Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

a leucorrhoea. Suppression of the menses with great nervous excitement; with flushed face; withweakness and palpitation. Prolapsus of the vagina. Insensibility of the vagina during coition.Metrorrhagia. Menses too soon, too profuse and lasting too long.Difficult respiration; pains and disturbances in the chest.Difficult breathing, with a sense of a great load on the chest.Suffocating fits at night; catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract; congestion of the chest;dyspnoea. Spasmodic cough, such as we find in whooping-cough, coming on in violent paroxysms.Cough after every meal, with gagging, emptying the stomach of its contents. Cough felt in the head.Cough worse from the abuse of brandy, tobacco or tea. Cough coming on after the loss of fluids, asafter hemorrhages. Chest troubles following uterine hemorrhage, and after other hemorrhages.Coughing up blood; bleeding from the lungs, Persons debilitated by secret vices, with a tendency to gointo tuberculosis.Palpitation of the heart from fear, excitement, or exertion.Rapid action of the heart, or sometimes slow action. Fatty degeneration of the heart. Pulseaccelerated toward evening.Pulsations throughout the body, feeling like little hammers.Rheumatic pains in the extremities, ameliorated by heat and by gentle motion; aggravated bycold, by exertion, or by rapid motion. Pains through the deltoid muscles are spoken of moreprominently than pains in other parts, but these pains are no more striking than the pains anywhere inFerrum. Tearing pains through the limbs. Inability to raise the arm; paralytic pains--- that is, pains thatare benumbing. Pains that make him feel as if he were going to lose the power to move the part.Violent pains in the hip-joint are just as common as the pains in the shoulder.Lippe says, "Rheumatism in the left shoulder", but it is just as common in the right. Rheumaticpains in the deltoid muscle of either side. Violent pain in the muscles and along the nerves.Pinching in the right deltoid; boring in the right shoulder; aggravated by motion and by theweight of the bed-clothes; ameliorated by heat. Tearing and stinging pains. The Ferrum pains come onin the night, because the patient attempts to keep still in bed. Rest brings on the Ferrum pains. Whenmoving gently about in the daytime he will not have so much pain. Coldness of the limbs; add again,heat of the soles and palms---they change about. With all this weakness and prostration dropsicalconditions come on, so that the feet and hands become bloated.Evening chill or chilliness with fever, cold hands and feet and red face. Icy cold feet with thechill. Chill ameliorated after eating. Thirst with the chill. Copious sweat which stains yellow. Allsymptoms worse while sweating. Strong-smelling night sweats. All the febrile symptoms are better byslowly moving about. In intermittent fever after the abuse of quinine.We read in the text that Ferrum is a remedy for diarrhea@a in the last stages of consumption.Well, sometimes it is---if the patient is prepared to die. Ferrum will stop the diarrhea, but after it isstopped the patient will not live long. The diarrhea is not usually painful. It is annoying, but it ispainless, and the night sweats are painless. Do not suppress them; they had better be let alone. Let thepatient go on to a peaceful termination. The best remedy for diarrhea in the last stages of consumptionis Saccharum lactis in the crude form, given in very small quantities and repeated often as is requiredby the patient and the bystanders.FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM [ferr-p] [Kent’s]Great weakness, and desire to lie down. Nervous at night.Rheumatic conditions. While it has been used by Schuessler's followers for the first stage ofinflammatory fevers, it is useful in the higher potencies in chronic diseases, and is a deep acting antipsoric.It could not be less than the] Ferrum and Phosphoric acid that form it. For many years Ifollowed the Schuessler indications, but by the aid of new provings, homeopathic aggravations, andclinical experience the present arrangement of symptoms furnishes my guide for this valuablehomoeopathic remedy.The time of aggravation of some complaints is in the morning, some in afternoon; others comein the evening and night, and after midnight. The patient is sensitive to the open air, and manysymptoms are aggravated in open air. The most noticeable feature are anemia and chlorosis (likeFerrum). The general physical anxiety is more like Phos. acid. Lack of vital heat, and aggravation incold air and from becoming cold. Always taking cold. Congestion of head and organs, with fever andred face. The general weakness is like the low vitality of the phthisical inheritance. Dropsicalconditions. Symptoms worse after eating, from physical exertion. Fainting spells. Cold drinks bring onsymptoms. Sour food aggravates. Vascular fullness and distension of veins. The hemorrhagic conditionis a strong feature, as it is in Ferrum, Phos. acid and Phos. The nervousness of hysteria and