Kissingen
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General
Kissingen.
Cold, chlorinated, gaseous, saline Springs of Kissingen in Bavaria (Source Rakoczy). Dilution.
Clinical
Albuminuria. Constipation. Corns. Diabetes. Diarrhoea. Gout. Haemorrhoids. Liver, affections of. Mesenteric glands, affections of. Noises in ears. Rectum, affections of. Spleen, affections of. Warts.
Characteristics
The water of Kissingen has been proved by Carl Preu, and observations have been made on its general effects. The composition of the solid constituents is very complicated, but Nat. mur. is the leading ingredient, existing in the proportion of 5.82 out of a total of 8.55 in the 1,000. It compares with Nauheim, Kreutznach, and, to some extent, with Vichy. Constantin James gives an excellent account of its action, and one of especial interest to homoeopaths, as it bears strongly on the doctrine of chronic diseases and the homoeopathic aggravation.
The dose is from three to six glasses of the water in the morning and two at 4 p.m.; but the general rule is that no more is to be drunk than the stomach can digest without difficulty. In the first days there is increase of appetite and force; but in proportion as the water is absorbed the effects become general. Then an eliminatory "crisis" comes on. The stools become brownish, loose, bilious.
The urine is turbid, depositing a sediment which rapidly putrifies. The secretion of the bronchial, genital, and ocular mucous membranes, and also of the skin, is increased and changed in character. At the same time patients experience a sort of moral and physical prostration, and are alarmed to see old and long-forgotten troubles reappear. This crisis, which appears in the first or second week, soon disappears of itself, and the cure proceeds.
The conditions against which Kis. is especially useful are abdominal affections—especially a catarrhal ("saburral") condition of the primae viae; intestinal atony; convalescence from typhoid and choleraic affections; affections of the liver and spleen and intestinal glands. Also in cases of gout "where the asthmatic principle appears to be repercussed upon the abdominal viscera"; for then the waters draw it out to the articulations. "Only these waters require to be managed with extreme prudence; if you overdo the doses by ever so little you will bring on a true attack of gout." Thus far Constantin James on the effects on the sick, and observations recorded in Allen confirm them.
Some of these effects were also observed in patients, and one of these is noteworthy. The patient suffered from vomiting of blood consequent on the disappearance of a haemorrhoidal flux. Under the action of the waters the latter was restored and the blood-vomiting ceased. Among the general effects, trembling of the whole body, weariness, pulsation of the Whole body, stitches here and there, were noted; and especially a very tearful disposition: "If he only looks at any one he must weep" (especially at 10 a.m.); muscae volitantes, and noises in the ears; chills, heat, and perspiration.
The symptoms were < in the forenoon and at night, on waking; while eating (vertigo); during menstruation (toothache); while reading and writing.
Relations
Compare: Nat. m. (weeping disposition; chill 10 a.m.; catarrh; constipation); Ant. c. (saburral condition); Urt. ur. (gout); Fer. pic. (warts and corns).
Mind
Yielding disposition
Weeping and complaining, tossing, to and fro on account of pain
If he only looks at any one he must weep
Constantly seeks for unpleasant things to think about and broods over them
Anxiety and weakness preceding menses
Very easily frightened
Frightful thoughts at night on waking
Ill-humoured, fretful, exhausted, weary of life; suddenly; always an hour after drinking the water; very transient
Inability for mental work
Irresolute
Speech difficult because he constantly makes mistakes in speaking
Loss of ideas
Weak memory.
Head
Vertigo while eating; suddenly after eating cooked cherries
Feeling of intoxication
Tensive headache < by reading
Rush of blood to head and chest with cold feet
Pain in both frontal eminences, extends down to nasal bone
Headache above l. eye with double vision
Drawing in head extending from root of nose upwards
Pressive pain deep in occiput
Tensive pain in whole scalp
Itching on occiput.
Eyes
White of eye seems yellow
Staring eye
Burning in eyes, evening
Pressure, and itching in eyes
Lids: tensive; twitching in r. lower; redness; agglutination
Acrid lachrymation with pain in canthi
Muscae volitantes.
Ears
Hot ears.—Ringing and roaring in ears.
Nose
Catarrh: fluent; stopped
Nose dry
Crawling in r. nostril as if he would sneeze.
Face
Deathly paleness
Feeling of pressing asunder in both zygomata
Frighful pressure in malar bones and in ear
Upper lip burns at night and seems as if it would become swollen.
Teeth
Teeth on edge as after acid
Toothache during menses
Roots of all l. lower teeth painful.
Mouth
Coated tongue with pasty taste
Prickling sticking on margin of tongue as if an ulcer would form
Much accumulation of saliva, like soap and water
Flat taste in mouth; his food has sour taste
Salty taste (of the spring) lasting weeks after using the water.
Throat
Mucus in throat
Contraction
Neck glands swell.
Stomach
Appetite without hunger
Painful hunger but immediately satisfied
Constant thirst, even in forenoon
Frequent eructations in open air
Nausea with accumulation of water in mouth; half an hour after breakfast
Vomiting of leathery, yellow-brown in mucus
Excessive vomiting and purging of black clotted blood
Heaviness and distension beneath pit of stomach
Stitches in epigastrium, r. side.
Abdomen
Feeling as though everything too tight about hips, obliging her to loosen her dress
Distended abdomen
Incarceration of flatus
Enormous colic with violent cramps.
Stool And Anus
Swelling of haemorrhoidal veins
Haemorrhoidal flux more profuse
In rectum: feeling of dryness; dragging; frequent stitches; itching
Frequent ineffectual desire for stool
Stools: leathery, yellowish brown, diarrhoea-like; pasty
Evacuation of a large quantity of slimy, bilious matter, smelling like asafoetida (lasted two weeks in one habitually constipated)
Blackish-green stools
Incredible amount of blackish-green, burnt, lumpy faeces, like large pieces of slate, preceded by blackish-green substances like gastric mucus, preceded by colicky pains and rumbling in abdomen; the former stool required so much exertion and caused so much pain that long-lasting faintness ensued (in a patient with intestinal inactivity)
Frequent bloody stools; afterwards haemorrhoidal flux and no more vomiting of blood
Passage of gall-stones
Constipation
Stool was difficult to press out of rectum; obliged to press the nates apart.
Urinary Organs
Feeling of moisture at meatus urinarius, as if he would have gonorrhoea
Itching and sticking in urethra when not urinating
Sand and gravel in urine for several weeks.
Male Sexual Organs
Unusual seminal emission at night.
Female Sexual Organs
Profuse menstruation; with discharge of membranous concretions.
Respiratory Organs
More hoarse than usual.—Frequent expectoration of mucus.
Chest
Tightness of chest
Pressure on (l.) chest
Stitches in l. breast.
Heart
Fulness in precordium
Palpitation with anxiety
Beats of heart intermit
Pulse greatly accelerated and feverish.
Limbs
Cramp-like feeling in limbs, esp. hands, as if arms had fallen asleep; violent inflammation of extensor digitorum communis of both hands in one hitherto paralysed.
Upper Limbs
Weakness and heaviness in arms
R. arm has fallen asleep and feels paralysed
Shoulders painful as if hot water had been poured over them
Fuzzy feeling in finger-tips.
Lower Limbs
Frequently stumbles when walking from stiffness of joints
Jerking in limbs while writing
Cramp in r. calf and l. toe at night
Heaviness of feet
Painfulness, boring and Sticking in corns.
Generalities
Trembling of whole body.—Unusually weary after a walk.—Uneasiness, cannot lie still in any place.—Stitches here and there.—Pulsation of the body when he remains perfectly quiet.
Skin
Yellowness of skin
A three-months' old wart on the finger disappears
Itching eruption on abdomen and feet
Itching in limbs.
Sleep
Frequent yawning
Sleeping during day
Wakes several times at night with great uneasiness
Jerking during sleep
Starts up twice while falling asleep is from electric shock through whole body
One dream follows another the whole night though he frequently wakes between them
Dreamy steep with confused dreams
Frightful dreams of murder and fire.
Fever
Chilliness while walking, immediately followed by easy perspiration
Febrile chill recurring daily at 10 a.m., but generally occurring later
Shivering and goose-flesh
Cold hands and feet
Great heat after a little wine (in one accustomed to it)
Flushes of heat and easy perspiration
Head constantly hot during febrile chill
Whole body reeking with perspiration
Anxious sweat.