Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

have gone over. "Want of bodily irritability". "Great exhaustion of strength, especially after walking inopen air"."One-sided paralysis, especially of the extensors". "Rheumatic and traumatic paralysis in goutypatients". Gouty patients with nodules in the joints, old broken down constitutions with pareticexhaustion. "Excited condition of mind and body". Tremblings here and there in the body. "Slow,tottering gait as after severe illness". He must make slow motions, he cannot hurry."Involuntary motions".There are all sorts of dreams and disturbances in sleep, so that the sleep may be quite disturbedand restless. Unrefreshing sleep, waking up with palpitation of the heart. "Many dreams and frequentawaking; starts in affright; muttering or crying"."During sleep cervical muscles drew head backward"; this is in cases of paralytic weakness, hasto wake up, as the muscles of the back of the neck pull so. Jerks in the back of the neck during sleep.Running through the remedy very often, there is a great lack of animal heat, coldness, and yetthe patient wants to be in the open air, must be well clothed and kept warm, but wants to be in the openair. The patient takes cold continually from every change and draft. Sometimes the patient will go tobed as cold as a frog, and when warm in bed is so disturbed by itching and the warmth of the bed thatthere is no comfort. These are two extremes coming together. The circulation is so feeble over theextremities and backs of the hands that in cold weather the hands are constantly cold and covered withcracks and fissures that bleed.The skin along the shin bone is rough, ragged and itching. It has been said that dry weather anddry, cold weather increase the complaints of Alumina, and that wet weather sometimes ameliorates.The febrile condition of this remedy is not at all marked.There is not much chill and not much fever, but the passive, slow, sluggish, chronic elementsand chronic symptoms are the ones that prevail most markedly in weak, broken-down cases there aresome night sweats and sweating towards morning. Slight chill in morning. Chill with thirst.A striking feature of the remedy is the chronic dryness of the skin Sweat is rare and scanty. Thisis not especially suitable for those copious, exhaustive sweats. It is the very opposite of Calcarea,which sweats copiously, but the remedy, with spinal and paralytic affections, is tired out from exertion,very exhausted, but does not sweat. Pile on the covers to make him sweat if you will, but he only getshot and itching and does not sweat. Scanty sweat. Entire inability to sweat. Chronic dryness of the skinwith fissures. The skin becomes worn and ragged and fissured from its dryness. Great dryness of thethick skin over the back of the hands, and in cold weather the hands become cold and discolored.ALUMINA PHOSPHORICA [alum-p] [Kent’s]The symptoms present aggravations, MORNING, forenoon, AFTERNOON, NIGHT; beforemidnight, after midnight. Strong desire for open air, open air ameliorates. Marked general anemia.Single parts go to sleep. Catarrhal conditions generally. Chlorosis. The patient is sensitive to cold andcold generally makes the symptoms worse. He is sensitive to both cold and warm room in a generalway; symptoms worse from cold air and from becoming cold; takes cold on slight exposure to cold.Constriction about the body like a band. It is marked for its convulsive action of muscles; itsconvulsions are chronic, epileptic; hysterical; inclined to fall; with marked stiffness; tonic contraction;convulsive movements. The blood vessels are "distended. Symptoms are worse after eating and there ismarked aggravation from physical exertion. Faint feeling and frequent fainting. General emaciation.Cold drinks and cold food, milk potatoes and warm foods disagree. Formication all over the body. Lackof vital heat. A general feeling of heaviness. A lack of physical irritability. Symptoms worse by jarringand stepping. Jerking of muscles and limbs; FEELING OF EXTREME LASSITUDE; desire to liedown. Lying aggravates the breathing but ameliorates the headache; worse after lying long, worse lyingon the back.symptoms worse before, during and after menses; most symptoms are worse from motion, butthe pains in the back are better from motion. There is a marked aversion to motion and exertion.There is numbness in the limbs and external parts. Congestion and orgasm of blood. The painsare boring, bruised, burning, cutting, digging, jerking, pressing sticking and tearing. It is destined tobecome one of our most useful remedies in paralysis, especially of the lower limbs. It has paralysis ofone side, of organs; the paralysis is painless. There is strong internal pulsation. It has fast, weak,irregular pulse. Great internal and external sensitiveness. General amelioration from pressure. Theweakness and nervous prostration are as though from sexual excess. Electric shocks are very commonand the symptoms are worse after sleep. Standing is a very tiresome position. Tension all over thebody. Trembling and twitching. Walking and walking in the open air increase the symptoms, though