Carbo Vegetabulis: cntd...

- Pulford

Head

Cold, from being heated; sensitive to cold air while walking in cold air; constriction from pressure of hat when heated, amelioration uncovering; pain in occiput lying on either side, amelioration fanning; pain in occiput during and after menses, constricting eyes; pain in vertex on touching hair; pressing pain in occiput after supper, to eyes, and in suboccipital region, and in vertex on touching hair; tearing rending, and in occiput, amelioration warm room; pulsating during inspiration. (L): Constriction as if in armor; pain on lying from suppressed sweat; occiput aggravation pressure of hat. Ache: from suppressed catarrh; mostly occipital; can neither move, turn over, lie on side nor be jarred from a sense as if head would burst, as of something grasping occiput; occipital, as if it was drawn back to pillow or as if it could not be lifted from pillow, like Opi.; painful throbbing during inspirations, as when compelled to take a deep one it comes out with a sharp moan; comes on every time one takes cold in cold damp weather, entering a cold damp place or becoming chilled; feels at one's best when the nose is discharging; of school children who are sluggish, slow to learn, suffer from night terrors, who will not sleep or go into a dark room alone; aggravation pressure of hat, the sense of pressure remaining after hat has been removed; from every exertion, wants to sit or lie around, but not in the dark; chronic, when all symptoms have been suppressed; amelioration belching; in vertex if hair is touched. Scalp feels too tight. Forehead: cold sweat appears first on; feels cold to hand, pain if wind blows on it, wants it covered. Hair falls from debility after confinement, like Sep. Feels heavy as lead. Hot, even though almost lifeless. Throbs painfully on breathing.


Occipital Headache

Eyes Contractive sense during headache; aching pain evening, after lying down; draw and stare during pain in occiput. Myopia after exertion. Near - sighted, reverse of Carb-an. Lusterless, deep set, pupils do not react to light. Asthenopia from overwork, black floating spots, like Lyc. Itch around. Aggravation from steady use for any length of time.

Ears
As of a weight in and before. Discharge acrid, excoriates, ichorus, offensive and watery, especially after malaria, measles, especially scarlet fever; chronic when all symptoms have been suppressed. Deaf after some old trouble as after exanthematous disease.

Nose
Epistaxis from jarring or straining at stool; pain in posterior nares on blowing Nose, coughing or sneezing. Cold, especially in collapse. Coryza: always suffering from it; every time one takes cold or disorders stomach, like Nux, or if one goes into a heated room, feverish, yet cold with all other diseases or complaints. Epistaxis: face pale before and during; blood dark, rather fluid; nights; recurrent in persons overtaxed by anxiety, especially the aged. Varicose veins. Catarrh: aggravation evening; in warm moist atmosphere, or South West or South winds. Sneezing: frequent constant violent, formication and tickling; ineffective attempts, formication in left side.


Nose bleed from jarring at stool

Face Cold, with pain in occiput; upper lip quivers. (L): Heat with anxiety; drawing pain in jaws; jerking pain in zygoma; upper lip twitches. The sufferings, like Acon. and Ant-t., are all expressed in the Face. Cadaveric. Cyanotic. Brown or blackish, lips cracked. Pale, with epistaxis. Cold sweat covers. Greenish or yellowish, or very pale, sunken, almost hippocratic. Tearing jerks in upper jaw bone. Metastatic mumps: in girls to breasts, in boys to testes; after being chilled; brings them back and cures. Even before the haemorrhage the face is cold, lips pinched, nose pointed and drawn in.