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Carbo Vegetabilis

30C / 200CCarbo Veg
Vegetable Charcoal · "The Corpse Reviver"
carb-v.PolychrestMineralCommonPsoric
🎯 It acts on states of , sluggish circulation, and poor oxidation, particularly in cases of chronic weakness or after severe illness.
📖 Boericke writes:
Disintegration and imperfect 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 . Body becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless stream and sepsis and state ensues.
A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after other diseases; in old people with congestions; states of in , ; 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. 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 (), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; (septic) condition of all its , coupled with a burning sensation. General 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
in daily attacks, with pale face.
nose
Tongue coated white or yellow brown, covered with .
mouth
, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from , with pain; worse lying down.
stomach
Contractive pain extending to chest, with of abdomen.
stomach
Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests.
stomach
The simplest food distresses.
stomach
Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind.
abdomen
.
abdomen
, 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

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.

1X to 3X
Decimal
📝In stomach disorders.
Primary Dosage
30C and higher
Centesimal
📝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 →

Boericke's Materia Medica

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Carbo Vegetabilis is listed in 540 rubrics across 25 chapters — italicised by Boericke in 164 of them, marking the remedy as more frequently verified there.

Respiratory System83Stomach80Abdomen64Fever37Skin32Female Sexual System31Head25Locomotor System22Generalities20Modalities19Nervous System18Circulatory System16Nose15Male Sexual System15Urinary System11Mouth8Face7Eyes6Taste6Teeth5Mind5Throat5Gums4Ears3Tongue3

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