Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Paralysis of single muscles and these muscles wither. There is paralysis of both extensors andflexors, but especially extensors. The paralysis begins in the extensors, so that we have wrist drop. Hecannot raise or lift anything with the hand.Extension is difficult. This occurs in piano players; they cannot lift their fingers sufficientlyrapid to keep up the pace, while flexion is all right. is another remedy which corresponds tothis state in piano players; a paralysis from overexertion of the extensor muscles. When the musclesbecome fatigued from playing fixed exercises, scales, etc., for hours at a time, when the player has todo the same thing over and over again, comes in, but it is an acute remedy and only holds for ashort time. It is especially a condition when certain muscles become overused and the patienttakes cold and a weakness sets in; after a cold bath or plunge the muscles take on paresis; getting wetwhen tired brings on the state. For the chronic state which follows, Plumbum and sometimes will be indicated.Paresis of the intestines; constipation; cannot strain at stool. The patient can use the abdominalmuscles, but the rectum is in a state of paresis and he cannot expel the faeces.The bladder is also paretic; cannot expel the urine, the muscles do not co-operate to void theurine and there is retention. Plumbum has both retention and suppression of urine.The paralyses are found in the chronic state. In the acute we have the fever, the colic, thesudden constipation; tearing pains in the intestines; indigestion with vomiting. Everything eaten turnssour.Violent vomiting of everything eaten. Chronic gastric catarrh with vomiting of albuminousmucus and sweetish substance.Vomiting of stercoraceous matter, blackish blood and green fluid.Sour eructations.The remedy is slow and insidious; it works continuously; it does not leave the economy butholds on and establishes a miasm of its own. It, therefore, suits slow and insidious chronic cases, withno tendency to recovery. Progressive muscular atrophy; progressive paralysis. Chronic constipation;chronic retention of urine; chronic giving way of the mind.Aside from the slowness of the mind, which is a general, the remedy is full of melancholia,sadness, feeling as if something terrible would happen; that she has sinned away the day of grace; thatshe has committed the unpardonable sin. The body and mind are weak. "Deep melancholy with timidityand restlessness". In the mental state, while he is slow to think, yet in this slow thinking he does a greatamount of thinking; he makes an effort to think. His thoughts trouble him all night and prevent sleep.Insomnia; sleepless from the continual effort to think. The mind will not operate, yet the patientis full of imaginations and emotions. Inability to comprehend and to remember. Now, this progressesfrom periods of insomnia to periods of coma and this coma is associated with suppression of urine.Uraemic coma.Uraemia. Perhaps, it will fix it in your mind if I tell you something clinical about it. Some yearsago a physician came to me in regard to his wife. She had been unconscious for two days and hadpassed no urine for days and the catheter showed there was none in the bladder. She had quite an arrayof symptoms, but they were common symptoms. She had had the slowness for days before, andcomplained of a sensation of a continual pulling at the navel, as if a string were drawing it back to thespinal column, and then the coma came on. In the middle of the night this doctor came to me in greatdistress. He said she was pale as death and breathing slow. A single powder of Plumbum high wasgiven, and she passed urine in a few hours, roused up and never had such an attack again.Violent spasmodic palpitation of the heart, worse lying on the left side, with marked anxiety inthe cardiac region. Hypertrophy and dilatation of the heart. Stitching pain in the heart.Hysterical diathesis; hysterical contractures; cramping of the fingers; hysterical motions;convulsions of parts, hands, feet, whole body; an apparent delirium; cardiac pains; numbness in parts---all hysterical phenomena.Plumbum produces an inclination to deceive, to cheat. The in awoman, who took a little of it for suicide, a confirmed hysterical state. She would be in a hystericalcondition for hours when anyone was looking at her.When she thought no one was near she would get up, walk about, look in the glass to see howhandsome she was, but when she heard a foot on the steps she would lie on the bed and appear to beunconscious. She would bear much pricking and you could scarcely tell she was breathing. Plumbumestablishes a hysterical state in the economy; an inclination to deceive, to feign sickness; to exaggerateone's ills; and it goes to the root of the evil providing the symptoms agree.Changeable; continually changing from one thing to another, from one group of imaginations toanother, from one group of emotions to another. The whole remedy is intensely emotional.