Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

"Headache as if forehead would burst with chill, and burning in stomach". "Headache over righteye". This is a characteristic feature. "Periodic sick headache; begins in the morning, increases duringthe day, lasts till evening; head feel as if it must burst, or as if eyes would be pushed out; throbbing,lancinating pains through brain, worse on the right side, especially in the forehead and vertex; followedby chills, nausea, vomiting of food or bile; must lie down or remain quiet; ameliorated by sleep". Someof these things are not found in every case, but they all go to make up a Sanguinaria headache.All sorts of neuralgic pains; cutting, tearing, lacerating pains; as if the muscles were torn, or puton a stretch. Tearing pains anywhere, neuralgic or rheumatic. Pains about the scalp, but moreparticularly about the shoulder and neck; stiff neck; cannot turn over in bed; cannot raise the arm,though he can swing it back and forth. Pain streaks up the neck; pain in the deltoid. It prefers the rightside, but also cures the left side.Rheumatic pains in the right shoulder so that he cannot raise the arm, and all the muscles of theneck and back of the neck become involved; stiff neck. If the pain comes on in the day it increases asthe day advances to night. Complaints are worse at night in Sanguinaria.A patient comes to you after exposure to bed; he cannot raise the arm; it hangs by his side; painworse at night in bed, worse turning over (as he uses the shoulder muscle to turn over). It is probably inthe deltoid, but you need not speculate on the tissues involved.It competes with . All red-faced, highly-flushed people, who cannot raise the arm andhave pain which is worse in the daytime, not night, and ameliorated by slow motion need .Sanguinaria is not relieved by motion; it is aggravated by such motion as calls the arm into use. has relief from slow motion, aggravated from rapid motion and the pain comes in thedaytime. While has a uniformly red, plethoric face, Sanguinaria has a pale face. In the chestcomplaints Sanguinaria has a circumscribed red spot over the malar bones, such as seen in hecticpatients.Headache from stomach disturbances, overeating, rich food, drinking wine. Almost as useful as in old drinkers. Those who disorder their stomachs and weaken their digestion by beerdrinking; they cannot eat; vomiting of even a teaspoonful of water. No food or drink stays on thestomach. Headaches associated with such troubles. Vomiting and diarrhoea with complaints.Catarrhal affections are prominent. Chronic catarrh of the throat; apparent thickening of themucous membranes of the throat. Nose and pharynx fill with mucus. He hawks it out; there is a dryburning sensation, but the burning is most marked every time he takes a fresh cold.Acridity of discharges is another feature. Acrid mucus forms in the nose, causing burning in thethroat. Acrid, hot fluids eructated from the stomach, excoriating the throat and mouth. The diarrhoea isaccompanied by an acrid watery stool; especially in infants; the nates become raw and red. Thisburning extends all through the bowels; burning in the abdomen and stomach in old gastric troubles;vomiting of even a teaspoonful of water with burning; old gastric irritation; dyspepsia; all sorts ofdisorders of the stomach.Tongue red and burns as if in contact with something hot.Burning in pharynx and oesophagus, burning in roof of mouth.Tonsillitis with burning. "Heat in throat, ameliorated by inspiring cold air; throat so dry it seemsas if it would crack".This burning excoriated feeling applies to all the mucous membranes affected.Patient suddenly taken to bed with a chill; burning in the chest; symptoms of pneumonia; rustyexpectoration; violent cough; every cough felt as a concussion at the bifurcation of the trachea; as if aknife were in the parts; as if torn asunder; and after the cough copious, loud, empty eructations. Noother remedy has this."Nausea with burning at the stomach, with much spitting".Nausea not relieved by vomiting. Keeps on vomiting and retching.Burns as if on fire. is often given by mistake, because of the great burning."Vomiting of bitter water; of sour, acrid fluids; of ingesta; of worms; preceded by anxiety; withheadache and burning in stomach; head relieved afterwards; with prostration". Such symptoms occur inheadache, disordered stomach, sour stomach. The sour stomach is manifested by sour eructations orsour vomiting.A patient often speaks of "a sour stomach", and you must find out whether he means soureructations or sour vomiting. He says he "spits up" sour food.With the headache and many complaints Sanguinaria has a faintness; like a hunger, for food. Asinking, faint, "all gone", empty feeling. It is like with its "hungry headache". leads all others in "hungry headaches", but wants to eat and cannot get