CARBO ANIMALIS

Source indications

Allen's Keynotes

  • headache: as if a tornado in head
  • as if head had been blown to pieces
  • has to sit up at night and hold it together
  • diseases of elderly persons with marked venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, and great debility
  • circulation feeble, stagnated, and vital heat sinks to a minimum; cyanosis
  • glands: indurated, swollen, painful; in neck, axillae, groin, mammae
  • pains lancinating, cutting, burning
  • benign suppurations change into ichorous or malignant conditions
  • easily strained from lifting, even small weights
  • straining and overlifting easily produce great debility
  • ankles turn when walking
  • joints weak; easily sprained by slight exertion
  • aversion to open, dry, cold air
  • after appearance of menses so weak she can hardly speak
  • menses flow only in the morning
  • hearing confused; cannot tell from what direction a sound comes
  • a stitching pain remains in chest after recovery from pleurisy
  • menstruation, leucorrhoea, diarrhoea are all exhausting
  • worse after shaving; slightest touch, after midnight