Carboneum Sulphuratum



Urinary Organs

Stitch-like cramping pain in bladder and neck of bladder, through to urethra, at same time similar pain in anus and rectum. (At midnight, on coming home and drinking a glass of wine.) Frequent desire to pass water, tickling in fore part of urethra. Involuntary micturition.

Male Sexual Organs:-

Sexual excitement followed by complete loss of desire. Desire lost without previous sexual excitement. Burning in urethra: with erections, when urinating. Left testicle swollen and indurated. Impotence in atrophied testicles.

Female Sexual Organs:-

Menses five days early. Ovaries almost obliterated. Labour pains too weak.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness, irritation to hawk, heat in larynx, scratching and scraped feeling. Breath hot. Breathing difficult, only better by breathing deeply in open air. Flying stitches in chest, quickly passing over, but frequently returning. (Asphyxia from alcohol and from coal gas). Cough from irritation in larynx or at bifurcation of trachea. Cough caused by heartburn.

Neck and Back

Rheumatic pains and stiffness of neck. Goitre. Feeling of heavy load hanging on back between scapulae. Pain in small of back and loins.

Limbs:

Crackling in joints. Tearing, jerking, stitching, flying pains, returning at regular intervals. Great weakening of the muscular forces of the limbs, beginning in the upper limbs, with cramps in the arms, calves and abdomen. Weakness of limbs. Pains in the limbs and joints. Painful twitchings in the limbs. Contracture of legs and arms, but nowhere complete.

Upper Limbs

Formication in the hands and arms. Gradual loss of sensation in the right hand. Numbness of the fingers and inability to hold small objects. Weakness of the upper limbs to the elbow with considerable diminution of the sensibility and slight paresis. Marked atrophy of the thenar eminence of the thumb and of the interossei. Laming and pain in left arm, arm goes to sleep.

Lower Limbs

Sciatica left thigh, from taking cold, with entire inability to walk. Chronic sciatica right thigh, movement impeded. Stiffness of lower limbs. Pains in lower limbs with cramp and trembling. Pain in lower limbs accompanied by cramps and formication. Cramps in calves of legs and in toes. Stabbing, piercing pain from intercostal bones through toes while walking. Great difficulty in walking, left leg more affected than right.

Generalities

Incomplete contraction of all the muscles of the body. Emaciation. Athermia. Cold sweats and general weakness. Sudden attack of general trembling, with dimness of vision. Twitching in single fibrillae of muscles. Fear of walking in the dark. Anaesthesia of certain portions of the skin. Peripheral neuritis.

Skin

Boils. Hyperaesthesia of the integument.

Sleep

Very drowsy. Deep and prolonged sleep. Disturbed sleep. Nightmare. Sudden waking from bad dreams or nervous starting. Constant tossing about and throwing head about.

Fever

Unusual chilliness. Cold cheeks, hands, and feet. Chills 7 p.m Skin hot and burning like nettles. Warmth rises up from pit of stomach through chest to head, and also goes down to navel. Absence of sweat. Perspiration checked. Dryness of skin and oppressive heat prevents sleep, head heavy.

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