Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

MEDORRHINUM [med] [Kent’s]One of the many uses of this remedy is in the inherited complaints of children. The physician oflong and active experience meets many obstinate cases in children. The infant soon emaciates andbecomes marasmic, or a child becomes asthmatic, or suffers with vicious catarrh of nose or eyelid, orhas ringworm on the scalp or face, or is dwarfed; and after some waste of time it comes to mind that thefather was treated for gonorrhoea that was obstinate and perhaps had condylomata on the genitalia.This remedy will cure, or begin the recovery. The woman married several years desires to become amother. She was healthy when she married, but now she has ovarian pains, menstrual troubles, she haslost all sexual response, is growing pale and waxy, and becoming violently sensitive and nervous. Thehusband's history gives the cause, and this remedy will cure. The pale waxy young men, who cravestimulants and tobacco, who are sensitive to drafts, become stiff after exertion and walking, whoperspire easily and are extremely sensitive to cold, who have never been well since having agonorrhoea cured by injections.Rheumatic symptoms in every part of the body. Some symptoms are worse in the daytime. Theusual comparison with , which reads, "Med. in daytime and at night", does nothold good as a sweeping statement. It is true that many pains are worse nights. It is true thatsome sycotic and Medorrhinum symptoms are worse daytimes. It is also true that many sycoticsymptoms are violent day and night. It is also true that the mental symptoms of Med. are most violentat night. It will not do to be too sweeping with circumstances of this nosode.The rheumatic inflammations are worse from motion, but where swelling is not present thesepatients act like patients; they are sensitive to cold, suffer from aching and torture some pains,and find relief only in motion--like . Most sycotic patients suffer from cold, some are sensitiveto heat. Sore, bruised and lame, as if he had taken a deep cold and was coming down with a fever. Thepains come on with a feeling of general tension. Obstinate cases of rheumatism. Losing flesh. Walksstooped, becoming clumsy. Stumbles. Looks as if he were going into quick consumption. Intensenervous sensibility, respecting touch of garment or lock of hair by any one not .Trembling and quivering; growing steadily weaker. all over the body.Starts from the slightest noise.Feels faint and wants to be fanned. Wants open air. Cold and pulseless, with cold sweat. with great soreness and dropsy of serous sacs. Externally sensitive to cold dampweather. . Stitching, tearing pains.The pains are ameliorated by heat. Drawing pains in back and limbs. The patient is extremelysensitive to pain. The remedy should never be used low.Forgetful of facts, figures and names; of what he has read.Makes mistakes in writing, of spelling, and words. everybodymoves too slowly. He is in a constant hurry, in such a hurry that he gets out of breath. She is in such ahurry that she feels faint. Confusion of mind, dazed; fear of sensation; loses the idea when speaking.Great difficulty in stating her symptoms, loses herself and must be asked over again.Thinks some one is behind her; hears whispering. Sees faces that peer at her from behind thefurniture 1. Everything seems unreal .1 Wild desperate feeling as if incipientinsanity. Weeps when talking. Exhilaration in evening.Changeable state of mind; one moment sad, the next mirthful.Presentiment of death. Frightened sensation on waking as if something dreadful had happened.. Anxiety about her salvation.Vertigo when stooping; ameliorated lying; aggravated on motion. Fear of falling.Wandering neuralgia of head, worse in cold damp weather. Sharp pains come and go suddenly.No part of head is free from pain.Pain aggravated from light, and on coughing. Burning pains deep in, as if in brain. Extremetension of scalp. Band across forehead. Pain in occiput and nape, aggravate on motion. Intense itchingof scalp. Herpetic eruptions on scalp; ringworm. Copious dandruff. Hair dry and crispy.Flickering before the eyes. Blurred vision, and black or brown spots in the field of vision.Objects look double, or small. Sees imaginary objects. Eyes feel drawn. Tension in the muscles. Pain ineyes on turning them. Sensation of sand in eyes. Sensation of sticks. Inflammation of conjunctiva withulceration of the cornea. Blepharitis with much swelling. Lids stuck together in the morning. Marginsred and excoriated. Ptosis. Smarting of lids. Eyelashes fall out. Swelling under eyes, as in Bright'sdisease.Impaired hearing and total deafness. Imagines he hears voices or people in conversation. At firstthe hearing is very acute.