The symptoms of this remedy appear in the MORNING, forenoon, afternoon, evening, and DURING THE NIGHT. DESIRE FOR OPEN AIR. The open air aggravates many symptoms. Ascending brings on many symptoms. Asleep feeling in single parts; a sensation of a band around parts. Cancerous affections; ULCERS. Worse from cold in general; from cold air; from becoming cold; after becoming cold. Congestion of blood. Hysterical convulsions. Dropsical tendency. Worse during and after eating and from exertion. Formication. Fullness of the veins and a feeling of distension; lack of vital heat. Induration of glands and other parts. Inflammation of internal organs; of bones; of glands; of serous membranes. Desire to lie down, but lying aggravates some symptoms; worse lying in bed. A most useful remedy in cases abused by mercury. Motion intensifies most symptoms. Mucous secretions much increased. Violent orgasm of blood in chest and head. Pain in bones and glands; aching, boring, cutting, pressing, stitching, tearing pains in many parts; bearing downward in bones and muscles; paralysis of organs. It is most useful in red-faced, full blooded people. Pulsation in internal parts; the pulse is small, FAST, irregular and weak. Marked aggravation follows hurried actions, like running. Oversensitive to pain, in glands. Complaints are predominantly right-sided. Sitting erect aggravates some symptoms; standing aggravates many symptoms. Swelling of affected parts; of the glands.
A feeling of tension all over the body; symptoms are worse from touch. Trembling in body and limbs. Walking ameliorates; walking fast aggravates; walking in open air aggravates. Warm bed increases some symptoms, in some cases worse from both heat and cold; worse in warm room and from warm wraps. Marked general weakness; weariness. Complaints worse in winter.
Absent minded; irascible, even violent; ANXIETY; Of conscience; with fear; about salvation. Very critical with all her friends; morbidly cheerful and gay; aversion to company. She has lost all confidence in herself. Confusion in the morning, worse from mental exertion; very timid, even cowardly. Loathing of life and desires death. Delusions about animals. Despair of recovery and salvation; EXCITEMENT and discontentment; exertion of mind makes all the mental symptoms worse. Marked increase in her imaginative powers. Fear on going into a crowd; of death; of evil; of people; of robbers; very forgetful and easily frightened. It is a very useful remedy for chronic complaints that date back to grief. Hysterical and in a hurried state of mind; at first mental activity, later dullness; imbecility. He is becoming weakminded and indolent; will not work, becomes like a tramp. These states change to excitement and a mania for work. It should become an excellent remedy for insanity, irresolution and extreme irritability; moaning and lamenting. Maniacal conduct and loquacity, weakness of memory; insane mirth; moods constantly changing; morose, obstinate and easily offended; MENTAL PROSTRATION; quarrelsome. Great restlessness, worse during the night. Extreme sadness in the morning but worse in the EVENING and during perspiration. Generally oversensitive. Desire to sit and brood. Averse to being spoken to; SUICIDAL THOUGHTS occupy his mind; suspicious; indisposed to talk; weeping, worse at night; alternating with laughter.
Vertigo in the open air; with headache; must lie down; when standing; when stooping; walking in open air.
Fullness of head; constant hyperaemia of brain. The hair falls out. Heat in head; burning scalp. Heaviness in moving or rising; in occiput; hydrocephalus, itching of scalp worse at night. Nodding of head like paralysis agitans. Pain in head; morning in bed, afternoon; evening; better in open air, worse from binding up the hair; from coughing; worse lying; from motion; from strong odours; from warm room; after sleep; from straining the eyes; from talking; in windy, stormy weather. Aching pain in forehead, worse from motion, in occiput; in occiput and forehead; in sides of head; in temples; in temples and forehead. Boring in head; in forehead; in vertex. Drawing pain in head; lancinating pain in occiput. Pressing pain in head; in forehead; in occiput; in temples; in vertex. Stitching pains in head; in forehead; in sides of head. TEARING PAIN IN HEAD; in forehead; in occiput; in sides of head; in temples. Pulsating in head on coughing and on motion; in sides of head.
The eyelids stick together in the morning; discharge of yellow mucus from the eyes; heat in eyes. Inflammation of eyes; catarrhal; SCROFULOUS; syphilis; of chancroid, with ulceration of cornea; of iris. Itching of lids; of canthi. Much and easy lachrymation; OPACITY OF THE CORNEA. Pain in the eyes; from motion; when reading; aching, burning in the eyes and canthi; cutting, pressing; as from sand; stitching. Paralysis of the optic nerve. Photophobia, protrusion and pulsation in eyes. The pupils are contracted. Redness of eyes; of lids. Scrofulous affections of eyes. Spots on the cornea; stye near outer canthus; swollen lids. Floating black specks in the field of vision; DIM VISION; diplopic. All the eye symptoms are worse from any exertion of vision. FOGGY VISION. Hemiopia; can see only the lower half of objects. Vision lost from paralysis of the optic nerves; vision smoky; sparks; stars.
Discharge from the ear; fetid; offensive; purulent; sequelae after suppressed eruption; the ears are red; dryness in ears; scanty wax; stitching of the ears; noises; buzzing; crackling; fluttering; humming; ringing; roaring; rushing sounds. Pain inside the ear; stitching in and behind ears; tearing in ears. The ears burn. Hearing acute; for noise; impaired; lost.
Catarrh of nose; discharge bloody; dry crusts, worse on right side; greenish; HARD; OFFENSIVE; PURULENT; THICK; YELLOW. The nose is red and swollen; most marked at tip. Coryza fluent and dry; dryness in nose; epistaxis on blowing nose; itching of skin of nose and inside. The nose is obstructed; offensive odour from nose; ozaena. Pain in nose at night; in bones of nose; on touch; burning; soreness; ulcerative pain, right side; polypus in nose. Nose very sensitive to touch. Smell acute, later lost. Frequent sneezing. Swollen nose. ULCERATION in NOSE.
Epithelioma of lip; cracked lips. Discoloration of face, earthy, pale, red, red spots. Eruptions on face; forehead; nose; acne rosacea; comedones; crusty, crusty on nose; pimples on face and forehead; pustules; scurf. Pain in face; right side; worse in cold air; in parotid gland; in submaxillary gland; burning pain in lip; drawing in face; stitching, tearing; tearing in cheek bones and lower jaw. Perspiration of face; cold. Swelling of the face, cheeks, glands in general; lips; parotid gland; submaxillary gland; ulceration of lip.
Aphthae in mouth and on tongue; Bleeding gums. The tongue is cracked. The mouth feels hot. Offensive, even putrid odour from mouth. Speech is difficult. The gums are swollen. Taste: bitter, insipid, metallic, putrid, sour, sweetish, lost. Ulcers on gums and tongue. Vesicles in the mouth. Caries of teeth. Sensation of elongation of teeth. Grinding teeth in sleep. The teeth become loose. Pain in the teeth, worse from touch; drawing, stitching, tearing.
Inflammation of throat and tonsils, with elongation of uvula. Sensation of a lump in throat; much mucus forms in the throat. Pain in throat on swallowing; burning, stitching, scraping. Suppuration of tonsils; swallowing difficult. Swelling of throat and tonsils; swelling of thyroid gland. Ulceration throat, tonsils, uvula, syphilitic.
The appetite is ravenous. Aversion to food, to meat. Desires stimulants, coffee, cold drinks, milk. Distention of stomach. Digestion very slow; a sensation of emptiness. Eructations watery, bitter, tasting of food, ameliorate. Fullness in the stomach; flushes of heat. HICCOUGH. Nausea after eating; during headache. Pain in the stomach; burning, cutting, pressing, stitching. Thirst burning; extreme. Vomiting bile.
Atrophy of the liver; enlargement of liver. Abdomen distended with gas; with serum. Bubo in groin. Flatulence obstructed. Fullness and heaviness. Pain in abdomen; night, after midnight, from colic; on coughing; after eating; during menses; in hypochondria; in inguinal region as though a hernia would appear; burning in right hypochondrium; cramping, cutting, pressing pain in abdomen; in hypochondria; in hypogastrium. Rumbling in abdomen; swelling of inguinal glands.
Condylomata of anus. Constipation; alternating with diarrhoea; difficult stool; inactivity of rectum, during menses. Diarrhoea; morning, night, with burning in anus. Fistula in ano. Flatus passed from rectum; offensive, which ameliorates. Bleeding piles; external piles. Itching in anus. Moisture at anus. Pain in anus during stool; burning in anus with diarrhoea; soreness at anus; stitching pain in anus; prolapsus ani. Urging in rectum. Stool: gray, green mucus, thin mucus, hard, KNOTTY, LARGE,
The bladder symptoms are very numerous and important. Pressing in the bladder. Retention of urine. Urging to urinate constant; ineffectual. Urination dribbling, difficult, frequent, involuntary at night; unsatisfactory. Suppression of urine. Prostatic discharge. Burning in urethra when passing urine; stitching and tearing in the urethra. Urine: albuminous, bloody, burning, cloudy on standing, copious, offensive; sand in the urine; SCANTY; MUCUS sediment; thick, yellow.
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.