Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

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 the lungs upwards. lt is not so commonlyindicated in those cases where the dullness has begun at the apex of either or both lungs.It will very often ward off future sickness where the family history is tuberculous. Do not beafraid to give the antipsoric remedies when there is a history of tuberculosis in the family, but becareful when the patient is so far advanced with tuberculosis that there are cavities in the lung, or latenttubercles, or encysted caseous tubercles. Your antipsorics might rouse him into a dangerous condition.Do not suppose, however, that it is dangerous to give Sulfur because one's father and mother have diedof phthisis. Sulfur might be just the remedy to prevent the child from following the father and mother.Kalicarb.is often suitable, and will act as an acute remedy in the advanced stages of phthisis in cases inwhich it was not indicated primarily as a constitutional remedy. In such instances it will act as apalliative in phthisis, whereas if it were indicated primarily as a constitutional remedy it would dodamage in the last weeks. The fortunate thing is that a great many homoeopaths are not able to find thehomoeopathic remedy. If the patient has yet lung space enough to be cured, Kali carb. will do wonderswhere the symptoms agree.I want to warn you in one respect concerning Kali carb. lt is a very dangerous medicine in gout.When you get an old gouty subject who has big toe joints and finger joints, and they are sore andinflamed every now and then, you might think that Kali carb. covers the case very suitably; he isdisturbed in just such weather, he is pallid and sickly, his complaints come on at 2 to 3 o'clock in themorning, he has the shooting pains. But these gouty patients are often incurable, and, if so, to undertaketo cure them would be a dreadful calamity, because the aggravations would last so long. If you giveKali carb. to one of these incurable patients in very high potency it will make your patient worse, andthe aggravation will be serious and prolonged, but the 30th may be of great service. Kali iod., when it isindicated in the gouty state, acts as a soothing and palliative remedy. But Kali carb. seems to be adreadful medicine to handle, it is a sharp and a two-edged sword. Do not undertake to give medicinewith a view to curing these old cases of gout when the nodosities are numerous. Do not give thatconstitutional medicine that should have been administered to these patients twenty years ago, becausethere is not reaction enough in the life of the patient to turn him into order, and he will be destroyed. Itseems paradoxical to say it, but to cure him is to kill him. The vital action that is necessary to restorehim to health would practically tear his framework to pieces. You need not believe these things, youare not obliged to. But think about them, and some day after practicing awhile and making numerousmistakes in attempting to cure incurables you will admit the awful power of homoeopathic medicines.They are simply dreadful. In old gouty cases, in old cases of Bright's disease, in advanced cases ofphthisis where there are many tubercles, beware of Kali carb.given too high.While studying the text book, look over the sensations. They are very numerous. Of course,those most striking are the stitching, and tearing pains, shooting, sticking and wandering pains.KALIUM IODATUM [kali-i] [Kent’s]This remedy is an antipsoric and antisyphilitic. lt has been used very extensively by the oldschool as an antisyphilitic, but in the very large doses which they used it became to a great extentallopathic to the disease, because of the tremendous effect it produced upon the economy, andimplanted its own miasm, and thereby in a measure it suppressed many cases of syphilis.The medicines that are the most powerful substances are really those that sustain ahomoeopathic relation to the disease in general, and of these the very smallest dose will cure whensimilar. When the remedy is not similar enough to cure in such a form the increasing of the dose doesnot make it homoeopathic.There is an idea in vogue that increasing the dose makes the remedy similar. That is going awayfrom principle. If the remedy is not similar there is no form of dose that can make it similar.It affects the glandular structures and the periosteum after the manner of syphilis. It producescatarrhal inflammations. lt is a deep-acting medicine and closely related to Mercurius. lt has ulcerationsand catarrhal states and glandular affections like Mercurius. lt is similar in its action to Mercurius andis an antidote to it.