Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

spasms and cough on falling asleep. Most obstinate catarrh of air passages with copious viscidexpectoration has been cured by this remedy. Cannot cough deep enough to reach the phlegm.1 The cough is ameliorated by lying on the abdomen, is aggravated at night. Theexpectoration is yellow, white or green, viscid, difficult to raise. Cough worse in a warm room.Many of the patients that need this remedy look sick, pale, and walk stooped as if about to gointo phthisis. Dry cough, with rattling in chest. Great heat, even burning in chest. Many pains in chest.Rheumatic, sharp pains through chest on exposure to damp cold air. When patients who have sufferedfrom gonorrhea seem to be taking on a phthisical complex of symptoms and the paucity ofindividualizing symptoms makes the remedy doubtful, this remedy will bring better reaction, andsometimes be the remedy for many months. Intense pain in chest on coughing.Sensation of coldness in chest and mammae. Stitching pain in chest. The chest is sore to touch,and aggravated by the motion of breathing.The heart manifests all the symptoms usual to rheumatic constitutions. Dyspnoea; flutteringheart; palpitation. The pains are acute, cutting, stitching; aggravated by motion.Burning in heart, extending to left arm."Lame back" is the common complaint of these patients. It is generally a lumbago, or it is alumbo-sacral pain, and often extends into the lower limbs. Crural or sciatic pains. Drawing in nape andback. Pain across the back, from left to right shoulders. Great heat in the upper part of spine. Stiffnessin the back on rising, or beginning to move. Pains all aggravated in cold damp weather. Tender spine.Soreness in region of kidneys.Chronic rheumatic pains in limbs in cold damp weather. The limbs are lame and stiff. Stitchingpains all over the body, and in limbs. Sharp pains. The patient is extremely sensitive to pain, and feelspain as sharp and stitching. Some of the pains come on during motion, and some are better fromcontinued motion. Cold extremities. Burning palms and soles. Trembling of the limbs.Rheumatic pains in shoulders, aggravated from motion. Numbness and hands, worse left.Trembling hands and arms. Burning palms, wants them fanned. Right hand cold, then left. Cold hands.heat and numbness of back of hands.Trembling weakness and numbness of lower limbs. Awkwardness of legs, they do not go wherethey are willed to go. Numbness of thighs. Must stretch the lower limbs constantly. Drawing pains andtension in legs. Rheumatic pains. Stiffness and soreness in flesh and periosteum. Shooting up the legsduring a thunderstorm.Restlessness in legs, must move them constantly. Aching, drawing in legs and thighs, in sciaticand crural nerves, ameliorated by continued motion. Legs numb and heavy, like wood. Legs cold up tothe knees. Contraction of muscles of posterior part of thigh down to knee. Cramps in soles and calves.Weak ankles. Burning feet, wants them uncovered and fanned. Legs swollen to knees, and pit uponpressure. Sore bruised legs, ankles and soles. Soles sore and bruised, look blue. He cannot walk on thesoles. Swelling and itching of the soles. It cures the tenderness in the soles so common in chronicgonorrhea rheumatism. Tenderness of soles so that he had to walk on his knees. Cold sweaty feet.Can sleep only on the back with hands over head. Sleeps on her knees with face forced into thepillow. Terrible dreams of ghosts and dead people; she dreads the nights. Sleepy but cannot sleep.Sleeplessness fore part of night. Copious night sweats.MERCURIUS [merc] [Kent’s]The pathogenesis of Mercury is found in the provings of Mercurius vivus and Mercuriussolubilis, two slightly different preparations, but not different enough to make any distinction inpractice.Mercury is used in testing the temperature, and a Merc.constitution is just as changeable and . The patient is worse from theextremes of temperature, worse from both heat and cold. Both the symptoms and the patient are worsein a warm atmosphere, worse in the open air, and worse in the cold. The complaints of Mercury whensufficiently acute to send him to bed are bed so that he is forced touncover; but after he uncovers and cools off he gets worse again, so that he has difficulty in keepingcomfortable.This applies to the pains, the fever, ulcers and eruptions and the patient himself.He is an patient. We speak of mercurial odors. The breath especially is very fetid,and it can be detected on entering the room; it permeates the whole room. The perspiration is offensive;it has a strong, sweetish, penetrating odor.Offensiveness runs all through; offensive urine, stool and sweat; the odors from the nose andmouth are offensive. When Merc. is used in large doses and the patient is salivated he gives off these