Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

chilly patient. The cough is attended with choking and gagging, even to vomiting; it is worse in thecold air, and from putting the hand out of bed.He coughs and sweats. There is much sweating the whole night, without relief. Sweating allnight without relief belongs to a great many complaints of Hepar. He sweats easily, so that with thecough and on the slightest exertion he is fairly drenched with perspiration.It has catarrhal affections of the ear. A sudden inflammation comes on in the middle ear, anabscess forms, the drum of the ear ruptures and there is a bloody discharge and sticking, tearing painsin the inflamed ear. There is first a sensation of stooping up of the ear, then bursting and pressure in theear, and then perforation of the drum. There is also an inflammatory condition causing a discharge thatis foetid, or a bloody yellow, purulent discharge, thick, with cheesy particles and smelling like oldcheese.Hepar sometimes is bad on the oculist. When it is indicated, it cures eyes very quickly, so thatthe oculist does not have a very long case and it does away with the necessity for washes in the handsof the specialist. From the eyes we have the same offensive thick, purulent discharge. Inflammation ofthe eyes attended with little ulcers. Ulcers of the cornea, granulations, bloody, offensive discharge fromthe eyes. The eyes look red, the lids are inflamed, the edges are turned out and the margin of the lidbecome ulcerated. In all sorts of so-called scrofulous affections, the eye conditions may be covered byHepar when the constitutional state is present. The constitutional state of the patient is the only guide tothe remedy. Many times the eye symptoms are nondescript. You have only an inflamed eye withcatarrhal discharge, and for this you could give a large number of the anti-psorics; but when you gointo the state of the patient and find these general symptoms, then this remedy will cure. The generalsymptoms will guide to the remedy that will cure the eyes. You will see that the specialist for the eyesis often limited unless he knows how to secure all the symptoms of the patient and selects the remedyupon the totality of the symptoms.There are other catarrhal conditions. Catarrh of the bladder, with purulent discharges in theurine and copious muco-purulent deposits. Ulcers of the bladder. The walls of the bladder becomehardened, so that it has almost no power to expel its contents, and the urine passes in a slow stream orin drops, or in the male the stream falls down perpendicularly. No ability to expel the urine with force.It is a paresis. There is burning in the bladder and frequent, almost constant, urging to urinate. It hasalso a catarrhal state of the urethra that resembles gonorrhea, and it has been a very useful remedy inchilly patients with gleety discharge of long standing. Thick discharge of a white, cheesy character.Ulcers and little inflammatory spots along the urethra. There is a sticking sensation here and therealong the urethra and when passing urine a sensation of a splinter in the urethra. Copious leucorrhoeawith the same offensive, cheesy smell. The leucorrhoea is so copious that she is compelled to wear anapkin, and the napkins, I have been told by women who have been cured by Hepar, are so offensivethat they must be taken away and washed at once because the odor permeates the rooms. This horriblyoffensive odor that is so permeating is often cured by Kali phos. It has really one of the mostpenetrating of odors, so much so that when a woman suffers from this leucorrhoea the odor can bedetected when she enters the room.A very important sphere for Hepar is after mercurialization.Many old people are waking the street at the present day who have been the victims of Calomel,who have been salivated, who have taken blue pill for recurrent bilious spells, to "tap the liver", untilfinally they get into a state of chilliness felt, as it were, in the bone. They sweat much about the head,they ache in the bones, and every change of weather to cold, and every cold, damp spell affects them.They are like barometers. Hepar Is the remedy for that state. They go into diseases of the bone easilyand are always shivering. While they have periods of aggravation from warmth, as a general rule theyare chilly subjects, and feel the cold easily. In the more acute affections of Mercury there is anaggravation from the warmth of the bed, but the old subjects who have been years ago poisoned with itget almost bloodless, and they become chilly; they cannot get clothing enough to keep them warm.They become withered and shrivelled, and have rheumatic affections about the joints. Then it is that thesymptoms of Hepar agree and it becomes a valuable antidote to that state of mercurialization. Hepar isalso a complement and antidote to potentized Mercury. When Merc. has been administered and hasdone all it can do as a curative remedy, or when it has acted improperly and has somewhat mixed upthe case and it is necessary to follow it with the natural complement or antidote and prepare for anotherseries, Hepar is to be thought of as one of the natural followers of Merc. It is well known that Merc. isnot followed well by Silica. Sil. does not do useful work when Merc. is still acting or has been acting.This is the time that Hepar becomes an intercurrent remedy. Sil. follows well after Hepar, and Heparfollows well after Merc.,and thus Hepar becomes an intercurrent in that series.