Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Those old enough to express themselves in the proving said that the stool felt hot while itpassed. It smells like sulfuretted hydrogen. Copious stool; scanty stool, with dysenteric straining.Watery diarrhea, six or eight passages daily. Mucous diarrhoea.Green, watery stool, feces and mucus. "Yellowish brown stool".Also constipation, with no ability to strain. A paralytic weakness of the rectum; inactivity of therectum. Much itching and rawness about the parts, especially in the evening. Anus is "pouting", withswollen appearance and redness.The woman, such as I have described, oversensitive to pain, snappish, suffering intensely froma little pain, takes on many symptoms at the menstrual period. The menstrual flow is black, clotted,offensive. Cramping pains in the uterus, clutching and griping, ameliorated by heat. "Oversensitive topain", with all the pains and complaints, and the mental state, the irritability, the snappish mental stateat a menstrual period. Whether it be a menorrhagia, or a metrorrhagia, there are copious black clots."Menstrual colic following anger", which means violent cramping pains in the uterus duringmenstruation if she has had any great excitement to anger her. Sexual irritability, emotions, disturbanceof mind, will bring on cramps at the menstrual period in a woman who is not subject to cramps,affecting her as if she had taken cold. It is a very useful remedy in membranous dysmenorrhoea. It,perhaps, has existed from the first menstrual period. Every month the woman throws off a littlemembranous formation. This is thrown off with violent labor-like pains, and often with clots.Chamomilla may be a palliative. It is not the constitutional remedy that clears away, and prevents thefuture formation of this membrane, like the deeper antipsorics, but it is often palliative in the moresevere attacks, with the irritable condition of the mind; feverish condition ameliorated by heat;cramping, and clutching like labor pains. "Yellow, smarting leucorrhoea. Excessive menstruation;blood dark, nearly black, clotted, with pain through from back to front, attacks of syncope, coldness oflimbs, much thirst".In pregnancy the woman has also Chamomilla conditions.Irregular contractions; false labor pains. Labor pains that are felt in wrong places. Labor painsthat are felt too much in the back. Contractions that are most painful, cutting, tearing, bringing outscreams. So irritable; she scolds the pains; she scolds the doctor; she scolds everybody; drives thedoctor out of the room; drives the nurse off, and then calls for her again; refuses things that are offered.Labor pains that are clutching here, and clutching there, and cramping, showing that certain fibers ofthe uterus are contracting in one direction, and certain other fibers in another. There is not that uniform,regular contraction that should take place in the expulsion of the contents of the uterus; expulsion of amole or expulsion of a child. If the physician can have the pregnant woman under his care during theperiod of gestation he ought to be able to select remedies to remove these irregular contractions of theuterus, or to prevent them when it comes time for labor. The pains are then not so violent. She feels thecontractions, but in many instances they are painless. You will not always be able to prepare women,they will not always permit it. Women are more inclined to be notional and whimsical and to have theirown way a short time before confinement than at any other time. A woman ought to be under treatmentall through gestation, and sometimes it takes longer. Gestation is a fortuitous time for the woman totake treatment. Symptoms representative of her disordered state come out then that do not appear at anyother time. If she has a psoric condition it may remain dormant until pregnancy comes on, which mayact as an exciting cause to bring out the conditions that are in the constitution. It furnishes, therefore, agood time for the homeopathic physician to study the case and give that woman a constitutional remedybased upon those symptoms that will not only remove those symptoms and prepare her forconfinement, but will remove very much of the disorder in her economy, and she will go on throughlife liberated from much distress, cured from many conditions that perhaps would not have come outuntil some other occasion brought them out. A woman that knows much about Homeopathy wouldsubmit herself regularly to constitutional treatment during gestation, that is, would be particular to givethe physician everything, all the details, all the sufferings, all the trouble, that he may study that case.The things that are to be observed during gestation are to to added to the constitutional symptomsfound when gestation is not present, because they are all evidence of a disturbance in that one patient.And it is the patient that is to be treated, not a disease. It is simply another form of disturbance, ofdisorder of the economy. The things that Chamomilla reaches during confinement, and during itscourse, and at the close of it, are irregular contractions, like hour-glass contractions. "Rigidity of theos". After confinement, after-pains. With all these the same mental condition, the sameoversensitiveness to pain. "Post- partum hemorrhage. Every time the child is put to the breast,cramping of the uterus; cramp in the back. Either of these, or both, Chamomilla cures. The twoprincipal remedies you will have to rely on for these conditions, cramping in the back and cramping inthe abdomen every time the child is put to the breast, are Chamomilla and Pulsatilla. They are two