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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 54 of 65354 Diseases of the Female Sexual Organs.tient will have to take a good deal of exercise in the open air,more vegetablethan animal diet, more liquids than usual, and spenher time as much as possible in cheerful company." If the above-mentioned symptoms become more severe and continuous ; if the rush of blood is more violent, causing anxiety,pitation of the heart, constant heat, a restless sleep full of drand interrupted by sudden starts ; if the face looks brightthe pathognomonic signs of cerebral hypersemia and congestion ofthe thoracic organs become manifest: we resort to the remediesthat have been indicated for such conditions in their respectivechapters. One of the leading remedies is undoubtedly Pulsatilla^especially if the congestive symptoms of the head and chest areaccompanied by signs of abdominal and uterine congestion, as if astone were oppressing the uterus, and. the patient complains ofchilliness, stretching of the extremities, yawning and other febrsymptoms. Chamornilla and Veratrum may likewise be indicatedby a certain train of symptoms. The above-mentioned dietetic ruleshold not be neglected while these medicines are used. Belladonnamay be added to this group of remedies as one of its most prominent membera. Whsreas Chamomilla is very seldom indicated,Veratrum and Belladonna will often be required, the former if thefunctional activity of the heart is very much impaired, as indicaby paleness of the countenance, great chilliness or constant altenation of chilliness and heat, anxious feelings ; the latter if sof cerebral congestion prevail, with bright redness of the face,gether in individuals of full habit."The so-called anti-psorics here come undoubtedly into play,since this physiological act is transformed into a pathological dturbance only if a constitutional disease prevails whose symptomsare still very obscure and undeveloped. If such a disease evidentexists, it will have to be met by its appropriate remedies, otherwe may resort to Sepia^ ConiuMy Magnesia and Lycopodium." If the young woman has reached the age of pubescence andfeels otherwise quite well, although the menses do not show theleast sign of making their appearance: the physician would commita great wrong if he were to drench the organism with medicines ;his duty will be to leave Nature alone in determining the periodthe appearance of the menses, more particularly if the organismshows signs of being backward in its development. It is only ifthe organism is sufficiently developed and the young woman's agejustifies the expectation that the menses ought to appear, that iMenstrual Anomalies. 55proper to hasten this process by the employment of suitable remedies, more particularly of the anti-psorics. Nevertheless, we docommence the treatment with this class of remedies, but give in tfirst place Pulsatilla and, if the indications are satisfactory,the dose rather frequently, more particularly in cases where thenon-appearance of the menses causes, without any other bodily ailments, an excessive nervous irritability, whining, peevish, timordisposition, paleness of the face and great flabbiness of the mushttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt