Scientific Name: Antimony Trisulphide
Source: Mineral
Miasm: Psora and Sycosis
Thermal State: Chilly (Cannot bear cold bathing)
Abbreviation: Ant. crud.
KEYNOTE SYMPTOMS (Boericke + Allen Combined)
"Thick white coating on the tongue like snow – the most guiding keynote. Irritable, peevish disposition, especially in children. Disordered digestion, skin eruptions, and worse from cold bathing."
- "The Irritable Remedy with Thick White Coating on Tongue"
- Best for digestive troubles, skin affections, and irritability, especially in children and obese persons
CLINICAL INDICATIONS
Gastrointestinal:
- Indigestion from overeating or incompatible food
- Thick white-coated tongue
- Belching, nausea, vomiting
- Diarrhoea alternate with constipation
- Heaviness, fullness, flatulence, especially after meals
- Aversion to touch of the abdomen
- Craving: Pickles, acids
Mind:
- Irritability, cannot bear to be looked at or touched
- Sentimental, easily offended
- Children: Cry when touched, want to be carried but dislike being looked at
- Sulky, dissatisfied without cause
Children’s Complaints:
- Cranky, cross, and irritable infants
- Teething troubles with diarrhea and white tongue
- Aversion to being looked at or touched
Skin:
- Eczema, warts, callosities (thick, hard skin)
- Honey-colored crusts, especially on scalp or face
- Corn on soles, thickened nails
- Itching worse from heat
- Cracks in finger tips and soles
Joints & Rheumatism:
- Rheumatic pains with cracking in joints
- Pains < cold bathing, cold drinks
- Worse from overeating or suppressed eruptions
TONGUE SYMPTOM:
- Thick, milky white coating
- Cracked, sometimes sore
- Keynote in digestive or eruptive complaints
MODALITIES
|
Worse From |
Better From |
|
Cold bathing, cold drinks |
Rest, warm room |
|
Overeating, sour things, acids |
Warm food, dry weather |
|
Touch, being looked at |
Left alone, lying down |
|
Heat of sun, heat in general |
Gentle motion |
CONSTITUTIONAL TYPE
- Obese, flabby, pale children or adults
- Tendency to gout, indigestion, and skin eruptions
- Sensitive to cold bathing and touch
- Excessively irritable
POTENCY & DOSE
- 6C, 30C for acute digestive and skin issues
- 200C or higher in chronic skin eruptions, corns, or warts
- Repetition should be based on sensitivity and constitution
COMPARE WITH:
|
Remedy |
Comparison Notes |
|
Antimonium tart. |
More for chest complaints and rattling mucus |
|
Nux vomica |
Also irritable, but more impatient and oversensitive |
|
Chamomilla |
Cranky children, one cheek red, other pale |
|
Sulphur |
Hot patient, dirty appearance, burning in eruptions |
|
Hepar sulph. |
Suppurative skin lesions, extreme sensitivity to cold |
MEMORY AID –
"ANTIMONY IS RUDE" (CRUD)
- A – Angry, irritable child
- N – Nausea, indigestion, coated tongue
- T – Thick white tongue
- I – Intolerant to cold bathing
- M – Mind: Pevish, sentimental, oversensitive
- O – Overeating causes complaints
- N – Nails and skin thickened
- I – Itching skin eruptions
- U – Uncooked food craving
- M – Mucous membrane affections, GI
REMARKABLE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Child is restless, yet hates attention
- Cannot bear cold water on the body
- Warts, thick nails, and indigestion together
- Useful in gastric troubles of the aged or obese
- Cracks in corners of mouth, soles, and palms
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