CARBO ANIMALIS



STOMACH

Pressure in the stomach, even in the morning, as from a load. Pressure in the stomach, with heaviness and fullness, attended with an inclination to water-brash. Sudden and short aching in the pit of the stomach, when taking a deep inspiration. Contracting spasm of the stomach. Clawing and griping in the stomach. Frequent stitches; boring pain in the stomach, as if brought on by long fasting in the morning. Burning in the stomach. Audible rumbling in the stomach, in the morning on waking.

ABDOMEN

Violent aching in the liver, almost like cutting; the region of the liver is painful when touched, as if sore. Sticking with pressure below the left ribs. Aching in the left side of the abdomen. Weight as of a lump in the abdomen. Distention of the abdomen. Bloated condition of the abdomen in different places like hernia. Painful tightness in the abdomen; the parts below the ribs feel sore, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Pain in the abdomen as from subcutaneous ulceration. Pinching constriction in the abdomen. Griping and uneasiness in the abdomen. Griping in the region of the umbilicus. Pinching in the abdomen, around the umbilicus, and in the epigastrium, with sensation as if the bowels would be moved. Lancinations in the abdomen. Violent cutting in the abdomen, with frequent desire for stool, and even tenesmus. Digging and writhing pain in the epigastrium. Heat about the abdomen. Burning in the abdomen, when walking. Colic, as if diarrhoea would come on. Bearing-down in the groins, sometimes like the burning in strangury. Stitches in the groins. The abdomen becomes distended, and feels sore when walking, moving, or touching the parts. Audible rumbling, as of incarcerated flatulence.

STOOL AND ANUS

Unsuccessful desire for stool. Violent tenesmus; the stool is passed with much difficulty, it is hard and streaked with blood. Stool scanty and delaying, for several days. Four evacuations on the third day, each of which is preceded by colic. Stool, first hard, then soft, preceded by burning in the rectum Soft stool, with mucus, looking like coagulated albumen. Soft green stool, preceded and accompanied by colic. Liquid stool, followed by tenesmus. Diarrhoea, after pinching in the abdomen, with burning at the rectum. Violent cutting in the varices of the rectum during stool. Discharge of blood with the stool. Pain in the small of the back, during stool, with inflation of the abdomen,

extending as high as the chest. Shuddering after stool (in the evening). Stool is followed by a desire for micturition (the urine smelling very badly); afterwards lassitude and sleepiness, without being able to fall asleep. The varices become distended, with burning pain when walking violent burning in the rectum, in the evening. Painful contraction of the rectum. Stitches in the rectum, which is sore. Soreness of the rectum, with oozing the whole evening. Boil at the anus.

URINE

Pain in walking, in the region of the kidneys. Pressure on the bladder, at night. Almost involuntary emission of urine, even from slight pressure. Increased emission of urine. Turbid, orange-colored urine; deposits a turbid sediment. Yellow urine, with loose sediment. Interrupted stream. Scanty urine. Hot urine in small quantity, at night, with burning sensation when emitted. Burning in the urethra when urinating. Burning soreness in the urethra, during and after the emission of urine.

MALE GENITAL ORGANS

Absence of sexual desire and laxness of the genital organs. Frequent pollutions. Spasmodic pain along the urethra, especially the membranous portion, after a pollution. Mental and physical exhaustion after a pollution, attended with anxiety.

FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS

Menses four days too soon, with headache previous to their appearance. Menses only flow in the morning. Anxious heat previous to the appearance of the menses. Violent pressing in the groins, the small of the back, and the thighs during the menses, attended with unsuccessful inclination to eructations, chilliness, and yawning. Bloated abdomen, during the menses. Leucorrhoea, burning, biting. Leucorrhoea, tinging the linen yellow. Watery leucorrhoea, when walking or standing. The lochia are too thin, and smell badly. Darting in the mamma of a nursing female, arresting the breathing, and aggravated by pressure. Painful nodosities and indurations of the mammae. Erysipelatous inflammation.

LARYNX AND TRACHEA

Hoarseness, worse in the evening. Roughness and hoarseness in the throat, in the morning, after rising, accompanied by dry cough. Irritation inducing cough, attended with constriction of the throat and spasms of the chest. Rough cough, with pain in the throat, as if sore. Cough from tickling in the larynx. Suffocative cough in the evening, after falling asleep. Dry cough, day and night. Discharge of white, yellowish mucus. Cough, with discharge of thick pus. Discharge of green pus, after dry cough. Discharge of thick pus, from a vomica in the right cavity of the chest. Pleuritic stitches brought on by cough. Soreness in the abdomen, from coughing. Suppuration of the lungs.

CHEST

Panting breathing, with oppression of the chest. Oppression of the chest, after a meal. Tightness of the chest, the chest feels oppressed, or as if fatigued by exertion. Violent compression in the chest, with arrest of breathing, early in the morning. Violent pain in the chest, as if it would fly to pieces, with soreness. Stitches in the right breast, when sitting or writing, or at every inspiration, as if the parts were ulcerated. Writhing (twisting) pain in and below the chest. Tremor in the chest, like a sort of moaning. Feeling of coldness in the chest. Burning in the chest, with aching. Pressure about the heart, almost like pinching. Palpitation of the heart, in the evening, without anguish. Violent palpitation of the heart, every beat being felt in the head. violent palpitation of the heart, early in the morning, on waking.

BACK

Pain in the coccyx, which becomes a burning pain when the parts are touched. Pressing (bearing-down) pain in the coccyx as if the parts were bruised. Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration, in the inferior extremity of the spinal column, mostly when sitting and lying down. Pain in the small of the back, when sitting, as if the menses would make their appearance. Pressing pain in the small of the back. Stiffness in the small if the back. Drawing pain in the small of the back, as if broken, when walking, standing, or lying down. Lancination in the small of the back, down the thighs, on every inspiration. The back is so painful on the left side that she cannot rest upon it. Pressing pain in the back, between the scapulae, as if the parts had been strained or sprained. Burning in the back. Tension in the nape of the neck. Glandular swellings in the neck. Indurated glandular swellings, with sticking pain.

ARMS

Herpes; Indurated glands. Drawing pain in the arms and hands. Lacerating in the upper arm. Pain in the wrist-joint as if sprained. Dragging pain in the wrist-joints when moved. Lacerating in the hands. The hands go to sleep. The metacarpal joints are painful when moved. Stitches in the tips of the fingers. Arthritic stiffness of thee joints.

LEGS

Disagreeable tightness of the skin over the lower extremities, with a feeling either of burning or icy coldness. Cold legs in the daytime. Pinching pains in different parts of the lower limbs. Darting pain in the thighs. Drawing nd lacerating in the muscles of the thigh. Fine burning shooting stitches in the thigh and small of the back. Lacerating above the knee, as if in the bone. Soreness in the knee, when bending it, day and night. Cramp in the calves painful tightness in the calves when walking. Drawing in the leg. Pain in the tibia as if bruised, when walking in the open air, at intervals, with tightness in the calf. Jerking drawing in the tibia. Painless drawing in the left leg, at night, from below upwards, with sticking. Lacerating in the left leg, especially in the knee and ankle- joint. The legs go to sleep in the daytime. Weakness of the ankle-joint. Pain in the heels, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Stinging tingling in the feet, as if they had gone to sleep, in the morning. Feet burn when walking, swell when sitting. Inflammatory swelling on the foot, bursting open near one of the toes. Swelling and tightness of the feet. Profuse sweat of the feet. Frequent cramp in the toes. Violent cutting burning in the toes, especially the little toes. Corns painful to touch.

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.