Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Opium has been much abused and much has been learned about it, but this abuse has not helpedmuch in its proving, for the individualizing symptoms are not obtained. Big doses cause gross effects,and the symptoms thus obtained are sometimes useful, , in cerebral apoplexy with stertorousbreathing,jaw dropped, pupils dilated or contracted, generally the latter, face mottled, purple, or hot,hot sweat, one-sided paralysis. You would wonder on seeing such a case whether he had beenparalyzed, had Opium, injured himself in a fall or had been indulging in the bottle, and you wouldexamine the case to distinguish. This is a mechanical trouble, there is pressure of blood on the brain.This alone may not kill but later on inflammatory action is set up around the clot. Opium causes a flowof blood to the brain, and when given homoeopathically it checks this, and in six hours he will becomerational, his skin cool, face normal color, pulse normal. We thus see the usefulness of the crude effectsof Opium in giving us a picture of apoplexy.Nervous headaches beginning in the back of the head and spreading over the whole face; worsein the morning. He feels as if his head were held down to the pillow by the intense aching pain in thebase of the brain, and yet when he gets up he is unable to lie down again. This is common in women; afalse plethora; excitable; going through pregnancy or menstruation; headache. The patient sits up and isunable to lie down. The pain begins in the morning and is so violent that the patient cannot move,cannot wink the eye, turn the head, cannot bear the least jar or the ticking of the clock; face is mottled,purple, blue; eyes injected. It is difficult to get symptoms from her. Opium will relieve at once.But most of the complaints are painless.It takes on the appearance of drinkers, besotted; fever with besotted countenance. Deliriumtremens with awful anxiety, vomiting, congestive headache, contracted pupils; violent headache afterdrinking, exhaustion; not able to get out of bed; delirium. Most of the complaints are attended withstupor; lies in a stupor like apoplexy, cannot be aroused.The Opium patient is full of convulsions. The patient wants to be uncovered, wants the cool air,the open air. Convulsions if the room is too warm. Opisthotonos; head drawn back; cerebro- spinalmeningitis. In a case of cerebro-spinal meningitis we find convulsions approaching, opisthotonos, head.drawn back, kicks the covers off, wants a cool room; skin red; face red and mottled, pupils contracted.Now if the mother puts that child into a hot bath, to relieve the convulsions, it will become unconsciousand cold as death. If you are called to see such a case be sure to give Opium, and in twelve hours youwill be astonished to see the state of quietude. It competes here with . Puerperal convulsions.A mental state appears in these constitutions. Fear and its results. The Opium patient, when nottoo stupid, rouses up as if startled, rouses up with the appearance of awful fear or anxiety.The old Opium eater is overwhelmed with anxiety and fear. If a dog jump at him suddenly, hewill be thrown into convulsions, have diarrhea, fits of some sort, and it will be days and weeks beforethat fear is gone. Complaints from fear when the fear remains, or the idea of the fear remains, or thecause of it comes before the eyes. A pregnant woman is frightened and an abortion is impending, andthe object of the fright continually looms up before her eyes. Epilepsy dating back to a fright, and thatobject comes up before the eyes before the attack comes on, and .Hysterical attack; physical shock with diarrhea and sometimes constipation; retention of urine or returnof the menstrual flow as results, or it may stop the menses for months. In these conditions there is greatfear and the object of the fear remains before the eyes.An Opium prover, when coming out from under the influence of the drug, sees frightful images,black forms, visions of devils, fire, ghosts, someone carrying her off, murder. Imagines that parts swelland that he is going to burst.There is also a sensation of bodily well being; great happiness; great state of confidence in thefirst hours of the drug. Hence, complaints from sudden joy, anger, shame, sudden fright. hasa similar state of beatitude. It is both a physical and mental beatitude in Opium. Opium and are related; they antidote each other.Opium eaters like whisky drinkers are constitutional liars.They have no conscience left."Great sensibility to sound, light, and faintest odors"."Drowsiness with headache, amounting almost to stupor"."Marasmus; child wrinkled and looks like a little dried up old man; stupor".Old cases of lead poisoning. cures the diarrhea following the abuse of Opium.OXALICUM ACIDUM [ox-ac] [Kent’s]This remedy has been greatly neglected. It will cure many heart complaints that are treated withvague, crude, unproved remedies with indifferent results. The violent action upon the heart racks thewhole system. Trembling, convulsions, loss of sensation; numbness of the body and limbs; blueness of