Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

on. It is not a true menstrual flow, that is, it does not resemble the ordinary flow, because it is copious,dark and liquid, a continuous oozing with all the grave symptoms described, and especially the besottedcountenance, the comatose state, the appearance as if she were intoxicated, lying as one dead. Whenaroused every muscle trembles; if the tongue is protruded it trembles, and there is inability to articulate.Crotalus may save her life. Would it be possible to think of graver states of sickness than suchas are produced by the ophidia? When a physician sees these symptoms coming on he immediatelythinks of a class of remedies that can cover such a state, remedies like Baptisia, Arsenicum, Secale andthe Ophidia, and sometimes Arnica, Phosphorus and Pyrogen.In the more chronic conditions the individual manifests a terrible state as to his sleep. He risesfrom sleep as in a fright; has horrible dreams of murder, of death, of dead bodies and dead people, ofassociating with the dead and with corpses, of being in graveyards; even the smell of the cadaver isdreamed of. While he is awake he is tired, he is stupid, he cannot add figures, he makes mistakes inwriting, he transposes sentences, and in words he makes mistakes in writing, he transposes sentences,and in words he transposes letters. He is unable to take care of his own accounts, for he cannot add upthings that are at all particular. Sleep alternates with long and tedious periods of wakefulness. He isdisturbed by any change to warm weather. Great irritability, sensitive to spheres, easily disturbed by hissurroundings, and easily wrought up into a pitch of excitement are also features of this remedy.Following this up he is suspicious of his friends and is unable to reason upon a rational basis. He cravesintoxicating drinks and is unable to resist the craving. This wonderful resemblance to old inebriates hasled to the use of Crotalus in delirium tremens; it has the besotted countenance, the purple aspect of theface, the peculiar kind of hunger in the drunkard, the craving by spells for stimulants. There is everyreason to believe that in fat, robust, besotted drunkards it may, if properly used, be a remedy deepenough to remove the appetite for strong drink.CROTON TIGLIUM [crot-t] [Kent’s]Croton oil, when applied to the skin, produces both vesicles and pustules upon an inflamedbase, and the part becomes very red and sore. The inflammation often increases until it resembleserysipelas, but more commonly the eruption produced resembles a vesicular eczema. This eruption willcome on for a few days and will then desiccate, and in a few days longer it will desquamate.When one has been overdosed, as is done in a too prolonged proving, or by the crude drug, orwhen the prover has been markedly sensitive, we get an alternation of states, the internal alternatingwith the external. After the eruption is out the internal manifestations are not present, as is seen in therheumatic state, the cough and the bowel symptoms. If we study these groups separately we will findthey are all interesting.First, its cough. It has an asthmatic cough, coming on in the middle of the night, often arousingthe patient from a sound sleep. Attacks of violent coughing, with dyspnoea and choking, worse at nightand worse on lying down, compelling him to sit up, to be bolstered up in bed, or to sit up in a recliningchair. His friends wonder if he is not going into consumption. If it is a child they wonder whether it isnot whooping cough. There is extreme irritation of the air passages, so that the inhalation of air bringson the cough. Sensitive to deep breathing. Now, this will go on for a while and finally he will break outwith an eruption somewhere upon the body, vesicles and pustules, in clusters and patches, that becomeinflamed and red and finally dry up and desquamate and disappear, and then back comes his cough.This may go on as a chronic state, and when such is the case it will be very well to know this remedy.The next most important symptoms are the bowel symptoms, and perhaps they are the bestknown of any of its symptoms outside of the eruption. It is suitable in both acute and chronic diarrhea.It is suitable in cholera infantum. The marked feature is the extreme suddenness with which thestool is ejected. It seems to come out in one gush of yellow, watery or pappy stool; soft, thin feces,coming out with one gush. So marked is this that it is not an uncommon thing for a rural patient todescribe it as "like that of a goose". It all gushes out in one squirt. The mother says of the little patient:"You would be astonished, doctor, at the violent rush, for it all comes out with one squirt". That isdescriptive. Many remedies have a holding on and a prolonged effort at stool, until it takes quite a longtime. Many of the diarrhoeas are prolonged with numerous little gushes of thin feces or water, but thisparticular feature is striking. It may not always be so, but this violent gush of thin, yellow feces oryellow water is a striking feature of the remedy. With this the abdomen is very sensitive, and is greatlydistended; there is much gurgling in the bowel, and when the physician puts his hand upon it the patientwill say he feels the gurgling, as if he were full of water, and it probably is so, for the expulsion of thestool would not occur in one strong gush were it not for the fact that the colon and rectum were full offluid. Another peculiar thing commonly attending Croton tig. diarrheas is that pressure over theabdomen or pressure about the umbilicus causes a pain in the rectum and urging to stool, and a feeling,