Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

ulcers; suspicious indurations in glands. A gland becomes inflamed, hard and remains so. Carboanimalis stands at the head of the list of remedies that have that condition.All through the remedy there is hypertrophy. Tissues pile up here and there into nodules; tissuespile up in glands and in organs. The economy has lost its balance, and the result is a disorderlydistribution of material. Great prostration, want of energy, associated with palpitation, anxiety anddisorders of the pulse. Weak pulse, rapid pulse, irregular pulse. Beating in blood vessels. There isturmoil in the economy, sometimes described as heat. A rushing of heat as though the body was full ofsteam.Awful sensation through the chest and in the head, like some great earthquake taking place.These are due to abnormal conditions of the venous side of the heart. Flushes of heat; pulsations hereand there. Hemorrhages. And of course the woman is more likely to bleed than the man; hence we havemenses too early, too long, too copious. Prostration with every menstrual flow. The Carbo animaliswoman sinks down at every menstrual period as if she would die. Such striking weakness is not at allaccounted for by the quantity of the flow. Chronic induration, with enlargement of the uterus, whichgradually grows from year to year (Aur. m. n.). Induration of the cervix and the whole uterus. Copiousflow of the leucorrhoea. Offensive uterine discharges. Ulceration of the uterus, going gradually towardthe malignant state. The menses are black and offensive. Finally this poor, feeble woman. who has beenplodding along for years with this condition. goes into malignant ulceration of the cervix, which burns,bleeds constantly and oozes a fetid watery flow. The burning pains in the uterus extend down to thethighs.Whenever this patient puts the child to the breast she has a sensation of emptiness in thestomach; sinking in the pit of the stomach. and she must take the child away.There are many uterine troubles, with burning, stinging, smarting, a yellow brown saddle overthe bridge of the nose, something like the mottled yellow saddle of Sepia. All sorts of disorderedconditions of the uterus.Surging of blood upward to the head, rousing up in sleep, with horrible dreams. This poormortal is suffering from troubles in the base of the brain, has tearing pains in the head, and especiallyof the occiput growing increasingly sensitive to cold, increasingly chilly, increasingly waxy, until wehave phthisis or cancer, with varicose veins and all the conditions that I have described.CARBO VEGETABILIS [carb-v] [Kent’s]We will take up the study of Vegetable Charcoal--Carbo veg. It is a comparatively inertsubstance made medicinal and powerful and converted into a great healing agent by grinding it fineenough. By dividing it sufficiently, it becomes similar to the nature of sickness and cures folks. TheOld School use it in tablespoonful doses to correct acidity of the stomach. But it is a great monument toHahnemann. It is quite inert in crude form and the true healing powers are not brought out until it issufficiently potentized. It is one of those deep-acting, long- acting antipsoric medicines. It enters deeplyinto the life. In its proving it develops symptoms that last a long time, and it cures conditions that are oflong standing--those that come on slowly and insidiously. It affects the vascular system especially;more particularly the venous side of the economy--- the heart, and the whole venous system.Sluggishness is a good word to think of when examining the pathogenesis of Carbo veg.Sluggishness, laziness, turgescence, these are words that will come into your mind frequently,because these states occur so frequently in the symptomatology. Everything about the economy issluggish, turgid, distended and swollen The hands are puffed; the veins are puffed; the body feels fulland turgid; the head feels full, as if full of blood. The limbs feel dull, so that the patient wants to elevatethe feet to let the blood run out The veins are lazy, relaxed and paralyzed. Vaso-motor paralysis. Theveins of the body are enlarged; the extremities have varicose veins.The whole mental state, like the physical, is slow. The mental operations are slow. Slow tothink; sluggish; stupid; lazy.Cannot whip himself into activity, or rouse a desire to do anything. Wants to lie down and doze.The limbs are clumsy; they feel enlarged. The skin is dusky. The capillary circulation is engorged. Theface is purple. Any little stimulating food or drink will bring a flush to that dusky face. When you seepeople gather around a table where wine is served you can pick out the Carbo veg. patients, becausetheir faces will be flushed; in a little while it passes off and they get purple again. Dusty - almost a dirtyduskiness. The skin is lazy; sluggish.Running through the remedy there is burning. Burning in the veins, burning in the capillaries,burning in the head, itching and burning of the skin. Burning in inflamed parts. Internal burning andexternal coldness. Coldness, with feeble circulation, with feeble heart. icy coldness. Hands and feetcold and dry, or cold and moist. knees cold; nose cold; ears cold; tongue cold.