• Anthracite Coal dissolved in boiling Caustic Potash (ANTHRAKOKALI).

• A deep-acting remedy suited to chronic conditions.

• Particularly useful in chronic skin manifestations.

• It experiences intense thirst, often out of proportion to other symptoms.

• It experiences chronic rheumatism, affecting joints and muscles.

• It experiences bilious attacks with vomiting of bile.

• It experiences tympanic distention of abdomen.

• It experiences weakness and exhaustion, disproportionate to the apparent illness.

• Symptoms have a slow, insidious onset.

• Complaints are aggravated by exposure to cold, damp weather.

• It experiences a sense of heaviness or oppression in various parts of the body.

• It experiences a tendency to chronicity and relapse.

• It experiences general debility and lack of vitality.

• It experiences marked sensitivity to atmospheric changes.

• It experiences great prostration, even from slight exertion.

• It experiences burning pains in various parts of the body.

• Complaints often follow suppressed skin eruptions.

• It experiences glandular swellings, especially in the neck.

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• It experiences irritability and moroseness, easily angered by trifles.

• It experiences depressed mood with a tendency to brood over past events.

• It experiences anxiety about health, often with a fear of serious illness.

• It experiences restlessness, cannot remain still, must be constantly moving.

• It experiences difficulty concentrating and focusing attention.

• It experiences aversion to mental work, feels overwhelmed by intellectual tasks.

• It experiences forgetfulness, difficulty remembering names and dates.

• It experiences a sense of isolation and detachment from others.

• It experiences despondency and hopelessness about recovery.

• It experiences apprehension, especially in the evening.

• It experiences great sadness, with weeping.

• It experiences fear of death.

• It experiences indifference to loved ones.

• It experiences mental confusion.

• It experiences difficulty expressing thoughts clearly.

• It experiences lack of self-confidence.

• It feels easily offended.

• It experiences impatience.

• It experiences headache, often frontal or occipital, with pressure or fullness.

• Headaches are worsened by mental exertion or exposure to cold.

• It experiences vertigo, especially on rising or turning the head.

• The scalp is sensitive to touch.

• It experiences burning and itching of the eyes.

• It experiences photophobia, sensitivity to light.

• It experiences blurred vision.

• It experiences styes and other inflammatory conditions of the eyelids.

• It experiences tinnitus, ringing or buzzing in the ears.

• It experiences impaired hearing.

• It experiences chronic nasal catarrh with thick, yellow discharge.

• It experiences frequent sneezing.

• It experiences loss of smell.

• It experiences sore throat with a raw, burning sensation.

• It experiences hoarseness.

• It experiences difficulty swallowing.

• It experiences offensive breath.

• It experiences swollen tonsils.

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• It experiences chronic cough, dry and hacking, worse at night.

• It experiences difficulty breathing, especially on exertion.

• It experiences asthma-like symptoms.

• It experiences palpitations, especially after exertion or emotional upset.

• It experiences angina-like pains in the chest.

• It experiences feeling of constriction in the chest.

• It experiences shortness of breath.

• It experiences oppressed feeling in the chest.

• It experiences cough with expectoration of thick mucus.

• It experiences dry, suffocating cough.

• It experiences weakness of the chest muscles.

• It experiences nausea and vomiting, often with bile.

• It experiences abdominal pain and distension, relieved by passing gas.

• It experiences diarrhea or constipation, alternating.

• It experiences loss of appetite.

• It experiences heartburn and acid regurgitation.

• It experiences excessive flatulence.

• It experiences rumbling in the abdomen.

• It experiences pain in the stomach after eating.

• It experiences heaviness in the stomach.

• It experiences burning in the stomach.

• It experiences thirst for cold drinks.

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• It experiences frequent urination, especially at night.

• It experiences burning sensation during urination.

• It experiences scanty urine.

• It experiences involuntary urination.

• It experiences decreased libido.

• It experiences impotence in men.

• It experiences leucorrhea in women.

• It experiences menstrual irregularities.

• It experiences painful menstruation.

• It experiences delayed menses.

• It experiences profuse menses.

• It experiences vaginal itching and burning.

• It experiences prostatic affections.

• It experiences chronic rheumatism affecting joints and muscles.

• It experiences pain and stiffness in the back, neck, and shoulders.

• It experiences sciatica.

• It experiences coldness of the extremities.

• It experiences cramps in the legs.

• It experiences weakness in the limbs.

• It experiences pain in the joints, worse on motion.

• It experiences swelling of the joints.

• It experiences stiffness of the joints.

• It experiences pain in the bones.

• It experiences gouty pains.

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• It experiences a papular-like eruption with a vesicular tendency, especially on scrotum, also on hands, tibia, shoulders and dorsum of feet.

• It experiences intense itching, worse at night.

• It experiences dry, scaling skin.

• It experiences cracks and fissures in the skin, especially on the hands and feet.

• It experiences ulcerations, slow to heal.

• It experiences eczema-like eruptions.

• It experiences scabies-like eruptions.

• It experiences prurigo.

• It experiences chronic herpes.

• The skin feels rough and thickened.

• It experiences offensive odor from the skin.

• It experiences restless sleep.

• It experiences sleeplessness.

• It experiences anxious dreams.

• It experiences dreams of dead people.

• It experiences dreams of fire.

• It experiences nightmares.

• It experiences waking unrefreshed.

• Cold, damp weather. Night. Mental exertion. Rest. Touch. Undressing. Winter. Washing.

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• Warmth. Motion. Open air. Pressure. Covering up. Eating.

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• Complementary remedies: Sulphur, Calcarea carbonica, Lycopodium.

• Antidotes: Not definitively established, consider general antidotes for mineral remedies.

• Comparisons: Graphites, Petroleum, Arsenicum album, Hepar sulphuris calcareum, Kali muriaticum, Psorinum, Sepia. Differentiate based on specific modalities and symptom picture. Carbo vegetabilis.