Antimonium crudum
Keywords
- Averse to
being touched, looked at, or bathed.
- White
coated tongue, with disordered digestion & ecstatic sentimental or cross.
Synopsis
(identifying features)
- 1.
Excessive irritability and fretfulness - cannot bear to be touched or looked at
(child).
- ADULTS : Sulky, disinclined to speak.
- 2.
Sentimental mood in moonlight.
- 3. Sadness
with weeping.
- 4. Thick,
milky-white coating on tongue.
- 5. Agg. from cold, cold bathing and
also heat.
- 6. SKIN : Tendency to corns and callosities; split, deformed,
brittle nails; horny warts.
- 7.
Disordered digestion with vomiting.
- 8. Cracked
and crusty corners of mouth and nostrils.
Mind
- Love-sick.
- Ecstatic
(exalted state).
-
Sentimental in moonlight (talks in verses) OR cross and touchy.
- Dreamy.
- Gross
feeder, a glutton.
- Aversion
to being touched or looked at.
- Weeping
when touched.
- Aversion
to speak or be spoken to.
- Sulky.
- Suicidal
thoughts drive him out of bed.
- Loathing
of life, of food, of bathing.
- Weeps from
music.
- Contrary.
Objective
- Fat,
fretful, cross and peevish; cries if looked at or touched.
- Gross
feeder.
- Tongue
thickly coated like whitewash.
- Disordered
digestion, fullness in abdomen.
- Horny or
split nails; callosities on soles, near toes.
- Nostrils
sore, cracked and crusty; also corners of the mouth.
-
Disposition to grow fat; to abnormal organisations of
the skin.
Causation (a.f. )
- Mind
-
Disappointed love.
- Physical
- Agg. Extremes of heat and cold; overeating (aphonia).
- Bathing;
water on head.
- Heat : of summer; of sun.
- Never well
since cold bath (swimming).
- Chronic
complaints traceable to suppression of eruptions or ulcers.
Modalities
- Agg.
- Bathing
cold (averse to); Suppressed menses; heat of summer, of sun; warm weather;
overeating; vinegar, pork.
- Moonlight aggr. mental symptoms.
- Amel.
- Applied
heat from warm bathing.
- Lying
down.
Food &
drinks
- Cravings
- Acids, pickles,
spices.
- Agg. SOUR, acids, fruits, milk, pastry, pork, sweets,
vinegar, wine, cucumber; pickles, cold food and drinks.
- Aversion
- Food.
- Thirstless.
- Disagree -
Pork.
- Appetite
- Loss of
appetite; fullness in abdomen, even without eating.
Female
- Menses too
early, too profuse; toothache before menses.
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- Menses
suppressed from cold bathing.
Child
- Fat,
fretful, cross, irritable, peevish, sulky; cries if touched or looked at.
- Averse to
washing and mother's milk (Sil).
- After
nursing child vomits sour curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards (rev., Aeth).
- Is very
cross.
-
"Nausea without vomiting, OR vomiting without nausea", a striking
symptom.
- Summer diarrhoea after nursing.
-
Somnambulism.
- Tendency
to grow fat.
Peculiar,
uncommon, grand characteristics
- 1.
Headache
- From
deranged stomach.
- 2. Eyes
- Canthi raw
cracked.
- 3. Nose
- Nostrils
sore, cracked and crusty.
- 4. Mouth
- Tongue.
- Thickly
coated like white- wash; milky white.
- 5. Mouth
- Cracks in
corners of mouth.
- 6. Teeth
- Carious
teeth, pain at night.
- 7. Stomach
- Acute
rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms.
- 8. Stomach
- Gout (arthritis
with join pain) recedes, and stomach and bowels are affected.
- 9. Stomach
- Nausea
from sour wine.
- 10. Rectum
- Diarrhoea alternates with constipation in the aged.
- 11. Gen.
- Ovaries
painful in lovesick girls.
- 12. Gen. Female
-
Periodicity (5, 6, or 12 weeks).
- 13. Larynx
and trachea
- Aphonia ( loss of voice ) from
overheating, amel. using
voice.
- 14.
Extremities
- Nails split,
do not heal readily, tend to grow cracked and split.
- 15.
Extremities
- Nodule.
- On finger
joints become painless as soon as stomach and bowels become distended and
painful.
- 16.
Extremities
- Rheumatoid
arthritis (arthritis of hand and feet).
- 17. Sleep
- Sleepy by
day.
- 18.
Extremities
-
Callosities ( thickened/hardened part of skin ).
- On soles,
near toes, warts, horny.
- 19.
General
- Continued
drowsiness in old people.
- 20.
General
- Symptoms
change locality on recurrence.
- 21.
Generalities
- Strange
ABSENCE OF PAIN (bedsores, corns).
- 22. Sleep
- On back.
- Dreams of
being wounded; anxious; misfortune; of quarrels.
Cases
- Antim Crud.:
- Painful,
cross and peevish.
- Cries if
looked at or touched, esp. children. (Adults are sulky, do not wish to speak
with anyone).
- (H.K.
Leonard - HH. 1981/712)
- 86. Antim Crud. :
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- The only
peculiarly characteristic symptom which guided to the remedy was "Tongue
coated thick, white, as if
white-washed."
- (Edward
Mahoney - HH. 1980/227)
Antimonium tartaricum