Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

position, showing a sluggish circulation. This is the flabbiness of Capsicum. It wrinkles on pressure. Itis a feeble circulation. The parts you touch are loose and flabby, red, fat and cold. That child will notreact well if it has measles, until it gets Capsicum. The skin is moist and cold, and there is a fine measlycondition of the skin due to capillary congestion. If the child is old enough it will complain of feelingcold. There is slow reaction after eruptive diseases, after glandular diseases, after bowel complaints.The child was fat and flabby, but now does not take on flesh.He takes cold in the throat and nose, and the throat looks as if it would bleed, it is so red, a finerash-like appearance---it is puffed, discolored, purple, mottled, flabby and spongy- looking, dark red.Burning soreness with ulceration in the fauces. Uvula elongated. Stitching in throat. Enlarged tonsils,inflamed, large and spongy. The throat remains sore a long time after a cold or sore throat. Burning,pressing pain in the throat, the throat dark red; relaxed sore throat; pain on swallowing, dysphagia.Throat sluggish for weeks, a do-nothing state, does not get very bad, but gets no better, a lack ofreaction.When the chill begins there is thirst. Thirst after every dysenteric stool, a sudden craving forice-cold water, which causes chilliness. Craving for water before the chill and when taken it hastens thechill; it feels cold in the stomach. He desires something warm, something stimulating, craves pungentthings. This is seen in whiskey drinkers; they crave pepper, and the pepper, on the other hand, turnsround and craves whisky.These diffusable stimulants crave some stimulating thing, crave support. Dipsomania.Let me give you a hint in Arsenic. In dipsomania the sinners who have been drinking a greatmany drinks in a day sometimes get to that state in which they must get up during the night for a drinkor they will not be able to get up in the morning. In the morning the first three or four drinks will bethrown up, but the next one will stay down; they must take a number until one sticks. They have got tothat state in which they must keep on taking it. If they sleep too long the first few drinks will come up,and so they must get up in the night or the whisky will not stay down in the morning until they havetaken a number of drinks. You will see this in lawyers who do a great amount of work on stimulants.Nux, Ars., and Caps. will do something for them if they will co-operate with you. I remember saying toone old toper, who had kept up altogether on champagne, that he would have to stop it. He whined, "Idon't think it is worth while". If he could not get his champagne he didn't think life worth living.If these people want to get benefit they must co-operate.Dysentery. After stool, tenesmus and thirst, and drinking causes. shuddering. Smarting andburning in anus and rectum.Violent tenesmus in rectum and bladder at the same time.Hemorrhoids; protruding, smarting, burning; smarting like pepper; they sting and burn as ifpepper had been sprinkled on them.Tenesmus of the bladder; strangury. Burning, biting pain after urination. In old cases ofgonorrhea in which there is no reaction. The discharge is creamy. You take a picture of his face, younotice the plethora, but also that he has no endurance, plump, flabby, sensitive to cold, red face. Hedoes not react after cold. He has the last drop or a creamy discharge with burning on urination.Capsicum will sometimes stop it suddenly.Coldness of scrotum. Prepuce swollen, oedematous. Pain in the prostate gland after gonorrhea.Coldness of the affected part. Coldness in patches. Coldness of the whole body.It is useful in perplexing and troublesome chronic hoarseness.He has had a cold and remedies for the acute condition have been given, perhaps two or threeremedies, Acon., Bry., Hep., Phos., but all at once you wake up to the fact of his chronic constitutionalstate of hoarseness. He is rotund, chilly, red faced, and the hoarseness disappears under Capsicum. It isthe same with the cough. After making several blunders you wake up and see it is a Capsicum case andthat you have never yet gotten at the root of the trouble. This shows the importance of getting at thethings general first. If there is much acute suffering of course you must give an acute remedy, but if thepatient has delayed recovery and convalescence is slow the next remedy should be the remedy for thepatient. Sometimes it is Sulf., Phos., Lyc., and sometimes it is Caps. If the patient has a goodconstitutional state he will get over the cold on the acute remedy, but the old gouty, rheumatic, flabbypatients need a constitutional remedy.Cough in sudden paroxysms, convulsing the whole body. Cries after the cough from theheadache. Stitches in the suffering part with the cough. Every cough jars the affected joint. Theconstitutional state comes first and the particulars must agree i.e., prescribe according to the totality.