ANTHRACINUM

REGION:
Cellular tissue.

Terrible burning pains, with great prostration. Malignancy. Sepsis. Suppuration. Carbuncle. Abscess of septum. Quinsy. Succession of boils. (Arn. Sul.). Black or blue blisters. Gangrene. Hard cellulitis.

REMEDY RELATION

Related: Ars. Tarn-c.

Anthracinum

(Anthrax Nosode)

Pharmacy

Anthracinum. Anthrax nosode. An alcoholic extract of the anthrax poison prepared from the spleens of affected sheep. Historical use: All potencies.

Clinical

• Abscesses
• Acne
• Anthrax
• Bites
• Boils
• Blisters
• Bubo
• Cancer, pains
• Carbuncles
• Cellulitis
• Chills
• Coma
• Delirium
• Depression
• Ecchymosis
• Edema
• Erysipelas
• Gangrene
• Gangrenous ulcers
• Glands, swollen
• Fevers
• Hemophilia
• Hemorrhages
• Hydrophobia
• Injuries
• Malignant pustules
• Parotiditis, gangrene
• Phlegmonous inflammation
• Prostration
• Pustules
• Quinsy
• Septic fevers
• Septicemia
• Smallpox
• Splenetic fever
• Sycosis barbae
• Ulceration
• Ulcers
• Weakness
• Whitlow
• Wounds
• Zymotic fevers

Homeopathic

Anthracinum was introduced into homeopathic practice by Lux, a veterinarian, long before the experiments of Pasteur. The potentized anthrax nosode is the best remedy for the disease from which it is obtained, "splenic fever" in animals and "malignant pustule" in human beings. Epidemic spleen diseases of domestic animals and septic inflammation, carbuncles, and malignant ulcers.

This nosode is a very valuable remedy in malignant or septic inflammation of connective or cellular tissue. It produces boils or boil-like eruptions, carbuncles, malignant ulcers, abscesses, bubo, where there is a purulent focus. For boils and boil-like eruptions, acne. Succession of boils or carbuncles. Suppurating, burning abscesses, fetid pus. Recurrent abscesses.

Abscess of nasal septum. Quinsy. Gangrene, dissecting wounds. Offensive gangrenous ulcers. Parotiditis. Foul secretions. Ulceration, sloughing, and intolerable burning. Hard, stony swelling in the region of the right lower jaw and submaxillary gland. Anthrax quinsy. Whitlow and sloughing. Glands painfully swollen. Black or blue blisters. Foul erysipelas and gangrenous erysipelas, cellulitis.

Septicemia. Hemorrhages are thick, black tar-like from any orifice. Glands swollen, cellular tissue edematous and indurated. Terrible burning with great prostration. Black and blue blisters. Insect stings. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors.

Induration, cellular tissue, glands, muscles. Lymphangitis. Inflammation after surgery. Injuries, blows, falls, and bruises. Injuries to bones, fractures. Compound fracture. Pain in cancerous affections. Burning pain, external. Pyemia. Swelling of glands. Trembling, paroxysmal. Benign tumors. Angioma. Fungus hematodes. Hemangioma. Atheroma. Steatoma.

Disorganization of blood. Congestion of blood. Convulsions, spasms, particularly in alcoholics. Clonic spasms. External dropsy. Weakness, enervation, exhaustion, prostration, infirmity. Weakness during fever. Weakness from perspiration. Wounds. Bites of dogs, poisonous animals. Snake bites. Ailments from inhaling foul odors. Poisoning with sewer gas.

In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah's carbuncle, i.e., the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and applied.

Mind

• Anxiety, with fever
• Confusion of mind
• Disinclined to work, aversion to mental work
• Depression, with debility and chill
• Silent grief
• Irritability, restlessness, nervousness, at night
• Sadness, despondency, depression, melancholy
• Delirium and excitement during fever
• Oversensitive
• Presentiment of death
• Thinks she feels death approaching
• Hydrophobia
• Makes animals howl, bite, run about, become greatly excited, followed by paralytic symptoms
• Collapse, unconsciousness, coma

Abdomen

• Distension
• Swelling of the abdomen
• Colicky pains
• Bellyache with chill
• Rumbling noises
• Abdominal soreness, in epigastrium with vomiting, cold limbs, dull head
• Intestinal anthrax
• Mesenteric glands enlarged, size of a walnut
• Dark red carbuncle in the omentum
• Bubo
• Burning, smarting pain

Back

• Axillary glands swollen
• Eruptions
• Carbuncles
• Opisthotonos

Blood

• Septicemia, blood poisoning
• Tendency to hemorrhage
• Blood does not coagulate, hemophilia
• Bleeding from orifices
• Bleeding, clots, dark, ropy, tenacious
• Rapidly decomposing blood

Chest

Sensation as if diaphragm were pushed forward. Sensation of anxiety and constriction in the precordia. Swelling of axillary lymphatic tissue.

Ears

Ringing in ears. Swelling of ears.

Eyes

Dilatation of pupils. Pale yellowish or greenish swelling. Pale redness above the brows along the forehead.

Face

• Acne, boils, and pustules
• Parotiditis gangrenosa after scarlatina
• Abscess of lips
• Cancer
• Gland under chin painfully swollen
• Tearing pain
• Earthy discoloration
• Red face and nose
• Swelling, face glands, lymphatic tissue
• Erysipelas
• Indurations
• Sycosis barbae

Food

• Appetite wanting
• Diminished appetite with fever
• Loss of appetite with chills and gastralgia
• Aversion to eggs, odor of eggs
• Excessive thirst, but can hardly swallow
• Thirst with fever

Head

• Dullness in head from narcotics
• Headache, as if a smoke was passing through the head
• Headache with chill
• Carbuncles on head, near the ears or temples
• Swelling of head
• Cerebral hemorrhage
• Erysipelas
• Swelling of dura mater

Heart

Heartbeats frequent but weak. Soft, scarcely frequent pulse. Blood does not coagulate.

Jaws

• Tearing pain in lower jaws
• Lockjaw, trismus
• Stiffness in jaws
• Stony swelling around lower jaw

Kidneys

Kidneys swollen with edema. Suppression of urine, anuria. Swelling.

Limbs

• Burning pains
• Coldness of lower limbs
• Cramps
• Severe pains in limbs and joints with the fever
• Convulsions, spasms
• Tetanic spasms of upper limbs
• Cracked skin
• Arms and hands covered with crusty eruption, full of cracks
• Felon with sloughing, severe torturing pain and great prostration
• Boils, blisters, and vesicles
• Pustules
• Whitlow
• Gangrene from burns or scalds
• Gangrenous ulcers
• Ulcers with black base on lower limbs
• Swelling of limbs

Liver

Liver engorged. Congestion, liver.

Lungs

Cyanosis. Breathing frequent, laborious, and spasmodic.

Male

Erections, troublesome. Erections, continued, priapism.

Mouth

• Flabby taste
• Dark red, bloody ecchymoses of mouth
• Hemorrhage, oozing of blood
• Abscess of lips
• Pustules, lips
• Black lips
• Erysipelas, lips
• Offensive odor from mouth
• Mouth could not be opened
• Induration of salivary, submaxillary glands
• Inflammation of parotid gland
• Saliva increased
• Cancer of glands, salivary, submandibular
• Swelling of salivary, submaxillary glands

Nerves

• Epileptiform convulsions
• Paroxysms of trembling
• Clonic spasms, trismus or opisthotonos
• Tetanic spasms in upper limbs
• Debility and depression, with pain in the limbs

Nose

• Eruptions, inside nose, boils, furuncles
• Nose swollen and red, fetid smell from it
• Bloody mucus membranes of nose
• Red discoloration of nose extending to cheek
• Coryza
• Discharge, offensive, fetid
• Smells putrid odors, imaginary and real
• Swelling, nose

Perspiration

• Sweat all over with debility
• Night sweats
• Cold sweats
• Debilitating, exhausting sweats
• Sticky, viscous sweats
• Perspiration, suppressed

Rectum

• Vomiting followed by a painless, often bloody diarrhea
• Diarrhea with fever
• Diarrhea painless
• Cholera-like collapse
• Diarrhea with bellyache
• Retarded stool
• Stools, white
• Mucus, slimy stools
• Odor, putrid
• Pasty, papescent stools
• Sputtering stools

Skin

• Itching with dry skin
• Dryness
• Ecchymosis
• Boils, painful
• Blood boils
• Carbuncles, burning
• Edema, ulcers, gangrene, sloughing whitlows
• Blackish eruptions
• Black or blue blisters
• Crusty oozing eruption
• Sloughing ulcers
• Smallpox
• Bluish spots, with burning
• Red spots
• Erysipelas
• Pustules and vesicles
• Gangrene from burns or scalds
• Gangrenous ulcers
• Ulcers, cancerous
• Ulcers with offensive discharges

Sleep

• Sleeplessness because of the pain
• Sleepless, restless, and irritated at night
• Delirium with sleepiness
• Sleep short, not refreshing, more like a stupor
• Comatose
• Unrefreshing sleep

Spleen

Spleen, complaints of. Enlarged spleen. Epidemic spleen diseases of cattle or horses.

Stomach

• Belching with nausea, and inclination to vomit
• Nausea and vomiting with chill
• Vomiting of bilious and slimy masses
• Vomiting followed by diarrhea
• Pressure and burning in the region of the stomach
• Burning pains
• Vomiting of bile, mucus

Temperature

• Creeping chills
• Debility with chills
• Chills alternating with heat
• Great weakness with fever
• Fever with diarrhea
• Continued fever, typhus fever
• Typhoid fever, with rapidly sinking pulse, loss of strength, fainting, delirium
• Puerperal fever
• Septic fevers
• Zymotic fevers

Throat

• Right tonsil painful
• Anthrax quin
• Malignant sore throat
• Swallowing difficult
• Bleeding, oozing, tonsils
• Sore throat
• Tonsillitis
• Swelling, edematous

Tongue

Tongue often furred, with a thick brown coat, dry.

Urine

• Pale urine
• Profuse, increased urine
• Scanty urine
• Watery, clear as water

Vertigo

Dizziness with headaches. Vertigo with loss of consciousness.

Comments

Great restlessness. Debility and depression with pains in limbs and general sense of malaise, followed by disturbance of the intestines. Restlessness. Clonic and tetanic spasms. Exhaustion and collapse. Terrible burning pains.

Malignant boils. Severe boils that are very painful, with a tendency toward gangrene or cancer, or that refuse to heal (Tarant., Sil., Hep., and Bell.). Boils that come in crops all over the body. Keynote: severe burning pains (Canth.). Ulcers with terrible burning. Induration of tissues. Hypersensitivity to the least touch, so they can't wear any clothes.

Completely exhausted, think they feel death. Collapse, with difficulty of breathing, loss of consciousness, death. Cyanosis, asphyxia, and the most extreme collapse, followed by death in all cases of bleeding. Hemorrhage of dark blood (Croc.), keynote: black, stringy hemorrhages.

Relations

Antidote by: Camph., Ars., Rhus-t, Sil., Lach., Carb-v., Puls., Kreos., Carb-ac., Sal-ac., Apis. Similar to: Ars., which it often follows. Tarent-c. Compare: (1) Ars., Tarent-c., Carb-v., Pyrog., Lach., Crot-h., Hippozaen, Echi. Followed well by: Ars. - burning and ulceration, Ph-ac. Followed well by: Aur-m-n. - periosteal swelling of lower jaw, Sil. - cellulitis.

References

Boericke. Clarke. Murphy.