Anthracinum

Anthracinum is indicated in all conditions of boils and boil-like eruptions (as

acne in some forms, and in carbuncles). It was introduced into homceopathic practice by Lux the

veterinarian long before the experiments of Pasteur. The keynote for its employment is

"succession of boils" or carbuncles, but it is also of the greatest use in other cases. "Terrible

burning" with carbuncle. The potentised virus is the best remedy for the disease from which it is

obtained—"Splenic fever" in animals, and "Malignant pustule" in human beings. Erysipelas of a

foul kind, and gangrenous erysipelas; cellulitis. "Hard, stony" swelling in region of right lower

• ▸jaw and submaxillary gland.
• ▸Anthrax-quinsy.
• ▸Whitlow and sloughing.
• ▸Glands painfully swollen.

• ▸Induration of cellular tissue.
• ▸Black or blue blisters.
• ▸Horribly offensive gangrenous ulcers.
• ▸A

number of symptoms have been recorded from human patients affected with the anthrax disease.

Restlessness.—Clonic and tetanic spasms (marked rigor mortis after

death).—Exhaustion and collapse.—Terrible burning pains.

Headache, as if a smoke with a heating pain was passing through the head.—Headache

with chill —Swelling of head.

Parotitis gangrenosa.—Stony swelling around lower jaw.—Gland under chin painfully

swollen.

Sensation as if diaphragm were pushed forward.—Enlargement of

spleen.—Bellyache with chill.

Vomiting followed by a painless, often bloody diarrhoea.—Diarrhoea with

fever.—Cholera-like collapse.

Heart-beats frequent but weak.—Cyanosis.—Blood does not

coagulate.

• ▸20, 21.
• ▸Back and Limbs.
• ▸—Axillary glands swollen.
• ▸—Severe pains in limbs and joints with the

fever.—CEdema; ulcers; gangrene; sloughing whitlows.

Crusty oozing eruption.—Itching with dry skin.—Black or blue

• ▸blisters.
• ▸—Carbuncles.
• ▸—Boils.
• ▸—Sloughing ulcers —Small-pox.

• ▸Acne.
• ▸Boils.
• ▸Carbuncles.
• ▸Cynanche cellularis.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Gangrene.
• ▸Malignant

• ▸pustule.
• ▸Parotitis gangrenosa.
• ▸Phlegmonous inflammation and ulceration.
• ▸Small-pox.
• ▸Splenic

fever. Ulcers. Whitlow.

• ▸Compare: Anthracinum bovum, Anthracinum suum, Laches.
• ▸, Tarent.
• ▸c.
• ▸, Arsen.
• ▸,

• ▸Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸/t follows well: Arsen.
• ▸(burning and ulceration), Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸Is followed well by: Aur.
• ▸mut.

• ▸nat.
• ▸(periosteal swelling of lower jaw), Silic.
• ▸(cellulitis).
• ▸Antidoted by: Camph.
• ▸, Ars.
• ▸, Rhus,

• ▸Silic.
• ▸, Laches.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Kreos.
• ▸, Carbol.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Salicyl.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Apis.

• ▸Similar to Arsenic, which it often follows.
• ▸Compare: Pyrogen; Lachesis; Crotalus; Hippozoen; Echinac; Silica follows well.
• ▸In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah's carbuncle-i.
• ▸e the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and apply.

Thirtieth potency. Tarant. Cubensis.

• ▸Haemorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice.
• ▸Glands swollen, cellular tissues oedematous and indurated.
• ▸Septicaemia.
• ▸Ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Black and blue blisters.
• ▸Dissecting wounds.
• ▸Insect stings.
• ▸Bad effects from inhaling foul odors.
• ▸Gangrenous parotitis.
• ▸Succession of boils.
• ▸Gangrene.
• ▸Foul secretions.