SBL Antimonium Tartaricum
Common Name: Tartar Emetic, Tartrate of Antimony and Potash
Causes & Symptoms for SBL Antimonium Tartaricum
- Convulsive twitching, Convulsions, Great heaviness in all the limbs and great debility is relieved by Anti.monium Tart
- Inflammation of internal organs, Gastric and bilious complaints, Constant nausea -nausea felt in chest s relieved by Antimonium Tart.
- The Antimonium Tart child wants to be carried and cries if any one touches it. Peevishness, whining, and crying.
- The Antimonium Tart patient's tongue has a thick, white, pasty coat with red papillae showing through.
- Intense nausea and vomiting with great effort, with perspiration on forehead, Fullness and sensation of stones in abdomen, especially when sitting bent forward is well relieved by Antimonium Tart.
- All the complaints of Antimonium Tart patients worse from Warm drink, also lying in bed especially becoming warm there.There is also worse from cold and damp.
- Antimonium Tart has worse on sitting down, when seated, and on rising from a seat, worse sitting bent forward, better sitting erect, worse Lying on side affected. Worse Motion, on every effort to move.
Causation
Effects of anger (cough) or vexation.
Mind
- Bad humor, Excessively peevish and quarrelsome. Discouragement and despair, Lethargy.
- Child will not allow itself to be touched.
Head
- Dullness, confusion, and bewilderment in the head, which is, as it were, benumbed, with inclination to sleep.
- Headache, with palpitation of the heart, and vertigo.
- Trembling with the head and hands, with great debility, worse when lying and getting warm in bed, better when sitting up erect and in the cold.
Eyes
- Eyes fatigued, requiring sleep, and to be firmly closed. Aching of the eyes.
- Confused sight, with sparkling before the eyes, especially on rising from a seat.
Ears
Nose
- Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, ulcerated nostrils, shivering, loss of smell, and of taste.
- Nostrils widely dilated.
Face
- Face pale, sunken. Convulsive jerking of the muscles of the face.
Teeth
- Odontalgia, with very violent pain in morning. Rheumatic toothache of intermittent type. Scurvy.
Mouth
- Copious accumulation of saliva in the mouth. Tongue moist, clean, or loaded with a brown coating.
Appetite
- Fatty taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth.
- Craving for acid things, or for raw fruits (apples), for cold drinks or thirstlessness. Aversion to all food, especially milk.
Stomach
- Empty risings. Constant nausea, sometimes with inclination to vomit, anguish, pressure in the scrobiculus, and headache, mitigated by expulsion of flatus, upwards and downwards.
- Vomiting of mucus, with mucous diarrhoea. Pain in the stomach, as if it were overloaded.
Abdomen
- Pains in the abdomen, with great moral and physical agitation, and dislike to all kinds of labor.
- Spasmodic colic in the abdomen, with violent contraction of the eyelids, and irresistible inclination to sleep.
- Incisive pains in the abdomen, as if the intestines were being cut. Pulsations in the abdomen.
Stool and Anus
- Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea. Slimy diarrhoea, or yellow, bright brown, or else watery, often preceded by gripings and movements in the abdomen.
- Violent burning tickling, extending from the rectum into the glans penis.
Urinary Organs
- Very profuse and distressing emission of urine, with tension in the perineum, burning sensation in the urethra, and scanty stream, which is sanguineous towards the end of the emission, with violent pains in the bladder.
- Nocturnal calls to urinate, with burning thirst and scanty emission. Involuntary emission of urine.
Male Sexual Organs
- Excitation of sexual system. Pain in testicles after checked gonorrhea.
Female Sexual Organs
- Severe bearing-down in vagina. Eruption of pimples on the genital organs.
Respiratory Organs
- Catarrh, with irritation, which excites coughing, copious accumulation of mucus, and rattling of mucus in the chest. Hoarseness.
- Shortness of breathing from suppressed expectoration.
- Cough, with heat and moisture of the hands, and perspiration on the head, chiefly on the forehead. Cough, with vomiting of food, after a meal.
Chest
- Shortness of breath, Difficult respiration. Rattling of mucus in the chest when breathing.
- Burning sensation in the chest which ascends to the throat.
- Inflammation of the lungs. Miliary eruption on the chest.
Neck and Back
- Weakness of the muscles of the neck, which prevents the head from being held up. Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck.
- Violent pain in the sacra-lumbar region, slightest effort to move causes retching and cold, clammy sweat.
- Pain in sacrum with sensation of lameness.
Limbs
- Heaviness in limbs followed by leprous eruption. Limbs over-fatigued, a sensation coming from back.
Upper Limbs
- Cracking in the joints of the shoulder, with tearing in the arms, extending into the hands. Excessive heaviness of the arms.
- Jerking of the muscles in the arms and hands. Miliary eruption on the arms.
- Itching pimples on the arms and wrists.
Lower Limbs
- Heaviness and joint pains in the hips and legs. Painful weakness in the knee-joint, in bed, in the morning.
- Numbness of the feet, on sitting down.
Skin
- Itching in the skin, Itching pimples, and miliary eruption, Eruptions like scabies.
- Eruption of pustules, like varioloids, as large as peas, filled with pus, with red areola (like small-pox), and which afterwards form a crust, and leave a scar.
- Pustular eruption on different portions of the body, leaving a bluish-red mark.
Generalities
- Inflammation of internal organs. Gastric and bilious complaints relieved by Antimonium Tart.
- Jerking of the muscles, Convulsive jerks and spasm. Trembling of the limbs, long-continued of the head and hands after every exertion or motion.
- Aggravation of the symptoms when sitting down, or else when seated, and when rising from the seat.
- Great debility, weakness, and excessive lassitude, feels best when sitting still doing nothing.
- Excessive tenderness of the whole body.
Side effects of SBL Antimonium Tartaricum
There are no such side effects. But every medicine should be taken following the rules as given.
It is safe to take the medicine even if you are on other mode of medication like allopathy medicines, ayurvedic etc.
Homeopathic medicines never interfere with the action of other medicines.
Precautions while taking SBL Antimonium Tartaricum
Always keep a gap of 15 minutes before or after meals when you take medicine.
If pregnant or breastfeeding, ask a homeopathic practitioner before use.
Avoid eating tobacco or drinking alcohol during the course of medication.
