Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

motion and are worse from keeping still. They are brought on from cold air and from suppressing thesweat, and as these pains grow worse they become tearing down the limbs, drawing pains. Paralyticpains, benumbing pains, and these are relieved from motion; numbness throughout the limbs;numbness and aching in the arms from heart disease; numbness in the joints; jerking, tearing pains inthe joints. Paralysis of the arms; erysipelas with much swelling in the limbs; swelling of the hand andarms. When grasping anything a tingling and pricking is felt in the hands and fingers; crawling andnumbness in the finger tips and fingers; swelling of the fingers; eruptions upon the hands and fingers.In the lower limbs, we find similar pains and similar modalities; pain in the hip when lying upon it;tearing, drawing pains in the lower limbs; sciatica with tearing, drawing pains in the lower limbs, worseduring rest and ameliorated from motion, brought on from becoming chilled, from cold damp weather,from exposure, and from suppressing the sweat. In sprains such as occur in the ankles and in fact any ofthe joints, after has removed the first and most painful symptoms, Rhus becomes useful forweakness of tendons and muscular fibers such as always follows sprains. It is a routine remedy for thisweakness in joints following sprains. The pains rush in streaks down the limbs; restlessness in thelower limbs at night, but amelioration from motion; must keep the limbs in constant motion; paralysisof the lower limbs; great weariness and heaviness of the lower extremities; weakness of the lower limbson going up stairs; swelling of the joints of the lower limbs; stiffness of the knees and feet. Paroxysmalpains in the legs from getting wet, especially when sweating; complaints from living in damp houses;rheumatism in the lower limbs from living in damp houses. Ulcers on the legs. Intolerable itching ofthe legs at night in bed; eruptions upon the feet and legs; foetid sweat of the feet in persons ofrheumatic tendency. Eczema of the lower limbs. Rhus is a useful remedy in fevers. In typhoidsufficient has been said.It is a very useful remedy in scarlet fever with coarse rash.When the rash has been suppressed, with inflammation of the glands and much sore throat.During fever there is often violent urticaria which passes off during the sweat; night sweat with muchitching eruption; fevers from suppressed foot sweat; rheumatic fevers; fevers worse at night; fevers thatcome with cold sores on the lips, remittent fevers and intermittent fevers take on the typhoid type andrun through their course as symptomatic typhoid fever. Intolerable itching of the skin; tingling in theskin; eruptions burn and itch violently; much moisture with eruptions upon the skin. Large blisters formupon the skin either with or without erysipelas. The incessant itching is sometimes relieved by"scalding" the parts, as it is called by some who are poisoned with Rhus, by "scalding" with water ashot as it is possible to bathe the parts in. Rhus has cured shingles and the tendency to herpeticeruptions. It has made a grand record with humid eczema such as have raw surfaces; excoriated; oozingmuch. It is very commonly the remedy for hives that come on from getting wet or hives that come onduring rheumatism or during chills and fever; hives that are worse in the cold air.RUMEX CRISPUS [rumx] [Kent’s]Rumex, the yellow dock, is a neglected remedy, and one that has been only partially proved.The mental symptoms have not been brought out, but the catarrhal symptoms have been well expressedby provers.There is a state of sadness; low spirited; aversion to work; irritable; mental excitability. Thisincludes about all the mental state we know of this remedy as the provings were made with the lowerpotencies and tincture. The yellow dock has been used in domestic practice, as a blood medicine, tocure eruptions and boils. When used in this way it is a mild substance. and hence the provings aresomewhat in this form.The catarrhal tendency is very striking. The nose, eyes, chest and trachea, the whole respiratorytract, gives forth a copious flow, copious mucous discharge. I have seen it so copious from the nosethat it seemed as one continuous flow; so copious from the trachea and bronchial tubes that the patientcontinually hawked up, by the mouthful, thin frothy, white mucus, so that in a little while as much ashalf a pint of thin mucus, as thin as water, would be in the cuspidor. It also has marked dryness of thelarynx and trachea with hard, dry, spasmodic cough.At times it has taken the form of grippe, with a copious mucous discharge; thin, watery, frothyexpectoration by the mouthful. This is only the first stage. Following this the discharge becomes thick,yellow, tough or thick, white and tenacious; so ropy and stringy and tough that in spite of blowing thenose and coughing he fails to get it up. Completely exhausted from his efforts to expectorate the tough,stringy, tenacious even gluey mucus. This catarrhal state is commonly accompanied by a morningdiarrhea, and these constitute the leading features."Catarrhal headache with great irritation of the larynx and trachea, clavicular pain and sorenessbehind sternum". Catarrhal headaches are headaches that come on during spells of dryness, alternating