Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

to use the larynx much. It is then a paralytic weakness of the vocal cords.. Running all through thisremedy there is aggravation from any little prolonged exertion---a paralytic tendency with aggravationfrom exertion. So it is in the lungs-- in every part of the body. And then comes the loss of voice. Now,apply all that we know of its ability to infiltrate. We have tuberculosis of the larynx. Singers, publicspeakers, who are broken down, nervous, of poor digestion, bad inheritance, take on tuberculosis of thelarynx, and the voice is lost. Ulceration follows. And this trouble finally goes into the lungs. Theyemaciate and get night sweats. "Loss of voice". Generally of a painful character.Again, colds settle in the larynx. "Cannot speak a loud word; constant tickling in the larynx,provoking cough". Rawness and soreness in upper part of larynx. Laughing aggravates the coughing---laughing will cause ticking in the larynx, and he will scrape out quantities of gray mucus. If theirritation is in the smaller air passages, in the lungs, laughter will set him to coughing, and he willscrape out gray mucus. "Over the bifurcation of trachea, a raw spot; when using the voice, talking,laughing, or singing". In the middle of the chest a raw sensation. "Roughness and hoarseness of thevoice. Phthisis of the larynx;" in those withered young people; a young man when he is not more thantwenty-five looks to be fifty. Many wrinkles as though he had had many cares. Has a dry cough; getsup a little gray mucus. Yet he may be somewhat wiry, getting about fairly well. Has inherited phthisis.The cough is a deep cough, is aggravated from laughing, talking and in a warm room. Laughing causescough and causes mucus in the larynx. This remedy will turn aside this threatening phthisis, this dryteasingcough. A little dry, hacking cough especially comes under this remedy. In no instance are welikely to have those violent spasmodic shaking coughs, such as we find in Bry. When coughing a sorefeeling in the larynx. "The cough is accompanied with an easy expectoration". He does not usuallycough so much to get up the mucus as he does to relieve a little irritation; but when there is mucus itgenerally comes up easily. It is not so difficult to detach as we find in many remedies. "Easily detachedmucus in the larynx". He simply scrapes it out by an effort of the larynx.Cough and scraping of the larynx during the daytime and evening, worse in a warm room andbetter in the open air and from motion.It has a sense of weakness of the chest. There are two remedies having this weakness of thechest and you cannot easily tell them apart. Weak voice, weak chest; a feeling that it is so difficult tobreathe, and so difficult to talk, and so difficult to cough, because the muscles of the chest feel so weak.These two medicines are Argentum met. and Stannum. Great weakness of the muscles of the chest. Thepatient dwells upon it much, and it is a weakness far beyond what can be accounted for in tuberculosis,a sense of muscular weakness in the chest. A paralytic weakness of the chest. Of course, this is whollydifferent from the Antimonium tart., which has a dreadful weakness of the chest, but in that remedyyou will remember it is in the acute affections. It is suitable in lingering complaints, sickness of longstanding, so that "great weakness of the chest" means that which I have tried to describe and it is thatwhich patients will often fail in their efforts to describe. "Doctor, I feel so weak in the chest".Now, this remedy is full of cardiac disturbances. Palpitation when lying on the back. "A senseof trembling in the chest". A sense of quivering, fluttering, or trembling, as it will be described by thedifferent patients, trembling in the chest. That tremulous weakness of the whole body, hands and feet;palpitation with general trembling is strong in this remedy. "frequent palpitation. l)During pregnancy,palpitation. l)Palpitation at night, Palpitation associated with headaches". With general weakness.Gradually increasing weakness. From his general weakness the knees knock together when walking.Trembling in the knees with palpitation and general weakness. The limbs become stiff. "Numbness inthe limbs, as if asleep". Loss of power. Many of the complaints are increased during rest. Pain in theback and limbs while sitting, better while walking. .All the nervous excitement that is possible inremedies comes up in this remedy.ARGENTUM NITRICUM [arg-n] [Kent’s]We shall find by examining the symptoms of this remedy that the intellectual featurepredominates, as in the metal; that the affections are disturbed only in a limited way. There is apredominance of mental symptoms. First of all, disturbance in the memory, disturbance of reason; hebecomes most irrational in his explanations of his actions and methods. He is irrational and doesstrange things and comes to strange conclusions; does foolish things. He has all sorts of imaginations,illusions, hallucinations. He is tormented in his mind by the inflowing of troublesome thoughts, andespecially at night his thoughts torment him to the extent that he is extremely anxious, and this putshim in a hurry and in a fidget, and he goes out and walks and walks, and the faster he walks the fasterhe thinks he must walk, and he walks till fatigued. Strange notions and ideas and fears come into hismind. He has an impulse that he is going to have a fit or that he is going to have a sickness. A strangethought comes into his mind that if he goes past a certain corner of the street he will create a sensation,