ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- for children and young people inclined to grow fat
- 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
- worse 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
- angry at every little attention
- great sadness with weeping
- loathing life
- anxious lachrymose mood the slightest thing affects her
- 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
- nostrils and labial commissures sore cracked and crusty
- headache after river bathing
- headache from taking cold
- headache from alcoholic drinks
- headache from deranged digestion acids fat fruit
- headache from 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
- longing for acids and pickles
- gastric and intestinal affections from bread and pastry
- gastric and intestinal affections from acids especially vinegar
- gastric and intestinal affections from sour or bad wine
- gastric and intestinal affections after cold bathing
- gastric and intestinal affections from over-heating
- gastric and intestinal affections from hot weather
- constant discharge of flatus up and down for years
- belching tasting of ingesta
- mucus in large quantities from posterior nares by hawking
- mucus from anus ichorous oozing staining yellow
- mucous piles
- disposition to abnormal growths of the skin
- fingernail do not grow rapidly
- crushed nails grow is splits like warts and with horny spots
- large horny corns on soles of feet
- very sensitive when walking especially on stone pavements
- loss of voice from becoming over-heated
- cannot bear the heat of the sun
- worse from over-exertion in the sun
- worse from over-heating near the fire
- exhausted in warm weather
- ailments from sunburn
- whooping cough worse by being over-heated in the sun or in a warm room
- whooping cough 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
- cold bathing causes suppressed menses
- colds from swimming or falling into the water
- worse after eating
- worse from cold baths acids or sour wine
- worse after heat of sun or fire
- worse from extremes of cold or heat
- better in the open air
- better during rest
- better after a warm bath