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The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

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Full text <strong>of</strong> "<strong>The</strong> <strong>Science</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>rapeutics: According to the Principles <strong>of</strong> Homeopath...Page 324 <strong>of</strong> 653X880 Diseases <strong>of</strong> the Heart.■with tuberculosis. Arnica is indicated very nearly by similar conditions. If the palpitation is excited by a fit <strong>of</strong> anger or vexatin the case <strong>of</strong> very nervous persons and children, we give Chamomilla. If excited by a violent fright, or if attended with soporrestlessness, the face being livid or pallid, we give Opium in asmall dose. C<strong>of</strong>fea is indicated by nocturnal palpitation <strong>of</strong> the hwith great weariness and a constant change <strong>of</strong> position, with apeculiar anxiousness, after too copious a meal, or after imbibingardent spirits. Chlorotic individuals require Pulsatilla, If thetients do not smoke, or to female patients, smoking <strong>of</strong>ten aftbrdsrapid and essential relief, and constitutes one <strong>of</strong> the best palliLittle paper-cigarettes are best adapted to such palliative purpoIf any one should be disposed to doubt the homoeopathicity <strong>of</strong> thidrug, let him read one <strong>of</strong> the many published essays on the etFect<strong>of</strong> tobacco.Pulmonary hypersemia or rather pulmonary congestion does notoccur very frequently, but is very distressing. If emanating fromthe left heart, Aconitum will most generally relieve it completelJSelladonna has never seemed <strong>of</strong> much use in this complaint ; Armmand Cannabis may do some good. [Likewise Veratrum viride, H.]If the pulmonary congestion is traceable to the right heart. Digitalis generally proves a sovereign remedy to which BeUadonna^Pulsatilla^ Carbo vegetabilis are essentially inferior.Cerebral congestions which are sometimes excessive, are likewisefrequent accompaniments <strong>of</strong> cardiac hypertrophy, especially hypertrophy <strong>of</strong> the left ventricle. Here, too, Aconite is one <strong>of</strong> the moefficient remedies. We prefer Opium if the head feels excessivelyconstricted, the complexion is dark-red, and the anxiety and restlessness extreme. We should never resort to Belladonna in such acase. If the congestion originates in hypertrophy <strong>of</strong> the right vetricle, Belladonna is sometimes useful ; Digitalis^ however, affirelief more efficiently and promptly.<strong>The</strong> characteristic headache accompanying hypertrophy <strong>of</strong> theheart, and resembling hemicrania, can scarcely ever be relieved.If such a headache is attended with, and perhaps caused by, hypersemia, the remedies which we have indicated previously, will haveto be depended upon. If the headache is unaccompanied by congestive symptoms, we advise Digitalis^ Arsenic or Spigelia,In the fourth place we must try to meet the hypertrophy by allproper remedies. We are aware that to many the abatement andBtill more the cure <strong>of</strong> an hypertrophy <strong>of</strong> the heart seems an imDilatatio Cordis. 881http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt

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