Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

It is often observed that this patient scrapes mucus from the larynx before he can talk or sing.Hoarseness, dry, hacking cough day and night. Tubercular laryngitis.Suffocation on slight exertion, or on ascending stairs. In thin, pale, sickly people with dry,hacking cough worse in cold, damp weather in rheumatic constitutions. Yellow expectoration.Stitching pains in the chest. Emaciation of the chest.Difficult expectoration. It is a very useful remedy in phthisis and bloodspitting. Much sweat onthe chest. Rattling in the chest with difficult expectoration, like Caust. Soreness of the chest to touch.Palpitation, with trembling of the limbs.The back pains are worse in cold, stormy weather, attended with stiffness, and worse in themorning. The back is sensitive to draft. Pain in the back from lifting or straining. Curvature of spine.Tearing, shooting; tenderness and aching in the spine.Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis. Pain in lumbar region and sacrum at the menstrual period.Rheumatic pains in the limbs in cold weather, worse from motion, better during rest and fromheat. Trembling in all the limbs. Stiffness after resting, and in the morning. Aching in the bones, likegrowing pains. Gouty fingers and toes that become painful in cold weather. Ulcerative pains in theroots of the nails.The most severe tearing, shooting pains are in the lower limbs. The probable reason for this isthat the lower limbs are always cold to the knees, and the cold parts are always the suffering parts inthis remedy. Sharp pains in tendons of the lower limbs. Intense aching boring pains in the knees, andlong bones. Pains in the tibia with soreness. Drawing pain in the tibia. Cramp in the calves. Ulcers onthe legs; weak, chronic; no granulation. Rheumatism of the ankles. Caries of the os calcis.Stinging and shooting,in the toes.Sleepy daytime and evening. Sleepless after going to bed until midnight or later. Very sleepy inthe morning. Vivid dreams.Children cry out in sleep. Frightful dreams cause him to awaken with a start.CALCAREA SILICATA [calc-sil] [Kent’s]The silicate of lime is a very deep-acting remedy. The symptoms come on during all parts of theday and night---morning, forenoon, afternoon, EVENING, NIGHT, after midnight. It acts profoundlyupon the skin, mucous membranes, bones and glands.Abscesses, catarrhal discharges, ulcers, are marked with thick, greenish-yellow pus. Thickgreenish-yellow expectoration.Aversion to the open air. Extreme sensitiveness to drafts. One prover felt better in open air; verysensitive to wine and alcoholic stimulants. Marked paleness as in anemia. Weakness and out of breathascending stairs, like calcarea. Aversion to bathing and worse from bathing; especially cold bathingmakes worse, in a prover who had always enjoyed cold bathing.Complaints worse after breakfast. It has cured epithelioma and lupus. From what is known ofboth calcarea and silica it ought to be a remedy in caries where the symptoms agree. Change ofweather, from warm to cold, makes all symptoms worse. Many symptoms are worse after coition.Worse from cold in general, cold air, becoming cold and after becoming cold; worse in cold, wetweather. Takes cold in cold weather; seems to be constantly taking cold; many internal congestions.Contraction of orifices, a convulsive tendency. It greatly mitigates the constitutional condition inpatients suffering from epilepsy, making the fits lighter and farther apart. The veins are greatlydistended and a sensation of fullness in many parts. The symptoms are worse during and after eating.Emaciation is marked and especially in children who have inherited phthisis. Weakness, night sweatsand seminal emission. The least exertion prostrates and increases many symptoms. Faintness creepsover her. The muscles become flabby. He is more comfortable on low diet or when fasting; cold food,cold milk and cold drinks make many complaints worse. The mucous membranes bleed easily.Hemorrhage from throat, nose, larynx and chest. He is cold all the time; marked lack of vital heat. Onechilly prover became warm after the proving, curative action. Great aggravation from being overheated.The body feels heavy and the organs drag down. Inflammation in external and internal parts; in bonesand glands. Extremely sensitive to a jar in all internal parts. Lassitude day and night but worse eveningand night; must lie down all the time.The muscles, tendons and joints are weak and easily strained.The weakness is much like arsenicum and china, or as though from loss of fluids. He is mostcomfortable when lying in bed on the back; lying helps most symptoms; after lying a while he seemsvery well, but as soon as he walks, about all the lassitude returns and he must lie down. Manysymptoms come at the menstrual period---before, during and after. All symptoms are worse frommotion. Mucous secretions increased and greenish-yellow. Numbness of single parts, of parts lain on