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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopathy"Page 56 of 653after the morbid symptoms have e^cisted, the aforesaid remedies wno longer be applicable and the constitutional condition generallwill have to be acted upon by corresponding remedies. The remedies mentioned in the preceding chapter under *'a" will often befound indicated."If at the time of the menses they do not appear, and violentabdominal spasms occur, we commend Cocculus as the most suitableremedy, especially if the spasms are accompanied by anxiety andoppression of the chest, moaning and groaning, a paralytic sort,weakness, so that the patient is unable to utter a loud word, andher extremities have lost all powder or are convulsively agitatedand the pulse is scarcely perceptible. Cuprum accticam^ or stillter metallicumy acts very similarly to Cocculus. It is particularapplicable in typical paroxysms of the most violent kind, consistof unbearable abdominal spasms aft'ecting even the chest, causingloathinii:, gagging, and even vomiting, aff*ecting at the same tithe extremities with epileptiform spasms during which the patientutters a piercing cry." The following remedies likewise deserve commendation : Valerianay Platina^ Ignatia^ Belladonna^ Magncs arcticuSy 31ezereicm^Digitalis." If those remedies do not restore the memos, the physician willMenstrual Anomalies. 57then have to resort to the so-called antipsoric remedies, more pacularly Magnesia carbonica and muriatica^ Sulphur^ Sepia^ Zincum^Silicea, Lycopodium^ Graphites^ Addwn nitricum^ which may evenbe employed if the menstrual suppression causes no further troubl"We do not share Hartmann's opinion in this respect. Medicinesshould never be given except where actual morbid manifestationsseem to indicate their use ; the non-appearance of the menses somtimes is a means, on the part of Nature, to increase, or at leasteconomize the strength of the organism."In the treatment of delaying menses we have to follow thesame rules and maxims that have been laid down for menstrualsuppression. A suppression or delay of the menses often causesabdominal spasms and other difficulties for which Pulsatilla is aexcellent remedy. We likewise recommend Cicuta, Terebinthina^Zincum (especially when menstrual suppression is attended with apainful swelling of the breasts); Calcarea carbonica (likewise fomenstrual suppression, attended with marked symptoms of plethora) ; Graphites (when the menses delay too long, and the patiecomplains of hoarseness, headache, bloating of the feet, chillinebearing-down pains in the small of the back) ; Natrum muriaticum(if the menses delay too long and are very scanty); Strontiana (ithe menses delay too long, and afterwards, when appearing, looklike flesh- water and pass off in the shape of coagula) ; Sarsapa(when the menses delay, are too scanty and acrid), etc."These few indications may show that a good Repertory is thebest means of securing the selection of the proper remedy. As regards external applications, we do not approve of them ; their usfulness is questionable, and in many respects they are decidedlyhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt