Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

triphyllum I told you it had been pronounced "strawberry tongue". It is the same with Bell. The tonguelooks as red as a strawberry, and the papilla stick up like seeds. "Red streak in the middle of the tongue,wide and broader toward the point.Tongue, white center with red edges". White tongue with brain affections is not uncommon. Ithas thick, milk white, delicate fur all over the tongue in brain troubles. "Dryness of the mouth, withthirst". "Dryness of the mouth with no thirst". Bell. is full of thirst, we will find when we come to studythe stomach symptoms. Sometimes Bell. wants large quantities, sometimes water constantly to wet themouth, like Ars. It is a common feature in Bell., like Ars., to want water little and often. Just enough towet his parched tongue, mouth and throat. Dryness in posterior nares, and the mucus that he dragsdown from the posterior nares is tough and stringy, and very scanty, and it is white; or if changed at allfrom white, it is bloody. Yet I have not said anything about this remedy for bloody discharges and forbleeding. We will find before we finish that it is a haemorrhagic remedy, that parts bleed easily. Thereis bleeding from the eyes, bleeding from the nose, bleeding from the throat, bleeding from the larynx,bleeding from the chest, bleeding from the bladder, bleeding from the uterus. Ulcers bleed. Little fineulcers in the throat no bigger than a pin-head. Little aphthous patches bleed. An aphthous inflammationof the throat; but the most of the complaints of the throat are dry and red. Great tumefaction. Extremelysensitive; much swelling; inability to swallow. Great pain on swallowing, with all the sensitivity of thesurrounding parts, with the sore throat, and with the inflamed throat. Inflammation and swelling of thetonsils, with red face, intense heat, throbbing carotids, high fever, coming on from cold. Fauces andpharynx deep red. Soft palate and tonsils swollen. Swallowing painful, particularly of fluids. Speechthick. "Feels like a lump in the throat"---that is from the swollen tonsils. Constant scraping andhawking in the throat. The pharynx and larynx are very commonly in a state of spasm; partly fromdryness, partly from extreme sensitiveness of the nerves of the part. Clutching of the throat on going tosleep, clutching of throat on coughing. Spasms of the esophagus. "Spasmodic constriction on thethroat". Constrictions that are spasmodic.Constrictions of the larynx, of the pharynx, of the throat. Bell.has constrictive pains in parts that feel like the clutch of fingers. That sensation of clutching isfelt in the uterus; it is a spasm. It is felt in the liver; it is felt in the brain; it is felt in the throat. Jerkingand twitching of muscles, with violent pain, in painful parts. That is a strong Bell. feature.Patients sometimes in their inability to describe their feelings will say, "Doctor, I feel aclutching in there".This constriction that comes in the sore throat occurs just in the act of swallowing fluids orsolids, and that action will force the food and fluids up into the nose, and sometimes out of the nose.Some remedies; have it as a paralytic condition, because the muscles of deglutition are paralyzed andthey do not favor the natural contracting actions to force the food down the esophagus, and in that waythe food is forced up into the nose and causes strangling. In Bell., in its acute states, its inflammatoryconditions and its spasms would distinguish it from Lachesis, where it occurs as a paralytic conditionafter diphtheria, and from Alumina, which has a spasm of the esophagus.These are slow in coming on, Bell. is early. The early part of the fever is the time of itsirritation. The latter part of the fever is the time of its relaxation. Rapidly forming aphthous patchesupon the tonsils. With the sore throat such as we have described you will nearly always find anenlargement and inflammation, or soreness of the glands, under the jaws about the neck. Tendernessalong with a Belladonna sore throat is a natural concomitant.A strange feature running through the Bell. fevers of all sorts is an unconquerable craving forlemons, and lemon-juice.Lemonade seems to agree sometimes. In acute diseases when they crave lemon it is good forthem. They often crave things to eat.You must not be so violently temperate and in favor of prohibition that if a patient longs forbeer in acute sufferings you will not give it. "Thirst for water changed into thirst for Beer". Thirst forthings that could not be endorsed in health, even. "Excessive thirst for cold water".In the stomach and bowels we have inflammatory conditions which can all be grouped as one.Pain, burning, distress, distension; sensitive to a jar, and to the slightest motion, and to the slightestpressure. Sensitive to a jar, and sensitive to motion. "Pain in the stomach extending through to thespine".Inflammation of the stomach from becoming chilled, with intense heat; with much burning. Ithas violent colic, intense cramping pain in children. Face red and hot; pain relieved only by bendingforward. There are exceptional instances where it has been relieved by bending backward, when it issimilar to Dioscorea.