CARBONEUM SULPHURATUM

CARBONEUM SULPHURATUM

(Alcohol Sulphuris, Bisulphide of Carbon)

Carbn-s.

This drug exhibits profound and disorganizing effects. It has a broad range of action based on its symptomatology and is very effective for patients debilitated by alcohol abuse. It is particularly useful for sensitive patients who are worse in cold, have wasted muscles and skin, and anesthetized mucous membranes. It has a special affinity for the eyes and is beneficial for chronic rheumatism, cold sensitivity, and lack of vital heat. Symptoms include diarrhea every four to six weeks, paralysis with intense congestion of nerve centers, tabes, and sensory difficulties in limbs. It is also effective for impotence and sciatica, chronic plumbism, and diminished sensation in the arms, hands, and feet, as well as peripheral neuritis.

Mind: Irritable, anxious, intolerant; stupor; mental sluggishness; hallucinations of sight and hearing; changeable mood; alternating dementia and excitement.

Head: Headache and dizziness, as if wearing a tight cap; obstructed ears; head noises; ulceration of lips; mouth and tongue anesthesia.

Eyes: Myopia, asthenopia, dischromatopsia, cloudiness, optic disc atrophy; central scotoma for red and green light but not white; optic neuritis leading to atrophy; congested arteries and veins; retinal congestion; pale optic disc; foggy vision (amblyopia); significantly impaired vision (amaurosis); color blindness.

Ears: Impaired hearing; buzzing and singing noises like an aeolian harp; tinnitus aurium; Meniere’s disease.

Abdomen: Pain with wandering swellings from flatus; distention with soreness and rumbling.

Male: Loss of desire, atrophied parts; frequent, profuse emissions.

Extremities: Herpes on the dorsal surface of hands; sore, bruised limbs; anesthesia of arms and hands; limb cramps; lightning-like pains with cramps; swollen, insensible, rigid, stiff fingers; unsteady, tottering gait, worse in dark; insensible feet; sciatica; recurring flying pains; pain in lower limbs with cramps and formication; neuritis; progressive muscular atrophy.

Sleep: Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams.

Skin: Anesthesia; burning; itching; ulcers; festering small wounds; useful in restraining cancer growth; furunculosis; chronic skin diseases with intense itching.

Modalities: Better in open air. Worse after breakfast and bathing. Sensitive to warm, damp weather.

Relationship: Compare with Potass xantate (similar action, affects cortical substance, causes memory loss, blood degeneration, impotence, and senility), Tub., Rad., Carb-v., Sulph., Caust., Sal-ac., and Chin. For eye symptoms, compare with Ben-d. and Thyreoidinum (progressive sight diminution with central scotoma).

Dose: First attenuation. Used locally for facial neuralgia and sciatica.