Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

efore a storm. Rumbling and rolling. This attended with severe, cramping pains doubling her up.Abdomen is sensitive; so sore she cannot endure pressure. The soreness extends to the stomach,intestines and finally to the liver. The whole abdominal viscera are sore, sensitive to pressure. After thiscomes a gurgling, watery stool, pouring out of the anus. A tremendous outpouring so that the patientwonders where all the fluid comes from, and soon it comes on again. Copious, enormous, and veryfrequent. This soreness, cramping and rumbling precedes the stool, but sometimes it continues duringthe stool. Commonly the patient is relieved by the stool. There is much flatus and spluttering, but not somarked as in . The colic often comes and goes without stool. Painless stools, in which compare which had stool coming on at night and after eating.Putrid or not, and of inky color. Podophyllum is rarely indicated when the discharge is notoffensive. After a while the abdomen again becomes tumultuous, and this is again relieved by a stool.This process is repeated over and over. It seems as if the blood vessels would empty themselvesinto the abdominal cavity, and then into the outer world. Not unlike cholera and cholera morbus, andthese two are the common manifestations of disease for which this remedy is used in routine practice.The cholera morbus coming on in the latter part of the night, especially about 3, 4, or 5 o'clock,resembles Podophyllum. Tumultuous action of the bowels with rumbling, pain, and soreness, and theprostration is so marked that if not relieved in a day or two, it seems he must die. Rice-water stools,jelly-like on standing.With this tumultuous action, she has an indescribable sensation; an all- gone feeling, a deathlysick feeling, described by some as an emptiness, as if fasting, yet averse to food. An awful, hungry,empty weakness, as if the whole intestines would drop out. No wonder they think so, because thisremedy produces an astonishing amount of relaxation. Described by some as a sensation of draggingdown. The uterine ligaments become relaxed and there is prolapsus. The rectum protrudes for inches.The sensation of dragging down as if all the parts would be pushed out into the world is a commonfeature. It seems to begin with the liver, as if all the parts were let down. Weakness attended withsoreness.Dragging down in the region of the ovary and the ovary is congested. The uterus is extremelysore and is enlarged; sore to touch so that light clothing aggravates. Sensitiveness of the abdomen indiarrhea and vomiting; in cholera morbus; in women when menstruating. Indicated if there is a copiousdiarrhea during the menstrual period, and great soreness in the uterus.Much pain in the ovaries, in one or both, extending down the crural region, down the front ofthe thigh. Pain in the ovaries, especially the right; pain in the ovaries during the menstrual periodgriping pain in the bowels during the menstrual period.Great soreness of the abdomen before and during the menstrual period. ,1 but these are not so likely to have diarrhea and, if so, it is not as copious.)Alternating condition is a feature of this remedy. If a Podophyllum" patient takes cold, has any mentalexcitement, overexerts himself, eats boiled food, cabbage, fruits, and overloads his stomach with richfood he has a diarrhea, and following this a constipation lasting for weeks, no stool except in lumps;difficult, scanty stool and as soon as he disorders his stomach again comes a diarrhea. This alternatingdiarrhea and constipation is a Podophyllum state rather than a chronic diarrhea which is a continuedstate found in many remedies. The diarrhea is periodic, alternating with constipation.Another alternating feature is the headache. Chronic headache, periodic headache, sickheadache, congestive in character, as if all the blood were in the head, as if the head would burst, andthe pains most violent in the back of the head, bursting, and then on comes a diarrhea which relievesthe head. Sometimes when the diarrhea slacks up too suddenly, a headache is the result. It is a commonfeature after giving a high potency of Podophyllum in a diarrhea, that a headache comes on after thediarrhea is stopped. It means that the medicine has acted suddenly and the headache will pass awaysoon.Headache alternating with liver disturbances. The patient lies on the side or abdomen. Rendingpains towards the duodenum. You will wonder if it is not gall-stone colic. Periodic, violent headaches;alternating diarrhoea and constipation; he strokes the region of the liver from behind forward and inthis way gets relief, yet the liver is so sore that he can hardly bear the pressure. Liver sensitive to touch.Soreness about the liver; pain through to the back; dull aching pain, finally jaundice; becomesextremely yellow. Uneasiness and distress about two or three hours after eating, with jaundice; horriblenausea; aversion to food; empty all-gone feeling in the bowels. Vomiting, greenish, profuse, watery,vomits every thing; vomiting of milk --the latter sometimes retains water); hunger aftervomiting; deathly, overpowering nausea and prostration.Prolapse of rectum and anus during vomiting. A condition commonly calledduodenal catarrh; a chronic state; rouses into a Podophyllum diarrhea every once in a while.