Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

after studying the remedy in that way, you are not surprised if it cures a fissure. You can also think overwhat other medicines have this state of the economy and see what other remedies you would expect tocure a fissure with. If you look into the nature of Nitric acid, Causticum and Graphites, you will seewhy they have had a wonderful record for curing fissure. That is the way to study your MateriaMedica; see what it does to the man himself, to his organs and tissues."Frequent micturition". "Urine voided while straining at stool, or cannot pass urine without suchstraining". That is a high grade symptom, it is a peculiar symptom, and may be called a particular offirst grade. He must strain at stool in order to empty the contents of the bladder. "Urine smarting,corroding"."Feeling of weakness in the bladder and genitals". "Swelling and discharge of light yellow pusfrom urethra". "Burning with discharge of urine".The symptoms of the male sexual organs are characterized by weakness, impotency and nightlyemissions; suitable when the sexual organs are worn out from abuse or over use. There is fullness andenlargement of the prostate gland and various disturbances of the prostate, with sensation of fullness inthe perineum. Unpleasant sensations and distress in the region of the prostate gland after coition.Complaints at the time of, or after ejaculation, or after an emission. The sexual desire is diminished andsometimes entirely lost. Paralytic weakness or paresis of the sexual organs; a state that is in keepingwith the whole remedy. "Discharge of prostatic fluid during difficult stool". "Painful erections atnight".The female has a great deal of trouble that can be cured with this remedy, but her troubles aremostly catarrhal. An instance of this is the leucorrhoea, copious, acrid or excoriating, yellowleucorrhoea; leucorrhoea so copious that it runs down the thighs, Making the parts red and inflamed.Ulceration about the os. The mucous membranes are weak and patulous and ulcerate easily. All theparts are in a state of weakness. There is dragging down from the relaxed condition of the ligaments.Sensation of weight, the pelvic viscera feel heavy. The discharges arc, commonly thick and yellow, bitthey may also be albuminous, stringy, looking like white of egg, copious and acrid; "transparentmucus"."Leucorrhoea, corroding, profuse; running down to heels". It is more noticeable in the daytime,because these complaints are generally worse when walking or when standing, which is not really animportant symptom, but a common condition. After menstruation it takes the woman nearly until thenext period to get straightened up. All her muscles are weak; there seems to be no tonicity about her. Itis highly suitable to women drawing near the end of menstruation, about forty years of age; themenstrual period prostrates, the flow is scanty, yet prostrating; the sufferings are terrible and the patientis miserable at the menstrual period. After menses, exhausted in body and mind, is a strong feature ofAlumina. It is a suitable remedy again when the woman has a gonorrhoea which has been prolonged bypalliation.She has been made comfortable by partly suitable remedies, but it seems that no remedy hasbeen quite deep enough to root out the trouble, for it keeps coming back. In a discharge that keepsreturning, better for a little while on Pulsatilla. and on this and that and the other thing, and even onThuja, given more especially because it is gonorrhoea than because she is a sick woman. The patient istired and worn out, and when you come to look at the whole patient and you see the paretic condition,the continued return of the discharge that has been palliated by remedies, think of this medicine in boththe male and female.The discharge is a painless one in the male. The gonorrhoea discharge has lasted a long time,going and coming, until now there is left but a few drops and it is painless This remedy has cured manyof these old cases. Threatening chronic catarrh. The mucous membrane everywhere is in a congestedstate and is weak.A pregnant woman has some trouble as well. A woman, who is not naturally a sufferer fromconstipation, when pregnant becomes constipated, with all the characterizing features of Alumina i.e., the inactivity of the rectum no expulsive force; she must use the abdominal muscles, muststraining a long time. Again the infant has a similar kind of straining. You will see the new-born infant,or the infant only a few months old, that will need Alumina. It is a very common medicine forconstipation in infants when you can find nothing else; the child will strain and strain and make everyeffort to press the stool out, and upon examining the stool it is found to be soft and should have beenexpelled easily.It has hoarseness and loss of voice and paralytic weakness of the larynx. That is not strange; it isonly in keeping with the general state, the broken down constitution. He has a weak voice and, if asinger, he is capable of singing only a little while, only capable of slight exertion. Everything is aburden. A paralytic condition of the vocal cords, which steadily increases to loss of voice.