Antimonium Crudum



Cramplike drawing at the external side of the left heel (after one and a half hours).

Drawing pain in the left heel (after three hours).

Chilblains on the feet, with pain and redness, in the summer season.

Mortification of the foot; it is quite black, (same case as next).

Intolerable burning, lancinating, and tearing pains in a mortifying foot, it being insensible to touch, or to the prick of a pin.

(Set in soon after violent vomiting had subsided, see S.260). Her foot feels so heavy that she cannot lift it.

When walking, the right foot feels benumbed, and goes to sleep.

Constantly icy-cold feet.

His feet do not get warm before 1 o’clock at night.

Large horny places on the skin of the soles of the feet, close to where the toes commence, which pained like corns, and always returned after having been cut out.

Great sensitiveness of the soles of the feet, when walking, especially upon stone pavement, for a long time (after seven days).

Sensitive stinging in the skin of the sole of the right foot, going off by rubbing; in the evening when in bed, after a walk of three hours (eighth day).

Sharp, fine prickings in the soles of the foot (tenth day).

Cracking of the big toe, at every motion requiring an effort.

Burning pain on the ball of the right big toe (sixth day).

Tearing and drawing through the right big toe.

Cutting under the left big toe, rhythmical (after six days).

Fine itching upon the left big toe (after four and a half hours).

A corn upon the left little toe became painful without any cause, as if it were pressed upon (seventh day).

Generalities.

Immense swelling of the whole body. (* Not found. *) Dropsical swelling of the body. (* Jaundice had preceded the emetic of Ant., which was followed by this ascites. It terminated in death.*) Incurable dropsy.

Getting fat.

Emaciation and exhaustion.

Excessive hemorrhages. (* Not found. *) Disposition to start, even at slight noises, Twitches of the muscles of many parts of the body. (Convulsive movements, especially at the head). (In a puppy).

Indolence and disposition to lie down after dinner.

Extreme lassitude.

Great lassitude, early in the morning, and disinclination to rise.

Weariness, especially of the feet, with great peevishness, at 7 o’clock in the evening.

General prostration.

Death after a few hours, consequent upon giving Antimony, for cramps of the stomach.

Intoxication.

Apoplexy, accompanied by such a profuse flow of saliva, that he expelled a large quantity of watery foam from the nose and mouth.

Sensation while taking a moderate dinner, as if the body were considerably filled with a quantity of flatus moving about.

Heavy, pressive pains, sometimes in the chest, sometimes in both parts at the same time.

Sensation of general vascular ebullition.

All the symptoms come on again after the third week; however, after this period, they appeared more on the left side of the body.

Skin.

Eruptions like rash.

Red points with white dots in the centre, at several places.

Brown spots and dots, like small liver spots, here and there, especially upon the arms.

Red, hardened, slightly elevated place on each side of the forehead, itching like a nettle, going and coming.

Nettlerash; white pimples with red areolae, with violent burning and fine stinging, in the face, on the limbs, as far as the fingers that were swollen; accompanied by violent thirst and nausea.

Pimples coming on at night.

Red, hard pimple, painful to the touch, on the left temple, close to where the cartilage of the ear begins.

Pimples and vesicles, as from sting of insects, at many places of the body, especially on the face and on the joints of the extremities; they come on with itching, and often disappear after a few hours.

Pimples, that itch when getting warm in bed, and prevent sleep.

Pustules with yellow or brown scurf, here and there.

Just above the eyebrows, a white tubercle, which does not itch; but is only painful to the touch.

Rash behind the ears, as far as the nape of neck, and over the scapulae.

Red pimple, with pus at the tip, on both sides of the nose, painful to pressure (twelfth day).

Vesicles in the face and upon the nose, like varioloid, with stinging pain on pressure.

Several pimples in the face, that pain like mosquito-bites.

Red, burning, suppurating eruption upon the face.

Red vesicular pimples like varioloid, with stinging pain when pressed, at several places on the skin.

Nettlerash in the face, especially upon the cheeks.

Pimple upon the right cheek, as from a mosquito-bite. Flat pimples upon both cheeks, which are not red; itching when touched, with a yellowish scurf.

The chest is dotted with fine red points, with violent itching, which does not pass off by rubbing.

Eruption on the left side, upon the cheek, towards the chin, with a yellow crust, painful to the touch, and which may be easily knocked off.

Red pustules upon the upper lip, and at the right corner, with a dull pain, either with or without any pressure (twentieth day).

Many red points, with white little tips in the centre, below the left corner of the mouth.

Many red points, with white dots in the centre; with a stinging pain upon moving the hand over the hairs of beard, on the front of the neck.

Hard long-continuing pustules below the neck, lime small blisters, which become filled with pus, not only at the tip, but all around.

Boil on the perineum, with a sense as of burning, and pain for around.

Small pimple on the neck and under the chin, painful to the touch (thirteenth day).

Hard, pea-shaped body on the nape f the neck, on the left side, under the skin; only felt by stretching the skin, when bending the head.

Small red pimples on the top of the right shoulder, without any sensation, passing off for a short time on pressure (seventh day).

Brown liver-colored spots on the both shoulders.

Red heat vesicles with yellow dots over the whole of the right shoulder; afterwards they look like goose-skin, and scale off. Pimples, resembling rash, on the middle of the upper arms, without itching (fourteenth day).

Corrosively itching pimples at the bend of the elbow.

A blister on the styloid process of the ulna of the right arm.

Several light-brown dots upon the arms, like little liver spots.

At night, a large pimple is formed on the styloid process of the radius of the left arm.

A blister on the external border of the left hand.

Itching vesicle on the left hand.

Red, itch-like pimple, painfully stinging when touched; with a brown scurf, on the carpal joint of the right thumb (twenty- fourth day).

Corrosively itching pimples, in the ball of the hand, on the muscle of the thumb. small pimple on the left half of the nates of a child.

Large, hard pustules on the left half of the nates, with itching and tensive pains.

Pimple on the right knee, as from mosquito-bite.

Red pimples on the knee, like vesicles, resembling varioloid, with stinging pain when touched.

White, hard tubercles on the leg, of the size of a pea; they come on in consequence of itching, and are surrounded by a small red circle.

If he rub the skin upon the chest on account of the itching, the place feels sore; the skin is as sensitive as after blisters.

Single, long-continued, tickling and itching stitches, here and there, especially in the upper arm; not causing scratching, from within outwards, also under the right half of the nates.

Itching over the whole body, especially on the chest and back.

Itching, here and there, with perceptible blisters, frequently rouses him from sleep.

At night he is wakened by violent itching, and he discovers pimples at several places.

Itching of many parts of the body, especially of the neck and limbs.

Itching upon the chest and the back,.

Itching of the arm, with reddish blisters, like mosquito- bites, after rubbing.

Sleep and Dreams.

Frequent yawning, three or four times in succession.

Great sleepiness during the day, and early in the morning, after waking; he cannot decide to leave his bed.

Sleepiness in the forenoon.

Transient sleepiness in the afternoon, when sitting.

At 7 o’clock in the evening, she feels overwhelmed with sleep; she continues to sleep during the night; early in the morning she feels well; for six days in succession.

Sleepy and peevish at 6 o’clock in the evening; at 8 o’clock he cannot refrain from sleeping; sleeps soundly at night; early in the morning he feels so tired that he can scarcely open his eyes.

Slumber, with fanciful delusion.

Slumber, with delusions of fancy; she hears some one knocking outside, or is called by somebody.

He falls asleep late; he was unable to fall asleep before midnight.

He is wide awake in bed, in the evening, so that he cannot fall asleep under an hour; this symptom is accompanied by frequent shivering especially over the whole of the left side, upon which he does not lie; or by sexual desire, with erections, when getting warm; these make him yet more awake; for eight days in succession, and again after five weeks.

Uneasy sleep at night, on account of itching stitches here and there, going off by rubbing.

At night, frequent waking, as from fright.

Frequent waking at night; on falling asleep, he immediately dreamed about solemnities.

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.