CARBONEUM OXYGENISATUM


Carboneum Oxygenisatum homeopathy medicine – drug proving symptoms from Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica by TF Allen, published in 1874. It has contributions from R Hughes, C Hering, C Dunham, and A Lippe….


    34.6 0; in the mouth, 35.2 0. Temperature 38 0 Cent. Coldness. Sensation of coldness in the whole body. The attack is followed by long-continued sensation of coldness and general trembling, which may last for weeks. Severe chill, with chattering. Violent febrile chill, for several days. Violent and continued shaking chill. Daily repeated chills, with a sensation of a heavy dragging up of the abdomen when walking and standing. Chilly all day. Cool extremities. Extremities cold. Extremities cold and numb. Hands and feet cold. Hands icy cold. Heat. Febrile symptoms. At night, in bed, burning heat all over, without thirst; despite this heat and fever, slept lightly until 1 A.M., after which increase of head, with thirst and dry mouth; the thirst was satisfied by drinking only a little; the heat, as well as the thirst and fever, now gradually diminished, and the bed, which had hitherto been too warm, was now too cold, so that he had to have more covering; sleep returned(370). Sensation of warmth in chest and abdomen, similar to that caused by spirituous liquors, but the hands and feet remained cold. Sweat. Skin covered with sweat. Beads of sweat over whole body. A little sweat on the upper half of the body, in the morning, in bed. Slight frontal sweat.

Introduction

Carboneum oxygenisatum, Carbonous oxide, CO. This gas may be obtained, in a state of purity, by the action of Sulphuric acid upon Ferrocyanide of Potassium; it is soluble in water (about two per cent. at ordinary temperatures).

Mind

Emotional. Condition resembling intoxication the whole day. A woman was found upon the street half unconscious, talking senselessly, screaming violently, only able to say that several of her family were similarly affected; after she got to the house was taken with a violent shaking chill, followed by decided heat. Spasmodic crying. Screaming and convulsions. Patient depressed and stupid. Sadness and despondency. Frightful anxiety, and instinctive impulse to seek change of air, while he felt powerless to overcome the paralysis of his muscles and move from where he sat. Great anguish. Apathetic. With the lassitude, an unusual apathy, and indisposition for any muscular exertion. After supper, felt buoyant and in good humor, an effect never produced by tea; this mental sensation soon passed over into an irritable and sarcastic one, so that I sharply criticized an article in a medical journal, which a few hours ago I hardly though worth that trouble, and threw away in disgust a book of reference, as flat and superficial, which I highly value at other times. Intellectual. Mental inactivity. Mind sluggish. Very contracted range of ideas. Incapacity to draw inferences, or to compare ideas. Confused ideas. Felt in a very confused and stupid state. Confusion and stupefaction of the senses and intellectual faculties, amounting at last to complete unconsciousness. Answers only with difficulty. On attempting to describe their sensation (according to letters left by suicides) the first few lines are well written, afterwards phases are incomplete, and at last there are only words and letters. Dull and ever-changing images passed before my mind, but I felt unable to concentrate my mind on any one. Memory much impaired; remembered nothing of his attack; could not answer questions correctly for two days, and was not able to resume his occupation for a month (after three days). Memory completely lost for five days. Stupor and imbecility. Fell to the ground stupefied. Unconscious. Quite unconscious till the third day. Consciousness disappears. Complete loss of consciousness. Consciousness is sometimes suddenly lost, as if the person had been struck upon the head. Unconsciousness and piteous moaning. Shortly became insensible. Struck senseless to the floor (after one moment). Coma. Comatose. Could not be aroused.

Head

Confusion and Vertigo. Gloomy confusion of head. Inclination to turn in a circle. Tendency to vertigo, and to turning in a circle. Vertigo, etc. Vertigo, to staggering and falling. Vertigo, with flickering before the eyes. Vertigo, and turning black before eyes. Vertigo, and temporary darkness before the eyes. Vertigo, and temporary darkness before the eyes. Continual vertigo, especially on rising after lying down. Giddiness. Giddiness and trembling, so that he fell to the ground. On rising up, staggered was obliged to hold fast to something, and sank exhausted into a chair. General Head. Heaviness of the head. Heaviness of the head, without vertigo. Excessive heaviness in the head. Dull heaviness of the head. On rising, heaviness of head, which lasted all day (second day). Sudden pain in head. Headache, etc. Headache and vertigo, for several days. Headache, especially in the temples, together with violent pulsation of the temporal arteries. Headache, beginning in the morning, an spreading throughout the whole head, but felt chiefly in the occiput, which seems pressed outwards. The nape of the neck seems swollen when touched; the whole posterior portion of the head from about the summit of the occipital bone to the base of the neck seems tense, swollen; the head can hardly be moved. Headache commenced generally with confusion and heaviness of the head, and dull undefined pressure in the temporal region, it then gradually increased and extended from the temples forward and backwards, encircling the whole head; usually it increased rapidly to an extreme severity(60). The headache, which is the first symptom, is also the last; in a young girl it continued with great severity for more than a month, almost without interruption. Violent persistent headache. Symptoms commenced with violent headache, which soon became very intense. Violent and constant headache, worse in the frontal region and accompanied with a sensation of tightness and constriction towards the temples. Dull headache. Pressive headache. In brain, severe pressure. Painful sawing pain through middle of head, which feels congested. Forehead. Intolerable pain in the forehead. Frontal headache, extending over the whole head, but chiefly felt in the forehead, which seems pushed out. Constant frontal headache (second day). Pressing pain at the forehead and parietal bones. A severe pressing frontal headache, as if the brain were compressed, and simultaneously severe palpitations of the heart, with which I am never troubled. Weight across forehead. Throbbing pain in forehead and temples. Temples. The attack commences with a vague, dull pain in the temporal region, which gradually extends forward and backward, encircling the head; it becomes exceedingly intense. Headache characterized by compression of the temples. Sticking in temples. Throbbing in temples. Vertex. Dulness and oppression in the crown of the head. External Head. A small red spot (similar to the streak on the arm), on the right temple, near the outer margin of the orbit.

Eyes

Eyes weak and dim, sunken. Eyes wild, staring. Eyes weary- looking. Eyes distorted in the orbits. Eyes fixed and insensible. Eye hyperaemic. Eyes half-open, staring. The eyes are contracted and sunken. Eyes string and protruding. Idiotic staring at one point. Lids. Lids and lips bluish-red. Conjunctiva. Vessels of conjunctiva injected. Conjunctiva dull red. Pupil. Pupils dilated. Pupils somewhat dilated. Pupils dilated and insensible. Pupils contracted, insensible. Pupils become insensible to the light, and the conjunctiva to foreign substances. Vision. Dim sight. Almost constant dimness of sight and vertigo. Dimness of vision, with flickering and fluttering before the eyes. Vision obscured. Flickering before the eyes, with vertigo.

Ears

Noise in ears. After a short time, confused sounds in the ears, which are exceedingly painful; afterwards there is a continuous dull vibrating, similar to the noise of a wagon, mingled with pulsating sounds, which at first seem to be indistinct and distant, but gradually become stronger; whilst lying in deep stupor, there is an incessant humming, which gradually disappears as consciousness returns. Ringing in the ears, with various kinds of illusions of hearing. Roaring in ears. Troublesome roaring and singing in the ears.

Nose

Violent inflammation of the nose and throat, which makes swallowing very difficult (second day). Bleeding from the nose.

Face

Looks anxious. Face pale. Pale face, warm to the touch. Very pale face, continued for several days. Face livid. The complexion had assumed the livid hue of death. Cyanotic. Face red. Face red (four children). Face red and puffy. Face bluish-red. Face tumid. Face puffy and reddish-brown. Features distorted. Convulsions of the facial muscles. Lips bluish. Lips and tongue rosy-red. Jaws firmly clenched (and others). Trismus. Trismus, with epileptic convulsions.

Mouth

Tongue. Paralysis of the tongue. General Mouth. Mouth drawn. Saliva. Froth from mouth. Foaming at the mouth. While eating, flow of a slightly acid water into the mouth, which mingles with the food without causing disgust. After supper, the mouth is lined with mucus so viscid that, on trying to spit it out, it sticks to the lips. Excessive sensitiveness of taste and smell, which lasts four days, an goes on diminishing, until, in six days, these two senses are duller than formerly. Appetite as usual at dinner, but bread and all sort of food had a foul taste, even sugared rice-cake (second day).

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.