Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

ecause it is so well known that the epileptic state of the body is not confined merely to the spasms ofthe muscles, the sudden falling, foaming at the mouth, clonic spasms, biting of the tongue, etc. Thesealone do not constitute all of epilepsy. The epileptic suffers from an underlying psoric state, which inone is a state of imbecility and in another a state of epileptic manifestation, and in another a state ofinsanity.Those who inherit this peculiar constitution, even in one family, exhibit it in different ways; onewill be insane, another an imbecile, another will die of cancer and another will be an epileptic. Bufounderlies such a constitution; it is an antipsoric, it is a deep-seated, vital remedy; it goes to the veryheart and interior of man's physical nature, and from this mental state it may manifest itself in hisultimates, the fingers and toes, eyes, ears, etc., so that even the touch is disordered.There are patches upon the skin that have loss of sensation and others with increased sensations.Spasms of various muscles, sometimes local spasm and sometimes complete epileptic spasms withbleeding at the mouth, unconsciousness, falling down.Besides such grave state, it has milder states that may be called mere dizziness or vertigo. Themilder conditions of dizziness have gone on to sudden falling and collapse, a sudden state ofunconsciousness with spasms and biting of the tongue. In the proving we find attacks of apathy andpartial coma; numbness of the brain. So we see in the text that we have conditions ranging from meredizziness to a complete and profound epilepsy. The study of the fit, and the fit is treated as epilepsy.They hunt for remedies to subdue and control the fit, thinking when they have done that they havecured the patient. They feed these patients Bromides in large doses and now and then they branch offinto some side issue, but go back to the Bromides and stupefy and make imbeciles of their patients.Prescribing for the fit has never cured the patient."Congestive headaches". Again, its action on the circular fibers of the abdominal aorta furnishesa keynote in epilepsy. An awful sensation of anxiety is felt in the abdomen and then there is a suddenloss of consciousness; the aura or warning is first felt in the abdomen. Some writers have described itas in the solar plexus. The awful sensation occurs as an anxiety and then he falls."Cannot bear the sight of brilliant objects". "Amaurosis", etc. "Pupils largely dilated andunaffected by light before attack". "More acute vision".It has spasmodic conditions of the eye, but increased vision and diminished sensation, and lastlya tendency to profound trophic disturbance. Little blisters form upon the eye. These little blisters alsoform upon the skin, and the integument is thrown off and there is no healing. Ulcers will form upon thecornea. "Eyes become highly injected". Paralytic conditions of the lids and muscles of the eye. There isdisturbance of all the senses. "Music is unbearable". One who is in a natural state is expected to enjoybeautiful music, whereas in this remedy music brings about a state anxiety. The sense of hearing is soviolently exaggerated that every little noise is distressing."Purulent otorrhoea". "Swelling of the ears, of the parotids"."Phlegmonous erysipelas about the face". "Falling out of the teeth" in the peculiar diseaseknown as Rigg's disease."Stuttering and stammering; gets angry when incoherent speech is not understood". "Biting thetongue". "Tongue cracked, bluish black". "Mouth wide open before an attack", showing that the spasmis coming on; and this condition increases so that when the attack is not on, he drops the jaw and looksstupid as if he had forgotten everything. Bufo often correspond to lesser attacks resembling vertigo. Inthis state people do not fall, and for a few seconds everything is blank, or sometimes they do thingsautomatically in these moments. A person, in this mild form of epileptic vertigo, will hardly showanything, but he will sometimes come to a perfect standstill and then go on as if nothing had happened.What occurred during that attack he knows nothing of. Sometimes he will continue right on doing whathe was doing, and nobody will know of the spell. Sometimes when driving he will turn his horsesaround, and when he comes to himself he will know by this that he has had one of his attacks. Quite anumber of medicines have produced that condition of the mind, a state in which he goes on doingthings automatically."Vomiting after drinking". "Yellow fluid in vomit". "Vomiting of bile or blood". "Spasms endby convulsive movements in abdomen". It says in the text, "The attack originates in abdomen"; that is,he has a feeling of anxiety in the abdomen previous to the attack."Haemorrhoidal tumors". "Urine passes involuntarily". The urine passes involuntarily in such asare becoming imbeciles from the epileptic attacks, in approaching softening of the brain, which isreally what is taking place, a form of softening, a lowered form of integrity.As you might suppose, there is great disturbance of the sexual organs, this is usually the case ininsane people. Sometimes the sexual organs are in a state of excitement and sometimes in a state ofimpotency, but the patient is low-minded; inclination to carry the hand constantly to the genital organs.