Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Stiff neck with pains shooting to occiput. Stitching pains each side of spine in dorsal and lumbarregions, worse on deep breathing.Pain in the limbs at night. Sensitive to sudden changes in the weather. Lame, bruised and stiff inall the limbs. Pains worse from mition. Syophilitic nodes on tibia. Pain in tendo Achillis and os calcisafter walking. Numbness in the feet.Cold feet, day and night. Wandering gout.Burning itching of the skin, worse scratching. Itching all over. Redness, and red spots on theskin. Pustules. Gangrenous ulcers. Elevated ulcers. It is antidoted by Hepar and Nitric acid. It is closelyrelated to Thuja.CISTUS CANADENSIS [cist] [Kent’s]This remedy is an antipsoric, a deep-acting remedy. It runs very close to Calcarea, but is milderin its action. It has the same exhaustion from exertion, dyspnoea sweating and coldness that we find inCalcarea.What will forcibly call your attention to a remedy will be the curing of a bad and typical case. Iremember the first time my attention was decidedly called to Cistus. I had put it on my list to studyfrom time to time and had come to the conclusion that it was only a side issue. until a young lady,nineteen years of age, fell under my observation. The glands of the neck were large and hard, theparotids especially; she had fetid otorrhoea; her eyes were inflamed and suppurating; there werefissures at the corners of the eyes; her lips were cracked and bleeding, and she had salt rheum at theends of the fingers. I could not make Calcarea fit the patient, but after much study this little remedyseemed to be just what I needed; and although she had had an immense amount of Homeopathy, goodand bad, the remedy cured.The glands inflame, become swollen and suppurate. It causes caries and cures old ulcers. It hasa scrofulous constitution. It is useful in chronic diarrhea, with enlarged glands, even in those who areflabby, sickly and pallid and who cannot go upstairs without losing their breath. All the mucousmembranes throw out a thick, yellowish, offensive mucus and hence it is suitable in old andtroublesome catarrh. The chest fills up with mucus and he feels relieved after expectoration, but afterhe empties the chest it feels raw. It has eruptions, herpes, tetter, scaly eruptions, salt rheum on thehands and ends of the fingers, with cracking and bleeding of the fingers in winter and from washing incold water.All its complaints are worse from mental exertion. He is excitable. His cough, headache andpains are worse from mental exertion.All its complaints are worse from mental exertion. He is excitable. His cough, headache andpains are worse from mental exertion. Pains shoot from the head to the ear. Shooting, stitching, tearingpains in inflamed parts. Old discharges from the ear date back to eruptive diseases. He feels as ifparalyzed after mental exertion, and mental excitement increases his sufferings, like Calcarea andBorax. If he is compelled to fast headache comes on, and like Lyc., the headache will be relieved aftereating. Frontal headache with coldness. In a warm room the perspiration comes out, and it is cold, andthe more he sweats the colder he gets. Pain in the forehead with cold sweat, and the colder he gets theworse the pain becomes. Sick headaches and great prostration with the headache. Sensation of internalcoldness of the forehead, especially in warm room. Pressing pain at the root of the nose with headache.The parotid gland is so much enlarged that it pushes the head to one side. The glands of the abdomenswell with chronic diarrhoea, and the swelling may be tuberculous. Enlarged glands, with or withouteruptions.All over the body there is a sensation of crawling; formication; tingling and creeping like ants,and no eruption. He scratches till the skin is raw trying to get relieved of the itching and prickling.Eruption upon the face: eczema. Eruptions about the ear.Cold feeling or burning in the nose. This is difficult to distinguish. In acute coryza the nose fillsup with thick, yellow mucus, and when this is blown out it leaves the nasal cavity empty, and there isirritation; one will say it is a rawness, another will say a coldness, and another will describe it as aburning. There is relief when the nose fills up again with mucus.In Ars. the mucus in the nose is so acrid that it burns, but in Ant. c., Aesculus, and in thisremedy when the nose is empty there is a burning or rawness. The sensation of rawness, coldness orburning is caused by the inhalation of air. An epidemic of coryza was prevalent, and this was thestrongest symptom the pain caused by inhaling air, great burning from inhaled air. But it is not in theacute coryza that we see the value of this remedy, it is in the old, chronic case, with thick discharge,and a cold is in the old, chronic case, with thick discharge, and a cold feeling or burning in the nosewhen inhaling air.