====== ALCOHOLUS SULPHURIS, CARBONEUM SULPHURICUM ======
{{anchor:s1}}Carboneum Sulphuratum.
{{anchor:s2}}Carbon bisulphide (Alc. sulph. {{anchor:s3}}Lampadii). C.S2.
{{anchor:s4}}To the clinical and principal symptoms from Hering's Monograph on Carb. sulph., 1870, are added those of a poisoning by Dr. Bernhardt, published in Berl. Kl. Wochenschrift in 1871, marked t.
====== MIND. [1] ======
{{anchor:s6}}Defective memory; frequently she did not know what she was to do with the things she was holding in her hands; t.\\ {{anchor:s7}}Difficult thinking, memory weakened.\\ {{anchor:s8}}Sought for things lying before them.\\ {{anchor:s9}}Could not find the right words.\\ {{anchor:s10}}Stares at her hands and fingers with a vacant look; t.\\ {{anchor:s11}}Behavior childish and idiotic; t.\\ {{anchor:s12}}Cheerful, free from care, after wind passed.\\ {{anchor:s13}}Surly, morose; vehement, irascible.\\ {{anchor:s14}}Want of energy.\\ {{anchor:s15}}Exhilaration bordering on drunkenness.
====== SENSORIUM. [2] ======
{{anchor:s17}}Vertigo, sudden attacks, while sitting.\\ {{anchor:s18}}Dull muddled feeling in forehead; as if contracting.\\ {{anchor:s19}}Great dullness of head.\\ {{anchor:s20}}Confusion. {{anchor:s21}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s22}}Drunken, unconscious from whisky.\\ {{anchor:s23}}Frequent attacks of fainting; t.\\ {{anchor:s24}}Asphyxia. {{anchor:s25}}See 26.
====== INNER HEAD. [3] ======
{{anchor:s27}}Pressure, most in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s28}}Violent pain in head; headache increasing until it causes confusion of mind; feverish attacks; cold extremities, and spasmodic pulse.\\ {{anchor:s29}}Very sharp pains in head, through temples, nearly every day, notably after dinner; numbness through to top of her head.\\ {{anchor:s30}}Violent headache, increasing till mind is affected.\\ {{anchor:s31}}Penetrating pain, agg. by shaking head and heavy steps.\\ {{anchor:s32}}Fluctuating in head, agg. by moving head.\\ {{anchor:s33}}Painful heavy feeling in head, after breakfast.
====== OUTER HEAD. [4] ======
{{anchor:s35}}Brushing the hair is painful.\\ {{anchor:s36}}Itching on head.\\ {{anchor:s37}}Head sinks forward in walking.\\ {{anchor:s38}}Single nodules on head, sore to touch.
====== SIGHT AND EYES. [5] ======
{{anchor:s40}}Dim sight; objects fade away.\\ {{anchor:s41}}Vanishing of sight; t.\\ {{anchor:s42}}Reading brings tears to eyes.\\ {{anchor:s43}}Sunken eyes, with grey rings.\\ {{anchor:s44}}Staring eyes.\\ {{anchor:s45}}Small pustule on upper lid, itches and burns.\\ {{anchor:s46}}Lids heavy; sore on moving; quivering.
====== HEARING AND EARS. [6] ======
{{anchor:s48}}Ringing in ears.\\ {{anchor:s49}}Stitches in ears; after stool.\\ {{anchor:s50}}Stitches in left ear.\\ {{anchor:s51}}Pain in left ear, when swallowing.\\ {{anchor:s52}}At intervals, feeling as if some one was quickly pressing on tympanum with a blunt instrument.\\ {{anchor:s53}}Ears as if stopped up.
====== SMELL AND NOSE. [7] ======
{{anchor:s55}}End of nose burns and is quite red, and burning as if raw.\\ {{anchor:s56}}Tickling in point of nose, with irritation to sneeze.\\ {{anchor:s57}}Sneezing, with sensitiveness in chest.\\ {{anchor:s58}}Eruption on nose.
====== UPPER FACE. [8] ======
{{anchor:s60}}Expression bewildered and as of one demented; t.\\ {{anchor:s61}}An eruption on nose and cheeks similar to acne of drunkards.\\ {{anchor:s62}}Tetter-like eruption on left cheek, produced through scratching with finger nails; spreads and is covered with yellowish-brown scabs, disfiguring the face; almost unbearable on account of continued itching.
====== LOWER FACE. [9] ======
{{anchor:s64}}Pushes the lower jaw far forward, and gnashes with it against the upper one; t.\\ {{anchor:s65}}Lips dry and burning.\\ {{anchor:s66}}Contractive feeling in muscles of lower jaw.
====== TEETH AND GUMS. [10] ======
{{anchor:s68}}(In sick:) Evening, throbbing toothache, with burning in last molar, upper left, not very severe but continuing all night.\\ {{anchor:s69}}Toothache brought on by warm food.\\ {{anchor:s70}}Neuralgia of teeth.
====== TASTE, SPEECH, TONGUE. [11] ======
{{anchor:s72}}Taste: sweetish, foul, bitter, sour, pappy, metallic.\\ {{anchor:s73}}Lisping, stammering speech like that of a child; t.\\ {{anchor:s74}}Saltish taste of phlegm hawked up from fauces.
====== INNER MOUTH. [12] ======
{{anchor:s76}}Great dryness of mouth, with unquenchable thirst; t.
====== PALATE AND THROAT. [13] ======
{{anchor:s78}}Tickling in posterior portion of palate after lying down, causing violent, dry cough.\\ {{anchor:s79}}Burning in throat, extending to stomach.\\ {{anchor:s80}}Sensation as if a hair had lodged in throat.\\ {{anchor:s81}}Stitching, contracting pain in upper part of esophagus, as if a piece of bone had lodged there.\\ {{anchor:s82}}Dryness in throat; t.\\ {{anchor:s83}}Scraping feeling in throat, with fine stitches.\\ {{anchor:s84}}Swallowing: difficult; causes pain in left ear.
====== APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS. [14] ======
{{anchor:s87}}Hunger, with aversion to eating.\\ {{anchor:s88}}Loss of appetite or speedy satiety when eating.\\ {{anchor:s89}}Great thirst; desire for beer.
====== EATING AND DRINKING. [15] ======
{{anchor:s91}}After breakfast: headache; pressure in stomach; diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s92}}After dinner: pressure in stomach; diarrhea; tickling in urethra; pain in thigh; pain in feet; pain in belly ceases.\\ {{anchor:s93}}After eating: painful, heavy head; belching; abdomen puffed up; bellyache.\\ {{anchor:s94}}Drinks enormous quantities of water; t.
====== HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING. [16] ======
{{anchor:s96}}Acrid burning eructations after eating.\\ {{anchor:s97}}Sour belching and passage of much sour flatus; amel. from belching.\\ {{anchor:s98}}Nausea, with fainting spells; with pressing frontal headache; with bitter taste, on awaking; with frequent eructations; with accumulation of saliva in mouth, as of fainting.\\ {{anchor:s99}}Inclination to vomit when entering a room or going into open air.\\ {{anchor:s100}}Vomiting of bitter water.
====== SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH. [17] ======
{{anchor:s102}}Pressing, stitching pains, of short duration in pit of stomach, beginning at one point and radiating to cardiac region, followed by loud belching.\\ {{anchor:s103}}Burning in scrobiculum and stomach.\\ {{anchor:s104}}Stabbing pains in stomach, extending to back.\\ {{anchor:s105}}Flying stitches in region of stomach.\\ {{anchor:s106}}Pressure in region of stomach and under sternum, with herpetic dyscrasia.\\ {{anchor:s107}}Feeling in stomach as if tied together.\\ {{anchor:s108}}Stomach painful to external pressure.\\ {{anchor:s109}}Heartburn.
====== HYPOCHONDRIA. [18] ======
{{anchor:s111}}Stitches under short ribs.\\ {{anchor:s112}}Liver complaint, with dropsical swelling of feet.
====== ABDOMEN AND LOINS. [19] ======
{{anchor:s114}}Cutting pains in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s115}}Pressing, crampy pain in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s116}}Griping pains around navel, with urging to stool.\\ {{anchor:s117}}Navel drawn inward, with pain. {{anchor:s118}}~ Diarrhea.\\ {{anchor:s119}}Jerking and stitching pains in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s120}}Rumbling and flatulent complaints; twisting, rolling, and rumbling as if diarrhea would set in.\\ {{anchor:s121}}Fullness and distension of abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s122}}Abdominal walls feel bruised and sore.\\ {{anchor:s123}}Strangulated hernia.
====== STOOLS AND RECTUM. [20] ======
{{anchor:s125}}Very offensive and frequent passage of flatus.\\ {{anchor:s126}}Stool always thin, papescent and small.\\ {{anchor:s127}}After stool: headache; stitches in ears; pressure in stomach; burning; weakness and trembling.\\ {{anchor:s128}}Diarrhea watery or mucous, with much rumbling.\\ {{anchor:s129}}Chronic diarrhea, which set in every four to six weeks and lasted for one or two days; yellowish, frothy, sour smelling fluid evacuations, with tenesmus and colicky pains, particularly in umbilical region, through which the navel was drawn inward; came on during night.\\ {{anchor:s130}}Stool not increased, but accompanied by tenesmus.\\ {{anchor:s131}}Considerable discharge of bright red blood, with stool.\\ {{anchor:s132}}Constipation: with belching; with herpes.\\ {{anchor:s133}}Burning and itching at anus.
====== URINARY ORGANS. [21] ======
{{anchor:s135}}Stitch-like, cramping pain in bladder and neck of bladder, through to urethra, at same time a similar pain in anus and rectum.\\ {{anchor:s136}}Burning in urethra: with erections; when urinating.\\ {{anchor:s137}}Involuntary urination during night; t.
====== MALE SEXUAL ORGANS. [22] ======
{{anchor:s139}}Complete loss of sexual desire.\\ {{anchor:s140}}Tickling in forepart of urethra and sensation as if something would run out.\\ {{anchor:s141}}Burning in urethra during erections and when urinating.\\ {{anchor:s142}}(In sick:) Stitches in left spermatic cord.\\ {{anchor:s143}}(In sick:) Left testicle more swollen and indurated than usual, more painful even when at rest, afterwards smaller and more comfortable.\\ {{anchor:s144}}Scrotum shrivelled and drawn up.\\ {{anchor:s145}}Impotence, with atrophied testicles.
====== PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION. [24] ======
{{anchor:s149}}Labor-pains too weak.
====== VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA. [25] ======
{{anchor:s152}}Hoarseness, irritation to hawk; heat in larynx; scratching and scraped feeling. {{anchor:s153}}~ Clergyman's sore throat.
====== RESPIRATION. [26] ======
{{anchor:s155}}Expiration hot; breathing difficult; flying stitches and burning in chest; quickly passing over; but frequently returning.\\ {{anchor:s156}}Asphyxia from alcohol and from coal gas.
====== COUGH. [27] ======
{{anchor:s158}}Cough from irritation in larynx or at bifurcation of trachea.\\ {{anchor:s159}}Cough caused by heartburn.
====== INNER CHEST AND LUNGS. [28] ======
{{anchor:s161}}Warmth and fullness in chest, with difficult breathing. {{anchor:s162}}~ Congestion of lungs.\\ {{anchor:s163}}Flying-burning and stitches in chest. {{anchor:s164}}~ Phthisis.
====== HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION. [29] ======
{{anchor:s166}}Palpitation of heart, with anemic patients; nun's murmur in vessels of neck.\\ {{anchor:s167}}Spasmodic pulse. {{anchor:s168}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s169}}Diminution of pulse to 52. {{anchor:s170}}~ Anemia.
====== NECK AND BACK. [31] ======
{{anchor:s172}}Rheumatic pains, with stiffness of neck.\\ {{anchor:s173}}Goitre.\\ {{anchor:s174}}Feeling as if a heavy load was hanging of back between scapulae.\\ {{anchor:s175}}Pains in small of back and loins.\\ {{anchor:s176}}Pains as if dislocated in region of right loin.\\ {{anchor:s177}}Tensive feeling in small of back, agg. going up-stairs, with occasional jerking towards hip joint.
====== UPPER LIMBS. [32] ======
{{anchor:s179}}Crackling in right shoulder joint from every motion, connected with more or less severe stitches from shoulder joint to elbow, with every change of weather.\\ {{anchor:s180}}Jerking, stitching pain in right shoulder joint.\\ {{anchor:s181}}Stitches from shoulder joint to elbow, or even to wrist, especially violent after midnight and during damp or cold weather.\\ {{anchor:s182}}Tearing pains in left shoulder and right elbow.\\ {{anchor:s183}}Wrist joint scalded with boiling water; wrist much swollen, blisters partially opened.\\ {{anchor:s184}}Slight scald of left hand; bright redness without much pain or swelling.\\ {{anchor:s185}}Sensation as if arm was being drawn up.\\ {{anchor:s186}}Vibration and trembling in hands; t.\\ {{anchor:s187}}Gout of hand.\\ {{anchor:s188}}Herpes phlyctaenoides, covering dorsal surface of hand.\\ {{anchor:s189}}Laming and pricking pain in left arm; arm goes to sleep.\\ {{anchor:s190}}Jerking, flying stitches in wrists and in finger joints. {{anchor:s191}}~ Rheumatism.
====== LOWER LIMBS. [33] ======
{{anchor:s193}}Jerking, stitching rheumatic pains in lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s194}}Inflammatory sciatica in left thigh, from taking cold, with entire inability to walk.\\ {{anchor:s195}}Chronic sciatica in right thigh, movements of limb impeded.\\ {{anchor:s196}}Pain as if dislocated in right knee.\\ {{anchor:s197}}Pain in left metatarsal bones as if wrenched by a misstep.\\ {{anchor:s198}}Dropsical swelling of feet. {{anchor:s199}}~ Hepatic affection.\\ {{anchor:s200}}Audible cracking of ankle when walking; ankle was sprained two years ago.\\ {{anchor:s201}}Cramps in calves and in toes.\\ {{anchor:s202}}Impetigo: pimples which form scabs, in the popliteal space and on dorsum of foot and hand.\\ {{anchor:s203}}Pain in ankle joints as if broken, in morning in bed.\\ {{anchor:s204}}Stabbing, piercing pain from metatarsal bones through toes, while walking.\\ {{anchor:s205}}Painful tiredness and bruised feeling in soles.\\ {{anchor:s206}}Cold feet.\\ {{anchor:s207}}Rheumatism of lower extremities; slightest motion brings on violent pains, particularly in hips and knees, with redness and swelling of feet.
====== LIMBS IN GENERAL. [34] ======
{{anchor:s209}}Tearing in all limbs, coming and going, now in one and again in another limb.\\ {{anchor:s210}}A sudden pain catches her and comes so quickly as to make her jump; pain begins at left elbow and runs down left side to foot.\\ {{anchor:s211}}Tearing in limbs, with herpes of face.\\ {{anchor:s212}}Jerking, stitching, tearing, flying pains, returning at regular intervals, for a long time.\\ {{anchor:s213}}Crackling of joints after previous gouty affections of joints.\\ {{anchor:s214}}Chronic rheumatic and arthritic affections.
====== REST. POSITION. MOTION. [35] ======
{{anchor:s218}}Sitting: sudden attacks of vertigo.\\ {{anchor:s219}}Motion: slightest, agg. rheumatism of lower extremities.\\ {{anchor:s220}}Walking: stabbing pains from metatarsal bones through toes.
====== NERVES. [36] ======
{{anchor:s222}}A feeling of vibration and trembling in whole body, particularly in hands; t.\\ {{anchor:s223}}When placed on her feet she sinks slowly to the ground; t.\\ {{anchor:s224}}Anesthesia of she skin and mucous membranes; t.\\ {{anchor:s225}}Sciatica.
====== SLEEP. [37] ======
{{anchor:s227}}Restless sleep, with tossing in bed.
====== TIME. [38] ======
{{anchor:s229}}Night: throbbing toothache; involuntary urination.
====== TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER. [39] ======
{{anchor:s231}}Warm food brought on toothache.
====== FEVER. [40] ======
{{anchor:s233}}Feverish attacks. {{anchor:s234}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s235}}Coldness. {{anchor:s236}}~ Headache.\\ {{anchor:s237}}After much walking: sweat, which relieved headache.\\ {{anchor:s238}}Suppression of usual perspiration.
====== ATTACKS, PERIODICITY. [41] ======
{{anchor:s240}}Coming and going quickly, pain in forehead and limbs.\\ {{anchor:s241}}Short but quickly returning attacks, at regular intervals.\\ {{anchor:s242}}Every six weeks, chronic diarrhea.
====== LOCALITY AND DIRECTION. [42] ======
{{anchor:s244}}Left: ear, stitches; pain in ear; swallowing causes pain in ear; tearing pain in shoulder; laming jerking pain in arm; pain in metatarsal bones.\\ {{anchor:s245}}Right: loin, pains as if dislocated; shoulder joint, crackling and stitching; tearing pain in elbow; sciatica in thigh; pain in knee, as if dislocated.
====== SENSATIONS. [43] ======
{{anchor:s247}}Forehead as if contracting; ears as if stopped up; as if some one was quickly pressing on tympanum with a blunt instrument; as if a hair had lodged in throat; right loin as if dislocated; in left metatarsal bones as if wrenched; in ankle joint as if broken; as if tied together, stomach; as if diarrhea would set in; as if something would run from urethra; as if a heavy load was hanging on back between scapulae; as if arm was being drawn up; right knee as if dislocated.\\ {{anchor:s248}}Pain: in small of back; in region of right loin; in urethra; in bladder, rectum and anus; in left ear; in thigh; in feet.\\ {{anchor:s249}}Violent pain: in head; in lower limbs.\\ {{anchor:s250}}Sharp pains: through temples.\\ {{anchor:s251}}Tearing pain: in left shoulder and right elbow; in all limbs.\\ {{anchor:s252}}Jerking: in abdomen; wrist and finger joints; lower limbs; in bladder; left spermatic cord; in right shoulder joint.\\ {{anchor:s253}}Flying stitches: in wrists and finger joints; in region of stomach; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s254}}Stitching: upper part of esophagus; pit of stomach; under short ribs; in abdomen; in ears; in throat; in left spermatic cord; in right shoulder joint; from shoulder to elbow.\\ {{anchor:s255}}Stabbing: in stomach; from metatarsal bones through toes.\\ {{anchor:s256}}Cutting pain: in bowels.\\ {{anchor:s257}}Piercing: from metatarsal bones through toes.\\ {{anchor:s258}}Penetrating pain: in head.\\ {{anchor:s259}}Pricking: in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s260}}Burning: end of nose; in last upper left molar; in throat; in stomach; in anus; in urethra; in chest.\\ {{anchor:s261}}Bruised feeling: in soles.\\ {{anchor:s262}}Rheumatic pain: in lower limbs; in neck.\\ {{anchor:s263}}Neuralgia: in teeth.\\ {{anchor:s264}}Flying pains: in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s265}}Pressing: pains in pit of stomach; pain in abdomen; pain in forehead.\\ {{anchor:s266}}Pressure: in forehead; in stomach.\\ {{anchor:s267}}Contracting pain: in upper part of esophagus; in muscles of lower jaw.\\ {{anchor:s268}}Tensive feeling: in small of back.\\ {{anchor:s269}}Throbbing: headache; toothache.\\ {{anchor:s270}}Fluctuating: in head.\\ {{anchor:s271}}Vibrating feeling: in whole body.\\ {{anchor:s272}}Dull feeling: in head.\\ {{anchor:s273}}Fullness: in chest; in abdomen.\\ {{anchor:s274}}Heavy feeling: in head.\\ {{anchor:s275}}Griping pain: around navel.\\ {{anchor:s276}}Crampy pain: in abdomen; in bladder; in anus and rectum.\\ {{anchor:s277}}Cramp: in calves and toes.\\ {{anchor:s278}}Laming pain: in left arm.\\ {{anchor:s279}}Numbness: through top of head.\\ {{anchor:s280}}Heat: in larynx.\\ {{anchor:s281}}Warmth: in chest.\\ {{anchor:s282}}Dryness: in throat; of mouth.\\ {{anchor:s283}}Scraping feeling: in throat.\\ {{anchor:s284}}Tickling: in point of nose; palate; in urethra.\\ {{anchor:s285}}Itching: in anus; on head.
====== TISSUES. [44] ======
{{anchor:s287}}Enlarged and indurated lymphatic glands.\\ {{anchor:s288}}Tetters.\\ {{anchor:s289}}Cold swellings.\\ {{anchor:s290}}Rheumatic troubles.\\ {{anchor:s291}}Rheumatism, either without fever or with only slight fever.\\ {{anchor:s292}}Rheumatism and gout; after the relief of acute and inflammatory conditions.\\ {{anchor:s293}}Chronic rheumatic and arthritic affections, which, of themselves, are without fever.\\ {{anchor:s294}}Gout, but not gouty dyscrasia.\\ {{anchor:s295}}Gouty swellings when not of too long standing.\\ {{anchor:s296}}Tuberculosis of lungs or bowels.
====== TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES. [45] ======
{{anchor:s300}}Pressure: external, stomach painful.\\ {{anchor:s301}}A heavy step: hurts head.\\ {{anchor:s302}}Reading: brings tears to eyes.\\ {{anchor:s303}}Scalds and burns.
====== SKIN. [46] ======
{{anchor:s305}}Itch and herpetic affections.\\ {{anchor:s306}}Vesicles on a red, inflamed and swollen base, partly close together, but mostly separated; they contain an opaque, yellowish fluid, which forms thick, yellowish scabs, sometimes the discharge excoriates and produces violent itching. {{anchor:s307}}~ Herpes phlyctaenoides.\\ {{anchor:s308}}Pimples which form scabs, in popliteal space and on dorsum of foot and hands. {{anchor:s309}}~ Impetigo.
====== STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION. [47] ======
{{anchor:s311}}Herpetic dyscrasia.
====== RELATIONS. [48] ======
{{anchor:s313}}Compare: Carb. veg. (flatulency); Sulphur (sensitiveness of abdomen).
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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======
^ Source: | [[en:mm:hering:start|The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica]] Vol. 03, 1881 |
^ Description: | Clinical materia medica of [[en:rem:r2500|Alcoholus Sulphuris, Carboneum Sulphuricum]] |
^ Remedies: | [[en:rem:r2500|Alcoholus Sulphuris, Carboneum Sulphuricum]] |
^ Author: | Hering, C.; Raue, C.G.; Knerr, C.B.; Mohr, C. |
^ Year: | 1881 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |}