Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

instances can be only attributed to mere guesswork. This is about all that can be said in favour ofcareless and loose prescribing.Senega is more especially a chest medicine. It is full of chest symptoms, and its relation] to theair passages makes it worthy of consideration, although many of the individualizing symptoms havenot yet been brought out. From its most striking action on the mucous membrane of the air passages, itschief use has been in chest complaints, asthmatic complaints, in various forms of dyspnoea, cardiac andasthmatic.There are violent pains in the chest, especially like those of pleurisy. It has also symptoms likepneumonia; one of its most useful spheres is in pleuro-pneumonia. The pleuro-pneumonia of cattle hasalmost found its specific in Senega. The finding of specifics is more likely to be true of animals than ofhuman beings, as a remedy that is only partially indicated may cure an animal, but it requires muchfiner discrimination among remedies in dealing with human beings. A violent attack of pleurisyassociated with pneumonia, too deep and too vicious for , often finds its remedy in Senega.Senega is a sort of cross between and . The violent symptoms are those of, yet it is worse from rest, unlike .The symptoms of Senega are not so much like , but it has an amelioration like thatof , better from motion, the pains being worse when at rest. The chest pains, rheumaticpains and inflammatory pains are worse during rest, but the cough is made worse from motion and theasthmatic troubles are made worse from the slightest motion. The Senega patient cannot walk uphill; hecannot walk against the wind, because it bring on chest symptoms and dyspnoea.The rattling in the chest is as marked as in the tenacious mucus is ascopious, as gluey and stringy as in , so much is this the case that he can get it onlypart way up, and with a spasmodic effort he swallows it, like and . Senega is aremedy of deep action, as well as an acute remedy. It is filled with sharp and acute sufferings,sufferings that come on with rapidity, from taking cold, or from a cold that involves the whole chest.There are some eye symptoms in the text that are worthy of attention. "Paralysis of the musclesof the eyes". "Iritis and specks upon the cornea". "Paresis of the superior oblique"."Aching over the orbits". "Eyes pain as if pressed out"; "Blepharitis". It has cured opacity of thevitreous humor.Of the larynx the text says, "Aphonia from severe cold or excessive use of the voice". "Constanttickling and burning in the larynx leaving the patient not a moment's rest and preventing him fromlying down; fear of suffocation. When Senega is indicated there is a dryness in the mouth and throat,and the cough is incessant; there is a constant metallic coppery taste in the mouth and throat, as if hewere coughing up pulverized copper. A very little of this medicine in proving will produce such adryness and metallic taste in the mouth, and such a tickling at the root of the tongue, the pharynx andlarynx, and it will finally end in a copious, thick, gluey discharge."Grippe, with stitches in right eye when coughing". "Laryngeal phthisis". "Copiousaccumulation of tough mucus in air-tubes, which causes the greatest, often ineffectual, efforts atcoughing and hawking for its expulsion". This thick, tough mucus will lead most routine prescribers togive such medicines as , and , entirelyoverlooking the usefulness of Senega.It is a remedy of very wide range in complaints of the chest, larynx and trachea, in the severe"colds" that settle in these parts, especially when associated with tenacious mucus, so tenacious that hecannot cough it up; it seems at times that he will strangle; he will cough and vomit in the effort to expelthe mucus, but it seems to disappear and he does not know where it goes."Sensation as if the chest were too narrow". "Most violent suffocation with asthma". "Shortbreathing and oppression of chest when going up stairs". "Dyspnoea especially during rest"."Dry cough with aphonia; worse in cold air and from walking", is like and. Those two remedies cause a cough, which commences when he first goes into the air.Senega has another feature like , in that the cough. is so violent that it makes him shakefrom head to foot; it brings on a tremulous feeling all over the body. He coughs from inhaling cold air;the cough is violent and the expectoration most difficult.In old, chronic catarrh of the chest, for the earlier stages of which was the mostsimilar remedy, with this thick, tough, ropy mucus; Senega is most suitable, and even when the patientis in the last stages of consumption. The symptoms become most troublesome, the gagging andcoughing and effort to expectorate because of the thick, ropy, mucus, are very distressing. He breaksout in a cold sweat, especially on the upper part of the body. The chest is full of coarse rales from thetough mucus which he cannot expectorate. We think in such a case of remedies like