Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

something in the human race. Things are so adjusted that everything is for use. There may beconditions in the human race that we, as yet, know no remedy for.We see certain groups of peculiar symptoms frequently repeat themselves and we know they arerepresentatives of a state of the economy, but up to this day we may not have seen in the MateriaMedica their counterpart. In medicines we have the exact counterpart for the diseases of the humanrace.Now this remedy has a state and condition that is sometimes called the gouty constitution, theuraemic or the lithaemic constitution and those cases are very difficult to manage, as the state is sopersistent. It is one of the manifestations of psora. These patients suffer more or less from irregularityin the action of the kidneys; sometimes the urine is scanty and then they suffer from bodily complaints;again the urine is copious and then they are relieved of their complaints. They are subject to rheumaticattacks and pains in the joints, showing the gouty constitution, and then they have relief when the urineis copious and heavily laden with deposits; but on comes an attack when they have more or less urine,but it is light in specific gravity, and then they are full of pains; in that way they fluctuate. Now, theyoung prescriber will sometimes see the patient when he is passing large quantities of uric acid formingthe red pepper deposits and he thinks he must stop that; his main idea is to check that one particularthing. But the patient is a great deal better off while he has it. To check it is like suppressing a skineruption, or restraining any other manifestation of disease.It will be noticed, as one of the foremost things in this remedy's manifestations, that it hasstrong smelling urine; the urine is pungent, and it sometimes becomes so strong that it smells likehippuric acid, and so it is said urine smells strong like that of a horse. The odor in this remedyapproximates that of hippuric acid.The complaints, then, of Benzoic acid are such as are changeable, and we know why they arechangeable; when the urine is copious and plenty of uric acid is being passed, and the urine is full ofdeposits, then the patient is at his best; when the urine is scanty or of light specific gravity he suffersfrom backache and pains in the joints, he suffers from atmospheric changes, is sensitive to cold draftsand to the air; but let the urine start up again, which it does in a sort of alternating way, light urinealternating with heavy urine, and the patient is comfortable again. Then, there are complaints in whichthe urine smells strong and pungent; this often occurs in children. It is astonishing that these little onesmanifest the uric acid diathesis in early life. Mothers often describe it as intensely urinous. It smellslike intensified urine; it is not the smell, so much, of decomposed urine nor of fetid urine, but urineintensified. It has cured many times wetting the bed, involuntary urination in sleep, when the bed thathas been wetted several times becomes uncleanable. You can smell it almost as quick as you go intothe room; the children all smell like urine, strong urine; the house smells like urine. If two or three ofthese little fellows wet the bed at night, the urine is so strong it tells the story at once.This medicine needs reproving; details have not been brought out, yet its nature is known. Wehave a good many medicines having this nature, but this perhaps as intense as any. This remedy doesnot, of course, fit all these patients, because it does not fit their special symptoms; but it has the natureor general state which, of course, precedes everything, and when it relates to all the particulars as wellit does make wonderful changes.There are a few mental symptoms. "Inclined to dwell on unpleasant things; if he saw anyonedeformed, it made him shudder". Alternation of profound sleep with prolonged periods of wakefulness.In the period of wakefulness, he dwells, during the night, upon all the unpleasant subjects that he canthink of.This state alternates with nights of stupid sleep for weeks, and this fluctuates in accordance withthe fluctuation of the state of urine. "Sadness". "Anxiety while sweating". "Child cross".There are many headaches; they are uraemic in character and come in many regions with manydetails. "Fearful pain in occiput or cerebellum". "Rheumatic pains in head". That is well described,because these headaches of uraemic character take on a similarity to rheumatic pains. "Pain and heat inregion of organs of reverence and firmness". "Tearing pain in vertex". The headaches are verynumerous; the remedy is full of dull, aching occipital headaches, coming on in the night from change ofweather. Pains located in the base of the brain after pains have existed for some time in the joints, andthey are passing but little urine. Ever time he takes a little cold the urine becomes scanty and he is fullof dull aches and pains in the head and especially in the occiput Perversion of smell. "Sense of smelldiminished". "Pain in nasal bones".Another form of transformation scene takes place in this remedy, when all the gouty symptomsof the body cease and inflammation of the tongue comes on. The pains in the joints cease suddenlyfrom taking cold, from stormy weather and on comes a sudden swelling of the tongue. Mercury alsohas this state.