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Carbo animalis (Carb‑an.)

Carbo animalis (Carb‑an.) appears in 492 rubrics in the Repertory. Of these, 16 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 28 are small rubrics with at most two other remedies. The data are thin: most rubrics lie in Anxiety, Fear, Delusions, Sadness, Children and Weeping. The specific rubrics draw the picture of a person who is seized by anxiety at night and on closing the eyes, is suddenly dazed, and feels burned out and discouraged.

Anxiety and fear at night

The anxiety has a distinct time frame: it extends from midnight to 2 a.m. and appears at night with congestion. An anguish goes with a faint, sinking feeling. The fear concerns darkness and suffocation, each on closing the eyes, listed only for this remedy; added are fear of suffocation in the evening and fear that something will happen at night. The anxiety is ameliorated on rising from lying or sitting and appears after pollutions; fear after pollutions and emissions of semen is also listed. Closing the eyes aggravates, and falling asleep is difficult.

Dazedness and vertigo

The stupefaction appears suddenly, when walking, on motion of the head, when sitting at table and after stool. Confusion arises from motion of the head, and at the slightest motion of the head unconsciousness threatens. Fitting this are the feeling of being intoxicated, dullness after noon and a lack of mobility.

Discouragement and retrospect

The mind is marked by discouragement, by day and by night, and by the feeling of being burned out. Homesickness appears in the morning, sadness is ameliorated in the morning. Dwelling is on happy and good times of the past; buffoonery alternates with weeping, weeping arises while eating and at bad news. There is oversensitiveness to odors of dirty linen.

Delusions, speech and voice

There are two delusions: sounds come as if from another world, and the person is in a deserted city. Speech is affected or drawling, the voice aggravated after the menses, and at night there is aphonia. Whistling is cheerful and involuntary.

Summary

The picture of Carbo animalis remains brief because of the few single-remedy rubrics. It combines nocturnal anxiety and fear on closing the eyes with sudden dazedness, discouragement and the feeling of being burned out. A King-Pin symptom is not indicated in the data at hand; individual statements should be weighed with restraint given these data.

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