CARBO VEGETABILIS

CARBO VEGETABILIS

(Vegetable Charcoal)

Carb-v.

Disintegration and imperfect oxidation define this remedy. The typical Carb-v. patient is sluggish, overweight, lazy, and prone to chronic issues. Blood stagnates in capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis. The body becomes blue and icy cold (cyanosis). Bacteria thrive in the nearly lifeless blood, leading to sepsis and a typhoidal state.

Carb-v. is indicated for lowered vitality due to fluid loss, drugging, other diseases, or in elderly people with venous congestion, collapse states in cholera, and typhoid. The patient may be nearly lifeless, with a hot head, cold breath, imperceptible pulse, and quickened, oppressed respiration. They need air, must be fanned, and have open windows. The patient faints easily, is exhausted, and requires fresh air. There can be hemorrhaging from mucous surfaces and significant debilitation. Symptoms include a sense of heaviness in the head, eyes, ears, stomach, and elsewhere, along with putrid conditions and burning sensations. General venous stasis, bluish skin, and cold limbs are typical.

Mind: Aversion to darkness, fear of ghosts, sudden memory loss.

Head: Aches from overindulgence, sore hair that falls out easily, itchy scalp when warm in bed, heavy, constricted head, vertigo with nausea and tinnitus, pimples on the forehead and face.

Eyes: Vision of black spots, asthenopia, burning eyes, painful muscles.

Ears: Otorrhea post-exanthematous diseases, dry ears, cerumen malformation with dermoid layer exfoliation of the meatus.

Nose: Daily epistaxis post-straining, red and scabby nose tip, itching nostrils, varicose veins on the nose, eruptions at the corner of alae nasi, coryza with cough in moist, warm weather, ineffectual sneezing.

Face: Puffy, cyanotic, pale, cold with cold sweat, blue mottled cheeks, and red nose.

Mouth: White or yellowish-brown coated tongue with aphthae, sensitive teeth, retracted bleeding gums (scurvy), pyorrhea.

Stomach: Eructations, heaviness, fullness, sleepiness, flatulence pain, worse lying down, relief from belching, sour or putrid eructations, waterbrash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence, morning nausea, stomach burning extending to the back, contractive chest pains, faint feeling in the stomach not relieved by eating, crampy pains, sensitivity in the epigastric region, slow digestion with food putrefaction, gastralgia in nursing women, aversion to milk, meat, and fatty foods, sensitive epigastric region.

Abdomen: Pain from lifting, colic from riding, excessive fetid flatus, intolerance to tight clothing, intestinal fistulae, distended abdomen, flatulent colic, liver pain.

Rectum: Hot, moist, offensive flatus, itching, gnawing, burning in rectum, corrosive moisture, soreness, and moisture in the perineum at night, rectal blood discharge, painful diarrhea in elderly, frequent involuntary cadaverous stools, white hemorrhoids, excoriated anus, bluish burning piles.

Male: Prostatic fluid discharge with stool, itching and moisture near the scrotum.

Female: Premature, copious menses with pale blood, swollen vulva with aphthae, pudenda varices, pre-menstrual thick, greenish, milky, excoriating leucorrhea, burning hands and soles during menstruation.

Respiratory: Cough with laryngeal itching, spasmodic with gagging and mucus vomiting, initial stage whooping cough, deep, rough voice, hoarseness worsened by talking, evening oppression of breathing, sore chest, wheezing, rattling mucus, occasional long coughing spells, bluish face, offensive expectoration, neglected pneumonia, cold breath, need for fanning, lung hemorrhage, asthma in the elderly with blue skin (cyanosis).

Extremities: Heavy, stiff, paralyzed feeling, numb, sweaty feet, cold knees down, red swollen toes (chilblains), burning limb pain.

Fever: Coldness with thirst, forearm chill, burning spots, perspiration during eating, hectic fever with exhausting sweats.

Skin: Blue, cold, ecchymosed, venous over-distention, evening itching, warm bed itch, moist skin, hot perspiration, senile gangrene, bed sores, easy bleeding, weakened hair loss, indolent ulcers, offensive discharge, gangrene tendency, purpura, varicose ulcers, carbuncles.

Modalities: Worse in the evening, night, open air, cold, from fatty food, butter, coffee, milk, warm damp weather, wine. Better from eructation, fanning, cold.

Relationship: Antidotes: Spiritus nitri dulcis; Camph., Ambr., Ars.
Compare: Carboneum-Lampblack, Lyc., Ars., Chin.
Complementary: Kali-c., Dros.
Dose: First to third trituration in stomach disorders. Thirtieth potency and higher in chronic conditions and collapse.