Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Paralytic conditions. Paralysis of the esophagus. Cannot swallow. "Paralytic condition of thethroat after diphtheria".Sore throat with low forms of fever. The fever is gone but the patient does not rally, there ismuch nervous trembling, numbness, twitching of muscles and great weakness. Sensation as though aworm were crawling in the stomach. Spasms of the stomach. Violent attacks of gastralgia, violentcramp of the stomach. Griping, pinching, constrictive pain. The pain in the bowels feels as if theintestines were pinched between sharp stones. This causes fainting and vomiting. Colicky pains in thebowels; great distension of the abdomen, such as is found in typhoid fever; tension of the abdomenafter drinking; flatulent colic. Tearing, cutting, spasmodic pains in the bowels. Radiating pains in thebowels accompanying diarrhea. A paralytic condition of the rectum. Inability to press at stool. Urgingto stool and burning in rectum. Disposition to stool, but peristaltic motion in upper intestines iswanting.Copious menstrual flow, menses too soon; last too long.Catamenia two weeks before the time. In women prostrated from grief and from anxiety, andfrom prolonged loss of sleep, menses come too soon, are copious and prolonged. Headache, vertigo,nausea. Violent, cramping pains in the bowels, clutching pains in the uterus during menstruation.Again, just such a patient as described will have a suppression of the menstrual flow, or for weeks andmonths will have no menstrual flow; or just at the time the menstrual period should come on there is acopius leucorrhoea that takes the place of the menses. The woman is emaciated, and grows more andmore sickly and chlorotic. The face is of menses", or "copious leucorrhoea between the menstrualperiods".The heart is weak, pulse feeble. Paralytic weakness in the limbs, numbness, jerking of themuscles, twitching, quivering, loss of sensation, loss of power, muscular weakness in all the limbs.Numbness and paralytic feeling in the limbs. Awkwardness of the fingers and hands. On attempting tograsp the one hand with the other there is migratory numbness or a more permanent numbnessassociated with paralytic weakness, sometimes change able; sometimes one side is numb and the otherparalyzed. The soles of the feet go to deep. Numbness of the soles of the feet, such as we have inlocomotor ataxia; cold feet. The knees give way from weakness. Totters while walking and threatens tofall to one side. Knees stiff. Paralysis of the lower extremities, proceeding from the small of the back.Arising from cold, from the abuse of Mercury. Paralysis of the lower limbs, with stiffness, numbnessand bruised feeling.Sleeplessness from long nursing and from night watching; that is a symptom that I have calledyour attention to so often.Anxious, frightful dreams; ill effects from loss of sleep and night watching. "Slightest loss ofsleep tells on him".COCCUS CACTI [coc-c] [Kent’s]There is a little remedy and will be a relief after the study of so many difficult ones. With fullerproving it will doubtless show itself a deep acting constitutional remedy. Although it has cured somedeep-seated chronic troubles, it has been used chiefly in acute affections. This is only because of thescantiness of its provings and our lack of knowledge concerning it in a general way. Very few mentalsymptoms have been brought out. Its use, so far as demonstrated, is mostly in catarrhal conditions ofthe air passages, and whooping cough, with copious, ropy, jelly-like mucus. Great quantities of thismucus form in the nose, in the throat, in the air passages generally, and in the vagina. The routinepractitioner, whenever he sees thick, ropy, gelatinous mucus, thinks only of Kali-bi. That comes fromthe study of key- notes. But it must be remembered that other remedies besides Kali-bi. have this.Spasmodic cough; whooping cough; the cough of drunkards. The chronic catarrhal state of theCoccus cacti patient comes on especially in the winter. It comes on when the cold weather begins andlasts till the warm weather comes. The patient is cold, and his complaints come on in cold weather. Heis sensitive to cold, easily takes cold. But you must distinguish between the patient himself and hiscomplaints, because they are entirely opposite to each other. When he once becomes sick fromexposure to cold, he is always worse in a warm room and better in the cold air. His cough is brought onin a warm room; from being too warm in bed; from drinking warm things. It is better from drinkingcold things in a cold room; worse from exertion; from getting heated up; from becoming warm; that is,after the complaint has once set in, it reverses itself.This is not unlike many other remedies. I have received many letters from doctors, saying:"Why is it that in your repertory and in Boenninghausen's, certain remedies are put down as better fromcold and worse from cold? They certainly cannot have both".