Random Notes on Homoeopathic Practice Compiled by Dr Sivaraman based on Krsihnamurthy’s book I started my career as a medical journalist. Forty years ago, while in New Delhi, when I entered the scene of homoeopathy I noticed one striking thing—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 the following pages. Meaning of ‘mind symptoms’ (section 213 of the Organon) and ‘rare-strange-peculiaruncommon-symptoms’ (section 153) clearly defined exactly and accurately and in a matter-of-fact way. Questions and Answers: 1.
What is the remedy to be given (just one single dose) to a pregnant woman, when the foetus (baby in uterus) stops growing?
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During epidemic encephalitis (brain fever, e. g., in Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu) what remedy would you use as prophylactic (preventive)?
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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?
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What is the remedy to be taken once in a month by all practising homoeopaths? (Just because no homoeopath has been taking this regularly, homoeopathy is not becoming popular.) Also, please note that this remedy must first be given to your doctor-patient i. e., any homoeopath coming to you for treatment and also to a patient who has gone to many homoeopaths.
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Write the names of two authors who had written biography of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.
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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.)
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What is the chief or first remedy that you would think of for haemophilia?
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In homoeopathy what is the meaning of ‘scrofula’ or ‘scrofulosis’ and ‘cachexia?’
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What is the remedy for jaundice after blood transfusion?
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In respect of the symptom ‘haemorrhage’ differentiate between the two remedies Phosphorus and Hamamelis.
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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?
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Under what rubric in the repertory would you search remedies for a patient with chronic tonsillitis?
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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?
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A lady of twenty-eight had attempted to commit suicide (by swallowing kerosene or sleeping pills) and somehow she recovered. What is the remedy for her so that she may not repeat it in future?
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What is the remedy for ‘ghost pain.’
[For answers see at the end] Why are homoeo softwares useless: A practitioner would be doing great blunder if he thinks that he can find the remedy for all his patients with the repertory or software. Most of those using software are under the illusion that once the homoeo software is installed, he can be damn sure of selecting the remedy for his patients. To remove this illusion the following is being written. (1) The practitioner searches in the software for ‘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 terms ‘glycosuria’ or ‘sugar in urine’ is used in place of diabetes. (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 either ignorance or arrogance those selling softwares will not listen to these observations. Again a doctor may search for ‘liver’ but in many places we find equivalent terms ‘hepatic affections’ ‘bilious’ etc. are used for liver affections and the list goes on.
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 remedy—the 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:
“Aggravation of head symptoms in the morning; abdomen in the
afternoon and legs in the night” Under the remedy Ammonium mur. (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) we read the following: “Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings.” CASE 2: A patient consulted me for constipation. 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 the remedy Opium (in Wilkinson’s Materia Medica) agrees with this case: “…Increased irritability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles…” When the intestine is full with faeces, urging is not felt (involuntary muscles.) In the instant case these muscles are not functioning. Movement of limbs is controlled by voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them (increased irritability and action).
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 Wilkinson’s 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)— MELANCHOLIA—Ignatia 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 (Boericke’s 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 patient’s 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 don’t 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 won’t 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 carpenter’s 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)
Reproaches others — (He blames the house and work place.)
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Sentimental.
I write down the remedies common to two above rubrics (Kent’s 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
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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 Lilienthal’s) 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
“… 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. CASE 10: 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 11: 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 patient’s 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. 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
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HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, be it in seminar papers, monthly meetings or articles in journals.
Said Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, “… it is an extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to their library will never feel regret…” In a review, Samuel A. Jones said about Lilienthal’s as under: “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.” The three authors who have correctly understood mind symptoms are: (1) Dr. Samuel Lilienthal (2) Dr. Constantine Hering (Hering’s Guiding Symptoms of our Mat-Med 10 volumes) (only those useful portions from this 10-volume have been taken out by Dr. V. Krishnamurthy and compiled them in one volume with the title Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica) (3) Dr. William Boericke (Mat. Medica) And Lilienthal tops the list. If you can understand correctly and thoroughly the sentences under all remedies under the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal, you are more than 70% success in your practice. Lilienthal is ten times worth its weight in gold. Wilkinson’s too is good at mind symptoms. How to master mind symptoms with Hering? After having selected a remedy and having seen that it has cured the patient with one single dose of that remedy, read that remedy in the Chapter ‘Mind’. If you do it two or three times for a remedy, fourth time when that remedy-type patient comes in, you can staightaway prescribe that. For example, I would never miss Lycopodium and Nux vomica for patients, most of whom throw the following symptoms: Lycopodium: Talks with an air of command. Manner stiff and pretentious. (Wilkinson’s) Nux vomica: …particular, careful, zealous… (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) Desire to talk about one’s conditions with anxious reflections about it. (The patient comes in, sits and turning his face to one side, stares at the roof and tells his complaints in the past-present chronological order. He continues to stare up the ceiling continuously till he finishes the history of his complaints till date.) (Wilkinson’s)
[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 Boericke’s Materia Medica and Wilkinson’s). 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, Wilkinson’s 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 won’t 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 Boericke’s 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 Boerick’s 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 Boericke’s 688-page materia medica. To another professor of English I gave a copy of Wilkinson’s 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 Boericke’s) could not find any suitable line. But the second professor underlined and pointed out the following lines under the remedy Stillingia (under ‘Mind’ in Hering’s) “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 Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica. In this case the professor going through Boericke’s 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: hydroureteronephrosis—Left kidney; pain in femoral part of urethra;
pain in sacral region. 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 affection—ureter. Under the remedy Belladonna (Wilkinson’s 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 the above case, 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. CASE 17: Let us now examine what is meant by uncommon symptoms: Some of the most useful uncommon physical symptoms cannot be classified under any head in the repertory or homoeo software and so it is better to memorise them. For example, under the remedy Ignatia we find the words great contradictions. (Boericke Mat. Med.) A haemorrhoid patient said at the end of the consultation. [Remember, in most cases, after the narration is over and after a pause, the patient leans forward towards you and with wide open eyes (exclaims)] “Doctor… one thing. Everyone says that pain, bleeding etc. in piles would increase while straining when constipated; but my case is different. I do not get pain or bleeding whenever I strain during constipation. But during loose bowel movement I get both burning and bleeding.” The contradictory symptom is both ways. Hence Dr. William Boericke writes in plural: “Great contradictions.” Ignatia-1M, single dose cured this patient. CASE 18: A school boy of twelve was brought by the parents. The mother started talking: “Doctor, he has to leave the house for school at 9.30 in the morning. He gets up at 6.00 a.m. By 7.30 a.m. he becomes so restless—jumps, cries etc. This would last for half-an-hour. Then this disappears; it is followed by 3-4 times loose bowel movement. After that he becomes completely all right and goes to school.” In this case the following that should come to our mind:
“Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups… ” The above lines are found in the remedy Cuprum met. (Boericke’s Materia Medica.) This remedy cured the patient in one single dose in the 200th potency. The above are extracts from the book ADVANCED HOMOEO PRACTICE (816 pages) by Dr. V. Krishnamurthy. To get this book by post you may send money oder for Rs.725=00. For Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica (pages 715) you may send Rs.705=00. Answers to questions at the top 1.
Secale is almost a specific when the growth of foetus is arrested. (See Repertory by Dr. Calvin B. Knerr: GENITALIA—FEMALE, Pregnancy, foetus: arrests development, Secale.) One single dose of Secale 10m is sufficient.
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See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—Head—Cerebrospinal affections – meningitis – epidemic: Zinc.
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See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—Stages of Life and Constitution—Constitution, syphilitic—mothers, to prevent disease in offspring: Aurum-mur-nat.
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See Kent’s Repertory—GENERALITIES—IRRITA-BILITY—When too much medicine has produced an over-sensitive state and remedies fail to act: Ph-ac., Teucr. [Homoeopaths are giving the medicines to the patient. The homoeo pharmacy people put about ten drops of the tincture to a 5 ml phial of pills. Whether the homoeopath buys the potencies in dilution or pills, when they upon the phial to give a few pills to the patient, the doctor inadvertently smells the medicine each time he gives to a patient. This causes irritation making them, restless and/or haughty to the point of telling that he need not learn any more thing in homoeopathy. Also when the doctor himself is sick, no homoeo medicine seems to act on himself.]
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Life and Letters of Hahnemann by Dr. Richard Haehl and another book by Bradford.
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See The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling—Repertory Section — Labor—weak, patient too weak to develop normal pains: Bell., Mur-ac.,
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Crotalus horridus is the prime remedy, to be thought in cases of haemophilia.
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(a) See answers (a) & (b) to question No. 12.
(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.
(a) Hamamelis: passive haemorrhage. No anxiety or pain:
(b) Phosphorus: Active haemorrhage with anxiety. 11.
(a) Arnica (b) Cicuta (c) Millefolium (d) Phosphorus.
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For a patient with chronic tonsillitis, you would generally look into the Repertory
against the following: Tonsils, inflamed (quinsy, tonsillitis) (page 454 of Kent’s Repertory) But remedies in this list may be useful for acute complaints of tonsillitis. For curing tonsillitis permanently, it needs ‘treatment of chronic diseases.’ Chronic tonsillitis is due to tuberculosis (See MEDICAL DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD by Dawson Williams, London: Cassel & Co. page 338-348) (a)
When tuberculosis affects lungs we call it tuberculosis of lungs or phthisis
pulmonum; with family history of tuberculosis, when t. b. affects bones or glands it is called ‘scrofula’ or ‘struma’. (b) All chronic affections of glands are due to tuberculosis in the family. Chronic affections of bones may be due to either tuberculosis or syphilis; (in syphilitic affections of bones we find ‘nightly boring’ pain.) Dr
V
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Advanced Homoeopathic Practice – clinical tips & tricks Dr. V. Krishnamurthy The subject of homoeopathic practice, from the beginning till date, had been enveloped into clouds of mysterious obscurities by many authors and teachers. In this book we are carefully guiding the reader, separating wheat from the chaff. The teachings of Dr. Krishnamurthy are exact and accurate. He writes in down-to-earth language and matter-of-fact way. Versatility and precision is his culture. Dr. Krishnamurthy has distinguished himself by his academic excellence in the field of medicine. He needs no introduction. He has proved his bona fides by declaring that Polyporus Pinicola is almost a specific for chikungunya disease (and during the year 2007-2010) lakhs and lakhs of patients in the western part of India were cured by this remedy with one single dose). Also he was the first to declare that the remedy Merc-sol. is almost a specific for swine flu disease and many patients got cured with one single
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.
Illusion of Repertories and Homeo Softwares
3.
Congestion
4.
Cachexia
5.
Diabetes
6.
Lack of Reaction
7.
Anguish
8.
Cause of Disease
9.
Cross, Crossing the Doctor
10.
Random Notes
11.
Endocrinology
12.
Plethora, plethoric
13.
Malignant diseases
14.
Senility, Old people
15.
Cancer
16.
Leucaemia (Blood Cancer)
17.
Syphilitic affections
18.
Septic, septicaemia
19.
Sterility
20.
Gout
21.
Random Notes on Practice
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 inside—among 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 case”3 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 Kent’s 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 reader’s 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 remedy—the 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.
Samuel Lilienthal’s HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS (Herinafter called ‘Lillenthal’)
2.
J. T. Kent’s REPERTORY
3.
WILKINSON’S MATERIA MEDICA3 (hereinafter called ‘Wilkinson’)
4. 5.
(compiled
by
Dr.
V.
Krishnamurthy)
Boericke’s MATERIA MEDICA (hereinafter called ‘Boericke’) W. A. Yingling’s THE ACCOUCHEUR’S EMERGENCY MANUAL (hereinafter called ‘Yingling’)
6.
REPERTORY by Dr. Calvin B. Knerr (hereinafter called ‘Knerr’)
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 (Boericke’s 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 patient’s 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 Lilienthal’s) 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 patient’s 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 remedy—‘uncommon’ 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 won’t 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 “clergyman’s sore throat… < evening and night…with 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 Boericke’s Materia Medica and Hering’s 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, Hering’s 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 won’t 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 week’s time with a promise that if I do not cure him in one single dose (or a few doses) in two week’s 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 Boericke’s 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 Boerick’s 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 Boericke’s 688 pages materia medica. To another profesor of English I went with Hering’s 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 Boericke’s) could not find any suitable line. But the second professor underlined and pointed out the following lines under the remedy Stillingia (under ‘Mind’ in Hering’s) “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 Hering’s 10 volumes. In this case the professor going through Boericke’s 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. Knerr’s Repertory: Chapter No. 40. Fever, intermittent (ague):…. with headache; Cina, Fever, intermittent apyrexia:… headache, Arn.,
Cist., Kali-c., Polyp.
Natr.m., Polyp., Puls.
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.
There are no specifics in homoeopathy. Why should we do like this? Why not have a specific remedy for jaundice; and another for headache and so on and so forth? Our answer: Dear reader, the above method of prescribing on ‘uncommon’ symptom alone can cure patients with one single dose or a few doses. Conclusion: 1.
Homoeopathy is complete in her existing armamentarium of materia medicas.
2.
If you have a good teacher of homoeopathy you can go to the top in a year or two.
Salient features of Hering’s Guiding symptoms
(10 volumes) and Boeicke’s
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.
“Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pain in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings.” [Ammonium mur.]
2.
Mind.—”Sad…unreasonable. Skin.—Faintly developed eruptions with defective vitality. “ [Ammon-carb.]
3.
“Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups.” [Cuprum met.]
A practitioner would not and cannot understand the use of the following symptoms in Hering’s Guiding symptoms (l0 volumes) unless a teacher points it out to them with actual cases treated. 1.
“The inflammation . . . runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts.” [Belladonna.]
2.
“Increased excitability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles.” [Opium.]
3.
“. . . depression of vital power on one side and increased irritability on the other . . .”
4.
“Haemorrhagic exudations. “ [Anthracinum.]
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
Opium (in Hering’s Materia Medica) agrees with this case: “…
Increased irritability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles…” When the intestine is full with faeces, urging is felt (involuntary muscles.) In the instant case these muscles are not functioning. Movement of limbs is controlled by voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them (increased irritability and action). 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 14: 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 Hering’s 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 15: The one symptom in the remedy Belladonna will highlight what is meant by ‘uncommon symptom’; also it would illustrate the uniqueness and superiority of Hering’s Materia Medica. 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: hydroureteronephrosis—Left kidney; pain in femoral part of urethra pain in sacral region.
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 affection—ureter. Under the remedy Belladonna (Hering’s 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 Accoucheur’s 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 Yingling’s 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 Lilienthal’s 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, Lilienthal’s 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 Lilienthal’s. 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 Accoucheur’s 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 Accoucheur’s 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. Knerr’s 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 day’s time. Treatment
of
swine
flu
By Dr. V. Krishnamurthy (Thirty-eight years of teaching experience in Homoeopathy, Chinese Acupressure & Dr. Bach Flower Remedies of England) During the years 2006-2008, almost all homoeopathic practitioners had been giving different remedies for chikungunya disease (mainly Rhus. tox and Eup. perf.) to be taken for days and weeks with little relief. The undersigned was the first to declare that the homoeopathic remedy Polyporus Pinicola-200 is almost a specific for chikungunya and with this remedy GIVEN IN ONE SINGLE DOSE, my students had cured lakhs and lakhs of chikungunya victims during the years 2006 to 2008. (Rate of success: more than 97%). I am not proud of the above, because it is my duty, as Professor of homoeopathy, to find out the remedy for any epidemic. [A teacher is he who makes difficult things easy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson.] Be that as it may. Though, all practitioners had cured several cases of chikungunya with one single dose of Polyporus, what was disappointing is that not even a single homoeopath came forward to ask me as to how I selected Polyporus Pinicola for chikungunya. These homoeopaths (who had cured chikungunya with one single dose of Polyporus) are now asking me what homoeo medicine is to be given for swine flu. I am not satisfied with this query. But I would be much pleased if they had asked me how I arrived at Polyporus Pinicola for chikungunya and further how to find out the remedy for the present pandemic swine flu. I don’t mind declaring the name of the correct homoeopathic remedy which would be almost a specific for swine flu. Before this I would, first of all, like to teach the practitioners as to how I found out the remedy for chikungunya. This is more important. Such a teaching alone would help the reader to find out by himself a remedy for future epidemics. Chikungunya disease begins with fever, shivering and joint pains. Many patients had to crawl for going to the toilet etc., because of crippling joint pains. Their faces were “gloomy.” (See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—MIND AND DISPOSITION—Gloomy, in ague: Poly.)
(ague: malaria or another illness involving fever and shivering) Now, coming to the much dreaded swine flu. (a)
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 Kent’s Repertory is under GENERALITIES. Inflammation, internal: Step 2: Disease of lung that speedily kills any patient; the equivalent rubric in Kent’s 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 Lilienthal’s 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. Lilienthal’s
work
HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, be it in seminar papers, monthly meetings or articles in journals. Said Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, “… it is an extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to their library will never feel regret…” In a review, Samuel A. Jones said about Lilienthal’s HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS as under:
“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
–
1
HOW TO CURE EPIDEMICS/ENDEMICS/ Pandemics WITH ONE SINGLE DOSE? [It seems that the present day homoeopaths are not at all interested in very good reference books. The following from the book HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal and to a lesser extent from Boericke Mat. Medica and Hering’s Guiding Symptoms are more than sufficient to treat all epidemics with one single dose. For example, in the case of swine flu, patients die with lung complications.
The killing
disease of lung is pneumonia and under the chapter pneumonia in HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal we find the words ‘epidemic pneumonia’ under two remedies only viz., Ferr-met and Merc-sol. I have cured several cases of swine flu with one single dose of Merc-sol. 200.] Epidemic cholera: Remedies to remember: the general aspect of cholera was like the general aspect of Cuprum met., Camphor and Veratrum alb., and these three remedies are the typical cholera remedies.
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.
In cholera, then, the extreme coldness and blueness point to Camphor.
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.
It simply means an uncommonly small amount of vomiting and diarrhoea.
– 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.
Eupatorium perf. – Epidemic influenza.
Euphorbium –Epidemic influenza
Ferr-met – Pneumonia epidemica : dyspnoea gradually increased; no pressure under sternum; pale face; stupid; roof of mouth white; skin neither burning nor cold and damp; pulse never hard and full.
Ferr-met: Epidemic pneumonia. The symptoms are: pneumonia senilis; laxity of fibre; pulse soft and quick, or slow and easily compressible; dyspnoea slowly increasing;
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.
Lycopodium – Paroxysms commence between 4 and 8 P.M. ; sometimes with chill, again without; thirsty or not; sleepy; fever lasts till midnight or 2 A.M. , generally followed by sweat. ð Epidemic intermittent.
Mancinella – Angina following scarlet fever, or during epidemic of latter.
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-iod-rub. – Glandular swellings; exudation limited, transparent and easily detached; cases attending epidemic scarlet fever. ð Diphtheria.
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.
The symptoms are: bilious 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.
But no homoeopath wants to make use of the book HOMOEOPATHIC
THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal. CHAPTER – 2 Repertories and homoeo softwares Finding the remedy—the simillimum for a patient is not a mechanical job; it is artistic. A practitioner would be doing a great blunder if he thinks that he can find the remedy for all his patients with the repertory or software. Most of those using softwares are
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. Knerr’s 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.
Ammonium-mur: “Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly, divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings”. Belladonna: “Inflammation of internal organs… The inflammation… runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts,” [See case no 15 and 16 on page 20] Nux-vomica: Afraid she may not have enough to live on… [See case No. 3 on page 8] Opium: “Increased irritability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles…” [See case no. 13 on page 19] Pulsatilla: … “depression of vital power on one side and increased irritability on the other…” [See case no. 14 on page 19] It is not our aim to altogether condemn softwares. It has its own uses and with the software presently available in the market no one can get more than two per cent success. CHAPTER – 3 congestion, Rush of Blood, Hyperaemia Most homoeopaths remain as symptom-coverers.
Bernard Shaw wrote that if a
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
the remedy Anacardium Orientale in
Boericke’s 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. Dear
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Dr Mohd Furqan Aamer Some useful tips on Homoeopathy in day to day practice 1.
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.
It is expecting too much of homoeopathy to cure symptoms expressing protest against a continuing and removable cause. Find the cause – mental, moral, physical or hygienic. Remove the cause or causes. Then if aught else remains, homoeopathy will take care of that.
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.
Usually disease leaves by an eruption or by discharge from mucus membrane.
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.
A remedy given well-indicated, then a diarrhea, rash or excessive sweat, medicinal aggravation or any old symptoms returned or even symptoms worsens and patient better, give a remedy now and disaster is cure.
10.
If after giving a remedy there is itching of the soles, it is a good indication.
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.
When patients appear to get up a tolerance for remedies, a complimentary remedy will sometimes keep the patient from going stale.
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 patient’s constitution or family history has sometimes given striking results, allowing the previous well indicated but inactive remedy to take hold.
17. 18.
Never send an Iodum patient to a warm climate. Do not overwork, Keynotes they are signposts to shorten our research, not to suppress it.
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.
A jewel in surgical shock – Strontium carb.
22.
Thuja is antidote to massive doses of Arsenic.
23.
Nocturnal epilepsy or chorea, Calc. is valuable especially after Sulphur.
24.
Gelsimium is rarely found benefit in superficial affections of the eye, but is especially adapted to disease of the fundus and paralysis of the nerves.
25.
In croup without fever, think of Kali bic. Or Bromium, the latter if there is cyanosis.
26.
Think of Merc cor. In toxic conditions of pregnancy and Phosp. In albuminuria of pregnancy.
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.
Ferrum phos. In earache and mastoiditis leads everything else.
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. It’ll 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. It’ll 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 whìch 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.
47. Senega: Bite by angry animals. 48. Causticum : Bites of tongue and cheeks while chewing. 49. Oleum Ani: Bites of cheeks while eating. 50. Paeonia: Ulcers from ill fitting shoes.Ulcer in general. 51. Benzoic Acid: Involuntary biting of lower lip when eating. 52. Euphorbia Prostata:An infallible remedy against bites of poisonous insects and snakes, especially the ” Rattle Snake” 53. Phytolacca: Irresistible desire to bite the teeth and gums together. 54. Echinacea – Snake bite
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.
Belladona-acts upon every part of the nervous system ,producing active congestion ,furious excitement ,perverted special senses ,twitching,convulsions and pain.
Cuprum metallicum-convulsions with blue face and clenched thumbs . clonic spasms ,beginning in fingers and toes .paralysis of tongue imperfect stammering speech
Dolichos – can be used to prevent convulsions.
Eserine- slows action of heart and increses arterial tension; in ciliary spasm and spasmodic astigmatism due to irregular action of ciliary muscle .
Formica rufa –weakness of lower extremities. Paraplegia
Gelsemium – complete relaxation and prostration of whole muscular system with entire motor paralysis .Lack of muscular coordination ; confused ;muscles refuse to obey the will.
Hyoscyamus niger – Spasms without consciousness , spasm of children after anger of mother .very restless ,every muscle in the body twitches,from eyes to the toes .
Indigo- action on the nervous system and of undoubted benefit in the treatment of epilepsy with great sadness.
Jatropha urens sponge nettle – oedema and cardiac paresis
Kali bromatum-loss of sensibility ,fauces larynx ,urethra, entire body staggering ,uncertain gait,feels as if legs were all over sidewalk.incordination of muscles .Epilepsy congenital syphilitic .
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.
Mythylene Blue- remedy for neuralgia ,neurasthenia .Tendency to tremor chorea and epilepsy .
Nux vomica –convulsions with consciousness < anger, emotion, touch ,moving
Opium – ailments : with insensibility and partial or complete paralysis ; that originate from fright , bad effects of the fear still remaining ; from charcoal vapors, from inhaling gas ; of drunkards .spasm of children from approach of strangers ,from nursing after fright of mother ,from crying .eyes half open and upturned .
Plumbum – Muscular atrophy from sclerosis of spinal system .spasms- clonic ;tonic; from cerebral sclerosis or tumor ; epilepsy or epileptiform convulsions .
Quinidine- paroxysmal tachycardia and auriculae fibrillation .heart is slowed and the auriculo –ventricular conduction time is lengthened .
Rhus toxicodendron- paralysis with numbness of an affected part ; from getting wet on lying on damp ground; paresis of limbs ; ptosis .
Stramonium- convulsions with consciousness ; renewed by slight of bright light ,of mirror or water .Twitching of single muscles or group of muscles ,especially upper part of the body ;chorea.
Tarantula – constant movements of the legs , arms, trunk with inability to do anything ; twitching and jerking of muscles .hyperaesthesia ; least excitement irritates followed by languid sadness.
Upas tiente – Produces tonic spasms ,tetanus and asphyxia.
Veratrum viride- child trembles ,jerks ,threatened with convulsions ,continual jerking and nodding of the head .convulsions ,dim vision ; basilar meningitis ;head retracted ; child on verge of spasms . Cerebrospinal diseases with spasms ,dilated pupils ,tetanic convulsions ,opisthotonos ; cold clammy perspiration.
Wyethia- Nervous ,uneasy depressed . Dizzy .Rush of blood to head . pain in back ,extends to the spine .aching pains all over .
Xanthoxylum – paralysis especially hemiplegia .left sided,numbness of left side ,impairment of nerves of motion . pain in nape ,extending down back. Anterior,crural neuralgia.
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 .
Above remedies can be prescribed on basis of diagnosis, sensation , modalities and concomitants present with the chief complaint .
Summer Diseases and Homoeopathy Medicines Dr A Ilandiraiyan Abscesses, suppurations Summer, agg. in
Bacillus 10
Asthma, < in summer
Syph
ASTHMA, summer, in amel.
Carb-v
Asthmatic cold, from taking summer, in
Ars
Back Pain general summer, in
Lyc
BURNING, pain soles summer, in
Vesp
Children EMACIATION, summer complaint, in after
Med
Children EMACIATION, summer complaint, in
Cof
CHILLINESS summer
Ant-c
Coryza General Summer
Dulc, gels
Coryza General Summer diarrhea, with
Dulc
CORYZA, summer
Gels
CRACKS, skin summer agg
Coc-c
CROUPY, cough, winter, alternating with sciatica in summer
Staph
Diarrhea children, in summer, in
Sec
Diarrhea cold drinks, after agg. Summer, in
Carb-v, nat-s, nux-m, verat
Diarrhea periodical summer
Kali-bi
DIARRHEA, general, cold, drinks, after summer, in
Carb-v, nat-s, nux-m, verat
DIARRHEA, general, periodical summer
Kali-bi
DIFFICULT, breathing summer agg.
Arg-n, syph
Epistaxis General Summer
Lyc
ERUPTIONS summer, in
Bov, graph, kali-bi, led, mur-ac, sars, sel
ERUPTIONS, facial rough summer
Kalm
Extremities paralysis general river bath in Summer
Caust
Eye Granular lids general Summer
Nux-v
Eye INFLAMMATION, summer
Sep
Face eruptions acne Summer, in
Bov
Face eruptions rough Summer
Kalm
FAINTING, faintness, heated, when summer, from
Ant-c, ip
FAINTING, heated, when summer, from
Ant-c, ip
FAST, pulse summer complaint, in, 120 to 160
Ferr-p
GASTRIC, fever hot weather, in, from abuse of ice water and summer
Carb-v
beverages General rheumatic Summer, in
Sulph
HEATED, becoming agg. weakness, causes summer, in
Alum, corn, iod, lach, nat-c, nat-m, sel
Indigestion summer heat, from
Bry
INTERMITTENT fever summer, in beginning of
Lach
PAIN, stomach summer agg.
Guai
PAIN, teeth, toothaches summer, in the
Ant-c, bell, bry, calc, carbv, cham, lach, lyc, nat-c,
nat-m, nux-v, puls, sel PARALYSIS, river bath in summer, from
Bell-p, caust, rhus-t
RESTLESS, summer complaints, in
Acon, ferr-p
Skin discoloration yellow, jaundice, Summer, every
Chin-ar, chion
Skin eruptions summer in
Calc
Sleep restless summer complaints, in
Ferr-p
SLEEPINESS, summer heat, with general debility, in colds, in
Gels
SPASMODIC, cough, summer heat amel
Ars
Stomach pain General Summer agg.
Guai
SUMMER, ailments since
Podo, sin-n
SUMMER, cool days in summer, after
Bry
SUMMER, overcoat, wearing in
Hep, psor
Summer, spells of vertigo in
Phos, psor
TUBERCLES, summer
Kali-bi
VOMITING, general blood, of summer evenings
Guai
YAWNING, summer complaints, in
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.
When a patient uses, ‘I’, while narrating symptom, it is a general symptom. When patient uses ‘my’ instead of ‘I’, it is particular symptom. This is general rule.
Avoid using sub-standard medicine. Get your medicines from good and reliable drug company.
Give medicines to physically and mentally handicapped persons free of cost.
Examine every patient physically using your instruments. Verbal enquiries do not satisfy the patients.
Potency selection of the remedy must be through susceptibility, sensitivity and stage of disease besides similarity of the selected medicine with disease.
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 patient’s energy has increased and he feels well although physically not well, your remedy has worked.
External hemorrhoids, painful
First day- Nitric acid 200 morning, and Thuja 200 after noon.
Second day- Silicea 200 morning, and Nitric acid 200 afternoons.
Third day- Thuja 200 morning and Sil 200 afternoon.
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.
Pains Skeletal muscles, cramps, sprains etc.
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.
Next three days- SL.
Pains, Smooth muscles, pains spasmodic and colicky
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.
Pains, Lancinating and shooting
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
Repeat and alternate in the manner as in skeletal muscle pains.
Pus cell +++ in urine
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.
Next day Puls 30/QID
Third day, Puls 30/TDS
Fourth day, Puls 30/BD
There will not be any need for any other medicine after four days.
Indigestion, flatulence, constipation (general)
Nux vom 30, evening and night, sulpher 30 in morning for three days.
Amoebiasis, chronic
First day-Sulpher 200, morning and evening- first day.
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.
Prostate enlargement- BHP
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.
Upper respiratory tract infection
Aco 6 in morning, Gel 6 in afternoon and Ars 6 in evening for three days.
Cold, running nose and sneezing
Aco 6 every hour five doses. Running nose will abort. Next day give aco 6 four times a day.
Third day, aco 6 three times a day.
Recurring boils
Myristca seb- 200X, one dose will make difference.
Please note that failures are due to non-comprehension of cases properly, use of substandard medicines and lack of experience.
Homeopathic Mother Tinctures (External Use) Chrysarobinum – Acne 1*Locally as a cerate, 4-8 grains to the ounce, of vaseline. Echinacea
–
Acne
2*Can
be
applied
on
face
mixed
with
any
facial
cream.
Ichthyolum – Acne rosacea*Externally used as an ointment with Lanoline 20 to 50 per cent. Cinnamonum – Antiseptic 1*3-4 drops in 2 quarts of water and should be used as a douche.
Echinacea – Antiseptic 2*Bed sores, Carbuncles,Insect-bites, Gangrene.
Eupatorium Aromaticum- Aphthae*Aphthous disease of mouths of infants. Used as a mouth wash.
Hydrastinum Muriaticum – Aphthous ulcers*To be used locally in the strength of 10 grains to 8 ounces.
Jaborandi – Baldness*Mix it with hair oil and apply it. It can be mixed with Arnica mother tincture also to get a better result.
Cedron – Bites*For insect stings and snake bites.
Adrenalin – Bleeding 1*To plug the internal bleeding surface, as in epistaxis to stop the bleeding immediately. 1 : 1000 solution.
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.
Arnica Montana – Bruises, contusions, ecchymosis*Skin surface is not broken.
Apis Mellifica – Burns and scalds 1*With burning and stinging.
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.
Momordica Balsamina – Burns*Used externally as a liniment and poultice.
Scrophularia Nodosa – Cancer, glands*For cancerous glands locally.
Citric Acid – Cancer, pains 1*Used as a mouth wash for cancer pains.
Lupulus – Cancer, pains 2*Painful cancer.
Cineraria Maritima – Cataract*One drop 4-5 times a day should be instilled in the eyes for several months.
Momordica Balsamina – Chapped hands*Used externally as a liniment and poultice.
Ichthyolum – Chilblains*Use locally as an ointment.
Cineraria Maritima – Corneal opacities*Especially after trauma.
Hypericum – Corns*Painful corns. It should be applied 2 to 3 times per day. It can be applied on painful acne also.
Balsamum Peru – Cracked nipples*Single application as a cerate is sufficient.
Badiaga – Dandruff 1*Dandruff where scalp is dry, sore, tetter-like.
Cochleria Armoracia – Dandruff 2*When applied locally, it cures dandruff.
Cantharis – Dermatitis*With blister formation.
Chrysarobinum – Eczema 1*Where the eruptions are crusty, under which pus oozes.
Ichthyolum – Eczema 2*Chronic eczema, scaly and itching.
Apis Mellifica – Erysipelas 1*Sensitiveness and swelling of skin with rosy hue.
Cantharis – Erysipelas 2*Vesicular type with burning and itching.
Mag Sulph – Erysipelas 3*Apply locally a saturated solution. Acts as an antiphlogistic and antipruritic.
Arnica Montana – Falling of hair*Mix with hair oil and apply it.
Hamamelis Fissures 1*Use distilled extract locally.
Ratanhia Fissures 2*With great constriction of anus and knife-like stitches.
Badiaga – *Freckles*Can be used externally.
Ruta – raveolens*Ganglion*Apply tincture locally.
Ceanothus – Hair tonic*Use externally. Especially for persons with splenic affections.
Capsicum – Herpes labialis*Apply one drop of mother tincture.
Cantharis – Herpes zoster*Herpes with raw, burning pains. Apply an ointment made with the 3x potency.
Chrysarobinum – Herpes*Herpes tonsurans where lesions tend to become confluent.
Apis Mellifica – Insect bites*Especially bee-stings.
Psoralia – Leucoderma*It should be applied on patches and the patient is advised to take sunheat, in the morning for 10-15 minutes. If there is itching, it should be stopped immediately.
Staphysagria – Lice*Lice infestation on head.
Phytolacca – Mastitis*Mammae hard and very sensitive.
Bellis Perrenis Naevi*Apply on affected parts.
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.
Chloralum – Offensive foot sweat*Bathe feet with one percent solution.
Argentum Nitricum – Ophthalmia*Ophthalmia with abundant, purulent discharge. Locally apply a 2 grain to 1 ounce solution.
Mag Sulph – Orchitis*Should be used locally in the proportion of 1:4 in water.
Ratanhia – Piles*Piles burning like fire, temporarily relieved by cold water.
Teucrium Marum Verum – Polyp*Nasal polypi. Dry powder should be used.
Arnica Montana – Premature greying of hair*Apply locally.
Menthol – Pruritus 1*Especially used in pruritis vulvae.
Symphytum – Pruritus ani*Use locally.
Borax – Pruritus pudendii*Use locally in pruritis vulvae.
Mentha Piperata – Pruritus vaginae*Apply externally.
Chrysarobinum – Psoriasis 1*Crusty eruptions which tend to become confluent.
Ichthyolum – Psoriasis 2*Externally used as an ointment with Lanoline 20 to 50 per cent.
Phytolacca – Pyorrhoea*As a mouthwash for pyorrhoea alveolaris and for offensive breath.
Balsamum Peru – Rhagades*Promotes granulation.
Ichthyolum – Rheumatic joints*A solution of equal parts of Ichthyol and water is warmed and applied to the affected joint and covered with heated cloths, outside of which is impervious to evaporation.
Alstonia Scholaris – Rheumatic pains*Apply locally.
Chrysarobinum – Ringworm 1*Of the scalp.
Oleum Jecoris – Ringworm 2*Locally in ring-worm and nightly rubbing. Apply plain oil at bedtime. Before application the part must be washed well with soft soap.
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.
Ichthyolum – Scabies 2*Apply externally.
Thiosinaminum – Scar tissue*Dissolves scar tissue. Keloids.
Ranunculus Bulbosus- Sciatica*Apply tincture to heel of affected leg.
Mag Sulph – Septic conditions*Add one part of tincture to 4 parts of water and apply locally.
Eupatorium Aromaticum – Sore nipples 1*Tincture should be applied locally.
Graphites – Sore nipples 2*Locally used as a cerate.
Phytolacca – Sore throat*Take 5 drops, mix with half a cup of water and gargle.
Platanus – Tumors*Tarsal tumours.
Hamamelis – Ulcerations*With bruised soreness of the affected parts.
Alstonia Scholaris – Ulcers 1*Should be used externally.
Hydrastis Canadensis – Ulcers 2*Locally apply tincture or fluid extract.
Geranium Maculatum – Ulcers, atonic*Atonic and foul ulcers. To destroy the pyogenic membrane.
Balsamum Peru – Ulcers, indolent*Raw surfaces of indolent ulcers. To promote granulation and remove foetor.
Cistus Canadensis – Ulcers, phagedenic*To arrest foetid discharges.
Symphytum – Ulcers,sores*Apply externally.
Apis Mellifica – Urticaria*Intolerable itching with intolerance to heat and slightest touch.
Sabina – Warts 1*Fig-warts with intolerable itching and burning.
Sempervivum Tectorum – Warts 2*Apply tincture or fresh juice of plants.
Thuja Occidentalis- Warts, excrescences*Manifestations of the sycotic dyscrasia.
Calendula Officinalis – Wounds*Burns, sores, fissures and abrasions. Promotes granulation and prevents scars.
Sempervivum Tectorum – Wounds, bites*Bites of insects, bee stings, poisoned wounds.
Cistus Canadensis – Wounds, poisonous*Poisonous wounds. Bites.
Instant Prescriptions in Homeopathy Abortion at 2nd or 3rd month*Cimicifuga, Sabina, Secale cornutum. Abortion from debility*Aletris, Helonias. Abortion from traumatism*Arnica. Abortion threatened*Blumia odorata, Caulophyllum, Helonias, Viburnum. Abscess*Myristica.
Acne*Berberis aquefolium, Juglans regia. Addison’s disease*Adrenalin.
Adenoids*Agraphis nutans.
Adiposity*Calotropis, Fucus vesiculosus, Phytolacca Berry.
After-pains*Caulophyllum.
Agalactea*Ricinus communis, Urtica Urens.
Ague*China.
Albuminuria*Apis mellifica, Cannabis Sativa.
Alcoholism*Avena sativa, Nux vomica, Quercus, Sulphuric acid.
Alopecia*Pix liquida, Thuja occidentalis, Ustilago maydis.
Amenorrhoea*Ashoka janosia, Gossypium, Pinus Lambertina, Pulsatilla.
Anaemia*China officinalis, Ferrum phoshoricum.
Anasarca*Apis mellifica, China officinalis, Convalleria majalis, Digitalis.
Angina pectoris*Amyl nitrite, Cactus grandiflorus, Crataegus, Spigelia.
Ankylostomiasis*Carduus marianus.
Anorexia*Chelidonium, China officinalis, Gentiana lutea, Hydrastis.
Aphonia*Borax.
Aphthae*Hydrastinum muriaticum, Kali muriaticum.
Apoplexy*Aconitum napellus, Laurocerasus.
Appendicitis*Bryonia alba.
Arteriosclerosis*Allium sativum, Cactus grandiflorus, Digitalis, Sumbul, Thiosinaminum.
Arthritis*Caulophyllum, Urtica urens.
Ascarides*Abrotanum.
Ascites*Adonis vernalis, Apis mellifica, Apocyanum, China officinalis, Digitalis.
Asthma, cardiac*Convalleria majalis, Iberis, Strophanthus.
Asthma*Blatta orientalis, Grindelia, Lobelia inflata, Passiflora, Pothos, Senega.
Atrial fibrillation*Digitalis.
Atrophy*Oleum Jecoris.
Azoturia*Senna.
Backache*Phosphoric acid, Berberis vulgaris, Chelidonium, China officinalis, Lobelia inflata.
Barber’s itch*Thuja occidentalis.
Bed-sores*Calendula officinalis, Echinacea, Hypericum.
Biliousness*Carica pappaya., Chelidonium.
Bladder (irritable)*Berberis vulgaris, Eupatoreum purpureum, Senega, Solidago, Vesicaria communis.
Blood pressure – high*Crataegus, Rauwolfia serpentina, Veratrum album.
lood pressure – low*Avena sativa, Cactus grandiflorus, Ginseng.
Bone affections (bruised)*Symphytum.
Bradycardia*Apocynum, Digitalis.
Brain fag*Phosphoric acid.
Breast, shrivelled*Sabal serrulata.
Bright’s disease*Apocynum, Terebinth.
Bronchitis (chronic)*Ammonium carbonicum, Senega.
Bronchitis*Bryonia alba, Justicia adhatoda, Solidago.
Bronchopneumonia*Ammoniacum gummi.
Bronchorrhoea*Ammoniacum gummi, Balsamum peruvianum, Eucalyptus.
Bruises and contusions*Arnica montana, Calendula officinalis, Hamamelis.
Bubo*Bufo rana.
Burns*Cantharis, Urtica urens.
Bursae*Benzoic acid, Ruta graveolens.
Calculi (biliary)*Berberis vulgaris, Chelidonium, China officinalis, Chionanthus, Cholesterinum.
Cancer bladder*Taraxacum.
Cancer gastric*Geranium, Ornithogalum.
Cancer mammae*Bryonia alba.
Cancer pains*Euphorbium.
Cancer rectal*Hydrastis, Ruta graveolens.
Cancer tongue*Fuligo ligni.
Capillary stasis*Echinacea.
Carbuncle, urethral*Thuja occidentalis.
Carbuncles*Ledum palustre.
Cardiac dropsy*Adonis vernalis.
ardiac dyspnoea*Aspidosperma.
Catalepsy*Cannabis indica.
Cataract*Cineraria maritima.
Catarrh, chronic*Eucalyptus.
Cellulitis*Apis mellifica, Rhus toxicodendron.
Cheyne-Stokes Respiration*Grindelia.
Chillblains*Agaricus.
Cholelithiasis*Chionanthus, Hydrastis.
Cholera*Camphora, Coffea mocha, Trychosanthis dioica.
Chordee*Agave, Yohimbinum.
Chorea*Agaricus muscaris.
Cicatrices*Thiosinaminum.
Cirrhosis of liver*Carduus marianus, Chelidonium, China officinalis.
Climacteric flushings*Amyl nitrite, Sanguinaria.
Colitis*Cynodon dactylon.
Colic (renal)*Berberis vulgaris, Hydrangea, Ocimum canum, Pareira brava, Sarsaparilla, Solidago, Urtica urens.
Collapse*Aconite radix, Camphora, Hydrocyanic acid, Kali cyanatum.
Cold sores*Camphor.
Condylomata*Thuja.
Conjunctivitis*Euphrasia.
Constipation in children*Abroma augusta radix, Hydrastis, Senna.
onvulsions*Oenanthe.
Coryza*Eucalyptus, Ocimum canum.
Cough, dry*Mentha piperata, Laurocerasus.
Cough,hoarse*Verbascum.
Cough,laryngeal*Capsicum.
Cough,phthisical*Allium sativum.
Cough,spasmodic*Belladonna.
Cracked lips*Condurango.
Croup*Aconite, Sanguinaria, Spongia.
Cyanosis*Laurocerasus.
Cystitis*Equisetum, Pareira brava, Vesicaria.
Cysts*Apis mellifica.
Dandruff*Badiaga, Cochlearia, Thuja occidentalis.
Deafness*Hydrastis, Mezereum, Verbascum.
Debility*Aletris farinosa, Helonias indica, Phosphoric acid.
Delirium tremens*Apocynum, Capsicum, Rananculus bulbosus.
Dentition*Terebinth.
Diabetes insipidus*Alfalfa, Phosphoric acid.
Diabetes mellitus*Abroma augusta radix, Arsenic bromatum, Syzygium jambolanum, Uranium nitricum.
Diarrhoea*Achyranthus, Aegle marmelos, Chapparo, Cynodon dactylon.
Diphtheria*Apis mellifica, Echinacea.
Dipsomania*Capsicum.
Dissecting wounds*Echinacea.
Drooling*Trifolium.
Dropsy thirst, without*Apis mellifica.
Dropsy*Aegle folia, Apis mellifica, Apocynum, Boerhavia diffusa, Thlaspi.
Dropsy,cardiac*Adonis vernalis.
Dropsy,hepatic*Liatris spicata.
Dropsy,renal*Urea.
Dropsy,thirst with*Apocynum.
Duodenal ulcer*Ornithogalum.
Dysentery*Aegle marmelos, Aloe, Atista indica, Cephalandra indica, Cynodon dactylon, Holarrhena antidysenterica.
Dysmenorrhoea*Abroma augugta radix, Ashoka, Viburnum opulis.
Dysmenorrhoea,membranous*Xanthoxyllum.
Dyspepsia,atonic*Abies nigra, Anacardium.
Dyspepsia,nervous*Anacardium.
Dysphagia*Cajuputum.
Dyspnoea*Aspidosperma, Senega.
Earache*Mullein Oil, Plantago.
Ear discharge*Mullein Oil.
Ecchymosis*Arnica.
Eczema*Alnus rubra, Anacardium, Juglans cinerea.
Elephantiasis*Hydrocotyl.
Emphysema*Lobelia inflata.
Empyema*Arnica.
Enteritis,acute*China officinalis.
Enuresis*Equisetum, Rhus aromatica, Verbascum.
Epididymitis*Sabal serrulata.
Epilepsy*Oenanthe crocata, Passiflora.
Epistaxis*Ambrosia, Bryonia alba, Hamamelis, Millefolium.
Epithelioma*Thuja occidentalis.
Erysipelas*Apis mellifica.
Erythema nodosum*Apis mellifica.
Erythema*Antipyrine.
Eustachian deafness*Hydrastis.
Exophthalmic goitre*Lycopus, Pilocarpinum.
Exudative pleurisy*Abrotanum.
Eyes,inflammation*Euphrasia, Ruta graveolens.
Fever*Acetanilidum, Ferr phos, Gnaphelium.
Fever,typhoid*Baptisia, Phosphoric acid.
Fibroids*Thlaspi, Trillium.
Fissures*Condurango, Graphites, Ledum palustre.
Flatulence*Asafoetida.
Freckles*Badiaga.
Gall stones*Berb vulgaris, China officinalis, Chionanthus.
Ganglion*Ruta graveolens.
Gangrene*Echinacea.
Gastritis*Arsenic album.
Gastric ulcer*Geranium, Ornithogalum, Urtica urens.
Gastroenteritis*Lactic acid.
Gleet*Guaicum, Thuja occidentalis.
Globus hystericus*Asafoetida.
Goitre*Fucus vesiculosus.
Gonorrhoea*Cannabis sativa, Vesicaria communis.
Gout*Ledum palustre, Urtica urens.
Gravel*Coccus cacti, Hydrangea, Solidago, Urtica urens.
Haematemesis*Ficus religiosa, Hamamelis, Ipecac.
Haematuria*Cannabis sativa, Ficus religiosa, Millefolium, Ocimum canum, Thlaspi.
Haemoptysis*Acalypha indica, Erigeron, Geranium, Millefolium.
Haemorrhages*Adrenalin, China officinalis, Hamamelis, Millefolium, Sabina, Trillium.
Haemorrhoids*Aesculus hippocastanum, Aloe, Dolichos, Ficus religiosa, Hamamelis.
Hallucinations*Antipyrine.
Hay fever*Ambrosia, Pothos foetidus.
Headaches,anaemic*China officinalis.
Headaches,bilious*Chionanthus.
Headaches,bursting*Glonoine.
Headaches,congestive*Aconite, Glonoine.
Headaches,nervous*Chionanthus.
Headaches,sick*Sanguinaria.
Heart hypertrophy & dilatation*Cactus grandiflorus, Crataegus, Strophanthus.
Heartburn*Geranium.
Heart affections,palpitations*Crataegus.
Heart failure*Adon vernalis.
Hectic fever*Baptisia.
Hepatitis*Carduus marianus, Chelidonium.
Herpes labialis*Capsicum.
Hiccough*Ginseng.
Hoarseness*Verbascum.
Hookworm*Chenopodium.
Hydrocephalus*Apocyanum, Hedera Helix.
Hydrothorax*Adonis vernalis.
Hysteria*Crocus sativa, Ignatia, Passiflora.
Impotence*Aegle folia, Agnus castus, Ashwagandha, Turnera, Yohimbinum.
Influenza*Eucalyptus, Eupatorium perfoliatum.
Insomnia*Avena sativa, Passiflora, Piscidia.
Intermittent fever*Atista indica, Andersonia, Cephalandra indica, Chininum sulph, Chirata, Desmodium, Eupatorium perfoliatum, Lucas aspera.
Jaundice*Carica pappaya, Chelidonium, Chionanthus, Digitalis, Kalmegh, Myrica, Podophyllum.
Kidneys (congestive)*Chimaphila umbellata, Terebinth, Vesicaria, Uva ursi.
Labour pains false*Caulophyllum.
Labour, retained placenta*Caulophyllum.
Labour,haemorrhage, after*Trillium.
Lectophobia*Cannabis sativa.
Leprosy*Calotropis, Hydrocotyle.
Leucoderma*Hydrocotyle, Psoralea corylifolia.
Leucorrhoea*Ashoka, Caulophyllum, China officinalis, Hydrastis.
Leucorrhoea,acrid*Hydrastis.
Leucorrhoea,blackish*China officinalis.
Leucorrhoea,bland*Fraxinus americana.
Leucorrhoea,bloody*China oficinalis, Thlaspi.
Leucorrhoea,offensive*Carbolic acid.
Leucorrhoea,profuse*Hydrastis.
Leucorrhoea,stringy*Hydrastis.
Lice*Staphysagria.
Lithiasis*Benzoic acid, Berberis vulgaris, Hydrangea, Ocimum canum, Solidago, Thlaspi, Urtica urens.
Liver (congestion)*Berberis vulgaris, Bryonia alba, Carduus marianus, Chelidonium, Carica pappaya.
Lumbago*Berberis vulgaris.
Malaria*Alstonia, Chirata.
Malnutrition*Alfalfa, Gentiana lutea.
Marasmus*Alfalfa, Oleum jecoris.
Mastitis*Phytolacca.
Menorrhagia*Ashoka, China officinalis, Ficus religiosa, Sabina.
Menstruation,delayed*Ashoka, Caulophyllum.
Menstruation,painful*Abroma augusta radix, Ashoka, Viburnum opulis.
Menstruation,profuse*Ficus religiosa, Trillium.
Mental weakness*Avena sativa, Ashwagandha.
Milk leg*Hamamelis.
Miscarriage,repeated*Ashoka, Viburnum opulis.
Miscarriage,threatened*Sabina, Viburnum opulis.
Morning sickness*Aletris farinosa, Symphoricarpus racemosus.
Morphine habit*Avena sativa.
Mountain sickness*Coca.
Mumps*Pilocarpine.
Muscae volitantes*Cypripedium.
Myocarditis*Digitalis.
Myositis*Arnica.
Naevus*Thuja occidentalis.
Nephritis*Apis mellifica, Berberis vulgaris, Cantharis, Eucalyptus, Terebinth.
Nettle rash*Apis mellifica, Hygrophilia, Strophanthus.
Neuralgia*Sanguinaria.
Neuralgia,periodic*Cedron.
Neurasthenia*Avena sativa, Arnica, Cypripedium, Phosphoric acid.
Neurasthenia,gastric*Anacardium, Gentiana.
Neuritis*Hypericum.
Night blindness*Physostigma.
Night sweats*Chamomilla, Phosphoric acid, Pilocarpine.
Obesity*Fucus vesiculosus, Phytolacca berry.
Oedema*Apis mellifica, Digitalis.
Osteomalacia*Phosphoric acid.
Otitis media*Chenopodium.
Otorrhoea*Hydrastis.
Ovarian cyst*Apis mellifica.
Ovaritis*Xanthoxyllum.
Oxaluria*Berberis vulgaris, Senna.
Ozaena*Hydrastis.
Palpitations*Adonis vernalis, Cactus grandiflorus, Convalleria, Digitalis, Iberis amara.
Paresis*Badiaga.
Paresis,pneumogastric*Grindelia.
Paresis,respiratory*Lobelia inflata.
Pemphigus*Caltha palustris.
Pericarditis*Digitalis.
Periostitis*Apis mellifica, Asafoetida.
Peritonitis*Apis mellifica, Apocynum, Lycopodium.
Pharyngitis, follicular*Aesculus hippocastanum, Hydrastis, Sanguinaria.
Phlebitis*Hamamelis.
Phthisis*Acalypha indica.
Phthisis,laryngeal*Drosera.
Pleurisy*Aconite, Apis mellifica.
Pleurisy,effusion stage*Abrotanum, Kali iodatum.
Pleurodynia*Bryonia alba.
Pneumonia*Chelidonium.
Polypi*Sanguinaria, Thuja occidentalis.
Polypi,nasal*Teucrium.
Polyuria*Phosphoric acid, Rhus aromatica, Uranium nitricum.
Proctitis*Aloe.
Prosopalgia*Cactus grandiflorus.
Prostatitis*Sabal serrulata, Thuja occidentalis.
Prostatic hypertrophy*Chimaphila umbellata, Hydrangea, Sabal serrulata.
Pruritus*Carduus marianus.
Psoriasis*Arsenic bromatum, Chrysarobinum.
Purpura*Hamamelis.
Pyaemia*Echinacea.
Pyelitis*Chimaphila umbellata, Terebinth, Uva ursi.
Pyorrhoea*Plantago, Terminalia chebula.
Ranula*Thuja occidentalis.
Raynaud’s disease*Cactus grandiflorus, Secale cornutum.
Rheumatism*Kalmia, Thuja occidentalis.
Rheumatism,chronic*Oleum jecoris.
Rheumatism,gonorrhoeal*Thuja occidentalis.
Ringworm*Chrysarobinum, Sepia.
Scabies*Balsmum peruvianum.
Sciatica*Viscum album.
Scurvy*Agave, Citric acid, Hamamelis.
Sepsis*Echinacea.
Somnambulism*Artemisia vulgaris.
Spermatorrhoea*Agnus castus, Avena sativa, Damiana, Ginseng, Ocimum canum, Yohimbinum.
Spleen affections*Azadirachta indica, Asafoetida, Ceanothus, Carica pappaya, Calotropis, Kalmegh, Leucas aspera, Luffa actangula, Quercus.
Sterility*Agnus castus, Thlaspi, Turnera.
Stings*Apis mellifica, Ledum palustre, Urtica urens.
Stomach dilatation*Hydrastinum muriaticum.
Subinvolution*Fraxinus americana.
Sycosis*Thuja occidentalis.
Synovitis*Apis mellifica.
Syphilis*Guaicum.
Syphilis,latent*Calotropis.
Tachycardia*Cactus grandiflorus, Convalleria, Crataegus, Digitalis, Iberis amara.
Tape worm*Cuprum oxidatum nigrum, Filix mas.
Tape worm*Filix mas.
Tetanus*Passiflora.
Thread worm*Turpentine oil, Chelone.
Tobacco craving*Daphne indica.
Toothache*Plantago.
Traumatism*Arnica, Bellis perrenis, Calendula officinalis, Hamamelis, Hypericum, Ledum palustre, Ruta graveolens, Symphytum.
Tumours*Hydrastis, Thuja occidentalis.
Typhoid*Abroma augusta radix, Baptisia, Bryonia alba, Phosphoric acid.
Ulcers*Calendula officinalis, Carbolic acid, Echinacea.
Urethral carbuncle*Eucalyptus.
Urethritis*Cantharis.
Uric acid diathesis*Ocimum canum.
Urticaria*Antipyrine, Apis mellifica.
Uterine displacement*Fraxinus americana.
Uterine tumours*Thlaspi.
Vaginismus*Cactus grandiflorus.
Varicose veins with rapid reducers*Glonoine.
Varicose veins with arterial lesions*Adrenalin.
Varicose veins*Hamamelis.
Venous stasis*Aesculus hippocastanum.
Warts*Thuja occidentalis.
Well’s disease*Chelidonium.
Whooping cough*Drosera.
Worms*Santoninum, Filix mas.
Homeopathy Clinical tips from Dr Sayeed Ahammed RHEUMATISM Ingrowing toe nails and ulcers about the nails are often most troublesome affections, and the more we confine ourselves to the treatment of these apparently local troubles the worse off we shall be as well as the patient. A few months since I saw a case of this kind in company with another physician. The treatment had been localized, and such remedies as Arn., Merc., Hepar., Nit. ac., had been given. It now turned out that she was full of Rhus tox. symptoms. Restless nights ; was compelled to change her position frequently, and always with relief ; was stiff in joints and muscles on first motion, better after moving for a while ; loss of appetite, etc. Rhus tox. in a high potency gave her good night’s rest ; stiffness of joints and limbs left her ; her appetite returned ; the ulcer and apparent ingrowing toe nail got perfectly well a few weeks later without any tropical applications. INTERMITTENT
(H.
N.
Guernsey.) FEVER
I was called in consultation to an obstinate case of intermittent fever. It was a case imported from a district in the west where malaria abounds. It had been of years’ standing, having been cured several times by the inevitable Quinine on account of the plasmodium malaria. But of late she had been unable to take Quinine. It made her sicker than the disease. I had suggested Ipec. and again one or two other remedies on the statement of the physician in charge, and because she had been so abused with Quinine, but still the case went on and grew worse until the doctor insisted on my coming to see
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 won’t 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 homœopath 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 Dunham’s 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
a
storm,
etc.,
a
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 dyspnœa 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 haven’t 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 don’t want either. We’ll 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 diarrhœa. 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 diarrhœa ; 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 diarrhœa 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 patient’s 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 homœopath 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 brother’s 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 Jenichen’s 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.,
æt.
36,
had
been
given
up
to
die
by
her
family
physician.
She came of a consumptive family, her mother and her mother’s 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 hæmorrhages. 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 diarrhœa ; great despondency ; constant passive hæmorrhage 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 diarrhœa, 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 child’s 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 diarrhœa three months, which nothing could stop. According to the mother’s ingenuity, “He’s 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 don’t 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.
I
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
I
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 o’clock 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 anæmic, 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.
1
m
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, æt. 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 Allen’s Encyclopædia 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 don’t 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 ! don’t 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 don’t 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 diarrhœa, 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 diarrhœa 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 homœopaths 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.) DIARRHŒA A delicate girl, three years old, has had an exhausting diarrhœa 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 homœopathy, 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,
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.) DIARRHŒA Mr. Van Hoesen, middle aged, very large tall man, was attacked with a profuse lightcolored, grayish-white diarrhœa. 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.)
Homeopathy Clinical tips from Dr S K Banaerjee Apathy
–
to
illness
Gels,
Phos
Ac,
Plumbum
Met.
Abortive – Pinus Lambertina (less than 3/12 gestation),(15dr bd = 40% success in 3/52),Caulophyllum Abortion
–
(over
habitual
Anus
–
–
3/12),NB.
NBWS
–
Consider
habitual
burning
constitution
abortion
Sulph,
Anxiety+++
–
?month
&
month
?constitution
Ratanhia,
Cantharis
Kali
Arsen
Anaemia Ferrum Phos, Aletris Farinosis, Ferrum Met,China (anaemia + oedema +’pumped
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
Alopecia – from hormone changes, HRT, ChemoRx, DXT – Thallium 30 or 200c,Pilocarpus (Jaborandi) – 1oz tinct. in 4oz coconut oil, massage in, don’t wash out – 2-3/52 action,or 10 – 15dr tinct massaged in at bedtime,or Arnica (when result of shock) can be used in oil Appetite stimulant – Alfalfa B… Bell’s Palsy – first 12 hours – Aconite.Prolonged – Causticum (aetiol cold dry wind),either side – Merc Burning trio – Arsenicum, Phos (in spots, nervous system) Sulph Biliary colic – Berberis, Cardus Mar, Fel Tauri, Cholesterin, Chelidonium,Calculobili Brain fag – Aethusa Cyn, Brahmi (Boer p1054) Burning cancer – (often with DXT) Anthrax, Euphorbium, Arsenicum Belching (LOUD) – Kali Arsen, Arg Nit, Asafoet Bladder CA – Taraxacum, Terebrinth, Solidago (in bladder CA with suppressed urine, it can prevent use of catheter) Backache – with leucorr – Mag Sulph, Eupion (with pain back to pubis) with menses – Sepia,with pregnancy – Bellis P Blood pressure – high systolic, low diastolic – Baryta Mur
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
dry sibilant – Spongia
dry tickling – Rumex (in throat)
cough ends in vomit – Mephites
1st violent then weaker & weaker – Ant Crud
hacking with haemoptysis – Acalypha Indica
hawking – Sticta
rattling – Ant Tart, Kali Sulph, Occ Sanct, Lycopod
machine gun – Corallium
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
pain+ with constipation – Pitruitin Diabetes
–
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
Diarrhoea – early am, rush, no control – Aloes
irritable & excessive disposition – Nux Vom
dryness, < slightest motion
burning, menses – Bell < sun – Glonoine, Bell with constant desire to urinate (which >) – Nux Vom, Thuja Head injury – post trauma ie forceps – Nat Sulph Head – can’t hold – Calc Phos, Aethusa, Abrot. Hippocratic – Arsen, Carbo Veg, Ver Alb. Hydrogenoid – Thuja, Nat Sulph, Ant Tart, Caust, Nit Ac Hypersexual – Cantharis Hayfever – blocked & congestion – Occ Sanct sneezing, ulceration, epistaxis – Bell, Dulc, Kali Sulph periodic – Arsen < Summer, irritable – Ambrosia burn+++ itch+++ – Arundo puslike profuse mucus – Pentorum Hyperactive – ‘sedative’ effect – Passiflora Inc Hydrocele – with crushing sensation – Rhododend Haemorrhoids Paeonia
–
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
Hyperemesis – Symphoricarpus Rac 200c Kali Arsen Hot
water
Homesick
–
Haemorrhage from
desire
–
Phos (esp
injury
Lycopus Spartium Strophanthus,
bright
red
profuse
chest,
–
(organop
TB
– –
–
tinct
Verginicus Scoparium
or
Dig,
Hysterectomy – NBWS – Thyroidinum
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
hysterical women – Valeriana old folk, chronic catarrh, feeble pulmonary circulation – Bacillin Mouth – thrush – Kali Chlor 3x, or Calend tinct or Echinac tinct – as mouth wash, 1/4 tsp in ½ cup warm water ulcers – Kali Chlor or Echinac as above Memory impaired – Brahmi, Lac Can, Angust, Anacard, Caus. < Music – Thuja, Graph, Kreos, Nat Carb < Motion – Ipecac, Erigeron, Bry < 1st Motion > cont. – Anac, Conium, Caps, Lycop, Puls, Rhus Tox, Strep > gentle motion – Puls, Ferr Met. Mucus – stringy – Kali Bic, Hydrastis (concom empty sensation in organs esp stomach), Lyssin (cc anticipation, anxiety++) Milestones delayed – Calc Carb – soft bones, curved & deformed Calc Phos – slow development, thin & brittle Baryta – late learning due to mental deficiency Caust – paralytic weakness, disturbed function Mumps – Jaborandi, Puls Menses – with diarrhoea – Amm Carb, Bovista with constipation – Silica PM hysteria – Kali Brom, Oenanthe Croc suppressed from anxiety – Kali Carb PM weakness & anxiety 1 wk prior – Kali Carb regulator – Senecio Aureus, Puls, Janosia tinct 2x or 3x or to regulate young girl when cycle muddled by allop Rx – Senecio Aur, Turnera, Kali Carb dysmenn with congestion – Viburnum very acute dysmenn – Pituitrin depression – hormonal – Mancinella All Sx > with menses – Lach, Al Cepa, Macrotin Menopausal – Graph, Sulph, Lach, Nat Mur, Calc Carb, Sang, Mancinella, Morgan B, Sepia Moon phases – affects – mind (schizo, psychosis), menses, asthma, osteoarthritis, neuro (tremors), allergic skins, migraines New moon < – Arsen, Calc Carb, Lach, Nux Vom, Phos, Sulph 1st ¼ moon < – Arsen, Calc Carb, Puls Full moon < – Arsen, Calc Carb, Lycop, Phos < increasing moon – Arnica, Calc Carb < waning moon – Dul, Thuja New & full moon < – Arsen, Calc Carb, Lycop, Phos Moonlight < – Thuja, Ant Crud
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
t
–
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
L
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
Ovaries – NBWS oophorectomy – Oophorinum PREGNANCY PLUS – Delusions – re abnormal foetus – Lyssin Vomitting – Symphoricarpus, Kali Arsen. 200c (hyperemesis gravidarum) Cocculus, Petroleum, Sepia am – Amygdalus Persica, Symphor, Arsen, Kali Arsen (SKB 3) – Arsen, Cerium Ox, Ipecac Heartburn – Sulph, Lycopod, Nux Vom. Toxaemia – Kali Chlor (Syph background) Constipation – Molasses – 2 tlblsp in hot H2O every am Alum 200c – painful urge long before Collinson 30c – pelvic congestion & piles -Hydrastis Breasts – to increase milk production & quality – Galega, Ricinus cracked nipples – Ricinus sore nipples – Eup Arom tinct, Lapsana Com tinct retracted – Silica, Sarsaparilla LABOUR
–
Hypoxia
–
Arnica
200c
–
1m
SKB 10 rems kit – 1 – Cimicifuga 30cc – 1st stage short lancinating pain & rigid os, shivers 2
–
Caulophy
30c
3
–
initiates
contractions
–
4
–
Secal
Cor
5
–
Kali
Carb
6
–
7
–
8
–
Zinc
Met
30c
–
200c
200c –
Calendula
–
200c
expel
–
Forceps
Pitruitrin –
–
slows
NBWS
–
placenta)
backache,
weakness
&
200c
c
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
Episiotomy – bad eff of – Staphys Pus – antisepsis – Myristica, Echinacea tinctures,Hepar, Sulph, Silica, Merc Cor, Gun Powder Pleural stitch – Bry, Kali Carb Prostate – enlarged – Ferr Pic tinct, Sabal Serr, Conium
Thuja, Sabadilla, Serratula Palpitations – Iberis, Phos, Dys Co, Cactus, Bell Pneumonia – rpt attacks – Kali Carb, Thuja, Eriodict Pruritis Vulvae – (thrush)- Origanum – hypersexual Radium – itch > warmth Oleander – very sensitive itching To wash – Echin tinct douche 10-15d – where leucorr+++ Calendula – where ulceration ,Syzyg Jam Pain – (SKB 3) – Acon, Cham, Coff rapidly shifting – Puls (wanders) Phytol (wanders) Kali Bic, Lac Can, Mang Acet. as if pulled from front to back – Plumbum in small spots – Kali Bic, Lyssin, Hydrastis ascending – Ledum descending – Kalmia Latifolia Restless trio (SKB) – Rhus Tox – physically Aconite – mentally Arsenicum – physically & mentally anxious & restless Recurrence – Bell, Sulph, Calc Carb Rubbing < – Calc Carb, Phos, Formica Rufa Rubbing gently > – Plumbum Met, Phos, Calc Carb, Crot Tig Rheumatic – Stellaria (no 1 Syphilitic) Kali Bic, Kali Iod, Phytol, Rhamnus Calif Rheumatic degeneration – with early arthritic deformans – Colch with burning bone pain – Euphorb with stiffness & erosion in pockets (lacunae) leading to caries, spine & bones – Stellaria more Sycotic – (with nodosities & tophi) Amm Phos deep seated Sycotic – Radium, Xray (SKB)
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
wine, juicy foods,
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
Renal asthma – Eel Serum (WB p254) Shoulder – frozen – L – Ferr Met, Kali Iod (sensitive+++) Sourest rem – Rheum (rhubarb). Suppurative – Myristica, Hepar, Sulph, Silica, Merc Sol Scar tissue (Tyler trio) – Cause, Gels, Silica internal & external – Thiosinaminum 30c topical – Anagallis tinct where itch+ on actual scar – DPT 30c Styes (not related glasses prescription) Thuja, Sulph, Puls, Med, Staph. Stammer – Spigelia, Lachesis, Stram (mmmmm) Zinc Met (repetitive) Caust, Bovista, Cicuta Vir, Kali Brom (< 5am) Stoop shoulders – Kreosotum Sun – bad eff. of – Nat Carb, Bryonia, Gels, Glonoine Sweat relieves – Acon, Nat Mur, Psor SLEEP– Sleepy
–
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 –
¼
tsp
cup
luke
warm
–
Sinusitis
–
Borax
finger
spot
Profuse
–
Kali
Bic
–
L
Puls.
–
R
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
Seizures – < sound – Theridion Talks in rhymes – Ant Crud Throat – colour – brown/red – Lycop shiny/glazed – Bell purple – Phytolacc Teeth – extraction – as haemostatic – 1) Arnica 2) Hamam 3) Thuja Toothache – Plantago tinct on cotton bud, Menyanthes (> rubbing) < sweet – Spongia < meat – Staph (PQRS) Ailments from wisdoms – Mag Carb, Cheiranthus < tea – Thuja, Cinchona, Selinium Tinnitis – Nat Sulph, Proteus Torticollis – Lachnantes, Sticta, Caust, Fel Tauri (WB p390) Tonsilitis – huge chronically swollen – Ailanthus, Baryta Carb Thoughts – lascivious – Hyos Testes – crushed feeling – Rhodo, Spongia Thyroidectomy – NBWS – Thyroidinum TROPICAL Malarial Terebrinth
–
Dx– prophylactic 30c
x
2
– +
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
heat – craves warm drinks – Casc, Chel, Sabad Urination – pain – before – Borax, Lyssin, Sanic, Sarsap, Lycopod after – Berb, Thuja, Equis, Medor, Sarsap, Nat Mur before & during – Borax, Lycop, Sarsap, Equis only urinate standing – Sarsap only when kneeling with head pressed on floor – Pareira Urine – white sandy gravel – Sarsap brown sand – Phos red sand – Lycop Uric acid diathesis – (to lower levels of) – Oc Can tinct, Benzoic Acid, Berber, Sarsap,Urticaria Anti gout – Urticaria tinct, Hedeoma low pot/tinct Tophi – Amm Phos Uvula – oedema, no thirst – Apis oedema, little red – Kali Bic oedema, redness+++ – Rhus Tox Uterus – 1st degree prolapse – Helonias Cham (lack of tone ie multips)Lil Tig, Sepia Haemorr – acute – ie pphaemorr, retained placenta, metrorrhagia – Cinnamonum tinct 5dr ½ cup tds followed by constitut Erigeron (bright red < least movement) Vertigo – looking up – Silica, Puls looking down – Kalmia, Spigelia general – Silica, Conium, Cocculus Vaginal Vulvitis – dry + itch – Rhus Divers, Tarentula dry + leuc – Echinac dry + sore – Calend ‘thrush’ – Kali Chlor 3x, Calend tinct, Echinac tinct as local wash Voice – loss – Coca tinct or 3x 2-3dr in ½ cup luke warm H2O 6hrly for 48hrs prior ‘audition’ or Borax 1x in ½ cup luke warm H2O same as above (where more anxiety, tension, nervousness) ‘singer’s cold’ – Allium Cepa 30c, Arum Triphy Vocal cord nodules – (with husky voice) Kali Iod, Caust, Coca Vaccination – bad eff. of – (JR – NBWS vaccine – otitis, fevers, behaviour) Thuja, Silica, Sulph, Ant Tart, Mezer, Crot, Variol, Vaccinum, Bacillin Skin reaction post vaccine – Crot Horr, Malandrinum
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
Dr Ruddock’s Clinical tips in Homeopathy Abscess :
Acute-Bell. or Acon. alt. Hep. S., Merc. Iod., Ars.
Chronic-Sil., Calc., Sulph., Phos. ; Chin. (excessive discharge).
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.
After Pains : Sec., Coff., Puls., Arn., Cham., Croc.
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).
Thorough brushing with long-bristled hair-brushes.
From Mercury Carbo V., Hep.-S.
With Frequent Headache- Fluor. A., Nit-ac., Phos., Sep., Sulph., Calc.
Amaurosis (complete or partial loss of vision) : Bell., Euphr., Merc-Cor., Zinc., Hyos., Gels., Nux-V., Chin.
Amenorrhœa (absent or deficient monthly period) : Puls., Sep., Coni. (chronic) ; Ferr. (with anæmia) ; Senecio, Sulph. See also Menstruation.
Anæmia (deficiency or poverty of blood) : Ferr., Chin., Phos-Ac., Ars., Sil., Helon.
Anger : Effects of Cham., Acon., Bry., Hyos., Coloc.
Angina Pectoris (breast-pang) : Ars., Dig., Samb., Verat-alb., Cact., Lach., Verat-Vir., Strych.
Ankles : Swelling of Ars., Chin., Bry., Phos., Ferr., Apis. Also rest in the prone posture.
Weakness of Calc., Phos., Sulph., Sil.
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.
Aphonia (loss of voice) : Acon., Caust. (catarrhal) : Bary-Carb., Phos., Merc., Ign. or Bell. (hysterical) ; Kali Hyd. (syphilitic) ; Arn. (from over use).
Chronic K. Bich., Hep. S., Phos., Carbo-V., Caust., Merc.
Aphthæ (Thrush) : Borax int. and ext. ; Merc., Ars., Sulph. ; Sulphurous Acid Spray one part to ten of water.
Apoplexy : Acon., Opi., Bell., Glon., Nux-V.
Predisposition to Strict temperance in eating and drinking ; avoidance of excitement, haste, heated rooms, etc.
Appetite : Loss of Chin., Nux-V., Puls., Rhus., Ars., Ferr.
Voracious or Depraved Calc., Cin., Nux-V., Sil., Verat.
Ascarides : see Thread-Worms.
Ascites (abdominal dropsy) : Apocy. C., Ars., Apis., Dig., Chin., Lyc.
Asthma : Ars., Acon., Ipec., Lob., Euphr., Cup., Sul.
Of Children Ant-T., Samb., Ipec., Ars., Cup.
Atrophy (wasting) : Iod., Calc., Sulph., Phos., Ars., Puls.
From Worms Cin., Merc., Ant. C.
Backache From Exertion Arn., Rhus., Bry., Gels.
From Painful Period Bell., Puls., Sec., Cocc., Plat.
From Spinal Irritation Chin., Ign., Nux-V., Gels. See also Lumbago, Menstruation : Painful.
Baldness : see Alopecia.
Barbers’ Itch : Ant-t., Cinnab., Ars.
Bed-Sores : Glycerine-cream or Calendula lotion ; also Calend. or Arn-plaster. In bad chronic cases a water or air-bed.
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.
Belching : see Eructations.
Bilious Attacks : Iris (sick-headache) ; Ipec ; Cham. (in children excitable females) ; Bry., Acon., Nux-V., Puls., Ars.
Bites and Stings : Ledum, Apis., Rhus, Canth., all int. and ext.
Black-Eye : Arn. ext., immediately ; Ham. (broken skin or discolouration).
Bladder : Catarrh of Ant. C., Puls., Ferr., Canth., Cann.
Inflammation of Canth., Tereb., Apis, Acon.
Paralysis of Bary. Carb., Acon., Nux-V., Ars., Bell., Op. See also Urine.
Blear-Eyes : Euph., Sulph., Puls., Merc., Ars., Calc., Clemat.
Bleeding : see Hæmorrhage.
Blindness : see Amaurosis.
Bloody-flux : see Dysentery.
Bloody Urine : see Hæmorrhage : From the Bladder.
Blotches : Ars., Bell., Hep-S., Ant-C., Graph., Lyc., Clemat.
Boils : Bell., Sulph., Hep-S. ; Arn. (much pain) ; Apis (numerous and small) ; Sulph., Hep-S. (to prevent recurrence).
Bones : Caries (decay) of Sil., Phos. Ac., Sulph., Calc.
Curvature of Calc., Sil., Sulph.
Exostosis (abnormal growth of) Aur., Merc-Iod.
Pains in Merc., Aur., Mez., Ars., Merc-Iod., Eup-pur.
Bowels : Inflammation of Acon., Bell., Coloc., Merc-c., Ars., Bry. : also hot fomentations, poultices, or wet compresses.
Pain in see Colic. See also Constipation, Diarrhœa, Anus, etc.
Brain : Concussion of Arn., alt. Acon. or Bell.
Congestion of Glon., Bell., Acon.
Fever see Typhus-Fever.
Inflammation of Canth., Tereb., Apis, Acon.
Paralysis of Bary. Carb., Acon., Nux-V., Ars., Bell., Op.
Breast : see Abscess : Mammary.
Breast-Pang : see Angina Pectoris.
Breath : Fœtid Merc., Carbo-v., Spig., Aur., Acon., Puls.
Breathing : Difficult see Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, etc.
Bright’s Diseases : Ars., Phos., Merc-C., Tereb., Canth.
Bronchitis : Acute Acon., Ant.-T., Bry., Ipec., Phos., K-Bich.
In Children Phos., Ant-t., Lob.
In the Aged Carbo-v., Ant-t., Senega, Squill.
Chronic K. Bich., Hep-s., Phos., Carbo-v., Ars., K.-Hyd.
Bruises : Arn.(externally). See also Contusion and Ecchymosis.
Bunions : Verat-V., Arn., or Ruta, as a paint.
Burns and Scalds : Canth., Rhus, Kreos. or Urtica, ext. very dilute.
Cancer : Ars., Hydrast., Coni., Phyto.
Canker of the Mouth : K. Chlor., Merc., Ars., (Idiopathic) ; Carbo-V., Nit-Ac. (mercurial) ; Sulphurous Acid Spray, locally.
Carbuncle : Bell., alt. Sulph. (early stage) ; Apis (much swelling) ; Ars. (bad cases) ; Acon. (much inflammation) ; Sil. (indolent).
Caries (decay) of Bones ; Sil., Phos-ac., Aur., Nit-ac., Merc.
Of Teeth Kreos, Merc., Staph., Phos.
Cataract : Coni., Phos., Cann., Calc., Sil., Sulph., Sang., Bell.
Catarrh : see Cold-in-the Head.
Chancre (a syphilitic sore) : Merc., Nit-ac., K-Hyd., Phyto.
Change of Life : see Menstruation : Cessation of.
Chapped Hands : Arn., Calend., or Glycerine-Cerate.
Chicken Pox : Rhus, Sulph., Ant-t.
Chilblains : Petrol., Puls., Ham., or Rhus, int. and ext. Phos. Tamus Com. Calend., or Kreas. ext.
Child-bed-Fever : see Puerperal Fever.
Chlorosis (green sickness) ; Ferr., Puls., Ferr-Iod., Sep., Calc.
Cholera : Malignant Camph., Verat., Cup., Ars.
Chordee : Acon. int. and ext. ; Gels., Bell., Canth., Chloral.
Chorea (St. Vitus’s Dance) : Cupr., Agar., Verat-vir., Artem., Bell., Ign., Cimic., Ars.
Cirrhosis (a disease, contracted liver) : Phos., Merc-c., Dig., Ars.
Cold-in-the-Head
:
Acon.,
Ars.,
Merc.,
Nux-V.
(stuffy
cold)
;
Euphr.
(lachrymation) ; K-Bich., K-Hyd., or Sulph. (chronic).
Cold-on-the-Chest : Bry. alt. Acon. or Phos. See also Bronchitis.
Cold Feet : see Feet.
Colic : Coloc. (with diarrhœa), Nux-v. or Plumb, constipation. Iris (flatulent colic) ; Collin.
Lead Opi., Alum., Sulph-ac.
Menstrual Cocc., Platt., Nux-v., Sec., Ign.
Congestion of the Brain : Acon., Bell., Glon., Opi., Gels.
Of the Liver Merc., Bell., Aloes, Bry., Chin., Ars., Iod., Acon.
Of the Lungs Acon., Phos., Verat-vir., Ant-t., Bry.
Constipation : Nux-v., (frequent ineffectual efforts) ; Bry. or Opi. (torpor) ; Lyc. (with flatulence) ; Sulph., Collin., or Æscul. (with piles) ; Plumb. (obstinate).
Consumption : Phos., Ars., Phos-ac., Ferr. Iod., Dros., Calc-Iod., Lyco. ; also Acon. or Bry. (for occasionally symptoms).
Of the Bowels. Iod., Calc., Ferr., Sulph., Merc-Iod., Ars.
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.
Hysterical Camph., Moschus, Ign., Hyos.
Corns : Calc., Sulph., Also Arn. (simple), or Verat-vir. (inflamed), ext. use of.
Corpulency : see Obesity.
Cough : Catarrhal Acon., Bell., Bry., Caust.
Chronic K-Bich., Sulph., Phos., Bry.
Croupous Spong., Hep-s., Cupr.
Whooping Ipec., Dros., Coral., Nic-Ac., Verat-vir., Gels. or Bell. (head-symptoms).
Hysterical Coral., Hyos., Ign.
In most cases cough may be modified by strong efforts of the will to resist it.
Courses : see Menstruation.
Cracks of the Lips, etc. : Graph., Merc Also Arn., Calend. or Glycerine. Cerate. Aloes cures cracks in horses.
Cramps : In the Abdomen see Colic.
Cramps : In the Calves Verat., Nux-v., Arn., (from fatigue) ; Bell., Cupr., Gels.
In the stomach Nux-v., Dioscor., Cocc.
Crick-in-the-Neck : Acon. alt. Bell. (cold) ; Cimic., Bry.
Critical Age : see Menstruation : Cessation of.
Croup : Acon., alt. Spong., Iod., or Hep.
Cyanosis (the blue disease) : Dig., Ars., Cupr., Verat.
Cystitis (inflammation of the bladder) : Canth., Tereb., Apis.
Dandruff (scurf on the head) : Ars., Graph., Lyc., Sulph., Rhus.
Deafness : From cola Acon., Merc., Bell., Puls., Dulc.
From Enlargement of Tonsils Merc. Iod., Bell., Calc-Phos., Bary-carb., Iod., or KHyd. (chronic).
After Measles Puls., Sulph., Bell.
After Scarlatina Bell., Hep-s., Calc.
After small pox Merc., Sulph., Bell.
From Nervous Disease Phos., Phos. Ac., in ; Petrol. (noises).
Debility : Chin., Ferr., Phos., Phos-ac., (from l. of blood, etc.) ; Ign., Mosch., Phos-ac., Iod., Nux-V. (nervous).
Delirium Tremens : Stram., Opi., Bell., Hyos., Nux-v.
Dentition (difficult) : Calc., Cham., Acon., Kreos., Verat-Vir., Merc.
Depression of Spirits : Ign., Aur., Chin., Nux-V., Plat. ; Merc. or Podoph. (from disordered liver) ; K-Brom.
Derbyshire Neck : Spong., Merc-Iod., Brom.
Determination of Blood : see Congestion.
Diabetes (excessive, sugary wine) : Phos-Ac., Ars., Nux-V., Helon.
Diarrhœa : From Indigestible Food Ant-C., Puls., Ipec.
From Cold Acon., Dulc., Merc., Camph. (sudden).
From Worm Cin., Ars., Merc.
With Colic Coloc., Verat.
Nocturnal Puls., Chin., Rhus, Nuphar (morning).
Summer Chin., Verat., Cham., Ars., Iris.
In Children Cham., Merc., Rheum. Ipec., Dulc., Ars., Iris.
In the Aged Phos., Ars., Chin., Ant-C.
Diathesis : a tendency to a particular disease.
Diphtheria : Merc. Cy., Bell., Phyto., K-Permang., Merc. Iod., Ars., Mur-Ac., Also Phyto. or Sulphurous Acid locally.
Dizziness : Acon., Bell., Nux-v., Cocc., Bry., Puls., Gels.
Dropsy : Ars., Apis., Dig., Bry., Chin., Apocy-C.
Of the Abdomen see Ascites.
Of the Brain see Water in the Head.
Of the Chest Dig., Ars., Bry., Hell.
Of the Extremities see Œdema.
Post Scarlatina Apis, Ars., Canth., Hell.
Of the Scrotum Iod., Rhod., Graph., Aur.
Drowsiness : Opi., Acon., Bell. ; Lyc. (after dinner).
Dysentery : Merc-C., Ipec., Ars., Aloes (chronic piles), Ham.
Dysmenorrhœa : see Menstruation : Painful.
Dyspepsia : see Indigestion.
Dyspnœa : (difficult breathing) : see Asthma, Bronchitis, etc.
Ear : Aching of Bell., Puls., Merc., Cham., Acon., Verat-Vir.
Discharge from Hep-s., Calc., Puls., Carbol-ac., Merc., Caust.
Soreness of Mur-ac., Puls., Caust, (eruption about the ear).
Inflammation of Acon., Bell., Puls., Merc. Sol.
Noises in Acon., Chin.-Sulph., Puls., Mosch., Nux-V., Sulph. Also Sulphurous Acid Spray.
Ecchymosis (blankness under the skin) ; Ham., Arn., Rhus., Mur-Ac.
Eczema (a non-contagious itching eruption) : Ars., Calc., Merc., Rhus. ; Crot. Tig., Sulph. (much itching).
Emaciation : see Atrophy : also Debility.
Emissions : see Spermatorrhœa.
Enuresis : see Urine : Incontinence.
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.
Erections : Lyc., Phos-Ac., Nuphar (feeble, painful) ; Acon., Bels., Gels. (spasmodic).
Eructations : Bry., Nux-V., Puls., Sulph. Ac., Lyc., Carbo-v,. Ars., Cham., Arg., Nat.
Eruptions : see Rash, Lepra, Eczema, etc.
Erysipelas : Acon., Bell., Rhus, Verat-vir., Apis., Canth., Ars.
Excoriations of Infants : Cham., Calc., Lyc., Sulph. Also Hydras. or Calend. ext. ; or the parts dusted with powdered starch.
Preventive Tepid washing, followed by careful drying, morning and evening.
Eyelids : Agglutination (gumming) of Merc., Hep-s., Calc., Sulph., Puls., Smear the lids with Sulphur ointment at bed time.
Eyes : Inflammation of see Ophthalmia.
Sore Merc., Clematis, Nit-Ac., Euphr., Bell., Merc-C.
Squinting of (Strabismus) Bell., Hyos., Gels., Stram.
Weak Sulph., Phos., Iod., Bell.
Wounds of Arn. alt. Acon. ; Bell., Ham.
Face ache : Acon., Bell., Coloc., Spig. Cimic. (when the eyeballs are effected) ; Cham., Sticta. See also Gum-boils.
Fainting : Mosch., Camph., Ign., Verat., Iod., Chin., Cocc.
Falling-Sickness : see Epilepsy.
Fatty-Degeneration : Phos., Ars., Ferr.
Feet : Blistered, etc., from walking Arnica bath.
Cold Sep., Puls., Ferr. The daily use of the skipping-rope.
Fœtid Sweat of Silic., Petro., Nit-Ac., Graph.
Fever : Simple Acon. or Verat-vir.
Fistula : Silic., Fluor-Ac., Calc. ; also Hydrast. ext.
Fits : see Convulsions and Epilepsy.
Flatulence : Nux-V., Carbo-V. (Stomach) ; Lyc. (bowels) : Chin.
Flooding : see Menstruation : Excessive.
Flushing : Acon. (from excitement) ; Nux-V. (after food) ; Bell. (with headache) ; Cimic., Sep. (change of life).
Fright : Consequences of Opi., Acon., Ign., Cham.
Frog : see Aphthæ.
Frost-bite : see Chapped-hands : also Chilblains.
Gall-stones : Acon., Merc., Podoph., Nux-V., Chin. (preventive).
Ganglion : (an encysted tumour on a tendon of the foot or back of the hand) : Ruta., Arn., Iod., Silic., Calc., Benzoic Ac.
Gastric Fever : see Typhoid Fever.
Gatherings : see Whitlow, Abscess, Boils, etc.
Giddiness : Bell., Nux-V., Bry., Acon., Puls., Gels.
Glands : Enlarged Merc. Iod., Baryt-Carb., Bell., Hep-S., Iod., Silic., Calc-Phos., Phyto.
Gleet : Cinnabar, Canth., Cann., Puls., Nux-V., Sulph., Matico.
Goitre : see Derbyshire Neck.
Gonorrhœa : Cann., Gels., Merc., Acon., Canth., Thuja, Cop.
Gout : Acon., alt. Bell., Colch. or Bry. (during an attack) ; Rhod., Cimic., Puls., Nux-V., Lyc., Arn. or Acon. ext.
Gravel : Lyc., Ant-C., Nux-V., Bry.
Green-sickness (Chlorosis) : Ferr., Puls., Sep., Coni.
Gum-boils : Acon. alt. Bell. (first symptoms) ; Merc., Silic., Hep-S., Phos. (to prevent recurrence).
Gums : Scurvy of Merc., Nit-Ac., Carbo-V., Ars., Sulph.
Hæmoptysis (spitting of blood) : see Hæmorrhage.
Hæmorrhage : From the Bladder Canth., Tereb., Ham., Arn.
From the Anus see Piles.
From the Lungs Ipec., Phos., Ham., Arn., Mill., Acon.
From the Nose Acon., Ipec., Ham., Nux-V., Bry., Arn.
From the Stomach Ipec., Ham., Nit-Ac.
From the Womb Croc., Sab., Sec., Plat., Ipec., Cauloph.
In all cases of hæmorrhages, Iced-water should be sipped or small pieces of ice swallowed.
Hands : Undue Moisture of Fluor-Ac.
Congested Bell. (red) ; Puls. alt. Sulph. (blue and cold).
Hair : Loss of see Alopecia.
Hay-fever : Sabad., int. and by olfaction : Euphr., Ipec., Ars.
Headache : Bilious Iris, Bry., Acon., Nux-V., Puls., Coloc., Ipec., Sep.
Catarrhal Acon., Bell., Merc., Nux-V., Bry.
Chronic Plat., Arg-Nit., Plumb., Zinc., Phos.
Congestive Bell., Glon., Acon., Verat-Vir., Nux-V.
Nervous (in one half of the head) Ign., Aur., Coff., Cham., Nux-V., Phos., Acon., Spig., Sulph-Quin.
Rheumatic Acon., Bry., Nit-Ac., Rhus., Spig., Phyto.
Sick see Bilious.
Heart : Disease of Cact. G., Dig., Naja., Acon., Spig., Ars., Phos., Ars. I., Bary-C.
Feeble Action of Dig., Cupr., Mosch. (with fainting).
Inflammation of Membranes of Acon., alt. Spig., Bry., Ars.
Palpitation of Acon., Cact-G., Mosch., Nux-V., Phos., Puls.
Rheumatism of Spig., Bry., Cact-G., Cimic.
Heartburn : Puls., Bry., Carbo-v., Sulph-ac., Verat-alb. ; Calc-carb. (chronic).
Hectic Fever : Chin., Phos-ac., Ars., Sulph., Sang., Merc.
Hiccough : Nux-V., Acon., Ign., Sulph-Ac., Verat-vir.
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.
Hooping-cough : see Whooping-cough.
Hypochondriasis : Aur., Arg-m., Ig., Nux-V., Lyco., Anac.
Hysteria : Ign., Plat., Asaf., Valer., Cocc., Gels., Puls., Hyos.
Hysteric Convulsions : Camph., Mosch., Opi. (from fright). Also cold douche to the face
Impotence : Phos., Agnus-C., Nux-v., Ferr., Barry-C., Chin., Nuph., Phos-ac.
Incontinence of Urine : see Urine : Incontinence of.
Indigestion : Acute Acon., Ipec., Puls., Nux-v., Bry.
— Chronic K. Bich., Hep-s., Carbo-v., Sulph., Chin., Lyc.
— In Children Cham., Puls., Nux-V., Sulph., Ant-c.
— In the Aged Ant-c., K-Bich., Carbo-v., Nux-v., Ars.
— From cold Acon., Ars., Merc., Bry.
— From Fat or Rich Food Puls., Ant-c.
— From Anger Cham. (with bilious symptoms).
— From Anxiety, Grief, etc. Ign., Chin., Nux-V. ; Puls.
Infants : Screams of Cham., Jal., Acon., K-Brom.
— Soreness of see Excoriations.
— Restlessness of Cham., Coff., Bell., Gels., K-Brom.
Influenza : Camph. (the chill stage) ; Acon. (chills and heats) ; Ars. (prostration) ; K-Bich. (troublesome cough) ; Bapt.
Intermittent Fever : see Ague.
Itching of the Anus : see Anus.
— 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.
Kidneys : Inflammation of Canth., Tereb., Acon., Bell.
Knee : Inflammation of Acon. alt. Puls., Bry., Iod. (much swelling).
Labour pains : Cham., Puls., Coff., Gels.
False Puls., Cimic., Cocc., Nux-V., Bell.
Lead-colic : Opi., Alum., Plat., Bell., Sulph-ac.
Legs : Swelling of see Œdema.
Lepra (scaly patches on the skin) : Ars., Merc., Sulph., Iod.
Leucorrhœa : Sep., Cocc., Puls., Calc-c., Silic., Kreos. (corrosive) : Coni. (chronic). Lotions of Hydrastis as injections. Also frequent ablusions, moderate exercise in the open air, sufficient rest, and nutritious, digestible diet.
Liver : Enlargement of Merc-Iod., Also abdominal compress.
Inflammation of Acon., Bry., Merc-Cor.
Torpid Merc., Podoph.
Liver-complaint : Merc., Podoph. Nux-v., Sulph., Nit-ac., Phos., Lyco., Leptand.
Liver-Spots : Sulph., Borax, Lyc., Sep.
Lock-jaw : Acon., Bell., Arn., Nux-V., Gels.
Lowness of Spirits : see Hypochondriasis.
Lumbago : Ant-t. ; Arn. (from over-exertion) ; Rhus, (sudden, from cold ; worse during rest) ; Cimic (muscular pains).
Lungs : Inflammation of Acon. alt. Phos., Bry., Chel. Maj., Ant-t.
Congestion of see Congestion.
Masturbation : Evils of see Spermatorrhœa.
Measles : Acon. alt. Puls., Gels., Bry., Bell., K-Bich (laryngeal cough) ; Sulph. (to prevent sequelæ).
Megrim : see Headache : Nervous.
Melancholia : Aur., Ign., Plat., Phos., Zinc., Sulph. See also Hypochondriasis.
Memory : Weakness of Phos. Ac., Anac., Zinc., Opi., Ars.
Menstruation (the monthly period) : Delay of the First Puls., Ferr., Sep., Phos., Sulph. Sec., Cycla.
— Irregular Sep., Puls., Sulph., Senecio.
— 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).
— Scanty Sep., Ferr., Puls., Coni., Sulph., Helon. (anæmia).
— 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.
— Recurring too Late Puls., Sulph., Ferr., Sep.
— Vicarious Ham-v., Bry., Puls., Phos., Senecio.
— Too Short Duration see Scanty.
— Too Long Duration see Excessive.
— Cessation of (change of life) Chin. or Ferr. (profuse discharge) ; Sulph., Glon., Lach., or Sang. (flushes) ; Cimic., Gels. (sinking at stomach. etc.).
Mesenteric Disease : see Consumption of the Bowels.
Mercury : For Effects of Large Doses of Nit-ac., Hep-s., Carbo-Veg.
Milk : Suppressed or Scanty Puls., Agnus. C. ; Acon. (with fever) ; Bell. (with brain symptom).
— Too Abundant Calc-c., Phos., Iod., Chin. (with debility).
Milk-Fever : Bry., Acon., Cham., Verat-vir., Bell.
Milk-Leg : Acon. alt. Ham. or Puls. ; Phos.
Milk Scab (vesicular eruption on the face of infants) ; Rhus Tox., Iris., Sulph., Viola Tri.
Miscarriage : Sec., Caul., Croc., Ipec., Cedron, Arn., Bell. — Threatened Puls., Cham., Bell., Sab., Arn., Sec. At the same time, the patient should lie on a mattress, in a cool, well ventilated room, till all danger is past, and avoid hot drinks.
— Prevention of Sec., Calc-carb., Cimic., Chin., Cedron. Cold-sitz bath daily at bed time, with the shoulders and legs wrapped warm.
Moles : Carbo-v., Sulph., Calend. ext.
Monthly Period : see Menstruations.
Morning Sickness : Ipec., Kreos, Nux-v., Puls., Iris.
Mosquitoes : Stings of Ledum ext. If a sting of mosquito or wasp remain in the skin, the open end of the tube of a small key should be pressed firmly over the part.
Mouth : Sore see Aphthæ ; also Canker.
Mumps : Merc-Iod., Merc-Sol., Merc-Cor., Bell., Puls.
Nævus (a natural mark or blemish) : Thuja, Kreos., ext.
Nausea : Ipec., Kreos., Ant-C., Lob., Tabac., Puls., Nux-V.
Neck : Crick in the Bry., Cimic., Dulc., Acon., Bell.
— Stiffness of Bell., Bry., Lyc., Nux-v. Nervous Debility : see Debility.
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.
— In the Head Glon., Bell., Nux-V., Sticta, Cimic.
— In the Back Nux-v., Oxal. ac., Cimic., Verat.
— In the Thigh (Sciatica) Coloc., Ars., Nux-v., Cann.
— In the Side (intercostal) Rhod., Ars., Cimic.
Night-mare : Nux-v., Puls. A light diet, out-of-door exercise, and a sponge-bath daily, are recommended ; also avoidance of suppers, stimulants, fatigue, and heavy, close bed-clothes.
Night sweats : Chin., Ars., Phos-Ac., Merc. See also Hectic Fever.
Nipples : Sore Sulph., Sil. Also Calend., Hydras, or Arn. ext.
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 fœtor).
Numbness and Tingling : Acon., Rhus., Nux-v., Arg-nit.
Obesity (excessive accumulation of fat) : Ars., Ferr., Calc-c., Sulph. Also and chiefly, avoidance of starch and sugar.
Œdema (watery fluid under the skin) : Chin., Ferr., Apis., Ars.
Onanism : Evils of see Spermatorrhœa.
Ophthalmia : Catarrhal Acon., Merc., Euphr., Bell., Puls.
— Chronic Clem., Calc-c., Sulph., Merc., Hep-s., Ars.
— After Measles Puls., Sulph.
— After Scarlatina Bell., Hep-S., Merc.
— After Small-pox Merc., Sulph.
— Scrofulous Calc., Iod., Graph., Hep., Sulph., Merc-C., Ars.
— Syphilitic Merc-Cor., Nit-ac., Thuja, Aur.
— In infants Arg-nit., Calc-c., Sulph., Merc.
Pains : see Neuralgia, Rheumatism, etc.
Painters’ Colic : see Colic.
Palpitation : Mosch. (nervous) ; Acon., Spig., Bell., Cact-G., Phos., Puls., Ars.
Period : see Menstruation.
Paralysis : Baryt-c., Nux-v., Arg-nit., Plumb., Rhus, Phos., Gels., Acon.
Perspire : Tendency to Chin., Merc., Verat., Carbo-v.
Photophobia (intolerance of light) : Bell., Ant-t., Merc-cor., Euphr., Calc., Ign.
Phthisis (to waste away) : see Consumption.
Piles : Sulph., Ham., Collin., Aloes, Nux-v., Æscul. ; Ham. ext.
Pimples : Bell., (in the full-blooded) ; Puls. (in girls) : Sulph. K-Bich., Ant-C., Hep-s.
Pleurisy : Acon. alt. Bry. ; Phos., Iod., Ars.
Polypus : Merc-Iod., K-Bich., Teuc., Calc.
Prolapsus : Of the Anus Ign., Nux-v., Podoph., Merc.
— Of the Womb- Stann., Sec., Bell., Sepia., Nux-v., Helon.
Prostatitis (Inflammation of the prostate) : Bell., Puls., K-Hyd.
Prostration : see Debility.
Proud-Flash : Silic., Fluor-ac., Nit-ac., Phos.
Puerperal (child-bed) Fever : Acon., Bell., Bry., Stram.
Purple-rash : Bell., Cham., Calc-c.
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 Pudendi Acon., Sulph., Sep., Lyc., Collin. ; Glyc. of Hydrast., or a solution of Borax (pulv. Boracis grs. xx. aq. ij. 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 Diarrhœa) ; Ars. (with prostration).
Red-Gum (Infant rash) ; Ant-c., Bry., Cham., Puls. see Rash.
Relaxed Bowels : see Diarrhœa.
Relaxed Throat : K-Bich., Hep-S., Bary-C., Phyto., Phos.
Remittent Fever : Gels. (specially in children) ; Ars., Verat., Chin., Ipec., Rhus.
Retention of Urine : Canth., Nux-v., Opi., Acon., Camph., Cann.
Restlessness of Children : Coff., Cham., Acon., Bell., Gels.
Rheumatic Fever : Acon., Bry., Bell., Cimic.
Rheumatism : Of the Back see Lumbago.
— Of the Chest (intercostal muscles) Rhod. Chrys., Bry., Arn.
— Of the Heart Spig., Cimic., Cact-G., Bry., Dig.
— Of the Joints Ruta, Bry., Rhus, Cimic., Caust., K-Hyd.
— Of the Neck Bry., Rhod-Chrys.
— Chronic Rhus., Arn., Sulph., Rhod.-Chrys., Cimic., K-Hyd.
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.
Ring-worm : Of the Scalp Sep. ; also Sulphurous Ac. ext. — Of the Skin Tellur., Rhus, Sep., Sulph.
Rush of Blood : see Congestion.
Salivation : From Mercury Nit-Ac. ; Iod., Hep-S. Non-Mercurial Merc.
Scabies (the itch) ; Sulphur ointment.
Scald-Head : Calc-Phos., Ars., Sulph., Ant-c., Lyc. ; Rhus int. and ext.
Scalds see Burns.
Scarlatina : Simple Acon. alt. Bell. ; Sulph. (convalescence).
— With Throat Affection (anginosa) Merc-Apis.
— Malignant Ailanthus Gland., Ars., Merc.-Ac., Carbo Veg., Condy’s Fluid topically.
— Preventive Bell.
Sciatica : Coloc., Rhus, Ars., Nux-V., Cann.
Scorbutus (Scurvy) : Merc., Nit-Ac., Carbo veg., Ars.
Screams of Infants : Cham., Acon., Jal., Bell.
Scrofulous Affections : Iod., Calc-c., Sulph., Phos.
Scurvy of the Gums : see Gums.
Sea-sickness : Petrol., Cocc., Tabac., Nux-v.
Self-abuse : Evils of see Spermatorrhœa.
Shingles : Rhus Tox., Sulph.
Sick-headache : Iris, Ipec., Puls., Nux-v., Sep.
Sickness : Ipec., (simple) ; Puls. (from rich food) ; Nux-v. (from alcohol) ; Iris, Ant-t. See also Vomiting.
— Morning Ipec., Kreos., Nux-V., Puls., Ars.
Skin : Itching of Arg-nit., Sulph., Ars., Mez. ; Verat-vir. (painful sensitiveness). See also. Excoriations, Prurigo, Scabies, etc.
Sleepiness : Opi., Bell., Acon. ; Lyc., (after dinner).
Sleeplessness : Coff., Bell., Hyos., Gels., Verat-V., Glon., Ign., Avena.
Small-pox : Ant-Tart., Merc., Bell., Bry., Sulph.
Smell : Loss of Puls., Merc., Gels., Acon., Sang., Calc-c., Plumb.
Sneezing : From a Cold Merc., Ipec., Acon., Ars.
Sore Eyes : Merc., Clematis, Sulph., Calc-c., Euphr., Nit-Ac.
Sore Throat : Acon., Bell., Merc. ; K-Permang. or Phyto. as a gargle.
Soreness of Infants : see Excoriations.
Spasms and Cramps : Camph., Nux-v., Coloc., Verat., Cocc., Gels.
Spermatorrhœa : Phos., Chin., Ferr., Phos-Ac., Arg-m., Gels.
Spine : Concussion of Arn., Hypericum.
— Irritation of Chin., Ign., Nux-v., Gels.
Spitting of Blood ; See Hæmorrhage ; From the Lungs.
Sprains : Rhus tox., Arn. or Ruta, int. and ext.
Squinting : Bell., Hyos., Gels., or Stram. (cerebral causes) ; Cina. (from worms) : Spig., Phos.
Stammering : Bell., Hyos.
Sterility : Phos., Plat., Coni., Bary-c., Cann., Sep., Borax.
Stiff-neck : Bry., Cimic., Bell.
Stings : Lep., Apis, or Rhus, int. and ext. See also Mosquitoes.
Stitches in the Chest : Bry., Acon., Cimic., Phos.
Stomach : Acidity of Puls., Nux-v., Bry., Lyc., Carbo-V., Calc. — Inflammation of Acon., Ars., Bell., Phos.
Stomach : Ulceration of Ars., Hydrast. K-Bich.
Stone and Gravel : Lyc., Nux-V., Calc., Cann.
Stricture of the Urethra : Acon., Nux-V., Canth., Cann.
St. Vitus’s Dance : Agaricus., Bell., Cap-M., Artem., Stram., Zinc., Ars., Cimic., Ign., Verat-Vir.
Stye : Puls., Sulph., Merc., Staph. (to prevent return).
Summer complaint (diarrhœa) : Chin., Iris., Bry., Ant. Crud.
Sunstroke : Camph., Bell., Glon., Gels., Verat-Vir.
Suppuration : Silic., Hep-S. ; Chin (when very profuse).
Sweat : Undue Phos-ac., Calc-c., Sulph., Phos., Samb., Verat.
— Fœtid, Under the Arms Petrol, Carbo Veg.
— Tendency to Chin., Merc., Verat., Carbo Veg.
Sweaty Feet and Hands : Sil., Nit-Ac., Petro., Graph.
Swellings : Dropsical Ars., Apis, Dig., Apocy-C.
— Glandular Merc., Bell., Hep-S., Calc-C.
— Of the Face Merc. (from Gum-boil) ; Bell. or Cham. (from Toothache) ; Apis (from Erysipelas); Chin. or Ars. (dropsical).
— Of the Feet (Œdema) Ars., Ferr., Apis, Dig., Chin.
— Of the Joints Iod., Bry., Puls., Bell.
— White Bry., Iod., Silic., Calc-C., Sulph.
Syphilis : Merc., Nit-Ac., Thuja, Arg-nit., Aur.
Tape Worm : Fil-Mas., Kous., Sabad., Cin., Sulph., Ign.
Taste Impaired : Puls., Merc., Plumb.
Teeth : see Toothache, and Dentition.
Testicles : Enlargement of Puls., Clematis, Spong., Arn., Aur., Acon., Also the use of a suspender.
— Wasting of Iod., Coni. Tetters : Dry Merc., Iod., Ars., Petro. — Moist Acon., Rhus, Ars., Phyto., Graph., Calc., Sulph.
Thread worms : Cina., Teucrium, Ign., Chin.
Throat : Sore Acon., Bell., Merc., Hep-s., Puls., Phyto., as a gargle.
Thrush : Borax, Merc., Ars., Sulph. Also Sulphurous Ac., Spray.
Tic doloureux : see Neuralgia.
Tongue : Coated Ant-c. (milky-white) ; K-Bich. (yellowish); Puls. (roughishwhite) ; Rhus., Bapt. (brownish).
— Swollen Bell., Merc., Acon., Mur-ac.
— Ulcerated Merc., Nit-ac., Hydras, as a wash.
Tonsils : Enlarged Bell., Merc. Bin., Calc., Phos., K-Hyd., Bary-C. — Inflamed see Quinsy. Toothache : Acon., alt. Bell. (redness of face. with throbbing) ; Puls.
— From Decay Kreos., Merc., Stamp., Phyto ; see Gum-boil.
— Nervous Coff., Cham., Ign., Gels.
— Of Children Cham., Kreas.
— Of Pregnancy Bell., Nux-V., Cham., Coff.
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.
Tumors : see Swellings.
Typhoid : (Enteric) Fever : Bapt., Ars., Mur-ac., Rhus.
Typhus Fever : Acon., Bry., or Verat-Vir., Ars., Hyos., Bell., Phos.
Ulcers : Hydras., Silic. or Kali-Bich. int. and ext. ; Bell., Lyc.
In the Leg Bell., Ars., Merc. (syphilitic) ; Caust., Hydras., int. and ext.
Urine : Bloody Canth., Tereb., Ham.
Burning or Scalding Canth., Cann., Gels., Acon.
Fœtid Ac., Bary., Tereb., Nit-ac.
Painful Passage of Apis, Canth., Lyc., Nux-V., Cann.
Incontinence of Lyc., Eup-per., Bell., Caust., Cin. (from worms) ; Caust., Phos.-Ac., Gels.(in the aged) ; Canth., Ferr.
Retention of Canth., Nux-V., Opi., Camph.
Varicose Veins : Ham., Puls., Fluor-Ac.
Voice : Loss of see Aphonia and Hoarseness.
Vomiting : From Indigestible Food Puls., Ant-C., Ipec., Iris.
— Chronic Kreas., Ars., Hydras.
— Of Blood Ipec., Ham., Nit-Ac., Chin.
Walking : Delay of the Power of Calc-C., Phos., Sulph.
Wakefulness : Coff., Bell., Gels., Glon.
Warts : Thuja, Rhus Tox., or Nit-Ac. int. and ext. Sulph.
Wasting : see Atrophy.
Water brash : Lyc., Nux-V., Carbo Veg., Bry., Ars.
Water : In the Chest Bry., Ars., Dig., Apis. — In the Head Hell., Bell., Apis, Verat-Vir. or Gels. (with convulsions).
Watery Blood : Ferr., Chin., Phos. Sep. See also Anæmia.
Weakness see Debility.
Practical Key to homoeopathy
Dr (Mrs) Neena S Menon M D (Hom) “The only reliable oracle of therapeutics is pure experience” My aim in writing this article is to create an awareness and interest in the source books of Homoeopathy. Apply these practical tips in your practice, which help you to gain confidence and success in life. Health is a state of harmony between mental and physical well-being. When afflicted, it involves sealing or shutting, which is a complex process that necessitates skilled diagnosis and treatment. We also have to highlight the significance of follow-up which is the key to a successful cure in any system of medicine, which include the knowledge of miasm, knowledge of disease and medicines; as well as to body reactions to medicines. So the follow-up is a valuable reference guide to any practitioner. First prescription can be done without much difficulty, if the case is well taken. But the method of approach in follow-up will be sometimes tedious even for the well established practitioner. The selection of right path in follow-up depends on the knowledge of physician as well as his practical experiences. Nowadays it has been a fashion or style for the young or budding (new generations) Homoeopaths to blindly follow any particular school of Homoeopaths. But they are forgetting something here; they can’t become the exact replica of the leader, who represents that particular school of Homoeopaths. Whatever principles given by this school, is already explained by our master Dr. Hahnemann. So don’t follow any such type of mediators; but follow blindly our Great Master, Dr. Hahnemann and you will be successful in your practice. Read the source books of Homoeopathy and not the guides; which can mislead you. All the practical tips are clearly described by Dr. Hahnemann and his followers.
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.
Valuable homeopathy tips from masters
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
Berberis Vul. is an excellent remedy for renal colic.= Dr. E. A. Farrington Cholesterinum is said to be almost specific for gallstone colic.= Dr. Pulford Colocynthis cures colics again and again.= Dr. T.K. Moore In biliary colic, Calc. Carb. has never failed me.= Dr. R. Hughes One’s chief use for Mag. Phos. has been in the treatment of dysmenorrhoea.= Dr. M.L.Tyler Any haemorrhage seeming to be in sympathy with heart trouble, think of Cactus.= Dr. E.B. Nash In cramps of the calves, I have never known Cuprum to fail.= Dr. Jousett In habitual vomiting in babies, one should think of Iris.= Dr. C.G. Raue For the excessively obstinate child, Tuberculinum is most often indicated.= Dr. D.M. Foubister I have cured probably 100 cases of Adenoids with Tuberculinium alone.= Dr. J.T. Kent Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well without Kali Carb.=Dr. Hahnemann There is one remedy in regard to enlarged prostate and that is Hydrangea.= Dr. A.H. Grimmer For the terrible falling out of hair after Typhoid, Fluoric Acid is well indicated.= Dr. C.M. Boger I recommend Arnica Mont. as preventive and curative of boils.= Dr. Hahnemann Nitric Acid is almost specific for diarrhea after antibiotics, especially the mycins.= Dr. E.W. Hubbard I know of no remedy of such universal usefulness in cases of simple acne as Kali Brom 30.= Dr. J.H. Clarke Lycopodium is master remedy in infantile Eczema.= Dr. Leon Renard =
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 infant’s friend and is commonly indicated in the bronchitis of infancy.= Dr. J.T. Kent
Glimpses over the years – Clinical Tips in Homeopathy
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 30’s 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 patients’suffering 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 105°F, 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
Homeopathy Clinical tips from Dr Sultan Mahamood
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 Qur’an. 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,
I
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
Hillview Avenue,Rawalpindi (Pakistan) J.N.Sircar
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.
4.Insulin-Progressive emaciation of children though eating well.take lot of sweets. 5.Cortisone-Excellent
for
frozen
shoulder,intercoastal
rheumatism,asthma
