Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Ignatia has another thing: "Thinks she has neglected some duty". That is very much like Puls.,Hell. and Hyos., only Aurum believes that she has committed a great wrong. "Thinks that she hasneglected some duty". Dwell upon that much. "Melancholy after great grief".It is full of headaches, and they are all congestive, pressing headaches, or tearing headaches, orheadaches as if a nail were sticking into the side of the head or temple; ameliorated from lying upon it.The headaches are all ameliorated by heat. The patient generally is ameliorated by warmth andaggravated by cold. Wants cold things in the stomach, but warm things externally. Jerking headaches,throbbing headaches, congestive headaches. Headaches in nervous and sensitive temperaments Thosewhose nervous system has given way to anxiety, grief or mental work. "Headaches from abuse ofcoffee, from smoking, from inhaling smoke, from tobacco or alcohol". Headache from close attention."Headache ameliorated by warmth and rest; worse, from cold winds and turning the head suddenly;worse when pressing at stool, or from jar, from hurrying, from excitement". Looking up increases thepain; moving the eyes; worse from noise, from light. "Pain in the occiput; worse from cold, better fromexternal heat. Headache better while eating, but soon after it is worse"."Disturbance of vision. Zigzags. Confusion of vision".Excessively nervous eyes. "Acrid tears. Weeping".The face is distorted, convulsed, pale and sickly. Pains in the face. "Violent rending, tearingpains in the face". Let me put it this way: Some of these overwrought girls that come back from Paris,that I described, overworked in their music, will have violent face-ache, pains in the face, or some otherhysterical pains. Others will come back with violent headaches; others with the mental state andconfusion; others with all the hysterical manifestations. Prolonged excitement. Musical excesses. Yes,other girls come back fairly crippled with painful menstruation, ovarian pains, hysterical conditions,displacement; prolapsus of the vagina and of the rectum."Tearing, shooting pains upwards from the anus and vagina up into the body towards theumbilicus".Strange antipathies run through the remedy. It will be impossible for you to ever form anyconclusion what one of these sensitive women will think of any proposition that is presented.You cannot depend upon her being reasonable or rational. It is best to say as little as possibleabout anything. Make no promises, listen, look wise, take up your travelling bag and go home after youhave prescribed, because anything you say will be distorted. There is not anything you can say that willplease.Thirst when you would not expect it. Thirst during chill, but none during the fever, if she has afeverish state. It is suitable in intermittent fever. Excitable, nervous children and women withintermittent fever.IODIUM [iod] [Kent’s](Iodine) This remedy, in all of its complaints whether acute or chronic, has a peculiar kind ofanxiety that is felt both in mind and body. It seems also that this state of anxiety is attended with a thrillthat goes throughout his frame unless he removes it by motion or change of position. The anxietycomes on when trying to keep still, and the more he tries to keep still the more the anxious stateincreases. While attempting to keep still, he is overwhelmed with impulses, impulses to tear things, tokill himself, to commit murder, to do violence. He cannot keep still and so he walks night and day. Thisremedy carries the same feature with it into the Iodide of Potassium, so that it makes the Iodide ofPotassium patient walk. But there is his difference, the Kali iod. patient can walk long distanceswithout fatigue, and the walking only seems to wear off his anxiety, whereas in Iodine there is greatexhaustion; he becomes extremely exhausted from walking and sweats copiously even from slightexertion. Iodine corresponds to those cases in which it seems that there is some dreadful thing comingon; the mind threatens to give out. Insanity threatens, or the graver forms of disease are threatening,such as are present in the advanced stages of suppressed malaria, in old cases of chills, in threatenedphthisis, especially abdominal.Hypertrophy runs through the remedy. There is enlargement of the liver, spleen, ovaries, testes,lymphatic glands, cervical glands, of all the glands except the mammary glands. The mammae dwindlewhile all other glands become enlarged, nodular and hard.This enlargement of the glands is especially observed among the lymphatic glands of theabdomen, the mesenteric glands.There is this peculiar circumstance also in Iodine, viz., that while the body withers the glandsenlarge. That is peculiar and will enable you to think of Iodine, because the glands grow in proportionto the dwindling of the body and the emaciation of the limbs. We find this state in marasmus. There iswithering throughout the body, the muscles shrink, the skin wrinkles and the face of the child looks like