Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Coldness in the stomach with burning. Fainting. Covered all over with a cold sweat, as incollapse. Collapse with cold breath, cold tongue, cold face. Looks like a cadaver. In all these conditionsof coldness the patient wants to be fanned.Bleeding runs all through the remedy. Oozing of blood from inflamed surfaces. Black bleedingfrom ulcers. Bleeding from the lungs; from the uterus; from the bladder. Vomiting of blood.Passive hemorrhage. On account of the feeble circulation on a capillary oozing will start up andcontinue. The remedy hardly ever has what may be called an active gushing flow, such as belongs toBelladonna, Ipecac, Aconite, Secale, and such remedies, where the flow comes with violence; but it is apassive capillary oozing. The women suffer from this kind of bleeding; a little blood oozing all thetime, so that the menstrual period is prolonged. Oozing of blood after confinement, that ought to bestopped immediately by contractions. There are no contractions of the blood vessels; they are relaxed.Black venous oozing. After a surgical operation there is no contraction and retraction of the bloodvessels. An injury to the skin bleeds easily. The arteries have all been tied and closed, but the littleveins do not seem to have any contractility in their walls. An inflamed part may bleed. Feeble heart;relaxed veins.Again, ulceration. If you have a case, such as I have described, with relaxation of the bloodvessels and feebleness of the tissues, you need not be surprised if there is no repair, no tissue making.So, when a part is injured, it will slough. If an ulcer is once established, it will not heal. The tissues areindolent. Hence we have indolent ulcers; bloody, ichorous, acrid, thin discharges from ulcers. The skinulcerates; the mucous membranes ulcerate. Ulcers in he mouth and in the throat.Ulceration everywhere because of that relaxed and feeble condition. Poor tissue making or noneat all. "The blood stagnates in the capillaries", is the way it reads in the text.You can see how easy it would be fore these feeble parts to develop gangrene. Any littleinflammation or congestion becomes black or purple, and sloughs easily---that is all that is necessary tomake gangrene. It is a wonderful remedy in septic conditions---blood poisoning---especially aftersurgical operations and after shock. It is a useful remedy in septic conditions; in scarlet fever; in anydisease which takes on a sluggish form, with purplish and mottled appearance of the skin.In Carbo veg. the sleep is so full of anxiety that it may be said to be awful. On going to sleepthere is anxiety, suffering, jerking, twitching, and he has the horrors. Everything is horrible. Horriblevisions; sees ghosts. A peculiar sluggish, death-like sleep, with visions. The Carbo veg. patient wakensin anxiety and covered with cold sweat. Exhaustion. Unrefreshed after sleep. And thus the wholepatient is prostrated by his sleep. So anxious that he does not want to go to sleep. Anxiety in the dark.Anxiety with dyspnoea as if he would suffocate.Anxiety so great that he cannot lie down.In Carbo veg. indifference is a very prominent symptom.Inability to perceive or to feel the impressions that circumstances ought to arouse. His affectionsare practically blotted out, so that nothing that is told him seems to arouse or disturb him. "Heardeverything without feeling pleasantly or unpleasantly, and without thinking about it". Horrible thingsdo not seem to affect him much; pleasant things do not affect him.He does not quite know whether he loves his wife and children or not. This is a part of thesluggishness, the inability to think or meditate, all of which is due to the turgescence. Sluggishness ofthe veins. Head feels full; distended. His mind is in confusion and he cannot think. He cannot bringhimself to realize whether a thing be so or not, or whether he loves his family or not, or whether hehates his enemies or not. Benumbed; stupid.There is another state---anxiety and nightly fear of ghosts; anxiety as if possessed; anxiety onclosing the eyes; anxiety lying down in the evening; anxiety again on waking. He is easily frightened.Starting and twitching on going to sleep.The headaches are mostly occipital. His whole head is turgid, full, distended. He feels as if thescalp was too tight.Everything is bound up in the head. Awful occipital headaches.Cannot move, cannot turn over, cannot lie on the side, cannot be jarred, because it seems as ifthe head would burst, as if something was grasping the occiput. Dull headache in the occiput.Violent pressive pain in the lower portion of the occiput. Head feels heavy. When the pain is inthe occiput the head feels drawn back to the pillow, or as if it could not be lifted from the pillow. Likehe cannot lift the head from the pillow. Painful throbbing in the head during inspiration. The Carboveg.patient takes short breaths, quietly, keeping just as still as possible, until finally he is compelledto take a deep breath, and it comes out with a sharp moan. Headache as from contraction of the scalp.