Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

the head, throat and chest, then they get the blood root ready and make a tea of it. With them it is aroutine remedy for "colds". They give it to combat all complaints, and there is no doubt but that even inthis crude form it does break up "colds", because the provings show its relation to chest troubles and"colds" that go to the chest.Periodic headaches, when the headache comes once in seven days; it begins in the morning onwaking or wakes the patient up.It begins in the occiput and travels upward and settles over the right eye and in the right temple.It gets worse during the day and is aggravated by light, so that he is driven into a dark room andcompelled to lie down. Vomiting comes on and the vomited matter is bile, slime, bitter substance andfood, and then comes relief of the pain. The headaches are relieved from passing flatus up or down. Ifthe patient suffers when he goes to bed with hot palms and soles, so that he must put them out of bed,this is an additional striking feature.Take an individual who has missed his chronic headache, by some means, for a considerabletime, but since then he has become increasingly sensitive to cold, and "colds" settle in the nose, throatand bronchial tube, and these parts feel as if on fire, with rawness and burning; the expectoration isthick, tenacious mucus; disturbance of the belly, with much belching, and the belching is especiallynoticed after a violent attack of coughing.It is not a very long acting remedy. When a periodic sick headache is interrupted bySanguinaria, if a deeper drug, an antipsoric, is not given, the headache will return or something worsewill come on, as Sanguinaria does not go deep into the nature of the case. I remember a case in whichthe patient missed his Sanguinaria headache and an epithelioma developed, which was cured by. I am convinced that if had been given at the end of the attack the cancerwould not have developed, as was his constitutional remedy. If a chronic sick headacheis interrupted the patient will tend to phthisis. Chest troubles come on and grow worse and worse. Itsability to palliate phthisis is very well known.A patient much debilitated with bronchial catarrh; susceptible to cold, to every change in theweather, from change to damp weather, to every draft, to change of clothing; always taking new "cold".There is burning in the chest behind the sternum; thick, tough, ropy expectoration; spasmodic cough,and every cough ends in belching; eructations of gas; empty eructations. If to the burning in the chest,the severe pains in the larynx and trachea when talking, and cough ending in belching, you add heat inthe palms and soles, Sanguinaria will patch him up and mitigate the trouble. Many such cases get, but to their destruction.There is a class of remedies that suits these phthisical patients better than and; remedies such as , Sanguinaria, and ,which palliate, mitigate his sufferings, and may even build him up so that he could take a mediumpotency of a deep remedy. But the deeper remedies ought to be avoided if the vital force is low, if thebody is too much damaged to be repaired. Hahnemann warned against the use of in suchcases of deficient vitality. Sanguinaria is a surface remedy; it does excellent palliation.Catarrhal conditions of nose and throat, especially those due to colds and to poisonous plants;also rose colds. The Sanguinaria patient has "rose cold" in June. Sensitive to flowers and odors;subjects with hay fever. Hay fever patients with burning in the nose, in the throat, as if dry; as if themucous membrane would crack open. Dryness and burning in the larynx, with hoarseness; dryness andburning throughout the chest, with asthma; associated with burning of the palms and soles.Examination shows the palms to be dry, wrinkled and hot to the touch; so, also, the soles, wherethe skin is thickened and indurated. Corns that burn; the toes burn and the patient puts the feet out ofbed for relief.When the headache is present it seems to be a general congestive head ache; although beginningin the morning, coming up the back and extending to the right eye, the whole head is hot and aches. and Sanguinaria have periodic weekly headaches. has aheadache every two weeks. Not that these remedies will not cure other headaches, for Sanguinaria hasalso a headache every three days. The majority of headaches coming every two weeks are cured by or greatly mitigated in broken down constitutions. The attempt to cure a chronic sickheadache should be made before the senile decline."Pulsations in the head with bitter vomiting; aggravated by motion". The headache is generallyaggravated by motion, but not so strikingly as in . When the Sanguinaria headache increasestowards the after noon or night, it becomes so severe he must go to bed; and the head becomes sore,and then a step or jar is extremely painful. A severe head ache is likely to be disturbed by light, noise,motion, etc.