Carboneum sulphuratum

This drug has a deep and disorganizing action and an immense range of action judging from the symptomatology. Very useful in patients broken down by abuse of alcohol. Sensitive patients worse cold, wasted muscles, and skin and mucous membranes anesthetic. Special affinity for eyes. Chronic rheumatism, sensitive and cold. Lack of vital heat. Diarrhœa every four to six weeks. Paralysis with intense congestion of nerve centres. Tabes. Sensory difficulties in limbs.

Impotence, sciatica, come within the therapeutic sphere of this remedy. Chronic plumbism. Diminished sensibility of arms, hands and feet. Peripheral neuritis.

Mind

Irritable, anxious, intolerant; stupor. Sluggishness of mind, Hallucinations of sight and hearing. Changeable mood. Dementia alternating with excitement.

Head

Headache and dizziness. Aches as from a tight cap. Ears feel obstructed. Noises in head. Ulceration of the lips, anzsthesia of mouth and tongue.

Eyes

Myopia, asthenopia, and dis-chromotopsia, cloudiness and atrophy of optic disc and central scotoma for light and for red and green not for white. Optic neuritis advancing toward atrophy. Arteries and veins congested. Retinal congestion; optic disc pale. Everything seems in a fog. Vision greatly impaired. Color-blindness.

Ears p. 176

Hearing impaired. Buzzing and singing noises like an æolian harp. Tinnitus aurium. Meniere’s disease.

Abdomen p. 176

Pain with wandering swellings as from flatus. Distention, with soreness and rumbling.

Male p. 176

Desire lost, parts atrophied. Frequent profuse emissions.

Extremities p. 176

Herpes on dorsal surface of hands. Sore, bruised limbs; anzsthesia of arms and hands. Cramps in limbs. Lightning-like pains, with cramps. Fingers swollen, insensible, rigid, stiff. Gait unsteady, tottering; worse in dark. Feet insensible. Sciatica. Flying pains, returning regularly for along time. Pain in lower limbs, with cramps and formication. Neuritis.

Sleep p. 176

Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams.

Skin p. 176

Anesthesia; burning; itching; ulcers; small wounds fester. Useful to restrain the growth of cancer. Furunculosis. Chronic skin diseases with much itching.

Modalities p. 176

Better, in open air. Worse, after breakfast; bathing. Sensitive to warm, damp, weather.

Relationship p. 176

Compare: Potass. Xantate—(Similar in action. Acts on cortical substance; loss of memory, marked blood degeneration; impotence and senility. Tuberculin; Radium; Carbo; Sulph.; Caust.; Salicyl. ac.; Cinch. In eye symptoms compare: Benzin. dinitric. Thyroidin (progressive diminution of sight with central Scotoma).