Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

"Craves cold water and is continually hungry". Often that "all gone" sensation in the stomach. Isalways eating and is relieved from eating, but like Iodine it does not last long, for soon he becomeshungry again. Such medicines are very deep. We see that they go to the very root of assimilation andnutrition.Chronic ulcers of the throat not necessarily syphilitic, but it is particularly useful in the oldforms of syphilis; not generally so suitable in the earlier ulcers as in those that are associated with thetertiary forms, with debilitated states. with brain disease, with nervous symptoms that go on for yearswhen the patient is supposed to be cured. Very often the trouble will come back in the throat, and theulcers consist of little gummatous growths. Sil. especially covers such a condition, and Sil. is also oneof the most useful medicines for rooting out Mercury. In potentized form Sil. and Merc. are inimical,yet the high potencies of Sil. will antidote crude Mercury.This patient craves pungent, spicy, highly seasoned things.The appetite must be tickled; there must be some inducement to eat. At times the appetite ischangeable in spite of the fact that he is overwhelmingly hungry; he cannot eat, yet he is > when thefood is in the stomach, > after eating.The most vicious kind of chronic diarrhea with this low feeble constitution, in insidiouscomplaints. "Morning diarrhea". The itching of the anus is sometimes intense; protrusion of the anusduring defecation; profuse hemorrhage after stool; constipation with piles; itching around and in anus,in perineum, etc.This drug is also suitable in the dropsy of drunkards. They are very often liver dropsies. Oldcicatrices become red around the edges, surrounded by itching vesicles, itching violently; squamouseruptions upon the body; dry, cutaneous eruptions upon the body, very scaly."Sensation as if a burning vapor were emitted from the pores of the body". Especially under thecovers there is this sensation of great heat, tremendous, like steam. It is not in fever. He has no feverbut it is a chronic state of giving out heat without thirst, or increase of temperature.GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS [gels] [Kent’s]If you will observe the weather conditions in sharp climates, such as Minnesota, Massachusettsand Canada, you will find that the cold spells are very intense and that people, when exposed, comedown with complaints very rapidly and violently. That is the way the Bell. and Acon. cases come on,but Gelsemium complaints do not come from such causes nor appear that way. Its complaints are moreinsidious and come on with a degree of slowness. A Gels: cold develops its symptom several days afterthe exposure, while the Acon. cold comes on a few hours after exposure. The Aconite child exposedduring the day in dry, cold weather will have croup before midnight. But in the South diseases are veryslow. Like the people themselves, their organs are very slow, and their reaction is slow. Their colds arenot taken from the violent cold, but from getting overheated. Hence, they take colds and fevers of alow, malarial type; they have congestive headaches and congestive complaints that do not come onsuddenly. When we think of the climate, and consider the people, and the pace of remedies, we see thatGels. is a remedy for warm climates, while Acon. is a remedy for colder climates. Certain acutecomplaints in the North will be like Aconite, while similar complaints will have symptoms in thewarmer climate like Gels. The colds and fevers of the mild winters will be more likely to run to thismedicine, whereas the colds and fevers of a violent winter will be more likely to run to Bell. and Acon.It is true that Acon.has complaints in hot weather, fevers and dysentery of hot weather, but they are different fromthe complaints of winter.Gels. has been used mostly in acute troubles. In lingering acute troubles and in those resemblingthe chronic it is very useful, but in chronic miasms it is not the remedy. It is only a short-acting remedy,though slow in its beginning. In this it is like Bryonia. Bry. complaints come on slowly, and hence it issuitable for fevers coming on in the southern climates, but it also has sudden violent complaints, thoughnot to the extent we find in Bell.The complaints of Gels. are largely congestive. Cerebral hyperaemia, determination of blood tothe brain and to the spinal cord. The extremities become cold and the head and back become hot. Thesymptoms are manifested largely through the brain and spinal cord. In connection with brain affectionsthere are convulsions of the extremities, crampings of the fingers and toes and of the muscles of theback. Coldness of the fingers and toes; sometimes the extremities are icy cold to the knees, while thehead is hot and the face purple. During the congestion the face is purple and mottled. The eyes areengorged, the pupils dilated (sometimes contracted), the eyes are in a state of marked congestion withlachrymation and twitching. The patient feels dazed and talks as if he were delirious; incoherent,stupid, forgetful. It is like this in intermittent fever that gradually develops towards a congestive chill.