Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

We have had scorbutic, catarrhal condition of the nose, such as described. Discharge from thenose acrid. "Severe pain as if the brain were forcing itself out just above nose". "Nose-bleed whenwashing face or hands in morning". It has many complaints from bathing, and a prominent feature isthat the skin is covered with red, mottled spots after bathing. Bathing produces surging all over, hereand there, as well as nose-bleed. Palpitation is worse from bathing.In the throat we have an appearance like malignant scarlet fever. diphtheria and other zymoticstates; purple, swollen, ulcerated and bleeding, and gangrenous, accompanied by great exhaustion, withenlarged tonsils and glands. The glands outside of the throat and neck are enlarged and felt as lumps. Indiphtheria, when the nose is stopped, the child starts from sleep gasping for breath. Here again weobserve its relation to Lachesis and the ophidia, for soon after the patient drops to sleep he wakes upsuffocating. In diphtheria, in chest troubles with great prostration, the patient is worse after sleep.Menses too soon. "The menstrual blood is blackish, often in clots". The leucorrhoea is acrid."Violent tearing in abdomen and vagina". "Irritation of clitoris". Swelling of the genitals. Now let metell you something not mentioned here but important, and that is a sensation of soreness in the wholepelvic viscera; at times it seems as if all here inner parts were raw. It is a sensation of soreness; notalways sore to the touch. This sensation of deep-seated soreness is especially felt during menstruation.All through the menstrual period soreness and rawness. "Menses premature, abundant, blackish, oftenin clots, preceded by griping and colic".The remedy is full of catarrhal symptoms and cough, with much rattling of mucus in the chestand air passages. Oppression of breathing, a catarrhal dyspnoea. Especially is this a remedy, when thesymptoms agree, in hypostatic congestion of the lungs, a filling up of the chest with mucus which it isdifficult to expel; great rattling in the chest and great weakness. It is a good palliative in the last stagesof consumption. A dose of Ammonium carb. when there is great coldness, prostration and weakness inthe chest. It is not unlike that sensation of weakness in the chest which is like Stannum. He can hardlycough out loud, and because of the weakness he cannot expel the mucus, like Ant. tart. Short asthmaticcough.The complaints of this remedy come on especially at three o'clock in the morning. The coughcomes on at that time. Old people who suffer from catarrh of the chest have an aggravation at threeo'clock in the morning with the palpitation and prostration, waking up at that hour with cold sweat anddyspnoea.Almost pulseless; weakness of the heart. Face pale and cold."Great lassitude". Defective reaction with, or at the close of, severe zymotic troubles, typhoid,diphtheria, scarlet fever, erysipelas, etc. In those complaints that should come to a crisis, if the patientgoes into a state of great exhaustion under remedies fairly well selected, you have an instance wherethis medicine competes with Arsenicum for the nervous prostration. You see "heart failure" spoken ofin old school literature. They say the patient got along very nicely, but finally died of heart failure. In agreat many instances if Ammonium carb. were given in time it would save life."Averse to walking in open air". "Children dislike washing".The warmth of the bed relieves the rheumatic pains, relieves the chill. "In a warm room theheadache is better". "From washing reappearance of the symptoms; nose-bleed; blue hands; swollenveins". "Worse in cold air".We come now to the appearance of the skin: "Body red as if covered with scarlatina". "Putridflat ulcers with a pungent sensation". "Malignant scarlatina with somnolence, starting from sleep"."Erysipelas of old people when cerebral symptoms are developed". Whenever treating a severe form ofdisease and an eruption comes to the surface, like a carbuncle or erysipelas, and does not give relief tothe patient then there is danger. A remedy must be found soon. When a patient is coming down withsevere internal troubles it is not a very uncommon thing for unhealthy looking boils to come out, orcarbuncles or erysipelas blotches. It is always serious when these are not immediately followed byrelief to the patient. It shows a pernicious state that has been pent up and cannot be held any longer andthis violence is going to destroy. This is one of the remedies that you may look for to check theprogress of such states. Any remedy, of course, which corresponds to the totality of the symptoms isthe remedy to administer.AMMONIUM MURIATICUM [am-m] [Kent’s]The patient frequently feels a boiling throughout the body as if in the blood vessel. Sensitive tocold. Many complaints increase while in the open air. Flushes of heat, ending in sweat.Tearing pains and smarting prevail extensively. Burning and excoriation of mucous membranes.Drawing or sensation of shortening of tendons. It is a long-acting remedy. There are few reliablemental symptoms known. Anxiety, fretfulness and antipathy to certain persons. Neuralgic and