Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

the close of the heat or during the heat, with the awful boneaches, the Western men, who study theirMateria Medica, know that they have a sure cure in Eupatorium. The time for the administration of thisdose is at the close of the paroxysm. You get the best effect when reaction is at the best, and that iswhen reaction is setting in, after a paroxysm has passed off.That is true of every paroxysmal disease, where it is possible to wait until the end. You cannotmitigate them very much during the attack, indeed, if the medicine is giving then it very often increasesthe difficulty, but if you wait until the close of the paroxysm you get the full benefit of you medicine,and the next paroxysm will not develop, or will be lighter, or, if another attack is brought onimmediately, you may rest assured there will be no more. It is not an uncommon thing in intermittentfever, when the remedy has been administered at the close of the paroxysm, for the next paroxysm tocome within twenty-four hours after the administration of the medicine; these mixed cases are often ina state of disorder. One who does not know this would immediately show the white feather, would bealarmed, would be afraid the patient was getting worse, but you have only to wait for the subsidence ofthe attack and you will see that you have broken its cycle and periodicity.When the remedy has been apparently indicated by intermittents, and it has not proved ofsufficient depth to root out the intermittent, there are two remedies, either of which is likely to followit, and these are Natrum muriaticum and Sepia.These two remedies are very closely related to Eupatorium and take up the work where it leavesoff, when the symptoms agree.This medicine has also a chronic constitutional state, viz.: its gouty nature It is a very usefulmedicine in gout. It has gouty soreness and inflamed nodosities of the finger joints, of the elbow joint,pain and gouty swelling of the great toe, red tumefaction of the joint of the great toe. It establishes, inpersons who are subject to chalk stone, deposits around the finger joints . These gouty subjects takecold, the bones ache, the joints become inflamed, the patient will say he is chilly, the skin becomesyellow, the urine is charged with bile the stool becomes whitish, and he becomes weak. In manyinstances these patients have been for years resorting to Burgundy for relief of their gouty joints andthe weakness. Some one of our homeopathic remedies will relieve the suffering, but in those old goutysubjects who have been always drinking wine, you cannot take the wine away from them at once; youcannot do it while they are having the attack, because they have become so accustomed to it.Burgundy is the kind of wine very commonly used by the gouty, but the Scotchman with hisgout thinks he must always have a little Scotch whiskey, and in the attack it is quite impossible to takeit away from him. What has been his custom must be followed out for a while because he would growweaker, but it is damaging him, and hence it is difficult to contend with gouty subjects who have beentaking stimulants. You do not get the full benefit of Homeopathy and you cannot stop his stimulantsbecause weakness will follow. Persons who have not taken wine as a regular beverage can and shoulddo without it, as it interferes with the action of the homeopathic remedy.These gouty patients have terrible < sick headaches>. Pain in the base of the brain and back ofthe head, associated with gouty joints. These are often referred to as < arthritic headaches>, that is,gouty headaches, headaches associated with painful joints. Or the headaches may alternate with painsin the joints.Congestive headaches, the pain being in the base of the brain, with more or less throbbing; thepain spreads up through the head and produces a general congestive attack. Sometimes these headachescome on when the joints are feeling better, and the more headache he has the less pain he has in theextremities; and again, when the gout affects the extremities, then the headaches diminish. Headaches,having a < third and seventh-day aggravation>, coming with more or less periodicity. With theheadache there will be nausea and vomiting of bile, nausea at the thought and smell of food. This goutyindividual is also subject to vertigo, and the sensation as if he would fall to the left is especially notedwith the coming on of the headache. The vertigo comes on in the morning; when he gets up he feels asif he would sway to the left, and he has to guard himself in turning to the left. Sometimes inintermittent fever this symptom of swaying to the left and vertigo ending in nausea and vomiting,violent pain in the back of the head and pain in the bones, are the first threatenings.We have in this remedy also other gouty manifestations: shooting through the temples, shootingfrom the left to the right side of the head; shooting all through the head; stitching, tearing pains in thelimbs as well as the bone aches. The headaches are so violent that they make him sick at the stomach.In gouty headaches, in intermittents at the close of the intense heat, in periodical headaches, the courseis the same, the pain is so intense that nausea is soon brought on and then he vomits bile.Eupatorium has not been used on its symptoms in gouty states as often as it might have been. Inintermittent fever it is well known; in headaches it is only occasionally occasionally used.