Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

It is said to be incompatible with . It is much like in general action, and in its action upon the nervous system and genitals. The chest symptoms and expectorationare like . Its constipation is much like and . It shouldbe carefully compared with these remedies.SENECIO AUREUS [senec] [Kent’s]In some parts of the country where it grows it is called , in others. It is an old domestic remedy and one" only proved in a fragmentary way. Many of thesemedicines that have become household remedies should be properly proved. Only in this way can theirpower and influence be known, i.e., they can be used properly only when indicated by the symptomsthey can produce.Senecio is to be studied in relation to young girls with menstrual irregularities. Those who have1 of the menstrual flow from getting wet, from getting the feet wet; those who have1 copious menstrual flow which continues until they are anemic; and those also whosuffer from ,1 the pains being most violent. In this remedy, with these generalfeatures, the young girl gradually tends toward catarrhal phthisis. The menstrual flow is suppressedsometimes many months, she begins to look pale, has a dry, hacking cough, with bleeding from thelungs instead of the menstrual flow, a vicarious spitting of blood. There is a catarrhal state throughoutthe chest. They are pallid and weakly girls. They tell you they have lost their menstrual flow, and havea chronic cough, are sensitive to every draft of air, are always taking cold and finally expectorateprofusely. The phthisis may go on as catarrh of the chest for years, but at last a miliary tuberculosis setsin and takes the patient, off with what is known as acute consumption. Especially is this conditionassociated with disorder of the menstrual flow and a general catarrhal state. "Phthisis, with obstructedmenstruation. When the symptoms agree in this kind of a case Senecio is a most useful medicine forestablishing the menstrual flow. You will know that it is acting well by the fact that the coughgradually diminishes. Of course a great many medicines will be suited to such general states, but thisone has an unusually marked and special relation to these cases. In certain regions Senecio has beenused as a domestic medicine, an old woman's remedy for bringing on the menstrual flow.You will be struck on reading over this remedy with the from allthe mucous membranes of the body. There is coryza with nose-bleed; spitting of blood from the throatand chest; haemorrhage from the lungs; a catarrhal condition of all the mucous membranes with atendency to haemorrhage; congestion and inflammation of the kidneys with haemorrhage. You knowhow commonly these cases end in dropsy.These waxy, anemic, chlorotic girls, who have lost their menstrual flow, become dropsical afterslow haemorrhage from the uterus, kidneys and bladder. "Dropsy from anemia". It is a medicine of thehighest order for haemorrhages in catarrhal conditions.It has also in its proving many distressing symptoms of the . Painfulurination. Uncomfortable heat in the neck of the bladder. Renal colic, the pains being so great that theyproduce nausea. Renal dropsy. Intense pain over right kidney, etc. The whole urinary tract is painfuland subject to bleeding. But bleeding especially in the absence of the menstrual flow is the feature ofthis remedy. Wherever there is an inflammatory spot or catarrhal condition of the mucous membrane itwill bleed in case the menstrual flow does not appear. We have other medicines having the symptomsof vicarious haemorrhage, such as and , hut Senecio has thiscondition strikingly and is one of the newer remedies for such condition."Dysmenorrhoea with urinary symptoms; cutting in sacral and hypogastric regions". "Hackingcough at night". "Amenorrhoea from a cold; nervous irritability; lassitude; dropsy". "Menstrualirregularities in consumptive patients". "Mucous rattling with suppressed cough".Leucorrhoea especially in chlorotic girls. It is a marked remedy in chlorosis, in the anemic statewith a green hue, called "green sickness" by the laity.SENEGA [seneg] [Kent’s]Senega is an old lung tonic, and I suspect it has been an ingredient in most of the lungmedicines for the last one hundred years. It has been only partially proved, and needs further proving tobring out its particulars. When a medicine has been , it can be said of it that itssymptoms are so well known that they can be examined as an image, , the drug has affected portions of man in such a manner as to stamp itself upon all of his natural actions and functions in away peculiar to itself. This remedy has done some wonderful things, and these results in many