Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

degree than many other remedies and is not so frequently indicated as routine prescribers suppose.Allopaths give.Quinine whenever there is any periodicity in complaints. Still periodicity is a strong feature inthis remedy. Pains come on with regularity at a given time each day. Intermittent fevers appear withregularity and run a regular course.A part of this periodicity is an aggravation at night, and sometimes sharply at midnight. In colicthat comes on regularly every night at 12 o'clock, and it may be, perhaps, a week before you suspect itto be a China colic. A lady had colic and bloating of the abdomen every night at 12 o'clock. Aftersuffering many nights a single dose of China prevented any further trouble. Haemorrhage from the nosecoming on with regularity. Diarrhoea at night. Several gushing, Black, watery stools during the night;in the daytime, only after eating.There is a general aggravaion after eating.Remember that this is a chilly patient, sensitive to drafts, sensitive to cold, whose complaintsare brought on by being exposed to cold air; sensitive to touch, sensitive to motion.Extreme irritability of the tissues.China is indicated in conditions following the loss of blood and other animal fluids; as, forinstance, in those who are suffering from sexual excesses, from secret vice. They have become feeble,sleepless and irritable. There is weakness and general coldness of the skin; twitching and jerking of thelimbs; drawing and cramping in the muscles; chronic jerking; epileptiform convulsion; paralyticweakness; rush of blood to the head; ringing in the ears; darkness before the eyes; fainting on theslightest provocation. Such is the china cachexia, and with this in view, the mental state will scarcelybe a surprise to you. It is just such as you would expect in this nervous, sensitive patient. Weakness ofmind. Inability to think or remember. Full of fear at night. Fear of animals, dogs, of creeping things.Wants to commit suicide, but lacks courage.Gradually the mind grows weaker; he uses wrong expressions or misplaces words. Lies awakeat night making plans; theorizing, building air castles, thinking of the wonderful things he is going todo some day. In the morning he wonders how he could have thought such foolish things. After sleep hismind is clear and he looks more philosophically on the affairs of life.Unable to entertain any mental proposition that means work. He dreads work. He is apathetic,indifferent, low spirited, silent, disinclined to think. He is unable to control the mind, to make it dowhat he wants it to do. You see it is not as yet a real insanity.This state of mind comes on after haemorrhage. Insomnia after haemorrhage. A women, afterhaving suffered great loss of blood, will be sleepless night after night.After haemorrhage we may have dizziness. It is a natural consequence; dizziness and fainting.But ordinarily, after the proper diet for a few days, these symptoms will have disappeared.With the China patient they go from bad to worse. The woman after severe haemorrhage doesnot make blood. There is mal- assimilation, and the vertigo persists for days and weeks. China willrestore order.The remedy is full of headaches. Congestive headaches in broken down constitutions.Extremities cold and body covered with a cold sweat., Rending, tearing pains. Pressing and throbbing.As soon as the air strikes the head those pains come on. Headache better in a warm room; worse fromtouch; worse from motion; worse from cold. These are the principal features.A slight touch will aggravate the disturbance. But notice the exception. Hard pressureameliorates the China pains, as light pressure aggravates. Sensitiveness of the tissues; sensitivenessalong the course of the nerves; the pains are brought on by touch, by cold air. Stitches in the head withpulsation in temples, which can be felt with the fingers; ameliorated by hard pressure, But aggravatedby touch. The jar and motion of walking hurt the head. Even turning over in bed aggravates. Cannotride in a carriage or anything that jolts.Ameliorated by hard pressure. Throbbling headaches, aggravated by a draft of air, in the openair, from the slightest touch; ameliorated by hard pressure. The scalp feels as if the hair was graspedroughly. It is sensitive to touch. Profuse sweating of the scalp. Headaches aggravated at night.Headaches from sexual excesses; loss of animal fluids.Now we come to the eye. Photophobia. Yellowness of the sclera. Exposure to cold wind willbring on neuralgia; ameliorated from keeping quiet and from keeping warm. "Nocturnal blindness,dimness of vision. Feeling as if sand were in the eyes. Pains worse from light. Better in the dark".In the ear and the nose you find the same sensitiveness as in eyes; every little noise is painful.Ringing, roaring, buzzing, and singing, chirping like crickets in the ears. Dry catarrh of the middle ear.Hardness of hearing is not frequently the result of this condition. It gradually increases until there is