Anthrakokali

Given as remedies for migraine and in order to reduce fever, Antifeb. and

Exalg. have produced symptoms of collapse and cyanosis, in some instances fatal, with great

rapidity. One patient experienced from Exa/gine a sensation that his head was so large that it

seemed to occupy the whole room. Respiration was most difficult as in a bad attack of asthma,

he seized and clenched the hands of those around him. He was not an asthmatic subject. He felt

as if the diaphragm had ceased working and he must go on breathing on his own account at any

cost. Several cases of thrombosis of the lower extremities from heart weakness have followed its

use.

Dryness of the throat; internal heat, extending to the stomach; deglutition slightly

impeded.

Want of appetite —Surfeit—Disagreeable taste in the mouth; great thirst;

retching; vomiting of bile, and of black mucus; sensation of heat in the stomach; pressure within;

cramps of the stomach.

• ▸12, 13.
• ▸Abdomen and Stool.
• ▸—Inflation of the abdomen, as in tympanitis; colic.
• ▸—Blackish stools;

evacuations like pap, with colic and borborygmi; diarrhoea, which continues several days.

Increase in the secretion of urine; abundant flow of pale urine without

sediment; burning in the urethra while passing water; or itching at the orifice; retention of urine.

• ▸15, 16.
• ▸Male and Female Sexual Organs.
• ▸—Frequent erections.
• ▸—Catamenia beyond the usual

period.

Increased activity of the skin; nettle-rash—Chronic erysipelas; purulent pimples, like

papulz, with considerable itching, appearing during the night and disappearing in the daytime;

dropsy.

Febrile shivering, alternating with heat, followed by gentle perspiration, and

quickness of the pulse.—Redness and heat of the skin, disappearing on the supervention of

sweat.—Perspiration all over the body, with pain in the head, agitation, and bruise-like sensation,

and quickness of the pulse; nocturnal sweat, sometimes general, sometimes limited to the parts

affected; viscid sweating of the feet; before the sweat, oppression of the chest and violent

palpitations of the heart; the skin continues moist for a long time after the perspiration has

ceased.

Antifebrinum.

Acetanilid (formed from aniline). CH3 CO NH Co Hs. Exalgine is a derivative from this,

Methylacetanilid, and has almost identical action. Solution and trituration.

Low triturations.

Anthracite Coal Dissolved in Boiling Caustic Potash (ANTHRAKOKALI)

• ▸Useful in skin affections, scabies, prurigo, chronic herpes, cracks and ulcerations.
• ▸Papular-like eruption with a vesicular tendency, especially on scrotum, also on hands, tibia, shoulders and dorsum of feet.
• ▸Intense thirst.
• ▸Chronic rheumatism.
• ▸Bilious attacks, vomiting of bile, tympanic distention of abdomen.