Materia Medica de A a Z

CARBOLICUM ACIDUM = PHENOLUM (Carb-ac)

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 centres. 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 (Berb-a)]. 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 [Sulpho-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 probable prostatic nature. Use 1x).

Female

Discharges always offensive [Nit-ac; Nux-v; 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 (Chrysar) (locally in ringworm of the scalp 5-10 per cent. in glycerine and alcohol. Equal parts). Ars; Kreos; Carb-v; Guano (Guan). (Violent headache as from a band around head. Itching of nostrils, back, thighs, genitals. Symptoms like hay-fever.)

Antidote: Alcohol (Alco); Vinegar; Chalk; Iod. Glauber's Salt in watery solution.

Incompatible: Glycerine (Glyc) and vegetable oils.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency. Phenol in Arthritis, according to Goodno. Must be absolutely pure. Crystals Solution (25 Percent) in equal parts of water and glycerine, dose 20 minims well diluted 3 times daily (Bartlett).