Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica by James Tyler Kent.
This work was initially transcribed by Kent’s students from the lectures he presented at his Post-graduate School of Homeopathics in Philadelphia. Kent offers detailed and insightful descriptions of 217 medicines in this work. The first edition of James Tyler Kent’s Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica was published in 1905.
Dr. Kent summarizes, interprets, and systematizes the traditions of homeopathy, offering insights into homeopathic medicines. The notes on Kent’s Lectures are a cornerstone of homeopathic literature that we should regularly consult.
The silicate of potassium is a very deep acting remedy. Some of the symptoms are worse or come on in the morning, a few in the forenoon and afternoon, many in the evening, and very many in the night, and especially after midnight. Aversion to the open air and worse from the open air and
Two very deep acting remedies unite to form this one. It was left to Schussler to show its first curative powers. Dewey’s work on the “Tissue Remedies” gives the best presentation from the biochemical view. The writer gathered the symptoms from reported cures for many years, and found that they were justified by the study
The symptoms that indicate this remedy show themselves especially in the muscles, in the tendons, in the joints, along the course of the nerves, in rheumatic complaints. The pains change about, wandering pains, and they are aggravated from motion. The sharp pains spread from the centers to the extremities, the wandering pains go downwards, down
There are three things that stand out most prominently in Kreosotum, and when they appear together the symptoms in minor degree will be likely to be associated. These three characteristics are: 1. Excoriating discharges; 2. Pulsations all over the body, and 3. Profuse bleeding from small wounds. When these three things are associated in a
A beginning in this remedy was made by Dr. Reisig, and after Reisig it was used by Bayard. After Bayard’s death Dr. Dyer gave me a vial of the 30th potency, made by Reisig, from which the potencies have mostly been made. All the milks should be potentized, they are our most excellent remedies, they
The untrained mind naturally rebels at the idea of giving skimmed milk to sick people as a remedy, but when potentized like any other substance it becomes one of the most useful remedies. Every physician has seen a few cases in his practice; men, women and children who cannot drink milk. They say they are
Lachesis is a frequently indicated remedy, and one that you will need to study much in order to know how to use. Lachesis seems to fit the whole human race, for the race is pretty well filled up with snake as to disposition and character and this venom only causes to appear that which is
The many strange constitutional symptoms indicate feeble circulation and weak heart. Great general coldness, that is not ameliorated by external warmth. It is like wrapping up a dead man. Yet if he approaches a warm stove nausea comes on. If he is in a warm room the sweat breaks out on the forehead and the
This remedy comes up well after the study of Lachesis, for we find in the pathogenesis many features similar to those in Lachesis. It has the mottled aspect and the same puffed and bloated appearance of the face. It is antidotal to Lachesis, to the poison of insects, to the poison of Apis and to
So far as proved Lilium tigrinum has shown itself adapted to the complaints of women. It is especially suited to hysterical, women, who suffer from uterine troubles, cardiac troubles and various nervous manifestations; suitable to a woman who is extremely irritable, full of fanciful notions, insanity, religious melancholy and imaginations, with cardiac affections and prolapsus.