Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

there is a great amount of dryness in the throat and larynx, dryness in the throat during sleep andobserved on waking, and inability to expectorate the tough ropy mucus."Shaking cough", , the cough is so violent that it shakes the whole frame. The concussionfrom the cough causes discharge of urine involuntarily, and causes violent pains in the head and overthe eyes. Senega is called for especially in those cases where the pleura has been involved at one stageor the other. The pains are increased and it seems as if the chest would be torn on coughing. "Walls ofthe chest sensitive or painful when touched"..1 Senega is one of the leading remediesfor the tough mucus and coarse rales in old people without any other symptoms. It very often clears thethroat and helps to patch up an old man when he is breaking down. "Great rattling of mucus in chestand flying pains in chest".It has sometimes cured pleuro-pneumonia where there was the extreme exhaustion of and . In such cases Senega has caused reaction; it has such weakness.Especially is it suited in the advanced cases of phthisis, when those symptoms that I have mentionedare present. It acts as a palliative. It does excellent patch work without serious aggravations, as it relatesmore especially to superficial conditions. It is not as deep acting as and . We givesuch remedies only when we have a reasonable assurance that we can cure, when the patient is yetcurable. But when we have given up all hope, then we pay more attention to the most painful parts; wepay more attention to the local symptoms, to the group which causes the most suffering and attempt todo patch work. If the sufferings in the chest and the exhaustion become most severe it is true that will patch him up a little and make him feel more like life, and he will go on to the endwith more comfort. If the pains in the chest are most severe such medicines as Senega or will help him; if he is sore and feels as if bruised and he must move from side to side willrelieve; but these are not the remedies to go deep into the life and eradicate a deep-seated disease likephthisis. Yet with these one may take a consumptive patient in comfort to the very grave, by simplypatching him up and prescribing for his immediate sufferings.Homeopathic remedies give these incurable sufferers much greater comfort than sprays andanodynes.The pains of the chest are worse during rest and on inspiring.Stitching pains in the chest when lying on the right side. Great soreness in the walls of the chest.Pain under right scapula when coughing. The chest pains are better while walking in the open air.SEPIA [sep] [Kent’s]Sepia is suited to tall, slim women with narrow pelvis and lax fibers and muscles; such awoman is not well built as a woman. A woman who has the hips of a well-built man is not built forchild bearing, she cannot perform the functions of a woman without becoming relaxed in the pelvicorgans and tissues. Such a build is a Sepia build, very tall, slim, narrow, straight from the shoulders allthe way down.One of the strongest features of the Sepia patient is found in the mind, the state of theaffections. To a great extent, the remedy seems to abolish the ability to feel natural love, to beaffectionate. To illustrate it in the language of the mother: "I know I ought to love my children and myhusband, I used to love them, but now I have no feeling on the subject". The love does not go forth intoaffection, there is a lack of realization, a lack of ability to register such affections; the love does notmanifest itself. Upon reflection it will be seen that the love itself cannot be so changed, but theaffections can be as they are the expression of the love. It is a striking feature of this remedy that theaffections are stilled; all things seem strange; she does not realize; she may even be estranged andturned aside from those she loves. This is on the border land of insanity; it is quite a different state ofaffairs from that when a woman abused by her husband knows in her rational mind that she does notlove him.This state is brought out in a woman during confinement, after uterine and other haemorrhages,after prolonged indigestion; high living with disturbance in the circulation, pallor, enfeeblement ofbody and mind. It is seldom manifested in a man, but it is a striking feature in the woman. It oftencomes on when nursing a child, from nursing an over-vigorous child or twins who require much lactealfluid and drag her down. It may be brought out in a woman who has an over-vigorous husband.Excessive sexual excitement and over-indulgence brings on coldness and she becomes a cold woman.She who has been excitable, nervous, and fidgety becomes the opposite, cold, takes on a stoicalstate of mind. Yet Sepia has all the excitability of any medicine, aggravated by noises, excitement,company, extreme irritability of tissue and mind; an excitable suicidal patient; melancholy, sits andsays nothing; taciturn; answers questions in monosyllables when pressed to answer. An absence of all