Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

ut there is a paralytic condition of the bladder. The urine is red, bloody, and comes by drops likeCanth. Tenesmus of the neck of the bladder.Camphor increases the sexual erethism to an unbearable degree.In some cases from large doses this is seen in the extreme, and in other cases the reverse takesplace. It has both sexual erethism and impotency in its provings provings. I once knew a French womanwho had an insane desire to keep her boys always at home with her, and she thought she couldaccomplish this if she could only keep them away from the girls; and to destroy their sexual desire shekept a bag of camphor under their pillows. All of them were made impotent. But in some provers itestablishes sexual erethism. It has this like Canth.Camphor produces a coryza, with a profuse discharge from the nose and from the air passages,from the nose to the bronchi.Bronchitis of children and old people. Old withered up people take cold at every exposure toweather and become cold and chilly, Ant. crud., Am. carb. and Camph. are wonderful remedies inoctogenarians. Every cold, seems threatening. Old people don't come down with cold the same asyoung people; they are prostrated, sinking, have rattling in the chest and the family think it is the deathrattle and that it is grandpa's last spell.These three remedies fit the case, they are like the advanced stage of pneumonia. Ant-t., Ant-c.,Amm-c. and Camph. cover these cases in which the hot stage is omitted. Camph. has very little heat; ithas the sensation of heat; but not a marked hot stage. There are other symptoms in this medicine suchas you will find in old people.Jerking of the muscles, trembling and jerking. Spasmodic conditions with trembling. Tremblingof the tongue.The general constitutional state of a Camphor patient is coldness and extreme sensitiveness tocold. In acute inflammatory conditions he is cold and wants the covers off. In acute complaints there isviolent thirst, in chronic complaints thirstlessness. It is the same in Arsenic, in the acute thirsty, but inthe chronic thirstless.In Camphor an important thing to recall in the acute is that during the heat and when the painsare on he wants to be covered up. The coldness is relieved by cold, he wants more cold.CANNABIS INDICA [cann-i] [Kent’s]A strange ecstatic sensation pervades the body and senses. The limbs and parts seem enlarged.A thrill of beatitude passes over the limbs. The limbs tremble. Great weakness Spreads over the body.The symptoms resemble catalepsy. Anesthesia and loss of muscular sense. Complaints ameliorated byrest. Exaltation of spirits with mirthfulness. Wonderful imaginations and hallucinations. Wonderfulexaggerations of time and space. He seems to be transported through space. He seems to have twoexistences, or to be conscious of two states, or to exist in two spheres. Delusions. Incoherent speech.Laughs at serious remarks.Laughs and weeps. Spasmodic Spasmodic laughter. Jesting. Moaning and weeping. Fear ofdeath; of insanity; of the dark. Anguish and sadness. Mental symptoms ameliorated by walking in theopen air.An opposite phase prevails with his weakness. He loses his sense and falls. Passes from therational to the irrational in rapid succession, back and forth. Forgets words and ideas. Unable to finishhis sentences. Thoughts crowding upon each other in such confusion prevent rational speech. His mindis full of unfinished ideas, and phantoms. Wonderful theories constantly form in the mind. Loquacity.He cannot control the mind to reason rationally upon any subject. Any effort to reason is interrupted byflights of wild imagination and theory. Vision upon vision passes before the perception. Hears voices,bells, music, in ecstatic confusion.Feels as if the calvarium were opening and shutting, or being lifted and lowered into place.Pulsating pain through the head.Weight in occiput, with pulsation. Shocks in the brain on regaining consciousness, and onwaking from sleep. Stitching pains in temples. Tension of scalp. Tenderness of scalp. Dimness ofvision. Visual clairvoyance. Letters run together. Hearing acute. Singing and buzzing in ears; pulsating.Face pale and sunken. Insane look. Stupid look. Sickly, expressionless look.Grinding teeth during sleep. Stammering. Metallic taste. Desire for, and dread of water.Flatulence, distending abdomen, ameliorated by eructations.The urinary symptoms are numerous. Inflammation in the kidneys, with burning pain. Sorenessin the kidneys, and dull aching. Stitching pains in the kidneys. Constant or frequent urination. Urineburns on passing. Burning, stinging in urethra, before, during and after urination. This remedy has