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Active Ingredients:
Antimonium Crudum
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General Indication:
Dyspepsia and skin eruptions.
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Indepth Product Information:
Ant-c. is specially suited to infants and children (with coated moist white tongues) and also to elderly persons.
Tendency to grow fat.
When symptoms recur they change their locality or go from one side of the body to the other. Left side predominates, especially lower left and upper right. Among special symptoms are: Itching of scalp and falling out of hair. Tendency to take cold about head. Moist eruption behind ears (Graph.).
Slight noises startle.
Nose-bleed with vertigo, after headache, after rush of blood to head.
Children are peevish, won't bear to be touched or looked at.
Adults are sulky or sad.
Weeping and impressionable.
Sentimental mood by moonlight.
Gastric and remittent fevers, and fevers of children, with great thirst and the characteristic white tongue. The fever runs higher at night.
The child is cross, but unlike the Cham. patient, who wants to be carried, this will scream and show temper at every little attention.
There is a form of diarrhea which alternates with constipation, often found in old people, to which Ant-c. corresponds. "Stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed, in old people." It cures many cases of mucous piles: continuous oozing, staining linen.
In connection with the intolerance of wine of the remedy, it may be mentioned that in one case it produced a feeling of intoxication like that of alcohol, so that the patient refused to take any more of it.
A number of nervous symptoms appear in the provings-restlessness, jerking of muscles, etc.
A notable characteristic of Ant-c. is the thickly coated tongue. Generally it is thick and white, milky-white, or like whitewash evenly laid. The edges may be red and sore. Sore, cracked and crusty nostrils and corners of mouth.
Abnormal hunger, not relieved by eating, emptiness of epigastrium and want of animal heat. Disgust for all foods. Nursing children throw up a little sour milk as soon as they take the breast or bottle (Aeth-c., after vomiting the child sleeps and wakes hungry, Ant-c. the child refuses to nurse again).
Worse By heat is a marked characteristic (Apis, Puls., Cham., Sec., Camph.), also worse from cold washing (less severe after warm washing), from cold water and cold food. In spite of the worse from heat there is great sensitiveness to cold, hence it is suitable to the hydrogenoid constitutions.
Moonlight worse mental symptoms. Many symptoms are worse at night. Worse By touch. Worse From wine, especially sour wine, from vinegar and acids (though tamarind water does not disagree), from fruits. Worse From pork, bread, and pastry.
Better By rest, by lying down, worse rising up, worse ascending stairs. |
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