Kissingen Aqua

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 homceopaths, as it

bears strongly on the doctrine of chronic diseases and the homeopathic 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

prime viz; 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 hemorrhoidal 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.
• ▸); muscee 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.

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.

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 I.
• ▸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.

• ▸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.—Musce volitantes.

• ▸Catarrh: fluent; stopped.
• ▸—Nose dry.
• ▸—Crawling in r.
• ▸nostril as if he would sneeze.

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.

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.

• ▸Teeth on edge as after acid.
• ▸—Toothache during menses.
• ▸—Roots of all 1.
• ▸lower teeth

painful.

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.

Feeling as though everything too tight about hips, obliging her to loosen her

• ▸dress.
• ▸—Distended abdomen.
• ▸—Incarceration of flatus.
• ▸—Enormous colic with violent cramps.

Swelling of hemorrhoidal veins—Heemorrhoidal 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 asafcetida (lasted two weeks in one habitually

constipated).—Blackish-green stools.—Incredible amount of blackish-green, burnt, lumpy feces,

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 hemorrhoidal 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.

Feeling of moisture at meatus urinarius, as if he would have

gonorrhcea.—Itching and sticking in urethra when not urinating.—Sand and gravel in urine for

several weeks.

• ▸Fulness in precordium.
• ▸—Palpitation with anxiety.
• ▸—Beats of heart intermit.
• ▸—Pulse

greatly accelerated and feverish.

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.

Frequently stumbles when walking from stiffness of joints ——Jerking in limbs

• ▸while writing —Cramp in r.
• ▸calf and |.
• ▸toe at night.
• ▸—Heaviness of feet.
• ▸—Painfulness, boring and

Sticking in corns.

• ▸24.
• ▸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.

Yellowness of skin.—A three-months' old wart on the finger disappears.—Itching

eruption on abdomen and feet.—Itching in limbs.

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.

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.

• ▸Albuminuria.
• ▸Constipation.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Diabetes.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Gout.
• ▸Heemorrhoids.
• ▸Liver,

• ▸affections of.
• ▸Mesenteric glands, affections of.
• ▸Noises in ears.
• ▸Rectum, affections of.
• ▸Spleen,

affections of. Warts.

• ▸Compare: Nat.
• ▸m.
• ▸(weeping disposition; chill 10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸; catarrh; constipation); Ant.
• ▸c.

• ▸(saburral condition); Urt.
• ▸ur.
• ▸(gout); Fer.
• ▸pic.
• ▸(warts and corns).

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.