Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

In old syphilitic cases when the symptoms agree Hepar is a very full and complete remedy. Itcorresponds to the majority of symptoms of syphilis, and it only needs to correspond to the symptomsof the individual patient when he is syphilitic to be indicated. Thus in old cases who have beenmercurialized, who have had the symptoms suppressed so that the disease is latent and ready to cropout at any time, Hepar will come in and have a decided effect upon the syphilis and upon the mercury.It will straighten matters out and cause a development that will lead to clear prescribing. In thisrelationship to syphilis and mercury Hepar is closely allied to Staph., Asaf., Nit. acid, Sil., etc.Especially is Hepar the remedy in those cases of syphilis where great quantities of mercury havebeen taken, until it is no longer able to suppress the symptoms of the disease; in old cases when thesyphilitic miasm attacks the bones of the nose and they sink in, or a great ulceration takes place; thosecases you sometimes see walking around the street, with a big patch over the nose or over the openingthat leads down into the nasal cavity. When there is severe pain in the region of the nasal bones, thebridge of the nose is so sensitive that it cannot be touched and in the root of the nose there is asensation as if a splinter were sticking in. For offensive discharge from the nose, foetid ozaena in an oldcase, which has been mercurialized, who is chilly in his very bones, think of Hepar. It has cured manysuch cases; it has healed up the ulcers; it has cured the catarrhal state, and it has hastened the healing upof the portions of diseased bone, by hastening the suppuration and has returned the patient to an orderlystate.As we go into the syphilitic affections that lead into the throat, we find ulcers of the soft palatewhich eat away the uvula, small ulcers which finally unite and destroy the soft palate and thencommence to work upon the osseous portion of the roof of the mouth. The odor that comes from thatmouth when it is opened to show the throat is extremely offensive; very often like spoiled cheese. Themedicines that are especially related, or especially useful in this form of ulceration in old syphilitics,will be Kali-bi., Lach., Merc-cor., Merc. and Hepar, but in those syphilitic cases that have beenmercurialized Hepar and Nitric acid should be thought of. Nitric acid is very closely related to Hepar; itis just as chilly; it has the sensation of sticks in the throat and in inflamed parts. It has fine ulcers in thethroat, upon the tonsils and in the larynx. Nitric acid competes with Hepar. You think of the twotogether. Both have sensation of a fish bone or stick in the throat.The cartilages of the larynx become attacked in syphilitic affections and old mercurialaffections. When the case is not of syphilitic origin but is of sycotic origin, small or large whitegelatinous polypi form in the larynx and they are sore, causing loss of voice, or cracked voice; whenthey cause choking or uneasiness, Hepar is one of the remedies. Hepar, Calc., Arg-nitr.and Nitr-ac. and sometimes Thuja are the remedies related to such conditions.Again, in the earlier syphilitic manifestations, the chancre has the feeling of a stick in it; thencomes the formation of a bubo that may be either non-suppurative or a suppurating gland, associatedwith a chancre or a harmless ulcer upon the penis.These conditions are often indications for Hepar, when the constitutional state is present. Heparhas also sycotic warts. It is useful in old cases of gleet; also when there is a sensation of a splinter in theurethra. In strictures and constrictions of inflammatory character during the inflammation there is atendency to ulcerate, and with this the sensation of a stick is felt. Arg. nit., Nit. ac. and Hepar run closetogether for this kind of inflammation, and will cure the inflammatory stricture before it becomes acomplete and permanent fibrinous stricture.It is only very rarely that you will be able with your medicines to cure a stricture after it hastaken on permanency, after it is many years old, but as long as the inflammation keeps up there is hope.I remember one very old one that was cured by Sepia. I did not know at first of its presence, butprescribed Sepia on the symptoms of the case, and the patient came back with great suffering in theurethra, and then confessed to me that he had had gonorrhea and had been troubled for years with astricture.That inflammation was aroused anew and after it ran its course it really left the passage clearand there was never any more trouble with the stricture. That was a very unusual result. I have manytimes prescribed for patients with the utmost endeavors to do the same thing, and have cured the patientin other respects, but the stricture would remain. Remember then that Hepar has fig-warts, chronicsycotic discharges, or chronic gonorrhea, offensive, cheesy discharges, the sensation of sticks in theurethra, inflammatory stricture, which will be associated with difficulty in passing urine, to the extentthat there is a weakness of the bladder and the urine falls perpendicularly.Hepar has served a valuable purpose in its ability to establish suppuration around foreignbodies. For instance, a foreign body is under the skin or is somewhere unknown. Perhaps it is the tipend of a projectile after the projectile itself has been taken away, or under the nail a splinter is forminga suppuration. It is so small that it is hardly observed and it is supposed often that the splinter has been