Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Lupus or cancer on the nose. Face pale as a corpse, lips blue. Scirrhus of the tongue". See what atendency it has to produce minute growths, little indurations and infiltrations.Bleeding from the teeth; the teeth decay and the gums recede from the teeth; the teeth becomeloose; scorbutic appearance of the gums. "Mouth burning, ulcerated, gray, dirty, spongy skin about atooth, which is surrounded with proud flesh; offensive saliva".In the mouth we have the same general feature of ulceration, with dryness of the mouth, drytongue and throat, and great thirst for ic cold water. "Uvula inflamed and enlarged. Predisposed totonsillitis". "Vomits everything he eats". After that you can put the word "ulcer", because it especiallyrefers to that state of congestion where there is easy ulceration.Under abdomen we find flatulence. The intestines do not perform their work, they take onspasmodic action, and consequently the patient suffers from cramps and colicy pains; boring, rending,tearing pains. Retraction of the abdomen and drawing in of the navel. If you will compare Lead in itspoisonous effects upon those who work in white lead you will see quite a counterpart of this remedy,and you will not be surprised to observe that Plumbum and this remedy antidote each other. They do sobecause they are so similar, they cannot live in the same house. Alumen is a great remedy to overcomelead colic in those who work in lead; it removes the susceptibility. There are many patients who have togive up their occupation on account of this susceptibility. Alumen will often overcome this tendencyand enable them to go back to their business.In the female we note "weight of uterus presses down column; granulations of vagina;leucorrhoea copious; emaciation; yellow complexion, indurations of uterus, even scirrhus; ulcers ofuterus". Sometimes you get evidence of this vaginal state by the woman saying that coition is sopainful that it becomes impossible. It is not to be wondered at that the natural act cannot be performedwhen so much trouble is present."Voice entirely lost". Chronic loss of the voice from a low state of the economy and fromalways taking fresh colds.Expectoration of much yellow mucus; scraping of the throat all the time to get rid of a littleaccumulation of yellow mucus."Dry cough in evening after lying down". "Chronic morning cough".Cough is not a very important thing in this remedy; it is the general state of the economy that isto be looked at. The cough will not interpret the nature of the disease to the physician, because whenthese little ulcers are present they must cause some kind of a cough. This patient may go into phthisisor be affected with any of the ultimates of disease.Alumen has been very useful in the treatment of old people who suffer from copious, ropy,morning expectoration, catarrh of the chest, haemoptysis and great weakness of the chest, so that it isdifficult to expel the mucus. In this it is similar to Antimonium tartaricum.Because of its relation to Alumina further provings will undoubtedly develop that fact that it hasmany spinal symptoms.It is well known that it has a weak spine, with coldness of the spin, a feeling as if cold waterwere poured down the back. Pain in the dorsal spine on a line with the inferior angle of the scapulae;weakness in this region and in the shoulders. Like Alumina it as the sensation of constriction, as of acord or band around the upper arm. The clumsiness of the fingers, as seen in dropping things, the painin the lower limbs at night, the lassitude and numbness, are other manifestations of spinal symptoms.Sensation as of a cord around the leg under the knee; soles sensitive to pressure on walking, feet numband cold, although warmly covered; legs cold to knees. These are all further evidences of the action ofthe remedy on the spinal cord.Bruised pain in all the limbs. Crawling, tingling paralysis of all limbs.He is kept awake at night by a sensation as if the blood rushed through the body. Manycomplaints come on during sleep.Nightmare. He is sensitive to weather changes and very sensitive to cold.ALUMINA [alum] [Kent’s]This remedy comes in very nicely after Alumen, which has much Alumina in its nature anddepends largely upon Alumina, which is its base, for its way of working. It occurs to me to throw out alittle hint. When you have a good substantial proving of an oxide or a carbonate, and the mentalsymptoms are well brought out, you can use these, in a measure in a presumptive way, in prescribinganother salt, with the same base, which has a few mental symptoms in its proving. For instance, youhave a group of symptoms decidedly relating to < Alumen. The mental symptoms of Alumen, however,have not been brought out to any extent, but still you have the mental symptoms of the base of Alumen,which is the oxide, so that if the patient has the mental symptoms of Alumina and the physical