulphuratum of money.
  • Violent, vehement.
  • Desire to strike.
  • Bit ing.
  • Sought for things lying before them.
  • Cheerful, free from care, after wind passed.
  • Suicidal disposition, throwing himself from a window.
  • Singing.
  • Bit ing.
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Sudden attacks of vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. while sitting.
  • Vision - Dim vision, objects fade away.
  • MyopiaNearsightednessA vision condition in which you can see objects near to you clearly, but objects farther away are blurry..
  • Loss of vision, progressive with central scotoma.
  • Vision greatly impaired.
  • Everything seems in a fog.
  • Color blindness, red and green, not for white.
  • Vision better evening, twilight, after eating.
  • COMMENTS - In the Medical Argus, H.
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  • Crippen collected, from several sources, instances of workers intoxicated with Carbn-s.
  • Carb-s combines many characteristics of its two elements.
  • It was brought to notice by its effects on workers in rubber works.
  • Pains come and go quickly.
  • The periodicity shows itself, as in diarrhea, which comes every six weeks.
  • The worse from warmth common to Carb -v and Sulph shows itself in Carb -s.
  • A feeling of vibration and trembling in whole body, particular ly in hands.
  • Carb -s has the flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind. of Carb -v and the abdominal soreness of Sulph.
  • In many cases, the action on vision was very marked.
  • Myopia, asthenopia, achro matopsia, dyschromatopsia.
  • Cloudiness and atrophy of optic disc.
  • Optic discs pale.
  • Central scotoma for light and colors.
  • Retinal congestion.
  • Arteries and veins tortuous.
  • Veins are distended and arteries contracted.
  • Everything seemed in a fog, as if a spider's web over objects, green or red.
  • One patient had complete right side hemiplegiaParalysis of one side of the bodyParalysis affecting only one vertical half of the body, usually caused by a brain injury or stroke., follo wing sudden loss of con sciousness, blindness of right eye and great impairment of vision of left.
  • Loss of memory, especially for words, was a very frequent symptom.
  • Delusions were common: “Heard voices and believed he had committed a robbery,” “sensation of a hole close by into which he was in danger of falling.” One acute case concerned a girl, aged 15, who was employed in vulcanizing works, and was exposed to the fumes one whole day.
  • Before this, she had, from smaller exposures to the fumes, frontal pains and heaviness of the head.
  • After this, the pains became more violent and were accompanied by painful contraction of masseters, then by stiffness of neck and vertebral column, finally of legs and arms.
  • The contracture was generalized, but nowhere complete, though the jaws could not be separated.
  • Ulcerative stomatitisInflammation of the mouth liningInflammation of the mucous membranes inside the mouth, causing painful sores, redness, or swelling. ensued and tartar accumulated on the teeth.
  • E.
  • Case cured with Carb -s.
  • 30c in a slender, nervous woman, a “Sensation, as of a weight between the scapulae, compel ling her to bend forward.
  • Thr obbing in the dorsal spine as if a heart were beating there.
  • ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. with ineffectual urging to stool, hemorrhageProfuse bleeding from a ruptured blood vesselAn escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse. of bright blood from rectum after stool.
  • Itching of anus after stool, also in the night.
  • Feet swollen, hot and throbbing in the evening.”
HEAD
  • Headache as from a tight cap.
  • Dull muddl ed feeling in forehead.
  • Noises in head.
  • Constriction of forehead and oc ciput.
  • Pressure pain in forehead.
  • Violent pain, increasing till it causes confusion of mind.
  • Brushing hair is painful.
  • Itching on head sinks forward in walking.
  • Single nodules on head, sore to touch.
  • Headache and dizziness.
EYES
  • Eyes sunken, fixed, expressionless.
  • Sunken eyes, with gray rings.
  • Itching.
  • In flammation, followed by atrophy of optic nerve.
  • Asthenopia and dyschromotopsia.
  • Myopia.
  • Cloudiness and atrophy of optic disc.
  • Central scotoma.
  • Retinal congestion, optic disc pale.
  • Optic neuritis advancing toward atrophy.
  • Arteries and veins con- gested.
  • Reading causes lachrymation.
  • Lids heavy.
  • Lids sore on moving, quivering
EARS
  • Sharp pain in ears after stool.
  • Pain in left ear on swallowing.
  • Sharp pain in right ear.
  • Ears feel obstructed.
  • Deafness, as if ears were obstructed by a fixed substance.
  • Hearing impaired iVoises in head.
  • TinnitusRinging or buzzing in the earsThe perception of noise or ringing in the ears when no external sound is present. aurium.
  • Meniere's disease.
  • Buzzing and singing noises like an Aeolian harp
FACE
  • Face pale, with clammy sweat.
  • Face pale, with flushes of heat.
  • Expression bewildered and as of one demented.
  • Eruption on nose and cheeks similar to acne of drunkards.
  • Tetter -like eruption on left cheek, from scratching with fingernails; spreads and is cov ered with yellowish - brown scabs, disfiguring the face; almost unbearable on account of continued itching.
  • Pushes the lower jaw far forward, and gnashes with it against the upper one.
  • Lips dry and burning
MOUTH
  • Anesthesia of mouth and tongue.
  • Sweetish, foul, bitter, sour, pappy, metal lic taste.
  • NeuralgiaSharp nerve pain along a nerve pathIntense, shooting, or burning pain that radiates along the course of one or more nerves. of teeth.
  • Toothache brought on by warm food.
  • Hawking o f salty mucus.
  • Tongue cold.
  • Tongue burn ing, stiff.
  • Lisping, stammering speech like that of a child.
  • Ulceration of the lips blue, moist, with convulsive movements.
  • Nose - Eruptions on nose.
  • Sneezing with sensitiveness in chest.
  • Tip of nose burns, as if raw, and is quite red.
  • Tickling in point of nose with irritation to sneeze.
  • Nosebleed.
  • Smell is lost.
  • Perspiration - Sweats after much walking.
  • Sweat, relieves the headache.
  • Suppression of usual sweat
THROAT
  • Burning in throat extending to stomach.
  • Tickling in back of palate after lying down, causes violent, dry cough.
  • Sensation as if a hair has lodged in throat.
  • As if a piece of bone has lo dged in esophagus.
  • Sharp, contracting pain.
  • Scraping feeling in throat with fine stitches.
  • Goitre.
  • Voice feeble, of a deep tone.
  • Hoarseness.
  • Irritation to hawk.
  • Heat in larynx, scratching and scraped feeling.
  • Clergyman's sore throat
CHEST
  • Sharp pains under short ribs.
  • Flying sharp pains and burning in chest, quickly passing over, but frequently returning.
  • Oppression and fullness in chest.
  • Constriction, as if expiration were impeded, better deep respirations, better in open air, worse ascending steps.
  • Warmth and fullness in chest with difficult breathing.
  • Constitutions - Broken-down, weak constitutions.
  • Coughs - Cough from irritability of larynx.
  • Cough after lying down.
  • Cough from tickling in posterior part of palate, straining the chest and making it sore.
  • Cough from heartburn.
  • Anemic murmur of first sounds extended along great vessels.
  • Kidneys - Tickling in forepart of urethra and sensation as if something would run out.
  • Cutting, smarting and burning during urination painful and slow, with tenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain., even bloody urine.
  • Can't retain urine long.
  • Urine albuminousContaining albumin proteinReferring to substances or body secretions (like urine) containing the protein albumin., turbid.
  • Breathing difficult.
  • Emphysema.
  • Asphyxia from alcohol or coal gas.
  • Expiration hot
ABDOMEN
  • Sour eructations after coughing.
  • Sour eructations and passage of much sour flatus, better belching.
  • Distension, better noi sy eructations.
  • Burning pains.
  • Heartburn, worse pressure.
  • Sensations of warmth in stomach.
  • Flying sharp pains in region of stomach as if tied together.
  • Stomach painful to external pressure.
  • Pressing, sharp pains of short duration, radiating to car diac region.
  • Loud belching.
  • Nausea, with fainting spells.
  • Nausea, better eructations or vomiting of food with glairy mucus.
  • Vomiting of bitter water.
  • Inclination to vomit when entering a room or going into open air.
  • Temperature - Coldness, during headache.
  • Feverish attacks, during headache.
  • Distention with soreness and rumbling.
  • Flatulence, better after stool.
  • Rumbling and flatulent complaint, twisting, rolling and rumbling as if diarrhea would set in Cutting pain in bowels.
  • Abdominal walls as if bruised and sore.
  • Pain with wandering swellings as from flatus.
  • Navel drawn inward, with pain.
  • Strangulated hernia.
  • Griping pain around navel with urging to stool.
  • Liver troubles, 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. of feet.
  • Ravenous appetite lost.
  • Hunger with aversion to eating.
  • Great thirst.
  • Desire for beer.
  • Aversion to meat.
  • Worse tobacco, wine and beer.
  • Worse from alcohol.
  • Drunken, unconscious from whiskey
GENITALS ETC
  • Burning in urethra with erections.
  • Atrophied testicles.
  • Scrotum shrivelled and drawn up.
  • Desire lost, parts atrophied.
  • Frequent, profuse nocturnal emissions.
  • At first, sexual desire increased, then lost.
  • Impotence.
  • Atrophy of ovaries.
  • Labor-pains too weak
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Emaciation.
  • Paralysis.
  • Trembling.
  • Sore, bruised limbs.
  • Edema.
  • Anesthesia of arms and hands.
  • Sciatica.
  • Cramps in limbs.
  • Lighting-like pains with cramps.
  • Carboneum sulphuratum Flying pains, returning regularly for a long time.
  • Progressive neuritis.
  • Hemiplegia of right side.
  • Formication, tingling as from electric currents.
  • Pain in lower limbs with cramps and formications.
  • Gait unsteady tottering, worse in dark.
  • Tearing in limbs, coming and going, now in one and again in another limb.
  • Feet insensible.
  • Fingers swollen, insensible, rigid, stiff.
  • Herpes on dorsal surface of hands
BACK AND NECK
  • RheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues., with stiffness of neck.
  • Pains in lumbar region and loins.
  • Sensation of weight between scapula, compelling to bend forward.
  • Sensation as if dislocated.
  • Bladder - Cramping, in bladder and neck of bladder.
  • Urging to urinate, passes but few drops at a time.
  • Urging to urinate with burning in urethra and tenesmus in neck of bladder.
  • Causations - Ill effects of coal gas
SKIN
  • Anesthesia.
  • Burning, itching.
  • Ulcers.
  • Small wounds fester.
  • Skin cancer.
  • F urunculosis.
  • Chronic skin diseases with much itching.
  • Eruptions on face, red, elevated.
  • Vesicles on a red, inflamed and swollen base.
  • Vesicles contain an opaque, yellow ish fluid, which forms thick, yellowish scabs, sometimes the discharge excoriates and produces violent itching
SLEEP
  • Sleep is restless with tossing in bed.
  • Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams

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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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