Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

the patient. A woman will come to you with one group of symptoms today and may come back to youwith an entirely different group in a couple of weeks. These are very troublesome cases to prescribefor, and you have sometimes to take the symptoms a dozen times and put them all together as if she hadleft them ill in one day, and so make your prescription. A hysterical patient is difficult to managebecause of this changing of symptoms, and also because she has a tendency to deceive the doctor."Shivering in the first stage of labor. Hysterical manifestations through labor". Pains have allceased or are irregular, so that they do no good. No dilatation has taken place. But when the regularpains come on we have come important symptoms. A pain comes on and it seems to be about to finishsatisfactorily; it has been regular and prolonged until about two-thirds through, and all at once shescreams out and grasps her hip--the pain has left the uterus and gone to the hip, causing a cramp in thehip, and she has to be rubbed and turned over. This medicine will regulate the pains, and when the nextpain comes it will hold on to the end. So impressionable is this woman during confinement that if she issubjected to any emotion such as having an emotional story told in the room--or if anything excitableoccurs, the pain will stop. If she has pain through the labor and the lochia has been established, fromsuch a cause the lochia will stop, as if she had taken cold, and she will have cramps and troublesomeafter-pains, the milk will be suppressed, she will feel sore and bruised all over, and have fever. Thisremedy should be compared with Caulophyllum which has the following symptoms: Weakness in thereproductive system of the woman. From weakness she is sterile, or she aborts in the early months ofgestation. During parturition the contractions of the uterus are too feeble to expel the contents, and theyare only tormenting. Labor-like pains during menstruation with drawing pains in the thighs and legs,and even the feet and toes.Uterine haemorrhage from inertia of the uterus. Relaxation of muscles and ligaments.Heaviness, and even prolapsus.Subinvolution. Excoriating leucorrhoea. Menses too soon or too late. She is sensitive to coldand wants warm clothing--quite unlike Pulsatilla. She is hysterical, like Ignatia.>e is fretful andapprehensive. She is rheumatic, like ACTAEA only the small joints are most likely to be affected.Later she suffers from after-pains, and they are felt in the inguinal region. Rheumatic stiffness of theback and very sensitive spine. She is sleepless, restless and withal very excitable. This remedy hascured chorea at puberty when menstruation was late.You need not be surprised that such an emotional subject has a fluttering, quick pulse, andirregular action of the heart, but many of the most marked hysterical features are present without anydisturbances whatever in the action of the heart. "A feeling in the region of the heart as if the heart weresore, and as if it were enlarged"."Back of head and neck sore". The head is drawn back from contraction of muscles at he nape.Violent aching down the back.Rheumatism in the back. Impossible to lie upon the back because of the contraction of themuscles of the back. Impossible to lie upon the side of the body because of the contraction and jerkingof the muscles. "Numbness of the limbs. Trembling. Soreness".The symptoms of the nerves are simply a reiteration of what I have said. "Hysterical spasms.Convulsions. Trembling of the legs; hardly able to walk". The numbness is such as is associated withparalysis. Paralytic weakness.The best effects have resulted from the 30th, 200th, 1000th and still higher potencies, and fromthe use of medicine in single doses.It is similar in some of its conditions to the Blue Cohosh.Compare it with Puls., Sepia, Natr-mur., Lil-t., Caulophyllum and Ign.CINA MARITIMA [cina] [Kent’s]Cina is pre-eminently a child's remedy, but it issuitable for conditions in adults that are seldomthought of. A marked feature running through istouchiness, mental and physical. The child wantssomething, but does not know what. The child isaggravated by touch and even by being looked at, andis worse from seeing strangers. The skin is sensitive totouch. The scalp and back of the neck, the shoulders