Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Rheumatic pains in upper limbs. Weakness and rheumatic pains in lower limbs. Ulcers on legsand about ankles, with stinging burning pains; high; hard edges; painful at night in warm bed; sensitiveto touch. OEdema of feet.Warmth and washing aggravate ,ulcers and eruptions. The skin excoriates easily. Urticaria overbody, aggravated at night.Fissures about mouth and anus. Ulceration. Red sores. Lupus evedens.HYOSCYAMUS NIGER [hyos] [Kent’s]Hyoscyamus is full of convulsions, contractions, trembling, quivering and jerkings of themuscles. Convulsions in vigorous people, coming on with great violence. Convulsions that involve thewhole economy, with unconsciousness, coming on in the night.Convulsions in women at the menstrual period; and then the lesser convulsions of singlemuscles, and contractions of single muscles. Little jerkings and twitchings. In low forms of the diseaseit takes on the latter, jerkings and twitchings of muscles. In low typhoid states where there is greatprostration with twitching. He feels it himself if conscious enough to realize it, but others see it. Anevidence of great prostration of the nervous system. Sliding down in bed, twitching of the muscles. Allthe muscles tremble and quiver, a constant state of erethism throughout the economy. A state ofirritability and excitability. Convulsive jerks of the limbs, so that all sorts of angular motions are made,automatic motions. Choreic motions. But angular motions of the arms, and picking at the bedclothes.Picking at something in delirium. Gradually increasing weakness, whether it be in a continuedfever where there has been a delirium or excitement, or in a case of insanity with erethism of the nervesand mind; excitability and gradually increasing weakness. Complete prostration, so that the patientslides down in bed, until the jaw drops. So the intermingling of jerkings and quiverings and tremblingand weakness and convulsive action of muscles are all striking features. Infants go into convulsions."Falls suddenly to the ground with cries and convulsions.Convulsions of children, especially from fright. Convulsions after eating". The child becomessick after eating, Vomits and goes into convulsions. "Shrieks and becomes insensible". Goes intoconvulsions, such as the old books used to say, from worms; and the mother goes into convulsions soonafter the child is born, called puerperal convulsions. "Convulsions during sleep.Suffocating spells and convulsions during labor. Toes become spasmodically cramped".The mental state is really the greatest part of Hyoscyamus.Talking, passive delirium, imaginations, illusions, hallucinations; talking, rousing up and takingwith a delirious manifestation, and then stupor. These alternate through complaints. And during sleeptalking, crying out in sleep; but, talking and mumbling and soliloquizing. Then, there are wakefulperiods, in which there are delirium and illusions and hallucinations all mingled together. Sometimesthe patient is in a state of hallucination, and the next minute in a state of illusion. Which means that apart of the time what he sees as hallucinations he believes to be so; and then these hallucinationsbecome delusions. Again, the things he sees he knows are not so, and then they are illusions. But he isfull of hallucinations. He sees all sorts of things, indescribable things in his hallucinations. He imaginesall sorts of things concerning people, concerning himself, and he gets suspicious. Suspicion runsthrough acute sickness; it runs through the mania in insanity. Suspicion that his wife is going to poisonhim; that his wife is untrue to him. Suspicious of everybody. "Refuses to take medicine because it ispoisoned". "Imagines that he is pursued, that the people have all turned against him, that his friends areno longer his friends. He carries on conversations with imaginary people". Talks as if he were talkingto himself, but he really imagines that some one is sitting by his side, to whom he is talking. Sometimeshe talks to dead folks; recalls past events with those that have departed. Calls up a dead sister, or wife,or husband, and enters into conversation just as if the person were present.Hyoscyamus has another freak in this peculiar mental state.Perhaps there may be a queer kind of paper on the wall,and he lies and looks at it, and if he canpossibly turn the figures into rows he will keep busy at that day and night, and he wants a light there sohe can put them into rows, and he goes to sleep and dreams about it, and wakes up and goes at it again;it is the same idea. Sometimes he will imagine the things are worms, are vermin, rats, cats, mice, andhe is leading them like children lead around their toy wagons---just like a child. The mind is working inthis; no two alike; perhaps you may never see these identical things described, but you will seesomething like it that the mind is raveling in, strange and ridiculous things. One patient had a string ofbedbugs going up a wall, and he had them tied with a string, and was irritated because he could notmake the last one keep up. Hyoscyamus did him a great deal of good.You do not find that expression in the text, but I will speak on it as analogous to the things thatbelong to the text. He is in alternate states. One minute he raves, and another he scolds in delirium, in