Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Pain in the right hip joint on motion. Stitching in the left hip. Pain in the hip extending to theknee. Swelling in the left leg. Sciatica better in motion. Dull aching in the lower limbs during chill andfever, better when walking. Restlessness of the limbs at night in bed. Ulcers on outer side of thighs.Stiffness of knees. Weakness in lower limbs. Burning of feet and legs to the knees. Dry heat in feet atnight. Oedema of the feet. Sharp pain in soles and heels.Drowsiness in the forenoon when reading. Frightful dreams.Chill from 6 to 9 , with fever, then dry heat until 1 , sweat absent. Chill with icycoldness and gooseflesh from 4 to 8 during menses. Shaking chills. Chilliness with fever in theevening from night air. Perspiration after midnight or toward morning. Fevers with vomiting bile.Remittent and intermittent fevers. It is a much neglected remedy in chronic intermittent fever.Eczema with watery oozing. Water blisters. Yellow scales after breaking the vesicles. Jaundice.Intertrigo. Wart-like, red excrescences all over the body. Red, knotty eruptions on head above the ears;on the forehead and left side of nape of neck; in the middle of chest. Itching when undressing.NATRIUM SULFURICUM AND SYCOSIS As its name indicates, it is the chemicalcombination of Natrium and Sulfur, Glauber's salts, Sulfate of Soda. It partakes of the wonderfulproperties of both Sodium and Sulfur, and some day will become a very frequently indicated remedy. Itis a remedy which typically corresponds to many of the complaints of a bilious climate. Natrumsulfuricum combines, in a measure, the wonderful effects of Natrum muriaticum and of Sulfur in theWestern climate, as an active malarial agent. Malarial climates are all more or less bilious. Of course, Ido not mean every man or every woman that comes to you and says: "Doctor, I am bilious". We neverknow what that means. It means more or less liver; it means more or less stomach; a generalderangement of the system. Any kind of sickness may be called biliousness, but where the liver andstomach combine to effect disorders, we have true biliousness. It is a most wonderful combination in itssymptoms, because it not only pertains to muscular debility and disturbances of the general structuresof the body, but also combines that gives it consideration mentally. Its complaints are those that arebrought on from living in damp houses, living in basements, and in cellars. They are generally worse inrainy, wet weather; hence it was called, primarily, by Grauvogl, one of his hydrogenoid remedies. Itproduces a profound impression upon the system in a general way like sycosis and a deep-seated orsuppressed sycotic diseases. Therefore, it is one of the grandest remedies underlying asthma, asthmaticand inherited complaints.In fact, Natrum sulfuricum is one of the best, one of the clear- cut indicated remedies for thoseconstitutional conditions in children that result in chest catarrhs and asthmatic complaints.This shows you only one of its hereditary features. Now, if we take into consideration thesycotic nature, the hydrogenoid condition of the constitution---always worse in wet weather---and thisheredity, we have one of the grand features of this medicine.Its next grand sphere is its action upon the liver and stomach, producing a bilious disturbance.We have, corresponding with this liver excitement a long list of mental symptoms marked withirritability, anxiety, desire to die, aversion to life and to things in life that would generally make peoplepleasant and comfortable. Now, if I begin on this mental state and go down through it, we will see moreof it.A good wife goes to her husband and says: "If you only knew what restraint I have to use tokeep from shooting myself you would appreciate my condition!" It is attended with wildness andirritability. No remedy has that symptom like Natrum Sulfuricum.You may examine the various remedies in our drug pathogenesy and you will find almost everykind of mental symptom, but here is one that stands by itself---this wonderful restraint to prevent doingherself bodily harm, is characteristic of Natrum sulfuricum. The satiety of life, aversion to life; thegreat sadness, the great despondency coupled with the irritability and dread of music---music makesher weep, makes her sad, makes her melancholy---this symptom runs through the Natrums which itreceives from the Natrum side of its family; Natrum carbonate, Natrum muriaticum, Natrumsulfuricum, all have it. Anything like melancholic strains aggravate her complaints; mild music, gentlelight, mellow light that pours through church windows, these little glimmers of light that come throughthe colored glass, all these make her sad. Now, such are the mental characteristics of Natrumsulfuricum.With the constitutional troubles there are important head symptoms-- mental symptoms frominjuries of the head. A young man in St. Louis was hurled from a truck in the fire department. Hestruck on his head. Following this for five or six months he had fits; I do not know what kind of fits hehad; some said epilepsy.Some said one thing and some another, and some said he would have to be trephined. He wasan Allopathist, of course, as these firemen all are, for it is hardly ever that you can get one to go outside