Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

A warm room is unbearable; headaches and flushes of the face are made worse in a warm roomor when near the stove, better from bathing or in cold air. Complaints better from putting the feet in hotwater.Trembling. Some of the epileptic attacks occur with regular periodicity, others occur irregularly.We have no remedy for epilepsy. Does that mean we must leave the human race to go on and sufferwith epilepsy? We do have plenty of remedies for people who have epilepsy. A large percentage of thecases are curable.After what has been said concerning the nature of this remedy I am sure you will read thesymptoms with great interest. When you read the symptoms, they will cling around the constitution andnature of such individuals and such states as have been described. This is one of the remedies that youwill need to use for the development of feeble-minded children whether there are spasms or not.CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS [cact] [Kent’s]Constrictions, contractions and congestions run through Cactus.Determination of blood to the head, and coldness of the extremities. Or determination of bloodto an organ the chest, or the heart. There is never an equal circulation of blood in the body; it isspasmodic and irregular. Disturbed by contractions of circular fibers everywhere. When this comes inplaces where it can be felt, and realized by the senses, it is felt as contractions, as if caged in wires, andthis gives us the key to Cactus. Where contractions cannot be felt, where there is no sense of feeling,we know that it goes on as a spasmodic condition of circular fibers; but these contractions that are feltare more upon the surface of the body, and in organs having circular fibers---tubes and canals. Theyconstrict, and this constriction is felt like a spasm. It has a sensation of tightness and constriction aboutthe head, about the chest, about the attachments of the diaphragm, all over the abdomen.Contractions about the heart that are tonic in character, like a tight clutching; constriction."Constriction felt about the heart". These constrictions are felt about the throat, in the esophagus,causing a spasm; in the vagina, causing vaginismus and preventing coition. In the uterus it produces themost violent cramps. Clutching and constrictions, as if the uterus were grasped and held tightly, like aspasm. But at these times, when these constrictions take place, there are congestions. "Rush of blood tothe part, with constriction". "Violent congestion of the uterus, with constrictions. Rush of blood to thechest, as if the chest was filled with hot gushes of blood, with constrictions, and constriction of theheart". These peculiarities run through Cactus more markedly than any other remedy. Many remedieshave similar things now and then, but in Cactus it is common; it is the nature of Cactus to constrict, tocause constriction in places where it has never been felt, and never been thought of.Constrictions of the whole body, as if the body was held in a wire cage. Constrictions of thescalp, of the skin, growing tighter and tighter. Violent congestions that come on suddenly.Congestion of the brain, with hot head, flushed face. At the beginning of complaints, at thebeginning of pneumonia; congestive chill with hot head and cold body (like Arn.) with violentconstrictions and tightness, as if the head were pressed, as if the membrane of the brain were too tight,as if the brain were covered with a tight cloth, and were being screwed tighter and tighter. Uniformtightness of an organ, as if it were being bound tighter and tighter. But in tubes and canals it is aconstriction of a particular part, many times like as if tied with a string. Constriction, like hour-glasscontraction, in the uterus. It has inflammations, congestions, rush of blood to the part, graduallyprogressing to inflammation, and infiltration.Inflammation of various parts.It has rheumatism. It is a remedy very useful in gouty constitutions; very useful in acuteinflammatory rheumatism; and in this instance the congestion is in the joints that happen to be affected.And then again the constriction, as if tied with a tape, or as if bandaged. Tightness, tension, pressure,are involved in that thought. It has such a prolonged determination of blood to the heart that the heartfinally becomes disturbed in its function, disturbed in its tissues; and it has a profound curative actionupon the heart and even cures organic heart diseases, such as are produced from this cause, conditionscoming on from congestion, or coming on through congestion in rheumatic constrictions, where therheumatism has left the joints partially and the heart has become involved and there is constriction ofthe heart. Various efforts have been made by provers, and by patients, to describe the constriction ofthe heart. It is sometimes described "as if grasped with an iron hand". It is only to illustrate the tenacityof the constriction. In these rheumatic troubles when the joints have ceased to be affected and the heartbecomes affected with this chronic congestion and enlargement, we have enlargement of the valves sothat there are murmurs, the head is hot, and the patient gradually emaciates.Kidney troubles will come on; the heart grows weaker, and then dropsical conditions set in, thatis the course of Cactus.