Carboneum oxygenisatum
Alias: Carbn-o.
Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica, William Boericke
Carbonous Oxide
Herpes zoster, pemphigus, and trismus are produced by this drug. Coldness, sleepiness, loss of consciousness are marked. Vertigo.
Head.--Cerebral congestion; hallucination of vision, hearing and touch. Inclination to turn in a circle. Jaws firmly clenched. Trismus. Heaviness of head. Sticking pain in temples. Roaring ears.
Eyes.--Ocular paralysis, hemianopsias, disturbed pupillary reaction, optic neuritis and atrophy, subconjunctival and retinal haemorrhages.
Skin.--Anaesthesia; vesication along course of nerves; herpes zoster; pemphigus, with large and small vesicles. Hand icy cold.
Sleep.--Deep. Prolonged; sleepiness for several days.
Dose.--First attenuation.
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke
Carbonous Oxide. CO. Solution in water.
Clinical.─Cramps. Headache. Herpes zoster. Paralysis. Pemphigus. Sciatica. Trismus.
Characteristics.─The effects of Carb. ox. have been noted in persons poisoned by the gas. It produces a state like intoxication. The person is confused, stupid. There is loss of consciousness. Anaesthesia, but the slightest touch with a hot iron recalls sensibility. Convulsions and cramps. Great sleepiness lasting for several days; interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes. Great coldness of surface, hands icy cold. Marked > of symptoms, especially of chest, in open air.
Relations.─Compare: Carb. hydro.
SYMPTOMS.
1. Mind.─Depressed: stupid; apathetic.─Anxiety, with desire for air but too paralysed to seek it.
2. Head.─Vertigo; inclination to turn in a circle.─Headache, violent, persistent, with throbbing in temporal arteries.─Frontal headache which extends over the whole head, but chiefly felt in forehead, which seems pushed out.─Weight; throbbing; compression; sticking headache.
3. Eyes.─Eyes protrude; sight dim with vertigo, and fluttering and flickering before sight.
4. Ears.─Roaring in ears.
6. Face.─Trismus; jaws firmly clenched.
8. Mouth.─Paralysis of tongue.
11. Stomach.─Stomach so irritable that everything eaten was immediately vomited.
13. Stool.─Involuntary evacuations.
14. Urinary Organs.─Paralysis of bladder.─Urine contains sugar.
17. Respiratory Organs.─Rattling of mucus in air-passages.─Bloody mucus raised.─Expired air feels cool to back of observer's hand.─Breathing stertorous, slow.─Sense of suffocation.
19. Heart.─Intolerable pain in region of heart.─Violent palpitation.
20. Back.─Burning pain at right scapula.
23. Lower Limbs.─Shooting pains in r. natis and down sciatic nerve to foot, not < by pressure or movement.
25. Skin.─Whole skin covered with large and small vesicles of pemphigus.─Purple maculation of skin.─Herpes zoster l. side of face along branches of trigeminus.
26. Sleep.─Great sleepiness for several days.─Never slept so long before.─Sleep deep, prolonged, interrupted by cramps in cheeks and toes.