Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

The physician asks: "What has happened to give you these pains"? Her answer is likely to be"My servant spilled some dirty water on a hand some rug, we had some words over it, and this is theresult".Colic from anger with indignation; better from bending double and worse in the uprightposition, while standing or bending backwards.Colic of infants when they are relieved by lying on the stomach; as soon as the position ischanged they begin to scream again.The same symptoms accompany the diarrhea and dysentery. The stools consist of white mucus,are thick, ropy and jelly-like; at times bloody. At first they may be copious, strong smelling, pappy, andlater watery, yellow, scanty and almost inodorous.Diarrhea and dysentery from anger with indignation; the most awful tenesmus during stool;urging to stool with colic.Eating ever so little, brings on the colic, urging and stool.Watery stools after eating.Many of these cases find relief from heat and the warmth of the bed.CONIUM MACULATUM [con] [Kent’s]This medicine is a deep, long acting antipsoric, establishing a state of disorder in the economythat is so far reaching and so long lasting that it disturbs almost all the tissues of the body.The complaints are brought on from taking cold, and the glands become affected all over thebody. From every little cold the glands become hard and sore. Infiltration in deep seated diseases in theregion of ulcers and in the region of inflamed parts; in the glands along the course of the lymphatics, sowe get a chain like knots. The glands under the arm inflame and ulcerate. The glands in the neck, in thegroin and abdomen become enlarged.Ulcerated parts indurate. An abscess of the breast becomes surrounded by lumps and nodules.Nodules in the breast even where milk has not yet formed; lumps and nodules indurations and enlargedglands form under the skin all over the body. Conium has been used extensively for malignantaffections of glands, because it takes hold of glands from the beginning and infiltrates, and theygradually grow to a stony hardness, like scirrhus. Now, another grand feature running through thisremedy is the action upon the nerves. The nerves are in a state of great debility, Trembling, jerking ofthe muscles and twitching from the weakness of the nerves. Inability to stand any physical effortwithout great exhaustion. Gradually growing paralytic weakness, somewhat as was described inCocculus. Exhaustion of body and mind, that is, a general slowing down of all the activities of thebody. The liver becomes indurated, sluggish, enlarged. The bladder is weak, can expel only a part ofthe urine. Or sometimes there is a paralytic condition and no expulsive power. This shows that theremedy increases toward a paralytic weakness.Hysteria. Hypochondriacal state of mind, with the nervousness, trembling and weakness of themuscles. He gets tired in the earlier stages, but finally this goes on until the limbs are paralytic.A great many of the complaints are painless. The ulcers and the paralytic conditions arepainless. Great physical and mental debility; great prostration of the muscular system; exhaustion,tremulous weakness. Paralysis of the legs and hip. Mental symptoms, nervous symptoms, trembling, inwidows and widowers who have suddenly been deprived of their sexual relations. When in a state ofconsiderable vigor, if suddenly deprived, the woman or the man takes on a state of trembling weakness,inability to stand any mental effort, and inability to put the attention upon things said by others. Not somarked or not so common in the woman as in the man. When this state comes on in a woman who is ofunusual sexual vigor there may be severe congestion of the uterus and ovaries, Apis is more likely to fither symptoms than Conium.. But with hysteria and excitability Conium is often the remedy. Many ofits symptoms come about from such a cause.Conium has such a deep action that it gradually brings about a state of imbecility. The mindgives out. The mind at first becomes tired like the muscles of the body. Unable to sustain any mentaleffort. The memory is weak. The mind will not concentrate, it will not force itself to attention; it cannotmeditate, and then comes imbecility. Inability to stand any mental effort or to rivet the attention uponanything are some of the most important symptoms in this medicine. Insanity of a periodical type.Imbecility, though, is far more frequent than insanity. When you come to examine the mentalstates you will see symptoms that will make you think the patient is delirious, but that is not quite it. Itis a slow-forming weakness of mind; not that rapid, active state,such as accompanies a fever; it is adelirium without a fever, so to speak which is not constant. Forms of insanity that are passive. Hethinks slowly, and he continues in this stage for weeks and months, if he recovers at all. Thoseexcitable cases that have more or less violence and activity in mental states are such as will correspond