Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

yellow or yellowish-green discharge; nose-bleed; frequent attacks of acrid, watery coryza. Muchitching of the nose. A wart grows upon the tip of the nose.The pains in the face are violent. Neuralgic pains from exposure to cold. These pains oftenaccompany the facial paralysis. Tearing pains in the face, stitching pains, pains of a rheumaticcharacter.Ulcerations about the mouth and nose. Fissures about the lips, the wings of the nose and thecorners of the eyes. Fissures seem to form upon the least provocation. Fissures of the anus, of the skinabout the joints. Old cases of salt rheum with fissures in the bends of the joints. Fistulous openings withindurated walls.The gums become scorbutic and settle away from the teeth, bleeding and ulceration of thegums. Violent, tearing pains in the roots of the teeth from riding in the wind. Old rheumatic subjectssuffer all through every dry spell with toothache.Stitching, tearing, pulsating pains in the teeth; even in the sound teeth on drawing in cold air.Frequently recurring abscesses of the gums. Putrid sour or bitter taste in the mouth.When the paralytic condition affects the tongue then we have stammering. There is also thecondition of complete paralysis of both the pharynx and esophagus. Hence Causticum is useful in theresults of diphtheria when it has been maltreated or when the remedy has not been sufficient to cure thedisease. The food goes down the wrong way or enters the larynx or the post-nares.Paralysis of the organs of speech, paralysis of the tongue, awkward at talking, awkward atchewing; bites the tongue and cheeks while chewing. Post-diphtheritic paralysis is a serious conditionand only a few remedies can cure it. Causticum is one of them. Lachesis and Cocculus are alsoimportant. Dryness of the mouth and throat; rawness of the throat; must swallow constantly on accountof a sensation of fullness in the throat, a nervous feeling in the throat. This is often a forerunner ofparalysis.The Staphysagria patient when excited will keep up a constant swallowing and this goes onuntil it becomes a source of great annoyance. Burning in the throat; jerking in the throat; constantlyscraping thick, tough mucus from the larynx. Study the sounds that patients make in order to ascertainwhere the mucus comes from. The presence of hoarseness shows that the trouble is in the larynx.The Causticum patient sits down to the table hungry, but on seeing the food his appetitevanishes. The thought, sight or smell of food takes away the appetite. This is a common symptom inthe pregnant woman. Although hungry, on sitting down at the table, she cannot eat. Kali carbonicumhas an empty, all-gone feeling in the stomach, with aversion to food. China has canine hunger, butloathes the sight of food.Thirst after eating; thirst for cool drinks with aversion to water; desire for beer, smoked meats,pungent things, aversion to sweet things and delicacies. Most remedies that have loss of appetite havedesire for sweet things, pastry, etc. The symptoms of thirst with aversion to drinking is very much likeLachesis.The two run very closely together in the paralytic condition of the throat.There is a queer sensation in the stomach as if lime were slaking there. Trembling in thestomach; burning. Bread causes a sensation of heaviness and pressure; coffee seems to aggravate all thesymptoms of the stomach, but a swallow of cold water relieves. Many symptoms in this remedy aremade better by a swallow of cold water. The violent, spasmodic cough may be stopped at once by adrink of cold water. Cold water seems to tone up the paralytic condition. Warm water applied to thehands brings on pains in these old sensitive spinal conditions. Cold washing is their only relief.Causticum has belching, nausea, vomiting, distension and violent pains in the stomach.Pinching colic. In the rectum there is the same tendency to paralytic weakness that is found in otherparts of the body. It is inactive and fills up with hard feces, which pass involuntarily and unnoticed.Aloe has involuntary dropping of little, hard balls, especially in children. Even when old enough tounderstand about such things, they will pass little balls unnoticed.On account of the paralytic condition the stool passes with less straining while the patient isstanding. Retention of urine except when standing; unable to pass it in any other position isSarsaparilla. Constipation, frequent, unsuccessful urging to stool. The stool is tough and shining, and ispassed with great difficulty and exertion.Fissures in the anus; itching and stitching in the rectum, excessive itching day and night;hemorrhoids; pulsating in the perineum; fissures and hemorrhoids pulsate and burn like fire.The hemorrhoids become infiltrated and hardened.This remedy has two kinds of paralysis of the bladder, one affecting the muscles of expulsionand the urine is retained, and the other centering upon the sphincter vesicae, and then the urine is