In all these remedies you get opposite effects. Now Opium will illustrate that. The first effect of Opium is to constipate. Let several doses be given, and as the effects of the Opium wear off he may have diarrhea. Opium eaters can seldom stop because a diarrhea comes on. If you should ever have an Opium case and diarrhea comes on Pulsatilla will nearly always control it. But there are individuals who reverse that. Often small doses of Opium will bring on dysentery, and if it is increased, bloody dysentery and inflammation of the bowels come on. Of course, one is action and the other the reaction.
Women: A woman who is a confirmed coffee drinker will have menses too soon and lasting too long.
Uterine hemorrhage is not uncommon. Another feature of Coffea is that the woman can scarcely wear the napkin during menstruation (Platinum).
The parts are in a state of hyperesthesia. The vagina is hot and sensitive, often preventing coition. In the text it reads
“Great sensitiveness of female genital organs, with general excitability.
She is in a state of ecstacy.
Uterine hemorrhage with excessive sensitiveness of organs and voluptuous itching.
Metrorrhagia; large black lumps.”
Sometimes large bright red lumps.
“Worse from every motion, with violent pain in the groins, and fear of death.”
Excessive sensitiveness about the vulva with voluptuous itching, is a strong feature of Coffea, and you will often find such symptoms in coffee drinkers.
During and after labor we also see this great excitement, all these nervous manifestations. The nervous system is in a fret, and such a mental state as described comes on with after-pains; extremely sensitive to pain, cries out; sees visions; hears all sorts of noises.
Pains aggravated from motion; aggravated from noise. Wants everybody to keep still in the house.
Convulsions of children.
“Puerperal convulsions.
Extreme excitability.”
“Palpitation of the heart, pulse fluttering.”
“Strong, quick palpitation of the heart with extreme nervousness, sleeplessness and cerebral erethism caused by unexpected news of great good fortune.”
Let a woman about to go into confinement hear suddenly some unusually good news and the becomes almost ecstatic; carries the symptom all through confinement. The child is affected, the milk is affected. The milk flows away.
Hemorrhage is likely to come on. Great nervousness, excitability, fear.
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.