Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

The pelvic viscera become greatly relaxed, especially in women, so much so that there is adragging down in the pelvis. It seems as though the contents of the pelvis would be expelled, or wouldfall out. There is prolapsus of the uterus and a discharge resembling leucorrhoea. Disturbances ofvarious kinds at the menstrual period. Irritable and painful ovaries, such as we find associated withhysterical girls; those who suffer from unrequited affections; dreamers.This medicine produces sweating; copious, exhaustive sweats, night sweats, such as we find inlingering diseases. Sweats from the slightest exertion. If he becomes slightly overheated he fairly boilswith perspiration and then takes cold.The skin is ulcerated and has a tendency to grow warts, callosities, bad nails and bad hair. Hard,horny excrescences grow under the nail and are extremely painful. From the ends of the fingers littlehorn-like excrescences appear. The slightest pressure will produce a callosity, or a sore place, and inworking men you will find an unusual tendency to thickening of the skin on the soles of the feet. Theyare very sore to walk upon, because these callous places are sensitive and have numerous centers oflittle-corns. The tendency to build up and indurate belongs to the remedy. Warts grow upon the hands.The hair is unhealthy. Pustules form upon the skin with red areola.Pustular eruptions have an inflamed base that is red, and sensitive.Now, if you will study the proving and get the particulars of the remedy, and fit them into thisframework, you will understand something of Ant-crud.ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM [ant-t] [Kent’s]About the first thing we see in the study of an Antimonium tart. patient is expressed in the face.The face is pale and sickly; the nose is drawn and shrunken; the eyes are sunken and there are darkrings around the eyes. The lips are pale and shriveled. The nostrils are dilated and flapping, and there isa dark, sooty appearance inside of the nostrils. The face is covered with a cold sweat and is cold andpale. The expression is that of suffering. The atmosphere of the room is pungent, more pungent thanfetid or putrid, and makes you feel that death is in it. The family is disturbed; they are going hither andthither, and the nurse is in an excited and busy state, and you enter upon this scene to make ahomeopathic prescription. It is one of excitement and one that you cannot act rapidly in, but one inwhich you must make a very quick prescription. These things will interfere somewhat with yourthinking at the time that you must do the best thinking and the most rapid thinking.Now, in what kind of cases do we find this state and appearance, where all the features andsymptoms conform to the nature of the remedy? First, in catarrhal patients, in broken downconstitutions, in feeble children, in old people. Catarrhal conditions of the trachea and the bronchialtubes. Our ears being open we hear coarse rattling and bubblings in the chest. If you have ever been inthe room of the dying you have heard what is called the death rattle. It is coarse like that. Now and thenthere is expectoration of a mouthful of light-colored, whitish mucus. The condition is one in which thechest is steadily filling up with mucus, and at first he may be able to throw it out; but finally he issuffocating from the filling up of mucus and the inability of the chest and lungs to throw it out. It is aparalytic condition of the lungs. It may occur in cases of grippe. At first it may be a case that comes onquite rapidly, running a rapid course. It may be a case that produces early prostration, that is, in three orfour days or a week. The first few days of the sickness will not point to Antimonium tart. So long as thereaction is good and his strength holds up you will not see this hippocratic countenance, sinking, andcoldness and cold sweat. You will not hear this rattling in the chest, because these symptoms aresymptoms that indicate a passive condition.Antimonium tart. has weakness and lack of reaction. Hence we see that it is Suitable in thosecases that present this state, or in such patients as are so feeble, when they are taken down, that they atonce enter upon a passive or relaxed state. In cases of bronchitis with pneumonia, inflammation of thetrachea inflammation of the air passages in general, the inflammation is likely to be attended withdryness or a scanty flow of mucus. If this be violent in a few days it will reach a state of relaxation andweakness. But the first state does not indicate Antimonium tart. Such medicines as Bryonia and Ipecac.come in for the first period, and your impression is, when administering those medicines, that they willbe sufficient for the whole case, and they will be, except in those states wherein this weakness ispresent from the beginning, or where there is lack of ability to react sufficiently from your remedy torecovery under it. Then comes in a second remedy, and that is the time when this medicine begins itsoperation.Ipecac. has some of this coarse rattling, but it is attended with great expulsive power of thelungs. This medicine has the coarse rattling that comes after many days. Ipecac. has it the first days ofthe sickness. This remedy has the coughing and gagging and retching, but in the stage of greatrelaxation, prostration and coldness. It seems as if he will die. When you hear him cough you are at