Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

Involuntary stool there is terrible exhaustion, so that there is involuntary diarrhea in typhoid andin low forms of zymotic disease; involuntary urine.Purging is sometimes present in Arsenic, but generally he does not have much purging, such aswe find in Podophyllum, Phos. ac.Usually there will be little, frequent gushes, little spurts with flatus and the great exhaustion thatoccurs in cholera, little spurts with mucus, slimy, whitish stools. Arsenic is not so commonly indicatedin cholera, i.e., during the gushing period, but sometimes after the gushing is over and the vomiting andpurging have passed, leaving a state of extreme exhaustion, we have a state that appears like coma, thepatient looks almost as if dead, except that he breathes. We find, then, that Arsenicum will establishreaction. Cholera infantum with great prostration, sinking and cadaveric appearance, great coldness,covered with cold sweat, cold extremities, cold as death; cadaveric, sickly, foul, pungent, penetratingodor in the room from the feces and urine and even of what is vomited. The passages from the bowelsare acrid, excoriating, causing redness and burning. Very often the burning extends into the bowels.The rectum and anus burn, smarting all about the anus. It has tenesmus, painful, unbearable urging,great distress in the lower bowel, in rectum and anus, terrible state of anxiety of the patient and the painis so violent and the suffering so intense, the anguish so intense, that he can think of nothing but death;the fearfulness and frightful feelings are such as he has never experienced in his life, and he feelsconfident these mean he is going to die. This, like all other complaints, is attended with restlessness,and when not at stool he is walking the floor, going from bed to chair and from chair to bed. He will geton the stool and then back to bed, then he is hurried to stool again, sometimes he loses it. Sometimesthere is a chronic haemorrhoidal state with burning, and the hemorrhoids protrude when at stool, he ismuch exhausted after getting back into bed after a stool, with these protruding lumps which are likegrapes and feel like coals of fire. They are hot, dry and bleeding. Fissures of the rectum that bleed atevery stool, with burning. Itching and eczematous eruptions about the anus with burning.This kind of pain may be felt anywhere in the body; burning is characteristic of Arsenic,stitching is characteristic of Arsenic. Now, put these together and the patient often describes it as beingstuck with red hot needles all over him. This red hot sensation, which is a common feature all over, isfelt at the anus, and especially when there are hemorrhoids, burning and sticking like hot needles in thehemorrhoids.At times when a patient is coming down with the early stage of a violent attack he will have allrigor and chill that it is possible to find in the Materia Medica and that can be found in disease. Rigorsand chills of violent character, and at such times he describes a feeling as if the blood flowing throughthe vessels were ice water. He feels a rushing through the body of ice cold waves. When the fevercomes on and he is intensely hot from head to foot, before the sweat has appeared, he feels that boilingwater is going through the blood vessels. Then comes on the sweat and dyspnoea and all complaints inwhich he is prostrated and becomes cold. While the sweat sometimes relieves the fever and pains, yet itis prolonged and attended with great exhaustion and does not relieve his exhaustion. Many of hiscomplaints are increased with the sweat; for instance, thirst is increased, the drinking is copious anddoes not relieve, it seems he cannot get enough and patients will say: "I can drink the well dry", or"Give me a bucket of water". Such things are indicative of the state of thirst. During the fever he wantslittle and often; during the chill he wants hot drinks.Arsenicum is a very useful medicine in the eruptions of the genitals with burning. In little ulcersthat burn, even when they are syphilitic; herpetic vesicles that appear upon the foreskin and upon thelabia; chancre or chancroid with burning, smarting and stinging, but especially in those that are weak,that offer no willingness to heal, but that do the very opposite, that spread, those that we callphagedenic, those that eat from their outer margins, become larger and larger. Arsenic and Merc. cor.are the two principal medicines for spreading ulcerations such as eat in every direction, veryoffensive. Such ulcerations as follow the opening of a bubo in the inguinal region where there is notendency to heal. A little, watery, offensive discharge keeps coming and extending, ulceration keepsspreading round about the opening, no tendency to heal. Or the patient has been in the hands of asurgeon who has passed his knife down the threatening suppurating bubo and it has been followed byred, angry, erysipelatous appearance and shows no tendency to heal.The edges have been removed by ulceration, and now the surface has cleared off, leaving asurface the size of a dollar; sometimes becoming serpiginous . These ulcers are sensitive to touch andburn like fire.In the male and female sexual organs there are many symptoms of importance. In the maleorgans a dropsical conditions, dropsy of the penis, oedematous appearance, so that the penis isenormously swollen and looks like a water bag; the scrotum, especially the skin of the scrotum, greatly