CARBO VEGETABILIS



EARS

Lacerating in the ear. Pulsations in the ears. Heat and redness of the left ear, every evening. Discharge of a thickish, flesh- colored, badly-smelling liquid from the ear. Suppuration of the inner ear. Deficiency of ear-wax. His ears feel stopped up. Tingling in the ears. Roaring in the ears. Violent humming in both ears. Chirping in the ears, as of grasshoppers. Rustling in the ear as of straw, at every movement of the jaw. Swelling of the parotid gland.

NOSE

Itching around he nostrils. Scabs on the tip of the nose. Bleeding of the nose: at night, with seething of the blood; after stooping, or after straining at stool. Frequent sneezing: with violent tingling and creeping in the nose, also particularly at night, in bed, with catarrhal roughness in the nose and chest. Stoppage of the nose, particularly in the evening, or principally of the left nostril; dry coryza, with scraping in the throat. Violent coryza, also with catarrh, hoarseness, and rawness of the chest; fluent coryza. Profuse bleeding at the nose, preceded and succeeded by great paleness of the face.

FACE

The complexion becomes gray-yellow. Great paleness of the face. Soreness of the facial bones, the upper and lower jaw. Paroxysms of pain in the left side of the cheek, attended with boring and burning through the part. Drawing pain in the upper and lower. Jerking and drawing pain in the cheek and the jaw Lacerating in the face. Lacerating pain in the left cheek. Lacerating jerks in the right upper jaw. Glowing heat in the face, after sitting for a short while. Swelling of the checks. Many pimples on the face and forehead. Moist herpes on the face. Crusta-lactea.? Swelling of the lips. Painful burning eruption on the lips. Chapped lips. The right corner of the mouth is ulcerated. Eruptions on the chin. Spasmodic pain in the lower jaw.

JAWS AND TEETH

Soreness of the roots. Toothache, as if occasioned by acids, especially in the gums, the pain comes on whenever she eats anything salty, or anything warm or cold. Drawing and lacerating pain in all the molar teeth. Gnawing and drawing pain in a hollow tooth, with swelling of the gums. Bubbling toothache; Contractive toothache; chronic looseness of the teeth. Darting pain in sound teeth, disappearing shortly and succeeded by a short stitching ache in the abdomen, every moment. Bleeding of the gums, when cleaning them. The gums are painfully sensitive when chewing. Drawing pain in the gums. Heat in the gums. Soreness of the gums in the daytime. Pustule on the gums. The gums recede from the teeth. Soreness of the teeth.

MOUTH

Dryness in the mouth, without thirst. Great dryness in the mouth early, when waking. Increased flow of saliva. Bitter mucus in the mouth, early in the morning. Stomacace. An aching in the back part of the palate. Frequent biting and burning in the fauces and palate. Bitterness of the palate, with dryness of the tongue.

THROAT

Violent scraping and tingling in the throat and fauces. Scraping sensation in the throat. Roughness and rawness of the throat. A king of fullness and pressure in the oesophagus, extending to the stomach, almost like heartburn. Sense as of the esophagus being contracted or closed. The throat feels contracted and swollen. Sore throat, as if there were a swelling on the palate, accompanied by painful deglutition. Soreness of the throat, when eating. Inflammation of the throat, with sensation as if something were lodged in it, attended with stinging. Inflammation and swelling of the uvula, with stitches in the throat. Esophagitis.? Sore throat after measles.

TASTE AND APPETITE

Insipid, water, and flat taste in the mouth Saltish taste in the whole day, also of the food. Bitterness in the mouth, with eructations. Bitter taste in the mouth before and after a meal. Sour taste in the mouth after a meal. Loss of appetite. Complete loss of appetite, with coated tongue and great lassitude. Want of appetite and frequent eructations, with dullness of the head. Diminished appetite for dinner, with nausea and colic. Repugnance to fat meat, butter, milk, which causes flatulence. Excessive desire for coffee. Excessive hunger or thirst. Great weakness of digestion, particularly in persons who have used much Mercury.

GASTRIC SYMPTOMS

Nausea at every meal. After a meal:Nausea, with oppression at the stomach, followed by a violent drawing pain around the umbilicus, from above downwards; painful hiccough in the oesophagus; violent palpitation of the heart; lassitude; unconquerable drowsiness, with burning of the eye-lids when closing the eyes; sleepiness, with red and hot face. Muddled condition of the head and oppression of the stomach after a meal. Bloated abdomen after dinner. When eating or drinking he feels as if the abdomen would burst open. Anguish after and during a meal. Headache after a meal. Violent, almost continual eructations. Frequent empty eructations, preceded by a short pinching in the abdomen. Sour eructations, after a meal. Sour eructations, with burning in the stomach. Common heartburn; acidity in the stomach. Nausea and want of appetite, even before breakfast, more after a meal, with anguish, dizziness, obscuration of sight, and white- coated tongue. Nausea early in the morning, with qualmishness of the stomach. Nausea after every meal. Nausea at night. Continual nausea, without appetite or stool. Water-brash, also at night. Haematemesis. Gastric derangement after drinking wine and revelling.

STOMACH

Sensation of tightness and fullness in the stomach Sense of pressure in the region of the stomach, going off by emitting flatulence. Aching in the region of the part. Pressing upon a sore, worse when touching the part. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, with anguish. Spasm in he stomach, with continual sour eructations. Spasm in the stomach and cardialgia, as in nursing women. Contracting spasm of he stomach, even at night, with acidity. Spasms of the stomach, occasioned by obstructions in the portal system. Sense of contraction under the stomach. Contractive pain near the scrobiculus-cordis, on the right side, morning and afternoon. Acridity of the stomach, rising up to the throat, like heartburn. Burning sensation in the stomach. The pain in the stomach are aggravated or excited by fright, chagrin, a cold, after a meal, at night, or by flatulent food.

HYPOCHONDRIA

Pain in the liver, as if bruised. Tightness in the region of the liver, as if the skin were too short on waking from the siesta. Pressing pain in the liver when waling in the open air. Violent lacerating in the liver, which makes one almost scream Pain in the interior of the liver, as if beaten to pieces. Violent stitches in the region of the liver. Aching in the hypochondrium Painful lancinating lacerating in both hypochondria. Both hypochondria are painful to the touch.

ABDOMEN

Colic, as after a cold. Colic from riding in a carriage. Weight of the abdomen. Distention of the abdomen from flatulence. Fullness and pressure in the abdomen, as if too full of food, accompanied by eructations. Aching and tightness, extending almost over the whole abdomen, attended with constant uneasiness and weeping, as if from despair. Aching in the umbilical region. Disagreeable pressure in the abdomen, she would constantly like to hold it with her hands. Belly-ache, with rumbling and emission of damp, warm, inodorous flatulence. Aching in the left iliac region, shifting of win in the abdomen, with pinching. Cramp-pain in the hypogastrium, Pinching pain in various places of contraction in the abdomen. Cutting in the belly, like colic, in the evening. Colic which lasts only a few moments, but is very frequent. Aching, with lacerating in the hypogastrium, in the direction of the umbilicus. Lancination in the hypogastrium, extending to the umbilicus Burning in the abdomen. Burning around the umbilicus. Great anxiety, uneasiness in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen as from straining. Soreness of the abdomen when touching it. Pain in the abdominal muscles as from bruises. Distention from incarcerated flatulence on the left side of the epigastrium, more towards the back, attended with a crampy pain. The flatus become incarcerated in different parts of the abdomen, below the short ribs, in the region of the bladder; they cause a crampy sensation and a pressure, and gradually go off with a sense of heat in the rectum. Audible rumbling in the umbilical region or in the abdomen, with some pinching. Fermentation in the abdomen, succeeded by diarrhoea, with emission of flatulence having a putrid smell. Things which are otherwise easily digested bring on flatulence and distention of the abdomen. Flatulent and hemorrhoidal colic.

STOOL

Sensation as if stool would come on, with burning at the anus and emission of flatulence. Constipation. Violent urging, with tingling in the rectum and pressure on the bladder, reassembling a haemorrhoidal colic, and coming on a intervals; in the place of an evacuation, violent labor-like pains come on, in the abdomen, with burning at the rectum and a sensation as if diarrhoea would set in Tenesmus at the rectum Hard stool every two or three days Papescent stool, with burning at the rectum. Diarrhoea. Involuntary discharge of putrid, cadaverously-smelling stools. Light colored, pale stools. Acrid stool, with coated by a cutting pain in the abdomen. Discharge of blood with the stool. Burning at the and pricking in the rectum during stool. Pressing or Crampy colic after stool. A swelling in the rectum, after stool. Languor after stool. Anxiety, with a tremulous sensation and involuntary movements, after stool. Smarting at the rectum. Aching in the rectum. Gnawing and pinching in the rectum, between the stools. Discharge of ascarides. Itching of the anus, increased by scratching and succeeded by burning. Burning at the anus, accompanied with a disagreeable feeling of dryness. Congestion of blood to the rectum. Swollen and painful varices. Titillating itching of the varices. Discharge of pure blood from the rectum, with lacerating pains. Discharge of an acrid, corrosive humor from the rectum. Soreness of the rectum. Soreness of the perineum, with painful itching when touched.

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.