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
