Carlsbad Aqua

Like Juglans Regia and Juglans Cinerea, Carya alba appears to possess

antiscorbutic properties. An exclusive diet of the nuts for three or four weeks, in a girl seven

years old, produced pronounced symptoms of scurvy; hémorrhages from all surfaces; on the least

excoriation of skin very dark blood gushed out. Blood gushed from gums, nose, ears, and other

parts.

Discouraged and anxious about domestic duties.

Excited and peevish (in the morning on rising), often as if beside himself about trifles,

with flushes of heat all over.—Self-satisfied, very talkative and uncommonly good-

humoured.—Sensitive, affected to tears by the sorrows of others.—Painful dejection with full

stomach.—Constrictive anxiety in a room; > open air.—Discouraged and anxious about domestic

duties.—Difficult thinking; indisposition to all mental exertions.—Absent-minded; heedless;

forgets names; great difficulty in expressing himself in writing; often omits letters.

Whole body, including face, covered with livid spots from one inch in

diameter to size of pin's head; largest like a bruise, smaller sometimes red like flea-bites.

Aches, with swollen temporal veins (Sang); better, motion, in open air.

Dizzy confusion and heaviness < after eating; > open air—Momentary attacks of

vertigo, had to hold himself up; also turning as if in a circle; > open air.—Rush of blood to head,

with heaviness and confusion.—Cracking as if something breaking in head < evening on lying

• ▸down.
• ▸—Pressing, stupefying, tearing headache.
• ▸—Tearing headache, now r.
• ▸now I.
• ▸, in temples and

occiput, > motion.—Throbbing and beating in head, vertex and occiput with bluish red face, <

ascending.—Headache, forehead, and temples, with swollen temporal veins.—Headache < in

room, > open air, > on motion.—Drawing creeping in cranial periosteum.—Sensitiveness of

periosteum.—Hair falls out.—Smoothing down hair is very painful —Sensation as if something

cold ran over whole head, and hair bristled up.

Heat streams from eyes with burning and pressing in them and an appearance of black

spots swimming about.—Burning and pressing, as if eyes were being pressed downwards; as if

too large for orbits —Violent pressure above orbits.—Twitching, quivering in upper lids, causing

rubbing, as if a foreign body were there.—Excessive lachrymation, < using eyes.—Eyes weak,

water; lids agglutinated; cannot do fine, near work.—Objects swim before sight.—Quivering,

flickering before sight; fiery sparks; zigzags; bifurcated bodies and grey spots; clouds; veils.

Increased warmth in ear, which itches.—Fine twitching stitches from Eustachian tube to

tympanum > boring with fingers——Humming, roaring, ringing, changing at times into transient

loss of hearing.

Bluish colour of nose; swelling of nasal veins.—Habitual bleeding of nose.—Nose-

bleed on suppression of menses.—Frequent sneezing; blowing out thick mucus.—Catarrh of nose

and throat, with hoarseness.—Stopped catarrh.—Sensitiveness of nose, as in incipient

catarrh.—Loss of smell after stoppage of nose.

Yellow; sallow; red and hot; pain in zygomatic process; feels as if cobwebs were on it.

Gums swelled, began to bleed and turn black; could not move lips without causing

profuse discharge.

Thick pappy mucus coating on teeth.—Teeth loosen and fall out; prominent, gums

painfully swollen —Tearing in roots of upper molars; < after every meal > olfaction of

Cham.).—Toothache < cold or warmth.

• ▸Tongue coated white.
• ▸Offensive smell from mouth.
• ▸Furry sensation.
• ▸Sour or salty taste.
• ▸Hiccough and yawning.
• ▸Heartburn (Carbo).

Appetite and thirst much increased.—Frequent eructations; sometimes smelling

and tasting of the food, sometimes very bitter—Hiccough and yawning at same time, < after

drinking and eating.—Frequent heartburn with accumulation of much water in the mouth; also

with eructation of almost corroding liquid and long-lasting sour taste in mouth.—Nausea with

salivation and shuddering.—Sensation as of emptiness and afterwards canine hunger.—Pressure

and heaviness after eating; contraction; distension; smarting; scraping, rancid sensation.

• ▸Feces held back.
• ▸Stool slow, and only passed by much abdominal pressure.
• ▸Burning in rectum and anus.
• ▸Bleeding piles.

Flowing hemorrhoids.—Burning in rectum with constant pressure; the

rectum is often pressed out.—Shooting pain in rectum and anus frequently extending to

penis.—Lumps as large as hazelnuts at anus, with burning after stool and impeded

walking.—Discharge of bloody mucus with itching and burning in anus, extending up towards

rectum.—Discharge of blood in drops or in a stream, even without stool when walking.—Mucous

• ▸diarrhoea —Pappy soft stools.
• ▸—Stools green, or dark green.
• ▸—Gall-stones passed.
• ▸—Sensation

during a thin stool as though it passed in pieces.—Constipation, stool missed for several days,

hard lumps, very difficult —Stool slow, only evacuated with help of distant muscles; peristaltic

action seemed to cease near end of intestine: feeces seemed held back.

Frequent urging with discharge of copious watery urine.—Urine flows

slowly in a weak stream, with help of abdominal muscles.—Sediment at times brick-red, at times

tenacious like frog-spawn; at times thick mucus, and even containing small lumps of

blood.—Urine stains linen dark yellow.

Stream weak and slow; only passed by pressing abdominal muscles.

Three days after cessation of menstruation discharge of lumps of

tenacious black blood, and later, uncommonly violent leucorrhcea.

Weakness in the chest whilst writing, > walking.—Heaviness; fulness; oppression;

anxiety.—Peculiar sensation of oppression in lower part of chest, as if lung had not room enough

to expand, had to respire deeply.—Stitching in chest.—Painfulness in heart, frequent transient

stitching and painful drawing.

Tension and contraction in heart region.—Pressing and burning with warm ebullition

and rush of blood.—Sudden momentary twitching stitches through heart without special cause, so

that he has to stop while walking.

Drawing pain in nape of neck and shoulder-blade.—Stiffness; paralysis;

pressure.—Heat and burning and at times a shudder over back.—Tensive and pressing pains from

small of back towards the region of the privates.

Constant yawning and sleepiness; < after a meal——Dreams frightful with

tossing.—Unremembered dreams.

Carya Alba.

• ▸Shellbark, or Shagbark Hickory.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Juglandaceé.
• ▸Tincture of nuts.

• ▸Compare: Arn.
• ▸, Carbo v.
• ▸, Pho.
• ▸, Merc.
• ▸, Ham.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Rhus.
• ▸, Citrus lim.
• ▸, and

Juglandaceé.

Compare: Nat sulph; Nux.

Lower potencies.