Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

of life; he loathes life, and wants to die, and the Arsenic patient does commit suicide. It is a remedy fullof suicidal tendencies. The anxiety takes form also in the restlessness, in which he constantly moves. Ifhe is able to get up he goes from to chair; the child goes from nurse to mother, and from one person toanother. When in lied, unable to sit up, the patient tosses and turns from side to side; if he is able, heclimbs out of bed and sits in the chair, keeps moving from one place to another, and, when thoroughlyexhausted, he gets back into bed again. The restlessness seems to be mostly in the mind; it is ananxious restlessness, or an anguish, with the idea that anguish is a deathly anxiety. That is an effort toexpress it in the extreme.It seems that he cannot live, and it is not pain that drives him to anguish, but it is an anxietyintermingled with restlessness and sadness. This state prevails in all diseases intermingled withprostration. An uneasiness comes in the early stage of disease, and lasts but until the prostrationbecomes marked.While lying in bed, at first he moves his whole body, moves himself in bed and out of bed; butthe prostration becomes so marked that he is able to move only his limbs until at last he becomes soweak that he is no longer able to move and he lies in perfect quiet in extreme prostration. It seems thatprostration takes the place of anxiety and restlessness, and he appears like a cadaver. So remember thatthese states of anxiety and restlessness go towards the cadaveric aspect, towards death. This is seen, forinstance, in the typhoid, where Arsenicum is indicated. At first there is that anxious restlessness withfear,but the increasing weakness tends towards prostration.Running all through the remedy there is the burning mentioned as one of its most markedgenerals. There is burning in the brain, which makes him want to wash his head in cold water. Thissensation of heat in the inner head with pulsation is ameliorated by the cold bathing, but when there is arheumatic state that affects the scalp and outward nerves, and there is burning, the burning then isameliorated by heat. When the headache is of a congestive character, with the sensation of heat andburning inside the head, and there is a feeling as if the head would burst, and the face is flushed andhot, that headache is better from cold applications and in the cool open air. So marked is this that I haveseen the patient sitting in the room with clothing piled on to keep the body warm and with the windowopen to receive the congestion of the head. therefore, we say a striking feature belonging- to thismedicine is relief of all the complaints of the body from wrapping up and from warmth in general, andrelief of the complaints of the head by cold, except the external complaints of the head, which are betterfrom heat and from wrapping up. The neuralgias of the face and eyes, and above the eyes, are betterfrom heat.The burning is felt in the stomach; there is burning in the bladder, in the vagina, in the lungs. Itfeels as if coals of fire were in the lungs at times, when gangrenous inflammation is fire were in thelungs at times, when gangrenous inflammation is threatened, and in certain stages of pneumonia. Thereis burning in the throat and burning in all the mucous membranes. The skin burns with itching,hescratches until it is is raw, and then it burns, but the itching ceases; as soon as the smarting lets up atrifle the itching commences again. All night the itching and burning alternate burning for a minute,when he scratches it until it is raw, but soon the itching begins again and it seems that he has no rest.The secretions and excretions of Arsenic are acrid; they excoriate the parts, causing burning.The discharge from the nose and eyes causes redness around the parts, and this is true of all the fluidsfrom the various orifices. In ulcers there is burning, and the thin, bloody fluid discharged excoriates theparts round about. The odor of the discharge is putrid. If you have ever discovered the odor ofgangrene, of mortified flesh, you know the odor of the Arsenicum discharges. The stool is putrid, likedecomposed flesh, putrid blood. The discharges from the uterus, the menstrual flow, the leucorrhoea,the feces, the urine, the expectoration, all the discharges are putrid. The ulcer is so putrid that it smellslike decomposing flesh.Arsenic produces a tendency to bleeding. The patient bleeds easily and may bleed from anyplace. There is vomiting of bleeding from lungs and throat. Bloody discharge from the mucousmembrane, at times, when inflammation is running high; hemorrhage from the bowels, kidneys,bladder and uterus; anywhere that mucous membrane exists, there may be hemorrhage. Hemorrhage ofblack blood and discharges that are offensive.< Gangrene and sudden inflammatory conditions like gangrenous and erysipelatousinflammations are common in Arsenic. Parts suddenly take on erysipelas, or parts that are injuredsuddenly take on gangrene. Gangrene in internal organs, malignant inflammations, erysipelatousinflammation. No matter how you look upon the condition, matter what it is called, if it is a suddeninflammation that tends to produce malignancy in the part it belongs to Arsenicum. Inflammation willgo on in the bowels for a few days attended with a horribly offensive discharge, vomiting of clots ofblood, great burning in the bowels with tympanitic condition. You may almost look upon this as a