Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

vomiting. "Redness of the face, and suffocation". It is a dry, hacking, choking cough, that racks thewhole body, in spinal affections. "Tickling in the larynx. Dry, hacking, and spasmodic cough, worselying, better sitting, worse at night, after eating, drinking, talking and singing. Dry, spasmodic,persistent cough". But its characteristic cough is a dry.racking, harassing cough, worse lying down. Those young women and girls with sore spots onthe spine from the coccyx to the brain; sore places that manifest themselves when leaning back againsta chair. These take a little cold in the larynx, and sometimes it is purely from a nervous attack.Sometimes spinal irritation, spinal cough in those that have curvature of the spine. "During cough,spasms in the larynx. Cough worse after mid night; wakes the patient from sleep. Cough in cold air,and from eating and drinking. Cough after measles. Violent spasmodic cough". The cough is mostexhausting. A cough will sometimes last until the patient is covered with sweat and is exhausted, andleans forward to get a little relief; and he coughs until he is exhausted."Spasms of the muscles of the chest. Contraction of the muscles of one side of the neck. Spinalmeningitis with convulsions".Paralytic weakness of the limbs. Convulsions of the muscles.Twitching. Frequent twitchings of the muscles of the hand and feet.Many complaints come on during sleep. The sleep is a great tribulation to this nervous patient.There are times of sleeplessness. Again, profound sleep. "Sleepless, or constant sleep". Either awake orasleep, there may be muttering. "Long continued sleeplessness. Lascivious dreams. Lying on the backhe suddenly sits up and then lies down again". That means that the patient wakes out of sleep, looks allaround, wonders what terrible thing he has been dreaming about; his dreams seem real.He looks all about and sees nothing of the objects of his dream, he lies down and goes to sleepagain. He keeps doing that all night. Starts up in a fright. Jerks in sleep. and cries out.Grates the teeth. Laughing during sleep. With so much brain trouble as belongs to thismedicine, we would expect the dreams and the fright, the disturbances, the twitching and trembling insleep.Its fevers are low forms of fever, the continued fever, the typhoid.HYPERICUM PERFORATUM [hyper] [Kent’s]One who makes a study of the proving of Hypericumwill be reminded of a class of injuries involvingsentient nerves, and it is not surprising that thisremedy has come into use for the results of suchinjuries. The surgery of Homeopathy largely involvesthe use of Arnica, Rhus-tox., Ledum, Staphisagria,Calcarea and Hypericum. These remedies are used in aroutine way when a physician runs into semi;surgicalconditions, or the results of injuries. For the bruised,"black-and-blue", sore appearance and sensationArnica comes into use; it corresponds especially to theacute stage until the soreness and bruised conditionhave disappeared from the parts injured or from thewhole body; but for the strains of muscles and tendonsArnica proves insufficient and a thorough study ofRhus will show that that remedy is suitable for theresultant weakness of tendons and muscles, and thebruised, rheumatic feelings that come on in everystorm and often wear off on continued motion. For thefinal weakness that persists even after Rhus we have