Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

can finish dressing. They who are to appear before an audience are detained because of a sudden attackof diarrhea. A lady has an attack of diarrhoea when about to meet friends over whom she expects tobecome excited at the meeting. The anticipation brings on the diarrhoea. Such a state is Arg. nit.These medicines are so closely related to each other that there are times when they will appearto do the work of each other.Then we have paralytic affections of the sphincters, and so with the febrile conditions there isinvoluntary loss of stool and urine. There is also paralytic weakness of the extremities and of the hand.With paralytic states there is aching along the spine and in the muscles of the back; drawing, crampingin the muscles of the back and aching under the left shoulder blade.There are many disturbances of vision; double vision, dimness of vision, appearance of a gauzebefore the eyes; confusion of vision and blindness. These symptoms come on before going into attacks,in connection with chill, at the coming on of sick headaches and congestive headaches.All sorts of objects are seen; the field of vision appears full of black spots, or full of smoke orlittle waves of various colors. It is useful in inflammation of all the tissues of the eye and of the eyelid.The eyeballs oscillate laterally when using them. Drooping of the eyelids or ptosis is a marked featureand is in its paralytic nature. The muscles are relaxed, they do not hold the lids up. The lids close whenhe is looking steadily; they simply fall down over the eyes.The patient in general is thirstless, and it is the exception that there is much thirst. It has aprofuse, exhaustive sweat and is aggravated from motion, or rather motion seems to be impossible. Itseems that he is unable to move, that he is too weak to move, and this runs through all complaints. Attimes it is a remedy for coryza, with sneezing and running of water from the nose, with coldness in theextremities, and the trouble will go down into the throat and produce sore throat, with redness,tumefaction, enlargement of the tonsils, hot head and congested face. With this, as with the otherfebrile conditions, there is heaviness of the extremities. The red face, the heaviness of the extremitiesand sore throat that has come on gradually, a little worse from day to day, until it has become a severethroat, will lead you to Gels., especially if there is paralytic weakness all over, and as the throat troubleprogresses the food and drink come back through the nose. This is due to a paralysis of the muscles ofdeglutition. The tongue also becomes paralyzed and does not perform its work in an orderly way. Thereare times when the paralytic weakness is not sufficiently marked to account for things seen, but there isan incoordination of muscles and he is awkward. He undertakes to take hold of an article and takeshold of something else. When he does grasp his hands feel weak. He is awkward and clumsy and themuscles do this and that and something not ordered to do. The trembling, incoordination and paresis areespecially noticed during high excitement and afterwards, and these states occur with the febrilecondition and remain sometimes after. Useful in paralytic cases that begin with fevers. Tearing is felt inthe nerves all over the body and seems to be due to an inflammatory condition. It has cured sciatica,with tearing pains, associated with great weakness of the limbs.Loss of sensation is sometimes found; numbness of the end of the nose, of the ears, of thetongue, of the fingers, of the hands and feet, numbness, here and there, of the skin.In the male, the sexual organs are in the same condition as the patient in general. The semendribbles away; there is impotency, no ability to per form the sexual act; the sexual organs are relaxed.The sleep is greatly disturbed. He cannot go to sleep; every excitement keeps him awake.During marked febrile conditions he has a profound sleep or coma. When he is not in this comatosesleep during congestion he is in a state of nervous excitement in which he lies awake thinking, and yetthinks of nothing in particular, because his mind will not work in an orderly way.The symptoms of Gels. may be present in inflammation of any organ, uterus or ovaries,stomach, the lungs and of the rectum.It has congestion of organs, but it has also high grade inflammation. There is nothing peculiar inthe inflammation itself that would indicate Gels., neither should Gels. ever be given because there isinflammation, but when the mental symptoms are present, the delirium, the flushed face, thedetermination of blood to the head with the cold extremities, the great heaviness of the limbs, thedisturbance of sensation, the paralysis of sphincters, then Gels. would be good for inflammation of anyorgan of the body. In a most distressing and violent, rapidly spreading erysipelas that seems destined tocause death in a few days all the symptoms point to Gels., and though Gels. may not have producederysipelas it will stop the progress of the disease in a few hours and the patient will go on to a quickrecovery.Many times when erysipelas has spread over the face and scalp and in the most dangerousmanner with the dusky red color that belongs to Gels., and other symptoms such as I have described ina general way, Gels. has taken hold of the erysipelas and cured.