Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

There is dryness of all mucous membranes; everywhere the membranes are dry. The throat isdry, red, patulous; a sensation of a fishbone jagging into it when swallowing; there is inability toswallow without washing down the food with liquids; there is sticking all the way down the esophagus.Most prescribers give for every sticking or fishbone sensation in the throat; this is theold keynote, the old routine. and Natr-mur. all have it, but alldifferently.--The tonsils are swollen, full, purple--quinsy. The patient is sensitive to the slightestdraught, there is pain in the throat even on putting the hand out of bed; he sweats in the night with norelief; he is sensitive to every impression; feels everything ten times amplified.-- There are yellow patches in the throat; ragged, jagged ulcers in the throat, or it isinflamed and purple. The urine smells like horses' urine.--There is much hoarseness, the vocal cord being disturbed. The throat isswollen, patulous; the patient wants cold things, cold water, cold air. Adapted to those cases that havehad ulceration of the os uteri with cauterization.Natr-mur.--- There is extreme dryness of the mucous membranes, as if they would break;chronic dryness without ulceration. There is much catarrhal discharge like the white of an egg, withdryness of the mucous membranes when not covered by this mucus.The patient is extremely sensitive, sensitive to a change of weather.Every remedy has its own pace, its order of succession. We must bear in mind the order ofsuccession.Natr-mur. is useful in old dropsies, especially dropsy of cellular tissues. Sometimes there isdropsy of sacs, dropsy of the brain following acute diseases. In acute spinal meningitis with extremenervous tension, where there is chronic drawing back of the head, chronic jerking of the head forward.Acute diseases that result in hydrocephalus, or in irritation of the spine.Sometimes useful in abdominal dropsy, but more often in edema of the lower extremities. Acutedropsies after scarlet fever; the patient is oversensitive, starts in his sleep, rises up in the night withconfusion; there are albumen and casts in the urine.In dropsy after the malaria Natr-mur., when it acts curatively, generally brings back the originalchill. The only cure known to man is from above down, from within out, and in the reverse order ofcoming. When it is otherwise, there is only improvement, not cure. When the symptoms return there ishope; that is the road to cure and there is no other.The skin symptoms are sometimes very striking. In old lingering cases where the skin lookstransparent as if the patient would become dropsical, a waxy, greasy, shiny skin; other remedies withgreasy, shiny skin are .These remedies go deep into the life. Any remedy that can produce such wonderful changes islong-acting.Useful after labor when the mother does not progress well; she is feeble and excitable; thelochia is prolonged, copious and white; the hair falls out from the head and genitals; the milk passesaway, or the child does not thrive on it. Useful in afterpains where there is subinvolution of the uterus,the uterus is in a state of prolonged congestion. She is < noise, music, the slamming of a door. Shecraves salt and has an aversion to bread, wine and fat things. Sour wines disorder the stomach. Natr.mur.will clear up the case, restore the milk, turn the case into order.Natr-mur. is needed by those chlorotic girls who have a greasy skin, a greenish, yellowishcomplexion; who menstruate only once in two or three months. The menses are copious, or scanty andwatery. Where the symptoms agree, this remedy can eradicate this chlorosis and turn the countenanceinto a picture of health, but not in a short time. It takes years to establish health in a typical chlorosis;the cut finger bleeds only water; the menstrual flow is only a leucorrhoea; there is pernicious anaemia.Natr-mur., goes deep enough into the life to restore the pink complexion.NATRIUM PHOSPHORICUM [nat-p] [Kent’s]We are not dependent upon Schuessler alone for indications for this remedy, as we have manypathogenetic symptoms. Schuessler's indications were good and mostly confirmed by clinicalobservations. The author has given this remedy for twenty years to many patients whose nerves were ina fret from mental exertion and sexual excesses and vices. The symptoms are worse in the , and , and after midnight. There is marked and . He is aggravated from a draft, from open air, from cold, from becoming cold and after becomingcold, and there is a tendency to frequent taking cold. He is worse from changes in the weather.Chlorosis.