Antimonium Crudum



Abdomen

Inflation of the abdomen, with a sensation of fullness, chiefly after a meal. Violent cutting pains, sometimes with want of appetite; urine red and stools hard. Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, as after violent diarrhoea. Sensation of swelling

and of hardness in the inguinal region, on its being pressed. Accumulation of flatus in the abdomen, with rumbling and borborygmi.

Stool and Anus

Difficult evacuation of hard stools. Difficult evacuations, the faeces are too large in size. Urgent inclination to go to stool. Stool of the consistence of pap. Diarrhoea, generally watery, with cutting pains. After vinegar or acid wine, loose stool. Alternate diarrhoea and constipation, especially in aged persons. Constant secretion of yellowish-white mucus by the anus. Flow of black blood from the anus. Haemorrhoidal excrescences, blind and running, with burning and tingling. Burning itching and fissures in the anus. Expansive pressure in the rectum (during stool as if an ulcer had been torn open) and the anus. Burning furunculus in the perineum.

Urinary Organs

Frequent inclination to make water, with scanty emission. Frequent and abundant emission of urine, with abundant flow of mucus, and burning in the urethra, accompanied by pains in the loins. On coughing, involuntary emission of urine. Urine aqueous, or of a gold colour, or reddish brown, and sometimes mixed with small red corpuscles. Incisive pain in the urethra, on making water.

Male Sexual Organs.

Excitement of sexual desire, and great lasciviousness. Pollutions.

Female Sexual Organs.

Metrorrhagia. Sharp and corrosive discharge from the vagina. Nymphomania from checked catamenia. Tenderness over ovaries after menses checked by a bath. Gastrointestinal disorders of pregnancy. Pressure in the uterus as if something would come out of it, especially during uterine haemorrhage. Toothache before the menses, with boring in the temples. Quite solid lumps in a watery leucorrhoea, which sometimes causes a smarting down the thighs. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea during pregnancy.

Respiratory Organs

Great heat in the throat while moving in the open air. Great weakness, or entire loss of the voice, chiefly on becoming warm. Looking into the fire increases cough. Sensation of a foreign substance in the larynx, with inability to expectorate. Violent spasm in the larynx, with sensation of excoriation. Cough, with burning in the chest. Morning cough, dry and shaking. Whooping- cough. Cough as if arising from abdomen.

Chest

Stifling oppression and paralytic orthopnoea. Respiration deep, with sighing. Shootings in the chest, when drawing breath and at other times. Pain, as of contusion, in the pectoralis major, on raising the arm, and on pressure. Sharp pain under left breast.

Neck and Back

Cramp-like drawing in the muscles of the neck and of the nape of

the neck. Rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck. Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck, in the shoulder-blades, and behind the ears.

Upper Limbs

Rheumatic pains in the arms Red vesicles on the arms, with itching. Painful inflammation of the tendons of the elbow, with great redness and curvature of the arm. Hot and red swelling of the forearm, with shooting tension. Sensation of drawing in the forearm, the fingers, and the joints of the fingers. Arthritic

pains in the joints of the fingers. Painful sensibility of the skin under the nails, and slow growth of the nails themselves. A horny growth under the nail. Crushed finger-nails grow in splits, with horny spots.

Lower Limbs

Sensation of drawing in the lower limbs, especially in the coxofemoral joint. Lumps, with red rings, on the buttocks and legs. Violent pain in the lower extremities. Numbness of the legs after sitting for some time. Shooting pain in the knee and in the tibia. Drawing pain in knees, lower part left tibia, in left heel, and tearing through the right great toe. Tumour or white swelling of the knee. Painful stiffness in the knee, preventing the extension of the leg. Vesicles on the knee after scratching it. Sensibility of the soles of the feet, when walking on the pavement. Red swelling of the heel, with burning shootings, which are aggravated by walking. Corns on the soles of the feet, and callous excrescence at the tips of the toes. Pressive pain in the corns. Burning in the fleshy part of the great toe. Callous excrescence under the nail of the great toe.

Generalities

Rheumatic pains and inflammation of the tendons, with redness and contraction of the part affected. Inflammation of the muscles. Drawings or shootings and tension, principally in the limbs. Restlessness, uneasiness. Disposition to start even at slight noises. Twitching of muscles of many parts of the body. Convulsions with vomiting. The symptoms are aggravated in the heat of the sun, after having drunk wine, after a meal, night and morning, amelioration during repose and in the fresh air. Great sensibility to cold. Heaviness of all the limbs. General weakness, especially at night, on waking. Emaciation, or great obesity. Dropsical swelling of the whole body. Mucous membranes generally affected. Anasarca. Marasmus. Children cannot bear to be touched or looked at. Chronic affections traceable to suppressed eruptions or ulcers.

Skin

Itching, especially in the neck, chest, back and limbs. Eruptions which appear chiefly in the evening, or which itch in the heat of the bed, and prevent sleep. Miliary eruptions and nettle-rash. Tumours and blisters, as if from the stings of insects. Measles-like eruption. Eruptions, similar to chicken- pox, with shooting pain on pressure. Thick, hard scabs, often honey-yellow, here and there a crack oozing a green sanious fluid, burning as if immersed in hot embers. Urticaria white, with red areolae, which itch fearfully. Pustules with yellowish or brown scurf. Freckles. Hepatic spots. Deep spongy ulcers with gastric ulcers. Fistulous ulcers. Horn-like excrescences and disposition to abnormal organizations of the skin. Corns and callous excrescences on the feet. Nails discoloured and deformed. Red and hot swellings. Degeneration of the skin. Fungus of the joints.

Sleep

Strong inclination to sleep during the day, and somnolency, chiefly in the evening or morning. Coma with delirium. Waking with fright during the night. Dreams, anxious, horrible, voluptuous, or painful, and full of quarrelling.

Fever

Chilliness predominating even in the warm room. Sensation of coldness in the nose when inhaling air. Heat, especially during the night, before midnight, with cold feet. Great heat from little exercise, especially in the sun. Intermittent fever, with gastric or bilious affections, principally with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, loaded tongue, bitterness of the mouth, with moderate thirst, diarrhoea, tension and pressure at the pit of the stomach, with cutting pains. Tertian fever. Hot sweat, early in the morning every second day. Pulse irregular, sometimes quick, sometimes slow.

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica