Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Relaxation will soon follow. It is not to be expected that she will have an easy labor, becausewomen who marry at 28 or 30, or later, suffer from prolonged labor.There is one strong feature of the hemorrhages, and of the discharges; the flow of blood feelshot. During confinement gushes of blood that feel hot. After abortion, gushes of blood that feel hot. Alochial discharge that feels hot, along with the sensitiveness and soreness of the parts. Tenderness topressure.There are inflammatory conditions of the breasts accompanying confinement. Milk fever. Whenthe breasts become red, extremely sensitive to touch. She cannot turn over in bed; she cannot have thebed jarred, the face is flushed, and the carotids are throbbing; there is fever; the sensitivity is arousedthroughout the economy. Great induration; hard as a stone. Bell. will stop the pain in the breast in a fewhours. It will stop that congestion, and will relieve all sufferings.When the mammary glands are inflamed without any general symptoms symptoms, but merelyan inflammation of the glands give Phytolacca.Inflammation of the larynx. There is that clutching again, and choking. It begins with a rawnessin the throat, a smarting and scraping, and the formation of a little mucus. After much scraping andhawking it extends up the throat a little; but before he begins to cough it is quite dry. There is smarting,and loss of voice. As soon as he attempts to go into a sleep, that clutch comes on and wakes him weep.Hoarseness and rawness and clutching in the throat. Laryngitis with sensitiveness. "Sudden attacks ofhoarseness;" every motion, or the slightest attempt to talk the slightest effort to move the larynx or totouch it causes suffering. Moving the head backward, or moving the head from side to side, causes painand cough. Swallowing aggravates.As the bolus goes down behind the larynx he feels a great big sore place, it is the larynx. Thevoice changes. One minute it is one key, and in another it changes. Sometimes it is hoarse andsometimes it is squeaky. And then, there is complete loss of voice, unable to utter a sound. "Croup-likespasms in the larynx.Spasms of the glottis. All the symptoms of croup", but no membrane. It is simply a dry,denuded larynx, with rawness and scraping; an inflamed condition. And this is the form of the acutelaryngitis; it comes on very suddenly. His respiration is short, rapid and painful. Often asthmatic.Asthmatic condition, with spasmodic breathing. And again, these symptoms seem to involve the wholechest. Oppression of the chest. Asthma in hot damp weather.The Belladonna cough comes on from clutching in the larynx. As if a little speck of somethinghad crept into the larynx; a little dust, or a little food, or a drop of water had gotten into the larynx, andhe coughs. "Dry, spasmodic cough:" An intense cough. Cough at night. Cough when lying down, moreat night than in the daytime. The cough is spasmodic, barking, short. It is a remedy for whoopingcough, with spasms of the larynx which cause the whoop and difficulty of breathing. Finally after longcoughing, the expectoration of a little blood, or a little thin white mucus, is the result of the violentturmoil going on in the air passages from coughing. The Belladonna cough is peculiar. As soon as itsgreat violence and the great effort have raised a little mucus he gets peace for a little while, and stopscoughing. But during the restful period the larynx and the trachea and the air passages grow drier anddrier, and finally they commence to tickle, and then comes on the spasm, as if all the air passages weretaking part in it, and the whoop and the gagging, and sometimes vomiting. Then he gets up a littlemucus and the cough subsides. Another little interval and he has another spell. That is the way it goeson, like whooping cough, but during all of the interim there is constant dryness. Hence the cough iscalled paroxysmal.Tightness in the chest. Painfulness in the chest. Soreness in the chest. In Bell. the child will crythe instant it feels that urging to cough, because it knows what a great suffering is going to take place.The chest is so painful, the child dreads the cough and screams. By the child's cry we know that it isgoing to have a coughing spell. Just like Bry., Hepar and Phos., which have that feature more thanother remedies. There is burning in the chest; violent congestion in the chest. With all of these chestcomplaints there is that dry, harassing, spasmodic cough; worse at night.This remedy cures pneumonia and pleurisy. I am sure every one here could picture a Belladonnapneumonia, or a Belladonna pleurisy. I am sure you know the patient so well that I need not describethe patient, the head, the congestion, the red face, or the burning; but in pleurisy I will tell you itssecret. Bell.prefers the right side. Great pain; extreme soreness of the part; cannot lie on it; worse from thejar of the bed and you have the Bell. pleurisy. Bry. also prefers the right side, but the Bry.patient must lie on that side; must have pressure, and is not so sensitive to a jar; he has not theintense heat, he has not the great throbbing, and the burning. Every kind of sickness that you go to youhave to individualize in that way. There is no other way to practice Homeopathy.