Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

A gentleman comes in contact with one beneath his station and an altercation takes place, anargument which ends in insult, and the gentleman turns his back on the other. He goes home andsuffers; he does not speak it out, but controls it and then suffers from it. He has sleepless nights andmany days of fatigue, brain-fag; for days and weeks he cannot add nor subtract, makes mistakes inwriting and speaking, has irritability of the bladder, colic, etc. Loss of memory with a sense of weightbetween the eyes; it is difficult to say whether this is a feeling in the head or an effort to describe adullness of mind. Feels as if a ball of wood were in the forehead, or as if the whole cerebrum weremade of wood; it feels numb. It is difficult to state whether it is a condition of the mind or head.Accompanying this sensation of a lump in the forehead is a feeling as if the whole back of thehead were hollow; the patient may describe it as a feeling of numbness or a lack of sensation."Indifferent, low-spirited, dulness of mind after onanism".Staph. cures these conditions when they are the result of sexual excitement, masturbation,excesses in venery, allowing the mind to dwell too much on venereal subjects. Thinking on sexualrelations. These patients are irritable, easily fatigued, most excitable, and when they have to controltheir emotions they suffer intensely. One who is in health can easily put aside a controversy, knowingthat he has done what is right, but a Staph.patient when he has to control himself goes all to pieces, trembles from head to foot, loses hisvoice, his ability to work, cannot sleep and a headache follows.Many a time a man has come into my office with blue lips.trembling hands, pains about the heart and all over, and he thinks he is going to die. He tells astory of an altercation and pent up wrath, and Staph. stops his trembling and quiets him.Without it he would have sleepless nights, brain fag, prostration and headache. This statebelongs especially to those who have indulged in sexual excesses.Now, the next step. The senses are in this same irritable state, so that the tips of the fingers aresensitive, the ears are sensitive to noise, the tongue is sensitive to tastes and the nose to odors; sosensitive that everything is painfully sensated. Every little inflamed spot will have in its center sensitivepoints, little nerve spots; ulcers when touched cause the patient to go all to pieces and a convulsionthreatens.Haemorrhoidal tumors are so sensitive that they cannot be touched. Little nerve tumors form inthe skin, little polypoid growths the size of a wheat grain and denuded of epithelium, covered withmoisture, red, inflamed, blue, and a mere touch will throw the patient into convulsions and suffering fordays and nights. A hyper-sensitive nerve growth will come out on the hand or on the back. Sometimesit turns black. Again, a little wart will come out, especially about the genital and anus, little carunculargrowths about the urethra and vagina, so sensitive that if nipped between the fingers the patient will gointo spasms, especially if a woman.Staph. suits all three of the miasms.These nervous states run all through the complaints. Look for a case of Staph. where the wholemind and nervous system are in a fret.The Staph. headache is a numb, dull pain in the occiput and forehead, especially in thesenervous constitutions. "Sensation as of a round ball in the forehead, sitting firmly there even whenshaking the head". Headaches from vexation and indignation.Crusty squamous eruptions on the scalp. "Painful sensitiveness of the scalp, skin peels off, withitching and smarting, worse in the evening and from getting warm". The scales are lifted up by awatery exudate and the denuded surface is extremely sensitive to touch.New growths about the lids and balls of the eyes, extremely painful to the touch. Meibomiantumors ,1 in irritable children .1 Another feature in Staph. is its action onthe gland; scrofulous gland; glands of the neck enlarge; enlarged and indurated ovaries and testes;stitching, tearing pains in the glands everywhere. Hardness and chronic induration.Stitching, tearing pains along the course of the nerves; in the heart, and as in such a nervouspatient the mind is likely to be on the heart, the stitching pains in the intercostals are supposed to be inthe heart. Stitching pains directly through the chest to the back.Swelling of the tonsils after the abuse of Mercury. Chronic tonsillitis; tonsils are not large buthard from previous attacks of acute tonsillitis; strumous diathesis; cross and irritable."Pains come on after eating".The Staph. patient has much difficulty in the bowels. Subject to chronic diarrhoea and toconstipation. Colic, twitching, tearing pains in the abdomen. Diarrhoea from cold water, from eating,from indignation, anger, with flatulence of a terribly offensive odor like spoiled eggs. "Chronicdiarrhoea or dysentery of weakly, sickly children after anger; after being punished, after emotions". and Staph. and resemble each other. In both, eating and drinking cause