# Carboneum Hydrogenisatum

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

## Keynote Indications
This carbon gas, which was experimented with by Sir Humphrey Davy, produces a condition 
almost resembling a stroke attack. Illuminating gas is a complex gas, carburetted h ydrogen being the leading 
ingredient. 
It was a popular custom to take children suffering from whooping cough to breathe the air at a gas -works. A 
case has been recorded in which an accidental escape of gas in a child's bedroom affected a prompt cure of 
its whooping cough. 
Stupefaction, comatose, surface cold and completely insensible. Spasm as in lock-jaw. Arms flexed at elbows. 
Trismus. Involuntary stools and urine. Steady and extreme oscillation of the eyeballs. Eyes distorted. Lids half 
closed. Dark bodies moving before eyes. Pupils insensible to light.

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better by open air (convulsions).

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Stupefaction.
- Extraordinary sensation of contentment.
- All thoughts appear in a moment as if seen in 
an inner mirror.
- Stupefaction.
- Extraordinary sensation of contentment.
- All thoughts appear in a moment as if seen in 
an inner mirror.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo, worse going into open air.
- Vertigo with nausea, loss of memory and sensation.

### Head
- Pressure in brain.
- Excruciating pain in forehead and between eyes.
- Pressure in brain.
- Excruciating pain in forehead and between eyes.

### Eyes
- Eyes distorted, half closed.
- Eyeballs oscillate steadily, synchronously with breathing.
- Dark bodies 
moving before eyes.

### Face
- Staring look.
- Face turgid.
- Cheeks flap.
- Some degree of trismus, interrupted by yawning.

### Chest
- Beating of the heart scarcely perceptible.
- Pulse strong, rapid, regular, or small and extremely weak.
- Voice feeble and indistinct.
- Paroxysms of cough.
- Dyspnea.
- Violent tearing pains in thorax.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Violent cramps in stomach.
- Nausea and vomiting.

### Extremities
- Spasmodic stitching and trembling of limbs, felt paralyzed.

### Neck & Back
- Violent spasm in the extensors of the back.

### Skin
- Skin icy cold.
- Sweating copiously, sweat smells of gas.

### Sleep
- Sleep prolonged and very deep, interrupted by cramps in jaws and toes.