Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

pressure from within out. All these headaches are relieved by pressure upon the outside. Sudden touchor pressure will aggravate; but pressure that is gradually increased and brought to bear carefully uponthe head will ameliorate, like the pressure of a bandage, or a tight-fitting cap. Again, all of theseheadaches are brought on by exposure to the cold air; from standing in the cold air with the headuncovered. Sometimes a severe headache will come on from merely having the hair cut. Congestion ofthe head lasts for days, with throbbing and pulsating; from having the haircut. Ear troubles, chestcomplaints, rheumatic rheumatic complaints come on from having the hair cut, or from standing in thecool air with the hat off; so sensitive is the head to cold. It may be said of this remedy that complaintsof various parts of the body come through the head and go downward. Complaints in the lowerextremities, rheumatic complaints of the joints, with great redness and swelling, come on fromuncovering the head, from exposure of the head, or from getting the head wet, or from being caught ina shower. There is one complaint which will puzzle you if you ever meet it and you do not know justwhat I am going to tell you. The complaints of Bell. in a general way are ameliorated from rest, andaggravated from motion; but there is a kind of restlessness with tearing pain from the hips down, mosttroublesome to observe, that keeps the patient walking all of the time. The instant there is rest the painscome on. They sometimes shoot downwards, they sometimes tear up and down the nerves; and thiscomes on from exposure of the head, and not from getting the feet wet. Complaints of Aconite andPulsatilla come on from getting the feet wet, and these complaints rise upwards, come on through thefeet and go upwards and affect the head. Bell. complaints come on from exposure of the head and godownwards; sometimes affect the head, sometimes the chest, sometimes the stomach, sometimes centerin the abdomen, sometimes center in the uterus and ovaries. Rhus has complaints from getting wet, butthe complaints are in the parts that are wet. If he gets the legs wet he will have rheumatism in the legs.There is a vast distinction, and this distinction has to be made in almost every prescription you willmake. Homeopathy is a matter of individualization as to how complaints spread. Some complaintsbegin on the right side of the body and spread to the left. Some complaints begin in the top of the bodyand go downwards. That is the way this remedy acts.In some remedies the exposure of the feet to an ice cold draft will bring on headache (Silica.);but in Bell. the exposure will bring on a headache, or neuralgia of the lower extremities. Now that painthat comes on from rest is an exception in Bell. That illustrates again the importance of distinguishingvery decidedly between generals and particulars. Without knowing "generals" and "particulars" youwill never do accurate prescribing. The lower extremities here are the particulars. The patient and thegeneral condition of the patient are ameliorated by rest; the symptoms of the patient are ameliorated byrest. All of those symptoms that can be predicted of the patient himself are ameliorated by rest, but thepains of the lower limbs, as described, those neuralgic pains are ameliorated by motion, and come on inrest. That does not mean that all the pains in the lower extremities are ameliorated by motion, becausethe pains in rheumatism are invariably ameliorated by rest, and aggravated by motion. Those tearingpains, from the hips downwards, with no swelling, come on during rest. All remedies are full of freaks,and it is the figuring out of these peculiarities that enables us to do good prescribing.With all the complaints of Bell. do not lose sight of the congestion upwards. "Rush of blood tothe head. Cold extremities". Cold feet, cold hands; hot head.Inflammatory conditions of the eyes. "Glistening eyes. Dilated pupils. Flushed face, Intenseredness of the inflamed part".Inflammation of all the tissues of the eyes, the lids, and all the parts of the eyeball, with mostviolent pain. Heat, redness, and burning. These three strong features that run through the remedy willbe found in the eye sufferings. Pulsation, tumefaction, lachrymation; intense pains; sufferings all worsefrom motion, and worse from light. Most intense photophobia."Flashes of light and flickerings before the eyes". When reading, lines appear crooked."Dimness of vision, or actual blindness".Intense congestion and fullness of all the parts. "Apoplexy of the retina. Half-opened,protruding, staring eyes". You will see that in the infant when the child lies in a stupor; eyes half open;congestion of the brain; face flushed and intensely hot; rolling the head from side to side if it has beengoing on for several days the face will later become pallid, and the neck drawn back. In thesecongestive troubles, lying with the eyes half open; almost no winking. "Orbital neuralgias. Protrudingeyes, with dilated pupils. Inflammation of the optic nerve and retina. Eyes congested and red". Anotherfeature belonging to the eye is strabismus. Not those cases coming on gradually, such as will need thesurgeon, but those that come on with congestion of the brain, with this state of congestion and dilatedpupils and rolling the head from side to side, flushed face, throbbing carotids and intense heat. After aday or two the eye begins to turn in, and the little one is cross-eyed. That is an additional indication forBell. Sometimes, coming out of a severe congestion, the strabismus remains and Bell. is sometimes the