Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

"Obstinate constipation with violent urging to urinate; urging to stool with contraction of theintestines; excessive pressure from above downward, as if the bowels were pressing out; during stool.Violent tearing, cutting in the rectum. Stool small, with much bearing down"."Old, dry, sycotic warts remaining after treatment for gouty pains".SECALE CORNUTUM [sec] [Kent’s]The best provers of Secale, those who are most susceptible to its action, are scrawny people,and they are the ones who will most likely need it as their curative remedy. Of course, it is notnecessarily contra-indicated in fat people. Certain constitutions are mentioned in connection with aremedy as being suited to it, but it must not be inferred that no action will result in others when thesymptoms agree. Scrawny people are especially related to Secale.Emaciated, withered, wrinkled, unhealthy appearance of the skin; purplish, bluish skin, generalor in spots; purplish spots on withered skin, especially where the circulation is feeble as on the back ofthe hand and feet and on the tibia. These parts become numb, tingle and wither. The extremitiesprickle, burn, and tingle; creeping and crawling, as of insects under the skin, as if between the skin andthe flesh; numb, dead, wooden sensation in the fingers and especially in the toes. The toes becomeblack, gangrenous. A senile withering, such as is found in feeble old people; the blood-vessels close up;no blood goes to the toes and they become numb and black, devoid of sensation.Hence, Secale improves the circulation of the aged and postpones senile gangrene.Burning is a feature of this remedy; the skin burns; the extremities burn, sensation of burningwhen the parts feel cold to the touch and really are cold, a sensation of heat with coldness. Burning,especially of internal parts. Dryness with burning; burning in the stomach and bowels; dryness andburning in the mouth and throat, the nose and air passages; burning in the lungs.This remedy produces ulceration even to sloughing. Old ulcers take on a strange, witheredappearance; dryness with no granulations; a shiny, blackish aspect and all at once blackish granulationsshoot out, indolent, and finally forming a black sphacelus which slowly separates; the part is dry; thereis no discharge except now and then a little bleeding of black blood.Oozing black, liquid blood, oozing when there is no inflammation; nose-bleed of dark venous,offensive, fluid blood, bleeding from the throat, lung, bladder, and rectum, of dark blood; urine likeink. Prolonged uterine hemorrhage so that one menstrual nisus runs into another; withered subjects;considerable flow on the first day, fluid, and blackish; this goes on for a couple of weeks and then adark, watery flow comes on which lasts until the next period. Then comes the thick, black fluid,horribly offensive flow again. Such a state is found in the woman who has taken ergot to produceabortion, or in sensitive women who have been dosed with it to facilitate delivery. Of course, if thewoman is not sensitive you will not get the lingering proving.Some women are so insane that though they die they will get rid of their offspring. On all handwomen say, "I have had no health since I aborted". The worst state of health is produced by ergot; itestablishes a miasm as deep as psora itself. The desire to destroy the offspring is an engraftment onpsora and by ergot she takes on a miasm as dangerous as sycosis or syphilis.I have patients who took ergot to cause abortion, and l can do nothing more than palliate them.They have Secale symptoms, sequellae, and their psoric symptoms are suppressed, held down, just assyphilis holds down psoric manifestations; only by covering the Secale miasm and getting at the psoracan we help the patient. They have placed themselves beyond the help of the physician and the ergotwill shorten their lives many years unless they are fortunate enough to have careful prescribingcontinuously while they live.The general constitutional state is aggravated from heat; there are only a few exceptions to this.Wants cold though the limbs are cold as ice, wants to be uncovered, wants the windows open; a patientwith haemorrhages wants the covers off though the room is cold. A patient with ulcers wants to beuncovered; in inflammatory condition of the stomach and bowels, wants the abdomen uncovered.At times there is a lingering state of heat of the skin and the patient wants to be covered up;there are also sharp, stinging neuralgic pains, which burn like fire and cut like a knife and are relievedby the application of heat; headache worse in cold air. But the general state is .Violent inflammation of any part of the body; gangrenous pneumonia; gastritis; peritonitis;inflammation of the uterus and ovaries. In inflammatory conditions it competes with . Thesymptoms are so nearly alike in both that it is difficult to differentiate; both have violently distendedabdomen; tympanites; burning like coals of fire; violent thirst; extreme sensitiveness and tenderness totouch, so that motion or jar is unbearable; vomiting of blood; expulsion of blood-clots; horrible,offensive, bloody discharge from the bowels; but they arc different in the generals. wants to be