Lithium carbonicum

Lithium carbonicum
(carbonate of lithium)
* Chronic rheumatism connected with heart lesions and asthenopia offer a field for this
remedy.
* Rheumatic nodes.
* Uric acid diathesis Whole body is sore.
* Gout and tophi.
Head
- Tension, as if bound; better, sitting and going out.
- Externally sensitive.
- Headache ceases while eating.
- Trembling and throbbing.
- Pain in heart; extends to head.
- Dizzy states with ringing in ears.
- Both cheeks covered with dry, branlike scales.
Eyes
- Half vision; invisible right half.
- Photophobia.
- Pain over eyes.
- Dry lids.
- Eyes pain after reading.
Stomach
- Acidity, nausea, gnawing, relieved by eating. [Anacard.] Cannot endure slightest pressure
of clothes. [Laches.]
Urine
- Tenesmus.
- Turbid urine, with mucus and red deposit.
- Pain in region of right kidney.
- Free and colorless.
- While urinating, pressure in heart.
- Cystitis, subacute and chronic.
Respiratory
- Constriction of chest.
- Violent cough when lying down.
- Air feels cold when inspired.
- Pain in mammary glands, which extend into the arms and fingers.
Heart
- Rheumatic soreness in cardiac region.
- Sudden shock in heart.
- Throbbing, dull stitch in cardiac region.
- Pains in heart before menses, and associated with pains in bladder, and before urinating;
better, after.
- Trembling and fluttering in heart, extending to back.
Urinary
- Soreness of bladder; pain in right kidney and ureter.
- Turbid urine with mucus, scanty and dark, acrid;sandy deposit.
Extremities
- Paralytic stiffness all over.
- Itching about joints.
- Rheumatic pains throughout shoulder-joint, arm, and fingers and small joints generally.
- Pain in hollow of foot, extending to knee.
- Swelling and tenderness of finger and toe joints; better, hot water.
- Nodular swellings in joints.
- Ankles pain when walking.
Skin
- Scabby, tettery eruption on hands, head, and cheeks, preceded by red, raw skin.
- Dull stitch, ending in itching.
- Barber's itch (use high).
- Rough rash all over body, much loose epithelium,tough, dry, itchy skin.
Modalities
- Worse, in morning, right side.
- Better, rising and moving about.
Relationship
- Compare : Lyc.; Ammon. phos.; Benz. ac.; Calc.; Lithium chlor. (symptoms of cinchonism,
viz. : Dizzy head, full, bluring of vision Ringing in ears; marked tremors; general weakness;
marked muscular and general prostration; no gastro-intestinal effects. Nose sore, heartburn,
pain in teeth).
- Lithium lacticum (rheumatism of shoulder, and small joints relieved by moving about;
worse, resting).
- Lithium benzoicum (deep-seated pains in loins; in small of back; uneasiness in bladder.
Cystic irritation. Gallstones. Frequent desire. Diminishing uric acid deposit).
- Lithium bromatum (cerebral congestion, threatened apoplexy, insomnia and epilepsy).
Dose
- First to third trituration.