Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Mental symptoms troublesome. A torpid liver is often associated with a torpid fluctuating stateof the mind; also a slow, sluggish pulse; palpitation. Great depression of spirits, melancholia, sadness,dejection; everything goes wrong; the clouds are very dark, there is no light; thinks he may die or thathe is going to become ill; that his disease will become chronic; that he has organic disease of the heartand liver; that he has sinned away his day of grace, and other such delusions.Mind easily fatigued; fidgety and rest less; cannot sit still, whole body fidgety.In this mental state with jaundice, all-gone sensation, aversion to food, even the thought orsmell of food; stuffed feeling and distension in the region of the liver. The tongue is covered with thickslime; pasty, yellow coating as if mustard were spread upon it; imprint of the teeth upon the tongue;breath foul. For such a condition the ancients gave .Gall-stone colic; enlargement of the liver; gastric weakness; unable to digest; duodenal catarrh;catarrh of intestines with copious diarrhoea. If you notice the Podophyllum discharge in the commode,you will see a great amount of water, on the bottom a sediment like cornmeal gruel; as if cornmeal hadbeen stirred in.If you see it early it is yellow, muddy, or yellow-green, profuse, offensive, cadaverous; the odorpenetrates the whole house; stool gushes away like water from a bung-hole; gurgling and much flatus.With the stool there is very commonly a prolapse of the rectum; a gush of watery stool and a prolapseof the rectum; a soft stool with great straining and a prolapse of the rectum.Prolapsus of the uterus; prominent are is better sitting orlying; worse walking. Aversion to coition; hot flushes; constipation with sense of lump in the rectum,or better by stool. has the following: The only relief is to press on the vulva; not better lyingdown; she then has pains in the back and hips compelling her to walk, yet this aggravates. Strongsexual desire. Pain in right ovary, which crosses entire body to left breast. Pain shooting up in theuterus.The word bile is a striking feature in Podophyllum. You must connect the vomiting and thestool with this color. The patient declares he is "bilious"; his "liver is out of order"; bitter taste in themouth; spitting up bile and the color is yellow; in diarrhea it is a green substance.In children subject to copious diarrhea, with prolapsus of the anus-- no other symptom---Podophyllum often cures.A feature of infancy is the following: Child may not have diarrhea, may even be constipated,but it lies in bed and rolls the head in sleep. and roll head. lies on back with thehead on its side. Chewing motion of the jaws; sometimes a sucking; a grinding of the teeth in thosewho are old and have teeth; rolling the head from side to side; if you lift the eyelids you will find astrabismus. Provers felt as if the eyes were drawn inward. It has cured such a strabismus in congestionof the brain following a suddenly suppressed diarrhoea.A child who should have a colored stool has instead a white one like chalk . Inadults, a bileless, white stool.The body is offensive; offensive sweat; compare .PSORINUM [psor] [Kent’s]Psorinum is closely allied to . The patient dreads to be washed. The skin over the body,especially of the face, looks filthy, though it has been well washed. A dingy, dirty, foul look, as ifcovered with dirt. Skin rough and uneven, cracks easily, bleeding fissures; it becomes rough and scaly.He cannot wash it clean. The skin of the hands is rough, chaps easily, becomes thick and scaly, easilycracks, breaks out in little scaly eruptions; looks unwashed; he always appears to have dirty hands.Many of the complaints of the skin are worse from bathing and from the warmth of the bed. The skinitches when warm; itches when wearing woolens. Itching when warm in bed; he scratches until the partbecomes raw, and then it becomes scabby. When healing takes place there is itching and then he has toscratch.Legs and arms raw and scabby from scratching. Violent itching from the warmth of the bed,even without any eruption. The skin is unhealthy, looks dirty, dingy; studded with capillary bloodvessels and enlarged veins. This is the state before the eruption appears. Scabs form from scratchingand then comes the eruption.Papules, pimples, crusts, boils, vesicles, and eruptions ooze a watery moisture. When theeruption has gone on for some time the crusty formation and vesicles mingle; the skin becomesthickened and indurated, and new crops come out under the old crusts; rawness, itching, tingling,crawling, bleeding.Eczema of the scalp and face; the crusts cover the scalp; the hair falls out; the oozing lifts up thecrusts and exposes new vesicles; it looks like raw beef, and it tingles so that the child cannot keep its