About
Carbolic Acid is a powerful homeopathic remedy prepared from phenol. It is primarily used for conditions involving profound exhaustion, septic states, and severe pain. It is a key remedy for collapse, food poisoning, and burns.
Keynotes
Sudden, profound prostration and collapse. All discharges are horribly offensive. Burning pains throughout. Everything smells and tastes like carbolic acid. Ailments from foul odors.
Constitution
Patients who are profoundly exhausted, collapsed, or in septic states. Often used in acute, critical conditions rather than a chronic constitutional type.
🤒Symptoms Profile
● General Symptoms
Extreme prostration, sudden collapse, burning pains, offensive discharges, nausea from smell of food, septicemia, gangrenous conditions, foul ulcers, burns
● Mental Symptoms
Great indifference, apathy, mental torpor, confusion, forgetful, feels as if time passes too slowly, suicidal thoughts with disgust for life
● Physical Symptoms
Burning pains in stomach, esophagus, and intestines. Vomiting and diarrhea with extreme weakness. Foul, dark, bloody discharges. Ulcers with putrid smell. Skin burns and blisters. Pain in nape of neck.
Uses
Septic states, food poisoning (especially from tainted meat), burns, gangrene, ulceration with foul discharge, hay fever, influenza with great weakness, collapse
Modalities
Worse: From smell of food, from motion, from cold. Better: From warmth, from rest.
💊Dosage Information
Available Potencies
6C, 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M
Recommended Dosage
Lower potencies (6C-30C) for acute conditions like food poisoning. Higher potencies (200C and above) for chronic septic states. Use infrequently.
🔗Relationships & Affinities
🫀 Organ Affinity
Gastrointestinal tract, Nervous system, Skin, Mucous membranes, Blood (sepsis)
🤝 Complementary
Arsenicum album, Pyrogenium, Lachesis
🛡️ Antidotes
Camphora, Hepar sulphuris calcareum
⚠️Important Cautions
Not for routine use in low potency without clear indication. A profound remedy for serious conditions. Should be prescribed by an experienced homeopath.
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