Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

old broken down constitutions. In children also that have broken don constitutions, as if they had grownold. These take cold in the chest, with great rattling of mucus, and require this remedy.Very commonly there is anxiety in the stomach, it is not always described as a pain, but ananxious feeling, a deathly sinking, an indescribable sinking in the stomach as if she was going to die."Anxiety in the stomach. with nausea". A passive congestion of the liver, with vomiting and bile.The remedy is also full of cutting pains, cutting like a knife. Pinching in the intestines. Colickypains. Distension of the abdomen. The abdomen may be distended with serum, or it may be distendedwith flatus. "Sharp, cutting pains, as with knives.Most violent pains in the abdomen". Dropsy is one of the natural conditions of all forms ofAntimonium. I remember an energetic horse doctor feeding all the horses Black antimony when theepizootic was upon the land, going through all the stables. I learned that he was giving Black antimonyto all horses and I left instructions that mine should not have any medicine except what I gave. Nearlyall the horses that he treated ended in dropsy, and were laid up for days and weeks with the legswrapped up. It was a proving of Antimonium. Ant. tart. is full of it. It was a common thing, formerly,for old broken down constitutions to be put on Ant. tart. at the end of pneumonia and fevers, but theyalmost always had bloating of the feet for three or four months after getting up. If they did not havethat, they had "fever sores". Antimonium is a common cause of the "fever sore", the lingering indolentulcer that forms upon the legs following old fevers in broken down constitutions. Sometimes they neverget rid of them. They certainly never get rid of them unless they fall into the hands of a prescriber ofour school.APIS MELLIFICA [apis] [Kent’s]This remedy has so many symptoms on the surface of the body we will study the outer aspectfirst. All over the body is found a thick rash, sometimes of a rose color. It is rough and can be felt as arough rash under the fingers. The patient at this time is greatly distressed by heat and the skin issensitive to touch with the rash or without it. Nodular swellings here and there come and go. Thencomes an erysipelatous inflammatory condition, in patches, here and there, about the head, with greattumefaction about the face, eyes and eyelids. Erysipelas may occur anywhere, but it more commonlybelongs to the face and runs to a high degree of inflammatory action, with stinging, burning and edema.In the extremities we have a marked dropsy, swelling with pitting upon pressure. A general anasarcamay appear. The face is greatly swollen at times, the eyelids look like water bags, the uvula hangsdown like a water bag, the abdominal walls are of great thickness and pit upon pressure, and themucous membranes in any part look as if they would discharge water if they were punctured. Puffingor edema, with pitting upon pressure, is a general condition that may be present in any inflammatorystate. There is a general amelioration from cold and aggravation from heat. The skin symptoms and thepatient are aggravated from heat. This prevails also in the mental state, in inflammatory conditions; incardiac conditions, in dropsy, in sore throat, etc. Sometimes this aggravation amounts to aggravationfrom warm drinks, warm room, warm clothing, warmth of the fire, etc.; if it is heat the patient is greatlydisturbed.In brain troubles, if you put an Apis patient with congestion of the brain into a warm bath hewill go into convulsions, and consequently warm bathing is not always "good for fits". It is taught inold school text-books so much that the old women and nurses know that a hot bath is good for fits, andbefore you get there just as like as not you will have a dead baby. This congestion of the brain, withlittle twitchings and threatening convulsions, makes them put the baby in a hot bath, and it is in anawful state when you get there. If the baby needs Opium or Apis in congestion of the brain the fitsbecome worse by bathing in hot water. If the nurse has been doing that kind of business you havelearned the remedy as soon as you enter the house, for she will say the child has been worse ever sincethe warm bath, has become pale as a ghost and she was afraid he was going to die. There you haveconvulsions worse from heat, pointing especially to Opium and Apis. That is the way with Apis allthrough. It is not laid down in the books that Apis is worse in the throat symptoms from warm drinksand wants altogether cold things, and will not take warm things which aggravate, but one of ourgraduates wrote me that by making use simply of the generals, as he had been instructed, Apisconforming to all the rest of the case, he made a beautiful cure of a case of diphtheria which had therelief from cold, which shows how generals are continued into particulars and how they can be madeuse of. The generals continue to build and enlarge our Materia Medica.Upon the outer surface then we see that Apis is full of dropsy, red rash, eruptions, urticaria,erysipelas, which inflammations extend to the mucous membranes. The outer part of man is his skinand mucous membrane. When we are dealing with man from center to circumference, we think of theinnermost as the brain and heart and internal organs that are vital, while their coatings and coverings