Animal Charcoal
- Headache: as if a tornado in head; as if head had been blown to pieces; has to sit up at night and hold it together.
- Diseases of elderly persons with marked venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, and great debility.
- Circulation feeble, stagnated, and vital heat sinks to a minimum; cyanosis (Ant. t., Carbo v.).
- Glands: indurated, swollen, painful; in neck, axillae, groin, mammae; pains lancinating, cutting, burning (Con.).
- Benign suppurations change into ichorous or malignant conditions.
- Easily strained from lifting, even small weights; straining and over-lifting easily produce great debility; ankles turn when walking.
- Joints weak; easily sprained by slight exertion (Led.).
- Aversion to open, dry, cold air.
- After appearance of menses so weak she can hardly speak (Alum., Coc.); menses flow only in the morning.
- Hearing confused; cannot tell from what direction a sound comes.
- A stitching pain remains in chest after recovery from pleurisy (Ran. b.).
- Menstruation, leucorrhoea, diarrhoea are all exhausting (Ars. - are all offensive, Psor.).
Relations
- Complementary: Calc. phos.
- Similar: to, Bad., Brom., Carbo v., Phos., Sep., Sulph. Carbo animalis is often useful after bad effects from spoiled fish and decayed vegetables (Carbo v., Cepa).
Aggravation
- After shaving ( > after, Brom.); slightest touch, after midnight.
