Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone

Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am, and cat-nap sleep

Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections

Aversion to being washed

When carefully-selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute diseases

Complaints that relapse

General offensive character of discharge and exhalations

Very red lips and face, flushing easily

Complete loss of, or excessive appetite

Putrid eructation

Food tastes too salty

Drinks much, eats little

Milk disagrees

Great desire for sweets

Great acidity, sour eructation

Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat

Water fills the patient up

Morning diarrhœa, painless, drives out of bed, with prolapsus recti

Frequent micturition, especially at night

Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which it passes

Must hurry, sudden call to urinate

Great quantities of colorless urine

Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore

Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating

Difficult respiration; wants windows open.

Oppression, as of a load on chest

Dyspnœa in middle of night, relieved by sitting up

Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening

Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates

Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing; excoriation, especially in folds

Frequent flashes of heat

Violent ebullitions of heat throughout entire body

Dry skin and great thirst

Night sweat, on nape and occiput

Perspiration of single parts

Disgusting sweats

Remittent type fever

When standing,

Warmth in bed

Washing

Bathing

In morning

11 am

Night

From alcoholic stimulants

Periodically

Ling on right side

From drawing up

Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion

Irritable weakness

Burning pains; burning relieved by heat

Fear fright and worry

Green discharges;  odor of discharges is putrid

Complaints that return annually

Degenerative changes

Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition

System under the stress of malignancy regardless of location

Septic infections and low vitality

Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time

Craves milk, acids and coffee

Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat

Long-lasting eructations.

Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco

Liver and spleen enlarged and painful

Urine scanty, burning, involuntary

Menses too profuse and too soon

Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin

Unable to lie down; fears suffocation; air-passages constricted

Wheezing respiration

Itching, burning, swellings; œdema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching

Icy coldness of body

Disturbed, anxious, restless sleep; must have head raised by pillows

Suffocative fits during sleep

Sleeps with hands over head

Dreams are full of care and fear

High temperature

Periodicity marked with adynamia

Intermittent fever; paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion

Cold sweats

Great heat about 3 am

After midnight

From cold, cold drinks, or food

Seashore

Right side

From head elevated

Warm drinks

Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning in bed

Coldness

Emaciation most notable in neck

Great liability to take cold

Dry mucous membranes

Constrictive sensation throughout the body

Great weakness and weariness

Oversensitive to all sorts of influences

Immoderate thirst

Hungry, yet loose flesh

Heartburn, with palpitation

Unquenchable thirst

Sweats while eating

Craving for salt

Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats

Painless and copious diarrhœa, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen

Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present

Emission, even after coitus

Menses irregular; usually profuse

Leucorrhœa acrid, watery

Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine

Cough, with bursting pain in head

Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs

Sleepy in forenoon

Nervous jerking during sleep

Dreams of robbers

Skin greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts

Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints

Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears

Chill between 9 and 11 am

Heat; violent thirst, increases with fever

Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness very marked

Sweats on every exertion

Cold bathing

Going without regular meals

Lying on right side

Pressure against back

Tight clothing

Tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat

Gets out of breath easily

A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork

Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence

Persons who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions

Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats

Is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour

Milk disagrees

Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting

Dislike of fat

Loss of appetite when overworked

Heartburn and loud belching

Ravenous hunger

Repugnance to hot food

Thirst; longing for cold drinks

Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist

Increase of fat in abdomen

Diarrhœa of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite

Frequent emissions; increased sexual desire; semen emitted too soon

Coition followed by weakness and irritability

Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return.

Leucorrhœa, milky

Tickling cough troublesome at night, dry and free expectoration in morning

Extreme dyspnœa

Expectoration only during the day; thick, yellow, sour mucus

Bloody expectoration; with sour sensation in chest

Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest; worse going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down

Longing for fresh air

Scanty, salty expectoration

Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep; horrid visions when opening eyes

Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy

Drowsy in early part of evening

Frequent waking at night

Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber

Night terrors

Dreams of the dead

Chill at 2 pm begins internally in stomach region

Fever with sweat

Pulse full and frequent

Chilliness and heat

Partial sweats

Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest

Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep

Skin unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid

Small wounds do not heal readily

Ascending

Cold in every form

Water

Washing

Moist air

Wet weather

During full moon

Standing

While eating

Lying on painful side

The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints

Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis

Body becomes blue, icy-cold

The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open

Faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air

Hæmorrhage from any mucous surface

Very debilitated; seems to be too weak to hold out

Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness

Sense of weight, as in the head, 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

Eructations after eating and drinking

Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations

Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double

Distress comes on a half-hour after eating

Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests

Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things

The simplest food distresses

Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen

Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning

Premature and too copious menses; pale blood

Leucorrhœa before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating

Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging and vomiting of mucus

Deep, rough voice, failing on slight exertion

Wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest

Occasional spells of long coughing attacks

Cough, with burning in chest; worse in evening, in open air, after eating and talking.

Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive expectoration, neglected pneumonia

Breath cold; must be fanned

Hæmorrhage from lungs

Coldness, with thirst

Chill begins in forearm

Burning in various places

Perspiration on eating

Skin blue, cold ecchymosed; marbled with venous over distension

Itching; worse on evening, when warm in bed

Moist skin; hot perspiration

Falling out of hair, from a general weakened condition

Ichorous, offensive discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins

Night

Open air

Cold

From fat food, butter, coffee, milk

Warm damp weather

Wine

From fanning

Cold

Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms

Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc

Inflammation of the respiratory tract

Hunger soon after eating

Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal

Belching large quantities of wind, after eating

Vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach

Painless, copious debilitating diarrhœa; green mucus with grains like sago

Stools involuntary; seems as if anus remained open

Great weakness after stool

Lack of power; irresistible desire; involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams

Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long; weeps before menses

Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses

Cannot talk on account of pain in larynx

Cough from tickling in throat; worse, cold air, reading, laughing, talking, from going from warm room into cold air

Sweetish taste while coughing

Hard, dry, tight, racking cough

Congestion of lungs

Burning pains, heat and oppression of chest

Tightness across chest; great weight on chest

Sharp stitches in chest; respiration quickened, oppressed

Much heat in chest

Pneumonia, with oppression; worse, lying on left side

Whole body trembles, with cough

Sputa rusty, blood-colored, or purulent

Pain in throat on coughing

Great drowsiness, especially after meals

Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage

Lascivious dreams

Goes to sleep late and awakens weak

Short naps and frequent wakings

Chilly every evening

Cold knees at night

Profuse perspiration

Wounds bleed very much, even if small; they heal and break out again

Physical or mental exertion

Twilight

Warm food or drink

Change of weather

From getting wet in hot weather

Evening

Lying on left or painful side

During a thunder-storm

Ascending stairs

Lying on right side

Cold food

Cold

Open air

Washing with cold water

Sleep

Sticking pains

Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life.

Pains appear and disappear quickly

Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily

All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration

Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhœa

Excessive physical irritability.

Intermittent fever with liver involvement and anæmia, etc

Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc

Dyspepsia with excess of oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates in urine and great mental depression

Loves fat and salt

Urine scanty, dark, offensive; smells like horse's urine; cold on passing

Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive

Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs

Soreness at lower end of sternum

Short breath on going upstairs

Cough during sleep

Cold climate

and also hot weather

Purpura, septic states, diphtheria, and other low forms of disease, when the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound

Very important during the climacteric and for patients of a melancholic disposition

Sensation of tension in various parts

Cannot bear anything tight anywhere

Craving for alcohol, oysters

Any food causes distress

Hungry, cannot wait for food

Gnawing pressure made better by eating, but returning in a few hours

Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids

Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow

Intense excitement of sexual organs

Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch

Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around throat; compels patient to spring from bed and rush for open window.

Feels he must take a deep breath

Cough; dry, suffocative fits, tickling

Little secretion and much sensitiveness; worse, pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air

Breathing almost stops on falling asleep

Larynx painful to touch; sensation as of a plug which moves up and down, with a short cough

Patient sleeps into an aggravation

Sudden starting when falling asleep

Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep

Wide-awake in evening

Chilly in back; feet icy cold; hot flushes and hot perspiration

Paroxysm returns after acids

Intermittent fever every spring

Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance

Dark blisters

Bed-sores, with black edges

Blue-black swellings

Left side

In the spring

Warm bath

Pressure or constriction

Hot drinks

Closing eyes

Warm applications

Does a good deal of mental work; has mental strains and leads a sedentary life, found in prolonged office work, overstudy, and close application to business, with its cares and anxieties

Takes preferably rich and stimulating food; wine and women play their part to make him forget the close application of the day.

Is pre-eminently a male remedy

Irritable, nervous system, hypersensitive and over-impressionable

Especially adapted to digestive disturbances, portal congestion, and hypochondriacal states depending thereon

Zealous fiery temperament

Easily chilled, avoid open air

Always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action

Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after eating

Sour, bitter eructations

Desire for stimulants

Loves fats and tolerates them well

Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee

Difficult belching of gas

Wants to vomit, but cannot

Frequent ineffectual desire, or passing but small quantities at each attempt

Frequent calls to urinate; little and often

Easily excited desire

Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black with faint spells.

Cough, with sensation as if something were torn loose in chest

Shallow respiration

Oppressed breathing

Tight, dry hacking cough; at times with bloody expectoration

Cough brings on bursting headache and bruised pain in epigastric region

Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly

Drowsy after meals, and in early evening

Dreams full of bustle and hurry

Better after a short sleep, unless aroused

Body burning hot, especially face; yet cannot move or uncover without feeling chilly

Cold stage predominates

Paroxysms anticipate in morning

Excessive rigor, with blueness of finger-nails

Chilly; must be covered in every stage of fever

Perspiration sour; only one side of body

Chilliness on being uncovered, yet he does not allow being covered

Dry heat of the body

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather

Cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp, wet weather

Strong pressure