Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

It is aggravated in damp weather, and in the sun while working under the gaslight, afteroverheating with copious sweat, and from the touch of the hat. The weight of the hat is a very commonaggravation in headaches in school children. The little ones work all day in a hot stuffy room and feelbetter in the open air, but the weight of the hat seems an encumbrance as in "Nitric acid and Calc-phos.The Glonoine patient is also worse from wine and from stimulants, and from mentalapplication. When the headache is on he cannot think, and he cannot write. An additional hindrance towriting is that he trembles so that he cannot write. Trembling and throbbing of the fingers so that he isunable to do his work or perform any delicate work with the fingers or hands.We have puerperal convulsions with such an appearance as I have described. We may have thesame violence in congestive chills, or in any type of congestion of the brain.There is a milder form of trouble that calls for its use, a condition corresponding to the chronictypes of disease. This milder form exists where the patient has simply what might be called ahyperaemia of the brain, a rush of blood to the head when able to be about. It comes in spells, comes inmoments when he least expects it; while walking on the street he feels a surging to the brain like a flushof heat and a flush on the face, his hands tremble, and the hands and feet become cold, he breaks out ina sweat; he looks around him and does not know which way to go home, he does not know where hisdwelling is. He looks in the faces of friends and they seem strange, he loses his way when he is nearhome. It is a confusion which soon passes away, and he feels better again. But these spells come closertogether, and constitute the earlier stages of softening of the brain. This surging of blood to the brain isattended with dizziness; he rolls and staggers, and must take hold of things, and especially does hesuffer in this way from a warm day, or from the heat and light of the sun.In threatened apoplexy, and when apoplexy has taken place, if the violent pressure keeps on,think of this remedy. The clot may not be at first in the place to take life, it may lie outside of the lifeline, but if the congestion continues that blood clot will increase. Such medicines as Opium andglonoine relieve the blood pressure when the symptoms agree. They equalize the circulation, and thepatient may not die. A paralytic condition in one arm or leg may go on for a while, and at the end ofmany weeks or months the motion may be regained, and the patient recover; whereas if the suitableremedy had not been administered to reduce that blood pressure the continued congestion wouldcertainly have ended in death in a few days. The stertorous breathing, the coma, the history, and thegeneral appearance of an apoplectic patient are found in this remedy, but the intense heat that comes onin many cases of apoplexy along with the shiny skin and coldness of the extremities are the guidingfeatures.Opium is the most frequently indicated medicine, but it must not be administered in large doses.The highest potencies are the best and one single dose is enough.In a case noted it says, "frantic attempts to jump from the window". The headache was sointense that the patient became violent and attempted to jump from the window. You may rest assuredthat with his headache there was all this determination of blood to the head. It is enough to make onefrantic to feel this continued hammering upon every fraction of the skull. He cannot lie down, and hecannot walk, because every step increases the jar, so you see why it is that the word "frantic" is usedthere. The patient becomes frantic with the pain. Another expression used is "disinclination to steparound". The patient wants the room perfectly still. If sitting up in bed, you will often find a Glonoinepatient with both hands pressing upon the head with all the power possible until the arms are perfectlyexhausted. He wants the head pressed upon all sides. Wants it bandaged, or a tight cap fitted downupon it. The headache is worse from bending backward and from stooping forward. There are timeswhen the headache is so severe that lying back upon the pillow cannot be tolerated. There is a sense ofgreat heaviness in the head. You will notice, in reading over these congestive headaches as reported,that each patient h:is a different way of describing his headache and yet all have the same story to tell,that of violent determination of blood to the head."Some months after being violently jarred by being thrown from a carriage, a sensitiveness ofthe upper part of the back and neck came on". There are two strong characteristics of Glonoine in thatcure, viz.: "< from wine and the < from lying down". The other symptoms might have pointed to otherremedies, but these two features are there. It is interesting when reading a case; if you have first aknowledge of the Materia Medica, to note what symptoms are verified when you do not know theMateria Medica then the case is confusing. Now, as we glance over that description we see at oncethese two things verified and the rest is fairly consistent. Very commonly the pain begins in the occiputand goes to the forehead, but the whole head is in a state of throbbing. But, we notice more particularly,the "aggravation from motion and the least noise". This patient will sit in perfect quietude and silencefor hours. You will be astonished to know how long a Glonoine patient can sit without moving amuscle, because motion is so painful. Also "aggravation from lying with the head low and after