Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

"Nose feels obstructed as in dry coryza". With nearly all of these nose affections, the patient isbowed down with sorrow, full of grief; black clouds hang over him and he wants to die.Loathing of life and wants to find some way to commit suicide."Puffy under eyes". "Blue about nose and lips". "Face glowing red". "Violent boring in rightzygomatic progress when walking"."Carious teeth". "Toothache at night". "Foul breath". "Syphilitic ulcers in palate and throat"."Boring in hard palate". This medicine has cured craving for alcohol, the craving of drunkards.Another marked feature of this medicine is its ability to harden, enlarge and inflame the liver;induration with cardiac affections; enlargement of the heart and liver. When you take into considerationthe venous system, the portal system and its close association with the heart in establishing thecirculation of blood in the abdomen, and the work that it does in the abdomen as a great receivingapparatus, you will not be surprised to find that heart and liver affections are associated withhopelessness and despair. Notice, on the other hand, something that will set you to thinking perhaps, incases of phthisis, none of them is hopeless, they think they. are going to get well; the lungs are almostgone with tubercles, but he knows if he could only get up that little something out of the throat hewould get, well.Notice then that peculiar relation between the lungs and the understanding, and between theheart and the will. With every little trouble located in the heart there comes hopelessness, but when themanifestation of disease is in the lungs there is hopefulness.Dropsical conditions of the abdomen. "Inguinal hernia". "Tabes mesenterica". All of the glandsof the body are involved more or less. All sorts of disturbances of the sexual organs. "Testesindurated". "Frequent nightly emissions". Complaints as the result of vices. "Hydrocele". "Ulcers onscrotum after gonorrhea". "Burning and stinging in perineum". "Condylomata around anus"."Induration of uterus". "Menses too late and scanty". "Uterus prolapsed and indurated". "Leucorrhoeathick white". Complaints in the uterus and region of the pelvis from straining and reaching up the arms;abortion from reaching up at the windows and fixing a curtain, etc. Aurum is a medicine that is suitablefor induration of the uterus and ulceration of the uterus as a result of repeated abortions. When youstudy the loss of affections that is involved in such a state and the affections or lack of affections thatare found in Aurum you can see a deep well-grounded similitude in the symptoms, and that is the wayto hunt for a remedy. It is in the sphere of the physician to examine into this state of mankind in whichhe can destroy his offspring and to examine into the nature of remedies producing such a state. We seein Aurum this entire perversion of all the loves of mankind, and finally their entire destruction.The symptoms of asthma and difficult breathing you would naturally expect to be associatedwith the cardiac affections.Notice this also, that the difficult breathing is of two kinds, such breathing as involves the lung,and such breathing as involves the heart. So it is we have an asthmatic condition of dyspnoea that iscardiac in character, and dyspnoea that is purely respiratory. These are entirely distinct in character;one belongs to such remedies as have a predominance of action on the affections, and anotherbelonging to those having a predominance of action on the intelligence; one will involve the lung andfinally bring on emphysema; the other one entirely different in its character, with irregular heart action,and only secondarily associated with emphysema. Study your pathology with these things in mind andyou will be able to perceive the nature of sickness and its results. These things are not mereobservation, whims and theories, but are the outcome of studying things from internal to external.In this remedy the pains wander from joint to joint and finally locate in the heart. Anginapectoris is often the ending of an old rheumatism that has wandered from joint to joint."Difficult breathing". If the case goes on a little while, there will be blood spots, and if he lie onthe right side the lower part will be dull on percussion and the upper part will be resonant. Palpitationwith great agony. Extreme oppression in the region of the heart on walking fast and going upstairs withedema of the lower limbs.AURUM MURIATICUM [aur-m] [Kent’s]This remedy exercises a profound action upon the mind and body. The patients suffering fromlatent syphilis are over- sensitive to it, and often require it in their complaints. It has many bonesymptoms and pains and they are worse at night. Its catarrhal condition is very much like that found inold cases of syphilis, such as had long treatment with Mercury and Iodides. It is a rheumaticconstitution also and is useful in acute and chronic rheumatism. It has cured rheumatic fever where thejoints have been mostly affected but are now better and the heart is the principal seat of suffering.Many complaints are associated with cardiac disease. Dropsical states from heart disease, from liver