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CARBO VEGETABILIS

Vegetable charcoal

Clinical Picture:
Carbo vegetabilis is known as "the great reviver"; it helps the person who is on the verge of collapse or whose vitality is very low after an illness.
Weakness, desire for fresh, cold air. Desire to be constantly fanned.
Sudden collapse from any cause. The breath is cold. Limbs cold, bluish skin; sweat is cold and clammy.
External or internal bleeding with steady oozing Internal burning sensation and external coldness.
Aversion to milk, meat and fats. Foul smelling secretions.
All foods disagree and forms gas (flatulance), especially with fatty foods. Distension (of upper abdomen), worse when lying down. Burning in the stomach with sour belching, flatulence, regurgitation of food and heartburn.
Rattling cough with itching in the throat. Spasmodic cough with gagging, choking and vomiting of mucus.
Hoarseness, worse in the evenings.
For a patient who has never fully recovered from the effects of previous chronic illness, this remedy serves as a useful tonic.

Modalities:
Worse:

Singing or reading aloud.
Evenings night.
Warm, moist weather.
Lying down.
Liquers, wines, coffee, milk.
Butter, pork and other fatty foods.
Better:
Fanning12.
Cold and belching.

Relations:
Complementary to Kalium carbonicum.

Summary of Indications:
Chronic gastric disorders - alcoholism - circulatory disorders - food poisoning - flatulence.
Useful as a convalescent tonic.

Antidotes:
Arsenicum album
Camphora officinalis
Coffea cruda
Lachesis

Note:
In abdominal distention due to excessive gas, the following remedies may help: