We will go to KENT for a few more hints in regard to Hepar.
“Hepar sometimes is bad for the oculist. When it is indicted, it cures eyes very quickly, so that the oculist does not have a very long case, and it does away with the necessity for washes in the hands of the specialist. Offensive, purulent discharge’ (Argentum nit) “Inflammation with little ulcers” (Tuberculinum, etc.)
“A very important sphere for Hepar is after mercurialization. Syphilitic affection: ulcers of soft palate and osseous portions of root of mouth. (Nit. a.). But everywhere the ‘stick sensation’, the offensiveness, and the extreme tenderness.
“Sweating all night without relief belongs to a great many complaints of Hepar.
“Inspiring cold air will increase the cough and putting the hand out of bed will increase the pain in the larynx or cough. Putting the hand or foot out of bed is a general aggravation of all the complaints of Hepar.”
“The mind takes part in this oversensitiveness, and manifests itself by a safe of extreme irritability. Every little thing that disturbs the patient makes him intensely angry and abusive and impulsive. The impulses will overwhelm him and make him wish to kill his best friend in an instant. Impulses also that are without cause sometimes crop out in Hepar”-impulses to do violence to burn, to destroy.
BLACK LETTER SYMPTOMS.
Constant pressive pain in one half of brain, as from a plug or nail (Thuja).
Epistaxis (Vipera, etc.).
Great swelling of the upper lip.
Sticking in throat as from a splinter on swallowing, and extending towards the ear on yawning.
Great desire for vinegar.
Nausea.
Abdomen distended, tense.
Buboes, abscesses of inguinal glands.
Stool soft, yet passed with great exertion.
Clay-coloured stool.
Urging to stool, but the large intestines are wanting in peristaltic action, and cannot expel the faeces which are not hard; only a portion of which can be forced out by help of abdominal muscles.
Very difficult passage of scanty, not hard, faeces, with much urging.
Micturition impeded: obliged to wait before the urine passes, and then it flows slowly.
He is never able to finish urinating; it seems as if some urine always remains behind in bladder.
Weakness of bladder; urine drops vertically down, and he is obliged to wait awhile before any passes.
Paroxysms of cough, as from taking cold, with excessive sensitiveness of the nervous system, as soon as only the slightest portion of the body becomes cold.
Dyspnoea.
Abscess of axillary glands.
Bruised pain in anterior muscles of thigh.
Swelling of knee.
Drawing pain in limbs.
Cracked lines and chaps in hands and feet.
The ulcer bleeds on being merely gently wiped.
Eroding pain in ulcer.
Sensitiveness to open air.
At night the pans are worst.
Dreams of fire.
Night sweat.
Unhealthy, suppurating skin; even slight injuries maturate and suppurate.
Soreness and moisture in folds between scrotum and thigh.
Perspires easily on every, even slight motion.
Catarrhal fever with great sensitiveness of skin to touch, and to the slightest cold.
Constant offensive exhalations from the body.
Among Hahnemann’s symptoms are these other peculiar ones which may prove diagnostic:
The slightest thing put him into a violent passion, and he could have murdered anyone without hesitation.
Cross: and had such weakness of memory that he required three or four minutes to remember anything, and when at work thoughts often left him all at once.
In the evening frightful anxiety; thought he must be ruined, and was sad to that degree that he could have killed himself.
In the morning after waking, he had the visionary appearance of a deceased person, which frightened him; also imagined he saw a neighboring house in flames, which terrified him.
When the smallest member becomes cool, there immediately occurs a cough, as from a chill and oversensitiveness of nervous system.
Suffocative cough, excited by tightness of breath.
At night, from 11 to 12, violent cough.
Before midnight he sprang out of sleep, full of anxiety, called for help, felt he could not get his breath. (Hepar is one of the great croup medicines.)
Even small wounds and slight injuries suppurate, will not heal, and become ulcers.
Hahnemann says:”Belladonna removes many of the suffering s caused by Hepar, where the symptoms correspond.”
HERING (Guiding Symptoms) has put in black type a few more Hepar symptoms as being particularly diagnostic.
Purulent conjunctivitis, with profuse discharge and excessive sensitiveness to air and touch.
Gums and mouth very painful to touch, bleed easily.
Mercurio-syphilitic diseases of gums.
Hasty speech and hasty drinking.
Chronic tonsillitis, especially when accompanied by hardness of hearing.
Is never able to finish urinating, it seems as if some urine always remains behind in bladder.
Larynx sensitive to cold air.
Croup, after exposure to dry cold winds.
Croupy cough, with rattling in chest but no expectoration.
Paroxysms of cough, with excessive sensitiveness of nervous system, as soon as the slightest portion of body becomes cold.
Coughs when any part of the body is uncovered.
Tenacious mucus.
Habitual bronchial catarrhs, with loud rattling of mucus.
Pulmonary abscess, empyema, pyothorax.
Great chilliness in open air.
Ailments from cold, dry wind.
Cannot bear to be uncovered. Desires to be covered even in a warm room.
Sensitiveness to open air, with chilliness and frequent nausea.
Sweats easily by every, even slight motion.
Cold clammy, often sour, offensive, sweat.
