Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

swollen and humid round about the parts. In the female the labia are enormously swollen with burning,stinging pains, hard and swollen.Erysipelatous inflammation of these organs, ulcerations of a syphilitic character; these whensuch symptoms as burning, smarting and stinging are present. In the female, violent, burning pains inthe genitals with or without swelling swelling, burning that extends up into the vagina, with greatdryness and itching of the vagina. The leucorrhoeal discharge excoriates the parts, causing itching andburning with great suffering. Whitish, watery, thin discharges that excoriate; so copious sometimes thatit will run down the thighs. The Arsenicum menstrual flow is very often excoriating in character.Copious leucorrhoeal flow intermixed with menstrual flow, very profuse and very acrid.Suppressed menstruation going on for months; amenorrhoea in prostrated, nervous patients,wrinkled, careworn, haggard faces.Of course, Arsenic has a wonderful reputation in the old school for anemia, and it is said to beas good as 1 < Ferrum> 1 for anemia; 1< Ferrum and Arsenic are the strong drugs for anemia, so that itis not to be wondered at that these pallid mortals find benefit from Arsenic. "During menstruationstitches in the rectum". "Leucorrhoea acrid, corroding, thick and yellow", etc.After parturition the woman does not pass the urine; no urine in the bladder; suppression or thebladder is full and it does not pass. In connection with this subject you will find Causticum the mostfrequently indicated remedy when you go back, and the woman has not passed the urine and it is timethat she should; you will frequently find it indicated when you have no other symptoms to go on.Aconite will be more frequently indicated than any other remedy if the infant has not passed the urine.This is keynote practice and is to be condemned when there are other symptoms to indicate a remedy.If there are no other symptoms study Aconite and Causticum and see if there is any reason why theyshould not be given. Another feature in connection with the woman, Arsenic is a wonderful palliativein cancerous affections, such as occur in the uterus and mammary glands. Burning, stinging pains haveentirely disappeared, in incurable cases, of course. It becomes one of the palliatives.Arsenic has loss of voice, laryngitis, with dry teasing cough; a cough that does not seem to doany good; hacking constantly, dry, hacking cough. Study its relation to asthma and difficult breathing,dyspnoea. Arsenic has cured some long-standing cases of asthma of a nervous character; asthma thatcomes on after midnight, in patients who suffer from the cold, those who are very pallid, dry wheezingcough, must sit up in bed and hold the chest, anxious restlessness with prostration.The heart symptoms are troublesome to manage when they get to be like Arsenic; the symptomscorrespond to a state of great weakness, great palpitation, palpitation from the least exertion orexcitement, great anxiety, anguish, weakness; he cannot walk, he cannot go upstairs, he can hardlymove without increasing the palpitation; every excitement brings on palpitation. "Severe paroxysms ofpalpitation or attacks of syncope during endocarditis". Arsenicum corresponds to most seriouscomplaints of the heart, corresponds to many of the incurable complaints of the heart, i.e., whenmarked cardiac affections, dropsy of the pericardium, etc., you have a class of cases that are veryserious, "Angina pectoris", etc. "rheumatism affecting the heart", etc. "Hydropericardium with greatirritability", etc."Pulse frequent, small, trembling". "Pulsation through whole body", etc., etc. Again this goes onto another state when the heart becomes weak, pulse thread-like, patient pale and cold, covered withsweat, pulse very feeble a wonderful remedy; that is, it is capable of cure.I want to say a few things concerning a few essentials, some few things most general to theArsenicum type of intermittent.You can read the general state of intermittent fever and fevers generally and apply what hasbeen said. Arsenic has all the violence of the chill that you can find in any remedy, with excitement,headache, prostration, dry mouth, desire for hot drinks and to be covered up warmly, with all theanxious restlessness and prostration that you can find in any medicine; but the time of the Arsenic caseis an important thing. A striking feature of the Arsenic time of chill is its irregularity, coming not twicealike, coming at any time. It has afternoon chill and after midnight chill, sometimes in the morning,sometimes at 3 or 4 p.m. sometimes at 1 p.m. It has a striking periodicity in its nature. Hence it has anintermittent nature. It has a striking feature of thirst. During the chill, while there is sometimes greatthirst, he has aversion to cold things, hence can take only hot drinks, hot teas, etc. During the fever thethirst increases because he has dry mouth, and he drinks little and often, just a teaspoonful to wet hisdry mouth.Water does not quench his thirst, for he wants but a tablespoonful, little and often. This runs oninto the sweat with prostration, increased coldness, desire for copious drinks, unquenchable thirst forcold drinks. The chill is attended with great aching in the bones, likely to commence in the extremities,and during the chill there is a great head congestion with purple fingers and toes. Put these things