Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

difficulty that he gets himself together for a mental or physical effort of another day. If he undertakes todo any more mental work, he gets a headache. Headache mostly in the front of the head, but also in theocciput.Another strange feature about it, it is full of rending tearing pains along the nerves,predominantly of the lower extremities. Tearing, as if the nerves would be torn in pieces during rest.Cold, damp weather, stormy weather will bring on rheumatism---not so much with swelling, although ithas that, but pains apparently in the cartilages, and pains along the nerves.And these pains are so severe that he cannot keep still. Hence, it has a rheumatic state fromcold, damp weather, from becoming chilled, in the joints and in the nerves, so that he walks and walks.Many symptoms arc better from motion and especially walking. So tired and exhausted but the pain isso severe that it drives him to walk. These pains are many times palliated by copious drafts of coffee,and this will suppress the sickness, and leave upon him all sorts of difficulties, under which he isthreatening with break down, and in time he becomes almost useless. "Mental weakness. Physicalprostration". Rending, tearing pains. Affections of the joints, the cartilages of the joints. Tearing painsalong the bones--and he is really a wreck, an old broken down constitution when he is yet young. "Aman of forty is like one of eighty". All these pains are better from motion.Again, it is full of infiltrations. inflamed cartilages infiltrate and form into hard knots. Asuperabundance of cartilaginous tissue, so that round about the joints the cartilages are thickened. Inthe ear and nose the cartilage is thickened. The infiltration that belongs to epithelioma. It has been awonderful palliative in scirrhus, and in epithelioma. It has cured epithelioma. It is on record as curingan epithelioma of the cervix uteri.Ulceration everywhere; but ulcers that have their beginning in the cartilaginous tissue, andbreak out through the cellular tissue, and copiously discharge. The ulcers infiltrate at their base, andbecome hard.Another marked feature is that it affects both testes, but it has a predominant action in the right.The left ovary and the right testis. Such things are singular, that in one sex it should produce symptomsin one side of the body, and in the other sex on the opposite side.It has cured all sorts of tumors, enlargement of the ovary, and infiltrations of the tissues. It is achilly remedy. Wants to be kept warm, and its pains are ameliorated by heat. Its headaches areameliorated by heat---are ameliorated by pressure, by bandaging. I have many times cured thesesymptoms in headaches when the patient had the head wrapped up.Now, in this medicine we class the patient as one having a lack of vital heat. He wants to bewarm. Likely to be lean, growing increasingly lean, increasingly nervous, increasingly sensitive. Takeson all sorts of whims. Women needing Silver very often do such strange and unaccountable things in(compare Argentum nitricum) their nervous states that they bar out all sympathy of their friends, andare called hysterical. Deep seated trouble of the nerves. Growing increasingly sensitive to surroundings.Now, the mental state of Argentum met. is just such as is aroused by confusion, just such as isaroused by the emotions, just such as the loss of balance from fear, from anger, from fright fromdisturbance of the mind. Because this patient is so sensitive to his surroundings and so disturbed byannoyances.With his pains he becomes delirious, and it is not that involuntary delirium that we see in lowforms of fever, but he becomes wild and full of rage. He takes on mental excitement, rage and a state inwhich he talks nonsense with great rapidity.Sometimes there is a stage of unusual excitement in his conversation all mixed up about thecharacter of his thought. All of the time looks as if he were intoxicated, and he flies from one subject toanother, and prattles. For a moment appearing to be very intense and active in mind, and forgets all thathe was talking about."In society indisposition to talk". Because he is incompetent.He is tired mentally and he forgets what he is talking about.Loses the thread of his discourse; and he dreads to talk because he gets complaints whiletalking. If compelled to answer, he becomes dizzy, and feel strange all over, and has nervous shakes orshocks. And shocks go over him when tired like an electric shock. It comes suddenly, but the mostfavorable time for that to come is just when he wants to go to sleep. He thinks, now he is away from allthe troubles of the day and can rest, and the instant sleep comes over him he is roused from head to footby a shock, and another one, and another one, sometimes the whole night he jerks from head to foot.His limbs jerk up, his lower limbs twitch and jerk, then lie gets out of bed and walks---tries to walk itoff. This comes out in the proving of Argentum nitricum, but it belongs as much to Argentum met., andArgentum met. has long cured it. In Hahnemann's study of the remedy he lays down the importance ofshock on going to sleep. shocks in the limbs. But it is an electric shock that causes the whole body to