Kent's - Classical Homeopathy Online

heat, coming in flushes with excitement. Fidgetiness, feeling as if something dreadful were going tohappen throughout the economy. Then it settles into a state of quiescence for awhile and then thisrepeats itself.These violent orgasms come preparatory to the locations or establishment of some breakdownin the economy. At times it is a cardiac affection, with marked oppression behind the sternum withdyspnoea on walking fast or going upstairs. Endocarditis will have this turmoil in the body; by and bylook for albumin in the urine, look for enlargement of the liver, look for signs of cancer of the uterus,and deep-seated affections."Boring in bones". "Pains drive to despair". The pains drive the patient out of bed at night andmake him walk. This seen in old syphilitic bone pains, and old mercurialized patients. The patients hasbeen taking Mercury all his life and his liver is enlarged, and his joints are enlarged. He goes to everydoctor, with an endeavor to get relief from his distressing sufferings.Mercury and disease are so mixed up that a great turmoil with result form your firstprescription. He will go through these stages of violence and periodical attacks. You will have to knowsuch medicines as Aurum, Chelidonium and Staphisagria to get this patient over these awful attackswhich.This medicine wonderfully affects the glands, the parotid glands, the glands about the groin, thelymphatics in the abdomen; in fact, the glands everywhere. The mammary glands, the testes andovaries, are involved, and undergo states of hardness, infiltration, etc. Aurum cures chronicenlargement of the testes, and lumps in the mammary glands. Tumors in these glands, of cysticcharacter, have been cured by Aurum. Hahnemann potentized Aurum and gave some of it to a patient,and it did not work, but he thoroughly triturated it until he got it to the fifteenth potency and then itworked and restored that patient to the bosom of his family. Hahnemann says that in the earliertriturations the dose was yet too large to cure; so he went higher until it was sufficiently small to cure,sufficiently attenuated to go into the interior of the economy through the various envelopes of man.There is one grand feature running through the Aurum state; it is the manner in which he isaffected by temperature, and by the weather. Here are some symptoms that relate to the whole many,which must be examined in this connection. "Desire for open air".This patient ranks along with Pulsatilla as to temperature; but Aurum is not mild, gentle andyielding, he is Generally > growing warm". This is in connection with the headaches. "Cold waterameliorates pain in eyes". "Averse to uncover", but he desires open air like Pulsatilla. "Warm air,asthma < ". Many symptoms washing, especially cold washing; but whenever the patient is sufferingfrom great excitement, turmoil and vascularity, constitutional orgasm, pulsations, he wants the doorsand windows open, wants to get out in the cool air; wants the clothing thrown off. This state ofexcitement and pulsation is ameliorated by the open air. It has those flushes of heat so common towomen at the critical period, and these are followed by sweat, sometimes by chilliness.Most that we have said of the remedy is about its general aspect, for everything about the mindis general.In Aurum the pain is in the head is very intense, maddening, often accompanied by a sensationas if air were blowing upon him; he looks around to see where the draft comes from when there isnone; extremely sensitive. Often has to have the head wrapped up, although it feels hot, with a gooddeal of congestion and rush of blood to the head. The head is sore and feels bruised. Stitching, burningtearing pains in the head; much throbbing in the the head. The face is bloated, flushed and shiny with econgestive headaches. These headaches are often found in syphilitic subjects; often associated withcardiac disease. Pain in the back of the head associated with cardiac disease, with sluggish circulation,purple face, duskiness of the skin. Exostoses as in syphilis. The skull bones are sensitive to touch; theperiosteum is tender to touch. In old mercurialized cases with bone affections and necrosis of the skull,as in syphilis and mercury, the hair falls out copiously; the head becomes bald. Baldness due tosyphilis; the scalp is left shiny and the hair will not grow in again. In acute diseases there is falling outof the hair, but it grows in again.. But young syphilitics often lose the hair and remain bald all the restof their life.There are disturbances of the eye, of a catarrhal character, even to the extent of ulceration andinfiltration of the various coatings of the eye. Iritis; great disturbance of the whole visual apparatus;some of the striking features I will read from the book, but remember the constitution that we mustalways have in view; remember the mental state, the mercurial and syphilitic states, the gouty tendency,and the complaints that belong to joints, remember the cardiac disturbances. As we review the eyesymptoms we thus see the constitution with which they are likely to be associated. "Photophobia".Weak sight and eyes. "By gas light a number of bright, floating specks and dots are seen".