Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Pressure as with a sharp point in the coccyx. Drawing pains in tendo-Achillis. Stitching in theskin all over while perspiring.Numbness of finger tips.CANTHARIS VESICATORIA [canth] [Kent’s]The most important feature of this medicine is the inflammatory condition, and the mostimportant characteristic in the inflammation is the rapidity , with which it develops into a gangrenousstate. Inflammatory conditions usually follow a definite course for days, but when this medicine is putupon a part or taken internally the inflammatory state terminates in death of the part with great rapidity.When taken internally it proceeds almost immediately to attack the urinary tract and establish auraemic state which brings about the mental symptoms; the local inflammatory condition come on withgreat rapidity, and this brings the patient down violently sick in a great hurry.From strong doses in the poisonous effect we get startling and alarming symptoms; the wholeeconomy is in disorder; grievous symptoms commonly of the urinary tract. The parts becomegangrenous at an early stage.The mental symptoms are striking. Among those that are guiding are sudden loss ofconsciousness with red face. Suddenly goes into stupor. Confusion of mind. Overwhelmed with strangeideas.Thoughts run riot, and go whatever way they will, as if possessed by outside influence.Head hot, frenzy, delirium, with great excitement and rage, paroxysms renewed by dazzling orbright objects, by touching the larynx or by trying to drink water as in rabies. Fear and confusion ofideas. The mind often runs towards subjects that the inflamed parts would suggest. The bladder andgenitals are inflamed and the excitement and congestion of the parts often arouse the sexual instinct, sothat there are sexual thoughts and sexual frenzy. Violent amorous frenzy, an excitement such asaccompanies inflammation attended with thoughts that correspond.The sexual instinct has gone mad. The erections in the male are painful and violent. The penis isinflamed and sore and it would be painful to have coitus, yet there is this frenzy. Insolence.Blasphemy. Restlessness ending in rage. Restlessness causing him to move constantly, a rageand delirium intermingled with amorous frenzy. This kind of mental conduct in Cantharis is similar towhat will take place in Hyos., Phos., and Secale, a violent delirious state intermingled with sexual ideasand talk. In some instances he deliriously sings lewd songs and prattles on the subject of humangenitals, urine and feces, a wild raving on subjects not talked about in health except among thedepraved.But in disease, chaste and modest persons, virgins, will speak so that it is surprising where theyhave picked up such language. In such cases it is well to exclude everybody from the room except thenurse and doctor. I have seen a dear old mother weep and wring her hands and say: "Where did mydaughter learn such language?" The daughter is not to blame. It is simply a condition of the urinarytract or the menstrual function, brought on from cold or exposure, or through the mother's neglect totell her daughter what she should know in regard to her menstrual function, and how there isinflammation of the ovaries or uterus, or outside parts, and the urine burns and causes an inflammatorycondition of the outer parts, or the urine is retained and there is frenzy. Such is Cantharis.Violent, bursting, lancinating headaches as if stabbed with a knife; an inflammatory conditionthat takes hold of the mind violently.Running all through the remedy there is burning. In the head burning, throbbing and stabbing.Unconsciousness and delirium in the mental state. Burning in the side of the head. Stitches in the sideof the head and occiput. Lancinating pains deep in. the brain. Hair falls out.It is seldom indicated in eye troubles alone, except such as come with head and mindsymptoms. Erysipelas of the face with large blisters. Burning in the eyes and the whole atmospherelooks yellow. Burning and smarting in the eyes. Erysipelas of the eyes, with gangrenous tendency.Eyes hot, scalding tears.Erysipelas of the face, dorsum of the nose, involving the lids.Rhus is more commonly used in this condition, but when it is violent, Canth. will often beindicated and preferable to Rhus.Rhus has the blisters and the burning, but in Canth. between your two visits the erysipelas hasgrown black, it is dusky, a rapid change has taken place, and it looks as if gangrene would set in.Burning in the erysipelatous area and the skin around burns from the touch. In Rhus this is notso. In Cantharis the little blisters even if touched burn like fire. Eruptions burn when touched, ever solightly, i.e. those eruptions such as the remedy could produce.