Antimonium Tartaricum
Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash
Abdomen
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Spasmodic colic, much flatus. Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward. Cholera morbus Diarrhoea in eruptive diseases.
Back
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Violent pain in sacro-tumhar region. Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy
Chest
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Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to
Face
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Cold, blue, pale; covered with cold
Guiding symptoms
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Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum, but also many peculiar to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic apiilication has been confined largely to the treatment of respiratory diseases, raltlincj of mucus untih little cxpcctoroilon has been a guiding symptom. There is much dfozvsincss, debility and siveal characteri.stic of the drug, which group should always be more or less present, when the drug is pre^'Cribed. Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty sulijects. Cholera morbus. Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels. Bi/- harziasis. Antimonium tart is homoeopathic to dysuria strangury, hsematuria, albuminuria, catarrh of bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, liloody mucous stools, etc. Antimon tart acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of the protective substance. Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness. Lumbago. Chills, contractures and muscular pains. Mind and
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ing. Headache as from a band compressing. [Nit. ac.; Carbol. ac.]
Head
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Vertigo alternates with drowsiness. Great despondency. Fear of being alone. Muttering, delirium, and stupor. Vertigo, with dullness and :on fusion. Band-like feeling over forehead. Face pale ind sunken. (Thild will not be touched without whin- 68
Larynx
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Oedema and impending paralysis of lungs. Much palpitation, wdth uncomfortable hot feeling. Pulse rapid, weak, trembling. Dizziness, wdth cough. Dyspnoea relieved by eructation. Cough and dyspnoea better lying on right side — (opposite Badiaga),
Stomach
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Difficult deglutition of liquids. Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side. Nausea, retching, and vomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and prostration. Thirst for cold wafer, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally. Nausea produces fear ; with pressure in praecordial region, followed by headache with yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.
Sweat
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Sensation of heavy weight at tfie coccyx, drag-
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Incessant quivering of chin and loiver jaw. [Gelse^n.]
Throat
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Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up. Cougfiing and gaping cojiscf utively. Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus. Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and
Tongue
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Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges. Red and dry, especially in the center. Brown.
Urinary
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Burning in urethra during and after urinating. Last d*'ops bloody with pain in bladder. Urging increased. Catarrh of bladder and urethra. Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness. Great rattling of mucus, hut very little is expectorated. Velvety feeling in
References
This monograph is an original summary faithful to the classical tradition. It condenses material from these public-domain sources:
- James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905)Primary remedy pictures; characteristic mental and general symptoms. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- William Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica and Repertory (1927)Reproduced here in full — the complete classical repertory-style monographs. · Public domain (USA, pre-1930 publication)
- Constantine Hering, The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (1879–1891)Confirmed symptom aggregates behind the section organization. · Public domain
- Timothy Field Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879)Provings background referenced by the verification tradition. · Public domain
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