Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

In Carbo veg. the liver, like all the other organs, takes on a state of torpidity and sluggishness. Itbecomes enlarged. The portal system is engorged, and hence hemorrhoids develop. Pain and distensionin the region of the liver; sensitiveness and burning in the liver, accompanied by a bloated condition ofthe stomach and bowels. A feeling of tension in the region of the liver; the part feels drawn, as if tootight. There are pressing pains in the liver, and it is sensitive to touch.Much that I have said regarding the flatulence and fullness of the stomach applies also to theabdomen. Carbo veg. may be indicated in low forms of fever, as in septic fever, when there is a markedtympanitic condition, with diarrhea, bloody discharges, distension and flatulence. Extremely putridflatus escapes making the patient very offensive. A striking abdominal symptom of Carbo veg. is thatthe flatus collects here and there in the intestine as if it were in a lump; incarcerated flatus; aconstriction of the intestine will hold it in one place so that it feels like a lump or tumor, that finallydisappears. Colic here and there in the abdomen from flatus. There is burning in the abdomen. Nomatter what the trouble is, in Carbo veg. there is always burning. The part burns; it feels full; itbecomes engorged and turgid with blood. Diarrhea, dysentery, cholera, when there is a bloody, waterystool. Cholera infantum; stool mixed with mucus; watery mucus mixed with blood. The child sinksfrom exhaustion, with coldness, pallor and cold sweat. The nose, face and lips are pinched andhippocratic. With all diarrhoeic troubles the prostration will indicate Carbo veg. as much as, if not morethan, the stool. In the diarrhea of Carbo veg. all the stools, no matter what kind, are putrid, with putridflatulence.The more thin, dark bloody mucus there is, the better is the remedy indicated. Itching, burningand rawness of the anus and round about are strong features of Carbo veg. Soreness---in all diarrhoeicconditions -- soreness to pressure over the abdomen.Round about the anus, in children, there is excoriation. The parts are red, raw and bleeding, andthey itch. Itching of the anus in adults. Ulceration of the bowels. This tendency to ulceration of mucousmembranes is in keeping with the character of the remedy. Whenever there are mucous membranesthere may be ulceration. Aphthous appearance. Ulceration of Peyer's glands.The patient lies in bed and oozes involuntarily a thin bloody fluid, like bloody serum.Old chronic catarrhal conditions of the bladder, when the urine contains mucus, especially inold people, with cold face, cold extremities and cold sweat. There is suppression of urine.In both the male and the female organs there is a weakness and relaxation. The male organshang down. Relaxation of the genitalia; cold and sweating genitals. The fluids escape involuntarily.In the woman the relaxation is manifested by a dragging down sensation; dragging down of theuterus, as if the internal parts would escape. The uterus drags down so that she cannot stand on her feet.All the internal organs feel heavy and hang down.Another strong feature of Carbo veg. is dark, oozing hemorrhage from the uterus. It is not sooften a copious, gushing hemorrhage---the remedy has that also---but it is an oozing. The menstrualflow will ooze from one period almost to another. The blood is putrid and dark, even black, with smallclots, and considerable serum escapes with it. It says in the text: "Metrorrhagia from uterine agony".Atony is a good name for the condition; lack of tone; relaxation; weakness of the tissue.Atony is everywhere present in the Carbo veg. constitution. The muscles are tired, the limbs aretired, the whole being is tired and relaxed. This is in contradistinction to the gushing found inBelladonna, Ipecac, Secale and Hamamelis, where the blood escapes in great gushes, followed quitenaturally by a contraction of the uterus, for there is more or less tonicity in connection with it.In Carbo veg., either in connection with confinement or menstruation, or in an incidentalhemorrhage, the uterus does not contract. Subinvolution from mere atony; no contraction; no tonicity;weakness and relaxation. After menstruation, confinement and the various complaints that woman issubject to, there is a period of weakness that Carbo veg. often fits. When there is a retained placenta,with scanty hemorrhage---just an oozing, with no tendency to a gush of blood---the physicianremembers that throughout the whole pregnancy and confinement there has been sluggishness andslowness of pains, and he says: "Why did I not think of Carbo veg. before?" The woman has neededCarbo veg. for a month. He administers a dose and before he has time to think about it, the uterus willexpel that placenta and fix up matters so nicely that he will not need the mechanical interference thatmight otherwise have been necessary.Now-a-days we hear so much about this meddlesome midwifery, this curetting, and doing thisand that and the other thing, that it makes a homeopathic physician disgusted. Just as if those parts werenot made by Nature, and could not take care of themselves; as if they must be swabbed out andsyringed out.These injections and bichlorides, etc., to keep the germs out of a woman are all nonsense. if astate of order is maintained there will be no germs. A homeopathic physician can manage hundreds of