Antimonium Crudum



Afterwards the sexual desire appears to be less for several days.

Even upon leaning the back against something, there is an irritation, as if pollution would come on.

Nightly pollutions, without any voluptuous dreams.

Pollution at night, with many dreams (eleventh day).

Pressure in the womb, as if something would come out.

Discharge of an acrid water from the vagina, which caused a sensation as of biting down along the thighs.

Respiratory Apparatus.

Violent spasms in the larynx and the pharynx, as if the throat were filled with a plug, which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness.

Rough voice.

Speech and singing are not firm, but weak.

Extreme feebleness of voice; he can only speak in a low tone.

Loss of voice as often as he became hot; the voice came back by resting himself.

Cough, early in the morning after rising, in paroxysms; it seems to come out of the abdomen; the first attack is always the most violent; the following become weaker and weaker, so that the last attack resembles a mere hacking cough.

Frequent, dry cough.

Severe, dry cough, with a sense as of scratching in the larynx, in a sudden short attack.

Cough, with discharge of viscid, thin phlegm, deep out of the chest, early in the morning.

Deep sighing, breathing, as from fullness of the chest, for several days, in the afternoon and after eating.

Dyspnoea.

Difficulty of breathing during supper.

Difficulty of breathing after supper.

Asthma.

Very troublesome asthma.

Suffocating asthma in four young men. (Suffocating catarrh).

(* Coming on fifteen days after amputation of foot (S.

351, 352), and ending in death; see next symptom. *) Death produced by suffocating catarrh in fifteen days, occasioned by a few grains of antimony.

Chest.

Burning in the chest at every cough, as of fire, with a glowing, hot breath from the mouth.

Burning in the chest, with dry cough, and dyspnoea almost to suffocation.

(* Not found. *) Oppression on the chest.

Oppression at the chest, early on waking.

Half pressive, half sticking pain under the left clavicle, apparently in the air-passages, when breathing.

Pain as from contusion, or as from too great an effort, in the pectoralis major muscle, early in the morning when rising, and a few hours after, when extending and lifting the arm, or when pressing upon it.

Dull stitches in the chest, when breathing deeply, first on the right side under the two first ribs, then under the upper part of the sternum.

Stitches, with constrictive pinching in the middle of the chest (third day).

Severe, continual itching upon the chest the whole day.

Itching upon the chest, as if a blister were healing.

He was frequently roused from sleep by an intolerable itching upon the chest, where he felt pimples.

Stitches in the left side of the chest when breathing, with a little cough and headache.

Sharp stitches in the left chest, when expiring in a standing position (after five hours).

Pressive pain in the interior of the right chest, in the evening when lying down.

Heart and Pulse.

Violent palpitation of the heart.

Pulse, sometimes a few quick, then three or four slow beats (immediately).

Neck and Back.

Swelling of the cervical glands.

Spasmodic drawing from above downwards in one of the posterior cervical muscles on the right side, in the evening when sitting (eighth day).

Spasmodic drawing pain in the muscles of the nape of the neck, reaching as far as the scapulae, in the evening after lying down, and early in the morning; worse on stopping, exerting the arm, and turning the head to the left side (twelfth day).

Inward pressing drawing in the neck, on the lower part of the left side (nineteenth day).

Straining in the nape of the neck, and between the scapulae, when stooping.

Single stitches in the skin of the neck, here and there (second and third day).

Sensitiveness of the skin of the neck; if he rub hard on account of the itching, the place feels sore.

Itching of the neck.

Spasmodic stitches in the right scapula when sitting.

Tearing in the back the whole day, from morning to night.

Violent itching upon the back, a fortnight.

Pain in the small of the back, immediately on rising, and the whole day, not at night.

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

Extremities in General.

Convulsions and trembling of the limbs.

Lassitude, tremulous fatigue, and heaviness in all the limbs after dinner, as if coming out of the abdomen, with trembling of the hands when writing, and subsequent expulsion on much stinking flatulence, the abdomen being distended.

Feeling as if the limbs were enlarged.

Upper Extremities.

A stitch under both arms when walking in the open air.

Sharp itching of the inside of the left arm.

Light twitches in the right deltoid muscles (fifth day).

Quivering, drawing in the muscles of the upper arms, which did not pass off by motion, but by warmth, and returned in a draught of air.

Paralytic pain in the muscles of the upper arms, when bending the arms, as if they were contracted too much, or weakened by the contraction.

Sudden drawing jerk, transversely through the right upper arm (after ten, twenty, and one hundred and twenty minutes).

Cracking in the elbow-joint, on turning it to and fro.

Drawing in the forearm, when at rest and in motion.

Drawing down the right forearm (after one hour and a half).

Paralytic drawing in the right forearm (after two hours).

Drawing on the inside of the lower part of the forearm (after two hours).

Drawing on the inside of the lower part of the forearm, with a sensation of pressure from without (nineteenth day).

Gouty pain in the joints if the right fourth finger.

Drawing pains in the fingers and their joints.

Cracking in the metacarpal joint of the thumb, when moving it (ninth day).

Fine itching in the tip of the left thumb (after fourteen days).

Discolored nails.

The finger-nails did not grow as fast as formerly, and the skin beneath the nails was painfully sensitive.

Lower Extremities.

Pain in the right hip-joint.

Drawing pain in the left hip.

Drawing pain in the left hip-joint, when walking, especially when bending the thigh backwards; also in the evening.

Painful drawing from the hip-joints towards the os sacrum.

Drawing in one of the nates, around the hip-joint, into the thigh (seventh day).

Slight twitching in the muscles of the left half of the nates, in the evening, when sitting (fifth day).

Bluish spots upon the thighs. (* Not found. *) Repeated tension of the right thigh, high up, like a small spasm (seventh day).

Drawing pain in the posterior muscles of the left thigh.

Drawing pain at the anterior and internal sides of the thigh.

Slight clucking for a few minutes, in the lower part of the right half of the nates, when standing (after four weeks).

Sharply stinging itching on the inside and anterior surfaces of the left thigh (after four and a half hours).

Sharply stinging itching of the right thigh, which does not go off by scratching; after the itching, a small, flat, yellowish pimple is formed at that place.

The stinging itching upon the thighs comes on every evening.

Sensation as of a spasm at the external border of the left thigh, as if the muscles become slowly contracted and again extended, in the afternoon (after ten hours).

Stiffness of the knee, for eight day.

Painful stiffness of the knee; the knee pained her so much, that she could not stretch it out, and was obliged to limp.

Pain in the knee, which prevented him from stretching the foot, and made him limp.

Pain just below the knee, as if it had been tied too tightly, the whole evening (after thirteen days).

Drawing pain in the right knee.

Sudden violent stitch on the outside of the knee.

A stitch in the left knee, which started him, and caused a jerk with the leg (tenth day).

Itching of the right knee, on the inside and, after rubbing it, a large blister, which is painful only for a short while.

Drawing pain in the leg, as high up as the knee. In the evening, when sitting, painful drawing in the right leg, beginning at the knee, or at the os ischium, going down the thigh and tibia, as far as the foot, so that he has to lift it and shift its position several times in succession (tenth day).

Clucking in the posterior part of the right leg, immediately after stitches in the ankle (third day).

Bluish spots upon the tibiae. (* Not found. *) Drawing pain at the lower part of the left tibia.

Deep stitches descending all along the tibia.

Sharp stitch in the shaft of the tibia, from within outwards, when sitting (after five hours).

Fine itching on the left tibia (after four and a half hours).

Painless pinching, coming and going, in the lower joint of the right calf.

Drawing pain on the inside of the left calf.

Pain, as from a sprain, in the external malleolus of the right foot, when turning the foot outwards, with frequent cracking of the joint, when bending or stretching it (fifth day).

On the outside of the left calf, a place which feels bruised when touched, for a few days (after twenty-four hours).

Crawling along the left calf, without itching (after fourteen hours).

Violent itching under the external malleolus of the right foot, which does not at once pass off by scratching, and leaves a small red spot behind.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.