Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Violent rush of blood to the head, congestion of the head with coldness of the extremities. Headfeels as if packed with ice, feels as if ice lay on the vertex and occiput ,1 tension in the headif the membranes were drawn tighter about the brain; compressive pains.I remember a farmer who consulted me in the Summer. He had a strange sensation when hedrank water, as if it ran down the outside and did not go down the oesophagus. It was so marked that herequested his friends to see if it did not run down the outside. Veratrum 2m. cured him. No remedy hasproduced that sensation, but I figured it out by analogy.Violent thirst for cold water and for ice. "All fruits cause painful distension of the stomach"."Vomiting forcible and excessive. Nausea with weakness; is obliged to lie down; hystericalcramps in the stomach; cramps in the muscles of the abdomen like colic. Gastric catarrh, greatweakness, cold, sudden sinking".Full of rheumatic and neuralgic pains in the extremities; worse from the warmth of the bed; theydrive him out of bed at night into the cold room and he must walk the floor for relief.You would naturally suppose that heat would be comforting; so it is at times to the abdomenand other parts when there is coldness, but it aggravates the pains ()."Painful paralytic weakness in the limbs"."Chill and heat alternating, now here, now there, on single parts. Internal sensation of chillinessrunning from head to toes coming on when drinking". Many of the complaints of Veratrum areaggravated when drinking.Burning while in cold sweat. In the chronic mental troubles, the skin is dusky and dry with theexception of that on the forehead. But in acute complaints where physical symptoms predominate, as indysmenorrhoea, acute insanity, etc., there is profuse sweat.Gnawing hunger in spite of nausea and vomiting. Empty, all- gone feeling in the abdomen afterstool.VESPA VULGARIS [vespa] [Kent’s]A young man in perfect health was stung by a large number of wasps. Frequent convulsionsfollowed, involving all the muscles of the body, with loss of consciousness; the convulsionsdisappeared after three years, leaving him subject to attacks of unconsciousness when walking about.He often, starts to go somewhere and finds himself several blocks beyond the place he started for.The period of unconsciousness lasts several minutes. He does not fall nor does he drop thingswhich he happens to hold in his hands.If spoken to he does not answer nor seem to hear or notice anything; he looks into space. Whenhe comes to himself, he has no memory of the moments that have passed; he is as bright as ever. Hehas no warning of the coming spell A friend remarked that his eyes were glassy and blood shot, and helooked as though he had no sense.When standing upon the platform of a street car, he was noticed to grasp the iron railing andlook wild; two men standing near him undertook to loosen his hands and put him in a seat, but theycould not force him to let loose until he came to himself, and then he needed no aid. It was thought thathe continued to grasp the railing about ten minutes, but time flies under excitement, and no one hastimed this period.He becomes sick and faint near a warm stove or in a close room; often gets up and leaves aclose warm room to prevent vomiting; craves cold washing of hand and face which makes him feelbetter. Anger or excitement will bring on a spell.The usual antidotes have helped for a while, and then the symptoms have returned with aboutthe same general features.Mentally he is not strong, and the tendency is to grow weaker.WYETHIA HELENOIDES [wye] [Kent’s]When in the autumn our hay-fever patients report to us with violent symptoms of coryza, greatdepression of spirits, symptoms worse in the afternoon, easy sweat and languor, extreme dryness of themucous membranes of nose, mouth and throat, with burning acrid copious flow of mucus, constantswallowing, itching of the soft palate, and compelled to scratch it with the tongue, Wyethia will curefor the season, and it has cured permanently in some cases.ZINCUM PHOSPHORICUM [zinc-p] [Kent’s]The times of aggravation of this remedy are , forenoon, .