Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica
Carbo Animalis carb-an.
Region
NUTRITION. Glands. VEINLETS.
Worse
Slight causes: Small depletions. Sprains. Lifting. Cold taking. WHILE EATING. Dry, cold air. Shaving (Ox-ac. Rad.). Old age. After menses.
Better
Laying hand on part.
General
Old and feeble. Susceptible to colds, sprains or overaffected by small losses, etc . Venosity. Gummæ. Slow, hard painful processes; burning like fire (Ars.), or threatening malignancy. Sense of looseness. Foul acrid discharges. Hæmorrhage.
Particulars
Whining. Brain seems loose or as if crown would split, > eating. Pains down through (r) eyeball (Gel.). Can't locate sounds. Nose, hard, red, swelled; hot, brown stripe across, with itching pimples and desquamation. Goneness in stomach; while suckling. All food distresses stomach. Abdomen, distended after operations. Right ovary seems a heavy ball. Neglected bubo. Pelvic bones pain on sitting. Dark menses; in A.M. only; then great weakness. Sore, moist anus (Carb-v.). Indurated os (Sep.). Suffocation on closing eyes; nervous dyspnœa. Hard, painful nodes in breasts. Bluish skin; cheeks, lips, affected parts, etc. Coppery eruptions on forehead. Crawling, as of bugs. Hard, swelled glands. Surgings or hot flushes. Foul, exhausting sweats; at night; staining yellow.
Related
Complementary: Calc-p. Related: Calc-fl. Grap.