Pain in Heels


Pain in Heels. Pulsatilla – Mrs. P., aged forty-two, has been a most able sufferer for several years, trying to have comfort through allopathy. Symptoms: P…


Pulsatilla – Mrs. P., aged forty-two, has been a most able sufferer for several years, trying to have comfort through allopathy. Symptoms: Pain in the heels like the pricking of tacks or nails; hot flushes, followed by chilliness; menstrual flow black and clotted; puts feet out of bed to cool them, they burn so; she must put her shoes on before she can walk, “heels ache so;” vertigo mostly before menses; she has been deaf since childhood, from scarlet-fever; constipation, character not ascertained; open air is grateful, craves open air; warm room is oppressive, she suffocates and must go out into the air; church oppressive; watery discharge from eyes and nose; purplish appearance of the skin of the heel; sprained feeling in the ankles, weak ankles.

May 23rd-Pulsatilla 51m, one dose, and plenty of Sac. lac.

June 30th-Pulsatilla cm and Sac. lac. She needed no medicine until April 13th, the next year, when she consulted me with the following symptoms: Rattling cough; loses her urine when coughing; feels stopped up in a warm room; menses every two weeks, profuse, dark, offensive; urine offensive, strong; sharp pains in rectum; toe joints very sore; hot flushes; limbs tire easily when walking. Pulsatilla cm. one dose.

April 26th-Felt so much heat in vulva that she was compelled to apply a cold cloth; -no appetite; sleepless; burning heat all over body; throws covers all off the bed; “I feel no two days alike,” “I am so fidgety.” She got more Sac. lac.

May 3d-Says she is well; plenty of Sac. lac. June 20th-Loses her urine when coughing. July 10th-The same symptom continues to bother her. Pulsatilla cm. finished the cure and she remains well.

James Tyler Kent
James Tyler Kent (1849–1916) was an American physician. Prior to his involvement with homeopathy, Kent had practiced conventional medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He discovered and "converted" to homeopathy as a result of his wife's recovery from a serious ailment using homeopathic methods.
In 1881, Kent accepted a position as professor of anatomy at the Homeopathic College of Missouri, an institution with which he remained affiliated until 1888. In 1890, Kent moved to Pennsylvania to take a position as Dean of Professors at the Post-Graduate Homeopathic Medical School of Philadelphia. In 1897 Kent published his magnum opus, Repertory of the Homœopathic Materia Medica. Kent moved to Chicago in 1903, where he taught at Hahnemann Medical College.