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(Phenol — Carbolic Acid)
General
Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anaesthetic. A languid,
foul, painless destructive remedy. Stupor, paralysis of sensation
and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due to
paralysis of respiratory centers. Acts primarily on the central
nervous system. INCREASED OLFACTORY SENSIBILITY. Produces mental
and bodily languor, disinclination to study, with headache like
a band. Very marked ACUTENESS OF SMELL is a strong guiding symptom.
Stomach symptoms are also important. Pains are terrible; come
and go suddenly. Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere.
Putrid discharges. [Bapt.] Scarlet fever, with marked tendency
to destruction of tissue internally, and fetid odor. Spasmodic
coughs. Arthritis. (See Dose.)
Head.
Disinclined to mental work. Tight feeling, as if compressed by
a rubber band. (Gels.; Mahonia.) Orbital neuralgia over right
eye. Headache, better, by green tea; while smoking.
Nose.
SMELL VERY ACUTE. Putrid discharge. Ozaena, with fetor and ulceration.
Influenza and resulting debility.
Throat.
Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks. BURNING IN MOUTH
TO stomach. Fauces red, and covered with exudation. Uvula whitened
and shriveled. PUTRID DISCHARGE. Almost impossible to swallow.
DIPHTHERIA, FETID BREATH, REGURGITATION on swallowing liquids,
but little pain. [Bapt.] Face dusky red; white about mouth and
nose. Rapid sinking of vital forces.
Stomach.
Appetite lost. DESIRE FOR STIMULANTS AND TOBACCO. Constant belching,
nausea, VOMITING, dark olive green. Heat rises up oesophagus.
Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Painful flatulence
often marked in one part of the bowel. [Sulph-Carbonate of Soda.]
FERMENTATIVE DYSPEPSIA with bad taste and breath.
Stool.
Constipation, with VERY OFFENSIVE BREATH. Bloody, like scrapings
of intestines. Great tenesmus. Diarrhoea; stools thin, black,
putrid.
Urine.
Almost black. Diabetes. Irritable bladder in old men with frequent
urination at night, or probably prostatic nature. Use 1x).
Female.
Discharges always offensive. (Nit-ac.; Nux; Sep.) Pustules about
vulva containing bloody pus. Agonizing backache across loins,
with dragging-down thighs. Pain in left ovary; worse walking in
open air. Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid discharge. Leucorrhoea
in children. [Cann. s.; Merc.; Puls.; Sep.] Puerperal fever, with
offensive discharge. Irritating leucorrhoea, causing itching and
burning. [Kreos.]
Extremities.
Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia DURING WALKING. Gnawing
pains in shin bones. Arthritis.
Skin.
Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.
Relationship.
Compare: Chrysarobin (locally in ringworm of the scale 5-10 per
cent. in glycerine and alcohol. Equal parts). Ars.; Kreosote.;
Carbo; Guano. (Violent headache as from a band around head. Itching
of nostrils, back, thighs, genitals. Symptoms like hay-fever.)
Antidote: Alcohol; Vinegar; Chalk; Iod. Glauger's Salt in watery
solution.
Incompatible: Glycerine and vegetable oils.
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