Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

We find tearing pains in the scalp, brought on by anger; exhaustion; pains that are better frompressure and heat, and worse when not in motion.Constant, gnawing pains in the head.Painful, tearing, digging through the whole brain, becoming unbearable when moving theeyelids.Intense pain through the whole head; worse from moving the eyes.Severe, pressing, tearing headache, causing her to cry out.Intermittent headache in those of a rheumatic, gouty or nervous diathesis.Pain tearing and screwing together.Violent periodical or intermittent headache.Such are some of the expressions in the text. But the particular character of the pain is not asimportant as the circumstances that are likely to cause it and the conditions in which the patient hasbeen living, Knowing the life of a patient affords much knowledge of the patient himself.The same violent neuralgic pains are found in the eye.Rheumatic iritis, worse in the evening and night.Severe, burning, cutting and sticking pains in the eye.Burning is more characteristic of the pains of the eyes than of other parts of the head and face.Sharp, cutting stabs; pressing pains.The faceache is especially important, because Colocynth is one of the most frequently indicatedremedies for neuralgia of this region. There are three remedies which are indicated in faceache moreoften than any others, Belladonna, Magnesia phosphorica and Colocynth.The Belladonna pains are as violent as any, and are accompanied by red face, flashing eyes, hothead, and great sensitiveness of the part to touch.In Colocynth the pains come in waves, are better from heat, from pressure, worse if anythingduring rest, and are brought on by excitement or vexation. They are generally on the left side; whilethose of Belladonna are on the right, and are caused by cold.Magnesia phosphorica has tearing pains that shoot like lightning along the nerves and arerelieved by heat and pressure.The expression of the Colocynth face is one of anxiety from the severity of the suffering. Nomatter where the pain is the face is distorted. Finally, it becomes pale and the cheeks become blue.Tearing pains in the cheek-bones, or more correctly, in the infraorbital nerve where it emergesfrom the foramen. Sometimes this pain feels like a hot wire, sometimes like a cold nail, and sometimesit is tearing, burning or stinging. Frequently it spreads over the face, following the ramifications of thesmall branches of the nerve, usually on the left side. The patient cries out and is very restless.Tearing or burning pain extending to the ear and head.All pains are better from pressure, but this is in the beginning. After the pain has been going forseveral days with increasing severity, the part becomes very sensitive and pressure cannot be endured.Aversion to food.Violent thirst.Colic brought on from drinking while overheated; from eating indigestible things, from highliving; colic from eating potatoes.Potatoes and starchy foods disagree with the Colocynth patient like Alumina.The vomiting of Colocynth is different from that of most other remedies dies. Nausea does notappear at first, but when the pain becomes sufficiently intense nausea and vomiting begin, the contentsof the stomach are ejected, and the patient continues to retch until the severity of the sufferingdecreases.The stomach pains are clutching, cramping and digging, as if grasped by the fingers.Similar pains occur lower down in the abdomen, but they are still better from hard pressure, andfrom doubling up--which amounts to pressure- come on in paroxysms of increasing severity, until thepatient is nauseated and vomits, and are associated with great restlessness and faint, sinking feeling atthe pit of the stomach. The victim bends down over the back of a chair, or over the foot-board if unableto get out of bed.In the Guiding Symptoms we find several pages of repetitions, showing how extensively thismedicine is applicable in abdominal complaints where these symptoms are present. It would be well toread them.The pains in the lower part of the abdomen are relieved by drawing up the limbs and pressingwith the fists. In the violent ovarian neuralgias of Colocynth, the woman will flex the limb of thepainful side hard against the abdomen and hold it there.