Anitmonium crudum (Ant-c.) suits children who are irritable and easily angered when looked at or touched. It also suits soft, sentimental, poetic and romantic adults (who may also dislike being touched) when other symptoms also fall under the Ant-c. profile. The symptoms of both types tend to worsen with moonlight and overeating. The person is prone to obesity and overheats easily. Digestive issues are common and often accompany other health complaints. The tongue may have a thick, white coating – “like snow”. Splitting, cracking, thickening, and callouses occur with skin and nails.
Materia Medica of Anitmonium
- Mind – Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.
- Head – Bones of the skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of the tongue.
- Eyes – Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from the irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.
- Face – Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.
- Nose – Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.
- Stomach – Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed as if hanging down. Hiccough.
- Abdomen – Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
- Stools – Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at the navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
- Female – Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to the uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.
- Respiratory – Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; a wheezing cough. A cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. A suffocative cough; the child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with a nosebleed, and from the mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
- Fever – Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.
- Sleep – With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).
- Extremities – Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
- Skin – Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Military rash.
Uses/ Indications of Anitmonium
Mental Emotional Symptoms
- Sulky and easily angered children who don’t want to speak, be spoken to or touched.
- Soft, sentimental or romantic adults affected by moonlight and attracted to poetry.
- Dislike of being touched.
Abdominal and Digestive Complaints
- Health complaints accompanied by digestive disturbances.
- Thickly coated, white tongue – “like snow”.
- Large appetite with a tendency to overeat.
- Complaints from overeating.
- Craving for cucumbers, pickles, or acidic foods.
Skin and Nail Complaints
- Painful callouses or plantar warts.
- Thickened, cracked skin.
- Sticky discharges from skin – like honey.
- Thickened or split nails.
- Chickenpox or impetigo eruptions (when other symptoms also match the Ant-c. profile).
- Chorea
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Dyspepsia
- Eczema
- Fever
- Gum rash
- Piles
- Remittent fever
- Warts
- Whooping-cough
Dosage of Anitmonium
- Adult and children 2 years of age and older: Dissolve 5 pellets under the tongue 3 times a day until relieved or as directed by a doctor.
- Adults- Take 4 or 6 Tablets by mouth, three times daily or as suggested by the physician. Children 2 years and older- take 1/2 the adult dose.
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