Carbo vegetabilis

Characteristic symptoms

Universal debility ; general physical depression. Pains with anxiety, heat and despair ; rheumatic drawing and tearing with flatulency and loss of breath ; burning pains, especially in the joints and bones ; attacks of sudden weakness with fainting or paralytic feeling; tremulousness with great failing of strength, as if he had recovered from a severe fit of sickness ; fine rash ; readily bleeding, fetid, ichorous, burning ulcers ; drowsiness in the daytime ; night-sleep, broken by restlessness and anxiety; chilliness and coldness of the body, followed by hot flashes ; collapse of pulse ; disposition to sweat ; profuse sour-smelling perspiration ; despondency ; tremulous restlessness and fear (of ghosts) ; irritability and tendency to start ; confusion of the brain with muddled condition of the head; congestion of blood to the head, with throbbing pains ; painfulness of the scalp, even when merely touching the hair; lacerating in the bones of the head ; myopia ; scabs on the tip of the nose ; pale, gray yellow complexion ; crusta lactea ; loose teeth, and receding, easily bleeding gums ; dyspepsia with weakness of digestion ; acidity, pyrosis, swelling of the pit of the stomach, eructations ; flatulency, relieved by pressure and rubbing of stomach and abdomen, aggravated by eating and drinking ; dyspeptic headaches ; salty taste in the mouth and of the food ; disgust for meat and fat, which causes flatulence ; cardialgia, the pains and the spasms of the stomach are aggravated or excited by fright, chagrin, a cold after a meal, at night, or by flatulent food ; flatulent colic ; gnawing pain in stomach, with great tympanitic distension of the abdomen ; constipation as from inactivity of the bowels ; discharge of mucus from the rectum, during and between stools ; constant bleeding of piles at every stool, with burning and itching in ano ; great swelling of the piles and lancinating pains in the thighs ; dark-red urine ; lascivious fancies ; menses too soon and too copious ; or too weak and too pale ; frequent hoarseness, especially mornings and evenings; cough, when taking the least cold ; cough with expectoration of mucus, also greenish, purulent mucus; soreness of the chest.