Antimonium crudum LM Potency Dilution

Synonym: Antim crud

Headache, Thick White Tongue, Painful Corns, Horny Warts

Indications for Antimonium crudum LM potency medicine:

Excessive irritability and Fretfulness, together with a Thickly-Coated White tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for Antimonium Crudum.

All the conditions are aggravated by Heat and Cold Bathing.

Cannot bear heat of sun, Tendency to grow fat.

An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout with gastric symptoms is seen in the patient of Antimonium Crudum.

Patient profile: Antimonium crudum LM potency medicine

Mind: Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vexed without cause.

Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood.

Head: Antimonium Crudum patient complaint of Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wine.

Suppressed eruptions, Heaviness in forehead, with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair is also seen.

Eyes: Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Pustules on cornea and lids indicates Antim Crud.

Ears: Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube is relieved by  Antim Crud.

Antimonium Crudum patient complaints of Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear.

Nose: Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts, eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy is well checked by Antim Crud.

Throat: Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares. Hawking in open air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.

Stomach: Loss of appetite, desire for acids, pickles. Thirst in evening and night. Heartburn, nausea, vomiting.

After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather, constant belching.

Stool: Anal itching. (Sulpho-Calc. Alum.) Diarrhoea alternates with constipation, especially in old people.

Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, over eating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus is relieved by Antim Crud.

Urine: Antim Crud is indicated for Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odour.

Male: Eruption on scrotum and about genitals, Atrophy of penis and testicles are seen in the patients of Antim Crud.

Female: Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region. Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy is well relieved by Antim Crud.

Respiratory: Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of the chest, oppression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. Voice harsh and badly pitched.

Back: Itching and pain of neck and back is relieved by Antim Crud.

Extremities: Twitching of muscles, Jerks in arms, pain in fingers.

Nails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny warts on hands and soles.

Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence.

Feet very tender; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.

Skin: Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria; measly-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin.

Warts (Thuja; Sabina; Caust.). Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.

Sleep: Continued drowsiness in old people.

Aggravation: Worse in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices.

Amelioration: Better in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.

About LM potency homeopathy medicines

In the sixth edition of ‘Organon’ Dr. Hahnemann had introduced a new system of dilution and potentization and called it “renewed dynamisation” with a diluting ratio of 1:50,000. It was named as 50 millesimal potency or LM potency by Dr. Pierre Schmidt. In some parts of the world, it is also called as Q potency. It soon got professional acceptance. As on date, it is recognized by different homoeopathic pharmacopoeias including American and Indian.

What are they and how are they denoted?

These homoeopathic potencies are prepared in the diluting scale of 1:50,000 and denoted as 0/1, 0/2, 0/3…..etc. They are generally used up to 0/30.

Perceived advantages

• Highest development of power at each potency level.
• Mildest reaction – no medicinal aggravation.
• Frequent repetition is permitted; every hour or oftener in urgent cases.
• Quick cure in chronic cases where it can be given daily or oftener.
• 0/3 is more subtle than 30C or 200C and the 0/30 is sharper than CM as believed by many classical homoeopaths.

LM potency dosage: Generally LM potencies are administered as follows:

1. Take a 4oz (120ml) to 6oz (180ml) clean glass bottle. Fill it 3/4th with water. Take 1or 2 globules of the desired potency (often starting at LM 0/1) and place it into the bottle.
2. Succuss the bottle just prior to ingestion 1 to 12 times depending on the sensitivity of the patient. This slightly raises the potency and activates the remedy.
3. Take 1, or more teaspoons of the medicinal solution and place it into 8 to 10 tablespoons of water in a dilution glass and stir it. Most cases are started with 1 teaspoon and the amount is increased only if necessary. In children the amount should be 1/2 teaspoon. Infants may only need 1/4 of a teaspoon.

The dosage of the medicinal solution can be carefully adjusted to suit the sensitivity of the individual’s constitution

Note: We dispense SBL LM potency medicines in 1/2, 1 & 2 dram plastic containers, image for illustrative purpose only.