Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

several times a day; the pain comes and goes across the forehead just above the eyes; a rending painback of the eyeballs. The headache is made worst by the least motion followed by intense vertigowhich comes on in the afternoon and is located in a spot over the right eye. Itching and stinging of thescalp.In the right eye there is a feeling of fullness extending to the parotid gland, from there to thesub-lingual and finally involves the right side of the face and head. The margins of the lids are sore andcrusted over; the inflammation of the lids is worse in the morning with a discharge of sticky fluid; theeyeballs are inflamed and there is stye-like ulceration. Rending pains in the eyeballs; he could not keephis eyes open yet it pained to keep them shut; the eyes feel tired.The ears come in for their share of trouble with swelling of the parotid glands and soreness onpressure; pain as if he were going to have mumps; sharp pains in both ears followed by waterydischarge of the same sticky character that is present in the saliva.From the nose there is a watery discharge with bloody scabs on the inside; small scabs comefrom the nose which may be dry or moist and bloody; usually mixed with a copious discharge whichmay be greenish or light-colored and the head feels stuffed; the itching, stinging and tickling are alwayspresent; he rubs and scratches because his nose itches inside and outside and the more he rubs it themore it burns so he stops for a while until he is driven to rub and scratch again only to be compelled tostop while there is a little skin left on his nose. On top of his nose is a shining redness like a rumblossom; the nose is swollen and the eruption on it contains a clear colorless fluid; as the swelling goesdown it is followed by itching and to rub it only increases the desire for more rubbing.There is pain in the posterior nares with green scabs with bleeding after removal of the scabs.Epistaxis morning and night on blowing the nose. The redness is like erysipelas; shining, red, and soreto touch; it is more marked on the right side in the beginning and then extends to both sides of the noseand to the face. An ineffectual desire to sneeze.Pain over the right malar bone going to the left the next day and here you will see one of thecharacteristic red spots the size of a twenty-five cent piece feeling as if red pepper had been rubbed in;from the malar bone will be shooting pains to the temple and forehead in the evening, made worse bysetting the jaws together. The sub-maxillary gland is swollen and tender on pressure. The eruption onthe face and between the eyes contains a colorless fluid; there will also be swelling and puffiness underthe eyes; in keeping with this remedy we find the heat and redness of the whole right side of the facewith a sore bruised feeling.Constant wetting of the lips; a symptom common to many remedies perhaps from nervousnessbut in this patient it ameliorated the dryness and the ever present burning; the saliva is of such acharacter that it leaves the lips sticky; this bad tasting whitish saliva leaves a bad taste in the mouth innthe morning on waking; a sickish taste as if he had been drinking warm mineral water. The tongue iscoated white and is dry, swollen, thick on waking; there is also numbness of the tongue.Periodical attacks of salivation for months; at night the pillow is wet and the daytime the salivaaccumulates and causes continued swallowing. If you prescribe a remedy on one symptom this patientwould probably be given Merc. The entire edge of the tongue is covered with a double row of smallpainful vesicles.This remedy cured a case of numbness of the tongue with ulceration at the tip following scarletfever.On rising in the morning in addition to the other troubles, he must spend much time hawking upfrom the pharynx dark green scabs and strings of tough mucus tinged with dark blood and coughingfrom the trachea green scabs corresponding to the green discharge from the nose.There is burning and dryness of the throat with soreness in throat and in the posterior nares onswallowing solids or fluids.The right side of the throat is always sore.The appetite is increased but the food does not digest; it sours in the stomach; his appetite isquite likely to be ravenous and he must have his dinner on the minute or he feels faint; he is especiallyhungry and faint in the morning and cannot wait for the breakfast to be prepared; with this sourcondition of the stomach you would expect nausea and it is often present day and night; sometimeseven the thought of food will bring on nausea with gagging and retching and inability to vomit; withthe disordered stomach are sickening pains and eructation of much offensive gas.Thirst for cold water which causes burning in the stomach with urging to stool, followed byloose and dark brown offensive stool, much tenesmus lasting several days and gradually subsiding intopainless diarrhea.On the abdomen are blotches the size of a twenty-five cent piece, itching burning, with littlepimples on the blotches; this is the form of the eruption wherever it is present.