Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

In the old school, they always suppress the discharge, and there are those in the new school whodo little better.The frequent repetition by which one is exposed, would not increase the gonorrhoea itself,because the susceptibility is satisfied.The taking of more of the drug to prove it does not do so much harm, provided the one who isdirecting the proving realizes when the symptoms begin to rise, and then stops the drug. Now if we goon with the proving by repeating the doses after the symptoms come on, we force the drug into theeconomy when he is already poisoned, and by this means we get a confusion in the symptoms, thedrug- disease engrafted upon that individual for life.Many of the provings of Thuja give us that kind of confusion, so that we see only now and thensymptoms cropping out that are striking; in fact the great bulk of the Thuja provings has been wasted,because there is so much confusion in the great number of symptoms, while the earlier provingsbrought out many of the characteristics, the Vienna provings, to a great extent, confused the image ofThuja. So that, by clinical experience only, we have been able to draw out the finer features of Thuja. Itrequires more than a school boy to do that.The new provings must be carried on in a different manner.Thuja has some striking bowel symptoms; gushing, watery morning diarrhoea, like watercoming out of a bunghole.There is also a general catarrhal condition running through the body; catarrh of the nose, earsand chest. In the catarrh of the chest it produces an intense hacking cough, with expectoration in themorning of greenish mucus, sometimes a copious expectoration.It is often suited to old cases of pneumonia, in such individuals as have suppressed gonorrhoea,fig-wart gonorrhoea.The kidneys and urinary symptoms are also striking; congestion and inflammation of thekidneys, sharp pain in the kidneys; burning urine; inflammation of the bladder and urethra that is notgonorrhoeal; pus from the bladder; paralysis of the bladder, must wait a long time for the urine to start;retention of urine, continuous urging to urinate, tearing in the urethra, feeling as if the urine wereconstantly running along the urethra, like and .In the urethral disease of sycotic character, Thuja leads all other remedies. In the non-sycoticvariety, is sufficient, but those cases that have proved to be sycotic left uncured, it ameliorated the burning during and after urination and the thick, yellowishgreendischarge, but some other remedy had always to follow, when they were shown to be sycotic. Itis not so with Thuja, because it is capable of finishing the case.In the most violent cases, with bloody urine, extreme salacity, great torment, bloody, waterydischarge from the urethra and bladder, no rest day or night < Cantharis> comes in, it is capable offinishing the case in a few days. Such a patient must be in excellent health, which is not generally thecase. They are drinking men and smokers. Tobacco is one of the most troublesome things you will runacross, many cases will not recover promptly if they are tobacco users and great smokers, wine drinkersor convivial men, they run around a good deal and are high livers and with such you have a slow caseon hand.With the system so broken down from high living, you may not get a decided curative actionuntil you have forced him to abandon his way of living. Put him on light diet, diminish his smoking, getrid entirely of the drinking, and put him on a perfectly bland living. This is the first thing. If he is a manof family we have to contend with great mental distress, and not less so if a woman. So it may well besaid, that usually the sycotic miasm is a troublesome one to begin with and one that will bother theyoung physician.You cannot substitute the right method for a wrong one, which will make him a cripple for life.The suppression of the disease, as usually tried, cannot be thought of by the sincere and earnesthomoeopath.If he wants it checked suddenly, let him go somewhere else, but warn him what will take place,and that he will have untold disease and suffering.TUBERCULINUM [tub] [Kent’s]I want to take up the study of Tuberculinum. The preparation which I use is a little differentfrom that which is generally found in the market. This preparation I procured through a Professor ofVeterinary Surgery. In Pennsylvania there came a time when a handsome herd of cattle had to beslaughtered because of tuberculosis. Through the Veterinary Surgeon of the Pennsylvania University Isecured some of the tubercular glands from these slaughtered cattle. I selected from these the mostlikely specimen. This was potentized by Boericke & Tafel as far as the 6th, and has since been prepared