Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Con.)>.Epilepsy; aura in the solar plexus creeping into thechest and stomach.Complementary to , and SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA [spig] [Kent’s]Spigelia is especially known by its pains. It is indicated in persons who are debilitated fromtaking cold and who have become rheumatic, run down, victims of pain. Hardly a nerve in the bodyescapes; shooting, burning, tearing, neuralgic pains; they are most marked about the eyes and jaws,neck, face, teeth, shoulders, burning like hot needles through the face and neck in any direction,stitching, tearing, worse from motion, from doing anything, even thinking, mental exertion, worse fromeating.rains in the neck and shoulders are better from heat; those about the eyes are better from cold.Shooting, tearing pains in the extremities like hot wires.Sometimes the pains are worse from lying down, but most commonly better from keeping astill; worse from light, eating, motion, jarring; so sore in the painful region that any gentle exercise likegoing up or down stairs, or riding in a carriage that jars, makes the pain unbearable.The Spigelia patient is sensitive to cold, to atmospheric changes, he is a rheumatic patient, butthe nerves are attacked by neuralgia.Violent pains about the eyes. Routine practice limits the use of the remedy to this region. Worsefrom hard pressure though sometimes better from it, if gentle and prolonged, firm pressure, but anymovement of the pressing hand aggravates. The part is turgesced and inflamed. Eyes red and engorged.Neuralgic affections of the muscles of the chest. Many of the Spigelia pains in the chest areattributed to the heart, but there is intercostal neuralgia; tearing pains shooting into the shoulders andneck, especially the left side and down the arm.Pains shooting hither and thither.Irregularity of the heart. Painful complaints associated with valvular troubles, especiallygrowing out of rheumatism.Pericarditis and endocarditis of rheumatic character. Thrusting pains in the chest like a knife, inthe eye like a knife.This remedy needs further proving, its mental symptoms are scarcely known. "Weak memory;disinclination to work; restless and anxious, solicitude about the future; gloomy, suicidal mood; afraidof pointed things, pins, etc.; easily irritated or offended". This is all that is thought worthy of admissioninto the Guiding Symptoms, showing that the mental state has not been well brought out.Many complaints arc manifested in the morning; tired in the morning and full of tearing pains.Old anemic subjects where there has been a transfer of the complaints to the nerves; brokendown, pallid, nervous, with neuralgia, palpitation, irregular pulse. Vertigo on rising; gets up withviolent pains and dizziness. So nervous that She must "fly", full of excitement, cannot keep still, cannotkeep control of herself.Pulsating and stitching in the head; sometimes better lying with the head high; worse fromstooping, motion, and from noise.Sometimes better from washing in cold water when the pain is about the eyes and head, butworse after washing; better while the cold water is applied. With these headaches and neuralgias thereis stiff neck and shoulders, an apparent stiffness in that he cannot move on account of pain. He sits in achair as if transfixed, is aggravated from noise, light, from seeing thing move in the room, which hemust follow with his eyes. "Fine burning, tearing pains In the brain". It seems to be in the brain, but ismore likely in the nerves of the scalp. "Violent pain in the left parietal bone on motion or walking ormaking a misstep; toward evening---violent pressure and pressing outward in the forehead, worse fromstooping, worse from pressure with the hand; tensive tearing pain in the forehead, especially beneaththe frontal eminence, extending toward orbits". Notice the intensity of the pains. Burrowing, tearingpain in the occiput, in the left side of the vertex and forehead, worse from motion, from loud noise, andwhen he speaks loudly or even on opening the mouth slightly; better when lying down. Pressive pain inthe right side of the forehead, involving the right eye, in the morning in bed, but still more after rising;pain deeply seated, unaffected by pressure, very acute on motion, on suddenly turning the head, thebrain seemed to be loose; worse from every jar, step, or straining at stool. When moving the muscles ofthe face, there is a sensation as if the head would burst. Sensation as if a band were about the head.Neuralgic pain settles in and above the left eye, or below it, from cold in damp, rainy weather;hyperaesthesia of the filaments of the fifth pair.