Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Catarrhal condition of the nose, with constant sneezing; sensation of great rawness in the nose;burning; stuffing up of the nose. Discharge at first of thin mucus and later thick mucus.It has all the appearance of a coryza. The coryza is ameliorated from inhaling hot air. He sitsbefore an open grate or register, with the head close to it, inhaling the hot air. Especially useful whenthe catarrhal state of the nose is prolonged; a prolonged coryza, which does not yield to ordinaryremedies; a lingering coryza, and the discharge is exaggerated by the odor of flowers. Even thinking ofthe odor of flowers makes him sneeze and increases the flow from the nose. So, thinking of variousthings aggravates his complaints.Many hay fever patients are sensitive to the odor of flowers, to the odor of the hay field, todying vegetable matter; so oversensitive to the odor of fruit are some that apples have to be removedfrom the house. Inhalation of odors that are beautiful, as that of the lavender, some hay fever patientscannot tolerate; such things may bring on an attack out of the season. Now Sabadilla is of this sort.Oversensitive to surroundings, to odors; these increase the catarrhal state of the throat and posteriornares. Sneezing and a flow of mucus from the nose; goes on even to ulceration. Periodical attacks; arose cold in June; in autumn about August 20 as a hay fever. Hay fever is often an easy thing to palliatewith short acting remedies; they will cut short an attack in a few days. But the cure requires years, andthe patient must be treated in the interim and according to his symptoms. When the hay feversymptoms are present he has no others; one group is manifested at one time, and another group atanother time. But the patient is sick and all the symptoms must be gathered together and the casetreated accordingly.Many of the annoyances of this individual seem to be imaginary. His mind is filled with strangethings. Imaginations concerning persons or himself are strange. Imagines the body is withering, that thelimbs are crooked, that the chin is elongated, and larger on one side than the other. She fees that this isso and believes it even in spite of her vision. It is a sensation which she believes, a delusion, aninsanity. "Erroneous impressions as to the state of his body". "Imagines himself sick; imagines partsshrunken; that she is pregnant when she is merely swollen from flatus; that she has some horrible throatdisease that will end fatally". The imaginations are groundless; nothing is visible, and the suffering isgreater than if there was something to be seen. These patients often get no sympathy; they should reallyhave a remedy. has erroneous impressions as to the state of the body; thinks she is made ofglass; the idea is not that of transparency, but rather of brittleness, fears that she would break in pieces.There are but a few remedies which have fixed ideas; these ideas may be concerning politics, religion,clothing, thing of the family and life. I once had an insane patient who would get out of the street car ifanyone entered who wore a certain color, because she had a fixed idea that this was of evil import toher. The mental state in a man is that a woman would be a detriment to his soul; it is adelusion, a fixed idea. is full of fixed ideas. has a fixed idea that a devil is sitting on one shoulder talking into his ear, whilean angel sits on the other shoulder talking into the other ear, and he halts between the two and saysnothing."Delirium during intermittents". "Mental exertion aggravates the headache and produces sleep".A sleepiness comes on from thinking, meditating, reading. While meditating in a chair he falls asleeplike and .Dizziness; vertigo. He wakens up at night with vertigo.Vertigo in the open air; under all sorts of circumstances. Full of headaches. Headaches on oneside of the head. The meditation which drives him to weep brings on headache. Headache in schoolgirls. Feeble children, who have to be taken from school because of headache, come home with strangeimaginations concerning school and themselves. Headache stupefying and associated with coryza; inthe frontal sinuses, above the eyes. Fullness, bursting, stupefying aggravated by jarring, sneezing,waking.Stupefying headache with coryza. Often gets up with it in the morning, increases during theforenoon. Head covered with a cold sweat. Many of the symptoms are closely related to ,especially in the cold sweat on the forehead with complaints. when there is spasmodic sneezing, fluent coryza; nostrils stuffed up; inspirationsthrough nose labored; snoring; itching in the nose; profuse bleeding from the nose; bright red bloodcomes from the posterior nares and is expectorated; very sensitive to the smell of garlic; coryza withsevere frontal pains and redness of eyelids; violent sneezing; copious watery discharge from the nose.A peculiar kind of itching coming on in some hay fevers is an itching in the roof of the mouth,on the soft palate, and for relief the patient must draw the tongue back and forth over the soft palate,with this coryza, sneezing, etc. will cut the attack short.