CARBO VEGETABILIS


Carbo Vegetabilis homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


Introduction

Triturations of any well-prepared charcoal (Hahnemann used charcoal from birch for his own provings; some of the other provings were made with charcoal from the red beech).

Mind

Emotional. Very much excited in the evening, with distended veins. Immoderately jovial, though easily put out of humor. Sensitive weeping mood. Great weeping, in which he wished to shoot himself. He became lachrymose; everything frightened him, and he seemed to despair. She feels unhappy, with very little pain. She desired death, she felt so unhappy. Anxiety, as if oppressed, for several days. Trembling anxiety in the morning on waking. Inexpressible anxiety every afternoon from four to six. Increasing anxiety for several hours in the evening, with heat in the face. Anxiety in the evening after lying down, as from oppression of the chest, with heat in the head, heat in the hands, and sweat on the forehead; she was unable to remain in bed on account of a sensation as if the heart would be pressed downward; objects about her seem to become constantly narrower and smaller, and when the room was dark horrible visions passed before her sight. In the evening after lying down he was attacked with anxiety, so that he could scarcely remain lying (after nineteen days). Anxiety during and after eating. Anxiety after a stool, with sensation of trembling and involuntary movements. Great anxiety and heat with the pains. Anxiety as in fever; the hands become cold and she trembles. Discouraged and frightened. Very sensitive and morose (after four hours). Sensitive, easily irritated mood, which was easily excited to foolish mirth; when laughing the muscles of the arms and hands became relaxed. Out of humor after eating. Great irritability. Violent irritable mood. Very irritable through the day, inclined to vexation. Exceedingly irritable; she seems to overhurried in her business. Very irritable and out of humor; he cried easily over sad events, and just as easily laughed over the slightest trifles till the tears came to his eyes. Irritable and out of humor, with mental exhaustion (after ten hours). Irritability and sensitiveness. Peevishly irritable the whole day (second day). Very peevish, irritable, and inclined to anger. Peevish, impatient, desperate; he would like to shoot himself. Peevish irritability, with confusion of the head. Impatience. Violent and irritable, in the forenoon. Involuntary outbreaks of anger (after thirty-six hours). Indifferent, not interested in anything. Indifference; he heard everything without feeling pleasantly or unpleasantly about it, and without thinking of it. Music, of which he is fond, does not interest him the whole day. Intellectual. Mental freedom, lightness, and general well feeling (curative action after great confusion of the whole head, as with a coryza, and general heaviness of the limbs and body), (after four hours). Ideas flow slowly; they constantly turn about one object, with a sensation as if the head were tightly bound. Want of memory, periodic. Sudden loss of memory; he could not even recollect what he had just spoken or what had just been told him.

Head

Confusion and Vertigo. Confusion of the head, which makes thinking difficult. Confusion of the head for several days, without pain. Great confusion in the head, in the morning immediately after rising; he was unable to think easily, and was obliged to make a great exertion, as of rousing himself from a dream; after lying down again it disappeared. Confusion of the head in the evening after walking (after nineteen hours). Confusion of the head after dinner. Confusion in the head, with pressure in the forehead. Vertigo, so that he was obliged to hold on to something (after fifteen days). An attack of vertigo in the forenoon, with nausea and obscuration of vision, ringing in the ears, trembling, warm sweat over the whole body, which stood in drops on the forehead; shortly before this attack a few drops of nose-bleed. Vertigo on the slightest motion. Vertigo on sudden motion of the head. Vertigo only when sitting, as though the head reeled to and fro. Vertigo when stooping, as though the head reeled to and fro. Vertigo on stooping, on turning in bed, and on gargling. Vertigo after waking from sleep. Vertigo and staggering when walking. Vertigo when walking or sitting (fourth day). Paroxysm as follows; In looking out of the window he was suddenly attacked by a sickening vertigo; he fell down in consequence and lay for several minutes, and when he recovered consciousness it seemed as if he had lain in a deep sleep from which he could scarcely arouse himself; after waking, nausea, which obliged him to lie down for two hours, and which returned on rising; after this he was extremely lachrymose and despondent (after six days) (60). Dizzy, befogged (third day). Dizzy in th evening after sleeping while sitting, with trembling and quivering of the whole body and feeling of faintness on rising from sitting, which, even after lying down, lasted a quarter of an hour. Dizziness in the head, as after intoxication, spreading forward from the occiput, worse in the evening and involving the whole head, with aggravation on walking. Whirling in the head the whole day. Sensations. Buzzing in the head, as from bees. Dulness of the head after waking from the midday nap. Heaviness of the head. The head feels as heavy as lead. At night after falling asleep he awoke several times with a sensation as if blood rushed to the head, with bristling of the hairs, anxiety, accompanied by shivering and a sensation as if some one stroked the body with the hand, and a kind of formication of the skin on every movement in bed; together with such sensitive and acute hearing that the slightest noises re- echoed in the ear. Rush of blood to the head. Rush of blood to the head, with hot forehead and confusion of the head. Great rush of blood to the head, with confusion of the head and hot forehead (after six hours). Headache, as in the beginning of coryza. Severe headache for five days; on stooping it seems to press outward in the occiput and forehead. Severe headache, which contracts the eyes, during menstruation. Headache at night. Headache after eating. Headache from sudden change from warmth to cold. Headache, which rises from the stomach into the head and destroys her senses for a short time. Burning and violent pressing headache, evenings, in bed, especially on the vertex, and extending forward to the forehead. Pain in the head, as if it were too full. Tension in the brain, more like a confusion than a pain. Spasmodic tension of the brain. Contracting pain in the head, especially on motion. Headache, as from contraction of the scalp. Headache, as from contraction of the scalp, especially after supper. Compressive headache. Drawing, affecting the whole head, arising from the occiput (after half an hour). Drawing headache here and there, especially in the forehead, extending to just above the root of the nose. Dull headache, with heaviness in the forehead. Pressive pain in different places in the head in slight attacks, which soon passed off and seemed to be associated with flatulence (after fortyeight hours). Paroxysmal pressure drawings in the head. Sticking headache in the evening, in bed, extending into the occiput (after sixteen hours). Stitches here and there extending into the head, with general painfulness of the surface of the brain. When coughing, painful stitches through the head. Tearing pain in the head (after twenty-four hours). Tearing through the whole head, starting from a small spot in the occiput. A tearing pain in the head, sometimes starting from the limbs, and seeming to end in the head. Throbbing headache in the afternoon. Throbbing headache, in the evening, in bed, with difficult breathing. Painful throbbing of the head during respiration, and in the teeth. Was awake several times at night on account of pulsation in the head, as if he would be attacked with apoplexy, with anxiety; soon after waking he came to his senses and felt that it was an illusion, for the beating of the head had disappeared; as he looked for further development of this symptom while in a state of slumber, the limbs and knees were drawn involuntarily upward and the back was bent, and he felt that if he longer postponed waking he would faint. Jerking headache. Severe shocks in the head from reading. Forehead. Heat and burning in the forehead. Burning in the forehead with heat in the mouth, with pains in the eyes. Boring and pressive headache in the forehead. Tearing-drawing in the upper part of the anterior portion of the head. Tearing-drawing through the head above the right eye. Pressive headache in the forehead, which disappears and returns. Pressive headache over the eyes extending into them. Pressive headache in the forehead, especially just over the eyes, which are sore on motion, the whole afternoon. Pressive pain in a small spot, formerly wounded, in the right side of the forehead (after four hours). Sticking headache above the right eye. Stitches in the forehead above the right external canthus (after two hours). Violent tearing in the forehead, in a small spot near the temples. Pulsating headache in the forehead after eating, with pressure in the occiput, heat in the head, and eructations. Temples. Tension and pressure in both temples in the forehead; he was unable to hold the lids open. Boring headache beneath the left temple. Pressure in the left temple, from within outward, for several hours. Pressure in both temples, and on the top of the head. Tearing in the temples, extending to the back teeth. Tearing pains, in frequent attacks within the head, extending to the right temple. Throbbing in the temples and fulness of the brain, after waking from a long deep sleep in the afternoon. Vertex. Headache over the whole vertex, in the morning, in bed, with painfulness of the ears, which disappeared after rising. Pressure, as if something were lying upon the vertex, or as if the integuments of the head were drawn too tightly together, which also extended to the forehead. Pressure on the top of the head every afternoon. Pressive pain on the vertex, with soreness of the hair to touch. Pressure on the top of the head, followed by drawing about the whole head, though more pain on the left side. Severe stitches in the top of the head. Stitches in the upper part of the head, extending to the temples. Stitches in the upper part of the head from reading. Tearing headache in the vertex and temples, by paroxysms. Parietals. Dull tearing stitches from side to side, deep in the brain, on one side of the head, as from a nail driven into it. (Pain in the right side of the head when shaking it). Headache involving the whole of the right side of the head and face, with chill, coldness, and trembling of the body and the jaws. Biting-pressive headache, like a sensation in the nose from a suppressed sneeze, in the morning on waking, in the right half of the head on which he lay, and in the occiput; on raising the head the pain was relieved; on rising from bed it disappeared entirely. Pinching and cutting headache above and behind the left ear. Tearing pain in the left side of the head over the temples. Tearing in the left half of the head, starting from the left half of the nose. Tearing in the left half of the head, with drawing in the left arm. Severe tearing through the whole left side of the head. Occiput. Crackling in the occiput while sitting. Confusion in the occiput, as after intoxication (after half an hour). Confusion in the occiput, like a tension from within (after half an hour). Much severe pain in the occiput and boring in the forehead at night, with sweat and pale face, cold, trembling hands, and nausea of the stomach. Pinching pain in the occiput. Frequently repeated short drawing pains in the right side of the occiput (after two hours). Drawing and tearing in the left side of the occiput. Dull headache in the occiput. Pressive pain in the occiput, from time to time. Violent pressive pain in and on the occiput, in the lower portion. Pressure in the occiput, especially after supper. Pressive headache in the upper part of the right side of the occiput, with pressure in the eyes. Pressive headache, first in the neck, then in the forehead, followed by lachrymation of the eyes, with closure, of the lids. A burning-sticking in a small spot on the occiput. Tearing in the right side of the occiput (after four hours). Short tearing pains in the right side of the occiput. Frequent tearing pain, here and there, for example, in the left side of the occiput, left half of the face, left shoulder, left thigh, etc., with severe pressure in the arms and legs. Throbbing headache, very violent in the occiput, as if suppurating, from morning till evening (after nine days). External Head. The hairs fall out. A place on the head as large as the hand is very hot to the touch, with continued headache. Drawing pains, here and there, over the head, externally. The hat pressed upon the head like a heavy weight, and he continued to feel the sensation even after taking it off, as if the head were bound up with a cloth. Tearing in an old scar of a cut on the top of the head. Crawling on the scalp, as if the hairs moved.

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.