Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

"Cutting in abdomen, as if torn to pieces". "Violent cutting, must sit bent over pressing withboth hands, or lean far back for relief; cannot sit upright". "Cutting and drawing like false labor pains".There is great coldness with the pains, with the cutting in the abdomen; he wants heat, hot drinks, hotwater bag.A chronic coldness is felt in the abdomen, cold externally and internally. It would sometimes becruel to give a dose of Kali carb. when the colic is on, because if the remedy fitted the caseconstitutionally, if all the symptoms of the case were those of Kali carb., you would be likely to get anaggravation that would be unnecessary. There are plenty of short acting remedies that would relieve thepain speedily, and at the close of the attack the constitutional remedy could then be given. If the patientcan bear the pain to the end, it is better to wait until it passes off without any medicine. That sometimesis cruel, and then the short acting medicines should be given. All recurrent troubles, those that comeperiodically, or after eating certain articles, or from exposure, or with a periodicity that belongs to time--all these states are chronic; they are not acute troubles. They are simply a small portion of a chronicmiasm, a side view, and all such cases must have a constitutional remedy sooner or later. You can, it isthe, relieve violent pain at the first visit, but then you must look deeper and prevent your patient havingmore trouble. Otherwise, if you should give Bell. or Colocynth or any medicine that simply fits thecolic, the trouble will come back again; you have not cured your patient; you have only palliated.But on the other hand, you take such a colic as is described here and Kali carb. fits just thesesymptoms alone and does not fit the whole constitution of the patient. Then it is that a constitutionaland long-acting remedy like Kali carb. acts in fullness. It does not take the usual long time to act and isnot attended with an aggravation."Abdominal muscles painful to touch; swelling of glands". In the abdomen, also, followingtroubles in the bowels, or following peritonitis, we have effusion into the peritoneal sac, which isusually associated with dropsy of the extremities, but not always. In liver dropsies especially is thisremedy useful.It has a great many complaints of the rectum and anus and of the stool. It has most persistentand enormous haemorrhoidal tumors that burn, that are extremely sensitive to touch, that bleedcopiously, that are extremely painful, making it impossible for him to sleep. He is compelled to lieupon the back and hold the nates apart, because the pressure is very painful to the external piles. Thepiles cannot be put back; there is great distension and swelling inside. Haemorrhoids that come outafter stool and bleed copiously and are very painful; they must be pushed back, and long after going tobed they burn like fire.There is great aggravation from stool, which is hard and knotty and requires great straining toexpel. Fistula of the anus.Burning temporarily relieved by sitting in iced water.It has chronic diarrhoea and also diarrhea alternating with constipation. Many times where thereare numerous particulars, we have to rely upon the generals that are characteristic of the remedy. Thetext gives much less of diarrhea than has been developed by clinical uses. "Diarrhea painless, withrumbling in the abdomen and burning at stool, only by day; chronic cases with puffiness under theeyebrows". It gives few symptoms, but it is a large and extensive remedy in diarrheas that are chronic.In old, broken down subjects, in weakly, pallid subjects, with poor digestion, with great flatulence, withmuch distension, with disordered liver.Then the kidney, bladder and urethra come in for their share of trouble, which is of a catarrhalnature. Discharges from the bladder, purulent discharges of a thick, tenacious, copious mucus depositedin the urine. In keeping with this there is much burning; burning in the urethra, during and aftermicturition."Urine flows slowly with soreness and burning". Kali carb. runs very close to Natr. mur. inmany of its old, long-standing bladder troubles. In old cases of gleet and long-standing cases of urinarytroubles that follow gonorrhea these two medicines are useful, both suitable in the scanty, white, gleetydischarge that remains. In both the urination is painful. In Nat. mur. the burning is after urination.Where there is scanty, gleety discharge and the burning is very marked and only after urination, and thepatient is extremely nervous and fidgety, Natrum mur. will cure. If the burning is during and afterurination and you have the broken down constitution we have described then the remedy may be Kalicarb. Some of these old cases are entirely painless, having no pain either during or after micturition.Then you get an entirely different class of remedies. The old chronic discharges following a gonorrheaare as troublesome for the young doctor as anything that will ever fall into his hands. The remedies arenumerous, the symptoms are scanty, and many times the patient has not been long under the doctor'scare, therefore he does not know the patient's constitutional state well and the patient can only tell himof the discharge. "Nothing but the discharge, doctor". You cannot get his mind on his symptoms; he as