Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

things. Images, false faces, hideous imaginations, fancies and visions annoy him and keep him awake.In the semi-dreamy state he is kept holding up before his mind these grimaces. Such a state of mindmay come on from business embarrassments with vertigo, congestion to the head and brain-fag. Onething running through this remedy is that the presence of other persons aggravates the symptoms; alsothe marked aggravation from conversation. A woman, when attended by a nurse, is unable to have astool without sending the nurse into another room. In spite of much straining she can do nothing unlessalone. It is said that in Natrum mur.the patient cannot urinate in the presence of other persons. The urine will not start when anyoneis around. That is a sort of general feature of this remedy. Confusion of mind and embarrassment in thepresence of other persons. Embarrassment in company. As soon as he goes into company there isflushing, trembling, nervous excitement and the thoughts vanish. With these symptoms the patientimagines that he is going out of his mind, and finally he settles down into a state of melancholy,sadness and despair, and does not want to live. He loathes his life and wants to die. "Great sadness"."Melancholy, sits for days weeping". Such is the mental state of this prematurely old patient withbroken down constitution. It is a picture of a wreck and the question will arise when you find a patientthat looks and acts in this way whether you have received him in time to cure him. You readily see youhave before you one who is going down hill and going into insanity of one form or another. Aphysician sees the fore runner of a great breakdown when he sees an Ambra grisea patient with thenervous mental state, the quivering, trembling and excitement in one who was once a strong, vigorousman. Some great business or domestic shock has come upon this patient. It is not the aspect you seewhen phthisis is coming on; you do not see the cachectic condition, but it is a prostration of the nervoussystem, a mental prostration. A man goes through the trial of one death after another in the family andthere seems to be nothing remaining; he cannot look at it philosophically; he has lost his business andhis friends and then he takes on dreaminess and wonders whether life is worth living. Then it is you getthe Ambra grisea aspect.Many of the complaints come on in the morning and many come on after eating. "Vertigo withfeeling of weight on vertex; worse after sleep", but especially in the morning. It is not mentioned in thetest, but it is also worse after eating. "Had to lie down on account of vertigo and feeling of weakness instomach.Running through the nervous symptoms we have "music is intolerable"; music makes himtremble aggravates his mental symptoms and gives him pain in the back as from a hammer. A numberof physical symptoms are brought out by listening to music. The tones seem as if they were a materialsubstance taking hold of him.Complaints are often one-sided; perspiration on one side of the body or perspiration on theaffected side. "On right side of head, a spot where hair when touched pains as if sore". The samesensation is in the skin, oversensitive to touch. "Scalp feels sore in the morning when awaking; this isfollowed by a sensation of numbness". The word numbness you will find running though thecomplaints. You will find a peculiar kind of numbness, such as belongs to old people. Diminishedsensibility of the parts; feeble circulation.Again we find under the eye symptoms, "Dullness of vision as if from looking through a mist".There is dimness of vision coming on without any condition in the eye that would justify it.It is a nervous dimness of vision, a senile paralysis coming on."Itching on eyelid as if a sty was forming". Itching is felt all over the body; itching in all thelittle openings.Among the symptoms that are not in the text and that are decided symptoms belonging to thisremedy are, "Pressing headache starting from both temples, drawing and tearing in the head, to andfrom. Shooting through the head, lancinating, cutting pains, worse on exertion,better from quiet andlying. Headache when blowing nose, Pressing pain in the left frontal eminence and in the eye. Burningin the right eye and in the eyelids. Tearing in short streaks in and upon the right eye, pressure on theleft eyebrow, shooting aggravated after eating, lachrymation". these are in the original provings, but notin the text; they have been left out. This is the case through the Guiding Symptoms; importantsymptoms were left out because it was necessary to cut down the work."Hearing decreases". Dullness of hearing without any organic affection of the ear. So pervertedis his ability to hear that music aggravates his symptoms, that is through the nerves of hearing."listening to music brings on congestion to head". Music aggravates his cough. think of onecommencing to cough simply because he hears music! What a strange thing that is! Calcarea has suchsensitiveness that the stroke of the piano is painful in parts, especially in the larynx.This remedy is full of bleeding. copious bleeding from the nose in the morning. There we getthe morning aggravation again.