Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Remember, with all the inflammatory conditions there will be throbbing, heat, redness, burning,soreness to touch, and sensitiveness to a jar. With Bell. it means he cannot lie on the inflamed part;while with Bry. he is ameliorated from lying on the inflamed part.Throbbing in all the arteries. Great congestion. Vascular excitement, These are present with allthe congestions, and inflammations.Belladonna cures inflammatory rheumatism, when all the joints are swollen, or a great numberof them, and they are hot, red, and burn. We have in the rheumatism the heat, redness and burningrunning through; with the same sensitiveness of the whole patient, and a sensitiveness of the joints tothe jar of the bed.He wants to lie perfectly still, is very much worse from motion and has considerable fever.Sometimes when the fever is inflammatory rheumatism runs pretty high there is delirium. But thestriking features are, the swelling of the joints with the redness, and great sensitiveness to motion andto a jar. It is especially suitable to those that are very sensitive to cold, who cannot bear the leastuncovering, cannot bear a draft, very sensitive to the motion of the covers, and ameliorated by heat.The very stamp and character of Bell. is in its rheumatic state, like it is in all of its othercomplaints. It is the patient that has given Bell. that character in the provings; it is the patient that givesdisease that character when he has it, and it is only the fulfillment of the Law of Similars when thesecome together, and the remedy annihilates the sickness.Inflammation of the joints, coming on from sudden exposure of that particular joint. Or from asevere attack of cold on joint becomes inflamed. A trouble that is localizing itself. It may be any jointof the body, for Bell. affects all the joints. The sudden exposure to cold, in plethoric individuals, is oneof the most prominent causes of the Bell. sickness. In chronic cases the taking of cold generally locates,or creates, a disturbance, and increases disorder, that manifests itself in the weakest place.Vigorous people take cold in the nose, where they throw it off easily. You can often say tosickly patients that your cold now affects you in the weakest place. If you have liver trouble, your coldwill settle in the liver, and so on; but when you get well you will take cold like other people, in thenose". Absolutely healthy people seldom take cold, but we do not have many such, they are so rare thatwe do not often seen them; and the snuffles, and sneezing, and the running at the nose are simplythrowing off of the cold of ordinarily healthy people.In the limbs again, we have convulsions, which is part of the generals. Children go intoconvulsions with head troubles, with congestion of the brain, with irritation of the brain.Convulsions from taking cold, in plethoric children, and the limbs are most likely to show forththose convulsive efforts of the muscles. Violent cramping. All the limbs are in a state of convulsivemovements. Sometimes the spasms are clonic, and sometimes tonic. The convulsions in the limbs aresometimes such as draw them up suddenly, throw them out suddenly; sometimes convulsions thatthrow the body backward, called opisthotonos, and sometimes throwing the body forward, calledemprosthotonos.The most of the complaints in Bell. are ameliorated by keeping still. The drawing pains, thepulsations, the inflammatory conditions drive the patient into a desire for perfect rest, are aggravatedfrom motion. The disinclination and aversion to the slightest motion is common in Bell., and as strongin Bell. as in Bry. Bell. is so sensitive in parts that the motions of talking are painful; so sensitive thatthe concussion of the voice is painful in the sore spots. A person with a strong voice, a bass voice,hardly thinks of the concussion that take place; and much less is that of the female voice, and yet I'veseen that aggravation from motion, and that aggravation from jar so marked in the female that her voicewas like the pounding of hammers. In inflammation of the uterus, and ovaries, and the bowels, sherefrains from talking, because her voice creates a concussion in the sore parts. That only illustrates theextremes of this great sensitiveness to motion, and to jar. Jar is only an exaggerated form of motion,bringing out that sensitiveness.If you will study the nerves you will find the greatest array of peculiar nervous manifestations,such as sensitiveness of the nerves, aggravated from shock; spasms; various disturbances of the wholenervous system; twitching; jerking; trembling; subsultus tendinum, etc. Cramps, and spasms, andconvulsions in children. Convulsions come on with great suddenness. They come on entirelyunexpected. In most instances of convulsions in the long acting remedies and medicines of the zymotictype, the patient has not been prospering in the last days of her gestation; but with Bell. she goes onpart way through the labor, or finishes it, and little is expected. Perhaps her face is a little too red, butshe goes into a convulsion unexpectedly, a violent one from head to foot. Congestion of the brain, withexcitement. intense heat; everything is intense, violent, sudden and unexpected. The pains sometimesleave in confinement suddenly, and a convulsion comes on. But look and see that all the sensitiveness