Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

All the functions are slow; eruptions appear slowly. The whole economy seems to be tired andfeeble, so that when a girl approaches puberty and it is time for the menses to be established, but theflow does not appear, she goes into a decline; she begins to manifest symptoms, jerking, and twitching,soreness in the back of the neck, burning of the whole spine, creeping and crawling of the extremities,hysterical manifestations of all sorts. Sensitive to every little noise, to people talking in the room, tocrumpling of paper. "Talking or listening is distressing; much talking of other people, even of those ofwhom he is fond, affects his nerves and makes him morose".Feeble children, feeble girls, mind feeble, memory poor.Tendency to be docile, but when aroused irascible. If the child comes down with scarlatina ormeasles, it goes into a stupor. The eruption does not come out. There is a tendency to convulsions,drawing in the extremities, suppression of urine, rolling of the head from one side to the other, andfrom stupor it goes into complete unconsciousness; inability to throw eruptions to the surface.The stomach is slow in digesting; sour vomiting. The intestines are sluggish. The rectumbecomes impacted. Difficult expulsion of urine; paralysis of the bladder and tedious constipationassociated with spinal symptoms; urine slow in starting; can pass it only when sitting and in some casesonly when sitting leaning back against the seat with hard pressure.Aching in the dorsal, lumbar, and sacral regions; better when walking and worse from risingfrom a seat. (In , the aching is in the sacral region, and better when walking and coming onwhile sitting. , and have this in the highest degree. Zinc.occupies a lower grade in the aggravation when rising from a seat, as do and Numbness of the soles of the feet, with cutting pain and soreness in the heel when stepping; fulguratingpains, stitching, stabbing, and tearing; tabes dorsalis.Limbs paralyzed; paresis and finally paralysis of one or both sides; jerking, trembling andprostration. Shocks and jerking during sleep.Trophic enters in a state of anemia; emaciation throughout the body; the skin looks withered;the face pallid, wrinkled, unhealthy, sickly. Always chilly; sensitive to the cold. Full of neuralgic pains;tearing pains in all parts of the body when exposed to a draft; tension and drawing in various places.Strange drawing about the eyes as if strabismus would come on; drawing in the muscles; neckdrawn back; tension and drawing everywhere. When he comes to rest, the limbs want to draw up,hence, hysterical contractures; drawing the fingers all out of shape.The mind is slow and the patient is weak and tired; weak memory; forgetful. "Repeats allquestions before answering them".When an individual does this it is to make the mind comprehend.He must first realize what it means and then answers. Such a symptom is found in typhoid,when the patient does not convalesce; in a child after brain affections. Nervous prostration; waits amoment, looking blank, then the face lights up and he answers. If you look at the Zincum patient anddo not address him, you would not realize that he was so weak, but put a question to him and he staresat you in perfect amazement, then says, "Oh", and answers.Zinc. is not suitable in those who are naturally feeble- minded, when the child is in a statebordering upon idiocy. feeds such a mind. He rouses out of a semi-slumber and stares a momentwithout answering. Stupor; aroused by every little noise, startles, twitches all over; but soon he goesbeyond this, becoming less and less excitable, and finally passes into unconsciousness and cannot bearoused.You will find some deep-seated brain troubles that will try your patience. Some cases go slowlyand gradually into unconsciousness; rolling of the head for days; eyes lusterless; body emaciated,involuntary discharges of feces and urine in the bed; tongue dry and parched, so shrivelled that it lookslike leather, lips also; face withered and each day looks older; paralysis of one hand or one foot, or itseems that the whole muscular system is paralyzed. Screaming out in pain although not so shrilly as in. A dose of Zinc. will sometimes bring this patient back to life. In a few days after the remedythere will be a jerking and quivering in the parts that were motionless, or its action will be shown in acopious sweat, much vomiting; sudden arousing that is alarming, for it looks like a threatened sinking,but this is the beginning of reaction. Now, for days and nights while this little one is coming back toconsciousness, the restoration of sensation in the parts is accompanied with the most tormentingformication, tingling, prickling, creeping, and crawling. The mother and the father and the neighborswill want something done for it, but if you antidote, the case will return to where it was before. Thissuffering is but the awakening to life. It will go on in this way for a week or two and then will begin toshow signs of falling back; it needs another dose of Zinc., which will again be followed by a sweat,vomiting, etc. You will see this in spinal meningitis. The early stage will be that of congestion, and