Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Great coldness running up the back from the lower part of the spine to the back of the head.Shuddering, as if ice were rubbed up the back. The pains also extend up the back. With the coldness ofthe extremities, the very dark red countenance, the dazed condition of the mind, the glassy eyes anddilated pupils, we have the neck drawn back and rigidity of the muscles of the back of the neck, so thatthe neck cannot be straightened, and there are violent pains up the back and coldness in the spine. Thisstate would remind one of cerebro-spinal meningitis. Pain in the base of the brain and in the back of theneck. With all states there is a very hot skin and a high temperature, with coldness of the extremities.Sometimes the troubles are ushered in with a violent chill. This is a very important remedy tostudy when such symptoms are present in intermit tents and in a few days the tongue begins to coat,nausea comes on, ending in vomiting of bile, and instead of there being an intermission a continuedfever extends from one paroxysm into another, with a higher temperature in the afternoon. The chillpractically subsides, leaving a state which has the appearance of typhoid, with dry tongue, not muchthirst and marked head symptoms, dazed in mind. If this continues many days delirium and all thefeatures of typhoid will come on and the fever will change its type altogether from the intermittent tothe continued. In congestive chill with high temperature occurring in the afternoon, the chill part of itsubsiding and the fever becoming continued, Gels. is a useful remedy. It is also a very importantremedy in afternoon fevers without chill in infants and in children. You will find in malarial districtsthat it is a common thing for the infants to have remittent attacks, while the adults are having intermittents.It is only occasionally that you will see a child or infant shake with a distinct chill, but they oftengo into a remittent fever, an afternoon fever which will subside along towards morning, to be followedthe next after noon by fever. With Gels, the child will lie as still as in Bry. but there is more congestionto the head; there is the dark red face and duskiness like Bry.Running through the febrile complaints, in the spinal meningitis, in congestion of the brain, inintermittents or remittents that change to a continued fever, and even in a cold when the patient issneezing and has hot face and red eyes, there is one grand feature, viz., a feeling of great weight andtiredness in the entire body and limbs. The head cannot be lifted from the pillow, so tired and so heavyis it, and there is such a great weight in the limbs. The Bry. patient lies quietly because if he moves thepains are worse. He has an aversion to motion, because he is conscious that it would cause an increaseof suffering.The heart is feeble and the pulse is feeble, soft and irregular. There is palpitation during thefebrile state.Palpitation, with weakness and irregularity of the pulse. There is a sense of weakness andgoneness in the region of the heart, and this weakness and goneness often extend into the stomach,involving the whole lower part of the left side of the chest and across the stomach, creating a sensationof hunger, like Ignatia and Sepia.There is a hysterical element running through Gels. and it has thenervous hunger, or gnawing.There are cardiac nervous affections like Digitalis, Cactus and Sepia. Sepia is not known to beas great a heart remedy as Cactus. but it has cured many cases of heart troubles. Sepia has curedendocarditis, and a remedy that will take hold in endocarditis and root it out must be a deep actingremedy. He feels that if he ceases to move the heart will cease to beat.The headaches are of the congestive type. The most violent pain is in the occiput, and it is feltsometimes as a hammering.Every pulsation is felt like the blow of a hammer in the base of the skull. These headaches areso violent that the patient cannot stand up, but will lie perfectly exhausted, as if paralyzed from thepain. There is an occipital headache that compels walking or rolling the head. There is commonly relieffrom lying in bed, bolstered up by pillows, with the head perfectly quiet. The face is flushed and duskyand the patient is dazed. After the headache progresses a while, the whole head seems to enter into astate of congestion, there is one grand pain, too dreadful to describe, and the patient loses his ability totell symptoms and appears dazed; lies bolstered up in bed, eyes glassy, pupils dilated, face mottled, andextremities cold. Gels, has also headaches of a neuralgic character in the temples and over the eyes,with nausea and aggravation. The headache is relieved by passing a copious quantity of urine; that is,the urine which has probably been scanty becomes free and then the headache subsides.There is much nervous excitement. Complaints from fear, from embarrassment, from shock thatis attended with fear, from sudden surprises that are attended with fright. A soldier going into battle hasan involuntary stool; involuntary discharges from fright and surprises accompanying fright. Onbecoming suddenly overwhelmed by some surprise he becomes faint, weak and exhausted, he becomestired in all the limbs and unable to resist opposing circumstances. His heart palpitates. This is similar toArg. nit. Arg. nit. has the peculiar condition that when dressing for an opera a sudden attack ofdiarrhoea comes on, causing more or less sudden exhaustion, and she must go several times before she