Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

after a day or two, chemosis coming into the eyes and the patient beginning to ache in his bones allover, while the rheumatism of the joints would disappear. An allopathic effect was taking root uponthat patient which would last for years. I have noticed that a large dose of Kali iod. in syphilitics wouldmake the patient get up the next morning with difficulty in opening the lid, and upon opening the eyesthe conjunctiva would form water bags, as though water were behind them and they were bagged out.Kali iod. also produces edema of the lids and injection and tumefaction of the conjunctiva. The mucousmembrane becomes red, raw and bleeding.The vessels are enlarged and the surface is very sore, inflamed and smarting. He is compelled tohold the eyelid during winking; the winking is painful and causes scratching, as from sand. Acuteconjunctivitis, especially when it occurs in patients who have rheumatism, who have been abused withMercury, or those afflicted with syphilis. Syphilitic and rheumatic affections of the eye.Old gouty subjects who must keep in motion, and must keep in the open air, who are always toowarm, and cannot endure any degree of warmth in the room, who suffer more from their gouty painswhen keeping quiet, those who are fatigued when keeping quiet and can walk and move without fatiguein the open air, especially when it is cold, with enlarged joints, with restlessness, anxiety, nervousness,harshness of the temper and great irritability, alternating with weeping. This relief from motion willmake the routinist give Rhus in many instances, but Rhus would have no relation to the case whatever.Remember, Rhus is a cold patient, who is always shivering and wants to be by the fire, whosecomplaints are > by the heat, he is > in a warm room and becomes fatigued from motion, whereas Kaliiod. does not become fatigued from continued motion.The nose comes in for much trouble. In old syphilitic catarrhs they blow out great crusts andpieces of bone; syphilitic ozaena; the bones of the nose are very sensitive to touch and becomenecrosed, and the nose flattens down and becomes soft. lt is deprived of the bony framework that holdsit in shape and settles down flat, leaving only the red tip. Extreme pain at the root of the nose likeHepar. Thick, yellowish-green, copious discharge from the nose. Every change of the weather bringson catarrhal states. He is constantly taking cold, sneezing continuously.Copious, watery discharge from the nose, excoriating the passage, and causing burning in thenose. This coryza is < in the open air, but all the rest of the patient is > in the open air.Consequently, when a patient has two such conditions that operate against each other he suffersmuch, because he cannot find quarters for relief. In a warm room his nasal catarrh, or his coryza, is >,but in the open air he feels > as to the rest of his complaints. "Repeated attacks of violent, acrid coryzafrom the least cold". With the coryza the frontal sinuses become involved, and there is great painthrough the forehead; pain in the eyes, pains through the cheek-bones.In the throat, as you might suppose from its relations to syphilis and Mercury, there is muchtrouble. Deep ulcers in the throat, old syphilitic ulcers; perforating ulcers, eating away and destroyingall the soft tissues, the uvula and the soft palate. Ulceration upon the tonsils; enlarged tonsils; verypainful sore throat. Knots and knobs in the throat upon the mucous membranes. "Dryness of throat andenlarged tonsils"."Terrible pain at the root of the tongue at night". The whole pharynx, larynx, trachea andbronchial tubes suffer from catarrhal conditions. Inflammatory conditions with greenish discharge.While all the external symptoms and the rest of the body symptoms are relieved in the cold airand by the contact of external cold, internally cold things aggravate. Cold milk, ice cream, ice water,cold drinks and cold food, cold things in the stomach < all the symptoms. Though he has an excessivethirst and will drink large quantities of water, if very cold it will make him sick.Kali iod. has all the flatulence and belching of Carbo veg.and Lycopodium.The glands all over the body become tumid, enlarged and hard.It has cured enlargement of the thyroid gland; it may take this from Iodine.Very characteristic is the chronic inflammation of the urethra, following gonorrhea, where thedischarge is thick and green, or greenish-yellow, without pain. Inflammation of the testicles, syphiliticin character.Pain and rawness in the larynx, with hoarseness; awakens from constriction of the larynx. It isvery useful in phthisis of the larynx. Cough from constant irritation in the larynx. Dry, hacking cough,hoarse cough with copious greenish expectoration.Catarrhal phthisis with thick, copious, greenish expectoration.Pleuritic effusion. Fluttering of the heart. Palpitation on slight exertion or when walking. Rapidpulse.Not only in old gouty troubles, but in patients threatening phthisis, and in old malarial troublesthis medicine will be of great service.