CARBO VEGETABILIS

Homeopathic Materia Medica & Symptoms

Boericke's Materia Medica

  • Disintegration
  • Imperfect oxidation
  • Sluggishness
  • Fatigue
  • Laziness
  • Chronicity in complaints
  • Blood stagnation in capillaries
  • Blueness
  • Coldness
  • Ecchymosis
  • Icy-cold body
  • Low vital power from loss of fluids
  • Collapse
  • Hot head
  • Cool breath
  • Imperceptible pulse
  • Oppressed respiration
  • Quickened respiration
  • Desire for air
  • Fainting easily
  • Debilitation
  • Hemorrhage from mucous surface
  • Weight sensation in head
  • Weight sensation in eyes
  • Weight sensation in eyelids
  • Weight sensation before ears
  • Weight sensation in stomach
  • Putrid condition of affections
  • Burning sensation
  • Venous stasis
  • Bluish skin
  • Cold limbs
  • Aversion to darkness
  • Fear of ghosts
  • Sudden loss of memory
  • Headaches from over-indulgence
  • Sore hair
  • Hair falls out easily
  • Itchy scalp when warm in bed
  • Heavy feeling on head
  • Constricted head
  • Vertigo with nausea
  • Vertigo with tinnitus
  • Pimples on forehead
  • Pimples on face
  • Puffy face
  • Cyanotic face
  • Pale face
  • Cold sweat
  • Mottled cheeks
  • Red nose
  • Vision of black floating spots
  • Asthenopia
  • Burning in eyes
  • Muscle pain in eyes
  • Otorrhea
  • Dry ears
  • Malformation of cerumen
  • Exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus
  • Epistaxis
  • Pale face with epistaxis
  • Bleeding after straining
  • Scabby nose tip
  • Itching around nostrils
  • Varicose veins on nose
  • Eruption in corner of alae nasi
  • Coryza with cough
  • Ineffectual efforts to sneeze
  • Tongue coated white
  • Tongue coated yellow-brown
  • Aphthae in mouth
  • Sensitive teeth
  • Retracted gums
  • Bleeding gums easily
  • Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth
  • Pyorrhea
  • Eructations
  • Heaviness in stomach
  • Fullness in stomach
  • Sleepiness
  • Tense stomach from flatulence
  • Pain from flatulence
  • Worse stomach pain lying down
  • Eructations after eating
  • Eructations after drinking
  • Temporary relief from belching
  • Rancid eructations
  • Sour eructations
  • Putrid eructations
  • Waterbrash
  • Asthmatic breathing from flatulence
  • Nausea in the morning
  • Burning in stomach extending to back
  • Burning in stomach extending to spine
  • Contractive pain extending to chest
  • Distention of abdomen
  • Faint gone feeling in stomach
  • Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double
  • Distress half-hour after eating
  • Sensitiveness of epigastric region
  • Slow digestion
  • Food putrefies before it digests
  • Gastralgia of nursing women
  • Excessive flatulence
  • Sour belching
  • Rancid belching
  • Aversion to milk
  • Aversion to meat
  • Aversion to fat things
  • Simple food distresses
  • Epigastric region very sensitive
  • Pain in abdomen as from lifting a weight
  • Colic from riding in a carriage
  • Excessive discharge of fetid flatus
  • Cannot bear tight clothing around waist
  • Cannot bear tight clothing around abdomen
  • Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulae
  • Greatly distended abdomen
  • Better from passing wind
  • Flatulent colic
  • Pain in liver
  • Flatus hot
  • Flatus moist
  • Flatus offensive
  • Itching in rectum
  • Gnawing in rectum
  • Burning in rectum
  • Acrid moisture from rectum
  • Corrosive moisture from rectum
  • Musty moisture exudes
  • Glutinous moisture exudes
  • Soreness of perineum
  • Itching moisture of perineum at night
  • Discharge of blood from rectum
  • Burning at anus
  • Painful diarrhea of old people
  • Frequent involuntary stools
  • Cadaverous-smelling stools
  • Burning after stool
  • White hemorrhoids
  • Excoriation of anus
  • Bluish piles
  • Burning piles
  • Pain after stool
  • Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool
  • Itching at thigh near scrotum
  • Moisture at thigh near scrotum
  • Premature menses
  • Copious menses
  • Pale blood during menses
  • Swollen vulva
  • Aphthae on vulva
  • Varices on pudenda
  • Leucorrhea before menses
  • Thick leucorrhea
  • Greenish leucorrhea
  • Milky leucorrhea
  • Excoriating leucorrhea
  • Burning in hands during menstruation
  • Burning in soles during menstruation
  • Cough with itching in larynx
  • Spasmodic cough with gagging
  • Spasmodic cough with vomiting of mucus
  • Whooping cough
  • Deep rough voice
  • Failing voice on slight exertion
  • Hoarseness
  • Evening oppression of breathing
  • Sore chest
  • Raw chest
  • Wheezing in chest
  • Rattling of mucus in chest
  • Spells of long coughing attacks
  • Cough with burning in chest
  • Worse cough in evening
  • Worse cough in open air
  • Worse cough after eating
  • Worse cough after talking
  • Spasmodic cough
  • Bluish face from cough
  • Offensive expectoration
  • Neglected pneumonia
  • Cold breath
  • Hemorrhage from lungs
  • Asthma in aged with blue skin
  • Heavy extremities
  • Stiff extremities
  • Paralyzed feeling in extremities
  • Limbs go to sleep
  • Want of muscular energy
  • Weak joints
  • Pain in shins
  • Cramp in soles
  • Numb feet
  • Sweaty feet
  • Cold from knees down
  • Red toes
  • Swollen toes
  • Burning pain in bones
  • Burning pain in limbs
  • Coldness with thirst
  • Chill begins in forearm
  • Burning in various places
  • Perspiration on eating
  • Hectic fever
  • Exhausting sweats
  • Blue skin
  • Cold skin
  • Ecchymosed skin
  • Marbled skin
  • Venous over distension
  • Itching skin
  • Worse itching in evening
  • Worse itching when warm in bed
  • Moist skin
  • Hot perspiration
  • Senile gangrene beginning in toes
  • Bed sores
  • Skin bleeds easily
  • Falling out of hair
  • Weakened condition
  • Indolent ulcers
  • Burning pain in ulcers
  • Ichorous discharge
  • Offensive discharge
  • Tendency to gangrene of the margins
  • Purpura
  • Varicose ulcers
  • Worse in evening
  • Worse at night
  • Worse in open air
  • Worse from cold
  • Worse from fat food
  • Worse from butter
  • Worse from coffee
  • Worse from milk
  • Worse in warm damp weather
  • Worse from wine
  • Better from eructation
  • Better from fanning

Allen's Keynotes

  • bad effects of exhausting diseases, whether in young or old
  • cachetic persons whose vitality has become weakened or exhausted
  • persons who have never fully recovered from the exhausting effects of some previous illness
  • asthma dates from measles or pertusis of childhood
  • indigestion from a drunken debauch
  • bad effects of a long ago injury
  • has never recovered from effects of typhoid
  • ailments: from quinine, especially suppressed intermittents; abuse of mercury, salt, salt meats; spoiled fish, meats, or fats; from getting overheated
  • bad effects from loss of vital fluids
  • haemorrhage from any broken down condition of mucous membranes
  • weakness of memory and slowness of thought
  • epistaxis in daily attacks, for weeks, worse from exertion
  • face pale before as well as after a haemorrhage
  • haemorrhage from any mucous outlet; in systems broken down, debilitated
  • blood oozes from weakened tissues; vital force exhausted
  • hippocratic face; very pale, grayish-yellow, greenish, cold with cold sweat; after haemorrhage
  • looseness of teeth, easily-bleeding gums
  • patients crave things that make them sick
  • old topers crave whiskey or brandy
  • want clothing loose around abdomen
  • weak digestion; simplest food disagrees
  • excessive accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines worse lying down
  • after eating or drinking, sensation as if stomach would burst
  • effects of a debauch, late suppers, rich food
  • eructations give temporary relief
  • diseases of the venous system predominate
  • symptoms of imperfect oxidation
  • deficient capillary circulation causes blueness of skin and coldness of extremities
  • vital powers nearly exhausted; desire to be constantly fanned
  • hoarseness: worse evenings; damp evening air; warm, wet weather; fails when exerted
  • awakens often from cold limbs and suffers from cold knees at night
  • frequent, involuntary, cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning
  • soft stool voided with difficulty
  • in the last stages of disease, with copious cold sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, voice lost, this remedy may save a life
  • worse from butter, pork, fat food; abuse of quinine, bark and mercury; from singing or reading aloud; in warm, damp weather
  • better from eructation; being fanned

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