Homeopathy Remedy Antimonium Crudum


Antimonium Crudum homeopathy drug symptoms from Handbook of Materia Medica and Homeopathic Therapeutics by T.F. Allen, of the homeopathic remedy Antimonium Crudum …


      The crude mineral, Stibnite, a crude ter-sulphuret of Antimony, is pulverized under water, and the black insoluble powder is triturated with sugar of milk for use.

General Action

      A general tissue remedy; its chief manifestations hitherto being on the mucous membranes and skin. Gastric catarrh, with very white tongue. The disposition generally determines its choice.

Allies.–Sulphur, Arsenicum, Lycopodium, Nux-v., Pulsatilla, Zincum met., Ran-b.

Generalities

      Getting fat (Kali-c.). Swelling of whole body. Emaciation and exhaustion. Lies on his back at night. Convulsions, with vomiting. Twitchings of muscles in many parts. Disposition to start at slight noises. Heavy, pressive pains, sometimes in chest, sometimes in back, sometimes in both these parts. Sensation of general vascular ebullition. Uneasiness. Weariness; in morning, with indisposition to rise; at 7 P.M., especially of feet, with peevishness. Indolence and disposition to lie down after dinner. Feels badly in heat of sun and in warm air, even on slight motion and work. Aggravation on l. side of body; A. from wine (Arsenicum, Lycopodium, Nux v., Zincum met.). Feels best in rest and cold air (Lycopodium, Pulsatilla).

Clinical There is general aggravation from cold water, whether taken internally or applied externally. Is suited to the bad effects of Rhenish sour wines.

Mind

      Dementia, did not leave the bed, spoke nothing without being asked, desired neither to eat nor to drink, but ate with pleasure if anything was offered, and she felt hungry, constantly pulled her neckcloth, or folded and unfolded a handkerchief, or pulled feathers out of the bed and gathered them together, with such insensibility that she did not feel the sores formed by the evacuations on which she was lying.

Sulky (Sulphur), does not wish to speak. Does not speak. Peevish, vexed without cause. Disposition to shoot himself at night (Arsenicum), (>) leaving the bed. Anxiety from 3 to 5 A.M.; about himself during the day; in attacks. Discouragement, making the head feel warm in front. Dejection of spirits during the day. Sadness in evening. Grief in forenoon, the sound of bells and the sight of his surroundings move him to tears, with short and heavy breathing.

Clinical Extreme irritability and fretfulness is the keynote to its use in a great variety of gastric disorders, especially in children; the child cannot bear to be touched or looked at.

Head

      Apoplexy; with much watery foam from nose and mouth. Intoxication. Tearing, (>) walking in open air; here and there, from morning till night; at noon, with heat in it. Aching; after bathing in the river, with weakness of limbs and repugnance to food; then nosebleed; dull stupefying pain when smoking, with nausea in pharynx. Emptiness, as after continual working in a cold room. Vertigo; with nausea. Weakness.

Forehead – Aching, (<) ascending stairs, and in vertex; A. as if it would burst, with intoxicated feeling, sitting alone and refusing to speak; within skull, at r. eyebrow, as if pressed asunder; stupefying, externally when walking in open air, with sweat from anxiety. Pressure inward in l. side, at times drawing. Boring outward, and in temples. Heaviness.

Drawing pain over l. temporal bone, (>) pressure, then returning more violent. Pulsation externally at l. temple, (<) when it is not especially noticed, with fine prickings extending towards eyebrows. Painful spot on l. parietal bone, when touched, as if the periosteum were swollen. Flat tubercles on scalp, painful to pressure, with crawling all around. Single sharp stitches on scalp.

Clinical The headaches are the result of disordered stomach, especially of eating candy. There is great disposition to take cold about the head, especially after getting wet or after a bath.

Eyes

      Inflammation; and redness, with itching and nightly agglutination (Nat.m.). Redness of l., with photophobia on rising in morning and mucus in inner canthus. Fine stitches in fore part of ball in forenoon, without pain. Redness of lid, with fine stitches in ball. Twitching of l. lids. Gum in canthi in fore- noon; mucus in r. canthus in morning and dry gum in both lids. Moist place at outer canthus, painful on sweat coming in contact with it. Itching in outer canthus. Sharp stitches below l. brow. Blindness.

Clinical Valuable in chronic blepharitis, with soreness, the eyes red, agglutinated at night.

Ears

      Redness of l., with burning and swelling, as from a mosquito bite. Swelling of internal concha, with redness and periodical itching. Stitches; itching, at border of r. concha, above helix, (>) touch. Drawing pain through r. ear into Eustachian tube, almost to the mouth, after dinner. Sensation of burrowing or swarming (of animals), (<) lying still. Crawling in r. meatus auditorius. R. seems blocked up in evening. Deafness, as from a leaflet before tympanum. Ringing before. Roaring, (<) afternoon; (<) during stillness; [R. after violent vomiting, then loss of hearing]. D. in as if some one were beating against the door of the house. Swashing as of water, when moving jaws.

Nose

      Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts (Ranunculusb.); l. nostril chapped and painful. Pain when breathing, as from cold air or acrid vapor. Sore nostrils, with drawing pain; soreness in anterior angle of r. nostril, with pain as in a cold; sore feeling when inspiring, (<) r. nostril, which is obstructed. Obstruction in evening (Lycopodium). Dryness when walking in open air, so that he can hardly speak (Lycopodium). Coryza; with sore, crusty nostrils; dry; fluent, also in morning. Bleeding, every evening; flowing out of blood.

Clinical A kind of eczema about nostrils, which became sore, cracked and scurfy.

Face

      Twitches in l. side; at corners of mouth. Sensation on touch at and below the chin as if the hand moved over sore places, with honey-colored granules here and there. Burning, stinging as from a spark, on chin and upper lip. Cracks in corners of lips, with pain like ores (Arum triphyllum, Zincum met.). Dry lips. Formication upon upper lip. Red pustules on upper lip and at r. corner, with dull pain.

Mouth

      Teeth. Grinding, waking from siesta. Stitches on inspiration. Aching in a hollow tooth, (<) at night, a fine stinging, pulling and grinding, as if in the nerve, moving downward, then upward into head, and on touching the tooth with the tongue, pain as if the nerve were scratched. Aching renewed after eating, (<) applying cold water, (>) in open air. A. nightly, with heat coming from chest; twinging, evening in bed and after eating. Bleeding. Gums stand off from teeth and bleed easily.

Tongue – Coated white (Pulsatilla) in forenoon. Blisters. Fine stitches in front, on l. border, after dinner. Intermittent sore feeling on r. border, with redness.

Rawness of palate when clearing throat, with expectoration of much mucus. Fine pinching in palate all night, (<) swallowing, (>) morning by hawking up the phlegm collected on sides of palate, leaving rawness. Dry mouth at night. Salivation; salt. Smell as in ptyalism from mercury.

Clinical Valuable for toothache in hollow teeth extending into head, (<) cold water. On the face pustular eruption with yellow crusts, which are painful, small boils and pimples on the face, especially about the mouth and nose, associated with white tongue and disordered digestion. Tongue thickly coated white; this is a very marked symptom. Especially valuable in the indigestion of children from sweets, associated with very peevish disposition; with this tongue there are loathing of food, nausea and even vomiting, headache, after-taste of the food, great thirst, especially at night.

Throat

      Clearing, and hawking when walking in open air. Roughness in morning, with dryness. Soreness on l. side, as from a swelling or plug. A foreign body seems to hang in it, he tries in vain to swallow or expel it. Scraping on velum palati from phlegm, which often could not be expelled. Much viscid mucus. Thick yellowish mucus must be drawn from posterior nares into throat and expectorated. Swallowing impeded.

Clinical Diphtheria, the child was very cross, whining and crying because it was looked at; especially on waking, with the characteristic crusts around nostrils and in the corners of the mouth.

Stomach

      Appetite little; lost. Goat’s milk refreshes him. Thirst; in evening; at night; with dryness of lips. Eructations of a fluid tasting of the ingesta, afternoons; E. of a raw taste; bitter, like bile; loud. Hiccough; when smoking tobacco. Nausea; after a glass of wine (Arsenicum, Nux-v., Zincum met.); with vertigo, vomiting; with convulsions (Nux-v., Zincum met.); with diarrhoea; with diarrhoea and anguish.

Cramp. Burning in pit like heartburn, with good appetite. Burning spasmodic pain in pit, driving him to the resolution of drowning himself. Pinching in region; on r. side, over and by side of pit. Cutting in region. Pressure in morning, with thirst; P., which is more like a dull cutting, (<) drawing in abdomen. Pain on pressure. Pain as from fulness, without fulness and with appetite; as after too much eating, with distended but not hard abdomen (Lycopodium). Fulness after eating, with inflation, often alternating with lightness, vigor and activity of mind and body. Sense of hunger in morning on waking, without appetite, not (>) by eating, with emptiness in pit of stomach and want of animal heat.

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.