Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

prevailed against the others and I went to see her again. I continued to study the case, which wasextremely vague, having nothing but those few symptoms, and finally I settled upon Ammonium carb.,and she has been on this remedy for eighteen months. She now climbs mountains, she does everythingshe wants to do and is about ready to go to housekeeping. She has grown from a case of nervousprostration, brain-fag and any other diagnosis that might have been heaped upon her to a well woman,and under that one remedy. This shows you how deeply this remedy acts. One dose generally acts uponher for from six weeks to two months, steadily improving her each time.Exhaustion coming at every menstrual period. An attack of cholera or what one might mistakefor cholera, coming the first day of the menses; a copious diarrhea. Sometimes it is an exhaustion withvomiting, exhaustion as in Veratrum, with coldness, blueness, sinking, dyspnoea. The kind dyspnoeathat I have been speaking of up to this time is not an asthmatic dyspnoea; it is a cardiac dyspnoea, dueto a weak heart; but this remedy has also asthma, and in the asthma there is this peculiarity: if the roomis warm the dyspnoea increases until suffocation seems imminent; as if he would die for want of breath.He is compelled to go out into the cold air for relief.While the warm room increases the dyspnoea in asthmatic +complaints the bodily state of thepatient is worse from cold.The complaints of the body and the headaches are worse from cold.A common thing running through this remedy is aching in the bones. The bones ache as if theywould break. The teeth ache violently from every change of weather or from change of the temperaturein the mouth. The jaws ache or the roots of the teeth ache. A prominent feature is falling out of the hair,the finger nails become yellowish, the gums settle away from the teeth and bleed, the teeth becomeloose, all in keeping with the scorbutic constitution.This remedy has hysteria, and it is not surprising that nervous women carry a bottle of ammoniahanging to their chain.Many women do this because as soon as they go into a close place they faint and must use theirhartshorn. This condition in the woman, if in a mild degree, is not hysterical; it belongs to the sensitivenature of women; but if carried to a more marked state it is hysterical. The hysterical fainting will beaverted by the use of the hartshorn. Amm. carb. will stimulate the action of the heart and relieve.The remedy is full of depression of spirits. She weeps much, has fainting fits, anxiety,uneasiness and exhaustion from motion. Oversensitive about what she hears other people saying.Complaints from listening to others talking. Complaints, both mental and physical, arc worse inthe wet weather, and she is sensitive to cold, raw, wet weather. The gouty complaints; nervouscomplaints, prostration, cardiac complaints, dyspnoea, headaches, etc., come on in raw weather. Acongestive headache comes on in wet weather and from weather changes. Sensation as if the brainwould ooze out through the forehead and eyes."Pulsating, beating in the forehead as if it would burst". The headache is worse from stepping,especially the headaches that come at the menstrual period. Headache worse in the morning. Thismedicine in such headaches, with the symptoms I have described, shows its antidotal relation toLachesis, because < Lachesis produces all this state of prostration. In the old text-books you will noticethis expression, "Inimical to Lachesis". This means when Lachesis has been given in high potency andhas acted curatively, Ammonium carb. is not likely to act curatively after it, and is sometimes capableof disturbing the case, confusing it and mixing up the symptoms. But when Lach. has been given in toolow potency, and the patient has been poisoned with the crude medicine, this remedy then becomes anantidote, used in a high potency, because of the similarity in its action. It will overcome many of thepoisonous symptoms of the case. If you will examine the appearance of people who have been bitten bysnakes and then examine the pathogenesis of this remedy you will see a great similarity between them.It is well known that this remedy has had repeated use in snake bites. Evidently it did not save all ofthem, but it must have done something for these cases or it would not have established so great areputation for itself.Give it not as an antidote per se, but when indicated in blood- poisoning and animal bites withzymosis, with a tendency to black liquid bleeding, as in Elaps. Running through the snake poisons thereis a tendency to bleeding of black blood that will not coagulate.It has many eye symptoms. Sparks before the eyes in connection with headaches; double vision;aversion to light. "Large, black spot floats before the eyes after sewing". When these symptoms havebeen present in such a constitutional state as I have described the remedy has cured cataract; it hascured the patient and finally the crystalline lens has cleared up. Burning of the eyes, smarting eyes,blood-shot eyes.It disturbs the hearing, causing hardness of hearing and discharge of acrid fluid from the ears.