Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

comes a tendency to hemorrhage, at times with clots, but commonly with copious, thin, liquid blood,very dark. The clots will separate and the fluid parts look brown, dirty and watery. The patientgradually emaciates. He is pallid and waxy; his muscles become flabby and relaxed; he is incapable ofendurance. All the muscular fibers become tired from any exertion. Rapid exercise, or any unusualexertion, is impossible. And rapid exertion or motion brings on weakness, dyspnoea, sinking andfainting.A strange thing running through all the constitutional conditions of Ferrum is that the pains andsufferings come on during rest. The palpitation sometimes comes on during rest, the dyspnoea comeson during rest, and even the weakness. The patient is ameliorated by moving gently about, but anyexertion tires and causes faintness. Any rapid motion aggravates the complaints. The pains areameliorated by moving about the house slowly, so that the exertion does not excite or fatigue. In manycases the patient is dropsical. The skin pits upon pressure and is pale, yet the face shows an appearanceof plethora. From every little excitement the face becomes flushed. During the chill the face becomesred. From taking wine or stimulant the face becomes flushed, and the patient, though flabby, relaxedand tired, does not get credit for being sick. She fails to get the sympathy of her friend. She is feeble,she suffers from palpitation and dyspnoea, she has great weakness with inability to do anything likework, she feels that she must lie down---yet the face is flushed. This is called a pseudo-plethora. Theblood-vessels are distended, the veins varicose, and their coatings relaxed. On this account bleedingtakes place easily; capillary oozing; haemorrhage from all parts of the body; hemorrhage from the nose,the lungs, the uterus. Women suffer much from hemorrhage from the uterus, especially during and afterthe climacteric period.Ferrum will be found of great value---when the symptoms agree--- in that wonderful anemicstate called "green sickness", that comes on with girls at the time of puberty and in the years that followit. There will be almost no menstrual flow, but a cough will develop, with great pallor. So common isthis sickness among girls that all mothers are acquainted with and dread it. In a large practice you willhave a number of cases of chlorosis.Sometimes the early menstrual period is attended with a copious flow, and then a greatweakness occurs, and this goes on for a number of years before anything like menstrual regularity isestablished. In these cases the Old School always used to feed their patients Iron in great quantities, butthe more Iron the patient took the worse she grew.Congestion, tending upward, with red face, hot head and coldness of the extremities. But theheat of the head and face is not at all in proportion to the red appearance. It will be found that this iscongestion upward in Ferrum will take place during a chill, in septic fevers or in other forms of fever,and the head is not always hot, but sometimes cool. The face may be red and cool.Another grand feature of Ferrum is that, like China, it has complaints from loss of animal fluids;from prolonged hemorrhage, with weakness remaining a long time. There is no repair, no assimilation.The bones are soft and easily bent; they take on crooks. Emaciated and feeble children. Dryness of thejoints, causing cracking on motion. Sudden emaciation, with false plethora.Redness of face---a healthy looking bloom---in one who is unable to walk fast on the street, orto stand any exertion. Yet some of the complaints of Ferrum are better from occupation, from doingsomething, from taking a little exercise, because the complaints come on during rest. Over excitabilityand sensitivity of the nerves; over-sensitiveness to pain. The sensitive woman who need Ferrum has aflushed face and is often complaining complaining because she gets no sympathy. She does not looksick, yet she puffs on going up stairs; she feels weak and wants to lie down.Restless when keeping still; must keep the limbs moving.Rending pains in the limbs; dull aching in the limbs. These pass off when moving about quietlyand gently, like Pulsatilla. But Ferrum is a very cold remedy, and is ameliorated by warmth, except thepains about the neck, face and teeth, which are ameliorated by cold. But most of the pains areameliorated by heat; the patient wants to keep warm and dreads anything like fresh air or a draught.Weakness and prostration; weakness even from talking.Prostration with irregular pulse and rapid pulse, or with too slow pulse; palpitation. And thencomes paralytic weakness; the limbs give out. Paralytic conditions from anemia or haemorrhage.Fainting spells from hemorrhage. Jerking and twitching of the muscles; chorea; catalepsy.You may easily imagine something of the character of the mental symptoms, for they are likethe physical. The mind is confused and the patient tearful. Depression of spirits; mental weariness anddepression. The highest degree of depression and despondency. Anxiety from the slightest causeirritability. The least noise, like the crackling of paper, sets the patient wild.It brings on nervous excitement and restlessness; she must get up and move. Excitement fromthe slightest opposition. Any sudden or rapid motion, or the least hurry, causes blackness before the