Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

explain it to him so he will see it for himself; and tell him that if this is not permitted to go on, that ifthe remedy is interfered with, he will lose his child.It is not so much the awful pains, but it is the itching, tingling and formation that cause theappearance of extreme agony. Sometimes in every part of the child's body it is a week before all thesesymptoms go away of themselves--but they will go away, if left alone.All this will make you nervous. Do not stay and watch the case too long, because if you do youwill change the remedy. I never heard of one solitary cure like these in the hands of an Old Schooldoctor.The face has a very sickly appearance; sunken; gradually emaciating. It has a sooty appearance,just as if soot had settled in the nostrils and in the corners of the eyes. You will say that the patient isgoing to die. Quite likely---without Hellebore. The remedy fits the kind of cases that the allopathknows nothing about and has no remedy for. His prognosis is always unfavorable. The face, of course,expresses the mental symptoms. Wrinkled forehead, bathed in cold sweat. Paleness of the face and heatof the head. Twitching of the muscles of the face. We find that knitting of the brow and wrinkling ofthe forehead in just this kind of brain trouble. We find a similar kind of wrinkling in Lycopodium, butthe trouble is in the lungs.In this remedy the nostrils are dilated and sooty. Not much flapping, but extremely dilated. Theeyeballs are glassy and the lids sticky.There is violent thirst in these fevers, and unusual canine hunger. The nausea and vomiting arenondescript. In the early part of the proving there are diarrhea and dysentery; with copious whitegelatinous stool; stool consisting solely of pale tenancious mucus. And then comes paralyticconstipation and these prostrated, emaciated brain cases, such as described, will lie for days withoutstool, or any action of the bowels. After a day or two they will not even respond to injections. Little,hard, dry stool. Again, when reaction comes, it very commonly comes with a diarrhea, or a sweat, orvomiting; perhaps with all three of these conditions.The urine is retained or suppressed; sometimes it dribbles away---passes unconsciously. Urinepassed in a feeble stream; bloody urine.The patient lies on the back, with his limbs drawn up; or slides down in bed. Great debility;great relaxation; the muscles refuse to act. Convulsions of sucklings. Epilepsy with consciousness.Traumatic tetanus. Constant somnambulism; cannot be roused to full consciousness. Soporous sleep.HEPAR SULFURIS CALCAREUM [hep] [Kent’s]The Hepar patient is chilly. He is sensitive to the cold and wants an unusual amount of clothingwhen in cold air. He wants the sleeping room very warm and can endure much heat in the room, manydegrees warmer than a healthy person ordinarily desires. He has no endurance in the cold and all hiscomplaints are made worse in the cold. If he becomes cold in sleep his complaints come on; or if he isout in the cold, dry wind, complaints come on; inflammatory and rheumatic complaints appear. Theexposure of hand or foot at night in bed brings on symptoms. He wants the covers drawn close aboutthe neck when in bed.This patient is also oversensitive to impressions, to surrounding and to pain. What with anordinary person would only be an ache or disagree able sensation becomes with Hepar an intensesuffering. But the pains of Hepar may be very severe, very sharp. Inflamed spots, eruptions, boils orsuppurations are full of sharp pains. This is so intense that it is described at times as a sticking andjagging like sharp sticks. The pains in ulcers are often felt like sticks; intense and sharp as if sticks werejagging the ulcer. This sensation is often expressed by the patient suffering from sore throat. He feels asif he had swallowed a fish bone or stick. This is in keeping with the general character, because it ispresent everywhere, in inflammations, ulcers, pustules, boils and eruptions; all seem to have sticks inthem or something jagging. Eruptions are sensitive to touch. This accords with the oversensitiveness ofthe nerves found everywhere. The Hepar patient faints with pain, even from slight pain.This remedy belongs to patients that are called delicate, that are oversensitive to impressions.The mind takes part in this oversensitiveness and manifests itself by a state of extreme irritability.Every little thing that disturbs the patient makes him intensely angry, abusive and impulsive. Theimpulses will overwhelm him and make him wish to kill his best friend in an instant. Impulses also thatare without cause sometimes crop out in Hepar. A man may have a sudden impulse to stab his friend. Abarber has an impulse to cut the throat of his patron while in the chair. Mothers may have an impulse tothrow the child into the fire or an impulse to set herself on fire; an impulse to do violence and todestroy. These symptoms increase to insanity and then the impulses are often carried out. It becomes amania to set fire to things.