Antimonium crudum
Antimony trisulfide · Antimony, black sulfide of antimony,Stibium sulphuratum nigrum · Mineral
Antimonium crud. is associated with sentimental people who yearn for the past. They can be withdrawn, sulky, irritable people, prone to experiencing grief, serious depression, or despondency after a failed romance. They often dislike being touched or even spoken to. When ill, children who fit this profile cannot bear being looked at and have a tendency to cry. Both adults and children of this disposition may have insatiable appetites, yet in some cases there is a strong aversion to food, which can eventually lead to emaciation.
Typical physical symptoms include recurring digestive problems and the appearance of a thick, white coating on the tongue. The feet tend to be sensitive and prone to ailments such as corns and calluses, which make walking painful.
Antimonium crud. is typically prescribed for certain skin conditions and infections, as well as for toothaches, digestive problems, and gout.
Key symptoms
- sentimentality
- dislike of being touched or looked at
- insatiable appetite
- thick, white coating on the tongue
- digestive problems
Worse (aggravation)
- Heat and cold bathing
- Cannot bear heat of sun
- From bathing
- From disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines
- Ascending
- Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at
Black Sulphide of Antimony
For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout with gastric symptoms.
Mind
Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vexed without cause. Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood.
Head
Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed eruptions. Heaviness in forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair.
Eyes
Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Canthi raw and fissured. Chronic blepharitis. Pustules on cornea and lids.
Ears
Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear.
Nose
Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.
Face
Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.
Mouth
Cracks in corners of mouth. Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed. Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily. Toothache in hollow teeth. Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus. Canker sores. Pappy taste. No thirst. Subacute eczema about mouth.
Throat
Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares. Hawking in open air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.
Stomach
Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles. Thirst in evening and night. Eructation tasting of the ingesta. Heartburn, nausea, vomiting. After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather. Constant belching. Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash. Bloating after eating.
Stool
Anal itching (Sulpho-calc. Alum). diarrhœa alternates with constipation, especially in old people. Diarrhœa after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge. Catarrhal proctitis. Stools composed entirely of mucus.
Urine
Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor.
Male
Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence. Atrophy of penis and testicles.
Female
Excited; parts itch. Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region. Leucorrhœa watery; acrid, lumpy.
Respiratory
Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of chest, oppression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. Voice harsh and badly pitched.
Back
Itching and pain of neck and back.
Extremities
Twitching of muscles. Jerks in arms. Arthritic pain in fingers. Nails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny warts on hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence. Feet very tender; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.
Skin
Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts (Thuja; Sabina; Caust). Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.
Sleep
Continual drowsiness in old people.
Fever
Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhœa. Hot sweat.
Modalities
Worse, in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices. Better, in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.
Relationship
Compare: Antimonium Chloridum. Butter of Antimony (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose-third trituration).
Antimon iodat (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy). In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister). Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed.
Compare: Kermes mineral-Stibiat sulph rub (Bronchitis). Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph.
Complementary: Sulph.
Antidote: Hepar.
Dose
Third to sixth potency.
Generalities
You will be surprised, when studying full provings of this substance, to notice that all the symptoms seem to centre about the stomach; it does not matter much what kind of complaints he suffers from the stomach takes part in it.
The pains disturb his stomach and bring, on nausea; with his headache he is sick at the stomach; with all complaints his stomach is out of order, and, on the other band, whenever he disorders his stomach he is sick all over. Complaints that manifest themselves through the stomach very frequently need this medicine.
First in importance are the mental symptoms showing the type of constitution likely to need this remedy. It produces a very serious state in the mind, an absence of the desire to live. It is well known to physicians that the case is a serious one if the patient has no desire to live; life is a burden. When I hear a patient say:
Native Sulphide of Antimony. Sb2 S3.
Clinical
Anus, irritation of. Callosities. Catarrh. Chorea. Constipation. Corns. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Eczema. Feet, sore and horny. Fever. Gum-rash. Nails, degeneration of. Nettle-rash. Piles. Prolapsus recti. Red gum. Remittent fever. Stomach, disordered. Sunstroke. Tendons inflamed. Tongue coated. Voice, low. Warts. Whooping-cough.
Characteristics
Antim. crud. corresponds in a sense to the race of swine, as Arsenic does to horses and Pulsatilla to sheep. It is preeminently a scrofulous medicine, corresponding to gross constitutions with tendency to rough scaling skin with horny patches. With these horny patches is great tenderness, the patient can hardly bear to walk on them. Analagous to these horny excrescences are warts, and Ant c. has cured many cases of these. A student, 17, had twenty-three on right hand and thirty four on left, mainly on backs and fingers, but a few on interior surface of fingers. In addition redness and inflammation of eyelids. …
Sulphide of Antimony. (SbS3.)
For children and young people inclined to grow fat (Cal.); for the extremes of life. Old people with morning diarrhoea, suddenly become constipated, or alternate diarrhoea and constipation; pulse hard and rapid. Sensitive to the cold. < after taking cold. Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at; sulky, does not wish to speak or be spoken to (Ant. t., Iod., Sil.); angry at every little attention. Great sadness, with weeping. Loathing life. Anxious lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her (Puls.); abject despair, suicide by drowning. Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses. Sentimental mood in the moonlight, especially ecstatic love; bad effects of disappointed affection (Cal. p.). Nostrils and labial commissures sore, cracked and crusty. Headache: after river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks; deranged digestion, acids, fat, fruit; suppressed eruption. Gastric complaints from over-eating; stomach weak, digestion …
Mind
The child cannot bear to be touched or looked at; cross.
Mind
Sentimental mood in the moonlight, particularly estatic love.
Mind
The greatest sadness and woeful mood, with intermittent fever.
General Face
Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils, and corners of the mouth.
General Face
Suppurating and long-lasting eruptions on cheeks.
Sight and Eyes
Redness and inflammation of the lids, itching in canthi, chronic blepharitis of cross children.
Nose
Sore, cracked, crusty nostrils; corners of the mouth cracked.
Mouth and Throat
Tongue coated thick, milky white.
Mouth and Throat
Decayed teeth ache generally, < at night; cannot bear to be touched by the tongue.
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Child fretful and peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
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The child is delirious, drowsy, with nausea, red, hot face, irregular pulse and feverish heat, cries when washed or bathed.
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Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils, and corners of mouth.
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Decayed teeth ache generally worse at night, touching tooth with tongue causes pain, as if the nerve were torn.
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Stomach out of order, belching with the taste of food, nausea, and hard Tools, tongue coated thick white.
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Stools often liquid, containing portions of solid food.
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Alternate diarrhoea and constipation of old persons.
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Crushed fingernails grows in splits, and like warts with horny spots.
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