Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

about it for fear she will starve to death. You try this, and you try that, and she can keep nothing down.Finally she says, "If I could only have some cole slaw and some chopped onions, I think I could getalong all right". It is a hysterical stomach, and the patient eats some raw cabbage and some choppedonions, and from that time on she is well. Those strange things that are ordinarily hard to digestameliorate the nausea rather than increase it. While milk and toast, and delicate things, and warmthings, such as are usually taken, disturb the stomach and increase the nausea. Cold food is craved, andcold food will be digested when warm food will be disturbing and create indigestion.The cough has similar features in it. An irritation will come in the throat, as a rule, that is whypeople cough. People cough from smarting in the larynx and trachea, from irritation, from tickling, andfrom a sensation of fullness or a desire to expel something, and this is better by coughing. But when theirritation in the larynx and trachea comes in the Ignatia patient you have the unexpected again; becausethe more she coughs the more the irritation to cough is observed, until the irritation is so great and thecough is so great that she goes into spasms. It has been known of an Ignatia patient, that the more shecoughed the greater the irritation to cough, and she was drenched with sweat, sitting up in bed with hernight-clothes drenched, gagging and coughing and retching, covered with sweat and exhausted. Whenyou are called to the bedside of such a patient, don't wait. You cannot get her to stop coughing longenough to say anything to you about it, only you will see the cough has grown more violent; Ignatiastops it at once. Without any provocation whatever a spasmodic condition will come on in the larynx.Any little disturbance, a mental disturbance, a fright, or distress, or a grievance, will bring a young,sensitive woman home and to her bed, and she will go on with a spasm of the larynx. It is alaryngismus stridulus that can be heard all over the house.Ignatia stops it at once (Gelsemium, Moschus).Nervous affections and troubles of all sorts come on at the menstrual period. The mind isalways in a hurry, in a state of excitement. No one can do thing rapidly enough. The memory isuntrustworthy. The mind flies all to pieces. It is a sort of confusion. No longer able to classify the thingthat have been classically put into the mind. Cannot remember her music, and her rules, and herscholastic method. They have all vanished, and she is in a state of confusion. She is a worn-out,nervous person.Then come fancies, vivid fancies, that are like delirium.Without fever, without chill. Just after excitement. She comes home from some greatdisturbance of her emotions, and goes into a state that, if looked upon, per se, would appear to be adelirium such as appears in a fever. But upon close examination it is not a delirium. It is a momentarilyhysterical excitement of the mind, in which the balance is lost, and she talks about everything. Seesevery manner of thing; it is a hysterical insanity, because after she rests or the next morning it hasvanished. But these spells come oftener and oftener after they have once begun, and she gives way tothem easier and easier, and, if they are not remedied, she becomes a lunatic, a confirmed mental wreck,so that excitement, grief, insanity, all intermingle together as cause and effect. These come first at themenstrual period, and then they come at other times, until they come from every little disturbance.Whenever she is crossed or contradicted. "She desires to be alone and to dwell on the inconsistenciesthat come into her life. Sits and sobs. At times she is taciturn; again, she prattles and is loquacious, andtalks to herself". She comes into a state in a little while where she delights to bring on her fits and tomake a scare The natural hysteric is born with that, and Ignatia will do her no good. But when this isbrought on from conditions described, Ignatia is of the greatest benefit. It runs closely along by the sideof Hyoscyamus. "A feeling of continuous fright, or apprehensiveness that something is going tohappen".With all these mental states she has a feeling of emptiness in the stomach and abdomen.Emptiness and trembling. "Melancholy after disappointed love, with spinal symptoms". "Great griefafter losing persons or objects very near. Trembling of the hands disturbs her very much in writing.Dread of every trifle". She goes into a state where she is utterly unable to undertake anything, even towrite a letter to a friend.The Ignatia patient is not one that has been a simpleton, or of a sluggish mind or idiotic, but onethat has become tired, and brought into such a state from over-doing and from over- excitement. Fromgoing too much. If rather feeble in body, from too much social excitement. Our present social state iswell calculated to develop a hysterical mind. The typical social mind is one that is always in a state ofconfusion. Asks questions, not waiting for the answer. A good many remedies have this state; a lack ofconcentration of mind, that is what it is, but this is a peculiar kind of lack of concentration of mind.Dread, fear, anxiety, weeping, run through the remedy. "Sensitive disposition; hyperacute".Overwrought; intense.