Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

It has erysipelas, as you might expect. It has a blue, mottled and puffed and sometimesoedematous appearance. It takes on an acute character and becomes burning. Phlegmonous erysipelasof any part of the body, but particularly of the face, or the injured part.You might naturally suppose that a medicine that has such a gouty nature in it would have moreor less kidney symptoms."Urination frequent, quantity diminished or increased, stream often stops during the flow"."Burning in the urethra after urinating". "Itching redness and discharge of pus". It has red sand in theurine as marked as . It has great quantities of sandy deposit of various colors. When thepatient is feeling at his best, there are great quantities of sandy deposits passing away. When there islittle deposit in the urine, the gouty deposits in the joints become marked, and he does not fee so well.It has another symptom that was verified by Lippe: Copious clear, colorless urine, light in specificgravity and from its being light or deficient of salts in the urine we have an aggravation of the goutymanifestations. Remember, that the rheumatic tendency spreads upwards from the lower extremities,from the circumference to the centre."Menstruation too early, too profuse, bright red; absence of vital heat". Great coldness of thebody at this time, yet the patient wants the cold air. Copious menstrual flow. Old gouty subjects, withmottled face with the puffiness that is not edema, simply a venous stasis, with copious menstrual flow,with great pain during menstruation. The uterus is extremely sensitive to touch, and the pelvic organsare so sensitive that any deep touch becomes painful to the patient. Dysmenorrhoea in gouty subjects.It turns the constitution into order, and prevents the after formation of gout. When such casesare very deep-seated the uterine troubles will be cured in middle life, and the gouty appearance willcome separately. The better the internal is, in an incurable disease, the worse the external becomes,and, when this is so, the external trouble is essential to health, and so long as the externalmanifestations are in the extremities, and the joints are being increasingly affected, so long the internalis in a state of order. When the remedy works in that way, do not change it and try to get something thatwill drive the external away. So long as the patient is improving and the external is growing worse, thatis the right direction. Ledum acts in this direction. Its tendency is to make complaints go away from thecentre, for its complaints begin in the circumference and go towards the centre. It is sometimesimpossible to manage a gouty patient without giving him some sort of explanation. alsokeeps conditions coming to the surface. It will send them back to their own place in the externals whenthey have a tendency to go in. often causes a return of the red sand in the urine."Emaciation of suffering parts". A nerve is injured by a puncture and a slight infection takesplace, so that the wound becomes congested, with a mottled, oedematous appearance, and the partbecomes cold, just such a condition as Ledum will cure. The nerve that supplies that part takes on anascending neuritis, pains shoot along the nerve, the muscles that are supplied by that nerve dwindle andthe part withers. We have in a similar state. "The diseased limb withers".LILIUM TIGRINUM [lil-t] [Kent’s]So far as proved Lilium tigrinum has shown itself adapted to the complaints of women. It isespecially suited to hysterical, women, who suffer from uterine troubles, cardiac troubles and variousnervous manifestations; suitable to a woman who is extremely irritable, full of fanciful notions,insanity, religious melancholy and imaginations, with cardiac affections and prolapsus. Theseconditions often alternate; when the mental symptoms are most marked the physical symptoms arerelieved. The "dragging down that is associated with prolapsus seems to be a dragging down from theregion of the stomach, and even sometimes from the throat. A bearing down, as if all the interior organswere dragging down. With this state of extreme relaxation there is great fidgetiness and, most markedof all, palpitation. She can lie only on the back, and is aggravated from lying on either side. From everyemotion the heart flutters, and is irregular and excitable. These mental symptoms and heart symptomsand uterine symptoms often rotate or alternate, and constitute the principal features.She can hardly speak a decent word to anybody. She will snap even when spoken to kindly. Sheis so irritable that her friends cannot pacify her. Even consolation aggravates. When spoken to she isirritable. She lies awake nights, and is tormented either by fanatical religious ideas, or a religiousmelancholy, and seems inclined t upon insane ideas concerning religion and modes of life,unreasonable, illogical and fanciful. Has wrong ideas concerning everything. Receives wrongimpressions and everything is inverted. It is impossible to please her. Now these states are present witha state of irritability of the sexual organs, nymphomania; violent sexual excitement associated withspasms, with palpitation, with sweats, with periods of exhaustion. She sits alone and broods overimaginary troubles, and when spoken to is crabbed. "Ideas not clear; they become more so if she