Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

feel too long and are sore. Drawing and tearing in the teeth. Tearing in the teeth from hot, cold or saltfood; pain from both heat and cold. This is in keeping with the general venous condition of the wholesystem.Sensitiveness of the tongue. Inflammation of the tongue. In certain low forms of fever, liketyphus and typhoid fevers, the gums turn black---that is, they throw out a blackish, bloody, offensive,putrid exudate. If disturbed or touched they bleed; and the tongue piles up that blackish exudate---thatoozing of black blood from the veins. This is present in putrid forms of fevers like the typhoid---inzymotic states. This remedy is rich in those zymotic symptoms, such as are described in commonspeech as "blood poisoning". Carbo veg. is a sheet-anchor in low types of typhoid; in scarlet feverwhere a typhoid condition is coming upon the case, and in the last stages of collapse; in cholera, and inyellow fever at the time of collapse, where there is coldness, cold sweat, great prostration, dyspnoea--wants to be fanned. Great prostration with cold tongue.The mouth and throat are filled with little purple aphthous ulcers, which were little white spotsto begin with, but they have grown purplish and now ooze black blood. These aphthous patches bleedeasily, burn and sting. Blisters form. Smarting, dryness of the mouth with bleeding aphthous ulcers.These are common features of Carbo veg. in any of the mouth and throat conditions. Tough mucus inthe throat; bloody mucus in the throat. These little ulcers run together, spread, and become one solidmass. A large surface will become ulcerated, denuded of its mucous membrane, and then it will bleed.Little black spots come upon it. Food cannot be swallowed because the throat is so sore.Generally the throat feels puffed.The Carbo veg. patient has a longing for coffee, acids, sweet and salt things. Aversion to themost digestible things and the best of food. For instance, aversion to meat, and to milk which causesflatulence. Now, if I were going to manufacture a Carbo veg. constitution I would commence with hisstomach. If I wanted to produce these varicose veins and the weak venous side of the heart, this fullnessand congestion, and flatulence, this disordered stomach and bowels, and head and mind troubles ---sluggishness of the economy---I would begin and stuff him. I would feed him with fats, with sweets,puddings, pies and sauce, and all such undigestible trash, and give him plenty of wine-- then I wouldhave the Carbo veg. patient. Do we ever have any such people to treat? Just as soon as they tell theirstory, you will know enough about their lives to know that they are mince pie fiends; they have livedon it for years, and now they come saying, "Oh, doctor, my stomach; just my stomach; if you willsimply fix up my stomach". But what are you going to do with him? He has make himself into a Carboveg. patient for you, and it may be quite a while before you can bring him down to a sensible diet. Nowhe must begin at the foot of the ladder. I only brought this up to show how a Carbo veg. patient isproduced and what kind of a stomach he has, and what he has been living on. He has burning in thestomach, distension of the stomach, constant eructations, flatulence, passing offensive flatus. In realityhe is in a fetid condition, a putrid condition. His sweat is offensive. He has heartburn; eructations; thestomach regurgitates the food that he takes.Carbo veg. has much vomiting at the end of the chill. Vomiting and diarrhea. Vomiting andblood; with the vomiting of blood the body is icy cold; breath cold. The pulse is thready andintermittent. Fainting, hippocratic face; oozing of thick black blood. Vomiting of sour, bloody, biliousmasses.There is an accumulation of flatus in the stomach, so that the stomach feels distended. All foodtaken into the stomach seems to turn into flatus he is always belching, and is slightly relieved for awhile by belching. Carbo veg. has cramps in the bowels and stomach; burning pain; anxiety; distension.All these symptoms are ameliorated by belching, or passing flatus. Amelioration from belching seemsquite a natural event; but when times even seem to be worse. The Carbo veg. patient experiences adecided relief from eructation. This is a particular symptom, but it becomes almost general, andsometimes quite general. Headaches are relieved by belching; rheumatic pains are relieved by belching;sufferings and distension of various kinds are relieved by eructations.This abdominal fullness aggravates all the complaints of the body. The fullness, which isdescribed as if in the veins, is sometimes in the tissues, under the skin, so that it will crepitate. This is afeature of Carbo veg., and, in rheumatic conditions, part of the swelling is sometimes of this character.Food remains a long time in the stomach, becomes sour and putrid.It passes into the bowels and ferments further, finally passing off in the form of putrid flatus.There is colic, burning pains, distension, fullness, constricting and cramping pains from this distension.The patient complains of feeling as if the stomach were raw. This is described as a smarting, sometimesfrom taking food; sometimes from taking cold water. Carbo veg. has cured ulceration of the stomach. Itis a deep-acting medicine, and is capable of curing all disordered conditions of the stomach; such asdisorders from eating indigestible things, mince pie, too hearty food.