Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Cracked skin. The skin is cracked after washing in winter, especially of the hands, like we findin salt rheum. Liver spots; pale skin and yellow skin even to marked cases of jaundice.Dryness of the skin. The eruptions are boils, burning moist or dry eczema, herpetic pustules,scabby scaly vesicles. Itching, burning eruptions. This remedy cures psoriasis when the symptomsagree. Rash. Suppurating eruptions. Tubercles. Urticaria.Excoriation and intertrigo. Formication. Itching in bed; itching, burning; itching, crawling.Itching, ameliorated by scratching.Sensitive skin. Ulceration of the skin. Wounds heal slowly.Unhealthy skin. Ulcers bleed, burn; are scaly, crusty and deep.Ulcers discharge bloody pus, offensive, thick, yellow.Fistulous ulcers. Foul indolent ulcers. Indurated ulcers.Pulsating ulcers. Painful ulcers. Warts.CALENDULA OFFICINALIS [calen] [Kent’s]The proving of Calendula is so nearly worthless that we cannot expect at present to use it as aguide to the internal administration of the remedy. There are only a few things that I have ever beenable to get out of it. In injuries Calendula cannot be ignored, in cuts with laceration, surface or openinjuries. Dilute Calendula used locally will keep the wound odorless, will reduce the amount of pus,and favor granulation in the very best possible manner, and thus it assists the surgeon in healing upsurface wounds. Calendula is all the dressing you will need for open wounds and severe lacerations. Ittakes away the local pain and suffering. You may easily see we are not now dealing with a conditionthat exists because of a state within the economy, but because of something that is without. There isnothing that will cause these external injuries to heal so beautifully as the Marigold. Some will say it isnot homeopathic, but these are the individuals who "strain at a gnat and swallow a camel". If there areconstitutional symptoms suspend all medicated dressing entirely and pay your whole attention to theconstitutional symptoms. Sometimes there are no constitutional symptoms to prescribe on, but whenthey are present resort locally to cleanliness and nothing else. Do not suppress symptoms that you willneed to guide you to a remedy.CAMPHORA OFFICINALIS [camph] [Kent’s]The camphor bottle is a great mischief in the house as camphor antidotes most of our remedies.Camphor in potentized form will cure many complaints. It is suitable in some acute complaintsattended with nervous excitement, even to frenzy, with spasms and convulsions and finally exhaustion.The Camphor state is one of convulsions or coldness. In the most acute period of the Camphorexcitement, the excitability and frenzy of the patient are extreme, or he goes into the other extreme, inwhich the irritability is lost and there is loss of sensation, unconsciousness and coldness. The twoextremes may be seen in one patient, one earlier and the other later. He may go from the extreme ofmental excitement and violence, to one of prostration and exhaustion, in which the body is blue andcold and yet must be uncovered. In the mental state there is anxiety and extreme fear; fear of persons,of strange spheres, of the dark, the dark is filled with imaginary specters; he dare not get out of bed inthe dark; everything that moves is a spectre and the inanimate things of the room become alive andterrify him. Frenzy. Coupled with this, there is kidney and urinary trouble, like that of Cantharis, andbecause of this similarity, the two remedies are both complementary and antidotal to each other. If awoman has poisoned herself with Cantharis, and there is present the frenzy and excitement, Camphorwill act as an antidote.The details of the mental symptoms are worthy of much consideration. The patient goes into astate not unlike imbecility, and the appearance is as if it had come on slowly.The mind and memory are gone. He closes the eyes, seemingly asleep, and answers noquestions. Delirious with the heat, rage and mania, wants to jump out of bed or out of the window.Screams and calls for help. Tosses anxiously in bed. Anxiety and almost loss of consciousness. Thesesymptoms will indicate Camphor in puerperal fever, in congestion of the brain, or in shock from violentinflammation of organs. Confusion comes from the shock and comes with violence. The more violentlythe patient suffers, the sooner he is cold, and when he is cold, he must uncover even in a cold room.This is somewhat like Secale. In Secale the patient, when cold, wants to uncover and to be in a coldroom, and it also has frenzy, and so there is nothing in what we have yet seen to distinguish Secalefrom Camph. But there is another thing that runs through Camph., by which a distinction can be made.The coldness, frenzy and heat very often intermingle. When the Camphor patient is becoming cold, he