Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Desires sugar. He feels that he must have it and it makes him sick, brings on eructations,increased flatulence, sour stomach.He cannot digest it; it acts like a physic and brings on a diarrhea. So marked is the aggravationfrom sugar that the nursing infant will get a green diarrhea if the mother eats candy. Then is itastonishing that the baby can get a dynamized dose from the mother, when the dynamized dose cantravel like lightning, and sugar takes all day to be digested and dynamized and fed as poison to thebaby? I remember a case that I figured and figured on. The baby had Mercurial stools, sure enough,they were grass green. Well Chamomilla has grass green stool and Arsenicum and Mercurius and lotsof remedies have grass green stools. Routinist that I was in those days I could not get anything butMercurius out of it, and although the baby had gotten Merc., Ars. and Cham, there was no relief, until Ifound that the mother had been eating candy. When she was asked if she ate sweet things, sugar, etc.,she said, "Oh, no". "Why, yes, you do", said the husband; "I bring you home a pound of candy everyday. What do you do with it"? "Oh, that was nothing", she replied. But the baby did not get well until itgot Argentum nitricum and the mother stopped eating sugar. "Irresistible desire for sugar". Quite anumber of medicines have craving for sweets, but many of them can eat sweets with impunity. It isalways a peculiar thing when one of the articles of diet, such as milk, sugar, salt, starch, etc., and thethings of the table make sick. When it is said that "I cannot eat a teaspoonful of anything with starch,egg or sugar in it without being sick", it is always strange and peculiar, because it is not something thatcomes in only as a craving and affecting the stomach, but it affects the whole patient. The patient says:"I become sick", and hence it becomes a general. When the patient gets a diarrhea from eating sugar itis not merely a local and particular symptom, because the whole patient is sick before the diarrheabegins; the diarrhea is the outcome. Hence as it is a general it is necessary that it should be examinedinto."The vomited substances tinge the bedding black". Incessant vomiting of food. He sometimesspits up food by the mouthful until the stomach is empty. Eructations of air accompanied by a mouthfulof undigested food, like Phosphorus and Ferrum. Spitting it up; welling up in mouthfuls."Eructations relieve". "Flatulence passes upwards, in quantities". Frequent eructations.Eructations do not always relieve. It is more like China in its eructations. The eructations of Carbo veg.relieve for some time and he feels better. This is the way with Carbo veg.; he is distended almost tobursting and he cannot get up any wind, but finally after much pain and distension it wells up in emptyeructations and then he gets relief. With China he is distended, and every little while getting up gas, butwith no relief. It does not seem to help, and sometimes patients will say they seem to get worse after it.So it is with Argentum nitricum at times. It evidently has both."Most gastric ailments are accompanied by belching". "Belching difficult; finally air rushes outwith great violence". "Nausea after every meal; nausea with troublesome efforts to vomit". I have seenthese Argentum Nitricum patients vomiting and purging in the same moment, not vomiting one secondand purging the next, but gushing out both ways with great exhaustion like cholera morbus, so relaxed,prostrated and weak. "Vomit; streaked brown, flocculent, like coffee grounds".The stomach, liver and abdomen are full of pain. The abdomen distended with all thistroublesome flatulence. Inflammation of the stomach, ulceration of the stomach, most troublesomediarrhea. Diarrhea with copious flatus. Stool with copious flatus in nursing children, with tormina andviscous sanguinolent stools and tenesmus. "Diarrhea of children after weaning".Another feature in connection with the diarrhea and dysentery is that casts are passed with thestool, like diphtheritic membrane or deposit; casts like the rectum, strings of membrane, come with thestool. Stools of green, foetid mucus with noisy flatus at night."Urine passed unconsciously and uninterruptedly". "Urging to urinate; the urine passes lesseasily and freely". "Bleeding of the urethra; painful erections; gonorrhea". It has most painfulgonorrhea with painful erections in the male. In the female the vagina is extremely sore, and theexternal soft parts are swollen; tumefaction. Vagina feels sore on urinating; bloody discharge. In themale, orchitis from suppressed discharge. In the female, ovaritis, inflammation of all the pelvic organs.Great soreness all over the pelvis. Bleeding from the vagina.Ulceration of the uterus. Coition is painful or impossible."Pains like sticks or slivers in and about the womb", etc. This sensation prevails wherever thereare ulcers. "Prolapsus with ulceration of the os or cervix". Hemorrhage of short duration; shootingpains through abdomen and stomach. Metrorrhagia.Complaints of nervous women and at the menstrual period. Menses suppressed or scanty.Complaints during pregnancy.Under the symptoms of the heart and pulse: "Anxiety with palpitation and throbbing through thewhole body". "Violent palpitation from the slightest mental emotion or sudden muscular exertion.