- 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
