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Antimonium Crudum
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Antimonium Crudum

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Antimonium Crudum Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Tubercular Miasm The Tubercular miasm is a combination of Psora and Syphilis. It manifests as a susceptibility to respiratory illnesses, rapid weight loss, and a constant desire for mental and physical change.
🧠 General & Mental Health
GENERAL
  • Source: Derived from antimony trisulfide (Sb₂S₃), a naturally occurring mineral, prepared for homeopathic use.
  • Traditional Context: Historically used in homeopathy for dermatological, gastrointestinal, and psychological conditions, particularly in individuals with chronic skin eruptions, digestive complaints, and emotional sensitivity.
  • It is noted for symptoms like thick, crusty skin lesions,.
  • DyspepsiaIndigestion or upper abdominal discomfortDiscomfort or pain in the upper abdomen, often associated with nausea, bloating, heartburn, or acid reflux. from dietary indiscretions, and irritability or sentimentality, often aggravated by heat,.
  • Cold bathing, or overeating.
  • Modern Context: Indicated for chronic dermatological disorders (e.g., eczemaItchy, inflamed skin conditionAn inflammatory skin rash causing dry, red, itchy, and sometimes cracking or blistered skin patches., psoriasis🩺 PsoriasisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.),.
  • Functional gastrointestinal complaints (e.g., dyspepsia, gastritis🩺 GastritisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options.), and mild mood disorders (e.g.,.
  • Dysthymia, irritability).
  • It suits patients with hypersensitive skin and digestion, often accompanied by emotional lability or low mood , triggered by dietary excesses, environmental stressors, or suppressed emotions.
  • COMMENTS-Restlessness and jerking of muscles.
  • Slight noises startle.
  • Nosebleed with vertigoSensation of dizziness or spinningA feeling of movement or spinning of oneself or the surroundings when there is no actual movement. after headache after rush of blood to head.
  • Gastric and remi ttent fevers and fevers of children with great thirst and the characteristic white tongue.
  • The fever runs higher at night.
  • Tendency to take cold about head.
  • ., ScrofulousProne to swollen glands or tuberculosisRelating to scrofula, a constitutional tendency to tuberculous swelling of the lymph nodes. ophthalmiaSevere eye inflammationInflammation of the eye, especially conjunctivitis., canthi especially affected (Graph, the whole margin).
  • OtorrheaDischarge of fluid from the earAny drainage or discharge of fluid, pus, or blood exiting the ear canal..
  • Moist eruption behind ears (Graph.).
  • Itching of the scalp and hair falling out.
  • Fungus infections or deformity of the nails, calluses from pressure, corns, pain ful bunions, painful warts and horny warts (excrescences).
  • Good for warts that grow next to the nail and bleed and irritate.
  • Thick ened skin, spots on the nails that split, “crippled nails.” ArthritisJoint inflammation causing pain and stiffnessPainful inflammation and stiffness of the joints, often worsening with age. and deformative arthritis of the fingers and toes.
  • ConstipationInfrequent or difficult bowel movementsA condition where stool is dry, hard, and difficult or painful to pass. and other intestinal dis orders.
  • Severe gastric flu with a white tongue.
  • Chronic indi gestion.
  • Diarrhea which alternates with constipation, often found in old people, “stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed in old people.” Anal fissures (Graph., Sil.).
  • Continuously oozing hemorrhoids🩺 HemorrhoidsClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., staining linen.
  • General symptoms are worse heat of su n, sun gives headache, worse bathing or change of weather.
  • Intoxicated easily from wine (Zinc🌿 ZincMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.., Chin., Caps.), face flushes after a couple sips.
  • May cough if they look at a fire or will be aggravated by radiant heat.
  • Worse from heat, but great sensitivenes s to cold.
  • Suitable to the hydrogenoid constitutions.
  • Tendency toward obesity.
  • A student, 17, had twenty-three warts on right hand and thirty-four warts on the left hand.
  • Mainly on backs and fingers, but a few on interior surface of fingers.
  • In addition, i nflammation of eyelids.
  • Ant-c.
  • 200x cured her of warts in 7 weeks.
  • Dr. M. Jousset has recorded a severe case of chorea which resisted all the usual remedies and was cured with Ant-c prescribed on the digestive symptoms, particularly the charac teristic wh ite tongue.
  • Ant-c corresponds in a sense to the swine, as Ars does to horses and Puls, to sheep
MODALITIES ETC
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MIND
  • Excessive irritability and fretfulness, with a thickly-coated white🌿 WhiteMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. tongue.
  • Fretful cross and peevish.
  • Adults are sulky, do not wish to speak with anyone.
  • Angry at every little attention.
  • Homesickness.
  • Weeping and impressionable.
  • Nervous hysterical girls and women, who are overcome by mellow light from stained-glass windows.
  • Sentimentalmoodby moonlight.
  • Dreamy, sentimental.
  • Amativeness.
  • Ill effects of disappointed love, grief.
  • Ecstasy and exalted love sick, with sulkiness.
  • Sulky, doesn't want te speak with anyone.
  • Either sentimental or cross and touchy during <span style="color:#0d9488; font-weight:600; margin:0 6px;">➔</span> DiarrheaFrequent, loose, and watery stoolsA state of having three or more loose or liquid bowel movements per day. and before menses.
  • The child is cross, but will scream at every little attention (C ham, wants to be carried).
  • Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at (Nat-m.).
  • Can’t bear to be washed or touched.
  • Anger when touched.
  • Peevishness, worse touch orconsolation.
  • Very sentimental, eas ily moved, more so in the adult.
  • Nymphomania during suppressed menses.
  • Disposition to start, even at slight noises v.
  • Excitability.
  • Anxious reflections in rela tion to one’s present and future.
  • Can be anxious about their fate, health and future.
  • Cross and contradictive, whatever is done fails to give satisfaction.
  • Sleepy and weary.
  • Talks in rhymes or verses, taciturn.
  • So-busy with oneself one forgets to urinate or defecate, eats only when asked.
  • Loathing of food, bathing etc.
  • Great sadness and woeful mood.
  • Sorrow ful, irritable humor.
  • Distrustful.
  • Suicidal d epression.
  • Inclination to shoot himself, at night he is obliged to get out of bed because he can’t free himself of the idea.
  • Loathing, disgust for life.
  • Abject despair, wants to com mit suicide by drowning.
  • Mental symptoms are worse from suppressed eruptions (Mez.).
  • Suicidal thoughts drive him out of bed.
SLEEP
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👁️ Head & Sensory Organs
VERTIGO, DIZZINESS
  • Confusion of head, as after long labor in the cold.
  • A feeling of intoxication.
  • Vertigo with nausea and nosebleed.
  • Ver- ' ,l <span style="color:#0d9488; font-weight:600; margin:0 6px;">➔</span> Tigo with nausea and confused feeling, as if drunk.
  • Vertigo during headache.
  • Vertigo from deranged stomach
HEAD
  • Headaches, worse in vertex, on ni a scending.
  • Headaches from disordered stomach.
  • Headache worse candy or acid wines, fruits, fats, ascending stairs.
  • Headache from alc oholic drinks.
  • Suppressed eruptions.
  • Heaviness in forehead with vertigo, nausea and nosebleed.
  • Headaches from bathing in cold water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
  • Headache after stopped coryzaCommon head cold with nasal dischargeAcute inflammation of the nasal mucous membranes, producing sneezing, congestion, and watery discharge..
  • Headache with great loss of hair.
  • Itch ing of the head with fall ing of hair.
  • Tendency to take cold about sfrii n head.
  • Lentil-sized, flat tubercles here and there on scalp, painful to pressure, crawling sensation around them.
  • Rush of blood to head, followed by nosebleed.
EYES
EARS
  • Redness and swelling, p ain in eusta-h chian tube.
  • Ringing and deafness.
  • Moist eruption around ear.
  • Otorrhea.
  • Deafness, J i as if bandaged or a leaf lying on ear
FACE
🫁 Respiratory & Throat
MOUTH
  • AphthaeSmall painful mouth ulcers (canker sores)Small, painful, shallow ulcers that develop inside the mouth, on the tongue, cheeks, or gums..
  • Dryness of mouth.
  • Gums bleed easily.
  • Taste bitter🌿 BitterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
  • Pappy taste.
  • Salivation, taste sklty.
  • Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed.
  • Canker sores.
  • Sore feeling and redness on border of tongue.
  • Much slimy mucus.
  • Pimples around the mouth.
  • Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus.
  • Nose-Fluent or dry coryza.
  • Nostrils •2u‘t chapped and covered with crusts.
  • Stuffed nose in a heated room.
  • Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.
  • Nosebleed and headache.
  • Nosebleed, evenings with rush of blood to head.
  • Feeling of coldness on in-tow halation.
  • Nose painful when breathing.
  • Perpiration-Hot sweat.
  • Perspires at same mi hour every other day.
  • Sweats in morning but when awaking, causes shrivelling of to-fingertips.
  • Sweat soon disappears and followed by dry heat.
  • Cold, clammy sweat from motion.
  • Sweats during rheumaticRelating to joint or muscle painDescribe pain, stiffness, or inflammation affecting joints, muscles, or connective tissues. to pains.
  • Sweats during headache
THROAT
  • Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior sinuses.
  • Hawking in open air.
  • Great heat in the t hroat while moving in the open air.
  • Sensation as if a foreign body had lodged with constant desire to 1B' swallow
CHEST
  • Stifling oppression and paralytic orthopnea.
  • Shootings in the chest, when-c1' drawing breath and at other times.
  • Itch-5o ing of chest with oppression.
  • Pain, as if contusion in the pectoralis major, on raiss ing the arm and on pressure.
  • Sharp pain under left breast.
  • Burning pain in the chest oP with heat.
  • Pains during fever.
  • Oppression and pressi ve pains, more right side.
  • Sharp pains in chest when exhaling.
  • Burning and sticking pains.
  • Severe itching upon chest continuing all day.
  • Constitutions-Suited to infants and chil is dren with coa ted, moist, w hite tongues and in the elderly.
  • Hydrogenoid constitutions.
  • Tendency to grow fát.
  • Constitutions with tendency to rough scaling skin with horny zu patches.
  • A scrofulous medicine.
  • Cough in paroxysms, as if-arising from abdomen, first paroxysm always most severe, subsequent ones weaker and weaker, until the last one only resembles a hacking cough.
  • Burning with dry cough and dyspneaDifficulty or shortness of breathLaborious or painful breathing, often associated with respiratory or cardiac conditions..
  • Burning at every cough in hot sun.
  • Cough with hot breath.
  • Cough shaking whole body, with involun-Lt tary escape of copious urine.
  • Cough on coming into warm room.
  • Cough from cold air.
  • Cough with burning sensation inchest, -w itching of chest, oppression.
  • Looking into os: fire aggravates cough after rising in morning.
  • Violent palpitationsSensation of rapid or irregular heartbeatA noticeably rapid, strong, or irregular heartbeat due to agitation, exertion, or physical conditions..
  • Pulse extremely irregular, now accelerated and again slow.
  • Pulse changing every few biu beats.
  • Slow pulsation during fine prick-on ii.- ing headache.
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🥗 Digestive & Genitourinary
ABDOMEN
  • Digestion disordered easily.
  • Heartburn, nausea, vomiting.
  • Burning, spasmodic pains, driving to despair.
  • Gastric derangements, with tongue coated thickly white, with different complaints.
  • After nursing, the child vomits its milk🌿 MilkMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. in curds and refuses to nurse afterwards and is very cross.
  • Great desire to eat, but no strength to do it.
  • EructationBelching or burpingThe act of expelling gas from the stomach through the mouth. tasting of the ingesta.
  • Gastrointestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, pork, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather.
  • Constant belching.
  • Gouty moves to stomach and intestines.
  • Indigestion, c chronic.
  • Sweetish water brash.
  • Bloating after eating.
  • Sensation of emptiness in stomach seems to be always overloaded.
  • Stomach is painful to pressure.
  • Nausea with diarrhea.
  • Loathing nausea, and desire to vomit.
  • Vomiting, worse eating or drinking, without nausea or relief.
  • Nausea ceases, vomiting contin ues.
  • Vomiting, fearful with convulsions, which nothing can stop.
  • Vomiting of slimy mucus and bile.
  • Inflation of the abdomen with a sensation of fullness, chiefly after a meal.
  • Abdomen very much distended, with much rumbling.
  • ColicSevere fluctuating pain in the abdomenSevere, often fluctuating pain in the abdomen caused by gas, spasm, or obstruction in the intestines, common in infants. with loss of appetite, hard stool, red urine.
  • Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, as after violent diarrhea.
  • Sensation of swelling and of hardness in the inguinal region, on its being pressed.
  • Incarcerated flatus in the abdomen with rumbl ing and bor-borygmi.
  • Cutting in bowels with watery diarrhea.
  • Violent cutting pains, sometimes with want of appetite, red urine and hard ' I stools.
  • Pinching pain and sensation as if diarrhea would come on Loss of appetite with disgust for food.
  • Great desire to eat, but gets no strength.
  • Appetite does not return after severe illness.
  • Food leaves an aftertaste or causes constant belching.
  • Good appetite with burning at pit of stomach.
  • Dimin ished appetite in summer owing to heat.
  • Loathing of food with a bitter taste.
  • Long-lasting loss of appetite with disgust for all food.
  • Hunger early on waking without appetite, eating does not better it.
  • Desire for acids, sour pickles.
  • Desit^ for cucumbers, sour, wine, vinegar.
  • Desire for beer with chill.
  • Intense thirst with dryness of lips, more at night.
  • Patient is a gross feeder, a glutton, he eats beyond the capacity of his digestion or without discrimination
GENITALS ETC
  • Kidneys-Urine is turbqi and has a foul odor, ah Cutting iiTurethra while urinating.
  • TenesmusPainful urge to empty bladder or bowelsA distressing, constant, and ineffectual urge to evacuate the bowels or bladder, accompanied by pain. of bladder rouses him from sleep at night Urination is frequent, profuse with burni ng and backache.
  • Involuntary urination, on coughing.
  • Gritty sediment.
  • Suit Frequent urination with much mucus, intense burning in urethra and backache during emission.
  • Larynx-Heat in larynx in open air.
  • Voice harsh and badly pitched.
  • Voice, lacks control, harsh, badly pitched better using it.
  • Aphonia from overheating.
  • Laryngitis🩺 LaryngitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., Rough voice from over use.
  • Hoarseness after cold water bath.
  • Great weaknes or entire loss of the voice, chiefly on becoming wa rm.
  • Sensation of a foreign substance in the larynx with inability to expectorate.
  • Violent spasm in the larynx with sensation of excoriation.
  • Deep, sighing, as from fullness of chest, afternoon and after eating.
  • Unequal breathing, during sleep.
  • Oppression coming from stomach.
  • Constriction almost to suffocation.
  • Spells of sighing.
  • Difficult breathing, with raised shoulders.
  • Respiration deep w ith sighing.
  • Expectoration of larg e quantities of mucus, exhausts the patient.
  • Eruption on scrotum and about .
  • Genitals.
  • Impotence..
  • Atrophy of penis and testicles.
  • Biting, itching of scrotum with eruptions.
  • Excited sexual desire with uneasiness of the whole body.
  • Nightly pollutions with or without voluptuous dreams.
  • Itching of penis, of tip of glans.
  • Erections when getting warm in bed, with sleeplessness.
  • Menses too early and profuse.
  • Premenstrual syndrome.
  • Toothache before menses.
  • Amenorrhea🩺 AmenorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
  • Menses suppressed from cold bathing.
  • Menses suppressed with feeling of tenderness of the ovaries, pressure in womb as if something would come out during menses.
  • Painful ovaries in love sick girls.
  • LeucorrheaWhitish or yellowish vaginal dischargeA whitish or yellowish discharge of mucus from the vagina, often indicating congestion or mild infection. watery, ac rid, lumpy.
  • Nymphomania from checked menses.
  • Excited, genitals itch.
  • Nausea, vomiting with diarrhea, all during pregnancy.
  • Hemorrhoidal affections during pregnancy.
  • Tenderness of ovarian region, with nausea, vomiting and white tongue.
  • Irritable, painful ovaries of hysterical girls who are dreamers, who suffer from unrequited affections.
  • Watery vaginal discharge causes smarting down thighs
🦴 Musculoskeletal & Skin
EXTREMITIES, LIMBS
  • Lassitude, tremulous fatigue and heaviness of all limbs.
  • Twitching of muscles.
  • Jerks in arms.
  • Limbs weak during headache.
  • Arthritic pain in joints of fingers.
  • Horny or split nails brittle, grow out of shape.
  • Horny growth under the nails.
  • Skin beneath nails painfully nom sensitive.
  • Discolored nails.
  • Horny warts on hands and soles.
  • Weakness and shakinof hands in wr iting followed by offensive flatulenceGas accumulation in stomach or intestinesThe presence of excessive air or gas in the digestive tract, causing bloating and wind..
  • Painful stiffness of knee.
  • Pus tules on thighs.
  • Inflamed corns.
  • Pain in heels.
  • Painful inflammation of the tendon of elbows with great redness and curvature of the arms.
  • Shiny elbows.
  • Callosities on soles.
  • Skinon solesis withered on account of foot sweat.
  • Feet very tender, covered with large horny places.
  • Rheumatic pain, in legs.
  • Numbness of legs during rest and while sitting.
  • Weakness and shaking of hands in writing, followed by offensive flatus.
  • Crippled feet
BACK AND NECK
  • Itching and pain of neck and back.
  • Violent pain in small of back when rising, better when walling.
  • Coccyx heavy.
  • Swelling of cervical glands.
  • Spasmodic drawing, in muscles of nape, reaching to scapulae.
  • Backache evening after lying down and in morning.
  • Backache worse stooping, exe rting arms and t urning head to left.
  • Spasmodic stitches in right scapula when sitting.
  • Causations-Ill effects of disappointed love, grief and suppressed eruptions.
  • Hot weather or sun.
  • Getting over-heated, Overeating
SKIN
  • Fatigue or sluggishness, particularly after overeating or during skin flares.
  • Sensitivity to temperature extremes, with aggravationWorsening of symptomsAn increase in severity or intensity of symptoms, often caused by environmental factors or after taking a remedy. from both heat and cold exposure.
  • Generalized heaviness or discomfort, often tied to digestive or emotional states

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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This clinical profile has been prepared, peer-reviewed, and verified by the Herbalhomeo expert homeopathic team in accordance with authoritative medical references.

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