# Anthracinum

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Homeopathic Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Anthracinum was introduced into homeopathic practice by Lux, a veterinarian, long before 
the experiments of Pasteur. The potential anthrax nosode is the best remedy for the disease from which it is  
obtained, “splenic fever” in animals and “malignantpustule” in human beings. Epi demic spleen diseases 
of domestic animals and in septic inflammation, carbuncles and malignant ulcers. 
This nosode is a very valuable remedy in malignant or septic inflammati on of connective or cellular tissue. It 
produces boils or boil -like eruptions, carbuncles, malignant ulcers, abscesses, bubo, where there is 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 andintolerable burning. Hard, stony  swelling in region of 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 Wisters. 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, pros tration, infirmity. Weakness during fever. Weakness 
from perspiration. Wounds. Bites of dogs, poisonous animals. Snakes 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.
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 burn ing. 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 br eathing, 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»- Antidoted by:  Camph., Ars., Rhus -t., Sil.? Lach., Carb -v., Puls., Kreos., Carb -ac., Sal-ac., 
Apis. Similarto: Ars., which it often follows. Tarent -c. Compare: ( 1) Ars., Tarent -c., Carb-v., Pyrog., Lach., 
Crot-h., Hippozaen, Echi. Follows well: Ars. - burning and ulceration, Ph -ac. Followed well by: Aur-m-n. - 
periosteal swelling of lower jaw, Sil. - cellulitis. •
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. 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. Appetite wanting. Diminished appetite with fever. Loss of a ppetite with chills and gastralgia. Aversion 
to eggs, odor of eggs. Excessive thirst, but can hardly swallow. Thirst with fever.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Anxiety, withfever.
- Confusion of mind.
- Disinclined to work, aversion to mental work.
- Depression, with 
debility and chill.
- Silent grief.
- Irritability, restlessness, ner 
vousness, at night.
- Sadness, despondency, depression, melancholy.
- Delirium and excitement during fever.
- Oversensitive.
- Presentiment of death.
- Thinks she feels death 
approaching.
- Hy drophobia.
- Makes animals howls, bite, run about, become greatly excited, followed by 
paralytic symptoms.
- Collapse, unconsciousness, coma.
- Anxiety, withfever.
- Confusion of mind.
- Disinclined to work, aversion to mental work.
- Depression, with 
debility and chill.
- Silent grief.
- Irritability, restlessness, ner 
vousness, at night.
- Sadness, despondency, depression, melancholy.
- Delirium and excitement during fever.
- Oversensitive.
- Presentiment of death.
- Thinks she feels death 
approaching.
- Hy drophobia.
- Makes animals howls, bite, run about, become greatly excited, followed by 
paralytic symptoms.
- Collapse, unconsciousness, coma.

### Vertigo
- Dizziness with headaches.
- Vertigo with loss of consciousness.

### Head
- Dullness in head ak from narcotics.
- Headache, as if a smoke With a heating pain was passing through 
the head.
- Headache w ith chill.
- Carbuncles on head, near the ears or temples.
- Swelling of head.
- Cere bral 
hemorrhage.
- Erysipelas.
- Swelling of dura mater.
- Dullness in head ak from narcotics.
- Headache, as if a smoke With a heating pain was passing through 
the head.
- Headache w ith chill.
- Carbuncles on head, near the ears or temples.
- Swelling of head.
- Cere bral 
hemorrhage.
- Erysipelas.
- Swelling of dura mater.

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

### Ears
- Ringing in ears.
- Swelling of ears.

### Face
- Acne, boils and pustules.
- Parotiditis gangrenosa, after scarlatina.
- Abscess, lips.
- I Cancer.
- Gland under chin painfully swol - !
- len.
- Tearing pain.
- Earthy discoloration.
- I Red face and nose.
- Swelling, face glands, lymphatic tissue.
- Erysipelas.
- Indurations.
- Sycosis barbae.

### Mouth
- Flabby taste.
- Dark red, bloody ecchymoses of mouth.
- Hemorrhage, oozing of blood.
- Abscess, 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.
- Parox ysms of trembling.
- Clonic spasms, trismus or opisthotonos.
- Tetan ic 
spasms in upper limbs.
- Debility and depression, with pain in the limbs.
- Nose - Eruptions, inside nose, boils, fu runcles.
- 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, 
viscid sweats.
- Perspiration, suppressed.

### Throat
- Right tonsil painful.
- Anth rax quinsy.
- Malignant sore throat.
- Swallowing difficult.
- Bleeding, oozing, 
tonsils.
- Sore throat.
- Tonsillitis.
- Swelling, edematous.
- Tongue - Tongue ofteirfurred, with a thick brown coat, dry.

### Chest
- Sensation as if diaphragm were pushed forward.
- Sensation of anxiety and constriction, in the 
précordia.
- Swelling of axillary lymphatic tissue.
- Heartbeats frequent but weak.
- Soft, scarcely frequent pulse.
- Blood does not coagulate.
- Jaws - Tearing pain in tower jaws.
- Lockjaw, trismus.
- Stiffness in jaws.
- Stony swelling around lower jaw.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- 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.

### Urinary & Genital
- Urine - Pale urine.
- Profuse, increased urine.
- Scanty urine.
- Watery, clear as water.
- Kidneys - Kidneys swollen with edema.
- Suppression of urine, anuria.
- Swelling.
- Erections, troublesome.
- Erections, continued, priapism.

### Extremities
- Burning pains.
- Coldness of lower limbs.
- Cramps.
- Severe pains in limbs and joints with the fev er.
- Convulsions, spasms.
- Tetanic spasms of upper limbs.
- 1, Cracked skin.
- Arms and hands covered with a 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.-

### Neck & 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.

### Skin
- Itching with dry skin.
- Dryness.
- Ec- chymosis.
- Boils, painful.
- Blood boils.
- Carbuncles, burning.
- Edema, 
ulcers, gangrene, sloughing whitlows.
- Blackish eruptions.
- Black or blue blisters.
- Crusty oozing eruption.
- Sloughing ulcers.
- Small pox.
- Bluish spots, with bu rning.
- Red spots.
- Erysipelas.
- Pustules and vesicles.
- Gangrene from bums’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.