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Antimonium Crudum

30C / 200CAnt Crud
Crude Antimony · Black Sulphide of Antimony · "The Thick White Tongue Remedy"
ant-c.PolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts primarily on the digestive system and the skin, particularly when there is a thick white coating on the tongue and excessive irritability.
📖 Boericke writes:
For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. with gastric symptoms.
👤 Constitution
•Often indicated for individuals who have a tendency to gain weight, are prone to digestive issues, and exhibit a sulky, irritable, or sentimental temperament.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy.
introduction
All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing.
introduction
Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
mind
raw and fissured.
eyes
Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.
nose
Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin.
face
Cracks in corners of mouth.
mouth
Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed.
mouth
.
mouth
Loss of appetite.
stomach
Desire for acids, pickles.
stomach
tasting of the ingesta.
stomach
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Useful for emotional states characterized by extreme irritability, sulkiness, and a strong aversion to being observed or touched.
Much concerned about his fate.
Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction.
Sulky; does not wish to speak.
Peevish; vexed without cause.
Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
Angry at every little attention.
Sentimental mood.
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency

Historical record, not a prescription. Boericke published this in 1927. It is not medical advice — consult a qualified practitioner before acting on it.

Summarised from the passage below — Boericke’s own wording is the record.

Third to sixth
Decimal
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Sulphur →
🚫 Antidotes
Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum →
🔄 Compare With
Pulsatilla Pratensis →Sulphur →Ipecacuanha →Antimonium Chloridum →Antimonium Iodatum →

Boericke's Materia Medica

In Boericke’s Repertory

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Antimonium Crudum is listed in 297 rubrics across 24 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 120 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Stomach47Skin31Abdomen29Modalities23Locomotor System20Mind20Head16Nervous System11Mouth11Eyes10Fever10Face10Respiratory System8Generalities8Nose8Teeth7Male Sexual System7Female Sexual System6Urinary System4Gums3Taste3Ears2Tongue2Circulatory System1

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