Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

jerk. "Anxious about the health. Thinks he is certainly breaking down", for he is growing weaker. Hecannot walk, though he is growing increasingly restless. He cannot exercise mentally or physicallywithout distress. From meditation or as soon as he enters a warm room he becomes dizzy---and that isan exception belonging to a few of the head troubles and the sensorium; he usually is sensitive to cold.In the house when the room is close he becomes dizzy.It has been an astonishing feature in this remedy that precisely at hour of noon a great manytroubles come on, and the pains and aches. Chills. Headaches. Pains in the ovary at noon.Dizziness with vertigo as if intoxicated. The headaches are frontal and occipital. One-sidedbrain affections. One-sided headaches. Violent neuralgia in the head upon one side at a time, as if deepin the brain, as if involving one-half of the brain.Mostly the headaches have been on the right side---the one-sided headaches. Those brokendown patients that have become prostrated and over wrought by exposure to the sun. Upon the scalp,the ears, here and there upon the body, itching places. Itching and burning, like frost bites. It has anitching and burning like Agaricus, in the toes, in the ears, and he scratches the part, and scratching doesnot relieve it until the skin is off, until it oozes, but no relief from scratching. Rawness in the ears, keptup by constantly boring and scratching in the ears.Scratching the skin off because of the tingling, itching and burning.Another strange feature is that about the eyes Silver affects the lids more than the globe. Itaffects the sight, producing dimness of vision, and loss of vision; but it produces infiltration of the lids,thickening of the lids until they are almost as hard as cartilage. The mucous membrane is infiltrated andhard, and the eyelids cannot be opened. They spasmodically lose, they cannot be pulled apart except byviolence. It is a blepharitis, with thickening and infiltration. Copious discharges. Now, as we strike thisas a catarrhal region, let me say that all through the remedy we will find passive catarrhal discharges. Insome instances thick and yellow, but at the same time passive, a passive state of the mucous membrane.But the characteristic, the principal discharge of Argentum met. is gray, thick, tenancious mucus. Heexpectorates from the lungs---and from the air passages, from the trachea and from the larynx, graymucus. Gray mucus from the vagina, gray mucus from the urethra, gray mucus from the eyes. Only in afew instances does it have yellow discharges. When ulceration takes place, as in the larynx and on theeyelids, we have from this ulceration thick, yellow discharges; but from the ulcerated mucous surfacesit will generally be found to be gray, except in the urethra. It has cured old cases of chronic gonorrhea.If we get the general character of the remedy we know what to expect when it goes to each region. Ifwe do not know the general character of a remedy we do not know what to expect; and if we get into aregion where we have the very opposite of it we know then that that is a particular, and does notconform to its generals. But first of all we have to single out what is general, what may be expected,what belongs to the nature of the remedy, so that when we see its opposites we may recognize it andknow it as an opposite, as a particular, and as an exception. Here is one of the characteristic features ofArgentum itching. "Scratching until bleeding, in the ear". Now, this itching involves the whole outsideear, and extends into the ear, so he scratches the ear until it is red, and swollen, and bleeds. Thecartilage of that ear is lumpy and nodular; is infiltrated. The cartilages of the nose are also infiltrated.Argentum met. cures many of these cases that are operated on when they have some portion of theinside of the nose removed by the surgeon, so that the patient can breathe better. "Thickening of thebones in the nose, the thickening and building up of the membrane and the cellular tissue in the nasalpassages". Argentum met. is often indicated in such cases. This remedy has a very decided action.Infiltrations go on thickening and hardening, and then we have serum in joints. This is one ofthe most important remedies to know in the necrosis of cartilages everywhere in the body. But with itmust go such nervous and mental symptoms as the remedy has, such as I have described. The patientlooks sickly, pale, careworn, tired. A broken down patient. An Argentum met. patient is a sickly onewho should have had a homeopathic doctor years ago, but one who can be patched up and benefitednow if he has not gone too far."Painful tension and drawing in the throat. Throat feels raw and sore during expiration". This isextended into the larynx."Painful soreness from breathing. Rawness from coughing in the larynx. Great quantities ofgray mucus expectorated easily.Tension in the fauces on the right side".Argentum met. has abdominal troubles. Bruised, sore feelings in the abdomen. If these progressfrom a catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes to a general congestion of all the tissues in theabdomen, diarrhea comes on, or constipation of the most inveterate character, tuberculosis of themesenteric glands, emaciation, weakness, trembling. Paralytic feelings here and there in the body.Painful soreness in the whole abdomen in connection with the urinary troubles. It has a low form of