Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

He is unable to step up when ascending stairs; it seems to him that he cannot lift his body to thenext step.Sleep is disturbed by visions, dreams anxious, confused, amorous, of death, nightmare, pleasant,of quarreling, vexatious.Sleep is restless and broken. Sleepiness in the morning, forenoon and evening, and after dinner.Sleepless before MIDNIGHT; unrefreshing sleep, waking too early, frequent waking. Yawning.Chilliness in the forenoon, noon, afternoon. evening, chilliness in the evening in bed; chillinessin the open air, after eating. better after warm drink, external coldness, internal coldness. Chilliness onmoving in bed. Shaking chill at *5 p.m. One-sided coldness. Chilliness during stool. Desire for warmthwhich ameliorates the chill.Heat afternoon, evening and night. Fever begins between 8 and 10 p.m., with severe crushingpain in both legs; pain goes to heart and left temple. External HEAT with chilliness. Flushes of HEAT.during sleep Perspiration morning, night, with anxiety, perspiration on motion -profuse after waking.Dryness of the skin, coldness, biting, anesthesia, yellow spots. Burning, cracked Eruptions,blisters. boils, burning, chapping. < 2DRY>2 ECZEMA. Herpes, dry, itching, stinging.Itching eruptions worse by warmth. Painful eruptions. Nodular urticaria, vesicular eruptions.Marked eruption moist after scratching, smarting after scratching. Stinging and burning eruptions.Suppurating phagedenic eruptions. Nodular urticaria, vesicular eruptions. Marked formication of theskin all over body, itching worse in evening in bed. Biting, burning, crawling; better by keepingperfectly still. Itching better by scratching.Stinging burning in the skin all over, BUT worse on the back of hands, arms and feet. Moistureof the skin after scratching. Skin extremely sensitive. Much tension in the skin. Ulceration, withitching, soreness and stinging. The skin is slow to heal after injury.AMBRA GRISEA [ambr] [Kent’s]On looking over this remedy as a whole it will appear to you that you have been studying thecharacteristics of "one < prematurely old"I. You will often see symptoms coming on in one at fiftyyearsof age that should appear at eighty, and after studying this remedy you will see that the sameaspect is presented, a premature old age. We recognize trembling and a peculiar kind of feebleness thatcannot be described by any expression but senility, it is not the confusion of mind belonging tosickness, but the peculiar state we recognize in old people, in declining life, trembling and tottering anda dreamy state of mind is its forgetfulness. He goes on from one subject to another, asking a question,and, without waiting for it to be answered, asking another. And so he jumps about from one topic toanother. It can hardly be said to be confusion, it is a dreamy state of mind, a state of senility. Thisremedy is useful when such a state is found in young persons, when the mind is not insane and yet it isweak. Especially is it indicated in those persons who manifest a momentary, fleeting inquisitiveness,jumping from one subject to another. Often a patient asks me one question after another, never waitingto have the first one answered, a flitting, flighty talker, who does not seem to realize that l have notanswered his questions; that patient, l say to myself, needs Ambra grisea. That state of mind belongs tomodern society women in such great frequency that you will be astonished to note it on all hands. Amodern society belle that could not dam the heel of her stocking to save her soul will in a few years getinto just that state, and even Ambra will not cure her. But there is a kind of nervous sicknessmanifested in these symptoms that Ambra grisea will cure. Alternation of depression of spirits withvehemence of temper is another feature. That naturally belongs to old age. A period of greatestexcitability is often followed by depression, a state of indifference to all things, to joy, to grief, topeople, etc., treating with indifference things that would naturally break the heart of a well-balancedperson. He does not even wonder why he is not excited over these wonderful things, so decided is thestate of indifference. Many of the complaints are worse in the morning. He gets up with confusion anddulness of mind and is in a dreamy state and towards evening he takes on symptoms of insanity.Ambra is one of the most frequently indicated medicines in simple, nondescript vertigo of oldmen. So dizzy that they cannot go out on the street; so dizzy upon getting up in the morning that theymust wait a while until they can get around on their feet. It is the dizziness belonging to senility and topremature old age. Now, when this man undertakes to meditate upon something his ideas are whiskedaway. It is a sort of confusion with vanishing of ideas He has to make an unusual effort a few times tobring his thought back to the place before he can concentrate the mind to meditate upon some idea. Butwhile concentration of the mind is difficult, he is compelled to sir and dwell upon the most disagreeablethings that force themselves upon him and he cannot get rid of them It is somewhat analogous toNatrum mur., but the peculiar feature of Nat. mur. is that she delights to dwell upon past unpleasantoccurrences and lies awake at night thinking about them. Ambra grisea is forced to dwell upon such