Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

eyes; dizziness; things turn in a circle; she must sit down. And with all this the face is red. When aloneand at rest, the face becomes pale and cold, but the least excitement bring a flush to the cheeks.The headaches are congestive in character, with mounting of blood upwards. There is a sense offullness and distension, with red face. Fullness and distension of the eyes; fullness of the neck.Palpitation of the heart. Exophthalmic goiter. The headaches are ameliorated by pressure. Ferrum wantsto be pressed to support the veins. Throbbing like hammers in the head. Every quick motion aggravatesthe headache. Coughing aggravates the headache; pain in the head and occiput from coughing. Thesepains are sometimes ameliorated by walking gently. Going up stairs, sitting down, rising from a seat---unless it is done very deliberately---will arouse all the pains of Ferrum. Any sudden motion will bringon hammering and a feeling of great expansion in the head. And then will come more or less shooting,tearing pains. Beating in the back of the head from rising or from coughing, because coughing is asudden motion. Confusion of mind with hammering headache. Rush of blood to the head. Congestiveheadaches from excitement; from taking cold; from exposure; lasting three or four days or a week. Theface is flushed and perhaps cold, the head somewhat hot, but not as hot as would be expected.Redness of the eye; engorged vessels. Great weakness, dyspnoea and palpitation. Writing---amental operation---causes the headache to reappear. Great sensitiveness of the scalp. The patient mustlet the hair hang down. Mental disorders and headaches accompanying or following hemorrhages, andin lying-in women. Bloated appearance about the eyes. All sorts of disturbance of vision fromcongestion. Venous stasis; swelling of the eyelid; pus-like discharge. Over-sensitiveness to sound;ringing in the ears.The symptoms of the nose are numerous. Colds and catarrhal troubles, ending in nosebleed.Nosebleed on slight provocation, with headaches at the menstrual. Scabs form in the nose. Extremepaleness of the face; face becomes red and flushed on the least emotion. Flushed face with dropsy ofthe lower limbs; flushed face with chill. Thirst during the chill is a striking feature of Ferrum. Duringthe menstrual period there are violent pains, and as soon as the pain starts the face becomes flushed.Nothing taken into the stomach digests, and yet there is no special nausea. It is the exception tofind nausea in Ferrum.Food goes into the stomach and is vomited without nausea---simply emptied out. Sometimesthere are eructations of food by the mouthful, like Phosphorus. Phosphorus was the remedy with all theold masters for spitting up of food by the mouthful until the stomach was empty. Canine hunger. It saysin the text: "Double the amount of an ordinary meal in the evening was hardly sufficient". All foodtastes bitter; solid food is dry and insipid. After eating there are eructations. Heat in the stomach;regurgitation of food. Spasmodic pressure in the stomach after the least food or drink, especially aftermeat. Aversion to meat, to eggs, to sour fruit. Aversion to milk and to his accustomed tobacco andbeer. Sweet wines agree, but sour wines and all sour things disagree. The tongue feels as if burnt. Assoon as the stomach is empty vomiting ceases until he eats again. Vomiting of food, immediately aftermidnight. Vomitus tastes sour.Ferrum is occasionally indicated during pregnancy. A few weeks after becoming pregnant thewoman commences to throw up her food by the mouthful. There is no nausea but the face is flushedand the woman is flabby and weak. She vomits without becoming sick.Fullness and pressure in the stomach; pressure in the stomach after eating. Ferrum is anunusually interesting remedy because of this peculiar stomach. It is like a leather bag; it will not digestanything. Fill it up and it empties itself just as easily as it was filled.Ferrum has a troublesome diarrhea, with acrid watery excoriating stool. Morning diarrhea.Many of these patients are old sinners with broken down constitutions, who have suffered long fromconstipation. Chronic constipation with ineffectual urging and hard, difficult stools.Relaxation runs through the remedy. From this relaxation there is prolapsus of the rectum,vagina and uterus. Dragging down in the lower part of the body, as if the organs would come out andsometimes they do come out.The bladder is also relaxed. Its sphincter is weak, and there is no regularity of its muscularaction. Hence, we have involuntary urination from sudden motion, from walking, or from coughing. Inlittle children the urine dribbles all day. Just as long as the child plays the urine dribbles and keeps theclothing wet, but this is better while keeping perfectly quiet. The bladder is so relaxed and tired that itcannot hold the urine, and as soon as it is partially filled it allows its contents to escape. This relaxationruns through the remedy and gives it character, just like a human being. You know what each one ofyour friends is likely to do on every occasion. So it is with a remedy. You ought to know what it ismost likely to do, in order to know what it will accomplish in curing the sick.Weakness and relaxation of the genital organs is common to Ferrum. The menstrual flow comesin for its share. Copious, watery flow; hemorrhage or suppression---amenorrhoea---no flow at all, only