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Carboneum sulphuratum (Carbn‑s.)

Carboneum sulphuratum (Carbn‑s.) appears in 270 rubrics in the repertory. Of these, 14 are single-remedy rubrics in which only this remedy is listed, and 16 are small rubrics with no more than two other remedies. The emphasis lies on delusions, cheerfulness, indifference, and occupation with the nearest surroundings; in total numbers, delusions, anxiety, and the rubrics on children lead. The picture is of a person whose mood shifts abruptly and whose perception is clouded, yet who is close to the body.

Alternation and tipping

The feelings replace one another without anything accounting for it. Indifference alternates with anger, laughing with loquacity, dementia with excitement. Cheerfulness is followed by sadness, mirth by indifference. Stupefaction is recorded (rubric "Stupefaction, dullness – whiskey, as from"), and the carbon gas appears in the rubric on apparent death.

Cheerfulness from the body

Four single-remedy rubrics link cheerfulness with the passing of flatus, also specifically in the morning. Here the mood follows the bowel. Similarly close to the body is the despair triggered by itching of the skin.

Splendor, abyss, and nearness

The delusions span a wide arc. The person speaks of the emperor, sees magnificent, splendid carriages, believes to have committed a theft, and fears falling into a hole or an abyss. The falling has its counterpart in the anxiety when walking in the dark. At the same time the person clings to the things that immediately surround him: several rubrics describe being occupied with the objects nearby, and a small rubric names laziness when he has no fun. Strange in its place is the rubric on the desire to bite the father or persons close to him.

Summary

In the repertory, Carboneum sulphuratum shows a person in a state of suspension between dullness and exuberance. His mood is bound less to thoughts than to bodily processes, and his imaginings range from the imperial to the abyss.

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