Antimonium crudum

Antimonium crudum
(black sulphide of antimony)
* For homoeopathic employment, the mental symptomsand those of the gastric sphere,
determine its choice.
* Excessive irritability and fretfulness, togetherwith a thickly-coated white tongue, are true
guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy.
* All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing.
* Cannot bear heat of sun.
* Tendency to grow fat.
* An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable.
* Gout with gastric symptoms.
Mind
- Much concerned about his fate.
- Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction.
- Sulky; does not wish to speak.
- Peevish; vexed without cause.
- Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
- Angry at every little attention.
- Sentimental mood.
Head
- Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially
from eating candy or drinking acid wines.
- Suppressed eruptions.
- Heaviness in forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed.
- Headache with great loss of hair.
Eyes
- Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated.
- Canthi raw and fissured.
- Chronic blepharitis.
- Pustules on cornea and lids.
Ears
- Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube.
- Ringing and deafness.
- Moist eruption around ear.
Nose
- Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczemaof nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.
Face
- Pimples, pustules, and boils on face.
- Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin.
- Sallow and haggard.
Mouth
- Cracks in corners of mouth.
- Dry lips.
- Saltish saliva.
- Much slimy mucus.
- Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed.
- Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily.
- Toothache in hollow teeth.
- Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus.
- Canker sores.
- Pappy taste.
- No thirst.
- Subacute eczema about mouth.
Throat
- Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares.
- Hawking in open air.
- Laryngitis.
- Rough voice from over use.
Stomach
- Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles.
- Thirst in evening and night.
- Eructation tasting of the ingesta.
- Heartburn, nausea, vomiting.
- After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very
cross.
- Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread andpastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing,
overheating, hot weather.
- Constant belching.
- Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels.
- Sweetish waterbrash.
- Bloating after eating.
Stool
- Anal itching. [Sulpho-calc. Alum.]
- Diarrhoea alternates with constipation, especially in old people.
- Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools.
- Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge.
Catarrhal proctitis.
- Stools composed entirely of mucus.
Urine
- Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid andfoul odor.
Male
- Eruption on scrotum and about genitals.
- Impotence.
- Atrophy of penis and testicles.
Female
- Excited; parts itch.
- Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse.
- Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in
ovarian region.
- Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy.
Respiratory
- Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of chest,
oppression.
- Loss of voice from becoming overheated.
- Voice harsh and badly pitched.
Back
- Itching and pain of neck and back.
Extremities
- Twitching of muscles.
- Jerks in arms.
- Arthritic pain in fingers.
- Nails brittle; grow out of shape.
- Horny warts on hands and soles.
- Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence.
- Feet very tender; covered with large horny places.
- Inflamed corns.
- Pain in heels.
Skin
- Eczema with gastric derangements.
- Pimples, vesicles, and pustules.
- Sensitive to cold bathing.
- Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs.
- Urticaria; measle-like eruption.
- Itching when warm in bed.
- Dry skin.
- Warts. [Thuja; Sabina; Caust.] Dry gangrene.
- Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.
Sleep
- Continual drowsiness in old people.
Fever
- Chilly even in warm room.
- Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhoea.
- Hot sweat.
Modalities
- Worse, in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing.
- Wet poultices.
- Better, in open air, during rest.
- Moist warmth.
Relationship
- Compare : Antimonium Chloridum.
- Butter of Antimony. (A remedy for cancer. Mucousmembranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin
cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose - third trituration.)
- Antimon. iodat. (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of
strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy.)
- In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and
have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a
decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients
(Bacmeister).
- Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed.
- Compare : Kermes mineral - Stibiat sulph. rub.(Bronchitis.)
- Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph.
- Complementary : Sulph.
- Antidote : Hepar.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.