Carbolicum acidum

Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anesthetic. 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 ol factory sensibility.

Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study, with headache like a band. Very marked acuteness of smell is a strong guiding symptom. 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 destruction of 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. Ozæna, 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 esophagus. Flatuient 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. Diarrhœa; 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 p. 174

Discharges always offensive. [Nitr. ac.; Nuz.; 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. Leucorrhœa in children. [Cann. s.; Merc.; Puls.; Sep.] Puerperal fever, with offensive discharge. Irritating leucorrhœa, causing itching and burning. [Kreos.]

Extremities p. 174

Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia during walking. Gnawing pains in shin bones. Arthritis.

Skin p. 174

Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.

Relationship p. 174

Compare: Chrysarobin (locally 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.