About
Antimonium Crudum is a mineral remedy known for its action on the gastrointestinal tract, skin, and mucous membranes. It is indicated for conditions characterized by thick, white coatings on the tongue and a general state of irritability and discomfort.
Keynotes
Thick, white, creamy coating on the tongue; extreme irritability and ill-humor; aversion to being looked at or touched; symptoms worse from heat, bathing, and eating sour things.
Constitution
Children and infants who are very irritable, ill-humored, and difficult to please. Adults who are sensitive, easily angered, and have digestive complaints. Individuals with thick, white coatings on their tongue.
🤒Symptoms Profile
● General Symptoms
Thick white coating on tongue, nausea, vomiting, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation, skin eruptions with thick crusts, cracked skin, irritability, anger, sensitive to noise, worse from heat and bathing, better from cold applications
● Mental Symptoms
Irritable, cross, ill-humored, peevish, whines, cries, screams, sensitive to noise, aversion to being looked at or touched, obstinate, desires to be carried, sensitive to criticism, anger after eating.
● Physical Symptoms
Tongue coated white and thick like whitewash; nausea, vomiting of mucus and bile; indigestion, bloating, belching; diarrhea with watery, frothy stools; constipation with hard, dry stools; skin eruptions: acne, eczema, pustules, thick crusts, warts, corns, cracked skin, chilblains; sore throat with thick white exudate; cough with thick mucus; eye affections with thick, purulent discharge.
Uses
Indigestion with nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and constipation, gastric catarrh, heartburn, acne, eczema, warts, corns, cracked skin, chilblains, infantile colic, tonsillitis, bronchitis, whooping cough, eye affections with thick discharge.
Modalities
Worse: heat, bathing, washing, eating sour food, sour milk, warm room, noise, being looked at or touched. Better: cold applications, cold air, resting, eating mild food, after sleep.
💊Dosage Information
Available Potencies
6C, 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M
Recommended Dosage
Generally given in 6C or 30C potency for acute conditions, every few hours as needed. Higher potencies (200C and above) are used for deeper-seated chronic conditions, less frequently.
🔗Relationships & Affinities
🫀 Organ Affinity
Gastrointestinal tract, skin, mucous membranes, respiratory system, eyes.
🤝 Complementary
Sulphur, Pulsatilla, Calcarea carbonica.
🛡️ Antidotes
Camphora, Hepar Sulphuris, Phosphorus, Sulphur.
⚠️Important Cautions
Avoid if symptoms are aggravated by cold. Not to be used in cases of severe dehydration or electrolyte imbalance without medical supervision.
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