Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Again from studying the text it will be seen that it is a common feature of this medicine to haveits symptoms come on at 2, 3 or 5 o'clock in the morning. In Kali carb. the cough will come or have itsgreatest < at three or four or five o'clock in the morning. The febrile state will occur from 3-5 in themorning. The patient, who is subject to asthmatic dyspnoea, will have an attack at 3 o'clock in themorning, waking him out of sleep. He will wake up with various symptoms and remain awake until 5o'clock in the morning, and after that to a great extent they are relieved. Of course, there are plenty ofsufferings at any time in the twenty-four hours, but this is the worst time. He wakes up at 3 o'clock inthe morning with fear, fear of death, fear of the future, worries about everything and is kept awake for2-3 hours and then goes to sleep and sleeps soundly.His body is cold and requires much clothing to keep it warm, but in spite of the fact that he iscold he sweats copiously; copious, cold sweat upon the body. Sweats upon the slightest exertion,sweats where the pain is, sweat over the forehead; cold sweat on the forehead with headache.Neuralgia of the scalp and the eyes and the cheek bones in association with the nervousshooting pains. Violent pains here and there in the head, as if the head would be crushed. Cutting andstabbing in the head. Violent congestive headaches as if the head were full. Head hot on one side andcold on the other; forehead covered with cold sweat.It has catarrhal congestive headache. Whenever he goes out in the cold air, the nose opens upand the mucous membranes become dry and burn; when he returns into a warm room the nosecommences to discharge, and the nose stuffs up so that he cannot breathe through it, and then he feelsmost comfortable, so that it has stuffing up of the nose in a warm room, and opening up of the nose inthe open air. When the nose is open so that he can breathe through it, that is the time the head is mostpainful; it is painful to the cold air and the cold air makes it bum. The cold air feels hot. All thesepatients suffer from a chronic catarrh and when they ride in the wind the catarrhal discharge ceases andthen will come on a headache, and thus he has headache from riding in the cold wind. Whenever thedischarge ceases from taking cold in a draft on comes headache, and as the discharge becomes freeagain the headache is relieved. Neuralgic pains in eyes and scalp and through the cheek bones from acessation of chronic catarrhal discharge, and when the discharge starts up again, these pains cease.With the chronic catarrh of the nose there is a thick, fluent, yellow discharge; dryness of thenose, alternating with stuffing up. The one who suffers from a chronic catarrh will also have thedischarge in the morning, which will fill up the nose with yellow mucus. In the morning he blows outand hawks up dry, hard crusts that fill up the nasal passage, clear over into the pharynx and down intothe throat. These crusts become dry as if they were partly formed upon the mucous membrane andwhen they are blown out there is bleeding. The bleeding starts from where the crusts are lifted up.He is subject to sore throat, is always taking cold, and it settles in the throat. He is also subjectto enlarged tonsils and with these has enlargement and chronic hardness of the parotid glands--one orboth. Great knots below the ear, behind the jaw.These grow and become hard, and at times, painful; shooting, darting pains when he is movingabout in the open air. When air strikes these enlarged glands they are sore and painful, and he isameliorated by going into a warm place. The acute colds extend into the chest, but Kali carb. has beenfound most suitable in the chronic catarrh the chest, chronic bronchitis.The chest is very often affected in just the same way as the nose. The is the dryness and drybarking, hacking cough in cold air, but a copious expectoration of mucus when it becomes warm, andthat is the time he is most comfortable, for the expectoration seems to relieve him. He suffers mostlyfrom a dry, hacking cough with morning expectoration. The cough begins with a dry hacking, increasesgradually and sometimes very rapidly to a violent, spasmodic cough with gagging or vomiting, andwhen coughing it feels as if his head would fly to pieces. The face becomes puffed, the eyes seem toprotrude and then there is seen that which is commonly present in Kali., a peculiar sort of a swellingbetween the eyelids and eyebrows that fills up when coughing. Your attention is called to that peculiarfeature, for although there may be bloating nowhere else upon the face that little bagging will appearabove the lid and below the eyebrow.It fills up sometimes to the extent of a little water bag. Such a swelling has been produced byKali carb., and sometimes that symptom alone guides to the examination of the remedy for the purposeof ascertaining if Kali carb. does not fit all the rest of the case. Boenninghausen speaks of an epidemicof whooping cough in which the majority of cases called for Kali carb., and this striking feature waspresent. No remedy should ever be given on one symptom. If you are led to a remedy by a peculiarsymptom, study the remedy and the disease thoroughly to ascertain if the two are similar enough toeach other to expect a cure. Any deviation from that rule is ruinous and will lead to the practice ofgiving medicines on single symptoms.