Antimonium Tartaricum



Eyes

Eyes fatigued, requiring sleep, and to be firmly closed. Pain, as of a bruise in the eyeball, on touching it. Aching of the eyes. Shootings, burning sensation, and smarting in the internal canthi, with redness of the conjunctiva. Eyes confused, swimming in tears, sunken, surrounded by dark circles. In pneumonia when the edges of the lids are covered with mucus. Rheumatic ophthalmia or from Gonorrhoea. Incipient amaurosis. Confused sight, with sparkling before the eyes, especially on rising from a seat.

Ears

Humming in the ears.

Nose

Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, ulcerated nostrils, shivering, loss of smell, and of taste. Uncontrollable epistaxis with spongy gums. Nose dry. Nose pointed. Nostrils widely dilated. Nostrils black, alae flapping.

Face

Face pale and wan, or red and bloated, with anxious expression. Face pale, sunken. Dull, drawing pressure, in the zygomatic process. Convulsive jerking of the muscles of the face. Parched lips, with desquamation. Eruption round mouth. Cracked lips.

Teeth

Odontalgia, with very violent pain in morning. Rheumatic toothache of intermittent type. Scurvy.

Mouth

Copious accumulation of saliva in the mouth. Tongue moist, clean, or loaded with a brown coating. Tongue: red, dry in middle, red in streaks, thick, white, pasty coat, thick white fur. Aphonia.

Appetite

Fatty taste in the mouth. Insipidity of food. Salt taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth. Thirst for cold water. Moderate appetite with burning thirst. Good appetite, with speedy disgust, on partaking of any food. Bulimy, when walking in the open air. Craving for acid things, or for raw fruits (apples), for cold drinks or thirstlessness. Aversion to all food, especially milk. Every mouthful produces a painful sensation, extending to the stomach. After drink: nausea, cough.

Stomach

Empty risings. Sobbing risings. Risings with taste of rotten eggs, at night. Regurgitation, of acrid, or salt, or else sourish fluid. Regurgitation after partaking of milk. Constant nausea, sometimes with inclination to vomit, anguish, pressure in the scrobiculus, and headache, mitigated by expulsion of flatus, upwards and downwards. Violent retching, with copious flow of saliva, sweat on the forehead, and lassitude in the legs, or else with diarrhoea, and excessive debility. Much vomiting, with violent efforts, pain in the stomach and abdomen, trembling of the body, necessity to bend double, shiverings, and strong inclination to sleep. Vomiting of mucous, with mucous diarrhoea. Acid vomiting, containing food. Vomiting of sour and bitter substances, especially at night. Excessive sensibility of the stomach, the smallest mouthful causes a painful sensation. Pain in the stomach, as if it were overloaded. Uneasiness and emptiness in the stomach. Pressure in the stomach and scrobiculus, especially after a meal. Violent throbbings and pulsations in the region of the stomach. Shootings in the pit of the stomach.

Abdomen

Pains in the abdomen, with great moral and physical agitation, and dislike to all kinds of labour. Uneasiness in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, which compels the patient to lie down and to stretch himself. Fullness and pressure in the abdomen, as if it contained stones, especially on stooping forward, while in a sitting posture. Spasmodic colic in the abdomen, with violent contraction of the eyelids, and irresistible inclination to sleep. Incisive pains in the abdomen, as if the intestines were being cut. Pulsations in the abdomen. Abundant production of flatus, with grumbling, borborygmi, and pinchings in the abdomen.

Stool and Anus

Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea. Diarrhoea in pneumonia, small-pox, and other eruptive diseases, especially if the eruption has been suppressed. Diarrhoea and vomiting. Faeces of the consistence of pap. Slimy diarrhoea, or yellow, bright brown, or else watery, often preceded by gripings and movements in the abdomen. Sanguineous faeces. Involuntary evacuations. During the evacuation, palpitation of the heart. Violent burning tickling, extending from the rectum into the glans penis. Lancinations in the rectum. Tenesmus during and after stool, frequent burning at the anus.

Urinary Organs

Very profuse and distressing emission of urine, with tension in the perineum, burning sensation in the urethra, and scanty stream, which is sanguineous towards the end of the emission, with violent pains in the bladder. Nocturnal calls to urinate, with burning thirst and scanty emission. Involuntary emission of urine. Red, fiery urine, which forms blood-red filaments after standing. Deep-brown, acrid, turbid urine. Pressure and tension on the bladder. Shootings in the urethra and lower part of the bladder.

Male Sexual Organs.

Excitation of sexual system. Pain in testicles after checked Gonorrhoea. Warts behind glans penis, with ulcers elsewhere (sycosis). Pustules on genitals and thighs. Syphilis.

Female Sexual Organs.

Catamenia of watery blood. Severe bearing-down in vagina. Chronic metritis with feeling of weight tugging at coccyx. Eruption of pimples on the genital organs. Itching of pudenda.

Respiratory Organs

Catarrh, with irritation, which excites coughing, copious accumulation of mucus, and rattling of mucus in the chest. Hoarseness. Painful tenderness of the larynx when touched. Cough, excited by violent tickling in the trachea. A child coughs when angry. Paroxysms of coughing, with suffocating obstruction of respiration (suffocating cough). Dyspnoea, compelling one to sit up. Shortness of breathing from suppressed expectoration. Suffocating attacks with sensation of heat at the heart. Whooping-cough, preceded by the child crying, or after eating or drinking, or when getting warm in bed, after the attack somnolency. Cough, with heat and moisture of the hands, and perspiration on the head, chiefly on the forehead. Cough, with vomiting of food, after a meal. Hollow cough, with rattling of mucus in the chest. Cough, with expectoration of mucus, sometimes at night only, chiefly after midnight.

Chest

Velvety feeling in the chest. Frequent fits of obstructed respiration, especially in the evening or in the morning, in bed, almost to the extent of suffocation. Shortness of breath. Difficult respiration. Paralysis of the lungs. Anxious oppression of the chest, with a sensation of heat, which ascends to the heart. Rattling of mucus in the chest when breathing. Fitful pain, as from excoriation in the chest, especially on the left side. Rheumatic pain in the left side of the chest. Burning sensation in the chest which ascends to the throat. Inflammation of the lungs. Miliary eruption on the chest.

Heart and pulse

Visible and anxious palpitation of the heart (also without anxiety), sometimes during an evacuation. Palpitation with loose stools. Heat about heart and warmth rising up from it. Sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels. Pulse: hard, quick, and small, or weak, quick, and trembling, small, threadlike, imperceptible. Twisting, digging, and blows in the region of the heart, at night, which do not cease till perspiration breaks out.

Neck and Back

Weakness of the muscles of the neck, which prevents the head from being held up. Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck. Pain in the back and loins when seated, as from fatigue. Violent pain in the sacro-lumbar region, slightest effort to move causes retching and cold, clammy sweat. Pain in sacrum with sensation of lameness. Sensation as if a heavy load was hanging on end of coccyx, dragging downwards all the time. Rheumatic pain in the back.

Limbs.

Heaviness in limbs followed by leprous eruption. Limbs over- fatigued, a sensation coming from back. Jerking up of limbs during sleep with loose stools. Small ulcers on tips of fingers and toes, spreading, livid edges (leprosy).

Upper Limbs

Cracking in the joints of the shoulder, with tearing in the arms, extending into the hands. Excessive heaviness of the arms. Jerking of the muscles in the arms and hands. Miliary eruption on the arms. Itching pimples on the arms and wrists. Red spots on the hands, like fleabites. Trembling of the hands. Coldness of the hands. Icy coldness in the tips of the fingers, as if dead. Finger-ends dead, dry, and hard. Spots of a deep yellow on the fingers. Distortion of the fingers.

Lower Limbs

Heaviness and rheumatic pains in the hips and legs. Painful weakness in the knee-joint, in bed, in the morning. Dropsy of the left knee-joint. Tension of the tendons of the ham and of the instep, when walking. Cramp in the calf of the leg. Coldness of the feet. Numbness of the feet, on sitting down.

Generalities

Rheumatic pains (fever) with perspiration, which does not relieve. Inflammation of internal organs. Gastric and bilious complaints. Arthritic and rheumatic tearings and drawings in the limbs, with sensation as of a fracture. Collection of synovial fluid in joints. Contraction of the limbs. Jerking of the muscles. Convulsive jerks and spasm. Epileptic fits. Trembling of the limbs, long-continued of the head and hands after every exertion or motion. Internal trembling. Shootings in the varices. Aggravation of the symptoms when sitting down, or else when seated, and when rising from the seat. In some forms of asthma one has to sit in a chair and lean his head on a table. In some forms of pneumonia so great is the prostration that the patient is constantly slipping down in bed. Heaviness in all the limbs, and great indolence. Violent pulsations throughout the body. Great debility, weakness, and excessive lassitude, feels best when sitting still doing nothing. A child continually wishes to be carried. Syncope. Excessive tenderness of the whole body. A child, when touched, utters piercing cries.

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