Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

een treated by the allopath, or by a nervous homeopath. A nervous homeopath is one who does notwait for his own convictions to be ultimate, does not wait for his remedy to work, and he gives anotherand another, and by the time the scarlet fever runs its course the patient becomes dreadfully sick, endsup with ear troubles, enlarged glands and sometimes kidney affections. When it runs into ear troublesand enlarged glands of the neck this is one of the several remedies to be studied."Paralysis of the tongue in old people. Weakness of the tongue in old people. Hardness of thetongue in old people". Premature old age and giving out of muscles.There is a catarrhal state in this remedy, an accumulation of mucus in the nose, throat, larynxand trachea. It is very suitable for old people who have rattling in the trachea. On every cold change ofthe weather, and on every exposure to the cold, he gets an additional aggravation of the rattling.Rattling respiration. There are a few remedies that have, in such high degree, this coarse rattling in thechest of old people, that it is well to emphasize it. Baryta carb. is one of them. Senega, Ammoniacumand Baryta Muriatica should be compared. When there is coarse rattling in the chest all the time in anold person, an octogenarian, who is pretty comfortable in summer, but miserable all winter from thecoarse rattling in the chest, and there are no other symptoms, Ammoniacum will keep him comfortable.The sore throat in this remedy has numerous symptoms."Inflammation of cellular tissues of fauces and tonsils". This remedy is one in general catarrhalsymptoms of the throat.Granulations of the throat, so that the pharynx looks shiny, studded with coarse granulesbecoming inflamed with every cold spell, or from being-chilled. Every cold change inflames thetonsils, and in children they very soon enlarge. Children with enlarged tonsils, and with enlarged glandsin other places, somewhat dwarfish intellectually, slow to learn---Baryta carb.will cure the enlarged tonsils. But these, you see, are constitutional symptoms. You are notselecting the remedy purely an enlarged tonsils. "Inflammation of the tonsils". The inflammation is notso violent as that which comes in Bell., it does not come on in a night, it does not go on rapidly tosuppuration; but it is a very sore throat,. has come on slowly after many days of exposure and there isgradual growth and gradual development. That is the character of the Baryta carb..tonsillitis; while that of Bell. comes on with great rapidity.Hepar is also rapid and goes on to suppuration. There is a remedy for inflammation of thetonsils where the ear is involved and is ameliorated by heat, that very few use, but it is of great value; itis Chamomilla, and it is especially indicated if the patient is irritable. The pain is ameliorated by heatand comes on with great violence. It might be mistaken for a Bell. inflammation, but Cham. cures itpermanently. "Sensation of plug in the throat;" that is, the tonsils are so large they feel like a great ballor great lump in the throat. They change the character of the voice, cause difficulty. "Much burning inthe throat.Inability to swallow anything but liquids". This irritation keeps up a constant choking andspasmodic constriction in the throat; contractions, and drawings, and crampings in the throat. It also hasa spasm in the esophagus when swallowing especially in old nervous, or prematurely broken-downpeople. "Spasm in the esophagus. Difficulty in swallowing". The bolus of food goes down a little way,and then causes spasms, and he gags and chokes.This gagging and choking with a little food is a very strong feature in Kali c., Graph. and Merc.cor. This is also a strong feature of Baryta carb., but much stronger in Merc.cor .The troubles of eating and drinking and appetite and stomach can all be run together. There isweakness of digestion. All sorts of disorders and disagreeable sensations in the stomach after eating.Sometimes gastralgia; sometimes distension."Stomach aches after eating". Extreme weakness after eating.Abdomen hard and tense. "Mesenteric glands swollen and hard; with a big belly; abdominalmuscles sore to touch". It has cured, in the early stages, tabes mesenterica. It has cured the enlargedabdomen of children, when there was emaciation of the limbs, emaciation everywhere, knots ofenlarged glands and a dwarfed intellect.Baryta carb. has an inveterate constipation. "Difficult, knotty stools. Stool hard, andinsufficient". A lack of action in the rectum, and haemorrhoidal protrusion during stool and urination.Of the male sexual organs we have some strange features. This medicine takes away all sexualdesire and ability, leaving the genitals relaxed, and in a state of impotency. "Relaxed penis.Impotence. Diminished sexual desire. Hypertrophied prostate.Atrophied testicles". It cures old gleety discharge from the urethra. An old, painless, whitish,gleety discharge that has been in existence a long time. U is an offensive discharge and there is noinflammation. "Numbness of the genitals".