Antimonium Crudum

Antim. crud. corresponds in a sense to the race of swine, as Arsenic does to

horses and Pulsatilla to sheep. It is preeminently a scrofulous medicine, corresponding to gross

constitutions with tendency to rough scaling skin with horny patches. With these horny patches

is great tenderness, the patient can hardly bear to walk on them. Analagous to these horny

excrescences are warts, and Ant c. has cured many cases of these. A student, 17, had twenty-

three on right hand and thirty four on left, mainly on backs and fingers, but a few on interior

surface of fingers. In addition redness and inflammation of eyelids. Cured in seven weeks with

• ▸Ant.
• ▸c.
• ▸200x.
• ▸In the same category may be mentioned the tendency of the nails to grow in splits.

Ant. crud. is specially suited to infants and children (with coated moist white tongues) and also to

elderly persons. Tendency to grow fat. When symptoms recur they change their locality or go

from one side of the body to the other. Left side predominates, especially lower left and upper

right. Among special symptoms are: Itching of scalp and falling out of hair. Tendency to take

cold about head. Scrofulous ophthalmia, canthi especially affected (Graph. the whole margin).

• ▸Otorrhoea.
• ▸Moist eruption behind ears (Graph.
• ▸).
• ▸Slight noises startle.
• ▸Nose-bleed with vertigo;

after headache; after rush of blood to head. Children are peevish, won't bear to be touched or

• ▸looked at.
• ▸Adults are sulky or sad.
• ▸Weeping and impressionable.
• ▸Sentimental mood by

• ▸moonlight.
• ▸Amativeness.
• ▸Suicidal.
• ▸Gastric and remittent fevers, and fevers of children, with great

thirst and the characteristic white tongue. The fever runs higher at night. The child is cross, but

unlike the Cham. patient, who wants to be carried, this will scream and show temper at every

little attention. There is a form of diarrhoea which alternates with constipation, often found in old

• ▸people, to which Ant.
• ▸crud.
• ▸corresponds.
• ▸"Stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed, in old

people." It cures many cases of mucous piles: continuous oozing, staining linen. In connection

with the intolerance of wine of the remedy, it may be mentioned that in one case it produced a

feeling of intoxication like that of alcohol, so that the patient refused to take any more of it. A

number of nervous symptoms appear in the provings—restlessness, jerking of muscles, &c. Dr.

M. Jousset has recorded a severe case of chorea which resisted all the usual remedies and was

cured with Ant. crud. prescribed on the digestive symptoms, particularly the characteristic white

• ▸tongue.
• ▸A notable characteristic of Ant.
• ▸crud.
• ▸is the thickly coated tongue.
• ▸Generally it is thick

and white; milky-white; or like whitewash evenly laid. The edges may be red and sore. Sore,

cracked and crusty nostrils and corners of mouth. Abnormal hunger; not relieved by eating;

emptiness at epigastrium and want of animal heat. Disgust for all foods. Nursing children throw

up a little sour milk as soon as they take the breast or bottle (thus c., after vomiting the child

• ▸sleeps and wakes hungry; Anz.
• ▸c.
• ▸the child refuses to nurse again).
• ▸The sulphur element in Anz.

crud. is strongly pronounced in the provings as in the constipation and other intestinal disorders

• ▸of the drug.
• ▸< By heat is a marked characteristic (Apis, Puls.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Secale, Camph.
• ▸); also <

from cold washing (less severe after warm washing), from cold water and cold food. In spite of

the < from heat there is great sensitiveness to cold, hence it is suitable to the hydrogenoid

• ▸constitutions.
• ▸Moonlight < mental symptoms.
• ▸Many symptoms are < at night.
• ▸< By touch.
• ▸<

From wine, especially sour wine; from vinegar and acids (though tamarind water does not

disagree); from fruits. < From pork, bread, and pastry. > By rest, by lying down; < rising up; <

ascending stairs.

• ▸Gluttony.
• ▸Hot weather.
• ▸Heat of sun.
• ▸Getting over-heated.
• ▸Disappointed love.

Suppressed eruptions.

• ▸Much concerned about his fate.
• ▸Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction.
• ▸Sulky; does not wish to speak.
• ▸Peevish; vexed without cause.
• ▸Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
• ▸Angry at every little attention.
• ▸Sentimental mood.

Ecstasy and exalted love, with great anxiety about his fate and inclination to shoot

himself; worse when walking in the moonlight, and then his conduct is like than of an insane

person.—Desponding reflections upon one's condition.—Disgust of life, with an inclination to

blow one's brains out, or to drown oneself.—Tendency to be frightened—Peevish humour, ill-

humour.—To be looked at and to be touched are unbearable (in the case of a child).—Dull

intellect, imbecility—Madness.

• ▸Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines.
• ▸Suppressed eruptions.
• ▸Heaviness in forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed.
• ▸Headache with great loss of hair.

Confusion of head, as after long labour in the cold.—A feeling of

intoxication.—Dizziness with nausea, or bleeding of the nose.—Attack of apoplexy, with frothy

salivation.—Cephalalgia, after bathing in running water—Cephalalgia with dizziness from the

smoke of tobacco; better in the open air.—Sensation, as if the forehead were going to burst.—Dull

pain in the sinciput and vertex, increased by going upstairs ——Cramp-like pain in the head,

ameliorated by walking in the open air.—Piercing pain in the forehead and in the temples.—Sharp

pains as from knives in head and under |. breast.—Congestion in the head, painful and followed

by epistaxis.—Pain in the bones at the vertex, as if from a swelling in the periosteum.—Teasing

itching in the head, with failing off of the hair.

• ▸Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated.
• ▸Canthi raw and fissured.
• ▸Chronic blepharitis.
• ▸Pustules on cornea and lids.

Shooting in the eyes.—Red, inflamed eyelids.—Inflammation of the eyes, with itching

and nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids.—Slight oozing of the skin near the external angle of

• ▸the eye.
• ▸-—Humour in the corners of the eyes.
• ▸—Enlargement of the eyes.
• ▸—Sensibility of the eyes to

the light of day.—Blindness.—Chronic sore eyes of children.

Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear.

Shooting in the ears.—Redness, swelling, and heat in the ear—Otorrhcea.—Digging and

murmuring in the ears.—Deafness, as if one had a bandage over the ears; as if a leaf were lying

before the ears —Buzzing in the ears.—Continual roaring in the ears.

Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.

Eruption in the nose.—Excoriation of the nostrils, and of the corners of the

• ▸nose.
• ▸—Nostrils chapped and scurfy.
• ▸—Stoppage of the nose.
• ▸—Bleeding at the nose, esp.
• ▸in the

evening.—Sensation of coldness in the nose, when inspiring air.—Dryness of the nose, chiefly on

walking in the open air.—Accumulation of thick yellowish mucus in the nostrils.

Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.

Sad countenance.—Heat in face, and chiefly in the cheeks, with itching.—Red, burning,

suppurating eruptions on the face, with yellowish scurf.—Lumps and blisters on the face, as if

from the stings of insects —Granular eruptions, yellow as honey, on the skin of the

face.—Eruption, like conoid chicken-pox, on the face and on the nose.—Sensation of excoriation

• ▸of the chin.
• ▸—Painful fissures at the commissures of the lips.
• ▸—Pimples on the upper lip.
• ▸—Dryness

of the lips.

• ▸Cracks in corners of mouth.
• ▸Dry lips.
• ▸Saltish saliva.
• ▸Much slimy mucus.
• ▸Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed.
• ▸Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily.
• ▸Toothache in hollow teeth.
• ▸Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus.
• ▸Canker sores.
• ▸Pappy taste.
• ▸No thirst.
• ▸Subacute eczema about mouth.

Bitter taste in the mouth—Ptyalism (tasting salty)—Dryness of the

mouth.—Accumulation of water on the tongue and in the mouth.—Salivation —Tongue loaded;

with a white coating.—Pain, as of excoriation at the edges of the tongue.—Blisters on the tongue.

Pains in carious teeth, with dull pricking, successive pullings and gnawing, even in

the head, renewed after every meal, increased by cold water, and mitigated in the open

air.—Jerking toothache in the evening, in bed, and after a meal —Grinding of the teeth while

sleeping in a sitting posture.—Stitches in and about the teeth when inspiring cold air.—Bleeding

of the teeth and of the gums, which become detached.

Soreness of the throat, as if there were a plug in it.—Inability to swallow.—Dryness

and scraping, or an accumulation of viscid mucus in the throat.

• ▸Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares.
• ▸Hawking in open air.
• ▸Laryngitis.
• ▸Rough voice from over use.

• ▸Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles.
• ▸Thirst in evening and night.
• ▸Eructation tasting of the ingesta.
• ▸Heartburn, nausea, vomiting.
• ▸After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross.
• ▸Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather.
• ▸Constant belching.
• ▸Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels.
• ▸Sweetish waterbrash.
• ▸Bloating after eating.

Aversion to all food—Longing for acids.—Thirst chiefly in the night—Loss of

appetite —Sensation of hunger and of emptiness in the epigastrium, in the morning especially,

and which is unappeased by eating.—After a meal, dejection, lassitude, fulness and tension in the

abdomen.—Great desire to take food, which is not appropriated to strength.

Eructations with taste of food, or very acid—Regurgitation of a watery

fluid.—Hiccough on smoking tobacco.—Loathing of food, nausea, and inclination to vomit, as if

caused by indigestion —Heartburn with good appetite-—Nausea after taking wine.—Nausea and

vomiturition, from overloading the stomach, or after drinking (sour) wine.—Vomiting of mucus

and of bile, sometimes accompanied by diarrhcea, great anxiety, and convulsions.—Pain, burning,

and cramp-like in the pit of the stomach, sometimes with despair and inclination to drown

oneself.—Tension and pressure in the pit of the stomach.—Painful sensation, as if the stomach

were overloaded with food.—Pain in the region of the stomach on being touched.—Gastric catarrh

with characteristic white tongue; even if caused by metastasis of rheumatism or gout.

Inflation of the abdomen, with a sensation of fulness, chiefly after a

meal.—Violent cutting pains, sometimes with want of appetite; urine red and stools

hard.—Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, as after violent diarrhcea.—Sensation of swelling

and of hardness in the inguinal region, on its being pressed.—Accumulation of flatus in the

abdomen, with rumbling and borborygmi.

Anal itching (Sulpho-calc. Alum).

• ▸diarrhoea alternates with constipation, especially in old people.
• ▸Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools.
• ▸Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge. Catarrhal proctitis.
• ▸Stools composed entirely of mucus.

Difficult evacuation of hard stools.—Difficult evacuations; the feeces are

too large in size—Urgent inclination to go to stool.—Stool of the consistence of pap.—Diarrheea,

generally watery, with cutting pains.—After vinegar or acid wine, loose stool.—Alternate

diarrhoea and constipation, esp. in aged persons.—Constant secretion of yellowish-white mucus

by the anus.—Flow of black blood from the anus.—Heemorrhoidal excrescences, blind and

running, with burning and tingling —Burning itching and fissures in the anus.—Expansive

pressure in the rectum (during stool as if an ulcer had been torn open) and the anus.—Burning

furunculus in the perineum.

Frequent inclination to make water, with scanty emission.—Frequent and

abundant emission of urine, with abundant flow of mucus, and burning in the urethra,

accompanied by pains in the loins.—On coughing, involuntary emission of urine.—Urine

aqueous, or of a gold colour, or reddish brown, and sometimes mixed with small red

corpuscles.—Incisive pain in the urethra, on making water.

Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor.

• ▸Excited; parts itch.
• ▸Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse.
• ▸Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region.
• ▸Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy.

Metrorrhagia.—Sharp and corrosive discharge from the

vagina.—Nymphomania from checked catamenia.—Tenderness over ovaries after menses

checked by a bath.—Gastro-intestinal disorders of pregnancy.—Pressure in the uterus as if

something would come out of it, esp. during uterine heemorrhage.—Toothache before the menses,

with boring in the temples.—Quite solid lumps in a watery leucorrhcea, which sometimes causes

a smarting down the thighs.—Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea during pregnancy.

Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence. Atrophy of penis and testicles.

Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of chest, oppression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. Voice harsh and badly pitched.

Great heat in the throat while moving in the open air.—Great

weakness, or entire loss of voice, chiefly on becoming warm.—Looking into the fire increases

cough.—Sensation of a foreign substance in the larynx, with inability to expectorate.—Violent

spasm in the larynx, with sensation of excoriation.—Cough, with burning in the chest.—Morning

cough, dry and shaking —Whooping-cough.—Cough as if arising from abdomen.

Stifling oppression and paralytic orthopnoea.—Respiration deep, with

sighing.—Shootings in the chest, when drawing breath and at other times.—Pain, as of contusion,

in the pectoralis major, on raising the arm, and on pressure.—Sharp pain under 1. breast.

Itching and pain of neck and back.

Cramp-like drawing in the muscles of the neck and of the nape of the

neck.—Rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck.—Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck, in the

shoulder-blades, and behind the ears.

Rheumatic pains in the arms.—Red vesicles on the arms, with

itching.—Painful inflammation of the tendons of the elbow, with great redness and curvature of

the arm.—Hot and red swelling of the forearm, with shooting tension.—Sensation of drawing in

the forearm, the fingers, and the joints of the fingers —Arthritic pains in the joints of the

fingers.—Painful sensibility of the skin under the nails, and slow growth of the nails

themselves.—A horny growth under the nail—Crushed finger-nails grow in splits, with horny

spots.

Sensation of drawing in the lower limbs, esp. in the coxo-femoral

joint.—Lumps, with red rings, on the buttocks and legs.—Violent pain in the lower

extremities—Numbness of the legs after sitting for some time.—Shooting pain in the knee and in

• ▸the tibia —Drawing pain in knees, lower part |.
• ▸tibia, in |.
• ▸heel, and tearing through the r.
• ▸great

toe —Tumour or white swelling of the knee.—Painful stiffness in the knee, preventing the

extension of the leg—Vesicles on the knee after scratching it.—Sensibility of the soles of the feet,

when walking on the pavement.—Red swelling of the heel, with burning shootings, which are

aggravated by walking.—Corns on the soles of the feet, and callous excrescence at the tips of the

toes.—Pressive pain in the corns—Burning in the fleshy part of the great toe —Callous

excrescence under the nail of the great toe.

24. Generalities—Rheumatic pains and inflammation of the tendons, with redness and

contraction of the part affected.—Inflammation of the muscles.—Drawings or shootings and

tension, principally in the limbs.—Restlessness, uneasiness.—Disposition to start even at slight

• ▸noises.
• ▸—T witching of muscles of many parts of the body.
• ▸—Convulsions with vomiting.
• ▸—The

symptoms are aggravated in the heat of the sun, after having drunk wine, after a meal, night and

morning; amelioration during repose and in the fresh air—Great sensibility to cold.—Heaviness

of all the limbs.—General weakness, esp. at night, on waking —Emaciation, or great

obesity —Dropsical swelling of the whole body.—Mucous membranes generally

• ▸affected.
• ▸—Anasarca.
• ▸—Marasmus.
• ▸—Children cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
• ▸—Chronic

affections traceable to suppressed eruptions or ulcers.

• ▸Twitching of muscles.
• ▸Jerks in arms.
• ▸Arthritic pain in fingers.
• ▸Nails brittle; grow out of shape.
• ▸Horny warts on hands and soles.
• ▸Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence.
• ▸Feet very tender; covered with large horny places.
• ▸Inflamed corns.
• ▸Pain in heels.

• ▸Eczema with gastric derangements.
• ▸Pimples, vesicles, and pustules.
• ▸Sensitive to cold bathing.
• ▸Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs.
• ▸Urticaria; measle-like eruption.
• ▸Itching when warm in bed.
• ▸Dry skin.
• ▸Warts (Thuja; Sabina; Caust). Dry gangrene.
• ▸Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.

Itching, esp. in the neck, chest, back and limbs.—Eruptions which appear chiefly in

the evening, or which itch in the heat of the bed, and prevent sleep.—Miliary eruptions and

nettle-rash.—Tumours and blisters, as if from the stings of insects.—Measles-like

eruption.—Eruptions, similar to chicken-pox, with shooting pain on pressure.—Thick, hard scabs,

often honey-yellow, here and there a crack oozing a green sanious fluid, burning as if immersed

in hot embers.—Urticaria white, with red areolze, which itch fearfully——Pustules with yellowish

• ▸or brown scurf.
• ▸—Freckles.
• ▸—Hepatic spots—Deep spongy ulcers with gastric ulcers.
• ▸—Fistulous

ulcers.—Horn-like excrescences and disposition to abnormal organisations of the skin.—Corns

and callous excrescences on the feet —Nails discoloured and deformed.—Red and hot

swellings.—Degeneration of the skin.—Fungus of the joints.

Continual drowsiness in old people.

Strong inclination to sleep during the day, and somnolency, chiefly in the evening or

• ▸morning.
• ▸—Coma with delirium.
• ▸—Waking with fright during the night.
• ▸—Dreams, anxious,

horrible, voluptuous, or painful, and full of quarrelling.

Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhoea. Hot sweat.

Chilliness predominating even in the warm room.—Sensation of coldness in the nose

when inhaling air.—Heat, esp. during the night, before midnight, with cold feet—Great heat from

little exercise, esp. in the sun.—Intermittent fever, with gastric or bilious affections, principally

with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, loaded tongue, bitterness of the mouth, with

moderate thirst, diarrhoea, tension and pressure at the pit of the stomach, with cutting

• ▸pains.
• ▸—Tertian fever.
• ▸—Hot sweat, early in the morning every second day.
• ▸—Pulse irregular,

sometimes quick, sometimes slow.

• ▸Anus, irritation of: Callosities.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Chorea.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Diarrhea.

• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Eczema.
• ▸Feet, sore and horny.
• ▸Fever.
• ▸Gum-rash.
• ▸Nails, degeneration of.
• ▸Nettle-rash.

• ▸Piles.
• ▸Prolapsus recti.
• ▸Red gum.
• ▸Remittent fever.
• ▸Stomach, disordered.
• ▸Sunstroke.
• ▸Tendons

• ▸inflamed.
• ▸Tongue coated.
• ▸Voice, low.
• ▸Warts.
• ▸Whooping-cough.

• ▸Compare: A-thiops ant.
• ▸, Ant.
• ▸tar.
• ▸, Am.
• ▸mur.
• ▸, Apis, Bry.
• ▸, Graph.
• ▸, Puls.
• ▸, Ran.
• ▸b.
• ▸, Rhus

• ▸t.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Variol.
• ▸; Cham.
• ▸, Chi, and Stram.
• ▸(averse to be looked at); Hep.
• ▸, Rhus, Sep.
• ▸, Spi.
• ▸and Sul.

• ▸(averse to be washed).
• ▸Complementary: Scilla.
• ▸Follows well: Puls.
• ▸, Ipec.
• ▸Followed by: Puls.
• ▸,

• ▸Merc.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Antidote to: Stings of insects.
• ▸Antidoted by: Calc.
• ▸, Hep.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸Bry.
• ▸compares very

closely in digestive condition, loaded tongue and < from warmth; in summer complaint.

• ▸Compare: Antimonium Chloridum.
• ▸Butter of Antimony (A remedy for cancer.
• ▸Mucous membranes destroyed.
• ▸Abrasions.
• ▸Skin cold and clammy.
• ▸Great prostration of strength.
• ▸Dose-third trituration).

Antimon iodat (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy). In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister). Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed.

Compare: Kermes mineral-Stibiat sulph rub (Bronchitis). Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph.

Complementary: Sulph.

Antidote: Hepar.

Third to sixth potency.

anxiety. No peace. He is separated from the whole world, and he

• ▸despairs to do that which is required of him.
• ▸Cowardly in the extreme.
• ▸Fears some dreadful thing will happen.
• ▸Morose, sulky, sullen.
• ▸Unsocial ; complains of weak memory.
• ▸Slight causes make himi

excessively angry. A strong feature is that all moral feeling is taken

out of him. He feels cruel. Can do bodily injury without feeling.

Cruel, malicious, wicked.

Bad effects of mental excitement. Weak-minded. Consequences of

fright and mortification. Suitable in religious mania when the conflict

between the external and internal will is kept up. It is analogous to Hyos.

Many complaints are ameliorated by eating.

Sensation here and there of pressure, described as if a plug, all

through the body, in the head, eyes, in the navel and down the spine.

Objects appear too far off. Things have a strange look, sometimes

uncanny. Illusions of smell, burning timber, pigeon's dung. Chronic

dry coryza.

The whole body has been well covered by symptoms ; but it seems

that the mind represents the principal aspect, and it will seldom be

used excepting for such mind symptoms. Usually when the mental

symptoms are strong the physical are also covered by the remedy.

Full of trembling and paralytic weakness. Tetanus ; epilepsy. Sensations as of a hoop or band around the body, limbs or head ; pressing

as of a plug.

The eruptions are like Rhus in many respects ; erysipelatous eruptions dark, dusky and of malignant types. It is an antidote to Rhus

• ▸poisoning.
• ▸Eruptions all over.
• ▸Yellow vesicles are common.
• ▸Intense itching of eruptions.
• ▸Warts on the palms like Natrum mur.

Skin burns much. It seems closely related in its symptoms to all the

Rhus family.

You will be surprised, when studying full provings of this substance, to notice that all the symptoms seem to centre ab out the stoma ch ; it does not matter rnudS wTi at TindTir cdi^ suffers from,

the stomach takes part in it. The pains disturb his stomach and bring

on nausea ; with his headache he is sick at the stomach ; with all complaints his stomach is out of order, and, on the other hand, whenever

he disorders his stomach he is sick all over. C omplaints that manif est

themselves through the stomach very frequently need this medicine.

First in importance are the mental symptoms showing theT^e of

constitution likely to need this remedy. It produces a very serious

state in the mind, an absence of the desire to live. It is well known

to physicians that the case is a serious one if the patient has no desire

to live ; life is a burden. When I hear a patient say : "'Oh, doctor, if

I could only die.'* I do not like such a case ; there is some deep-seated

trouble in the economy that is hard to remove. Something is threatening, and when it comes it is a common thing to see the patient

actually die. “Loathing of life.” You will find this especially in a

low, lingering, continued fever, such as typhoid. This remedy has

all the prostration of typhoid, and it has the continued type of fever

as well as the intermittent and remittent. The prostration is similar

to Arsenicum, but Ars, have overwhelming fear of death, while this

medicine has loathing of life ; and so they both part company. Ars,

has overwhelming restlessness, this remedy is seldom restless. Ars.

has an intense thirst, this medicine' is thirstless. So even though both

these remedies have excessive exhaustion with continued fever, we

sec they have features dissimilar enough to make them wholly distinct. Such a typhoid will sometimes be seen in young girls about

puberty who are threatening to go into chlorosis. They have loathing

of life, but it is a hysterical loathing of life. Moments of great exhaustion, sudden attacks of weakness and fainting. You will commonly find another feature with this, not coming at the same moment,

but alternating with it, or only present at times, namely, these overexcitable, intense, nervous, hysterical, ecstatic young girls and women

arc overcome by mellow lights such as flow through stained glass

windows or the mellow light from the moon in the evening. That is

;what is meant when it says in the text: “Sentimental mood in the

moonlight.” It is a hysterical state, a disorderly outburst of the affections, such affections as can be aroused only in one who is sick,

or one who is unbalanced in the general nervous system. This kind

of patient gives us the mental state and constitution of Ant. crud., and

along with such mental states the physical conditions seems to strike

to the stomach, as it were.

We have running through this remedy a general state that you

should keep in mind, that is, a gouty or rh emnatic state, in which the

symptoms change with the changes of the weather; worse in cold,

damp weather, worse from cold bathing, better from the heat of a

hot bath, worse from taking sour wine, and worse from stimulants of

any kind. When you use the expression “worse from wine,” it is not

only important to know that the patient is worse from wine, but also

the character of complaints that are worse from wine. This patient

becomes easily intoxicated, but the physical symptoms arc more disturbed than the mental ; his gouty symptoms are worse from sour

wine ; all the pains and aches of the body are worse from sour wine ;

headaches come from this cause and the gastric disturbances are greatly aggravated from sour wine.

This patient is worse at night, worse in damp weather, worse from'

anumonium crudxjm

damp cold, better from lying down quietly, better from applied heat,

but much worse from over-heating and from radiated heat, and in a

warm room. Many of the symptoms come on in the sun's rays and

from the heat of an open grate. The open fire is wholly against the

• ▸Ant.
• ▸crud.
• ▸patient.
• ▸A child with whooping cough will cough more

after looking into the fire. Such things are queer ; they are so strange

that there is no philosophical hypothesis to explain them, no theory

that looks toward an explanation, but they are facts which we must accept.

The whole gouty nature of the case seems to change so suddenly

that you wonder where the more exterior symptoms have gone to, for

all at once in a night or a day the patient commences to vomit and you

have persistent vomiting, lasting days and weeks, until the gouty

symptoms come back into the extremities. It is wonderful how quickly

this old-fashioned metastasis will come on, this changing from one

place to another. Jhe gouj suddenl y ceases i n the ext remities and

s toma ch symptoms come ra, an^jcm m^cdl it goutjiohc.^^

if you wil l.

There are catarrhal symptoms in this remedy ; catarrh of the nose,

stomajh, rectum, etc., and an increased flow of mucus from any of

these locailtles from drinking sour wine and from taking cold. A distressing feature of the catarrh is the stuffing up of the nose at night.

As soon as he gets into an overheated room, his nose gets stuffed up.

The coryza has a tendency to become chronic, because of the low and

feeble circulation and the poor constitution. When it becomes chronic

It is worse at night and is associated .with headaches. As the catarrh

slackens up and becomes dry the headache becomes worse ; he has

neuralgia in the head, crushing pains and dreadful sickness at the

stomach with vomiting. He often has an attack of sick headache and

it will be called by the family a gastric sick headache, but the condition just mentioned comes on from taking cold, which slacks up the

thick discharge into a dryness of the nose and the inhaled air burns

the nose like fire. Sometimes these troubles pass off after an intense

vomiting spell ; sometimes they do not, but the headache may remain

for days not relieved by vomiting, or relieved only after prolonged

vomiting. There are remedies full of headache and as soon as he

vomits he feels better, but in this remedy he vomits long, and becomes

relaxed and exhausted. The headache is worse moving about, worse

at night, better from lying down, from keeping quiet, better in the

open air, worse in warm room, worse from overheating, worse from

radiated heat and light. You see now how the catarrh, the headache

and gastric symptoms all belong together. It is because the patient

is sick that you cannot take symptoms separately, you must prescribe

for the whole man.

There is another feature belonging to the mucuous membranes, and

an important one ; the se membranes have a tendency to th row ^cgit_a.

milky white exudatiTO or deposits and it is especially noticed up on the

tongue* Th e whole tongue is_c ovcred with a milk-white coating .

This youlSnd in all diseases ^hSe the remedy is^ndii^ted. In the

stomach disorders of children, in gastric fevers, in complaints with

fever and much vomiting, great irritation of the whole nervous system and in irritation of the stomach in typhoids, the tongue looks

• ▸white.
• ▸Upon the slightest provocation he will retch and gag.
• ▸Everything seems to disturb him.
• ▸He has loathing of food ; the thought

and smell of food disturb him. This is like Arsenicum.

He takes a cold bath at night on going to bed and gets up in the

morning voiceless ; cannot speak a word. This has come on in an

apparently painless manner ; he does not know that it is present until

he attempts to speak in the morning. This may be present with

spasms of the larynx, clutchings of the throat. Colds sometimes go

down into the throat and into the trachea, producing a bronchitis or

pneumonia.

Dry, hacking spasmodic cough in diminishing paroxysms. I will

explain that: The first paroxysm occurs with great violence, racking

his whole frame, and lasting a longer or shorter period, to be followed

by one with less violence and another with less violence ; perhaps after

a dozen or less paroxysms of diminishing violence, he ends up with

a dry, hacking cough which is not a paroxysm. When this first cough

shakes the whole body, whether it is a bronchitis or whooping cough,

and the tongue is white, and there are more or less gastric disturbances, Ant, crud. is the remedy. It wdll change the whole aspect of

the case at once. The chest remains sore, lame and bruised from the

violence of the cough.

The stomach symptoms must be particularly considered. Constant

nausea, lump in the stomad u^fceling all the time as if he had an overloaded stomach, as if he had eaten too much, and that is when he had

not eaten at all. The stomach feels distended although the abdomen

is flat. He feels distended and vomits the contents of the stomach ;

he vomits slime after he has emptied the stomach of its contents ; prolonged retching, nausea, sickening load in the stomach and it seems to

go on and on. The vomiting does nm relieve and ^herp is

j^xh austion. “

Jnflaniination and hardng^jofjthe liyeij^r any portion Qf Jlt^ Pain

ipiJbeT^ion of the gaj[ bladd^^^ pain in the region of ‘the

liver, rending, teaffhg pains in the liver. Jaundice is associated with

these symptoms at times.

In the abdomen we have a group of symptoms ; violent abdominal

pains, burning, great distension ; there appears to be an increasing

distension as if by a screw, gradually forcing down upon something

akhmoniom crudom

gradually increasing the tension. We find this state in the tympanitic

condition of typhoid fever, we find it in cases of flatulence, we find it

in summer diarrhoeas. It will be associa^d whh jgastric symptoms

and the white tongue, especialTy^flrsuc^ disturbance had been brougHt

^mTTiy drinking sour wine, by taking a cold bath, in one who has a

gouty constitution, where the nodules in tlie finger joints become

painless and the stomach and bowels become distended and painful.

This remedy has a nondescript diarrhoea, but also a lumpy and liejuid

diarrhoea. Diarrhooea from sour wine. It seems to take a long time

to empty the bowels. He hurries to stool and passes a little lump and

some liquid, and is soon hurried again to stool and more lumps and

liquid are passed, and this goes on in summer diarrhoeas until finally

the bowel is emptied and then there is great tenesmus. It is a diarrhoea ending in dysentery ; inflammation of the rectum and colon, with

sullering, much tenesmus, prolonged efforts and great exhaustion.

Troublesome haemorrhoids in old gouty constitutions. They arc

always sore and inflamed from a cold, wet day, from cold bathing and

are always worse if he is foolish enough to drink sour wine or take

sour food. The stomach, bowel, rectum and haemorrhoidal complaints

are all worse from disordering the stomach with sour wine, sour fruit

or indigestible substances from cold bathing and wet weather.

The pelvic viscera become greatly relaxed, especially in women, so

much so that there is a dragging down in the pelvis. It seems as

though the contents of the p^vis would be expelled, or would fall out.

There is prolap sus of the utjer us and a discharge resembling^ leucorrhoea. Disturbances of various kinds at the rnehsfnTaT period. Irrital)le and painful ovaries, such as we find associated with hysterical

girls ; those who suffer from unrequited affections ; dreamers.

This medicine produces sweating ; copious, exhau stive sweat s, nigh t

sweats, such as we find in lingering diseases. Sweats from the slightm exertion. If he becomes slightly overheated he fairly boils with

perspiration and then takes cold.

The skin is ulcerated and has a tendency to grow war ts^ callosities,

l ^ad nails and bad hair. Hard, horny excrescences grow under the

nail and are extremely painful. FrQni_tlie ends of the fi ngers little

ijorn-like excrescences appear. The slightest pressure will produce a

callosity, or”^a sot^T plJ^^ in working men you will find an unusual

tendency to thickening o f the ski n on the soles of the fee t. They are

very sore to walk upon, becausFTKSe callous places are sensitive and

have numerous centres of little-corns. The tendency to build up and

indurate belongs to the remedy. Warts grow upon the hands. The

hair is unhealthy. Pustules form upon the skin with red areola.

Pustular eruptions have an inflamed base that is red, and sensitive.

Now, if you will study the proving and get the particulars of the

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remedy, and fit them into this framework, you will understand something of Ant. crud.