Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

here is an expression, "obliged to clear his throat so often in the evening that the larynx becomes rawand sore". Clearing the throat would not make the larynx sore. Scraping the throat does not scrape thelarynx; but he is obliged to clear his larynx so often that the part feels raw. Ulcerative pain, scrapingand titillation in the larynx. Irritation in the larynx causing sneezing. Laryngeal phthisis. This catarrhalcondition and lack of repair in the larynx goes on so long that tuberculosis begins.Carbo veg. is one of the greatest medicines we have in the beginning of whooping cough. Itscough has all the gagging, vomiting and redness of the face found in whooping cough. It is one of ourbest medicines when the case is confused; when the cough indicates no remedy or when it remains in apartially developed state. A dose of Carbo veg. in such cases will improve matters very much, andminor cases of whooping cough may be wiped out in a few days. When the remedy does not curepermanently, it brings out more clearly the symptoms calling for another remedy.Most cases of whooping cough, in the care of a homeopathic physician, will get well in a weekor ten days under a carefully selected remedy. When allowed to run, they continue a long time,gradually increasing for six weeks, and then declining according to the weather. If it is in the fall, thecough will sometimes keep up all winter; so whooping cough furnishes an opportunity for thehomeopathic physician to demonstrate that there is something in Homeopathy.The Carbo veg. patient suffers very much from difficulties of breathing. Suffocation; cannot liedown. A feeling of weakness in the chest, as if he could not get another breath. Sometimes it is due tocardiac weakness, and sometimes to stuffing up of the chest. The latter is most common. Sometimesthe difficulty is asthmatic. The remedy cures asthma. We will see the patient propped up in a chair byan open window, or some members of the family may be fanning him as fast as possible. The face iscold, the nose pinched, the extremities cold and he is as pale as death. Put the hand in front of themouth, and the breath feels cold. The breath is offensive; putrid. The extremities are cold clear to thebody; not only the hands, but the whole upper extremities; and not only the feet, but the limbs clear tothe body, are cold. The body only feels warm; even the skin is cold.Carbo veg. has a rattling cough with retching and vomiting.A morning cough, with much rattling in the chest; the chest fills with mucus, and onendeavoring to expectorate he coughs and gags, or coughs and vomits. At any time during the day apeculiar choking, gagging, retching cough may develop from the mucus in the chest. He cannot get itup; it is tough, purulent, yellow and thick. Greatly reduced vitality; great relaxation; worn out persons,old people. Persons worn out from coughing or from prolonged exertion. Prostration. Catarrh of thechest, with copious expectoration.At times there will be a hard, dry hacking cough, but finally, after prolonged coughing, itcommences to loosen and he throws up great quantities of mucus. A dry, hacking cough, yet there israttling in the chest, and the cough does not seem to do any good. He seems to cough and becomeexhausted, sweats and strangles. It seems as if he would suffocate with the cough.Finally he succeeds in getting up some mucus, and then follows mouthful after mouthful ofthick purulent expectoration. Frequent attacks of spasmodic cough in violent paroxysms lasting formany minutes, sometimes an hour. Cold sweat, coldness and pinched appearance of the face. Thisincreases as he goes into the paroxysm of coughing. His face looks haggard, so distressed does hebecome while in a paroxysm of coughing. This state is present in old phthisical cases, in the advancedstage, when they are incurable. Under such circumstances Carbo veg. furnishes an excellent palliative.It seems to strengthen the muscles of the chest so that the patient can expectorate better. It mitigates thecough; the gagging and retching and dyspnoea are relieved, and he is temporarily improved. It is awonderful palliative in many incurable conditions with dyspnoea and weakness of the chest. In Bright'sdisease, in phthisis, and in cancerous affections Carbo veg. stops the violent symptoms and mitigatesgreatly.This remedy is one to begin whooping cough with. It simplifies the case greatly, and sometimescures it in a few days. The patient coughs until the chest is sore, as if he had been beaten all over thechest. All night he has paroxysms of coughing. He sleeps into a paroxysm of coughing, like Lachesis.He rouses up from sleep with coughing, gagging, sweating and suffocation. He will go two or threehours without a paroxysm, and then on comes one that will last an hour. He has two or three hardparoxysms of coughing during the night. He commences to fill up, he hears the rattling breathing andhe knows that before long he will have a hard time of it.This goes on and on, to the end of his life in asthmatic cases- --what is called "humid asthma".Real humid asthma comes on in persons who suffer from contractions of the small bronchial tubes, sothat even at the best there are little whistling in he chest.. Every time such patients take cold theirwhistling increases. They expectorate mucus, at first copious, then tough and finally purulent. Duringall this there is great asthmatic dyspnoea. Carbo veg. is an excellent remedy in in all those cases of