Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

If we master thoroughly the Materia Medica we do not stop to see if a remedy produces certainkinds of inflammation, etc., but we consider the state of the patient.GLONOINUM [glon] [Kent’s]The most common feature in this remedy is the surging of blood to the head and to the heart. Apatient often describes the state as a feeling as if all the blood in the body must be rushing around theheart, with a sense of heat or a boiling sensation in the region of the heart, or in the left side of thechest. Again he complains of a surging in the head, a warm glowing sensation in the head or a feelingof intense glowing from the stomach or from the chest up into the head, attended at times with loss ofconsciousness. There are also wave-like sensations in the head, as if the skull were being lifted up andlowered, or as if it were being expanded and contracted. Along with this there is most intense pain,sometimes as if the head would burst, sometimes great soreness in the head, or a sense of soreness feltin the skull. Another accompaniment of the surging is great throbbing, synchronous with the beat of theheart, and when the skull has this soreness then the throbbing is like the beating of hammers, and everypulsation is painful, so that there are painful pulsations and sometimes painless pulsations. Thepulsations are tremendous, and when they are greatest in the head they are felt also in the extremities.The fingers and toes pulsate, there is pulsation throughout the back, and it seems that the whole bodythrobs. If this continues a while the soreness in the skull is likely to come on and with it the painfulthrobbing, every throb is a pain. In this state, with every jar in stepping, and every motion, it seems asif the head would be crushed. The throbbing becomes more painful from motion. The vomiting whichattends this condition relieves. The head is relieved in the open air. it is worse in the warmth, and isoften relieved from the application of cold. It is made worse by lying down, or lying with the head low.In the extremities we have great coldness. The extremities cold, pale and perspiring. the head hot andthe face flushed and purple or bright red. The pupils are dilated and the eyes red.Now, if this progresses only a little while, the tongue becomes dry, red and then brown. There isno great thirst, but the mouth is very dry. The eyelids become dry and stick to the eyeballs At times theskin becomes dry and hot, and the face is red and glistens. All degrees of confusion of mind, even lossof consciousness, will be present.Have I not described to a great extent that which is seen in a typical sunstroke? It is noticeablealso that Glonoine symptoms are worse in the heat of summer and relieved in winter. The dullheadaches and the continuous headaches are aggravated from warm weather and ameliorated fromcold. They are worse in the sun and better in the shade. .All sorts of contrivances will be resorted to byGlonoine patients to keep the suns heat from the head. When he has had these troubles for years, and ithas become a chronic state he will never go out in the warmth of the sun without an umbrella.Glonoine corresponds to congestive states in the head that come on suddenly, especially fromheat, but also from gaslight, or from any bright light. The headaches that book-keepers are subject to,especially in those that have at their desk, or over the head, a hot gaslight. The bright lightaccompanied by the heat so close to the head will make this individual subject to headaches. Theseheadaches are relieved by going into the cold air. The head aches all day when he is at his books, andwhen he goes home at night and lies down the headache comes on again, and he has to be bolstered upin bed. He wants the head high, and cold application to the head; the headache is relieved from a longsleep, not generally relieved from siesta. From lying down and taking a nap the headache is sometimesaggravated, but from a good long sleep, a night's sleep, he is refreshed. His feet and hands becomewarm, the feverish state, and the throbbing all over the body subsides and he wakes up in the morningcomfortable; but if he goes out in the sun, or goes to the gaslight, he comes home with the headacheagain. Since electric lights have been brought into use there is not so much heat in the light, but gasthrows out an immense amount of heat in its light.The child comes down with cerebro-spinal meningitis, the neck is drawn back, the face isintensely hot, red and shiny, the eyes congested or glassy, the head and upper part of the body are verywarm, the feet and hands and lower portions of the body and the extremities are cold and covered withcold sweat. It is a most violent congestion to the brain and spinal cord. Convulsions come on,convulsions throughout all the limbs, the neck and whole body drawn back, opisthotonos. Cold feelsgood to the head; heat feels good to the extremities. The warm room increases the convulsions.When the lower limbs are covered with clothing in a cool room and the windows open theconvulsions are relieved and the patient breathes more easily. With this head congestion there isdifficulty in breathing and audible palpitation.The head is made worse from shaking or jar, from stooping, from bending head backwards,after lying down, when ascending steps.