Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

make an examination with the index finger. It is not an inflammation but a hyperaesthesia. Increasedsexual excitement in young girls, in hysterical girls. Violent sexual desire in married women withitching, tingling, and voluptuous sensations. Pain in the ovarian region, especially the left. It has curedsterility of long standing, especially sterility that is supposed to come from excessive sexualexcitement. Burning, stitching pains in the ovaries. Inflammation of the ovaries coming withhemorrhage of the uterus, and during the menstrual period It has cured ovarian tumors and cystictumors. Inflammation of the uterus, bearing down, as in prolapsus. Prolapsed uterus and dragging in thepelvis. Polypus of the uterus and uterine hemorrhages. Copious menstrual flow. The flow is dark, evenblack and clotted with much fluid blood. These nervous women constantly feel as if the menstrual flowwas going to appear. The menstrual flow comes too early, is too profuse, and then generally of shortduration. The hemorrhage is somewhat like the menstrual flow in old women. The menstrual periodssometimes return every fourteen days or the menstrual flow may be entirely absent. The vulva andvagina are extremely sensitive during coition, sometimes preventing the act.The woman suffers from albuminous leucorrhoea mostly in the daytime without muchsensation. There are many complaints of pregnancy, threatened abortion, exhausting hemorrhages,discharges of black clotted blood. During labor the contractions are interrupted by sensitiveness of thevagina and internal parts. It is impossible for the obstetrician to make the usual examination. Crampingin the limbs during parturition or profuse hemorrhage; hysterical convulsions, puerperal convulsions.After every mental exertion palpitation, trembling, numbness, quivering, and excitement in the limbs.Tremulous restlessness in the legs with numbness. Cold feet. Pains in the great toe as if bandaged. Thissensation prevails throughout. The limbs feel as if bandaged bandaged about the thigh or leg. Thenerves are in a great state of excitement most of the time. The patient is prostrated. Paralytic weakness,which is worse during rest.Numbness, stiffness and coldness. Painful tremulousness all over the body, with throbbing inthe blood vessels. Numbness of the scalp, of the feet, of the hands, of the limbs. Shifting, neuralgicpains. spasmodic affections of hysterical women. Spasms from sexual erethism. Coldness, crawling,and numbness of the skin, especially during fever.PLUMBUM METALLICUM [plb] [Kent’s]This drug illustrates a doctrine of Hahnemann---the doctrine of attenuation. When you think ofthe insolubility of lead, and then think of it as spread on the wall of a room, and then remember howmany become sick from sleeping in a newly painted room, you will then wonder how much lead it tookto make them sick. Many patients cannot sleep in a newly painted room---they come down with leadcolic or the acute affections of lead. Many people are sensitive to lead. This sensitivity is more markedthan is observed in painters, who may use it for years with impunity, but all at once become susceptibleto it. You wonder how much he gets, given off in the air. It is too attenuated to be examined by themicroscope and yet enough to make him sick. We have no measure by which to find out how much hegets. We make use of such susceptibility, the lead palsy of lead workers, the lead colic in painters---these things add to the proper proving and give a well-rounded image of Plumbum.If we study the whole symptomatology of Plumbum, we will be struck with the generalparalytic state in this remedy. The activities of the body, the functions of the organs, are slowed downin pace. The nerves do not convey their messages with the usual activity. The muscles are slow inaction, sluggish. There is first paresis and finally paralysis, of parts first and finally of the whole. Themind is impaired, slow. Perception is slow. He memorizes with difficulty. Comprehension is difficult.He cannot recall words to express himself. The operations of the mind are slow. When inconversation with such a patient you will wonder what he is thinking about while making up his mindto answer. There is sluggishness also in the skin. You may prick him and a second later he says, "Oh",showing the slowness in feeling. You would expect him to feel the prick instantly. When you begin toconclude that he does not feel at all, his limb will jerk. Anesthesia of the skin. There is a state ofhyperaesthesia in the acute affections, but the chronic affections are characterized by loss of sensation.Numbness of fingers and toes, soles, and palms, and this extends to the skin, towards the spine.The trophic functions are slow in that they do not keep up with the waste, and so we seeemaciation until the patient becomes almost a skeleton. The skin is wrinkled, puckered, shrivelled, anddrawn over the bones. The emaciation is sometimes local. When local it is generally associated with apainful part; the painful part withers. Pains down the sciatic nerve; burning, shooting; as if the bonewere being pulled out of place; as if being scraped and the limb emaciates. Pain down the arm, in theshoulder; violent pains in the brachial plexus and the arm withers. Neuralgia of one side of the face andthat side withers.