Carbo Veg Homeopathy Medicine Uses, Symptoms, and Doses

Carbo Veg, which is an abbreviation of the name Carbo Vegetabilis, is one of the widely used polycrest medicine in homeopathy. The preparation of this medicine is done by the trituration of vegetable charcoal. The homeopaths use this medicine during and after an exhausting disease that has made a patient very weak and also very frequently in gastric complaints, hemorrhage, chronic asthma, in bad effects of long ago injury, dental problems and in many other cases. It is also famous among homeopaths for its antiseptic and disinfectant properties. This medicine shows its action on the venous system.

Constitution of Carbo Veg

These are the patients who have become very weak due to some exhausting illness, loss of vital fluids, or excess intake of medicines. They have never completely recovered from previous illnesses, and the digestive system of these patients are weak. It is used for complaints of venous congestion in old age. The diseases of this medincine are mostly of insidious onset. These patients are weak, sluggish, and lazy. The face of this patient is puffy, bluish, and pale with cold sweat.

Mental Symptoms of Carbo Veg

The patients of this medicine feel mental sluggishness. They feel a slowness of thought, as if his mind is slow. It is difficult for patient to stay in any activity. The patient wants to lie down and rest all the time. There is a weakness in memory. There is anxiety in the evening. The patient is in despair with lachrymose humor. The person does not want to do anything; he has slowness in apprehension.

Sphere of Action of Carbo Veg

This medicine shows its major action on the venous side of circulation, capillaries, lungs, mucus membrane, and gastric disorders like gas in the upper abdomen, stomach aches and colic, and on other vital processes of the body.

The Carbo Veg has very effective use in gastric complaints, piles, exhaustion due to some serious illness, ulceration, lack of vitality and hemorrhages, ailments from abuse of quinine, from salt and meat, and several other conditions.

Use of Carbo Veg in Particular Organ Symptoms

Gastrointestinal Complaints

This remedy has a great effect on the gastric system. It works wonderfully in cases of weakness in digestion; even normal food causes excess flatulence, and there is only temporary relief from burping.

Meat, fat, and milk cause excessive flatulence. It is a very good medicine for abdominal bloating, which gets temporary relief from burping. Many times, there is a headache with bloating. It is also used to treat ulceration of the stomach.

The abdomen is distended even from normal food. The patient feels as if his stomach will burst. Excessive eructations after eating and drinking. Acidity in the stomach.

Carbo Veg patients have constipation. The patient feels difficulty passing stool; he has to strain and then gets burning pain in the anal region. Even after stooling, there is pain in the abdomen. Carbo Veg patients have piles (haemorrhoids) of deep blue color.

There is pain in the abdomen from overlifting and colic from traveling. These patients complain that their digestion has become weak due to an excessive intake of alcohol a long time ago. In diarrhea, there is burning after the stool.

Headache and Vertigo

When headache and abdominal bloating are found together, Varbo Veg is one of the first choice of homoeopaths. When there is vertigo, along with nausea and anxiety, Cabo Veg is used.

The headache of Carbo Veg comes from taking a cold. The patient feels better when there are free discharges from the nose, and when the discharge from the nose stops, congestion in the head increases.

Hair Fall

Carbo Veg is indicated in many cases of hair fall. This falling of hair is due to the after effect of some severe illness or prolonged intake of medicines, which make the body weak and lethargic and cause hairs to fall out.

In cases where lack of vitality is causing hair fall, Carbo Veg can deliver good results. In the patients of this medicine, the hair falls in handfuls.

Eye Complaints

Carbo Veg is indicated when there is pain in the eyes due to fine work. There is pain in the muscles of the eye when looking above. The eyelids of the Carbo Veg patient feel sticky together at night.

There is a sensation of heaviness in the eyes and trembling of eyelids. It is also indicated when the pupils of the patient do not react to light.

Ear Complaints

This is a very good medicine for otorrhoea. The discharge is bad-smelling and yellow in color.

Oral Cavity Complaints

Carbo Veg is used to stop bleeding from gums. If there is looseness of teeth and ulceration. When there is tooth pain while eating hot or cold, This medicine relieves the pain. There is rapid decay of teeth in Carbo Veg patients. They have blood oozing from their gums while brushing. In these patients, there is dryness of mouth without thirst.

It is useful when the tongue is covered with yellow-brown mucus because of gastric troubles. This medicine is also used in the treatment of bad smells from the mouth (halitosis).

Nose Complaints

In Carbo Veg patient, epistaxis occurs almost regularly for several weeks. This epistaxis gets aggravated when patient performs some tiring physical activity and his face becomes pale before as well as after the blood loss.

Face

The face of the patient is sickly-looking, very pale, and greenish-yellow in appearance. The lips are dry, puckered, blue, and sick. The patient’s face becomes cold with cold sweat after blood loss.

Throat Complaints

There is rawness in the larynx and throat. Hoarseness of voice, which is more prominent in the evening, and rawness increase when coughing. There is weakness in the larynx from talking. First, the complaints arise in the nose, then they settle in the larynx.

There is bloody mucus in the throat. There may be ulcerations in the throat.

These patients feel difficulty and pain in swallowing food on account of ulceration, and Carbo Veg gives great results in such conditions. Carbo veg patients feel pain of excoriation in their throat when coughing, swallowing, and blowing their nose.

Respiratory Complaints

If there is a feeling of weakness in the chest and suffocation, Carbo Veg can be used. The patient cannot lie down, as lying down increases suffocation. It is used for asthma treatment.

The patient likes to be fanned all the time as he gasps for air as if he is not getting enough air in. His breath is cold and offensive. A cough is followed by difficulty breathing (dyspnea). During coughing, the patient gags and expectorates mucus with difficulty.

The patient feels so weak that he cannot sit up to cough, which makes his complaints even more troublesome. In the beginning, the cough is dry, which later loosens up, and expectoration becomes easy.

Skin and Ulcers

In a Carbo Veg patient, there can be ulcers on the skin, mouth, and mucous membranes, and there are thin discharges from them. These ulcers may turn into gangrene if not treated properly. It is used for bed sores, which bleed easily.

Carbo veg works well when skin has a burning sensation, chillblains. It is a very good remedy for ulceration on the skin after an injury.

The skin is blue, cold, and ecchymosed. The skin is moist from a hot sweat. The discharges from ulcers are offensive. Carbo Veg works well in varicose ulcers and carbuncles.

If a part is injured and tends to ulcerate, Carbo Veg should be thought of first to prevent it from going into gangrene. It is a good remedy for vericose veins in the legs, where the blood stops in them. Every little inflammation has the tendency to become black or purple, and it sloughs.

Male Complaints

In these patients, there is a discharge of prostatic fluid during the stool. The patient feels pressure in the testes. There is itching with mosit skin on the thighs near the scrotum.

Males suffer from early emission in coition.

Female Complaints

This remedy is indicated for premature menses with pale blood. The vulva is swollen and has varices on the mons pubis. These females have white discharges (leucorrhoea) before menses, which is thick and causes irritation to the skin.

During menstruation, the patient feels burning in the soles and feet. There is a tendency toward miscarriage and inflammation of the mammary glands.

Neck and Back Complaints

Carbo Veg is indicated in cases of stiffness of the neck. There is swelling of the cervical glands and shooting and pulling-type pain in the back and nape of the neck. When armpits have pimples that excoriate the skin, oozing is marked.

Complaints of Extremities

Acute and burning pains in the shoulders. Carbo Veg has tension in the joints of the hands as if they are too short, and cramping of the muscles is very common. There is an itching eruption on the hands. Extremities of fingers become ulcerated, as ulceration is very common in Carbo Veg.

There are cramps in the calf muscles at night. Redness and swelling of the toes with extreme pain. Ulceration of extremities is common in Carbo Veg patients.

Aggravation and Amelioration of Symptoms of This Medicine

In Carbo Veg, there is aggravation of the patient’s symptoms from open air, from hot food, from cold, taking butter, milk, coffee, alcoholic drinks, and going to the warm, damp weather.

The patient feels amelioration of symptoms from eructation by cold application and by rapidly fanning from a close distance.

Dosage of Carbo Veg

The potencies that are commonly used are Carbo Veg 30C, Carbo Veg 200C, 1M, and 10M. But these higher potencies should only be taken after proper consultation with a homeopathic physician. These higher potencies are used for chronic cases. The repetition should be done as per the patient’s condition. Your physician can decide the proper repetition for your case to cure the illness.

Relationship With Other Remedies

The Carbo Veg is complementary to Kali Carb, Drosera, and China.

It antidotes medicines Camphor, Arsenic Album, Lachesis and Coffea.

This medicine is antidoted by Arsenic Album, Camphor, Ferrum Met, and Lachesis.

Note: Please consult a qualified homeopathic physician before taking any homeopathic medicine. This article should not be used as medical advice it is only for informational purposes. A qualified homeopathic physician can decide the proper indicated medicine for your case, its potency and proper dose.