Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

sensitive to coffee, and they drink it in great quantities; the face becomes red; headaches come on, andother symptoms of Coffea. Stopping coffee brings out quite a proving, and you have to study Cham.and Nux for an antidote. In all these remedies you get opposite effects. Now Opium will illustrate that.The first effect of Opium is to constipate. Let several doses be given, and as the effects of the Opiumwear off he may have diarrhea. Opium eaters can seldom stop because a diarrhea comes on. If youshould ever have an Opium case and diarrhea comes on Puls. will nearly always control it. But thereare individuals who reverse that. Often small doses of Opium will bring on dysentery, and if it isincreased, bloody dysentery and inflammation of the bowels come on. Of course, one is action and theother the reaction.A woman who is a confirmed coffee drinker will have menses too soon and lasting too long.Uterine hemorrhage is not uncommon.Another feature of Coffea is that the woman can scarcely wear the napkin during menstruation(Platinum). The parts are in a state of hyperaesthesia. The vagina is hot and sensitive, often preventingcoition. In the text it reads "Great sensitiveness of female genital organs, with general excitability. Sheis in a state of ecstasy. Uterine hemorrhage with excessive sensitiveness of organs and voluptuousitching. Metrorrhagia; large black lumps". Sometimes large bright red lumps. "Worse from everymotion, with violent pain in the groins, and fear of death".Excessive sensitiveness about the vulva with voluptuous itching, is a strong feature of Coffea,and you will often find such symptoms in coffee drinkers.During and after labor we also see this great excitement, all these nervous manifestations Thenervous system is in a fret, and such a mental state as described comes on with after-pains; extremelysensitive to pain, cries out; sees visions; hears all sorts of noises. Pains aggravated from motion;aggravated from noise. Wants everybody to keep still in the house.Convulsions of children. "Puerperal convulsions. Extreme excitability". "Palpitation of theheart, pulse fluttering"."Strong, quick palpitation of the heart with extreme nervousness, sleeplessness and cerebralerethism caused by unexpected news of great good fortune". Let a woman about to go into confinementhear suddenly some unusually good news and she becomes almost ecstatic; carries the symptom allthrough confinement. The child is affected, the milk is affected. The milk flows away.Hemorrhage is likely to come on. Great nervousness, excitability, fear.COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE [colch] [Kent’s]It is rather singular that traditional medicine used Colchicum so much For gout. In all the oldbooks it was recommended for this malady. The provings corroborate the fact that Colchicum fits intomany conditions of gout. Acute rheumatism and uric acid diathesis; rheumatic complaints in general,with swelling and without swelling. But traditional medicine does not tell us what kind of gout to giveit in or what kind of rheumatism. It was really the medicine of experience. "If it is gout, tryColchicum". The question of what was to be done with the patient when the remedy failed never cameup. It was "Give the prescription and keep at it" and drugs were administered until the patient, steadilygrowing worse, passed from one doctor's hands to another's. It is true that Colchicum fits into the goutystate. Spells of cold, wet weather will slack up the flow of urine, make it scanty, or decrease thequantity of solids in the urine. This takes place in the provings of Colchicum and has been verifiedmany times. It is well known that such a condition will bring about or intensify the gouty state. If thesolids in the urine are deficient, if they are not carried off in the urine, something must happen, and thegouty state comes on.Colchicum is aggravated by cold, damp weather; by the cold rains in the Fall. It is aggravatedby anything that will debilitate. It is aggravated in the extreme heat of summer; it has a summerrheumatism; the heat will slack up the flow of urine or the quantity of solids in the urine.A striking feature running through the remedy is its tendency to move from one joint to another,from one side to another, from below upwards, or from above downwards. Rheumatic conditions withswelling or without swelling; first here, next there, changing about from place to place. Anotherstriking feature is the general dropsical condition. When the hands and feet swell, and there is pittingon pressure. Dropsy of the abdominal cavity; of the pericardium; of the pleurae and dropsy of seroussacs.Swellings that are inflammatory and rheumatic; swellings that are dropsical, with pale urine.Whether copious or scanty, still it is pale.Muscular rheumatism and rheumatism of the white fibrous tissues of the joints. Rheumatictroubles that have been going on for some time will end in cardiac troubles. When cardiac troubles withvalvular defects are present, almost the first thing the busy doctor thinks of is a history of rheumatism.