Carbo Vegetabilis

The deodorant and disinfectant properties of charcoal in bulk had already been

discovered when Hahnemann was at work on his Materia Medica. Provings with the crude and

the potentised substances showed that the latter were much more powerful in their effect on the

animal organism. These brought out the fact that there is an exact correspondence between the

effect of crude charcoal and potentised Carbo veg. Both are antiseptic and deodorant. The signs

and symptoms of decay and putrefaction are the leading indications for its medicinal use:

Decomposition of food in the stomach; putrid diseases and ulcerations; symptoms of imperfect

oxygenisation of the blood. Carbo veg. antidotes the effects of putrid meats or fish, rancid fats,

salt or salt meats, and also the pathogenetic action of Cinchona, Lachesis, and Mercurius. It is

suited to conditions where there is lack of reaction (like Opium); to low states of the vital

powers, where the venous system is engorged; debility of greater intensity than Carbo an.; to

children after exhausting diseases; to old people. Leading symptoms are: Numbness of limbs.

• ▸Burning pains (as also Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸—both the products of a burning process).
• ▸Great debility as soon

• ▸as he makes the least effort.
• ▸Guernsey considers Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸especially suited to cachectic

individuals whose vital powers have become weakened. In cases where disease seems to have

been engrafted on the system by reason of the depressing influence of some prior derangement.

"Thus, for instance, the patient tells us that asthma has troubled him ever since he had whooping-

cough in childhood; he has dyspepsia ever since a drunken debauch which occurred some years

ago; he has never been well since the time he strained himself so badly; the strain itself does not

now seem to be the matter, but his present ailments have all appeared since it happened; he

sustained an injury some years ago, no traces of which are now apparent, and yet he dates his

present complaints from the time of the occurrence of that accident; or, again, he was injured by

exposure to damp, hot air, and his present ailments result from it." Another form of debility is

that following childbirth, causing falling out of hair.

• ▸Among other effects of Carbo v.
• ▸are: Aversion to darkness.
• ▸Fear of ghosts.
• ▸Excessive

accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines. "Stomach feels full and tense from flatulence."

"Great pain in stomach on account of flatulence, < especially on /ving down." Great desire for

air; must be fanned; wants to be fanned hard. < From warmth: on the other hand it has cough <

entering cold air from a warm room. < From brandy. Coldness is characteristic: cold breath (as in

cholera); cold knees; cold, but wants to be fanned.

• ▸The mental state of Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸is one of torpor and indolence, which distinguishes it from Ars.
• ▸in

many cases; slow thinking; < in morning on waking. Indifference. There is also peevishness;

easily angered. Vertigo from stomach, with fainting, especially at meals. Lividity is a common

indication; mottled skin round ulcers; indolent gangrene; varicose veins of arms, legs, vulva.

Hippocratic countenance; cold breath. Collapse; with cold knees. Dull headache in occiput with

confusion of mind; proceeding from occiput to forehead dull, heavy aching over eyes; in warm

• ▸room; buzzing in ears very sensitive to pressure of hat.
• ▸The congestive symptoms of Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸are

those of poisoning by carbonic acid; pulse thready; face pale, covered with cold sweat; desire to

be fanned; anxiety without restlessness; dyspnoea. Heemorrhages are frequent; epistaxis;

hemorrhage from throat in dysentery; from bowels; menorrhagia and metrorrhagia, with burning

pains across sacrum and spine; hemorrhage from the lungs; dyspnoea from chronic aortitis. It

corresponds to fever of many types: typhoid, intermittent, yellow fever, hectic, and cholera. In

intermittents of long standing where quinine has been abused; thirst only during chill; feet ice-

cold up to knees; heat in burning flushes; sweat sour or offensive; weak, mind befogged. A. H.

• ▸Birdsall has recorded a typical case of Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸intermittent.
• ▸A man, 36, had had fever eight

months, partially suppressed by Arsenic and Quinine. Type, tertian. Headache for one or two

• ▸hours before chill.
• ▸Chill always from 9 to 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, beginning in feet and hands, spreading over

body; nails very blue. Thirst with chill. Cold stage lasts two to three hours, followed immediately

by hot stage; much heat in head and face, which is flushed red; thirstlessness. Sweating stage

short; sweat sour. Apyrexia: sweats easily, especially from least warmth; awakens in morning

• ▸always with slight sour-smelling sweat.
• ▸Weak; dispirited; flatulent.
• ▸A single dose of Carb.
• ▸v.

cured. There were only three more attacks, each of diminished intensity. There is catarrh from

• ▸warm, moist atmosphere.
• ▸The cough of Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸is < on entering cold air from a warm room.

Hoarseness from damp air < morning or evening. Cough caused by a sensation as if sulphur

fumes were in larynx. There is leucorrhcea, greenish yellow, < in morning. The leucorrhoea

excoriates. Many symptoms occur during menses: headache; itching, burning soreness and

smarting at vulva and anus; hemorrhoids. A carbon ointment, made by carbonising a wine cork

by plunging it into a clear fire and then, in its still glowing state, into vaseline and mixing

thoroughly, is regarded as a sovereign remedy in anal irritation and hemorroidal troubles. The

menstrual discharge is corrosive and has a strong pungent odour. Premature and profuse.

• ▸Preceded and followed by Leucorrhcea.
• ▸Perinzeum moist, raw, oozing.
• ▸Carbo v.
• ▸has weak

digestion with enormous production of flatulence, > by eructations. Flatulence accompanies

many other complaints, as asthma and heart affections. Heaviness, full feeling and burning.

Aversion to fat, to meat; to milk, which causes flatulence. Desire for coffee (which does not

relieve); for acids; for sweet and salt things. Effects of alcohol; of fish, especially if tainted; ice-

water; vegetables; salt or salt meats. Disorder from high living, and especially butter-eating.

Burning itching on skin; frozen limbs; chilblains; excoriations between toes. Tinea capitis or

scald-head. Scalp very sensitive, feels as if bruised. Whooping-cough with pain at base of brain.

Excessive gagging cough in the morning, compelling him to vomit everything in his stomach

• ▸immediately after breakfast.
• ▸Dros.
• ▸is complementary to Carbo v.
• ▸in this.
• ▸Enuresis, which is < in

morning after the first sleep.

• ▸Alcohol.
• ▸Bad food: eggs, wines, liquors, fish.
• ▸Fat food.
• ▸Butter.
• ▸Salt or salt food.

• ▸Poultry.
• ▸Ice-water.
• ▸Debauchery.
• ▸Strains.
• ▸Lifting.
• ▸Over-work (asthenopia).
• ▸Change of weather.

Warm, damp weather. Hot air inhaled from fire. Overheating.

Aversion to darkness. Fear of ghosts. Sudden loss of memory.

• ▸Inquietude and anxiety, esp.
• ▸in the evening (4-6 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸—Fear of spectres, esp.
• ▸at

night.—Timidity, irresolution, and embarrassment in society.—Despair with lachrymose humour,

and discouragement, with desire for death, and tendency to suicide. —Disposition to be

• ▸frightened.
• ▸—Irascibility and passion.
• ▸—Sudden, and periodical weakness of memory.
• ▸—Slowness

of apprehension.—Fixed ideas.—Aversion to labour.

Pains with anxiety, heat and complete discouragement, or with dejection after

the paroxysm.—Acute pullings and arthritic drawing pains, with paralytic weakness, chiefly in

the limbs, and sufferings from flatulency, or with difficulty of respiration, when it is the chest

which is attacked.—Pain as from dislocation in the limbs, or pain as if caused by a strain in the

loins.—Burning pains in the limbs and in the bones, ulcers.—Pulsation in different parts of the

body.—Sufferings from a strain in the back, or from riding in a carriage.—Trembling and jerkings

in the limbs by day.—Numbness of the limbs readily induced.—The majority of symptoms appear

while walking in the open air.—Emaciation, esp. of the face —Contusive pain in all the limbs,

• ▸esp.
• ▸in the morning, immediately on rising.
• ▸—Great weakness of the flexors.
• ▸—Great debility and

weakness as soon as he makes the least exertion.—Excessive dejection, frequently proceeding to

fainting, even in the morning in bed, or else at the beginning of a walk.—Sudden prostration of

strength —General dejection towards noon, with necessity to support the head, and to be

still—Paralysis, and total absence of pulse.—Liability to take cold.

• ▸Aches from any over-indulgence.
• ▸Hair feels sore, falls off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed.
• ▸Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight.
• ▸Head feels heavy, constricted.
• ▸Vertigo with nausea and tinnitus.
• ▸Pimples on forehead and face.

Vertigo, after the slightest movement of the head, or after having slept, as well as on

stooping and walking. —Vertigo with nausea, obscuration of the eyes, trembling, buzzing in the

ears, and even loss of consciousness.—Pressive headache, with tears in the eyes; they are painful

when moving them.—Headache from being overheated.—Headache, with trembling of the

jaw.—Nocturnal headache.—Cramp-like tension in the brain, or sensation, as if from contraction,

• ▸of the teguments of the head.
• ▸—Heaviness of the head.
• ▸—Pressive headache, esp.
• ▸above the eyes, in

the temples and in the occiput Drawing pain in the head, commencing at the nape of the neck,

• ▸with nausea.
• ▸—Shootings in the vertex.
• ▸—Beating and pulsation in the head, esp.
• ▸in the evening, or

after a meal, with congestion of blood and heat, or burning sensation in the head.—The headache

frequently extends from the nape of the neck to the brain, and is sometimes aggravated after a

meal.—Acute tractive pains in the teguments of the head, esp. in the occiput and in the forehead,

often commencing in the limbs.—Painful sensibility of the hairy scalp to external pressure (for

instance, that of the hat).—Sensitiveness of scalp is < in the afternoon and evening, and after

eating; < from taking cold, or when getting warm in bed.—Susceptibility to cold in the

head.—Falling off of the hair, with itching of the scalp in the evening, when getting warm in bed.

• ▸Vision of black floating spots.
• ▸Asthenopia.
• ▸Burning in eyes.
• ▸Muscles pain.

Pains in the eyes, after having fatigued the sight, and from fine work.—Pains in the

muscles of the eyes, on looking upwards.—Itching, smarting, heat, pressure and burning pain in

the eyes, and in the corners of the eyes.—Nocturnal agglutination of the eyelids —Bleeding of the

eyes, often with strong congestion in the head.—Quivering and trembling of the eyelids.—Black,

flying spots before the eyes.—Myopia.—Insensibility of the pupil.

Otorrhoea following exanthematous diseases. Ears dry. Malformation of cerumen with exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus.

Otalgia in the evening.—In the evening, redness and heat of the (r.) external ear—Want

• ▸of cerumen.
• ▸—Flow of fetid pus from the inner ear.
• ▸—Obstruction of the ears.
• ▸—Pulsations in the

ears.—Tingling and buzzing in the ears—Swelling of the parotids.

• ▸Epistaxis in daily attacks, with pale face.
• ▸Bleeding after straining, with pale face; tip of nose red and scabby, itching around nostrils.
• ▸Varicose veins on nose.
• ▸Eruption in corner of alae nasi.
• ▸Coryza with cough, especially in moist, warm weather.
• ▸Ineffectual efforts to sneeze.

Itching in the nose, with tickling and tingling in the nostrils.—Redness of the tip, and

scabs at the point of the nose.—Obstruction of the nose, esp. towards evening, or serous flow,

without coryza.—Violent coryza, with hoarseness and rawness of the chest, tingling and tickling

in the nose, and ineffectual inclination to sneeze.—Frequent and continued epistaxis, esp. at night

and in the morning, with paleness of the face, or else after having stooped, or after straining to

evacuate.

Puffy, cyanotic. Pale, hippocratic, cold with cold sweat; blue (Cup; Opium). Mottled cheeks and red nose.

Paleness of the face-—Complexion yellow, greyish, greenish.—Face

hippocratic.—Tractive pains, acute pullings, piercings, and burning pains in the bones of the

• ▸face.
• ▸—Swelling of the face and of the cheeks.
• ▸—Tetters in the face.
• ▸—Furunculi before the ear, and

• ▸under the jaw.
• ▸—Red pimples on the face (in young persons).
• ▸—Swelling of the lips.
• ▸—Lips

• ▸cracked.
• ▸—Purulent blisters on the lips.
• ▸—Fissures of the ulcerated lips.
• ▸—Eruptions, like tetters, on

the chin, and on the commissures of the lips —Twitchings of the upper lip.

• ▸Tongue coated white or yellow brown, covered with aphthae.
• ▸Teeth very sensitive where chewing; gums retracted and bleed easily.
• ▸Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth.
• ▸Pyorrhea.

Heat and dryness, or accumulation of water in the mouth—Dryness of the mouth,

without thirst—Roughness in the mouth and on the tongue.—Tongue coated white or yellow-

brown.—Stomacace.—Excoriation of the tongue, with difficulty in moving it.

Toothache, with pulling or drawing pains; acute, or contractive, ulcerative, or

pulsative pains, provoked by taking anything hot or cold, as well as by food too salt —Obstinate

looseness of the teeth—The gums recede from the teeth (incisors).—Unfastening, retraction,

excoriation, and ulceration of the gums.—Bleeding of the gums, and sockets of the teeth.

Sore throat, as if from internal swelling —Sensation of constriction in the throat, with

impeded deglutition—Smarting, scraping, and burning pain in the throat, the palate, and the

gullet.—Feeling of coldness in the throat—Pain of excoriation in the throat on coughing, on

blowing the nose, and on swallowing.—Rattling from much phlegm in the throat, which is easily

detached.—Swelling and inflammation of the uvula, with stitches in the throat.

• ▸Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down.
• ▸Eructations after eating and drinking.
• ▸Temporary relief from belching.
• ▸Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations.
• ▸Waterbrash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence.
• ▸Nausea in the morning.
• ▸Burning in stomach, extending to back and along spine.
• ▸Contractive pain extending to chest, with distention of abdomen.
• ▸Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating.
• ▸Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double.
• ▸Distress comes on a half-hour after eating.
• ▸Sensitiveness of epigastric region.
• ▸Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests.
• ▸Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence, sour, rancid belching.
• ▸Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things. The simplest food distresses.
• ▸Epigastric region very sensitive.

Bitter taste-—Salt taste in the mouth, and of food—Want of appetite, or thirst and

immoderate hunger.—Chronic dislike to meat, milk, and fat—Desire for salt food, or food

sweetened with sugar.—Great desire for coffee—After a meal, but esp. after taking milk, great

inflation of the abdomen, acidity in the mouth, and sour risings.—Sweat, esp. during a

meal.—Great heat after drinking wine.—After dinner, confusion of the head and pressure of the

stomach, or headache, heaviness in the limbs and mental anxiety—Weakness of digestion; the

plainest food inconveniences him.

• ▸Empty or bitter risings.
• ▸—Risings of food, and esp.
• ▸of fat food.
• ▸—Sour risings, esp.

• ▸after a meal.
• ▸—Pyrosis.
• ▸—Hiccough after every movement.
• ▸—Nausea, esp.
• ▸in the morning, after a

meal, or at night.—Continual nausea.—Flow of water from the stomach, like saliva, even in the

night—Vomiting of blood; of food in the evening.—Heaviness, fulness, and tension in the

stomach.—Cramps in the stomach, contractive, or pressive and burning, with accumulation of

flatus, and great sensitiveness of the epigastrium.—Sensation of scraping and of trembling in the

stomach.—The pains in the stomach are aggravated or renewed by fright, opposition, a chill, as

well as after a meal, or at night, and esp. after having taken flatulent food, also by

suckling.—Colic, with the sensation of a burning pressure; much flatulence and sensitiveness of

the pit of the stomach.—Pressure at the pit of the stomach, as if the heart were going to be

crushed, esp. in suckling women.

• ▸Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus.
• ▸Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen.
• ▸Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulae.
• ▸Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind.
• ▸Flatulent colic.
• ▸Pain in liver.

Pain in the hypochondria like that of a bruise, and esp. in the hepatic region,

chiefly when it is touched.—Shooting pain under the ribs.—Tension, pressure, and shootings in

the hepatic region.—Shootings in the spleen.—Pressure of the clothes on the

hypochondria.—Pains in the umbilical region on its being touched.—Heaviness, fulness, inflation

and tension of the abdomen, with heat in the whole body.—Colic, produced by the motion of a

carriage.—Pressure and cramps in the abdomen.—Pain in the abdomen, as from lifting a weight,

or from dislocation.—Burning pain and great anguish in the abdomen.—Pinching in the abdomen,

coming from the |. side and tending towards the r. side, with sensation of paralytic weakness in

the thigh —Much flatulency, esp. after a meal, and sometimes with sensation of torpor in the

abdomen.—Flatulent, cramp-like colic, even at night—Borborygmi and movements in the

abdomen.—Excessive discharge of flatus, of a putrid smell —Aggravation of the abdominal

sufferings after eating the smallest portion of food.—The pains in the abdomen are often

accompanied by anxiety and tears —He cannot bear any tight clothing around his waist and

abdomen.

• ▸Flatus hot, moist, offensive.
• ▸Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum.
• ▸Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum.
• ▸A musty, glutinous moisture exudes.
• ▸Soreness, itching moisture of perineum at night.
• ▸Discharge of blood from rectum.
• ▸Burning at anus, burning varices (Mur ac).
• ▸Painful diarrhoea of old people.
• ▸Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning.
• ▸White haemorrhoids; excoriation of anus.
• ▸Bluish, burning piles, pain after stool.

Constipation.—Hard, tough, scanty stool.—Insufficient

evacuations.—Difficult evacuations, without being hard, with straining, burning pain in the anus,

and pains similar to those of parturition, in the abdomen.—Evacuations liquid, pale or mucus-

like.—Discharges of mucus and of blood instead of feeces during the evacuation, with cries (in

children).—Involuntary evacuations of substances of a putrid smell.—Discharge of blood from the

anus with every evacuation.—After the evacuation, aching pain in the abdomen.—Large painful

hemorrhoidal tumours of a deep blue colour at the anus.—Fluent hemorrhoids.—Shooting,

• ▸itching and burning pain in the anus.
• ▸—Discharge from varices.
• ▸—Discharge of teenia.
• ▸—Discharge

of a viscous and corrosive serum from the anus and rectum, esp. at night—Excoriation and

oozing at the perinzeum.

Diminution of the secretion of urine.—Frequent, anxious, and urgent

inclination to make water, day and night.—Wetting the bed.—Urine red, and very deep-coloured,

as if it were mixed with blood.—Urine of a deep red, with a dark cloudy appearance.—Copious

urine, of a clear yellow colour, or thickish and whitish (diabetes).—Smarting on making

water.—Constriction of the urethra every morning.

• ▸Premature and too copious menses; pale blood.
• ▸Vulva swollen; aphthae; varices on pudenda.
• ▸Leucorrhoea before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating (Kreos).
• ▸During menstruation, burning in hands and soles.

Premature and too copious catamenia; or too feeble, with pale

blood.—Before the catamenia, cramps in the abdomen and headache.—During the catamenia,

vomiting and pains in the teeth, head, loins, and abdomen.—Itching, burning, excoriation, aphthze

and swelling at the vulva.—Varices on the pudenda.—Milk-white, thick and yellowish, greenish

and corrosive discharge from the vagina.—Leucorrheea before the catamenia.—Disposition to

miscarriages.—Inflammation of the mamme.

Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool. Itching and moisture at thigh near scrotum.

Extraordinary affluence of voluptuous thoughts.—Frequent

pollutions.—Too speedy emission in coition; followed by roaring in the head.—Smooth, red, and

oozing spots on the glans penis.—Discharge of prostatic fluid while at stool.—Itching and

moisture at the thigh, near the scrotum.—Pressure in the testes.

• ▸Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging and vomiting of mucus.
• ▸Whooping cough, especially in beginning.
• ▸Deep, rough voice, failing on slight exertion.
• ▸Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking; evening oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest.
• ▸Wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest.
• ▸Occasional spells of long coughing attacks.
• ▸Cough, with burning in chest; worse in evening, in open air, after eating and talking.
• ▸Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive expectoration, neglected pneumonia.
• ▸Breath cold; must be fanned.
• ▸Haemorrhage from lungs.
• ▸Asthma in aged with blue skin.

Prolonged hoarseness, esp. towards the evening.—In the morning and

in the evening hoarseness, aggravated by prolonged conversation, more esp. by cold and damp

weather.—Loss of voice at night, or when talking.—Scraping, tingling, and tickling in the

larynx.—Cough excited by a tingling in the throat, or with burning pain and sensation of

excoriation in the chest.—Soreness and ulcerative pain in the larynx and pharynx.—Cramp-like

cough, also with retching, and vomiting, three or four times a day, or else in the evening, for a

long time successively.—Spasmodic hollow cough (whooping-cough); four or five attacks every

day, caused by a tingling irritation in the larynx; expectoration only in the morning, yellow, like

pus; brownish; bloody; tasting putrid, sour, salt, and of offensive smell.—The cough is < in the

evening; till midnight; from movement; when walking in the open air; from cold, wet weather:

from going from a warm to a cold place; after lying; after eating and drinking; esp. cold things;

from talking —Cough in the evening before going to bed, and in bed.—On coughing, painful

shootings in the head.—Cough, with expectoration of greenish mucus, or of a yellowish

pus.—Cough, with spitting of blood and burning pain in the chest.—Cold breath.

Laboured respiration and shortness of breath, while walking.—Wheezing and rattling

of mucus in the chest.—Great difficulty of respiration, and oppression of the chest.—Fits of

suffocation caused by flatulency.—On breathing, painful throbbing in the head and

• ▸teeth.
• ▸—Frequent want to take a deep inspiration.
• ▸—Want of breath, esp.
• ▸in the evening in

bed.—Burning pain, shootings, and pressure on the chest (hydro thorax).—Compression and

cramp-like constriction in the chest—The chest is tight, with a sensation of fulness and

• ▸anxiety.
• ▸—Pains as from excoriation in the chest.
• ▸—Sensation of fatigue in the chest.
• ▸—Burning pain

in the region of the heart, with congestion in the chest, and violent palpitation of the

heart.—Rheumatic, drawing pains, acute pullings and pressure on the chest—Brownish spots on

the chest.—Brown-yellow blotches on the chest.—Erysipelatous inflammation of the mamme.

Rigidity of the nape of the neck.—Swelling of the cervical

glands.—Rheumatic, drawing pains, acute pullings and shootings in the back, the nape of the

neck, and the muscles of the neck.—Continual shootings in the loins, esp. on making a false

step.—Rigidity of the dorsal spine —Painful stiffness of the back in the morning, when

rising.—Itching pimples on the back.—Itching, excoriation, and oozing under the armpits.

Acute drawing and burning pains in the muscles and in shoulder-

joint.—Pulling and acute drawing pains in the forearms, the wrists, and the fingers.—Relaxation

of the muscles of the arms and of the hands, on laughing.—Tension in the joints of the hand, as if

they were too short. Cramp-like contraction of the hands.—Heat of the hands; burning in the

• ▸hands.
• ▸—Icy-cold hands.
• ▸—The tips of the fingers are covered with cold sweat.
• ▸—Paralytic

weakness of the wrists and of the fingers, esp. on grasping an object.—Fine granulated, and

itching eruption on the hands.—Extremities of the fingers become ulcerated.

Torpor and insensibility of the legs and feet—Drawing and paralytic pain in

the legs —Acute pulling, and drawing, burning pains in the hip and knees.—Strong tension and

cramp-like pains in the coxo-femoral joints, the thighs, and the knees ——Aneurism in the ham,

with tensive pain and pulsation.—Tetters in the knee ——Cramps in the legs, and (esp.) in the soles

of the feet, and at night, in the calves of the legs.—Fetid and easily bleeding ulcers, in the

legs.—Obstinate torpor in the feet.—Perspiration of the feet—Redness and swelling of the toes,

with shooting pain, as if they had been frozen. Ulceration in the extremity of the toes.—Senile

gangrene, which begins in the toes and works all the way up the limb.

• ▸Heavy, stiff; feel paralyzed; limbs, go to sleep; want of muscular energy; joints weak.
• ▸Pain in shins.
• ▸Cramp in soles; feet numb and sweaty.
• ▸Cold from knees down.
• ▸Toes red, swollen.
• ▸Burning pain in bones and limbs.

• ▸Blue, cold ecchymosed.
• ▸Marbled with venous over distension.
• ▸Itching; worse on evening, when warm in bed.
• ▸Moist skin; hot perspiration; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily.
• ▸Falling out of hair, from a general weakened condition.
• ▸Indolent ulcers, burning pain.
• ▸Ichorous, offensive discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins.
• ▸Purpura.
• ▸Varicose ulcers, carbuncles (Ars; Anthrac).

Sensation of tingling of the skin, throughout the body.—General itching in the

evening, and on becoming warm in bed.—Burning sensation in different parts of the

• ▸skin.
• ▸—Eruption of small pimples like miliary scabies.
• ▸—Nettle-rash—Tetters.
• ▸—Streaks of a

reddish brown.—Painless ulcers in the extremities of the fingers and of the toes.—Fetid ulcers,

• ▸with burning pains, and discharge of corrosive and bloody pus.
• ▸—Chilblains.
• ▸—Varices.
• ▸—Plexus of

the veins, formed by a dilatation of the capillary vessels, with violent hemorrhage, after the

slightest injury—Lymphatic swellings, with suppuration and burning pains.—Swelling and

induration of the glands.—Gangrenous spots from lying in bed; old wounds having heated break

out again; punctured wounds which won't heal.

Strong inclination to sleep during the day, disappearing on movement.—Sleep in the

morning, or early in the evening (with sleeplessness at night).—Comatose sleep, with rattling in

the throat—No sleep, with inability to open the eyes.—Retarded sleep and sleeplessness caused

by uneasiness in the body.—At night, or in the evening, when in bed, headache, anguish, with

oppression of the chest, startings and pains in the limbs, cold in the hands and in the feet,

&c.—Dreams frequent, fantastical, anxious and terrible, with tossing about of the body, or with

starting and fright.

• ▸Coldness, with thirst.
• ▸Chill begins in forearm.
• ▸Burning in various places.
• ▸Perspiration on eating.
• ▸Hectic fever, exhausting sweats.

Shivering and cold in the body.—Febrile shivering in the evening and at night,

followed by transient heat.—Fever with thirst during the cold stage only, or with profuse

perspiration followed by shiverings.—Febrile state with comatose drowsiness, rale, cold sweat on

the face and at the extremities, face hippocratic, pulse small and evanescent.—Pulse, small, weak,

imperceptible; uneven; intermitting —Febrile condition at night, with general heat, and burning

heat in the hands and feet.—Frequent attacks of transient heat—Nocturnal sweat.—In the

morning, acid sweat.—Cold sweat on the limbs and on the face.

• ▸Acidity.
• ▸Acne.
• ▸Angina Pectoris.
• ▸Aortitis.
• ▸Aphonia.
• ▸Asthenopia.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Breasts,

• ▸erysipelas of.
• ▸Bronchitis.
• ▸Burns.
• ▸Carbuncle.
• ▸Catarrh.
• ▸Chilblains.
• ▸Cholera.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Cough.

• ▸Deafness.
• ▸Debility.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Distension.
• ▸Dysentery.
• ▸Dyspepsia.
• ▸Emphysema.
• ▸Erysipelas.

• ▸Eructations.
• ▸Feet, cold.
• ▸Flatulence.
• ▸Gangrene.
• ▸Heemorrhages.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Hair, falling out.

• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heart, diseases of.
• ▸Influenza.
• ▸Intermittents.
• ▸Intertrigo.
• ▸[rritation.
• ▸Laryngitis.
• ▸Lungs,

• ▸congested.
• ▸Measles.
• ▸Mumps.
• ▸Nose, bleeding of: Esophagitis.
• ▸Orchitis.
• ▸Otorrhoea.
• ▸Pregnancy,

• ▸disorders of.
• ▸Purpura.
• ▸Scabies.
• ▸Scurvy.
• ▸Shiverings.
• ▸Sleep, disorders of.
• ▸Starting.
• ▸Stomach,

• ▸disordered.
• ▸Stomatitis.
• ▸Trachea, dryness of.
• ▸Tympanites.
• ▸Typhus.
• ▸Ulcers.
• ▸Yellow fever.

• ▸Antidoted by: Ars.
• ▸, Camph.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Spir.
• ▸nit.
• ▸dulc, Fer.
• ▸met.
• ▸(Teste).
• ▸/t

antidotes: Effects of putrid meats or fish, rancid fats, salt or salt meats; Chi., Lach., Merc.

• ▸Complementary: China; Dros.
• ▸; Kali c.
• ▸(stitches in heart, &c.
• ▸—Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸contains potash).
• ▸Carb.
• ▸an.

has more pronounced induration of glands and is suited to cases which have been opened too

• ▸soon; is more appropriate to cancer and syphilis than Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸has weak digestion in

nursing women; every particle of food disagrees; Carb. an. has coldness at stomach, > by hard

• ▸rubbing or hard pressure; piles, with oozing of inodorous fluid.
• ▸Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸is near-sighted; Carb.
• ▸an.

• ▸far-sighted.
• ▸In ear affections Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸has swelling behind ear.
• ▸Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸is more suited to sequelze

• ▸of exanthemata.
• ▸Many of the effects of Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸are like those in Lycopod.
• ▸, and an occasional

• ▸dose of Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸assists the action of Lyc.
• ▸Compare also Raphanus in flatulence.
• ▸Compatible:

• ▸Ars.
• ▸, Chi.
• ▸, Dros.
• ▸, Kali c.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸ac.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Nux, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸Compare: Graphit.
• ▸and all the

• ▸carbons.
• ▸Caust.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Eup.
• ▸perf.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸and Rumex in hoarseness (Rumex is < 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸and 11

• ▸p.
• ▸m.
• ▸Caust.
• ▸< in morning; from dry cold.
• ▸Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸< evening; from damp evening air).
• ▸Camph.
• ▸;

Chi. in hemorrhages, intermittents, hectic, affections of drunkards; Ipec. in hemorrhages and

• ▸intermittents; Menyanthes in intermittents with coldness of legs; Op.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸and Pso.
• ▸in deficient

• ▸reaction; Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸in dyspepsia of drunkards (Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸has more putridity; Sul.
• ▸ac.
• ▸more sourness);

• ▸Pho.
• ▸in easily bleeding ulcers; Puls.
• ▸, bad effect from fat food and pastry; Sul.
• ▸in acrid-smelling

menses; erysipelas of breasts; Ars. and Bellis in effects of ice-cream and ice-water in hot

weather. Nux in dyspepsia, easily angered; effects of debauchery (Nux is thin, spare, yellow,

• ▸wiry; Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸sluggish, stout, lazy); Sec.
• ▸in hemorrhages, cold breath; coldness < by warmth.

• ▸Calc.
• ▸, Carb.
• ▸an.
• ▸, and Stram.
• ▸in aversion to darkness; Lach.
• ▸in weak digestion (Lach.
• ▸craves milk;

Carb. v. has aversion to it), intolerance of clothing round waist; intermittent fever, flashes of

• ▸burning heat without thirst.
• ▸Sep.
• ▸in bearing-down in rectum and vagina (Carb.
• ▸v.
• ▸has strong

• ▸odour of menses which Sep.
• ▸has not).
• ▸Rhus in strains; in typhus; Colch.
• ▸in cholera; cold breath,

prostration. Cupr.

Antidotes: Spirits Nitre; Camph; Ambra; Arsenic.

Compare: Carboneum-Lampblack (Spasms commencing in tongue, down trachea and extremities. Tingling sensation). Lycop; Ars; China.

Complementary: Kali carb; Dros.

First to third trituration in stomach disorders. Thirtieth potency and higher in chronic conditions, and in collapse.

though the body was full of steam. Awful sensation through the chest

and in the head, like some great earthquake taking place. These arc

due to abnormal conditions of the venous side of the heart. Flushes

of heat ; pulsations here and there. Haemorrhages. And of

course the woman is more likely to bleed than the man ; hence we have

menses too early, too long, too copious. Prostration with every menstrual flow. The Carbo animalis woman sinks down at every menstrual

period as if she would die. Such striking weakness is not at all accounted for by the quantity of the flow. Chronic induration, with enlargement of the uterus, which gradually grows from year to year

• ▸(Aur.
• ▸m.
• ▸w.
• ▸).
• ▸Induration of the cervix and the whole uterus.
• ▸Copious

flow of the leucorrhoea. Offensive uterine discharges. Ulceration of

the uterus, going gradually toward the malignant state. The menses

are black and offensive. Finally this poor, feeble woman, who has

been plodding along for years with this condition, goes into malignant

ulceration of the cervix, which burns, bleeds constantly and oozes a

foetid watery flow. The burning pains in the uterus extend down to

the thighs.

Whenever this patient puts the child to the breast she has a sensation of emptiness in the stomach, sinking in the pit of the stomach, and

she must take the child away.

There are many uterine troubles^ with burning, stinging, smarting,

a yellow brown saddle over the bridge of the nose, something like the

mottled yellow saddle of Sepia. Afl sorts of disordered conditions of

the uterus.

Surging of blood upward to the head, rousing up in sleep, with horrible dreams. This poor mortal is suffering from troubles in the base

of the brain, has tearing pains in the head, and especially of the occiput,

growing increasingly sensitive to cold, increasingly chilly, increasingly

waxy, until we have phthisis or cancer, with varicose veins and all the

conditions that I have described,

We will take up the study of Vegetable Charcoal — Carbo veg. It is

a comparatively inert substance made medicinal and powerful, and converted into a great healing agent, by grinding it fine enough. By dividing it sufficiently, it becomes similar to the nature of sickness and

cures folks. The Old School use it in tablespoonful doses to correct

acidity of the stomach. But it is a great monument to Hahnemann.

It is quite inert in crude form and the true healing powers are not

brought out until it is sufficiently potentized. It is one of those deepacting, long-acting antipsoric medicines. It enters deeply into the life,

In its proving it develops symptoms that last a long time, ^nd it cures

plenty of wine — then I would have the Carbo veg. patient. Do we

ever have any such people to treat? Just as soon as they tell their

story, you will know enough about their lives to know that they are

mince pie fiends ; they have lived on it for years, and now they come

saying, “Oh, doctor, my stomach ; just my stomach ; if you will simply

fix up my stomach.'’ But what are you going to do with him ? He

has made himself into a Carbo veg. patient for you, and it may be

quite a while before you can bring him down to a sensible diet. Now

he must begin at the foot of the ladder. I only brought this up to

show how a Carbo veg. patient is produced and what kind of a stomach

he has, and what he has been living on. He has burning in the

stomach, distension of the stomach, constant eructations, flatulence,

passing offensive flatus. In reality he is in a foetid condition, a putrid

condition. His sweat is offensive. He has hearbuni ; eructations :

the stomach regurgitates the food that he takes.

Carbo veg. has much vomiting at the end of the chill. Vomiting

and diarrhoea. Vomiting and blood ; with the vomiting of blood the

body is icy cold ; breath cold. The pulse is thready and intermittent.

Fainting ; hippocratic face ; oozing of thick black blood. Vomiting of

sour, bloody, bilious masses.

There is an accumulation of flatus in the stomach, so that the

stomach feels distended. All food taken into the scomach seems to

turn into flatus ; he is always belching and is slightly relieved for a

while by belching. Carl)o veg. has ctamps in the bowels and stomach ;

burning pain : anxiety ; distension. , All these symptoms arc ameliorated by belching or passing flatus. Amelioration from belching

seems quite a natural event ; but when we study China, you will see

that the patient appears to be aggravated from belching. The idea is

that the patient gets relief from belching from eructation, but under

Lycopodium and China it seems that no relief comes. They belch

copiously and yet seem just as full of wind as ever, and sometimes

even seem to be worse. The Carbo veg. patient experiences a decided

relief from eructation. This is a particular symptom, but it becomes

almost general, and sometimes quite general. Headaches arc relieved

by belching ; rheumatic pains are relieved by belching ; sufferings and

distensions of various kinds are relieved by eructations.

This abdominal fulness aggravates all the complaints of the body.

The fulness, which is described as if in the veins, is sometimes in the

tissues, under the skin, so that it will crepitate. Tliis is a feature of

Carbo veg., and, in rheumatic conditions, part of the swelling is sometimes of this character. Food remains a long time in the stomach,

becomes sour and putrid. It passes into the bowels and ferments

further, finally passing off in the form of putrid flatus. There is colic,

burning pains, distension, fulness, constricting and cramping pains

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from this distension. The patient complains of feeling as if the

stomach were raw. This is described as a smarting, sometimes from

taking food ; sometimes from taking cold water. Carbo veg. has cured

ulceration of the stomach. It is a deep-acting medicine, and is capable

of curing all dirordered conditions of the stomach ; such as disorders

from eating indigestible things, mince pie, too hearty food.

In Carbo veg. the liver, like all the other organs, takes on a state of

torpidity and sluggishness. It becomes enlarged. The portal systemi

is engorged, and hence haemorrhoids develop. Pain and distension in

the region of the liver ; sensitiveness and burning in the liver, accompanied by a bloated condition of the stomach and bowels. A feeling

of tension in the region of the liver ; the part feels drawn, as if too

tight. There are pressing pains in the liver, and it is sensitive to touch.

Much that I have said regarding the flatulence and fulness of the

stomach applies also to the abdomen. Carbo veg. may be indicated in

low forms of fever, as in septic fever, when there is a marked tympanitic condition, with diarrhoea, bloody discharges, distension and

flatulence. Extremely putrid flatus escapes making the patient very

offensive. A striking abdominal symptom of Carbo veg. is that the

flatus collects here and there in the intestine as if it were in a lump ;

incarcerated flatus : a constriction of the intestine will hold it in one

place so that it feels like a lump or tumor, that finally disappears.

Colic here and there in the abdomen from flatus. There Ls burning

in the abdomen. No matter what the trouble is, in Carbo veg. there

is always burning. The part burns ; it feels full ; it becomes engorged

and turgid with blood. Diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, when there is a

bloody, watery stool. Cholera infantum ; stool mixed with mucus ;

watery mucus mixed with blood. The child sinks from exhaustion,

with coldness, pallor and cold sweat. The nose, face and lips arc

pinched and hippocratic. With all diarrhocic troubles the prostration

will indicate Carbo veg. as much as, if not more than, the stool. In

the diarrhoea of Carbo veg. all the stools, no matter what kind, are

putrid, with putrid flatulence. The more thin, dark bloody mucus

there is, the better is the remedy indicated. Itching, burning and rawness of the anus and round about, arc strong features of Carbo veg.

Soreness — in all diarrhoeic conditions — soreness to pressure over thq

abdomen. Round about the anus, in children, there is excoriation.

The parts are red, raw and bleeding, and they itch. Itching of the

anus in adults. Ulceration of the bowels. This tendency to ulceration

of mucous membranes is in keeping with the character of the remedy.

Whenever there are mucous membranes there may be ulceration.

Aphthous appearance. Ulceration of Peyer’s glands. The patient

lies in bed and oozes involuntarily a thin bloody fluid, like bloody

serum.

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Old chronic catarrhal conditions of the bladder, when the urine

contains mucus, especially in old people, with cold face, cold extremities and cold sweat. There is suppression of urine.

In both the male and the female organs there is a weakness and relaxation. The male organs hang down. Relaxation of the genitalia ;

cold and sweating genitals. The fluids escape involuntarily.

In the woman the relaxation is manifested by a dragging down

sensation ; dragging down of the uterus, as if the internal parts would

escape. The uterus drags down so that she cannot stand on her feet.

All the internal organs feel heavy and hang down.

Another strong feature of Carbo veg. is dark, oozing haemorrhage

from the uterus. It is not so often a copious gushing haemorrhage —

the remedy has that also — but it is an oozing. The menstrual flow

will ooze from one period almost to another. The blood is putrid and

dark, even black, with small clots, and considerable serum escapes with

it. It says in the text: ‘"Metrorrhagia from uterine agony.'' Atony

is a good name for the condition ; lack of tone ; relaxation ; weakness

of the tissue. Atony is everywhere present in the Carbo veg, constitution. The muscles are tired, the limbs are tired, the whole being

is tired and relaxed. This is in contradistinction to the gushing found

in Belladonmi, Ipecac, Secale and Hamamelis, where the blood escapes

in great gushes, followed quite naturally by a contraction of the uterus,

for there is more or less tonicity in connection with it. In Carbo veg.,

either in connection with couliiicment or menstruation, or in an incidental haemorrhage, the uterus does Hot contract. Subinvolution from

mere atony ; no contraction ; no tonicity ; weakness and relaxation.

After menstruation, confinement and the various complaints that

woman is subject to, there is a period of weakness that Carbo veg.

often fits. When there is a retained placenta, with scanty haemorrhage

— ^^just an oozing, with no tendency to a gush of blood — the physician

remembers that throughout the whole pregnancy and confinement

there has been sluggishness and slowness of pains, and he says: ‘"Why

did I not think of Carbo veg. before? '' The woman has needed Carbo

veg. for a month. He administers a dose, and before he has time to

think about it, the uterus will expel that placenta and fix up matters

so nicely that he will not need the mechanical interference that might

otherwise have been necessary.

Now-a-days we hear so much about this meddlesome mid-wifery,

this curetting, and doing this and that and the other thing, that it makes

a homoeopathic physician disgusted. Just as if those parts were not

made by Nature, and could not take care of themselves ; as if they

• ▸must be swabbed out and syringed out.
• ▸These injections and and bichlorides, etc.
• ▸, to keep the germs out of a woman are all nonsense.
• ▸If a

state of order is maintained there will be no germs, A homoeopathic

physician can manage hundreds of these cases, and have no trouble.

If he sees clearly beforehand what remedy the woman needs there will

be no bad cases ; they will all take care of themselves. Irregular contractions that bring on abnormal conditions are all avoided if the

woman is turned into order before she goes into confinement. Carbo

vcg. is one of the medicines that prepares a woman well for confinement, that is, the symptoms calling for Carbo Veg. are often present

• ▸in such conditions.
• ▸She is often run down, relaxed and tired.
• ▸Pregnancy brings about a great many unusual conditions.
• ▸There is the

nausea in pregnancy ; the flatulence ; the offensiveness ; the weakness ;

the enlarged veins. They will tell you that the enlargement of the

veins of the lower limbs is from pressure, but it is generally not from

pressure, but from weakness of the veins themselves.

Suppression of milk ; prostration or great debility from nursing. It

is not natural for a woman in a healthy state to become prostrated

when nursing her child. She becomes so because she is sick. She

was in a state of debility before she began nursing, and the weakness

should be corrected by an appropriate remedy. Then she can make

milk and feed her child without feeling the loss of it. Such is the

state of order. Carbo veg. is a friend to the woman, and a friend to

her offsprings. You will be astonished, after ten years of real homoeopathic practice, that you have so few deformed babies : that they have

all groivn up and prospered ; that their little defects and deformities

have been outgrown, and that they are more beautiful than most children, because they have been kept orderly. The doctor watches and

studies him, and feeds him a little medicine now and then, that the

mother suspects is sugar, to keep on the good side of the baby. She

need not know that it is medicine, or that anything is the matter with

the baby. So he watches the develomcpt of that little one, and grows

him out of all his unhealthy tendencies. The children that grow up

under the care of the homoeopathic physician will never have consumption, or Bright’s disease ; they are all turned into order, and they

will die of old age, or be worn out properly by business cares ; they will

not rust out. It is the duty of the physician to watch the little ones.

To save them from their inheritances and their downward tendencies

is the greatest work of bis life. That is worth living for. When we

see these tendencies cropping out in the little ones we should never

intimate that they are due to the father or mother. It is only offensive

and does no good. The physician’s knowledge as to what he is doing

is his own, and the greatest comfort he can get out of it is his own.

He need never expect that anyone will appreciate what he has done,

or what he has avoided. The physician who desires praise and sympathy for what he has done generally has no conscience. The noble,

upright, truthful physician works in the night ; he works in the dark ;

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he works quietly ; he is not seeking for praise. He does this when

called to the house, and when members of the family bring little ones

to the office. In this manner children can be studied and their symp*

toms observed and enquired into. Whenever the mother brings the

child, expecting medicine, she may know that he is receiving medicine,

blit when she does not ask for medicine let her suspect that Johnnie

is getting sugar so the doctor can get on the good side of him. That

is sufficient.

• ▸In Carbo veg.
• ▸the voice manifests a great many symptoms.
• ▸I described a part of them when going over the coryza.
• ▸I explained how

it began in the nose, and traveled to the throat, the larynx, and the

chest. Now many of the complaints of the larynx begin with a cold

in the nose, which finally locates permanently in the larynx — and in

that way we bring out the Carbo veg. cases. It is only now and then

that the Carbo veg. cold settles in the larynx first ; it usually travels

through the nose. Most remedies have a favorite place for beginning

a cold. For instance, the majority of Phosphorus colds begin in the

chest or larynx. Not so with Carbo veg. ; its cold generally begins in

the nose, with a coryza, and the larynx is simply one of the stopping

places. If the Garbo veg. cold goes down into the chest it may have

its ending in the bronchial tubes or the lungs. There is a favorite place

for it to settle, and it seems as if it were going to remain there. Weakness in the larynx from talking. ' Tired larynx of speakers and

singers, and feeble, relaxed persons. ^The hoarseness comes on in the

evening. The larynx may be fairly well in the morning, but as soon

as it becomes evening his voice becomes husky. In more serious forms

he may be speechless in the morning, but hoarseness and huskincss in

the evening are more characteristic. Huskiness and rawness in the

evening. Rawness in the larynx when coughing. Some will say there

is burning, some will say rawness. Rawness in the larynx and trachea

when coughing. A continual formation of mucus in the larynx, which

he has to scrape and cough out. We see the same tendency to weakness in the mucous membranes. No tendency to repair ; no tendency

to recover. He goes on from bad to worse, with a catarrhal condition

of the larynx and trachea. Hoarseness and rawness from talking,

worse afternoon and evening. He is obliged to clear his throat so

many times in the evening that the larynx becomes raw and sore. Let

me tell you another thing about the Materia Medica. Most of the

provers were laymen, and hence there is some confusion of terms in

the provings. This the physicians must see. Irritation in the throat

from coughing nearly always means irritation in the larynx, though

the prover said “throat.’' Now here is an expression, “obliged to clear

his throat so often in the evening that the larynx becomes raw and

sore.” Clearing the throat would not make the larynx sore. Scraping

the throat does not scrape the larynx ; but he is obliged to clear his

larynx so often that the part feels raw. Ulcerative pain, scraping and

titilation in the larynx. Irritation in the larynx causing sneezing.

Laryngeal phthisis. This catarrhal condition and lack of repair in the

larynx goes on so long that tuberculosis begins.

Garbo veg. is one of the greatest medicines we have in the beginning

of whooping cough. Its cough has all the gagging, vomiting and redness of the face found in whooping cough. It is one of our best

medicines when the case is confused ; when the cough indicates no

remedy or when it remains in a partially developed state. A dose of

Garbo veg. in such cases will improve matters very much, and minor

cases of whooping cough may be wiped out in a few days. When the

remedy does not cure permanently, it brings out more clearly the

symptoms calling for another remedy. Most cases of whooping cough,

in the care of a homoeopathic physician, will get well in a week or ten

days under a carefully selected remedy. When allowed to run, they

continue a long time, gradually increasing for six weeks, and then declining according to the weather. If it is in the fall, the cough will

sometimes keep up all winter ; so whooping cough furnishes an opportunity for the homoepathic physician to demonstrate that there is

something in Homoeopathy.

• ▸The Garbo veg.
• ▸patient suffers very much from difficulties of breathing.
• ▸Suffocation ; cannot lie down.
• ▸A feeling of weakness in the

chest, as if he could not get another breath. Sometimes it is due to

cardiac weakness, and sometimes to stuffing up of the chest. The

• ▸latter is most common.
• ▸Sometimes the difficulty is asthmatic.
• ▸Th.
• ▸e

remedy cures asthma. We will see the patient propped up in a chair

by an open window, or some members of the family may be fanning

him as fast as possible. The face is cold, the nose pinched, the extremities cold and he is as pale as death. Put the hand in front of the

mouth, and the breath feels cold. The breath is offensive ; putrid.

The extremities are cold clear to the body ; not only the hands, but the

whole upper extremities ; and not only the feet, but the limbs clear to

the body, are cold. The body only feels warm ; even the skin is cold.

Garbo veg. has a rattling cough with retching and vomiting. A

morning cough, with much rattling in the chest ; the chest fills with

mucus, and on endeavouring to expectorate he coughs and gags, or

coughs and vomits. At any time during the day a peculiar choking,

gagging, retching cough may develop from the mucus in the chest.

He cannot get it up ; it is tough, purulent, yellow and thick. Greatly

• ▸reduced vitality ; great relaxation ; worn out persons, old people.
• ▸Persons worn out from coughing or from prolonged exertion.
• ▸Prostration.
• ▸Catarrh of the chest, with copious expectoration.

At times there will be a hard, dry hacking cough, but finally, after

prolonged coughing, it commences to loosen and he throws up great

quantities of mucus. A dry, hacking cough, yet there is rattling in the

chest, and the cough does not seem to do any good. He seems to

cough and become exhausted, sweats and strangles. It seems as if

he would suffocate with the cough. Finally he succeeds in getting up

some mucus, and the follows mouthful after mouthful of thick purulent expectoration. Frequent attacks of spasmodic cough in violent

paroxysms lasting for many minutes, sometimes an hour. Cold sweat,

coldness and pinched appearance of the face. This increases as he

goes into the paroxysm of coughing. His face looks haggard, so distressed does he become while in a paroxysm of coughing. This state

is present in old phthisical cases, in the advanced stage, when they are

• ▸incurable.
• ▸Under such circumstances Carbo veg.
• ▸furnishes an excellent palliative.
• ▸It seems to strengthen the muscles of the chest so

that the patient can expectorate better. It mitigates the cough ; the

gagging and retching and dyspnoea arc relieved, and he is temporarily

improved. It is a wonderful palliative in many incurable conditions

with dyspnoea and weakness of the chest. In Bright’s Disease, in

phthisis, and in cancerous affections Carbo veg. stops the violent

symptoms and mitigates greatly.

This remedy is one to begin whooping cough with. It simplifies the

case greatly, and sometimes cures it in a few days. The patient coughs

until the chest is sore, as if he had bpen beaten all over the chest. All

night he has paroxysms of coughing. He sleeps into a paroxysm of

coughing, like Lachesis. He rouses ; up from sleep with coughing,

gagging, sweating and suffocation. He will go two or three hours

without a paroxysm, and then on comes one that will last an hour.

He has two or three hard paroxysms of coughing during the night.

He commences to fill up, he hears the rattling breathing and he knows

that before long he will have a hard time of it.

This goes on, and on, to the end of his life in asthmatic cases — what

is called "humid asthma”. Real humid asthma comes on in persons

who suffer from contractions of the small bronchial tubes, so that even

at the best there are little whistlings in the chest. Every time such

patients take cold their whistling increases. They expectorate mucus,

at first copious, then tough and finally purulent. During all this there

is great asthmatic dyspnoea. Carbo veg. is an excellent remedy in all

those cases of asthma where the shortness of breath is so marked that

there is only a partial oxidation, as a result of which he suffers much

from occipital headache and wants to be fanned. Old cases of recurrent asthma. Every time there comes a warm wet spell his asthma

comes on. It is common for Carbo veg. asthma to come on in the

night. He goes to bed without warning of an oncoming attack, only

he says, “I don’t like the weather and he wakes up with asthma.

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He w^es up suffocating, springs out of bed and goes to the window

or wants to be fanned.

Carbo veg. required in old, badly-treated cases of pneumonia, with

a remaining bronchitis ; in cases where there has bwn hepatization

that was not cleared up, and there are bad places in the lungs and

bronchial tubes, with weakness of the chest. Weakness of the chest

when coughing. He feels that there is not enough force in the muscle

of the chest to get up a good cough, or to help him carry on the breathing. Pneumonia, third stage, with foetid expectoration, cold breath,

cold sweat, desire to be fanned. Threatened paralysis of the lungs

This is a combination of clinical states that the remedy covers well.

Sometimes these asthmatic cases go on for a while, and then comes

an infiltration of tubercle. If Carbo veg. can be given early it will

prevent infiltration.

There is pain in the chest, and burning. Burning in the lungs ; burning in the sides of the chest ; burning with the cough ; burning behind

the sternum — the whole length of the trachea ; burning aggravated

when coughing ; a sense of rawness even when breathing. He feels

a load upon the chest, an oppression, a great weight. These are the

various words that he uses, all descriptive of the same thing.

The heart comes in for a great deal of trouble. It appears to be

• ▸struggling.
• ▸Of course it is the venous side of the heart that is in distress.
• ▸The veins are engorged.
• ▸It is a venous condition of the whole

patient ; the veins are performing their labor with great difficulty. A

state of relaxation, struggling, and there are orgasms of blood — described by some of the authors as an orgasm, by others as a tumultuous action of the hean felt throughout the body. Pulsation felt all

over the body. Flushes of heat mounting upwards, ending in a sweat.

Suitable sometimes for women at the turn of life. Especially suitable

to persons in advanced years.

Carbo veg. complaints come on in a weakly state in young people ;

as if it were a premature old age in the middle-aged people; or in the

breaking down that naturally belongs to old age. It is a great comforter for aged people with enlarged veins, or fulness of the veins and

coldness of the extremities. Oozing of blood, with palpitationtumultuous action of the heart. The pounding goes on like a great

machine, shaking the whole body.

'fhe pulse is almost imperceptible. It seems as though the volume

of blood ought to be tremendous, but it is not. Weakness of the whole

• ▸vascular system.
• ▸Pulse irregular, intermittent, frequent.
• ▸Blood stagnates in the capillaries.
• ▸Complete torper ; impending paralysis of the

heart. Burning in the region of the heart. With this there is an

awful feeling of anxiety in the chest — in the re^on of the heart — as

if he were going to die, or as if something were going to happen. He

feels that tumultuous action and tires out under it.

In going over the remedy I have said so much about the limbs, their

coldness and the cold sweat, that I have practically covered most of

the symptoms that belong to the extremities. Car bo vcg. is an excellent remedy for the general constitutional disorder where there arc

indolent varicose ulcers upon the lower limbs — the legs above the

ankles. There is no activity in these ulcers ; thin watery discharge or

it is thick, bloody and ichorous. Burning indolent ulcers ; varicose

ulcers ; swelling of the limbs. A gangrenous state from the extremely

feeble circulation. Gangrenous condition such as old people have,

senile gangrene. The limbs wither ; the toes and lower parts wither

and look dusky. There are blisters upon them and they ooze a bloody,

• ▸watery fluid.
• ▸Burning like fire.
• ▸Loss of sensation.
• ▸Stiffness in the

• ▸joints.
• ▸Excoriating sweat between the toes, and numbness.
• ▸Numbness in the limb lain on.
• ▸If he lies on the right side, the right hand

gets numb. It he turns over on the left side, the left arm gets numb.

The circulation in the part is so feeble that if there is any pressure the

part becomes numb. The surface is cold. The extremities arc cold.

He is indolent, weak and always tired, with an aversion to mental and

physical work. Every little exertion brings on a feeling as if he would

faint and collapse.

The sleep is full of dreams. Hfc wakes up with dyspnoea, wakes

with cold limbs, especially cold kneefe. Legs drawn up during sleep

Unrefreshed after sleep. The dreams he has arc the kind that most

of these patients have where the reijaedy acts so violently upon the

veins, upon the basilar portion of the brain, and upon the voluntary

system. They are awful. He dreams of fire, burglars, fearful and

• ▸horrible things.
• ▸Anxiety, restlessness and congestion of the head prevent his going to sleep.
• ▸Rush of blood to the head.
• ▸His head feels

hot, but to the hand the skin feels cold. The inner chest feels as if

burning, but the outer chest feels cold to the hand. So it is in the

abdomen. The feeling of internal heat and burning, with external

coldness, is a common feature of Garbo veg.

The fever is violent ; it has a violent rigor or chill. Of course during

the chill he is cold, but there is one strange feature, he wants cold water

during the chill, and when the fever comes on he has no thirst. That

is strange ; it is uncommon. It is common for patients to be thirsty

when they- are hot with fever, and when cold not to «isk for water. It

is common not to ask for water during sweat. But in this patient you

observe coldness, rigor, cold breath, and even in the chill sometimes a

cold sweat, and you say that it is peculiar that he drinks so much cold

water. It is strange ; it is uncommon ; rare. Hence it is one of the

strong features of Garbo veg. febrile conditions.

With the chill of this remedy one side of the body frequently feels

conditions that are of long standing — those that cojne on slowly and insidiously. It affects the vascular system especially ; more particularly

the venous side of the economy — the heart, and the whole venous system. Sluggishness is a good word to think of when examining the

pathogenesis of Carbo veg. Sluggishness, laziness, turgescence, these

are words that will come into your mind frequently, because these

states occur so frequently in the symptomatology. Everything about

the economy is sluggish, turgid, distended and swollen. The hands

are puffed ; the veins arc puffed ; the body feels full and turgid ; the

head feels full, as if full of blood. The limbs feel dull, so that the

patient wants to elevate the feet to let the blood run out. The veins

are lazy, relaxed and paralyzed. Vaso-moior paralysis. The veins of

the body are enlarged ; the extremities have varicose veins.

• ▸The whole mental state, like the physical, is slow.
• ▸The mental operations are slow.
• ▸Slow to think ; sluggish ; stupid ; lazy.
• ▸Cannot whip

himself into activity, or rouse a desire to do anything. Wants to lie

down and doze. The limbs are clumsy ; they feel enlarged. The skin

is dusky. The capillary circulation is engorged. The face is purple.

Any little stimulating food or drink will bring a flush to that dusky

face. When you see people gather round a table where wine is served

you can pick out the Carbo veg. patients, because their faces will be

flushed ; in a little while it passes off and they get purple again

Dusky — almost a dirty duskiness. The skin is lazy ; sluggish.

Running ihrough the remedy there is burning. Burning in the veins,

burning ih the capillaries, burning in the head, itching and burning of

the skin. Burning in inflamed parts. Internal burning and external

coldness. Coldness, with feeble circulation, with feeble heart. Icy

• ▸coldness.
• ▸Hands and feet cold and dry.
• ▸or cold and moist.
• ▸Knees

cold ; nose cold ; ears cold ; tongue cold. Coldness in the stomach with

burning. Fainting. Covered all over with a cold sweat, as in collapse.

Collapse zviih cold breath, cold tongue, cold face. Looks like a

cadaver. In all these conditions of coldness the patient wants to be

fanned.

• ▸Bleeding runs all through the remedy.
• ▸Oozing of blood from inflamed surfaces.
• ▸Black bleeding from ulcers.
• ▸Bleeding from the

• ▸lungs ; from the uterus ; from the bladder.
• ▸Vomiting of blood.
• ▸Passive haemorrhage.
• ▸On account of the feeble circulation a capillary oozing will start up and continue.
• ▸The remedy hardly ever has what may

be called an active gushing flow, such as belongs to Belladonna, Ipecac,

Aconite, Secale, and such remedies, where the flow comes with violence ; but it is a passive capillary oozing. The women suffer from this

kind of bleeding ; a little blood oozing all the time, so that the menstrual period is prolonged. Oozing of blood after confinement, that

ought to be stopped immediately by contractions. There are no contractions of the blood vessels ; they are relaxed. Black venous oozing.

After a surgical operation there is no contraction and retraction of the

blood vessels. An injury to the skin bleeds easily. The arteries have

all been tied and closed, but the little veins do not seem to have any

contractility in their walls. An inflamed part may bleed. Feeble heart :

relaxed veins.

, Again, ulceration. If you have a case, such as I have described, with

relaxation of the blood vessels and feebleness of the tissues, you need

not be surprised if there is no repair, no tissue making. So, when a

part is injured, it will slough. If an ulcer is once established, it will not

heal. The tissues arc indolent. Hence we have indolent ulcers ; body,

ichorous, acrid, thin discharges from ulcers. The skin ulcerates ; the

mucous membranes ulcerate. Ulcers in the mouth and in the throat.

Ulceration everywhere because of that relaxed and feeble condition.

Poor tissue making, or none at all. '‘The blood stagnates in the capillaries,*’ is the way it reads in the text.

You can see how easy it would be for these feeble parts to develop

gangrene. Any little inflammation or congestion becomes black or

purple and sloughs easily- — that is all that is necessary to make gangrene. It is a wonderful remedy in septic conditions — blood poisoning — especially after surgical operations and after shock. It is a useful

remedy in septic conditions ; in scarlet fever ; in any disease which takes

on a sluggish form, with purplish and, mottled appearance of the skin.

In Garbo veg. the sleep is so full of anxiety that it may be said to be

• ▸awful.
• ▸On going to sleep there is anxiety, suffering, jerking, twitching, and he has the horrors.
• ▸Everything is horrible.
• ▸Horrible visions ;

sees ghosts. A peculiar sluggish, death-like sleep, with visions. The

Garbo veg. patient wakens in anxiety and covered with cold sweat.

Exhaustion. Unrefreshed after sleep. And thus the whole patient is

prostrated by his sleep. So anxious that he does not want to go toi

sleep. Anxiety in the dark. Anxiety with dyspnoea as if he would

suffocate. Anxiety so great that he can not lie down.

In Garbo veg. indifference is a very prominent symptom. Inability

to perceive or to feel the impressions that circumstances ought to

arouse. His affections are practically blotted out, so that nothing that

is told him seems to arouse or disturb him. '‘Heard everything without feeling pleasantly or unpleasantly, and without thinking about it.”

Horrible things do not seem to* affect him much ; pleasant things do not

affect him. He does not quite know whether he loves his wife and

children or not. This is a part of the sluggishness, the inability to

think or meditate, all of which is due to the turgescence. Sluggishness

of the veins. Head feels full ; distended. His mind is in confusion and

he cannot think. He cannot bring himself to realize whether a thing

be so or not, or whether he loves bis family or not, or whether he hates

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his enemies or not. Benumbed ; stupid. There is another state —

anxiety and nightly fear of ghosts ; anxiety as if possessed ; anxiety on

dosing the eyes ; anxiety lying down in the evening ; anxiety again on

waking. He is easily frightened. Starting and twitching on going to*

sleep.

The headaches arc mostly occipital. His whole head is turgid, full,

distended. He feels as if the scalp was too tight. Everything is bound

up in the head. Awful occipital headaches. Cannot move, cannot

turn over, cannot lie on the side, cannot be jarred, because it seems as

if the head would burst, as if something was grasping the occiput.

• ▸Dull headache in the occiput.
• ▸Violent pressive pain in the lower portion of the occiput.
• ▸Head feels heavy.
• ▸When the pain is in the occiput the head feels drawn l)ack to the pillow, or as if it could not be

lifted from the pillow. Like Opium; he cannot lift the head from the

pillow. Painful throbbing in the head during inspiration. The Carbo

veg. patient takes short breaths, quietly, keeping just as still as possible,

until finally he is compelled to take a deep breath, and it comes out

with a sharp moan. Headache as from contraction of the scalp. Painful stitches through the whole head when coughing ; the whole head

burns. Intense heat of the head ; burning pain. Rush of the blood to the

head followed by nose-bleed. Congestion to the head with spasmodic

constriction, nausea, and pressure over the eyes. A feeling as of an

oncoming coryza from an overheated room. Many of these headaches come on from taking cold, from coryza, from slacking up of an

• ▸old catarrh.
• ▸The Carbo veg.
• ▸patient suffers from chronic catarrh.
• ▸He

is at his best when he has a free discharge from the nose, but if he

takes cold and the discharge sto])s congestion to the head comes. He

cannot stand suppression of discharges. Headaches come on every

time he takes cold ; from cold damp weather ; from going into a cold

damp place and becoming chilled. Awful occipital headache, or headache over the eyes, or headache involving the whole head, with pounding like hammers. These states are like Kali bichromicum, Kali

iodatum and Sepia. Many of these headaches are due to stopped

catarrhal conditions.

The hair falls out by the handful. Eruptions come out upon the

head. School girls and boys, too, who are sluggish, slow to learn, and

suffer from night terrors ; they will not sleep alone, or go into a dark

room without someone with them. They have headaches, worse from

pressure of the hat. A long time after taking off the hat they still feel

the pressure. Sweat, cold sweat ; particularly sweat of the head and

of the forehead. The Carbo veg. patient breaks out into a copious

sweat, appearing first on the forhead, and the sweat is cold. The

forehead feels cold to the hand, and any wind blowing upon it will

produce pain ; he wants it covered up. Head sensitive to cold. If he

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becomes overheated and his head perspires, and then a draft strikes

that sweating head, his catarrh will stop at once and headaches will

come on. His knees and hands and feet get cold, and he sweats without

relief.

The eye symptoms are troublesome, and they often occur along with

the headache. Burning pain in the eyes. The eyes become lustreless,

deep-set, and the pupils do not react to light. He feels sluggish mentally, and does not want to think, lie wants to sit or lie around, for

every exertion gives him a headache. Whenever this state is present

the eyes show it. You know he is sick because the bright, sparkling

look has gone out of his eyes. If he could only get somewhere by

himself and lie down — provided it was not dark — he would be comfortable. He wants to be let alone ; he is tired ; his day's work wears

him out. He comes home with a purple face, lustreless eyes, sunken

countenance, tired head and mind. Any mental exertion causes fatigue.

Weight in the head, distress and fulness in the head, wdth cold extremities. The blood mounts upward. Ilicmorrhagcs from the eyes ;

burning, itching and pressing in the eyes. The eyes become wx'ak from

overwork or from fine work.

Carbo veg. is one of the medicines for discharges from the ears.

Offensive, watery, ichorous, acrid and excoriating discharges, especially those dating back to malaria, measles or scarlet fever — particularly to scarlet fever. A sluggish condition of the venous system. The

veins seem to be most affected in all old complaints, especially whenever a patient says of himself, or a mother says of her child, that he

has never been quite well since ati attack of malarial fever. The

daughter has never been quite well since she had the measles, or

typhoid fever, or scarlet fever Carbo veg. is one of the medicines to be thought of when symptoms are in confusion, and the patient has been so much doctored that there is no congruity left in the

• ▸symptoms.
• ▸Old car discharges, or old headaches, when all the symptoms have been suppressed.
• ▸It is then Carbo veg.
• ▸often becomes

one of the routine remedies to bring symptoms into order and to establish a more wholesome discharge from that ear. It brings about reaction, establishes a better circulation and partially cures the case, after

which a better remedy may be selected.

Inflammation of the parotid glands, or mumps. When mumps

change their abode, from being chilled, and go in the girl to the mammary glands, and in the hoy to the testes, Carbo veg. is one of the

medicines to restore order ; very often it will bring the trouble back to

its original place, and conduct it on through in safety. Pains in the

• ▸ear.
• ▸Passive, badly-smelling discharges from the ear.
• ▸Loss of hearing.
• ▸Ulceration of the internal ear.
• ▸Something heavy seems to lie before the ears ; they seem stopped ; the hearing is diminished, especially

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in those cases that date back to some old trouble.

The Garbo veg, patient is always suffering from coryza. He goes

into a warm room, and, thinking he is going out in a minute, he keeps

his overcoat on. Pretty soon he begins to get heated up, but he thinks

he will go in a minute and he does not take off his coat. A procedure

like that is sure to bring on a coryza. It will commence in the nose,

with watery discharge, and he will sneeze, day and night. He suffers

from the heat and is chilled by the cold ; every draft chills him ; and a

warm room makes him sweat, and thus he suffers from both. He can

find no comfortable place, and he goes on sneezing and blowing his

nose. Perhaps he has bleeding from the nose. At night he is purplish.

The coryza extends into the throat and brings on rawness and dryness

in the mouth and throat. A copious watery discharge, filling the

posterior nares and the throat. Then he begins to get hoarse, and in

the evening he has a hoarse voice, with rawness in the larynx and

throat. Rawness in the larynx on coughing ; soreness to the toucli.

The more he coughs the worse the rawness becomes. This condition

extends into the chest. Secretion of much thin mucus, finally becoming

thick yellowish-green, and bad-tasting. Such is the coryza. Now,

with it there comes a stomach disturbance that is commonly associated

with Garbo veg. complaints. Great distension of the abdomen with

gas. With this coryza he has belching, and sour, disordered stomach,

Eveiy time he disorders his stomach he is likely to get a coryza.

Every time he goes into an overheated room he is likely to get a

coryza, with sneezing, chest complaints, and catarrh.

This catarrhal state in the nose is only a fair example of what may

occur anywhere where there is a mucous membrane. Catarrhal conditions

with a flow of watery mucus and bleeding. Garbo veg. has catarrhs of

the throat, nose, eyes, chest, and vagina. Old catarrhal conditions of

the bladder ; catarrh of the bowels and stomach. It is pre-eminently a

catarrhal remedy. The woman feels best when she has more or less of

a Icucorrhoea — it seems a sort of protection. These discharges that we

meet every day are dried up and controlled by local treatments, by

washes, and by local applications of every kind — and the patient put

into the hands of the undertaker, or made a miserable wreck. If these

catarrhal patients are not healed from within out, the discharges had

better be allowed to go on. While these discharges exist the patient

is comfortable. It is quite common for the Garbo veg. patient to be

feverish with the coryza, but with many other complaints he is cold ;

cold limbs ; cold face ; cold body ; cold skin ; cold sweat. It is not so

common for the earlier stages of the coryza, and the catarrhal conditions to have these cold symptoms. He is feverish in the evening

and at night. But after he passes into the second stage, when the

mucus is more copious, then come the cold knees, cold nose, cold feet,

and cold sweat.

The face of Carbo veg. is a great study. In the countenance and

in the expression we see much that is general. The patient shows his

general state in his expression, especially in the eyes. He tells you how

sick he is ; he tells you the threatening points. In Carbo veg. there

is great pallor and coldness, with lips pinched and nose pointed and

drawn in. Lips puckered, blue, livid, sickly, deathly. Face cold, pale,

and covered with sweat. As the tongue is protruded for examination

it is pale and cold, and the breath is cold, yet he wants to be fanned.

This is true whether it be cholera, diarrhoea, exhaustive sweats, or

complaints after fevers. Sometimes, after a coryza has run its course

and ended in the chest, there is great dyspnoea, copious expectoration,

exhaustive sweat, great coldness — and the patient must be fanned.

Cough followed by dyspnoea, exhaustion, profuse sweats, with choking

and rawness — and he wants to be fanned. Cold face ; pinched face.

So the sufferings are expressed in the face. The pains and aches, and

anxiety and sorrow are all expressed in the face. The study of the

face is a delightful and profitable one. The study of the faces of

remedies is very profitable. It is profitable to study the faces of

healthy people that you may be able to judge their intentions from

their facial expressions. A man shows his business of life in his face ;

he shows his method of thinking, his hatreds, his longings, and his

loves. How easy it is to pick out ^ man who has never loved to do

anything but to eat — the Epicurean face. How easy it is to pick out

a man who has never loved anything but money — the miserly face.

You can see the love in many of the professional faces ; you can single

out the student's face. These arc only manifestations of the love of

the life which they live. Some manifest hatred ; hatred of the life

in which they have been forced to live ; hatred of mankind ; hatred of

life. In those who have been disappointed in everything they have

undertaken to do we see hatred stamped upon the face. We see these

things in remedies just as we see them in people. The study of the

face is a most delightful one. A busy, thoughtful and observing physician has a head full of things that he can never tell — things he knows

about the face. So the face expresses the remedy. In Carbo veg,

the face flushes to the roots of the hair after a little wine. This is a

strong characteristic. All over the body the skin will become flushed.

Sometimes a flush appears in islands, which grow together and become

one solid flush, creeping up into the hair. So great is the action of this

remedy upon the capillary circulation that sometimes a tablespoonful

of wine is sufficient to cause this flushing of the skin.

The old books talk about “scorbutic gums now we call it Rigg's

disease— a separation of the gums from the teeth. Bleeding of the

gums ; sensitiveness of the gums. Separation of the gums from the

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teeth. The teeth get loose. We hear about '‘the teeth rattling in his

mouth.'' The Qarbons produce just such a state, a settling away and

absorbing of the gums. They get spongy and bleed easily, and hence

looseness of the teeth with bleeding of the gums, which are very sensitive. Teeth decay rapidly. Bleeding of the gums when cleaning the

teeth. Teeth and gum affections from abuse of Mercury, Teeth feel

too long and are sore. Drawing and tearing in the teeth. Tearing in

the teeth from hot, cold or salt food : pain from both heat and cold.

This is in keeping with the general venous condition of the whole

system.

Sensitiveness of the tongue. Inflammation of the tongue. In certain

low forms of fever, like typhus and typhoid fevers, the gums turn

black — that is, they throw out a blackish, bloody, offensive, putrid

exudate. Jf disturbed or touched they bleed ; and the tongue piles up

that blackish exudate — that oozing of black blood from the veins.

This is present in })utrid forms of fevers like the typhoid — in zymotic

states. This remedy is rich in those zymotic symptoms, such as are

described in common speech as “blood-poisoning.” Carbo vcg. is a

sheet-anchor in low types of typhoid ; in scarlet fever where a typhoid

condition is coming upon the case, and in the last stages of collapse ;

in cholera, and in yellow fever at the time of collapse, where there

is coldness, cold sweat, great prostration, dyspnoea — wants to be fanned.

Great prostration with cold tongue.

The mouth and throat are lilled with little purple aphthous ulcers,

which were little white spots to begin with, but they have grown purplish and now ooze black blood. These aphthous patches bleed easily,

burn and sting. Blisters form. Smarting, dryness of the mouth with

bleeding aphthous ulcers. These are common features of Carbo veg.

in any of the mouth and throat conditions. Tough mucus in the

throat ; bloody mucus in the throat. These little ulcers run together,

spread, and become one solid mass, A large surface will become

ulcerated, denuded of its mucous membrane, and then it will bleed.

Little black spots come upon it. Food cannot be swallowed because

the throat is so sore. Generally the throat feels puffed.

The Cargo veg. patient has a longing for coffee, acids, sweet and

salt things. Aversion to the most digestible things and the best of

food. For instance, aversion to meat, and to milk which causes

• ▸flatulence.
• ▸Now, if I were going to manufacture a Carbo veg.
• ▸constitution I would commence with his stomach.
• ▸If I wanted to produce

these varicose veins and the weak venous side of the heart, this fulness

and congestion, and flatulence, this disordered stomach and bowels,

and head and mind troubles — sluggishness of the economy — would

begin and stuff him. I would feed him with fats, with sweets, puddings, pics and sauce, and all such undigestible trash, and give him

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