"Antimonium Tart is indicated in loud rattling bronchial phlegm where the patient is too weak to expectorate, accompanied by cyanosis and cold sweat."

Latin NamePotassium antimony tartrate

Common NameTartar Emetic / Tartarated Antimony

KingdomMineral

Remedy TypePolychrest

Clinical Description

Antimonium Tartaricum is a major respiratory polychrest proved by Samuel Hahnemann. Celebrated for its unique action on bronchial mucous membranes, vagus nerve, pulmonary circulation, and gastrointestinal motility. Key features include loud coarse rattling of mucus in the chest with helpless inability to cough it up, cyanotic prostration, cold clammy facial sweat, and thick white tongue coating.

Guiding Keynotes

Loud coarse rattling of mucus in bronchial tree; chest seems full of phlegm, yet patient is too weak to expectorate
Great drowsiness, prostration, cyanosis, and impending asphyxia from pulmonary accumulation
Pale, bluish, sunken face covered with cold clammy perspiration, especially on forehead
Thick white pasty coating on tongue; red papillae showing through; craves apples and acid fruits
Nausea with intense loathing of food, violent retching, and prostration relieved by vomiting
Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at; cries angrily if approached

Mental-Emotional Symptoms

Drowsiness, stupor, and mental confusion; indifference to surroundings during respiratory distress
Peevish, irritable, and whining disposition in sick children; desires to be left alone
Fear of being alone with anxiety and restlessness

Physical / Particular Indicators

Capillary bronchitis, broncho-pneumonia, and pulmonary edema with suffocation
Dyspnea compelling patient to sit up upright (orthopnea); worse at 3 AM
Gastroenteritis with nausea, vomiting, and watery diarrheal stools
Pustular skin eruptions leaving bluish pits resembling smallpox scars

Modalities

Aggravation (Worse)

Warm room and warm weather
Lying flat in bed
Morning (3 AM) and damp cold
Milk and sweet foods

Amelioration (Better)

Sitting upright (relieves dyspnea)
Expectoration of phlegm
Eructation and lying on right side

Constitutional Mappings

Generalities

Chilly patient with cold extremities. Strongly aggravated by warmth, lying down, and 3 AM. Ameliorated by sitting erect and expectoration.

Constitutional Type

Suited to young infants, elderly patients, or debilitated individuals with weak respiratory musculature.

Therapeutic Affinities

Organ Affinity

Bronchial mucous membranes and pulmonary alveoliPneumogastric (vagus) nerve and respiratory centerGastrointestinal tract and skin

Miasmatic Affinity

PsoraSycosis

Common Potencies

6C30C200C1M

Clinical Safety & Potency Guidance

Raw tartar emetic is a toxic antimony compound. A dilution label alone does not prove product safety, composition, or quality; FDA has approved no product labeled homeopathic. Cyanosis, severe breathlessness, drowsiness, weak expectoration, or suspected respiratory failure requires emergency medical care and must never be managed with homeopathy alone.

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Reference Citations & Evidence Sources

Classical Homeopathic Literature

CIT-0007Hahnemann S.. "The Chronic Diseases: Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure." Adolph Arnold (1828).

Materia Medica & Keynotes

CIT-0004Hahnemann S.. "Materia Medica Pura." Adolph Arnold (1811).
CIT-0005Kent J. T.. "Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica." Boericke & Tafel (1905).
CIT-0006Boericke W.. "Pocket Manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica." Boericke & Runyon (1901).

Clinical Reviews & Textbooks

CIT-0023National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. "Homeopathy: What You Need To Know." National Institutes of Health (2021).

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