ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM



Lungs

      Oppression and pressive pains in chest, more right.

Stitches in the chest.

Pain in the chest with heat.

Burning and sticking in the chest.

Heart Pulse

      Violent palpitation of the heart.

Pulse extremely irregular: now accelerated and again slow, changing every few beats.

Outer Chest

      Severe continual itching upon the chest the whole day.

Neck Back

      Swelling of the cervical glands.

Spasmodic drawing pain in muscles of nape of neck, reaching to scapulae, evening after lying down and in morning; aggravated by stooping, exerting arms and turning head to left.

Itching of neck and back.

Spasmodic stitches in right scapula when sitting.

Violent pain in small of back when rising from sitting; disappeared when walking.

Upper Limbs

      Cracking in elbow-joint when moving it.

Drawing pain: in arms; in fingers and their joints.

Arthritic pains in fingers.

Finger nails do not grow as rapidly as formerly, and skin beneath the nail painfully sensitive.

Crushed finger nails grow in splits, and like warts, and with horny spots.

Lower Limbs

      Legs fall asleep while sitting quietly.

Painful drawing in hip joints.

Painful stiffness of the knee.

Pain just below the knee, as if it had been tied too tightly.

Drawing pain: in knee; in lower part of the left tibia; in left heel; and tearing through right great toe.

Gout.

Violent pain in lower limbs.

Large horny places on the soles, close to the toes.

Corns on soles and toes.

Great sensitiveness of soles when walking.

Limbs in General

      Convulsions and trembling of Limbs Lassitude, tremulous fatigue and heaviness of all the limbs, as if coming out of the abdomen; with trembling of hands when writing and subsequent discharge of much stinking (excessively offensive) flatus; abdomen distended after dinner.

Rheumatic or gouty pains.

Position etc.

      Rest : Sitting : Stooping : Lying : Rising : Ascending : Walking : Moving arm : Writing :. Exerting arms : Turning head :.

Nerves

      Disposition to start, even at slight noises.

Twitching of muscles; of many parts of the body.

Great lassitude.

Convulsions with the vomiting.

Sleep

      Great sleepiness during the day; mostly in forenoon.

At 7 P.M. feels overwhelmed with sleep.

Coma. Deep, unfreshing sleep.

Slight raving during sleep.

Wakefulness, with shivering over the left side, on which he does not lie; or with sexual desire and erections when getting warm.

Frequent waking at night as from fright.

Dreams : of quarreling : voluptuous; anxious, as if he were to be hurt; horrible, about mutilation of men.

Time

      Morning : Forenoon : Noon : Afternoon : Evening : Night : Day

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Temperature and Weather

      Getting warm : Warm room : Heat of sun : Warm water : Bathing : in river : Cold water : Open air : Worse in warm weather; exhaustion with night-sweats, sleepiness, nausea, vomiting.

Cannot bear the heat of the sun.

Chill Fever Sweat

      Chill predominating during the day, even in warm room.

Violent, shaking chill toward noon, with thirst (for beer).

Shivering over the back; feet cold as ice, with sweat on rest of body.

Heat at night.

Sweat in the morning when awaking, which causes a shriveling of the tips of the fingers.

Sweat, which returns at precisely the same hour, usually every other (third) morning.

After the sweat is over, heat and thirst return.

Attacks

      Symptoms repeat every five, six or twelve weeks.

Returning periodically; coma, earache.

Sweat at same hour every other day.

Sides

      Right : Left : Gout commencing right side going to the left.

Tissues

      Hemorrhages dark.

Dropsical swellings of the whole body.

Mucous membranes generally effected.

Swelling pain and redness of the glands.

External parts turn black; dry gangrene.

Obesity of the young.

Contact Injuries etc.

      Touch : Pressure : Boring in the ear : : Scratching :.

Skin

      Eruption like boils and blisters.

Pustules like varicella.

Itching of skin, feels sore when scratched.

Pimples and vesicles as from stings of insects, especially on face and joints of extremities.

Measle-like eruption; smooth warts; horny excrescences.

Boils on the perineum; burning around them.

Deep, spongy ulcers.

Eruption with thick, hard scabs; often honey-yellow.

Bed-sores :.

Stages and States

      Children.

Young people grow fat.

Old people : alternate diarrhoea and constipation.

Relationship

      Similar to [Apis] (skin); [Arsen] (gastric catarrh, burning eruption, dropsy); [Ammonium mur] (mucous flux); [Bryon] (rheumatism, gastric symptoms, effects of heat, etc.); [Chamom]; Hepar.; [Ipec]. (gastric ailments); [Mercur]; [Nux vom]; [Pulsat]. (gastric symptoms. relief in open air, mind, chills and fever etc.); [Ranunculus bulb] (horny exanthemata); [Rhus tox]; [Sulphur]; [Scilla].

Related to : [Ipec]., still more to [Lycop] (Teste).

Similar in gastric vertigo to [Pulsat].; gastric headache from sour things, to [Pulsat]. or [Arsen].; inflamed eyes to [Acon].; [Euphras].; in toothache in hollow teeth, to [Pulsat].; in lessened appetite from summer heat, to [Bryon]., [Carb. veg].; cramp in stomach, to [Pulsat]. or [Ipec].; watery diarrhoea, to [Ferrum]; after getting overheated, gastric symptoms, to [Bryon]., [Antim]. [sulph]. [aurat]., preferable for asthma from muco pus in bronchi.

Useful [Ipec]. or [Pulsat]. in intermittent.

Polypi with [Pulsat]. and [Mercur].

After [Ant]. [Crud]. follow well : [Pulsat]., [Mercur]., [Sulphur].

Antidotes to [Ant]. [crud].: [Calcar]., [Hepar], [Mercur],.

[Ant]. [crud]. antidotes : stings of insects.

Complementary : [Squilla].

C. Hering
Hering got the degree of M. D. from the University of Wuezburg with highest honours. The theme of his thesis was "De'Medicina Futura" (The medicine of future). Hering left Germany for West Indies and finally arrived at Philadelphia in Jan, 1833. He established a homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, commonly known as "Allentown Academy". Soon he became very popular as a physician. He is known as the 'Father of Homeopathy' in America.