Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

has spells of heat which come over him; flashes of heat intermingle with rending, tearing, burningpains, either in the inflamed organ or along the nerves.The patient is a most troublesome patient to nurse; nobody and nothing suits. If an inflammationof the bladder comes on, there is intense pain and tenderness, and from the shock of the suffering themind is in a state of frenzy. Coldness then comes on and the patient wants to be uncovered, wants coldair, wants the windows open, but before all this can be done, a flash of heat comes on and then hewants the covers on, and the register turned on, and wants a hot iron and hot bottles; but this stage nowpasses off, and while the nurse is bringing the hot irons he wants her to open the windows and haveeverything cool. You will see at once that these are serious cases. This occurs with opisthotonos,convulsions, inflammation of the brain, liver, kidney, bladder, coming on from violent shock and coldwith great exhaustion. You will see this in one who has worked for hours for his life, and when theexcitement is over reaction sets in and it is like a whirlwind; he has worked until he is exhausted andnow he is prostrated, cold and blue; here is the sphere where the old woman with her Camphor bottlehas established a reputation, but potentized Camphor will do more for him than the Camphor bottle, itwill put him into a refreshing sleep.It is useful in the climacteric period with flushes of heat and sweat in a warm room; the limbsand abdomen are very cold and she suffers from cold when uncovered and sweats copiously whencovered. She cannot endure covering to warm her limbs though she suffers from cold.The head is full of pain, throbbing pain. Contractive feeling as if laced together in thecerebellum. The whole back of the head and neck throb like hammers; worse from bending headforward; burning and stinging. Frontal headaches.We have heard about Camphor in cholera, which is a disease that brings the patient downquickly. The face is cold, blue and shriveled, without much sweat, in the cases that would make onethink of Camphor. There is not much discharge from the bowels, not much vomiting and not muchsweat; but suddenly he becomes cold, blue and collapsed, as it were paralyzed and goes into a stupor.Convulsions with frothing at the mouth. Blue lips, lock-jaw, tetanus. Cold sweat on the facewith vomiting. Erysipelatous appearance of face.There is a desire to drink without thirst. There is also insatiable thirst; he is not satisfied withincredible quantities of cold water. Cannot get it cold enough, and cannot get enough, but he soonvomits it up.The gastric irritation is marked. Everything is vomited. The tongue is blue and cold and thebreath is cold. Everything coming out of the body is cold. The air as it leaves the chest feels like thatfrom a cellar, like Carbo v. and Verat. The tongue is cold and trembling. Such states are found incholera. All through the cold stage there is burning. The inside of the body seems to burn, or there is asense of internal smarting like a rawness or a sense of burning without heat.The pain in the stomach in gastritis is so violent that the anguish on the face is equal to that inArsenic; a deathly anguish is felt in his stomach and he feels that he must die.Burning, rending, tearing pain in the stomach with retching and vomiting. Cramps in stomachand bowels and spreading to other parts of the body until there are convulsions and opisthotonos.Anguish at the pit of the stomach drives him to despair. Heat in the stomach. Cold feeling in thestomach. Abdomen is full of colic and burning. Cold feeling in the abdomen.Cholera stools; rice water discharges, with anxiety, restlessness, spasms of the muscles, crampsof the chest, prostration, increasing coldness and blueness; wants to be uncovered and he is going intocollapse. The old Camphor, Cuprum and Veratrum still hold together for Asiatic cholera. In Camphorthere is prostration, blueness, coldness and yet he wants to be uncovered and the body is cold and dry.The other two remedies have all there is in cholera, but in Cuprum there is not so muchcoldness, more cramping, more convulsive tendency and not so much prostration. The more crampingthere is the more it is Cuprum. The more copious the discharge from the bowels and the more profusethe vomiting and sweat, the more we would think of Veratrum Cold and dry--- Camphor. Cold andcopious discharge -- Veratrum.After taking cold there is cutting, with involuntary discharge of dark brown feces like coffeegrounds. Tenesmus. At times the cholera patient, with the coldness and blueness, is retching andstraining to vomit and suffering with horrible tenesmus to get rid of a little stool and has convulsionshere and there. These bowel symptoms gradually increase until there is no ability to strain at stool, aparalytic condition. The rectum seems contracted and painful.There is suffering in the urinary and sexual organs. Burning urination. Strangury. Frequenturination. Frequent desire, with difficulty. The same state arises in the bladder as in the rectum, andthere is retention with horrible torture. The patient sits on the commode and strains to pass the urine,