Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

with blood clots, and the spasm to expel that blood is like a labor- pain, and she screams again, and it issome time before the flow becomes free enough to give relief. If this condition is met with in rheumaticdiathesis, where there is more or less rheumatism of the joints, clutching pains and constriction in otherplaces, we have a remedy in Cactus. The excitement and the sharp scream can be heard by theneighbors. Suffocative attacks with these pains, because the heart suffers, and constriction of the heartwill commonly go along with the constriction of the uterus. In cardiac conditions it seems as if he willdie for want of breath.Constrictions of the chest. Oppression as if a great load was on his chest, crushing the life out ofhim, so great is the constriction, and the congestion. A sudden congestion, and it comes on and endswithout inflammation in many instances. A violent rush of blood to the chest, with awful dyspnoea andconstriction of the heart--and it passes away without inflammation. At other times cactus has conditionslike pneumonia, inflammation of the lungs, and congestion ending in inflammation, with the usualexpectoration, bloody or blood streaked. Cactus is also a remedy for hypostatic congestion of the lungs.He cannot lie down, must sit up in bed, and there is a dryness of the lower part of each lung, graduallygrowing higher and higher from an effusion of serum into the lower portion of the lungs. Thishypostatic congestion is due to a cardiac weakness. Cactus will often relieve this a few times when itoccurs in old broken down cases towards the end of Bright's disease, and at the end of dropsicalconditions and heart troubles. It will postpone death. "Could only breathe with shoulders elevated andlying on back". Lies leaning back or sitting quite upright "Periodical attacks of suffocation, withfainting; cold sweat"."Feeling as if heart was compressed or squeezed by a hand.Cardiac rheumatism. Heart seemed to be held by an iron hand for many hours. Pain in thecardiac region. Great pressure at heart, going round under left axilla to back". Often this pain shootsdown the left hand, is attended with numbness, and sometimes with swelling. Numbness, tingling,swelling. "Dull pain in the heart.Heavy pain in the heart, aggravated from pressure. Contractive pain in the region of the heartgoing down to left abdomen. At times felt as if some one was grasping the heart firmly.Paroxysms of pain in the heart", that is, this kind of constriction comes in periods of violentparoxysms. "Acute inflammation of the heart. Chronic inflammation of the heart.Palpitation of the heart, continued day and night; when walking, and at night when lying on theleft side".Another thing running through the remedy is, that chest complaints often come on or areexaggerated at 11 o'clock. Eleven o'clock in the morning, or eleven at night. Its intermittent fever willbring on a chill with violent congestion to the head at 11 o'clock. Regular paroxysms at 11 A.M. and 11P.M., or sometimes at 11 A.M. and sometimes at 11 P.M. A daily chill at 11 P.M. It has curedintermittent fever of the congestive type, when the congestions are here and there, but particularly ofhead, with constrictions, congestions and contractions.CADMIUM SULFURATUM [cadm] [Kent’s]Cadmium sulfat. has been only partially proved, so that only a limited amount of informationcan be given concerning it. A medicine may be said to be thoroughly proved when it has left its impressupon all elements of man; when it has affected his memory and his intellect, when it has affected hisorgans and all their functions, i.e., when a healthy man has taken a medicine until all these things areaffected and the results are known as the effects of that medicine. Every medicine affects is some wayall these elements of man, and no medicine is well proved until it is known how all these elements areaffected. There is a dread of work; aversion to doing everything, mental and physical. Anxiety has beenbrought out more by cures than by the pathogenesis, so that it is well enough known to be classed alongwith Arsenicum for its anxiety; it may well be classed with Arsenicum for its prostration also; it hasgreat weakness; it might also be classed with Arsenicum, because of the organs that are affected,especially because of its action upon the stomach, which is somewhat like Arsenicum, greatexhaustion, irritable stomach and vomiting. It has such vomiting as is found in the lowest forms offever, such irritable stomach as is found in yellow fever, with black vomiting, and just at this point isthe place where the likeness to Arsenicum comes out in the low forms of the fever.But unlike Arsenicum, running all through the remedy, he wants to be perfectly quiet; part of itis a state of indolence, part of it is an aversion to motion. He is worse from motion, which makes it likeBryonia. So we will see running all through the remedy the exhaustion of Arsenicum and aversion tomotion, like Bryonia.Running through it we find it is spasmodic and nervous: it affects the muscles like Zinc. It isfound in its crude state associated with Zinc. Hering made several observations whereby he tried to