About Acid Carbolicum
Carbolic Acid acts primarily on the central nervous system. Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due to paralysis of respiratory centres.
Carbolic Acid helps in mental and bodily tiredness, 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. Spasmodic coughs. Arthritis.
Mind
Sensitive to odors.
Irritable, Impatience.
Fear of impending disease.
Absent-minded.
Aversion to mental work.
Generalities
Anaphylactic Shock after bee sting.
Weakness.
Faintness, Collapse.
Agg. Reading.
Discharges: offensive, burning.
Abscess (esp. right ear) from physical exertion.
Malignant and septic conditions.
Food and drinks
Desire: Alcohol, stimulants.
Head
Tight feeling, as if compressed by rubber band, agg. forehead, temples.
Headache amel. smoking, green tea, pressure, binding head; agg. menses.
Eye
Severe neuralgia over right eye.
Nose
Very acute smell.
Offensive discharges.
Face
Pale about nose and mouth. Cyanotic (blue or purple discoloration of skin).
Swelling from bee stings.
Mouth
Swelling of tongue from bee sting.
Offensive breath.
Tingling and burning in tongue, as of thousand pins.
Throat
Sore throat agg. right side. Dark red.
Prickling and burning.
Burning dryness with inability to swallow. Liquids are forced through nose.
Stomach
Flatulent distention.
Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, sea sickness, alcoholics, cancer.
Vomiting dark, olive green.
Abdomen
Painful flatulence, often marked in one part of bowels.
Rectum
Bloody stools. Offensive stools.
Constipation.
Urine
Greenish, dark, almost black.
Female genitalia
Erosions of cervix. Uterinne displacement.
Offensive, acrid discharges.
Leucorrhea in children.
Back
Severe low backache, extending to thighs.
Extremities
Vesicular eruption on hand.
Weakness lower limbs.
Sleep
Very sleepy.
Skin
Itching vesicles, amel. rubbing, with burning pain afterwards.
Malignant scarlatina, variola (small pox).
Bed sores.
Deep wounds from blunt instruments.