Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

will fall down and have a fit, and to avoid that he will go around the block, he avoids going past thatcorner for fear he will do something strange. He is so reduced in his mental state that he admits into themind all sorts of impulses. There is inflowing of strange thoughts into his mind, and when crossing abridge or high place the thought that he might kill himself, or perhaps he might jump off, or what if heshould jump off, and sometimes the actual impulse comes to jump off the bridge into the water. Whenlooking out of a window the thought comes to his mind what an awful thing it would lie to jump out ofthe window, and sometimes the impulse comes to actually jump out of the window. There is fear ofdeath, the over-anxious state, that death is near, and often at times like Aconite he predicts the momenthe is going to die. Looking forward to times he is anxious. When looking forward to something that heis about to do, or that he has promised to do, or in the expectation of things, he is anxious. When aboutto meet an engagement he is anxious until the time comes. If he is about to take a railroad journey he isanxious, full of fear and anxiety and tremulous nervousness until he is on the car going and then itpasses away. If he is about to meet a certain person on the street corner he is anxious and breaks outoften in a sweat from anxiety until it is over with. Not only is this particular symptom present, but thesymptoms come on as a result of his anxiety. He is excitable, angers easily, and as a result of this paincomes. When he becomes angry he becomes vehement and pain in the head comes on; cough, pain inthe chest and weakness follow this anger. the anxiety he has from these circumstances will bring oncomplaints. When he is going anywhere, going to a wedding, or to the opera, or any unusual event, it isattended with anxiety, fear and diarrhea. So it is we have in this a wonderful medicine. It says in thetext that he gave all sorts of queer reasons for his strange conduct, endeavoring to cover up, as it were,his foolishness which he himself realizes. Sadness, melancholy and confusion. Defective memory. Thesight of high houses makes him dizzy, and his vertigo is increased or comes on from closing the eyes;with the vertigo there is buzzing in the ears, great weakness and trembling.Constitutional headaches from brain-fag, from exertion of the mind. In such mental exhaustion,headaches, nervous excitement and trembling, and organic troubles of the heart and liver in businessmen, in students, in brain workers, in those subject to long excitement, in actors who have kept up along time the excitement of appearing well in public. This state of mind progresses until there is ageneral state of weakness; with trembling, paralysis, numbness, disturbed functions, palpitation,throbbing all over the body, with the mental state. The nervous state continues until there is disorder ofall the organs of the body. The stomach refuses to digest, everything taken seems to go into gas, and hebecomes distended and suffers with pain. The circulation seems to be greatly disturbed in addition tothe palpitation. Fullness of the blood vessels and throbbing all over the body. The blood vesselsbecome diseased. Atheromatous degeneration and dilatation of the veins, varicose veins. Upon themucous membranes and skin ulceration, and this progresses and the heart becomes increasingly feeble,and the extremities become cold and blue and the lips are cold and blue, with aggravation of all thesecomplaints from mental excitement, from going to the opera, from meeting a friend, from keeping anengagement. The medicine is pre-eminently a nervous one, full of spinal symptoms, rending, tearingpains down the extremities; such pains are found in loco-motor ataxia, fulgurating, shooting pains.There is one grand feature running through this patient modifying most of his symptoms, with fewexceptions, and that is that he is like a Pulsatilla patient; he wants cold air, cold drinks, cold things; hewants ice, ice cream; wants the head in the cold air; suffocates in a warm room. He suffocates fromwarm clothing, wants the door and windows open; cannot breathe in a stuffy room, suffocates if otherpeople are in the room; cannot go to church or to the opera, cannot go to places of amusement orgatherings, must stay at home. He dreads a crowd, dreads certain places.Everywhere we find ulceration, but particularly upon the mucous membrane. The throat hasulcers in it; ulceration of the eyelids, and of the cornea; ulceration of the bladder. Ulcers of the uterus,of the vagina and of the external soft parts. This tendency to ulcerate seems rather strange, peculiar thatit should have in its pathogenesis such a tendency, when the old school has been using it to cauterizeulcers, and yet it heals them up. We know that Phosphorus will burn and it intensifies the tendency toulcerate, makes the ulcer go deeper, while Argentum nitricum sets it healing upon mucous membraneswe find red elevations, granulations, enlargement of vessels, purplish aspect. Sensitive ulcers. Thecomplaints in women come on before and during the menstrual period. It is a favorable time for all hercomplaints to be aggravated; if she have Argentum nitricum symptoms they are likely to be at theirworst at this time. She suffers from most violent dysmenorrhoea, from nervous excitement, fromhysterical manifestations, and an unusually increased flow.A tendency to hemorrhages belongs to this remedy. The ulcers bleed; there is bleeding from thenose, bleeding from the chest, the urine is bloody; leucorrhoea copious, menstrual flow copious;menorrhagia; bleeding from the mucous membranes generally, from the uterus. Vomiting of blood. It