Mouth and throat: Dryness of the mouth without thirst.
Biting pain in the throat between the acts of swallowing. Rawness in the throat. The throat complaints are worse in the morning. Complaints are worse after eating and worse from warm drinks, especially from warm milk.
“After eating, cough and gagging.”
There is a peculiar combination of symptoms about the throat. Dryness and accumulation of mucus in the throat which he tries to expel, and, when making an effort to cough out the mucus he gags and sometimes vomits.
Stomach and abdomen: Vomiting from cough. Weakness at the pit of the stomach; after every evacuation; in “all-gone” feeling in the pit of the stomach.
Pressure deep in the region of the liver; worse in the morning; worse after eating; worse after stool. Distension of the abdomen with great flatulence, especially after eating.
Some symptoms are worse after drinking. Sometimes these complaints come on in the middle of the night, rousing him up with rumbling and cutting in the bowels.
The abdomen is cold; it feels as if the whole inside of the abdomen were cold. At other times the coldness seems to be on one side of the abdomen.
Inveterate constipation in old persons, and especially when it is impossible to have anyone near at the time, of stool.
“Frequent ineffectual desire for stool; this makes her very anxious; at this time presence of other persons becomes unbearable.”
After the normal stool there is pressure in the abdomen or a sense of emptiness and weakness in the abdomen which is better after passing flatus or eructation.
Urines: Bloody urine with red sediment in the urine.
Urine when emitted is clouded, yellowish-brown and deposits a brownish sediment.
“Sour smelling urine.” The urine is copious.
“During urination burning, smarting, itching and titillation in the urethra and vulva.”
“Sore rawness between the thighs.”
“Voluptuous itching on scrotum.”
“Violent morning erections without desire,” with numbness of the genitals.
The symptoms are most erratic, as much so, as in Ignatia and Natr. mur. Taken as a whole they can be reconciled, but taken a few at a time they seem wonderfully inconsistent. You must get the whole remedy in order to comprehend it.
Female: Copious discharge of blood between the menstrual periods.
“Discharge of blood between periods at every little accident.”
Discharge of blood from the vagina from pressing at hard stool; even from a walk that is a little too long or from too great exertion.
“During menses left leg becomes quite blue from distended varices, with pressive pain in leg.”
“Lying down aggravates uterine symptoms,” quite an unexpected thing.
Menses too early and too profuse.
“Menses appear seven days before time,” and then comes that horrible itching of the genitals;
“soreness and itching with swelling of labia.”
Asthma: Another marked feature of this remedy that you might expect with all this nervous excitement and prostration is dyspnoea with cardiac symptoms, difficult breathing, a sort of asthma. It comes on from any little exertion.
Asthma on attempting coition,
“Itching, scraping and soreness in larynx and trachea.”
“Titillation in throat, larynx and trachea.”
Everywhere there is itching, and the itching is very often a form of crawling.
“Asthma of old people and children,” in feeble, tremulous, weakly ones.
“Whistling chest during breathing.”
“Spasmodic cough.”
Violent spasmodic cough with frequent eructations and hoarseness,”
A good deal of this cough is of nervous origin. It is a cough with excitement, with nervousness, with trembling, which would make one of considerable experience wonder if that patient did not have brain and spinal cord trouble.
Nervous cough, such as occurs often, in spinal irritation. Cough from constriction of the larynx followed by copious flow of white mucus.
This is a paroxysmal cough, much like whooping cough. Asthmatic dyspnoea from any little exertion, from music, from excitement. Cough with congestion of blood to the head. Cough from thinking and from anxiety.
It is not very long after these symptoms show themselves before this patient will emaciate and wither. until the skin looks like dried beef. With all he is a tremulous and shaky patient.
He complains a great deal of tearing pressure deep in the left side of the chest. Sensation of rawness in the chest and itching in the chest. Titillation and itching, moving about here and there if he tries to touch the place and scratch it.
You will not be surprised to know that this patient suffers from palpitation of the heart upon slight exertion, from excitement, from music, from any effort to put the mind on anything, with trembling and quivering.
And this palpitation he notices even to the extremities; he throbs all over. His extremities pulsate. He is conscious of his arteries everywhere and the palpitation of his heart causes oppression of breathing.
The limbs easily become numb; pressed upon in the slightest manner they go to sleep; go to sleep on being crossed. Coldness, trembling and stiffness of the extremities. The finger nails become brittle and are shriveled.
The arms go to sleep when lying down.
“Sore and raw between the thighs and in hollow of knees.”
Heaviness of lower limbs, Paralytic weakness; the patient is growing old; senility is coming on.
This remedy has cured the premature trembling that comes on in middle-aged persons.
It has cured the “going to sleep” and numbness and feeble circulation with loss of muscular power. It is very suitable in children who are excitable and nervous and weak.
“In lean persons.” “Old persons and children.”
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.
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