Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Dry, hacking, incessant gagging cough with whooping, blowing of blood from the nose,vomiting of everything in the stomach, and expectoration of blood-streaked mucus, is a whoopingcough that will be commonly cured by Kali carb., but especially if there is present that peculiar andstriking feature of a bag-like swelling below the eyebrow and above the lids, puffiness of the eyes.There are some cases of pneumonia that need Kali carb., in the stage of hepatization (likeSulfur) Again, when pneumonia has passed away think of Kali carb. if every time the patient takes alittle cold it settles in the chest with these symptoms that I study the remedy and the disease thoroughlyto ascertain if the two are similar enough to each other to expect a cure. Any deviation from that rule isruinous and will lead to the practice of giving medicines on single symptoms.Dry, hacking, incessant gagging cough with whooping, blowing of blood from the nose,vomiting of everything in the stomach, and expectoration of blood-streaked mucus, is a whoopingcough that will be commonly cured by Kali carb., but especially if there is present that peculiar andstriking feature of a bag-like swelling below the eyebrow and above the lids, puffiness of the eyes.There are some cases of pneumonia that need Kali carb., in the stage of hepatization (likeSulfur) Again, when pneumonia has passed away think of Kali carb. if every time the patient takes alittle cold it settles in the chest with these symptoms that I have described. There is sensitiveness of thebody to weather changes, to cold air and to wet, a continuous dry, hacking cough, with gagging, theaggravation from three to five in the morning, and the patient has flying neuralgic pains. Thesesymptoms gradually increase and the patient dates them back to his pneumonia. He says: "Doctor, Ihave never been quite well since I had pneumonia". The catarrhal state has settled in his chest and thereis a chronic tendency to take cold. These cases are threatening to go into phthisis and will hardly belikely to recover without Kali carb. In this tendency for catarrhal states to locate in the chest, Kali carb.should be thought of as well as Phosphor., Lycopod. and Sulfur.Another general state that belongs to this remedy is a tendency to dropsies. It has dropsies allover the body. The feet bloat and the fingers puff; the back of the hands pit upon pressure the facelooks puffy and waxy. The heart is weak. I can look back upon quite a number of cases of fattydegeneration of the heart in which I could have prevented all the trouble with Kali carb. if I had knownthe case better in the beginning.These cases are insidious, and the indications calling for Kali carb. must be seen early or thepatient will advance into an incurable condition. That peculiar state of weakness and feeble circulationthat finally ends in dropsy and many other complications has its likeness in Kali carb. There is aninsidiousness about Kali carb. in the approach of all of its complaints. He has a sort of nondescriptappearance, he is withered, has much dyspnoea upon going up hill or even walking on the level.Examination of the lungs shows them to be in very fair condition, but finally complications come on,there is a breakdown and organic changes and you look back over these cases and say, if I had onlyseen in the beginning of this case what I see now it seems as if the patient ought to have been cured.We learn the beginnings of remedies as we learn the beginnings of sickness. It is a prudent thing for ahomoeopathic physician to glance back over a case that he has failed on, or someone else has failed on,to study its beginnings and see what the manifestations were. This kind of study to the homeopathicphysician is as delightful as post mortems are to the old school.The teeth present a peculiar state. The gums take on a scorbutic or scrofulous character. Thegums separate from the teeth and the teeth decay and become discolored and loose, so that they have tobe extracted early in life. He suffers from pain in the teeth whenever he takes cold from riding in thewind and raw weather. The pains come on even when the teeth are not yellow or decayed; stitching,tearing, rending pains in the teeth. Offensive smell from the teeth; pus oozing out from around theteeth. The mouth is full of little ulcers, little aphthous patches. The mucous membrane is pale andulcerates daily. The tongue is white with offensive taste; coated gray, with sick headaches.While many of the symptoms of Kali carb. are aggravated after eating, some symptoms arerelieved after eating. There is throbbing in the pit of the stomach when the stomach is empty.There is also throbbing all over the body, pulsation to the fingers and toes; there is no part thatdoes not pulsate, and he is kept awake by this pulsation. Pulsation even when there is often no feelingof palpitation in the region of the heart. It has also violent palpitation of the heart.Kali carb. fits many old dyspeptics. After eating he fees as if he would burst, so bloated is he.Great flatulence; belches wind upwards and passes flatus downwards; offensive flatus. The belching upis also attended with fluid eructations, sour fluids that set the teeth on edge; they excoriate, or causesmarting in the pharynx or mouth. Pain in the stomach after eating; burning in the stomach after eating.Gone feeling in the stomach, that is not even relieved by eating. A peculiar condition in Kali carb., is astate of anxiety felt in the stomach, as though it were a fear. One of the first patients I ever hadexpressed it in a better way than it is expressed in the books; she said, "Doctor, somehow or other I