Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Clinically Ant. tart. has been confined in its use mostly to the mucous membranes of the chest,but it has the same passive conditions of all the mucous membranes of the body, discharges of whitemucus from the eyes. "Eyes prominent, glaring. Dim, and swimming. Gonorrheal ophthalmia". But therheumatic conditions furnish another form of this remedy, another phase of it like Antimonium crudum.The joints are affected, take on a passive, slow infiltration and become dropsical; dropsical swelling ofall the joints. Gouty infiltration of the joints, and these are especially bad during the cold, wet weather.Eye symptoms of this gouty character. Eyes infiltrated along with the joints, so there is a gouty state ofthe eyes. The gouty state affects the whole body. The mucous membrane is pale instead of being redand inflamed; it is pale and relaxed, and it appears to ooze; mucus forms upon it very readily. This isthe state that occurs in the chest. It is not that burning rawness found in Ars. and the more acuteremedies, although there is a state of prostration and the anxiety and cold sweat which resembles Ars.Then this gouty state affects the teeth. His teeth are all rheumatic. "Rheumatic pains in theteeth", with rheumatic pains in the joints. Teeth are sensitive. "Teeth covered with mucus".With all the complaints the stomach gives out, and there is nausea, inability to digest andloathing of food. Vomiting of everything taken into the stomach; vomiting of even a spoonful of water.In most complaints this remedy is thirstless. It is an exception that it has thirst. Generally in theseattacks of dyspnoea the friends of the patient stand around with a very strong desire to do something, ifit is only to hand a glass of water. This patient is irritated by being offered a swallow of water. He isdisturbed, and shows his annoyance. The child will make an offended grunt when offered water.Thirstlessness with all these bronchial troubles, with copious discharge of mucus and great rattling inthe chest. Sometimes there is an irresistible desire for cold things in the stomach, but it is the exception."Desire for acids or acid fruits", and they make him sick.Troubles brought on in the stomach from vinegar, from sour things, from sour wine, from sourfruits, as in Ant. crud.Aversion to milk and every other kind of nourishment, but milk especially makes the patientsick, causing nausea and vomiting.The stomach and abdomen are greatly distended with flatulence.The abdomen is tympanitic. With the stomach symptoms and bowel symptoms there is thisconstant nausea, but it is more than a nausea, it is a deadly loathing of every kind of food ornourishment, a nausea with the feeling that if he took anything into the stomach he would die; notmerely aversion to food, not merely a common nausea that precedes vomiting, but a deadly loathing offood. The weakness takes on an increased anxiety, and he increasingly suffocates when he is offeredfood. Kind-hearted people very often want him to take something, for perhaps he has not taken anyfood all day, or all night; but the thought of food only increases the dyspnoea, increases his nausea, hisloathing and his suffering. Vomiting is not an easy matter in this remedy.The vomiting is more or less spasmodic. "Violent retching.Gagging and retching and straining to vomit. Suffocation, gagging, though great torture" Thestomach seems to take on a convulsive action, and it is with the greatest difficulty, after many of thesegreat efforts, that a little comes up, and then a little more, and this is kept up. "vomiting of anythingthat has been put into the stomach, with quantities of mucus" Thick white, ropy mucus, sometimes withblood. "Vomits slime, with great exertion. Vomiting large quantities of mucus. Vomits tenaciousmucus". "Vomiting of slime, with bile. A tough, watery mucus, then some food, then bile". But theprincipal thing vomited is the thick, white, ropy mucus, flowing from the mucous membraneseverywhere. Tough and stringy; can be drawn out in strings. The patient is often choked while thisthick, ropy, white mucus is expelled from the esophagus and mouth. The mouth fills up with it. It is atremendous effort, a spasmodic effort, for this patient to rid the stomach of its contents, which ismucus, or mucus and bile. Early in the vomiting it is mucus, and after much straining there is aregurgitation of bile into the stomach, and the continuing of vomiting is from bile. The great strainingalso induces a flow of blood into the stomach, and the contents of the stomach will be streaked withblood. Ulceration of mucous membranes everywhere. It has ulcers in the nose and in the larynx, andulcers that bleed. Bleeding ulcers in the stomach, and so there is vomiting of blood.Like Antimonium Crud., it has been useful in old drunkards.Old drunkards sometimes take on a debilitated form and take frequent colds. After getting overa big debauch, having been many days on one of their times, they become relaxed and cold, and takecold, and the chest fills up with mucus, and they are vomiting, suffocating and vomiting. "Rattling ofmucus in the chest of old drunkards". Ant-tart. is sometimes required. Ant- crud. when the trouble isconfined mostly to the stomach. Ant- tart. when the chest symptoms are present with growing anxietyand the coldness and the prostration; prostration from long drinking. Old gouty patients, old drunkards;