Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Bloody stools with scrapings from the intestines and protrusion of anus. Profuse, watery stoolsin hot, damp weather or in the Autumn. Watery, jelly-like mucus passes from anus with violent spasmin sphincter. It passes as a thin, watery flow; but as soon as it cools, it forms a jelly.The urine burns when it passes. It is attended with much pain.Inflammation of the kidneys, inflammation of the bladder; tenesmus; retention of urine. Thekidneys manufacture no urine; scanty urine with dropsy. The urine is inky, that is, very dark brown andsometimes almost black, loaded with albumen. This remedy conforms principally to the acute form ofBright's disease.Great dyspnoea, rapid, short breathing; the heart's impulse strong. Respiration accelerated. Theheart's impulse can be heard all over the room. Palpitation; oppression of the chest. Feels as if he had agreat weight on the chest; cannot breathe.Hydrothorax; the pleural cavities distended with serum, causing the dyspnoea. "Heart's actionmuffled, indistinct, very weak".Stinging, tearing pains in the muscles of the chest.Paralytic pains in the arms; enlarged finger joints. This also tells what a low form of sickness,what a feeble circulation the medicine brings about. "Weakness so that he strikes the knees togetherwhen walking; pain all over as if bruised. Swelling of the joints". The joints are most affected.Muscular rheumatism.Numbness, edema, swelling of the limbs.COLOCYNTHIS [coloc] [Kent’s]The principal feature of Colocynth is its severe, tearing, neuralgic pains; so severe that thepatient is unable to keep still. Sometimes they are> by motion--at least it appears that they are worseduring rest-- > by pressure and sometimes > by heat. Pains occur in the face, abdomen, along thecourse of the nerves.These pains are often due to a very singular cause, namely, anger with indignation. Hencepersons who are haughty and easily offended or chagrined have Colocynth complaints. Anger will befollowed by violent neuralgia in the head, eyes, down the spine and in the intestines.In spite of extreme restlessness there is great weakness with the pains. A patient suffering withchronic diarrhea, with severe colic, will sometimes become so weak that he can hardly speak. A feelingof faintness, or even fainting, is by no means an unusual concomitant of the pains. Griping occurs alongthe course of nerves, and in some cases numbness, pricking and tingling, like the crawling of ants in thepart affected.With many doctors Colocynth is a routine remedy for sciatica; and only when it fails to do theytake the symptoms of the case in order to find the remedy that is indicated. There is no excuse for suchpractice. When the pain is better from hard pressure and from heat, where it is worse during repose anddrives the patient to despair, Colocynth will generally cure. But it is not indicated in all cases. Someremedies select the muscles and tendons, some the bones and periosteum, while others select the greatnerve trunks in which to manifest their symptoms. The pains of Colocynth appear, as a rule, in thelarger nerves.The mental symptoms are not very striking. As soon as the prover of Colocynth begins to havepains along the course of nerves he becomes irritable; everything vexes him; he is worse from vexation.Screams with the pains. Walks about the room and becomes increasingly anxious as the paingoes, on. Disinclined to talk or to answer, or to see friends.His friends irritate him and he wants to be alone.He has all he can do to stand those terrible pains.Vomiting and diarrhea frequently come with the pains, especially if they are in the abdomen.Colic comes on in paroxysms that grow in intensity.The patient becomes increasingly nauseated until finally he vomits and he continues to retchafter the stomach is empty.Colocynth produces a state in the nervous system like that found in individuals who have foryears been laboring under annoyances and vexations. A man whose business affairs have been goingwrong becomes irritable and nervous exhaustion follows. A woman who must watch her unfaithfulhusband night and day to keep him away from other women gradually assumes a sensitive irritablestate of mind, and is upset by the least provocation. This is the state of the Colocynth prover.You will seldom find this medicine indicated in strong, vigorous, healthy people who havesuddenly become sick. It is more likely to be in the constitution just described, and those who are in thehabit of overeating.