Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

The cough is aggravated in winter, yet aggravated in a warm room and from becoming warm.The cough is dry, barking, aggravated during the night, aggravated lying, aggravated before midnight;comes on during sleep. Cough with hectic fever and night sweats. Paroxysmal cough with retching, likewhooping cough, violent, racking cough. Hard, prolonged coughing spells with difficult expectoration.The irritation to cough is like a tickling in the larynx. The expectoration is greenish, viscid or thin,dirty, watery, bloody mucus, or dark clotted blood. Loose cough in daytime, dry at night. Rattling indaytime, but no expectoration. Cough in broken down constitutions, from liver and lung affections, intubercular subjects. The sputum tastes bitter, sour or salty. It is offensive, even putrid. He is coveredwith sweat during efforts to expectorate. Stitching in the chest. In typhoid pneumonia, with rattling inthe chest, inability to expectorate or when he can expectorate the sputum is brown and bloody, and theurine smells like that of a horse. In tuberculosis with night sweats and haemoptysis. Palpitation fromexcitement, on ascending stairs. The pulse is rapid, irregular, and every fourth beat is missed.Swelling of glands of neck and axilla. Stiff neck. Stitching pains in back and chest. Burningspots in spine. Pain in back, nights, compelling him to lie on the abdomen. Sharp pains in back andlimbs in tabes dorsalis. Sharp pains in back on coughing.Rheumatic pains in limbs. Emaciation of upper arms, and thighs. Weakness of limbs. Dropsy oflimbs. Crippled nails.Rheumatic pains in upper limbs. Stitching. Stitching pains in limbs in cold weather. Numbnessof arms and hands. Copper colored spots on arms. Chilblains on hands and fingers. Cold, sweaty hands.Numerous large warts on back of hand. Herpes between the fingers. Vesicles on the tip of the thumbthat open into ulcers, felons, distorted and discolored nails. Yellow curved nails, splintered sensationunder nails. It is useful in wounds that inflame and have the "splinter" sensation. Tearing in the longbones of the lower limbs at night. The legs are weary and bruised. Pain in hip as if sprained. Stickingpains along the nerves as from splinters. Syphilitic nodes on the tibia with nightly pains. Chilblains onthe feet and toes. Phagedenic blisters on the toes . Extreme soreness of the tibia.Profuse, offensive sweat of feet.Shocks on going to sleep .The pain comes during sleep. Starting in sleep. Anxious, unrefreshing sleep, with frightfuldreams.Nitric acid is a very useful remedy in fevers. The thirstlessness during all stages has often calledattention to it. Cold hands and feet. Chronic intermittent in cachectic constitutions, copious nightSweats, extreme weakness, with the characteristic odor of the urine, and bleeding from some part adark blood, this remedy will act well.NUX MOSCHATA [nux-m] [Kent’s]This is not a very great remedy; it has not a very wide range of usefulness, but it is oftenoverlooked when needed. We get into the habit of relying entirely on the polychrests.The old women used to give nutmeg to hysterics, and wonderful to tell its provings justify itsuse. It must have had some palliative relation to the hysteria. The root is much stronger than the nut, inthe same proportions, and contains the real medicinal qualities.The patient appears to be dazed; there is a complete loss of memory; she is automatic in heractions. This is wonderful state of the mind. She goes about the house performing her duties, but ifinterrupted, forgets what she has been doing, forgets that she was all day in conversation with her son;she has no recollection of past events. This is a singular state of the mind sometimes found in hystericalwomen. Sometimes it is impossible to find out what state of the mind is present she is so forgetful. Shelies with the eyes closed and yet knows everything that is going on, but remembers nothing. She speakswith intelligence about the things of the moment, but knows nothing of the past. She prophesies,predicts with a sort of clairvoyance. The mental state is the keynote. Sometimes she is < in themorning, sometimes in the evening, or on waking. She performs all her duties and yet seems to be in adream---she seems not to know her friend.The Nux mos. patient is always ready to go to sleep; it is with great difficulty that she can keepawake. She falls asleep on all occasions, in season and out of season. The eyes look heavy; she cannotkeep awake; falls into a profound slumber, sometimes into coma.Useful in the coma of typhoid and intermittent fever. When aroused she remembers nothing;looks dazed; looks about and wants to know who the people are around and what they are doing. It is astate in which patients answer questions slowly after a long interval, and then look confused again.They give an answer that has no relation to the question asked, or, answer correctly. We find such astate in typhoid, in hysteria, after shock, after fear, blighted affections, or the loss of a friend. It is moresuitable after shock ending in this kind of trouble than in typhoid. It is also useful in typhoid, but where