Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

A copious watery discharge, filling the posterior nares and the throat. Then he begins to gethoarse, and in the evening he has a hoarse voice, with rawness in the larynx and throat. Rawness in thelarynx on coughing; soreness to the touch. The more he coughs the worse the rawness becomes. Thiscondition extends into the chest. Secretion of much thin mucus, finally becoming thick yellowishgreen,and bad-tasting. Such is the coryza. Now, with it there comes a stomach disturbance that iscommonly associated with Carbo veg. complaints. Great distension of the abdomen with gas. With thiscoryza he has belching, and sour, disordered stomach. Every time he disorders his stomach he is likelyto get a coryza. Every time he goes into an overheated room he is likely to get a coryza, with sneezing,chest complaints, and catarrh.This catarrhal state in the nose is only a fair example of what may occur anywhere where thereis a mucous membrane.Catarrhal conditions with a flow of watery mucus and bleeding.Carbo veg. has catarrhs of the throat, nose, eyes, chest, and vagina. Old catarrhal conditions ofthe bladder; catarrh of the bowels and stomach. It is pre-eminently a catarrhal remedy. The womanfeels best when she has more or less of a leucorrhoea---it seems a sort of protection. These dischargesthat we meet every day are dried up and controlled by local treatments, by washes, and by localapplications of every kind---and the patient put into the hands of the undertaker, or made a miserablewreck. If these catarrhal patients are not healed from within out, the discharges had better be allowed togo on. While these discharges exist the patient is comfortable. It is quite common for the Carbo veg.patient to be feverish with the coryza, but with many other complaints he is cold; cold limbs; cold face;cold body; cold skin; cold sweat. It is not so common for the earlier stages of the coryza, and thecatarrhal conditions to have these cold symptoms. He is feverish in the evening and all night. But afterhe passes into the second stage, when the mucus is more copious, then come the cold knees, cold nose,cold feet, and cold sweat.The face of Carbo veg. is a great study. In the countenance and in the expression we see muchthat is general. The patient shows his general state in his expression, especially in the eyes. He tells youhow sick he is; he tells you the threatening points. In Carbo veg. there is great pallor and coldness, withlips pinched and nose pointed and drawn in. Lips puckered, blue, livid, sickly, deathly. Face cold, pale,and covered with sweat.As the tongue is protruded for examination it is pale and cold, and the breath is cold, yet hewants to be fanned. This is true whether it be cholera, diarrhea, exhaustive sweats, or complaints afterfevers. Sometimes, after a coryza has run its course and ended in the chest, there is great dyspnoea,copious expectoration, exhaustive sweat, great coldness--and the patient must be fanned. Coughfollowed by dyspnoea, exhaustion, profuse sweats, with choking and rawness---and he wants to befanned.Cold face; pinched face. So the sufferings are expressed in the face. The pains and aches, andanxiety and sorrow are all expressed in the face. The study of the face is a delightful and profitable one.The study of the faces of remedies is very profitable. It is profitable to study the faces of healthy peoplethat you may be able to judge their intentions from their facial expressions. A man shows his businessof life in his face; he shows his method of thinking, his hatreds, his longings, and his loves. How easy itis to pick out a man who has never loved to do anything but to eat---the Epicurean face. How easy it isto pick out a man who has never loved anything but money---the miserly face. You can see the love inmany of the professional faces; you can single out the student's face. These are only manifestations ofthe love of the life which they live. Some manifest hatred; hatred of the life in which they have beenforced to live; hatred of mankind; hatred of life. In those who have been disappointed in everythingthey have undertaken to do we see hatred stamped upon the face. We see these things in remedies justas we see them in people. The study of the face is a most delightful one. A busy, thoughtful andobserving physician has a head full of things that he can never tell---things he knows about the face.So the face expresses the remedy. In Carbo veg. the face flushes to the roots of the hair after alittle wine. This is a strong characteristic. All over the body the skin will become flushed.Sometimes a flush appears in islands, which grow together and become one solid flush,creeping up into the hair. So great is the action of this remedy upon the capillary circulation thatsometimes a tablespoonful of wine is sufficient to cause this flushing of the skin.The old books talk about "scorbutic gums"; now we call it Rigg's disease--a separation of thegums from the teeth. Bleeding of the gums, sensitiveness of the gums. Separation of the gums from theteeth. The teeth get loose. We hear about "the teeth rattling in his mouth". The Carbons produce justsuch a state, a settling away and absorbing of the gums. They get spongy and bleed easily, and hencelooseness of the teeth with bleeding of the gums, which are very sensitive. Teeth decay rapidly.Bleeding of the gums when cleaning the teeth. Teeth and gum affections from abuse of Mercury. Teeth