# Carlsbad Aqua

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Psoric Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Morning

## Keynote Indications
Carl, is famous for its action on the liver and in the treatment of obesity, diabetes and gout. 
Clarke found Carlsbad in the potencies responded admirably to its indications. 
 
 
General weakness with discomfort. Gen eral anxious sensation as if blood in artery would stagnate, with 
constant flushes of heat. Pains are dislocate d and spraining, drawing, tearing, stitching, burning, dull shocks 
and jerks. 
Sensation of weakness,  prostration, so that she trembled and could hold nothing securely. Tired, dejected, 
sluggish, anxious trembling. Great liability to take cold. Hot flashes. Flushes ofheatallover. Periodicity, effects 
repeated after from two to four weeks (Ox-ac., Sulph.). Itching on various parts. 
In homeopathic doses, Carl, is useful in weakness of all organs. Weakness of all organs of organs of speech. 
Weakness of bladder, stream weak and slow, only passed with assistance of abdominal muscles. Weakness 
of rectum, stool slow and only passed with help of distant parts of intestinal canal. Constipation.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better in open air. Better on motion. Even the headaches ar e better by motion. Worse morning 
and evening. Worse after lying down in bed. Worse after eating and drinking. Worse on ascending.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- General anxious state.
- Excited and peevish.
- Feels weak and incapabl e.
- Poor self confidence.
- Discouraged and anxious about domestic duties.
- Discouraged before menses.
- Homesickness.
- Irritability.
- Absorbed, buried in thought.
- Anxiety in the house, better open air.
- Confusion better walking in open air.
- Excitement over trifles .
- Sympathetic, weeping from sympathy with others.
- Sensitive, affected to tears by the 
sorrows of others.
- Difficult thinking, indisposition to all mental exertions.
- Absent -minded, forgets names.
- Aversion to reading.
- Difficulty writing, often omits letters.
- General anxious state.
- Excited and peevish.
- Feels weak and incapabl e.
- Poor self confidence.
- Discouraged and anxious about domestic duties.
- Discouraged before menses.
- Homesickness.
- Irritability.
- Absorbed, buried in thought.
- Anxiety in the house, better open air.
- Confusion better walking in open air.
- Excitement over trifles .
- Sympathetic, weeping from sympathy with others.
- Sensitive, affected to tears by the 
sorrows of others.
- Difficult thinking, indisposition to all mental exertions.
- Absent -minded, forgets names.
- Aversion to reading.
- Difficulty writing, often omits letters.

### Vertigo
- Dizzy confusion and heaviness, worse after eating, better open air.
- Mo mentary attacks of vertigo, 
had to hold himself up.
- Vertigo with turning as if in a circle, better open air.
- COMMENTS - The action of Carl, has been observed on some healthy persons, but the bulk of the symptoms, 
many of which are strikingly peculiar, have been obtained from patients under treatment.
- They are.
- however, 
characteristic and have furnished the indications for many homeopathic cures.
- W.
- J.
- Guernsey cured with it sciatica in an old man with a cramp in his left ankle.
- About a month after ceasing 
the remedy the patient complained that he felt paralyzed in the loins for several hours after rising from bed, 
better as the day advanced.
- This was a new symptom very like the Carlsbad effects.
- Noted periodicity, effects repeated after two to four weeks.
- The skin has red spots and streaks, frequently 
burning like fire.
- Pimples and pustules.
- Crawling and prickling on various parts with sweat breaking out.
- Itching 
on various parts.
- Much itching and increased sweat of genitals.
- Increased sensitiveness of the skin.
- Sensitiveness to cold air, great liability to take cold.
- Frequent alternations 
of shuddering, chilliness and heat.
- Flushes of heat all over, especially in face with sweat on forehead.
- Heat of 
head with redness of face and creeping shudders.
- Sweats more easily.
- Sweat stains linen yellow.

### Eyes
- Heat streams from eyes with burn ing and pressing in them.
- Violent pres sure above orbits.
- Twitching, 
quivering in upper lids.
- Excessive lachrymation, worse using eyes.
- Eyes weak, water, lids agglutinated.
- Cannot 
do fine, near work.
- Objects swim before sight.
- Appearance of black spots swimming about.

### Ears
- Increased warmth in ear, which itches.
- Fine twit ching from Eustachian tube to tympanum.
- Humming, 
roaring, ringing.
- Transient loss of hearing.

### Face
- Face yellow, sallow, changes color.
- Red and hot.
- Pain in zygomatic process, feels as if cobwebs were 
on it.

### Mouth
- Offensive smell from mouth.
- Sour or salty taste.
- Clayey, pappy taste with sali vation.
- Flow of saliva 
and frequent spitting.
- Dryness of whole mouth, especially roof, as if dried up, with increased thirst.
- Nose - Catarrh of nose and throat, with hoarseness.
- Frequent sneezing, blowing out thick mucus.
- Swelling of 
nasal veins.
- Habitual bleeding of nose.
- Nosebleed on suppression of menses.
- Loss of smell after stoppage of 
nose.
- Perspiration - Sweats more easily.
- Stains linen yellow.

### Throat
- Hoarseness and roughness of voice.
- Constantly hawking up of much mucus.
- Tongue - Tongue coated white, with offensive smell from mouth.

### Chest
- Heaviness, fullness, oppression, anxiety.
- Peculiar sensation of oppression in lower part of chest, as if 
lung had not room enough to expand.
- Stitching in chest.
- Weakness in the chest while writing.
- Painfulness in heart, frequent transient stitching and painful drawing.
- Tension and contraction in heart 
region.
- Kidneys - Stream weak and slow, only passed by pressing abdominal muscles.
- Frequent urging with 
discharge of copi ous, watery urine.
- Brick red sediment.
- Tenacious, like frog -spawn.
- Urine stains linen dark 
yellow.
- Frequent hawking  of mucus.
- Sen sation of soreness, sensitiveness, scrap ing and tickling.
- Difficult 
breathing on ascending steps.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Sensation of emptiness.
- Pressure and heaviness after eating.
- Heartburn (Carb -v.).
- Frequent 
belching, sometimes smelling and tasting of the food, some times very bitter.
- Hiccough and yawning at same 
time, worse after drinking and eating.
- Nausea with salivation and shuddering.
- Teeth - Thick, pappy mucus coating on teeth.
- Gums painfully swollen.
- Teeth loosen and fall out.
- Pro minent teeth.
- Tearing in roots of upper molars, worse 
after every meal.
- Toothache, worse cold or warmth.
- Pressing, pinching in the hy pochondria.
- Twitching in jerks.
- Burning pain in spleen.
- Sensation of 
ring stretched around abdomen.
- Appetite and thirst much increased.
- Head - Aches with swollen temporal veins (Sang.), better motion 
in open air.
- Rush of  blood to head, with heaviness and confusion.
- Pressing, stupefying, tearing headache.
- Throbbing and beating in head.
- Hair falls out.

### Urinary & Genital
- Testicles swollen without sign of inflammation, pressive pain.
- Three days aftercessation of menstruation, discharge of lumps of tenacious black blood.
- Hot flashes.
- Leucorrhea.

### Extremities
- Cracking in all the joints.
- Trembling and crawling.
- Restlessness of limbs, with yawning.
- Sensation of 
falling asleep, stiff ness.
- Going -to-sleep sensation in finger tips.
- Heaviness of the arms after writing, with 
coldness.
- Varicoses of superficial veins of lower limbs.

### Neck & Back
- Drawing pain in nape of neck and shoulder blade.
- Stiffness, paralysis, pressure.
- Heat and burning and 
at times a shudder over back.
- Tensive and pressing pains from small of back.

### Sleep
- Constant yawning and sleepiness, worse after a meal.
- Frightful dreams with tossing.
- Dreams are not 
 
 
remembered.