Anthracinum

COMMON NAME:

      ANTHRAX POISON.

Symptoms

      It is one of the most efficacious remedies for boils, abscesses, felons, or swelling of any kind, when there are intense burning pains (Arsenicum, tarent-C., Sulphur) (N.).

Haemorrhages : black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice (Lachesis, Lept.) (C.).

Malignancy: Terrible burning pains, with great prostration (Apis., Arsenicum, Lachesis, Phosphorus, Sulphur, tarent-C.) (B.).

THE AFFECTED PARTS BURN, AS THOUGH ON FIRE (Bl.).

WE HAVE SWELLINGS ON ALL PARTS OF THE BODY, AND ONE OF THE MOST CHARACTERISTIC CONDITIONS IS THE COLOUR OF THEM THEY ARE BLUISH, VERGING INTO BLACK (Lachesis, tarent-C.,) (N.).

Black and blue blisters (C.).

Bad effects from inhaling foul odours (C.).

Succession of boils (Mercurius, Silicea, Sulphur) (B.).

Discharge of ichorous, offensive pus (Arsenicum, Carb-Ac., Merc-c., Acid nitricum,) (A.).

Glands swollen cellular tissues oedematous and indurated (Apis, Bromium, Carb-An., Merc-I., Rhus toxicodendron, Silicea, tarent-C.) (C.).

“Erysipelas” of a malignant type (A.).

In all cases, simulating septic fever or poisoning, Arsenicum, Anthracinum and Pyrogen should be remembered. The horrible BURNING PAINS of the first two are prominent.” (N.).

Gangrenous parotitis (Apis, Arsenicum, Lachesis, tarent-C.) (C.).

SEPTIC FEVER: RAPID LOSS OF STRENGTH, SINKING PULSE, DELIRIUM AND FAINTING (Pyrog.). (A.).

Suspicious insect stings. If the swelling changes colour and red streaks from the wound map out the course of lymphatics (Lachesis, Pyrog.). (A.).

Gangrenous ulcers (Arsenicum, Carb-Ac., Carbo vegetabilis, Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Merc-C., Nit- Ac., Phosphorus, Secale, Sulphur) (A.).

Dissecting wounds: especially if tendency is to become gangrenous (Arsenicum, Pyrog.) (A.).

Felon; the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible burning pains (Arsenicum, Carb- Ac., Lachesis). (A.).

Arsenicum sometimes fails in “carbuncles”. Then we have to resort to Anthracinum, chiefly in the thirtieth potency. It has precisely the same symptoms as Arsenicum, but to a more intense degree (P.).

AGGRAVATION:

      From cold application (better from cold application-Apis, Flour- Ac., Ledum, Phosphorus, Pulsatilla, Secale).

AMELIORATION:

      From hot application. (Worse from cold application: Arsenicum, Lachesis, Silicea, Syphilinum).

RELATIONSHIP:

      Similar to: Arsenicum, Carb-Ac., Crotalus horridus, Echin., Lachesis, Pyrog., Rhus toxicodendron, Secale, and tarent-C.

Silicea follows it well.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)