The Chronic
Diseases, their Peculiar Nature and their Homœopathic Cure.
by Dr Samuel Hahnemann
Presented By Médi-T
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After meals, very tired and
sleepy. [1]After meals, as if
intoxicated.After meals, headache.
After meals, palpitation of
the heart.Alleviation of several, even
remote, complaints from eating.The flatus does not pass off,
but moves about, causing many ailments of body and of spirit. [2]The abdomen is distended by
flatus, [3] the abdomen
feels full, especially after a meal.Sensation as if the flatus
ascended; followed by eructations -then often a sensation of burning
in the throat, or vomiting by day and by night.Pain in the hypochondria when
touched, and in motion, or also during rest.Constricting pain in the
epigastrium, immediately under the ribs.Cutting pains in the abdomen,
as if from obstructed flatus; there is a constant sensation of
fullness in the abdomen -the flatus rises upwards.Cutting pains in the abdomen
almost daily, especially with children, oftener in the morning than in
other parts of the day, sometimes day and night, without diarrhœa.Cutting pains in the abdomen,
especially on the one side of the abdomen, or the groin. [4]In the abdomen, qualmishness,
a sensation of voidness, disagreeable emptiness, [5]
even immediately after eating, he felt as if he had not eaten
anything.From the small of the back,
around the abdomen, especially below the stomach, a sensation of
constriction as from a bandage, after she had had no stool for several
days.Pain in the liver, when
touching the right side of the abdomen.Pain in the liver, a pressure
and tension -a tension below the ribs on the right side.Below the last ribs (in the
hypochondria), a tension and pressure all over, which checks the
breathing and makes the mind anxious and sad.—–
[1]
Often until the patient lies down and sleeps.[2]
At times drawing pains in the, limbs, especially in the lower limbs,
or stitches in the pit of the stomach, or in the side of the
abdomen, etc.[3]
The flatus often ascends; less frequently a great quantity of flatus
is charged, especially in the morning, without smell and without
alleviating the other ailments; in other cases flatulence, with a
great quantity of excessively fetid flatus passing off.[4]
The cutting pain also at times passes down into the rectum and down
the thigh.[5]
In some cases alternating with a contractive pain in the abdomen.Pain in the liver, stitches
-mostly when stooping quickly.Inflammation of the liver.
Pressure in the abdomen as
from a stone. [1]Hardness of the abdomen.
Crampy colic, a grasping pain
in the bowels.In colic, coldness on one
side of the abdomen.A clucking, croaking and
audible rumbling and grumbling in the abdomen. [2]So-called uterine spasms,
like labor pains, grasping pains often compelling the patient to lie
down, frequently quickly distending the abdomen without flatulence.In the lower abdomen, pains
pressing down toward the genitals. [3]Inguinal hernias, often
painful while speaking and singing. [4]Swellings of the inguinal
glands, which sometimes turn into suppuration.Constipation; delayed stools
sometimes for several days, not infrequently with repeated ineffectual
urging to stool.Stools hard, as if burnt, in
small knots, like sheep-dung, often covered with mucus, sometimes also
enveloped by veinlets of blood.Stools of mere mucus (mucous
piles).Passage of round worms from
the anus.Discharge of pieces of
tape-worm.Stools, in the beginning very
hard and troublesome, followed by diarrhœa.Very pale, whitish stool.
Gray stools.
Green stools.
Clay-colored stools.
Stools with putrid, sour
smell.At the stools, cutting pains
in the rectum.Stools show diarrhœa for
several weeks, months, years. [5]Frequently repeated
diarrhœa, with cutting pains in the abdomen, lasting several days.—–
[1]
Which often rises to the pit of the stomach, digging and causing
vomiting.[2]
At times only in the left side of the abdomen, passing upwards with
the inspiration and downward with the expiration.[3]
Pressing down as if to cause a prolapsus, and when it is passed she
feels heavy in all her limbs, the limbs go to sleep; she must
stretch and extend her limbs.[4]
Inguinal hernias rise as a rule only from internal psora, excepting
the few cases, when these parts are injured by great external
violence, or when the hernia arises from superhuman exertions of the
body through lifting or pushing quickly, while in a great fright.[5]
Usually preceded by rumbling or fermentation in the abdomen; chiefly
in the morning.After a stool, especially
after a softer, more copious evacuation, great and sudden prostration.
[1]Diarrhœa, soon so weakening,
that she cannot walk alone.Painless and painful hæmorrhoidal
varices on the anus, [2]
the rectum (blind piles).Bleeding hæmorrhoidal
varices on the anus or in the rectum [3]
(running piles), especially during stools, after which the
hæmorrhoids often pain violently for a long time.With bloody discharges in the
anus or in the rectum, ebullition of blood through the body and short
breathing.Formication and itching
formication in the rectum, with or without the discharge of ascarides.Itching and erosion in the
anus and the perineum.Polypi in the rectum.
During micturition, anxiety,
also at times prostration.At times too much urine is
discharged, succeeded by great weariness. [4]Painful retention of urine
(with children and old people).When he is chilled (feels
cold through and through), he cannot urinate.At times owing to flatulence,
she cannot urinate.The urethra is constricted in
parts, especially in the morning. [5]Pressure on the bladder, as
if from an urging to urinate, immediately after drinking.He cannot hold the urine for
any length of time, it presses on the bladder, and passes off while he
walks, sneezes, coughs or laughs.Frequent micturition at
night; he has to get up frequently at night for that purpose.Urine passes off in sleep
involuntarily.—–
[1]
Especially, weakness in the pit of the stomach, anxiety,
restlessness, also at times chills in the abdomen or the small of
the back, etc.[2]
Which not infrequently have a slimy fluid oozing from them.[3]
Fistulæ in ano have probably
never any other cause than this malady, especially when to this
there are added a stimulating diet, an excess in spirituous liquors,
frequent laxatives, a sedentary occupation and abuse of the sexual
instinct.[4]
Diabetes, which with Allopathic
remedies is usually so fatal, has probably never any other origin
than this malady.[5]
The urine frequently passes off as thin as a thread, or the stream
spreads out; the urine is only discharged in jerks at long
intervals; these interruptions are frequently caused by a spasm in
the neck, of the bladder which antagonizes the action of the bladder
and springs from the same psoric malady. So also inflammation of the
bladder from strictures of the urethra, and the fistula
in vesica are always of psoric origin, though in rare
cases sycosis may be complicated
with the psora.After urinating, the urine
continues to drip out for a long time,.Whitish. urine, with a
sweetish smell and taste, passes off in excessive abundance, with
prostration, emaciation and inextinguishable thirst (diabetes).During urination, burning,
also lancinating pains in the urethra and the neck of the bladder.Urine of penetrating, sharp
odor.The urine quickly deposits a
sediment.The urine discharged is at
once turbid like whey.With the urine there is
discharged from time to time a red sand (kidney grits).Dark-yellow urine.
Brown urine.
Blackish urine.
Urine with blood particles,
also at times complete hematuria.Discharge of prostatic fluid
after urination, but especially after a difficult stool (also almost
constant dripping of the same). [1]Nocturnal passage of semen,
too frequent, one, two or three times a week, or even every night. [2]Nightly discharge of the
genital fluid in a women, with voluptuous dreams.Nocturnal pollutions, even if
not frequent, yet immediately attended by evil consequences. [3]Semen passes off almost
involuntarily the daytime, with little excitation, often even without
erection.Erections very frequent, long
continuing, very painful without pollutions.The semen is not discharged,
even during a long-continued coition and with a proper erection, [4]
but it passes off afterward in nocturnal pollutions or with the urine.Accumulation of water in the
tunica vaginalis of the testicle (hydrocele).There is never a complete
erection, even with the most voluptuous excitement.—–
[1]
Sometimes also consumption from the constant oozing out of the
prostatic fluid.[2]
With healthy chaste young men, pollutions naturally only take place
every twelve or fourteen days, without any attending troubles, and
they are followed by cheerfulness and a feeling of strength and
serenity.[3]
Gloominess, obtuseness, dimness of the thinking powers,
diminished vividness of the imagination, want of memory, depression,
melancholy; the vision is weakened, as well as the digestion and the
appetite; stools are retained, a rush of blood to the head ensues,
also toward the anus, etc.[4]
The testicles in such a case are never drawn up to the body, but
hang down more or less.Painful twitches in the
muscles of the penis.Itching of the scrotum, which
is sometimes beset with pimples and scabs.One or both of the testicles
chronically swollen, or showing a knotty infection (Sarcocele).Dwindling, diminution,
disappearance of one or both testicles.Induration and enlargement of
the prostatic gland.Drawing pain in the testicle
and the spermatic chord.Pain as from contusion in the
testicle.Lack of the sexual desire in
both sexes, either frequent or constant. [1]Uncontrollable insatiable
lasciviousness, [2] with
a cachectic complexion and sickly body.Sterility, impotence, without
any original organic defect in the sexual parts. [3]Disorders of the menstrual
function; the menses do not appear regularly on the twenty-eighth day
after their last appearance, they do not come on without other
ailments and not at once, and do not continue steadily for three or
four days with a moderate quantity of healthy-colored, mild blood,
until on the fourth day it imperceptibly comes to an end without any
disturbance of the general health of body and spirit; nor are the
menses continued to the forty-eighth or fiftieth year, nor do they
cease gradually and without any troubles.The menses are slow in
setting in after the fifteenth year and later, or after appearing one
or more times, they cease for several months and for years. [4]The menses do not keep their
regular periods, they either come several days too early, sometimes
every three weeks, or even every fortnight. [5]—–
[1]
Often for, years, yea, for many years. The male and the female
genital parts cannot then be excited to any agreeable or voluptuous
sensation – the body of the male penis hangs down relaxed, is
thinner than the glans penis, which feels cold and is of a bluish or
white color; in the female parts the labia are not excitable, they
are relaxed and small; the vagina almost numb and insensible, and
usually dry; sometimes there is a falling out of the hair of the
pudenda, or entire bareness of the female genital parts.[2]
Metromania and Nymphomania are of the same origin.[3]
Too frequent coition from impotent lasciviousness, with too sudden a
passing off of immature, watery semen, or lack of erection, or lack
of the issue of semen, or lack of sexual desire -menses too copious,
or a constant flow of blood watery, scanty or deficient menses;
copious discharge of mucus from the vagina (leucorrhœa), indurated
ovaries, the breasts have either dwindled down or become knotty;
insensibility, or merely painful sensibility of the genital organs,
are merely the proximate usual symptoms of sterility or impotence
with the one sex or the other.[4]
Consequent sallow paleness and tumefaction of the face, heaviness of
the limbs, swelling of the feet, chilliness, weariness, asthma
(chlorosis), etc.[5]
The menses rarely come several days too late, and flow then in too
great abundance, with prostrating weariness and many other ailments.The menses flow only one day,
only a few hours, or in imperceptibly small quantities.The menses flow for five,
six, eight and more days, but only intermittently, a little flow every
six, twelve, twenty-four hours, and then they cease for half or whole
days, before more is discharged.The menses flow too strongly,
for weeks, or return almost daily (bloody flux). [1]Menses of watery blood or of
brown clots of blood.Menses of very fetid blood.
Menses accompanied with many
ailments, swoons or (mostly stitching) headaches, or contractive,
spasmodic, cutting pains in the abdomen and in the small of the back;
she is obliged to lie down, vomit, etc.Polypi in the vagina.
Leucorrhœa from the vagina,
one or several days before, or soon after, the monthly flow of blood,
or during the whole time from the one menstrual discharge to the
other, with a diminution of the menses, or continuing solely instead
of the menses; the flow is like milk, or like white, or yellow mucus,
or like acrid, or sometimes like fetid, water. [2]Premature births.
—–
[1]
Often followed by swelling of the face, of the hands and feet,
painful in the breast and the abdomen, innumerable ailments from
nervous debility, excessive sensitiveness, as well in general, as of
particular sensory organs, etc., and before the appearance of the
flow, anxious dreams, frequent awakenings with a rush of blood to
the head, palpitation., restlessness, etc. With a more violent flow
of blood from the uterus, there are often cutting pains in the one
side of the abdomen and in the groin; the cutting pain sometimes
descends into the rectum and into the thigh; then she frequently
cannot urinate, or sit down, on account of her pains; after these
pains the abdomen aches as if it were festering.[2]
Leucorrhœa, especially the more malignant kind, is accompanied by
an innumerable multitude of ailments. Not to mention the lesser ones
(such as the itching of the pudenda and the vagina, with excoriation
on the outside of the pudenda and the adjacent part of the thigh,
especially in walking), hysterical states of all kinds follow the
more severe cases of this troublesome flux, as also disturbances of
the mind and spirit, melancholy, insanity, epilepsy, etc. Often it
comes in the form of an attack, and then it is preceded by a digging
in the one side of the abdomen, or by burning in the stomach, in the
lower abdomen, in the vagina, or stitches in the vagina and in the
mouth of the uterus, or a constrictive pain in the uterus and
pressure toward the vagina as if everything were about to fall out,
also at times most keen pains in the small of the back; the flatus
is obstructed, causing pain, etc. Has the so-called uterine cancer
any other origin than this (psora) malady?During pregnancies great
weariness, nausea, frequent vomiting, swoons, painful varicose veins
on the thighs and the legs, and also at times on the labia, hysteric
ailments of various kinds, etc.Coryza at once, whenever she
comes into the open air; then usually a stuffed coryza while in her
room.Dry coryza and a stuffed nose
often, or almost constantly, also sometimes with intermissions.Fluent coryza at the least
taking of cold, therefore mostly in the inclement season and when it
is wet.Fluent coryza, very often, or
almost constantly, also in some cases uninterruptedly.He cannot take cold, even
though there have been strong premonitory symptoms of it,
simultaneously with other great ailments from the itch malady.Hoarseness, after the least
amount of speaking; she must vomit in order to clear her voice.Hoarseness, also sometimes
aphony (she cannot speak loud but must whisper), after a slight cold.Constant hoarseness and
aphony for years; he cannot speak a loud word.Suppuration of the larynx and
the bronchia (laryngo-bronchial phthisis). [1]Hoarseness and catarrh very
often, or almost constantly; his chest is continually affected.Cough; frequent irritation
and crawling in the throat; the cough torments him, until perspiration
breaks out on his face (and on his hands).Cough, which does not abate
until there is retching and vomiting, mostly in the morning or in the
evening.Cough, which terminates every
time with sneezing.Cough, mostly in the evening
after lying down and whenever the head lies low.Cough, waking the patient up
after the first brief sleep.Cough, especially in the
night.Cough, worst after awaking in
the morning.Cough, worst after eating.
Cough, at once, with every
deep breath.Cough, causing a sensation of
soreness in the chest, or at times stitches in the side of the chest
or the abdomen.Dry cough.
—–
[1]
Inflammation of the larynx (croup) cannot take place with any child
that is free from latent psora or has been made free from it by
treatment.Cough, with yellow
expectoration resembling pus, with or without spitting of blood. [1]Cough, with excessive
expectoration of mucus and sinking of strength (mucous phthisis).Attacks of whooping cough. [2]
Violent, at times unbearable
stitches in the chest at every breath; cough impossible for pain;
without inflammatory fever (spurious pleurisy).Pain in the chest on walking,
as if the chest was about to burst.Pressive pain in the chest,
at deep breathing or at sneezing.Often a slightly constrictive
pain in the chest, which, when it does not quickly pass, causes the
deepest dejection. [3]Burning pain in the chest.
Frequent stitches in the
chest, with or without cough.Violent stitches in the side;
with great heat of the body, it is almost impossible to breathe, on
account of stitches in the chest with hæmoptysis and headache; he is
confined to his bed.Night-mare; he usually
suddenly awakes at night from a frightful dream, but cannot move, nor
call, nor speak, and when he endeavors to move, he suffers intolerable
pains, as if he were being torn to pieces. [4]Obstruction of the breath,
with stitching pains in the chest at the slightest amount of walking; 5
he cannot go a step farther (angina pectoris).Asthma, merely when moving
the arms, not while walking.Attacks of suffocation
especially after midnight; the patient has to sit up, sometimes he has
to leave his bed, stand stooping forward, leaning on his hands; he has
to open the windows, or go out into the open air, etc.; he has
palpitations; these are followed by eructations or yawning, and the
spasm terminates with or without coughing and expectoration.—–
[1]
Suppurative pulmonary phthisis has probably seldom any other cause
than this malady, even when it seems as if the fumes of quicksilver
or arsenic had caused it; at least most of these cases of
suppurative phthisis originate in pneumonias mismanaged with
blood-letting, and this disease may always be considered as the
manifestation of latent Psora.[2]
She is suddenly compelled to cough, but cannot do so, as her breath
fails her, even to suffocation, with a dark-red, bloated face;
usually the œsophagus is then also constricted, so that not a drop
of water will pass; after eight or ten minutes, there follow
eructations from the stomach, and the spasm terminates.[3]
Usually the attacks last from evening to morning, the whole night.[4]
Such attacks, in some cases, also occur several times in one night,
especially when he has not been out in the open air during the day.[5]
especially when ascending a height.Palpitation with anxiety,
especially at night.Asthma, loud, difficult, at
times also sibilant respiration.Shortness of breath.
Asthma, on moving, with or
without cough.Asthma, mostly while sitting
down.Asthma, spasmodic; when she
comes into the open air it takes her breath.Asthma, in attacks, lasting
several weeks.Dwindling of the breasts, or
excessive enlargement of the same, with retroceding nipples.Erysipelas on one of the
breasts (especially while nursing).A hard, enlarging and
indurating gland with lancinating pains in one of the mammæ. [1]Itching, also moist and scaly
eruptions around the nipples.In the small of the back, in
the back and in the nape of the neck, drawing (tearing), tensive
pains.Lancinating, cutting, painful
stiffness of the nape of the neck; of the small of the back.Pressive pain between the
shoulder-blades.Sensation of pressure upon
the shoulders.In the limbs, drawing
(tearing), tensive pains, partly in the muscles and partly in the
joints (rheumatism).In the periosteum, here and
there, especially in the periosteum of the long bones, pressive and
pressive-drawing pains. [2]Stitching pains in the
fingers or toes. [3]Stitches in the heels and
soles of the feet while standing.Burning in the soles of the
feet. [4]In the joints a sort of
tearing, like scraping on the bone, with red, hot swelling which is
painfully sensitive to the touch and to the air, with unbearably
sensitive, peevish disposition (gout, podagra,chiragra, gout in the knees,
etc.). [5]The joints of the fingers,
swollen with pressive pains, painful when touching and bending them.—–
[1]
Is it probable that the different varieties of cancer of the breast
have any other origin than this psora malady?[2]
These spots then also pain on being touched, as if they were bruised
or sore.[3]
In worse, chronic cases, this is aggravated into a cutting pain.[4]
Especially at night under a feather bed.[5]
The pains are either worse in daytime, or at night. After every
attack, and when the inflammation is past, the joints of the hand
are painful, as also those of the knee, the foot, those of the big
toe when moved, when he stands up, etc., they feel intolerably
benumbed and the limb is weakened.Thickening of the joints;
they remain hard swollen, and there is pain on bending them.The joints, as it were,
stiff, .with painful, difficult motion, the ligaments seem too short. [1]Joints, painful on motion. [2]
Joints crack on moving, or
they make a snapping noise.The joints are easily
sprained or strained. [3]Increasing disposition to strains
and to overlift oneself even at a
very slight exertion of the muscles, even in slight mechanical work,
in reaching out or stretching for something high up, in lifting things
that are not heavy in quick turns of the body, pushing, etc. Such a
tension or stretching of the muscles often then occasions long
confinement to the bed, swoons, all grades of hysterical troubles, [4]
fever, hæmoptysis, etc., while persons who are not psoric lift such
burdens as their muscles are able to, without the slightest after
effects. [5]The joints are easily
sprained at any false movement. [6]In the joint, of the foot
there is pain on treading, as if it would break.Softening of the bones,
curvature of the spine (deformity, hunchback), curvature of the long
bones of the thighs and legs (morbus anglicus,
rickets).Fragility of the bones.
Painful sensitiveness of the
skin, the muscles and of the periosteum on a moderate pressure. [7]—–
[1]
E.g., the tendo
Achillis on standing erect, stiffness of the tarsus, of
the knees, either transient (after sitting, when rising), or
permanent (contraction.)[2]
E.g., the shoulder-joint on
raising the arm; the tarsus pains on treading as if it was about to
break.[3]
E.g.,
the tarsus, the wrist-joint, the joint of the thumb.[4]
Often also, at once severe headache in the crown of the head, which
is then also painful externally when touched, or suddenly a pain in
the small of the back, or pain in the uterus, not unfrequently
stitches in the side of the breast, or between the shoulder blades,
which check the respiration, or painful stiffness of the neck or
spine, frequent audible eructations, etc.[5]
The common people, especially in the country, seek alleviation
through a sort of mesmeric stroking, but without lasting effects;
the tendency to over-lifting nevertheless remains. It is usually
woman (called a stroking woman)
who makes with the tips of her thumbs passes over the shoulder
blades toward the shoulders or along the spine, sometimes also from
the pit of the stomach along below the ribs, only they usually exert
too strong a pressure while stroking.[6]
E. g., the ankle at a false
step, so also the shoulder-joint. Of this kind is also the gradual
luxation of the hip-joint (i.e.,
of the head of the femur from the acetabulum,
when the leg then becomes too long, or too short causing limping).[7]
As when he moderately strikes against something, it becomes very
painful and for a long time; the parts on which he lies in bed are
very painful, wherefore he frequently turns over at night,, the
posterior muscles of the thigh and the bone on which she sits are
quite sore; a slight stroke with the hand on the thighs causes great
pain. A slight knock against a hard object leaves blue marks,
suffusion of blood.
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