• Antimonium Tartaricum resembles Antimonium Crudum but with its own distinct characteristics.

• Antimonium Tartaricum is primarily used in respiratory diseases.

• The characteristic rattling of mucus with minimal expectoration is present.

• Marked drowsiness, debility, and sweating are key indicators.

• Antimonium Tartaricum is suitable for gastric issues in drunkards and gouty individuals.

• Antimonium Tartaricum is useful in cases of cholera morbus.

• A sensation of coldness within blood vessels.

• Antimonium Tartaricum is applicable to Bilharziasis and its after-effects from injections.

• Antimonium Tartaricum is homeopathic to dysuria, strangury, hematuria, albuminuria, and catarrh of the bladder and urethra.

• Antimonium Tartaricum is helpful in burning rectum, bloody mucous stools, etc.

• Antimonium Tartaricum acts on parasites by enhancing oxidation of protective substances.

• There are chills, contractures, and muscular pains.

• Generalized trembling, profound prostration, and faintness.

• Antimonium Tartaricum is effective for lumbago.

• There are warts on the glans penis.

• The child resists being touched, often whining.

• The headache feels like a constricting band.

• Extreme prostration, even leading to collapse.

• Bluish discoloration of the face.

• The skin frequently exhibits pustular eruptions.

• Marked worsening from warmth, particularly in respiratory ailments.

• Aversion to being looked at or touched.

• A general sensation of being waterlogged.

• Pronounced irritability and peevishness, especially in children.

• Intense anxiety with restlessness and apprehension.

• A strong aversion to being touched or even looked at.

• The child whines and cries when approached.

• Despair and conviction of impending death.

• Impaired memory and difficulty concentrating.

• Dullness and marked drowsiness, verging on stupor.

• The patient is apathetic and indifferent to the surroundings.

• Fear of being alone.

• Mental confusion and disorientation.

• Ill-humor and moroseness.

• General unhappiness and discontent.

• The disposition is irritable, cross and contrary.

• The patient is easily offended.

• The headache is heavy, dull with nausea.

• Vertigo with a tendency to fall forward.

• Diminished vision.

• The pupils are either dilated or contracted.

• A burning sensation in the eyes.

• There are humming and ringing noises (tinnitus).

• Impaired hearing.

• Coryza with thick, yellow mucus discharge.

• There are nosebleeds (epistaxis).

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• Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, ulcerated nostrils, shivering, loss of smell, and of taste.

• Uncontrollable epistaxis with spongy gums.

• Nose dry.

• Nose pointed.

• Nostrils widely dilated.

• Nostrils black; alae flapping.

• The complexion is pale, bluish, or cyanotic.

• Cold sweat on the forehead.

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• Face pale and wan, or red and bloated, with anxious expression.

• Face pale, sunken.

• Dull, drawing pressure, in the zygomatic process.

• Convulsive jerking of the muscles of the face.

• Parched lips, with desquamation.

• Eruption around mouth.

• Cracked lips.

• Difficulty in swallowing (dysphagia).

• Hoarseness.

• A burning sensation in the throat.

• Accumulation of thick mucus.

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• Rattling, loose cough with difficult expectoration.

• Short, labored, and rapid breathing (dyspnea).

• Suffocation is threatened due to mucus accumulation.

• The chest feels full and oppressed.

• Bronchitis with characteristic rattling.

• Pneumonia with rattling in the chest.

• Asthma, rattling of mucus.

• The cough worsens when lying down.

• Wheezing respiration.

• The pulse is weak and irregular.

• Cyanosis.

• Oppression and constriction in the chest.

• Heaviness in the chest.

• The lungs feel overloaded with mucus.

• Difficult breathing is relieved by expectoration.

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• Nausea and vomiting, particularly after eating.

• Diarrhea with watery, offensive stools.

• Abdominal distension and pain.

• Colic.

• Gastric derangement in alcoholics.

• Burning in the rectum.

• There are bloody mucous stools.

• Aversion to food.

• Thirst for cold drinks.

• The tongue is coated white.

• Vomiting of mucus.

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• Dysuria (painful urination).

• Strangury (slow, painful discharge of urine).

• Hematuria (blood in urine).

• Albuminuria (albumin in urine).

• Catarrh of the bladder and urethra.

• Frequent urging to urinate.

• The urine is scanty.

• There are warts on the glans penis.

• The sexual desire is diminished.

• Impotence.

• Trembling of the limbs.

• Great weakness and prostration in the limbs.

• Coldness of the extremities.

• Lumbago (lower back pain).

• There are chills, contractures, and muscular pains.

• Stiffness in the joints.

• A heavy, aching feeling in limbs.

• There are cramps in calves.

• Restlessness in limbs.

• There are pustular eruptions, especially on the face and chest.

• Cold, clammy sweat.

• Bluish discoloration of the skin.

• Itching skin.

• The skin feels sensitive to touch.

• Drowsiness.

• Restless sleep.

• Sleeplessness.

• There are anxious dreams.

• There are nightmares.

• There are dreams of suffocation.

• The patient is in a position: Lying on right side.

• Warmth, lying down, damp weather, suppressed eruptions, anger, touch, night, exertion, milk.

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• Open air, expectoration, lying on the right side, sitting erect, cold applications.

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• Compare: Kali sulph; Ipecac; Apis (dyspnoea); Bryonia (pleurisy); Carbo veg (rattling of mucus); Hepar (croup); Lycopodium (pneumonia); Sulphur.

• Complementary: Hepar Sulphuris, Sulphur.

• Antidotes: Ipecac, Sepia, Pulsatilla, Laurocerasus.

• Antimonium Tartaricum is useful in conditions following vaccination.

• Acts profoundly on mucous membranes, especially of the respiratory tract.

• Acts on the skin, producing pustular eruptions.

• Marked by profound prostration.

• Marked by drowsiness.

• General relaxation of sphincters and muscles.

• Sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels.

• Heavy sensation in many parts, like head, occiput, coccyx, and limbs.

• Pulsations in all the blood-vessels.

• Inflammation of internal organs.

• Gastric and bilious complaints.

• Resembles Antimonium crudum but modalities differ.

• Hilarity during the day, but anxious and timid in the evening.

• Inquietude and agitation with palpitation and trembling.

• Anxious apprehension about the future, particularly in the evening.

• Pitiful whining before and during attacks.

• Bad humor; excessively peevish and quarrelsome.

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• Discouragement and despair.

• Lethargy; Dulness and bewilderment of head as if benumbed.

• Suicidal mania.

• Wild gaiety only during the day.

• Consequences of anger and vexation.

• Averse to being looked at.

• Cross, whining mood.

• Dulness, confusion, and bewilderment, as if benumbed, with inclination to sleep.

• Vertigo with sparkling before the eyes, and dizziness when walking.

• Dulness of all the senses.

• Headache, with palpitation and vertigo.

• Heaviness of the head, especially in the occiput.

• Semi-lateral headache.

• Pressive pains in the head, with compressive tension, as if the brain were contracted, often with dizziness, extending into the root of the nose, sometimes in the evening and at night.

• Headache with stupefaction and lethargy.

• Pressive headache > when exercising and washing the head.

• Pulsation in the right side of the forehead; < in the evening, sitting stooped, and from heat; > from sitting erect, and in the cold air.

• Drawing, tearing, and digging in the head.

• Stitches in the head.

• Lancinating pains, sometimes extending into the eyes, with necessity to shut them.

• Boring in the forehead.

• Semi-lateral throbbing in the forehead.

• Chronic trembling of the head.

• Trembling of head and hands (as in paralysis agitans).

• Trembling, especially when coughing, with an internal sensation of trembling, chattering of the teeth, and an irresistible somnolency; < in the evening, and from heat.

• Trembling with the head and hands, with great debility; < when lying and getting warm in bed, > when sitting up erect and in the cold.

• Eyes fatigued, requiring sleep, and to be firmly closed.

• Pain, as of a bruise in the eyeball, on touching it.

• Aching of the eyes.

• Shootings, burning sensation, and smarting in the internal canthi, with redness of the conjunctiva.

• Eyes confused, swimming in tears.

• Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark circles.

• Edges of the lids covered with mucus (in pneumonia).

• Rheumatic ophthalmia or from gonorrhea.

• Incipient amaurosis.

• Humming in the ears.

• Earache > cold washing.

• Copious accumulation of saliva in the mouth.

• Tongue moist, clean, or loaded with a brown coating.

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• Tongue: red, dry in middle.

• Tongue: red in streaks.

• Tongue: thick, white, pasty coat.

• Tongue: thick white fur.

• Aphonia.

• Altered taste.

• Fatty taste in the mouth.

• Insipidity of food.

• Salt taste in the mouth.

• Burning sensation which ascends to the throat.

• Catarrh, with irritation, which excites coughing, copious accumulation of mucus, and rattling of mucus in the chest.

• Hoarseness.

• Painful tenderness of the larynx when touched.

• Cough, excited by violent tickling in the trachea.

• A child coughs when angry.

• Paroxysms of coughing, with suffocating obstruction of respiration.

• Dyspnea, compelling one to sit up.

• Shortness of breathing from suppressed expectoration.

• Suffocating attacks with sensation of heat at the heart.

• Whooping-cough, preceded by the child crying, or after eating or drinking, or when getting warm in bed; after the attack somnolency.

• 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.

• Hollow cough, with rattling of mucus in the chest.

• Cough, with expectoration of mucus, sometimes at night only, chiefly after midnight.

• Velvety feeling in the chest.

• Frequent fits of obstructed respiration, especially in the evening or in the morning, in bed, almost to the extent of suffocation.

• Shortness of breath.

• Difficult respiration.

• Paralysis of the lungs.

• Anxious oppression, with a sensation of heat, which ascends to the heart.

• Rattling of mucus when breathing.

• Fitful pain, as from excoriation on the left side.

• Rheumatic pain on the left side.

• Inflammation of the lungs.

• Miliary eruption.

• Visible and anxious palpitation (also without anxiety), sometimes during an evacuation.

• Palpitation with loose stools.

• Heat about heart and warmth rising up from it.

• Sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels.

• Pulse: hard, quick, and small.

• Pulse: weak, quick, and trembling.

• Pulse: small, threadlike.

• Pulse: imperceptible.

• Twisting, digging, and blows in the region of the heart, at night, which do not cease till perspiration breaks out.

• Empty risings.

• Sobbing risings.

• Risings with taste of rotten eggs, at night.

• Regurgitation, of acrid, or salt, or else sourish fluid.

• Regurgitation after partaking of milk.

• Constant nausea, sometimes with inclination to vomit, anguish, pressure in the scrobiculus, and headache, mitigated by expulsion of flatus, upwards and downwards.

• Violent retching, with copious flow of saliva, sweat on the forehead, and lassitude in the legs, or else with diarrhea, and excessive debility.

• Much vomiting, with violent efforts, pain in the stomach and abdomen, trembling of the body, necessity to bend double, shiverings, and strong inclination to sleep.

• Vomiting of mucus, with mucous diarrhea.

• Acid vomiting, containing food.

• Vomiting of sour and bitter substances, especially at night.

• Excessive sensibility of the stomach; the smallest mouthful causes a painful sensation.

• Pain in the stomach, as if it were overloaded.

• Uneasiness and emptiness in the stomach.

• Pressure in the stomach and scrobiculus, especially after a meal.

• Violent throbbings and pulsations in the region of the stomach.

• Shootings in the pit of the stomach.

• Pains in the abdomen, with great moral and physical agitation, and dislike to all kinds of labor.

• Uneasiness in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, which compels the patient to lie down and to stretch himself.

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• Spasmodic colic, with violent contraction of the eyelids, and irresistible inclination to sleep.

• Incisive pains, as if the intestines were being cut.

• Pulsations in the abdomen.

• Abundant production of flatus, with grumbling, borborygmi, and pinchings.

• Constipation, alternating with diarrhea.

• Diarrhea in pneumonia, small-pox, and other eruptive diseases, especially if the eruption has been suppressed.

• Diarrhea and vomiting.

• Feces of the consistence of pap.

• Slimy diarrhea.

• Yellow diarrhea.

• Bright brown diarrhea.

• Watery diarrhea, often preceded by gripings and movements.

• Sanguineous feces.

• Involuntary evacuations.

• Palpitation of the heart during evacuation.

• Violent burning tickling, extending from the rectum into the glans penis.

• Lancinations in the rectum.

• Tenesmus during and after stool, frequent burning at the anus.

• 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.

• Red, fiery urine, which forms blood-red filaments after standing.

• Deep-brown, acrid, turbid urine.

• Pressure and tension on the bladder.

• Shootings in the urethra and lower part of the bladder.

• Excitation of sexual system.

• Pain in testicles after checked gonorrhea.

• Warts behind glans penis.

• Ulcers elsewhere with warts (sycosis).

• Pustules on genitals and thighs.

• Syphilis.

• Catamenia of watery blood.

• Severe bearing-down in vagina.

• Chronic metritis with feeling of weight tugging at coccyx.

• Eruption of pimples on the genital organs.

• Itching of pudenda.

• Os uteri dry, tender, undilatable, with distress, moaning, and restlessness with every pain.

• Weakness of the muscles of the neck, which prevents the head from being held up.

• Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck.

• Pain in the back and loins when seated, as from fatigue.

• Violent pain in the sacro-lumbar region; slightest effort to move causes retching and cold, clammy sweat.

• Pain in sacrum with sensation of lameness.

• Sensation as if a heavy load was hanging on end of coccyx, dragging downwards all the time.

• Rheumatic pain in the back.

• Great heaviness in all the limbs and great debility.

• Heaviness in limbs followed by leprous eruption.

• Limbs over-fatigued, a sensation coming from back.

• Jerking up of limbs during sleep with loose stools.

• Small ulcers on tips of fingers and toes, spreading, livid edges (leprosy).

• 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.

• Red spots on the hands, like fleabites.

• Trembling of the hands.

• Coldness of the hands.

• Icy coldness in the tips of the fingers, as if dead.

• Finger-ends dead, dry, and hard.

• Spots of a deep yellow on the fingers.

• Distortion of the fingers.

• Heaviness and rheumatic pains in the hips and legs.

• Painful weakness in the knee-joint, in bed, in the morning.

• Dropsy of the left knee-joint.

• Tension of the tendons of the ham, and of the instep, when walking.

• Cramp in the calf of the leg.

• Coldness of the feet.

• Numbness of the feet, on sitting down.

• Convulsive twitching.

• Convulsions.

• Itching.

• Itching pimples, and miliary eruption.

• Eruptions like scabies.

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• Itching round inveterate ulcers.

• Pustular eruption on different portions of the body, leaving a bluish-red mark.

• Urgent inclination to sleep during the day, with frequent stretching and yawning.

• Sensation as from insufficient sleep in the morning.

• Retarded sleep, and nocturnal sleeplessness.

• Light sleep, with many fantastic dreams.

• Much talking during sleep.

• Cries during sleep, with fixed eyes, and trembling limbs.

• Shocks and blows during sleep, which occasion jerking, sometimes of a single limb, at others of the whole body.

• Lying on the back while sleeping, with the left hand passed under the head.

• Aconitum (croup); Aethusa cynapium and Ipecacuanha (expression of nausea); Ammonium carbonicum; Arsenicum album (asthma, heart symptoms, gastric catarrh); Bryonia (pneumonia < left, Antimonium tartaricum < right,-chest and brain symptoms after retrocession of eruption - Bryonia: measles and scarlatina; Antimonium tartaricum: small-pox); Lachesis (dyspnea on waking); Lycopodium (catarrh of chest, flapping of nostrils. Antimonium tartaricum has nostrils dilated); Veratrum album (colic, vomiting, coldness, craving for acids - Antimonium tartaricum has more jerks, drowsiness, urging to urinate; Veratrum album more cold sweat and fainting); Opium (cough with drowsiness and yawning); Sanguinaria canadensis (pneumonia, face livid); Ipecacuanha (Antimonium tartaricum has more drowsiness and tendency of lungs to collapse); Thuja (effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and Silicea is not indicated. Antimonium tartaricum develops small-pox pustule; Thuja dries it up).

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• Phosphorus in hydrocephaloid, worn-out constitutions, laryngitis, pneumonia.

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• Baryta carbonica, Bryonia (dyspepsia), Camphora, Causticum (dyspepsia), Pulsatilla.

• Differs from Mercurius in producing a purely local action on the mouth, similar to its action on the skin. The action of Mercurius on the mouth is indirect.