Animal charcoal, obtained from charred ox- hide, is triturated for use.
General Action
A tissue remedy, like all the Carbons.
Compare Carbo-veg., Aurum, Caps., Carbon-s.
Generalities
Spasm, vertigo, she screamed, opened her mouth and bent backward to the right side and threw up her hands. She came near falling, opened the mouth and raised her eyes, with heat over whole body, sweat on face and whining mood. Stitches in scar of a burn. Aching in joints and muscles. All joints feel bruised, pulled apart and powerless. Throbbing in whole body, (<) evening. Orgasm of blood, without heat. Uneasiness, with haste. Indolence.
Weakness in morning on waking after a good sleep; in morning on rising, with such sadness that she could have cried; in morning, especially in lower limbs, with bruised feeling; in forenoon, even to sinking down; from eating; while walking; from walking, especially in hypochondrium; after walking, with sleepiness; (<) afternoon, with apprehension and melancholy; with want of energy and confusion of head; so that she could scarcely speak after appearance of menses, with yawning and stretching; at night as if bruised; of mind and body after an emission, with apprehension. Weaker every day, although he eats and drinks.
Clinical Especially suited to old people. Sometimes indicated after debilitating disease. Veins distended, skin blue, especially on hands and feet. Indurations of the glands. Indolent tumors, especially with burning pain.
Mind
Desire to be alone, she is sad and reflective and avoids conversation (Aurum). Frightful images in evening before sleep. Fear; in evening, causing shuddering and weeping; and shyness. Apprehension in afternoon, with heaviness in body, so that walking was difficult. Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood, so that she was obliged to sit up; A. (<) evening and night, with depression, the A. preventing sleep, she felt best in the morning; so that he was constantly obliged to rock back and forth on his chair. Homesick (Caps.). Feeling in morning as if abandoned and homesick. Thoughts of death. Hopelessness. Lachrymose; at times, foolishly jovial at other times; he cannot weep enough. Discouragement and sadness, everything seems so sad and lonely that she desires to weep. Melancholy; in morning on waking, with anxiety; with feeling as if abandoned.
Anger. Ill humor; in morning on waking; ill humor, with aversion to talking. Sullen mood and ill humor about the present and past, with weeping. Obstinate, and no one could do anything to suit him. Indifference, then irritability for passionate impressions. Jovial. Involuntary jolly whistling.
Stupidity in forenoon, (<) after dinner, with drowsiness. Stupefaction while sitting eating, with lightness of head and dread lest he should fall down unconscious; sudden S. when moving head and on walking; sudden, he did not hear, not see and had no thoughts. Inability to write a letter and to express his thoughts. Forgot the word he was about to speak.
Head
Stitches, especially in temples. Tearing after dinner, (>) pressure, with throbbing, and in orbits, ears, l. side of face, cheeks-bones and lower jaw, then swelling of cheek. Drawing- boring, (<) cold, especially towards the ears, with tearings. Aching in morning on waking, as after intoxication; at night as if asleep and sprained, and in neck; which presses down the eyebrows. Pressure after dinner till evening, with confusion. Everything on H. pressed upon it, even the neck-cloth was uncomfortable. Heaviness; in morning, with dim vision and watery eyes; at night, with weariness in feet, which she could scarcely lift; especially in occiput and of l. temple, with confusion. Confusion in morning, he did not know whether he had been asleep or awake; C. in morning, and she was vexed with everything she looked at; in morning, and feeling as in a confused dream. Discomfort from 10 A.M. till 4 P.M., as if confused in head and uncertain on her feet, with pale face, nausea and blue rings around eyes. Tension almost daily. Feeling of painful looseness of brain, on motion. Rush of blood, with confusion.
Vertigo in morning, with feeling as if he had not slept enough; V. about 7 P.M., if she raised her head everything seemed to turn around, she was obliged to sit bent, on rising staggering, with confusion of head and feeling as if all objects moved, the V. (>) on lying down at night, returning in morning on rising; on rising after stooping, with nausea; while walking, with fog before her eyes, forcing her to walk rapidly and to the right; with nausea and a sudden watery mist before eyes; with blackness before eyes; when sitting, as if she would fall backward from her chair, with stupidity; as if moving head back and forth; V to the r. side.
Forehead. Pricking pain on l. in morning after rising, (>) open air. Sticking over l. eye, extending into lid and upper half of ball. Stupefying pain while spinning, (>) after dinner. Sensation as if something lay above eyes, so that she could not look up. Heaviness on stooping, with sensation as if brain would fall forward, then vertigo on rising, so that she nearly fell. Sensation of something heavy in it or as if a board pressed upon it, a sensation as when going from very cold air to in front of a hot stove. Drawing above eyebrows.
Stitches in temples, with contractive pain or twinges. Pinching in lower part of temples. Aching in T. Boring in temporal bone, extending into zygoma. Stitches in vertex in evening. Pain in vertex, with a sensitive spot externally, on stooping it changes to the forehead; pain in V. as if skull had been split or torn asunder, so that she held her head with her hands from fear lest it should fall asunder, also at night, (<) wet weather; throbbing pain in V. when walking, with stitches as if head would crack. Tearing on r. side; T. in r. side. Pressure daily in a spot on parietal bones near vertex, (<) forenoon and dampness of soiled clothes, (>) open air. Splashing in l. half of brain when walking rapidly.
Occiput. Twitching tearings shoot back and forth in l. evening. Tearing in r. in evening, with sticking. Aching; in a spot; during menses, (>) open air, extending to vertex anteriorly, with heaviness; intermitting in l.; headache in neck when writing. Painful, heavy sensation. Throbbing, with stitches.
Falling off of hair. Tearing on external parts. Pain in l. side externally, as if suppurating. Anxious tension and drawing up in skin of forehead and vertex. Itching not (>) scratching.
Eyes
Stitches. Aching in evening by a light; during menses, extending to forehead, vertex and into l. ear, with heaviness. Sensation of a foreign body in l. preventing vision, with constant necessity to wipe the eye, with extreme dilatation of pupil and farsightedness. Twitching of r., with feeling as if something were moving in it, which blinded her, and drawing downward in upper lid, (>) rubbing, but returning, leaving sensitiveness to touch in margin of upper lid.
Sticking-burning after itching and rubbing of them, with watering. Itching during the day, with pressure; biting I., with burning after rubbing. Lachrymation in morning on rising. Eyes seemed loose in their sockets, and he could not see distinctly, which made him anxious. Agglutination of l. lids in forenoon. Twitching of upper lid. Itching of upper lid, (>) scratching. Sticking in l. internal canthus in morning after rising, (>) rubbing, with biting. Pressure in internal canthus. Smarting- burning in external canthus.
Weakness; in evening she could do nothing requiring vision. Photophobia in evening. Vision of a net swimming before the eyes; of black and yellow points in regular rows, by candle-light. Objects upon the street seem altered, for example, farther apart and brighter than usual, as if the city were empty and deserted. V. as through a mist. V. obscure.
Ears
Swelling of periosteum behind r. every day after 7 P.M., with sticking in it. Stitches. Tearing in l.; in lobule of r., and boring in the ear. Pinching within l.; in l. extending into pharynx, making swallowing difficult. Drawing; in external ear and in l. cheek-bone. Hearing weak; and confused, commingling of stomach, he cannot tell from which side they come, and they seem to come from another world. Ringing all night; in r. while walking in open air. Whistling on blowing nose.
Clinical Deafness, with confused hearing, cannot tell the direction of sound.
Nose
Redness of tip, with pain on touch; of tip during menses, with cracks, burning and tensive pain; with swelling and internal soreness. Swelling, and of mouth; S., with pimples internally and externally, which form a long-lasting scurf. Tensive boil in nostril. Blisters in r. nostril. Tearing in side. Bruised pain above and in root; when touched. Sensation of beginning coryza after eating, (<) evening. Stoppage of l. nostril in forenoon.
Coryza, catarrh and scraping in throat, (<) evening and night, and swallowing. Coryza, with rawness of throat. Fluent C.; in evening; with loss of smell, yawning and sneezing; of much watery mucus. Stopped C. in morning on waking, (>) after rising; from forenoon till evening; no air can get through nose. Frequent passage of mucus, with stopped coryza. Bleeding mornings (Carbo- v.). preceded by vertigo; B. in morning when sitting and in afternoon, at night; preceded by pressure and confusion of head. Blowing out of blood.
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.