CENCHRIS-CONTORTRIX PROVING



SENSATIONS–Sensation of warmth over region of liver5 (many days). Sense of fluttering and beating, or throbbing in a small spot on the outer side of right thigh, near its middle, commenced at 5 P. M. At 6 and 7 P. M., same sensation under right breast, alternates with that sensation in the thigh. This beating sensation is next felt in left hypochondrium, then in stomach pit, then in right ankles (18th day). Throbbing in left calf5 (19th day). Throbbing under right breast5 (21st day). Heat over region of liver extends to heart region5 (19th day). Cramping sensation7 (Ist day-30th potency). Sensation as though back were going to have a crick, while sitting on feet, (<) on left side, had to hold back with hands, soon passed off7 (3d day-30th potency). Biting sensation, as of a fly7 (3d day-30th potency).

TISSUES –Abscesses. Hard pain in left iliac bone5 (Ist day).

TOUCH, MOTION AND MODALITIES- Immediately after lying down:suffocation; anxiety; palpitation; sinking; sensation of dying. Horrible anxiety comes over her on lying down at night, also on lying down in afternoon. Must lie with head drawn back, she chokes so. Compelled to move constantly, which seems to quiet for a moment; compelled to change position from restlessness. Sensitive to clothing about the body and neck. Symptoms (>) from heat, (<) evening and night. Restless. Stomach symptoms (>) by belching. Catching sensation in back, (<) by holding with hands.

SKIN-Spot on the right calf became red, then copper colored; it seemed deep in the skin3. Some old scars from a burn, which became blue and deep red during the proving, have again become white2. Itching all over the body; flying over the body2 (10th, 13th days).

GENERALITIES-Feeling of general anxiety throughout the body. Feeling as if the entire body was enlarged to bursting1. All symptoms come on when lying down at night1. Tired at 10 A. M., wants to lie down. Weak, sick feeling all day (11th day). Has lost much flesh, emaciation spreading from above downward, about the neck and face, then mammae, then thighs and legs. Most of symptoms come after 3 P. M.1 Weary.2 (4th day). A dog was bitten and an abscess forms upon his neck, which has reopened three times; when it is about to open, he scratches it violently until it opens and discharges a yellow watery fluid. Tight clothing unbearable2 (throughout the proving). Throbbing in entire body2 (21st day). So tired,, the weight of my clothing is burdensome5 (4th, 5th, 6th days). Bloated feeling, lasting all day7 (13th day). Lost from 10 to 20 lbs. during proving.7

RELATIONSHIP Chamomilla antidoted its uterine haemorrhage. Cenchris antidotes Pulsatilla. Ammonium c. (>) general symptoms.

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.