Carbo Vegetabilis Treatment PDF

CARBO VEGETABILIS Haritha Joshi Roll.No.30  INTRODUCTION  Common name : VEGETABLE CHARCOAL  Antidote for poisons: has absorptive qualities  Used as deodrant and disinfectant  Miasm: psoric  Thermal:Hot  CONSTITUTION For the bad effects of exhausting diseas...

CARBO VEGETABILIS Haritha Joshi Roll.No.30  INTRODUCTION  Common name : VEGETABLE CHARCOAL  Antidote for poisons: has absorptive qualities  Used as deodrant and disinfectant  Miasm: psoric  Thermal:Hot  CONSTITUTION For the bad effects of exhausting diseases, whether in young or old (Cinch., Phos., Psor.); Cachectic persons whose vitality has become weakened or exhausted Persons who have never fully recovered from the exhausting effects of some previous illness Asthma dates from measles or pertusis of childhood Indigestion from a drunken debauch Bad effects of a long ago injury Has never recovered from effects of typhoid (Psor.).  Disintegration and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy.  The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints.  GUIDING SYMPTOMS  Lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions; states of collapse in cholera, typhoid.  Head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, must be fanned hard  Hemorrhage from any mucous surface.  Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body.  Putrid (septic) condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation.  General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold  Weakness of memory and slowness of MENTAL thought. GENERALS  Wants to lie down and doze(kent)  Aversion to darkness.  Fear of ghosts.  Confused. cannot bring himself to realize whether a thing be so or not, or whether he loves his family or not, or whether he hates his enemies or not. (kent)  Indifference, peevishness, easily angered  PHYSICAL GENERALS Ailments:  From quinine, especially suppressed intermittents; abuse of mercury, salt, salt meats; spoiled fish, meats, or fats;  From getting overheated.  Bad effects from loss of vital fluids (Caust.); haemorrhage from any broken down condition of mucous membranes (Cinch., Phos.)  Patients crave things that make him sick; old topers crave whiskey and brandy ; want clothing loose around abdomen.  Vital powers nearly exhausted, desire to be constantly fanned.  In the last stages of disease, with copious cold sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, voice lost, this remedy may save a life.  Hemorrhages from any mucus outlet; in systems broken down, debilitated; blood oozes from weakened tissues, vital force exhausted.  Burning pains(boericke).  Running through the remedy there is burning. Burning in the veins, burning in the capillaries, burning in the head, itching and burning of the skin. Burning in inflamed parts.  Internal burning and external coldness.  Coldness, with feeble circulation, with feeble heart. Icy coldness. Hands and feet cold and dry, or cold and moist.  Looks like a cadaver. In all these conditions of coldness the patient wants to be fanned. (Kent)  HEAD  Aches from any over-indulgence.  Hair feels sore, falls off easily  Head feels heavy, constricted.  Vertigo with nausea and tinnitus.  Pimples on forehead and face.  NOSE  Epistaxis in daily attacks, for weeks, worse from exertion; face pale before as well as after a haemorrhage.  Tip of nose red and scabby, itching around nostrils.  Varicose veins on nose.  Eruption in corner of alae nasi.  Coryza with cough, especially in moist, warm weather.  Hippocratic face; very pale, grayish-yellow, FACE greenish, cold with cold sweat; after haemorrhage  Puffy, cyanotic  Mottled cheeks, red nose  MOUTH  Looseness of teeth, easily bleeding gums  Tongue coated white or yellow brown, covered with aphthae. Teeth very sensitive where chewing  Smarting, dryness of the mouth with bleeding aphthous ulcers.(kent)  GIT  Weak digestion; simplest food disagrees; excessive accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines < lying down; after eating or drinking, sensation as if stomach would burst; effects of a debauch, late suppers, rich food.  Nausea in the morning. Waterbrash.  He has burning in the stomach, distension of the stomach, constant eructations, flatulence, passing offensive flatus.He is in a putrid condition.(Kent)  Eructations give temporary relief  Frequent, involuntary, cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning; soft stool voided with difficulty (Alum.)  Contractive pains extending to chest, with distension of abdomen  Faint, all gone feeling in the stomach, not relieved by eating.  Crampy pains causing patient to bend double.  Longing for coffee, acids, sweet and salt things. Aversion to the most digestible things and the best of food. For instance, aversion to meat, and to milk which causes flatulence.(Kent)  Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum(B)  RESPIRATORY SYSTEM  Hoarseness: < evenings; damp evening air; warm, wet weather; fails when exerted (< morning, Caust.)  Cough, with burning in chest;