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Carbo Vegetabilis

30C / 200CCarbo Veg
Vegetable Charcoal · "The Corpse Reviver"
carb-v.PolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
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🎯 It acts on states of collapse, sluggish circulation, and poor oxidation, particularly in cases of chronic weakness or after severe illness.
📖 Boericke writes:
Disintegration andimperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy. The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints. Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis. Body becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless stream and sepsis and typhoidal state ensues.
A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions; states of collapse in cholera, typhoid; these are some of the conditions offering special inducements to the action of Carbo veg. The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air,must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open. This is a typical state for Carbo veg. The patient faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air. Haemorrhage from any mucous surface. Very debilitated. Patient seems to be too weak to hold out.Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness. Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; putrid (septic) condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation. General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold.
👤 Constitution
•The typical patient is sluggish, overweight, and lazy, with a tendency toward chronic complaints and poor circulation that leaves them feeling cold and weak.
⭐ Key Symptoms — Give When You See
CARBO VEGETABILIS Vegetable Charcoal Disintegration and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy.
introduction
Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness.
introduction
Aches from any over-indulgence.
head
Epistaxis in daily attacks, with pale face.
nose
Tongue coated white or yellow brown, covered with aphthae.
mouth
Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down.
stomach
Contractive pain extending to chest, with distention of abdomen.
stomach
Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests.
stomach
The simplest food distresses.
stomach
Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind.
abdomen
Flatulent colic.
abdomen
Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum.
rectum and stool
🩺 Systems & Indications
🧠Mind
Used for mental states involving fear and memory lapses in the context of general physical weakness.
Aversion to darkness.
Fear of ghosts.
Sudden loss of memory.
🔑 Modalities
↓Worse from
↑Better from
💊 Dosage & Potency
1X to 3X
Decimal
🕒As directed
📝In stomach disorders.
Primary Dosage
30C and higher
Centesimal
🕒As directed
📝In chronic conditions and in collapse.
🌿 Remedy Relationships
🤝 Complementary
Drosera Rotundifolia →Kali Carbonicum →
🚫 Antidotes
Arsenicum Album →Camphora →Ambra Grisea →
🔄 Compare With
China Officinalis →Lycopodium Clavatum →Arsenicum Album →
📚 Sources & References

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