Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

On the pain first beginning, there is not so much hyperaesthesia, but as it goes on this increasesand the eye becomes congested. I have seen the pains so severe that they produced perfect prostration,cold sweat, vomiting.The patient is so sensitive to pain that he becomes unconscious; faints with the pain. feels pain with such intensity that he gives way to violent frenzy, irritability, andoutbursts of anger.The Spigelia patient suffers intensely and the pain leaves its mark, the part becomes red andinflamed and sensitive. The head pains are worse from warmth; better temporarily from cold; the painsin other regions are the reverse.The head and stomach symptoms are better from cold; the chest and body are betterfrom warmth. In the head is often better by washing in cold water, while the patient himself issensitive to the cold and wants warmth in the rest of his complaints.Spigelia is full of visual symptoms; visual symptoms bring on complaints; at times he can donothing but look straight ahead, for he has vertigo even when there is no pain, from lookingdownwards, everything goes round in a whirl. Such a state is common to many people when they lookdown from a height, but Spigelia has it from looking down along his nose, so he sits and looks straightahead.Esophoria; exophoria; disturbances in accommodation; all sorts of tiny spasmodic conditions; itis most difficult to fit glasses; no settled focus, no fixed vision. Spigelia has from a mere neuralgic statewhat has from eye strain. Latent errors of vision.Eyes that are always changing need a remedy. Stabbing pains in and around the eye, oftenradiating in every direction from one point. Eye-ball sensitive to touch. Eyes worse when thinkingabout them. Worse at night. Intolerable, pressing pain, worse on turning the eye, dizzy on attempting tomove the eyes, must turn the whole head to see. Pain radiates to the frontal sinuses and head. Sensationas if the eye were too large for its orbit.I remember a patient who had been travelling about from oculist to oculist, who had manyvisual troubles and no glasses would suit. She had one sharp, stinging pain over the left eye day andnight and she could only deep when worn out. cured. Constant, fine, stinging pain over lefteye was brought out by the provers of cat's milk.This medicine has cured a pterygium, probably a false pterygium, that came from violentneuralgia, prolonged and lasting for months.Stitching pains in the chest, worse from the least movement, breathing, sensation of tearing inthe chest; trembling feeling in the chest when moving the arms or from any movement. Can lie only onthe right side with the head high. Rheumatic troubles especially in the left side of the chest. Feeling asif the heart were compressed with a hand. Purring feeling over the region of the heart, wave-likemotion not synchronous with the pulse.Waving palpitation not synchronous with the pulse. Trembling of the carotids. Acutepericarditis with anxiety and weight in the praecordium. These troubles following a rheumatic attack, atits close or many months after the fever has subsided. Spigelia is seldom indicated in rheumatism of theheart in phlegmatic persons who do not feel intensely.When a rheumatic affection attacks the venous side of the heart, and there is a sense ofstuffiness, of fulness through the whole body, limbs swollen, but do not pit on pressure, face mottled, itis a serious case and may end in Bright's disease and death.SPONGIA TOSTA [spong] [Kent’s]The mental symptoms of Spongia show that it is a heart remedy.When a remedy produces the anxiety, fear, and dyspnoea found in Spongia, it will most likelyturn out to be a cardiac remedy, unless these conditions are connected with irritation and inflammatorydiseases of the brain. In this drug we find without any cerebral symptoms, marked anxiety, fear ofdeath, and suffocation, associated with palpitation and uneasiness in the region of the heart. It isespecially related to cases where there is pain and a sense of stuffiness and fulness in the cardiacregion, in the chest, with dyspnoea, anxiety, fear of death, fear of the future, fear that somethingdreadful is going to happen. Wakens at night in great fear and it is some time before he can rationalizehis surroundings , , and .Spongia is closely related to , which also excites the heart, brings on anxiety, fear,and restlessness, fear of death, predicts the hour of death, but this is associated with a marked febrileexcitement. Spongia has febrile excitement in a minimum degree. It is much deeper in its action than.