Acidum Carbolicum

 Acidum Carbolicum
Carbolicum acidum
(phenol-carbolic acid)
* Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anaesthetic.
* A languid, foul, painless, destructive remedy.
* Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due
to paralysis of respiratory centres.
* Acts primarily on the central nervous system.
* Increased olfactory sensibility.
Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclinationto study, with headache like a band.
Very marked acuteness of smell is a strong guidingsymptom.
Stomach symptoms are also important.
Pains are terrible; come and go suddenly.
Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere.
Putrid discharges. [Bapt.]
Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destructionof tissue internally, and fetid odor.
Spasmodic coughs.
Arthritis. (See Dose).
Head
- Disinclined to mental work.
- Tight feeling, as if compressed by a rubber band. [Gels.; Mahonia.]
- Orbital neuralgia over right eye.
- Headache, better, by green tea; while smoking.
Nose
- Smell very acute.
- Putrid discharge.
- Ozaena, with fetor and ulceration.
- Influenza and resulting debility.
Throat
- Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks.
- Burning in mouth to stomach.
- Fauces red, and covered with exudation.
- Uvula whitened and shriveled.
- Putrid discharge.
- Almost impossible to swallow.
- Diphtheria, fetid breath, regurgitation on swallowing liquids, but little pain. [Bapt.]
- Face dusky red; white about mouth and nose.
- Rapid sinking of vital forces.
Stomach
- Appetite lost.
- Desire for stimulants and tobacco.
- Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green.
- Heat rises up oesophagus.
- Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen.
- Painful flatulence often marked in one part of the bowel. [Sulpho-Carbolate of Soda.]
- Fermentative dyspepsia with bad taste and breath.
Stool
- Constipation, with very offensive breath.
- Bloody, like scrapings of intestines.
- Great tenesmus.
- Diarrhoea; stools thin, black, putrid.
Urine
- Almost black.
- Diabetes.
- Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, of probable prostatic nature.
- Use 1x.
Female
- Discharges always offensive. [Nitr. ac.; Nux.; Sep.]
- Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus.
- Agonizing backache across loins, with dragging-down thighs.
- Pain in left ovary; worse walking in open air.
- Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid discharge.
- Leucorrhoea in children. [Cann.s. ; Merc.; Puls.; Sep.]
- Puerperal fever, with offensive discharge.
- Irritating leucorrhoea, causing itching and burning. [Kreos.]
Extremities
- Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia during walking.
- Gnawing pains in shin bones.
- Arthritis.
Skin
- Itching vesicles, with burning pain.
- Burns tend to ulcerate.
Relationship
- Compare : Chrysarobin (local in ringworm of the scalp 5-10 per cent. in glycerine and
alcohol. Equal parts).
- Ars; Kreosot.; Carbo; Guano. (Violent headache as from a band around head. Itching of
nostrils, back, thighs, genitals. Symptoms like hay-fever).
- Antidote : Alcohol; Vinegar; Chalk; Iod.
- Glauber's Salt in watery solution.
- Incompatible : Glycerine and vegetable oils.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.