Antimonium crudum

Sulphide of Antimony. ShSz>

Keynotes

For children and young people inclined to grow fat (Col.) ; for the extremes of life.

Old people with morning diarrhoea, suddenly become constipated, or alternate diarrhoea and constipation ; pulse hard and rapid. Sensitive to the cold, < after taking cold. Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at ; sulky, does not wish to speak or be spoken to (Ant. t., iod., Sil.) ; angry at every little attention. Great sadness, with weeping. Loathing life. Anxious lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her (Puls.) ; abject despair, suicide by drowning. Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses. Sentimental mood in the moonlight, especially ecstatic love ; bad effects of disappointed affection (Col. p.).

Nostrils and labial commissures sore, cracked and crusty.

Headache: after river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks; deranged digestion, acids, fat, fruit; suppressed eruption.

Gastric complaints from over-eating ; stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed ; a thick milky-white coating on the tongue, which is the red strand of the remedy; very subject to canker sores in the mouth (Arg. n., Sulph.). Longing for acids and pickles. Gastric and intestinal affections : from bread and pastry; acids, especially vinegar; sour or bad wine; after cold bathing; over-heating; hot weather.

Constant discharge of flatus, up and down, for years ; belching, tasting of ingesta.

Mucus : in large quantities from posterior nares by hawking; from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow; mucous piles.

Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin ; fingernails do not grow rapidly; crushed nails grow in splits like warts and with horny spots.

Large horny corns on soles of feet (Ran. b.) ; very sensitive when walking, especially on stone pavements.

Loss of voice from becoming over-heated.

Cannot bear the heat of the sun; worse from exertion in the sun (Lach., Nat. m.) ; < from over-heating near the fire; exhausted in warm weather; ailments from sunburn.

Whooping-cough : < by being over-heated in the sun or in a warm room; from cold washing.

When symptoms reappear they change locality or go from one side of the body to the other.

Aversion to cold bathing ; child cries when washed or bathed with cold water; cold bathing causes violent headache; causes suppressed menses; colds from swimming or falling into the water (Rhus).

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Complementary ; Squilla.

Similar: to, Bry., Ipec., Lyc., Puls., in gastric complaints.

Follows well: after, Ant. c., Puls., Mer., Sulph. Aggravation. — After eating; cold bath; acids or sour wine ; after heat of sun or fire; extremes of cold or heat.

Amelioration. — In the open air ; during rest ; after a warm bath.