Carbo Vegetabilis Homeopathic remedies are prescribed on the principal that 'like cures like', in a tiny dilution - so the indications below are what a healthy person would feel if taking Carbo Vegetabilis. If your symptoms fit within the symptoms below, then Carbo Vegetabilis would be a good bet. The following are the strongest indications of Carbo Vegetabilis for its use in homeopathy. Entries on a white backgorund are from Boericke's Materia Medica, other entries are from a reversed Kent's repertory. Homeopathic remedies are not the same as herbal remedies. Please remember though, this homeopathy materia medica is provided for information only, with no guarantee of accuracy; it is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, nor as a claim for the effectiveness of Carbo Vegetabilis in treating any of the symptoms below. If symptoms persist, seek professional medical advice - minor symptoms can often be a sign of a more serious underlying condition. Homeopathic remedies are very dilute, and while the homeopathic remedy may be beneficial, the raw product may be harmful. To purchase Carbo Vegetabilis and other homeopathic remedies online, please click the button above. Disintegration and Imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy. The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints. Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis. Body becomes blue, icy-cold. Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless blood stream and sepsis and typhoidal state ensues. A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions; states of collapse in cholera, typhoid; these are some of the conditions offering special inducements to the action of Carbo Vegetabilis. The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open. This is a typical state for Carbo veg. The patient faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air. Hemorrhage from any mucous surface. Very debilitated. Patient seems to be too weak to hold out. Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness. Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; putrid (septic) condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation. General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold. BETTER, from eructation, From fanning, cold. WORSE, evening; night and open air; cold; from fat food, butter, Coffee, milk, warm damp weather; Wine. Relationships Antidotes: Spirits Nitre; Camph.; Ambra; Arsenic. Compare: Carboneum - Lamp black ( Spasms commencing in tongue, down trachea and extremities. Tingling sensation.) Lycop.; Ars.; China. Complementary: Kali-carb.; Dros. expectoration; greenish; expectoration; bloody, spitting of blood (see chest haemorrhage); brown; expectoration; morning; ; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; evening; ; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; evening; in bed; ; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; on closing eyes; ; Aversion to darkness mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; dull, sluggish; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; indifference, apathy, etc.; mind; insecure, uncertain, scared; anxiety; mind; delusions, imaginations, hallucinations, illusions; desire for open air; mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; indifference, apathy, etc.; to everything; Sudden loss of memory. Fear of ghosts mind; emotions, feelings, attitude, disposition; irritability; mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; difficulty concentrating; mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; confusion; mind; intellectual faculties; impaired thinking; confusion; forced to arouse himself; head; pain, headache; from suppressed perspiration; head; pain, headache; pressure; from pressure of hat; ; head; pain, headache; from warmth; summer; ; head; pain, headache; pressing (see bursting, pulling); back of head (occiput); ; head; pain, headache; warm room; head; pain, headache; back of head (occiput); ; head; pain, headache; back of head (occiput); pressure of hat; head; pain, headache; back of head (occiput); shaking head; ; head; pain, headache; sides; right; ; head; pain, headache; dull pain; back of head (occiput); ; head; pain, headache; pressing (see bursting, pulling); head; pain, headache; from certain movements; movement in general; head; coldness; from being heated; ; head; constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing); head; constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing); as if in love; head; constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing); pressure of hat; head; constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing); like wearing a skull cap; head; hair; falling; head; heaviness (see pain; pressing); head; heaviness (see pain; pressing); back of head (occiput); ; head; pain, headache; from emotions; from becoming heated; ; head; pain, headache; while lying down; ; head; congestion (see pulsation); head; constriction, tension (see also pulling, pressing); when heated; ; head; pain, headache; pressing (see bursting, pulling); temples; ; head; pain, headache; pressing (see bursting, pulling); top of head (vertex); ; head; pain, headache; tearing, rending; back of head (occiput); ; Hair feels sore, Falls off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed Pimples on forehead and face. Vertigo with nausea and tinnitus Head feels heavy, constricted Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight head; pain, headache; pulsating; Aches from any over-indulgence head; sensitive; head sensitive to cold air; while walking in cold air; ; head; skin and scalp; perspiration; forehead; cold; head; pain, headache; stunning; Burning in eyes Muscles pain. Vision of black floating spots Asthenopia eye; pain; burning, smarting, gnawing, biting; eye; tears; with running nose; Ears dry ear; stopped sensation; ear; noises in ear; roaring; ear; noises in ear; ringing; ear; discharges from ear; suppressed; ear; discharges from ear; following disease; ear; discharges from ear; after scarlet fever; ear; discharges from ear; Otorrhoea following exanthematous diseases Malformation of cerumen with exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus. hearing; impaired; after scarlet fever; ; hearing; impaired; nose; sneezing; frequent; nose; sneezing; nose; running or blocked nose (coryza); with inflammation larynx; nose; nose bleed; night; ; nose; coldness; nose; nose bleed; dark, black blood; nose; nose bleed; nose; catarrh; nose; dryness; inside; ; nose; running or blocked nose (coryza); nose; running or blocked nose (coryza); blocked; nose; sneezing; difficult to sneeze; Epistaxis in daily attacks, with pale face Eruption in corner of alae nasi Varicose veins on nose Ineffectual efforts to sneeze. Coryza with cough, especially in moist, warm weather Bleeding after straining, with pale face; tip of nose red and scabby, itching around nostrils face; skin; out-breaks on skin; acne; face; lips; chapped; face; skin; out-breaks on skin; acne; forehead; ; face; skin; out-breaks on skin; red; erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour); gangrenous; face; sunken; face; twitching; lips; upper lip; ; face; skin; out-breaks on skin; acne; chronic, especially nose and cheeks; ; Puffy, cyanotic Pale, hippocratic, cold with cold sweat; blue ( Cup.; Opium.) Mottled cheeks and red nose. face; skin; discoloration; bluish; face; skin; discoloration; sallow; face; skin; discoloration; pale; face; skin; discoloration; greenish (see iron deficiency anaemia (greenish-yellow discoloration)); face; pain; jerking; cheek bone; ; face; pain; jerking; cheek bones; ; face; pain; jerking; face; pain; pulling; jaws; ; face; lips; cracked lips; face; inflammation; parotid gland (gland in front and below ear lobe); ; face; appearance as if dead (see sunken); face; heat; during anxiety; ; face; coldness; face; pain; tearing; face; pain; tearing; cheek bone; ; face; perspiration; face; perspiration; cold; mouth; teeth; pain; pulling; mouth; teeth; pain; upper teeth; ; mouth; teeth; looseness; mouth; teeth; pain; tearing; Tongue coated white or yellow brown, Covered with aphthae Pyorrhoea. Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth Teeth very sensitive where chewing; gums retracted and bleed easily mouth; gums; teeth detached from gums; scurvy-like; mouth; gums; teeth detached from gums; and bleed easily; mouth; dryness; mouth; odour (halitosis, bad breath); offensive; mouth; discoloration; tongue; bluish-white; and bleed easily; mouth; pain; pressing; palate (roof of mouth); ; mouth; discoloration; tongue; black; mouth; cold breath; during chill; ; mouth; cold breath; mouth; sensation of coldness; tongue; ; mouth; bleeding; gums; when sucking them; ; mouth; gums; teeth detached from gums; mouth; taste; putrid; mouth; taste; bitter; mouth; pain; sore; gums; ; mouth; pain; palate (roof of mouth); ; mouth; bleeding; gums; ; mouth; bleeding; gums; easily; throat; voice; rough; throat; voice; lost; on physical exertion; ; throat; voice; lost; evening; ; throat; voice; lost; throat; catarrh; throat; irritation; larynx; ; throat; irritation; larynx; cold air; ; throat; irritation; larynx; recurrent; throat; irritation; trachea (wind pipe); ; throat; pain; sore; air passages; ; throat; roughness; air passage; ; throat; roughness; larynx; ; throat; voice; deep; throat; voice; hoarseness; evening; ; throat; voice; hoarseness; with running nose; throat; voice; hoarseness; painless; throat; voice; hoarseness; abdomen; pain; extending to other parts; to lower limbs; left; ; sour, rancid belching Aversion to milk, meat, and Fat things the simplest food distresses Epigastric region very sensitive. Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulae Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind Flatulent colic Pain in liver. Stool and Rectum. Flatus hot, moist, offensive Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum Soreness, itching, moisture of perineum at night Discharge of blood from rectum Burning at anus, burning varices ( Mur-ac.) Painful diarrhoea of old people Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests Sensitiveness of epigastric region abdomen; pain; extending to other parts; to lower limbs; ; abdomen; pain; extending to other parts; to leg; ; abdomen; pain; during the heat of fever; ; abdomen; noises from abdomen; rumbling; passing flatulence; abdomen; pain; spleen; during heat; ; abdomen; flatulence; behind lower ribs; ; abdomen; bloated; trapped wind; ; abdomen; bloated; after eating; ; abdomen; bloated; after dinner; ; Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations Water brash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence Nausea in the morning Burning in stomach, extending to back and along spine Contractive pain extending to chest, with distention of abdomen Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double Distress comes on a half-hour after eating Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools, followed by burning White hemorrhoids; excoriation of anus abdomen; stomach; burping, belching; after eating; ; abdomen; stomach; burping, belching; after rich food; ; abdomen; stomach; fullness; after eating; ; abdomen; stomach; indigestion; abdomen; stomach; nausea; morning; ; abdomen; stomach; retching; with cough; abdomen; stomach; tension; abdomen; stomach; vomiting; blood; abdomen; stomach; pain; burping, belching; Temporary relief from belching Eructations after eating and drinking Stomach; Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down abdomen; stomach; burping, belching; after eating butter; ; abdomen; stomach; burping, belching; BLUISH, burning piles, PAIN after stool. abdomen; sensation of fullness; abdomen; skin; ulcers; abdomen; tension; a musty, glutinous moisture exudes abdomen; bladder; urging to urinate (unhealthy desire); anxious; abdomen; kidneys; suppression of urine; abdomen; stomach; contraction; abdomen; stomach; disordered; abdomen; stomach; distended (swollen from inner pressure); burping, belching; abdomen; stomach; desires, cravings; salt things; abdomen; stomach; distended (swollen from inner pressure); after eating; ; abdomen; stomach; distended (swollen from inner pressure); rectum; skin and lining; fistula (additional hole); rectum; skin and lining; excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); must rub anus until raw; rectum; skin and lining; excoriated (as if grazed, chaffed); rectum; moisture; scratching; rectum; moisture; rectum; flatulence; offensive; rectum; flatulence; during diarrhoea; ; rectum; flatulence; rectum; dysentery; rectum; haemorrhoids; bluish; rectum; flatulence; stool; copious; stool; odour; like a dead body; stool; odour; offensive; stool; odour; putrid; urine; odour; offensive; urine; cloudy; urine; albuminous (white, thick); after alcohol abuse; ; genitals; female; vaginal discharge; greenish; genitals; female; period; frequent; ; genitals; female; period; offensive smell; genitals; female; period; offensive smell; strong; genitals; female; period; protracted; genitals; female; metrorrhagia (non-menstrual bleeding); passive; genitals; female; pain; sore, tenderness; Male; Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool Itching and moisture at thigh near scrotum. Female; Premature and too copious menses; pale blood Vulva swollen; aphthae; varies on pudenda Leucorrhoea before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating ( Kreos.) During menstruation, burning in hands and soles. respiration; wheezing; respiration; sighing; respiration; impeded, obstructed; from wind; ; respiration; difficult (dyspnea); from wind; ; respiration; difficult (dyspnea); wants to be fanned; respiration; difficult (dyspnea); burping, belching; respiration; difficult (dyspnea); respiration; accelerated; respiration; difficult (dyspnea); while lying down; Hemorrhage from lungs Breath cold; Must be fanned Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive expectoration, neglected pneumonia Cough, with burning in chest; worse in evening, in open air, after eating and talking Occasional spells of long coughing attacks Wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking; evening oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest Deep, rough voice, falling on slight exertion Whooping cough, especially in beginning Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging and vomiting of mucus Asthma in aged with blue skin. cough; whooping; cough; sensations in throat and air passages (either from coughing, or causing coughing); scraping; from larynx; ; cough; comes on suddenly; cough; night; before midnight; ; cough; evening; ; cough; loose; morning; ; cough; hoarse; cough; comes on suddenly; night; ; cough; violent; cough; suffocating; cough; intermittent; cough; racking; chest; pain; during a cough; ; chest; oppressed feeling; burping, belching; chest; oppressed feeling; chest; lungs; tuberculosis; last stage; chest; paralysis; heart; ; chest; inflammation; lungs; ; chest; pain; sore, bruised; from coughing; ; chest; pain; burning; chest; constriction, tension; chest; heart; palpitations; visible; chest; paralysis; lung; ; chest; anxiety; region of heart; ; chest; weakness; chest; weakness; morning on waking; ; chest; weakness; on waking; ; back; pain; tearing; neck; ; extremities, limbs; pain; pulling; extremities, limbs; pain; pulling; night; ; extremities, limbs; pain; pulling; upper limbs; night; ; extremities, limbs; pain; pulling; upper limbs; on the one lain on; ; extremities, limbs; pain; pulling; lower limbs; ; extremities, limbs; numbness (see tingling); extremities, limbs; pain; pulling; lower limbs; paralytic; extremities, limbs; pain; sore, bruised; extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; during fever; ; extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; forearm; ; extremities, limbs; numbness (see tingling); while lying down; on limbs; extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; wrist; ; extremities, limbs; skin; ulcers; lower limbs; black base; extremities, limbs; skin; ulcers; lower limbs; ; extremities, limbs; skin; out-break on skin; hand; fine; extremities, limbs; skin; chicken pox (see swelling); lower limbs; ; extremities, limbs; skin; chicken pox (see swelling); lower limbs; during pregnancy; ; extremities, limbs; skin; chicken pox (see swelling); leg; ; extremities, limbs; skin; discoloration; blue; extremities, limbs; skin; itching; lower limbs; ; extremities, limbs; skin; ulcers; lower limbs; bluish with red circle; extremities, limbs; skin; ulcers; lower limbs; burning; extremities, limbs; pain; tearing; fingers; ; extremities, limbs; perspiration; foot; ; extremities, limbs; skin; out-break on skin; hand; itching; extremities, limbs; perspiration; foot; cold; extremities, limbs; weakness; after least exertion; ; extremities, limbs; skin; ulcers; leg; ; extremities, limbs; skin; ulcers; lower limbs; mottled; extremities, limbs; skin; ulcers; lower limbs; offensive smelling; extremities, limbs; skin; out-break on skin; hand; ; extremities, limbs; heaviness; lower limbs; while walking; ; Pain in shins Cramp in soles; feet numb and sweaty Burning pain in bones and limbs. Cold from knees down Toes red, swollen extremities, limbs; coldness; extremities, limbs; coldness; upper limbs; hands; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; knee; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; knee; night; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; knee; during chill; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; leg; ; extremities, limbs; coldness; lower limbs; foot; icy cold; extremities, limbs; cramps; foot; sole; ; extremities, limbs; pulling up limbs; extremities, limbs; heaviness; lower limbs; ; Heavy, stiff; feel paralyzed; Limbs, go to sleep; want of muscular energy; joints weak sleep; dreams; frightful; sleep; dreams; vivid; sleep; sleepiness, tiredness; sleep; sleeplessness, insomnia; night; from before midnight; ; sleep; waking; from cold limbs; ; sleep; deep; chill; chill; chilliness (see also whole body; temperature); chill; when heated, overheated; ; chill; icy coldness of the body; chill; icy coldness of the body; the whole body, with cold breath; chill; periodic, recurring; annual chill; ; chill; sides, one-sided; ; chill; sides, one-sided; left; ; fever; continued fever; fever; continued fever; night; ; fever; continued fever; night; before midnight; ; fever; continued fever; dazed from fever; fever; external heat; desire to be fanned in place of thirst during the heat; Chill begins in forearm fever; yellow fever; Coldness, with thirst Burning in various places Perspiration on eating fever; yellow fever; third stage, haemorrhages, with great paleness of face, violent headache, great heaviness of limbs and trembling of the body; Hectic fever, exhausting sweats. perspiration; night; ; perspiration; cold; perspiration; morning; ; perspiration; with difficulty breathing; perspiration; while eating; ; perspiration; after eating; ; perspiration; odour; putrid; perspiration; profuse; skin; out-breaks on skin; rash (see granular); scabies; skin; abnormal growths; ulcers; discharges; greenish; skin; abnormal growths; ulcers; discharges; offensive; skin; abnormal growths; ulcers; mottled with red circle; skin; abnormal growths; ulcers; phagedenic (spreading, obstinate ulceration); skin; abnormal growths; ulcers; surrounded by pimples; skin; inflammation; skin erysipelas (inflamed from infection, deep red colour); gangrenous; skin; itching; skin; moisture; skin; out-breaks on skin; discharging, moist; skin; out-breaks on skin; discharging, moist; yellow; skin; abnormal growths; ulcers; burning; skin; abnormal growths; ulcers; black; skin; abnormal growths; ulcers; Blue, cold ecchymosed Marbled with venous over distension Itching; worse on evening, when warm in bed Moist skin; Hot perspiration; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily Falling out of hair, from a general weakened condition Indolent ulcers, burning pain Ichorous, offensive discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins Purpura Varicose ulcers, carbuncles ( Ars.; Anthrac.) skin; coldness; icy; skin; discoloration; bluish; injuries and accidents; poisoning; poisoning by quinine; injuries and accidents; poisoning; poisoning by mercury; generalities; pain; tearing; muscles; ; generalities; pain; tearing; internally; generalities; pain; sudden, sharp; downward; generalities; pain; pressing; internally; ; generalities; pain; pulling; generalities; pain; burning externally; generalities; pain; gnawing, biting; generalities; mucous secretions increased; generalities; pain; tearing; muscles; pressing in muscles; generalities; pulse; imperceptible; generalities; wet weather; generalities; swelling; glands; ; generalities; before sleep; generalities; scurvy; generalities; lack of reaction; generalities; pulse; weak; generalities; pulse; soft; generalities; pulse; small; generalities; after measles; ; generalities; lack of irritability; generalities; inflammation; indurated (hard from inflammation); generalities; evening; ; generalities; night; before midnight; ; generalities; desire for open air; generalities; blood vessels; blue discoloration (from lack of oxygen in blood); generalities; blood vessels; septicaemia (blood poisoning - chills, fever, must lie down, inflammed lungs, liver, kidneys and other organs); generalities; blood vessels; varicose veins; generalities; collapse; generalities; collapse; after diarrhoea; ; generalities; dehydration; generalities; eating and food; while eating; ; generalities; eating and food; butter; generalities; eating and food; fat; generalities; eating and food; pork; generalities; eating and food; rich; generalities; faintness, fainting; morning; on rising; ; generalities; faintness, fainting; on waking; ; generalities; haemorrhage; generalities; morning; ; Carbo Vegetabilis is available to buy through our online shop from WHP in USA, Boiron in USA, Boiron in Canada, Hylands in USA, Weleda in UK (not for export), Helios, Europe, by clicking the red 'View Purchase Options' button. Alternative names, keywords, and common mis-spellings Vegetable Charcoal, Carbo Veg, Charcoal, Carbo-v