Chronic irritation of the air passages, larynx and trachea; catarrh of the larynx and trachea, with copious yellow-green mucus; rawness in larynx and trachea; phthisis of the larynx. He constantly scrapes the larynx. Tickling in the larynx and trachea. Respiration fast, asthmatic, deep; difficult during cough and when lying, rattling, short, sighing and suffocative.
It is one of our greatest cough remedies in phthisical subjects. The cough comes at night, but also morning after rising, and an evening in bed. Cough from cold air, from cold damp air, asthmatic, from cold drinks. It has a dry cough at night, with much expectoration in the morning; cough during fever; hacking, hoarse cough; cough from irritation of larynx and trachea; hoarse cough, especially in the morning; paroxysmal, spasmodic cough in the evening racking the whole body. Cough worse lying, talking; virulent cough after waking in the morning. Expectoration in the morning, bloody, greenish-yellow, copious, offensive, purulent, thick, viscid-sometimes white. It has cured abscesses of lungs and axilla. It has restrained cancerous ulceration of mammae. It has cured desperate cases of catarrh of the bronchial tubes, constriction of chest, eruption of chest and excoriation of the nipples. Hemorrhage of the lungs. Chronic inflammation of bronchial tubes and lungs. Oppression of the chest. The milk is suppressed or absent. Pain in both lungs. Pain in chest during cough, on inspiration, on deep breathing. Pain in the sides of chest. The pains in the chest are burning, pressing, soreness, stitching and rawness in chest. Stitching pains on inspiring, in sides of chest, and in the mammary glands. Palpitation of the heart at night, after eating, from exertion, and even from slight motion. Perspiration all over the chest. Phthisical conditions. Extreme weakness of chest.
The back feels cold and there is a sensation of coldness in back of neck and sacrum. Eruption in the cervical region, pimples and pustules. Itching of the back. Much pain in the back, especially at night. Pain in back during menses, on motion, rising from sitting and while sitting. Pain in the cervical region, scapula and in the spine between the scapula; pain in lumbar region when rising from a seat; pain in coccyx. Hard aching in the back, in lumbar region when rising from a seat, and in the sacrum. Drawing pain in the lumbar region, pressing pain in the lumbar region. The spine is sore to touch in many places. Stitching pains in the cervical region, scapula, lumbar region and sacrum. Tearing pains in the cervical region. Perspiration on the back, worse on the back of the neck. Stiffness of the back, especially of the cervical region; stiff neck. Tension in the cervical region. Weakness of the back. Weakness of the lumbar region.
It is a remedy for gouty nodosites of the fingers, awkwardness of the limbs, caries of the bone, chapped hands; chronic jerking of muscles; coldness of all the limbs, hands, palms, lower limbs, LEGS, FEET, evening and night. Contractions of tendons of hands and fingers. Many corns, painful sore and stinging. Cracked hands and fingers. Cramps in hands, lower limbs, calf, feet, soles, toes. Eruptions, vesicles, boils on the upper limbs, vesicles on the upper limbs and fingers; eruptions on lower limbs, itching, pimples. Boils on the thighs; felons on the fingers. Heat of hands, palms, of the feet. Heaviness of all the limbs, especially of legs and feet. It has been of great service in hip joint disease; inflammation of all the joints. Intense itching of all the limbs, thighs and legs. The nails have ceased to grow for two years; the nails are hard and brittle. Numbness of all the limbs; upper limbs numb when lying on them; numbness of hands and fingers; numbness of lower limbs, legs and feet when sitting. Rheumatic and gouty pains in limbs, joints and bones, evening and night. Pain in upper limbs at night, worse from cold, motion and taking hold of anything; pain in shoulders, upper arm, elbow, forearm, fingers and finger joints; pain in the lower limbs; pain in the sciatic nerve; violent pains in the hip joint; pain in the hip joint as if an abscess were forming; pain in thigh, knee, calf, foot and toes. Aching in all the limbs, with stiffness in cold, damp weather; aching in the shoulder, worse from motion. Burning feet and soles. Drawing pain in upper arm, forearm, wrist and hand, drawing pain in the knee and leg. Sore, bruised pains in upper limbs and thighs. Sensation as if sprained in wrist and ankle. Stitching pains in the joints. Stitching pains in the shoulders, upper arm, elbow, wrist and fingers. Stitching pains in hips, knees, calf, ankle, foot, sole, heel, toes, especially the great toe. Tearing pain in shoulder, upper arm, elbow, forearm, wrist, hand, fingers and finger-joints; tearing pain in thighs, knee, leg, calf, foot, soles, toes, and especially the great toe.
Sensation of paralysis in upper limbs and in the hands; paralysis in lower limbs. Cold sweat on all the limbs; cold sweat of palms, of hands; cold sweat of feet; offensive cold sweat of feet. Stiffness of all the limbs, joints, hands, and fingers; stiffness of lower limbs, knees. Swelling of hands, knees, legs, ankles, feet. Tingling of the fingers; trembling of the upper limbs, of the hands, of the lower limbs; twitching of the upper limbs, thighs and legs. Ulceration of lower limbs, legs. Varicose veins. Warts on the hands; on the dorsum of the thumb; on the ball of the thumb; large, hard seed warts. Weakness of all the limbs, and especially the joints. Weakness of thighs, knees, legs, calf and feet.
Dreams of anger, anxious, of business, confused, amorous, of the dead, of death, of disease, fantastic, fire, frightful, horrible, murder, nightmare, vivid, vexatious, visionary; dreams of sick people and caring for sick people; a hideous old woman’s face appeared in her dreams. Sleep is restless; sleepiness in the morning, forenoon and evening, after dinner, after eating; sleeplessness before midnight; sleeplessness with sleepiness; sleepless from much thinking; after once waking cannot sleep again; unrefreshing sleep. Waking early and frequent. Yawning.
Chill in morning, forenoon and evening, in the open air, in the cold air, even in bed, after eating, external and internal, shaking chill; chill with trembling, from uncovering, warm room does not relieve, desires warmth, but it does not relieve; chilliness during stool. Fever forenoon and afternoon, but marked fever in evening and night; fever alternating with chill; dry heat at night in bed; external heat with chilliness; flushes of heat. It is useful in hectic fevers. Mild fever evening and night. Heat with moist skin. Perspiration in the morning and latter part of the night; perspiration with great anxiety. Cold sweat mostly on the extremities; sweat from coughing, during and after eating, from exertion, from mental exertion, sweat from motion, from walking. Profuse hot sweat. Sweat of single parts; sweat during and after sleep; offensive, sour sweat, uncovering while sweating brings on many symptoms. If the perspiration becomes suppressed from uncovering, or from a draft, he suffers much.
Burning of the skin after scratching; the skin is cold to touch; the skin of hands and fingers cracked; the skin is discoloured; bluish, liver spots, pale, red, red spots, white spots, yellow. Dry, burning skin and inability to perspire. Eruptions are biting, burning, itching, painful, phagedenic, stinging. Boils and chapping and desquamating. Eczema and herpes. Dry, itching, crusting, stinging herpes, eruptions discharge a white, pus-like substance. There are pimples, pustules, and red rashes; eruptions scabby and scaly after scratching. Suppurating eruptions, nodular urticaria after scratching. Vesicles in many places. Erysipelas with swelling, worse from scratching. Excrescences form upon the skin; formication and goose-flesh. Indurations. Intertrigo. Itching with and without eruptions, itching, biting, burning, crawling and stinging, worse after scratching. The itching is ameliorated by radiated heat It has cured lupus. The skin becomes moist after scratching. The skin is very sensitive, sore feeling, and sore, raw places on the skin; sticking and stinging after scratching. Ulceration of the skin and ulcers bluish, burning, cancerous, crusty, deep, corrosive, offensive with yellow pus, fistulous, foul, indolent, indurated, stinging, and unhealthy. Warts painful, hard, inflamed, stinging, suppurating and withered. It has cured wens and other cystic growths.
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.