Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Retention of urine; painful micturition; urging to pass urine constantly. The bladder issometimes only partially full, but he cannot pass urine. "Retention with great urging". "Paralysis of theextremities. Urging to urinate". Numbness, tingling in the extremities, and finally entire loss of power.Some patients remain this way for a while, and finally dropsy will set in. It has alternating conditions,as I have mentioned; dropsies, alternating with copious discharges. The dropsy may be relieved withcopious watery discharges from the bowels or by copious spasmodic action of the kidneys, the urinebeing so profuse that he can hardly realize where so much water comes from. All at once it ceases. Theurine becomes scanty, and then the tissues fill with serum, and the dropsical condition progresses.These conditions f cease after a while, and the heart fails. "Urine diminishes to one-third its usualamount, without pain or uneasiness about the kidneys or bladder. Urine suppressed. No urine at all inbrain affections". It was a routine medicine once, given to all children for wetting the bed,and as itcured many it must have that symptom, but that is a clinical symptom.It is not surprising, seeing its action is so marked upon the bladder, that it has cured involuntarypassage of urine. "Dropsy of the genital organs".I have mentioned the suppression of the menstrual flow, the amenorrhoea, but it has alsomarked hemorrhagic tendency. It will establish hemorrhage anywhere, but especially from the uterus.Copious hemorrhage. The menstrual flow may become copious, too frequent, last too long; butit will also establish a uterine hemorrhage at another time. It will cause the patient to bleed so copiouslythat she becomes anemic from uterine hemorrhage; and then will follow dropsy. The old practitionerswere in the habit of giving China in most instances where dropsy followed a hemorrhage. It was sogenerally useful, and so commonly relieved, that they seldom used any other remedy. But Apocynum isalso a remedy for dropsy following hemorrhage. Many times it will fit the symptoms clearly in dropsyfollowing hemorrhage. "Prolonged menorrhagia, or hemorrhage from the uterus for six weeks. Bloodexpelled in large clots, sometimes in a fluid state". Moderate flow for a day or two; suddenly sets inwith such violence that she cannot be out of bed. Compels her to lie quietly. "Shreds, or pieces ofmembrane with the fluid blood. Menorrhagia continuing, or paroxysmal", that is, a continuous flowuntil the patient is exhausted. That is like Phos. and Ipecac. and Secale. In most instances, a uterinehemorrhage will cease after about so much blood has been lost. In medicines where the flow is soliquid as it is in this medicine that tendency to cease does not come until a state of profound exhaustionhas come on. Then the dyspnoea, as has been described, will not permit the patient to lie down. This iscommonly from hydrothorax. It has also a hypostatic congestion of the lungs in patients that have beensitting up a long time, so that it fills up from below, gradually creeping up so that a large portion of thebreathing space is destroyed. "Great oppression about the epigastrium. difficult breathing. Gasping forbreath. Wheezing and coughing". It has all the rattling that is found in Tartar emetic and Tartar emetichas a similar filling up of the chest, cannot lie down.Pulse small and irregular; almost pulseless. Disposed to faint whenever she attempts to raise herhead from the pillow. Small weak pulse. Dropsy of the pericardium. Palpitation very troublesome.ARGENTUM METALLICUM [arg-m] [Kent’s]We will take up the study of Metallic silver. No wonder that this is a very deep acting remedy,for it has been used symbolically, and medically throughout all history. It has been a valuable substancethroughout all history. It is an anti-psoric, and from its symptoms I believe it to be an anti-sycotic. Itgoes deep into the life. Especially affects the nerves, nerve sheaths.Has complaints along the nerves. All cartilages in the body are affected by it. It produces ahypertrophy of cartilages, a thickening of the cartilaginous portions of joints, of the cartilage of theears, and of the nose. Produces cartilaginous growths and tumors; infiltrations. It affects the nervesubstance, it is a deep organic remedy. It is more than an ordinary remedy, for it affects all there is ofman. In those nerve fibers especially that carry messages. It affects the brain in a very profoundmanner, bringing about changes and a gradual softening. A strange feature about it in its general actionupon man is, that it singles out mostly the intellectual faculties. It scarcely disturbs his affections; onlymakes slight and vague changes in his voluntary system. But the memory, the intellectual part of manis disturbed increasingly to imbecility. In great sufferings--and it is full of suffering---it affects hisability to reason. In nearly all the headaches and pains in the back, and the rending, tearing pains that itproduces over the body, it disturbs his memory and reasoning faculties. Disturbs his ability to think.And it comes on in persons who are in the habit of laboring with the intellectual faculties. Businessmen, students, readers, and thinkers. Reasoners come to a point when they can no longer reason, andthe slightest mental effort brings on vertigo.He is fatigued. All symptoms are worse after sleep. Instead of being rested for the day, he wakesin the morning with mental fatigue and weakness, so that he can hardly move, and it is with great