Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

together and the prostration that occurs with the awful anxiety, and you can most always in a generalway pick put the Arsenic case. But it has so many details in its chill, fever and sweat that if you take thedetails of symptoms and leave these general features out you will be likely to be able to cover almostany case of chills, i.e. you may think you will, but unless some of these general states are present thatstamp it as Arsenic you will fail. It is one thing to stamp the whole case as Arsenic and another thing tosay that these are Arsenicum symptoms. So it is with 1 < China> 1 and 1 < Quinine> 1; they havenumerous particular symptoms, and yet to make the case a 1 < China> 1 or 1 < Quinine> 1 case thestriking general features must be present.ARSENICUM IODATUM [ars-i] [Kent’s]From a study of the elements making up this agent, it may be known that it is a deep-actingconstitutional remedy. Its complaints come on in the morning, afternoon, evening, NIGHT, aftermidnight. In hectic conditions, with many abscesses.Extreme anemia, such as belongs to tuberculous subjects. The patient craves open air when nottoo cold; wants the windows open, is sensitive to a close room. Marked general physical anxiety. Thehands and feet tingle as if asleep and the limbs feel as if tied with a band. Complaints are worse frombathing; takes cold from bathing. It has been of the highest use in cancerous affections and has curedlupus and epithelioma. Its symptoms are often found in chlorotic girls; it has cured choreic action ofmuscles in girls. Some are very sensitive to cold, like Arsenicum, and others to that, like Iodine; it issensitive to both heat and cold; cold wind and cold wet weather make the patient worse and bring outsymptoms. Always taking cold, which brings on coryza and increases his catarrhal troubles. Manyconstrictions, internal and external, and constrictions of orifices are found in this remedy. Convulsivemovements of limbs.Dropsy, external and internal, like Arsenicum. He is worse when hungry and, like Iodine, betterafter eating. Increasing loss of flesh and weight in phthisical patients; emaciation in children, extremeaggravation from slight physical exertion.In women who are subject to faintness and fainting spells.Formication all over the body. Hemorrhage from any mucous membrane. A sensation of beingtoo warm, must have fresh air.Feeling of heaviness of the whole body. Induration is a strong feature; sometimes in glands, inulcers, in skin affections. The glands are swollen and hard. Inflammation, external and internal, inmany parts, glands, bones and serous membranes. He has symptoms as though he had lost fluid.Extreme lassitude; lack of reaction, lying in bed and lying on the painful side makes the symptomsworse. She is worse during the menses; worse from motion, but desire to move. Mucous secretionsgenerally increased, copious, catarrhal discharges, thick, yellow, or yellowish-green and honey-like.Numbness of the limbs and painful parts, flushes of heat and surging of blood in the body; pain in thebones and glands. Bruised sensation in the body. Burning internally and in outer parts; paralyzingpains, pinching, pressing, stitching and tearing pains. Predisposition to phthisis and complaints in theconsumptive diathesis. There is much soreness, and pressure increases his suffering. Pulsation internaland external, like Arsenicum the pulse is frequent and small, full, hard, intermittent, irregular. Burningis a strong feature, like Arsenicum. It has been very useful in all scorbutic conditions when thesymptoms were similar. Very sensitive to pain. The symptoms predominate on the right side; he issensitive to the summer heat and the cold in winter. Dropsical and inflammatory swelling; swelling inaffected parts and in glands.It has been curative in all stages and forms of syphilis.Trembling and twitching of muscles, walking makes him worse, especially walking fast; worsefrom warmth, warm air, warm bed, warm room and warm wraps. Weakness, like a vital prostration, inthe morning, when ascending, on exertion, during menses, and on walking; worse in wet weather,Worse from the warm south wind.Anger and irritability during all complaints; aversion to answering questions; extreme anxiety,restlessness and fear; worse in a warm bed; confusion of mind morning and evening; delirium duringthe night; illusions of fancy and delusions about dead people. Sadness, even to despair; discontentment,and he is often in a state of great excitement; mental exertion increases many of his symptoms; there ismarked mental weakness; fear of insanity, of misfortune, of people, and he is generally timid. He isimpatient and in a constant state of hurry; he becomes indifferent to his friends, to happiness and to hissurroundings, Aversion to work. He seems to be going toward insanity. He is unable to decide betweentwo opinions. He suffers from a sudden impulse to kill somebody. Very talkative at times; mirthful;changeable moods and alternating conditions of mind; a degree of mental prostration prevailscontinuously. He is over-sensitive, especially to noise. Inclination to sit; averse to being spoken to and