Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Palpitation obliges her to press hand hard against heart for relief. Heart's action irregular, intermittent",etc.Pain in the lumbar region comes on while sitting, but is better when standing and walking. Painin the back from flatulence. Sore pain in the spine. Pain in back at night. Great weight in the lumbarregion. It is very useful remedy in locomotor ataxia.Great restlessness. The nervous symptoms are very numerous.Periodical trembling of the body. Chorea, with tearing in the legs. Convulsions preceded bygreat restlessness. Nervous, faintish, tremulous sensation, etc.The sleep symptoms are quite general. Distressing nightmares.The dreams are horrible. Wakens in excitement and with starting.All sorts of strange, horrible things in sleep. Dreams of vicious and violent things, and thateverything is going to happen to him, dreams of departed friends, etc.On waking in the morning limbs feel bruised; aching in the chest, etc. Cannot sleep at nightbecause he is so nervous.Erysipelatous bed sores. While riding, palpitation and anxiety compelling him to get out of thewagon and walk, and that real fast. Purplish rash, such as appears in the most serious forms of scarletfever and zymotic diseases.Its most natural antidote is Natrum muriaticum. When you have the ulceration where the throathas been cauterized or the cervix uteri or eyelids have been cauterized by Nitrate of silver studyNatrum mur. and see if the symptoms of the case would not justify its administration. It is the mostcommon natural antidote for these vicious practices.ARNICA MONTANA [arn] [Kent’s]The Arnica patient is morose, wants to be let alone, does not want to be talked to, does not wantto be approached. He does not want to be approached both because he does not wish to enter intoconversation, a mental state, and also because he does not wish to be touched on account of the greatbodily soreness. These are the two most striking things in this medicine. Irritable, morose, sad, fearful,easily frightened, imagines all sorts of things, especially that he has heart disease, or that he willmortify, or that some deep-seated trouble is upon him. Full of nightmare, dreadful dreams, dreams ofmuddy water, robbers, etc. Horrors in the night. He frequently rouses up in the night, grasps at theheart, has the appearance of great horror, fears some dreadful thing will happen. A sudden fear of deathcomes on at this time, rousing him up in the night; he grasps at the heart, and thinks he is going to diesuddenly. He is full of dreadful anguish, but finally he comes to himself, lies down and goes off into asleep of terror, jumps up again with the fear of sudden death and says: "Send for a doctor at once". Thisis repeated night after night in persons who are fairly well in the daytime, who have no sympathybecause there seems to be no reality in their sickness, only a mental state. It is also seen in persons whohave gone through a railroad accident, or through some shock, who are sore and bruised from injury.They rouse up in the night with a fear of sudden death, with an expression of terror; the horrors theyreally went through are repeated. This is similar to Opium, only the Opium fear remains, even in theday time. Arnica dreams of it.When sick in bed afflicted with a zymotic disease, with violent fever, or with fever after anaccident or injury, he becomes greatly prostrated, stupid and unconscious. He can be aroused and willanswer a question correctly, but goes back into a stupor, or he hesitates about a word and is unable tofind correct words when trying to answer and goes back into the coma.When roused up, he looks at the doctor and says: "I do not want you; I did not send for you; Iam not sick; I don't need a doctor". He will say this even when he is seriously ill. I have seen an Arnicapatient lie back upon his pillow after emptying the stomach of a black fluid like blood, seriously ill,with the face mottled, in zymotic sickness or such as threaten malignant chill, that one would think hewas almost going to die, look up and say: "I am not sick; I did not send for you; go home". Yet when ina state of health he was friendly, kind-hearted, knew me well, glad to shake hands with me; but now heis irritated at seeing me there and insists there is nothing the matter with him.Such is the "shock" state, almost a delirium. After finishing such a sentence he will lie down ina stupor, will lie in bed drawn up in a heap and merely groan when spoken to. He wants to be leftalone, does not want to be bothered, does not want to be talked to. That state ushers in complaints aftera shock that has shaken the whole system, that has disturbed the circulation. When a symptomatictyphoid is coming on, i.e., when an intermittent or remittent is taking on symptoms that are typhoid incharacter, when the tongue becomes shiny, and sores appear about the teeth and lips, when there issinking, and soreness all over the body, there are times when this mental state that I am describing willappear and the patient must have Arnica. Arnica will interrupt the progress and prevent a typhoid state.