Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

total deafness, and the noises in the ear continue long after the patient has lost the ability to distinguisharticulate sounds.Haemorrhage from the ear. Offensive, bloody, purulent discharges.Frequent nosebleed in anaemic patients. Here, again, the dryness and catarrhal conditions. Drycoryza; or fluent coryza, suppressed and causing violent head pains. Odors nauseate.Sensitiveness to the odors of flowers, cooking, tobacco.The face is withered, shrunken, sallow, anaemic, sickly.Red when the fever is on and sometimes when the chill is on, but in the apyrexia pale, sicklyand sallow. Neuralgia of the face; tearing, rending, knife-like pains with the usual modalities. The veinsof the face are distended. This is frequently observed during the fever and sweat of the Chinaintermittents.The teeth get loose, the gums swell. The teeth are painful while chewing; they feel too long.Toothache with every little cold. Rending as if teeth were being pulled out, every time the child nursesat the breast. Exudations about the teeth and gums.Black, and foetid; great putridity in the lower forms of fever.The taste is extremely acute. Exaggerated so that nothing tastes natural. " Bitter taste in themouth. Food tastes bitter or too salty. Burning as from pepper on tip of the tongue.Dryness in the mouth and throat. Difficult swallowing".Sometimes there is canine hunger, but one of the most common features is loathing ofeverything; aversion to all food. The China patient is often passive in regard to eating. Sits down to eatand the food tastes fairly good and he fills up. But it does not matter much whether he eats or not."Loathing and violent hunger". Hunger and yet want of appetite. Indifference to eating and drinking.Only while eating some appetite and natural taste for food return. Loss of appetite. Aversion to all food.Aversion to bread". His appetite varies. Thirst is peculiar.The patient will say: "I know my chill is coming on now because I have thirst". Thirst beforethe chill, but as soon as the chill comes on there is no thirst. But period in which the two lap he isthirsty, but when the chill has fairly subsided and the heat is upon him his thirst subsides also and heonly wants to wet his mouth. But as the hot spell begins to subside he increases the amount taken, andall through the sweat he can hardly get water enough. Thirst before and after the chill and thirst duringthe sweat. No thirst during the chill. No thirst during the hot spell. You will cure more cases ofintermittent fever with Ipecac and Nux vomica, than with China. China has well-defined chill, feverand sweat.Gastric symptoms from eating fish, fruit, and from drinking wine. Flatulent distension almost tobursting. There are constant eructation, loud and strong, and yet no relief, so extensive is the flatulence.In Carbo veg. after belching a little, there is relief. Lyc. has both. Tympanitic distension of theabdomen and stomach in low forms of fever. Cannot move on account of soreness in the bowels.Vomiting of blood. Sometimes followed by dropsy of the extremities. "Hiccough. Nausea.Vomiting. Eructations, tasting of food, or they are bitter, sour.Frequent vomiting. Vomiting of sour mucus, bile, blood". Likely to occur at night. Pulsation inthe stomach and rumbling. Cold feeling in the stomach. Fermentation after eating fruit.Acidity. Disorders of the stomach after milk.Diarrhoea. Copious, watery black discharges from the bowels. Gurgling and rumbling in theabdomen. Stool immediately after eating and at night. Great quantities of flatus expelled from thebowels. Diarrhoea comes on gradually. Stools more and more watery. Chronic diarrhoea, withemaciation and aggravation at night. Petroleum has a chronic diarrhoea, but only in the daytime.Of the male genital organs the most striking feature is weakness. Of the female genital organsthere is a different class of conditions. In the woman who has been subject to uterine haemorrhages youmay look out at any moment for a sudden, sharp attack of inflammation of the ovaries. Haemorrhagefrom the uterus. Prolapse. Menses too early and too profuse; black, clotted blood; menstrual colic;metrorrhagia. Pains and convulsions; convulsions come on in the midst of the haemorrhage; cramps inthe uterus along with haemorrhage; labor-like pains; ringing in the ears; loss of sight; sliding down inbed. In confinement the lochia is profuse and lasts too long.Deterioration of health from prolonged lactation; toothache; neuralgia of the face.Difficult respiration, rattling and filling up of the chest with mucus; asthma. "Pressure in thechest, as from violent rush of blood; violent palpitation, bloody sputa, sudden prostration".Dry, suffocative cough at night; profuse night sweats. Pain in the chest, increasing sensitivenessto cold, heat and redness of the face with cold hands.