Antimonium Crudum – Antimony Trisulphide

The attenuations are prepared from black sulphide of antimony, a mineral prima- rily containing Antimony (III)-sulphide, Sb₂S₃, MW: 339.7.

Black antimony sulphide, or Antimonium Crudum, exhibits in its picture some characteristic symptoms, a few of which correspond to diseases which are difficult to treat. In spite of that, such serious cases can show a rapid and fundamental change when the right remedy, Antimonium Crudum for example, is applied.

Typical of this remedy are gastric symptoms, such as vomiting with ketosis, and diarrhoea, alternating with constipation and mucous haemorrhoids, almost always accompanied by the typical thick, chalky-white coating of the tongue. A further characteristic is the aggravation of complaints, especially the gastric ones, by the heat of summer and after cold bathing. There is also toothache after swimming, oc- curring especially at night and mostly in the summer. These often react surprisingly rapidly to a few doses of the remedy.

Antimonium Crudum is often indicated in irritable, sullen children who cannot bear anyone to look at them or touch them. The nostrils and corners of the mouth are often chapped and scurfy. It is also indicated for fingernails which are deformed, split and have horny growths on them. Antimonium Crudum has proved its worth as a remedy for corns, and also for warts, when other remedies such as Thuja, Ni- tricum Acidum and Causticum have failed. It has helped with chronic blepharitis with redness of the eyelids, and has also done good service in many cases of chron- ic arthritis and coxalgia. In Antimonium Crudum we have a great healing remedy, whose most important symptoms may be categorised as follows:

1. Chalky-white coating of the tongue.
2. Vomiting with ketosis. Gastritis and enteritis. Stomach-aches, especially after cold bathing in the summer.
3. All complaints aggravated by heat of the sun and cold bathing, (also toothache in very decayed teeth at night, stomach-aches, rheumatism, coxalgia, etc.).  Toothache aggravated by eating and cold drinks. (Pulpitis purulenta.)
4. Corners of the mouth chapped and scurfy.
5. Fingernails split. Horny skin, calluses and corns on the feet. Warts.
6. Sentimental mood or, in children, irritability.
7. Children bite their nails.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Stibium sulphuratum nigrum, pub- lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for antimonium crudum: digestive disorders; skin disorders; rheumatism.