Carbolic Acid
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2000 Jan / Feb VOL II NO 1.
Dr Pi Tarakas
Dr Ajit Kulkarni
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A blood poisoning remedy like Bapt-Echin-Pyro, but with a slant for tissue destruction like Ars or Sec. A homoeopathic antibiotic against infections, zymotic states, toxaemias, esp. intestinal (Bapt, Eucal). No Septicemia or Pyemia (unlike Pyro).
Low resistance, Lack of repair, old age, low vitality.
A languid, stupid, decrepitude, putrid, rapid, acrid, remedies (Bapt).

1. Mental and bodily langour. Rapid and profound prostration and fatigue. Rapid decline and sinking of vital forces, collapse, faintness esp. at stomach causing nausea and cold sweat, heart seeming almost to stop (like Ver-a). All the symptoms of a severe diarrhoea, intoxicated feeling (as after opium), faintness, collapse etc. without a single stool, "a dry collapse" (Ars relieved). Faintness radiating from the thighs.
   
   
2. Toxemic stupor coming early, stupefaction, insensibility, stertor, contracted pupils (like Op) Sudden falling as if in a fit, coma or unconsciousness, livid face, slow and noisy breathing, stertor, relaxed limbs, cold sweat, dilated pupils, stupor with acuteness of smell (of hearing op).
   
   
3. Malignant types of diseases esp. where there is a tendency to a generalized destruction of tissues. Breaking Off (Crot-h breaking down) of tissues: incomplete tissue disintegration, sloughing in ulcers, burns, wounds, stool, leprosy (X-ray). Rapid decubitus, gangrene,ozande, caries, necrosis, osteosarcoma, sinus (bones). Epithelioma of nose, lips, labia, cervix, lupus cancerous sores, Scirrhous cancer of 1 breast (2x every 2 hours for 2 years, cancer of uterus, of stomach.
   
   
4. Diseases arising from bad drainage, sewer gas poisoning....
   All discharges (from ears, nose, mouth, throat, rectum, vagina etc) (Kre) acrid, green (like Ars) black, bloody scanty burning, putrid, offensive odour emanates from skin (mouth).
   Burning (Coryza, leucorrhoea, and expectoration.
   
   
5. Nerves
   Terrible pains that appear and disappear suddenly (Bell.)
   Soreness and stiffness of all muscles as if he had taken a bad cold.
   Stinging (like Apis). Burning (Anthr, Ars.)
   Pricking all over the body like needles (mouth, tongue, throat, urethra, glans, vertex)-down Lt. arm to fingertips and along Lt. Side of chest).
   Tingling: ears... Pricking: tingling
   Pricking- burning in throat, pricking-itching-tickling: nose
   Fine electric like sparks: Vertex, Lt. wing of nose, Rt. clavicle, Lt. Middle finger Also painless: diphtheria, leprosy, gastric (sometimes). Ulcer, cancer, spasms. Toxic spasms, arms flexed and immobile.
   Tetanus (note-TAT is preserved in Phenol)
   Vaso-sensory and vaso-motor paralyses. Paralysis of lower extremities; with dragging sensation. Paralysis of occupation. Paralysis of sensation, motion and respiration.

Injuries: lacerated wounds from blunt instruments, bones bare or splintered, crushed. Cuts and burns tend to ulcerate.

A Case: non-healing wound of month's duration, inflicted while removing the plaster in a patient of #neck femur.
Sloughing wounds (Calen). Bedsores of age 88 years healed within four days.
Burns: Extensive; ulcerated (X-ray) offensive, ichorous discharge.

Mind: Irritable, morose, and depressed. Disinclined to mental work. No delirium or lapses, no overstimulation of brain, Muddled, confused.

Select Particulars
Head: Vertigo, > walking fast in open air
As if hovering in the air like a spirit, head severed from the body and floating in the air like a balloon, swimming as if; with trembling.
Toxic headaches: often with indications of intestinal fermentation and toxemia. Tension (pressing, constriction) at root of nose; band like (Gel) over forehead from temple to temple. Periodical sick headache, about menses.
> green tea, smoking, tight bandage (pressure), bending head forward, passing a cold hand.

True migraine of children Rt. Sided, Rt. supraorbital Hydrocephalus: constantly agitated (restless), continuously moaning pupils alternately dilate and contract, grinding teeth, abdomen retracted, periodical spells of diarrhea, albuminuria, stiff limbs, partial convulsive movements.
Basilar meningitis, after suppressed diarrhea, albuminuria, paralysis of legs.
Scalp tender, tinea capitis.

Eyes: Anesthesia of conjunctiva. Loss of vision with indistinct outline, buzzing sound papillae in ophthalmoscope, letters run together.

Ears: Tingling, numb feelings followed by humming, buzzing sound.

Nose: Smell very acute; with coryza Watery discharge in open air direct, or cold room. Better in warm room (Ars-alb). Influenza and resulting debility (Scut)
Ozaena with great fetor and ulceration. Nasal membrane tumefied, nose obstructed.

Face: Sallow, soapy and bloodless complexion. Dusky, pale, bathed in cold sweat, white ring around the nose and mouth; lips black; lips and tongue cracked. Acne. Lupus

Mouth: Burning in mouth, extending down to stomach. Palate white, shriveled (Ars); also uvula. False white membrane on lips, soft palate, mouth and throat. Sordes on teeth. Aphthae.
Fetor: diphtheria, constipation, scarlatina.

Throat: Fullness/nausea in throat. Throat and tongue black and tender, ulcerated patches inside of lips and cheeks.
Diphtheria, esp. if tending to involve the nose and the inside of mouth, fetid, coryza and breath and discharges, throat glazed, membrane white liquids, regurgitate neck glands, swollen, albuminuria, initially high fever, low a dynamic fever, rapid sinking of vital forces, prostration and collapse, and absence of pain (Bapt)
Sore throat worse on Rt side. Fauces fiery red.
Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus impeding swallowing. Spasms of carotids, neck glands swollen.

Stomach: Loss of appetite, Excessive thirst, at short intervals. Desires stimulants, tobacco.
Nausea: at smell of food (acute smell); while eating; after cold water, Deathly faintness.
Vomiting: of drunkards, in seasickness, during pregnancy in nephritis, in cancer of stomach, with uncomfortable feeling across stomach and great flatulent distension v. of offensive fluid, dark, olive green or black color; sarcinae (fleshy substance).
Heartburn; sour eructation. Nervous dyspepsia of intensely painful character (Rdm-6). Fermentative dyspepsia with bad taste and breath. Constant belching. Flatulent distension of the aged (Car). With putrid flatus etc. due to fermentation and putrefaction from imperfect digestion and partly from inability to masticate; of drunkards.
Intestinal toxemias (Bapt, Eucal).
Gastritis of septic character (Ars) Dilation of stomach, result of prolonged fermentation. Gastric ulcer, with gray hair.
Can't vomit, stomach paralyzed; painless gastric complaints.
Cancer of stomach

Abdomen: Sinking feeling all over abdomen; with heaviness in stomach. Tenderness: in stomach (soreness); along transverse colon (Merc-c); of rectum. Colic: of nursing infants' fermentative. Pain> lying on back with legs drawn up.
Burning in lower part of abdomen, stomach, vertex sluggish bowels of the aged with offensive breath (Op) and flatus (Car)

Rectum: .... Pruritus ani; after carbolated vaseline (observed)
Diarrhea from bad drainage, drinking impure water ("camp diarrhea"), stools exhausting and very offensive (Carb-v and Psor failing) Cholera: rice water stools very offensive, indicating Ver-a or Ars which fail. Cholera infantum. Summer complaint. Discharge like foul eggs.
Dysentery: malignant; tenderness over transverse colon. Tenesmus stools like scrapings of intestines (Colch), thin, black, very offensive.
Mucus while sitting, while urinating.

Urinary: Irritable bladder of the aged (probably prostatic), < night (use IX Boericke)
Nephritis; post- scarlatinal, white ring around mouth; uremia
Diabetes (all acids are scorbutic and diabetic, including Bor-ac), gangrene (Car) Urine: Scanty and dark, green or even black (Kali-chl, Merc-c), turning olive green on standing, smoky, alkaline, containing urea in abundance, copious.

Male: Awakened by strong sexual excitement. Burning-itching of scrotum, > by scratching (temporarily).

Female: Menses irregular, too profuse, dark colour, protracted followed by headache and nervous irritability, with globus hystericus. Leucorrhea: thick, causing itching, acrid, burning (Kre); offensive; greenish; of children. Pain in Lt Ovary, worse walking in open air.
Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus. Mucous tubercles on labia and inner thighs. Labial epithelioma, after caustics. Vomiting of pregnancy; great irritability; violent frontal headache. Puerperal fever with putrid symptoms, super, lochia, putrid involuntary stools. Displacements.

Respiratory: Catarrhal croup. Spasmodic coughs. Whooping cough: red face, eyes watery, constricting headache; can hardly retain anything in stomach.
Aphonia: in diphtheria. Gasping for breath, unable to lie down, wants hands held. Takes long inspirations with yawning. Stertor (Op) Impending respiratory paralysis. Circumscribed pneumonia. Necropneumonia. Septic pneumonia (Bapt, Pyro) Pneumonia of Rt base. Gangrene of lungs. Spasm of diaphragm. Narrow feeling as if diaphragm oppressed lungs, (flatulence obstructed). Palliates purulent, offensive, (tenacious), expectoration of tuberculosis (Bapt).

Heart: Fearful palpitation with dyspnoea, < at night, when resting. Rheumatic heart; bellows murmur over mitral valves. Valvular disease. Heart trouble after indiscretions in diet. Stitching pains. Constriction. Pulse: irregular; thready.

Back: Neck: lame or heavy feeling; stiff, sore, soreness of muscles of back and limbs. Loins: pains; agonizing, with dragging down thighs; severe, pain in lumbar-sacral regions after midnight; AGG straightening himself, jolts while riding; AMEL Pressure.

Extremities: Soreness and stiffness of all muscles (back and limbs) (Rhus-t.) Coldness, numbness, soreness, lameless in arms and legs, heavy tired feeling, leaden heaviness in lower limbs (arms, cur). A faint feeling spreading from thighs all over body. Arthritis.

Sleep: Constant yawning; with long inspirations. Falls asleep from wearings; wakes unrefreshed, with soreness. Deep soporous sleep. Sleeplessness. Dreams of fire (during fever); journeys.

Skin: Skin exhales an offensive odor (Psor, Pyro) Bloodless. Abscesses anywhere (but esp in Rt ear) after physical exertion, even walking, carbuncles chronic ulcers: foul odor (Eucal). Whitlow: burning; sloughing. Rapid bedsores (Pyro). Gangrene, Leprosy: anesthesia of skin, prairie itch, Scabies, Psoriasis, Eczema, Impetigo acne. Vesicular eruptions, bleeding, offensive discharge, with itching > rubbing but leaving a burning pain; miliary vesicle.

Urticaria. After a bee sting deathly nausea, restless tossing about (like Ars) and urticaria > cold applications (Ap) Erysipelas: purple color, skin stinking, bloodless, Rhus-t, removed fever only; swelling; roughness. Confluent variola, malignant, no secondary fever, putrid odor (Op, Ant-t, Variola) Malignant scarlatina: acute smell, face dusky red with white ring about mouth, mouth and tongue black, buccal ulcers, fetor, regurgitation, throat fiery red, urine albuminous, dark, greenish after the fever, rapid destruction and decline.

Thermic State: chills predominate; run from head or toe face downwards; in a warm room, cold and insensible limbs. Chill is not > by warmth. It is not so chilly as Pyro, is somewhat warm-blooded.
Heat from sundown through night. Fever high from onset, sudden and rapid rise, rapid prostration, tending to malignancy and collapse stage after Bapt. Rapid decubitus. Autumnal fevers: intermittent, miasmatic, remittent, typhoid, septic, zymotic, flu (Op, Eucal) Fevers of low intractable character (Pyro); feels very tired (Echin). All fevers tend to collapse and malignancy.

Relations: Similar: Ars, Bapt, Car, Echin, Eucal, Hydr, Kre, Mur-ac, Pyro, Rhus-g, Sul-ac
Iodine pathogenesis is like Carb-ac (says Hering) Rhus-t (Carb-ac is intensified Rhus-t)
Car (Leprosy-gangrene-Diabetes)
Counterpart: Bapt [(which is a sycotic Carb-ac) is more syphilitic]
Inimical: Lach (Hering), Glycerine & vegetable oils (to poisoning)

Follow well: Anthr, Ars, Calc-c, Nat-m-sil, Rhus-t Kali-bi: compliments in dysentery Milk for Carb-ac poisoning Vinegar restores discoloration of the mucous membrane Ap Antidotes Carb-ac and bee sting urticaria is antidoted by Carb-ac (acc to Kent). Antidotes to potencies: Ap, Ars, Compare: Chrysorbin, Carb-sal, Carb-v, Guono Also compare: Bapt-more Rt sided, sore, early stage of decomposition (like Cur, Echin, later stage Carb-ac, later still Crot-h). Pyro- pace rapid., more painful; more acute; pulse-temp discrepancy; temp. rises rapidly, but malignancy develops slowly (opp Bapt, both rapid Carb-ac, Echin) Echim- has more internal inflammation, x blood disorganization than Carb-ac

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