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Antimonium Tartaricum

30C / 200CAnt Tart
Tartar Emetic · Potassium Antimonyl Tartrate · "The Drowning in Mucus Remedy"
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🎯 It acts primarily on the respiratory system to clear mucus and treat conditions involving lung congestion and weakness.
📖 Boericke writes:
Tartar Emetic. Tartrate of Antimony and Potash
Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatment of respiratory diseases,rattling of mucus with little expectoration has been a guiding symptom. There is muchdrowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed. Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty subjects.Cholera morbus. Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels. Bilharziasis. Antimonium tart is homeopathic to dysuria, strangury, haematuria, albuminuria, catarrh of bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, bloody mucous stools, etc. Antimon tart acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of the protective substance. By-effects following injection for Bilharziasis.Chills and contractures and pain in muscles.
Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness. Lumbago. Chills, contractures and muscular pains. Warts on glans penis.
👤 Constitution
•Typically indicated for the elderly, children, or those who are weak, drowsy, and prone to respiratory congestion with a pale, cold, and sweaty skin.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatment of respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little expectoration has been a guiding symptom.
introduction
There is much drowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed.
introduction
Cholera morbus.
introduction
Bilharziasis.
introduction
Chills and contractures and pain in muscles.
introduction
Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges.
tongue
Nausea, retching, and vomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and prostration.
stomach
Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally.
stomach
Great rattling of mucus, but very little is expectorated.
respiratory organs
Coughing and gaping consecutively.
respiratory organs
Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx; oedema and impending paralysis of lungs.
respiratory organs
Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region.
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🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind and Head
Useful for mental states involving confusion, drowsiness, and anxiety when accompanied by physical illness.
Vertigo alternates with drowsiness.
Great despondency.
Fear of being alone.
Muttering, delirium, and stupor.
Vertigo, with dullness and confusion.
Band-like feeling over forehead.
Face pale and sunken.
Child will not be touched without whining.
Headache as from a band compressing (Nit ac).
🔑 Modalities
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💊 Dosage & Potency
2X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝Second and sixth trituration. The lower potencies sometimes aggravate.
Primary Dosage
6X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝Second and sixth trituration. The lower potencies sometimes aggravate.
Primary Dosage
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🚫 Antidotes
Pulsatilla Pratensis →Sepia Officinalis →
🔄 Compare With
Ipecacuanha →Kali Sulphuricum →
📚 Sources & References

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