Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

You will very seldom see Bromium develop in cold dry weather; but in hot damp weather Bromiumcases come on; affections in the spring, and in the fall and summer.The chronic cases that will need Bromium are such as have ulcers of the stomach. Suspiciousulcers in the stomach, and suspicious symptoms about the stomach. Vomiting like coffee grounds, andvomiting with signs of ulceration. Aggravation after eating; either vomiting, or diarrhea. Cannot takeacids. Diarrhea or cough worse after eating, or after acids. "After eating oysters, diarrhea, and adisordered stomach. Worse from the slightest inhalation of tobacco smoke. Vomiting of bloody mucus.Eructations". Foul stomach. Pain in the stomach from warm things, from hot tea, hot drinks. It isa common feature when there is ulcer in the stomach or when the mucous membrane is about toulcerate, that hot drinks are intolerable. "Pains from taking hot foods".In studying the stool and rectum symptoms we find exudation.Membranous formations pass in the stool. Diarrhoeic stool with membrane. "Black, fecal stool".Diarrhea; must go to stool after eating.We have running through the remedy enlarged veins. These are found also in the rectum.Hemorrhoids protrude from the rectum, burning. Smarting day and night. "Blind, intensely" painfulvarices, with black, diarrhoeic stools. Blind, painful hemorrhoids", and hemorrhoids that protrude."Hemorrhoids during and after stool". During the stool the rectum is painful from haemorrhoidaltumors.Swelling and induration of the left testicle. Notice the left- sidedness, the left side of the throat,and the left testicle.Then, again, dull pain in the region of the left ovary. "Constant dull pain in the ovary; withswelling and hardness". There is the same induration of the left ovary. It does seem strange that somemedicines single out more particularly the left organs and the left side of the body. Like Lach. in manyinstances it picks out the left side of the body. A great many remedies show a preference for one side ofthe body, the glands in this remedy are more affected upon the left side or the body than the right."Swelling of the ovarian region before and during menses".Suppression of the menses. Loud emission of flatus from the vagina.In the larynx it has produced more symptoms than in any other part of the body. It produces araw, sore feeling in the larynx from inhaled air. "Rawness in the larynx. Loss of voice.Hoarseness from overheating". From too much clothing on a warm day, or from keeping on anovercoat in a room that is heated; coming out into the air he cools off. He has laryngitis."Tickling in the larynx", keeping up a constant coughing.Scraping and rawness in the larynx. Scraping mucus from the larynx, scraping and coughing. Itis not a hawk, because that noise clears the throat. Every medical student should go through all thenoises he hears others make, and try and observe as much as possible what feeling is accompanied withthat noise, so that he can put himself in the other's place. Each one is accompanied with its own sound,and the instant you hear it you realize the exact place he is drawing mucus from and just where theirritation is. If you allow the patient to describe it he always calls it by the wrong name. The patientknows very little about this part except that it is the throat, and if he is drawing mucus from the throat,or scraping it from the larynx, he always calls it the throat. But the physician must waive all that andobserve as to sound. So let each one go alone by himself and make all these noises that he hears peoplemake, and then realize for himself what part it is he is scraping. It may seem ludicrous, but how elsewill you learn about it? It is just as important to figure out these sounds as it is to figure out what achild needs by its sounds and motions. It is impossible to get the symptoms and wants of a child exceptby interpreting its motions. Every motion it makes indicates something. An astute observer, one whohas been watching children for a number of years, will understand the child, and will hardly have to askthe mother a question. He will know at once where the child is sick by what it does. The child is likethe animal. you never have to ask a horse or dog where he feels pain, because he will always tell by hismotions. So does the infant.The hoarseness comes on after being overheated. Remember that."Rough, dry cough; pain in the larynx". Jumping up for want of breath. "Gasping and sufferingfor breath, with wheezing and rattling in larynx. Sensation as if air passages were full of smoke". Nowwe have all these rough sounds; rough breathing; croupy breathing; rasping breathing different ways ofdescribing different forms of croup. You cannot individualize a remedy by these because one child willcroup in one pitch, and another will croup in another; but to get at the constitution of the child and themother is the important point. "Voice hardly audible". "Spasm in the glottis". In the croupy condition itis really a membranous formation formation upon the inflamed surface, very often extendingdownward through the trachea into the bronchial tubes, and producing a croupous pneumonia.Bromium has that in its nature. But without any membranous formation at all Bromium constricts the