Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

In most of these complaints the urine is very scanty and is sometimes suppressed. You will verycommonly note a good action of this medicine in these complaints by its immediately starting up acopious flow of urine. It is a sign of relief.It has upon the skin all the scarlet rash that you would expect to find in scarlet fever, and it hasalso the typhoid petechiae.ASAFOETIDA [asaf] [Kent’s]This remedy in olden times was frequently abused for man and beast. Our grandfatherssupposed it was a protection against disease, and hence they used it in the stables. Lumps of "foety", asthey called it, were put in the corn for the horse, to keep off distemper. What it has accomplished I amunable to say, but it is certain that these farmers looked upon Asafetida as a great protective againstdisease. It has been used also by the laity as a medicine for fainting, for hysteria, and all sorts ofnervous symptoms and complaints. The use is justified by the proving.These things are scarcely worthy of note, but it shows the general use among the people, as adomestic medicine, in crude form. It has been used more extensively in this form than in professionalpractice in a legitimate way. There is one class of patients you will find who will trouble you. Thosecases that come into your office with puffed, venous, purple faces; they have an appearance of plethora;the face looks puffed, bloated and dropsical at times; it is a dark red, dusky face; such a face we shallcure sometimes with Asafetida. Carbo-an., Aurum, Carbo- veg. and Pulsatilla are also related to thiskind of face, but it is a very troublesome face, it shows more or less cardiac disturbance and venousstasis. The venous side of the heart will often be involved, or be about to be involved, when you havethis kind or face. I never like to see them come into my office, for they are hard cases to manage. Theyhave deep-seated troubles, with bleeding, they are subject to sudden inflammations, and they do notrally quickly. In this constitution we have ulcerations; a little place will ulcerate and suppurate, and theulceration will burrow; this is just what this remedy does. Another thing this kind of constitution willdo is to set up an inflammatory condition of the periosteum with swelling, periostitis of the tibia forinstance, where the circulation is not very active; inflammation of cartilages with tumefaction andpurple skin, stitching pains and dropsy, ulcerations and fistulous openings.This medicine is good for just such states. "Ulcers with extreme sensitiveness".Patients often say, "I get no sympathy when I am sick because I look so well"; fat, flabby andpurple. This remedy will seldom be thought of in lean persons; they seem to be free from complaintslike those of Asafetida, but in fat, flabby persons, extremely nervous, extremely sensitive to pain, fullof hysteria.Purple when out in the cold, purple when excited. In other words, you see before you thevenous constitution, and these people get the worst kind of hysteria; they go off almost from no causeinto fainting; from a close room, from excitement, from any disturbance; sometimes cramps come on,but more especially fainting. They are subject to stitching pains from the bone to the surface; that is,from within out. The periosteum becomes irritated, and glands become swollen. Syphilis sometimesproduces this kind of condition. Vascular disturbances in the body; periostitis, necrosis, induration ofglands, nerve syphilis and head pains. In old syphilitics with this kind of venous face, subject tobleeding, ulcers turn black or become purple. In this there is a similarity to Lachesis. Old scars turnpurple, threaten to suppurate, take on a venous aspect, become painful and turn black. Ulcers form atthe site of old scars in old syphilitic patients and sometimes in psoric patients. Most complaints comeon during rest and are better by slow motion.There is another grand feature running through this remedy; it is full of discharges, catarrhaldischarges, discharges from ulcers, watery discharges from different places, and even watery stool; andall these discharges are horribly offensive and ichorous. Deep, flat ulcers from bone and periostealaffections give out a watery, bloody discharge that is horribly offensive, with pains shooting outwards.Get the idea of the venous stasis well fixed in your mind and with this syphilitic state added to it. Thereare many pains running through the remedy and they are night pains like those of syphilis, nightly bonepains, and pains in the periosteum. The ulcers are deep, with bluish edges.Varicose veins surround the ulcers. Inflammation of the bone and periosteum, with blueness allaround the ulcers. When there has been an inflammatory condition of the periosteum, somewhatpassive in character, the skin adheres to the bone, glues down to it by adhesion. It is too feeble toulcerate, it does not get up a likely inflammation, but only a passive state. The glands all over the bodyare hot and throbbing, with shooting, jerking pains, in syphilis or old psoric and scrofulous complaints.The bone pains that are felt in the head are sometimes very distressing. Old syphilitic bonepains in the head, stitching, penetrating. It seems where there are lumps and nodules, about the head,this medicine seems to hurry things. Shooting, stitching, tearing pains under left frontal eminence. This