Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Under good prescribing these pains are changed into contractions, which prove sufficient toexpel the contents of the uterus. When you hear such things you will look back over the history of thecase. You will look back for weeks as the woman has been drawing near the end of gestation and seethat the vague things, the chilliness and other features in her constitutional state for which you havebeen trying to find a remedy now culminate at the time of her confinement into a class of pains. Hadyou seen that six weeks before and given her Kali carb. you would have prevented the severe labor. Itis a severe labor, a prolonged labor; the uterus appears to be weak, and the pains are feeble; they are allin the back, and do not go to the centre of operation as they should. Now, this same kind of a pain maydeceive you in taking another form. The pains begin in the back, and appear to go to the uterus and thenrun up the back, which would turn you aside entirely from the Kali carb. pain into a pain that wouldindicate Gelsemium. Sometimes these pains are so severe that they actually seem to prevent rather thanencourage the contractions of the uterus; when the contractions of the uterus cease, and the womanscreams out and wants her hips rubbed, and screams out with pain in each side of the abdomen ratherthan in the centre, pains in the region where the broad ligaments ought to be, Actoea racemosa willmake the pains regular. Puls. is the medicine for absence of marked contraction, in cases inclined to donothing; in a case that is inactive when the os is sufficiently dilated and the parts relaxed, and theprediction is an easy and simple labor, but the patient does not do anything. It is a state of mildness orinactivity. Puls. will very often cause in five minutes a very strong contraction of the uterus, sometimesalmost in a painless way."The back aches so badly while she is walking that she feels as if she could lie down on thestreet", etc. etc. The pain seems to take the force and vigor all out of the patient. After delivery there isa tendency to prolong the flooding, rousing up at every menstrual period, as described.Weakness of the heart, cardiac dyspnoea; the breath is short and the patient cannot walk or mustmove very slowly. It is the coming on of a fatty heart. With the suffocation and dyspnoea the breathingis so short that the patient cannot stop to take a drink or eat; the breathing is rapid, not deep, but weak.Dyspnoea with violent, irregular palpitation of the heart, throbbing that shakes the whole frame,pulsation that can be felt to the ends of the fingers and toes. Violent pulsations; patient cannot lie on theleft side; accompanied by stitching pain through the chest, and cough. In old asthmatic patients withweak pulse, with the same pulsations and palpitation and cannot lie down. The only position it seemsthat he can find any comfort in is leaning forward, with his elbows resting upon a chair. The attack isviolent and continuous, especially worse from 3 to 5 A.M., and worse from lying in bed. He is arousedat 3 o'clock in the morning with these asthmatic attacks. Asthmatic dyspnoea, when the state is that ofhumid asthma or filling up of the chest with mucus, coarse rattling in the chest, loud, rattling breathing.In patients who always have rattling in the chest, rattling cough, stuffy breathing; with every rainy spellor misty spell, or in cold, foggy weather, the condition becomes that of a humid asthma; asthmaticbreathing, with much weakness in the chest, worse from 3 to 5 in the morning. The patient is pale,sickly and anemic, and complains of stitching pains in the chest.The cough of this medicine is one of the most violent coughs of all the medicines in the MateriaMedica. The whole frame is racked. The cough is incessant, attended with gagging and vomiting,comes on at 3 o'clock in the morning, a dry, hacking, hard, racking cough. "Suffocative cough andchoking cough at 5 A.M. Great dryness in the throat between 2 and 3 A.M. Think of Kali carb. when,after troubles like measles, a catarrhal state is left behind, due to lack of reaction, the psoric sequelae.The cough following measles is very often a Kali carb. cough. Kali carb., Sulfur, Carbo-veg. andDrosera are perhaps more frequently indicated than other medicines in such coughs as follow measlesor pneumonia.The expectoration is copious, very offensive, tenacious, lumpy, blood streaked or like pus, thickyellow or yellowish- green. Very often it has a pungent, cheesy taste, strong taste, as of old cheese.Catarrh of the chest. Dry cough day and night, with vomiting of food and some phlegm, worse aftereating and drinking and in the evening.Nothing is more striking in Kali carb. than the wandering stitching pains through the chest, andthe coldness of the chest.The great dyspnoea, the transient stitches, the pleural stitches arc important features of thisremedy. A great number of the cases in which Kali carb. is suitable are those where the trouble hasspread from catarrhal origin and from the lower portion of carb., Sulfur, Carbo-veg. and Drosera areperhaps more frequently indicated than other medicines in such coughs as follow measles orpneumonia.The expectoration is copious, very offensive, tenacious, lumpy, blood streaked or like pus, thickyellow or yellowish- green. Very often it has a pungent, cheesy taste, strong taste, as of old cheese.