CARBO ANIMALIS
Common
Name: Animal Charcoal
MENTAL:
Homesickness
– lost in
meditative-like thoughts.
Avoids
conversation. Desire to be alone.
Sympathetic towards
suffering of others - cannot say no if someone needs help.
Ilusions of hearing- as if tone came from another direction, or another world.
Cannot tell from
what direction sound comes from.
Fear of
dark, aggravation from closing eyes. Fear of heights.
PHYSICAL:
Deep
Exhaustion.
Slow, hard,
painful processes – infiltration and induration.
Susceptible to Malignancies – cancer, especially stomach, uterus,
glands with
burning pains.
Swollen and
indurated Lymph Glands.
Aggravated by cold.
Chills at
night in bed.
Headache, feels as
if head had been blown to pieces - has to sit up at night and hold it together.
Great
weakness < during menses.
Weak digestion.
Flatulence.
Discharges are
acrid and foul.
Cheeks and lips are
blue in colour, lips with feeble circulation.
Copper coloured skin eruptions.
Modalities:
Agg: While eating; loss of fluids; after midnight; during and after
menses; from dry cold; from shaving; from lying on the side.
Amel: Lying hand on parts; rubbing the eyes.
KEY NOTES:
Vertigo after
shaving.
Head pain on
vertex, wet weather aggravates.
Pain in teeth,
salty food ameliorates.
Coldness in foot
between 9 -15h.
Tingling leg in
daytime.
Sleeplessness from anxious visions.