Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

fingers off it; worse at night, worse from the warmth of the bed, worse from warm applications,anything that would keep the air away from it; ameliorated by cool air and worse from covering. This isthe opposite of the general Psorinum state, which is aggravated from the open air. He has an aversion tothe open air.The eruption goes on, spreads, and the true skin becomes elevated, thickened, indurated, with anincreased vascularity and redness. The oozing is offensive like carrion or decomposed meat; nauseatingodor from the oozing fluid.Offensiveness runs through Psorinum in such a characteristic way that it is worth whilementioning it here; fetid odors, fetid breath; discharges and oozings from the skin smelling like carrion;stool so offensive that the odor permeates the whole house, in diarrhea, summer complaint, cholerainfantum; perspiration fetid; leucorrhoea abominably offensive; crustations taste as if he had eaten hardboiled eggs and they had spoiled; and they smell so to others; stool, flatus, and eructations smell likespoiled eggs; offensive to sight and smell is the subject who needs this medicine.The skin grows increasingly thick and bleeds, and the eruption spreads to other parts. Eruptionson the lips, on the genitals; very offensive; soreness and rawness about the anus; the vulva ulceratesand is very offensive; ulcers on the leg; on the tibia; on the backs of the hands; on the dorsum of thefoot; behind the ears and on the ears; over the scalp; over the cheek bones; on the wings of the nose andon the nose and eyelids. Greasy skin.The eruption is accompanied by redness of the mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, lips andeyes. Eyelids thickened and turned out, like ectropion; granulation and induration of mucousmembranes, so that they become like gristle; redness and ulceration.Ulceration of the cornea; lachrymation; turning out of the lids with loss of the eyelashes. Helooks frightful with his red eyes, eruption on the face, red skin oozing a thick yellow discharge.In the early stages the oozing is a whitish thin or whitish thick moisture. In old eruptionsulceration takes place beneath the crusts and there is a thick yellow, purulent discharge. Yellow greendischarge from the eyes and nose. Horribly offensive discharge from the nose; gluey discharge from thenose; offensive like . Accumulation of fetid pus in the eyes.Coryza with thick, yellow discharge. Always taking cold In the coryza the nose dries up part ofthe time and runs part of the time; he must use the handkerchief continually; must blow the nose all thetime. In the early stages of the coryza he blows it all the time, but there is no discharge or relief. Thisstate is so marked that some think of it as a continuous hay fever, which runs all the year and ripens upin the Fall. It is closely related to hay fever; stuffing up of the nose in the Fall; catarrhal state of theeyes and nose. Hay fever is one of the most difficult conditions to fit a remedy to. It belongs to a lowconstitution which must be built up before the hay fever will cease. It is an expression of psora whichcomes once a year, and the psoric miasm must be changed. In a few years most subjects can bechanged, but not in one season, so do not be disappointed.In catarrhal states, hay fever often dates back to low fever improperly treated.The Psorinum patient himself is one of debility. He wants to go home after a short walk. He isworse in the open air. He cannot breathe in the open air; cannot breathe while he is standing up; . Asthma or cardiac dyspnoea, when the patient wantsto go home and lie down so that he can breathe. Usually this condition is relieved by sitting up andfrom the open air. Not so with Psorinum, he wants a warm place and to lie down and to be let alone.Psorinum is slowed down in all of its functions; a state of paretic weakness He does not rallyafter a fever; his digestion is slow; the stool is normal, yet it requires a great effort to expel it; thebladder is full of urine, yet it passes slowly and he feels that some remains; he can never finish stool orurination; he has to go back several times. Although the stool is soft and perfectly normal it cannot beexpelled at one sitting.A psoric patient comes down with typhoid; the typhoid has been arrested or has run its courseand it is time for convalescence.The fever has subsided, but the patient has no appetite; he does not convalesce; he wants to liedown and does not desire to be moved; he is worse when sitting up, lies upon his back; he hastroublesome breathing and lies with his , thrown across the bed; thisrelieves his breathing and allows the chest to operate properly; so tired and so weak; one dose ofPsorinum will cause a reaction, stop his sweat, increase his appetite, cause better breathing.The Psorinum complex of symptoms is one in which remedies cause improvement but a shorttime and then the symptoms change and another remedy must be selected. It is a state of feeblereaction.The mental symptoms present some strong features. Sadness, hopelessness; hopelessness;hesees no light breaking through the clouds above his head; all is dark about him. He thinks his business