Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

fixed as if it were locked, and it is with great difficulty that it can be moved. "Closes the" teeth tightlytogether. Pulsating pains in the teeth. Jerking, throbbing, tearing in the teeth. Sordes on the teeth"; andin sleep in these low forms of fever he is grinding the teeth. Children, either in convulsions, or betweenconvulsions, in congestion, also grind the teeth in the night, and in this comatose state. It says in thetext, "The tongue is red, brown, dry, cracked, hard. Looks like burnt leather. The tongue does not obeythe will. Difficult motion of the tongue; it is stiff, protruded with great difficulty. Biting the tongue intalking", The tongue becomes paralyzed. "Loss of speech. Utters inarticulate sounds. Speechembarrassed. Talks with difficulty". The muscles of the throat, of the tongue, those that take part inswallowing, the muscles of the esophagus, of the pharynx, become stiff and paralyzed so thatswallowing is difficult. "Food taken into the throat comes up into the nose" Fluids come out of thenose, or go down into the larynx. "The sight of water, or the hearing of running water, or the attempt toswallow water produces spasmodic constriction of the esophagus".The next very important feature of this medicine is its stomach and abdominal symptoms.Vomiting. Dread of water.Unquenchable thirst. Aversion to water, as it were, from the stomach; a mental fear of water.The stomach is distended. Great pain in the stomach. Dryness evidently in the stomach like there is inthe mouth, because it occurs along with it. Burning and smarting in the stomach; and when there is noinflammation there is vomiting of blood. Stitching pains, colicky pains, distension.The distension of the whole abdomen. "Abdomen wonderfully distended, almost to bursting".Feels like a drum, tympanitic."Great soreness; can hardly touch the abdomen because of the soreness. Cannot be handled,cannot be turned except with great difficulty, very slowly, and with caution. Cutting pains in theabdomen". Inflammation of all the viscera of the abdomen in low typhoid state, with great distension.Petechia upon the abdomen, such as is found in a typhoid.Then comes the diarrhea, very much like that which is found in low forms of continued fever."Bleeding from the bowels; ulceration of Peyer's glands", and the yellow, cornmeal mushy stool. InHyoscyamus there is that mushy stool that occurs in typhoid fever, pappy consistency. Again, a watery,horribly offensive, bloody fluid. Most of the time the stools and the passages are painless. "Painlessdischarges from the bowels.Watery mucus, sometimes odorless, but commonly very offensive".Then, another part of it is that the patient has no realization of the passage. It is involuntary.Both the urine and the stool are passed without his knowledge. Watery, bloody, or mushy.Hysterical females and young girls, who are subject to attacks of diarrhea@a and bloody stools.Relaxed state of the bowels connected with relaxation of the uterus. "Diarrhea during pregnancy.Diarrhea during typhoid fever. Paralysis of the sphincter ani. Paralysis of the bladder after labor, so thatthe urine remains in the bladder with no desire to urinate". The routine remedy for retention of urine oris Caust. Caust., like Rhus, is a great remedy for the effect of on muscles and parts, and the violenteffort that a woman passes in expelling the child in many instances leaves all the pelvic muscles tired,relaxed, paralyzed.Then comes that which was mentioned, which really belongs to the general state more than thelocal; violent sexual desire.Violent sexual desire in girls who never had that desire. Coming on and manifesting itself onlyduring the inflammation of the brain."Labor-like pains from taking cold". A cold settles in the uterus, bringing on painfulmenstruation. Hyoscyamus has various crampings; cramps in the fingers and toes and of the muscleshere and there; temporary paralysis, etc. It has suppressed menstruation. There are many conditionsbelonging to menstruation, pregnancy and parturition that are hysterical in character. Twitchings,cough, constipation, diarrhea, etc., that belong to a hysterical nature. "Puerperal convulsions. Jerksviolently at the on coming of the convulsions. After miscarriage, hemorrhage of bright red blood. Nodesire of the bladder to expel the contents".And then comes the voice, the larynx, respiration, and cough.Constriction of the larynx. Much mucus in the larynx and air passages, makes the speech andvoice rough. Hoarseness with dry and inflamed throat. Speech difficult. Hysterical aphonia.Hyoscyamus and Veratrum are two medicines that cure and make a nervous hysterical woman agreat deal more sensible, "Difficult spasmodic respiration from spasms of the chest.Apparently loss of breath; rattling in the chest". Hysterical cough. Sensitive, hysterical girls, orsensitive women, with spinal irritation, have paroxysmal cough coming on periodically, coming onfrom excitement. When this patient lies down in the daytime, at night, any time, on will come thespasmodic cough with contractions in the larynx, spasms in the larynx, choking, gagging, and