Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Aversion to mental work. Anxiety evening, until midnight. Anxiety during fever. Loquacityduring fever. Weary of life.Cosmopolitan. Tormenting, persistent thoughts during the night.Thoughts intrude and crowd upon each other during the night.These I will say are the common mental features, and have often yielded when the remedy hasbeen prescribed. Anyone who has inherited phthisis, anyone who has been in a state of debility, whohas had intermittent fever with continual relapses, and these mental symptoms are present, you maythink of Tuberc. Loquacity during fever is a common feature in hectic fever when the patient isdecidedly affected by the toxins of tuberculosis. A person gradually running down, never finding theright remedy, or relief only momentarily; has a constant desire to change, and travel, and gosomewhere, and do something different, or to find a new doctor. The desire to travel, that cosmopolitancondition of the mind belongs so strongly to the one who need Tuberc. It comes out so often in clinicalexperience, is found so often in the , and especially in , always wanting to gosomewhere. Such is the condition of those about to go into insanity, about to go into some lingeringdisease. Persons on the border-land of insanity. It is true that phthisis and insanity are convertibleconditions, the one falls into the other. Many cases that are treated and cured and phthisis of the lungshas just been turned aside, finally become insane. Persons who have been cured of insanity go intophthisis and die, showing the deep-seated character of their nature. The intellectual symptoms and thelung symptoms are interchangeable.Tuberculinum cures the most violent and the most chronic periodical sick headaches, periodicalnervous headaches Coming every week; every two weeks; and the irregular periodicity coming undercertain conditions, in damp weather, after overwork, from mental excitement, from over eating,disordered stomach---Tuberc.breaks up the tendency to this chronic periodical headache when the symptoms agree.It has been observed in the hands of good prescribers that when chronic constitutionalheadaches have been broken up sometimes the patient has a tendency to lose flesh and become feeble.An entire transformation scene takes place; a cough sets in; the headache has been removed, but thepatient is feeble.Whenever that takes place Tuberc. is a most useful remedy. A new manifestation comes; a neworgan is affected.Sore bruised feeling all over the body. Aching of the bones.Sore bruised condition of the eyeballs, sensitive to touch, and on turning the eye sideways.Persons who have long felt the weakness of tuberculosis, tubercular conditions, and are subject to coldsweat on the head. This was brought out in the provings of , and those about to go intophthisis have many times been cured by . The relationship between Tuberc.and is very close. They are interchangeable, that is, the one may be indicated for awhile and then the other. They are both deep-acting remedies--also is closely related toTuberc., on the same plane of action, going deep into the life in a similar way; , Tuberc. and, and the .In the Guiding Symptoms is a record, "Pain in the head, as if the head had a tight hoop of ironaround it", an iron band.Headache, with frequent sharp cutting pains. Headache, worse from motion. In the GuidingSymptoms, "A sullen, taciturn, irritable" condition of mind. "Screams in his sleep. Is very restless atnight. Sister died of tubercular meningitis". That symptom was given by Burnett. It has curedhydrocephalus.Many years ago Doctor Biegler cured a case of tubercular meningitis with Tuberc. In manyinstances it has cured tubercular meningitis and tubercular diseases of the brain in the early stages.The face becomes red, even to purple, during the chill, and during the heat. Aversion to allfoods. Such aversion to meat that it becomes impossible to eat it. Thirst during the chill and heat, forlarge quantities of cold water. It has cured tubercular meningitis with effusion, where the head wasgreatly enlarged.Craving for cold milk. Emptiness in the abdomen, with faint feeling. Anxiety in the abdomenand stomach, much like the sensation described. An all-gone, hungry feeling, that drives himto eat. This has been cured by Tuberc. after had failed.All know what a marked feature emaciation is in persons who are going into phthisis. Theemaciation often begins before there is any sign of phthisis, gradually losing flesh. A graduallygrowing weakness, a gradually increasing fatigue. This is a prominent place for Tuberc.---if thesymptoms agree. Always let that stand out boldly, IF , and