Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

fact, that is an insanity of the will. You have only to look with an observing eye to see that one may beinsane in the affections, or insane in the intelligence. One may remain quite intact, and the other one bedestroyed. We find in Calcarea both equally disturbed. One patient may be insane in his voluntarysystem, so that all of his loves are perverted; he has no affection that is like what it used to be, like itwas when he was well. Antipathy to his family or some member of his family. Or, he may have theaffection fairly intact, but no intelligence, and does all sorts of strange things.He is full of fear. Weary of life; hopelessness, anxiety. The world is black. "Fear that somethingsad or terrible will happen.Fears that she will lose her reason, or that people will observe her confusion of mind". "Fear ofdeath; of consumption; of misfortune; of being alone". Fear abounds, especially when the voluntarysystem is disturbed. She is startled at every noise. He can't sleep so that the body rests or the mind rests.He is disturbed in his sleep with horrible dreams. His sleep is a restless one. "Great anxiety andoppression. Restlessness and palpitation. Despairing; hopeless". These symptoms have to be coupledand connected with that leucophlegmatic, pale, flabby, sickly individual. "Child cross and fretful.Easily frightened".Many complaints after exertion of the mind. Many complaints after excitement, chagrin orfright.He is so weak in his circulation, so much disturbed in the heart, it palpitates from everyexcitement. He is out of breath from every physical exertion; exertion; and these take part so much inthe circulation of blood in the body, have so much to do with circulation of blood in the brain, have somuch to do with the intellect, with the sensorium, that we see at once vertigo on almost all occasions,intermingled with all sorts of symptoms.Fear, anxiety, and vertigo. If his emotions stir him up he becomes dizzy. From going upstairsthe blood mounts to the head, and he becomes dizzy. Confusion of mind and vertigo from mentalexertion. If he becomes shocked, or has bad news, or has any mental excitement or chagrin, this vertigowill come out.Confusion of mind, determination of blood to the head, cold extremities, covered with sweat,with vertigo. "Vertigo, when climbing into high places"; that is the effort of going up. The blood rushesto the head and he becomes dizzy. "On going upstairs or up a hill. On suddenly rising, or turning thehead, even when at rest".One of the most striking symptoms of the head of the Calcarea patient is the sweat; the sweat ofthe head upon the slightest exertion. He will sweat on the face when he sweats nowhere else, and hishead is covered with cold sweat when he is comfortable in other places about the body. The same thingis true about the feet. When his feet become very cold they will sweat. When they are warm they willsweat. You would naturally think that a person going into a cold room would stop his sweating, butsometimes the Calcarea patient will break out in a sweat, upon the head, and upon the feet, in a coldroom. He sweats upon the forehead, so that every draft of air makes him chilly. and this brings inheadache. Coldness of the whole scalp, so he has to wrap up the head. Yet during congestions, the headis hot. So it has at times great heat in the head. The Calcarea headaches are stupefying, they arebenumbing; they bring on confusion of mind. The Calcarea patient has a catarrh in the nose, with moreor less discharge; at his best he has considerable discharge. But he goes into a cold place, the dischargeis slacked up, and he gets a headache.Headache over the eyes. Congestion of the head; back of the head."Tearing headache above the eyes down to nose", is a strong symptom of Calcarea. It seemssometimes as if a great wedge were in there. This is relieved by very hot applications. It is relieved inthe dark; it is aggravated in the daylight. He must go into a dark room and lie down for relief.Sometimes this headache is ameliorated by lying down in the dark. This headache continues to growworse during the day, until in the evening it becomes so severe that it is attended with nausea andvomiting.It is one of the forms of constitutional headache, it is a headache that Sometimes occurs once intwo weeks. Headache every seven days, or headache once in two weeks. Periodical headaches.Sick-headache, the old-fashioned American sick-headache. There is commonly a periodicitybelonging to it, of seven to fourteen days, but again, it comes on whenever he is exposed, by riding inthe wind, for he is a very chilly patient; if he becomes really chilled or very cold, he gets a headache, asick-headache. Then, again, it has pain in the left side of the head. One-sided headache. Headacheworse from noise, from talking, but ameliorated in the evening, from lying in the dark. It has headachein the temples, and this headache seems to draw through to the root of the nose. The headaches fromthe supraorbital region draw through to the nose. Headaches in the temples seem to produce a feeling oftightness, a feeling of great tension in the forehead. Headaches worse from motion, from walking, from