Antimonium tartaricum

Antimonium tartaricum
(tartar emetic. tartrate of antimony and potash)
* Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar to
itself.
* Clinically, its therapeutic application has beenconfined largely to the treatment of
respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with littleexpectoration has been a guiding symptom.
* There is much drowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group
should always be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed.
* Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty subjects.
* Cholera morbus.
* Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels.
* Bilharziasis.
* Antimonium tart is homoeopathic to dysuria, strangury, haematuria, albuminuria, catarrh of
bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, bloody mucous stools, etc.
* Antimon. tart. acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of the
protective substance.
* By-effects following injection for Bilharziasis.
* Chills and contractures and pain in muscles.
Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness.
Lumbago.
Chills, contractures and muscular pains.
Warts on glans penis.
Mind and head
- Vertigo alternates with drowsiness.
- Great despondency.
- Fear of being alone.
- Muttering, delirium, and stupor.
- Vertigo, with dullness and confusion.
- Band-like feeling over forehead.
- Face pale and sunken.
- Child will not be touched without whining.
- Headache as from a band compressing. [Nit. ac.]
Tongue
- Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges.
- Red and dry, especially in the center.
- Brown.
Face
- Cold, blue, pale; covered with cold sweat. Incessant quivering of chin and lower
jaw.[Gelsem.]
Stomach
- Difficult deglutition of liquids.
- Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side.
- Nausea, retching, and vomiting, especially afterfood, with deathly faintness and
prostration.
- Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally.
- Nausea produces fear; with pressure in praecordial region, followed by headache with
yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.
Abdomen
- Spasmodic colic, much flatus.
- Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward.
- Cholera morbus.
- Diarrhoea in eruptive diseases.
Urinary
- Burning in urethra during and after urinating.
- Last drops bloody with pain in bladder.
- Urging increased.
- Catarrh of bladder and urethra.
- Stricture.
- Orchitis.
Respiratory organs
- Hoarseness.
- Great rattling of mucus, but very little is expectorated.
- Velvety feeling in chest.
- Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to throat.
- Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up.
- Emphysema of the aged.
- Coughing and gaping consecutively.
- Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus.
- Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx.
- Oedema and impending paralysis of lungs.
- Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling.
- Pulse rapid, weak, trembling.
- Dizziness, with cough.
- Dyspnoea relieved by eructation.
- Cough and dyspnoea better lying on right side - (opposite Badiaga).
Back
- Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region.
- Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat.
- Sensation of heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time.
- Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous.
Skin
- Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish-red mark.
- Small-pox.
- Warts.
Fever
- Coldness, trembling, and chilliness.
- Intense heat.
- Copious perspiration.
- Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness.
- Intermittent fever with lethargic condition.
Sleep
- Great drowsiness.
- On falling asleep electric-like shocks.
- Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.
Modalities
- Worse, in evening; from lying down at night; from warmth; in damp cold weather; from all
sour things and milk.
- Better, from sitting erect; from eructation and expectoration.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Puls.; Sepia.
- Compare : Kali sulph.; Ipecac.
Dose
- Second and sixth trituration.
- The lower potencies sometimes aggravate.