ANTHRACINUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- in carbuncle
- malignant ulcer
- complaints with ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning
- when the best selected remedy fails to relieve the burning pain of carbuncle or malignant ulceration
- haemorrhages
- blood oozes from mouth, nose, anus or sexual organs, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing
- septic fever
- rapid loss of strength
- sinking pulse
- delirium and fainting
- gangrenous ulcers
- felon
- carbuncle
- erysipelas of a malignant type
- felon: the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible burning pain
- malignant pustule
- black or blue blisters
- often fatal in twenty-four or forty-eight hours
- carbuncle with horrible burning pains
- discharge of ichorous offensive pus
- dissecting wounds, especially if tendency is to become gangrenous
- septic fever
- marked prostration
- suspicious insect stings
- if the swelling changes color and red streaks from the wound map out the course of lymphatics
- septic inflammation from absorption or pus or other deleterious substances, with burning pain and great prostration
- epidemic spleen diseases of cattle, horses and sheep
- bad effects from inhaling foul odors of putrid fever or dissecting-room
- poisoning by foul breath