Homeo Tips
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Homeo Tips
What is the remedy to be given (just one single dose) to a pregnant woman,
when the foetus (baby in uterus) stops growing?
2.
During epidemic encephalitis (brain fever, e. g., in Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu) what
remedy would you use as prophylactic (preventive)?
3.
All the children born to a woman are syphilitic by birth. What remedy in one
single dose you would give her to prevent syphilis in future pregnancies?
4.
5.
Write the names of two authors who had written biography of Dr. Samuel
Hahnemann.
6.
Doctors say that an expectant mother is too weak to develop normal pains;
moreover, she is anaemic and so caesarean alone is the solution. What is the only
one remedy that will cure her anaemia, remove weakness and thus cause normal
child birth? (Please note that the answer is not Pulsatilla. Also, it is not
Caulophyllum. These two remedies are suggested by majority of homoeopaths.)
7.
What is the chief or first remedy that you would think of for haemophilia?
8.
9.
10.
11.
Name the remedy for (a) violent blow on single part of the body; (b) after a
person falls rolling down from a speeding train or bus; (c) falling from height
(second or third floor or from a tall tree) with bleeding; (d) falling down while trying
to climb a running jeep from behind?
12.
Under what rubric in the repertory would you search remedies for a patient with
chronic tonsillitis?
13.
What is the name of the reference book (and the name of its author) you would
use for complaints of pregnant women occurring directly before, during or after
childbirth or abortion?
14.
15.
Therefore, alternative terms must be included side by side in the materia medicas used
in the computers as under before including them in the software: Examples are:
(a) old age, aged persons
(b) glycosuria, diabetes, diabetes mellitus
(c) kidney, renal, nephritis, and so on and so forth.
Finding the remedythe simillimum for a patient is not a mechanical job; it is artistic.
Also, certain syndrome (group of symptoms) cannot be classified under any rubric in the
repertory or software and so a homoeopath would better memorise them. Example case
are given below:
CASE 1: Mr. N. 57 years reported: Doctor, daily morning I get headache; in the
afternoon, after lunch I have distension of abdomen, gastric troubles. In the night I get
terrible pain in the leg
Repertory is of no use in this case. The case is very simple. His symptom is to be
classified as follows:
Opium-10M one single dose cured his constipation and he was asked to stop
anticonvulsant drugs; he did so and to his surprise convulsions did not appear.
CASE 3: A patient showed his right leg with ulcer. He got injury a few months earlier but
so far it did not heal in spite of best medical treatment. After a pause, the patient
continued, Doctor, ever since the accident I feel numbness in my right upper arm and I
am unable to use it freely. Has this non-healing of wound in my leg anything to do with
numbness in my arm? But my arm was not hurt in the accident.
We say that homoeopathy is a system of medicine where the patient tells or indicates
the remedy to us. In Wilkinsons Materia Medica the following sentence under the
remedy Pulsatilla, agrees with this case:
depression of vital power on one side
and increased irritability on the other
Pulsatilla-10M, one single dose cured both the ulcer on the leg and numbness in the arm.
CASE 4: A certain renal failure patient under dialysis and waiting for kidney transplant,
was under our treatment. We could not find his remedy.
There is no guarantee for kidney transplant, because after a few years, many patients
die because the donor kidney stops functioning. After transplant he was heard saying,
Now I feel as if I am released from prison . . . as if I have taken a rebirth. This he said
because he is now freed from torturing and exhausting bi-weekly dialysis, taking rest,
body becoming weak etc.
This mental picture of the patient should at once bring to our mind the following words:
desire to be released from what seems to be a perpetual burden of sorrow (See
Lilienthal p. 698) MELANCHOLIAIgnatia
We are going to give Ignatia to him and we are confident that his other kidney would
start functioning and even if the donor kidney fails he would live long.
Mind symptoms and uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar symptoms explained correctly for
the first time.
CASE 5: A patient with weeping eczema etc., came to me and said, Doctor, I am not
taking the treatment to live long. But I have an aged daughter to be married and a son
who is looking out for a job. Who would come forward to marry my daughter, if I have a
weeping eczema? Only because of that, I want to get cured. Before I die, I want to settle
things in my family; my daughter getting married and son getting a job. Then I can die
peacefully.
Under the homoeopathic remedy Petroleum (Boerickes Materia Medica) we find the
following:
Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.
Now, this sentence fits in approximately with the remarks made by the above eczema
patient. This remedy was given in single dose and it cured him completely.
CASE 6: A peptic ulcer patients condition worsened day by day and allopathic antacids
were giving temporary relief. At the height of his suffering (hunger pain with burning
sensation in the food pipe, temporarily relieved by eating) he was heard saying, I think
that my end is approaching; I must call the lawyer to write the will; that this hotel of
mine should go to my wife; money deposited in the bank is for my son. My widowed
sister who has been living with me for several years and helping me should take the
house which I bought recently.
This mind picture agrees with the remarks made by the patient in case No.1 above. One
single dose of Petroleum-10M cured this patient also. We do not prescribe on names of
disease or pathology but on uncommon symptoms having no connection with pathology.
The above case 5 and 6 would show the reader that
(a) One and the same remedy may be called for in different persons with different
diseases; also,
(b) Different persons suffering from one and the same disease may need different
remedies.
MIND Symptoms: Superiority of Lilienthal: The most misunderstood topic in
homoeopathy is mind symptoms. Without prescribing on mind symptoms a cure is not
possible (section 213 of the Organon.) Again section 213 is to be read with section 153
which advises that a prescription is to be made on, uncommon-rare-strange-peculiar
symptoms. This again in another most misunderstood topic.
Section 213 is to be read with section 153 of the Organon.
To make the reader understand this correctly, let us say: We should take only those mind
symptoms which we have never heard before (commonly) in any patient. Actual cases
cured by the author will illustrate this point.
CASE 7: A seventy-year old carpenter was under my treatment for skin complaint and
he was improving. I ask my chronic disease patients to come once a month. During one
of his visits he was accompanied by his 48-year old son. The latter was coughing with
chest congestion etc. The carpenter told his son; Why dont you also take treatment
from this doctor. See how much I have improved, whereas the other seven doctors to
whom I consulted earlier could not do anything in my case.
To this, the son said: The new house where I shifted has no rasi. A certain professor
was having a two wheeler. After ten years it was no more useful, also the vehicle was
outdated and could not be used because spare parts were not available and so it was to
be condemned. He bought a car and also very good latest Japanese two-wheeler. But he
was not ready to dispose of the ten-year old two wheeler. He said, Everything went well
and I got prosperity only after buying that vehicle. So I wont part with it. (Rasi in
Tamil means luck). In other words the person feels that everything was going wrong ever
since he started living in a particular house. So, that house has no rasi. Or, a person
feels that ever since he bought and started using his car, nothing went right. He
attributes his sufferings, failures, difficulties etc. to that vehicle. I hope the reader
understands this. The son continued, Even the new work place where I am going daily
is not rasi (or has no good luck.)
The other word to describe rasi would be sentimental luck.
[The carpenters son was not ready to take treatment from me only because he felt that
the house and the work place is the cause of his respiratory complaints.]
I gave him one dose of a remedy telling him to take that and he need not pay me any
fees. He took it. (Later I learnt from his father that he was completely cured.).
Can any homoeopath tell me what remedy I gave the patient?
Read the remedy Staphysagria in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. (page 701.)
Inwardly gnawing grief and anger, he looks at everything from the darkest side
disinclination to work and think; dread of the future and dread of being constantly
pursued a sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the intellect
The enthusiastic reader would be eager to know how I selected this remedy for
the above case.
(i)
(ii)
Sentimental.
I write down the remedies common to two above rubrics (Kents Repertory) and read
them in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal (page 701). Staphysagria suited the
symptoms of the case.
CASE 8: A lady of forty-two came with a big stone in the her bladder. She said that
allopathic doctors advised surgery as the only answer but she declined to undergo it. She
continued
that
she
had
already
undergone
two
caesarean
sections
and
one
appendicectomy; after each one of these surgeries, her general health ran down.
Therefore she cannot afford deterioration of health any further with another surgery and
that she must safeguard her health for the remaining period of her life. Under the
remedy Nux vomica (See the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthals) we find the following
words:
Afraid she may not have enough to live on.
Nux-vomica-1M one single dose was given at bedtime. Not only her general health
improved, but also the size of the stone started reducing. (Patient still under treatment)
CASE 9: A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few relatives, all of whom
were allopathic doctors. They showed me a file containing the diagnostic and other
papers of the patient. After this, one by one, the relatives went out.
The patient was still sitting. He said, Doctor, my sons say that I am sick and so I should
not ride bicycle, go out and do our business. They say they will do everything and ask
me to sit at home taking rest. As my children, they should only tell me that I am all right
and that I would recover soon. But instead of encouraging me for speedy recovery they
have branded me as a permanent and incurable patient.
[The reader may note here that in most cases the uncommon symptoms (on which we
can make a prescription) is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some
cases, after you have made the prescription! In yet a few cases, during the second or
subsequent consultations!]
This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging, are letting him down. What one
requires from his or her relatives is not money or help but moral support. In this case
the patient feels that this is completely missing.
This symptom we find in two remedies. They are
Supposing you are asked by your teacher to murder a certain person. What would be
your reaction? Immediately you would reply as under: Sir, I have to (The sentence
would be incomplete. Because you have hesitation since doing this job would prick your
conscience.)
In the abovesaid case No. 5 and 6, for merely travelling ten kilometres they have lot of
hesitation as if I am asking them to do some crime or immoral thing. In other words,
they are overconscious of a trivial thing. The apt term would be Conscientious scruples.
This symptom is in the remedy Aresenicum album. [See Lilienthal p. 694.]
Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one and the
computer-software or remedy finders are of no use. One single dose of Arsenicum
Album-10M completely cured the above sinusitis patient (case No.3 above) and even
acupressure treatment was not given.
CASE 12: This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees
of six thousand rupees. To this he replied, Money is (The sentence was incomplete
and hesitation was as if they are asked to do some big immoral act.) He should say that
either he has no money or that he would try to borrow from relatives. But he does
neither. Ars. Alb-10M, one single, dose cured him.
The above cases would illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind
symptoms of a given patient. In some cases the repertory or software is not useful
and you have to memorise these uncommon mind symptoms.
The above three cases are quoted here to illustrate that if the practitioner can memorise
the symptoms of various remedies given under Melancholia in Lilienthal (which runs just
to eleven pages) he would be able to select the remedy in more than fifty per cent of
cases that too at the very first attempt.
Remember once again the review of Samuel A. Jones: To the older one who says he has
no use of Lilienthal, he is a good one to avoid when well and dread when ill.
Let no one practise homoeopathy who does not have a copy of Lilienthal and
does not make use of it.
Precision and versatility are required to practise homoeopathy.
What
is
most
disappointing
is
that
no
one
talks
about
Dr. Lilienthals
work
[Sometime you have to read the entire symptoms under Mind in all the remedies to
select a remedy for a patient. (For this I use Boerickes Materia Medica and Wilkinsons).
But once you find the remedy, subsequent cases requiring that remedy becomes easy.
I am not reporting herein cases treated with their follow-up but my attempt is to tell the
reader how and what exactly homoeopathic practice is. As one cannot learn swimming
without first getting into the water, nor car driving without first sitting on the wheel, so
also without actual cases on hand one cannot learn homoeopathy. To that extent only I
am quoting actual cases as seen in my clinic.
I am a free-lance medical journalist and so I took the following two cases as a
challenge to homoeopathy. These two cases would illustrate the reader how rich,
exact and accurate (and also complete) our existing materia medicas are. Thus and
therefore, what is needed is exact mastery of the use of the reference books viz.,
Lilienthal, Boericke, Kent, Wilkinsons and Calvin B. Knerr (and more importantly
Yingling, for medical emergencies at the time of labor or abortion.).
CASE 13: A patient with chronic headache, after spending much money with various
doctors, specialists and homoeopaths came to me. After finishing the history of his seven
years pain in head, he ended up saying: Doctor, if you or anyone can cure me of this
terrible headache, I wont mind even giving away half of my property (worth three
millions) to that doctor.
Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore this statement of the patient.
If a patient is ready to pay 1.5 million I thought over this. I took this as a challenge to
homoeopathy. I asked him to first pay me ten thousand rupees and also give me two
weeks time with a promise that if I do not cure him in one single dose (or a few doses) I
would pay him double the amount paid by him. Also, if he is cured he may pay me
another ten thousand rupees. He agreed to this condition and paid ten thousand rupees.
I took a copy of Boerickes Materia Medica and went to a professor of English in a college
and requested him to render me a help. I told him that he has to read the lines given
only under the chapter Mind in all the remedies in Boericks Mat. Med. and underline if
any relevant line is found equivalent to the statement of a person who says that he
would pay half of his wealth if his headache is cured. I paid him five thousand rupees
(which the professor said is more than sufficient for the work)It may take a few days,
daily spending two or three hours to go through the lines given under the chapter Mind
in Boerickes 688-page materia medica.
To another professor of English I gave a copy of Wilkinsons Mat. Medica and paying him
the remaining five thousand rupees requested him to do the job of reading the lines
given only under the chapter Mind in all the remedies (and this too would take a few
days, daily working for three hours) and tell me if he finds anything equivalent to the
above said statement of the headache patient.
The first professor (using Boerickes) could not find any suitable line. But the second
professor underlined and pointed out the following lines under the remedy Stillingia
(under Mind in Herings)
deplorably downhearted; suf-fering extreme torture from bone pains.
Stillingia 1000, one single dose cured the patient and he paid me another ten thousand
rupees. [After this case I cured two patients both of whom said the above words (ready
to give his entire wealth to the doctor who cures him) with the homoeo remedy
Stillingia.]
CASE 14: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient remarked:
Doctor, all these years I have been having these pains; my sufferings are such that no
amount of compensation would be equal to it. Even if you make me the President of all
the nations in the world that would not be a sufficient compensation. I told him the
same condition which I put to the patient in the earlier case. After taking ten thousand
rupees I went to the two English professors, one with Boericke and the other with
Wilkinsons Mat. Medica. In this case the professor going through Boerickes Mat. Medica
could help me. He pointed to the following found under the remedy Selenium.
Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.
Selenium 10M one dose cured the patient and he paid me ten thousand rupees.
On a later occasion the above said professors asked me what I did by their help and I
showed them how I practise homoeopathy. Soon both of them started learning and
practising homoeopathy.
Uncommon-Rare-Strange-Peculiar Symptoms Defined:
CASE 15: A patient came in with pain in the femoral part of urethra and backache. It
was worse while riding the two-wheeler. He showed his medical file (given by allopathic
hospital) and therefrom we noted the following points:
hydroureteronephrosisLeft kidney;
pain in femoral part of urethra;
Secale is almost a specific when the growth of foetus is arrested. (See Repertory
by Dr. Calvin B. Knerr: GENITALIAFEMALE, Pregnancy, foetus: arrests
development, Secale.) One single dose of Secale 10m is sufficient.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Life and Letters of Hahnemann by Dr. Richard Haehl and another book by
Bradford.
6.
7.
8.
(b) Diseases, more parti-cularly acute, that are long standing and not cured in spite of
best treatment, and where patient is affected much and disturbing his daily routine: We
may call these by the term Cachexia. Acute diseases such cough, cold, diarrhoea, skin
rash etc. normally do not last long. When you find a patient with these complaints
standing long for years and bothering him much, you may use the term Cachexia. We
may otherwise call this as weakness of the system or of a part of body.
9. Crotalus horridus.
10.
12.
For a patient with chronic tonsillitis, you would generally look into the Repertory
Krishnaamurthy
E-mail: jaykrish1966@gmail.com
dose whereas all other homoeopaths were giving different medicines repeatedly with
partial relief.
By his various articles and books he has established the superiority of homoeopathy
among pharmacologically-oriented system of therapeutics.
We certainly hope that this work would help the readers to improve upon their
knowledge of homoeopathic practice.
Contents
1.
Epidemic diseases
2.
3.
Congestion
4.
Cachexia
5.
Diabetes
6.
Lack of Reaction
7.
Anguish
8.
Cause of Disease
9.
10.
Random Notes
11.
Endocrinology
12.
Plethora, plethoric
13.
Malignant diseases
14.
15.
Cancer
16.
17.
Syphilitic affections
18.
Septic, septicaemia
19.
Sterility
20.
Gout
21.
22.
Chronic Rhematisum
23.
Constitution
24.
Scrofula
Preface
By
the
Author
I started my career as a medical journalist. Forty years ago, while in New Delhi, when I
entered the scene of homoeopathy, one striking thing that I noticed was that while one
homoeopath cured most of his patients with one single dose (even obstinate chronic
cases), another was giving more than one remedy that too repeatedly, with partial or nil
relief. Thus, my journey started to fill this gap of knowledge among homoeopaths. I
started studying and practising homoeopathy out of sheer academic interest and thus
got the inspiration to write this book. If the reader keeps this in mind, he would evince
much interest in what I am going to write in this book.
Advanced
Homoeopathic
Practice
How to make Homoeopathy More popular and Acceptable: Of late, there has been
repeated hue and cry from homoeopaths against governments and others for not giving
due recognition to homoeopathy. The remedy lies not outside but insideamong
homoeopaths. If we improve the quality of our practice, government and others
(including allopaths) would automatically come forward not only to recognise but also
admire us. This work is an attempt to this end.
It is very rarely the case that among the provings of our remedies not one is to be
found which corresponds to the characteristic features of a case3
3I have to mention this because provings of new remedies are being published in
journals and elsewhere as if we lack remedies in the existing materia medicas.)
Homoeopathy is slow to win its way because of defective use of books as well as
because of defective books.
[The above two quotations are from Kents LESSER WRITINGS.]
Most people think that as we have remedies for diabetes in other systems (like insulin in
allopathy) there would be corresponding remedies in homoeo. This is not so. There is
one marked difference between homoeo and other medical systems (allopathy,
ayurveda, siddha etc.)
In allopathy no doctor would give insulin for typhoid; also no one would give antibiotic
for diabetes. This is because insulin is for diabetes and no amount of insulin will be of
any use in typhoid.
But in homoeo, one remedy given for eczema patient may be indicated for jaundice in
another; the same remedy may be needed in the third patient suffering from cancer. In
such a case, the question that would naturally arise in the readers mind is, If so, then
what is the basis for prescribing or selecting the remedy in homoeopathy? Answer to
this question will throw light on the uniqueness of homoeo.
Theory is good so far as it goes but he who infuses theory into practice lives in, with and
for the student. A teacher is he who makes difficult things easy.
For learning swimming you do not read any text-book at home but first get into water.
For learning car driving you are first made to sit on the wheels! So also, without actual
cases of patients, study of theory alone is of no use. Therefore, let us start with actual
cases treated.
Before we proceed further, we would request the reader to keep the following books on
the table, while studying this book. [We are listing hereinbelow only all those books
which are absolutely essential for finding the remedythe similimum.]
Instead of listing out useless reference books, let me list hereinbelow (in order of their
extent of usefulness), only those books which are absolutely essential in day-to-day
practice.
1.
2.
J. T. Kents REPERTORY
3.
4.
5.
(compiled
by
Dr.
V.
Krishnamurthy)
6.
Actual cured cases presented below will justify the usefulness of the above reference
books.
CASE 1: A patient with peptic ulcer, weeping eczema etc., came to me and said, Doctor,
I am not taking the treatment to live long. But I have an aged daughter to be married
and a son who is looking out for a job. Who would come forward to marry my daughter,
if I have a weeping eczema? Only because of that, I want to get cured. Before I die, I
want to settle things in my family; my daughter getting married and son getting a job.
Then I can die peacefully.
Under the homoeopathic remedy Petroleum (Boerickes Materia Medica) we find the
following:
Feels that death is near, and must hurry to
settle affairs.
Now, this sentence fits in approximately with the remarks made by the above eczema
patient. This remedy was given in single dose and it cured him completely.
CASE 2: A peptic ulcer patients condition worsened day by day and allopathic antacids
were giving temporary relief. At the height of his suffering (hunger pain with burning
sensation in the food pipe, temporarily relieved by eating) he was heard saying, I think
that my end is approaching; I must call the lawyer to write the will; that this hotel of
mine should go to my wife; money deposited in the bank is for my son. My widowed
sister who has been living with me for several years and helping me should take the
house which I bought recently.
This mind picture agrees with the remarks made by the patient in case No.1 above. One
single dose of Petroleum-10M cured this patient also. We do not prescribe on names of
disease or pathology but on uncommon symptoms having no connection with pathology.
The above case 1 and 2 would show the reader that
(a) one and the same remedy may be called for in different persons with different
diseases; also,
(b) different persons suffering from one and the same disease may need different
remedies.
Let us now see further three actual cases treated where three patients, all of them
having the same complaint, viz., headache, were cured by different remedies:
Case 3: A lady of forty-two came with a big stone in the her bladder. She said that
allopathic doctors advised surgery as the only answer but she declined to undergo it. She
continued
that
she
had
already
undergone
two
caesarean
sections
and
one
appendicectomy; after each one of these surgeries, her general health ran down.
Therefore she cannot afford deterioration of health any further with another surgery and
that she must safeguard her health for the remaining period of her life. Under the
remedy Nux vomica (See the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthals) we find the following
words:
Afraid she may not have enough to live on.
Nux-vomica-1M one single dose was given at bedtime. Not only her general health
improved, but also the size of the stone started reducing. (Patient still under treatment)
CASE 4: A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few relatives, all of whom
were allopathic doctors. They showed me a file containing the diagnostic and other
papers of the patient. After this, one by one, the relatives went out.
The patient was still sitting. He said, Doctor, my sons say that I am sick and so I should
not ride bicycle, go out and do our business. They say they will do everything and ask
me to sit at home taking rest. As my children, they should only tell me that I am all right
and that I would recover soon. But instead of encouraging me for speedy recovery they
have branded me as a permanent and incurable patient.
[The reader may note here that in most cases the uncommon symptoms (on which we
can make a prescription) is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some
cases, after you have made the prescription! In yet a few cases, during the second or
subsequent consultations!]
This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging, are letting him down. What one
requires from his or her relatives is not money or help but moral support. In this case
the patient feels that this is completely missing.
This symptom we find in two remedies. They are
a feeling of moral deficiency Kali brom.
despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation Tarentula hisp.
(See Lilienthal, page 698 and 702)
Tarentula hisp. 10M single dose was given.
We are quoting this not as a case report but it is an actual case to illustrate how to
translate the words of the patient into a mind symptom.
The uncommon mind symptom may, in most cases, be one only. In the above renal
failure case, the above quoted symptom cannot be classified in any existing rubrics in
the repertory. Homoeo software would be of utter failure. The practitioner must
memorise the symptom of the above two remedies and keep it in his finger tips.
Homoeopathic practice is not a mechanical work but it is artistic. Therefore homoeo
software would but be a mockery.
To illustrate this point, let us examine more cases; in all the following three cases, only
one uncommon mind symptom was present and the reader, after studying the three
cases, would at once agree that with homoeo software he cannot do anything to find the
similimum.
Case 5: A lady of fifty-five, school teacher, was under my treatment for three months for
sinusitis with little relief. She lives thirteen kilometers away from my clinic and she works
in a school which is less than one kilometer from my clinic. Before going to the school
she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go to school. Seeing no relief in
spite of three visits, I told her that a certain acupressure doctor would come and give
just 3-minute treatment once only and for this she need not pay any fees and also I
assured total relief. Since the acupressure doctor comes to my clinic on Sundays only I
asked her to come on a Sunday. To this she replied, I have to come all the way from
(her residence.)
During the earlier three visits she would come to me in the morning before going to her
school which is near my clinic. Sunday is holiday for the school and she feels it an ordeal
to come for acupressure treatment all the way from her residence thirteen kilometers
away.
It is hesitation. I told her no need to pay any fees for the one-time acupressure and
100% cure was also assured. Therefore, travelling thirteen kilometre cannot be a crime.
But to do this she has hesitation. Before we show the reader how we selected the
remedy on this symptom let us see two more cases.
Case 6: A lady allopathic doctor was learning homoeopathy from me every Sunday
morning for two hours. She consulted for her complaints and total relief of her ailments.
Once she said, Doctor, can you give one-dose treatment for my son? Since birth he is
having perennial cold; now he is five years and almost every week he has to take
drugs? I told her that she must bring her son at least once and I would cure him
completely. Bringing her son once (and I am not going to charge her since she is my
student) is not an ordeal or something immoral. To this she replied, For this I have to
bring him all the way from my home (which is just ten kilometers away.)
For this small thing of bringing the boy once only (and for that he is going to get total
relief permanently) she hesitates.
Only if you actually listen to the patients reply in person you may understand this. Let
me explain and elaborate on this.
Supposing you are asked by your teacher to murder a certain person. What would be
your reaction? Immediately you would reply as under: Sir, I have to (The sentence
would be incomplete. Because you have hesitation since doing this job would prick your
conscience.)
In the abovesaid case No. 3 and 4, for merely travelling ten kilometres they have lot of
hesitation as if I am asking them to do some crime or immoral thing. In other words,
they are overconscious of a trivial thing. The apt term would be Conscientious scruples.
This symptom is in the remedy Aresenicum album. [See Lilienthal p. 694.]
Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one and the
computer-software or remedy finders are of no use. One single dose of Arsenicum
Album-10M completely cured the above sinusitis patient (case No.3 above) and even
acupressure treatment was not given.
Case 7: This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees of
six thousand rupees. To this he replied, Money is (The sentence was incomplete and
hesitation was as if they are asked to do some big immoral act.) He should say that
either he has no money or that he would try to borrow from relatives. But he does
neither. Ars. Alb-10M, one single, dose cured him.
The above cases would illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind symptoms of a
given patient. In some cases the repertory or software is not useful and you have to
memorise these uncommon mind symptoms.
The above two cases are quoted here to illustrate that if the practitioner can memorise
the symptoms of various remedies given under Melancholia in Lilienthal (which runs just
to eleven pages) he would be able to select the remedy in more than fifty per cent of
cases that too at the very first attempt.
Remember once again the review of Samuel A. Jones: To the older one who says he has
no use of Lilienthal, he is a good one to dread when ill.
Let no one practise homoeopathy who does not have a copy of Lilienthal and does not
make use of it.
Dr. Kent had observed (in his Lectures on Mat. Med.) that in respect of many remedies
mind symptoms have not been brought out in proving. This need not deter us because
we have equally good tools for selecting the remedyuncommon and general
symptoms.
I had already quoted Lilienthal saying, Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the
remedy. Let me illustrate this with three cured cases.
CASE 8: A boy of eleven was brought by his mother: She spoke: Doctor, look at him.
The boy is making constant movements of his fingers. He often becomes violent and
restless. This started six months ago. We went to allopathic hospital and they diagnosed
his case as worm complaint and gave him santonine, but even double the adult dose of it
had no effect. Then we went to a homeopathy specialist. (She showed me the
prescription: Cina-30 daily morning and Graphites-30 daily night, for eruption on
forearm with sticky discharge, for one month.) He has completed one month course of
these two remedies but no result.
I looked at the boy again and the case sheet. Case sheet means plain white sheet on
which we start writing down one below the other what all the patient and/or his relatives
tell us. After a pause, the mother told me with wide open eyes and learning towards me,
Doctor, ever since he developed worm complaint he often complains of headache and
vertigo. Why is it so doctor? [An observation that we had repeatedly made in the clinic
was this: In some cases when the patient tells un-common-rare-strange symptom, he
leans forward with wide open eyes.]
The words vertigo and headache told by the mother (which is an uncommon symptom
in worm complaint) were found under one remedy only viz., Cicuta virosa among the
thirty-seven remedies given under the chapter WORM AFFECTIONS in Lilienthal. This
remedy in 200th potency, single dose, cured worm symptoms as well as his skin
complaint.
CASE 9: Fifteen years of sore throat and constipation completely and permanently cured
with one single dose.
A certain middle aged patient came to me at 3 p.m. asking if I can give him some throat
paint for his sore throat. I told him that I would give pills only and asked him to tell me
how long he is suffering etc. (something to make the patient talk about his complaints.)
He replied:
Doctor, I have this for fifteen years. Daily at 3-4 p.m. it starts, so much burning in
mouth and throat that in the evening I am unable to do poojas loudly because my voice
becomes husky. (he is a priest in Hindu temple and there he has to use loud voice to
utter verses during worship etc.) The burning pain would continue in the night, but next
morning there wont be any pain.
In this case only one symptom is prominent < evening, night.
I went through all the remedies under the chapter SORE THROAT in Lilienthal. The
symptom < evening was found under the remedies Alumina, Hepar, Natr. mur and
Silicea. But in Alumina it is < evening and night.
Further, under the remedy Alumina the words clergymans sore throat < evening and
nightwith husky voice suited the case. Just to confirm the remedy (since it is one of
the remedies for chronic and obstinate constipation) I asked him about his bowel
movements, to which he replied that he would pass stool once in 3-4 days.
Alumina-10M, single dose, cured his chronic sore throat as well as constipation. (I never
knew that he got complete cure till one day when I casually visited the temple in which
that priest was doing poojas. I had even forgotten him. Looking at me he immediately
removed a big garland from around the neck of the deity and put it on me (this is a sign
of honoring V.I.P.s in Hindu temples). I was rather puzzled. He gave me fruits etc., and
came out with me till the entrance while V.I.Ps were waiting by paying heavy amount
etc. That night I narrated this to my house-owner who does part-time work in that
temple and he said that I was honoured because my prescription of one single dose
completely cured that priest, which he used to recall almost daily.
Yes, drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy!
Sometime you have to read the entire symptoms under Mind in all the remedies to
select a remedy for a patient. (For this I use Boerickes Materia Medica and Herings
Guiding Symptoms). But once you find the remedy, subsequent cases requring that
remedy becomes easy.
I am not reporting herein cases treated and their follow-up but my attempt is to tell the
reader how and what exactly homoeopathic practice is. As one cannot learn swimming
without first getting into the water, nor car driving without first sitting on the wheel, so
also without actual cases on hand one cannot learn homoeopathy. To that extent only I
am quoting actual cases as seen in my clinic.
As already said in the beginning of this book I am a free-lance medical journalist and so
I took the following two cases as a challenge to homoeopathy. These two cases would
illustrate the reader how rich, exact and accurate (and also complete) our existing
materia medicas are. Thus and therefore, what is needed is exact mastery of the use of
the reference books viz., Lilienthal, Boericke, Kent, Herings and Calvin B. Knerr (and
more importantly Yingling in the case of emergencies at the time of labor or abortion.).
Case 10: A patient with chronic headache, after spending much money with various
doctors, specialists and homoeopaths came to me. After finishing the history of his seven
years pain in head, he ended up saying: Doctor, if you or any one can cure me of this
terrible headache, I wont mind even giving away half of my property (worth three
millions) to that doctor.
Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore the last line told by the patient.
If a patient is ready to pay 1.5 millions I thought over this. I took this as a challenge to
homoeopathy. (I am a free lance journalist and not a practising homoeopath) and told
him that he may first pay me ten thousand rupees and also give me one weeks time
with a promise that if I do not cure him in one single dose (or a few doses) in two weeks
time I would pay him double the amount paid by him. Also, if he is cured he may pay me
another ten thousand rupees. He agreed to this condition and paid ten thousand rupees.
I took a copy of Boerickes Materia Medica and went to a professor English in a college
and requested him to render me a help. I told him that he has to read the lines given
only under the chapter Mind in all the remedies in Boericks Mat. Med. and underline if
any relevant line is found equivalent to the statement of a person who says that he
would pay half of his wealth if his headache is cured. I paid him five thousand rupees
(which the professor said is more than sufficient for the work)It may take a few days,
daily spending two or three hours to go through the lines given under the chapter Mind
in Boerickes 688 pages materia medica.
To another profesor of English I went with Herings Guiding symptoms (ten volumes) and
paying him the remaining five thousand rupees requested him to do the job of reading
the lines given only under the chapter Mind in all the remedies (and this too would take
a few days, daily working for three hours) and tell me if he finds anything equivalent to
the above said statement of the headache patient.
The first professor (using Boerickes) could not find any suitable line. But the second
professor underlined and pointed out the following lines under the remedy Stillingia
(under Mind in Herings)
deplorably downhearted; suffering extreme torture from bone pains.
Stillingia 1000, one single dose cured the patient and he paid me another ten thousand
rupees. [After this case I cured two patients both of whom said the above words (ready
to give his entire wealth to the doctor who cures him) with the homoeo remedy
Stillingia.]
Case 11: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient remarked:
Doctor, all these years I have been having these pains; my sufferings are such that no
amount of compensation would be equal to it. Even if you make me the President of all
the nations in the world that would not be a sufficient compensation. I told him the
same condition which I put to the patient in the earlier case. After taking ten thousand
rupees I went to the two English professors, one with Boericke and the other with
Herings 10 volumes. In this case the professor going through Boerickes Mat. Medica
could help me. He pointed to the following found under the remedy Selenium.
Extreme sadness, abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.
Selenium 10M one dose cured the patient and he paid me ten thousand rupees.
On a later occasion the abovesaid professors asked me what I did by their help and I
showed them that I practise homoeopathy. Soon both of them started learning and
practising homoeopathy.
CASE 12: A middle aged man of forty walked in complaining of headache for a few
months. After telling me that he tried allopathy, ayurveda, homoeopathy etc. he told me
that the pain in head started the previous year when he was having malarial fever;
though malaria was cured, pain in head continued. (Certain cases are the easiest to work
out; certain cases are difficult)
Calvin B. Knerrs Repertory: Chapter No. 40.
Fever, intermittent (ague):. with headache; Cina,
Fever, intermittent apyrexia: headache, Arn.,
Polyporus Pinicola, being common to the above two lists was given in single dose. Total
relief felt for a month after which he reported relapse. The same remedy was given this
time in single dose in a higher potency and it is now more than seven years and he is
free from headache. Also, his chronic constipation was cured.
Thus, in cases No. 3, 4 and 5 above though the complaint, viz., headache is same in all
of them, each patient got different remedies.
To be precise, those symptoms which doctors of other medical systems would ignore, we
take that and that alone for prescribing or selecting the remedy in homoeopathy.
2.
If you have a good teacher of homoeopathy you can go to the top in a year or two.
Mat.
Medica.
Certain symptoms cannot be classified under any rubric and so the Repertory becomes of
no use in such cases. The following would illustrate that the practitioner should keep
such symptoms under his finger tip so that he may make ready use of them when told
by a patient.
In Boericke we find the following:
1.
2.
3.
A practitioner would not and cannot understand the use of the following symptoms in
Herings Guiding symptoms (l0 volumes) unless a teacher points it out to them with
actual cases treated.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Let us now see hereinbelow cases treated with the above remedies:
CASE 13: A patient consulted me for constipation. Even laxatives and purgatives were
said to be of no use. He further said that for several years he had been taking daily
anticonvulsant drug for epilepsy and if he stops it, he would get convulsions.
The symptom under
His complaint (pathology) is in ureter but he has pain in femoral part of urethra and
sacrum. This is something rare-strange-peculiar. Both these painful places are at the
same distance from the seat of affectionureter.
Under the remedy Belladonna (Herings Materia Medica) we find the following:
Inflammation of internal organs The inflammation runs in radii as it extends to
adjacent parts.
(Femoral part of urethra and sacrum are more or less at equal distance from his left
ureter). Belladonna-10M, single dose, cured him.
CASE 16: Two years after case No. 12 above, a lady came to me for cervical spondylitis.
These patients get pain normally in the neck extending to head or one upper limb.
Strangely this patient complained of unbearable pain in both shoulder tips. (Both
shoulder tips are at the same distance away from the cervical vertebra.) Belladonna10M, single dose cured her.
In medicine, emergency is the most important. Again, among emergencies, nowhere
else can one demonstrate the superiority of a medical system than at the time of
childbirth. Thus Dr. W. A. Yingling stands as a guiding star in the sky of homoeopathy. In
the preface to his book Accoucheurs Emergency Manual he states that the most
alarming haemorrhages stop in seconds after administering one single dose of the
indicated remedy. Be it mastery of the language or medical science or homoeopathy, his
presentation should give total confidence to all practising homoeopaths. Let him not
practice homoeopathy who does not read at least once a month, the Preface and
Introduction in Yinglings Emergency Manual. Some portions from his book given below
may not be out of place:
The object of this Manual is to give assistance in the emergency, at the bedside, and to
preclude the necessity of carrying one or more large volumes as aids, or of going to the
office for help This work deals exclusively with the remedies and their application to the
abnormal conditions of parturition, those which occur directly before, during, or after
labor or abortion. (italics ours) In no class of cases will the homoeopathic remedy be
found to act more efficiently and speedily than in post-partum haemorrhage. It is really
astonishing how rapidly a profuse haemorrhage will cease after the administration of the
properly selected simillimum. In each emergency cases nature speaks plainly. The
more danger to life the more plainly nature speaks. And, the quicker the remedy acts!
Since emergencies of childbirth is a small topic, let me stop here talking further about Dr.
Yingling and let us go to Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, the great.
If an author has covered his subject in its entire depth and breadth, it would be indicated
by the fact that no other author would venture or dare to write another book on the
same title. Yes, after Samuel Lilienthal, no one dared to write a work with the title
Homoeopathic Therapeutics.
We have all along been struggling with repertories and materia medicas. But nobody is
able to get more than 10-30% of success, that too at the first visit of the patient. Thus
and therefore a lateral thinking in bringing out a more sensible and useful or nearunfailing reference work is needed and hats off to Dr. Samuel Lilienthal for his work
Homoeopathic Therapeutics. (Hereinafter called Lilienthal.) You call it Materia Medica or
Repertory or by any other name, it is par excellence. The superiority of this reference
work (excepting, of course, Dr. Yingling) can be demonstrated by the following:
1. Drop the symptom in Lilienthal and you get the remedy. (See Case Nos. 1 to 5 in the
following pages.)
2. Said Dr. Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS (by Dr.
Samuel Lilienthal), it is an extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to their
library will never feel regret Dr. Sameul A. Jones said about Lilienthals book: For the
fresh graduate this book will be invaluable to the older one who says he has no use of
this book, we have nothing to say. He is a good one to avoid when well, and to dread
when ill.
(a) Among medical sciences, homoeopathy is the shortcut to cure patients gently,
quickly and permanently.
(b) To find a homoeopathic remedy for a patient, Lilienthals is the short cut.
(Dr. Hahnemann stresses in Section 213 of the Organon that the cure is not
possible without selecting the remedy on mind symptoms.)
(c) The chapter Melancholia (and Insanity Hysteria Emotions Hypochondriasis) is
the shortcut to the use of Lilienthals.
The following cases would illustrate (a) what is meant by mind symptom and (b) that
useful mind symptoms in a case may be one or two only.
[In each medical system there may be something unique, and without arguing which one
is the best, the intelligent man takes the best from each.]
70 to 90 PER CENT OF CAESAREAN SURGERIES CAN BE DONE AWAY WITH THREE
DOSES
OF
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE.
The foetus (baby in the uterus of the pregnant mother) 1-3 weeks prior to delivery date
(so long remaining in upright position) turns upside down, and the uterus descends down
in such a way that the head of the foetus remains fixed in the pelvic floor of the mother.
1-3 weeks later, at the delivery time the mouth of the uterus dilates and the child comes
out. Even after the full term of ten months if the child does not turn upside down, or
turns half-way and lies crosswise, or
having turned upside down, does not descend further down, the attending lady doctor
would say that head is still floating or is in incorrect position and so opens the abdomen
to take out the child. This is called caesarean surgery. 70 to 90 per cent of caesarean
surgeries at the present day are conducted solely for this reason.
At this time if the patient takes three doses of the homoeopathic medicine Pulsatilla1000, every 4-8 hours, in the next twenty-four hours it would be a normal and safe
delivery.
In the reference book The Accoucheurs Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling, M.D.,
of U.S.A. we find the following : Dr. W. A. Yingling, M.D.
In the reference book The Accoucheurs Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling, M.D.,
of U.S.A. we find the following :
Abnormal presentations may be righted if Pulsatilla is given before the
membranes are ruptured or the presenting parts are firmly engaged
In a maternity hospital, Pollachi Road, Dharapuram, Tamilnadu, by using Pulsatilla and
other remedies there has not been even a single caesarean for the past several years
and the doctor in-charge has put up a board Caesarean-free Clinic. The Dharapuram
Lions Club has given her a certificate testifying this.
(2) If the baby in the uterus stops growing, allopathy has no cure and they abort it. But
if one single dose of the homoeopathic medicine Secale Cornutum-10M is given, the
baby starts growing. (See Calvin B. Knerrs Repertory, p. 698. Pregnancy, foetus,
development arrested: Sec.)
(3) After caesarean (or for that matter after any abdominal surgery) there would be pain
in the sutured place lasting for years. But one single dose of the homoeo medicine
Staphysagria-1000, completely cures in twenty-four hours all post-operative abdominal
discomforts.
(4) Some newly married women are prone to urinary infection and they spend in
thousands. Again, the same homoeo medicine Staphysagria-1000, in one single dose,
would cure the condition in just a days time.
Treatment
of
swine
flu
those who had died in hospitals with swine flu had lung failure
(b)
swine flu starts with fever, sore throat and body pain.
Step 1: Fever with body pain, sore throat. The rubric that you must take for this in
Kents Repertory is under GENERALITIES. Inflammation, internal:
Step 2: Disease of lung that speedily kills any patient; the equivalent rubric in Kents
Repertory is Pneumonia (CHEST: Hepatization of lungs)
The remedies scoring more points (being common to the above two lists) are Cactus=4,
Iodum=5, Kalic-c.=4, Kali-iod.=4, Lach.=5, Lyc.=4, Merc-sol.=4, Nux-v.=5, Phos.=6,
Sulph.=5, Tereb.=5
These remedies were studied in Samuel Lilienthals HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS
under the chapter PNEUMONIA; Under Merc-sol we find the following words
epidemic broncho-pneumonia.
On the same page under the remedy ferrum met. also, we find the words epidemic
pneumonia. But we do not get this remedy in repertorisation.
Patients who had come to me after being tested positive for swine flu were given the
homoeo medicine Merc-sol-200 (daily one dose for three days only) and after a week
when they tested, the result was negative. All their symptoms disappeared. (Rate of
success: 97%).
For prevention, the same remedy Merc.sol.200 may be given one dose once a month for
three months. This prevents swine flu for six months from the date of taking the first
dose.
In homoeopathy, cure is easier and quicker than prevention.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: In Section 213 of the Organon Dr. Hahnemann tells us that without
prescribing a remedy on mind symptoms a cure is not possible. Let us now see how the
remedy Merc-sol satisfies this requirement.
In big organizations when a person is affected with fever, sore throat and body pain he is
advised NOT TO COME TO OFFICE. In other words, the awe-stricken non-affected
persons run away from the victims as if they are their enemies, for fear of contracting
swine flu.
A lady took her 5-year old son to a doctor. There a patient came to consult the doctor
because he was declared positive for swine flu. Immediately on hearing this that lady
started running away with her son, lest he may be infected.
The otherwise healthy person considers the victim of swine flu as his enemy. The victims
are asked to keep off till cured.
Under
the
Chapter
MELANCHOLIA
in
the
reference
book
HOMOEOPATHIC
THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, (page no.700 under the remedy Merc-sol.) we
find the following words: anxious restlessness as if some evil impended constant
suspicion, considering everybody his enemy.
Dr. Samuel Lilenthal, M.D.
The following extracts from the WILKINSONS MATERIA MEDICA (under the chapter
Mind in the remedy Merc-sol.) also confirms my selection of this remedy for swine flu.
Desire to flee, with anxiety and apprehension. did not know what to do
Inexpressible pain of soul and body, anxious restlessness, as if some evil impended
As this mind symptom is found in those who had not got the disease, the remedy Mercsol. is indicated as a preventive. In one of the big multinational companies office at
Chennai, about 300 persons were working on the first floor. Immediately on hearing that
two of their colleagues tested positive for swine flu, all of them started fleeing. This
attitude is found in almost all persons who are running here and there for prevention of
swine flu. Therefore, Merc-sol is almost a specific both as a preventive and curative.
What
is
most
disappointing
is
that
no
one
talks
about
Dr. Lilienthals
work
For the fresh graduate this book will be invaluable to the older one who says he has no
use of this book, we have nothing to say. He is a good one to avoid when well, and to
dread when ill.
CHAPTER
The killing
They all have the general feature of cholera, its nature and general aspect.
They all have the exhaustive vomiting and diarrhoea, the coldness, the tendency
to collapse, the sinking from the emptying out of the fluids of the body.
From what I have said you will see that the Cuprum case is, above all others, the
spasmodic case. It has the most intense spasms, and the spasms being the
leading feature, they overshadow all the other symptoms of the case. He is full of
cramps and is compelled to cry out with the pain from the contractions of the
muscles.
Camphor has the blueness, the exhaustive discharge, though less than Cuprum
and Veratrum; but whereas in the two latter remedies the patient is willing to be
covered up, is cold he wants to be uncovered and to have the windows open. But
just here let me mention another feature in Camphor. It has also some convulsions
which are painful, and when the pain is on he wants to be covered up and wants the
windows shut. If there are cramps in the bowels with the pain, he wants to be
covered up.
So that in Camphor, during all of its complaints in febrile conditions (and fever is
very rare in Camphor), and during the pains he wants to be covered up and warm,
but during the coldness he wants to be uncovered and have the air.
Again, with Camphor there are often scanty as well as copious discharges, so that
the cholera patient is often taken so suddenly that he has the coldness, blueness
and exhaustion and almost no vomiting or diarrhoea, a condition called dry cholera.
This
is Camphor.
Another prominent feature is the great coldness of the body without the usual
sweat that belongs to the disease.
Cuprum and Veratrum have the cold clammy sweat, and Camphor also has sweat,
but more commonly the patient needing Camphor is very cold, blue and dry and
wants to be uncovered. That is striking.
Eupatorium perf. has been a very useful remedy in intermittent fever, when
epidemic in the valleys.
bloody
expectoration;
epidemic
pneumonia,
dyspnoea
gradually
increasing, no pressure under sternum; pale, stupid face; roof of mouth white; skin
neither burning nor cold and damp; pulse never hard and full.
Merc., Ipec. and Acon. are frequently indicated in epidemic dysentery that
comes in hot weather, and Ipec., Dulc. and Merc. are frequently indicated in the
dysentery of cold weather.
Merc-sol.: For epidemic coryza the remedy is Merc-sol. The symptoms are:
frequent sneezing, copious discharge of watery saliva; swelling, redness and rough,
scraping soreness of the nose, with itching and pain in the nasal bones on pressing
upon them; foetid smell of the nasal mucus; painful heaviness of the forehead;
night-sweats, chills and feverish heat; great thirst; pains in the limbs, aggravated by
warmth or cold, by dampness.
Merc-sol:
Epidemic broncho-pneumonia.
(chel.), with blood-streaked expectoration and sharp pains shooting through lower
portion of right lung to back, cannot lie on right side; icteroid symptoms; slimy stools,
attended with great tenesmus before, during and after stool (chel., free discharges).
asthenic pneumonia with feeling of weight in lungs, < walking or ascending, short cough
and expectoration of bloody saliva; epidemic broncho-pneumonia, with deep irritation of
the nervous system; nose, larynx and trachea become suddenly dry, dyspnoea sets in
with spasmodic cough, < at night, and yellow-green, blood-streaked expectoration; skin
burning hot, at times covered with copious sweat; tongue yellow, soon becomes dry;
senses dull, violent headache, soporous condition, with light delirium; complains of little
or no pain (influenza); infantile lobular pneumonia
Mer-sol. Angina : great dryness in mouth and throat; expectoration of masses of
mucus from pharynx and choanae; ptyalism; face pale red; left side swollen; dry heat,
with confusion of head; burning skin; constant thirst; frequent, strong pulse; severe
chill, with drawing in limbs and lassitude; nauseating belching; beating in left praecordia;
severe drawing pain in nape and down back; pain in parotid glands and muscles of neck,
not agg by motion; fever agg in evening; thick, white coat on tongue; stitching pain in
throat when moving jaw; pain extending to ears; vertigo when rising; stitches in occiput,
with slight cough; severe headache, particularly in left temple; severe dull pain in
occiput; skin of head and face seems tense; fauces of a coppery red color; soft palate
and tonsils greatly swollen, dark red and pressed forward; stinging pains from empty
swallowing at night and in cold air; agg Spring and Fall and in wet, cold weather;
epidemic, young people especially affected; chronic or habitual.
Podophyllum: endemic dysentery
Polyporus off (Febris intermittens) sporadic or endemic fevers at any season except
fall. almost continued fever, though it never runs very high; great languor and aching in
all joints. creeping chills along spine, between shoulder-blades, up the back to nape,
intermingled with hot flushes; unusual chilliness in open air, with icy coldness of nose.
heat with thirst, face hot and flushed, with prickly sensation; hands, palms, feet hot and
dry. sweat profuse after midnight in old chronic cases, otherwise light. apyrexia: hepatic
pains with jaundice, great lassitude, constipation and headache; food passes undigested.
Veratrum alb Fall and spring: whooping-cough epidemics; neuralgia in arms.
Veratrum alb: epidemic whooping-cough (spring and fall) the remedy is.
The
symptoms are: deep, hollow, ringing cough, excited by a tickling in the lowest branches
of bronchi, seeming as if it came from abdomen, at night without, in daytime with
expectoration of yellow, tenacious mucus, of a bitter saltish, or sour and putrid taste;
worse from coming from a cold into a warm air, from getting warm, damp cold weather,
eating and drinking cold things; neck too weak to hold head up; cold sweat on forehead;
great craving for acids and acid fruits.
Viola odorata Epidemic dysentery, characterized by spasmodic tenesmus, intestinal
spasms, tympanitis, etc.
Xanthoxylum Epidemic dysentery, characterized by spasmodic tenesmus, intestinal
spasms, tympanitis, etc.
Zincum met Epidemic membranous croup
Zincum met Epidemic meningitis cerebro-spinalis; short breathing, anguish, pressure
in chest, and frequently returning dry tussiculation, pulse remarkably slow; pulse small,
frequent, very changeable, breathing irregular; short, dry, spasmodic cough; mental
disturbance.
From the above list we can easily find out and say that Polyporus Pinicola (otherwise
called Polyporus Officinalis) is the specific for chikungunya. Also Merc-sol. or Ferr-m. are
specific for swine flu.
The one author who treated more number of diseases by using more number of
remedies for each disease is Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, the great. We have to salute him for
having told us that Polyporus is specific for chikungunya and Merc-sol is specific for
swine flu.
under the illusion that once the homoeo software is installed, he can be damn
sure of selecting the remedy for his patients. To remove the above illusion this
chapter is being written.
(1) The ignorant and innocent practitioner searches in the software for the disease
diabetes and he gets some results. But, at the same time, he would be missing many
remedies for diabetes. This is because in some places of materia medicas for diabetes
the term glycosuria is used.
(2) Before programming the materia medica they must either change all the words
glycosuria as diabetes or give diabetes within brackets after all the words glycosuria.
Because of ignorance and innocence those selling softwares will not listen to these
observations.
(a) The person designing the homoeo software is grossly ignorant of homoeopathy; for
example, many softwares do not contain Calvin B. Knerrs Repertory, one of the best
repertories. (It is unfortunate that even professors in homoeo colleges are ignorant of
this book. Or, having a copy of it, they do not know how to use it).
(b) Doctors using such softwares are ignorant of the scope and limitations of computers
and also are ignorant of the ignorance of those designing and selling homoeo softwares.
We cannot educate both doctors (using homoeo softwares) and those selling them. And
the poor doctor would argue that he had given the correct(?) remedy as per computer
results, which, in his opinion is unfailing and final.
Again a doctor may search for liver but in many places we find equivalent terms
hepatic affections etc. and the list goes on.
Be that as it may.
Repertory of softwares is not a hundred per cent foolproof method. They are only aids in
finding the remedy.
Instances of cases where repertories and softwares are of no use:
Unless you memorise the symptoms in some remedies you will miss the remedy.
Software is useless in patients having the following symptoms.
homoeopath looks at a Chinese he would prescribe him for jaundice (because the colour
of skin of any Chinese is yellow.)
Even if a 0.0001 per cent of the total homoeo prescription so far made all over the world
from the time of Dr. Hahnemann till today had been correct, we would by now have
closed more than fifty per cent of allopathic hospitals. This statement admits the fact
that the standard of practice of homoeopathy is certainly below par all over the world.
No homoeopath need get offended by this statement. We are only trying to carefully lift
all mysterious clouds enveloping homoeopathy.
Be that as it may. Let us now learn some term.
Congestion. When two or more symptoms are in one and the same part of the body,
instead of considering each symptom separately you should take this rubric congestion.
For example, a patient came in complaining headache, dandruff and hair fall; he had
been having this for several years. The neophyte would take dandruff hair fall and
headache for finding the remedy. But these three symptoms found together in one
place viz., head, we should not take the three symptoms separately but as one whole
unit and the term is congestion.
A patient was having varicose veins in legs, pain in knee, corns on sole, cramps in feet.
All these complaints are on the lower limb. Here too we must use the rubric congestion.
Instances where also you would press into service this term congestion.
When pain or some other symptom is felt in a part while exerting another part. E. g.,
headache while coughing, involuntary urination or urging to urinate when excited etc.
For acute diseases you may search in your various repertories as such i.e. head, pain on
coughing etc.
But for chronic diseases you must use the term congestion in the
repertory.
Worry causes headache. Mental tension causes or aggravates skin complaints. (For this
we have the term neurotic eczema.
[See
Boerickes Materia Medica. In that remedy under the para Skin we find the following:
Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability neurotic eczema.]
Authors of some homoeo reference books uses the term rush of blood or hyperaemia
in place of congestion in the homoeopathic materia medicas. [Hyperaemia = an excess
of blood in an organ or other part of the body.]
(Rush of blood) Complained of by plethoric, debilitated, hypochondriac, or nervous
individuals. The principal remedies are: 1, Acon., Aur., Calc., Hep., Kalm., Kreos., Lyc.,
Phos., Sep., Sulph.; 2, Amb., Amm., Arn., Bell., Bry., Carb. v., Caust., Croc., Chin., Fer.,
Iod., Natr. m., Nux v., Op., Petr., Phos. ac., Rhus, Samb., Sarsap., Senn., Sil., Stann.,
Thuj. rush of blood of plethoric individuals requires: 1, acon., aur., bell., calc., lyc.,
phos., sep., sulph.
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A single symptom causing suffering is completely recorded only when its history
origin, progress and conditions attached circumstances of aggravation, of
amelioration, time of occurrence and of greatest intensity ,how affected by position,
rest, motion, eating, drinking, or the performance of anybody function, by mental
emotions or by any other cause all this is included in the totality.
2.
3.
When the moon is decreasing, Phos, Sil, etc. may be used in patients having
damaged organs safely and with good effect.
4.
In advanced disease, malignant or tubercular, the most terrible thing you can do
is to give the indicated remedy in high potency. Give anything but that.
5.
In chronics, the latest symptoms, even though they may appear insignificant, are
always the most important in the selection of a remedy. The oldest are the least
important. All symptoms in between must be arranged in order of their appearance.
Only such patients remain well and are really cured who have been rid of their
symptoms in the reverse order of their development.
6.
In epilepsy you will never cure unless you find a remedy that covers and
corresponds in the every respect to the acute attack. Then follow with the
complementary or chronic remedy as curative. The chronic remedy given during the
attack would aggravate too strongly.
7.
8.
A remedy which can bring a symptom or symptoms to the surface usually will
cure these symptoms without further medication. Therefore watch and wait.
9.
10.
11.
In organic disease where there is much pathology, use the lower potencies.
12.
High potencies are two-edged swords and must be handled with care.
13.
14.
Unable to get symptoms from children, size up the parents and see what they
need or needed before the birth of the child.
15.
Forget the symptoms peculiar to the disease and those of the ultimate; prescribe
on the symptoms of the patients.
16.
A nosode in line with the patients constitution or family history has sometimes
given striking results, allowing the previous well indicated but inactive remedy to
take hold.
17.
18.
19.
Colocynth cures colic again and again. Then Kali carb steps in to end the trouble.
20.
Elderly case, blustery weather, vomiting much frothy blood tinged mucus, high
temperature, mucous rales, and dyspnoea all set for pneumonia Veratrum Viride.
He will be better next day.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
In croup without fever, think of Kali bic. Or Bromium, the latter if there is
cyanosis.
26.
27.
If I could have but one remedy for the prostate it would be Causticum.
28.
A Kali carb. Characteristic: any bang, shock, badnews or fear is felt in the
stomach.
29.
30.
Pulsatilla above all other remedies has the power to unlock suppressions of
modern serum therapy.
31.
When the well selected remedy acts only a short time and symptoms agree,
consider Sulphur, Calc.sulph, Psorinum and Tuberculinum or other nosodes.
Bytes
32. Hypericum: Bites of bugs. In Dog bites or others when the wound does not heal
and there is burning and stinging pain with shining red edges.
33. Acetic Acid: Bite of cat ( whether mad or otherwise ), lacerated wound, upper and
lower leg swollen ( apply also externally in Mother Tincture form).
34. Lyssin: Bites of dog, burning, better by hot steam. Headache due to dog bite.
Peculiar sensations at seat or in adjacent parts, pricking sensation, boring and
burning proceeding from wound.
35. Bite by Leeches, gangrenous. Is also specific for dog bite.
36. Golondrina: An antidote to snake poisoning. Its use renders the body immune to
the influence of snake poison and thus is a prophylactic.
37. Ledum Palustre: Bites by rats or scorpions. Apply Ledum Pal-Mother Tincture
externally. Itll give immediately relief in Mosquito bites, stings of Bees etc. Bites
of angry animals.
38. Cistus Can: Bites by mad animals and in Poisoned wound.
39. Urtica Urens: An excellent remedy for Bee stings. Outer application in Mother
Tincture cures and gives instantaneous relief. Itll work in the same way as
Arnica Mont to Wasp Bite. Also give Cantharis 200 internally.
40. Hoang Nan: Snake Bite.
41. Cedron : Serpent Bite or other Venomous insects.
42. Arnica Mont : For Wasp bites, apply Arnica Q externally and give Cantharis
200 internally .
43. Apis Melifica: For Bee Stings producing oedema and swelling. This makes BeeKeeper immune from effects of Bee stings in whch case it should be taken in IX
or 6 Dilution for sometime.
44. Ignatia : Bites inside of the cheeks when talking or chewing. Biting of tongue
when eating.
45. Aurum Trip : Biting of nails till they bleed.
46. Acid Phos: Involuntary biting of tongue in sleep.
Abstract the article describes those homoeopathic remedies which are found useful in
management of cerebral palsy .
Cerebral palsy is defined as a group of permanent disorders of the development of
movement and posture , causing activity limitation that are attributed to non-progressive
disturbances that occurred in developing fetal or infant brain. The motor disorders of
cerebral palsy is accompanied by disturbances of sensation ,perception, cognition
,communication ,behavior and epilepsy and also by secondary musculoskeletal problems.
Cerebral palsy is a heterogeneous group of disorders also involving systemic alignment
and musculoskeletal disorders along with brain damage .There are 4 different types of
cerebral palsy are 1-spastic, 2-Athenoid , 3-Ataxic ,4- mixed cerebral palsy. Causes
prenatal anaemia ,infections, premature delivery, improper nutrition , but the major risk
factor is hypoxic ischemic insult.
Management of cerebral palsy : A standard management is directed towards the
physical impairments to maximize independence .The approaches are: Medical care
(Neurology, Ophthalmology, orthopedic, Psychology and rehabilitation) Surgery ,HBOT,
Botulinum A toxin injection, Stem cell therapy.
Homoeopathy has holistic approach. The selection of remedy is based upon the
theory of individualization and symptoms similarity. Homoeopathic remedies can be
selected to treat cerebral palsy on the basis of cause, condition, sensation and modality
of the complaint .
Following A to Z Homoeopathic remedies are found useful in management of
cerebral palsy.
Aethusa epileptic spasms with clenched thumbs ,red face Eyes and Vision
turned downwards, pupils fixed and dialtaed; foam at the mouth,jaws locked ,pulse
small hard quick.
Eserine- slows action of heart and increses arterial tension; in ciliary spasm and
spasmodic astigmatism due to irregular action of ciliary muscle .
Indigo- action on the nervous system and of undoubted benefit in the treatment
of epilepsy with great sadness.
Lyssin convulsions from dazzeling or reflected light from water or mirror ;from
even thinking of fluids of any kind ;from slightest touch or current of air.
Nux vomica convulsions with consciousness < anger, emotion, touch ,moving
Wyethia- Nervous ,uneasy depressed . Dizzy .Rush of blood to head . pain in back
,extends to the spine .aching pains all over .
Yohimbinum- Excites sexual organs and acts on central nervous system and
respiratory centre.agitation with flying sensation of heat in face Neurasthenic
impotence.
Zincum metalicum convulsions during dentition , with pale face ,no heat
,except perhaps in occiput ,no increase in temaparture ,rolling the eyes ;gnashing
the teeth .automatic motion of hands and head ,or one hand and head .twitching
and jerking of single muscles .
Bacillus 10
Syph
Carb-v
Ars
Lyc
Vesp
Med
Cof
CHILLINESS summer
Ant-c
Dulc, gels
Dulc
CORYZA, summer
Gels
Coc-c
Staph
Sec
Kali-bi
Kali-bi
Arg-n, syph
Lyc
ERUPTIONS summer, in
Kalm
Caust
Nux-v
Sep
Bov
Kalm
Ant-c, ip
Ant-c, ip
Ferr-p
GASTRIC, fever hot weather, in, from abuse of ice water and summer
Carb-v
beverages
General rheumatic Summer, in
Sulph
Bry
Lach
Guai
Acon, ferr-p
Chin-ar, chion
Calc
Ferr-p
Gels
Ars
Guai
Podo, sin-n
Bry
Hep, psor
Phos, psor
TUBERCLES, summer
Kali-bi
Guai
Ars
Dr Shiv Dua
Prescribing in homoeopathy is both science and art but it is difficult art, says Dr. S.R.
Phatak, author of popular concise repertory. I would like to add that prescribing is
difficult as well as individual art. Everyone likes to add individual dimension to his/her
prescribing. Variation in potency, frequency, and intake method makes it an individual
art. It is this individuality that we get tips from senior doctors in seminars. These tips
help us when there is confusion to reach totality of a case.
It takes whole of life and hard work to invent a theory. Tips in homoeopathy are not
inventions but these help making inventions. Tips may or may not be mixed- medicines.
The accepted tips are on single, double or groups of medicines. They are
complementary, related, following well or followed well. Example of such accepted tip is
Nux in the night and Sulphur in the morning.
Useful tips
Give medicine either dissolved in water or pills placed beneath the tongue for
better results.
Try to comprehend the case properly and in doubt only go for the tips mentioned
here-below.
Avoid using sub-standard medicine. Get your medicines from good and reliable
drug company.
Examine every patient physically using your instruments. Verbal enquiries do not
satisfy the patients.
Tell the patient not to take medicine during its aggravation time. (examples are:
ars. 1 to 2 AM and PM, arn, nux and heper-6AM, bell 3 to 4PM and lyco 4 to 8 PM (7
PM), Rhus-t- 7PM and so on)
Amelioration followed by return of old symptoms means that cure will take place.
Sudden amelioration of all symptoms shows the remedy is right and disease is not
deep seated. Short and sharp aggravation followed by long amelioration tells that
remedy is right. Long aggravation followed by slow improvement means disease is
deep seated and prognosis is not good. Quick improvement followed by long
aggravation also means the same.
When urine, stool, sweat, sleep and thirst have become normal and appetite has
also returned normal, think that the remedy has worked.
When patients energy has increased and he feels well although physically not
well, your remedy has worked.
First day- Nitric acid 200 morning, and Thuja 200 after noon.
Second day- Silicea 200 morning, and Nitric acid 200 afternoons.
Fourth day- Nitric acid 200 morning and Thuja 200 afternoon.
Next three days- S.L. morning and afternoon. The patient will get tremendous
relief.
If the pains are not there after say two days, use S.L. on third and fourth day
onwards.
Bry 200 and Rhus tox 200, morning and afternoon respectively on first day.
Ruta 200 and Bry 200 morning and afternoon on second day.
Rhus tox 200 and Ruta 200 morning and evening on third day.
Bry 200 and Rhus tox 200 morning and evening on fourth day.
Colo 200 and Mag.phos 200, morning and evening for four days.
If the pains are not there after, say, two days, use S.L. on third and fourth day
onwards.
Hyperi 200 in the morning, phytoll 200 in the evening first day
Staph 200 in the morning and Hyp.200 in the evening- second day
Lyco 30 on empty stomach and Lyco 200 at 1P.M for three days only. S.L. Later
for five days. Get the pus cells checked after eight days and find pus cell much less.
Do not repeat and go for other symptoms of body.
Diarrhea and vomiting after marriage party or heavy meals outside in hotels
Ars 200 two doses after an interval of one hour and then same in the night.
There will not be any need for any other medicine after four days.
Nux vom 30, evening and night, sulpher 30 in morning for three days.
Amoebiasis, chronic
Second day-Merc. Sol 200 in the morning and Thuja 200 evening.
Third day-Sulpher 200, morning, Merc.sol 200 afternoon before sun set, and
Thuja 200 in evening.
Fourth to seventh day Merc. sol200 morning and Thuja 200 evening.
Sabal. s-Q-8 drops morning, Hydrang-Q- 8 drops evening and conium 200 bed
time for three days. This will control most of problems of BHP. Thereafter, give
conium 200 weekly one dose and biochemic Calc. fluor 6x/ TDS daily. Check the
prostate weight and urine- residue after one month. You will find excellent results.
Aco 6 in morning, Gel 6 in afternoon and Ars 6 in evening for three days.
Aco 6 every hour five doses. Running nose will abort. Next day give aco 6 four
times a day.
Recurring boils
Please note that failures are due to non-comprehension of cases properly, use of
substandard medicines and lack of experience.
Acne
2*Can
be
applied
on
face
mixed
with
any
facial
cream.
Jaborandi Baldness*Mix it with hair oil and apply it. It can be mixed with
Arnica mother tincture also to get a better result.
Ferrum Phos Bleeding 2*To arrest bleeding. Haemorrhages are bright red and
occur in pale, anaemic subjects liable to local congestions.
Mag Sulph Boils*Small eruptions all over the body that itch violently.
Cantharis Burns and scalds 2*Relieves raw burning pain and promotes healing,
covers acute nephritis. One gram of the tincture to one ounce of water is to be
applied externally.
Citric Acid Cancer, pains 1*Used as a mouth wash for cancer pains.
Cineraria Maritima Cataract*One drop 4-5 times a day should be instilled in the
eyes for several months.
Chrysarobinum Eczema 1*Where the eruptions are crusty, under which pus
oozes.
Apis Mellifica Erysipelas 1*Sensitiveness and swelling of skin with rosy hue.
Arnica Montana Falling of hair*Mix with hair oil and apply it.
Sanguinaria Nasal polyp*It is best for nasal washing. When there is a nasal
polyp, or deviated nasal septum. Take seven drops, mix with half a cup of water and
take nasal wash.
Balsamum Peru Scabies 1*Apply locally a solution prepared in the ratio of 1:40.
All parts are gently rubbed with it at night and a bath taken in the morning.
Mag Sulph Septic conditions*Add one part of tincture to 4 parts of water and
apply locally.
Phytolacca Sore throat*Take 5 drops, mix with half a cup of water and gargle.
Adenoids*Agraphis nutans.
After-pains*Caulophyllum.
Ague*China.
Ankylostomiasis*Carduus marianus.
Aphonia*Borax.
Appendicitis*Bryonia alba.
Ascarides*Abrotanum.
Atrial fibrillation*Digitalis.
Atrophy*Oleum Jecoris.
Azoturia*Senna.
Bradycardia*Apocynum, Digitalis.
Bronchopneumonia*Ammoniacum gummi.
Bubo*Bufo rana.
Cancer bladder*Taraxacum.
Cancer pains*Euphorbium.
Capillary stasis*Echinacea.
Carbuncles*Ledum palustre.
ardiac dyspnoea*Aspidosperma.
Catalepsy*Cannabis indica.
Cataract*Cineraria maritima.
Catarrh, chronic*Eucalyptus.
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration*Grindelia.
Chillblains*Agaricus.
Cholelithiasis*Chionanthus, Hydrastis.
Chordee*Agave, Yohimbinum.
Chorea*Agaricus muscaris.
Cicatrices*Thiosinaminum.
Colitis*Cynodon dactylon.
Cold sores*Camphor.
Condylomata*Thuja.
Conjunctivitis*Euphrasia.
onvulsions*Oenanthe.
Cough,hoarse*Verbascum.
Cough,laryngeal*Capsicum.
Cough,phthisical*Allium sativum.
Cough,spasmodic*Belladonna.
Cracked lips*Condurango.
Cyanosis*Laurocerasus.
Cysts*Apis mellifica.
Dentition*Terebinth.
Dipsomania*Capsicum.
Dissecting wounds*Echinacea.
Drooling*Trifolium.
Dropsy,cardiac*Adonis vernalis.
Dropsy,hepatic*Liatris spicata.
Dropsy,renal*Urea.
Dropsy,thirst with*Apocynum.
Duodenal ulcer*Ornithogalum.
Dysmenorrhoea,membranous*Xanthoxyllum.
Dyspepsia,nervous*Anacardium.
Dysphagia*Cajuputum.
Dyspnoea*Aspidosperma, Senega.
Ecchymosis*Arnica.
Elephantiasis*Hydrocotyl.
Emphysema*Lobelia inflata.
Empyema*Arnica.
Enteritis,acute*China officinalis.
Epididymitis*Sabal serrulata.
Epithelioma*Thuja occidentalis.
Erysipelas*Apis mellifica.
Erythema*Antipyrine.
Eustachian deafness*Hydrastis.
Exudative pleurisy*Abrotanum.
Fibroids*Thlaspi, Trillium.
Flatulence*Asafoetida.
Freckles*Badiaga.
Ganglion*Ruta graveolens.
Gangrene*Echinacea.
Gastritis*Arsenic album.
Gastroenteritis*Lactic acid.
Globus hystericus*Asafoetida.
Goitre*Fucus vesiculosus.
Hallucinations*Antipyrine.
Headaches,anaemic*China officinalis.
Headaches,bilious*Chionanthus.
Headaches,bursting*Glonoine.
Headaches,congestive*Aconite, Glonoine.
Headaches,nervous*Chionanthus.
Headaches,sick*Sanguinaria.
Heartburn*Geranium.
Heart affections,palpitations*Crataegus.
Hectic fever*Baptisia.
Herpes labialis*Capsicum.
Hiccough*Ginseng.
Hoarseness*Verbascum.
Hookworm*Chenopodium.
Hydrothorax*Adonis vernalis.
Labour,haemorrhage, after*Trillium.
Lectophobia*Cannabis sativa.
Leprosy*Calotropis, Hydrocotyle.
Leucorrhoea,acrid*Hydrastis.
Leucorrhoea,blackish*China officinalis.
Leucorrhoea,bland*Fraxinus americana.
Leucorrhoea,offensive*Carbolic acid.
Leucorrhoea,profuse*Hydrastis.
Leucorrhoea,stringy*Hydrastis.
Lice*Staphysagria.
Lumbago*Berberis vulgaris.
Malaria*Alstonia, Chirata.
Mastitis*Phytolacca.
Menstruation,delayed*Ashoka, Caulophyllum.
Milk leg*Hamamelis.
Mountain sickness*Coca.
Mumps*Pilocarpine.
Muscae volitantes*Cypripedium.
Myocarditis*Digitalis.
Myositis*Arnica.
Naevus*Thuja occidentalis.
Neuralgia*Sanguinaria.
Neuralgia,periodic*Cedron.
Neurasthenia,gastric*Anacardium, Gentiana.
Neuritis*Hypericum.
Night blindness*Physostigma.
Osteomalacia*Phosphoric acid.
Otitis media*Chenopodium.
Otorrhoea*Hydrastis.
Ovaritis*Xanthoxyllum.
Ozaena*Hydrastis.
Paresis*Badiaga.
Paresis,pneumogastric*Grindelia.
Paresis,respiratory*Lobelia inflata.
Pemphigus*Caltha palustris.
Pericarditis*Digitalis.
Phlebitis*Hamamelis.
Phthisis*Acalypha indica.
Phthisis,laryngeal*Drosera.
Pleurodynia*Bryonia alba.
Pneumonia*Chelidonium.
Polypi,nasal*Teucrium.
Proctitis*Aloe.
Prosopalgia*Cactus grandiflorus.
Pruritus*Carduus marianus.
Purpura*Hamamelis.
Pyaemia*Echinacea.
Ranula*Thuja occidentalis.
Rheumatism,chronic*Oleum jecoris.
Rheumatism,gonorrhoeal*Thuja occidentalis.
Ringworm*Chrysarobinum, Sepia.
Scabies*Balsmum peruvianum.
Sciatica*Viscum album.
Sepsis*Echinacea.
Somnambulism*Artemisia vulgaris.
Subinvolution*Fraxinus americana.
Sycosis*Thuja occidentalis.
Synovitis*Apis mellifica.
Syphilis*Guaicum.
Syphilis,latent*Calotropis.
Tetanus*Passiflora.
Toothache*Plantago.
Urethral carbuncle*Eucalyptus.
Urethritis*Cantharis.
Uterine tumours*Thlaspi.
Vaginismus*Cactus grandiflorus.
Varicose veins*Hamamelis.
Warts*Thuja occidentalis.
Wells disease*Chelidonium.
Whooping cough*Drosera.
(H.
N.
Guernsey.)
FEVER
her. When arrived at the house where the patient was she was just coming out of a very
severe chill. She was tossing from side to side, with moaning, low delirium with
muttering. I managed to get a look at her tongue, it was red and dry, in a triangular red
tip pointing backward. Just then she gave a hard dry cough. What about the cough ? said
I. Well, said one of the lady bystanders, that cough is very peculiar. She only coughed
during the chill. Probably she wont cough again now until the next chill. There were
other symptoms, of course, which I will not narrate here, because we have enough to
prescribe on without fear of failure. Every homopath knows what it is. Rhus tox. 200
was given. She never had another chill. The doctor was a good prescriber, but he had not
seen the case right in the paroxysm, and he was a young practitioner and had never
heart of Carroll Dunhams cough symptom. (Nash.)
SPRAIN
A man sprained his leg in a harvest field. When he presented himself to me he had
exhausted the old school remedies. Found a swelling about the size of half an ordinary
orange just below the knee-cap at the head of the tibia. Was very lame, worse during
rest,
at
night,
before
storm,
etc.,
complete
Rhus
case.
Prescribed Rhus 30. In five days he reported no swelling and no pain to speak of. He got
but one prescription. He sent another man who had been hurt in the same field ; he had
sprained his ankle. The symptoms in this case were precisely the same as in the other ;
it was, however, of more recent occurrence, and was located at the ankle instead of at
the knee ; but still a clear Rhus case. I gave him the same as I gave the other, with the
assurance to the patient that it would cure him in a week. He came to me again not
better. I was so sure of the remedy that I gave him the 3d of the same. He reported in a
week that the medicine acted like a charm. (W. J. Hawkes.)
RHEUMATISM
German, aged sixty-six, attacked in 1837, from exposure to cold, accompanied by
paralysis of the right side from which he slowly recovered. No symptoms of rheumatism
until twelve years ago ; since then pains almost constantly in the right side ; decidedly
rheumatic in character with marked periodicity, coming on at 10 P. M. and lasting till 6 A.
M., worse in winter and before a storm ; during storm pains over the whole body ;
intense pain on moving after a rest, but continued motion relieved. Rhus tox. 200, one
dose a week, in six weeks well and no rheumatism since. (H. H. Baxter.)
ERYSIPELAS
Mrs. Duane Fuller, age about 65, was taken with severe chill, which was soon followed by
aching pains all over, wrist, in back and head. She soon lost consciousness, went into a
stupor with low grade delirium muttering and continually tossing from side to side in the
bed. The tongue began to grow dry and stiff so that her muttering grew unintelligible.
There was an epidemic of typhoid fever in the vicinity, some had died under old school
treatment ; so I first prescribed Baptisia with confidence that it would so modify the case
that its subsequent treatment would be easy or abort it entirely, as I had done in a
number cases before. But it failed. The next day there was no improvement, and I,
thinking that psora might be standing in the way, dropped in a dose of Sulphur 200.
Then erysipelas of the head and face, the most intense I ever saw, developed. Perhaps
the Sulphur brought it out, but there was no amelioration of the other symptoms.
The head and face were so swollen that the eyes were completely closed, and the size of
the head it seemed to me was nearly one-third increased. The eruption was decidedly
vesicular. Now the remedy was pain. Rhus tox. m. m. was given in solution. The
restlessness immediately began to subside, the muttering less, and an easy sleep
(though she remained unconscious) followed in which she remained for several days and
nights. The swelling gradually subsided, the vesicles dried and scaled off, and when she
awoke her mind was clear. In nine days sat up in bed and took nourishment, and made
rapid and complete recovery. (Nash).
CANCER
I had a similar case. It was of long standing. The tumor of the stomach or rather just
below the pit of the stomach was the size of my two fits ; it was very large. After the
coffee grounds vomit appeared twice then came a large wash bowl full of vomitus
looking like molasses ; these were signs of dissolution. That case received a dose of
Arsenicum at that time, and has never received a dose since, and she has been well for
two years. No repetition of the remedy. (Biegler.)
ECZEMA
Florence Johnson, a young woman, had been afflicted a long time with chronic gastritis.
She was unable to take ordinary food without great burning and distress in her stomach.
This condition of stomach was relieved when she had eczema of both ears, which was
intensely painful and burning. She would sometimes succeed in healing the ears, but in
proportion as she succeeded in that the stomach symptoms returned. Then she would
get very poor in flesh. I had given her Sulphur and Graphites without perceptible benefit
and also Arsenicum 30 and 200. Finally I concluded to try the Arsenicum higher. Gave
her Arsenicum 37m., made on my own potentizer, and the effect was wonderful. The
whole trouble promptly yielded, and she had no trouble since now several years. I forgot
to say that she also had scalp trouble of a similar nature with that of the ears, which also
subsided. (Nash.)
MEASLES
Jennie Marit, young lady, had measles ; everything went well for a few days. The
eruption came out all right, when all at once, in the night, the eruption, without apparent
cause, disappeared from the skin, and intense dyspna with great restlessness and
tossing about in agony and extreme prostration set in. These were all Arsenicum
symptoms, and this remedy in frequently repeated doses relieved all those distressing
and dangerous symptoms in a very short time, and she made a rapid recovery. (Nash.)
GASTRALGIA
Mrs. Hayford, age 35, had severe attacks of gastralgia. They came on a little after
midnight and lasted until 3 A. M. I asked her what was the character of the pains. She
answered, burning as if my stomach was full of live coals. What have you done four
yourself ? Everything I can think of, but the only relief I can get is to walk the floor with
a hot water bag held across my stomach. I am blistered now with it, and I am growing
weak from pains and loss of rest, fairly prostrated. The veriest tyro would not hesitate to
prescribe Arsenicum for such a case, which I did, with a promise to call next day. I was
very busy at the time, and forgot all about the case for a week, when, passing the house
one day, it came to mind. Then I went in and found the patient at her house work
looking bright and happy. Well, said I, how are you ? Are you dead, well or got another
doctor ? I forgot you. She answered, I am not dead or sent for another doctor, and I
havent had any more of those attacks of pain ; but, doctor, would that medicine send
out salt rheum ? Ah, you had salt rheum before you had the gastralgia. Yes. You cured or
rather suppressed it with an ointment. Yes. That was the cause of your trouble in the
stomach. But, doctor, I dont want either. Well try to make you better of both. Which we
did
by
letting
the
Arsenicum
act.
She moved away from Cortland about a year after, and, while not entirely cured of the
eczema, was very much better. (Nash.)
A
COMPLICATED
CASE
Mrs. B., aged 45, had for many years suffered from a very delicate and irritable stomach,
from cankerous sore mouth (cured by Phytolacca), all in consequence of what is
mistermed scientific treatment. She also had suffered from hay fever, regularly returning
every
year
on
the
16th
of
September.
Mrs. B. returned from Europe, after an absence of several years, on the 26th of July
last ; the voyage had been a very unpleasant one ; she had been very seasick all the
time. From the time she left Liverpool till she was visited by me, on the 27th of July, she
had taken literally no nourishment ; broken ice was the only thing that had passed her
lips. I found her sitting up, occasionally straining to vomit, very weak, pulse 116 per
minute ; she complained of a violent pain in the occiput, with great heat, which she had
tried to relieve by applications of broken ice ; urinary secretions suppressed ; mouth dry
and hot ; she had not slept for fortnight, and could not lie down on account of great
nervousness, as she expressed it, which compelled her to change her position and her
chair so very often ; she wandered about all night from chair to chair ; was very
disagreeable ; perfect loathing of food, and for a few days had a watery, very offensive
and black looking diarrha. The choice of the remedy was easy enough. I gave her one
dose of Arsenicum alb. 50m. (Fincke), on her tongue, July 27th (10 A. M.). July 28th had
slept in her bed from 10 P. M. till 1 A. M., then became nervous and restless, but says
that
she
feels
better.
No
medicine.
July 29. She has been in bed all night ; slept ; and no return of the diarrha ; urinary
secretions re-established ; the hot water applications to her head have very much
relieved the pain, had later some milk toast, and relished it ; pulse below 90 ; is cheerful
and
hopeful.
July 31. Had a still better night ; is better in every respect, but complains of severe pains
in a bunion on the left foot ; it is much inflamed and stings. I gave her now one dose of
Nitric
acid.
c.
m.
(Fincke).
August 1. The bunion is less painful, otherwise there is not much change perceptible.
August 2. Bunion still improving, and on August 3rd no more pain or inflammation in it.
In the evening, same day, I was again summoned to see her ; found her quite ill ; the
diarrha and vomiting had returned with great violence ; pulse over 110 ; the same
headache as on the 27th had also returned, also the great restlessness. Gave her one
dose of Arsenicum album (Fincke) dry on her tongue. Found her better the next day, and
the improvement continued ; on the 6th of August her bunion began to pain her again as
on the 21st. Gave no medicine. Improvement continued satisfactorily ; when the 16th of
September came she had that night, about 1 A. M., some oppression of breathing, which
reminded her of the terrible asthmatic attacks she had had years ago ; she had to sit up
for half an hour. No medicine. She fully recovered and traveled for some weeks ; had no
hay fever ; really has had nothing to complain of since ; enjoys better health than she
has had for years (Ad. Lippe.)
SCIATICA
Mrs. Jehial Clark, aged about 60, was afflicted with one of the worst forms of sciatica.
Her brother, Charles Sanders, of New York, of School Reader fame, was already a
cripple from the same disease, allopathically treated. In this patients case the pains
were intense, with decided burning sensation. They were greatly aggravated from 1 to 3
in the morning. She was greatly prostrated from her suffering. The only way she could
get any rest (for she was exceedingly restless, continually wanting to be changed from
place to place) was from bags of dry hot salt continually applied along the nerve. There
were other symptoms, but these are enough to show the remedy that a homopath
would naturally prescribe. Arsenicum alb. was given in the 30 and 200. To my surprise
no good came of it. Then Sulphur was given in the possibility that psora was
complicating matters, but with no good result given. Now other remedies were tried, but,
of
course,
ineffectually.
I had one thing in my favor, the history of her brothers case, which had run much longer
than hers. So there was no object in her changing to the old school, especially as he had
been left an incurable cripple. It was in the earlier part of my practice, so I had not
gotten much above the 200th potency then. But I had a graft of Jenichens 8,000th in
the office, so as nothing else did any good I concluded to try it. It was given in solution
with rapid and permanent relief. She was well in an incredibly short time, and never had
a return of the trouble, although she had suffered for four weeks, before she got this
preparation. (Nash).
METRORRHAGIA
Mrs.
E.
G.,
t.
36,
had
been
given
up
to
die
by
her
family
physician.
She came of a consumptive family, her mother and her mothers parents having died
with the disease. She had always menstruated VERY PROFUSELY, and after having
practiced upon herself, within the course of eight or nine years, no less than seven
abortions, her menses assumed the type of recurrent hmorrhages. Her lungs had
always been very sensitive ; has had more or less cough ; at first DRY and HACKING,
later loose and hollow. Has had pneumonia twice, making a tardy recovery each time. At
present was convalescing from a third and severe attack of pneumonia, when some
imprudence on her part brought about an unfavourable change, and she failed so rapidly
that
her
case
seemed
hopeless.
SYMPTOMS. Constant hollow, loose cough, extreme sensitiveness of the lungs to cold air
and to far ; profuse and general perspiration at night, of a sour smell. Extreme
emaciation, constipation alternating with watery diarrha ; great despondency ;
constant passive hmorrhage from the uterus of dark foul blood. Calcarea carb. 30 was
the first and only remedy prescribed. Under its use she not only made a good recovery
from this attack, but regained by its long continued use a surprising degree of general
health. (Arndt.)
ENTERO-COLITIS
Peckham, child at 18 months. Fair haired, blue eyes, chubby when born, but with open
fontanelles and sweaty headed. Has for a few weeks past had what her doctor called
cholera infantum. All sorts of foods had been tried until now, when they called me in, the
diarrha, of a sour smell and light colored, was almost incessant ; every diaper. There
was also frequent vomiting of sour substance and the milk came up in very large curds.
There was great emaciation and child when it slept did so with half open eyes, and the
sweat on the head wet the pillow far around. I put Calcarea carb. 6m. (Jenichen) in the
childs food, as suggested by Dr. Hering, and in a few days marked improvement set in
and continued until the patient was perfectly well. Many such cases are on record.
(Nash.)
CARIES
Rank W., a lad aged 10, blue eyes, light thin hair, pale, thin face and of a scrofulous
disposition. One year previous to my call a periostitis set up in the shaft of the left tibia
upon the inner side. Case as presented to me the first time ; bone has exfoliated along
the whole length of the shaft ; ulcer is so deep that not more than one-half of the
supporting structure remains and leg is much bent ; ulcer keeps up a continuous
discharge which has left little vital resource behind. Patient is not only badly emaciated,
but has a hectic fever and a bad cough, with dullness in the right apex. Cough is dry and
harasses him in the evening ; has night sweats. Was given Calcarea carbonica 6, and
urged to use milk freely as a diet, to which added the amount of three tablespoonfuls of
brandy every twenty-four hours. Ulcers were fully healed and bone reparation complete
within the next twelve months. All traces of lung trouble also passed away and I have
never known of subsequent trouble, though case passed from my observation in the
course of half a dozen years. We will here add that we have many times succeeded in
curing these bone ulcers, commonly called fever sores, with the use of Calcarea carb.,
milk and brandy, and they all remain cured so far as we know. (G. N. Brigham.)
MARASMUS
Eddie D., 18 months old. Oct. 30, 1881, the mother brought him to me, saying she had
done all she could, and now desired me to treat him, if I thought I could do him any
good.
The child was pale, flabby and very weak ; has pale blue eyes and golden hair ; had
diarrha three months, which nothing could stop. According to the mothers ingenuity,
Hes a good child and never cries much. Was eating a biscuit when his mother entered
the office with him. I told her the child was forming a bad habit. She immediately
answered, I must always carry something for him to eat wherever I go, because he
wants to eat all the time, and he just loves eggs, but I dont know whether he ought to
have them or not ; they make his bowels run off, and he takes a very bad spell once a
month.
Question
have
:
noticed
What
Answer
it
time
now
of
When
three
the
the
times.
month
moon
fulls.
I noticed a watery coryza and rattling in the chest. Every time the mother opened her
mouth I thought more of Calcarea, which I gave in the 85m potency, one dose, dry on
the tongue, in the office, and thirteen powders of Sac. lac., a powder to be dissolved in a
half glass of water, and a teaspoonful to be given every two hours. The mother desired
to know about letting him have the eggs. I told her that his craving for them would
gradually
decrease,
and
that
could
not
withhold
them
from
him.
November 14. Much better in every respect. He does not crave eggs quite so much and
his bowels are better, but he cannot walk yet. I told her she should not expect the child
to
be
Sac.
entirely
lac.,
well
13
in
two
powders
weeks,
to
when
be
it
taken
had
been
in
the
sick
three
same
months.
manner.
Dec. 9. Still improving. Is beginning to walk again and does not crave eggs any more,
though he likes to eat them. Mother thinks his bowels are natural now. I could detect no
rattling
in
the
chest,
and
nose
had
stopped
running.
Sac. lac., nine powders. Told the mother she need not come back unless the child got
worse, and then to let me know immediately. I have heard from the child repeatedly and
he is still hearty. (Tom Hagen.).
SUPPRESSED
INTERMITTENT
FEVER
In the year 18 I was called on to visit a Mrs. D., aged 40, who had come some forty
miles to place herself under my care for the treatment of an obstinate and grave
inflammation to both eyes, supposed to have arisen from cold, and which had hitherto
resisted all attempts at cure. The inflammation was severe, and the eyes so extremely
sensitive that any examination beyond a mere glance was out of the question, and I
hesitated somewhat to assume the responsibility of the case. Without delay she was
placed under the use of such remedies as seemed indicated by the ascertained totality of
symptoms, the names of which, writing from memory, cannot now be recalled.
This treatment continued about three weeks, the only beneficial result obtained being a
slight mitigation of the symptoms. Not satisfied with so poor a return, and diligently
searching for some cause for this partial success, I conceived that the history of the case
might not have fully reached me. So I sat down for a patient inquiry, from which was
gathered that Mrs. D., with her husband, emigrated from the city of London some years
before this and had purchased a piece of land on our Northern Railroad contiguous to a
marsh, the proximity of which induced recurring attacks of intermittent fever, for which
Quinine had been freely and often taken, with the usual effect of at length breaking the
chills, as it is termed, and, as our patient supposed, of curing the disease.
Unfortunately, when the ague ceased its chill, etc., the eyes, which had hitherto been
sound, became greatly inflamed, and so persistent and severe that at times total loss of
vision seemed imminent.
My inference from this statement was that the intermittent fever had not been cured by
the Quinine, but suppressed, and so thrown back into the system to concentrate its
baneful effects in another form, which I conceived to be this affection of the eyes. Should
these deductions be correct, it was further premised that no improvement in the eyes
was possible unless the restraining and suppressive action of the Quinine on the primary
disease could be antidoted ; and if this were predicable, the intermittent might return.
Actuated by these thoughts, and the presence of nausea as a prominent but hitherto
unrecognized symptom, I gave Ipecac 30, four times daily, during several days, when, to
my surprise and delight, one morning about 9 oclock a very decided chill set in more
severe than any which the patient had yet experienced, followed by intense fever and
subsequent perspiration.
The next day was an intermission, succeeded on the third day by a renewal of all the
symptoms, time etc., of the first I had then a clear tertian, beginning at 9 A. M., from
which, and other symptoms now forgotten, there remained no reasonable ground for
rejecting Nat. mur. as the remedy. It was accordingly administered in the 30th potency
four times daily for a while, an after three paroxysms, occupying nine days, the disease
ceased to return, being, as the sequel showed, completely cured ; and, to my great
delight, the Natrum had acted so beneficially that nothing else was required, and I
shortly had the pleasure of sending my patient home, cured of both the malarial fever
and the terrible effect on the eyes of its having been suppressed. (John Hall).
INTERMITTENT
FEVER
I was called to Mrs. Shultz, a young married woman, who had a short time before (three
months, I think) had a miscarriage. She had, under the care of an old school physician,
who stood high in the profession, not recovered her health, but had grown anmic,
weak and emaciated, and a bad cough, with considerable expectoration, had set in. Now
the doctor gave it as his opinion that she had consumption and an unfavourable
prognosis.
This of course was discouraging, and as he had treated her so long with this result they
concluded
to
change
doctors.
I took charge of the case with some misgivings, as the former physician was a man of
acknowledged ability, but, as I watched the case, after a few days I observed that what
the doctor had called hectic fever every afternoon was preceded by a distinct chill every
day at 10 A. M. with clock-like regularity. I also noticed that the high fever was
accompanied with very red face and throbbing headache, and was followed by sweat,
which relieved all the suffering, and the rapid pulse became nearly normal in the
morning. I also observed that the patient lived right on the banks of a swampy marsh.
So I concluded to ignore the name the doctor had given the disease and give the remedy
covering the symptoms. I gave Natrum mur., although it had never cured a case of
consumption,
and
cured
SUPPRESSED
the
patient,
completely
and
rapidly.
INTERMITTENT
(Nash.)
FEVER
Woman aged 53. She complains of a dull heavy feeling all over her ; almost continual
headache, which is worse in cloudy and damp weather ; extremely sensitive to cold air,
especially the head and feet ; sleeps well, but dreams bad dreams. There are also
unmistakable evidences of liver trouble, which she says have existed for twenty-five
years. The period of aggravation of all her symptoms, especially headache, is
between 10 A. M. and 12 noon ; the appetite is generally fair ; has a craving for salt. The
history of this case shows that when she was a girl she had frequent and protracted
attacks of fever and ague, during which she took large quantities of Quinine in some
form or other. She says she has never been well since then ; she continually experiences
a
dull
and
heavy
feeling
throughout
her
whole
body.
Her only recollection of these attacks, of the fever and ague, is that she was at that time
fond of salt ; craved salt. It is very evident that this patient, when she had the fever and
ague, was a subject for Natrum mur., and the probability is that had she had the remedy
administered at that time her life would not have been so miserable an existence during
the interim. The remedy is clearly indicated at the present time, especially by the craving
for salt, and the persistent headache agg. between 10 A. M. and 12 noon and the bad
reams.
Jan.
29th
three
powders
of
Nat.
mur.
were
prescribed.
Feb. 5th. Headache less, dull heavy feeling of body less, and no bad dreams. Sac. lac.
prescribed.
Feb.
12th.
Feb.
Same
19th.
report
still
Continual
improving.
improvement.
March 4th. The patient seemed almost well and said she had improved more during the
past week than in any previous week since taking the medicine, notwithstanding she had
taken no medicine except that prescribed at her first visit. (C. M. Boger.)
INTERMITTENT
FEVER
R., boy aged four years, had for fourteen months continued attacks of tertian
intermittent. Quinine had been given until the little fellow sensibly refused to take more.
In August, 1880, I learned that he had had a paroxysm every other day for seven
months. The malarial and quinine cachexia was well marked, and with the chill, which
began between 10 and 11 A. M., there was intense thirst for large draughts of water, and
during the fever which followed he complained of his head hurting and jumping. One
dose of Natrum mur. (30) was given at the end of a paroxysm. He remained free from
another attack until in the following October, when, the same symptoms presenting,
another dose of Nat. mur. was given, and he has no chills since (May, 1881), and has
continued to live in the same place, and his health is constantly improving. This case
came under observation while I was visiting the section in which he resides with his
parents, and on learning that many cases of a similar character were in the
neighborhood I felt a vial of Nat. mur., with directions to give one dose to any case met
with ; and I learned a few months afterwards that several cases had been cured with
that remedy. (Geo. H. Clarke.)
LIVER
DISEASE
R., lad, t. 12, living at Park-gate. He suffered for some time from constipation, loss of
appetite, dirty looking complexion, emaciation, frontal headache going round to the
back, sleepiness towards evening and, first thing in the morning, urine thick, with nasty
smell.
Excepting the nasty smell, which the boy could not define, I find these symptoms in
the pathogenesis of Natrum muriaticum in Allens Encyclopdia of Pure Materia Medica
and numbered respectively 529, 353, 251, 885, 64, 970, 561. Therefore, Natrum mur. 6,
and that six grains in water, forenoon and afternoon. After taking 24 powders he
returned, cured of all the symptoms except the odor of the urine and the emaciation,
and feeling very much better. The prescription was repeated and the patient did not
return. His father subsequently informed me that the cure was complete. (Burnett.)
RHEUMATISM
Mrs. Dr. Keese was attacked with a severe inflammatory rheumatism of the knee. The
swelling was very red and painful. There was high temperature, quick pulse, great
restlessness
and
exceeding
sensitiveness
to
the
pain.
Aconite brought very little if any relief, and Bryonia next on account of the < on
movement and great thirst suffered like defeat. Now (said the patient) why dont you
help me ? I know you can if you have a mind to. That was flattering, and I naturally
wanted to make good. I turned down the bed clothes to view the situation. As I put out
my hand to feel of the knee, she exclaimed in terror, Oh ! dont touch it. The least touch
is
unbearable
and
brings
on
the
pain
for
hours.
I said you hold still, and put my hand carefully on the inflamed knee and gradually
increased the pressure until I pressed it hard and firm. The patient looked astonished
and ashamed as she said why, doctor, that dont hurt me, but I tell you that the least
touch has put me in agony before. I took off the pressure as gradually as I had put it on,
and the usual severe < did not follow. She then got China 200th, and when I visited her
twenty-four hours later she exclaimed, there, I knew you could help me if you wanted to.
No other remedy was needed. (Nash.)
NEURALGIA
Chas. P., a tailor, came to see me at the dispensary, having suffered a long time from
facial neuralgia. Had been treated by several old school doctors, but each one after
treating for some time with remedies and liniments with hardly any relief told him that
he would have to be operated on to have the diseased nerve cut out, as it was the only
way he could ever be cured. This was to him always a signal to try another doctor, as he
did not relish the idea of an operation. He had been so long unable to work and had
spent all his savings for doctors and drugs that he was now compelled to try the free
dispensary.
The pain was entirely on the left side of the face and neck. It would come and shoot
through the face like lightning, especially in the house, especially if the tried to sew on
the machine, or the children made any noise. The only relief he could get was by walking
slowly about in the open air. He could only sleep after applying cloths, wet with cold
water, to the left side of the face and head ; when these got warm the pains would
awaken him, but on re-applying them he could go to sleep again. The relief from cold,
open air and slow motion decided me to give him Pulsatilla c. m., but all in vain.
I then assured him he must be mistaken about his symptoms, for, if correct, I thought
he ought to have been cured, but he persisted that he had given his symptoms correctly,
and continued : If I only touch my nose or cheek ever so slightly, thus, suiting the
action to the word, I can bring on that pain, and the expression of his face and his
groans showed that he had been more than successful. He was still worse from any noise
indoors, heat, lying on the left side of the face and from eating, better from fresh open
air, walking slowly and from cold in general. Stools daily, but almost black, urine dark
yellow. I now gave him China 200, to take one powder mornings and evenings. After
three days he returned, saying : I have had no more neuralgia since taking the second
powder, and have slept well every night since without the cold cloths. You are the
thirteenth doctor who has treated me for this, but the only one who has cured me. (F.
H. Lutze.)
TYMPANITES
J. Hall, a young man, unmarried, has had for a long time great bloating of the abdomen,
with severe paroxysms of colic. When I was called to him he had been in bed some time,
a number of days, as the colic and bloating was getting worse continually. He was a dark
complexioned, medium height and build, dark hair and eyes. He was jaundiced and had
a yellow, watery diarrha, which passed with much flatus, but did not relieve the pain or
reduce the size of the abdomen. The abdomen was as full as that of a woman ready to
be confined ; very tympanitic, and the convolutions of the whole length of the colon
bulged out so that they could be seen as well as felt through the thin abdominal wall, for
he was quite emaciated generally. He laid straightened out on the bed on his back,
except when the painful paroxysms came on, when he would throw himself about in
agony and groan.
I tried various remedies, among which were Colocynth., Arsenicum, Nux vomica, and
finally Dioscorea, which I thought would certainly relieve him, because he bent backward
instead of doubled up with the pain, and Dioscorea is a great flatulent remedy, and had
served me well in such cases. China, Carbo v. and Lycopod. had also been tried. They
were all used in the 30th and below. But no good from any of them. It was a poor family,
and the mother being worn out with night watching (no nurse to help her) fell asleep,
and the patient became delirious with the pain and escaped from the bed, and in his
night clothes was overtaken three miles from home and taken back. Of course, things
got serious, but they had one advantage, they were too poor to change doctors or to pay
for an operation of any kind. Well, as has been my custom, I sat down and studied up
the case again. Nearly all his symptoms called for China. But he had had China low. Now
the only thing to do was to try it high. What, in such a desperate case ? Yep. Only thing
to do. So I gave him some China 5m. made on my own potentizer (so I knew what it
was). The result was all a Lippe could desire. The terrible pain grew promptly but
gradually less, the tympany gradually subsided, the diarrha stopped, and in a month
from its first administration he was working on the road with the rest of his fellow
laborers. There was no return. Now there was a very prominent subjective symptom in
the case which I have not mentioned. As H. N. Guernsey used to give it : Uncomfortable
distention in the abdomen, with a wish to belch up, or sensation as though the abdomen
were packed full, not in the least relieved by eructations. In this case neither belching
nor stool relieved in the least. (Nash.)
NEURALGIA
Mrs. R., age 65, had been treated during five or six years at different times by two
homopaths for torpid liver. During all this time she had not had a natural evacuation,
the stool had to be washed out by an enema ; there had not been the least desire for
stool,
nor
any
urging.
She had become very feeble and emaciated and suffered frequently and severely from
neuralgia on the right side of the face, which the treatment of her physicians did not
seem to relieve. An allopath being called in gave her a lengthy prescription, containing
Quinine, Strychnia, Aloe, Podophyllum, Euonymus, etc., to be made into pills to take two
mornings and evenings. The first dose aggravated her so much that she did not take the
second dose until the following morning ; this making her still worse, the pills were
abandoned and I was called. I found her delirious, temperature 104 degrees, but could
obtain no symptoms.
Nux vom. 200, given at bed-time, produced a favourable change by next morning, but in
the evening neuralgia of right side of head and face appeared, with symptoms of Bellad.,
and this soon relieved the neuralgia, as also another attack a month later. During the
interval and after the second attack she was treated according to symptoms, but after
two months the neuralgia made its appearance again ; this time on the left side of the
head, face and neck, with exactly the same symptoms, but Bellad. gave no relief
whatever ; she was rather worse in the afternoon. Mrs. R. then told me that the slightest
touch would not only aggravate the pain, but actually reproduce it in its worst form, if
touched when she was free from it. Chin. sulph. covering all the symptoms, including the
reproduction of pain by touch, which is not found under Bellad., I gave her a dose of
Chin. sulph. 45m in water, to take two teaspoonfuls every two hours, which gradually
improved her, so that she was free from pain in four hours and never had another attack
of neuralgia. (F. H. Lutze, 1893.)
DIARRHA
A delicate girl, three years old, has had an exhausting diarrha three weeks. It is now
painless, consisting of brownish yellow fluid, with much undigested food. She has ten or
twelve operations in twenty-four hours, and is much debilitated. China 200, every two
hours, produced decided improvement in thirty-six hours, and complete convalescence in
two days more. (J. B. Bell.)
RHEUMATISM
I was called to see a man with rheumatism. He had been confined to his bed and arm
chair for many months, and had suffered greatly from the disease and many doctors.
Had not tried homopathy, for there was nothing in it. I found joints swollen (hands,
feet, knees, body). The affection had continued all the time to move from joint to joint
since
Heat
Tongue
Very
he
did
was
not
coated
white,
greatly
>
poor
attacked.
but
appetite,
discouraged,
<.
no
thirst.
depressed.
Temperament, fair ; mild disposition. There were other symptoms, but these were
leading. He received Pulsatilla c. m. (Fincke). He improved promptly, but in a few days
sent for me. He showed me a discharge from the urethra that looked gonorrhal in
character. That was in the days of long ago, when we did not know so much about
bacteriology. He said that his wife had given it to him, for he had, as everybody knew,
not been able to get away from home. The wife indignantly denied the imputation. Both
looked to me for a solution of the mystery. I said to him did you ever have clap
before ? He hesitated under the scrutiny of the flashing eyes of his wife. Then said : Yes,
I did when I was a young man, before I was married. I said your rheumatism is
improving since this discharge appeared. Yes. How were you cured of the clap ? By an
injection. Well, then, I said neither you nor your wife are guilty of inconstancy toward
each other. This rheumatism from which you are now suffering is the result of that
suppressed gonorrha of twenty years ago, and you will get well of both under the
action of appropriate medication. But no more local injections, please. He recovered
rapidly. I have seen other cases similar from such suppressions and am careful not to
resort to them. I did not know of the history of gonorrha in the case, but treated it on
the symptomatic indications. (Nash.)
NEURALGIA
Mrs. G., age 35, a farmers wife, called to get some medicine for neuralgia, stating that
the whole right side of the head was involved. The pains would come and go gradually at
very irregular periods, shoot into the ear along the side of the neck and under the eye,
and were always made worse by putting anything cold in the mouth. To the question if
the pain was relieved by putting anything warm in the mouth, she answered : Oh, no ;
that makes it a great deal worse. The pains, although mostly confined to the right side
of the face, were moving about frequently, often after leaving the head appearing in the
left leg or heel ; she was always chilly, easily moved to tears, and felt decidedly better in
the open air. I gave her Pulsatilla 30, two powders, to dissolve one in four teaspoonfuls
of water, and take one every two hours. The neuralgia was cured with the first powder
and remained so ; she had no need of the second. (F. H. Lutze.)
SUPPRESSED
MENSTRUATION
Emma G., aged about 30 years. Has been an invalid for years, under the care of an
allopathic gyncologist, who treated her for ulceration of the cervix. He had succeeded
in healing the ulcers by local cauterizations, etc., but the canal had become so narrow
that for a year he had been obliged to introduce a catheter to draw off the menstrual
fluid. Finally it became so closed that the could not introduce the instrument at all. Then
the patient passed another year having great pain and fullness in the uterine region at
every period, which confined her to the bed for days, but no appearance of the menses.
I was called to the case and prescribed Pulsatilla routinely. Visited her when she was due
the next month. Found her suffering as usual, and no relief in any way from the remedy.
Then
sat
down
and
wrote
out
her
case
in
toto.
I found a history decidedly scrofulous or psoric, and among a quite long list of symptoms
the
Frequent
Much
following
flashes
burning
Weak,
These
of
heat
of
faint
all
the
over
feet,
spells,
with
the
the
body
has
followed
to
put
especially
psoric
history
by
sweat
them
in
decided
out
the
the
and
debility.
of
bed.
forenoon.
prescription.
I gave her Sulphur c. m. (Fincke), a powder, dry on the tongue, once a week (Sac. lac. in
solution between), with a promise that I would come up the next time when she was
due, and if she was no better would make an examination. So when the time came I
took
my
wife
and
went
up
prepared
to
do
so.
Found the patient instead of upstairs in her bed as usual down in the parlor entertaining
some
lady
friends
who
were
calling.
She came out where we were, and I said, How about that examination ? Oh, said she, I
am so glad it is not necessary. I am menstruating perfectly easy, and feel so well. She
never failed afterward to menstruate regularly, and was restored to perfect health.
(Nash.)
LEUCORRHA
Mrs. W., age 25 years, married, and has two children : the last was born fifteen months
before I saw her, from which time she has suffered from profuse yellow leucorrha with
violent pruritus vulv ; worse at night. She has at the same time great bearing down of
womb, perfectly incapacitating her from standing or walking or doing her household
duties,
such
as
ironing
and
washing.
Most violent chronic headaches, of a throbbing and tensive character, and arising from
the least worry or fatigue, with habitual constipation. Has been, under allopathic
treatment two years without benefit. The keynotes to the cure were as follows : Heat
and pressure on vertex ; throbbing and tension ; headaches more or less constant and
worse before the menses ; worried by trifles, and memory impaired. Flushing of face ;
fainting spells without cause ; sinking, empty, exhausted, craving for food ; worse at
eleven oclock in the forenoon ; intense icy cold feet ; worse when the head is bad.
Sulphur, one millionth potency (Boericke), in one dose of five pellets, cured permanently
every symptom, constipation, leucorrha and sensation of prolapsus included and
without repetition. (Skinner).
DIARRHA
I., aged 12 months, had had diarrha for nearly a month. Her flesh was soft and
flabby ; open fontanelles ; tongue coated white at the back. She was thirsty and drank a
good deal of milk and water. The diarrha was worse in the morning, beginning about 4
A. M., continuing more or less until the afternoon. It was dark yellow, watery,
occasionally greenish white mucus, coming with a gush early in the morning, almost
involuntarily during the day when standing. Child cried a little before bowels were
moved. There was also a cough, worse on lying down at night, sometimes causing her to
vomit
child
slept
with
eyes
only
half
closed.
The patients appearance suggested Calc. carb., which was prescribed ; no benefit
resulting, Sulphur 6 was given ; the italicized symptoms being very characteristic of the
drug. The diarrha ceased, and her health greatly improved in a few days ; no other
remedy being needed. (A. E. Hawkes.)
CHOREA
Chorea of eight years standing, affecting right side only excepting the face, all the
muscles of which were affected. Ign. and Caust. failed. Sepia 55,000 and 100,000
relieved for a few days each, but Sulph. 6,000 given on account of weak, faint, hungry
spells about 10 A. M. was followed by immediate improvement. (Goodno.)
DEAFNESS
Mrs. A., age forty-nine, deaf in right ear for twenty years, in left ear for five years. Hears
no conversation except upon a high key, and that only when very near. Sensation of
heavy pressure and heat at the vertex, extending to both ears with soreness of the
brain. Soles burn at night, hot flushes on the face followed by cold sweat ; constipation,
faintness at 10 or 11 A. M. Sulphur300 for twelve days, with but little improvement.
Sulphur 6,000 was followed by restoration of left ear and relief from soreness and
pressure at the vertex. The hearing in the right ear was slowly restored. (Hoyne.)
METRORRHAGIA
Was called to visit Mrs. , t. fifty-two, June 6, 1879. Found she had been suffering
from metrorrhagia, constipation and concomitants for about ten years. She stated that
her medical adviser had always been an allopath. He who last attended her, after a
protracted and unsuccessful trial of his individual skill, had accompanied her to New York
to consult a now emeritus professor of surgery of an allopathic medical college, who had
made for himself an enviable reputation as an operating surgeon. The emeritus
professor, after obtaining a history of the case and making his examinations, endeavored
to console the lady by informing her that his wife was in about the same condition as
herself ; that he sent her to this retreat and that watering place, all of which resulted in
little if any benefit ; and intimated that she might, if she thought well of it, do the same.
She concluded not to think well of it, and so returned as she went, like the door upon its
hinges,
unprofited.
Her physician, after an attendance of several years, during which his patient became
gradually worse, abandoned the case. She had the assurance, however, to inform me
that if he had only persevered in his attendance she supposed he would have relieved
her.
She gave me to understand, moreover, that it was at the instance of some of her friends
that I had been called, and not because she had any confidence in Homopathy.
Her metrorrhagia, which had been exceedingly prostrating and annoying in many ways
from its incipiency, had continued constantly for the last six months with the exception of
two weeks, and was of a passive or active character, accompanied by very little pain.
At time it consisted of a slight oozing, the discharge presenting a dark appearance ; at
others it passed in considerable gushes, and was a bright red color, with very few clots.
To procure alvine evacuations, it was her custom to resort to enemata or cathartics. She
complained bitterly of painful hmorrhoids. Her general appearance was bloated, and
her extremities dematous. She had an annoying bearing down sensation, especially
when on the feet, so that she moved about with difficulty. She had occasional stitches
from right to left, across the epigastrium, and was quite sensitive to a jolt or jar.
The symptoms which led to the selection of the similimum were the following : Frequent
hot flushes to the face ; feet habitually cold or burning soles. (Feet so cold she must sit
with them in the oven of the kitchen stove, or soles so hot at night that she must put
them from under the bedcovers to cool them). Heat in the vertex. An empty, faint
sensation at the epigastrium about 11 A. M., rendering it necessary to partake of some
food. Unable to lie on the left side or back ; must lie on the right side. (Lying on the left
side was followed by intolerable unrest, on the back by nightmare). Drinks much, eats
little.
During treatment the importance of keeping quiet was not enjoined upon the patient, but
she was allowed to exert herself in any way she deemed proper, nor was she restricted in
the least in regard to her diet.
A few pellets of Sulph. m. m. were given her dry on the tongue, June 6, 1876, and the
dose was not repeated nor any other remedy given for four months. As she had been
subjected for many years to allopathic dosing, she was provided with the usual placebo,
with direction to take three pellets at night if she felt that she needed them. She was
also directed to call me at any time if warranted by any change in her symptoms. On the
6th of October, 1876, being in the immediate vicinity of her residence, I called on my
patient to ascertain particulars, having heard, incidentally only, that she was better. She
soon presented herself, exhibiting an appearance very different from that of four months
previously. Her first exclamation was, Under God I am indebted to you for my
restoration to health. She further stated, A week after commencing the medicine the
hmorrhage ceased, and has not returned. At the time the hmorrhage disappeared my
bowels became regular in their evacuations, and have remained so. My painful
hmorrhoids have ceased to exist. At my monthly periods I menstruate normally for two
or three days. I inquired, What about your other symptoms ? She replied, Oh, the hot
flushes to my face, my cold feet or burning soles, the all-gone feeling at the stomach
about 11 oclock A. M., the inability to lie on the left side or back, the disposition to drink
frequently and largely, and not being able to eat much have all disappeared, and I really
feel
as
if
could
not
be
sufficiently
grateful.
(L.
Shafer,
CHRONIC
M.
D.)
URETHRITIS
Mrs. S, a married woman of fifty years of age, of light complexion, blue eyes, auburn
hair. A nervous sort of body, complained for nearly six months as follows :
Frequent micturition day and night. Urine passed in small quantities about a large
spoonful at once with urgency before, pain, smarting, burning, scalding, after each
passage. There was a sensation of pressure upon the bladder also. The above were all
the
symptoms
she
gave,
all
could
get,
at
the
time.
The above condition was distressing and kept her from church and social gathering.
Without any comparison of remedies, for such condition, I gave Cantharis 200, which
gave some relief, but only that. At the third call, I questioned her more closely and found
she had, in addition to the foregoing symptoms, the following. Had much prurigo of
labia, groins, upper part of thighs : the itching being so intense she wore out her
clothing rubbing and scratching the parts.
The labia vestibulum, meatus urinarius and otium vagin, together with the adjacent
skin, were inflamed and the labia majora dry and cracked. All these areas were subject
to attacks of intense itching, burning and smarting upon scratching, daily. She was
subject to frequent flushes of heat with redness of face, followed by slight perspiration.
Got chilly easily and warm as easily. Heat and work aggravated her symptoms. Had
considerable thirst ; and less hunger. Often had burning of feet, both day and night ;
worse
nights.
She had used all sorts of medicines, salves and ointments, hot and cold water, but only
to repel the local irritation from time to time. This is what had been done, just prior to
the time she first called on me, and this accounted for the paucity of symptoms given at
first and second call. On the basis of the last symptoms, I gave her Sulphur 500, three
doses, and a subsequent prescription of Sac. lac. At the end of a week she was
materially better, and from that time to this she had no more trouble. The Sulphur was
given Feb. 22, 1890. (Stow.)
CHOLERA
It was in 1851, on one of those unsurpassably hot mornings that prevail here in August,
that I was summoned to see a case of cholera at a great distance. A Redemptorist Father
had been with him during the night, and finding his apparently homopathic treatment
not as successful as he desired wished further advice. The patient was an emaciated,
sharp-faced German, a tailor, about 50 years old. He had indulged on the previous day
for his supper in blood pudding and cucumber salad. He was taken about 11 P. M. with
Asiatic cholera ; he still continued to vomit and to be purged, with violent cramp at short
intervals. All of these cramps and rice-water discharges ceased during that day, the
principal remedy had been Arsenicum ; but from that evening till the next evening he
continued
to
vomit,
and
apparently
was
sinking
from
exhaustion.
Thirst was very great ; he had to drink large quantities of cold water, and felt better
afterwards, till the water became warm in his stomach in from fifteen to twenty minutes,
and then he had to vomit it up again, to be relieved of this exhausting painful vomiting
and thirst by drinking another large quantity of water. A number of remedies
administered
produced
not
the
slightest
relief.
The symptom found by the clinical experiment in this case cold water drunk is vomited
up as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach was not to be found in our Materia
Medica. But there was found, after a long search, under Phosphorus, in the fifth volume
of Hahnemanns Chronic Diseases, Symptom 745 : In the most terrible agonies he
vainly tried to vomit ; only the drinking of cold water relieved. Nothing could be found in
a search for a similar remedy but this symptom, and now we gave this suffering man
one dose of Phosphorus 19m. about 9 P. M., with the order to repeat it every two hours
until he was relieved. On the next morning we found that he had been given no more
than this solitary dose, and that he was rapidly improving. He recovered without needing
any
more
medicine.
COMMENTS. The case here briefly stated might be claimed to belong to the Causes
clbres. Ever since this case was cured and published everybody has admitted into our
Materia Medica this so frequently confirmed Phosphorus symptom vomiting of what
has been drunk as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach. Everybody knows it, and
the knowing ones have and will continue to cure this not infrequently recurring symptom
with Phosphorus. The case illustrates the manner in which our Materia Medica has been
developed ; how symptoms observed by provers only similar to the symptoms observed
on the sick as the result of disease may be cured by a given drug, and that the
confirmation of such cures entitle this symptoms the result of the clinical experiment
to as much importance as if it had been observed on a dozen of provers.
Upon reflection, the men who persistently insist in the sifting of our Materia Medica may
think the better of it. (Ad. Lippe.)
DYSENTERY
Several years ago I treated a child suffering for two weeks from an obstinate attack of
dysentery. Several remedies had failed utterly. Counsel was called, but our combined
efforts were equally unsuccessful. At one of my visits the mother chanced to be changing
the childs diaper. I noticed that the anus was wide open. I could have inserted my little
finger to the depth of two inches without touching the bloody mucus-lined walls. (The
tenesmus was almost continuous). Neither Jahrs Manual (snelling), Bell on Diarrha,
nor Herings Condensed contain this important symptom. Finally I discovered this under
Phosphorus in Lippes Textbook. Three days after the use of the remedy naught
remained of the troublesome disease except the resulting weakness. (Nash.)
HEADACHE
Mrs. M., t. 30, dark hair, dark complexion, medium size, WHENEVER SHE WASHES
CLOTHES, or walks fast, has the following symptoms : Rush of blood to the head, red
face and eyes, heat in the head, sensitiveness of the scalp to touch, sudden shooting
pains in the head, especially in the vertex. She has a permanent hard protuberance on
the left side of the head, where phrenologists locate ideality ; also one on the metacarpal
bone of her left hand, and one on the right foot. These parts, after washing, become
very
much
swollen,
red
and
hot,
with
shooting
pains.
There is a small ulcer on the left foot, near the little toe. All the above symptoms are so
severe, especially the pains in the head, as to necessitate her lying in bed. The pains in
the head are also experienced when walking fast, as well as after washing, but much
more after washing. After a few doses of Phosphorus c. m. she found she could wash or
walk fast without experiencing any return of the above symptoms. The ulcer on the foot
healed. (Compare Am. c., Ant. m., Bell., Bry., Calc. carb., Calc. phos., Carb. v., Clem.,
Dulc., Lycop., Merc., Nux m., Puls., Rhus, Sars., Sep., sulph. Eds.).
Note by the Editor (Dr. Geo G. Gale.) : On receiving this extremely interesting case,
from Dr. Gale, we happened to have on hand one exactly similar, viz., head symptoms, of
a most chronic type, in a washer-woman, rendering her occupation at times quite
impossible ; always worse when washing clothes or walking fast, but much more after
washing. Her symptoms were identical with those of Dr. Gales patient, which are
italicized. Considerable relief was obtained from the administration of Pulsatilla c. m.,
followed, a week after, by Sulphur m. m., Mercurius 10 m (for toothache in a carious
tooth, and faceache, caused by washing clothes), and Lycopod. d. m. for sadness,
gloomy sadness, and ill humor before menses ; severe dysmenia, with back as if
broken ; coldness of left foot. But is was reserved for Dr. Gale to effect a speedy and
permanent cure by the similimum. Rush of blood to face and head with heat ; the scalp
is sensitive to touch, with sudden shooting pains in the head, especially in the vertex,
induced
and
Phosphorus
always
aggravated
when
washing
will
clothes
or
walking
fast.
cure.
On the 17th of last September a washer-woman to the family was fairly hors de
combat with these symptoms and the following : Sinking at the epigastrium ; nausea
and loss of appetite ; sleepless, and when she does sleep she wakes always with a
congestive headache and giddiness. She is afraid to wash. Phosphorus c. m. was given
then and there, one powder dry on the tongue. We did not see her again till the 21st of
Sept., when she informed us that the last medicine had done her more good than all the
rest put together. Thanks to Providence and his servant, Dr. Gale. We left her on the
21st of Oct., perfectly well and healthy, pursuing her vocation in comfort. (Skinner).
PNEUMONIA
C. H. Nearing, about 30 years of age, was attacked with pneumonia (double). The right
side worst. There was great oppression of breathing, very high temperature and quick
pulse, circumscribed redness of the cheeks, right most, not much pain, rather apathetic,
the cough (without much expectoration at first), and oppression much worse when lying
on the left side. What little pain was complained of was located in the lower right lobe,
but the hepatization was general over that side and in evidence to quite a degree on the
left. All this condition followed a chill at the beginning. Aconite did not do much good,
though it had a fair chance. Then I gave Phosphorus 1 m in solution, to be repeated once
in two hours.
In the night the wife came running to my office, saying she feared Mr. N. had gone into a
stupor, and wished me to come immediately. I was at the bedside in a few moments, and
instead of a stupor found my patient sleeping soundly enough, but quietly, and breathing
quite a good deal more naturally, and bathed in a nice warm perspiration. I awoke him
and he drew a long breath and said how much better I feel. Then he coughed and raised
easily a mouthful of bloody sputum, with great relief, and made a rapid and complete
recovery. (Nash).
PNEUMONIA
In the year 1876, in the course of a severe attack of typhus fever, during my residence
in Liverpool, my state, as I am told (for I was in delirium), suddenly became very critical
through
pneumonic
consolidation
of
the
right
lung.
Phosphorus was the remedy selected by Drs. Drysdale, Hayward and Hawkes, who
attended me, and under its action I made a rapid recovery. Hard, dry cough, rusty
sputum ; increased at twilight and until midnight ; < lying on left side ; > lying on right
side ; abdomen distended, sore, very sensitive to touch ; stools offensive, bloody,
involuntary ; the anus appearing to remain open. Each one of the symptoms I have
italicized is a keynote of Phosphorus. When any of them are present (with or without
pneumonia) Phosphorus is likely to be the remedy. (John. H. Clarke.)
DIARRHA
Mr. Van Hoesen, middle aged, very large tall man, was attacked with a profuse lightcolored, grayish-white diarrha. It poured away from him like water form a hydrant.
Every passage was followed by a very weak, gone feeling in the abdomen. Phosphoric
acid., China, Arsenic, Verat. album and other remedies failed to check the discharges,
although they grew a little less in quantity at each time. Looking at the stools again and
again, on the third day I discovered little white particles looking like sago, or little lumps
of tallow, floating on the surface. This was a keynote. Then I could see Phosphorus in the
whole case. This remedy in the 3d in solution, a teaspoonful after each stool, cured
promptly. (Nash.)
to
illness
Gels,
Phos
Ac,
Plumbum
Met.
(over
habitual
Anus
3/12),NB.
NBWS
Consider
habitual
burning
constitution
abortion
Sulph,
Anxiety+++
?month
&
month
?constitution
Ratanhia,
Cantharis
Kali
Arsen
out)
Acidity (when well-selected remedy fails) Robinia tinct, Nat Phos. 6x, Hydrastis tinct
Antibiotic
Rx
(has
Anal
vital
force)
fistula
Anus
wide
ADD
Kali
Calendula,
(OAJulian)
Phos,
Apis
Brom,
Coca
Tarentula,
Kali
Echinac,
Paeonia
sickness
Autism
Medorrhin
open
Altitude
Antisepsis
depleted
Zinc
Brom,
Gun
Powder,
Myristica,
Met
Zinc
Tarentula,
Met
Merc
Cor
Bone metast/sarcoma Nat Silico-fluor, Angustura Vera, Crotalus Casc,with burning pain
Euphorbium
Breasts pendulous Chimaphila Um,to dry up breast milk Lac Can,to increase breast
milk Ricinuc Comm tinct
Chest (lack of reaction) (ie when vital force is depleted) Laurocerasus as intercurrent
Cough- NBWS pnuemonia/flu Sticta (dry), Erydicton, Pix Liquida,asthmatic wheeze
Hepar, Kali Carb, Phos,bark Dros, Kali Brom, Spongia, Sambucus,catarrhal Arsen,
Dulc, Ipec, Phos
hawking Sticta
croup Acon, Spongia, Hepar (Boenning Trio all 200c) also Kali Bic, Hepar,
Iodum
Cradle
cap
Silica,
Calc
Carb,
Mezereum
Cataracts Silica, Conium, Calc Fluor (prophylatically Cineraria tinct, undiluted, few
drops
daily)
Centrifugal
Convulsion
Coryza
action
tria
Acon,
(stringy)
Coryza,
Acetanilidum
(when
Kali
alternate
Xray
predisposition
Bic,
days
to
febrile)
Lyssin,
Strep
Hydrastis
Lac
Can
Catarrh to clear block in Rx of Lemna Minor (30-200c),Sang Nit 30c, Teucrum Marum
(more
Bell
Cramp
for
Dulc
Kali
writers
Sulph,Constrictive
Mag
CFS
CCF
RVF
paediatrics)
Phos,
sensation
Plumbum
LVF
Cactus
Met
Conium
Lach,
Stropanthus,
Phos,
Venoms
Dig
Climacteric onset Sx Sulph, Lach, Graph, Mancinella, Morg Bach, Sanguin, Sepia, Calc
Carb
Conjunctivitis Euphrasia wash (& protect from sunlight),in neonates, where vomiting
Puls
50m,
Calcan.
spur
Congenital
Mum
on
ie
gonorr
heels
overgrowth
destruction
h/o
ie
cleft
(ie
Calc
extra
palate,
yellow
Fluor,
digit,
spina
leucor.)
ear
bifida,
Arg
Hekla
pinna
cardiac
PDA
Nit
Lava
Carcinosin
Carcinosin
Cold sores to manage neat lavender oil, Vit B complex, Vit C 500mgs/d
CA antidotes DXT Cadmium Iod. Fluor Acid, Phos, Rad Brom, foetid odor Hoangnan
pain
relief
Euphorbinum
CA
(burning)
Nat
Silicofluor
remnants/deposits
(bone
scraping
pain)
Malandrinum
CA specific organs Bone Nat Sil Fluor, Angustura, Euphor, Crot Casc
Mouth
tongue
Bladder
Breast
Kali
Cyan,
Crot
Ast
Horr,
Galium
Aparine
Taraxacum,
Rubens
(Sycotic
diath,
Terebrinth
CA
breast
&
axilla)
Calc Fluor (stony hard) Chimaph (large pendulous) Conium ,(trauma leads to fibrosis)
Lapis
Albus
Phytolacca,
(soft
Plum
Iod
Thuja,
&
(with
soreness
Thyroid,
Stomach
Ornithogalum
Hydrocotyle,
Arsen,
Larynx
Ustilago
Sedum
Liver
dryness)
Iod
(caecum)
Intestines
&
Calc
Cervix
pliable)
Repens,
Ornith
Phos,
Thuja
Cholester,
Lung
Hydrastis
Cobalt
Pancreas
Mur
Pylorus
&
Rectal
duodenum
Kali
Cyn
Phos.
Ornithogalum
(Kali
tinct
weakness)
(single
dose)
Sempervivum
Tect.
Skin Cinnabaris, Eosin, Galium Aparine, Rad Brom, Thuja, Canth, Kali Arsen, Bovista
Stomach Bismuth, Cad Sulph, Hydrastis, Lobelia Erin, Ornithog, Sed Repens
Uterus Aur Mur Nat (ossification) Elaps Corr, FraxinusAmericana, Lycopod, Murex,
Thuja, Thyroid
Constipation
hard
(purgative
&
crumbles,
hard
chronic,
chilly,
sphincter
palliative)
massive
mucus+
&
large
anus
slow
white
rectal
to
close
after,
3x
tongue
full,
sensation
Mur
Ant
Crud
Apis
throbs
fissure
many
bd
Mezereum
Ammon
coated
stuffed
Dulc,
feels
fat,
Merc
Graphites
hammers
Lach
sticky,
esp
post-measles,
sinking
sensation
dry
&
crumbles
edge
anus
(well
selected
rem
bottle
fed
(more
constit.
Colic
&
flatus
fails,
>
nausea
Nux
bent
colic,
double
after
<
Hydrast
Mag
Mur
child)
Nycthan
Mur
Plum
Met.)
cheese
<
Mag
restless
eating
sour
in
Vom,
whines,
urge
Alumina,
Bry,
with
&
cramp
bile
babes
with
with
stomach
night,
Colocynth
Cham
strong
desire
>
bending
>
backward
warm
sensation
pulled
pain
choking
pressure
abdo
excrutiating
China
in
sensation
toward
bowels
Dioscorea
spine
every
rises
Mag
2-3/52
from
Phos
Plumbum
Cuprum
stomach
Met
Acetum
Mancinella
Arg
Nit,
juvelile
Phos
Ac.
with
skin
with
kidney
Depression
Phos
Sx
Sx
Uran
hormonal,
post
Nit,
Syzygium
Phos
puberty,
opposition
no
bowel
Mancinella
Can,
Caps,
Agaricus
sounds
Mag
Stram
Tub,
Bell,
Musc,
abdo
surgery
Anac
Kali
post
Sulph
defiance
Cimicifuga
conduct
compulsive
bewildered
Distension
Apocynum
obsessive
Aromatica
Apis,
Disorders
Rhus
climacteric
natal
Diuretics
Ac,
Jam
Brom
Tarentula
Raphanus
30c
chronic for instant relief when picture confused (ie Nux Vom, Merc Sol, Sulph)
Holarrhena Antidysenterica tinct
Ear
wax
Verbascum
black
Oil
Puls,
x
Calc
wk
Sulph,
for
Caust,
3/52
Elaps
then
Corr,
Lach.
mth
Egg
allergy
coli
Exhaustion
weak
weak
Eyes
from
workaholics
discharges
puffy
(ie
leuc,
tarsal
Avena
lact,
Sativa
10-15dr
prolonge
underneath
tumours
Ovorum
Chimaphila
illness
over
Cal
infection
post
puffy
Eyes
haemorr)
Apis,
Platanus
nocte
Sterculia
Aletris
Kali
Kali
Um.
Farinosa
Arsen
Carb
Occid
6-30c
Eye
scar
sensation
Eye
tissue
eye
pulled
sensitivity
coloured
Emaciation
post
to
ie
back
post
of
bright
light
to
electric
head
trauma
Hepar,
light
fatten
shock/living
Thiosinaminum
Oleand,
(spasms)
Artemisia
tubercular
diath
environment
Quad
Lyssin
Vulg
Paris
Hydrastis
Electricitas
when
well
selected
constriction
Ratahnia
glass
Aesculus
Hippo
Thuja
&
splinters
remedy
Collinsonia
(in
rectum)
itch
burn
portal
fails
for
hours
congestion,
after
leads
to
stool
backache
cauliflower
Lapsana
shape
Com
Blumea
tinct
Odorata
Heart
damage
post
bleeding
infection
Naja
water
Homesick
Haemorrhage
from
desire
Phos
(esp
injury
Lycopus
Spartium
Strophanthus,
bright
red
profuse
chest,
(organop
TB
tinct
Verginicus
Scoparium
or
Dig,
1x
Rauwolfia
Millefolium
Acalypha
30c
tinct
Ipecac
Alopecia)
flatulence
Crataegus
Anim
Erigeron,
(see
with
Sabadilla
Carbo
haemoptysis
loss
Arsen,
Capsicum,
pulmonary
Hair
Hypertension
nasal)
Chelid,
Ac,
to
from
Hysteria
Asafoetida
(dissolvent
or
or
power)
30c
30c
(diuretic)
Serp
tinct
Irritable family Mr Nux Vom & Mrs Sepia,Cina, Cham, Silic, Tub children!
Intestinal obstruction (in kids) Pitruitin
IBS to open case Sulph 30c
with jelly mucus Gaertner, Aloes, Colch
Intestinal shedding < Autumn Colch,Kali Iod.
Insomnia (see sleep)
Influenza (small rems)
with cyanosis Acetanilidum
relapsing with toxaemia (slimy stool, sinus Sx, slow digest) , Eucalyptus
epidemics Sarcolactic Acid
Insects fleas Staph, Psor
Gnats to keep away Caladium
Lice body Bacillinum, hair Staph tinct.
Impotence (see ejac) desire but no ability Selenium, Caladium
Itching > heat Rhus Ven, Thyroidin
Joints cracking Benzoic Acid, Thuja
rigid Caust, Stellaria
pain Kali Carb (sensitive, sore, swollen)
Kali Iod (hot, diffused, syph degeneration)
contraction Cimicifuga, Caust, Guaciacum, Cauloph.
Jealous+++ Lachesis, Hyos, Apis
Knee injuries sinews, periosteum, tendons Symphytum
Larynx sensation of hair in Naja
Liver Mag Mur, Lycopod, Chelidon, Berberis, Hydrastis, Nux Vom,Card Mar
Lungs R upper Arsen, Calc Carb
middle Calc, Sang.
ower Lycopod, Bry, Kali Carb, Merc Sol, Chelidon
L upper Phos, Merc Sol, Stannum, Tub, Sulphur, Therid
lower Nat Sulph, Rumex, Syphil
haemorrhage see under h
Leucorrhoea profuse Alumin
10d pos menses Conium, Borax, Bovista
running down legs Alum, Graph, Calc Carb, Sepia, Sil, Stannum, Syphil
Lack of reaction chest & heart Laurocer
collapse, cyanosed, wants fanning Carbo Veg
in person with lax fibres Capsicum
worn out constitution at menopause Ambra
Nose
Nose
Nose
enlarge
turbin
(picking
polyps
Nose
Sang
off
&
other
deviated
septum
rhinitis
Arsen
Iod.
peoples)
Avoid
Nit,
Sang
Nit,
Mercury
Lemna
management
Minor
of
dairy
products
Nasal washes each nostril alternately, (other closed) inhale then exhale 3 5 x bd,
tepid
H2O
Nose
Nits
cauterisation
cider
vinegar,
Nipples
NBWS
neat
with
tree,
conditioner
Arsen,
comb,
retracted
cracked
Arg
electric
Silica
Ricinus
continual
any
Sx
Neuralgia
impact
like
hot
Sarsapar
tinnitus
triggered
pain
irritable,
&
sweaty
deafness
Arnica,
noise
pepper,
facial
head,
Nat
pain
easy
periodicity
colic
partial
by
chilli
<
bent
in
double,
air
anger
Capsic
Cham
China
suppressed
rectum
concomit
chilliness,
linear
direction
more
of
pain
pain
more
Colocyn
chilly
Puls
Allium
Cepa
Spigelia
shoulders
sycotic,
Plumbum
then
sided
arms,
anger
resulting
<
Sal
Theridion
>
Nit
zapper!
sore
Noise
coryza+++
Staph
wet
Thuja
Nausea < smell/thought food Colchic (more < smell, esp fish)Phos, Arsen, Sepia,
Ipecac,
Coccul
from
eggs
Organ
affinities
Muc
Mar,
Co
Cypriped,
Petrol
Sedum
Acre
Gels,
Braz,
Chelid,
Ign
Condurango,
Hura
Carduus
Sycoti
Carb,
Pancreas
China,
Ornithog
Ruta,
Conium,
Scrof.
Tarax,
Solidago
Urinary
kidney
Prostate
Mammary
Otorrhoea
Kali
Form
Aster
ear
Rufa,
Chima,
Merc
post
Kali
vaccine
Solidago
Serr
Quercus,
Rub,
Dulc,
Sars,
Sabal
Ceanoth,
Carb,
middle
Senna
Berb,
Spleen
Otalgia
Calc
Hydrastis,
stomach
Rectum
Thuja,
Arn,
GI
Arsen,
Skin
membranes
CNS
Liver
Chin.
Phytolacc,
Mur,
Helianthus
Spigelia,
Tellurium,
Scroful
Verbascum,
Merc
Dulc,
Kali
Cham
Mur
Oesophagitis
burning
Osteomyelitis
Osteoporosis
Kali
Iris
Versicolor
Angustura
Bic,
Kali
Iod,
Vera
Phytolacca,
Hekla
Lave
Hypoxia
Arnica
200c
1m
SKB 10 rems kit 1 Cimicifuga 30cc 1st stage short lancinating pain & rigid os,
shivers
2
Caulophy
30c
initiates
contractions
Secal
Cor
Kali
Carb
Zinc
Met
30c
200c
200c
Calendula
200c
expel
Forceps
Pitruitrin
slows
NBWS
placenta)
backache,
weakness
&
200c
1m
Gelsem
(help
sweat,
30
Chamom
200c
pain,
lack
aggression+
of
200c)
Puls
9
10
(also
tone
Thyroidinum
2nd
stage
Cicuta
if
Virosa,
going
too
Nat
fast
Sulph
good
chain
also
Rhus
Tox
Calc
Thuja
inflammatory
Management
apply
dry
avoid
<
of
heat
at
avoid
(not
full
Formica
all
moist
hot
or
re
neck
Rectum
(all
Sx
raise
Ruffa,
heat,
H2O
new
Rhamnus
damp
bottle)
moon,
&
swollen
ares
sensation
burning
prurine
(raise
ie
dwelling,
salt
11th
therefore
generally)
sticks
glass
Radium
Xray
day
wax
bags
&
wane
Uric
acid
use
neck
pillow
shower
sand
raise
Sulph,
Calif
cold
bags,
avoid spinach, pulses, red lentils, red meat, liver, kidneys, red
curries
Bell,
Carb/Fluor
Rumex,
levels)
in
bed
Sulph
Ratanhia
Cantharis,
Ratanhia
Radium
post
Rx
Rad
Brom,
Calc
Iod,
Phos
Sleepy
(Nash
trio)
but
unable
Ant
Tart,
to
Nux
Mosch,
Bell,
Opium
Opium,
Cham
Sleepless generally Passiflora Inc, Coffea, Crataegus, Avena Sativa, Opium, Piscida,
Sambucus,
with
Avena
Zinc
anxiety
Sativa
(&
wakes,
generally)
for
plays
>
Sleeps
into
Sleep
cracks
pus,
>
applic
skin,
urticaria
from
shellfish
rom
cold
pus
painful
allergy
Veg
Fagopyrum
Silica
Xray
Morgan
Sarsapar
Petroleum,
general
Spongia
Carbo
Winter
nocte
Podo
Cantharis,
pain
Summer
2-5dr
Opium,
with
of)
Phos
Cina,
deep,
no
effects
Arsen
Carb,
Phos
climacteric)
term
tinct
wake
(fingers)
(<
Zinc
Lach,
knees
thick
thickened,
in
short
Kali
Apis,
cold
in
30-200c
Ammon
cold
Skin
workaholics,
Cypripedium
<
itch
Carb
business)
back
abdo
Skin
Mag
Sx
>
Sleep
extensive
out
(overloaded
neuro
Sleep
Skin
Phos
neurasthenia,
child
no
Zinc
worn
(with
Sleepless
Val,
Bombyx
Psor
(WBp94)
Urtica
Urens
Dulc
Thyroidinum
Scrofulous
Smell
Calc
Carb,
Calc
loss
Phos,
of
Hepar,
Silica,
Tub
Arsen
Iod
Sx all < damp cold Aranea, Allium Cepa, Rhus Tox, Nat Sulph, Ant Tart, Thuja,
Dulcamara,
Stomatitis
Calc
red
Merc,
Kali
Chlor
white
3x
Carb
tsp
cup
luke
warm
Sinusitis
Borax
finger
spot
Profuse
Kali
Bic
Puls.
Spigelia
Complete
blockage
Scabies
Sanguinaria
Hepar
Sulph
Croton
Smoking
1x
Tig
H2O
in
warm
(>
spray
H2O
gentle
(constitut
rub)
is
best)
Plantago
30-200c
Caladium
(sex
desire+
w/o
erection)
Tabac,
Quercus
Spinal
damage
nerve
cervical
Hypericum
dorsal
Cicuta
Agaricus
Dx
prophylactic
30c
Artista
200c
x1
Indica
tinct
prevention
10d
bd
forms
whole
trip
antibodies
NBWS malaria cachetic emaciation, has ability to stop recurrence (by involving liver
cycle)
Malaria
NBWS
malarial
tablets
Officenalis
Chin
Sulph,
Chin
Arsen
Malaria prodromal ment & physic excitement, face red & hot Cedron
Chill
general
coldness
renewed
every
movement
Nux
Vom
&
China
Worms in UK most common are ASCARIS & OXYURIS Rx with Cina, Santon, Tereb,
Tub
tapeworm Cina, Calotropis, + colic Filix Mas
with salivation Lycop, Granatum 30c
after rpt allop de-worm Rx, pinworms + rectal itch++
nasal polyps & adenoids Teucrium 12c
all kinds of worms Cuprum Oxy Nig
with diarrhoea Cina, Merc Sol, Spigelia
with infant diarrhoea Sabadilla
with convulsions, if Cina fails Cicuta
others Kousso, Sulph, Merc Sol
Washing manis Lac Can, Syph
< warmth of bed Apis, Cham, Dros, Ledum, Merc Sol, Puls, Sabina, Secale, Sulph
Whooping cough- < night Dros
With cyanosis Mephites
Very acute & cyanosed Castanea,Fluoroform, Ouabain
Warts Ferr Pic
Weather changes cold to warm Bry, Gels, Nux vom, Sepia
warm to cold Arse, Caust, Duld, Nux Vom, Ran Bulb, Silica
Warfarin withdrawal gradual + Crataegus tinct 10dr nocte in luke warm H20
Mammary Phyto., Bry. (for the earliest symptoms) ; Bell. alt. Hep. S.; Phos.
(Chronic cases) ; Merc., China, and Spongiopiline ext.
Acid Dyspepsia (heartburn) : Carb-V., Bry., Nux-V. ; Lyc. (in elderly persons) ;
Puls. Verat. Alb.
Ague : Chin. or Quin. ; Ars. (chronic) ; Verat. Alb. (severe and obstinate) ; Phos.
Ac., Cedron ; Nux V. or Ipec. (much gastric disturbance) ; Sulph. Quin, (obstinate,
symptoms variable) ; Ign. (much chill with frequent paroxysms).
Alcohol : Effects or Excessive Use of Nux V., Opi., Ars., Caps., Ant. T. (gastric
irritation).
Alopecia (loss of hair) ; From Previous Illness, Grief, etc. Phos. Ac., Ign., Calc.,
Sil., Chin., Canth. (and ext. in pomade).
With Frequent Headache- Fluor. A., Nit-ac., Phos., Sep., Sulph., Calc.
Anmia (deficiency or poverty of blood) : Ferr., Chin., Phos-Ac., Ars., Sil., Helon.
Ankles : Swelling of Ars., Chin., Bry., Phos., Ferr., Apis. Also rest in the prone
posture.
Anus, Itching of Sulph., Nit-Ac. ; Cin., Ign. or Merc. (from worms) ; Ars., Acon.,
(burning itching with dryness) ; Sulphurous Acid ext.
Prolapsus of Ign., Nux-V., Podoph., Merc. Local bathing, injections, and carefully
returning the prolapsus.
Anxiety, Care, Grief, etc. ; Effects of : Ign., Aur., Nux-V., Phos. Ac., Puls., Gels.,
Chin.
Aphth (Thrush) : Borax int. and ext. ; Merc., Ars., Sulph. ; Sulphurous Acid
Spray one part to ten of water.
Ascites (abdominal dropsy) : Apocy. C., Ars., Apis., Dig., Chin., Lyc.
From Spinal Irritation Chin., Ign., Nux-V., Gels. See also Lumbago, Menstruation :
Painful.
Prevention of Washing the parts exposed to pressure morning and evening with
tepid water ; and, after drying with a soft towel, a little glycerine or glycerine-cream
should be rubbed evenly over the parts. When there is much redness, and the skin
is unbroken, a little brandy or other spirit of proof strength should be applied.
Bites and Stings : Ledum, Apis., Rhus, Canth., all int. and ext.
Paralysis of Bary. Carb., Acon., Nux-V., Ars., Bell., Op. See also Urine.
Boils : Bell., Sulph., Hep-S. ; Arn. (much pain) ; Apis (numerous and small) ;
Sulph., Hep-S. (to prevent recurrence).
Bowels : Inflammation of Acon., Bell., Coloc., Merc-c., Ars., Bry. : also hot
fomentations, poultices, or wet compresses.
Burns and Scalds : Canth., Rhus, Kreos. or Urtica, ext. very dilute.
Carbuncle : Bell., alt. Sulph. (early stage) ; Apis (much swelling) ; Ars. (bad
cases) ; Acon. (much inflammation) ; Sil. (indolent).
Chilblains : Petrol., Puls., Ham., or Rhus, int. and ext. Phos. Tamus Com.
Calend., or Kreas. ext.
Chorea (St. Vituss Dance) : Cupr., Agar., Verat-vir., Artem., Bell., Ign., Cimic.,
Ars.
Cold-in-the-Head
Acon.,
Ars.,
Merc.,
Nux-V.
(stuffy
cold)
Euphr.
Of the Liver Merc., Bell., Aloes, Bry., Chin., Ars., Iod., Acon.
Consumption : Phos., Ars., Phos-ac., Ferr. Iod., Dros., Calc-Iod., Lyco. ; also
Acon. or Bry. (for occasionally symptoms).
Contusion : Arn. ; Ham. (with discolouration) ; Conj ; (of the female breast) ;
Ruta (of the skin bone) ; all int. and ext.
Convulsions : Bell., Cham., Verat-vir., (with cramp) ; Gels. (rigidity) ; Opi. (from
fright). Also Enemata of warm water. See also Epilepsy.
Corns : Calc., Sulph., Also Arn. (simple), or Verat-vir. (inflamed), ext. use of.
In most cases cough may be modified by strong efforts of the will to resist it.
Cracks of the Lips, etc. : Graph., Merc Also Arn., Calend. or Glycerine. Cerate.
Aloes cures cracks in horses.
Cramps : In the Calves Verat., Nux-v., Arn., (from fatigue) ; Bell., Cupr., Gels.
From Enlargement of Tonsils Merc. Iod., Bell., Calc-Phos., Bary-carb., Iod., or KHyd. (chronic).
Debility : Chin., Ferr., Phos., Phos-ac., (from l. of blood, etc.) ; Ign., Mosch.,
Phos-ac., Iod., Nux-V. (nervous).
Depression of Spirits : Ign., Aur., Chin., Nux-V., Plat. ; Merc. or Podoph. (from
disordered liver) ; K-Brom.
Diphtheria : Merc. Cy., Bell., Phyto., K-Permang., Merc. Iod., Ars., Mur-Ac., Also
Phyto. or Sulphurous Acid locally.
Noises in Acon., Chin.-Sulph., Puls., Mosch., Nux-V., Sulph. Also Sulphurous Acid
Spray.
Epilepsy : Bell., Cup., Hyos., Stram., Verat-Vir., Ign., Ars., Zinc., Calc., (chronic) :
K-Brom. (as a palliative).
Epistaxis (bleeding from the nose) : Ham. (dark blood) ; Ipec. (bright blood) :
Puls. (absent or deficient period) : Bry., Acon.
Eructations : Bry., Nux-V., Puls., Sulph. Ac., Lyc., Carbo-v,. Ars., Cham., Arg.,
Nat.
Excoriations of Infants : Cham., Calc., Lyc., Sulph. Also Hydras. or Calend. ext.
; or the parts dusted with powdered starch.
Face ache : Acon., Bell., Coloc., Spig. Cimic. (when the eyeballs are effected) ;
Cham., Sticta. See also Gum-boils.
Ganglion : (an encysted tumour on a tendon of the foot or back of the hand) :
Ruta., Arn., Iod., Silic., Calc., Benzoic Ac.
Glands : Enlarged Merc. Iod., Baryt-Carb., Bell., Hep-S., Iod., Silic., Calc-Phos.,
Phyto.
Gout : Acon., alt. Bell., Colch. or Bry. (during an attack) ; Rhod., Cimic., Puls.,
Nux-V., Lyc., Arn. or Acon. ext.
Gum-boils : Acon. alt. Bell. (first symptoms) ; Merc., Silic., Hep-S., Phos. (to
prevent recurrence).
Headache : Bilious Iris, Bry., Acon., Nux-V., Puls., Coloc., Ipec., Sep.
Nervous (in one half of the head) Ign., Aur., Coff., Cham., Nux-V., Phos., Acon.,
Spig., Sulph-Quin.
Heart : Disease of Cact. G., Dig., Naja., Acon., Spig., Ars., Phos., Ars. I., Bary-C.
Hip-joint Diseases : Silic., Phos., Calc-C., Ars., Sulph. : Acon. and Bell. (at first,
and when necessary). Also perfect rest.
Hoarseness : Bary-C., Caust., Phyto., Hep-S., Phos., Spong., Carbo-V., See also
Aphonia.
Hysteric Convulsions : Camph., Mosch., Opi. (from fright). Also cold douche to
the face
Influenza : Camph. (the chill stage) ; Acon. (chills and heats) ; Ars.
(prostration) ; K-Bich. (troublesome cough) ; Bapt.
Of the Skin Acon., Arg-nit., Mez., Sulph., Ars., Nux-v., Crot- tig. Also Mez., or
Verat-vir. ext.
Jaundice : Acon., Bry., Merc., Chel-Maj., Ars., Phos. (malignant) : Chin., Nux.
Joints : Pain in Acon., Arg-m., Bell., Bry., Ruta, Swelling of Iod., Puls., Calc-c.,
Silic.
Lumbago : Ant-t. ; Arn. (from over-exertion) ; Rhus, (sudden, from cold ; worse
during rest) ; Cimic (muscular pains).
Measles : Acon. alt. Puls., Gels., Bry., Bell., K-Bich (laryngeal cough) ; Sulph. (to
prevent sequel).
Melancholia : Aur., Ign., Plat., Phos., Zinc., Sulph. See also Hypochondriasis.
Menstruation (the monthly period) : Delay of the First Puls., Ferr., Sep., Phos.,
Sulph. Sec., Cycla.
Painful Cimic., Cocc., Croc., Bell., Cham., Puls., Plat., Ham., Ign., Gels., Sec.,
Verat.
Excessive Sec., Croc. (dark and clotted) ; Sab. (bright red) ; Acon., Calc-C.,
Ipec. ; Chin., (after excessive discharge).
Suppressed Acon., Puls., Bell., Coni. (chronic) ; Sep., Plat. (Rhus, Sudden)
suppression further requires a hot hip-bath, after which the patient should retire to
a warmed bed.
Recurring too Early (in less than a mouth from commencement of previous
period) Calc-c., Sab., Ign. ; Kreos (offensive discharge) : Sec., Nux-v.
Milk : Suppressed or Scanty Puls., Agnus. C. ; Acon. (with fever) ; Bell. (with
brain symptom).
Milk Scab (vesicular eruption on the face of infants) ; Rhus Tox., Iris., Sulph.,
Viola Tri.
Nervousness : Cham., Coff., Ign., Hyos., Cimic., Gels., Chin., Occupation and
open-air recreation, See also Hysteria, Hypochondriasis, etc.
Nettle-rash : Apis., Rhus, Puls., Chloral, gr. j., thrice daily for an adult.
Neuralgia : In the Face Acon., Ars., Bell., Coloc., Cham., Spig., Gels., Sticta.
Night sweats : Chin., Ars., Phos-Ac., Merc. See also Hectic Fever.
Nose bleed : Acon., Bry., Ipec., Ham-v., Puls. (in women) ; Chin. (in weak
persons) ; Arn. (from a blow).
Nose : Sore Ars., Sulph., Graph., Aur., Caust. ; Iod. (with ftor).
Obesity (excessive accumulation of fat) : Ars., Ferr., Calc-c., Sulph. Also and
chiefly, avoidance of starch and sugar.
dema (watery fluid under the skin) : Chin., Ferr., Apis., Ars.
Palpitation : Mosch. (nervous) ; Acon., Spig., Bell., Cact-G., Phos., Puls., Ars.
Pimples : Bell., (in the full-blooded) ; Puls. (in girls) : Sulph. K-Bich., Ant-C.,
Hep-s.
Prurigo (a popular eruption, with intolerable itching) : of the Anus Nit-ac., Sulph.
Also Glyc. of Hydrast., or freshy made chloroform ointment (1/2 dr. ad. adipis 1/2
oz.) ext.).
Of the scrotum Petro., Merc-Cor., Nit-ac., Rhus, Acon. Also frequent ablutions
with tepid or cold water.
Quinsy : Bell., Bary-c., Merc-iod., K. Permang (as a gargle, gr. xii. ad. aq. des. 4
oz.).
Rash : During Teething Cham. ; Ant-c. (with Diarrha) ; Ars. (with prostration).
Remittent Fever : Gels. (specially in children) ; Ars., Verat., Chin., Ipec., Rhus.
Rickets : Silic., Calc-c., Sulph. Also out door air, cold or tepid salt-water baths,
and a teaspoonful of cod-liver oil twice a day.
Scald-Head : Calc-Phos., Ars., Sulph., Ant-c., Lyc. ; Rhus int. and ext.
Malignant Ailanthus Gland., Ars., Merc.-Ac., Carbo Veg., Condys Fluid topically.
Preventive Bell.
Sickness : Ipec., (simple) ; Puls. (from rich food) ; Nux-v. (from alcohol) ; Iris,
Ant-t. See also Vomiting.
Stings : Lep., Apis, or Rhus, int. and ext. See also Mosquitoes.
St. Vituss Dance : Agaricus., Bell., Cap-M., Artem., Stram., Zinc., Ars., Cimic.,
Ign., Verat-Vir.
Of the Face Merc. (from Gum-boil) ; Bell. or Cham. (from Toothache) ; Apis
(from Erysipelas); Chin. or Ars. (dropsical).
Testicles : Enlargement of Puls., Clematis, Spong., Arn., Aur., Acon., Also the use
of a suspender.
Tongue : Coated Ant-c. (milky-white) ; K-Bich. (yellowish); Puls. (roughishwhite) ; Rhus., Bapt. (brownish).
Tumors : Nervous Acon., Ign., Chin., Coff., Bell., Nux-vom. (from stimulants).
Tuberculosis (the condition of the body in which tubercles are deposited) : Iod.,
Phos., Calc-C., Ferr. Iod.
In the Leg Bell., Ars., Merc. (syphilitic) ; Caust., Hydras., int. and ext.
Some of these practical tips are mentioned below, which will give us an idea how to
approach a case:Bryonia and Calcarea carb are inimical. Calcarea carb must not be given before Sulphur.
Sulphur, Calcarea carb and Lycopodium follow each other in the order given. Silicea,
Lycopodium, Belladonna, Rhus tox are all complementary to Calcarea carb.
Hepar sulph, Merc sol, Silicea, etc promotes pus formation in low potencies; while in high
potencies check the pus formation.
Silicea should be thought of when the abscess does not heal under Merc sol. A dose of
Sulphur should be given after Merc sol, before giving Silicea; for Merc sol and Silicea are
inimical. Silicea follows Sulphur well.
Hepar sulph and Nitric acid are both complementary to Arsenic alb; while Rhus tox is
complementary to Arsenic alb.
Fluoric acid is complementary to Silicea and Sulphur follows Silicea well.
Calcarea carb follows Pulsatilla well especially in cases of Engorgement of breasts after
weaning.
Calcarea fluor will not act in cases where Kali iod had been used previously.
Phosphorus and Causticum must not be used after each other; they are inimical to each
other.
Phosphorus and Carbo veg are complementary remedies.
Silicea acts well after Lycopodium.
Merc Iod F is often useful after Belladonna in follicular tonsillitis.
Nitric acid is to be thought when Mercurius has failed. It is also useful when Carbolic acid
has not been sufficient to reabsorb the swelling and especially if the chancre is present
with exuberant granulations.
Spiritus glandium quercus (acron) is a splenic remedy either in the acute or on the
chronic stage, even when ascites and dropsical swelling of the legs are present with
hypertrophy of the organ.
Toothache during pregnancy- Sepia is the best remedy than Chamomilla, Pulsatilla and
Calcarea carb.
The best antidote for Quinine poisoning is Ipecac; then comes Arsenic alb and China. The
other useful antidotes are Natrum mur and Veratrum alb.
Ranunculus bulbosus is given for the sore spots remaining after pneumonia.
If Pulsatilla does not help, Merc sol should be tried especially in otitis. Farrington says
that the action of Merc sol is deeper than Pulsatilla.
Hamamelis vir is useful after Pulsatilla in orchitis.
In Intercostal neuralgia, Mezerium is considered to be the chief remedy; next comes
Pulsatilla, Rhus tox and Arsenic alb. Hempel considers Cimcifuga, excellent in this
disease. Bryonia is regarded as a classical remedy by some physicians. When Bryonia
fails, Cimcifuga is useful.
Calcarea carb is the best remedy for Polyps and Phosphorus should be given when they
bleed too much as well as when they recur often. Sanguinaria is for nasal polyps which
bleed easily. Teucrium is for mucous polyps. Hering recommends Antim crud alternately
with Pulsatilla and Merc sol. Jousset occasionally used Thuja alternately with Nitric acid.
Jahr says that Kali carb is especially useful when the right parotid is affected.Brunett
says that Pilocarpin nitras 1x is specific for Mumps or Parotitis. When there is metastasis
to testicles, the best remedy is Pulsatilla.
For the defects in placenta, give Phosphorus, especially when there is a tendency to
cast away the untimely fruit. Apis, for abortion in the early months (third), especially
when there is a defect in the musculature of the uterus. Sabina, for impending abortion,
especially about the third month. Secale cor will be useful for abortions in the later
months; there is too great development of the uterine muscles.Caulophyllum, when
attended with great pain. Cimcifuga is a powerful restrainer and will suit cases with
habitual disposition to abort. Sepia and Viburnum are good preventives of abortion.
When first menses is delayed, Pulsatilla is the best remedy. After Pulsatilla, Jahr
recommends Sepia.
Amenorrhea owing to a plethoric condition of the girl, Bryonia should be tried first, then
Calcarea carb.
If Pulsatilla is not sufficient; Sulphur may be given, which is to be again followed by
Pulsatilla.
Hahnemann says that in Amenorrhea; Kali carb will bring on the menstrual flow when
Natrum mur though indicated has failed.
In Measles, Kali bich is particularly needed after Pulsatilla if the catarrhal symptoms are
prominent, especially if the eyes and ears are involved. Farrington says Pulsatilla is called
for in milder and Kali bich in severe cases.
When Belladonna fails, give Bryonia in Mammary abscess. If Bryonia too cannot check
the suppuration, Phytolacca may be used.
Calcarea carb is recommended for Lumbago, after the failure of Rhus tox.
Argentum nit, the complement of Gelsemium; is sometimes needed after Gelsemium in
Loco motor ataxia.
Hughes recommends Picric acid in Leukemia; while Grauvogl strongly recommends
Natrum sulph and Thuja.
For the sore throat of smokers give Capsicum and Nux vomica.
Lycopos virginicus is very useful in relieving the protrusion of eyes and the cyanosis in
Exophthalmic goiter; but little effect upon the glandular enlargement; which yielded to
Iodine.
Apis stands between Belladonna and Rhus tox especially in inflammation.
Within its short compass, it cannot, nor is it intended to be, a guide in all cases.
Dr Sayeed Ahmad
Causticum is the routine remedy for retention of urine after operation.= Dr. D.M.
Foubiser
Nothing equals Hypericum in cases of smashed fingers.= Dr. E.A. Frrington
Hyoscyamus is one of our best remedies for hiccough occurring after operations on the
abdomen.= Dr. E.A. Farrington
Hypericum is the main remedy for spinal injuries.= Dr. D.M. Foubister
We have found Bacillinum almost specific for ulceration of cornea in children.= Dr. M.L.
Tyler
Several cases of cataract have been arrested in their progress by Causticum and the
sight even improved, where before its administration they were rapidly going on to
complete blindness.= Drs. Allen and Norton
The more Benzoic Acid is used in Gout the more it will be prized.= Dr. C. Hering =
Arthritis deformans responds to Antim Crud. a near specific.= Dr. Schwartz =
In Diabetes, 2 or 3 grains of the 3rd trituration of Uran. Nit. Administered morning and
night, will in a short time reduce the quantity of urine passed to nearly a normal
standard, and after a continual use, the proportion of sugar is materially lessened.= Dr.
Bradford =
Some of the worst cases of chronic rheumatism have been cured by Ant. Crud., guided
by the extreme tenderness of the soles of the feet.= Dr. E.B. Nash =
Ipecac. is especially the infants friend and is commonly indicated in the bronchitis of
infancy.= Dr. J.T. Kent
Dr
Saveesh
Kumar
Random thoughts over the years of Homoeopathic practice focus on many glittering
areas of success and a few dark shades of disappointment. These clinical experiences are
being presented to enlighten our brethren-the new comers into the arena to take
advantage of the success and to avoid the pit-falls.
In the very early years of practice in 1983,an indelible impression was created by
RATANHIA 30s ability to control TOOTHACHE of PREGNANCY in a lady who was on pain
killers over the last few days. This was again verified over the next year.
Pain
Speaking of the power of Homoeo medicines to control pain takes me back to my
student years when ! could witness CALC_CARB 30. a single pellet, keeping away the
agonizing pains of CANCERjn_3_CA Cheek patient, who, again was on painkillers every
4th or 5th hours. Of course, even if Calc carb 30 could not cure advanced CA Cheek it
could be the best palliative. In post herpetic neuralgia, another extremely painful
disorder, Mezerium 30/200 could mitigate the patientssuffering in a few hours. It is only
worthy to emphasize here on the pain control exercised by BELLADONNA 200, MAG
PHOS 50M and VIBURNUM OPULIS 30 in many a case of DYSMENORRHOEA, where the
underlying cause were congestive, spasmodic, and even endometriosis. Even as a
student of science, I could experience the marvel of GELSEMIUM 200 and PSORINUM CM
in controlling the pain and frequency of MIGRAINOUS HEADACHES. The efficacy of KALI
BICH 200 in arresting the pains of ACUTE SINUSITIS also deserves mention. In sinusitis
and upper respiratory infections, the simple advice of steam inhalation is also very much
rewarding,
FEVER, one of the most common clinical presentations, is encountered in everyday
practice throughout the year. RHUS TOX dominates in WET weather, GELSEMIUM in
SUMMER and BRYONIA in WINTER.
BAPTISIA 200 is remarkable in fever of more than 5 days duration. SULPHUR or OPIUM,
the intercurrents in acute cases, have been serviceable in acute febrile disorders in
cutting short the duration. OPIUM 30 is an effective aid in putting a stop to FEBRILE
CONVULSION in children; STRAMONIUM 1000 and 10M given at intervals, help in tiding
over the tendency to febrile fits. Selecting remedies according to the time of onset of
fever is successful Eg, in a case of fever of 105F, which set in at around 10-11 a.m.,
NAT MUR 200 could bring down the temperature to normal in a couple of hours;
PULSATILLA in cases waking up with fever in early morning and BRYONIA when the
temperature rises between 8 9 p.m.
PYROGEN is to be remembered in fever associated with a focus of pus formation
anywhere in the body. In the present Fever epidemic prevalent in South-India, many a
disaster could be averted with the administration of medicines like GELSEMIUM,
RHUSTOX, INFLUEN-ZINUM and EUPATORIUM according to symptom totality, These
medicines have the advantage of curing gently without the complications like bonemarrow depression or shock, commonly seen as a cause of death in fever cases.
RECURRENT RESPIRATORY INFECTION in children is another field which has brought
lau rels for Homoeopathy. Upper Respiratory infections like common cold and associated
complications like tonsillitis, otitis media have been cured by medicines like Belladonna,
Merc.sol, Heparsulph, Pulsatilla, Tuberculinum and Psorinum. Recurrence of cases of
CSOM has been controlled by these medicines. Many a case of Tonsillectomy and
Adenoidectomy could be avoided. In LOWER RESPIRATORY infections like Asthmatic
Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Bronchiolitis, medicines like Apis mel. Kali Carb, Phosphorus,
Tuberculinum and lodum are reliable. Once the acute condition has subsided, the clearing
up
can
be
effected
by
Antim tart. PNEUMONIA is a disease which can carry a high mortality. If medicines give
little or no response in 12-24 hours, reference to higher centers with more facilities is to,
be advised.
Deaths have been witnessed due to improper selection or too little administration of the
indicated remedy and going on blindly with over confidence.
BRONCHIAL ASTHMA in many children responds to medicines like IPECAC 3X followed
by CUPRUM ARS 200 and later by complemen tary remedies or nosodes. In others,
Pulsatilla 1000 or 10M has proved useful. Oxygen administration and other accessory
aids have become necessary in still others. In people on Allopathic medication, only
gradual tapering of these medicines, based on improvement, should be made.
Dietary restrictions of certain animal proteins and preservatives like sodium meta bi
sulphite for a period can help in rapid control of recurrence. Just as Ipecac, Cup. ars and
Spongia help in asthma with predominant cough, Nat. ars helps in cases where sneezing
predominates. Tuberculinum/Bacillinum, Sulphur and Psorinum in that ordergiven at
intervals help in overcoming many a food allergy leading to Asthma.
ECZEMA, in general, responds to Sulphur;to Ars alb when there is raw bleeding areas,
and to Hepar sulph when pus and pain dominate. Of course, all medicines in 50
millescimal scales O/3 0/20 are needed and with proper adherence to dietary
restrictions avoiding sea food, wheat and nuts for 3 6 wks or more if found
necessary. Saline compresses in acute cases of weeping Eczema would do much help.
In ACUTE URTICARIA, differ-enciation of medicines like Sulphur, Apis mel, Ars alb and
Rhustox provides the answer in majority of cases. In a few, as for those occuring after
meat, Antim crud comes ofuse.Ofcourse, avoiding animal proteins and wheat, during
attacks, gives a speedy control. Constitutional correction, as in other allergies, is to be
made.
ALLERGIC RHINITIS is mostly controlled by Sulphur, Amm. Carb, Causticum, all of
which have a morning aggravation. Pulsatilla, Nat. ars, Ars.alb, Ars iod, Sabadilla and
lodum are others to be differenciated. Nasal polyp and Hypertrophied nasal turbinate
disappear once the allergy subsides. ALLERGIC PHARYNGITIS has almost a specific in
Wyethia.
In alimentary disorders, FOOD POISONING is often controlled by Ars alb. If fever and
offensive diarrhoea persist, Baptisia and Carbo veg come into picture. PEPTIC ULCER is
readily controlled by Nux. vom, Sulphur, Calc phos, Lycopodium,Puls, Arg-nit, Robinia,
Acid sulph or other indicated medicines, with Nat-phos 6X as a homoeopathic antacid
(sos), provided the 5 s of general management are attended to namely avoiding Spices,
Spirit, Smoking, Stress and Sleeplessness.
ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS, SUB ACUTE APPENDICITIS and APPEN-DICULAR MASSES
respond to Hepar Sulph 10M, Mere. Sol 10M with Belladonna 1000 as supportive.In
many cases, surgery could be avoided. Sulphur, Lyco, etc., help in preventing recurrence
of inflammation of the vestigial organ.
ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS has responded to Calc, Lyco, Phosph etc. The Ultra Sound
Scanshowed reduction of size and disappearance of stone in some cases. Chionanthus Q,
Berberis vulgaris Q etc., have been of service.
Inflammatory bowel diseases and Irritable bowel syndrome have come under the regime
of Homoeopathy.
The distressing problem of many HAEMORRHOIDS can be confidently approached with
Calc. flour 200 or Acid fluor 200 in the vast majority of cases, as they are the prime
remedies for varicosity. Only occasionally do we need Sulphur, Hamamelis, Paeonia Q
etc.,
URINARY TRACT INFECTION has been a challenge on many occasions, Cantharis, Ars
alb, Thuja, Mere Sol, etc are serviceable to some extent, but a flow chart in this
condition has to be worked out. The distressing pain and deathly nausea of URETERIC
COLIC have been helped by TABACUM 30. Along with constitutional medicines, drainage
remedies like Hydrangia Q, or Berberisvulg. Q have been serviceable.
In SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION, Calc. ars. more aptly fits in the Sulph Calc Lye
Sulph.chain. Aurum met is more indicated in cardiomegaly and when ischaemic signs
have set in. Short remedies like Rauwolfea Q, Allium sat.Q may be required to achieve a
rapid control.
IN DIABETES MELLITUS, early detection and treatment offer the best prospects. All
the nine 3 mark remedies of Kent and the extra 3 organ remedies given by M. L. Tyior,
give us 12 stalwarts in the fight against Diabetes. Acid Phos 200in a simple case of
Diabetes mellitus and Tarentula 30 in Diabetes with pyoderma come to mind as the
forerunners. Differentiation of the 5 Hindusthan drugs helps to establish further support;
Cephalandra Indica and Kalmegh for examples.Scientific regulation of diet and regimen
are inevitable to achieve better control and cure.
The ability of Spongia in curing a cae of THYROID ADENOMA and BRONCHIAL ASTHMA in
an elderly lady was also captivating. ADENOMA thyroid has also responded beautifully to
Nat mur,Calc iod etc.,
OVARIAN CYSTS subsiding under Aurum met; FIBROID UTERUS responding to Thuja,
Calc carb, Calc. fluor. etc., could also be experienced.
Parasitic infestations like ENTEROBIASIS being rapidly controlled by Teucrium and if
necessary by Scirrhinum, have been amazing. Likewise, infections like CELLULITIS have
been cured by Lachesis 200 within 48 hours! Fresh injuries requiring suture have been
handled successfully with Hypericum 200 locally and internally.
TUMOURS, including Gliomas, Menin gioma, Hepatomas and Pulmonary Adenomas have
been arrested or cured with medicines like Calc carb, Thuja and Phosphorus
A recollection, like this of clinical experience over the years may not be exhaustive. Still,
the most impressive ones have been portrayed. Sharing our clinical observations would
go a long way in amassing the vast treasure of Homoeopathy
Evil
Spirits
were
knocked
out
by
Belladona
During early days of my practice, I was once invited alongwith my family members by
one of my friends on Eid holidays. As we entered their home, the father and mother of
my friend were sitting on a bed encircling their daughter-in-law and murmuring some
verses from the Holy Quran. As my friend was not at home, therefore, his wife escorted
us to the Drawing room and asked to wait for her husband. The atmosphere of the home
was not lively but scary as if something unpleasant would happen. In the meantime, the
father of my friend entered and informed that my friend was just coming. He sat on the
chair and narrated in a hesitating tone that his daughter-in-law who was married three
months ago had been overwhelmed by some evil spirits (demoniac) as diagnosed by a
spiritual leader. However, another religious scholar opined that the girl was hysteric and
needs medical help. The father disclosed by giving further details that during such
attacks, she becomes so violent that she growls with fearful protruding red eyes and
strikes whosoever comes before him. At times, she is abusive and also tears away her
clothes. The father asked as to whether homoeopathy offers any treatment for such
patients. The one and the only remedy according to the stated symptoms wasBelladona
which was given in 1M potency twice a day for two days. After three weeks it was
reported by my friend that an attack of mild intensity was still recorded. The final
forceful punch of Belladona-CM knocked out the remaining spirits and made them fled
away forever restoring the patient to normal life.
Bothrops
can
make
you
speak
During the 2nd week of February, 2009, I was examining the patients at my clinic when
my daughter informed on phone in a shrieking tone that Mama had suffered a sudden
stroke and lost her voice. I excused with the visiting patients and rushed to my home.
On my way to home, I was so perplexed that despite my best efforts, I could not recall a
single remedy to my mind for this ailment. In fact, I was in a shocking condition and
feared as if I was losing something very precious. As I entered the home, my wife was
continuously rubbing the left side of her neck with her hand and trying to speak out her
ailment with a rolling tongue in her mouth. Doubting of a facial paralysis, I gave 2 drops
of Causticum-1M in some water which she swallowed without pouring it out of her
mouth. After an hour, I administered Lachesis-200. As I observed, there was no
distortion of face which invalidated the chances of paralysis. Blood Pressure and pulse
were quite normal, grip of hands was OK. However, my daughters insisted me to visit the
hospital for thorough medical checkup.
The Doctors could not ascertain the cause of this stroke that rendered my spouse
speechless as all the tests including ECG, Blood CP and even the CT Scan of brain were
normal. During the process of these tests, I kept on administering Causticum which
showed some improvement in the speech with utterance of broken words as if
intoxicated. Nevertheless, I carried on exploring the right remedies which could fully
restore
her
speech.
Finally,
was
convinced
by Bothrops
Lanceolatus
the
characteristics of which have been stated in the Materia Medica of Dr. William Boericke
as Inability to articulate without any affection of the tongue. I therefore started giving it
in 200 potency and the patient was seen on the path of further improvement within the
next 24 hours. On her complaint of pain and stiffness of neck, Cimicifuga-200 and
Lachnanthes-30 were also alternated with Bothrops being the principal remedy. It took
about 10 days to restore her speech. Now she is well communicative and even shouts
whenever
something
wrong
is
committed
against
her
will.
Thanks
to Allah
and Bothrops, all family members are happy to find her back in normal life.
The
Power
of
Ignatia
21st November, 2008 was a gloomy and disheartening day for the residents of Hillview
Avenue when an ambulance carrying the dead body of Dr. Masood reached the vicinity.
Everyone was mourning and shedding tears over the death of such a popular,
compassionate and caring physician who remained in the hospital for about one week
after a road accident. It was especially an irreparable loss for the widow and three
children of the departed soul. Yet another blow and misfortune from the heavens fell
when the ailing father of the grief-stricken widow breathed his last just after four days.
The widow of Dr. Masood was torn into pieces with the series of these two colossal
tragedies. After 3-4 days, my wife enquired as to whether there is any remedy in
homoeopathic system which could console and act as anti-depressant. Ignatia flashed
into my mind which was anxiously waiting for her. The remedy was thus administered in
1M twice a day for three days and amazingly, the widow started coming back to life
within one week with a sound sleep at night. Thanks to Allah, she has also started taking
interest in her home affairs with the soothing effect of Ignatia. I salute to the power of
Ignatia.
Regards
Homoeo
Dr.
Sultan
Mahmood
Clinical
Sender:
Tips
Dr.R.Madan
BHMS
23,Govindan
Road,WestMambalam,
Chennai-600033
1.Pituitary-Sudden acute pains like angina,renal or biliary colic,if no clear modalities are
present.
2.Staphylococcin-To reduce pustule formation[like hepar],summer boils[200],fever[30]
3.Lac
defloratum-Any
kind
of
pain
with
profuse
urination.
for
frozen
shoulder,intercoastal
rheumatism,asthma<lying,<midnight.
6.Leucoderma-Mica,ASF,Merc
7.Eel
serum-In
sol.
coronary
thrombosis
8.Lycopersium-Asthma
6x
11.Methylene
12.Colostrum
13.Leprosy
After
scanty
blue-Fever
6x-Infant
sensation
incense
menses,30
not
reducing
diarrhoea
due
to
drugs-sulph
for
with
mothers
30-loss
returns-Hydrocotyle30
crataegus
dust
from
for
with
from
9.Sanguinaria-Asthma
10.Thyroid
alternate
for
stick.
heavy
bleeding.
usual
medicine.
milk,sour
of
reducing
smelling.
sensation
skin
thickness
Lastly calotropis
Tips
Hillview
by
Dr.
Sultan
Avenue,Rawalpindi
Mahmood
(Pakistan)
Email : hdrsmahmood@hotmail.com
Alumina-200 in alteration with Merc. Sol-200 is efficacious in curing intense itching when
worse
with
warmth
Coffea Cruda-200 in alternation with Kali. Phos-200 is useful for treating insomnia
Never forget to give Sulphur-200 as inter-current remedy in sexual weakness
and
Kali
Phos.
2-3 doses of Kreosotum-1M are sufficient enough to control the urgent call for urination
In
violent
dry
and
fatiguing
cough,
Rumex-30
has
given
me
good
results
Consider trio of Colocynthis, Gnaphalium and Rhus tox while treating sciatic pain
In Anorexia, the combination of Cocculus-30+Pulsatilla-6+30+China-30 recommended
by
Dr.
P.
N.
Pai
has
been
found
useful
in
many
cases
Most of the cases of Dysentery have been cured with Colocynthis and Merc.cor
Trio of Arsenicum alb., Ipecac. and Natrum sulph has been found reliable in Asthma
Dr.Veerabalaji
Kumar.
veerabalaji@yahoo.com
Streptococcinum 1000 helps bring down high fevers in sore throat or viral fevers when
the indicated remedies do not help.
Dr.V.P
Bansal
:drvpbansal@yahoo.com
OG
:dr_ogvinod@rediffmail.com
Eczema when it is ulcerated is a great head ache no..try Hepar sulph 200 3 dose in
powder form which should be taken in one spoon of water till the pain subsides along
with Apis 30 3 pills twice daily..you will get a time to select a medicine in the mean time
also reduces renal complications. then RA factor and ASO titre if well selected remedy
fails Penicillin 200 7 doses in powder form on alternate days ie 14 days with but for
one month, repeat if necessary for another month. if not getting the desired results add
2 dose Streptococcin 1m 2 dose after the 14 days medication. never forget to evaluate
cardiac complications in badly managed cases, go for an echo. please let me know about
the response..