Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

edclothes, picking all the time, picking and handling the clothing, a busy, low form of muttering, mustbe doing something all the time, groping around with the fingers and feeling for something. This is thecarphologia and it is a mental symptom. While "picking the lips" is given under the "mental" symptomsin the repertory, it is not intended to mean that it is a mental symptom like carphologia. Now, you willfind two expressions in the repertory, and it is necessary to have two--the one is that "the nose itches",and the other is "he rubs the nose", he does something; that is what an individual would do if his noseitched. One's mind is not always directed towards the two ---one is a direct and the other is an indirectexpression.This remedy has not been sufficiently proved to bring out the nature of its chronicmanifestations. It has undoubtedly something of that kind, but it has been useful in a limited wayamong acute affections of a zymotic character. It has not been used to any great extent for chronic sickheadaches, but it has cured some headaches that are worse in the heat, worse in a warm room and fromwarm clothing, worse from becoming warm, worse from wrapping up the body. Heat in the head,determination of blood to the head. It has also cured eruptions upon the scalp like eczema.It has also been found useful in catarrhal affections of the nose, eyes and lids. About the nose itsaffections have been mostly of the acute kind. It has most dreadful coryza. The nose is stopped up, andmore stopped up on the left side. Must breathe through the mouth. Sneezing worse during the night;fluent acrid coryza. The discharge of saliva flowing over the lips produce rawness, smarting andburning of the mucous membranes, and the lips bleed. The fluid from the nose as it flows over the skinleaves red streaks. "Acrid ichorous discharge excoriating the inside of the nose, the alae and upper lip".That is expressive and occurs in diphtheria, in various forms of sore throat, in scarlet fever, when thisremedy is indicated.Inflammation of the tongue, with acrid discharge from the nose. Inflammation of the root of thetongue, of the throat and soft palate, of the tonsils. The glands of the neck are swollen.This inflammatory condition is followed by paralytic weakness, making it impossible for him toswallow fluids or food, and when the mouth forces food into the pharynx the esophagus refuses tooperate, and then fluids and liquids are forced up into the nose and run out of the nose. This has beenclinically observed many times in diphtheria and sore throats. The sneezing is like an ordinary coryza,with repeated chills over the body, and aching in the bones as if the bones would break, like Nux,Eupator., Arn., Rhus, Bry. and Ars., that have aching all over during "cold". This is one of the moststriking medicines as an illustration of the keynote system, that is, with those who prescribe on onesymptom and give this medicine whenever the patient bores his nose or picks his lips, notwithstandingthat Cina bores the nose and picks the lips. Cina has more of the congestive and nerve symptoms. Thenostrils are really so sore from the acridity of the fluids inside of the nose that it feels as if the nostrilswere filled with fire. This is the language of the patients who narrate their symptoms in an Arumtriphyllum case. They come into the office with a sore, raw nose, and it tingles and tickles and hecannot let it alone. Fluids run down over the lip and excoriate. The glands of the neck are oftenenlarged. When he takes cold in the nose there is soreness of the neck and parotid gland. Desire to boreinto the nose. This boring into the side of the nose is another symptom and differs from the one "boringthe nose". You will see children boring in the nose, inside of nose. It is an inflammation of the nasalduct, the duct that leads from the eye to the nose, and accompanied by a discharge of tears over thecheeks, with the tickling that extends up there which they cannot reach, But they undertake to reach it.Can hardly talk on account of phlegm in the back part of the nose. He talks through the nose. The noseis filled with mucus and there is great tumefaction of all the mucous membranes, which gives him anasal tone. "Swollen, bloated face". If you observe the nose and face you will be surprised to see that somuch of the trouble is in the left side of the face, left nostril, left lachrymal duct, etc. There is bleedingof the lips, upper and lower. The under lip especially is denuded and drops of blood stand upon it, andthe patient is constantly picking and pinching the lips, and when you request of the little one to stop itor take his hands away he yells with a sort of sepulchral yell. "Children will often pick and bore intoraw surfaces, though it gives them pain and they scream with it. but they keep on boring". That is astriking symptom. Fluids make the lips raw and then this tickling comes on and he cannot let it alone,he must keep at it. "Appearance of raw bleeding surfaces on the lips, buccal cavity, nose, etc". Greatitching tingling describes it. In typhoid, where you would hardly expect much swelling of the parotid,these glands are enlarged. In diphtheria, scarlet fever and sore throat enlargement of the salivaryglands. This inflammatory condition with soreness and swelling of these glands; the glands are hardand tender to the touch. The tongue is red, the papilla elevated; the tongue appears to be almostdenuded. It is raw and bleeding, sometimes does bleed in a few places, and sometimes, after this hasgone on for a few days, when the tongue is projected it looks like a big red strawberry, and for thatreason has been called "strawberry tongue". "Tongue cracked, bleeding, burning, painful; smarting on