ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM STIBIUM SULPHURATUM NIGRUM



*Toothache in a hollow tooth, worse at night than in the day- time. Pain as if the nerves were affected. The toothache is renewed after eating, or applying cold water, and is relieved in the open air. The nocturnal toothache is accompanied by great warmth, which seems to come from the chest. Shooting toothache, in the evening, when in bed, and after dinner. Stitches in the tooth, when inspiring air. Profuse bleeding of the gums. The gums stand off from the teeth, and bleed easily.

MOUTH.

Dryness of the mouth at night. Accumulation of saltish saliva or water in the mouth; on the tongue. Smell from the mouth, as in mercurial ptyalism; violent ptyalism from nose and mouth, ptyalism, without any fetid odor from the mouth, and without looseness of the teeth. Blisters on the tongue. Tongue coated white in the forenoon. Fine pinching in the region of the palate the whole night, especially painful during deglutition. Sensation as of scraping (rawness) in the velum-palati. Rawness of the palate, with expectoration of a quantity of mucus. Sore throat on the left side, as from a swelling or a plug. Impeded deglutition.

TASTE AND APPETITE.

Violent thirst, with dryness of the lips; thirst in the evening; at night. *Want of appetite. Feeling of hunger in the region of the stomach, on waking, without appetite; not relieved by eating. Laziness and disposition to lie down after dinner. Lassitude, tremulous fatigue, and heaviness in all the limbs after dinner. Flatulence. Difficulty of breathing during supper.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.

*Bitter eructations, like bile; gulping up of a fluid, *which tastes of the ingesta. Hiccough. Nausea with vertigo; *nausea after drinking a glass of wine; *nausea and vomiting. *Violent nausea; terrible vomiting, which nothing can stop; *vomiting of slime and bile; frightful vomiting, with convulsions. Violent vomiting and diarrhoea, with excessive anguish. *Gastric derangement from overloading the stomach.

STOMACH.

Painfulness of the stomach when pressing upon it. Pressure at the stomach early in the morning, with thirst; *pain at the stomach, as from excessive fullness, with appetite. *Cramp-like pains at the stomach. *Cramp of the stomach. Burning spasmodic pain at the pit of the stomach, in paroxysms. Heartburn, *tension and pressure in the pit of the stomach.

ABDOMEN.

Great inflation of the abdomen, especially after a meal; with pain as from internal pressure. Intolerable pain in every part of the abdomen. Pinching pain in the region of the umbilicus and stomach. Violent cutting in the abdomen, with loss of appetite, hard stool, and red urine (in the case of child); cutting in the abdomen with a feeling of nausea, and accumulation of water in the mouth. Sudden compressive colic, with gulping up of water. Cutting in the abdomen the whole day, with a feeling of oppressive anxiety as if coming from the stomach, want of disposition to work, indifferent mood, and pain at the stomach, during eructations. Pain in the groins when pressing upon the parts, which feel hard as if the glands were swollen. Hernia. Rumbling in the abdomen.

STOOL.

Flatulence. Constipation. Severe tenesmus after dinner and quick expulsion of ordinary faeces, with straining. *Hard stool, with previous straining in the rectum; *difficult expulsion of hard stool, without previous straining. Papescent stool; liquid stool. *Disposition to diarrhoea, which does not take place; diarrhoea at night, and early in the morning; *alternate diarrhoea and constipation in aged persons; *diarrhoea of pregnant females; *discharge of slime from the rectum, with emission of flatulence. Continual discharge of blood and solid excrements by the rectum; expulsion of black blood by the rectum; pain in the rectum during stool; feeling of soreness, as if an ulcer were torn open. Protrusion of the rectum during stool. Drawing pain in the anus. Itching of the anus. *Sharp itching in the rectum. Burning itching, and sense of excoriation in the anus at night. Boil on the perinaeum, with burning, and pain far around.

URINE.

Desire to urinate, frequent and violent, emitting much urine everytime. Frequent desire, although little urine is emitted. Frequent copious micturition, also at night; involuntary emission of a large quantity of urine, occasioned by a convulsive cough. Gold yellow watery urine, with a scarcely perceptible cloud. Brown-red or dark-red urine; small red corpuscles in the urine, after standing. *Frequent micturition, with discharge of mucus and burning in the urethra, with pain in the small of the back. *Cutting during micturition.

GENITAL ORGANS.

Drawing in the spermatic cord; itching of the genitals. Nocturnal emissions, with many dreams; pressure in the womb as if something would come out; discharge of an acrid water from the vagina.

LARYNX AND TRACHEA.

Rough voice. Extreme feebleness of voice. Loss of voice whenever he became hot; the voice returned by resting himself. Early in the morning, roughness and dryness in the throat. Sensation as of a foreign body in the throat. Violent spasms in the larynx and pharynx. Hawking when walking in the open air. Cough early in the morning after rising, in paroxysms; decreases in severity. Frequent dry cough; severe dry cough, with sense as of scraping in the larynx. Cough, with discharge of viscid thin phlegm; deep out of the chest, early in the morning.

CHEST.

Burning in the chest during every turn of cough, as of fire, with a glowing hot breath. Deep sighing breathing, as from fullness of the chest, dyspnoea; very troublesome asthma. Suffocative catarrh; oppression at the chest early on waking; aching pain in the interior of the chest in the evening, when lying down; heavy aching pain in the chest or back; lancinating pain, with pressure, under the clavicle, apparently in the larynx, when drawing breath. Stitches and lancinations in the chest; burning in the chest, with dry cough, and dyspnoea almost to suffocation. Violent palpitation of the heart; violent, continual itching of the chest. The chest is dotted with fine red points, with violent itching.

BACK.

Violent pain in the small of the back, when rising from a chair, it disappears in walking; lacerating in the back, from morning to night. Spasmodic stitches in the scapula, when sitting. Violent itching of the back. Red pimples and brown liver-colored spots on the shoulders and back. Rigidity in the nape of the neck, and between the scapulae, when stooping. Drawing in the muscles of the back worse in the evening or morning on motion; stitches in the skin of the neck; itching of the neck; sensitiveness of the skin of the neck; sensitiveness of the skin of the neck; small pimples on the neck and under the chin, painful to the touch. Hard, long-continuing pustules below the neck, like small blisters, which fill the pus.

ARMS.

Itching in the arm, with reddish blisters. Eruption on the arm, resembling rash or hepatic spots. Painful lameness in the muscles of the upper arms, when bending the arms. Quivering drawing in the muscles of the upper arms, passing off by warmth, and returning in a draft of air. Corrosively itching pimples in the bend of the elbow. Drawing, with lameness, in the fore-arm; with sensation of pressure from without inwards. Itching vesicles of the left hand. Itching vesicles and pimples on the hand and arms. Drawing pains in the fingers and their joints. Gouty pain in the joints of the fingers.

LEGS.

Drawing pain in the hip-joint, when walking; also in the evening. Drawing pain in the thigh and pelvis. White, hard tubercles on the leg, of the size of a small pea, itching, and surrounded by a small red circle. Bluish spots on the thighs. Repeated attacks of rigidity in the thigh, like a slight cramp. Sharp stinging itching of the thigh, followed by a flat yellowish pimple. Stiffness of the knee; painful stiffness of the knee. Drawing pain in the knee. Red pimples on the knee, like vesicles, resembling chicken-pox, with stinging pain when touched. Drawing pain in the leg, lancination in the hollow of the tibia, deep stitches all along the tibia. Bluish spots on the tibiae. Pain as form a sprain. The feet feel heavy and benumbed. Drawing pain in the heel. Sharp fine prickings in the sole of the foot; painful stinging in the sole of the foot. Chilblains on the feet, with pain and redness in the summer season. Great sensitiveness of the soles of the feet, when walking, especially on stone pavement. *Large horny places on the soles of the feet, close to where the toes commence, painful like corns, and always returning after having been cut out. Mortification of the foot; the foot is quite black. Cracking of the big toe, during every movement requiring an effort. LAcerating, cutting, or burning pain in the big toe.

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. (See STIRIUM TARTAR.).

Charles Julius Hempel
Charles Julius Hempel (5 September 1811 Solingen, Prussia - 25 September 1879 Grand Rapids, Michigan) was a German-born translator and homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. While attending medical lectures at the University of New York, where he graduated in 1845, he became associated with several eminent homeopathic practitioners, and soon after his graduation he began to translate some of the more important works relating to homeopathy. He was appointed professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1857.