ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM [Ant-t]

Tartar Emetic
-Tartrate of Antimony and Potash.

KEY NOTES:

Congestion and catarrh of respiratory tract.- Coarse rattling with wet sounding cough, but
scanty, difficult expectoration, unable to get it out. Suffocating. Cyanosis.

Irritable, peevish.

Overwhelming sleepiness.

A/F
- Anger, vexation.
-Vaccination
-Damp basement

MODALITIES
: < In evening 3 > Sitting erect 3
< Lying down at night 3 > Eructations 3
< From warmth 3 > Expectoration 3
< In damp cold weather > Vomiting 3
< Sour things and milk 2 > Lying on right side 2
< Morning 2 > Motion 2
< Sitting down 2 > Cold, open air 2
< When seated 2
< From rising from a seat 2
< Change of weather in spring 3

MENTAL GENERALS:
-Fear of being alone.

-Frightened at every trifle.

-Apathy or easily annoyed; wants to be let alone.

-Peevish; moaning.

-Despair of his recovery.

-Child continuously wishes to be carried erect, unwilling to be looked at, or touched.

-Clings to attendants.
-Melancholy, complains of numerous sufferings.

-Restlessness in children > being carried about.

PHYSICAL GENERALS:

-Adapted to persons of hydrogenoid constitution- torpid, phlegmatic persons.

It is suited to old people and children with respiratory affection.

-Ill effects of vaccination when remedies fail and Silicea is not indicated.

-All complaints are attended with irresistible to desire to sleep.

-Entire absence of thirst.

-Nausea, vomiting coldness and drowsiness.

-Excessive sweat

-Head-
Vertigo alternates with drowsiness, with dullness and confusion.

-Head hot and sweaty.

-Eyes-
Eyes are sunken with dark rings around them, the lips pale and shriveled.

-Face-
-Cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat.

-Mouth-Tongue-coated, pasty, thick while with reddened papillae and red edges, or red in
streaks.

-imprints of teeth on border after the tongue.

-G.I.T.-Craving for apples, acids, acid fruit, sour things, strong liquor.

-Nausea, retching and vomiting especially after food with deathly faintness and
prostration.

-Vomiting forcible, then exhaustion and sleep.

-Spasmodic colic, much flatus.

-Respiratory system-
Ant-t affects the mucous membrane especially of bronchi and lungs.

-Causing great accumulation of mucous with coarse rattling like the death rattle; thereby
respiration is impeded and heart's action becomes laboured, defective oxygenation in the
circulation of blood occurs.

-All these conditions cause cyanosis, depression of vital power.

-Great rattling of mucus when very little is expectorated.

-Chest seems full, yet less and less in raised.

-Rapid, short, difficult breathing, abdominal breathing, seems as if he would suffocate,

must sit up to breathe or cough.

Cough followed, by vomiting or sleep.

-Emphysema of the aged.

-Oedema and impending paralysis of lungs.

-Cough with pain chest and larynx < 3 a.m.

-Asphyxia neonatrum, child breathless and pale when born.

-Expectoration thick and white.

-Thirstlessness with all these bronchial troubles.

-C.V.S.-
-Palpitation with uncomfortable hot feeling.

-Pulse rapid weak and trembling.

-Skin-

-Pustular eruptions, leaving a bluish red mark.

-Warts.
POINTS TO BE REMEBERED:

-All complaints are attended with irresistible desire to sleep.

-Nausea, vomiting coldness, drowsiness, prostration, sweat, runs through the whole of
this remedy.

-Great accumulation of mucus, very little expectoration.

-Extraordinary craving of apple, pickles, sour things.

-Tongue thick white pasty, with reddened papillae and red edges and red in streaks.

-Complete absence of thirst with bronchial troubles.

-Pustular eruptions.