Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

extremities pulsate. He is conscious of his arteries everywhere and the palpitation of his heart causesoppression of breathing.The limbs easily become numb; pressed upon in the slightest manner they go to sleep; go tosleep on being crossed. Coldness, trembling and stiffness of the extremities. The finger nails becomebrittle and are shriveled. The arms go to sleep when lying down. "Sore and raw between the thighs andin hollow of knees".Heaviness of lower limbs, paralytic weakness; the patient is growing old; senility is coming on.This remedy has cured the premature trembling that comes on in middle-aged persons. It has cured the"going to sleep" and numbness and feeble circulation with loss of muscular power. It is very suitable inchildren who are excitable and nervous and weak. "In lean persons". "Old persons and children".AMMONIUM CARBONICUM [am-c] [Kent’s]If we were practicing in the old-fashioned way and considered the wonderfully volatile natureof Ammonium carb. in some of its forms we should only look upon it as an agent to relieve faintingand simple affections and use it in the form of hartshorn to comfort old maids and some other women.But Ammonium carb. is a deep-acting, constitutional medicine, an anti-psoric. It effects rapid bloodchanges, it disturbs the whole economy and it establishes a scorbutic constitution. Its fluids are allacrid.The saliva becomes acrid and excoriates the lips, so that they crack in the corners and middle;and become raw and dry and scabby. The eye-lids fester and become dry and cracked from theexcoriating fluids from the eye. The stool is acrid and excoriates. The genitals of the female becomeraw and sore from the acrid menstrual discharge and leucorrhoea, and wherever there is an ulcer uponthe skin the fluids that ooze from it excoriate the parts round about, this excoriating character"belonging to all of the exuding fluids, and discharges.This remedy has bleeding of black blood, often fluid blood, that will not coagulate, flowingfrom the nose, the uterus, the bladder and bowels. The blood is dark, showing that a great disturbance istaking place in the circulation. The skin has a mottled appearance intermingled with great pallor.It produces a violent action upon the heart, in which there is audible palpitation, and everymotion aggravates the pulsation.With this is associated great prostration. It is rather a strange coincidence that the ancients knewthat Am. carb. would overcome difficult breathing from cardiac attacks and that aqua ammonia orhartshorn is used today to a certain extent in indications similar to those mentioned. They use it as astimulant, but when indicated the single dose very high is enough. The ancients knew enough, also, touse hartshorn in the low forms of pneumonia, at the turning point in the advanced stage; that is an oldallopathic practice, but it had a homeopathic relation to some of the cases. Once in a while they wouldcure a patient in the awful stage of prostration with heart failure at the end of pneumonia, and becausethey relieved such a one it was then established as a remedy for all future use.Ammonium carb. has a state analogous to blood poisoning, such as we find in erysipelas and inthe most malignant forms of scarlet fever, with prostration, great dyspnoea, so that it seems as if theheart were giving out. With this there is an unusual patchy condition of the surface, due to the paralyticcondition of the blood vessels, enlargement of the glands, duskiness and puffiness of the face. Amm.carb. has been used allopathically in just such a state for centuries and it has demonstrated itshomeopathic relations by its efficacy.It belongs to the simple enfeeblement, weak heart, emaciation.There is quite an absence of symptoms and a lack of response to remedies. The patient must liein bed because of the palpitation and difficult breathing on motion. It is a matter of mere weakness.Such a case furnished me much amusement for a year and a half. There was a woman in this city whoanswered just such a description; her state was one of peculiar cardiac weakness with dyspnoea andpalpitation on motion. I had been treating the case, but had not fully studied it, and as she did notprogress under my management she was taken out of my hands and taken to one of our most ableneurologists, who put her upon the "rest cure" and promised that in six weeks she would be perfectlywell. But at the end of six weeks she was worse than ever and a cardiac specialist was then brought toexamine her. He said it was true the heart was not vigorous, but there was no organic affection andconsequently the case did not belong to his branch. Then a lung specialist was brought in, and later shewas examined by all kinds of specialists. All of her organs were fully investigated, and it wasannounced that nothing was the matter with them; but the poor woman could not walk because of hersufferings and palpitating heart. She had a little dry, hacking cough that did not amount to anything, buther chest was examined and there was nothing wrong with it. But after she had been in this continualfire for about three months, and was steadily failing, the side of the family that were my adherents