Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

"Extensive ulcerations of tongue, with deeply chapped or fungoid surfaces". Then, again,peculiar kinds of sore throat take place from this same cause. Sudden stoppage or slacking up of thequantity of urine; it becomes scanty, high colored, and pungent smelling like that of a horse (Nitricacid), along with acute inflammation and swelling of the tonsils and throat; inflammation of the tonsilswith scanty, strong, pungent urine smelling like that of a horse. Another feature that seems almost likemetastasis. Take an individual who is going around with more or less rheumatic aches in the joints; hetakes cold and all this ceases, but the next day he comes down with inflammation of the tongue or sorethroat, or inflammation of the stomach; so that he vomits everything he eats. The gout goes to differentparts and in this instance it goes to the stomach; and then Benzoic acid, Antimonium crud. orSanguinaria is likely to be useful. When it goes to the throat or is followed by swelling of the tongueMercury and Benzoic acid should he thought of. Whenever this gouty condition goes to the stomach, ofcourse it must conform to those symptoms that are in the nature of this remedy. In this remedy we have"loathing, sickness at stomach", "nausea with gagging", "vomiting of a salty substance; bitter". Whenwe think of Benzoic acid for the stomach symptoms, it is important that we have in mind its wholenature, how it brings about its complaints and what characterizes a Benzoic acid patient. We would notbe able to distinguish from the stomach symptoms alone; we must carry with them the character of theremedy.It has much disturbance of the liver, and many liver symptoms.As to the bowels, the stool, the rectum, anus and urinary organs, it is very rich in symptoms. Itsstriking ones I will call your attention to, but remember its migrating, metastatic nature, its complaintsgoing from one part to another, which will accompany these symptoms. "Stools, copious, watery". Thisis true in summer diarrhea, that has come on suddenly, "excessively offensive". The white stool, likesoap-suds, is so strong a symptom that the remedy does not fail to cure even when the goutyconstitution is not present. "Excessively offensive, scenting the whole house"."Putrid, bloody". "Watery, light-colored, very offensive stools (in children)". So we get the ideathat the stools are white and that the first passages are like soap-suds, but later the soap appearancesubsides and leaves a white stool. It is well, often, when a stool is passed that is of a light liquid, to bearin mind a few remedies that produce this state and ascertain whether it is like soap-suds or filled withbubbles of air. "Diarrhea of children". The urinous odor of the body, and especially that peculiarlypungent, intense smell of the urine. "Slightly elevated, wart-like, round surfaces around anus".The urinary symptoms are too numerous to read. "Fetid urine"."Urine of a very repulsive odor". "Effervescing with hydrochloric acid". The odor is sometimeslike hartshorn; it is pungent; these are only efforts to describe the strong smell. "Urine dark brown". Itis true that normal urine after standing a while will get a fetid odor, but, in this remedy, that just passedis properly described as being intensely urinous. "Urine contains mucus and pus". "Morbid condition ofurine". "Renders urine acid". It says in the text "hippuric acid", but this is a rare condition. "Brownurine smells sour". "Too frequent desire to evacuate bladder". "Nephritic colic". "Urine dark, urinousodor highly intensified". Gouty troubles of the liver; rheumatism; nephritic colic; it has cured suchstates after gonorrhea, but it is not much of a gonorrheal remedy. When the rheumatic states and thesesymptoms are present there are more or less pains in the kidney. "Sore pain in the back; burning in thekidney"."Prolapsus uteri with fetid urine". "Retention of urine in infants"."Asthma with inflammatory rheumatic complaints". "Cough followed by expectoration of greenmucus".The organ that is most commonly affected in these rheumatic complaints is the heart. No organis so likely to be affected when rheumatism leaves the outermost parts as the heart. Pains in the heart.So in this diathesis, with the strong smelling urine and the gout, we may expect affections of the heart."Pains change place incessantly". "Palpitation of the heart". The rheumatism, of course, is affecting theheart. "Awakens after midnight with violent pulsations of the heart". Think a moment and you will seein what kind of a case you will need Benzoic acid. The constitution of the remedy comes to mind atonce with the heart symptoms, the dyspnoea, pain in the heart with rheumatic symptoms; "cannot go tosleep". Think of the alternation of sleeplessness with sleep; think of the strong urine, of the fluctuatingcomplaints, of the erratic constitution. "Palpitation worse at night". "Rheumatic pains in extremitiesrelieving heart". There we get relief; complaints going back to the extremities with relief to the heart.The heart will relieve when the urine becomes copious or when the rheumatism goes back to theextremities, into the fingers and knees, especially the knees in Benzoic acid. Rheumatism alternatingbetween the extremities and heart. This medicine has cured affections of the heart when the rheumatismhas a long time ago disappeared from the extremities and has ever since been affecting the heart; afterBenzoic acid has been administered a very good sign of its action is that the extremities become painful