Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

worse; he has neuralgia in the head, crushing pains and dreadful sickness at the stomach with vomiting.He often has an attack of sick headache and it will be called by the family a gastric sick headache, butthe condition just mentioned comes on from taking cold, which slacks up the thick discharge into adryness of the nose and the inhaled air burns the nose like fire. Sometimes these troubles pass off afteran intense vomiting spell; sometimes they do not, but the headache may remain for days not relieved byvomiting, or relieved only after prolonged vomiting. There are remedies full of headache and as soon ashe vomits he feels better, but headache is worse moving about, worse at night, better from lying down,from keeping quiet, better in the open air, worse in warm room, worse from overheating, worse fromradiated heat and light.You see now how the catarrh, the headache and gastric symptoms all belong together. It isbecause the patient is sick that you cannot take symptoms separately, you must prescribe for the wholeman.There is another feature belonging to the mucous membranes, and important one; thesemembranes have a tendency to throw out a milky white exudation or deposit, and it is especiallynoticed upon the tongue. The whole tongue is covered with a milky-white coating. This you find in alldiseases where the remedy is indicated. In the stomach disorders of children, in gastric fevers, incomplaints with fever and much vomiting, great irritation of the whole nervous system and in irritationof the stomach in typhoids, the tongue looks white. Upon the slightest provocation he will retch andgag. Everything seems to disturb him. He has loathing of food; the thought and smell of food disturbhim. This is like Arsenicum. He takes a cold bath at night on going to bed and gets up in the morningvoiceless; cannot speak a word. This has come on in an apparently painless manner; he does not knowthat it is present until he attempts to speak in the morning. This may be present with spasms of thelarynx, clutchings of the throat. Colds sometimes go down into the throat and into the trachea,producing a bronchitis or pneumonia.Dry, hacking spasmodic cough in diminishing paroxysms. I will explain that: The firstparoxysm occurs with great violence, racking his whole frame, and lasting a longer or shorter period, tobe followed by one with less violence and another with less violence; perhaps after a dozen or lessparoxysms of diminishing violence, he ends up with a dry, hacking cough which is not a paroxysm.When this first cough shakes the whole body, whether it is a bronchitis or whooping cough, and thetongue is white, and there are more or less gastric disturbances, Ant-crud. is the remedy. It will changethe whole aspect of the case at once. The chest remains sore, lame and bruised from the violence of thecough.The stomach symptoms must be particularly considered. Constant nausea, lump in the stomach,feeling all the time as if he had an overloaded stomach, as if he had eaten too much, and that is when hehad not eaten at all. The stomach feels distended although the abdomen is flat. He feels distended andvomits the contents of the stomach; he vomits slime after he has emptied the stomach of its contents;prolonged retching, nausea, sickening load in the stomach and it seems to go on and on. The vomitingdoes not relieve and there is increasing exhaustion.Inflammation and hardness of the liver or any portion of it.Pain in the region of the gall bladder. Great pain in the region of the liver, rending, tearing painsin the liver. Jaundice is associated with these symptoms at times.In the abdomen we have a group of symptoms; violent abdominal pains, burning, greatdistension; there appears to be an increasing distension as if by a screw, gradually forcing down uponsomething gradually increasing the tension. We find this state in the tympanitic condition of typhoidfever, we find it in cases of flatulence, we find it in summer diarrheas. It will be associated with gastricsymptoms and the white tongue, especially if such disturbance had been brought on by drinking sourwine, by taking a cold bath, in one who has a gouty constitution, where the nodules in the finger jointsbecome painless and the stomach and bowels become distended and painful.This remedy has a nondescript diarrhea, but also a lumpy and liquid diarrhea. Diarrhea fromsour wine. It seems to take a long time to empty the bowels. He hurries to stool and passes a little lumpand some liquid, and is soon hurried again to stool and more lumps and liquid are passed, and this goeson in summer diarrheas until finally the bowel is emptied and then there is great tenesmus. It is adiarrhea ending in dysentery; inflammation of the rectum and colon, with suffering, much tenesmus,prolonged efforts and great exhaustion.Troublesome hemorrhoids in old gouty constitutions. They are always sore and inflamed from acold, wet day, from cold bathing and are always worse if he is foolish enough to drink sour wine ortake sour food. The stomach, bowel, rectum and haemorrhoidal complaints arc all worse fromdisordering the stomach with sour wine, sour fruit or indigestible substances, from cold bathing andwet weather.