Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

The patient is quarrelsome, hard to get along with; nothing pleases; everybody disturbs;oversensitiveness to persons, to people and to places. He desires a constant change of persons and thingand surroundings and each new surrounding or person or thing again displeases and makes himirritated. With this irritability of temper and physical irritability there is a tendency to suppuration inparts. Localized inflammations incline to suppurate, especially in glands and cellular tissue do we havesuppuration and ulcers. The glands of the neck, axilla and groin and the mammary glands swell,become hard and suppurate. First the hard swellings with the feeling as if they had sticks jagging inthem, then it becomes highly inflamed and red over the part and ultimately it suppurates, dischargesand heals slowly. The bone even suppurates and takes on necrosis and caries. Felons around the root ofthe nail and ends of the fingers. The nail suppurates and loosens and comes off. Sensation of splintersunder the nails, even when they do not suppurate. The nails become hard and brittle. Warts crack openand bleed, sting and burn and suppurate. Hepar is especially useful in felons in such a constitution asdescribed, but sometimes you will have nothing more than the fact that the patient is a scrawny, chillypatient, who is always taking cold and subject to felons I have often had to give Hepar on no betterinformation and have known it to stop the tendency to felons. It also competes with Silica.The patient is often scrawny, and has a tendency to enlargement of glands. The lymphaticglands are generally hard and enlarged. They are chronically enlarged without suppuration, and at anycold that comes on some particular gland may suppurate.The catarrhal state is general. There is no mucous membrane exempt, but especially do we havecatarrh of the nose, ears, throat, larynx and chest. The Hepar patient is subject to coryza.In some instances the colds settle in the nose and then there will be much discharge, withsneezing every time he goes into a cold wind. The cold winds bring on sneezing and running from thenose, first of a watery character and finally ending. in a thick, yellow, offensive discharge. Theseoffensive discharges smell like decomposed cheese, and this characteristic runs through the remedy.The discharges from all parts of the body smell like old cheese. The discharges from ulcers areoffensive, and have a decomposed, cheesy smell. It has discharges running through it also that smellsour, and this is also a general because it modifies all things that can be sour. The babies are alwayssour in spite of much washing. Or it may be noticed by the members of the family that one of thefamily always smells sour, has a sour perspiration. The discharges from ulcers are sour, and alsodischarges from mucous membranes. The discharge from the nose becomes copious, and causesulceration in patches. The throat has a catarrhal condition; the whole pharynx is in a catarrhal state withcopious discharge. Throat extremely sensitive to touch; pain as if full of splinters; pain on swallowing.The larynx also is painful on talking; painful as a bolus of food goes down behind the larynx, andpainful to touch with the hand. There is a loss of voice, and a dry, hoarse bark in adults, especially inthe mornings and evenings. Every time he goes out in the dry, cold wind, he becomes hoarse, loses thevoice and coughs. It is a dry, hoarse, barking cough. Inspiring cold air will increase the cough andputting the hand out of bed will increase the pain in the larynx or cough. Putting the hand or foot out ofbed brings a general aggravation of all the complaints of Hepar. Putting the hand out of bedaccidentally when sleeping will bring on cough, and cause sneezing. The larynx has its catarrhal state,and in oversensitive children this catarrhal state becomes a croup. Sensitive children that are exposedduring the day in a cold, dry wind, or cold air, come down next morning with a violent attack of croup.The Hepar croup is worse in the morning and in the evening; evening until midnight. Sometimes casesthat at first call for Aconite run into Hepar. The Acon. croup comes on with great violence, worse in theevening before midnight. The child wakes up from its first sleep with a hoarse, barking croup. A doseof Aconite may prove entirely sufficient; or it may be only a palliative. The child goes to sleep andalong towards morning, or at least sometime after midnight, there is another attack, which shows thatAcon.was not sufficient. Such a case will be controlled by Hepar. When the croup comes on aftermidnight and the child wakes up frightened, suffocating, rouses up in bed with a dry, hoarse andringing cough, which rings like a dry whoop, the Spongia will nearly always be the remedy, and againif Spongia palliates it and it is not sufficiently deep and there is a morning aggravation which showsthat the trouble is returning Hepar follows. Acon., Hepar and Spongia are closely related to each otherand they are truly great croup remedies.Dry, paroxysmal cough from evening until midnight and sometimes lasting all night, withchoking, gagging and crouping; some loose coughing in the daytime; rawness and scraping the larynx;worse in cold air or uncovering hand or foot in bed.The catarrhal state is sometimes lower down in the trachea, and the trachea becomes extremelysore from much coughing. The patient has been coughing days and weeks and has the morning andevening aggravations; a rattling, barking cough with great soreness of the chest in an oversensitive and