Antimonium tartaricum
Great respiratory remedy for rattling of mucus in the chest with inability to expectorate. Drowsy, pale, cold sweat on the face. Nausea and vomiting with prostration.
Source
Prepared from antimony potassium tartrate (KSbC4H4O7), triturated and potentised.
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Keynote Symptoms
Great rattling of mucus in the chest that cannot be raised. Rapid, short, difficult breathing. Drowsiness and prostration with the complaint. Face pale or cyanotic, covered with cold sweat. Tongue coated thick white with reddened edges. Nausea relieved by vomiting.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Despairing, hopeless, does not want to be disturbed. Drowsy, yawning. Whining and moaning. Irritable, clingy child who wants to be carried but cries when touched.
General Symptoms
Great accumulation of mucus with deficient reaction. Prostration, drowsiness, cold sweat. Worse in warm rooms, from warmth. Better sitting erect, from eructation and expectoration. Thirstless or desires cold water, acids, and apples.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Band-like feeling around the head. Trembling of head. Headache as from a heavy load in forehead.
Face
Pale, sickly, sunken, cold, covered with cold sweat. Incessant quivering of chin and lower jaw. Cyanotic.
Mouth
Tongue coated white with red edges, or pasty thick white coating. Red and dry in streaks.
Stomach
Intense nausea with loathing of food. Desire for acids, cold water, apples. Vomiting in any position except lying on right side. Nausea and cold sweat.
Respiratory
Great rattling of mucus but very little is expectorated. Rapid short difficult breathing, seems as if patient would suffocate. Must sit up for relief. Cough and dyspnoea better lying on right side. Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus.
Chest
Lungs seem full of mucus. Velvet-like feeling in chest. Burning sensation ascending to throat. Feels as if smothering.
Skin
Pustular eruptions (smallpox-like). Variola. Itching, thickly-coated pustules leaving a bluish-red mark.
Fever / Chill / Perspiration
Cold clammy perspiration. Intense heat. Intermittent fever with vomiting and drowsiness.
Modalities
Better From
Sitting erect, expectoration, vomiting, lying on right side, eructation
Worse From
Warm room, warm weather, lying down, damp cold weather, evening, 4 AM, sour food, milk
Constitutional Type
Pale, sickly, prostrated individuals. Children and elderly who lack vital reaction. Old people with impending paralysis of the lungs.
Clinical Indications
Bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, emphysema, whooping cough, respiratory failure in elderly, chickenpox, nausea and vomiting
Comparative Materia Medica
Ipecacuanha also has nausea and rattling but has a cleaner tongue, more active nausea, and less prostration. Carbo vegetabilis has similar collapse but more desire for air and fanning. Hepar sulphuris has rattling cough but more sensitive to cold.
Safety Information
Asafoetida, China, Cocculus, Conium, Ipecacuanha, Laurocerasus, Opium, Pulsatilla, Rhus tox, Sepia.
Tartar emetic is highly toxic in crude doses, causing severe vomiting, diarrhea, cardiovascular collapse, and death. Use only potentised forms.
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