Acon: শুষ্ক শীতল বাতাস অথবা অতি উত্তপ্ত বাতাস লেগে অসুস্থতা।
Acon: কোনো রোগের হঠাৎ আক্রমণ, প্রচণ্ড প্রকোপ ও অসহনীয় বেদনার সহিত ছটফটানি।
Acon: অস্থিরতা, কাতরতা, রোগী সর্বদা ছটফট করে, এপাশ ওপাশ করে, কিছুতেই শান্তি পায় না।
Acon: ভয়, মৃত্যুভয়, লোক সমাগমে ভয়, বাহিরে যেতে ভয়, সর্বদা শঙ্কিত ও ভীত, মৃত্যুর সময় পর্যন্ত নির্দিষ্ট করে বলে দেয়।
Acon: ঘর্মহীনতা তবে হৃদরোগে প্রচুর ঘর্ম হয়। Acon: পানি ভাল লাগে না, তবুও পানি পান করে যেনো পানির তৃষ্ণা মিটেই না।
Acon: এক গাল লাল অপর গাল ফ্যাকাশে। Acon: গান শুনতে অসহ্য লাগে, গান তাকে আরো দুঃখী করে তোলে।
Acon: হেলে থাকা বা অর্ধশোয়া অবস্থান থেকে উঠলে, লাল মুখটি মারাত্মক ফ্যাকাশে হয়ে যায়, সে অজ্ঞান হয়ে যায়।
Acon: আতঙ্কের ফলে, রক্তাধিক্যপূর্ণ মেয়েদের মধ্যে বাধক বেদনা দেখা দেয়।
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Aconitum Napellus [Acon] একোনাইটাম নেপেলাস
ডাঃ নরেন্দ্রনাথ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় এর “ঔষুধ পরিচয়” বই থেকে
অ্যাকোনাইটাম ন্যাপেলাস
অ্যাকোনাইটের প্রথম কথা – আকস্মিকতা ও ভীষণতা ।
অ্যাকোনাইট একটি ক্ষণস্থায়ী ঔষধ এবং কেবলমাত্র তরুণ রোগেই ইহা ব্যবহৃত হয়। বিশেষতঃ যে সকল তরুণ রোগ বন্যা, বাত্যা বা ভূমিকম্পের মত অতি অকস্মাৎ প্রকাশ পায় তরুণ রোগেই অ্যাকোনাইট বিশেষ ফলপ্রদ। কেবলমাত্র সেই সব ভূমিকম্প যে কখন হইবে তাহা যেমন কেহ বুঝিতে পারে না, অ্যাকোনাইটের রোগগুলিও যে কখন কাহাকে আক্রমণ করিয়া বসিবে তাহা বুঝিতে পারা তেমনই অসম্ভব। যেমন ধরুন, কেহ নির্বিঘ্নে নিদ্রা যাইতেছিল এবং নিজা যাইবার পূর্ব মুহূর্ত পর্যন্ত কোনরূপ অসুস্থতা বোধ করে নাই কিন্তু মধ্যরাত্রে হঠাৎ তাহার ভেদ-বমি আরম্ভ হইল বা সে চিৎকার করিয়া উঠিল যে তাহার বুক কেমন করিতেছে অথবা ধরুন, কেহ দিবাভাগে বসিয়া সুস্থদেহে কর্ম করিতেছে কিন্তু হঠাৎ প্রবল শীত করিয়া
শ্বাসকষ্ট আরম্ভ হইল । এরূপ ক্ষেত্রে অ্যাকোনাইট প্রায় বেশ উপকারে আসে।
কারণ অ্যাকোনাইটের রোগগুলি এতই আকস্মিক । কিন্তু এই আকস্মিকতাই অ্যাকোনাইটের যথেষ্ট পরিচয় নহে । আমরা তাহার প্রথম কথায় পাইয়াছি —আকস্মিকতা ও ভীষণতা । অতএব রোগ আক্রমণের আকস্মিকতার সহিত ভীষণতা বৰ্তমান থাকা চাই অর্থাৎ অ্যাকোনাইটের রোগগুলি যেমন অকস্মাৎ আক্রমণ করে তেমনই অতি অল্প সময়ের মধ্যে তাহা ভীষণ হইয়া দাড়ায় । আপনারা এমন অনেক ঔষধ দেখিবেন যেখানে রোগটি অকস্মাৎ আক্রমণ করিয়াছে বটে কিন্তু অনতিবিলম্বে বৃদ্ধি না পাইয়া ধীরে ধীরে বৃদ্ধি পাইতেছে। আবার এমন অনেক ঔষধ দেখিবেন যেখানে রোগটি ধীরে ধীরে প্রকাশ পাইয়া ধীরে ধীরে বৃদ্ধি পাইতেছে । কিন্তু অ্যাকোনাইটের চরিত্র এরূপ নহে। সেখানে আক্রমণও যেমন আকস্মিক, আক্রমণের তীব্রতাও তেমনই ভীষণ অর্থাৎ আক্রমণের সঙ্গে সঙ্গেই রোগটি ভয়াবহ হইয়া দাড়ায়। তবে সুখের বিষয় এই যে ভূমিকম্প যেমন ক্ষণস্থায়ী হয়, অ্যাকোনাইটও তেমনই ক্ষণস্থায়ী ঔষধ বলিয়া তাহার রোগগুলি দীর্ঘকাল ধরিয়া কার্য করে না ; অতি অল্প সময়ের মধ্যেই রোগীকে শেষ করিয়া যায় বা নিজেরাই শেষ হইয়া যায়। অতএব অ্যাকোনাইট সম্বন্ধে আমাদের প্রথমেই মনে রাখা চাই যে ইহাতে রোগগুলি অতি অকস্মাৎ আক্রমণ করে এবং দেখিতে দেখিতে অতি ভীষণাকার ধারণ করে অর্থাৎ যখনই আমরা দেখিব যে, কেহ হঠাৎ অতি ভীষণভাবে রোগাক্রান্ত হইয়া পড়িয়াছে, তখন প্রথমেই আমরা অ্যাকোনাইটের কথা মনে করিব । কিন্তু এইরূপ আকস্মিকতা ও ভীষণতার সহিত অ্যাকোনাইটের অন্যান্য লক্ষণগুলি যেখানে বর্তমান দেখিব সেখানেই অ্যাকোনাইটের ব্যবস্থা করিব। কারণ মহাত্মা হ্যানিম্যান বলিয়াছেন— আমরা রোগীর চিকিৎসা
ঔষধ পরিচয়-
করি অর্থাৎ, জ্বর হইয়াছে, কি নিউমোনিয়া হইয়াছে, কি ম্যালেরিয়া হইয়াছে, ইত্যাদি ভাবে কোন রোগের নাম ধরিয়া চিকিৎসা করি না। পরন্তু রোগীর শরীরে যে যে যন্ত্রণা প্রকাশ পাইয়াছে, যাহা রোগী নিজমুখে ব্যক্ত করিতে থাকে, যাহা তাহার আত্মীয় পরিজন লক্ষ্য করিতে থাকেন, এবং যাহা ডাক্তার নিজেই স্বচক্ষে দেখিতে পান বা তাঁহার বহুদর্শিতার সাহায্যে পর্যবেক্ষণ করেন অর্থাৎ এই ত্রিবিধ উপায়ে সংগৃহীত লক্ষণসমষ্টির উপর নির্ভর করিয়া সদৃশ ঔষধ নির্বাচনের দ্বারা চিকিৎসা করাই হোমিওপ্যাথিক চিকিৎসা। এখন কোন রোগীকে অ্যাকোনাইট প্রয়োগ করিতে গেলে দেখা উচিত অ্যাকোনাইটের প্রথম লক্ষণ আকস্মিকতা ও ভীষণতা বর্তমান আছে কিনা অর্থাৎ রোগট অকস্মাৎ দেখা দিয়াছে কিনা এবং দেখা দিবার সঙ্গে সঙ্গে তাহা ভীষণভাবে দেখা দিয়াছে কিনা ? যদি এই দুইটি লক্ষণই বর্তমান থাকে তাহা হইলে আমরা অ্যাকোনাইটের কথা মনে করিতে পারি বটে কিন্তু অ্যাকোনাইট প্রয়োগ করিতে পারি না। কারণ, অসুস্থ ব্যক্তির যন্ত্রণার মধ্যে কি কেবলমাত্র এই দুইটি কথাই দেখিতে পাওয়া যাইতেছে ? আমাদিগকে আরও দেখিতে হইবে তাহার এ যন্ত্রণা কেন হইল, কি করিলে সে একটু আরাম বোধ করে, পিপাসা আছে কিনা, শীত আছে কিনা, অস্থিরতা আছে কিনা, ইত্যাদি রোগীর সকল কথাই সংগ্রহ করিতে হইবে। এক্ষণে পুর্ব কথিত আকস্মিকতা ও ভীষণতার সহিত যদি আমরা নিম্নলিখিত লক্ষণগুলি দেখিতে পাই তাহা হইলে নিশ্চয়ই অ্যাকোনাইট ব্যবস্থা করিব । অ্যাকোনাইটের দ্বিতীয় কথা—মৃত্যুভয় ও অস্থিরতা ।
অ্যাকোনাইটের রোগী স্বভাবতঃ অত্যন্ত ভীরু ভাবাপন্ন হয়। সে কোন ভীড়ের মধ্যে ঢুকিতে চাহে না, যে রাস্তায় বেশী গাড়ী-ঘোড়া সে রাস্তায় চলিতে চাহে না, সামান্বতেই ভয় পায়। কাজেই অসুস্থ হইয়া পড়িলে সে এত বেশী শঙ্কিত ও অস্থির হইয়া পড়ে যে তাহাকে বুঝাইয়া রাখা যায় না যে কোন ভয় নাই এবং অচিরে সে আরোগ্য লাভ করিবে। সে কাহারও কথা বিশ্বাস করে না এবং উৎকণ্ঠিত মনে ক্রমাগত ভাবিতে থাকে, এ যাত্রা সে রক্ষা পাইবে না। নিশ্চয় মারা যাইবে। সে তাহার বন্ধু-বান্ধবকে কাছে থাকিতে বলে, চক্ষের জলে ভাসিয়া সকলের নিকট বিদায় গ্রহণ করিতে থাকে যেন সে এখনই ইহলোক পরিত্যাগ করিবে, এমন কি সময় নির্দিষ্ট করিয়া বলিতে থাকে রাত্রি ১টা, ২টা বা টার সময় সে নিশ্চয় মারা যাইবে এবং সেই জন্য ঔষধ সেবনের প্রয়োজনও বোধ করে না।
মৃত্যু সম্বন্ধে এইরূপ নিশ্চয়তা এবং অস্থিরতায় সে এত কাতর হইয়া পড়ে যে তাহাকে সান্ত্বনা দেওয়া তো দূরের কথা, ধরিয়া রাখাও দায় হইয়া পড়ে। সে একবার উঠে, একবার বসে, একবার কাঁদে, একবার আত্মীয়স্বজনকে ডাকিয়া পাঠায়, একবার ভগবানের নাম করিতে থাকে অর্থাৎ তাহার অস্থিরতায় বাড়ীশুদ্ধ লোক অস্থির হইয়া পড়ে । অতএব যেখানে আমরা এই অস্থিরতা দেখিব, এই মৃত্যুভয় দেখিব এবং আকস্মিকতা ও ভীষণতা দেখিব সেইখানেই অ্যাকোনাইট ব্যবহার করিব সন্দেহ নাই। কিন্তু যেখানে এই চারিটি লক্ষণের একটিরও অভাব দেখিব সেখানে কিছুতেই অ্যাকোনাইট ব্যবহার করিব না। অ্যাকোনাইটের প্রত্যেক রোগেই এই চারিটি লক্ষণ বর্তমানে থাকা চাই, এবং এই চারিটি লক্ষণ বর্তমান থাকিলে জ্বর বলুন, নিউমোনিয়া বলুন, কলেরা বলুন, সকল তরুণ রোগেই আমরা অ্যাকোনাইট ব্যবহার করিতে পারি।
অবশ্য মৃত্যুভয় ও অস্থিরতা আরও অনেক ঔষধের মধ্যে দেখিতে পাওয়া যায়, যেমন রাস টক্স, আর্সেনিক ইত্যাদি। আপনারা জানেন রাস টক্স রোগী অস্থিরতা প্রকাশ করিতে থাকে কারণ তাহাতে সে উপশম পায়, অঙ্গ-প্রত্যঙ্গের যন্ত্রণা, কামড়ানি প্রশমিত হয়। তাই ক্ষণে ক্ষণে সে “বাবা গো, মা গো” বলিয়া চিৎকার করিতে ভালবাসে, অঙ্গ- প্রত্যঙ্গ টিপিয়া দিতে বলে বা একবার এপাশ, একবার ওপাশ করিয়া নড়াচড়া করিতে চায়। মৃত্যুভয় সম্বন্ধে বলা যাইতে পারে – স্নায়বিক দুর্বলতা, শঙ্কাপ্রবণতা বা ভীরুতা তাহার প্রধান কারণ। তবে কোন কোন ক্ষেত্রে তাহার ভয় হইতে থাকে পাছে কেহ তাহাকে বিষ প্রয়োগ করে। এইরূপ সন্দিগ্ধতাও রাস টক্সের এক বিচিত্র বৈশিষ্ট্য। আর্সেনিকে এরূপ সন্দিগ্ধতা নাই এবং তাহার মৃত্যুভয় স্নায়বিক দুর্বলতা- প্রস্থতও নহে অর্থাৎ নিছক ভয়- তরাসে বলিয়া সে উৎকণ্ঠিত হইয়া পড়ে না। তাহার মৃত্যুভয় সম্পূর্ণ সঙ্গত, এমন কি ডাক্তারও শঙ্কিত হইয়া পড়ে, কারণ তাহার অবস্থা এমনই শোচনীয় এবং এই অবস্থা রোগীর কাছেও অনুভূত হইতে থাকে বলিয়াই আর্সেনিক শঙ্কাবোধ করিতে থাকে সে আর বাঁচিবে না এবং তাহার অস্থিরতাও এইজন্য অর্থাৎ রোগী যদি বুঝিতে পারে অবস্থা তাহার ভাল নহে, তাহা হইলে কেমন করিয়া সে চুপ করিয়া থাকিবে ? তাহার উপর এমন অবস্থায় তাহার দেহের মধ্যে যে অব্যক্ত যন্ত্রণা হইতে থাকে যাহাকে চলতি কথায় মরণ ছটফটানি বলে তাহা হইতে নিষ্কৃতি পাইবার আশাতেই সে অস্থিরতা প্রকাশ করিতে বাধ্য হয়। ইহা রাস টক্সের উপশম সাপেক্ষ অস্থিরতা নহে এবং ইহা শারীরিক অপেক্ষা মানসিক প্রধান। অ্যাকোনাইটের অস্থিরতাও রাস টক্সের মত নহে বরং কতকটা আর্সেনিকের মত, তবে তাহার শারীরিক অস্থিরতাও কম নহে, কারণ আর্সেনিকের মত সে দুর্বল হইয়া পড়ে না এবং তাহার মৃত্যুভয় সম্পূর্ণ স্নায়বিক অর্থাৎ মৃত্যুর সম্ভাবনা না থাকিলেও সে তাহাকে আসন্ন ভাবিয়া কাতর হইয়া পড়ে। এইখানে বরং সে রাস টক্সের মত অৰ্থাৎ স্নায়বিক দুর্বলতা বা ভয়-তরাসে বলিয়াই তাহার মৃত্যুভয় ।
কলেরা ও নিউমোনিয়া প্রায়ই আকস্মিকভাবে দেখা দেয় বলিয়া এই দুইটি রোগের প্রথম অবস্থায় অ্যাকোনাইট প্রায়ই বেশ উপকারে আসে। কিন্তু অ্যাকোনাইটের লক্ষণ বর্তমান না থাকিলে অ্যাকোনাইট কোন উপকারে আসিবে না । এবং শুধু কলেরা বা নিউমোনিয়া কেন, যে কোন রোগ হঠাৎ আক্রমণ করিবে এবং দেখিতে দেখিতে ভীষণ হইয়া উঠিবে, সেই সকল রোগেই অ্যাকোনাইট ব্যবহার করা যাইতে পারে, যদি দেখা যায় যে, রোগ আক্রমণের সঙ্গে সঙ্গে রোগী অত্যন্ত অস্থির হইয়া পড়িয়াছে এবং মৃত্যুভয়ে অত্যন্ত কাতর হইয়া পড়িয়াছে ।
যাঁহারা অপেক্ষাকৃত ধীর বুদ্ধিসম্পন্ন তাহাদের মুখে মৃত্যুভয়জনিত ব্যাকুলতা একটু প্রচ্ছন্ন থাকে, কিন্তু তীক্ষ্ণভাবে লক্ষ্য করিলেই বুঝা যাইবে তাঁহারাও কত উদ্বিগ্ন হইয়া পড়িয়াছেন । অতএব মনে রাখিবেন রোগীকে লক্ষ্য করিবার মত ক্ষমতা না থাকিলে ব্যর্থতাই স্বাভাবিক ।
পূর্বে বলিয়াছি অ্যাকোনাইট রোগী অত্যন্ত শঙ্কিত বা ভীরু স্বভাব। তাই হঠাৎ কোন ভয় পাইয়া কোন অসুস্থতা প্রকাশ পাইলেও অ্যাকোনাইট প্রায়ই বেশ উপকারে আসে। এই জন্য হঠাৎ কোন ভয় পাইয়া কেহ সংজ্ঞাহীন হইয়া পড়িলে বা সর্দি-গর্মীর মত অবস্থা দেখা দিলে তৎক্ষণাৎ অ্যাকোনাইট প্রয়োগ করা উচিত। হঠাৎ কোন ভয় পাইয়া কোন গর্ভবতী স্ত্রীলোকের গর্ভনাশের উপক্রম হইলে বা কোন ঋতুমতী স্ত্রীলোকের ঋতু বন্ধ হইয়া যন্ত্রণা হইতে থাকিলে তৎক্ষণাৎ অ্যাকোনাইট প্রয়োগ করা উচিত। সদ্যোজাত শিশুর দম বন্ধ থাকিলে বা প্রস্রাব না হইলে তৎক্ষণাৎ অ্যাকোনাইট প্রয়োগ করা উচিত। আকস্মিক ব্যাপারে অ্যাকোনাইট এতই ফলপ্রদ ।
অ্যাকোনাইটের তৃতীয় কথা – পিপাসা ও জ্বালা ৷ অ্যাকোনাইটে রোগীর দেহের ভিতরটা জ্বলিয়া যাইতে থাকে, কাজেই সে আবৃত থাকিতে চাহে না এবং পিপাসাও এত প্রবল যে ক্রমাগত ঘটি ঘটি জল খাইতে চাহে ।
হৃষ্টপুষ্ট, বলিষ্ঠ, রক্তপ্রধান ব্যক্তির তরুণ রোগে অ্যাকোনাইট প্রায় অদ্বিতীয়। ইহারা অল্পেই যেমন অসুস্থ হয় না, তেমনই আবার অসুস্থ হইয়া পড়িলে অল্পেই তাহা ভয়াবহ হইয়া পড়ে ৷
অ্যাকোনাইটের চতুর্থ কথা—প্রচণ্ড শীতের বা প্রচণ্ড গরমের প্রকোপ ।
পুর্বে বলিয়াছি অ্যাকোনাইটের রোগী প্রায়ই হৃষ্টপুষ্ট বলিষ্ঠ দেহ হয়। কাজেই অল্প শীতে বা অল্প গরমে সে অসুস্থ হইয়া পড়ে না। অর্থাৎ শীতের প্রচণ্ড ঠাণ্ডা বা গ্রীষ্মের প্রচণ্ড গরম লাগিয়া রোগাক্রান্ত হইয়া পড়িলে তবেই অ্যাকোনাইট হইবে। অতঃপর আমরা যেন সর্বদাই মনে রাখি যে যখনই যাহা কিছু হউক না কেন তখনই তাহা অতি অকস্মাৎ দেখা দেয় এবং দেখা দেওয়া মাত্রই দ্রুতগতিতে ভীষণ হইয়া উঠে। যেমন ধরুন গ্রীষ্মকালে রক্ত আমাশয় হইলে যদি দেখা যায় তাহা প্রথম দেখা দিবার সময় হইতেই উত্তরোত্তর ভয়াবহ হইয়া উঠিয়াছে—প্রায় ঘণ্টায় ঘণ্টায় বা অর্ধঘণ্টা অন্তর মলত্যাগ ঘটিতেছে এবং প্রচুর পরিমাণে রক্ত পড়িতেছে, রোগী যন্ত্রণায় অস্থির হইয়া ক্রমাগত কাতরাইতেছে তাহা হইলে নিশ্চয়ই অ্যাকোনাইটের কথা মনে করিব। নিউমোনিয়ায় রোগাক্রমণের সঙ্গে সঙ্গেই রোগীর অবস্থা অতি শোচনীয় হইয়া পড়ে, অবিরত কাশিতে রোগীর দম বন্ধ হইবার উপক্রম হয়, শ্লেষ্মার সহিত রক্ত দেখা দেয়। শ্লেষ্মা কখনও গাঢ় নহে। ক্রুপ কাশির আক্রমণে এক রাত্রের মধ্যেই রোগীর গাল-গলা ফুলিয়া শ্বাসরোধের উপক্রম হয়। কিন্তু শুধু বুকের রোগ নহে শীতকালের ঠাণ্ডা লাগিয়া যে কোন রোগ হঠাৎ এবং প্রচণ্ডভাবে দেখা দিলে অ্যাকোনাইট সর্বত্রই সুফলপ্রদ ।
অ্যাকোনাইটের কাশি শ্বাসগ্রহণ কালেই অতিরিক্ত বৃদ্ধি পায়। জ্বর মধ্যরাত্রের পুর্বেই বৃদ্ধি পায়। গাত্র শুষ্ক ও উত্তপ্ত। ধৰ্ম দেখা দিলেই সকল যন্ত্রণার উপশম ; হাতের তালু উত্তপ্ত, পদদ্বয় শীতল। শুইয়া থাকিলে একটি গাল লাল, অপরটি ফ্যাকাসে দেখায় এবং উঠিয়া বসিলে দুইটি গালই লাল হইয়া উঠে। যে পার্শ্ব চাপিয়া শুইয়া থাকে সেই পার্শ্বে সামান্য ঘাম দেখা দেয় ৷ দাঁত উঠিবার সময় আক্ষেপ; আক্ষেপ বা তড়কা হইবার পুর্বে ছেলে-মেয়েরা অবিরত মুঠা কামড়াইতে থাকে ও কাঁদিতে থাকে । কিন্তু এ সকল কথা অপেক্ষা শীতকালের ঠাণ্ডা বাতাস লাগিয়া বা গ্রীষ্মকালের গরম লাগিয়া যে সকল রোগ হঠাৎ দেখা দিবে এবং দেখা দিবার সঙ্গে সঙ্গেই তাহা ভীষণতর হইতে থাকিবে তাহাতে আমরা অ্যাকোনাইটের কথা প্রথমেই মনে করিব ।
কলেরা—প্রচণ্ড পেটব্যথা, ভেদবমিও অতি ভীষণভাবে হইতে থাকে । মৃতের ন্যায় মুখমণ্ডল; নখ নীলবর্ণ, হিমাঙ্গ । আক্রমণের সঙ্গে সঙ্গে অ্যাকোনাইট ব্যবহার অধিক ফলপ্রদ। মৃত্যুভয় ও অস্থিরতা।
অতিরিক্ত পিপাসা, অতিরিক্ত গাত্রদাহ। কিন্তু ভিতরে শীতবোধ । আমাশয়ে সবুজবর্ণ মল, রক্ত-মিশ্রিত; অবিরত কুম্বন। জ্বর। নিউমোনিয়ায় শুষ্ককাশি বা তরল কাশির সহিত রক্তমিশ্রিত শ্লেষ্মা, শ্লেষ্মা গাঢ় নহে ।
চক্ষুপ্রদাহ হইলেও চক্ষে কখন পুঁজ জমে না। শীতকালে ঠাণ্ডা বাতাস লাগিয়া যে-কোন স্থানের প্রদাহের প্রথম অবস্থায় অ্যাকোনাইট বেশ ফলপ্রদ। ঋতুকষ্ট, চক্ষুপ্রদাহ, কর্ণমূল, বাত, নিউমোনিয়া ইত্যাদি। কিন্তু তাহার দ্রুতগতি সর্বত্র বর্তমান থাকা চাই ।
বাতের ব্যথায় রোগী নড়াচড়া করিতে ভালবাসে না, চুপ করিয়া পড়িয়া থাকিতে চায়, কিন্তু মানসিক উৎকণ্ঠায় স্থির থাকা অসম্ভব। তবে এরূপ ক্ষেত্রে অ্যাকোনাইট কদাচিৎ ব্যবহৃত হয় ।
ক্রুপ কাশিতে কুকুরের ডাকের মত ঘংঘং করিয়া কাশি ; শ্বাস গ্রহণকালে কাশি বৃদ্ধি পায়। গুইয়া থাকিলেও বৃদ্ধি পায় । মুখের স্বাদ সর্বদাই তিক্ত ; জল ব্যতীত সকল দ্রব্যই তিক্ত লাগে ।
অকস্মাৎ অতিরিক্ত রক্তবমি, রক্তস্রাব বা ঋতুস্রাব হইতে থাকিলে অ্যাকোনাইটের কথা মনে করা উচিত। কিন্তু সর্বত্র অ্যাকোনাইটের প্রধান লক্ষণ—আকস্মিকতা, ভীষণতা, অস্থিরতা, মৃত্যুভয় বর্তমান থাকা চাই ।
হঠাৎ ভয় পাইয়া যে কোন রোগের প্রথম অবস্থায় অ্যাকোনাইট অদ্বিতীয়। মনে রাখিবেন ভয় পাইয়া রোগ বা রোগের সহিত ভয় ।
হঠাৎ ঘর্মরোধ হইয়া অসুস্থ হইয়া পড়িলেও অ্যাকোনাইট। কিন্তু সর্বত্রই অস্থিরতা ও মৃত্যুভয় থাকা চাই ।
সদ্যোজাত শিশুর দম বন্ধ হইয়া গেলে বা প্রস্রাব না হইলে প্রথমেই অ্যাকোনাইট ব্যবহার করা উচিত ।
ম্যালেরিয়া, টাইফয়েড, সেপটিক ইত্যাদি দূষিত বা বিষাক্ত জ্বরে অ্যাকোনাইট ব্যবহৃত হয় না ৷
অ্যাকোনাইটের পর প্রায়ই সালফার ব্যবহৃত হয়
আ্যাকোনাইট _শীতকালে ঠাণ্ডা বাতাস লাগিয়া হঠাৎ অতি প্রবল ভাবে জ্বর ও অস্থিরতা ।
আ্যাকোনাইট-_রক্ত-প্রধান ছেলেমেয়েদের ফরাত উঠিবার সময় অকন্মাৎ প্রবল জরের সহিত আক্ষেপ, সর্বশরীর অত্যন্ত শুফ ও উত্তপ্ত; রোগী তাহার হাত মুঠা করিয়! ক্রমাগত কামড়াইতে থাকে ও অস্থিরভাবে ক্রন্দন করিতে থাকে । হঠাৎ কোন ভয় পাইয়া! আক্ষেপ ।
আযাকোনাইট–কলেরায় আকোনাইট অম্ৃততুল্য । ভেদ-বমির সহিত পেটব্যথা, পিপাসা, মুতের মত চেহার!, হিমাঙ্গ অবস্থা । ঠোঁট নীলবর্ণ। অস্থিরতা, মৃত্যুভয় ৷ পর্যায়ক্রমে শীত ও গরমবোধ ।
জ্যাকোনাইট-__শীতকালে শুষ্ক ঠাণ্ডা বাতাস লাগিয়া, গ্রীষ্মকালে গরম লাগিয়া, বর্ধাকালে বর্ষার জলে ভিজিয়া বা ঘর্ম হঠাৎ বাধাপ্রাথ হইয়! ভীষণভাবে রোগাক্রমণ, রোগ অতি অকনম্মাৎ প্রকাশ পায় এবং এত ভীষণভাবে প্রকাশ প্রায় রোগী একেবারে অস্থির হইয়া পড়ে, প্রবল পিপাস। ও জর দেখা দেয়; মল সবুজবর্ণ অথব। আম- রক্ত, ঘন ঘশ মলত্যাগ, মলত্যাগ কালে অবিরত কুম্থন।
আাকোনাইট-_শীতকালে ঠাণ্ডা বাতাস লাগিয়া হঠাৎ খতুত্রাব বন্ধ হইয়া দারুণ যন্ত্রণায় রোগী একেবারে অস্থির হইয়া পড়ে এবং মৃত্যু ভয়ে কাতর হইয়া পড়ে।
আযাকোনাইটের বুকেও সীইর্সাই শব্ধ হইতে থাকে এবং রোগী স্পর্জিয়া মৃত্যুতয়ে অস্থির হইয়া পড়ে। কিন্তু আযাকোনাইটের রোগগুলি অতি অকম্মাৎ আক্রমণ করিয়া অতি অল্প সময়ের মধ্যে অতি ভীষণ্ভাব ধারণ করে। আক্রমণের প্রগ্থম মুখে আযাঁকোনাইট দেওয়া যাইতে পারে যদ তাহার সহিত ভীষণতা দেখা যায়। কিন্তু দ্বিতীয় বা তৃতীয় বারের আক্রমণে বা আক্রমণ ধীরে ধীরে ভীষণতর হইতে থাকিরে আযাকোনাইটের কথ! মনে কর! অন্তায়। তখন হিপার ব! স্পঞ্জিয়ার কথা মনে করা উচিত। স্পঞ্চিয়ার বুকের মধ্যে সাইসাই শব, হিপারে ঘড়ঘড় শব্ধ? স্পঞ্রিয়! মুক্ত বাতাস পছন্দ করে, হিপার গরমে থাকিতে চায়। হৃৎপিণ্ডের যন্ত্রণায় স্পঞ্জিয়ার সহিত আর্দেনিকের খুবই সাদৃশ্ঠ দেখা যাঁয়। আর্সেনিক কখনও তৃষ্ণাহীন কখনও তৃষ্ণার্ত; স্পঞ্জিয়াও কখনও তৃষ্ণাহীন কখনও তৃষ্ণার্ত; শ্বাসকষ্ট কালে আর্সেনিক মুক্ত বাতান পছন্দ করে, ম্পঞ্জিয়াও মুক্ত বাতাস গছন্দ করে। কিন্তু আর্সেনিক সর্বাঙ্গ আবৃত করিয়! বাতাসের দিকে মুখ করিয়! বসিয়া থাকিতে চায়, স্পঞ্জিয়া স্বাঙ্গ অনাবৃত করিয়া মুক্ত বাতাসে পড়িয়া থাকিতে চায়। আর্সেনিক দক্ষিণপার্ চাপিয়] শুইতে ভালবাসে, ম্পপ্রিয়া বামপার্্ব চাপিয়! শুইতে ভালবাসে; আর্সেনিকে মধ্য রাত্রে বৃদ্ধি, স্পঞ্জিয়ায় ঠিক মধ্য রাত্রে নহে, ঘুমের পরেই বৃদ্ধি। মধ্য রাত্র অতীত হইয়! গেলে আর্সেনিক রোগী নিদ্রা যাইতে পারে, স্পঞ্ধিয়! রোগী নিদ্রা যাইতে ভয় পায়। হংপিত্ডের যন্ত্রণায় ক্যাক্টাসও আর একটি বেশ ভাল উষধ। ইহাতে ্্রণ! প্রায়ই বেলা ১১টা কিন্বা রাত্রি ১১টার সময় দেখা দেয়। যন্ত্রণায় রোগীর মনে হইতে থাকে কেহ যেন বস্তু মুষ্টিতে তাহার হ্বংপিত্তকে চাপিয়া ধরিয়াছে এবং সঙ্গে সঙ্গে তাহার বাম হস্ত অবশ হইয়া গড়ে।
একোনিটা নেপেলাস : (Aconitm Napellus). মিসহুড নামক লতা
(রানানকুলাসি) যুবক-যুবতীদের বিশেষতঃ বালিকাদের (যুবতী), যাহারা পূর্ণ রক্তপ্রধানধাতু বিশিষ্ট এবং অলসভাবে সময় কাটায়; আবহাওয়ার পরিবর্তনে সহজেই অসুস্থ হয়ে পড়ে, যাদের চুল এবং চোখের তারা কাল ও দৃঢ় পেশীতন্তুর অধিকারী, সাধারণতঃ তাদের তরুণ ও তীব্র রোগে উপযোগী ।
রোগের উৎপত্তি—শুকনো ঠান্ডা বাতাসে, শুকনো উত্তর বা পশ্চিমা বাতাস লেগে, অথবা ঘর্মাবস্থায় ঠান্ডা বায়ু প্রবাহ) শরীরে লেগে, ঘর্ম অবরোধ হয়ে তার কুফলে ।ভয় অত্যধিক এবং মানসিক উদ্বেগ তৎসহ অত্যন্ত স্নায়বিক উত্তেজনা; (ঘরের বাইরে যেতে, উত্তেজনাপূর্ণ কোন স্থানে জনতার (ভীড়ের) মাঝে যেতে, রাস্তা পার হতে (যে স্থানে অনেক গাড়ীঘাড়া, লোকজন আছে সেই রাস্তায়) ভয় পায় ।
মুখের অভিব্যক্তি ভীতিপ্রদর্শক; ভয়ে জীবন দুর্বিষহ হয়ে পড়ে; নিশ্চিতভাবে মনে করে তাহার রোগটি সাংঘাতিক; মৃত্যুর দিন সম্বন্ধে ভবিষ্যৎ বাণী করে বসে; গর্ভাবস্থায় মৃত্যুভয়ে ভীত হয় ।* অস্থির এবং উদ্বিগ্ন, সবকিছুই তাড়াতাড়ি করতে চায়; বারেবারে অবশ্যই স্থান পরিবর্তন করে; সবকিছুতেই চমকে ওঠে ।
বেদনা—অসহ্য, তাকে উন্মাদগ্রস্ত করে তোলে; বেদনায় অস্থির হয়, রাত্রে বেদনা (বৃদ্ধি) ।হ্যানিম্যান বলেনঃ “হোমিওপ্যাথিক মতে একোনাইট নির্বাচন কালে সর্বোপরি মানসিক লক্ষণগুলি লক্ষ্য রাখিবে, সাবধান যেন উহা (রগলক্ষণের) সদৃা হয় মানসিক ও দৈহিক উদ্বেগ, অস্থিরতা এবং কিছুতেই শান্ত হয় না এরূপ অবস্থা বর্তমান আছে কি না লক্ষ্য রাখতে হয় ।”অতি তুচ্ছ অসুখেও এই মানসিক উৎকণ্ঠা, উদ্বিগ্নতা এবং ভয় বর্তমান থাকে ।
গান বাজনা অসহ্য মনে হয়, রোগিনী বিষন্ন হয়ে পড়ে ।(ঋতুকালে সঙ্গীত সহ্য হয় না = স্যাবাইনা; নেট কার্ব) আধশোয়া অবস্থা হতে উঠে বসলে লালচে মুখ মড়ার মত ফ্যাকাশে হয়ে যায় অথবা মূর্খা আসে, মাথা ঘুরে পড়ে যায় ।আবার উঠে বসতেও ভয় হয়; এছাড়া কখনও কখনও এর সাথে দৃষ্টিলোপ হয় এবং অজ্ঞান হয়ে পড়ে ।
এ্যালেনস কী নো্টস্ * রক্তপ্রধানা যুবতীদের রজঃলোপ; ভয় পাইয়া রজঃলোপ; একোনাইটে । রজঃরোধ দূর হয় ।
স্থানিক (Local) অবস্থায় আগে প্রদাহের রক্তসঞ্চয় অবস্থায় উপযোগী ।জ্বর—চর্ম শুষ্ক ও উত্তপ্ত, মুখমন্ডল লালাভ অথবা পর্যায়ক্রমে ফ্যাকাশে ও লাল; অত্যধিক পরিমাণে ঠাণ্ডা জল পান করার জ্বালাকর পিপাসা; অত্যন্ত স্নায়বিক অস্থিরতা, যন্ত্রণায় এদিক ওদিক করতে থাকে—এইভাব সন্ধ্যায় ও ঘুমাতে যাবার সময় অসহ্য হয়ে ওঠে ।
তড়কা শিশুর দন্তোদমকালে,—উত্তাপ, উৎক্ষেপ একদিকের পেশীতে ঝাঁকানি দেয়, শিশু তাহার হাতের মুঠো কামড়ায়, খিটখিটে ভাব প্রকাশ করে, চিৎকার করে; গাত্রচর্ম শুষ্ক ও উত্তপ্ত, তার সাথে প্রবল জ্বর । কাশি—কুপ—শুষ্ক, স্বরভঙ্গ হয়, শ্বাসরোধ মত হয়, উচ্চশব্দযুক্ত, কর্কশ, ব্যাঙের আওয়াজের মত, কঠিন, খনখনে, শীষ দেওয়ার মত—এইরূপ
সত্যাগকালে (কষ্টিকাম) (ঐরূপ শ্বাসগ্রহণকালে—স্পঞ্জিয়া) ।শুষ্ক ঠাণ্ডা বায়ুতে অথবা প্রবল বায়ুপ্রবাহে কাশির উৎপত্তি হইলে ব্যবহার হয় ।
শুধুমাত্র জ্বর দমন করার জন্য একোনাইট প্রয়ো্গ করা উচিৎ নয় এবং এই উদ্দেশ্যে অন্য কোন ঔষধের সাথে পর্যায়ক্রমে প্রয়োগ করা উচিৎ নয় ।একোনাইটের ক্ষেত্র হলে অন্য কোন ঔষধের প্রয়োজন হবে না—একোনাইটই সেই রোগ সারাবে ।
উত্তেজক কারণ নির্দেশ ছাড়া টাইফয়েড জ্বরের প্রাথমিক অবস্থায় প্রায় ।সর্বদা ইহার প্রয়োগ ক্ষতিকারক হয় ।
বৃদ্ধি—সন্ধ্যায় ও রাত্রে বেদনা অসহ্য মনে হয়; গরম ঘরে, বিছানা হতে উঠে বসলে; আক্রান্ত পার্শ্বে চেপে শুলে (হিপার, নাক্স-মস) ।উপশম—খোলা বাতাসে (এলুমি; ম্যাগ-কা; পালস্ স্যাবাইনা) ।সম্বন্ধ-জ্বর, নিদ্রাহীনতা ও অসহ্য বেদনাবো্ধ লক্ষণে কফিয়া অনুপূরক ।আঘাতে আর্নিকা অনুপূরক; সালফার সকল অবস্থায় অনুপূরক ।যে সকল জ্বরে উদ্ভেদ দেখা দেয় তাহাতে কদাচিৎ উপযোগী ।
একোনাইট সালফারের তরুণ অবস্থায় উপযোগী, তরুণ প্রদাহে উহা একোনাইটের পূর্বে ও পরে উভয় সময়েই ব্যবহৃত হয় ।
শক্তি—১x, ৩x, ৩০, ২০০, ১ এম ।
“পুরাতন অবস্থায় মানসিক অবস্থায় বর্তমানে উচ্চশক্তি ফলপ্রদ”-ন্যাশ , টেস্ট্রিমনি অফ দি ক্লিনিক) ।
ACONITE NAPELLUS
মঙ্কৰ্ডড ভীতি, আতঙ্ক যুক্ত অবস্থা;মানসিক ও শারীরিক যন্ত্রণা, শারীরিক ও মানসিক অস্থিরতা, ভীতি, একানাইটের সর্বাধিক গুরুত্বপূর্ণ লক্ষণ। তরুণ লােগ, হঠাৎ করে এবং মারাত্মক ভাবে রােগাক্রমণ, তৎসহজুর, থাকলে ঔষধটির প্রয়ােজন হয়। কিছুতেই স্পর্শ সহ্য করতে পারে না। হঠাৎ করে প্রচন্ড দুবর্বলতা। রােগ ও মানসিক উদ্বেগের কারণ হল, শুষ্ক, ঠান্ডা, আবহাওয়া, প্রচুর ঠান্ডা বাতাস লাগান, ঘাম বসে যাওয়া, এছাড়া খুব বেশী উষ্ণ আবহাওয়া, বিশেষতঃ পেটের রােগ প্রভৃতি। প্রদাহ এবং প্রদাহিক জ্বরের প্রথম ঔষধ। শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লীও পেশীতন্তু দারুনভাবে আক্রান্ত হয়। শরীরের আভ্যন্তরীণ অঙ্গে জ্বালা, ঝিনঝিন করা, শীতলতা ও অসাড়ভাব। ইনফ্লুয়েজ্ঞা। ধমনীর অসাড়ভাব ; মানসিক, শারীরিক ও আবেগজনিত উদ্বেগ দ্বারা বহু লক্ষণের ব্যাখা পাওয়া সম্ভব হয়। একোনাইট ব্যবস্থা করার সময় একথা অবশ্যই মনে রাখা প্রয়ােজন যে, একোনাইট কেবলমাত্র শারীরিক ক্রিয়াবিকার জাতীয় অবস্থা সৃষ্টি করে থাকে, টিস্যু বা তন্তুর কোন পরিবর্তণ এই ঔষধ করতে পারে। এরূপ প্রমাণ নেই, এর কার্যকাল খুবই স্বল্পক্ষণস্থায়ী হয় এবং রােগ পর্যায়ক্রমে প্রকাশ পায় না। এটির কাৰ্য্যক্ষেত্র কোন তরুণ রােগের শুরুতেই এবং যান্ত্রিক পরিবর্তণ দেখা দেবার পর এর ব্যবহার নিষিদ্ধ। রক্তাধিক্যে এই ঔষধ ব্যবহার হয়ে থাকে কিন্তু রস নঃসরণ হলে এর ব্যবহার হয় না।
ইনভুয়েঞ্জা
(ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জিন)
মন তীব্র ভয় ভাব, মানসিক উৎকণ্ঠা ও উদ্বেগ যে কোন প্রকার রােগেই থাকে, সেক্ষেত্রে রােগ যত সামান্যই হােক না কেন। ভুলবকা বা প্রলাপ বকার বৈশিষ্ট্য হল,
অসুখী, উদ্বেগ, ভয়, উত্তেজনা, কিন্তু অজ্ঞান ভাব খুব অল্পক্ষেত্রেই দেখা যায়। অমঙ্গলের আশঙ্ক এবং ভয়ভাব। মৃত্যুকে ভয় কিন্তু রােগী বিশ্বাস করে সে খুব শীঘ্রই মারা যাবে ; মৃত্যুর দিন আগে থেকে বলেদেয়। ভবিষ্যৎ সম্বন্ধে আঙ্ক, বহুলােকের মধ্যে যেতে ভয়, রাস্তাপার হতে ভয়। অস্থিরতা, ছটফট করে, কোন কিছু শুরু করার প্রবণতা। কল্পনা প্রবল, দিব্যদৃষ্টি ; যন্ত্রণা অসহ্য ; যন্ত্রণায় রােগী পাগলা হয়ে উঠে। সঙ্গীত অসহ্য ; রােগীনিকে বিষন্ন করে তােলে (এমব্রা)। রােগী মনে করে তার চিন্তাসকল পাকস্থলী। থেকে উঠে আসছে – রােগীর মনে হয় শরীরের কোন অংশ অস্বাভাবিক ভাবে মােটা হয়ে পড়ছে। রােগী মনে করে সাম্প্রতিক সময়ে যা কিছু করেছে তা স্বপ্ন। মাথা – পূর্ণতাবােধ ; ভার বােধ,
দ র, গরম, ফেটে যাবার ন্যায় অনুভূতি, জ্বালাকর ও তরঙ্গের ন্যায় অনুভূতি। মস্তিষ্কের ভিতরে চাপবােধ (হেডেরা হেলিক্স)। জ্বালাকর মাথার যন্ত্রণা, রােগীর মনে হয় মাথার ভিতর গরম জলের প্রবাহ রয়েছে (ইন্ডিগাে)। মাথাঘােরা, উঠে দাঁড়ালে বৃদ্ধি (নাস্ক, ওপিয়ান ) ও মাথা নাড়ালে। রােগীর মনে হয় মাথার তালুর উপর থেকে চুল গুলাে টানা হচ্ছে অথবা চুলগুলি খাঁড়া ভাবে রয়েছে। রাত্রিকালীন মারাত্মক ধরনের প্রলাপ।
চোখ – লাল, প্রদাহিত। শুষ্ক ও উষ্ণ অনুভূতি যেন বালুকণা থাকার ন্যায়। চোখের পাতা ফোলা, শক্ত ও লালচে। আলােকাতঙ্ক ;শুষ্ক, ঠান্ডা বাতাস লাগাবার পরে বরফের উপর আলাের প্রতিফলনের প্রভাবে, চোখের ভিতর কয়লার গুঁড়াে বা অপর কোন বস্তু পড়ার পর চোখ দিয়ে প্রচুর পরিমানে জল ঝরে।
কান শব্দে বিরক্তি; সঙ্গীত অসহ্য ;কানের বাইরের অংশ নরম, লালচে, যন্ত্রণাকর এবং ফোলা। কানের যন্ত্রণা (ক্যামােমিলা)। বাম দিকের কানে এক ফোঁটা জল থাকার। ন্যায় অনুভূতি। | নাক — ঘ্রাণশক্তি প্রখর। নাকের মূলদেশে যন্ত্রণা, সর্দি ;প্রচুর হাঁচি নাকরে ভিতর। দপদপানি। প্রচুর উজ্জ্বল রক্ত স্রাব, শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লী শুষ্ক, নাক বন্ধ ; শুষ্ক অথবা তৎসহ নাক থেকে খুবই অল্প জলের মত সর্দিজ স্রাব নির্গত হয়।
মুখমন্ডল – লালচে, উষ্ণ, ফোলা। গালের একদিক লাল অপরদিক ফ্যাকাশে (ক্যামােমিলা ঈপিকাক)। উঠার সময় লাল মুখমন্ডল মৃতের ন্যায় ফ্যাকাশে দেখা যায়, অথবা রােগীর মাথা ঘােরে। গালে ঝিনঝিন্ করে ও অসাড়তা। স্নায়ু শূল, বিশেষত ও বামদিকের, তৎসহ অস্থিরতা, ঝিঝি ভাব এবং অসাড়তা, চোয়ালের যন্ত্রণা।
মুখ গহ্বরে – অসাড়, শুষ্ক এবং ঝিঝি কর। জিহ্বা স্ফীত ; অগ্রভাগ ঝিঝি করে। দাঁতগুলি ঠান্ডা সহ্য করতে পারে না। মারী উষ্ণ ও প্রদাহিত। জিহ্বা সাদা লেপাকৃত। (এন্টিম ক্রুড়)।
গলা – লাল, শুষ্ক, সংকুচিত, অসাড়, খোঁচা লাগার ন্যায়, জ্বালাকর, হুলফোটানাের। ন্যায়, টনসিল স্ফীত ও শুষ্ক।
পাকস্থলী – বমি, তৎসহ ভয়, গরমভাব, প্রচুর ঘাম এবং প্রস্রাবের পরিমাণের বৃদ্ধি। ঠান্ডাজল পান করার ইচ্ছা। প্রতিটি বস্তুর স্বাদই তিততা কেবলমাত্র জল ব্যতীত। প্রচুর পিপাসা। জলপান করে, বমি করে এবং রােগী ঘােষণা করে সে মারা যাবে। বমি পিত্তযুক্ত, শ্লেষ্মযুক্ত, রক্তযুক্ত ও সবুজ। পাকস্থলীতে চাপবোেধ তৎসহশ্বাসকষ্ট, রক্তবমন, পাকস্থলী থেকে খাদ্যনলী পর্যন্ত জ্বালা।
উদর – গরম, শক্ত, ফাঁপা। স্পর্শকার। পেটের শূলবেদনা, কোন অবস্থানেই রােগী আরাম পায় না। গরম ঝােল জাতীয় কিছু খাবার পর পেটের বেদনা কিছুটা নরম পড়ে। নাভীস্থলে জ্বালা। | সরলান্ত্র গুহ্যদ্বারে রাত্রিকালে চুলকানি ও সূঁচ ফোটানের ন্যায় যন্ত্রণা। বারে বারে একটু একটু পায়খানা তৎসহ কোঁথ ;সবুজ, অনেকটা কুচানাে শাকের ন্যায়। মল সাদা, তৎসহ লাল প্রস্রাব। কলেরার মত পায়খানা তৎসহ শারীরিক পতনাবস্তা, অস্থিরতা ও উদ্বেগ। রক্তযুক্ত অর্শ (হ্যামামেলিস)। শিশুদের জলের মত পায়খানা। শিশু কাঁদে, খিটখিটে, ঘুমায় না এবং অস্থিরতা থাকে। ই প্রস্রাব —অল্প, লাল, গরম ও যন্ত্রণাকর, প্রস্রাব থলির গ্রীবাদেশে জ্বালা ও কোঁথ। প্রস্রাবলীতে জ্বালা। প্রস্রাব কমে যায়, রক্ত প্রস্রাব। সর্বদা প্রস্রাব করার পূর্বে আঙ্ক প্রস্রাব অবরুদ্ধ, তৎসহচীৎকার ও অস্থিরতা, এবং রােগী লিঙ্গ চটকায়,বৃক স্থান স্পর্শকাতর, প্রচুর প্রস্রাব, তৎসহ প্রচুর ঘাম ও পাতলা পায়খানা।
পুরুষের রােগলিঙ্গমুন্ড বা গ্লান্স পেনিস অংশে হুল ফোটানাের মত ব্যথা, সুসুড় করে। অন্ডদ্বয়ে থেলিয়ে যাবার মত ব্যথা, ফোলা, শক্ত, বারে বারে লিঙ্গ খাড়া হয় এবং বীর্য পাত হয়। যন্ত্রণাকর লিঙ্গোদ্রেক।
স্ত্রী রােগ – যােনি পথ উষ্ণ, শুষ্ক ও স্পর্শকাতর। প্রচুর ঋতু স্রাব তৎসহনাক দিয়ে রক্ত পড়ে, বাধাপ্রাপ্ত, দেরিকরে দেখা দেয়। ঋতুদেখা দিলে পাগলের মতহয়ে উঠে। ভয়। পাবার পর, ঠান্ডা লাগার পর ঋতুস্রাব চাপা পড়ে, বিশেষতঃ রক্ত প্রধান ধাতুরস্ত্রীলােকের, ডিম্বাশয়ে রক্তাধিক্য ও যন্ত্রণা হয়। জরায়ুতে তীক্ষ্ণ, তীর ফোটার মত ব্যথা। যন্ত্রণা তৎসহ ভয়ভাব ও অস্থিরতা।
শ্বাস প্রশ্বাস সর্বদা বাম বুকে চাপ বােধ ;সামান্য নড়াচড়াতে শ্বাস কষ্ট। স্বরভঙ্গ যুক্ত, শুষ্ক, ঘুংরি কাশি, জোর শব্দের সঙ্গে কষ্টকর শ্বাস–প্রশ্বাস। শিশু যখনই কাশে, সেই। সময় সে দুই হাত দিয়ে তার গলা চেপে ধরে। শ্বাসনেবার সময় শ্বসনলীতে বাতাসের প্রবেশে কষ্ট। শ্বাসের সময়কাল ছােট হয়ে আসে। স্বরনলী স্পর্শকাতর। বুকের ভিতর উঁচ ফোটানাের মত ব্যথা। কাশি ক্ষণস্থায়ী, শুষ্ক, রাত্রে এবং মধ্যরাত্রের পর বৃদ্ধি। ফুসফুসে গরম বােধ।
হৃদপিন্ড হৃদপিন্ডের দ্রুত ক্রিয়া। হৃদপিন্ডের যাবতীয় পীড়ার সঙ্গে বাম কাঁধে বেদনা। বুকের ভিতর সুঁচ ফোটানাের মত ব্যথা। বুক ধড়ফড় করা তৎসহআঙ্ক, মূচ্ছা ও
হাতের আঙ্গুলে সুড়সুড় করে। নাড়ী পূর্ণ, শক্ত, টানযুক্ত ও উল্লম্ফনকারী ; কোন কোন সময় সবিরাম নাড়ী। বসে থাকার সময় দুই রগের ধমনী অনুভব করা যায়। এ পিঠ – অসাড়, আড়ষ্ট ও বেদনা দায়ক। থেলিয়ে যাবার মত ঝিনঝিন করে। ঘাড় আড়ষ্ট। দুটি স্কন্ধাস্থির মধ্যবর্তী অংশে ঘেঁৎলিয়ে যাবার মত বেদনা। | অঙ্গ–প্রত্যঙ্গ – অসাড় ও ঝিনঝিন করে ; তীর বেঁধার ন্যায় বেদনা ;হাত – পা বরফের মত ঠান্ডা ও অসাড়। বাহুগুলি ঘেঁৎলিয়ে যাবার মত, ভাববােধ, আড়ষ্ট। বাম বাহুর নীচের দিকে বেদনা, (ক্যাকটাস, ক্রোটেলাস, ক্যালমিয়া, ট্যাবেকাম)। হাত দুটি গরম এবং পা দুটি ঠান্ডা। সন্ধিস্থানে বাতজ প্রদাহ ;রাত্রে বৃদ্ধি ;লাল চকে ফোলা : অতিরিক্ত স্পর্শকাতর। হিপ জয়েন্ট ও উরু স্থান খোঁড়ার মত মনে হয় ; বিশেষতঃ শুয়ে পড়ার পর। হাঁটুর স্থিরতার অভাব ;চলার সময় পায়ের পাতা বেঁকে যায় (ইকিউলাস) সকল সন্ধির সন্ধি বন্ধনী গুলি দুর্বল ও শিথিল। সকল সন্ধিতে বেদনাহীণ ভাবে কড়কড় শব্দ হয়। দুটি হাতের হাইপােথেনার অংশ উজ্জ্বল লাল। জলের ফোঁটা উরুর ভিতর দিয়ে নীচের দিকে গড়িয়ে পড়ছে এই রকম অনুভূতি। | ঘুম রাত্রে বােবায় ধরে। রাত্রে উন্মাদনা, আতঙ্ক যুক্ত স্বপ্ন। নিদ্রাহীণতা, তৎসহ অস্থিরতা ও ছটফটে ভাব (এই সময় ৩০ শক্তি ব্যবহার করবে)। ঘুমের মধ্যে ঝাঁকি দিয়ে উঠে। দীর্ঘকাল স্থায়ী স্বপ্ন তৎসহ বুকের ভিতর আতঙ্ক। বয়স্কদের অনিদ্রা।
চামড়া — লাল, উষ্ণ, ফোলা ফোলা, শুষ্ক , জ্বালাকর। ঘামাচির মত উক্তে। হামের মত উদ্ভেদ। সুড়সুড় কর ও আড়ষ্ট। পিঠের নীচের দিকে সুড়সুড় কর ও ঠান্ডা ভাব। চুলকানি, উত্তেজক বস্তুতে উপশম।
জুর – শীতল অবস্থা বৈশিষ্ট্য যুক্ত। ঠান্ডাঘাম এবং মুখমন্ডল বরফের মত ঠান্ডা। পর্যায়ক্রমে ঠান্ডা ভাব ও উষ্ণতা। সন্ধ্যাকালীন শীত ভাব বিছানায় যাবার সঙ্গে সঙ্গে চলে যায়। শরীরের ভিতর দিয়ে ঠান্ডা তরঙ্গের বয়ে যাওয়া। তৃত্মা এবং অস্থিরতা সর্বদা দেখা যায়। চাপা না নিলে অথবা স্পর্শ করলে শীত শীত ভাব। মুখমন্ডল শুষ্ক, উষ্ণ ও লালবর্ণ। জ্বর কমার ভালাে ঔষধ তৎসহ যদি মানসিক আতঙ্ক, অস্থিরতা প্রভৃতি থাকে। শরীরের যে দিক চেপে শুয়ে থাকে সেই দিক ঘামে ভিজে যায; এরপর সকল কষ্টের উপশম হয়।
কমা –বাড়া মুক্ত বাতাসে ভালােবােধ ; রাত্রে উষ্ণ ঘরে ও সন্ধ্যায় বৃদ্ধি ; বৃদ্ধি, আক্রান্ত অংশ চেপে শুলে, সঙ্গীতে, ধুমপানে, শুষ্ক, ঠান্ডা বাতাসে। এই ঔষধের বিষক্রিয়া. বেশী পরিমানে ভিনিগারে নষ্ট হয়।
সম্বন্ধ — অম্ল, মদ, কফি, লেমনেড, টকস্বাদ যুক্ত ফল এই ঔষধের কাজ সংযত করে। ম্যালেরিয়া জ্বর, স্বল্প জ্বরে, বিষাক্ত জ্বরে, ঘুসঘুসে জ্বরে এবং প্রদাহ যখন কোন স্থানে কেন্দ্রীভূত হয় তখন এই ঔষধ নির্দেশিত হয় না। এই ঔষধের পর সালফার ভালাে কাজ করে। ক্যামােমিলা ও কফিয়া, তীব্র যন্ত্রণায় ও অনিদ্রায় তুলনীয়। এগ্রটিস জ্বরে ও প্রদাহে অ্যাকোনাইটের মত কাজ করে। স্পাইর্যানথেসও এরূপ কাজ করে থাকে।
অনুপূরক – কফিয়া ;সালফার। সালফারকে অ্যাকোনাইটের ক্রনিক বলা হয়। যে রােগের চিকিৎসা অ্যাকোনাইট দ্বারা শুরু হয়েছে, তার শেষ হয় সালফার দ্বারা, তুলনীয় ঃ বেলাোেেনা ;কফিয়া ;ক্যামােমিলা; ফেরাম ফস্। | একোনাইটিন – (সীসার মত ভারবোেধ ;সুপ্রাঅরবিটাল স্নায়ুর বেদনা, ঠান্ডা বরফের ন্যায় অনুভূতি, ক্রমশঃ উপর দিকে উঠে ;জলাতঙ্কের মত লক্ষণ কানের ভিতর ঝি ঝি শব্দ, ঝিন ঝিন অনুভূতি।
একোনাইটাম লাইকোটোনাম —(গ্রন্থির ফোলা, হজকিস্ ডিজীজ।শূকরের মাংস খাবার পর উদরাময়। নাক, চোখ, গুহ্য দ্বার ও যােনি কপাটে চুলকানি। নাকের চামড়া ফাটাফাটা; রক্তের ন্যায় স্বাদ।) | একোনাইটাম ক্যান্সারাম –(মাথার যন্ত্রণা, মাথাঘােরা, কানের ভিতর ঝি ঝি শব্দ। জিহ্বা, ঠোঁট ও মুখমন্ডলের আড়ষ্টতা।)।
একোনাইটাম ফেরক্স ইন্ডিয়ান একোনাইট একোনাইটাম নেপেলাসের থেকেও এর কাজ বেশী ভয়ংকর। এই ঔষধটি যত বেশী প্রস্রাব কারক তত বেশী জ্বরঘু নয়। প্রমাণ হয়েছে, এটি ভালাে কাজ করে হৃদপিন্ডের দোষে শ্বাসকষ্ট, স্নায়ুশূল, ও তরুণ ধাত রােগে। শ্বাসকষ্ট, রােগী সর্বদা বিছানায় বসে থাকে। শ্বাস–প্রশ্বাস দ্রুত। আঙ্ক তৎসহ শ্বাস–প্রশ্বাস ক্রিয়া চালক পেশীসমূহের আড়ষ্টতারজন্য শ্বাসরােধ ভাব। (অ্যাকাইর্যানথেস – মেস্কিকো দেশের একটি ঔষধ বিশেষ – জ্বরে একোনাইটের সদৃশ, কিন্তু বৃহৎ ক্ষেত্রে, এটি টাইফয়েড ও সবিরাম জ্বরে কাজ করে। পেশীর বাত, ৬ ব্যবহার করা)।ইর্যানথিস হ্যিালিস্ (শীতকালীন একোনাইট – ঘাড়ে ও মাথায় পিছনে বেদনা)।
শক্তি — অনুভাবকশক্তির বিক্রিয়ায় ৬ষ্ট শক্তি;রক্তাধিক্যে ১ম–৩য় শক্তি। তরুণ রােগে পুনঃ পুনঃ ঔষধ অবশ্যই প্রয়ােগকরবে। একোনাইট দ্রুত কার্যকরী ঔষধ। স্নায়ুশূলে ক্ষেত্রে টিংচারই বেশী উপযােগী, এক ফোঁটা করে (বিষাক্ত), অথবা পুনরায় ৩০ শক্তিতে, রােগীর অনুভূতির উপর নির্ভর করে।
একোনাইটাম নেপিলাস (Aconitum.Napellus)
sus) একোনাইটের ক্রিয়া স্বল্পকালস্থায়ী। ইহার লক্ষণগুলি দীর্ঘকাল স্থায়ী হয় না। অধিক মাত্রায় ইহা তীব্র বিষ; হয় ইহা দ্বারা জীবন নষ্ট হয়, নতুবা শীঘ্রই ইহার ক্রিয়ার অবসান ঘটে; সুতরাং যদি ইহা দ্বারা রােগী আরােগ্য হয়, তাহা হইলে আরােগ্যক্রিয়া বিলম্বিত হয় না। ইহার কোন রােগই পরে পুরাতন আকার ধারণ করে না। ইহার আক্রমণ প্রবল ঝড়ের ন্যায় আসে, এবং অল্পক্ষণ থাকিয়া শেষ হইয়া যায়। একটু চিন্তা করিলেই আমরা বুঝিতে পারিব যে, এগুলি কি প্রকৃতির রােগ এবং কি প্রকৃতির রােগী সাধারণতঃ এরূপ দ্রুত–প্রকাশিত এবং স্বল্পকালস্থায়ী রােগে আক্রান্ত হয়। অভিজ্ঞতা ও হােমিওপ্যাথিক পৰ্যবেক্ষণের সহিত এক মুহূর্ত ভাবিলেই আমরা সেই সকল বলিষ্ঠ, রক্তপ্রধান ব্যক্তিগণকে চিনিতে পারি, যাঁহারা ঠান্ডা লাগিলেই প্রবলভাবে শয্যাশায়ী হইয়া পড়েন, কিন্তু পক্ষান্তরে দুর্বল লােক, রুগ্ন লােক তরুণ রােগে ধীরে
ধীরে পীড়িত হইয়া ধীরে ধীরে আরােগ্য লাভ করে, কখনই ঐরূপ প্রচন্ডভাবে বা হঠাৎ আক্রান্ত হয় না। ইহা হইতে এবং একোনাইটের দ্রুত ক্রিয়া সম্বন্ধে অনুসন্ধান করিয়া সহজেই দেখা যাইবে যে, যে–সকল ব্যক্তি একোনাইট জ্ঞাপক পীড়ায় আক্রান্ত হন; তাঁহারা রক্তপ্রধান ধাতু। বলিষ্ঠ হৃষ্টপুষ্ট ব্যক্তিগণ এবং সামান্যমাত্র পরিচ্ছদধারী গরিব ঘরের শিশু ও বালকবালিকাগণ অল্প ঠান্ডা লাগায় অথবা অল্পক্ষণ খােলা হাওয়ায় থাকায় পীড়িত হয় না;—অধিকতর ভীষণ প্রকৃতির খােলা হাওয়া লাগাইলে তবেই পীড়িত হইয়া পড়ে। তাহারা অপ্রচুর বস্ত্রাদি পরিয়া খােলা হাওয়া লাগাইলে হঠাৎ আবহাওয়ার প্রবল পরিবর্তনে, বহুক্ষণ উত্তরের শুষ্ক শীতল বাতাস লাগাইলে। পীড়িত হয়। কোন বলবান ব্যক্তি পাতলা বস্ত্রাদি পরিয়া থাকায় অথবা মধ্য–শীত ঋতুর ঘন ঘন তীব্র পরিবর্তনশীল শীতল শুষ্ক বাতাসে বহুক্ষণ ঘরের বাহিরে থাকায়, সন্ধ্যা হইতে না হইতেই প্রবল রােগ–লক্ষণের সহিত শয্যাশায়ী হইতে পারেন। এইরূপ রক্তপ্রধান ও বলিষ্ঠ ব্যক্তি, যাহাদের হৃৎপিন্ড সবল, মস্তিষ্ক কৰ্ম্মঠ, রক্তসঞ্চালন ক্রিয়া প্রবল এবং তীব্র খােলা হাওয়ায় থাকিয়া সহসাই রােগাক্রান্ত হন, তাহাদের পক্ষে একোনাইট প্রয়ােজন। তিনি স) একোনাইটের প্রকৃতিগত প্রদাহিক রােগের পর সাধারণতঃ কিছুই রােগাবশিষ্ট থাকে না। ঝড়টি এত শীঘ্র শেষ হইয়া যায় যে, মনে হয় যেন পূর্বের অবস্থাটিই ফিরিয়া আসিয়াছে। এই সব বলিষ্ঠ রােগীর আকস্মিক রক্তসঞ্চয় সম্ভবতঃ উত্তম প্রতিক্রিয়া দ্বারা বিদূরিত হয়। রােগীর অকস্মাৎ প্রবল মৃত্যুসম্ভাবনা দেখা দেয় বটে, কিন্তু তাহার আরােগ্যক্রিয়াও অতি সত্বর হইয়া থাকে। সুতরাং (ডাঃ) ডাহাম যেরূপ বলিয়াছিলেন, ইহা একটি প্রবল ঝড় এবং শীঘ্রই তাহা শেষ হইয়া যায়। ডানহামের মেটিরিয়া মেডিকায় এই ঔষধটির আলােচনা খুব কবিত্বপূর্ণ এবং পড়িবার যােগ্য। | শুষ্ক শীতল হাওয়ায় অনাবৃত থাকার ফলে রােগাক্রমণ হয়। রক্তপ্রধান শিশুদিগের প্রবল জ্বর সংযুক্ত অথবা আক্ষেপ সংযুক্ত আকস্মিক মস্তিষ্কে রক্তসঞ্চয়ে আমরা ইহার নিদর্শন পাই। শরীরের যে–কোন যন্ত্র,-মস্তিষ্ক, ফুসফুস, যকৃত, রক্ত, মূত্রগ্রন্থিতে আমরা ইহার আকস্মিকতা ও প্রচন্ডতার পরিচয় পাই। শীতের প্রবল ঠান্ডায় অথবা গ্রীষ্মকালের অতিরিক্ত গরমে যে–সকল – রােগ অকস্মাৎ উপস্থিত হয়, ইহা তাহাতেই উপযােগী। শীতকালে ইহার মস্তিষ্ক ও ফুসফুস সংক্রান্ত রােগ এবং গ্রীষ্মকালে ইহার অন্ত্র–প্রদাহ ও পাকস্থলীর গােলযােগ প্রকাশ পায়। আমরা জানি এই সকল রক্তপ্রধান লােক কিরূপে হঠাৎ অত্যধিক উত্তপ্ত হয় এবং ভীষণভাবে পীড়িত হইয়া পড়ে। তাহাদের এই আকস্মিক আক্রমণ দেখিলেও ভয় হয়। এই সকল প্রাদাহিক অবস্থার সহিত রক্তসঞ্চালনের প্রবল উত্তেজনা, হৃৎপিন্ডের প্রবুল ক্রিয়া, মস্তিষ্কের তীব্র উপদাহ এবং অত্যধিক আবেগের সহিত যথেষ্ট ভয় বর্তমান থাকে।
} | একোনাইটজ্ঞাপক মানসিক লক্ষণগুলি প্রায় সব ক্ষেত্রেই স্পষ্টভাবে প্রকাশিত থাকে। রােগী তাহার ভীষণতা অনুভব করে, কারণ তাহার প্রবল স্নায়বিক উপদাহ এবং উত্তেজনা বর্তমান থাকে। তাহার মুখের ভাবে ভয় চিত্রিত থাকে এবং হৃৎপিন্ডের ক্রিয়া এতই বিভ্রান্তিকর হয় যে, সৰ্ব্বপ্রথমেই তাহার মনে হয় যে সে মরিবে, ইহার নিশ্চিত অর্থ মৃত্যু, যাহাকে সে ভয় করে। ইহা তাহার মুখের ভাবে প্রকাশিত থাকে। সে বলে, “ডাক্তার, আর কি প্রয়ােজন, আমি ত মরিতেই চলিয়াছি।” অনেক সময়ে সে বাস্তবিকই তাহার মৃত্যুকাল বা মৃত্যুর সময়টি পূর্বেই বলিয়া দেয়। যদি ঘরে ঘড়ি থাকে, সে হয়ত বলিয়া দিবে যে ঘণ্টার কাঁটাটি যখন একটি নির্দিষ্ট স্থানে পৌছিবে, তখনই তাহার মৃত্যু হইবে। যখন আমরা এই অত্যধিক ভয়, এই তীব্র উৎকণ্ঠা, এই প্রবল অস্থিরতা এবং এই রােগাক্রমণের ভীষণতা ও আকস্মিকতা দেখি, তখনই বুঝিতে পারি যে, রােগীটি একোনাইট বিষে মরিতে যাইতেছে অথবা তাহার একোনাইটই দরকার। একোনাইটের বিষক্রিয়ার অনুরূপ লক্ষণযুক্ত রােগীর পক্ষে অত্যল্প মাত্রায় একোনাইট প্রয়ােজন হয়। ইহা যে একটি স্বল্পকালক্রিয় ঔষধ তাহা সর্বদাই মনে রাখিতে হইবে।
আমাদের বিবেচনায় শরীরের কোন অংশে আমরা প্রাদাহিক অবস্থা দেখিতে পাইব, তাহাতে কিছুই আসে যায় না। কিন্তু শরীরের বিশেষ অংশ অথবা প্রদাহের বিশেষ স্থান অগ্রাহ্য করিয়া, রােগহীন যে চেহারার বিষয় আমি বর্ণনা করিয়াছি, তাহাই গ্রহণ করিতে হইবে। রােগীর মুখের ভাব, তাহার মানসিক লক্ষণ, তাহার অস্থিরতা, রােগের প্রচন্ডতা—এইগুলিই হইল প্রধান লক্ষণ এবং এইগুলিই তােমাকে সর্বাগ্রে লক্ষ্য করিতে হইবে। এই ভয়, এই উৎকণ্ঠা ব্যতীত আরও অনেক কম প্রয়ােজনীয় ক্ষুদ্র ক্ষুদ্র মানসিক লক্ষণ থাকিতে পারে, কিন্তু সে লক্ষণগুলি এই রােগীপরিচায়ক বিশিষ্ট লক্ষণচয় দ্বারা চাপা পড়িয়া যায়। সে তাহার বন্ধুগণের প্রতি সমস্ত স্নেহ হারায়, তাহাদের কি হইবে তাহা সে গ্রাহ্য করে না, তাহাদের সম্বন্ধে তাহার এতটুকু কৌতুহলও থাকে
। সময়ে সময়ে এই রূপ উদাসীন অবস্থা দেখা দিতে পারে। ই এই যাহা আমি বর্ণনা করিলাম, তাহা হইতে যে–কোন ব্যক্তি অনায়াসেই দেখিতে পাইবে যে, এরূপ চিত্র মেটিরিয়া মেডিকার সকল ঔষধের মধ্যে নাই। বস্তুতঃ ইহা একমাত্র একোনাইটের মধ্যেই আছে। অন্য যে–কোন ঔষধের সহিত তুলনা কর মা কেন তুমি ইহা একমাত্ৰ একোনাইটের মধ্যেই দেখিতে পাইবে। তুমি ইহার কোন কোন লক্ষণ পাঠ্যপুস্তকের অপরাপর ঔষধের মধ্যে দেখিতে পাইবে, কিন্তু যে লক্ষণগুলি আমি একত্রিত ভাবে বর্ণনা করিলাম, তাহা একমাত্র একোনাইটের মধ্যেই দেখিতে পাওয়া যায়। মানসিক লক্ষণগুলি ধর— প্রাবল্যই তাহাদের প্রত্যেকটির বিশিষ্টতা। যদি উহা প্রলাপ হয়, তাহা হইলে সে প্রলাপ উগ্র তাহার সহিত উত্তেজনা, ভয় এবং উদ্বেগ থাকিবে। প্রলাপের মধ্যে রােগী বিশেষভাবে উৎপীড়িত হওয়ার ন্যায় উত্তেজনা ও ভয়ে কাঁদিতে থাকিবে। প্রবল উত্তেজনা, ভয়, মৃত্যুভয়। কি জন্য সে কাঁদিতেছে তাহা ভাবিয়া তুমি বিস্মিত হইবে। ইহাতে সর্বপ্রকার মনােভাব আছে, কিন্তু প্রত্যেকটিই একোনাইটের ভয়ের সহিত সংমিশ্রিত । ইহাতে গােঙানি ও উত্তেজনা থাকিতে পারে, রাগে জিনিষপত্র ছুঁড়িয়া ফেলা থাকিতে পারে, কিন্তু সবকিছুর মধ্যেই প্রচন্ডতা ও উৎকণ্ঠা থাকিবেই। এই লক্ষণগুলি, যাহাদিগকে আমি প্রধানতম বলিয়া বর্ণনা করিয়াছি, তাহারা অন্য সকল লক্ষণের সহিত সংমিশ্রিত থাকে।
| যাতনায় চিৎকার করিয়া উঠা।” এই যাতনা ছুরি বসানর মত হুল ফোটানর মত, কাটিয়া ফেলার মত, ছােরা মারার মত। একোনাইটের যাতনার প্রাবল্য বিস্ময়কর, সুতরাং যদি স্নায়ুশূল দেখা দিয়া থাকে, তাহা হইলে সে বেদনা অতি তীব্র। রােগীর মনে হয়, নিশ্চয়ই তাহার সাংঘাতিক কিছু ঘটিবে, নচেৎ এত ভীষণ যন্ত্রণা হইত না। পাঠ্যপুস্তকে লিখিত আছে যে, সে তাহার মৃত্যুর দিনটি বলিয়া দেয়। যে ভীতিভাব তাহাকে আচ্ছন্ন করিয়া রাখে, ইহা বহুলাংশে তাহারই ফল। আর নিউমােনিয়ায় শরীরের যেকোন অংশের প্রদাহিক অবস্থায়, মূত্রগ্রন্থি, যকৃৎ, অন্ত্র প্রভৃতির প্রদাহে এই মানসিক, চিত্রটি সৰ্ব্বদাই বর্তমান থাকে। নির | এই লক্ষণচিত্রের সর্বত্রই শিরােঘূর্ণন বর্তমান থাকে। “শিরাে ঘূর্ণনউল্টাইয়া ফেলার মত এবং ঘুরাইয়া ফেলার মত।” কোন মহিলা হয়ত জিনিষপত্র কিনিতে বাহির হইয়া একটি কুকুর দেখিয়া বিপরীত দিকে দৌড়াইতে থাকিলেন, এবং ইহার ফলে তাহার এরূপ মাথা ঘুরিতে লাগিল যে, আর গাড়ীতে উঠিতেও সক্ষম হইলেন না। “শিরােঘূর্ণনটি দেখা দেয় ভয় পাইয়া, অকস্মাৎ ভয় পাইয়া এবং ইহার ফলে তাহার এরূপ মাথা ঘুরিতে লাগিল যে, আর গাড়ীতে উঠিতেও সক্ষম হইলেন না। “শিরােঘূর্ণনটি দেখা দেয় ভয় পাইয়া, অকস্মাৎ ভয় পাইয়া এবং ভয় পাওয়ার ভয়টি থাকিয়া যাওয়ায়।” ভয়ের কিছুটা অংশ থাকিয়া যায়, কিন্তু উহা যেন তােমাকে জোর করিয়া ‘ওপিয়ামের দিকে টানিয়া না লয়। “ভয় পাওয়ার ফলে রােগ।” ভয় হইতে মস্তিষ্কের প্রদাহ, ভয় হইতে শিরােঘূর্ণন, এমনকি ভয়ের ফলে কোন বিশেষ অঙ্গে রক্তসঞ্চয়। সমগ্র স্নায়ুকেন্দ্রের বিপর্যয়। মনে হয় যেন সব কিছুই ঘুরিতেছে।
শিরঃপীড়া এত তীব্রভাবে উপস্থিত হয় যে, তাহা বর্ণনা করা যায় না। মস্তিষ্কের মধ্যে মস্তক–তৃকে ছিড়িয়া ফেলার মত জ্বালাভাব, তৎসহ ভয়, জ্বর, উৎকণ্ঠা। ঠান্ডা লাগার ফলে শিরঃপীড়া, নাসিকার সর্দি চাপিয়া যাওয়ার ফলে শিরঃপীড়া। খােলা হাওয়ায় থাকায়, উত্তর
অঞ্চলের শীতকালীন শুষ্ক শীতল বাতাসের ন্যায় বাতাসের মধ্যে গাড়ী–ঘােড়া চড়ায় রক্তপ্রধান ব্যক্তিদের সর্দি হঠাৎ বন্ধ হইয়া যায়। তাহার ফলে চক্ষুর উপরে ভীষণ শিরঃপীড়া। মস্তকে রক্তসঞ্চয়, রক্তসঞ্চয়হেতু শিরঃপীড়া, তৎসহ উদ্বেগ এবং উত্তপ্ত মুখমন্ডল। চ মকে মা যে–সকল চক্ষুলক্ষণে তােমাদিগকে একোনাইট দিতে হইবে তাহা অসংখ্য। অকস্মাৎ চক্ষুর প্রদাহিত অবস্থা। চক্ষুতে রক্তসঞ্চয় । চক্ষু রক্তের মত লালবর্ণ। ঠান্ডায়, শুষ্ক ঠান্ডা হাওয়া লাগার ফলে চক্ষুর সমস্ত তন্তুর প্রদাহ, যােজকত্ব প্রদাহ। কি কি জাগো ১৮ বহুদিন হইতে একটি শিক্ষা প্রচলিত আছে–প্রদাহের প্রথম অবস্থায় একোনাইট দিবে। সকল পাঠ্যপুস্তকে থাকিলেও ইহা উৎকৃষ্ট শিক্ষা নহে। উহাতে বলা হয় নাই যে, কিরূপ ধাতুযুক্ত ব্যক্তিকে অথবা কিরূপে রােগাক্রমণটি আসিলে উহা দিতে হইবে। এভাবে চিকিৎসা করিও না। যদি সম্ভব হয়, একোনাইটের রােগের সব লক্ষণগুলি লও, নতুবা অপেক্ষাকৃত সদৃশ অন্য ঔষধ দাও। আর এক প্রকারের শিক্ষা চলিয়া আসিতেছে—জ্বর হইলেই একোনাইট দাও। আমাদের পূর্বেকার বাঁধা নিয়মাবলম্বী বহু চিকিৎসকেরই একোনাইট জ্বরের ঔষধ ছিল; কিন্তু ইহা কুচিকিৎসা। ভিসঞ্চতা চ) একোনাইটে যে চক্ষু–প্রদাহ আছে তাহা এত হঠাৎ উপস্থিত হয় যে, কিরূপে এত অল্প সময়ের মধ্যে প্রদাহটি দেখা দিল, তাহা ভাবিয়া বিস্মিত হইতে হয়। চক্ষু খুব ফুলিয়া উঠে, হয় কোন স্রাব থাকে না, নতুবা সামান্যমাত্র জলবৎ শ্লেষ্মস্রাব থাকে। ঘন স্রাবের সহিত যে প্রদাহ হঠাৎ দেখা দেয় তাহা কখনও একোনাইটের নহে। একোনাইটের প্রদাহের কোনই জের থাকে
। যেরূপ অবস্থায় প্রদাহের জের থাকিয়া যাওয়ার সম্ভাবনা, তাহাতে সৰ্ব্বদাই অন্য ঔষধ প্রযােজ্য হইবে । ঠিক একোনাইটের রােগী না পাইলে তােমরা জুরে একোনাইটের কথা চিন্তা করিও না। একোনাইটে জ্বরে আলােকাতঙ্ক থাকে। “জ্বরের সহিত একান্ত অস্থিরতা।” রােগী একদৃষ্টে চাহিয়া থাকে, কিন্তু চক্ষুতারকা সঙ্কুচিত হয় এবং চক্ষুগােলকের গভীর প্রদেশে ভীষণ টনটনানি ও প্রদাহ থাকে। যখন লক্ষণ মিলিবে, মাত্র তখনই একোনাইট দিবে। যে প্রদাহ দীর্ঘকালস্থায়ী হইবে, যাহাতে পুঁজ সঞ্চয় হইবে, অথবা যে, শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লী হইতে পুঁজস্রাব দেখা, দিবে, তাহাতে কখনই একোনাইটের লক্ষণ নাই। আরক্ত জ্বর, আন্ত্রিক (Typhoid) জ্বর প্রভৃতিতে আমরা যেরূপ রক্তদুষ্টি দেখি, তাহাতে কখনই একোনাইট দিবে না। এরূপ অবস্থায় আমরা একোনাইট লক্ষণের কোন প্রচন্ডতাই দেখিতে পাই না। এরূপ ক্ষেত্রে স্নায়বিক উপদাহ কখনই বর্তমান থাকে না, বরং ঠিক বিপরীত সংজ্ঞাহীনতা, জড়তা, বেগুনে বর্ণের গাত্রচর্ম থাকে, কিন্তু একোনাইটের গাত্রত্বক উজ্জ্বল লােহিত বর্ণ। বিষদুষ্ট স্পর্শাক্রমক কোন রােগে কখনও একোনাইট দিবে না, কারণ ইহাতে বিষদুষ্টির ইতিহাস নাই। ধীরে ধীরে প্রকাশিত একজ্বরে একোনাইটের কথা ভাবাই উচিত নহে। একোনাইটের জ্বর সাধারণতঃ অল্পকালস্থায়ী, তীব্র জ্বর। ইহার সহিত সবিরাম জ্বরের কোনই সম্বন্ধ নাই, কারণ ইহাতে ঐরূপ কোন লক্ষণ নাই। সবিরাম জ্বরের প্রথম আক্রমণে তােমরা হয়ত প্রতারিত হইবার মত কিছু দেখিতে পার, কিন্তু দ্বিতীয় আক্রমণটি দেখা দিল, মাত্র এই ঘটনা হইতেই একোনাইটকে বন্ধ করিয়া দিবে । অনেকগুলি ঔষধে নির্দিষ্ট কাল ব্যবধানে আক্রমণ অথবা ঢেউয়ের মত আক্রমণ আছে, কিন্তু একোনাইটে ঐরূপ অবস্থা নাই। একোনাইট যদি ঔষধ হয়, তবে জ্বরের তীব্র আক্রমণটি এক রাত্রেই ছাড়িয়া যাইবে। যদি তাহা না হয় তাহা হইলে তােমাদের একোনাইট প্রয়ােগের ভুলটি দুঃখের কারণ হইবে, কারণ ইহা দ্বারা সময়ে সময়ে ক্ষতি হইয়া থাকে। কোন রােগের যত কিছু লক্ষণ সবই গ্রহণ করিতে হয়, মাত্র যেটুকু ঔষধ লক্ষণের সদৃশ সেইটুকুই নহে, যেটুকু ঔষধ লক্ষণের মধ্যে পড়ে না সেটুকুও বটে।
একোনাইট জ্বালা ও আকস্মিক ফোলা সংযুক্ত চক্ষু–প্রদাহ আছে। পাতাগুলি এত শীঘ্র ফুলিয়া উঠে যে, বহুকষ্টে তাহাদিগকে খুলিতে পারা যায় এবং যখন পাতাগুলির প্রান্ত একটি সন্না দ্বারা ধরিয়া জোর করিয়া খােলা হয়, তখন ভিতর হইতে ফোটা ফোটা গরম জল পড়ে, কিন্তু পুঁজ পড়ে না। ঠান্ডা লাগার ফলে শীঘ্রই এরূপ ঘটিয়া থাকে। যখন শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লীর উপরিভাগ প্রদাহিত হয়, তখন রক্তাক্ত জল বাহির হইবার সম্ভাবনা। অকস্মাৎ রক্তচলাচলের নাড়ীগুলি অতিপূর্ণ হইয়া ক্ষরণ আরম্ভ হয়। রক্তচলাচলের নাড়ীগুলি ফাটিয়া যায় এবং কৈশিকাগুলি হইতে রক্তক্ষরণ হইতে থাকে। [ ২ >2 তিনি ৮. কর্ণ–প্রদাহও ঠিক একই রূপ অকস্মাৎ উপস্থিত হয়। “কর্ণে দপদপানি, তীব্র কাটিয়া ফেলার ন্যায় যাতনা।” শিশু যথেষ্ট পােষাক না পরিয়া ঠান্ডা উত্তরের হাওয়ায় বাহির হইবার পর বাড়ী ফিরিল, আর তার পরই চিৎকার করিতে লাগিল, কানে হাত দিতে লাগিল। এরূপ আক্রমণ দিবাভাগে বাহিরে থাকার পর সন্ধ্যার দিকেই দেখা দেয়। জ্বর ও উৎকণ্ঠা; শিশুকে কোলে লইয়া বেড়াইতে হয়। যন্ত্রণা তীব্র হয়। গােলমাল অসহ্য বােধ হয়। শ্রবণশক্তি এত তীক্ষ্ণ হয় যে গানের শব্দ যেন প্রত্যেকটি অঙ্গ–প্রত্যঙ্গের মধ্যে প্রবেশ করিতে থাকে। শরীরের সর্বত্রই আমরা এই একইরূপ তীক্ষ্ম অবস্থা দেখিতে পাই। যেখানেই রােগ হয়, তাহাই তীব্র ও প্রবল হয় এবং রােগী সৰ্ব্বত্রই এক প্রকার উকণ্ঠা ও উত্তেজনার মধ্যে থাকে। “কর্ণে হুলবিদ্ধবৎ, জ্বালাকর, বিদীর্ণকর, ছিড়িয়া ফেলার মত, কাটিয়া ফেলার মত বেদনা।” | সর্দি যদি তীব্র শিরঃপীড়াসংযুক্ত হয়, এবং দিবাভাগে ঠান্ডা লাগানর পর অকস্মাৎ রাত্রিকালে উপস্থিত হয়, তাহা হইলে এই স্বল্পকালক্রিয়, অতি দ্রুত কার্যকরী ঔষধটি প্রযােজ্য হইবে । কাৰ্ব্ব ভেজে যে সর্দি হয় তাহা প্রকাশ পায় খােলা হাওয়া লাগানর কয়েক দিন পরে। সালফারে যে সর্দি হয়, তাহাও খােলা বাতাসে থাকার কয়েক দিন পরে প্রকাশ পায়। কাৰ্ব্ব ভেজে’র রােগী অতি উত্তপ্ত হয় এবং এমনকি অফিসে আসার সময়, ওভারকোট পরিয়া থাকিলেও সর্দিতে আক্রান্ত হয়। একোনাইটের রােগী হাল্কা পােষাক পরিয়া ঠান্ডা হাওয়ায় বাহির হয় এবং রক্তপ্রধান লােক হইলে মধ্যরাত্রির পূর্বেই পীড়িত হইয়া পড়ে।
> কিন্তু বিশেষভাবে ইহা হৃষ্টপুষ্ট গােলগাল, রক্তপ্রধান শিশুদের সর্দি–রােগেই সাধারণতঃ নির্দিষ্ট হয়; রুগ্ন পান্ডুর শিশুদের রােগ নহে। রুগ্ন শিশুরা অনেক দেরীতে পীড়িত হয়, তাহাদের জীবনীশক্তির কার্যকারিতা এত কম থাকে যে, দুই তিন দিনের আগে তাহাদের রােগলক্ষণ প্রকাশ পায় না। সুতরাং তুমি যদি একই পরিবারের একটি রুগ্ন ও বলিষ্ঠ শিশুকে লইয়া খােলা বাতাসে যাও, তাহা হইলে একজনের সেই রাত্রেই ত্রুপ কাশি দেখা দিবে এবং তাহার জন্য একোনাইট প্রয়ােজন হইবে, কিন্তু অপরটির ঐ রােগ প্রকাশ পাইবে পরদিন সকালে এবং তাহার জন্য প্রয়ােজন হইবে ‘হিপার।
সর্দিরােগে যে–সকল লক্ষণ প্রকাশ পাওয়া সম্ভব, তন্মধ্যে নাসাপথে রক্তস্রাব, শিরঃপীড়া, উদ্বেগ ও ভয় অন্যতম। একোনাইটের রােগীর যে লক্ষণগুলি প্রকাশ পায়, তন্মধ্যে সর্বপ্রথম হইল উৎকন্ঠাপূর্ণ মুখভাব। একোনাইটের নিউমােনিয়া প্রায়ই মুখের ভাবেই প্রকাশ পায়। মুখের দিকে চাহিলে, দেখিবে যে, সেখানে প্রবল উৎকণ্ঠা রহিয়াছে। একোনাইটের পরীক্ষাকালে প্রকাশিত লক্ষণসমূহের অনেক কিছুই ইহার মধ্যে পাওয়া যায়। তােমরা জান যে, মুখের ভাবে এমন অনেক কিছুই আছে, যাহা দ্বারা শরীরের মধ্যে যাহা ঘটিতেছে তাহার সবটুকুই জানিতে পারা যায়; উহাই যেন কাহিনীটিকে বলিয়া দেয়। আনন্দ ও দুঃখ, পারিবারিক দুর্দশা ইহাদের অনেক কিছুকেই তুমি বিশেষ শ্রেণীভুক্ত করিয়া লইতে পার, একটি মাত্র দৃষ্টিতেই বুঝিয়া লইতে পার যে, কোন একটি গুরুতর ব্যাপার ঘটিয়া গিয়াছে। ঠিক জিনিষটি ধরিবার পূর্বে তােমাকে হয়ত কেবলমাত্র দুই একবার অনুমান করিয়া লইতে হইবে। একোনাইটের ক্ষেত্রে তুমি পাইবে—“উৎকণ্ঠা”।
“এক গাল লাল এবং অপরটি পান্ডুর”-এই লক্ষণটি অনেকগুলি ঔষধের মধ্যেই আছে, কিন্তু নাই উৎকন্ঠাপূর্ণ মুখভাব, ভয়, উত্তাপ এবং আকস্মিক রােগাক্রমণ, যেমনটি রক্তপ্রধান ব্যক্তিগণের ক্ষেত্রে দেখা যায়,—আর “পূৰ্ব্বদিন শুষ্ক ও ঝটিকাময় ছিল” এই কথাটিও তুমি একোনাইটের সহিত যােগ করিয়া লও। অন্যরূপ অবস্থা বর্তমান থাকিলে, অপর ঔষধগুলির কোনটির প্রয়ােজন হইবে। “মুখমন্ডলের স্নায়ুশূল যেন মুখমন্ডলের উভয়পার্শ্বে উত্তপ্ত লৌহতার চলাচল করিতেছে”- কোন ব্যক্তি হয়ত শীতল শুষ্ক হাওয়ার মধ্যে গাড়ী ঘােড়া চড়িয়াছিল,
তাহার মুখমন্ডল হয়ত ঠান্ডা হাওয়ায় উন্মুক্ত ছিল। এইবার সে অসাড়তা বােধ করিবে এবং তারপর যাতনা—তীব্র যাতনা দেখা দিবে। সে ছুরিকাঘাতের মত, কাটিয়া ফেলার মত বেদনায় ক্রন্দন করিতে এবং চিৎকার করিতে আরম্ভ করিবে। একোনাইট তাহাকে শান্তি দিরে। “পিঁপড়া হাঁটার ন্যায় সুড়সুড়ি, সড়সড়ানি”—একোনাইটে স্নায়ুসমূহের উপর দিয়া এইরূপ অনুভূতি আছে। গৃধসী বাত—যখন স্নায়ুর উপর বরফ জল ঢালার ন্যায় অনুভূতি থাকে। “মুখমন্ডলে যন্ত্রণাযুক্ত অথবা যন্ত্রণাবিহীন সুড়সুড়ি ঝিনঝিনি এবং সড়সড়ানি”—ঐ সঙ্গে মুখমন্ডলে প্রখর উত্তাপ ও প্রবল জ্বর থাকে। মুখের যে পার্শ্বে চাপিয়া শয়ন করে, তাহাতে ঘাম হইতে থাকে, কিন্তু রােগী যদি পাশ ফিরিয়া শােয় তাহা হইলে সেই পাটি তৎক্ষণাৎ শুষ্ক হইয়া যায় এবং অপর পার্শ্বটি ঘামিয়া।
” আহা! দাঁতের বেদনার পক্ষে ইহা কি শান্তিদায়ক ঔষধ! দাঁতের বেদনায় ইহা এতই উপযােগী যে আজকাল প্রায় প্রত্যেক বয়স্কা মহিলাই একটু তুলার উপরে এক ফোটা একোনাইট ঢালিয়া, তাহা দাঁতের পুরাতন গর্তের মধ্যে প্রবেশ করাইয়া দিতে জানেন। ইহা দ্বারা প্রায়ই উপশম পাওয়া যায়। একমাত্ৰা একোনাইট সেবন করিলে আরও ভাল কাজ হয়। কিন্তু আবার সেই পুরাতন কথাটি মনে রাখিতে হইবে দন্তশূলের তীব্রতা, শুষ্ক ঠান্ডা বাতাস হইতে রােগাক্রমণ, রক্তপ্রধান ব্যক্তির পােকায় খাওয়া দাঁত, দাঁতে প্রবল, কৰ্ত্তনবৎ, তীরবৎ বেদনা। কখন কখন এরূপ বেদনা সুস্থ দন্তেও দেখা যায় এবং বেদনাটি সমগ্র দন্তপাটিকে আক্রমণ করে। খােলা বাতাস লাগান, যথা–বাতাসের মধ্যে ঘােড়ায় চড়ার ফলে তীব্র যাতনা। একমাত্র একোনাইট দেওয়ার পরই, এই বেদনা প্রশমিত হয় এবং চলিয়া যায়।
স্বাদের বিকৃতি, পাকস্থলীর গােলযােগ। জল ব্যতীত সবকিছুই তিক্ত লাগে। আর একোনাইটের রােগীর জলের উপর কি টান! জল খাইয়া তাহার আর আশ মেটে না, আর জল ভালও লাগে। সিইসি
এই ঔষধের সবকিছুতেই জ্বালা’ লক্ষণটি আছে, তােমরা সৰ্ব্বপ্রকার যন্ত্রণার বর্ণনাতেই উহা পাইবে। জ্বালা মাথায়, জ্বালা স্নায়ুসমূহের উপর, জ্বালা মেরুদন্ডের উপর, জ্বালা জ্বরের মধ্যে, সময়ে সময়ে যেন লঙ্কাবাটায় আবৃত রহিয়াছে—এরূপ জ্বালা।
= গলার প্রদাহ রােগে একোনাইট একটি প্রয়ােজনীয় ঔষধ, যখন জ্বালা, চিড়িকমারা, শুষ্কতা এবং টনসিল, গলগহ্বর ও সমুদয় গলদেশের অত্যন্ত আরক্ততা লক্ষণ থাকে। কখন কখন কোমল তালু খুব ফুলিয়া উঠে। গলদেশ বলিয়া কথিত স্থানে যাহা কিছু দেখা যায় তৎসমুদয়ের অত্যধিক প্রদাহ, তরুণ–প্রদাহ। কিন্তু একমাত্র ইহা দ্বারাই একোনাইট সূচিত হয় না। একোনাইট এই প্রকৃতির রােগ আরােগ্য করে; উহা গলার প্রদাহ আরােগ্য করে সত্য, কিন্তু প্রত্যেক হােমিওপ্যাথিক চিকিৎসকই জানেন যে, আমি যাহা বলিয়াছি, ঠিক তাহাতে একোনাইটের ন্যায় আরও চল্লিশ পঞ্চাশটি ঔষধ নির্বাচিত হওয়া সম্ভব। আমি কেবলমাত্র একটি খাপছাড়া বর্ণনা দিয়াছি। এই প্রকার লক্ষণের সাহায্যে কোন হােমিওপ্যাথিক চিকিৎসকই ঔষধই ব্যবস্থা করিতে পারে না। তােমার গলার এই অবস্থাটি লিখিয়া দিলে, প্রত্যেক চিকিৎসকই মনে মনে প্রশ্ন করিবেন—“এরূপ গলার জন্য কেন একোনাইট প্রযােজ্য হইবে?” এবং তারপরই প্রশ্ন আসিবে যে গলাটি না দেখিয়াও তিনি ইহার জন্য ঔষধ ব্যবস্থা করিতে পারেন না? বুদ্ধিমান চিকিৎসকের নিকট রােগীটির স্বরূপ উপস্থিত করিবার জন্য গললক্ষণের বিশেষ প্রয়ােজন নাই। যদি আক্রান্ত অংশটিকে তৎস্বরূপে চিকিৎসকের মনের সম্মুখে উপস্থিত করারই প্রয়ােজন হয়, তাহা হইলে তিনি যকৃতের চিকিৎসা কিরূপে করিবেন? তিনি তাে যকৃৎটিকে দেখিতে পাইবেন।
। কিরূপে তিনি পাকস্থলীর জন্য ঔষধ ব্যবস্থা করিবেন? তিনি তাে উহা দেখিতে পাইবেন না। তাহা হইলে আমাদিগকে আগেকার কথাতেই ফিরিয়া আসিতে হইল–বুদ্ধিমান চিকিৎসকের নিকট রােগীর বিশিষ্ট প্রকৃতিটি উপস্থাপিত হইলে, তখনই তিনি ঐসব অবস্থার মধ্যে কতকগুলি কারণ দেখিতে পাইবেন। যদি তুমি একোনাইটের রােগীকে ভালভাবে মনে করিয়া রাখিতে পার, তাহা হইলে তুমিও ঔষধ ব্যবস্থা করিতে পারিবে। অবশ্য যাহা চোখে দেখা যায়, তাহা দেখাই ভাল। যদি যকৃৎটিকে দেখা যাইত আমি বলিতাম, তুমি উহা দেখিয়া লও। যদি হৃৎপিন্ডটি দেখা সম্ভব হইত আমি বলিতাম, তুমি উহা পরীক্ষা কর।
| এই গলার মধ্যে কি লক্ষণ থাকিলে রােগীকে ঠিক মত চিনিতে পারা যায়? বস্তুতঃ গলায় যেকোনরূপ ব্যথা থাকিলেই গিলিতে কষ্ট হয়। আমি বুঝাইতে চাই যে, ব্যথার মধ্যে এমন। কিছুই নাই যাহা একোনাইটের রােগীকে চিকিৎসকের নিকট ঠিকভাবে চিনাইয়া দেয়। যদি লােকটি রক্তপ্রধান হয়, যদি সে দিনের মধ্যে বহুক্ষণ ঠান্ডা শুষ্ক হাওয়ায় গাড়ী–ঘােড়া চড়িয়া থাকে, এবং যদি সে রাত্রে ভীষণ জ্বালাকর, ছিড়িয়া ফেলার ন্যায় গলবেদনায় জাগিয়া উঠিয়া থাকে, যদি তাহার গিলিতে কষ্ট হয়, প্রবল জ্বর দেখা দেয়, ঠান্ডা জলের তৃষ্ণা থাকে, জল পান করিয়া আশা না মেটে, উৎকন্ঠাপূর্ণ জ্বরাবেশের মধ্যে পড়িয়া থাকে, তবেই তুমি ঔষধ (একোনাইট ব্যবস্থা করিবার মত রােগী পাইলে। অনেক সময় তােমার পর্যবেক্ষণে রােগীরা এত বুদ্ধিমান হইবে যে, পরিবারের কোন লােক কিরূপ আচরণ করিতেছে তাহা সঠিকভাবে লিখিয়া জানাইবে। যে ভ্যাসারবাসিনী (শিক্ষিতা) স্ত্রীলােক আমাকে লিখে, “ডাক্তার, আমি গলার ভিতর দেখিয়াছি, উহা লাল; আপনি দয়া করিয়া ঔষধ পাঠাইয়া দিবেন”, তাহার চেয়ে অনেক সময়েই অশিক্ষিত লােকেরা উৎকৃষ্টতর রােগবিবরণী দিয়া থাকে।
পাকস্থলীর লক্ষণের সহিত, কি ভয়ানক উৎকন্ঠাপূর্ণ রােগীই আমরা পাইয়া থাকি! যন্ত্রণা। অতি ভয়ানক। ঠান্ডা লাগার ফলে জ্বালাকর, ছিন্নকর বেদনা, তৎসহ উদ্বেগ, অস্থিরতা, জ্বর। অতি ভােজনের জন্য নহে, কিন্তু ঠান্ডালাগার ফলে। বরফজলে উনুক্ত হইয়া স্নানের ফলে ঠান্ডাটি পাকস্থলীতে জাকিয়া বসিয়াছে, অথবা গ্রীষ্মকালের প্রখর উত্তাপে রােগটি দেখা দিয়াছে, তৎসহ বলিষ্ঠ শিশুদের ক্ষেত্রে মস্তকের উপদাহ থাকে। বমন, ‘কাঠবমি—উহা যেন ছিড়িয়া ফেলার মত,—ঐ ভয়ঙ্কর বমি বমি ভাবে অভ্যন্তরস্থ সবকিছুই যেন বাহির হইয়া পড়িবে। রক্তবমন;-. উজ্জ্বল লাল রক্ত। পাকস্থলীরােগের অবস্থাটি সাধারণতঃ এইরূপ থাকে। জ্বরাবস্থায় সে তিক্ত দ্রব্য, মদ্য, বিয়ার, ব্রান্ডি আকাঙ্ক্ষা করে, কিন্তু উহা পাকস্থলীতে পৌছিবামাত্র বাহির হইয়া আসে। সে ঝাল দ্রব্য চায়, কিছুই তাহার কাছে বেশী ঝাল বােধ হয় না। আর যদি সে কিছু তিক্ত দ্রব্য খাইতে পাইত!” তথাপি খাদ্যদ্রব্য তাহার নিকট তিক্ত বােধ হয়, একমাত্র জল ব্যতীত, সবকিছুই তিক্ত লাগে।
পাঠ্যপুস্তকে চিকিৎসা বিজ্ঞানের ভাষায় ইহাকে “পাকাশয়ের সর্দি” বলে। ইহা অত্যন্ত তীব্র এবং তরুণ পাকস্থলী–প্রদাহ। বমি বমি ভাব, পিত্তবমন, রক্তবমন। পাকস্থলীতে কিছু না থাকিলেও নিষ্ফল কাঠবমি । আর ইহার সহিত থাকে উদ্বেগ, অস্থিরতা, মৃত্যুভয়। ঐ ভয় মুখের ভাবে চিত্রিত থাকায় তাহাকে ভয়ানক দেখায়। | হঠাৎ আক্রমণটি দেখা দিলে, একোনাইট যকৃৎ–প্রদাহের একটি উপযােগী ঔষধ। পুনঃ পুনঃ আক্রমণে ইহা সেরূপ উপযােগী নহে, কিন্তু প্রথম আক্রমণে উপযােগী। যকৃতের প্রবল প্রদাহ, তৎসহ ভয়ানক ছিন্নকর বেদনা এবং প্রবল জ্বালা। তারপর ঐসঙ্গে থাকে—অস্থিরতা, উৎকণ্ঠার পীড়ন, অবিরত সঞ্চালন, মৃত্যুভয়, লাল মুখমন্ডল, কাচের ন্যায় চক্ষু এবং প্রবল তৃষ্ণা। একমাত্র “উৎকন্ঠাপূর্ণ অস্থিরতা” কথাটি দ্বারাই উপরােক্ত সব লক্ষণগুলিই প্রকাশ করা চলে। শি, ঠান্ডার মধ্যে অনাবৃত থাকিয়া, ঠান্ডা লাগানর ফলে পেটে তীরবৎ বেদনা, জ্বালা, হুলবিদ্ধবৎ ব্যথা। আমাদিগের শীঘ্রই উপলব্ধি হইবে যে, রােগটি কোন অঙ্গে দেখা দিয়াছে তাহাতে বিশেষ কিছু যায় আসে না; আমাদের চাই একোনাইটের রােগী। আমরা আরও সমগ্র উদরগহ্বরটির প্রাদাহিক রােগ পাইতে পারি। উহা হয়ত প্রবল সর্দিজ প্রদাহ। উহা যদি অন্ত্রের নিম্নাংশের অথবা বৃহদন্ত্রের সর্দিজ প্রদাহ হয় তাহা হইলে আমাশয় রােগ হইবে। আমাশয় রােগে আমরা মলত্যাগ পাত্রে যাহা দেখিতে পাইব তাহার প্রায় সবটাই রক্ত, তাজা রক্ত এবং তৎসহ সামান্য আম। রােগীর যেন মলত্যাগক্রিয়াটি শেষ হইতেই চায় না। সামান্য রক্তবমন এবং সরলান্ত্র হইতে রক্তাক্ত আম নির্গমন। সব সময়েই সে বলে যে, আজ রাত্রেই অথবা কয়েক ঘন্টার মধ্যেই তাহার মৃত্যু হইবে। দেখিলে মনে হইবে, সে যেন মৃত্যুযন্ত্রণা ভােগ করিতেছে। সমগ্র
শরীরটিই যন্ত্রণাময়, কিন্তু কুন্থন, খালধরা এবং মলত্যাগ প্রবৃত্তি একেবারে ভয়াবহ। তাহার জলবৎ উদরাময় থাকিতে পারে, কিন্তু উহা সেরূপ মূল্যবান লক্ষণ নহে, যদিও হেরিংয়ের পুস্তকে উহা দুই দাগ দিয়া চিহ্নিত করা হইয়াছে। যখন তাজা রক্ত নির্গত হয় এবং কোথানির সহিত আম পড়ে অথবা শিশুদের গ্রীষ্মকালীন রােগের সহিত অল্প অল্প সবুজ বর্ণ আম নির্গত হয়, অথবা সুশ্রী হৃষ্টপুষ্ট শিশুদিগের হঠাৎ জ্বরাগমের সহিত তাজা রক্ত ও ঘাসের ন্যায় সবুজ মলত্যাগ হইতে থাকে, তখন একোনাইটের কথা মনে করিবে। শিশুদিগের অন্ত্রের অধিকাংশ উপদ্রবই প্রখর উত্তাপ হইতে আসে। উত্তাপ হইতে শিশুর যকৃৎপ্রদাহ দেখা দিতে পারে, আর তখন মল সাদা এবং চটচটে।শিশু হলদে হইয়া যায় এবং যন্ত্রণায় চীকার করে।
অনেক * একোনাইট মূত্র সংক্রান্ত রােগে, মূত্রাশয় ও মূত্রগ্রন্থির রােগে উপযােগী। প্রাদাহিক অবস্থার সহিত রক্তমূত্র। অল্পমূত্র, মূত্রনাশ অথবা মূত্রাবরােধ। মানসিক আঘাতের ফলে মূত্রাবরােধ। মানসিক আঘাতের ফলে মূত্ররােধ লক্ষণে ইহা সদ্যজাত শিশুর মূত্রাবরােধের একটি শ্রেষ্ঠ ঔষধ হইয়াছে। পৃথিবীতে সদ্য ভূমিষ্ট শিশু হঠাৎ মানসিক আঘাত পাইয়া থাকে। তুমি দ্বিতীয়বার তােমার রােগিণীকে দেখিতে গেলে ধাত্রী হয়ত বলিবে, “শিশুটি এখনও প্রস্রাব করে নাই।” ইহার অর্থ,—শিশু যে প্রবল মানসিক আঘাত পাইয়াছে, তাহার ফলে উহার যান্ত্রিক কাৰ্যগুলি এখনও ঠিকমত প্রতিষ্ঠিত হয় নাই।
– > ১৯৭} >} কওঁনবৎ, ছেদনবৎ বেদনাসহ মূত্রাশয়–প্রদাহ। জ্বালাকর প্রস্রাবের সহিত জ্বালাকর বেদনা। মূত্র উত্তপ্ত, ঘােরাল, লালবর্ণ; লালবর্ণ এবং পরিষ্কার অথবা রক্তময়। মূত্ররােধ, বিশেষতঃ শিশুদিগের, তৎসহ ক্রন্দন ও অস্থিরতা। বয়স্ক ব্যক্তি অথবা শিশুদের মূত্রাধারের প্রদাহে একোনাইট–রােগী–জ্ঞাপক সৰ্ববিধ মানসিক লক্ষণ বৰ্ত্তমান থাকিবে। কি কি ভাল ২) যদি আক্রমণটি অকস্মাৎ উপস্থিত হয়, তাহা হইলে একোনাইট অতি ভয়ানক অন্ডকোষপ্রদাহ আরােগ্য করে। রক্তপ্রধান ব্যক্তিদের ঠান্ডা লাগায়, শীতার্ত হওয়ায় অন্ডকোষ–প্রদাহ। কিন্তু রুদ্ধ গণােরিয়া স্রাব হইতে সাধারণতঃ যেরূপ অন্ডকোষ–প্রদাহ হয়, তাহাতে একোনাইটের উপযােগিতা নাই।
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:} = ? বা স্ত্রীলােকগণ তাহাদের সহানুভূতি ও স্বাভাবিক স্নায়বিকতার জন্য স্বভাবতঃই একোনাইটের রােগিণী। স্নায়বিক সঙ্ঘাত হইতে এবং ভয় হইতেই তাহারা সাধারণতঃ পীড়িত হন; এবং সাধারণতঃ যে–সব কারণে পুরুষেরা পীড়াগ্রস্ত হন, রমণীদের পীড়ার কারণ তাহা হইতে ভিন্নরূপ থাকে। পুরুষ ভয় পাওয়ার ফলে কদাচিৎ প্রদাহ বিশিষ্ট হইয়া থাকে; কিন্তু রক্তপ্রধানা বলিষ্ঠা, উত্তেজনাশীল রমণীগণের জরায়ু ও ডিম্বকোষ–প্রদাহের কারণ সাধারণতঃ ভয়। ভয় হইতে সাধারণতঃ গর্ভস্রাব হয়, কিন্তু সময় থাকিতে দিতে পারিলৈ একোনাইট ভয় হইতে গর্ভস্রাব নিবারণ করিবে। ভয় অথবা আকস্মিক মনােবেগের পর আমরা সময়ে সময়ে একোনাইটের সূচীবিদ্ধবৎ, জ্বালাকর, ছিন্নকরণবৎ দেখিতে পাইব। সময়ে সময়ে গর্ভবতী নারী বলিবেন, “ডাক্তার, আমার আঁতুড়ের জন্য উদ্যোগ আয়ােজনের প্রয়ােজন নাই; আমি বুঝিতেছি এই আঁতুড়েই আমার মৃত্যু হইবে” যদি ঔষধ ব্যবস্থা করিবার মত বিশেষ একটি লক্ষণ থাকে, তবে ইহাই সেইটি। একমাত্র একোনাইট দাও, তারপর কথা প্রসঙ্গ বদলাইয়া দাও; রােগিণী ‘চলিয়া যান; তারপর কয়েকদিন পরে তাহাকে সেই ভয়ের কথা জিজ্ঞাসা কর, রােগিণী বলিবেন, “ওঃ, সে কথার আর উল্লেখ করিবেন না।” এইরূপ অনেক ক্ষুদ্র ক্ষুদ্র বিষয় বাছিয়া লওয়া যাইতে পারে। কিন্তু এই ভয়ের অবস্থাটি; ইহা একটি অদ্ভুত জিনিষ এবং ইহা দ্বারা স্ত্রীলােকটির সম্পূর্ণ প্রকৃতি ও সত্ত্বা তৎস্বরূপে প্রতিভাত হয়। রােগিণী তাঁহার মৃত্যুদিন সম্বন্ধে ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী করেন। শিশুদের পীড়ায় একোনাইট যে এত অধিক ব্যবহৃত হয়, তাহার কারণ শিশুরা ভয়। হইতেই প্রায়শঃ পীড়িত হইয়া থাকে। Bণ রক্তপ্রধানা রমণীগণের জননেন্দ্রিয়ের প্রদাহ।” পুরুষ অপেক্ষা স্ত্রী ও শিশুদের রােগেই একোনাইট বেশী ব্যবহৃত হয়। স্নায়বিক প্রকৃতি, বলিষ্ঠা, উত্তেজনাপ্রবণ স্ত্রীলোেক। শুষ্ক ঠান্ডা বাতাস লাগানাের ফলে প্রাদাহিক অবস্থা দেখা দিলে ইহা পুরুষদের ক্ষেত্রে ব্যবহৃত হয় আর
আক্রমণটি যদি তরুণ এবং প্রথমবারের হয়, তাহা হইলে তুমি রােগীকে একোনাইট প্রয়ােগ করিয়া দেখাইয়া দিতে পার যে, কত শীঘ্র তাহার ঘর্ম দেখা দিয়া জ্বরটি ছাড়িয়া যাইতে পারে এবং হােমিওপ্যাথিতে কিরূপ সব আশ্চৰ্য্য জিনিষ আছে।
উত – “বিরক্তিকর ও কষ্টদায়ক সন্তান প্রসবের পর তীব্র ভ্যাদাল ব্যথা। তীরবিদ্ধবৎ, ছিন্নকরণবৎ ভ্যাদাল ব্যথা, তৎসহ জ্বর” জরায়ু স্রাবে উজ্জ্বল লাল রক্ত এবং মৃত্যুভয়। প্রসব ক্ষেত্রে ঠান্ডা লাগার ফলে উৎপন্ন রােগে একোনাইট যাহা করে, তাহা বিস্ময়কর, কিন্তু ইহাকে সূতিকা–জ্বরের সহিত মিশাইয়া ফেলিও না। প্রথমােক্ত অবস্থাটি সাধারণ প্রকৃতির, পচনশীলতা শূন্য, হয়ত স্তনদ্বয় আক্রান্ত হইতে পারে, সেইজন্য স্তনে বেদনা এবং দুধ জমিয়া জ্বর দেখা দিতে পারে; কিন্তু যদি প্রসবান্তিক স্রাব বন্ধ হইয়া থাকে তাহা হইলে একোনাইট দিও না।
ফরসেপ যন্ত্র ব্যবহারের পর অথবা ক্লান্তিকর প্রসবের পর, নবজাত শিশুর শ্বাসকষ্ট; শিশু বেদম হইয়া পড়িয়াছে, তাহার হৃৎপিন্ডে কষ্ট দেখা দিয়াছে, কয়েক ঘন্টার মধ্যেই জ্বর দেখা দিল। একোনাইট এখানে একটি অতি সরল ঔষধ। শিশুর মূত্ররােধ একোনাইট প্রয়ােগের এমন একটি সাধারণ ক্ষেত্র যে তােমাকে কদাচিৎ অন্য ঔষধ ব্যবহার করিতে হইবে। শিশু তখন কথা। কহিতে পারে না, সে খুব স্পষ্ট করিয়া প্রকাশ করিতে পারে না। সুতরাং এই অবস্থায় চিকিৎসককেও কতকটা বাঁধা–ধরা নিয়মাবলম্বী হইতে হয় এবং এই কারণেই বাঁধা–ধরা নিয়মাবলম্বী চিকিৎসকগণ মূত্ররােধ একোনাইট দ্বারা অল্পবিস্তর কৃতকাৰ্য্যও হইয়া থাকেন। আর, এ কথাও সত্য যে মাতার মূত্ররােধ হইলে অনেক স্থলেই একমাত্র কষ্টিকাম’ দিলেও উহা আরােগ্য হয়।
একোনাইট ক্রুপ কাশির একটি বাঁধা ঔষধ, কিন্তু ইহার অপব্যবহারও হইয়া থাকে। দিনের বেলায় যে–সব রক্তপ্রধান শিশু মাতার সহিত ঠান্ডা হাওয়ায় বাহির হইয়া, শুষ্ক ঠান্ডা বাতাসে অনাবৃত থাকিয়া, হঠাৎ কুপ রােগাক্রান্ত হয়, একোনাইট তাহাদের ক্ষেত্রে ব্যবহার্য্য। শিশুকে শােয়াইয়া দেওয়া হইল, তারপর হয়ত রাত্রি ৯টা, ১০টা বা ১১টার সময় সে ঘুম হইতে জাগিয়া উঠিল। সে গলাটি চাপিয়া ধরিয়া প্রবলভাবে কাশিতে লাগিল, কাশিটি ঘংঘং করা, শ্বাসরােধক এবং স্বরভঙ্গমুক্ত, কুকুরের ডাকের ন্যায়। দিবাভাগে ঠান্ডা লাগায় এবং রাত্রিকালে হঠাৎ রােগাক্রমণে, ক্রিয়ার দ্রুততার দিক হইতে আর কোন ঔষধই ইহার সমকক্ষ নহে। যে ক্রুপ দিবসে অনাবৃত থাকার পর, তৎপর দিন সকাল অথবা সন্ধ্যার পূর্বে প্রকাশিত হয় না, তাহার জন্য অনেক ঔষধ আছে, বিশেষতঃ ধীরক্রিয় ‘হিপার। আর উহা কতকটা ভগ্নস্বাস্থ্য এবং পুনঃ পুনঃ ক্রুপ কাশিতে ভােগে এরূপ শিশুদের পক্ষেই অধিকতর উপযােগী। স্পঞ্জিয়া’ও অনেকটা অনুরূপ, কিন্তু ভগ্নস্বাস্থ্য শিশুদের যে–সকল উপসর্গ দেখা দেওয়া সম্ভব সেই সকল এবং সৰ্ব্বদাই সর্দি লাগার স্বভাব ইহাতে দেখা যায় না। পরােগের ক্ষেত্র একোনাইট ও স্পঞ্জিয়ার রােগীর চেহারার মধ্যে পার্থক্য নির্ণয় করা কঠিন, কারণ উভয় ঔষধেই পরােগসুলভ উৎকন্ঠাপূর্ণ মুখভাব আছে। একোনাইটের ক্রুপ ভীষণ ক্রুপ–উহা অতি দ্রুত আবির্ভূত স্বরযন্ত্রের প্রদাহ এবং তৎসহ স্বরযন্ত্রের আক্ষেপ। স্পঞ্জিয়ার ক্রুপে প্রদাহটি অপেক্ষাকৃত কম এবং উহা আক্ষেপের সহিত ক্রমান্বয়ে বাড়িতে থাকে। যদিও স্পঞ্জিয়ার রােগী শ্বাসকষ্ট ও শ্বাসরােধের ভাব লইয়া রাত্রি ১১টার সময় জাগিয়া উঠে তথাপি তাহার মধ্যে একোনাইটের ন্যায় প্রবল জ্বরের উত্তেজনা অথবা উদ্বেগ থাকে না, কিন্তু তাহার একোনাইট সদৃশ সর্ববিধ শুষ্কতা থাকে। একোনাইটের ক্ষেত্রে শুষ্কতা একটি স্বাভাবিক অবস্থা অথবা সামান্যমাত্র জলবৎ স্রাব থাকিতে পারে। স্পঞ্জিয়া’ সম্পূর্ণভাবে শুষ্ক, শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লীর প্রদাহ থাকিলে তাহাও শুষ্ক। একোনাইটের ত্রুপ লক্ষণে আমরা পাই স্বরযন্ত্রে স্পর্শদ্বেষ, “শুষ্ক ঠান্ডা হাওয়ায় অনাবৃত থাকিবার পর, প্রথম দ্রিা হইতে জাগিয়া ক্রুপ কাশি।” এ একোনাইটে যথেষ্ট শ্বাসক্রিয়ার গােলযােগ আছে—উহা হাঁপানি রােগের ন্যায় ক্ষুদ্র ক্ষুদ্র বায়ুনলীগুলির সঙ্কোচনহেতু শ্বাসকষ্ট। ইহা ক্যাপিলারী ব্রঙ্কাইটিসের শ্বাসকষ্টে ব্যবহৃত হয়। ইহা রক্তপ্রধান লােকদিগের ঠান্ডা লাগায়, অনাবৃত থাকায় অথবা মানসিক সম্মাতের ফলে হৃৎপিন্ডে
উত্তেজনাজাত শ্বাসকষ্টে ব্যবহৃত হয়। স্নায়বিক স্ত্রীলােকগণের (শ্বাসকষ্ট), উত্তেজনাপ্রবণ, সহজেই বিচলিত স্নায়বিক রক্তপ্রধান স্ত্রীলােকগণের ভয় যেরূপ শ্বাসকষ্ট উপস্থিত হয়। শ্বাসক্রিয়া হ্রস্ব, কষ্টকৃত, উদ্বেগপূর্ণ এবং দ্রুত। ইহা একপ্রকার হাঁপানির শ্বাসকষ্ট এবং সাধারণতঃ ইহাতে শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লীর এবং ক্ষুদ্র ক্ষুদ্র কৈশিকগুলির শুষ্কতা বর্তমান থাকে। হা চি ১ টি
“রােগী সােজা হইয়া উঠিয়া বসে এবং আর যেন শ্বাস লইতে পারে না।” একোনাইটে এইরূপ আকস্মিক হৃৎপিন্ডের উত্তেজনা ও কম্পমান, দুৰ্বল, পূর্ণ এবং উল্লম্ফনশীল নাড়ী থাকে। সে শয্যায় উঠিয়া বসে, গলাটি চাপিয়া ধরে, সব আচ্ছাদনই খুলিয়া ফেলিতে চায়; মধ্যরাত্রির পূৰ্বে উত্তপ্ত গাত্র–ত্বক, প্রবল তৃষ্ণা, অত্যন্ত ভয়—সমস্তই একসঙ্গে বর্তমান থাকে।
১ ১ । > “শ্বাসকষ্টের সহিত যাতনা। শ্বাসকষ্টের সহিত অকস্মাৎ হৃৎপিন্ডস্থানে যন্ত্রণা।” সমস্তই একসঙ্গে থাকে। “অত্যন্ত শ্বাসরােধভাব।‘ এই ভয় এবং উৎকণ্ঠা হইতে সে প্রচুর ঘামিতে থাকে, সে ঘামে সিক্ত হইয়া যায়, কিন্তু তথাপি তাহার গাত্র উত্তপ্ত থাকে। যখন উদ্বেগটি চলিয়া যায়, তখনও তাহার গাত্র উত্তপ্ত হইয়া উঠে। সুতরাং রােগীর ভয়ানক উৎকণ্ঠার সহিত উত্তাপ ও ঘৰ্ম্ম থাকিয়াই যায়। নাড়ী সুতার ন্যায়।
“শ্বাসত্যাগের সময় ভাল বােধ হয়।” কণ্ঠনালীর আক্ষেপ সাধারণতঃ নিঃশ্বাস লইবার সময় উপস্থিত হয়। “নিশ্বাস লওয়ার কালে খারাপ বােধ; অবিরত হষ, শুষ্ক কাশি; কষ্টকর শ্বাস–প্রশ্বাস, বক্ষব্যবধায়ক পেশীর উঠাপড়ার সহিত শ্বাসক্রিয়া,—বক্ষের রােগসমূহ, যথা—নিউমােনিয়া।” একোনাইট অতি সত্ত্বর বক্ষগহ্বরের যন্ত্রসমূহের, পুরার, ফুসফুসের, বায়ুপথস্থিত শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লীসমূহের প্রদাহ উৎপন্ন করে। ফুসফুস–প্রদাহ রােগে আমরা এই অতি দ্রুত আগত শ্বাসকষ্ট দেখিতে পাই। যদি উহা দ্রুত বিস্তৃত হয় তাহা হইলে নিউমােনিয়া রােগই উপস্থিত হয়। প্রদাহ এত প্রবল হয় যে, শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লী হইতে চেরী ফলের ন্যায় লালবর্ণ রক্ত ক্ষরিত হইতে থাকে, অথবা যে সাদা শ্লেষ্ম উঠিতে থাকে তাহার গায়ে প্রচুর উজ্জ্বল ও লালবর্ণ রক্ত জড়াইয়া থাকে। ব্রঙ্কোনিউমােনিয়া রােগীর শয্যাপার্শ্বে গেলে তুমি থুতু ফেলার পাত্রের মধ্যে উজ্জ্বল লাল রক্ত জড়ান শ্লেম্মা দেখিতে পাইবে। এইবার চিন্তা কর,—রােগটি কিরূপে প্রবলভাবে উপস্থিত হইয়াছে, রােগীর উল্কণ্ঠা ও অস্থিরতা,—সে তাহার মৃত্যুসময়ের কথা বলিয়া দিতেছে; একোনাইটের রােগীর অবস্থা এইরূপই হয়। নিউমােনিয়া রােগে একোনাইট নির্দিষ্ট হইলে ফুসফুসের যে অংশ আক্রান্ত হয়, তাহা সম্ভবতঃ বাম ফুসফুসের উপরের অর্ধাংশ। সময়ে সময়ে সমুদয় শ্লৈষ্মিক ঝিল্লী, দৃশ্যমান কণ্ঠনলী, স্বরযন্ত্র, গলকোষ, বায়ুনলীসমূহ, সবকিছু হইতে রক্তক্ষরণ হয়; কখন কখন প্রদাহ এতই ভীষণ হয় যে, একমুখ করিয়া রক্ত উঠিয়া আসে। এই প্রকার বুকের রােগে তীব্র যন্ত্রণা থাকে। তীরবিদ্ধবৎ জ্বালাকর, ছেদনবৎ যাতনা; রােগী কতকটা উঁচু অবস্থায় চিৎ হইয়া শুইয়া থাকিতে বাধ্য হয়। এক পার্শ্ব চাপিয়া বা সম্পূর্ণ চিৎ হইয়া শুইতে পারে না। কোন পার্শ্বে চাপিয়া শুইলে বেদনার বৃদ্ধি হয়। (রােগের কারণটি) শুষ্ক ঠান্ডা বাতাস। সুস্থ, বলবান, সতেজ রক্তসঞ্চালন বিশিষ্ট ব্যক্তির আকস্মিক মানসিক সম্মাত। এই রক্ত উঠা, যাহার কথা বলা হইল, তাহা যক্ষ্মারােগীর রক্ত উঠার মত নহে। এই রক্ত উঠা অনৈচ্ছিক, সামান্য কাশির সহিত উহা উঠিয়া আসে। কেহ হয়ত ভগ্নস্বাস্থ্য, দুৰ্বল রােগীর এরূপ অবস্থায় একোনাইট দিয়া প্রতারিত হইতে পারেন, কিন্তু ঐরূপ ক্ষেত্রে ইহা প্রযােজ্য নহে, আমাদের ঐরূপ অবস্থার জন্য আরও ভাল ভাল ঔষধ আছে। রােগী যে সব সময়েই নিউমােনিয়াগ্রস্ত হইবে এরূপ কথাও নাই, ক্ষুদ্র ক্ষুদ্র বায়ুনলীসমূহের প্রদাহ থাকিলেই হইল।
“শুষ্ক কাশি, বমন, বমি বমি ভাব, প্রবল জ্বর, রক্তাক্ত গয়ের তােলা।” জলের মত শ্লেষ্ম ও রক্ত ছাড়া আর কোন কিছুই উঠে না। এই ভাবে অনেক কিছুই দেখা দিতে পারে। শুষ্ক কাশি, সমস্ত বুকের মধ্যে শুষ্কতাবােধ, স্বরযন্ত্র ও কণ্ঠের মধ্যে শুষ্কতার অনুভূতি। সে বেশী পরিমাণ ঠান্ডা জল পান করে, তারপর এক একটি প্রবল কাশির ধূমকের পর, সামান্য রক্ত তুলে। কিন্তু গয়ের সাধারণতঃ শ্লেষ্মময়ই থাকে। নিউমােনিয়া রােগে সাধারণতঃ যে গয়ের উঠে তাহা প্রায়শঃ লােহার মরিচার ন্যায় থাকে, যেন লােহার মরিচা উহার সহিত মিশাইয়া দেওয়া হইয়াছে। ‘ব্রায়ােনিয়া’, ‘রাস টক্স’ এবং আরও কয়েকটি ঔষধের প্রকৃতিগত লক্ষণে সাধারণভাবে এইরূপ গয়ের দেখা যায়, কিন্তু একোনাইটের গয়ের চেরী ফলের ন্যায় উজ্জ্বল লাল। ইহার রক্তস্রাবও উজ্জ্বল লাল এবং সময়ে সময়ে প্রচুর হয়। | নিউমােনিয়া হউক, কুপকাশি হউক, অন্য কোন বুকের রােগ হউক——সব কাশিই অকস্মাৎ উপস্থিত হয়, এবং যদি সে ঘুমাইতে যায় তাহার কণ্ঠনলীর শুষ্কতার সহিত কণ্ঠনলীর আক্ষেপ দেখা দেয়। সে যখন ঘুমায়, তাহার কণ্ঠনলী শুষ্ক হইয়া যায়; জাগিয়া উঠিয়া সে কণ্ঠনলীটি চাপিয়া ধরে; মনে হয় তাহার যেন শ্বাসরােধ হইতে চলিয়াছে। এই সমস্তই ঠান্ডা হাওয়া লাগার ফলে উপস্থিত হয়। বলিষ্ঠ লােকেরা ঝােড়াে হাওয়ার মধ্যে বাহির হয়, ঠান্ডা লাগায় এবং তাহারই ফলে একোনাইট লক্ষণ উপস্থিত হয়।
একোনাইটের প্রদাহিত স্থানগুলিতে অনুভূত হয় যেন, ঐ সকল স্থানে গরম বাষ্প জোরে প্রবেশ করিতেছে, যেন উত্তপ্ত রক্ত প্রবাহিত হইতেছে অথবা যেন “ঐ সকল স্থানে উত্তাপের ঝলকা উঠিতেছে।” পেশীসমূহের উপর দিয়া উত্তাপ অথবা শীতলতার অনুভূতি।
জ্বরের সময়ে নাড়ী থাকে সর্বাপেক্ষা প্রবল, পূর্ণ এবং উল্লম্ফনশীল; বলবান এবং পুষ্ট। আক্রমণটি যখন প্রথম আসিতে থাকে এবং ভয়ানক উৎকণ্ঠা ও স্নায়বিক আততি বর্তমান থাকে, তখন নাড়ী অত্যন্ত ক্ষুদ্র থাকে, কিন্তু হৃৎপিন্ডের ক্রিয়া ভালভাবে স্থাপিত হইলেই নাড়ী বলবান হইতে থাকে।
“মেরুদন্ডের উপর দিয়া ছিন্নকর বেদনা; যন্ত্রণাদায়ক গ্রীবাস্তম্ভ। মেরুদন্ডে পােকা হাঁটার ন্যায় সড়সড়ানি।” এই পিঁপড়া হাঁটার ন্যায় অনুভূতি ইহার একটি বিশেষ লক্ষণ, উহা ঠান্ডা হইতে এবং হঠাৎ ঠান্ডা লাগায় উপস্থিত হয়। কত সমতা | এইসব আকস্মিক তরুণ আক্রমণের সহিত “হস্তকম্পন।” এইসব আকস্মিক তরুণ প্রাদাহিক আক্রমণের সহিত “হস্তাঙ্গুলিসমূহে সড়সড়ানিবৎ যন্ত্রণা”, “বরফের ন্যায় শীতলতা, পদতলে বরফের ন্যায় শীতলতা; হস্ততল গরম।” কখন কখন হাত গরম ও পা ঠান্ডা একসঙ্গে বর্তমান থাকে । সন্ধিসমূহের বাতজ অবস্থা; কিন্তু উহা প্রথম আক্রমণরূপে উপস্থিত হওয়া চাই। পুরাতন বাত বা গেঁটেবাতের আক্রমণ নহে, কিন্তু যে আক্রমণটি তরুণ বাতরূপে উপস্থিত হয়, যাহা ঠান্ডায় অনাবৃত থাকায় দেখা দেয়, ঠান্ডা হাওয়ার মধ্যে দীর্ঘকাল গাড়ী–ঘােড়ায় চড়ায় দেখা দেয়। এইরূপ বাতের সহিত জ্বর থাকে, উদ্বেগপূর্ণ অস্থিরতা থাকে, পূর্বোক্ত, পুনঃ পুনঃ বর্ণিত সঙ্গীন মানসিক অবস্থা থাকে।
“পেশীসমূহের কম্পন, ঝিনঝিনি, আক্ষেপ,” —কিন্তু স্নায়ুগুলি একোনাইটের লক্ষণ এবং একোনাইটের যন্ত্রণায় পরিপূর্ণ। রক্তপ্রধান ব্যক্তিদিগের স্নায়ুপ্রদাহে একোনাইট একটি আশ্চর্য্য ঔষধ। ঠান্ডা হইতে, অনাবৃত থাকায় স্নায়ুর উপর দিয়া অসাড়তা। স্নায়ুসমূহ, বিশেষতঃ যেগুলি শরীর–ত্বকের নিকট দিয়া গিয়াছে, সেইগুলি বরাবর অসাড়তা ও ঝিনঝিনি। “স্নায়ুকোষসমূহের প্রদাহ। স্নায়বিক উত্তেজনা। অত্যন্ত অস্থিরতা।” জিভ || ৯|{}
একোনাইটের সহিত সালফারে’ বিশেষ সম্বন্ধ আছে। উহাতে অনেকগুলি একোনাইটের সদৃশ লক্ষণও আছে। অনেক পুরাতন দীর্ঘকালস্থায়ী পীড়ায় যেখানে বলবান হৃষ্টপুষ্ট ধাতুতে ‘সালফার’ ব্যবহৃত হয়, সেইরূপ ক্ষেত্রে আকস্মিক আক্রমণে একোনাইট উপযােগী, আর পুরাতন ক্ষেত্রে সালফার উপযােগী। একোনাইট লক্ষণযুক্ত তরুণ আক্রমণে অর্থাৎ সম্পূর্ণ আক্রমণে, রােগীর ধাতুতে অনুরূপ পুনরাক্রমণের প্রবণতাটি থাকিয়া যাইতে পারে। এরূপ প্রবণতার উপর একোনাইটের কোন শক্তি নাই, কিন্তু ‘সালফারের আছে। অবশ্য অধিকাংশ লক্ষণ মিলিয়া গেলে তােমাদের নিকট অনেক সময়েই মনে হইবে যে যেখানে তরুণ রােগে একোনাইট উপযােগী, সেখানে পরে সালফার’ লক্ষণ আসিবে। অনেক সময়ে প্রবল আক্রমণের পর রােগীর ধাতুতে যে দুৰ্বলতাটি থাকিয়া যাইবে, তাহা দূর করিবার কোন ক্ষমতা
একোনাইটের নাই। উহার রােগের পুনঃ পুনঃ আক্রমণ নিবারণ করিবার ক্ষমতাই নাই। উহা যাহা কিছু করিতে সক্ষম তাহা সমস্তই এককালে করিবে এবং ঐখানেই উহার শেষ। কিন্তু ‘সালফারের ক্রিয়া ঐরূপ নহে।
একোনাইটের পর আর্ণিকা ও বেলেডােনা’ বেশ উপযােগী হয়। একথা সত্য যে, সময়ে সময়ে তােমাদের মনে হইবে—রােগের মধ্যে যাহা কিছু আছে, একোনাইটই তৎসমূদয় দূর করিতে সক্ষম। কিন্তু দীর্ঘকালস্থায়ী রােগাবশেষ কিছু থাকিয়া যাইতে পারে এবং আর্ণিকা‘, ‘বেল’, ‘ইপিকাক, ব্রায়ােনিয়া প্রভৃতির ন্যায় ঔষধ অথবা সময়ে সময়ে সালফার’ ঐ রােগাবশিষ্ট দূর করিতে প্রয়ােজন হয়। খুব সচরাচর ‘সাইলিশিয়া লাগে। সুতরাং আমাদিগকে ঔষধের সম্বন্ধ–বিচার পাঠ করিতে হইবে। ২
) তা সব যদি তুমি পুনঃ পুনঃ একোনাইট প্রয়ােগ করিয়া থাক, অথবা অত্যন্ত স্কুল মাত্রায় দিয়া থাক এবং সেইজন্য তােমার রােগীর রােগারােগ্য বিলম্ব হয় অথবা তােমার রােগী নিজেই যদি অবিবেচকের মত একোনাইট খাইয়া থাকেন, তাহা হইলে কফিয়া’ অথবা নাক্স’ তােমার রােগীকে অপেক্ষাকৃত ভাল অবস্থায় লইয়া আসিবে।
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একোনাইটাম ন্যাপেলাস |
(ACONITUM NAPELLAS) | অপর নামসঙ্কসহুড (Monkshood)
উলফসবেন (Wolfsbane) * | Aconite – akoniton, a poisonous plant, Monkshood, from the shape of its slowers; Wolfbane, from its use to poison animals. ]
** রেনানকিউলেসী জাতীয় একোনাইট ন্যাপেলাস নামক বৃক্ষটিএশিয়া ও মধ্য ইউরােপে জন্মে। সাধারণ পাহাড়ের চূড়ায় ও উচ্চ জমিতে যেসব গাছজম্মায়, তা থেকেই হােমিওপ্যাথি ঔষধ তৈরী করা হয়। এর পাতা, ফল ও মূল ঔষধ প্রস্তুতে ব্যবহৃত হলেও কেবল এর মূল থেকে অ্যালকোহল মিশিয়ে মূল অরিষ্ট তৈরী হয়ে থাকে।
কাউপার খােয়েট অবশ্য পুষ্পেদগমকালে সমস্ত গাছ থেকেই মূল অরিষ্ট তৈরী করার কথা বলেছেন।
১। ভয় মৃত্যুভয়,জনতার ভয়, বাইরে যেতে ভয়, যে কোন বিষয়েই সবসময়
ভয়ভয় ভাৰ। | ঠাণ্ডা লাগলেইঅসুৰ, বিশেষকরেওশীতল বাতাস লাগানাের ফলে পীড়া।
উৎকণ্ঠা, উত্তপওঅস্থি সংযুক্ত রক্তসঞ্চয় ও প্রদাহ, প্রদাহের তরুণ ও. প্রথমাবস্থায় রােগী যন্ত্রণায় ফটফট করলে ও গাত্রাবরণ ছুঁড়ে ফেলে দিলে একোনাইট প্রযােজ।তাছড়া দাহিক জুরেও ইহা প্রযােজ্য।
অসহ কেন; রাত্রে বৃদ্ধি বিশেষ করে সন্ধ্যেবেলা বাড়ে, স্নায়ুশূল বেদনা। | মুখমণ্ডল অত্যন্ত লাল টসটসে কিন্তু বিছানা থেকে উঠলে ফ্যাকাশে হয়ে যায়। সাধারণত স্বরযন্ত্র (ভূপ);বায়ুনানী (ব্রঙ্কাইটিস),ফুসফুসও ফুসফুসআবরক (নিউমােনিয়া ওরিসি);সন্ধিস্থলসমূহ(বাত),হৃৎপিণ্ড ও রক্তসঞ্চালনতন্ত্র
এরিথিজম) আক্রান্ত হয়ে থাকে। | উপশম ও উপশষবক্ষলক্ষণ ও বেদনা সন্ধ্যেবেলা বাড়ে, বাঁ পাশে
চেপে ওলে বাড়ে, গম ঘরেও গরম আচ্ছাদনে বৃদ্ধি, অনাবৃত হলে রােগী ভাল বােধ করে,লাথি মেরে কাপড়–চোপড় ফেলে দেয়।
একোনাইট পর্যালােচনা একোনাইট,আর্সেনিকওরাসটাক্স—এই তিনটি ঔষধেই অস্থিরতা আছে। এরা আমাদের কাছেঅস্থিরতার ত্রয়ী (Trio of restless) নামে পরিচিত। এই তিনটি ঔষধেই অস্থিরতা লক্ষণ আছে, কিন্তু তারা বিভিন্ন, তাই তাদের একটিকে মনােনীত করতে কোন অসুবিধাই নেই।
| একোনাইটেঅস্থিরতা সাধারণতঃ উগ্ৰপ্ৰাদাহিক জ্বরের সঙ্গে বর্তমান থাকে। আল্লকয়েকটি কথায় হেরিংএকোনাইটেজুরের যে বর্ণনা দিয়েছেন, তা হল-“জ্বরে পিপাসাসংযুক্তউত্তপ;দৃঢ়,পূর্ণ ও চঞ্চল নাড়ী,ব্যাকুলতা ও অধৈৰ্য্যভাব, তাকে শান্ত করা যায় না, আত্মহারা ও যন্ত্রণায় ছটফট করে“।
তবে প্রাদাহিক রােগে একোনাইট ও বেলেডােনার পৰ্য্যায়ক্রমে ব্যবহারের যে প্রথা এতদিন ধরে চলে আসছে, তা কু–প্রথা। দুটি ঔষধ একই সময়ে কখনও উপযােগী হতে পারেনা। তবেঅনেক ক্ষেত্রে এই রকমের পর্যায়ক্রমেঔষধ ব্যবহারে রােগ আরােগ্য হতে দেখা যায় বটে, কিন্তু সেক্ষেত্রে নিশ্চয়ই অনির্দেশিত ঔষধটির ক্রিয়া সত্ত্বেও (যা কেবল রােগ সারাতে বাধা দেয়) নির্দেশিত ঔষধের দ্বারাই রােগটি সেরে গেছে ঐ রােগীর ক্ষেত্রে ঔষধদুটির কোনটিরই সাহায্য ঘড়া রােগ আরােগ্য হয়েছে।
| তাছড়া এরূপ ঘটনাই ঘটে যেখানে চিকিৎসক কোন একটি রােগী সেরে যাওয়ার পর আনন্দিত হন। কিন্তু বাস্তবিকভাবে এ ক্ষেত্রে উহা ছিল স্বাভাবিক রােগমুক্তি, যার জন্য ডাক্তারের কোন কৃতিত্বই নেই।
- এখন আমরা একোনাইটে ও বেলেডােনার প্রকৃতিগত পার্থক্যগুলি আলােচনা করব।
পার্থক্য – ক) রােগীর দেহত্বকের অতিশয় উত্তপদুটি ঔষধেই আছে। কিন্তু একোনাইটের
ত্বক শুষ্কও গরমএবং তাতে ঘাম থাকেনা।বেলেডােনার দেহের উপরিভাগে
অত্যন্ত উত্তাপ দেখা যায়, কিন্তু আবৃতস্থানে ঘাম হয়। খ) একোনাইটের রােগী অতিশয় মৃত্যুভয় সহকারে যন্ত্রণায় ছটফট করে আর
বেলেডােনার রােগী প্রায়ই অসুপ্ত (semi-stupor) থাকে ও ঘুমের মধ্যে তার বিভিন্ন অঙ্গে ঝাকানি ও স্পন্দন দেখা যায়। একোনাইটের হৃৎপিণ্ড ও বুকে অতিশয় যন্ত্রণা থাকে, বেলেডােনার সব কিছু উপদ্রবেরই কেন্দ্রস্থল মস্তিষ্ক। একোনাইটে অধিক প্রলাপ ঘড়াই মৃত্যুভয় থাকে আর বেলেডােনায় প্রলাপসহ কাল্পনিক জিনিসের ভয় হয়। এইভাবে আমরা এই দুটি ঔষধের বহু প্রভেদ সূচক লক্ষণের উল্লেখ করতে পারি। তবে যিনি হেমিওপ্যাথির আরােগনীতি বােঝেন, তিনি কখনই এই দুটি ঔষধকে পর্যায়ক্রমে ব্যবহার করেনা।
২। বেদনা একোনাইটের আর একটি প্রধান লক্ষণ। তবে যদি আমাদের ,
বেদনার তিনটি প্রধান ঔষধের নাম করতে হয় তাহলে ওরা হবেএকোনাইট, ক্যামােমিলা ও কফিয়া। পার্থক্য –
একোইটের কেনার সঙ্গে সবসময় যুক্ত থাকেঅত্যন্ত অস্থিরতা,উৎকণ্ঠা ও ভয়। রােগী যন্ত্রণায় ছটফট করে, বেদনা সহ্য করতে পারে না, স্পর্শ সহ্য করতে পারেন এবংঅনাবৃত হওয়াও সহ্য করতে পারেনা।তবেতুমি হয়ত বলবেএকোনাই ও বেলেডােনা উভয় ঔষধেই দেহের অতিশয় উত্তাপ থাকে, কিন্তু একোনাইটে চরিত্রগতভাবে চৰ্ম্ম শুষ্ক ও উত্তপ্ত এবং ঘাম থাকে না। বেলেডােনায় দেহের উপরিভ্রগ অত্যন্ত উত্তাপ দেখা যায় ও আবৃতস্থানে ঘাম হয়। | প্রত্যেক হােমিওপ্যাথি ঔষধেই বেদনা লক্ষণ আছে, কিন্তু এটা মনে রাখতে হবে, সব ঔষধেই এত বেশী বেদনা নেই।
ওপিয়াম ও স্ট্রামােনিয়ামে জেনা অপেক্ষা বেদনাহীনতাই প্রধান লক্ষণ। একোনাইটের বেদনা অসহ্য, সাধারণতঃ উহা সন্ধ্যায় বা রাত্রিতেই বাড়ে। | তবে কখন কখন একোনাইট জ্ঞাপক বেদনা সহকারে অথবা অনেক সময় একোনাইটের সঙ্গে পৰ্য্যায়ক্রমে অবশঅ, অসাড়তা, ঝিন ঝিন করা অথবা কীট বা পােকা হেঁটে বেড়ানাের ন্যায় অনুভূতি বর্তমান থাকে। এই অনুভবে একোনাইটের সঙ্গে বাসটাক্সের সাদৃশ্য আছে। তবে একোনাইটে অবশতা অত্যন্ত বেশী থাকে, বেদনা ছিড়ে ফেলার মত বা কেটে ফেলার মত হয় এবং তাতে রােগী মরিয়া (ক্ষিপ্ত) হয়ে উঠে।* (রাসটাক্সেঅসাড়তাসহ টাটানি ও মন্দ মন্দ কামড়ানি ব্যথা থাকে)।
ঠিক এখানেই আমরা একোনাইটের প্রধান প্রকৃতিগত লক্ষণের উল্লেখকরতে পারি। কারণ একোনাইট সুনির্দিষ্ট হলে উহা সব সময়েই বর্তমান থাকে এবং উহা এককথায় প্রকাশ করলে তা দাঁড়ায়–ভযু।
৩। ভয়—একোনাইটের একটি প্রধান পরিচালক লক্ষণ।
ভয়, বিশেষ করে মৃত্যু ভয়, রাস্তা পার হতে ভয়, লােক সমাজে
যেতে ভয়, কোন কিছু ঘটবে বলে ভয়, অনির্দিষ্ট ও অকারণে ভয়, ইত্যাদি প্রাই একোনাইটে থাকে। তবে এত বেশী পরিমাণে ভয় একোনাইট ছাড়া অন্য কোন ঔষধে নেই। আর এই ভয় ও দেনাতেই রােগীর সবচেয়ে বেশী অস্থিরতা জন্মে।
পার্থক্য –
আর্সেনিকেরঅস্থিরতারসঙ্গে অত্যন্ত অসন্নতাওজীকী–তিহাস থাকে। রাসটাক্সে রােগীর নড়লে চড়লে কেনার উপশম হয় বলে বোলী নড়াচড়া করে। আর্সেনিকের রােগীও একস্থান থেকে অন্য স্থানেনড়াচড়াকবেকিন্তু তাতে উপশম হয় না।
একোনাইট ও আর্সেনিকের রােগী নড়তে চড়লে বাসটাক্সের মত শান্তি পায় । আবার আর্সেনিকে একোনাইটের মত এত অধিক পরিমানে ভয় নেই।
৪। জুব
জুরেএকোনাইটের বিস্তরঅপব্যবহরহয়।এমনকিঅ্যালােপ্যাথিক চিকিৎসকগণও তথাকথিত অ্যান্টি–ফ্লোজিষ্টিক চিকিৎসা অপেক্ষা উতৃষ্টতর হােমিওপ্যাথিক চিকিৎসার সুফল দেখে আশ্চর্য হয়ে এবং একোনাইটকে বিশেষ ভাবে প্রাদাহিক পীড়ায় ব্যবহৃত হতে দেখে তাদের প্রতি যুক্তি অনুসারে স্থির করেন যে, একোনাইটে কোনরকমব্দিানেছিপ দিতে পারলেউত্ম দ্বারা কেবলমাত্র জুর আছে, এই কারণে সবকিছু কাজ করে নেওয়া যেতে পারে।কিন্তু তারা স্কুবশীই দেখতে পান যে প্রাদাহিক জুরে উহ কতকগুলি রােগীর পক্ষে স্বতই উপকারী হােক না কেন, টাইফয়েড জ্বরে কোন কাজকরেনা।আর এইভাবে প্যাথলজিক্যাল দিক থেকে সাধারণ অনুমান বা সিদ্ধান্ত আর একবার হতাশায় পরিণত হয়েছে, যেমন উহা সৰ্ব্বদাইহতে বাধ্য।এদিকে বহু হেমিওপ্যাথিক চিকিৎসকরূপেভুল করেন , এই ভেবে যে, একোনাইট যখন অনেকগুলি উকট জুরের বেশী সারিয়েছে তখন সকল জুরেই উহা অমােঘ। তাই তারা প্রাদাহিক রােগের প্রথম অবস্থা সবক্ষেত্রেই এই ঔষধ ব্যবস্থা করে, পরে অন্যান্য উপযােগী ঔষধ দিয়ে সময় রােগটি সারানাের গতানুগতিক রীতি অবলম্বনে অভ্যস্ত হয়ে পড়েন।কিন্তু একোনাইই যদি প্রাদাহিক
জরের একমাত্র ঔষধহত, তাহলে আমরা রােগীকে এইভাবেআঁকাবাঁকা পথেআরােগ্য করার দিকে নিয়ে যাওয়া অপেক্ষা আর কিছুই ভাল করতে পারতাম না।
ডানহ্যাম লিখেছেন
জ্বর প্রশমিত করার জন্য প্রথমে একোনাইট এবং তারপর রােগ আরােগ্য করার জন্য পর্যায়ক্রমে অন্য ঔষধ কখনও দেওয়া উচিত নয় অর্থাৎ জুর দমন করার জন্য একোনাইটকে পৰ্য্যায়ক্রমে অন্য কোন ঔষধের সঙ্গে কখনও ব্যবহার করবেন
। জ্বর যদি একোনাইটের হয়, তাহলে অন্য কোন ঔষধ ছাড়াই জ্বর সেরে যাবে। তবে এক্ষেত্রে জুরে যদি অন্য কোন ঔষধ নির্দেশিত হয় বলে মনে হয়, তাহলে সেই ঔষধটি খুঁজে বেরকরতে হবে এবং তাতেই জুর আবােগ্য হবেও অন্যান্য উপসর্গ দূর হবে। কারণ একোনাইট ছাড়াও অনেক ঔষধ জুর উৎপন্ন করে এবং প্রত্যেকের জ্বর ভিন্ন ভিন্ন অর্থাৎ প্রত্যেক ঔষধেরই জ্বর নিজের নিজের মত। | ৫। একোনাইটের দুটি মূল্যবান হ্রাসবৃদ্ধি লক্ষণ আছে, যথা– ভয় ও শুষ্ক শীতল বায়ু থেকে সকল রােগের উৎপত্তি। | এই প্রসঙ্গে বলা যায় এই কথাগুলি (লক্ষণগুলি) অত্যন্ত সত্য এবং কেউ যখন এগুলিকে পড়েন এবং উহাদের সত্যতা পরীক্ষা করে দেখেন, তাহলে তারা উহাদের মহৎ লেখকের কথা মনে করে বােধ হয় মনের আবেগে বলে উঠেন–মরে গেছেন কিন্তু তবুও কথা বলেছে। কারণ ভয়ের অব্যবহিত পরেই যেসকল তরুণ বা পুরাতন ব্যাধি উৎপন্ন হয়, তাদের ক্ষেত্রে একোনাইট অব্যর্থ। তবে প্রথমে অন্ধকারে ভয় পেয়ে তারপরে যদি অন্ধকারে রােগীর ভয় জন্মে তবে একোনাইট উপযােগী। আবার ভয় থেকে উৎপন্ন মাথাঘােরা, মূৰ্ছা, কম্পন, গর্ভপাতের সম্ভবনা ও রজঃলােপেও ইহা উপকারী। তাছড়া ভয় পাওয়ায় জণ্ডিস বা উহার পুরাতন অবস্থাতেও ইহা উপযােগী।
*তবে ভয় পাওয়ার ফলে উৎপন্ন রােগে আরাে কয়েকটি ঔষধ ব্যবহৃত হয়, তাদের মধ্যে প্রধান প্রধানগুলি হল–ওপিয়াম,ইগ্নেসিয়া ও ভেরেট্রাম অ্যালবাম।
৬। শুষ্ক –শীতল বায়ু থেকে যে সকল তরুণ প্রদাহ জন্মায়–একোনাইট তাৰসৰ্ব্বপ্রধানঔষধ।শুষ্ক শীতল বায়ু লেগে কুপ রােগ জন্মালেকুড়িটির মধ্যে ১৯টিই
একোনাইটের দ্বারা সেরে যায়। * (তাঘড়া আমি যেখানে বাস করি, সে অঞ্চলে কুপকাশির খুব প্রাদুর্ভাব এবং তাই উহা সারানাের যথেষ্ট সুযোগ আমি পেয়েছি।
তাছড়া ঐকারণে রিসি, নিউমােনিয়া ও বাত জন্মালেও একোনাইট উপকারী। তবেঅবশ্য এইসকল রােগের সঙ্গে প্রায়ই একোনাইটের তীব্রজু,যন্ত্রণা,অস্থিরতা ও ভয় থাকে, তবেশুষ্ক–শীতল বায়ু ভােগবশতঃ স্থানিক রক্ত সঞ্চয় বা প্রদাহ জন্মালেও একোনাইটেরঅন্যান্য লক্ষণের সহিত সাদৃশ্য থাকলে একোনাইটে উহা সেরে যায়।
* শুষ্ক বায়ুজনিত বােগে ব্রায়ােনিয়া, কষ্টিকাম, হিপার সালফ ও নাক্সভমিকাও অন্যান্য প্রধান ঔষধ। তবে আদ্ৰবায়ুজনিত রোগে ডালকামারা, নাক্স মস্কাটা, ট্রোম সালফ ও রাসটক্স উপযােগী।
✅ আমাদের সফল চিকিৎসার প্রমাণ দেখতে লিংকে ক্লিক করুণ।
Acon : Aconitum Napellus
Terror, anxiety, agonizing fear, restless, excited, nervous, impatient.
Sudden, violently acute, painful effects. Congestions. Inflammation. Haemorrhages.
Sticking, tearing pains with numbness. Burning thirst. High fever.
COMMON NAME:
Monkshood, Wolfsbane
FAMILY:
Ranunculaceae
SOURCE:
Tincture of fresh plant
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION:
Heart- Inhibitory paralysis, decreases B.P.
Circulation- Vasomotor paralysis
Temperature- Depressed with diaphoresis
C.N.S.- Paralysis
Mucus membrane- Inflammation
Stomach- Emesis, congestion, neuralgia.
Lungs- Enteric vagi paralysis, congestion, inflammation
Tendons and fibrous tissue- Rheumatoid inflammation
Serous membrane- Plastic inflammation.
A/F:
-Fear, fright, shock.
-Chill, dry cold weather
-Heat especially of sun
-Injury, surgical shock
-Draught of cold air
-Checked perspiration
-Very hot weather (G.I.T.)
MODALITIES:
< Violent emotions [Fright, Shock, Vexation]
< Chilled by cold, dry winds while sweating
< Noise
< Light
< Night
< Dentition
< Lying on the left side on back on affected side [Hep, Nux-m]
< After getting in bed
< Rising from bed
< In closed (warm room)
< Tobacco smoke
< Pressure, touch
< During menses
< Sleeping in the sun
< Music
< Inspiration
> Repose
> Warm sweat
> Sitting still (rheumatism)
> Wine
> Open air [Alum, Mag-c, Puls]
MIND:
– Great FEAR, anxiety, worry accompany every ailment however trivial.
– With fear; screams, moans, gnaws fists, bites nails, wants to die.
– Inconsolable anxiety, piteous wailing, vexation about trifles.
– Fears death, believes that he will soon die, predicts the day. Fear of death during pregnancy or labour, predicts time.
– Fear of future, of crowds, crossing the streets, of touching others passing by, of narrow places, of earthquakes [Morrison].
– Terror stricken.
– Great timidity especially after a fright, afraid in the dark, fear of ghosts, etc. Afraid to go out of the house.
– Restlessness; tossing about.
– Impatient; besides himself, frantic from intensity of pain.
– Pain insupportable, driving to despair.
– Undertakes many things, perseveres in nothing.
– Desires light, company.
– Music is unbearable, makes her sad [Ambr, Sabin] [During menses- Nat-c]
– Thinks his thoughts come from stomach, that parts of his body are abnormally thick.
– Delirium is characterized by unhappiness, worry, fear, raving, early unconsciousness.
– Physical and mental restlessness.
– Acute sudden violent invasion with fear.
GUIDING INDICATIONS:
-Symptoms- acute, violent, painful, appear suddenly, remain for a short while.
-Pains- sticking, tearing. Parts remain sore or numb after pains.
-Tingling coldness, numbness.
-Dryness, heat, especially of skin with unquenchable thirst for large quantity of cold water.
-Acute stage of inflammation; violent.
-Haemorrhages bright red [Bell].
-Special senses acute.
-Most symptoms disappear while sitting quietly, but at night in bed they are insupportable.
-Vertigo- < on rising [Nux-v, Op], shaking the head.
-Head- Fullness, heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning.
-Eyes- Profuse watering of eyes after exposure to dry cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of cinders, or other foreign bodies.
-Nose- Pain at root of nose.
-Mucous membranes dry, nose stopped up, dry or with scanty watery coryza.
-Face- On rising, red face becomes deadly pale, or he becomes dizzy.
– Neuralgia especially of left side of face with restlessness, tingling numbness.
– Anxious look.
– One cheek red, other cheek pale [Cham, Cina, Ip].
– Sensation of face growing larger or swelling.
-Mouth- Tongue coated white [Ant-c], or thick yellow white, swollen, tip tingles.
– Bitter taste of everything except water.
-G.I.T.- Throat dry, red, constricted.
– Vomiting and fear, heat, profuse sweat, urination.
– Intense thirst < iced drinks.
– Craving- Beer, acids, bitter drinks, wine, brandy, cold drinks.
– Aversion- Tobacco, artichokes.
– Milk < Ices < Wine >
– Abdomen sensitive to touch.
– Meteorism, vomiting, inability to urinate.
– Burning, cutting in intestines < pressure or lying on right side.
– Stools of pure blood, slimy grass green, or like chopped herbs, or white < hot days cold nights [Dulc, Merc-c].
– Frequent stools, tenesmus, small broken, painful at last bloody or pure blood passes without faeces.
-Urinary system- Retention of urine after delivery in infant or mother.
– Micturition painful, difficult, drop by drop, urine fiery scalding hot, red or dark coloured.
-Female genitalia- Menses suppressed from fright, in cold plethoric subjects.
– Active uterine haemorrhage with much excitability, giddiness, cannot sit up, fear of death.
-Respiratory system- Croup awakening in first sleep, agony tossing about.
– Hoarse, dry, whoopy cough, short, hacking, on expiration grasps larynx < night, after midnight.
– Short, barking, ringing or whistling cough. < every inspiration, night, drinking >lying on back.
– Agony; sits up straight, can hardly breathe, pulse thread-like, vomiting, sweat with anxiety, swelling under short ribs after scarlet fever.
– Pneumonia, first stage in robust persons, chill of more or less severity, followed by intense fever, hot dry skin; laboured, incomplete respiration, dry hard cough.
-C.V.S.- Palpitation from anxiety, during fever, after fright, after motion, on waking.
– Pulse full, hard, tense, bounding, sometimes intermits.
– Uncomplicated cardiac disease, especially numbness of left arm, tingling in fingers, fainting.
– Myocardial infarction with pain in left shoulder < sitting erect.
-Extremities- Pain down left arm [Cact, Crot-h, Kalm, Tab].
– Hot hands, cold feet.
– Bright red hypothenar eminences of both hands.
-Fever- Cold waves pass through him during chill.
– Thirst, restlessness always present.
– High fever; dry burning heat, must uncover.
– Chilliness towards evening, hot head, face and cheeks red, headache pressing outwards.
– Sweat on uncovered, affected parts, on drinking, wants covers.
-Skin- Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning, shining.
KEYNOTES:
1. Predicts the day he will die
2. One cheek red other pale.
3. Music is unbearable, makes her sad.
4. On rising from a recumbent position, the red face becomes deathly pale, he faints.
5. Amemorrhoea in plethoric girls, from fright.
CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS:
1. Great fear of death.
2. Mental and physical restlessness.
3. Sudden violent onset.
4. Initial stage of inflammation before pus forms.
NUCLEUS OF REMEDY:
– This drug is indicated in plethoric persons, in the first stage of inflammation before localisation and exudation has occurred, and is marked by redness, dryness, heat and severe pains.
– Complaints come suddenly with great anxiety, often with an overwhelming fear of death.
CLINICAL:
-Angina pectoris, Anxiety disorders, Bell’s palsy, Cerebral accidents, Colds, Conjunctivitis, Cystitis, Facial neuralgia, Gastritis, Influenza, Injury, Labour, Myocardial infarction, Orchitis, Otitis media, Panic disorders, Pneumonia, Shock, Tonsillitis, Toothache, Urinary retention or haemorrhage.
-Aconite is the acute of Sulphur – both precedes, follows it well in acute inflammatory conditions.
REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS:
Complementary : Arn, Coff, Sulph.
Follows Well : Ars, Bell, Bry, Calc, Hep, Ip, Lyc, Merc, Nux-v, Phos, Puls, Rhus, Sep, Spong.
Compare : Bell, Cann-i, Cham, Cocc, Con, Dulc.
Antidoted By : Acet-ac, Cham, Cimic, Coff, Nux-v, Par, Petr, Sep, Sulph.
It Antidotes : Arn, Aspin, Astac, Bell, Bry, Cact, Canth, Cham, Chel, Cit-v, Coff, Croc, Dol, Glon, Graph, Kalm, Kreos, Lyc, Merc-p, Mez, Morph, Nux-v, Petr, Sep, Sol, Spong, Stry, Sulph, Ther, Verat, Vib-p.
Duration Of Action : 1 Hour To Several Weeks.
ACONITUM NAPELLUS [Acon]
+ Monkshood Ranunculaceae
Introduction
Abundant in the mountain forests of France, Switzerland and Germany. Also cultivated in gardens.
The root is stronger than the herb, and the seed most uniform in strength. The symptoms of the herb, root and seed have not been separated, not even those of somewhat different species.
Mind
Now perfectly conscious, now raving.
Clairvoyance; conscious that his beloved, miles away, was singing a certain piece.
Dullness and confusion of mind.
Unconscious, as if dying; speechless. Apoplexy.
Insensible, stupid; also during convulsions.
Stupid, eyes closed, facial muscles twitch, mouth compressed, no power of speech.
Memory lively, or weak; what has just been done seems like a remote dream; cannot remember dates.
Ideas haunt him, cannot get rid of them.
Cannot finish a half-written idea without great effort.
Attention distracted while reading, thought seems to cease.
Cannot reflect, ideas seem to come from stomach; after two attacks of vertigo, thought is again normal.
Excited, or sits buried in thought.
Rapid change of thought; great exertion is required to fix train of thought.
On attempting to think of one thing, another intrudes; this is soon supplanted by another and so on.
Diminished intellectual power, cannot perform even light mental work.
Lively imagination.
Ecstasy; inclined to be gay, to dance and sing.
Delirium, crying out, staring look. Inflammation of brain.
Delirium, with convulsive motions. Myelitis.
Delirium, with great heat, dilated pupils or convulsions; childish, nonsensical talk.
Delirium, with talk about death. In childbed.
Delirium, especially at night, raves, springs out of bed; in morning, excessive sweat.
Pains are so intolerable, they drive him crazy; he becomes very restless.
Desire to be alone; shuns people.
Disposition to weep; cried violently, with facial jactitation.
Loquacity; speech hurried.
Alternate laughter and crying; at one time gay, at another gloomy. Moaning, anxious lamentations; reproaches from trifling causes.
Screams aloud at slightest touch, screams with pains; cannot bear light; will not be touched or uncovered; buzzing in ears.
Impatience, throws himself about, constantly changes position.
Restlessness, agony, internal anxiety; does everything in great haste; must move about or change position often.
Cannot continue long at one thing.
Dislikes to talk; answers laconically yes or no.
Music is unbearable, it makes her quite sad.
Sadness with solicitude; concerned about future; about her recovery or fears loss of reason.
Extreme timidity, especially after a fright; afraid in dark.
Fears to go where there is any excitement or many people; thinks she is jostling against every one she meets; countenance expressive of timidity; constant dread lest she stagger and fall.
During pregnancy.
Fear of ghosts.
Fear of death: during pregnancy or confinement; with prolapsus uteri; with great loquacity or anxiety in region of heart.
Thrice he became blind and affirmed that death was at hand.
Predicts day of death; bids her friends good-bye.
In childbed.
Inconsolable anxiety, piteous wailing; peevish and impatient.
Anxiety: transiently amel. by drinking cold water; followed by apathy; with cold sweat (prolapsus uteri).
Has no affection for anybody. During pregnancy.
Morose, misanthropic, peevish; malicious mood.
Children get angry and have spells of rage. Vexed at trifles; takes every joke in bad part.
Quarrelsome, with constantly varying delirium; chatters like a child, is gay.
Obstinate, tosses about impatiently.
Sinks into lethargy, but rarely sleeps; complains of crawls.
Ailments from fright: afraid in dark; vertigo; faintness; trembling; cardiac weakness; threatened miscarriage; impending cessation of menstrual flow; burning in stomach.
Remote effects of fright, especially jaundice.
Ailments from vexation, with fear or vehemence: congestion; palpitation; fever; anxiety, beside himself ; threatened miscarriage; apoplectic congestion.
Sensorium
Confusion: as after drunkenness, with pressure in temples; early in morning on awaking.
Head feels dull, stupefied. Coryza. Fevers.
Dull, stupid; pressure outwards, worse sitting up; with anxiety and fear of death. Sunstroke.
Apoplexy or apoplectic congestions.
Vertigo: after fright; from congestion, as in sun; on stooping; staggers to right; as if drunk, with nausea, worse on rising from seat, amel. while walking, none while sitting; blackness before eyes when shaking head; with nosebleed; from sudden suppression of catamenia by cold.
On rising from a recumbent posture, red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes dizzy and falls over, he fears to rise again; often accompanied by nausea, vanishing of sight or unconsciousness.
Vertigo, headache, nausea, gagging, coldness.
Cholera.
Turns suddenly red and falls unconscious.
Teething child.
From a fall or concussion; face pale or red, but no stupor.
Fullness of head, with erratic pains in right supraorbital, temporal or frontal regions.
Suddenly faints while standing to urinate; all blood seemed to rush to head; he fell unconscious.
Alternate stupefaction and restlessness, with mild delirium twitchings, starts as in a fright, pulse frequent. Brain fever.
Stupor, with cold feet.
Inner Head
Constant burning in forehead. Jaundice.
Burning headache, as of brain agitated by boiling water.
Headache, as if a hot iron was bound around head.
Fullness and heavy feeling, as if everything would push out of forehead.
Squeezing in forehead above root of nose, feels as if she would lose her reason; worse walking in open air.
Furious headache, vision obscured, pain mostly pressing and contracting in upper part of forehead; face swollen, pale; worse from light or noise; amel. lying quietly in a dark room.
Pressing shooting pain in forehead. Coryza.
Violent headache limited to a small spot over left supraorbital ridge.
Pulsation in left side of forehead along with attacks, as from severe blows in right side of forehead.
Headache in vertex, as if compressed uniformly by a pitch cap; ceases when walking in open air.
Sunstroke; especially from sleeping in sun’s rays.
Headache, as if brain was moved or raised; worse during motion, drinking, talking or sunlight.
Congestive headaches. Menorrhagia.
Congestion, anxiety; face hot and red, or pale; carotids pulsate strongly; pulse full, strong, or small and quick; worse toward evening. Apoplexy.
Headache, with increased secretion of urine.
On going into a warm room, forehead feels as if compressed.
Throbbing in temples. Rheumatic ophthalmia.
Pressure in forehead, temples and top of head.
Headache and roaring in ears. Coryza.
Pressive, stupefying headache; sleeplessness.
Childbed fever.
Congestion to head. Heart disease.
Head hot, throbbing carotids, limbs cold; left side lame; staring; burning pain in brain. Apoplexy.
Inflammation of brain in children.
Congestion to head. Cystitis.
Outer Head
Head excessively hot.
Bends head far back. Croup.
Sensation in vertex as if pulled by the hair.
Sensation of crackling, as from bending tinsel, in temples, forehead and nose; worse toward evening from motion; amel. from sitting.
Formication of scalp, amel. by heat.
Constantly tosses head about. Croup.
Sensation as if hair stood on end.
Vertex feels hot to touch; hair bristles up.
If he raises his head, he vomits phlegm or what he drank.
Inflammation of brain.
Constantly puts hand to head. Meningitis.
Amel. lying with head high.
Stitches under scalp.
Sweat on head; amel. out of doors.
Cold sweat on forehead.
Sight and Eyes
Disturbed by flickering; fears he may touch others passing by.
Vision of sparks, with burning and twitching in eyes.
Vision as if through a veil; difficult to distinguish faces; anxiety and vertigo.
Total blindness after catching cold.
Optical illusions in dark colors, or black.
Sensitive to light, especially sun; light dazzles.
Desire for light; photomania.
Eyes excessively hot and dry; conjunctiva of lids very red, constant winking and closing of lids, could hardly force them open, temporary relief from cold water; asthenopia from straining eyes.
Staring. Apoplexy. Asthma.
Eyes glaring. Pleuritis. Pneumonia.
Eyes contorted. Tetanus.
Pupils contracted, then dilated.
Eyeball feels enlarged, as if coming out of socket.
Sclerotica yellow. Enteritis.
Eyes bloodshot.
Sticking pains in right eyeball.
Rough feeling, as from sand in left inner canthus.
Inflammatory conditions, resulting from irritant action of foreign bodies, as chips of steel, or stone, or coal, in cornea, which produce dry rubbing of lid over ball, with injected vessels; irritation caused by ingrowing lashes.
In true Sclerotica, acute stage, with contracted pupils, sticking or tearing pains, photophobia, a blue circle around cornea and violent aching in balls.
Eyes red, inflamed, vessels deep red; burning, pressive shooting pains, especially on moving balls; no discharge; conjunctivitis from exposure to cold, dry winds.
Catarrhal inflammation, first stage prior to exudation; chemosis of conjunctiva, with pains so terrible that one wishes to die.
Ophthalmia neonatorum; in beginning.
Acute aggravations of granulated lids and pannus of cornea, with excessive hyperaemia, heat and dryness, especially if induced by overheating from violent exercise, or by exposure to dry, cold air.
In earlier stages of violent acute inflammations of deep structures of ball, when it becomes sensitive to touch and feels as if it were protruding; rarely after exudation.
Itching, smarting, burning in eyes, worse in evening.
Sticking and tearing pains around eyes; worse at night.
Violent pain over right eye.
Stitches in upper orbital region, from pressure and toward evening.
Upper half of eyeball sore when moved; feels as if it would be forced out of orbit (amel. on stooping).
Eyes water, worse evening and night; tarsI sore, red, inflamed.
Profuse lachrymation with intense pain; tears flow, with or without local inflammation.
Copious tears and red conjunctiva. Coryza. Cough.
Lids feel dry, burn and are sensitive to air.
Pressure in upper lids as if whole ball was pushed into orbit, causing a bruised pain in eye.
Lids hard, swollen, red, with a tense feeling; worse mornings.
Hearing and Ears
Averse to noises, they startle him; they are intolerable.
Music goes through every limb; makes her sad.
Roaring in ears; humming; ringing.
Left ear deaf, with buzzing in whole head.
Apoplexy.
Tearing pain (left ear); pains in right ear.
Stinging in ear; meatus red and narrowed: external ear hot and red ; noise intolerable.
Smell and Nose
Sense of smell very acute, especially for unpleasant odors.
Distressing cramp or pressure at root of nose.
Nosebleed; blood bright red. Plethora. Fever. Endocarditis.
Measles.
Nose bleeding and headache. Menorrhagia.
Frequent sneezing.
Nose dry, stopped up, cannot breathe through nose.
Coryza: dry, with headache, roaring in ears, fever, thirst, sleeplessness, caused by cold, dry winds; checked with headache; amel. in open air, worse from talking; fluent, frequent sneezing; dropping of a clear, hot water; fluent mornings; inner nose red, swollen, interfering with breathing.
Face
Anxious expression; frightened.
Face: pale with restlessness and expression of anxiety; burning fiery red; red and pale alternately; livid; lips blackish; bloated, unequally red ; feels as if it was growing larger.
Red cheeks with fear of death. In pregnancy.
One cheek red, the other pale.
Between attacks, face pale; now and then flying heat. Croup.
Face and whole body pale. Measles.
Face dark red. Apoplexy.
Face dark red, lips blue. Croup.
Rush of blood to face. Fever.
Convulsive twitching of facial muscles.
Neuralgia of trigeminus, left side; face red and hot; restlessness, anguish; rolling about, screaming.
Rheumatism in face and teeth.
Sweat on cheek on which he lies.
Sensation as if muscles were firmly but not spasmodically contracted; numbness, heavy feeling of whole face.
Creeping, tingling, crawling in face.
Lower part of Face
Lips: blue; dry, black, peeling off swollen, inflamed.
Complaints on upper lip.
Burning and numbness of lips and mouth; heat and tingling.
Burning of lips and tongue, as after eating pepper or smoking.
Swelling of lower jaw, with aching in face.
Stitching thrusts in lower jaw.
Mouth drawn to one side (right). Convulsions.
Lips on left side motionless, during breathing.
Apoplexy.
Trismus.
Constantly moving lower jaw, as in chewing.
Meningitis.
Teeth and Gums
Cold feeling in incisors.
Grinding teeth.
Teeth sensitive to air.
Toothache: even in sound teeth; with throbbing in one side of face, intense redness of one cheek, congestion to head, restlessness; most left-sided, or going from right to left: caused by dry, cold winds; taking cold in raw air; during pregnancy; especially in young, plethoric sedentary persons.
Teeth feel as if they would fall out.
After getting wet, tearing, beating pain in a carious molar, increasing after going to bed.
Taste, Speech and Tongue
Taste: bitter ; everything tastes bitter except water ; slimy (jaundice); foul; fishy; flat; nauseous, compels hawking of tough mucus, which he swallows.
Mouth as if filled with air tasting of rotten eggs.
Things which formerly tasted strong now have no taste.
Agg. from talking; stinging, choking, in throat.
Headache. Checked coryza.
Trembling and temporary stammering.
Speech imperfect, lisping. Apoplexy.
Tongue feels swollen, burning, prickling and tingling.
Tongue numb; also mouth and lips.
Sensation of dryness and numbness in middle of tongue, without thirst.
Sensation of dryness and rawness in middle of tongue.
Burning on tip of tongue and lips.
Burning vesicles on tongue.
Sensation of cold air passing over tongue.
Tongue coated white or thick yellow-white.
Bilious fever.
Tongue dry, furred, white. Fevers.
Tongue red, with great thirst. Liver complaint.
Tongue dry, red on sides, center thinly coated white.
Peritonitis.
Tongue red and dry. Cystitis.
Chronic affections of tongue.
Inner Mouth
Mouth dry.
Burning, biting in mouth.
Saliva frothy, copious , streaked red, sweet taste in mouth.
Accumulation of water in mouth. Seat worms.
Orifices of salivary ducts sore, as if corroded.
Yellowish-white thick fur in mouth. Jaundice.
Palate and Throat
Dry feeling in palate and posterior nares.
Redness of uvula and soft palate.
Uvula: swollen and elongated; feels as if elongated and coming in contact with tongue. Cough.
Feeling of dryness and as if something stuck in throat.
Acute inflammation of throat (palate, tonsils and fauces) with high fever, dark redness of parts, burning and stinging in fauces.
Burning sensation in back of throat, causing him to hawk.
Severe sticking pains in posterior fauces.
Burning and numbness in throat; throat almost insensible.
Pricking, burning in throat and along eustachian tube, compelling swallowing.
Roof of mouth and fauces dotted with eruption.
Scarlatina.
Burning sensation in pharynx.
Constriction of throat, causing hawking and spitting even to an irritation to vomit.
Swallowing: stinging choking in throat.
When swallowing food, it feels as if it had lodged in cardiac region. Stricture of oesophagus.
Swallowing much impeded. Tonsillitis.
Muscles extremely sore in swallowing.
Almost entire inability to swallow. Hoarseness.
Urging to swallow.
Burning from mouth along oesophagus to stomach.
Tingling in oesophagus.
Appetite, Thirst and Desires
Lively sensation of hunger, renewed soon after eating.
Excessive hunger and thirst, but eats slowly.
Thirst burning, unquenchable. During all stages of fever.
Local inflammations.
Excessive thirst, yet can retain nothing. Cholera.
No appetite; loathing of food, qualmishness.
Desires: wine; brandy; beer ; bitter drinks.
Eating and Drinking
Agg. before breakfast.
After eating: distressed feeling; vomits food (liver complaint); bitter vomit; violent pain in stomach, with warmth and tenderness; hiccough ; nausea (after meat broths).
Momentary relief from cold water. Anxiety.
Generally worse after drinking.
Gastric catarrh from chilling stomach with ice water, especially when overheated.
Drinking ice water excites cough; generally amel. from cold drink, especially anxiety.
Agg. from smoking. Palpitation.
Wine generally relieves, but sometimes brings on congestions, haemoptysis or palpitation, and augments rheumatic pains.
Hiccough, nausea and vomiting
Painful hiccough.
Hiccough and belching.
Amel. from eructations. Tension in stomach.
Nausea in oesophagus or stomach, rarely in throat.
Violent but ineffectual urging to vomit. Gastric catarrh.
Gagging, retching, gasping for breath. After scarlatina.
Vomiting: of lumbrici; of green masses, with diarrhoea of same appearance; of mucus; of blood, of bloody mucus; of what has been drunk, followed by thirst.
Vomiting bile. Incarcerated hernia with inflammation.
Vomiting with anxiety, heat, thirst, profuse sweat and increased micturition.
Green vomit, like verdigris. Meningitis.
Vomiting, meteorism and inability to make water.
Peritonitis.
On sitting up, vomits clear water. After a fall on head.
Vomiting and purging of a green water. Cholera.
Vomits sour phlegm. Cholera sporadica.
After repeated vomiting and stools, still complained of a feeling as if a cold stone lay in stomach.
Scrobiculum and Stomach
Region of pit of stomach sore to touch and meteoristic.
Jaundice.
Burning from stomach up through oesophagus to mouth.
Sudden excruciating pain, with gagging, retching, vomiting blood, gasping; cold sweat on forehead; congestion of mucous lining of stomach.
Scarlatina; desquamation.
When breathing, pit of stomach is drawn to spine.
Croup.
Palpitation in pit of stomach, with peevish anxiety.
Pressure in stomach and pit of stomach, as from a weight or hard stone.
Stitch-like, burning, pressing pain in pit of stomach, with fear of death. Gastritis from chilling stomach.
Warmth in stomach.
Pressive, tensive pain, as from fullness or an oppressive weight in stomach and hypochondria.
Hypochondria
Anxious feeling in precordia.
Liver somewhat sensitive to deep pressure.
Burning, stinging, hepatic pains.
Hot, tense swelling under right short ribs.
Pressure and constriction in hepatic region, with obstruction of breathing.
Acute hepatitis, with violent fever.
Pain on pressure over left lobe of liver.
Tension and heaviness in hypochondria.
Agony, has to sit straight up, can hardly breathe, pulse thread-like, vomiturition, sweats with anxiety; abdomen swollen, particularly under short ribs.
After scarlet fever.
Stitches in region of liver taking the breath.
Severe and constant pain in epigastrium, pressing outward.
Jaundice.
Stitches and heat in diaphragm.
Pain going to umbilicus, or changing from stomach to liver.
Jaundice.
Jaundice: during pregnancy, liver atrophied; in new-born children; after fright; from a cold, with catarrh of small intestines.
Splenitis with inflammatory fever.
Abdomen and Loins
Colic forces him double, yet relieved in no position.
Inflammatory after a cold.
Colic involving bladder, contraction of hypogastrium in region of bladder; constant ineffectual urging to urinate.
Cutting in intestines, extending through chest to right shoulder, almost making him cry out, during stool.
Burning in umbilical region.
Umbilical region hard swollen. Seat worms.
Meteorism, vomiting, inability to urinate.
Peritonitis.
Abdomen burning hot, tense, tympanitic, sensitive to least touch, cutting pains, fever, anguish.
Peritonitis.
Abdomen puffed and hard.
A feeling of weight, as if a heavy load were resting on abdomen and bearing one down.
Paralyzed, inactive feeling in intestines, worse about transverse colon.
Hernia, recent and small, also incarcerated with bilious vomiting and cold sweat; burning as from coals of fire.
Sensitiveness of lower abdomen to touch.
Pain in loins, as if bruised.
Stools and Rectum
Diarrhoea: watery; frequent small stool; like chopped spinach (summer complaint); bilious, of infants, with colic, which no position relieves; from getting wet; slimy, bloody, violent pains in bowels; tenesmus, also between discharges.
Scanty, loose, frequent, with tenesmus; small, brown, painful; at last bloody. Dysentery.
Pure blood passes without feces. Dysentery.
Urging, slimy stools; intolerable nightly tingling, itching at anus. Seat worms.
Dysentery or inflammatory diarrhoea during hot days and cold night.
Cutting, griping, followed by frequent urging to stool, after anger or fright.
Hemorrhage from bowels bright red, in streams.
Alternate slimy stools and constipation. Icterus.
Constipation; clay-colored stools.
Stool and urine suppressed. Myelitis.
Stool white, with dark red urine.
Stool white, with saffron-colored urine. Jaundice.
Stool black, with dry skin and fever; despondency, anxiety.
Cholera, congestive stage; stage of reaction.
Involuntary stools, passing when flatus passes.
Bleeding piles; stinging and pressure in anus, burning and heat in piles.
Sensation as of a warm fluid escaping from anus.
Urinary Organs
Stinging and pressing pains in region of kidneys.
Nephritis.
Kidneys act but slightly; urine contained albumen and fragments of casts (poisoning).
Renal region sensitive, with shooting pains.
Nephritis.
Violent burning in bladder. Cystitis.
Inflammation of bladder; constant urging, water passes in drops, with burning, admixed with blood; tension, heat and tenderness over pubes.
Burning in neck of bladder when not urinating.
Tenesmus of neck of bladder.
Painful anxious urging to urinate.
Children reach with hands to genitals and cry out.
Cystitis.
Burning in urethra when urinating.
Must rise each night between 12 and 3 A.M. to urinate. In pregnancy.
Dysuria during pregnancy.
Urine scanty, red and hot. Rheumatism.
Peritonitis.
Urine: hot, dark colored; red, with white feces ; red and clear.
Urine dark brown, frothy or yellow. Jaundice.
Urine turbid. Enteritis.
Urine yellow-red and no sediment. Peritonitis.
Ischuria. Cholera.
Involuntary urination. Apoplexy.
Enuresis, with thirst.
Diuresis, with headache and profuse sweat.
Retention or suppression of urine, with pressure in bladder or stitches in region of kidneys.
Retention from cold, especially in children, with much crying and restlessness.
Haematuria, with hemorrhoids of anus or bladder; burning distress in urethra.
During urination: faint feeling; splashing sensation in region of bladder; pinching about navel; pain in glans penis.
Male Sexual Organs
Increased sexual desire; lascivious dreams; fits of lasciviousness.
Sexual desire lessened, parts relaxed; tingling.
Emissions even after coitus.
Testicles feel swollen and hard, as if surcharged with semen.
Bruised pain in testicles.
Violent orchitis.
Slight drawing pain in right testicle and slight uneasiness in right renal region.
Scrotum drawn up.
Skin of left side of scrotum studded with minute vesicles, pouring out a humid discharge.
Severe painful, fugitive stitches in glans, as though poles of a galvanic battery had been applied to part; pains came on most unexpectedly.
Gonorrhea, first stage.
Female Sexual Organs
Stitching pains, more to right of fundus uteri; sharp, shooting pains, abdomen exceedingly sensitive.
Ovaritis from suddenly checked menstrual flow.
Prolapsus uteri, occurring suddenly, with inflammation, bitter vomit, cold sweat, or dry, hot skin; with or without hemorrhage.
Labor-like pressing in womb; has to bend double, but relieved in no position. Dysmenorrhoea.
Uterine hemorrhage, active, much excitability, giddy, cannot sit up, fear of death.
After a fright with vexation; during catamenia, to prevent suppression.
Menses too late, diminished and protracted; plethoric females, who lead a sedentary life.
Menses profuse in plethoric women.
Menses suppressed by getting feet wet, or by a cold bath.
Amenorrhoea during puberty; nosebleed; palpitation; congestions.
Restores menses of plethoric women, after their suppression from any cause.
Inflammation of genitals. Prolapsus uteri.
Vagina dry, hot, sensitive.
Leucorrhoea copious, tenacious, yellow.
Pregnancy and Parturition
During pregnancy: restlessness , fear of death, predicts time of death ; jaundice; blood-spitting; disturbed between 12 and 3 o’clock at night, compelled to get up to urinate; has no affection for anybody.
Impending abortion from fright, with vexation; circulation excited, rapid breathing.
Pains of labor: distressing; vagina hot, dry, tender and undilatable; violent, following in rapid succession, particularly with a large child (head seems immovable), contractions insufficient, pains overwhelming; shrieking; red, sweating face; thirsty; head and hands glowing, pulse hard, skin scarcely moist, increased action of heart; ineffectual from defective position of child.
Puerperal convulsions, cerebral congestion, hot, dry skin, thirst, restlessness and fear of death.
After tedious and difficult parturition.
After-pains too painful, too long-lasting.
Milk-fever with delirium; mammae hot, hard, tense with scanty milk.
Lochia offensive, bloody, slimy. Childbed fever.
Return of lochial discharge, when women commence going about after confinement.
Childbed fever after suppression of lochia; mammae lax, no milk; dry, hot skin; hard, frequent pulse, or tensive, contracted; fearful, wild, staring, glittering eyes; dry tongue, great thirst; inflated abdomen, sensitive to slightest touch.
Newborn children: asphyxia, apoplectic symptoms, hot, purplish, breathless, pulseless; icterus; ophthalmia; retained urine; vomit blood, with bloody stools.
Voice, Larynx and Trachea
Voice tremulous; croaking.
Hoarseness and rattling. Coryza.
Hoarseness, with pain when talking. Measles.
Hoarseness after speaking or singing.
Voice crowing, croupy.
Voice husky, can scarcely speak, points to larynx, wants to cough, but cannot. Croup.
Larynx sensitive to touch and to inspired air, as if denuded.
Laryngitis, with inflammatory fever; also with suffocative spasms (spasms of glottis).
Laryngeal complaints after straining voice.
Dryness in windpipe causing a frequent little cough.
Croup: awaking in first sleep; child in agony, impatient, tosses about; dry, short cough, but not much wheezing nor sawing breathing; cough and loud breathing during expiration; every expiration ending with a hoarse, hacking cough; after exposure to dry, cold winds.
Burning low down in larynx. Peritonitis.
Respiration
Breath cold. Cholera.
Breath hot. Croup. Blood-spitting.
Breath fetid.
Breathing: short, in sleep, after 12 P.M.; labored, anxious or quick, and superficial ; deep, slow, sighing; difficult, must breathe deeply; slow, rattling (apoplexy), whistling (croup in old age), short, when raising one’s self.
Asthma from active hyperaemia of lungs and brain; face red, eyes staring; after emotions; can talk but little at a time.
Asthma after suppression of acute rash; feeling of band around chest; muscles of chest rigid; occasionally vomiting; urine scanty, dark; after paroxysm, sputa yellow or blood-streaked.
Agony, sits up straight, can hardly breathe; pulse like a thread, vomiturition; sweat, with anxiety; swelling under short ribs. After scarlatina.
Oppression of chest when moving fast or ascending. Heart disease.
Inhalation difficult and noisy. Tracheitis.
Agg. during inspiration; amel. during expiration.
Constant short, dry cough, with feeling of suffocation, which increases with every inspiration.
Difficult breathing. Endocarditis.
Breathes only with diaphragm. Pneumonia.
Cannot breathe freely from a sensation as if lungs would not expand; frequently takes deep breaths.
Cough
Clear ringing or whistling cough, caused by burning, pricking in larynx or trachea.
Cough short, dry, forcible, excited by scratching in throat.
Short cough after 12 P.M., from tickling in larynx; the more he attempts to repress it, the more severe it becomes.
Cough hoarse, dry, loud; spasmodic, rough, croaking, with danger of suffocation; dry, hard, ringing.
Infantile bronchitis.
Dry cough, with shooting in chest; with raw pain in chest, caused by change of temperature.
Wants to cough, but cannot. Croup.
Cough hollow, hoarse, choking, causing blueness of face.
Violent hollow cough at night; shorter and more panting during day. Laryngitis.
Dry, barking cough. Measles.
Dry, whistling cough; beginning of pertussis; feverish, anxious, restless.
Haemoptysis: blood comes up with an easy hawking, hemming or slight cough; expression of anxiety; great fear of death; palpitation, quick pulse, stitches in chest; caused by mental excitement; exposure to dry, cold air, or after taking wine.
Sputa: absent ; thin, gelatinous, more mornings and during day; scanty, falls in round lumps, dark cherry-red (pneumonia) ; bloody or blood-streaked ; bright red blood.
Expectoration brownish-red, rust-colored; cough frequent, with severe pains from shock through chest.
Cough awakens him from sleep, is dry, croupy, suffocating; great anxiety.
Cough amel. lying on back; worse on side.
Cough with nervous excitability.
Cough worse: after eating or drinking; lying, must sit up from a constrictive feeling and suffocation (tracheitis) until 3 A.M.; evening, night, more after 12 P.M.; from tobacco smoke ; during sleep; from vexation, especially fright; when overheated; from dry, cold winds, or currents of air ; from walking in open air; when assuming an upright position; from deep inspiration; from speaking.
Inner Chest and Lungs
Tightness of chest.
Oppression of chest, feeling of great weight, must breathe deeply, with anxiety.
Pressure, weight and burning under sternum.
Pain in middle of chest drawing toward back, worse with every motion of body. Esophagitis.
Stitches in right side of chest, but only when lying on that side. Endocarditis.
Stitches: when breathing; with cough; from lowest rib, right side, through lung to apex of scapula, at every inspiration ; in left chest; last rib, right side, through to back; transient, now here, now there; worse bending sideways: between scapulae, on deep breathing; and burning shooting in chest.
Cannot lie on right side, only on back. Pleurisy.
Lancinating through chest, with dry heat, difficult breathing, often violent chill.
Synochal fever, hot sweat, oppression; children have rattling in chest; sensation of fullness in chest; must lie on back.
Pneumonia, first stage.
Cough after drinking, sputum thin, frothy, blood-streaked; burning, shooting in chest; dullness on percussion. Pneumonia, second stage.
Heat in lungs.
Rush of blood to lungs. Childbed fever.
Heart Pulse and Circulation
Palpitation, anxiety, restlessness; worse lying; face pale, anxious. Blood-spitting.
Hyperaemia of lungs, violent palpitation of heart; face red; spitting of blood.
Palpitation, feeling as if boiling water was poured into chest.
Oppression about heart, burning flushes along back.
Anxiety about precordia, heart beats quicker and stronger; fear of death. During pregnancy.
Anxiety, difficulty of breathing, flying heat in face, sensation of something rushing into head.
Feeling of fullness; pulse hard, strong, contracted; stitches at heart; lies on back, with raised shoulders; constriction of chest. Pericarditis.
Uncomplicated cardiac hypertrophy; especially with numbness in left arm and tingling in fingers.
Great agitation of heart, anxiety. Acute rheumatism.
Heart beats quickly, pulse slow, apparently intermitting with attacks of powerlessness.
Heart’s action feeble, quick, incomplete; pulse small and weak; cardiac weakness.
Intense pains in all directions, especially down left arm, with numbness and tingling; anxiety, fear of death, coldness, cold sweat; feeble pulse. Angina pectoris.
Fainting, with tingling. Hypertrophy.
Pulse quicker than beat of heart; during three beats apex strikes only once.
Pulse strong, full, hard. In fever and inflammations.
Full, strong, hard pulse, with heat and thirst.
Meningitis infantum.
Pulse: small, intermitting, irregular (asthma); accelerated, with heat of skin (Jaundice); contracted; full, powerful, over 100 per minute; full, powerful, intermitting every six beats with cardiac heaviness; slow, intermittent; slow, feeble, weak and small; like a thread, with anxiety; quick, hard and small (peritonitis).
Carotids beat violently. Apoplexy.
Veins of throat expanded. Inflammation of lungs.
Outer Chest
Muscles rigid. Asthma.
Neck and Back
Neck sore and painful; glands swollen. Scarlet fever.
Drawing in muscles of throat and neck.
Weariness in neck on motion as if involving single muscles, especially evenings and nights.
Tearing in nape of neck.
Painful stiff neck, worse moving neck; pains down neck to right shoulder.
Bruised pain between shoulders.
Drawing, tearing pain in scapulae.
Stiffness of back.
Burning, shooting in spine.
Cutting pains extending in a circle from spine to abdomen.
Crawling in spine, as from beetles; formication.
After injury or checked sweat. Spinal meningitis.
Pains in small of back, last lumbar vertebra, as if beaten.
Numbness of small of back, extending into lower limbs. Spinal meningitis.
Spasms from inflammatory affections of spine.
Slightest touch of spine excites spasms.
Tensive, pressive pain in lumbar and sacral regions, noticed on stepping.
Upper Limbs
Tearing pain in shoulder-joint.
Formication in arms, hands and fingers.
Arms hang powerless, as if paralyzed by blows.
Meningitis.
Numbness of left arm; can scarcely move hand; tingling of fingers. Heart disease.
Shooting, tearing, erratic; in arms, forearms, wrists and finger-joints.
Shooting in wrist joint as if from needles.
Automatic motion of left hand; he strikes his face.
Measles.
Drawing and tearing pains in wrists and fingers.
Trembling of hands.
Paralysis of wrists.
Palms of hands quite insensible.
Creeping pain in fingers.
Creeping in fingers, also while writing.
Hand icy cold; cold, sweaty palms.
Finger-nails blue.
Hot palms.
Red pimples on back of hands; stinging itching.
Lower Limbs
Hip and hip-joint (left) swollen, hot and exceedingly painful to touch; feverish, thirsty, anxious.
Acute articular rheumatism.
Drawing tearing in left hip-joint on moving.
Sensation as if drops of cold water trickled down front of thighs.
Thighs when walking feel as if tightly bandaged.
Drawing pain, especially in joints of limbs.
Drawing in tendinous expansions of lower limbs.
Lower limbs sore. Peritonitis.
Shooting, tearing pains in legs, knees, ankles, toes, etc.
Legs almost powerless; after sitting, numbness.
Spinal meningitis.
Numbness in gouty limb.
Trembling of limbs.
Unsteadiness of knees; bend while standing or walking.
Knees swollen; painful, throbbing, cutting, stinging pains; cannot sleep, had to sit up. Acute rheumatism.
Knife like pains in knee joint.
Legs stiff when moved, after taking cold.
Coldness of knee, alternating with flying shooting.
Cramps in calves, also in feet.
Legs and feet feel numb; tingling, commencing in feet and spreading upward.
Ankles feel as if tied with a ligature.
Hot pricking in toes; they “go to sleep ” while walking.
Coldness of feet and ankles; soles and toes cold and sweaty.
Limbs in General
Drawing, tearing pains in limbs.
Transient pains, like bone pains, in long bones of limbs and in metacarpal bones.
Rheumatic inflammation of joints, worse evening and night; intense, bright red, shining swelling of parts; sensitive to least contact, with high fever.
Crawling in upper and lower limbs.
Trembling and tingling in limbs, accompanied by shooting pains.
Convulsive trembling of limbs.
Convulsive contraction of limbs.
Slight starting of limbs, alternating with trembling.
Meningitis.
Limbs feel weak, heavy and painful. Coryza.
Limbs feel tired during repose.
Lameness and numb feeling in affected parts; pain intolerable.
Rheumatism.
Numbness, icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet.
Meningitis.
Bruised, heavy feeling.
Coldness of extremities.
Hot hands and cold feet.
Twitching of fingers and toes.
Rest, Position and Motion
Rest: generally amel., but during night, in bed, pains intolerable; limbs feel tired; rigors worse
Lying: headache amel.; palpitation worse; shudders; fever unbearable.
Lying on back: cough amel.; stitches in chest amel..
Lying with head high: headache amel.
Lying on right side; stitches in chest.
Lying on side: cough worse; cheek lain on sweats.
Must lie down: with vertigo.
Cannot sit up: uterine hemorrhage.
Sitting: vertigo amel.: crackling in forehead amel.
Sitting up: pressure in sunstroke worse; cough worse.
Must sit up: in difficult breathing; with painful knees.
Rising from a seat: vertigo.
Rising from recumbent posture: red face becomes pale.
After sitting: legs numb.
Rising: shortness of breath; fainting.
Springs out of bed: in delirium at night.
Changes position constantly: when impatient; during anxiety; at night; puts hand to head.
Standing: faints while urinating; causes great weakness.
Stooping: vertigo worse; as if eyeballs were forced out amel.
Bent backward: head in croup; body in spasms.
Bending sideways: stitches in chest.
Must bend double: colic; dysmenorrhoea.
Shaking head: vertigo; blackness before eyes.
Raising head: vomits.
Walking: vertigo amel.; squeezing in forehead worse; vertex headache amel.; cough worse; thighs feel as if bandaged; unsteady knees; toes ” go to sleep. “
Stepping: tensive, pressive pain in back.
Must walk or move about: at night restlessness, fever.
Motion: sensation as if brain moved worse; crackling in temples, forehead and nose; of eyeballs painful; pain in chest worse; weariness in neck worse; stiff neck worse; drawing, tearing in left hip; legs stiff; chill; rigors amel.
Violent exercise: produces overheating and conjunctivitis.
Nerves
Restless, though motion worse pain. Pleurisy.
Nervous excitability. Prolapsus uteri.
Timid and uncertain in his actions.
Excessive restlessness and tossing about for several hours.
Trembling and tendency to palpitation.
Jerks of left leg or arm, grinding teeth; comatose; restless, moaning. Measles.
Convulsions of teething children; heat, startings, twitches of single muscles; child gnaws its fists, frets, cries; costive or dark, watery stools.
Spasms of eyes; clenched jaws; body becomes rigid and bends backward; limbs distorted with spasms.
Loud lamentations; body rigid and bent backward; fists clenched across throat; gnashing of teeth; eyes drawn up spasmodically under lids.
Towards noon convulsions of whole body. Myelitis.
Whole body feels as heavy as lead; swollen in size and stature, except head and neck.
Great muscular weakness, weariness, prostration, almost total inability to stand.
Progressive failure of strength.
Feeling very drowsy, languid and unable to rise from couch; obliged to discontinue all work; system feels prostrated with sense of inward fever.
Numbness, tingling; left side. Paralysis of limbs.
Sudden falling down senseless. Apoplexy.
Collapse; cholera.
Faintness on attempting to sit up.
Formication, now in one, now in another part.
Sleep
Sleepiness; spasmodic yawning.
On going to sleep: fever becomes intolerable; jerks; restless tossing.
Somnolency, eyes closed; in a little child.
Senseless; snoring. Apoplexy.
Sleeping light, imagines in morning he has not slept at all, yet not weak.
During sleep: delirium; starts; profuse sweat; hot, restless and talking; slow breathing.
Restless nights; must walk or move about; alternately cold and hot, partial sweat.
Excessive wakefulness; nervous sleeplessness.
Sleeplessness after midnight with anxiety, restlessness, continual tossing about; eyes closed.
Sleeplessness caused by fear, fright or anxiety, with fear of future. Consumption of lungs.
Vivid dreams of day’s occurrences.
At night anxious dreams, several times waking with start.
Long dreams with anxiety in chest, taking away breath and causing him to awaken.
Anxious heavy dreams with oppression of chest.
Awakened: by asthma; by nightmare; with starts; by cough.
Agg. after sleep.
Time
Night: delirium; sticking, tearing around eyes worse; lachrymation; violent hollow cough; weariness of neck; rheumatic pains in joints worse; sleepless; dreaming; shuddering; alternate heat and chill; pains intolerable.
Midnight: burning in throat, causing hawking.
After midnight: short breath during sleep; short cough; sweat.
Midnight to 3 A.M.: must rise to urinate.
Until 3 A.M.: cough worse.
Morning: excessive sweat; anxious lamentations; confused as if drunken; swollen eyelids worse; coryza fluent; thin, gelatinous sputum; thinks he has not slept.
Towards noon: convulsions.
Day: short cough and panting; thin, gelatinous sputum.
Towards evening: congestion to head worse; crackling in head; stitches in orbital region; fever unbearable.
Evening: congestive headache worse; crackling in temples, forehead and nose; itching, burning, smarting in eye; stitches in eye worse; lachrymation; cough worse; weariness of neck; rheumatic pains in joints worse; sudden chill.
Temperature and Weather
Heat of sun: headache worse.
Rays of sun: produce erythema; sunstroke.
Heat: relieves formication of scalp.
Warm room: forehead feels compressed; chill worse.
Overheating: causes eye troubles; cough results.
In bed: fever unbearable.
When covered: sweats.
Uncovering: will not be uncovered.
Open air: headache in forehead worse; vertex headache amel.; sweat on head amel.; eyelids sensitive; headache from checked coryza amel.; teeth sensitive; cough worse.
Cold, dry winds: conjunctivitis, coryza, toothache, croup; cough worse; articular rheumatism.
Raw air: produces toothache.
Cold water: relieves conjunctivitis and anxiety.
Ice water: causes gastric catarrh; excites cough.
Cold bathing: suppresses menses.
Getting wet: causes tearing and beating in carious molar; diarrhoea; suppresses menses.
Hot days, cold nights: dysentery.
Fever
Sensation of coldness in blood vessels.
Chill: anxious; on slightest movement; being uncovered or touched; ascends from feet to chest ; with formication between shoulders and down back; finger tips cold, nail blue, worse in a warm room.
Shuddering on lying down at night.
Rigor commencing in limbs and going over whole body, with gooseflesh; worse in rest; disappearing on motion.
Skin cool, dry or cold and viscous; or cold to touch, but patient feels as if burning. Cholera.
Whole body stiff and cold. Myelitis.
Rigors and vomiting. Puerperal convulsions.
Frequent shudders. Inflammation of lungs.
Cold crawls over back, with hot skin. Catarrh.
Sudden chill in evening, followed by heat.
After a violent chill, dry heat with difficult breathing and lancinating pain through chest.
With chill, internal heat, anxiety, red cheeks: body chilly, hot forehead and ears, internal heat.
Chill at beginning violent, more in evening after lying down, often with one hot cheek and contracted pupils.
Alternate heat and chill all night; restless, wants to uncover, yet chilly therefrom.
Face hot, hands and feet cold; face flushes, with cold hands and feet, mostly evenings.
Skin hot and dry, with anxious tossing about.
Meningitis.
Heat and dry skin. Prolapsus uteri.
Heat with thirst, hard, full and frequent pulse, anxious impatience, unappeasable, beside himself, tossing about with agony.
Heat, with agonized tossing about.
Dry, burning heat, generally extending from head and face, with much thirst for cold drinks.
Heat, with inclination to uncover; fever unbearable towards evening and after getting into bed.
Heat, with chilliness at same time.
Red cheeks, with obstinacy, complaining mood; burning in region of navel and pressive headache.
Thirst for beer during heat; burning thirst during heat.
Inflammatory fevers and inflammations, with much heat, dry burning skin, violent thirst, red face, or alternate red and pale face; nervous excitability, groaning and agonized tossing about; shortness of breath, and congestion to head. Synochal fever.
Profuse sweat, with copious flow of urine and diarrhoea.
Free sweat.
Profuse sweat during sleep, even in consumptives; sweat after 12 P.M.
Long continued, general sweat, of a somewhat sour odor.
Affected parts and covered parts sweat; likes to be uncovered.
Agg. while sweating; amel. afterward.
Profuse sweat relieves rheumatic pains.
Bad effects of suppressed sweat: catarrhs; fever; local inflammations, etc.
Cold sweat.
Attacks
Attacks of pain, with redness of face and thirst.
Suddenly: turns red and falls unconscious; faints while standing to urinate; excruciatingly pain in stomach (scarlatina).
Alternately: heat and chill; stupefaction and restlessness; face red and pale; slimy stools and constipation; coldness and shooting in knee.
Locality and Direction
Right: staggers to side; erratic pains in head; pains like severe blows in forehead; sticking in eyeballs; pains over eye; ear painful; mouth drawn to right side; tense swelling under short ribs; drawing in testicle and uneasiness in renal region; stitching pains in fundus uteri; stitches in chest; pains in neck and shoulder.
Left: pain in small spot over supraorbital ridge; pulsations in forehead; side lame; apoplexy; as if sand in inner canthus; deafness, with buzzing in head; tearing in ear; neuralgia of trigeminus; lips motionless during breathing; toothache; lobe of liver painful; side of scrotum studded with vesicles; stitches in chest; numbness of arm; tingling in fingers; hip swollen; jerking of arm or leg; side lame.
Within outward: pressure in head; fullness in forehead; eyeballs feel as if protruding; pressing in epigastrium.
Out inward: pressure in upper eyelids.
Below upward: cutting in intestines; numbness and tingling in lower extremities; chill.
Left to right: paralysis (poisoning).
Right to left: toothache; blows in forehead, pulsations.
Front to back: pain in chest.
Towards right side: staggers to right in vertigo.
Limited to a small spot: headache over left supraorbital ridge.
Sensations
Pains intolerable; more so at night.
Stitches here and there; erratic.
Stinging burning, as if in skin.
Tearing, cutting, wandering pains. Rheumatism, etc.
Neuralgia with congestions, from dry cold air or checked sweat.
Trembling, like a boiling and seething, as if parts were going to sleep; or as if becoming drunk; always with an unpleasant sensation of coldness.
As if bruised or beaten in different parts.
As if ideas came from stomach; as if she would lose her reason; as if brain was agitated by boiling water; as if a hot iron was bound around head; as if everything would push out of forehead; pulsation as from severe blows in forehead; vertex as if compressed by a pitch cap; headache as if brain was moved or raised; as if pulled by hair on vertex; as from bending crackling tinsel in temples, forehead, nose; as if hair stood on end; as if eye would be forced out of orbit; as if eyeball was pushed into orbit; music goes through every limb; as if face was growing larger; as if muscles of face were spasmodically contracted; tongue feels as after eating pepper or smoking; as if teeth would fall out; mouth as if filled with air tasting of rotten eggs; as of cold air on tongue; as if uvula was elongated and touching tongue; as if something had stuck in throat; as if food had lodged in cardiac region when swallowing; as if a cold stone lay in stomach; anxious feeling in precordia; as if a heavy load were resting on abdomen; splashing in region of bladder; as though poles of a galvanic battery had been applied to glans penis; feeling of a band around chest; feeling of suffocation; as if boiling water was poured into chest; as of beetles crawling on spine; arms as if paralyzed by blows; as of needles in wrist joints; as if drops of water trickled down front of thighs; as if thighs were tightly bandaged when walking; ankles as if tied with a ligature.
Pains intolerable; more so at night.
Stitches here and there; erratic.
Stinging burning, as if in skin.
Tearing, cutting, wandering pains. Rheumatism, etc.
Neuralgia with congestions, from dry cold air or checked sweat.
Trembling, like a boiling and seething, as if parts were going to sleep; or as if becoming drunk; always with an unpleasant sensation of coldness.
As if bruised or beaten in different parts.
As if ideas came from stomach; as if she would lose her reason; as if brain was agitated by boiling water; as if a hot iron was bound around head; as if everything would push out of forehead; pulsation as from severe blows in forehead; vertex as if compressed by a pitch cap; headache as if brain was moved or raised; as if pulled by hair on vertex; as from bending crackling tinsel in temples, forehead, nose; as if hair stood on end; as if eye would be forced out of orbit; as if eyeball was pushed into orbit; music goes through every limb; as if face was growing larger; as if muscles of face were spasmodically contracted; tongue feels as after eating pepper or smoking; as if teeth would fall out; mouth as if filled with air tasting of rotten eggs; as of cold air on tongue; as if uvula was elongated and touching tongue; as if something had stuck in throat; as if food had lodged in cardiac region when swallowing; as if a cold stone lay in stomach; anxious feeling in precordia; as if a heavy load were resting on abdomen; splashing in region of bladder; as though poles of a galvanic battery had been applied to glans penis; feeling of a band around chest; feeling of suffocation; as if boiling water was poured into chest; as of beetles crawling on spine; arms as if paralyzed by blows; as of needles in wrist joints; as if drops of water trickled down front of thighs; as if thighs were tightly bandaged when walking; ankles as if tied with a ligature. Violent pain: over right eye; in stomach; down left arm.
Burning: headache; in eyes; of lids; of lips and mouth; of tongue; on tip of tongue; vesicles on tongue; in fauces; in back of throat; in throat; along eustachian tube; in pharynx; along oesophagus to stomach; from stomach up to mouth; in pit of stomach; in hepatic region; in umbilical region; in hernia, like coals of fire; in anus; in bladder; in neck of bladder; in urethra; in larynx; under sternum; in spine.
Prickling: in tongue; in throat; in larynx or trachea; in toes Smarting: in eyes.
Stitches: under scalp; in orbital region; in pit of stomach; in region of liver; in diaphragm; in region of kidneys; in glans; to right of fundus uteri; in chest.
Shooting pains: in renal region; in uterus; in chest; in upper limbs; in legs, knees, ankles, toes.
Stitching thrusts: in lower jaw; in spine.
Knife like pains in knee joint.
Stinging: in ear; in throat; in fauces; in hepatic region; in anus; in region of kidneys; in knees.
Sticking pains: in right eyeball; in sclerotitis; around eyes; in posterior fauces.
Cutting: in intestines; in a circle from spine to abdomen.
Twitching: in knees; in eyes.
Choking: in throat.
Swollen feeling: of tongue; of testicles; of many parts, generally with shuddering, cold or rigor.
Pain: in right ear; in epigastrium; in glans penis; in middle of chest.
Tearing pains: in sclerotitis; around eyes; in left ear; in a carious molar; in nape of neck; in scapulae; in shoulder joint; in wrists and fingers; in left hip joint; in limbs.
Pressive shooting: in eyeballs.
Aching: in eyeballs; in face.
Bone-pains: in long bones of limbs and metacarpal bones.
Drawing pain: in right testicle; in muscles of neck and throat; in scapulae; in wrists and fingers; in left hip-joint; in joint of limbs; in tendinous expansions of lower limbs; in limbs.
Pinching: about navel.
Squeezing: in forehead, above root of nose.
Pressing shooting: in forehead, coryza.
Pressure: in upper part of forehead; in temples; in vertex; in upper lids; at root of nose; in stomach and pit of stomach; in hepatic region; in anus; in region of kidneys; in bladder; under sternum; in lumbar and sacral region.
Bruised pain: in eye; in loins; in testicles; between shoulders; in small of back.
Fullness: in forehead.
Throbbing: in temples; in one side of face; in carious molar; in pit of stomach.
Constriction: of throat; in hepatic region.
Contracting: in upper part of forehead.
Cramps: at root of nose; in calves.
Tensive pain: in lumbar and sacral regions.
Tense feeling: in eyelids; in stomach and hypochondria.
Tightness: of chest.
Heaviness: in forehead; in hypochondria, in abdomen, bearing down; under sternum; in limbs.
Paralyzed feeling: in intestines.
Formication: of scalp; on spine; between shoulders; in arms, hands and fingers.
Creeping: in face; in fingers.
Creeping pain: in fingers.
Crawling: in face; in spine; in limbs.
Tickling: in larynx.
Tingling: in face, lips and mouth; in tongue; in oesophagus; at anus; in sexual parts; in left arm; in fingers; in feet, spreading upward; in limbs.
Roughness: as from sand in inner canthus.
Rawness: in middle of tongue.
Raw pain: in chest.
Distressed feeling: after eating.
Labor like pressing: in womb.
Scratching: in throat causing cough.
Soreness: neck; of lower limbs.
Weariness: in neck.
Stiffness: of back.
Tired feeling: in limbs during repose.
Numbness: of lips and mouth; of tongue; in left arm; of small of back; in gouty limb; in legs and feet; with rheumatism of hands and feet.
Stinging itching: pimples on hands.
Itching: of eyes; at anus.
Heat: in eyes; of external ear; of lips and mouth; in stomach; in diaphragm; in vagina; in lungs; of palms; in left hip joint.
Coldness: in incisors; of hands; of palms; of knee; of extremities; in blood vessels.
Dryness: of eyes; of lids; of tongue; in palate; in posterior nares; in throat; in windpipe.
Tissues
Has but little effect on disorganized blood-globules, hence seldom useful in true typhoid states.
Acts more on arterial system.
Plethora; active capillary congestions (from overactive serous membranes).
Local congestions and inflammations.
Neuritis, with tingling.
Complaints in joints: shooting, cramp, cracking, loss of power; drawing in joints and aponeuroses.
Articular rheumatism, much fever, restlessness and anxiety; swellings are red and hot or pale; shifting from one point to another; especially if caused by suddenly checked sweat or by dry cold air or winds.
Acute catarrhs, with usual Aconite fever.
Skin and muscles rigid.
Muscular rheumatism with high fever.
Glands painful, hot, swollen.
Touch, Injuries
Touch: causes loud screams; pains worse; eyeballs sensitive; soreness in pit of stomach worse; pains of peritonitis worse; lower abdomen sensitive; larynx sensitive; excites spasms; hip painful; rheumatic swelling of joints sensitive; chilly.
Pressure: stitches in supraorbital region worse; liver sensitive.
Scratching: no effect on itching.
Fall or concussion: vertigo.
Foreign bodies: irritation and inflammation of eyes.
Wounds painfully sensitive after surgical operations; fever.
Shock from injury or surgical operations.
Skin
Skin dry; absence of sweat.
Tingling over whole surface.
Red, shining, hot swellings; violent pains.
Fine prickings, as from needles, here and there.
Spots like flea-bites; itching unchanged by scratching.
Erythema from sun’s rays; papular erythema.
Erysipelas, smooth skin; violent fever.
Yellow skin. Jaundice. During pregnancy.
Red rash all over, except on abdomen. Childbed fever, second week.
Measles: dry, barking cough; painful hoarseness; eyes red; cannot bear light; tongue red; jerks of left leg or arm, or grinding of teeth; restless moaning and lamenting; lying in a comatose state; pains in joints; free sweat.
In red miliary fever: increasing restlessness, agonizing anxiety and heat of body.
Rash of children.
Seldom in scarlatina, except as specified below or during desquamation.
Scarlet rash, with high fever.
Scarlet fever, with dry skin and very great restlessness and distress; must frequently sit erect in bed in consequence of dyspnoea.
Skin cold and dry; cold, clammy.
Single long dartings, here and there, mixed with a raw sensation, ending with pain as of a wound.
Stages of Life and Constitution
Children’s disease; with high fever.
Especially persons with tonicity (rigidity) of fibre.
Old age; sleeplessness.
Contraindicated in fevers which bring out eruptions or are otherwise salutary, unless there is agonizing tossing with dry skin.
Dark hair and eyes.
Persons leading a sedentary life; plethora, etc.
Tendency to apoplectic congestion; plethora.
Relationships
Antidotes to Acon.: Acet-ac., Paris, Vinca.
Is antidote to Bellad ., Cham. , Coffea , Nux-v. , Petr., Sepia, Sulphur , Verat. , and secondary symptoms of Morphine. After Acon. follows well: Arn. , Bell. , in gastric states; after pulmonary febrile affections: Ip., Bry., Hepar, Puls., Sepia and Sulphur ; in colic: Ars. ; in cough: Bry. , Spong.; in croup: Spong. or Hepar; in strangury of children: Puls.; in dysentery: Merc.
Acon. may often be indicated after Arn., Coffea, Sulphur and Verat.
Complementary to Coffea, in fever, sleeplessness, intolerance of pain; to Arn. in bruises; to Sulphur high in all cases.
Ailments from: Cimic., Cham. , Coffea , Nux-v. , Petr., Sepia, Sulphur.
Abuse of Acon. calls for Sulphur.
ACONITUM [Acon]
+ Common name Monkshood
Introduction
- napellus, L. (including also A. Stoerckianum, Reich., in part).
Natural order: Ranunculaceae.
Preparation: Tincture from the whole plant and root when beginning to flower.
Mind
Nightly raging delirium; he will not be kept in bed; in the morning excessive sweat.
He did all things hurriedly, and ran about the house.
Transient frenzy.
Hope is aroused, immediately after vomiting.
Crazy folly.
He commenced to be delirious, and played upon a leaf.
Maniacal delirium.
Delirium.
Loquacity.
Exalted spirits.
Gayety, with inclination to sing and dance (1/2 h).
More gay and excited than usual (1st h).
He cannot remain long at one occupation.
Excessive disagreeable restlessness; without occasion for hurrying, he is in the greatest haste, every obstacle that delays his rapid pace is excessively annoying; he knocks against some people who do not get out of his way fast enough, and runs in breath less haste up the steps; this hurried disposition lasted two hours.
He raves, though awake; jumps out of bed and imagines he is driving sheep (4 h).
Lucid (clairvoyant) vision.
(* Hahnemann’s note explains that he was conscious that his beloved, fifty miles away, was singing a certain piece. *) Lively memory.
Lively imagination.
Great activity of mind.
He sits buried in thought.
Rapid change of thought, great exertion is required to fix the train of thought.
Unsteadiness of ideas; on attempting to think of one thing, another forces it out of the mind, and this if supplanted by another, and so on, until he becomes quite confused.
Restlessness, uninterrupted, unpleasant; he must now sit, now stand, now walk, he does not know what is the matter.
Excessive restlessness, all movements and actions are performed with great haste and hurry.
Impatience, he throws himself anxiously about, and constantly changes his position, etc.
Hurried speech.
Speaks much and rapidly.
Alternate attacks of opposite moral symptoms.
Variable humor, at one time gay, at another dejected.
At times he seemed to weep, and at times he sang.
Now he doubts his recovery, now he is full of hope.
Happiness.
Now he was perfectly conscious, and then again he raved.
Quarrelsome, with constantly varying delirium, he chatters childish nonsense, and is extravagantly gay.
Morose, peevish.
Quarrelsome (6 h).
Irascibility.
Fretful.
Vexation about trifles.
Extremely inclined to be vexed (1/2 h).
Great in-difference, irritable.
The slightest noise is unbearable (1/2 h).
Over-sensitive to light and noise.
He takes every joke in bad part (3 h).
Cannot bear pain, nor to be touched, nor uncovered.
Great anxiety.
Anxiety only transiently relieved by drinking cold water.
Anxiety as though a great misfortune would happen to him.
Increased anxiety, followed by total apathy.
Anxiety which does not allow him to remain in one place, he must constantly walk about.
He is made restless by internal anxiety.
Anxiety and peevishness, with fine dartings in the side of the chest, then palpitation at the pit of the stomach, and pressive headache.
Inconsolable anxiety and piteous howlings, with complaints and reproaches about trifles (5 h).
Dolorous anxious complaints, with pusillanimous fears, despair, loud wailing, and weeping, and bitter reproaches.
His anxiety and fright rose to great pitch.
Flickering before vision makes him anxious on the street, he thinks he constantly jostles the passersby.
Anxiety, he believes he will soon die.
Fear of approaching death (2-12 h).
Excessive fear of death.
Feeling as if his last hour had come.
Thrice he became blind, and affirmed death to be at hand.
Apprehensive.
Extreme fearfulness (1/4 h).
Dread of some accident happening.
He cannot banish anxious apprehensive thoughts, even in gay company.
Fear lest he might stagger and fall.
Great timidity after a severe fright, afraid to go out unattended after dark, is unable to control his feelings of apprehensive fear.
Fear of ghosts.
Dejection.
Depression of spirits.
Sadness, solicitude.
Dejected, as if she had no life in her (2 h).
Dejected, disinclination for everything, depression even while walking.
Melancholy.
Music is unbearable, it goes through every limb, and makes her quite sad (24 h).
She began to cry violently, with convulsive twitching of the facial muscles.
Every now and then she uttered a peculiar plaintive cry.
Dislike to company.
Desire to be alone.
Disinclined for conversation.
Anthropophobia (3 h).
Misanthropy.
Obstinacy.
Staid resolute, not lively humor (secondary, curative action, 8 H).
Disinclination for mental labor.
Disinclined to exert body or mind.
Disinclined to read (several).
Unable to think or perform even the slightest mental labor (several).
Distraction.
Unusual distraction of ideas.
Distraction of the attention while reading or writing, owing to frequent cessation of thoughts.
Thinking slow, all attention disturbed.
He cannot think nor reflect, knows nothing, and has no idea of anything in his head as usual, but feels that all the mental operations transpire in the region of the stomach; after two hours he has two attacks of vertigo, and then the usual thinking power returns again to the head.
Prepossession of the mind, the thoughts he has already conceived and half written down he is unable to register completely without an effort to recall them (3 d).
Want of memory, what has just been done appears like a dream, which he can scarcely call to remembrance.
Weakness of memory (5-9 h).
Memory very weak.
Loss of memory.
Loss of memory for dates.
Diminished intellectual powers.
Great confusedness both of thought and action (4 h).
Dullness and confusion of mind.
Prostration of mind.
Stupor.
Insensibility.
Loss of consciousness transient.
Loss of consciousness during the convulsions.
He lies in a stupid condition, at evening, eyes closed, twitching of the facial muscles, mouth, compressed, without power of speech. Coma.
Head
Confusion in the head as after intoxication, with pressure in the temples.
Confusion of the head evenings with pressure in the forehead (several).
Confused and muddled feeling in the head early in the morning after waking (several).
Confusion with heaviness and fullness of the head, aggravated by motion (several).
Confused head and pressive pain in the forehead, mornings on waking (19 h).
Confusion of the head soon changed to a sense of heaviness, and pressive pain in the vertex and forehead (19 d).
Muddled sensation in the head.
Easy stupefaction from tobacco smoke.
Vertigo, (and several). (many) vertigo to falling.
Confused vertigo all day.
Frequent attacks of vertigo, feeling as if about to fall over.
Vertigo as after slight intoxication, with distraction of mind.
Vertigo, the child totters and cannot stand.
Vertigo and stupefaction on entering a warm room, as if intoxicated.
Vertigo, especially on stooping; she staggers, especially to the right (36 h).
Vertigo, everything seems to go around in a circle, she can scarcely get into bed (37 h).
Vertigo as if intoxicated, all goes around, she staggers as if about to fall; with nausea, worse on rising from sitting, less while walking, not at all while sitting (1/2 h).
Staggering as from concussion after a fall on the occiput.
Vertigo, sense of swaying hither and thither in the brain.
Vertigo while stooping.
Vertigo while standing.
Vertigo on rising up.
Vertigo with confusion in the head forenoons daily for 16 days after leaving off the drug.
Vertigo on motion and on rest.
Vertigo great after dinner.
Vertigo when walking or driving.
Vertigo much increased by shaking the head, whereby complete blackness comes before eyes.
Vertigo, and headache in forehead and occiput, both worse on stooping (20 min).
Dizzy heaviness of the head, chiefly in the forehead on stooping, with nausea and sinking in the pit of stomach (2 h).
Dizzy confusion of head, on right side of forehead, on walking in the open air.
Vertigo with commencing staggering, it seems to him as if he could not stand on his feet.
Vertigo with headache, especially in the occiput.
Vertigo with distending pain in the occiput.
Vertigo and headache, not affected by violent motion 1/4 h).
Vertigo with obscuration of vision.
Whirling in the head so that she dare not move it, with a sensation as if the eyes would close. (Vertigo with difficult respiration, dry cough, and pain in the hips).
Vertigo with nose bleed.
Vertigo with nausea.
Vertigo with vomiting and exhaustion.
Staggering on attempting to walk.
Head thrown back.
Stupid feeling in the head, in the morning; stupidity increasing, cannot think, forget what I intended to do a moment ago.
Do not know in what street I am walking (third day).
Heat in the head (several).
Heat in the whole head followed by soreness, particularly of the forehead, lasting all the evening (11 h).
Burning headache as if the brain were agitated by boiling water.
Head warm, it feels smaller to the hand.
Headache as if a hot iron were bound around the head.
Headache as if the skull were laced externally with a band and drawn tightly together.
Head seems bound around with a band.
Pain over the whole skull as if compressed from all sides equally; sometimes the pain is concentrated with the greatest severity in the orbits (typically recurring).
Weight in the head.
Pressive pain in whole head.
Heaviness in the head.
Head heavy and dizzy in the morning, as if he had drunk wine the evening previous.
Headache, etc. – violent headache with trembling.
Pressive headache with pressure in the eyes.
Pressive troublesome headache, first in the vertex, then drawing to the forehead, where it causes a sensation of heaviness and fullness, lasts several hours; aggravated by motion; forenoons.
Dull headache, as if bruised with a bruised feeling in all the limbs.
Pressive constrictive headache extending over the whole arch of the skull, especially over the left eye; ameliorated by lying on the cool hand.
Drawing in the whole head, especially in the temporal muscles.
Fullness in the head (several).
Fullness of the head with erratic pains in the right supraorbital, temporal, and frontal regions.
Headache as if the brain were pressing outward (1/2 h).
During all the proving sudden and frequent congestion of the head with anxiety, followed by rigor over the back.
The brain seemed much congested, and the jugular vein was opened with great relief; she felt as if whirled suddenly from a close, hot, dark room into a spacious, light one.
Shooting, pulsating headache, as if from an internal ulcer, sometimes prevents speaking.
Headache as if a part of the brain were raised up here and there, increased by slight motion, drinking and speaking (1/2 h).
Heaviness of the head, waving, and shaking in the brain.
A fine pulsating here and there in the head.
Humming in the head.
Numbed feeling in the head, as if there were a board before the forehead (1/4 h).
Sensation as if something were drawn out of the head, causing the upper lids to be drawn upwards (1/2 h).
Head felt as if forcibly turned around.
Sensation of crepitation (as produced by bending gold tinsel backward and forward) in the temples, nose, and forehead.
Fullness and heavy feeling in the forehead, as if an out pressing weight lay there, and as if everything would come out at the forehead (1/4 h).
Fullness of the forehead on stooping, as if everything would fall out (25 h).
Out pressing pain in the forehead.
Wedge-like pressing asunder headache in the region of the right brow, worse in the room than in the open air.
Forepart of the head feels as if nailed up in a warm room.
Tension all over the forehead.
Contractive pain in forehead.
Feeling of contraction of the brain under the forehead (20 h).
A squeezing in the forehead, over the root of the nose, with a feeling as if she would lose her reason (was sick in her head), aggravated by walking in the open air (4 h).
A pinching and squeezing in forehead, as if in the bones; she feels sick, as if madness would ensue (12-24 h).
Squeezing tensive pain close behind the orbits.
Very sensitive acute pressive pain over the forehead.
Pressive pain in forehead, especially over the right superciliary ridge, with dread of jarring by riding.
Pressive stupefying pain in forehead, worse evenings.
Slight pressive headache in right frontal protuberance, extending toward the orbital border, with flushes of heat chiefly in the face and ears.
Pressive headache, especially over right brow.
Pressive shooting, nauseating headache over orbits, extends down toward upper maxilla, like that produced by vomiting from an emetic (2 h).
Peculiar drawing pressive sensation in forehead (nerve trigeminal). grows more intense, and becomes continuous and violent.
Most furious headache; vision obscured; the pain was chiefly in the upper part of the forehead, pressing and contractive; head not hot; face swollen and pale; light or noise increased the pain, lying quiet in a dark room removed it (from 2D dil).
Violent headache limited to a small spot above left supraorbital ridge.
Frontal headache all day, worse at evening, afterwards more particularly confined to the left frontal eminence (2d d.).
Frontal headache, sometimes shooting, sometimes pulsating, sometimes pressive while walking, relieved by sitting.
Violent headache, especially in right half of forehead.
Heaviness in the forehead and parietal bones.
Headache, pulsation in the left side of forehead along with attacks of strong blows in right side of forehead (3 h).
Stitches in forehead extend to right temple, and then in left side of the occiput.
Jerking, shooting in the head, especially in the forehead.
Violent sticking pain in upper orbital border, extending upward across the forehead, and across the temples and cheeks into the molar teeth; worse on pressure and toward evening, the supraorbital region becomes swollen in consequence.
Headache in the temples.
Pressing out pain in temples, fullness in forehead, with pricking and biting of lids evenings.
Stupefying, drawing, pressing inward pain in left temple.
Pressive pains in temporal region, followed by jerkings in the occiput, and afterwards confusion of head and contractive pain.
Headache, as if the head were compressed with screws at both temples.
Shooting, throbbing pain in temples.
Neuralgic pains in right temporal region.
Tearing pain in left temple.
Jerking, shooting pain in left temple; stitches through temples into the head.
Tearing pain in left temple with roaring in the ears.
After sleeping, awake at 4 A.M., with unpleasant sensations, which urged him to rise, when he experienced dizziness and very heavy headache, apparently about temporal muscles above each ear, with transient nausea and gush of cold sweat.
Pressure on the vertex, as if a cap were pressed tightly on the head.
Headache in the vertex, as if head were compressed equally on all sides by a pitch cap, removed by motion in the open air.
Dull pain in vertex, extending toward the temporal region, increased by stooping.
Pressure and sensitive stitches in the vertex.
Pain in vertex like a great weight.
Feeling as though the head were compressed, starting from the vertex (several).
Pressure and heaviness in the vertex.
Troublesome pressure in vertex forenoon (19 a).
Troublesome pressive headache, first in vertex, then extending to the forehead, where it produces a sensation of fullness and heaviness, aggravated by motion (19 a).
Pressive pain in vertex nightly.
Continual pressure on vertex.
Pressive pain in vertex evenings.
Pain in top of head, relieved by washing in cold water.
Sensation as if a ball rose from umbilical region, and spread a cool air over the vertex and occiput.
Violent, pressive, gradually increasing headache in both sides in the parietal region, somewhat relieved by cold water.
In the evening, headache increasing to a violent pressure in both parietal region that kept awake all night.
Semilateral drawing in the head.
Pain in left side of head.
Pain as if head were compressed in left side of head.
Creeping in left side of head, as from a brush.
Pain in right side of head.
Jerking, shooting, drawing, tearing pain in right side of head superiorly.
Pain in occiput.
Pain in occiput and throat.
Pressure in occiput.
Posterior part of brain feels very much injected.
Jerking, tearing pain in occiput.
Painful jerks in occiput.
Pressive shooting pain, at one time in occiput, at another in forehead.
A shooting in occipital bone.
As if one had taken cold after a profuse sweat, headache, roaring in ears, coryza, bellyache, especially in the morning.
Headache increased by speaking.
Headache on bending forward.
Head drawn backward.
Scalp
Itching and formication of scalp.
Formication relieved by heat.
Formication, especially in temporal region.
Stitches in right temporal muscle.
Stitches under the scalp.
Several spots sensitive to touch and cold air.
Painful tickling, especially on top of head, on touching the hair.
Scalp feels swollen and numb.
Sensation in places, as if the hairs stood on end, with increased sensitiveness of them.
Sensation as if the hairs stood on end.
The hair seemed to bristle, and the scalp was painful to touch in several places, and sensitive to cold air.
The roots of the hairs are felt.
Sensation as if someone drew him upward by the hair.
An increase of temperature on the vertex externally; it felt hot to the touch, and the hair bristled up there.
Throbbing of temporal arteries.
Cold perspiration over the head.
The forehead covered with cold sweat.
Eyes
Staring eyes.
Glassy eyes.
Bloodshot.
Protruded.
Protruding and swollen.
Protruding and fixed.
Distorted.
(Distorted, with gnashing the teeth about midnight).
Convulsed.
The look becomes wandering.
The eyes turn upward, so that only the whites are seen.
Eyes very movable.
Sparkling (19 d).
Dimness of eyes.
Eyes becomes yellowish.
Eyes dull, encircled by blue rings.
Eyes seem tightly constricted.
Inflammation with lachrymation, which causes so much pain and fright that he wishes for death.
(Cold feeling in eyes in open air).
Burning in eyes, twitching, and vision of sparks.
Burning and itching of the eyes and lids, makes him rub them; the eyes are very sensitive to the air, but not to the light.
Inflammation extremely painful (chemosis).
Burning, and pressure in left eye and over the brow.
Burning, first in one then in other.
Sensation as if eyes were much swollen (5 h).
Pressure in eyes, most felt on looking down or around, with heat in them.
Sensitiveness of eyes.
Sticking and tearing pains around the eyes, especially worse nights.
Lachrymation, more particularly in the evening and at night; the edges of lids are sore, red, and inflamed (1 d).
Lachrymation with cough.
Pricking and biting in lids like beginning coryza, evenings.
Dryness of upper lid, almost, causing a pressure in eyes (4 h).
Hard, red swelling of right upper lid, with feeling of tension, especially in the morning.
Slight irritation of the edges of the lids, which were almost raw from the violence of the lachrymation.
Marked pain at right internal canthus, dull and deep seated.
Several times repeated sensations as if left upper lid was long, heavy, and hung down as if paralyzed (though it looked natural).
Heaviness of lids, they seem too heavy on raising them.
Rough feeling, as of sand in left internal canthus (13 h., lasted two minutes).
Lids swollen hard, with tensive sensation; they are red and hot.
Lids convulsively closed as from irresistible sleepiness.
Conjunctiva, especially toward internal canthus, highly injected.
The balls feel enlarges, as if coming out of the orbit, and stretching the lids.
Pain in the interior of the eye, as if it would be pressed out when the lids are opened; the pain extends to the supraorbital region and interior of the brain (21 h).
Sensitiveness of upper part of ball on moving it, as if it were pressed out of the orbit; relieved by stooping; changed to a dull pain on bending the head back.
Pressure on upper lid, and sensation as if the whole ball would be pressed into the orbit, which makes the eye pain as if crushed.
Severe pressure, sometimes stinging or burning in the front part of the ball.
Sense of pressure in the balls.
Fine sticking pains in the balls during the course of a half hour, momentary.
Pupils dilated (immediately).
Pupils dilated; right nearly oval, left irregularly polygonal.
Pupils contracted.
Photophobia.
Cannot look at strongly lighted objects without blinking.
Sight weak (long lasting).
Eyes dazzled on coming to consciousness.
Sharp vision.
Photomania, desire for bright light (3 h).
Warmth and undulation in eyes with involuntary half closing the lids, and a feeling as if it were too dark to read in a well- lighted room (12 d).
As though she were removed from a narrow dark room to a light one; after bleeding.
Dimness of vision (several).
Vision as through a veil.
Dim vision with wide-open eyes.
Cloudiness came before vision.
Loss of vision.
Cloudiness of vision with sense of giddiness.
On going out in the evening from a half dark room into the street; flickering before eyes, the lamp-light quivered; he could with difficulty see the passers; he seemed to see worse at a short than at a long distance; he became anxious and dizzy on account of it.
Flickering before eyes.
Black spots floating before the sight.
An intensely white and bright spot, about the size of a small plate, appeared before the eyes both when shut and opened; it was impossible to determine before which eye it was, though it seemed more nearly in axis of right eye; it had the refulgence of highly furnished silver, this gradually changed to a straw or light golden color, then the whole field of vision became of a delicate lilac hue, which disappeared to give place to the same spot, which was now of a beautiful and bright azure; the whole lasted one half hour.
Ears
Burning, itching, and darting in both ears while yawning, worse in the evening and in open air, better after eating.
Tickling sensation in right ear as if a worm were crawling in it.
Acute stitch in right meatus externus.
Tearing in left ear.
Pressure in ears.
Pains in left ear.
Pains in right ear.
San occasional burning pain in left ear and upper jaw while perspiring.
Pain behind left ear, as from pressure with the thumb.
Pain just below right ear.
Sensation of swelling on the bone around the external ear.
Feeling as if a drop of water were in left ear.
Sensation as if something stopped up the left ear.
Sensation as if something lay before the ear.
Roaring in ears; great sensitiveness to noise.
Roaring in ears.
Ringing in ears (10 min. 29).
Humming in ears.
Humming, hissing noise in ears.
Continual dull buzzing before ears, and then faintness.
Intense singing in the ears.
External ear red, hot, swollen, painfully sensitive.
Nose
Feels tightly constricted.
Stupefying compression at the root.
Marked pain between orbits at the base of nose.
Furuncles at the tip.
Nose feels quite dry.
Epistaxis.
Blows much bright red blood from nose for several successive mornings.
Frequent violent sneezing. Frequent sneezings with shootings in chest.
Sneezings frequent, violent, with pain in abdomen.
Sneezing frequent, profuse nasal flux, and sense of extreme stuffing in the head.
Forcible sneezing.
Sneezing interrupted by pain in left side of chest.
Clear fluid flows from nose.
Threatening coryza; one or two hot clear drops fall from nose, attended by slight lachrymation.
Attacks of catarrh and coryza (8-12 h).
Fluent coryza in the morning. (Attack of coryza).
Severe coryza.
Sensation as if coryza were about to commence.
Discharge of thick yellow mucus from nose as in old coryza.
Great sensibility of the olfactory nerve; bad smells have a powerful effect.
Face
Countenance pale and anxious.
General sickly appearance.
Livid and ghastly.
Pale and altered.
Extreme paleness.
Hippocratic.
Uneasy expression.
Pale, with expression of anxiety and restlessness (5 h).
Appearance of fright and imbecility.
Expression of fright.
Livid countenance.
Face blue, like that of a strangled person.
Livid purple with white blotches.
On looking at herself in the glass the face seemed blue and indistinct.
Bluish face, black lips.
Blue lips.
Face red.
Red and hot (several).
Flushed face.
Redness and heat of both cheeks, with a sensation of the face growing large.
Glowing cheeks.
Glowing heat in face (several).
Face hot, especially in the evening (several).
Face hot, hands and feet cold (19 d).
Increased warmth of cheeks.
While the left cheek seemed swollen and hot it is really cool to the touch.
Puffy swelling of the face and forehead.
Cold sensation in face, though it is hot to the touch (several).
Face seemed to be swelling.
Sensation of swelling in forehead and face, especially left side.
The face, red when lying, becomes deathly pale on rising up.
Cheeks red and pale alternately, or one red the other pale.
Warm perspiration on face.
Sweat on the cheeks, whichever side is lain on.
Sweat on the upper lip under the nose.
Face covered with cold clammy sweat.
Cold sweat stood on his brow.
Pain in zygomatic process, as from an internal ulcer.
Shooting pain from right supraorbital ridge, branching out upwards across the forehead to the hairy scalp, sideways to temples, and downwards to the cheeks and into two or three teeth; increased by pressure, and becoming so excessively violent toward evening, when it was accompanied by constant cough, that all other symptoms were thrown into the shade; the next day the supraorbital ridge was swollen (15 d).(420).
Pain in face.
Creeping pain in cheeks.
Sensation as if cheeks were swollen to double their size.
Crawlings in right cheek.
Crawling in face, and sensation of burning in skin.
Violent face ache.
Peculiar drawing sensation in the cheeks, upper jaw, forehead; grows more intense, and becomes continuous and violent.
Very violent pain in the jaws, as if they would fall off, causing him to put his hands to them.
Pain in the maxillary joint, behind the zygoma while chewing.
Stinging and drawing in left upper and lower jaw.
Shooting jerks in the under jaw.
Pressive aching in the under jaw.
Involuntary pressure of the under jaw against the upper, with flow of saliva into the mouth.
Pressive and digging pain in chin.
Itching and formication of the face.
Tickling on face.
Peculiar tickling on the face.
Face almost insensible.
No feeling in face.
Most remarkable sensation of distortion.
Twitching of the muscles of the face, etc.
Distortion of the facial muscles.
Continued distortion of face.
Convulsive contraction of face.
Jaws and face rigid.
Heat-rash on the forehead.
Itching pimples on the upper lip (24 h).
Lips black.
Lips swollen, inflamed.
Burning of lips with sensation of swelling.
Burning of lips and tongue, as after eating pepper or smoking (several).
Lips and interior of mouth burning, painful, and inflamed.
Burning and numbness of lips and mouth.
Lips blue.
Heat and tingling, followed by numbness of lips and tongue. Feeling of the most strange distortion of countenance at times, as if a single muscle had bulged out to the size of a pigeon’s egg, then as if the whole jaw was thrust to one side, as in partial dislocation; at other times as if the lower jaw were pushed up or raised into the cavity of the mouth, conveying the idea that the face must look like that of an old man who has lost all his teeth, and in consequence has his lower jaw thrown forwards and upwards (no visible change).
Several times sensation as if all the muscles of the face were firmly but not spasmodically contracted, attended with a numb, heavy, paralytic feeling of whole face; similar sensations simultaneously in both arms, from shoulders to the tips of fingers, conveying the idea that the arms were paralyzed, though they obeyed the will perfectly.
Frequently repeated sensation as if the lower and anterior part of the face were firmly compressed from both sides by a heavy but not painful weight, until the idea became irresistible that that portion of the face was very thin (no change of features noticed).
Mouth
Sensibility of the teeth to open air.
Cold feeling in the incisors.
Pain in teeth.
Shooting pain in various teeth.
Shooting pain in right molars.
Sticking and drawing in right back teeth.
Teeth of right side ache.
Pressive toothache in left upper jaw.
Teeth feel as if they would fall out.
Blunted sensation in teeth.
Throbbing, one-sided toothache, with redness of the cheek, etc.
Teeth spasmodically clenched.
Trismus.
Tongue and lips swollen.
Sensation as if the tongue were swollen (several).
Tongue feels too large for the mouth.
Tongue seems to have grown thicker.
Tongue feels as if getting longer.
Tongue white, thick, cold.
Tongue furred yellow.
Tongue furred moist with dry mouth (19 d).
Burning in tongue. Burning in tip of tongue and in lips.
Burning long-lasting.
Burning vesicles on tongue.
Burning on sides of tongue.
Burning increases intensity for four hours.
Burning in tongue after eating.
Burning violent.
Slight burning under the tongue.
Fine penetrating stitches in the point of the tongue. Momentary flying stitches in the tongue with salivation.
Occasional singles stitches in right, under surface of tongue. Pricking sensation at the back of tongue as from pepper, with salivation.
Peculiar tingling on tongue extending to lips.
Biting sensation in Tongue toward tip.
Tingling in tongue and jaws, and burning, so that the teeth seem to wobble.
Momentary tingling, numbness at tip of tongue. Peculiar crawling sensation on tongue as from peppermint, extends to lips and lower part of palate.
Tickling on tongue then on lips.
Numbness, tingling, and sense of distension of Tongue and lips.
Numbness of Tongue and mouth and lips.
Transient paralysis of Tongue Sense of dryness and rawness in middle of Tongue without thirst (1 h).
Numbness in Tongue with difficult swallowing.
Cramp-like sensation at root of Tongue Sensation as of cold air passing over the Tongue (several).
Cold Tongue, as in a cholera patient.
Tongue felt like leather.
Tongue moved continually around the interior of the mouth; at times it was thrust out beyond the lips, and moved from side to side.
In the mouth biting, burning feeling.
Burning in mouth.
Burning from lips to pharynx.
Dryness of Mouth.
Dryness and coolness of mouth without thirst.
Feeling of dryness in the front of the mouth.
Dry sensation, first in lips, then in interior of mouth, with heat mounting from chest to head (without redness of the cheeks).
Convulsions in the mouth.
Mouth drawn to one side.
Copious flow of saliva, etc.
Flow of frothy saliva.
The secretion of saliva compels him to swallow often.
Increased secretion of clear watery saliva (several).
Saliva mixed with red streaks, with sweet taste in the mouth (16 days after leaving off the drug).
Soreness of the orifices of the salivary ducts, as if they were corroded.
Bitter taste in the mouth.
Intensely bitter taste.
Bitter taste by day. (Bitter taste with loss of appetite, and pain in chest and under false ribs). (Peppery taste).
Strong taste of pepper.
Peppery taste in pharynx.
Astringent taste. Sourish taste, with loss of appetite.
Flat, nauseous, sweet taste; compels hawking up though mucus, and then swallowing it.
Nauseous taste relieved by eating; returns after eating.
Insipid fishy taste, as from stagnant water.
It seems as though her mouth were filled with air having the taste of rotten eggs.
Taste and sensations changes; in spots there is a feeling of fuzziness.
Things that formerly tasted strong and good are now tasteless.
Speech stammering.
No power of articulation; he uttered only unintelligible sounds.
She lost all power of speech.
Throat
Uvula swollen and elongated; the fauces and pharynx injected dark red; feeling as if an angular many-pointed body were sticking in the throat; prickling burning in the palate, throat, and along the Eustachian tube, increased by swallowing, with oppression of the chest, headache, and increased flow of saliva; the throat symptoms increased by walking in the open air, and relieved after eating.
Soft palate, tonsils, and fauces reddened, with feeling of warmth and dryness of lips.
Redness of the soft palate and uvula.
Pain in throat.
Disagreeable scratching in throat, provoking dry cough.
Scraping in throat with difficult swallowing.
Scraping sensation ceases on clearing throat.
Drawing from the side of the throat to behind the ears.
Fine stinging sensation in the back of the throat, as from the small pricking hairs of the seed of the dog rose (Rosa canina) (1 h).
A sticking choking sensation in a small spot on left side of throat, worse when swallowing and speaking, but felt also when at rest; after one-fourth hour it passed into the right side, while the painful sensation in the left side ceased; it remained there one-fourth hour, then disappeared(550).
Creeping in pharynx.
Transient pressure and tension in the soft palate and fauces, as if these parts were swollen.
Slight congestion of fauces.
The throat seemed to be growing narrow. Constrictive sensation in the back of throat, as from astringents.
Warmth and constriction of fauces (several).
Burning in throat.
Burning in glottis and gullet.
Burning and numbness of throat.
Sensation of burning of throat and stomach with inclination to vomit.
Burning and fine stinging pain in back of throat.
Burning sensation in pharynx.
Heat in pharynx.
Burning sensation in back of throat, causing him to hawk up (14 h).
Fine burning in fauces.
Burning and dry sensation in the soft palate and pharynx, not disappearing even after eating, and frequent empty swallowing.
Complaints of throat and burning along oesophagus.
Sensation of heat and constriction in throat.
Constriction of throat.
Throat seems to swell, with feeling of a quantity of mucus there that he could not get rid of by hawking.
Scraping and constriction of throat.
Constriction in the oesophagus, not relieved by drinking cold water, with dryness of the palate.
Scratching and constriction in the uvula and soft palate, causing constant hawking and spitting, even amounting to an irritation to vomit.
Sensation as if the palate had fallen down and rested on the tongue, forcing one to hawk and spit constantly (for several hours).
Dry feeling in palate and posterior nares.
Dryness in oesophagus with great thirst; the water seemed not to moisten the parts it passed over.
Feeling of dryness, as if something had stuck in the throat.
Dryness of throat increased by tobacco smoke.
Raw feeling in throat, with frequent secretion of mucus from the larynx.
Raw scraping feeling at back of throat with constant desire to hawk up, lasting 12 hours.
Raw sensation in the pharynx.
Rawness in throat, especially in posterior nares, which compels him to clear the throat frequently, as if very though mucus extended through the choanae over the soft palate and uvula.
Pressure in throat, especially during empty deglutition.
Inability to swallow.
Several sticking pains in posterior fauces.
Pricking in right Eustachian tube, compelling him to swallow.
Strong peppery feeling in throat.
Tickling in pharynx.
Throat almost insensible.
He frequently pulled at the throat.
Coldness down the oesophagus, as after peppermint.
Stomach
Anorexia.
Appetite completely gone, unable to take solid food (1 d).
Long continued anorexia and aversion.
Loathing of food and qualmishness (1/4 h).
She will eat nothing.
No appetite, etc.
No appetite, food creates nausea.
Uncommonly good appetite.
During the day appetite very much increased, at noon and evening enormous; he ate to distension and then felt hungry.
Hunger.
Lively sensation of hunger, which is renewed even after eating.
Great thirst.
Thirst for beer, which lies heavy on the stomach.
(Hiccup after eating and drinking). (Hiccup, mornings, long lasting).
Hiccup painful.
Eructations.
Eructations empty,; after eating,; with taste of the drug,; of air (several).
Ineffectual attempts to eructate, he wishes to but cannot.
Eructations of air with nausea going off after breakfast.
Risings of sweetish water like water-brash, with noises in the ears.
Rising of sweetish water with nausea.
Water-brash.
Risings from the pit of the stomach amounting to nausea, fasting.
Scraping from the pit of stomach to throat with nausea, and sinking in pit of stomach, as if water were about to flow into the mouth.
Nausea, etc.
Nausea and vomiting.
(Nausea, vomiting, thirst, general heat, and profuse sweat with flow of urine).
Nausea, loathing, and general sick feeling, with painful heaviness of the limbs (19 d).
Nausea, and sinking in pit of stomach; worse while sitting; almost entirely removed by walking (immediately).
Flesh broth nauseates him.
Nausea while walking in open air.
Nausea, first in pit of stomach, then under the sternum, lastly in the throat without flow of saliva.
Nausea and sinking, qualmishness (1/4 h).
Nausea, as after eating some disagreeably sweet or fat substance (1 h).
Nausea relieved by eating, with sweet taste, and hawking up phlegm.
Felt sick, but could not vomit.
Faint, sick feeling, without definite nausea.
Inclination to vomit with much diarrhoea.
Violent vomiting.
( Vomiting of lumbrici).
Vomiting twice of greenish-gray watery fluid (3D ).
Vomiting, followed by violent thirst.
Vomiting very violent, first of food, then of mucus, frothy, lasting an hour, with burning of lips, mouth, and throat, soon extending to stomach.
Bilious vomiting Green vomit Vomiting of green bile (1 h).
Vomiting mucus.
Vomiting of all the food.
Vomiting after each drink.
Vomiting of green masses with diarrhoea of same appearance.
Vomiting of fetid, black, bilious mucus (with relief).
Vomiting artificially excited, only temporarily restored the patient from his state of syncope.
Vomiting with anxiety.
Vomiting with great disposition to stupor.
Vomiting with stools, accompanied by cardialgia and violent colic.
After repeated vomiting and many stools he still complained of a feeling as if a cold stone lay in the stomach.
Vomiting of mucus mixed with blood, three or four successive days.
Vomiting of bloody mucus, followed by profuse perspiration.
Vomiting blood.
Food distressed after eating.
After dinner heartburn and pain in stomach.
Pressure in pit of stomach after eating.
While eating pressure in stomach, as if she had eaten something indigestible, with feeling of warmth and tenderness in pit of stomach.
Pains in stomach, etc.
Spasmodic pains.
Pressive stomachache.
Pressive pain in pit of stomach changes into constriction of the chest (2 1/2 h).
Pressure, as from a stone in pit of Stomach going through to the back, with a squeezing sensation as from a strain, like stiffness.
Sense of extreme oppression at pit of Stomach all day, as of excessive repletion, feeling as if nothing could pass further than the stomach.
Pressive pain at pit of Stomach while sitting, walking, and standing.
Pressive pain in stomach, as from a weight (11/2 h).
Pressive tensive pain, as from fullness or an oppressive weight in stomach and hypochondria (11/2 h).
Pressive and swollen feeling in pit of Stomach.
Pressure in stomach with splashing in bowels (5-10 d).
Pressive sensation in pit of Stomach and upper abdomen.
Sense of weight in stomach.
Sense of weight in stomach with constriction in throat, and nausea.
Pressive and burning pain along the oesophagus down into pit of stomach Feeling as if the stomach were alternately distended and collapsed; the hand laid on it feels distinctly the rising and falling.
Sticking and tension in epigastrium, as from flatulent colic.
Tensive sensation in pit of stomach, relieved by frequent offensive eructation.
Felt like a ball in pit of stomach, that rising up spread a cool air over vertex and occiput.
Contractive feeling in stomach, as from as astringent.
Feeling of emptiness in stomach.
Heartburn.
Heartburn all day.
Burning in stomach Burning and numbness in stomach Burning feeling from stomach up through the oesophagus to the mouth.
Warmth in stomach with sweat.
Warm feeling in stomach.
Feeling of anxiety in pit of stomach, especially in a warm room.
Swelling of stomach region, which is sensitive to touch.
Pain in pit of stomach, as if it were swollen internally, with loss of appetite and dyspnoea.
Anxious pulsation and shooting in pit of stomach with burning in umbilical region, etc.
Stomach sensitive to touch.
Abdomen
Pressive pain, as from a weight in the hypochondria (12 h).
Feeling of violent constriction in the hypochondria.
Sensation of anxiety in the hypochondria.
Pains in the upper abdomen with ineffectual straining at stool (several).
Stitches in the liver and bowels as with needles.
Continued constriction, especially in the right hypochondrium, not permitting a deep breath.
Stitches in hepatic region, hindering a deep breath.
Pressure in the hepatic region, obstructing respiration, followed by pinching bellyache above the navel.
Violent jerks in the hepatic region, taking away the breath.
Constrictive pain in the region of the gall-bladder, preventing respiration, on sitting.
Shooting in the spleen while walking.
A sharp stitch under the ribs on the right side on laughing aloud.
The upper abdomen below the ribs is the seat of a tense painful swelling.
Dull stitches under the ribs on the left side on inspiring.
Burning in the umbilical region.
Burning sensation in umbilical region, which rapidly traversed it and spread toward the pit of the stomach, with anxious pulsation and shooting there; after a short time came a rigor over the whole body, whereupon the hot feeling and the painful sensation in the umbilical region disappeared (11/2 h).
Pinching sensation in umbilical region.
Clawing and scraping in umbilical region.
Pinching in umbilical region, as if from nausea, followed by slight diarrhoea.
Drawing bellyache on both sides of navel, also excited by bending forward.
Compression of the navel, followed immediately by intermitting pressure, like jerks, in the navel.
A painless feeling above and to the left of navel, as if something cold (a fold finger) were pressing from within outward.
Retraction of navel, especially in the morning before eating.
Flatulent colic in hypogastrium, as from a flatulent purgative.
Sensitiveness of lower abdomen to touch.
Abdomen sensitive.
Sensitiveness of abdomen to touch, as from slight peritoneal inflammation (6 d).
Exceedingly fine prickings, as from needless, in left hypogastric region.
Faint sinking feeling in lower abdomen (19 d).
Darting in the bowels, as from needles.
Cutting in intestines which extend through the chest toward the right shoulder, like sharp knife thrusts, and almost make him cry out, during stool.
In morning in bed intolerable (cutting) pains in abdomen so that he knows not what to do with himself, he tosses about the bed (16 h).
Burning in abdomen.
The child complains of the pain in abdomen.
Painful tension of the abdomen with borborygmus.
Great swelling of abdomen, which is painful to touch.
Drawing pains in bowels here and there.
The flanks more tense, painful and felt hard.
Pressing pain in parietes of abdomen, first right then left, and almost typically recurring for several days.
The abdomen swelled as if he had dropsy.
The abdomen seemed as if full of water.
Abdomen swelled, distended as from ascites, The recti abdominis stretched as hard as a board.
Colicky, distensive stretching, and pressive pains in abdomen as from flatulence.
Violent colic.
Slight gripings.
Gripes with swelling of the abdomen, relieved by expulsion of flatus (several).
Fine sharp pains in different parts of the abdomen, as from flatus.
Pains in abdomen, as from flatulence.
Very hot flatus. (9 h).
Painful rumbling in bowels, and discharge of flatus with relief (19 d).
Rumbling in bowels.
Rumbling after eating.
Rumbling and grumbling all night.
Rumbling and grumbling with sensation of rawness.
Grumbling fermentation in abdomen.
Rumbling and gurgling, relieved by expulsion of flatus.
With shooting and contractive pains here and there.
Gurgling, with itching in rectum, provoking scratching, and call to stool.
Loud gurgling in lower abdomen, as after a purgative with sensitiveness in sacral region.
Weakness of bowels, as from abuse of purgatives.
The intestines feel paralyzed and unable to expel their contents; this sensation is observed more in the region of the transverse colon than in the rectum, notwithstanding the stool when discharged is not unusually hard.
Abdomen symptoms are relieved after warm soup.
Rectum and Anus
Pain in rectum (1 h).
Burning and heat in hemorrhoids (4 d).
Frequent itching in rectum, with discharge of white, hot mucus, for sixteen day after leaving off the drug.
Itching and pressing in the hemorrhoidal vessels.
Bleeding hemorrhoidal.
(An itching in anus associated with hemorrhoidal pressure, disappeared; curative).
Violent, very painful contractions in the anus; stitches through anus and urethra.
Shooting and pressure in anus.
Sensation as of warm, fluid escaping from anus.
Transient paralysis of the anus, involuntary evacuation.
Involuntary stools.
Thinking to pass merely flatus, there occurs an unexpected evacuation of thin faces (4 h).
Urine and faces involuntary (in convulsive fit).
In his faint he had some evacuation of the bowels.
Stool
Watery diarrhoea.
Three thin watery stool of dissolved offensive faeces (19 a).; with slight bellyache (19 a.); with grumbling in abdomen, and faint sinking feeling (19 a).
Three thin fluid stools with some cutting in abdomen (2D d)., (19 b).
Diarrhoea of thin fluid.
Between 6 and 7 A.M. an urgent desire for stool and copious discharge of soft faeces with straining (19 d).
Diarrhoea.
Painless diarrhoea preceded by pinching about the navel.
Looseness of bowels.
Tendency to looseness of bowels.
During diarrhoea copious flow of urine and moderate perspiration.
Pasty evacuation.
Soft scanty stool three or four times daily, accompanied by straining.
Nausea, with sweat, at times before, at times after, the diarrhoea.
Several very white stools during the day.
White color of stool.
White faeces and red urine.
Green stools.
Stool like chopped spinach.
Slimy, bloody stools, with violent pains and tenesmus (constant tearing pinching pains).
Black and very fetid stools (after an injection).
Constipation, clay-colored stools.
Hard evacuation a few hours earlier than usual, requiring a great effort.
Hard stool with effort.
Very hard faeces.
Hard stool this morning (2D d).
Constipated bowels,; for several days.
Urinary Organs
A slight sensation of splashing in the bladder while urinating.
Pain in the bladder while talking (4 h).
Burning in neck of bladder when not urinating.
Tenesmus of the neck of the bladder (4 h).
Temporary paralysis of neck of bladder, involuntary emission of urine. (Pressure on the bladder with retention of urine).
Single momentary stitches in the urethra while walking.
Burning in urethra when urinating.
Violent shoots in glans penis while urinating.
Shooting and pinching pains in the glans penis while urinating.
Stinging crawling in the glans, with subsequent violent stitches in the meatus urinarius.
Frequent urination, etc.
Frequent urination, the urine contains many flocks and strings of mucus (from a rheumatic patient).
Painful urging to urinate, she must urinate very often because the bladder speedily fills with a large amount of clear watery urine.
Frequent desire to urinate.
Desire to urinate on touching the abdomen.
Anxious desire to urinate.
Desire to urinate, the urine is uncommonly scanty, and discharged not without pain, with slight pinching in the umbilical region (from smell of the).
Urine passed with anxiety.
Urine passed with difficulty (dysuria), (12-18 h).
Fainting kind of feel on urinating.
Diuresis. (Diuresis, with profuse perspiration, and frequent watery diarrhoea with colic).
Diuresis, with distortion of the eyes, and spasmodic contraction of the feet.
Diuresis, and constant sweat.
Frequent and copious flow of urine.
Increased discharge of urine, which deposits blood on standing.
Frequent passage of clear watery urine.
Scanty discharge of urine.
Suppression of urine (several).
Suppression of urine, with pinching in the region of the kidneys.
Urine scanty and dark.
Though he drank much during the night he made no water (contrary to his usual habit); next morning he passed red urine with burning along the urethra.
Urine hot, dark-colored, etc.
Urine red, with white feces.
Urine dark-colored, etc.
Urine reddish and clear (19 c).
Urine brown, passed with burning sensations, with brick dust deposit.
Brownish colored urine, depositing a dirty brown sediment.
The urine passed in the morning hours is brown, after awhile it becomes turbid and deposit.
Brownish colored urine, depositing a dirty brown sediment.
The urine passed in the morning hours is brown, after a while it becomes turbid and deposits a sediment of smutty brownish color (19 b).
Urine thick, sedimentous, and reddish.
Urine much clouded.
Haematuria.
Sexual Organs, Male
Itching in the prepuce, relieved by rubbing, but soon returning.
Several sharp momentary prickings in both glans and prepuce.
Voluptuous itching in the glans penis.
Several flying painful stitches in the glans, as though the poles of a galvanic battery had been applied to the part; the pains came on most unexpectedly.
Dull burning in the fossa navicularis.
Slight but disagreeable creeping in the genitals.
Retraction of the scrotum.
Violent itching of scrotum compels scratching till blood is drawn.
Skin of left side of scrotum studded with minute vesicles pouring out a humid discharge.
Simple pain in the testicles, like that caused by a bruise (2 h).
Bruised pain in the right testicle.
Bruised pain in right testicle, and momentary sticking pain in left side of prepuce.
Slight drawing pain in right testis.
Testes feel swollen and hard, as if they contained a large amount of seminal fluid.
Testicles swollen, hard, hot, and sensitive to touch.
Sexual desire increased.
Fits of lasciviousness.
In the evening excessive sexual desire (with the warmth and perspiration).
Greatly increased sexual desire, quickly alternating with relaxation.
Increase of sexual desire.
Frequent erections, with increased sexual desire.
Diminished sexual desire.
Frequent emissions (several).
Emissions only in the morning (by no means subject to it).
Two emissions in a single night.
Erections and emissions without dreams.
Emission during the night, and that after coition.
Female.
Metrorrhagia.
The menses, which had ceased the day before commencing the drug, reappear (1/4 h).
Reappearance of menses, which had been arrested by a cold bath.
Reappearance of menses, which had been suppressed by a cold but followed by a very offensive white discharge, lasting four days.
Sharp pains in the loins when the menses appear.
Rage when the menses appear.
Profuse, tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea.
Increased milk in the breasts.
Suppressed menstruation from fright.
Vagina dry, hot, sensitive.
Respiratory Apparatus
(* See also “Nose.” *)
Larynx sensitive to inspired air, as if its mucous membrane were divested of its coating.
Sensation as if the larynx were compresses on both sides.
Tickling in the larynx provoking cough.
Tickling in the larynx from smoking tobacco.
Pain in larynx on coughing.
On going from warm room into open air irritation of larynx on coughing.
On going from warm room into open air irritation of larynx and dry cough.
Sensitiveness of larynx to touch.
Dry sensation in the trachea.
Sensation of numbness in the trachea, under the sternum (8 h).
Rattling vibration of trachea.
Pressive and burning pains in trachea, extending down to pit of stomach (21st d).
Raw feeling in throat along course of trachea, Provoking frequent short cough.
Morbid condition (paralytic attack) of the epiglottis; food and drink easily pass into the windpipe on swallowing, threatening suffocation, swallowing saliva.
On breathing, a sensation as if the air-passage were too wide, so that the air streamed out with extraordinary facility.
Hoarseness.
Hoarseness in morning (8 h).
Hoarseness all day.
Voice hoarse and rough.
Hoarseness and partial loss of voice.
Very weak voice.
Loss of voice with prostration.
Short cough, etc.
Constant irritation to cough.
Short dry cough, etc.
Dry cough (several).
Dry forcible cough.
Dry short excited by scratching in throat.
Cough from irritation in larynx.
Short cough from tickling in larynx, after midnight every half hour, the more it is attempted to be repressed the more frequent and severe it becomes.
Hacking cough from a tickling in larynx, after midnight every half hour, the more it is attempted to be repressed the more frequent and severe it becomes.
Hacking cough from a tickling at the epiglottis (immediately).
Hoarse, dry, loud cough.
Short frequent, distressing, and uncontrollable cough, but without expectoration (1 d).
Frequent dry cough, with raw pain in chest, and smarting in larynx.
Violent cough, with painful shootings in different parts of chest, compelling him to lie always on the back, and preventing his lying on the side.
Cough, with shooting in chest.
Dry cough, with raw pain in chest, caused by change of temperature.
Cough very severe, with a peculiar dull tone, causing a great strain at the chest; almost dry.
Cough and pain in chest, increased toward evening, with oppression of the chest.
Violent dry cough, whereby a little fluid is brought into the mouth, of a sweetish salt taste, like blood, tasted only at the root of the tongue.
Frequent dry cough with occasional expectoration of bright red blood (3D d)., (19 b).
Morning cough, with blood-streaked expectoration.
Frequent dry cough, with severe pains from the shock through the chest; expectoration sometimes brownish-red, rust- colored.
Violent dry cough, with cramp like constriction of the anus.
Cough during sleep.
Severe cough from tobacco smoke (in one accustomed to smoke).
He (though accustomed to smoke) cannot smoke without constantly hemming and coughing, either because the epiglottis permits the entrance of smoke into the larynx, or because the epiglottis is more sensitive than usual (6 h).
Cough with viscid mucous expectoration.
Expectoration of blood (several).
Hemoptysis, etc.
Expectoration of thin, frothy, white mucus, mixed with streaks of bright red blood.
Expectoration of blood and mucus with raw sensation behind the sternum.
Slow, difficult respiration (very many).
Difficult respiration.
Impeded respiration.
Difficult respiration, with necessity to breathe deeply.
Difficult respiration, relieved by coughing.
Deep sighing (several).
Sighing on account of slow circulation, and distinct feeling of congestion of blood in the lungs.
Breathing much affected, must often sigh deeply.
Frequent deep breathing (several).
On breathing deeply, oppression, anxiety, and painful stitches between the shoulders.
Frequently inclined to breathe deeply without sighing, as if he would give to the blood an impulse through the lungs (follows the hurried mood.
Oppressed respiration, dry hacking, much thirst, and chilliness.
Oppressed respiration, with slight pressure under the sternum, and transient heat.
Oppressed respiration (several).
Fear of suffocation.
Inspiration often affected by a feeling of compression in the middle of the sternum and anterior part of the chest, or by pinching, especially in the right flank, or violent shoots deep in region of liver.
Inspiration through the nose impeded, especially in sleep.
Respiration short, imperfect, laborious.
Short breath in sleep, after midnight.
Breath short and scarcely perceptible.
Respiration quickened.
Respiration hurried.
Respiration rapid (25 to min).
Respiration superficial (19 c).
Dyspnoea, and hot feeling in the lungs.
Fear of suffocation with anxiety.
Anxiety impeding respiration, with warm sweat on the forehead.
Difficult respiration, anxiety, gasping for air (several).
Breath hot.
Breath fetid.
Respiration loud, noisy, with open mouth.
Respiration stertorous.
Mucous rales, audible at a distance.
Mucous rales posteriorly.
Chest
Tightness of chest.
Tightness of chest with strong loud respiration.
Sensation as if chest were contracted.
Constriction of the chest, to the right of the sternum, a kind of tightness.
Constriction of chest.
Construction of the chest in central anterior part, hindering deep breathing.
Contractive pain in chest, as if the ribs of both sides were drawn toward each other.
The cavity of the thorax seems narrowed.
Squeezing pain in chest.
Pressive squeezing pain in chest under the sternum.
Pressive tight pain in side of chest.
Constrictive sticking pain in sides of chest.
Anxiety in the chest, and oppression on the right side, afterward in the whole chest.
Oppression of chest, with raw pain under the sternum on inspiration.
Oppression of chest, etc.
Oppression and anxiety in chest.
Great oppression of chest, and feeling as if a hundred weight upon it.
Great oppression of chest, making him breathe deeply, with flying shoots in it.
Heaviness and oppression of chest relieved by wine.
Pressive pain in chest relieved bending the body backward, but renewed on resuming a straight position (12h).
Pressure, especially on the right side of chest.
Pressure on chest, first on right side then on left.
Pressive pain in left side of chest superiorly, the part is sensitive to touch.
Pressive pain in the region of the second left rib near the sternum, limited to a spot the size of the palm, increased on deep inspiration.
Pressure and burning under the sternum.
Feeling of weight on chest, as if the whole chest were compressed from all sides, Weight under the sternum preventing deep inspiration; painful pressure from the sternum, to the spine.
Weight on the chest, with a quick succession of fine but violent stitches in left side from without inward.
Heaviness on the chest.
Heaviness and fullness in the chest, as if he could not expand the thorax, which frequently makes him breathe deeply, with internal uneasiness, anxiety, and palpitation, forenoons on walking (19 a).
Heaviness on chest, difficult respiration, sometimes sighing, violent palpitation, with dry cough, and clear, bloody expectoration (19 h).
Oppression of chest, superficial, frequent respiration, and frequent deep breathing and sighing (19 c).
Heaviness and fullness in chest, anxiety and palpitation (19 c).
Shooting pressive pain on right side of the sternum.
Stitches in the chest on breathing.
Violent stitches through the chest.
Painful stitches in the right side of the chest, about the last rib, going through to the back (10 h).
Superficial stitches in the chest and cardiac region.
Stitches in lower part of the chest toward the false ribs.
Violent stitches in the chest with suspension of the respiration.
Stitches in chest, with cough (several).
Single large stitches in the side toward the back (24 h).
Stitches from the lowest rib in the right side to the apex of the shoulder-blade, through the center of the chest, accompanying every inspiration, with complaining humor.
On rising in morning, acute lancinating stitches in cardiac region, as if in the pleura costalis, that prevent him assuming an upright posture or breathing deeply, with an inclination to cough; after rubbing the skin, and making gradual efforts to breathe deeply, these symptoms went off, but that part of the thorax remained sensitive even to external pressure (20 doses 2D dil).
Stitches in left chest.
Periodical stitches through chest with dry cough.
On the 11th day violent stitches in the region of the eighth, ninth, and tenth ribs, but not affecting deep inspiration; the 12th and 13th days, these stitches still continued, and often extended to the loins.
Transient stitches in chest, now here now there (several).
Slight stitches in the left upper half of the chest, as of paralysis.
Sensitive stitches in the left upper half of the chest, as of paralysis.
Sensitive stitches in various parts of the thorax, aggravated by bending sideways.
On deep breathing stitches between the shoulder-blades and in the sides of the chest.
Violent stitch in left half of chest.
Transient stitches in pectoralis major and intercostals, left side.
Dull, oppressive stitches in the left side, near the axilla.
In the evening flying stitches here and there, in the ribs, the abdominal parietes, the joints; great swelling of the belly, which is painful to the touch.
Toward evening, shoots in the center of the sternum, with particularly good humor.
Flying shoots along the sternum and betwixt the ribs.
Pain in the chest, like a shooting, interrupting respiration.
Shooting in the side, followed by palpitation and pressive headache, with anxiety and ill humor.
Fine, burning, shooting pain in the chest.
Shooting in the lower half of the left side of the chest, going off on lying down.
Shooting, boring, burrowing pain in the left side, between the fourth and sixth ribs, lasting ten minutes.
Shooting in the right side of the chest with complaining, lachrymose humor.
Pinching, scraping pain in the right side of the chest, between the third and fourth ribs, not affected by anything; it goes away of itself.
Painful shocks in left chest superiorly, especially on taking a deep breath.
Pain in right side of chest (19 c).
Pain as from a bruise in the lowest rib, very much increased by the touch, whereby the patient is very uneasy, and complains.
Pain in the middle of sternum, as from a bruise, increased by touch.
Soreness on posterior surface of sternum, as if he had bruised himself, evening.
Chest painful externally on several places, particularly the right side.
Heat on and in the chest.
Heat in the lungs.
Burning in the lungs, not affecting respiration; it seemed as if a hot fluid would come into the mouth.
Feeling as if hot water were being poured fluid would come into the chest.
Chest warm.
Fatigued, exhausted feeling in the chest; slight speaking is an exertion.
Creeping pain in the chest.
Crawling in the chest, as from beetles.
Gnawing pain in the right clavicle.
A digging, boring pain from the right scapula to the front of the chest, increased by deep inspiration, but not by expiration, and so in no way relieved; lasting twelve minutes.
Heart and Pulse
Slight stitches in cardiac region.
Transient stitches in heart region (sometimes noticed in rest), especially on walking, forenoons (19 a).
Anxiety in cardiac region, and oppression of chest, with contracted pulse and constriction of the chest, when sitting after much motion.
Palpitation, with great anxiety, difficulty of breathing, and great weariness in all the limbs; sensation as of something rushing into the head, with confusion and flying heat in the face.
Palpitation and anxiety, with increased heat, especially of the face.
Palpitation of heart (several).
Palpitation on walking, with great anxiety, etc. (19 c).
Palpitation of the heart, with great anxiety and restlessness, and pressive pain in the cardiac region.
Sudden violent palpitation while sitting quietly, quiet, increased by walking.
Tendency to palpitation, with trembling.
The heart beats quickly while the pulse was slow, apparently intermitting with attacks of powerlessness.
Heart’s impulse weak.
Heart feebly fluttering.
The heart beats but once to every three pulsations against the chest.
The left ventricle was consonant with the pulsations against the chest.
The left ventricle was consonant with the pulse, but the right auricle seemed to be in a convulsive state, its movements were rapid, irregular, and not related to be in a convulsive state, its movement were rapid, irregular, and not related to the beats of the ventricle.
Pulse contracted, full, powerful, febrile, exceeding 100 beats to minute (in adults), (several).
Pulse strong, full, and quick, etc.
Auscultation revealed mucous rales posteriorly, but one beat of heart to three beats of pulse, still the pulsations of left vena cava were equal to the arterial pulse; rapid, irregular motion of right auricle, synchronous with the beats of the vena cava.
Pulse rose from 95 to 112 on going in from open air.
Toward evening the pulse became full and quick; he felt the beating of the temporal and carotid arteries, while sitting.
Pulse full, rapid, 80 to 90.
Pulse 96 during afternoon, fever.
Pulse 13-, feeble.
Beat of heart powerful; pulse full, hard, and strong, moderately frequent (19 c).
Pulse quick, irregular.
Pulse 67, small, and soft, after this it rose in an hour to 102, was full, and hard, then an agreeable warmth came over the body, followed by perspiration, the legs all the time continuing cool.
Pulse full, powerful, intermitting every sit beats of the heart and radial artery, with heaviness of chest, especially in the cardiac region.
Pulse intermitting and irregular; two or three beats followed rapidly in succession, and then came a pause of as long a duration.
Pulse febrile and intermitting.
Pulse intermitting, with general dullness.
Pulse soft, irregular.
Pulse, at first with beginning warmth, frequent, sinks below normal; becomes weak, and at times intermittent.
Pulse at first frequent, then retarded.
Pulse slower, full, and soft (19 c).
Pulse 54, unequal, soft, and full.
Pulse sinks, irregular, small, weak.
Pulse slow, irregular.
Pulse sinks, irregular, small, weak.
Pulse slow, irregular.
Pulse slow, intermittent.
Pulse seems as if the blood did not fill the artery full.
Pulse slow, feeble,; weak,; small,; small and weak,; almost imperceptible.
Pulse feeble, soft, and occasionally intermits (every fifteenth beat).
No pulse perceptible.
Pulse thready, with anxiety.
Neck and Back
Nape of neck stiff.
Pain as if the flesh were separated in the nape, with feeling as if the neck would not support the head, and the head would on that account fall forward; on moving the head, shootings in the nape.
Rheumatic pain in the nape, felt only on moving the neck (after 5-9 h).
Stiff feeling in the nape of the neck in the evening.
Stiff feeling in the nape, with chilly hands and feet.
Drawing pain to the left of the nape and in the scapula on moving the neck.
Single stitches in both sides of the nape.
Weariness in the neck on motion, as if involving single muscles, especially evenings and nights.
Drawings in muscles of throat and neck.
Fine shooting in the neck, externally.
Drawing pain into the neck, into the ear and shoulder.
Stiff and bruised feeling in the left side of the neck, to the left shoulder-joint and a portion of the dorsal muscles; worse on lying better on moving (5th d).
Pressive pain in the left side of the cervical vertebrae.
Pressive pain in the neck, as of a pressure with the point of a finger inwards toward the trachea.
Stretching in the cervical muscles on turning the head.
Pain extends from neck towards right shoulders.
Bruised pain between the shoulders.
Stitches between the scapulae (several).
Drawing, tearing pain in scapulae.
Slight drawing in right scapula.
Crawling pain in back, as if from beetles.
Dull rheumatic pains in muscles of back and shoulders, in the places where the chilly or numb sensations had been most marked.
Creeping as of insects over back, arms, and things.
Stiffness of the back.
Shootings in the back.
Coldness along the vertebral column.
Feeling of heartburn all down the back.
Violent shooting, digging pain in the whole of the left side of the spine to the small of the back, so much increased by inspiration as to bring tears into the eyes; this lasted four hours.
Violent drawing pain on both sides of the spine, along the mm., sacrolumbalis and longissimus dorsi, increased by pressure, and rendering every movement difficult; this went off after four hour, but passed into the antagonist muscles, the recti abdominis, which were stretched as a board.
Burning, gnawing pains near the right side of the spine.
Pain in the loins, like labor-pains, while walking.
Pain in loins.
Pressive pain in the small of the back.
Momentary sticking and drawing in small of back.
Violent tearing pain in small of back, aggravated by pressure.
Painful boring on the left side of the small of the back.
Pressive pain on the left side of small of the back.
Painful stiffness in the small of the back and hip-joint, as if paralytic, on movement (after 2 h).
Numb sensation in the small of the back into the legs (several).
Paralytic pressure in the small of the back, relieved by movement and bending forward (3D and 5th d).
Shooting and creeping in the small of the back.
Sensitiveness of the renal region.
Shooting in the kidneys.
Transient, but painful aching in region of left kidney.
Slight uneasiness in region of right kidney.
Tension and drawing in the lumbar vertebrae, or as if bruised, with gripes, as if from flatulence.
Tensive, pressive pain in the lumber and sacral regions, noticed on stepping.
Pain as if bruised, in the last lumbar vertebrae, at its junction with the sacrum; the back feels as if beaten.
Pain as if from a bruise, from the loins through the back into the nape of the neck (after 4 h).
Cutting pain, extending from the spine over the left hip, round to the abdomen, in a circle.
Extremities in general
Trembling and tingling in the limbs, accompanied by shooting pains (1/4 h).
Convulsive trembling of the limbs.
Twitching of fingers and toes.
Convulsive contractions of limbs.
Involuntary stretching of limbs.
Distortion of extremities.
He was unable to keep himself upright, and was attacked by convulsions, the upper and lower extremities were drawn inward, the first clenched and the thumbs doubled into the palms so that he could not open the hand.
Weariness of arms and legs.
Weariness and exhaustion of all the limbs, with stretching and straining.
Weariness of the limbs, especially the legs, with constant sleepiness and ill-humor.
Heaviness and stiffness of limbs in open air.
Painful heaviness of limbs (19 c).
Stiffness and difficulty of moving limbs.
Difficulty of moving limbs.
An arm and a leg feel paralyzed.
A paralyzed feeling in left arm and thigh; the power of moving was gone in both, only slightly remaining in the hand.
When the left side lost this it came into the right side in the same way; when he could raise the right arm he could not the left, and vice versa; as length could raise them both.
Feeling as if the limb had gone to sleep.
It seemed as though the circulation stopped in all his limbs; no circulation at all was felt by him from the wrists to the finger ends, and from the ankles to the tips of the toes.
Weakness and unsteadiness in the ligaments of all the joints (46 h).
Feeling as though the ligaments of the joints were relaxed.
Great weakness of the joints, especially the knee and joints of the foot, with jerking in the tendons so that he can scarcely walk.
Numbness in the tips of the fingers and toes.
Coldness of extremities.
Bruised feeling in the limbs.
Pain as from a contusion in shoulder and hip-joints, after sleeping, as if the bed had been too hard.
Drawing now in the knee and calf, now in elbow.
Drawings here and there in the joints.
Drawing, tearing pains in limbs.
Transient pains, like bone pains, in the metacarpal and long bones of upper and lower extremities.
Stretching pains in the limbs.
Pain in the elbows, knees, and hips; pressure after walking pains in left middle finger and right heel.
Shuddering of the extremities.
Crawling in upper and lower limbs.
Pain in the joints.
All the joints are painful (7 h).
Painless cracking of all the joints especially the knees.
Upper Extremities
Pain in left shoulder-joint.
Slight pain in shoulder-joints.
Pain in left shoulder.
Tearing pain from the shoulder down the arm to the wrist and fingers, on every motion; during the pain the hand is blue (after 1, 14 h).
Tumor in the muscles of the shoulder, extremely painful to the touch, as if bruised (after 4 h).
The shoulder is painful, and feels as if it would sink down.
Some transient stitches in the left shoulder.
Numbness in the shoulders.
Drawing, tearing pain in shoulder-joint.
Pressure in right shoulder and upper arm.
Pressive pain in left shoulder, and posterior-exterior side of left upper arm.
Violent drawing and tearing, with paralytic sensation in head of left humerus.
Tingling down the arms.
The arms feel bruised and sink down powerlessly.
Weariness of arms.
Coldness and insensibility of the arms.
No feeling in arms.
Pinching, as if with blunt forceps, on some spots of the left arm, often returning.
Throws the arms about.
Single shootings in middle of right upper arm, anteriorly, while at rest, not changed by motion or pressure.
Sudden drawing and shooting pain in right upper arm posteriorly.
Drawing and paralytic stiffness in right upper arm.
Weariness of left upper arm.
Tickling itching on inside of left upper arm.
Drawing pain in the elbow-joints.
Drawing-tearing pain in the elbow-joints.
Several rheumatic-like pains in left elbow-joint.
Dull, rheumatic pains about right elbow-joint.
Violent shooting in the elbow-joints down to the wrists, on the outside of the arm, on flexing the fingers to the wrist- joint.
Sensation of weight in the arms, from the elbow to the fingers; they feel as if they would fall, with sensation in fingers as if they were asleep, on grasping anything.
Drawing-tearing pain in the forearm.
Pain in the forearm, as if from a violent blow.
Drawing, shooting pain in the bones of the forearm, excitable by movement.
Crawling in right forearm.
Paralytic feeling in right forearm and hand (on writing), relieved by violent motion, but returning while writing, or at rest, but less severely.
Drawing-tearing pain on the outside of right forearm.
Cramp like pain in the whole of the left forearm, not relieved by anything.
Undulating, tearing pain in the upper end of the left forearm.
Acute pain in right forearm, along the flexor tendons of the little finger, increased by movement.
Numb, tingling sensations in arms and hands, as though the poles of a galvanic battery were being held.
Numbness in arms, and hands.
Much formication in arms and hands.
Immediately (from a portion of the juice getting into a wound in the thumb), horrible pain throughout the arm, and especially at the wounded spot.
The arm became bright-red, much swollen; the pain so intolerable that he nearly fainted.
A numbing-like paralysis of the left arm (and thigh), so that he can scarcely move the hand.
Prickling and tingling down the arms and fingers, and a painful numbness across the wrists (in five minutes).
Pain in the arm and the fingers.
Jerking, drawing pain in the lower and internal surface of the left forearm, over the wrist to the palm of the hand.
Shooting in the wrist-joint, as if from needless (several).
Drawing, paralytic pain in the right wrist-joint.
Tearing pain in the wrist.
Trembling motion in the wrist on moving the hand.
Drawing and tearing pains in wrist and fingers.
Icy coldness of the hands (several).
Trembling of hands.
One hand becomes ice-cold, and insensible as if benumbed (after 2 h).
Cramp like pain, with fine shootings, in the right hand, relieved by moving it.
Swelling of the hands, with frequent cough, and ordinary appetite.
Hands cold and pulseless.
Clenched hands.
Same sprained feel in joints of right hand.
Stinging, itching little red pimples on the back of both hands, like fleabites.
Transient stitches in dorsum of left hand.
Increased warmth of palms, evenings.
Cold sweat in the palms.
Palms of hands quite insensible.
A few pulsating stitches in the hollow of the right hand, as if from a sharp needle.
Morbid, contractive pain in the hollow of left hand, so that the fingers can scarcely be extended.
Transient, lame pains in both metacarpi.
Creeping pain in the fingers.
Creeping in the fingers, felt also while writing.
Hot prickling in the tips of the fingers, night.
Nails blue.
Crawling and sensation of warmth in middle and index fingers of left hand.
Cutting, pressive pain on the side of the right forefinger, next the middle finger, during motion and when at rest.
Strange, intermittent, lame, growing-like forefinger, lasting for about ten minutes, and causing great awkwardness in bending it.
Drawing lame pains in right forefinger.
Paralytic pain in the thumbs.
Pain as of dislocation in the right thumb-joint on moving it.
Jerking pains in the right thumb.
Painful drawing in the left thumb.
Drawing pains, several times, in right thumb.
Lower Extremities
Drawing pain in the border of the left hip-bone.
Drawing pain in left hip-joint on moving it.
Painful pressure in hip-joint while walking.
Powerlessness in the head of the femur, or inability to walk, owing to an indescribable, intolerable pain, almost like a crushing of the head of the femur, which sometimes declines and sometimes increases, and occurs after lying down and after sleep (after 5 h).
Powerlessness and pain in the head of the femur, producing unsteady gait.
Drawing pain in the head of the femur, while standing and sitting, but still more while walking.
Tired feeling in the lower limbs during repose.
Sensation of heaviness in the limbs, as if they were asleep (several).
Bruised pain in the limbs, especially in the knees.
Stiffness and heaviness of the limbs, when walking preventing him from walking quickly.
His limbs trembled as he walked.
Trembling of limbs.
The lower extremities were in perpetual movement, even when he sat down.
He loses the sensation of standing firm.
Legs fail her on attempting to go up stairs.
The legs bend under her.
The child staggers to his feet; his face brightens up; but soon standing becomes impossible.
Step uncertain.
Drawing pain especially in the joints of the limbs.
Drawing in the tendinous expansions of the lower of limbs.
Small vesicles on left lower extremities, very painful.
“No use in legs.”
No feeling in legs.
Drawing pain in left lower extremity, here and there.
Weariness of limb.
An almost paralytic powerlessness of legs and thighs, after sitting.
Tight pressure in the thighs, as if from a tightly drawn bandage, with great fatigue while walking.
Drawing pain, first in one thigh, then in the other, then in both together, only while walking.
Drawing pain, first in one thigh, then in the other, then in both together, only while moving.
Numbness in the thighs and feet (several).
Strange sensation down forepart of both thighs, as if drops of cold water trickled over them; it lasted for fully five minutes.
Drawing-tearing pain in thigh.
Fine shootings, as if from needless, in the muscular substance of the thigh.
Cold feeling running down from the middle of the thigh, especially on the knee and leg.
Bruised pain of thigh and coldness of soles.
Drawing along the thigh, and discomfort in the knees.
Unsteadiness of the knees; they bend while standing or walking.
Unsteadiness of the knees, especially of one; it bends under the body, while walking (immediately, and after 1 h).
Slight pain in right knee.
Deep, slow, shooting over the right knee.
Jerking-tearing in the inside of the knee.
Shootings in the left knee.
Icy coldness of the knee alternating with flying shootings.
Drawing, tearing pain in knee-joint.
Knife-like pains in the knee-joint.
Tension in knee-cap, hindering walking.
Pain in patella, as from a blow.
Pain in patella on walking.
On walking in open air, an acute pressing pain by fits in the left patella, right Tendo Achilles, and dorsum of left foot.
Pressing gnawing pain in patella.
Pressive pain in patella and in Tendo Achilles.
Painful drawing in leg, from the knee to the heel, and back again.
Cramps and pains in the legs.
Marked feeling, as if a heavy weight, about the size of the palm, were laid on the outside of both legs, about eight inches above ankle.
The legs got very cold in an hour; worse in a warm room and when walking.
Stitching and drawing in tibiae.
Violent shooting from the heel to the popliteal space (from olfaction).
Paralytic drawing in right leg and Tendo Achilles to heel.
Drawing in Tendo Achilles.
Tendo Achillis feels shortened and bent.
Cold creeping on inside of leg.
Itching on inside of leg.
Weakness in lower legs, morning.
The lower part of the legs and feet and as of numb and asleep.
Legs and feet feel numb.
Heaviness and tension in the calves.
Pain in calves as from cramp.
Cramp in the calves.
Pain in the ankles, with despairing thoughts, and contemplation of death.
Sensation in the ankles, as if they were tightly tied with a ligature, in the morning.
Horrible pain in the ankle, relieved by compression (after 7 h).
Tearing pain in left outer ankle, going upward (after 14 h).
Sharp, transient, rheumatic-like pain in anterior part of left ankle-joint (3D d).
Coldness of the feet to the ankles, with sweat of the toes and soles.
Coldness of the feet, particularly of the toes.
Feet covered with cold sweat.
Heaviness of the feet (immediately).
The feet feel as heavy as lead (several).
Weariness of feet on ascending steps.
Paralytic drawing in the feet (several).
Pressure on right instep.
Transient stitches on dorsum of left foot.
Pain in right heel, principally when treading (several).
Hot pricking in toes, night.
Sleeping of the toes of the right foot while walking (several).
Repeated sharp, painful shootings in right fourth toe.
While sitting at tea, most unexpectedly, three very sharp and painful stitches in third and fourth toes of right foot.
Shortly after getting to bed, several momentary lancinating pains in right big toe, on the inside of ball in particular; also in third and fourth right toes.
Sensation of numbness and tingling commenced in feet and spread rapidly upward.
Generalities
Convulsion.
Clonic spasms.
Spasms of the eyes; clenched jaws; the body became rigid and bends backward; the limbs are distorted with spasms, and he dies.
Convulsive attacks; the upper and lower limbs drawn inward; the legs in constant motion; face covered with cold sweat; the eyes turned up; the joints crack during the spasms.
Violent convulsive fit; the eyes drawn up under the lids; the fists clenched across the throat; the teeth grate violently against one another, and a thick ropy saliva was forced through the lips. In the evening sudden crying out, gnashing of teeth; then, from long-continued hiccup, stiff immobility like a statue (catalepsy).
Twitching of tendons.
The symptoms at last become chiefly confined to the tendinous or muscular structures, such as shortened feeling of the tendons of the ham and of the Tendo Achilles.
Twitching of various groups of muscles, especially of the forearm, as if he held the conductors of an electromagnetic apparatus in his hand, only the pains come and go slower.
Excessive restlessness and tossing about for several hours.
She gave an occasional sigh, tossed her arms backward above her head and sought to shift her position by jerks.
Extreme sense of nervousness.
Extreme nervousness and agitation.
Fearful and uncertain in his actions.
Sensitiveness to fresh air.
Remarkable degree of sensitiveness to the least draft of cold air.
Feeling as if he would take cold.
All the symptoms of having caught cold.
Sensation as if all the blood vessels were congealed.
Very shaky and nervous.
Trembling and tendency to palpitation.
Great trembling.
Increased tremulousness and vertigo.
General muscular tremors.
Paralytic and bruised pains in arms and legs, with violent trembling all over the body, especially in the extremities, which prevents walking; with very pale face, dilated pupils, faintness, palpitation, cold sweat on the back, and dizzy headache in the temples, soon followed by burning head of the face, with a sensation of tension and redness of the face, and sleepiness after dinner (46 h).
He complained of lassitude of the whole body, great weakness, and pressure at the heart.
General sore, tired feeling in the body.
On awaking in the morning such great exhaustion he was unwilling to get up; it went off, however, on rising.
Frequent attacks, almost every other hour, of extreme weakness and insensibility, so that he can stir neither hand nor foot, and cannot sit up in bed; he does not feel his former pains, cannot see nor hear, nor even speak aloud; the legs are stretched out (after a few h).
Grew very weak and almost blind in half an hour, though still conscious.
Prostrated, weak, and sleepy.
Great muscular weakness, weariness, prostration, almost total inability to stand.
Great loss of strength.
Progressive failure of strength.
Great weariness, as if after walking far.
Feeling very weary, languid, and unable to rise from the couch; obliged to discontinue all work; the system feels prostrated, with sense of inward fever.
Great laziness (19 d).
Unusual fatigue.
Walking and talking tire him; he feels very much affected.
Easily tired when walking, and especially going up stairs.
He loses his ability to stand, must sit down.
She hates movement, prefers sitting.
She must lie down in bed she feels so sick; head so confused, dizzy, and painful, and the limbs so heavy (19 a).
Complains of his head being heavy, his strength and spirit exhausted, so that he had to lie down.
Urgent desire to lie down.
She must lie down (2-5 h).
Faintness.
Faintness on attempting to sit up.
Attacks of fainting follow constructive sensation of the chest, and icy coldness.
Went quite suddenly and unconsciously into a swoon in the evening while standing up urinating; all thee blood seemed to rush to his head, and he feel heavily to the ground (first time in his life).
Fainting fit directly after urinating; everything whirled around him; for the time he completely lost all consciousness; hands bedewed with cold sweat, and for some time after he remained quite prostrated.
Impaired sensibility of the surface.
Touch diminished, so that he cannot distinguish small objects by the feeling.
Formication and crawling, now in one place, now in another, with an uncomfortable shuddering sensation, especially on the upper arm and lower leg.
The paralytic condition soon quit the left side and passed over to the right.
Numbness and tingling over the body.
Muscles sore and stiff.
Sensation as if the whole body, from the shoulders downward, was heavy as lead, while a heavy pressure, from all sides and from above downwards, seemed to render the whole body smaller in size and stature, the head and neck seeming to retain their natural proportions.
Sensation of swelling of many parts of the body, generally accompanied by shuddering cold or rigor (several).
Sense of swelling of almost the whole body, especially of the left side, which after awhile becomes a numb sensation, with bruised feeling of the muscles, and weariness in the bones.
Feeling of swelling all over, especially in left side, with bruised pain in ribs and arms, and crampy feeling about the heart; the swollen feeling changes to a numb feeling.
General anxious sensation, as though the blood would overflow the vessels, with constant chilliness, especially with cold face, even in a warm room; worse in the open air and on motion.
Anxious tremblings, like a boiling and seething through the whole body, as if the hands and feet would go to sleep; something as if one is just on the point of becoming intoxicated, always accompanied by a predominating unpleasant sensation of coldness.
Swelling of the part (on which the juice had been laid), and acute inflammation, going on to profuse suppuration.
General feeling of illness.
Sensation as if she had just recovered from a severe illness or risen from a sick-bed (6 h).
Feeling all day as of impending fever, with nausea, went of appetite, and aching gnawing pains throughout the whole body, extremities particularly.
General sick feeling, nausea, and qualmishness, with painful heaviness in the limbs.
Drawing pains wander over the whole body in rapid succession, nowhere lasting longer than one minute.
Painful drawings, now here, now there, most frequently in various parts of the thorax, and in the upper and forearms.
Drawing, tearing pains, wandering without order from one place to another, but mostly alternating with heart symptoms.
After the delirium pains in stomach, head, jaws, and here and there in his joints, which in seven hours becomes more general.
Rheumatic pains, chiefly in the knee.
Frequent flying pains all over the body.
Transient pains in different parts of the body.
Bruised pains in different parts (several).
Neuralgic pains.
Very fine stinging, or stinging burning pains in many parts, as if seated in the skin, sometimes combined with a sense of heaviness, numbness, or swelling.
In the evening flying stitches here and there, in the ribs, walls of abdomen, and joints.
Stitches in the forehead, back, sides of chest, back of hands, and other parts, as if he stood on the isolated plate of an electrical machine, and one took sparks from him.
Constriction of body.
Gradually all part of the body becomes black, the whole body swells up, the eyes protrude, the tongue hangs out of the mouth.
A peculiar feeling over the whole body, to be compared with that experienced in a vapor bath, when the steam falls rapidly on the skin, and drops are felt on it.
Unusually comfortable feeling in whole body.
(Painfulness of whole body with increasing weakness).
The whole body sensitive to touch; the child will not allow itself to be moved; it whines.
Burning through all the mucous membranes.
Most of the symptoms are accompanied by shivering and anxiety (several).
Skin
Jaundice.
Skin becomes yellowish.
The skin appears peculiarly elastic and smooth.
Goose-flesh.
Skin dry and unperspiring.
Vesicular eruption on both temples.
Spots like fleabites on hands, face, &c..
Red pimples on flexor side of the thumb, index and middle fingers, painful to pressure (con. 5 d).
Skin seems dotted with red spots.
(Isolated vesicles, here and there, fill with yellow lymph and dry up).
Red pimples, filled with acrid fluid, all over body (from patient with sciatica).
Broad, red, itching pimples all over body (from patient with rheumatism).
Chiefly on face, forehead, nape, and various parts of the body, isolated vesicles, the size of a pin’s head, containing a serous fluid, and attended with itching; successive eruptions appeared for a fortnight, which dried up and fell off gradually.
Itching all over the body, especially on the pudenda (from a patient with sciatica).
Itching in several muscular parts, especially the forearms.
Constant itching and smarting on various parts of the skin.
Great heat all over the body, and burning-itching, especially on the inside of the thighs and about the knees.
Creeping, itching, and desquamation of the skin, especially on the affected parts.
Sensation in the skin as if the epidermis were separated from the cutis by an intervening layer-a kind of wandering, creeping, and running all over the body, with uncomfortable shuddering feeling.
Formication and biting, especially on the hairy parts of the body, with the exception of the head, as if from fleas, making him scratch.
Fine pricking, as if from needles, here and there on the body.
The tingling sensation spread gradually over the whole body, until it took in all the limbs.
Pricking, pressure, pressing-gnawing, now here, now there, in the skin, as from a strong electromagnet.
Skin warm (19 c).
Cold clammy skin.
Skin becomes cold and dry.
Single long-continued dartings, here and there, mixed with a raw sensation, and at last ending with pain as of a wound.
Sleep and Dreams
Interrupted yawning; she cannot yawn enough,-Yawns often, without being sleepy.
Yawning and stretching, (19 c).
Frequent yawning; (shivering and) Frequent yawning on rising in the morning.
Yawning, with ringing in ears.
Yawning, with sleepiness.
Intense yawning, without sleepiness.
Great sleepiness; spasmodic yawning (19 d).
Sleepiness and laziness; uncommon sleepiness, even while walking.
Irresistible sleepiness by day.
Sleepiness; sleep (after 2 h).
Quiet sleep, for four of five hours.
Sleepiness toward noon.
Great sleepiness in the afternoon; the eyes close involuntarily; he wakes, however, readily, at the least noise, but always falls asleep again.
Uncommon sleepiness after a meal.
Falling asleep while standing.
Inability to keep awake.
Tendency to stupor.
He cannot be awake, his hands are cold and he is senseless.
Light sleep (1 to 5 h).
Sleep very light, superficial, so that in the morning he imagines he has not sleep at all; without being weak.
Frequent waking, with excessive wakefulness.
Disinclination to go to bed; he could not sleep when he went to bed, owing to excessive wakefulness.
Sleeplessness on account of severe pressive pain in vertex.
Could not sleep for some time after the decline of the symptoms, owing to inability to keep the eyes closed.
Sleepless night.
He sleeps sitting, with head bent forward.
In the morning, he lies asleep on his back, the left hand laid under the back of the head.
He felt as if he were sleeping in the air, and had nothing under him.
On lying down at night, shuddering.
Frightful convulsive jerking on falling asleep.
Frequent starting out off sleep, He starts up in a fright, moves much and talks in his sleep.
She starts up in her sleep, and says someone is holding her.
Violent twitching of the extremities on falling asleep, so that he was waked up by it.
Very restless nights (several).
Restless nights.
Restless nights, must walk about.
Went to bed very restless and excited, and slept with difficulty; not refreshed on rising next morning.
Very wakeful and restless.
Nights always restless; and, in rising next morning, feels as if he had been drunk over night.
Restless tossing in bed.
Nights very restless; she leaves the bed frequently, without being in a condition to lie down again without help.
Nights restless; alternating cold and heat, partial sweat.
Nights, much thirst, restlessness, chill and heat.
He cannot lie on the right side nor on the back; he turns in bed from one side to another with pain.
Sleep at night often disturbed by cough.
He wakes often at night on account of dryness in the mouth and throat, wherefore he must drink often.
On falling asleep, great itching of the limbs, so that he is wake up by it.
Slow breathing when asleep.
(Inspiration with a double jerk, like the bleating of a goat, while asleep).
After lying down at night, and while sitting during the day, he is in a state of waking dreaminess, and imagines erroneously that he is far from home.
In a kind of half-sleep, tormented by the most extravagant dreams, till morning.
Nightly phantasies in a half-waking state.
Restless nights, with vivid dreams, about the events of the day.
Passed a restless night, body very hot, tossed about much, and had excessively vivid dreams.
Restless and disturbed sleep; strange dreams.
Restless night, disturbed by fearful dreams.
Stupid sleep, from which she arouses herself with difficulty, after awaking several times, with confused dreams; morning on waking, the head is confused.
Sleep full of dreams of a confused and vivid character.
Long, confused dreams.
Dreams in which he spoke much.
He has a very vivid dream towards morning, and obtains an accurate explanation of a circumstance that was a riddle to him while awake (after 20 h).
Very vivid dreams all night (several).
Vivid, remembered dreams of the day’s occurrences (several).
He dreams half the night of a single subject, which also occupies his attention for many hours after he awoke, so that this subject alone is in his mind (like the fixed idea of a monomaniac), which is very troublesome and disagreeable to him.
Dreams of subjects that, for eight years, had been foreign to his thoughts.
At night, anxious dreams, and several times waking with a start.
Anxious dreams at night.
Long dreams, with anxiety in the chest, taking away the breath and causing him to awake (nightmare).
Anxious, heavy dreams, with oppression of the chest.
Frightful dreams.
Fever
Chilliness.
Cold over the whole body.
She is cold, and shivers.
Cold and rigors.
Anxious chilliness (after 3 h).
Chilliness on the slightest movement (after 10 h).
Chilliness from being uncovered.
Body and extremities cold.
General coldness rapidly increasing, especially on the extremities, with blueness of the nails of the fingers and toes.
Coldness in a warm room.
Chilliness evenings, especially in hands and feet.
Extreme chilliness nearly all day.
Had rigors, and felt icy cold.
Felt icy cold, and nearly fainted; during the day frequent recurrence of the rigor, with violent pain in right temple.
Violent shaking chill.
He lay quiet, but freezing and shivering, and wished to be covered up with many clothes.
Slight degrees of chilliness.
Continual diminution of temperature.
Constant shivering.
Constant shuddering.
Shivering for several hours, as if between the skin and flesh, especially over the back and abdomen; felt even when perspiring from rapid walking.
Shivering and frequent yawning on rising in the morning.
Shuddering from the middle of the spine to the lumbar muscles of both sides, as if from taking cold.
Chilliness over the back, as before the outbreak of catarrhal fever.
Constant coldness through the arms and legs, and shivering even in the face.
Chilliness and formication between the shoulders and down the back, with cold tips of fingers and toes, blue nails, even in a warm room (several).
Shivers run through her, from below upward to the chest.
Shivering in the evening, especially in the hands and feet.
Attack of faintness, with shivering.
Shuddering on lying down at night.
Shuddering, with paleness and sunken features.
Coldness in the hands and feet, shuddering over the back, while the head and body are warm.
Rigor over back and arms.
Arms and hands cold and pulseless, legs and trunk much the same.
First coldness, rigor, and paleness of the finger-ends, then of the fingers; thereafter cramped sensation in the soles of the feet and calves, and finally coldness in the forehead (after 1/4 h).
Coldness under the skin; slight, frequently repeated rigor, not followed by heat.
Rigor commencing in limbs, then going to whole body, with goose flesh; it seems to be between skin and muscle; disappears on motion; worst when the rest.
The rigor continued to increase in the afternoon, and he became icy cold, no coverings suffice to warm him.
In the afternoon rigor all over the body, in a hot room.
Rigor down the back, especially in the evening.
Rigor along the spine, with goose-skin creeping along the galea aponeurotic; hands and face blue; he seeks the heat of the stove.
Felt better after breakfast, but soon afterward, when in open air, had severe attack of rigor over the back and chest, followed by great heat (with frontal headache), which the least movement brought back.
On the 9th day and attack of rigor after mid night, which seemed to arise from the precordia and extend to the limbs; attacks of this awoke him frequently during the night, and were followed by burning dry heat with febrile pulse; in morning moderate perspiration.
Violent continued rigor; short-lasting heat, and copious sweat, with heaviness of head, with waving and swaying of the head.
Violent rigors; icy coldness, with very gratifying yawning and stretching the limbs; after some hours moderate warmth and sweat; during chill and heat many concomitant symptoms.
Chilly sensation after eating; weakness; sleepiness; at night increased heat, tossing about, and sleep interrupted by lively memorable dreams.
Fever; chilly feeling, even coldness over whole body, especially in the red, hot cheeks; pulse gradually rises from 71 to 102, is full and hard, with pleasant warmth and anxiety, and sensation of heat around to head; lastly, general sweat.
Dry heat and exhaustion; violent rigor in the evening with headache, lasting till midnight.
Flushing of the face, and cold hands and feet, especially in the evening (19 a).
At night thirst, restlessness, rigors, and heat till morning.
Fever; coldness of whole body, with hot forehead, hot ears, and inward dry heat.
Fever coldness and stiffness of the whole body, redness and heat of one, coldness and paleness of the other cheek, with open, fixed eyes, and contracted pupils, which only dilate slightly and slowly in the dark.
Toward evening rigor and coldness of the hands and feet; then nausea felt about the middle of the sternum, which continues even when partaking of food; after eating the nausea goes off, and is followed by heat of the face, accompanied by sad and despairing thoughts.
Cold shuddering, from the crown of the head down the back to the sacrum, followed by an agreeable sensation of warmth in the skin.
Heat of skin, then coldness.
Alternation of coldness and heat.
Alternation of heat and chill all night.
Alternating attacks (after 3, 4, 6 h).
Either along with redness of the cheeks, childish merriment, with sensation of heat all over the body, and headache on moving the eyes upwards and sideways.
Or along with redness of the cheeks and heat of the head; shuddering all over the body, with proper taste in the mouth.
Or along with redness of the cheeks, rigor, with weeping and pressive headache.
Or along with redness of the cheeks, an obstinate disposition, burning in the region of the navel, and pressive headache.
After the siesta, which usually makes him warm, feeling of rigor throughout the body, and cold of the upper arm; the cold feeling persisted even while walking, and in the evening gave way to a short, disagreeable feeling of warmth, like a catarrhal fever.
Toward evening burning heat in the head and face, with redness of the cheeks and out pressing headache; at the same time rigor over the whole body and thirst (after 14 h).
Heat in the head; forehead hot to the touch, with rigor over the body on the slightest movement.
The 14th day, at night, a rigor, followed by excessively copious perspiration, sleeplessness.
Internal rigor from back over the legs, with cold sweat; the face feels icy cold in a sunny day and warm room; this lasted four hours, till evening, when heat and rapid pulse and symptoms of coryza came on, with general laziness and heaviness of the limbs. 15th day; another rigor at night, followed by dry, hot skin, and perspiration.
Face hot; hands and feet cold (19 c).
Flushed face.
Extreme redness of the cheeks, with a discontented, complaining, lachrymose disposition (after 3 h).
Head and face suddenly very warm.
Toward evening dry heat in the face with anxiety.
In the evening heat of the palms and cheeks.
Sensation of heat, first in the hands, then all over the body, even in the chest, without perceptible external heat (after 4 h).
Sometimes heat creeps over the back.
(Heat, and throwing off the clothes).
Flying heat.
Flushed of heat evening.
Dry heat all over the body.
Skin burning hot. General heat and thirst.
Great internal heat with thirst.
During the heat moderate desire for beer.
(She drinks little during the heat, yet has dry lips).
(During the heat the cough is troublesome).
(Great heat, from ten in the evening till after midnight, with dyspnoea; she would like to cough but cannot, and speaking is difficult; at the same time there is the greatest restlessness, and complaints about pain in the bowels, feet abdomen, and back; she stamped with her feet, and would not allow herself to be touched).
Increased warmth all day, with exhausted feeling and loss of appetite; the heat increased toward evening, with internal heat and swollen veins.
Evenings prostration; increased warmth of skin; flying stitches along the sternum and between the ribs.
On going to bed the heat of the body increased, especially of thee extremities; perspiration appeared on the inside of the thighs and of the scrotum, and accompanied by great itching; he scratches till the blood comes.
After getting to bed all the feverish symptoms become much aggravated, and almost intolerable.
Increase of febrile symptoms toward evening.
Fever.
Attack of fever at 3 p. m.
Throughout the whole afternoon a sense of feverishness hung about him, attended by great powerlessness and prostration of entire body, the extremities particularly.
The feverishness continues without interruption all though the night, but abated a good deal this morning.
Sense of inward fever attended by chilliness; desire to sit over the fire, and a disposition to nausea; feverishness abated on going out into the open air, and walking about.
Sense of inward fever, with the feeling of prostration.
Dry heat and tightness of the skin over the whole body.
Warmth extends over the whole body, especially stomach and abdomen, accompanied by sweat.
Whole body warm and sweating.
Slight warmth and moderate sweat.
Pleasant warmth of the whole body, especially in back, with moderate sweat.
Perspiration, with febrile rigors (after 3 h).
Febrile perspiration.
Sour-smelling sweat all over the body.
Profuse sweat.
Cold sweats (several).
Surface cold, and covered with clammy sweat.
Moderate perspiration all over the body.
Skin inclined to transpiration (several).
General warm, steaming sweat (several).
Exhalation and sweat all over the body.
General sweat, especially on the forehead and precordia.
Sweat toward noon.
Sweat after midnight.
Nocturnal transpiration (several).
Violent sweat without exhaustion.
Though his speech was bold and his look animated cold sweat stood on his brow, and his pulse could scarcely be felt.
In the morning excessive sweat (after nightly delirium).
Profuse sweat, with copious flow of urine.
Profuse sweat, with the diarrhoea and increased flow of urine.
Copious sweat followed the convulsions.
Conditions Aggravation
(Morning), Confusion, etc.; muddled and empty sensation in head; head heavy and dizzy, etc.; blowing of much bright-red blood from nose; fluent coryza; hiccup; hurried call to stool; acute stitches in cardiac region, etc.; weakness in lower legs; sensation in ankles as if tightly tied, etc.; great exhaustion, etc.; Shivering and frequent yawning; excessive sweat; frequent yawning, lies asleep on back, etc.; hard, red swelling of right upper lid, etc.
(Forenoon), Sweat; sleepiness; vertigo, etc.
(Afternoon), Great vertigo; violent, sticking pain in upper orbital border, etc.; cough; pain in chest, etc.; shoot in center of sternum, etc.; pulse full and quick, etc.; rigor, etc.; heat, etc.; fear; attack of fever, 3 p. m; great sleepiness; shooting pain in right supraorbital ridge, etc.
(Evening), confusion of head, etc.; headache; pain in forehead; pressive headache in vertex; pressing-out pain in temples, etc.; burning-itching in both ears; face hot; flying stitches, here and there, etc.; stiff feeling in nape; warmth of palms; transient stitches, etc.; chilliness; shivering, etc.; rigor down back; prostration, etc.; heat, etc.; lachrymation.
(Night), Delirium; pressive pain on vertex; hot prickings in tips of fingers; hot prickings in toes; transpiration; much thirst, etc.; state of waking dreaminess, etc.; lachrymation; pains become into intolerable.
(Before Midnight), Shuddering; all the feverish symptoms.
(After Midnight), Short cough, etc.; short breath; attack of rigor, etc.; very vivid dream, etc.
(Open Air), Dizzy confusion of head; squeezing in forehead over root of nose, etc.; cold feeling of the eyes; burning, itching and darting in both ears; the throat-symptoms; nausea; irritation of larynx and dry cough; general anxious sensation, etc.; severe attack of rigor, etc.
(Bending body forward), Vertigo; vertigo, etc.; vertigo and headache; giddy heaviness of head, etc.; headache; fullness of the forehead, etc.; dull pain in vertex, etc.; headache; fullness of the forehead, etc.; dull pain in vertex, etc.; drawing bellyache etc.
(Bending body sideways), Sensitive stitches in thorax.
(On going to bed), Heat of body.
(After getting to bed), All the feverish symptoms.
(Drinking), Cough.
(On falling asleep), Jerkings; itching of limbs.
(Flexing fingers to wrist-joint), Violent shootings in elbow-joint, etc.
(Driving), Vertigo.
(Eating), Uncommon sleepiness.
(Going in evening from half-dark room into street), Flickering before eyes, etc.
(Grasping anything), Sensation of weight in arms, etc.
(During heat of body), Cough.
(Inspiration), Dull stitches under ribs of left sides; oppression of chest, etc.; pain in left side of spine, etc.
(Deep inspiration), Oppression of chest; oppression and anxiety of chest; pains in chest; pressive pain in region of second left rib, etc.; stitches between scapulae, etc.; painful shocks in left chest, superiorly; pain from right scapula to front of chest.
(Laughing aloud), Sharp stitch under ribs on right side.
(Light), Headache.
(Lying), Stiff and bruised feeling in left side of neck, etc.
(Lying on side ), Violent cough.
(After lying down), Powerlessness in head of femur, etc.
(Lying on back), heart symptoms.
(Mental exertion), Pain in head and face.
(Motion), Confusion in head, etc.; headache, etc.; headache, first in vertex, etc.; weariness in neck, etc.; painful stiffness in small of back, etc.; tearing pain down arm, etc.; pains in bones of forearm; acute pain in right forearm, etc.; drawing pain in thighs, etc.; general anxious sensation, etc.; chilliness; severe attack of rigor, etc.
(Appearance of Menses), Rage; sharp pain in loins.
(Moving affected part), Rheumatic pain in nape; drawing pain to left of nape, etc.; trembling in wrist; pain, etc., in right thumb-joint; drawing pain in hip-joint.
(Moving the head), Vertigo; shooting in nape; stretching in cervical muscles. (Rising up), (Rising up), Vertigo.
(Noise), Headache.
(Laying on cool hand), Headache, etc.
(Pressure), Pain on right supraorbital ridge, etc.; violent drawing pain in both sides of spine, etc.; violent tearing pain in small of back; violent sticking pain in upper orbital border, etc.
(Rest), Single shootings in middle of right upper arm, etc.; paralytic feeling in right forearm; tired feeling in lower limbs; rigor, etc.
(Standing), Vertigo; pressive pain in pit of stomach; drawing pain in head of left femur.
(Sitting), Nausea, etc.; pressive pain in pit of stomach; anxiety in cardiac region, etc.; drawing pain in head of left femur; powerlessness of legs and thighs.
(Speaking), Headache.
(Stepping), Tensive pressure in lumbar and sacral regions.
(In sleep), Inspiration through nose impeded.
(After sleeping), Pain in shoulder and hip- joint; powerlessness in head of femur, etc.
(On attempting to sit up), Faintness.
(While sitting during day), State of waking dreaminess, etc.
(Treading), Pain in right heel.
(Change of temperature), Dry cough, etc.
(Tobacco-smoke), Easy stupefaction; dryness of throat; tickling in larynx; severe cough.
(Touch), Pain in lowest rib, etc.
(Urinating), Sensation of splashing in bladder; stinging in fossa navicularis; fainting kind of feel; burning in urethra; pains in glans penis; shootings in glans penis.
(Walking), Vertigo; dizzy confusion of head, etc.; the throat symptoms; nausea; pressive pain in pit of stomach; shooting in spleen; pain bladder; single momentary shock in urethra; palpitation, etc.; pain in loins, etc.; pressure in elbows, knees, hips; painful pressure in hip-joint; drawing pain in head of left femur, etc.; stiffness and heaviness of limbs; great fatigue, etc.; pain in patella; acute, pressing pain in left patella, etc.; sleeping of toes of right foot.
(When not urinating), Burning in neck of bladder.
(Warmth of room), Vertigo and stupefaction; forepart of head feels as if nailed up; headache, etc.; dry cough; anxiety in pit of stomach; legs very cold.
(Writing), Paralytic feeling in right forearm.
Ameliorations
(Morning), Feverishness.
(Open air), Much relieved; headache, feverishness, etc.
(Bending body backwards), Pressive pain in chest.
(Cold Water), Headache, etc.
(Compression), Pain in ankle.
(Drinking cold water), anxiety.
(Eating), Burning, itching, and darting in both ears; nauseous taste; the throat symptoms; nausea.
(Heat), Creeping in scale.
(Deep Inspiration), Lancinating stitches in region of heart, etc.; oppression of chest.
(Lying quiet in dark room), Headache.
(Lying on back), Violent cough.
(Lying down), Shooting in lower half of left side of chest.
(Motion), Stiff and bruised feeling in left side of neck, etc.; paralytic pressure in small of back; paralytic feeling in right forearm.
(Moving affected part), Pain in right hand.
(Quiet), Palpitation, etc.
(Rubbing), Itching in prepuce; lancinating stitches in region of heart, etc.
(Sitting), Frontal headache.
(Stooping), Sensitiveness of eyeball; pressure in small of back.
(Warm soup), Abdominal symptoms.
(After vomiting), Hope aroused.
(Walking), Vertigo; nausea and sinking in pit of stomach; feverishness, etc.
(Washing cold water), Pain in top of head.
(Wine), Heaviness and oppression of chest.
(Wine and coffee), removed symptoms for a short time only.
Notes and Additions
Symptom 1, bracket; Symptom 3, note, not found in the original (Hughes);.
Symptom 4, note, mental effect of vomiting after an antidote had been given; Symptom 92, read “it seemed to him that he could not think, understand, or know anything in his head as formerly, but that all these mental processes took place in the precordial region, and about the pit of the stomach; after two hours he was twice attacked with vertigo, and then the ordinary thinking power returned in the head,”; S. 147, note, ailments from which the patient suffered before taking Aconite; S. 242, for “right” read “left;” S. 316, for “balls” read “right ball,” S. 3349, before “water” insert “hot;” S. 479, note, local effect; S. 487, see note to S. 479, see note to S.479; S. 616, note, “not found,” S..795, note, the bladder was previously unhealthy; S. 813, bracket; S. 865, bracket; S. 866, bracket, note, this discharge coincided with the dispersions of the iliac swelling; S. 1077, read instead of “as long a duration;” “no long duration;” S.
1174, bracket; S. 1177, see S.1420; S. 1223, note, “with stupor,” S. 1225, note, local action, see note to S.147; S. 1235, bracket “With frequent cough,” see note to S.147; S. 1238, for “same” read “lame,” S. 1347, and in left metacarpal bones;” after S.
- add (as if one had taken co 1D after a profuse sweat; headache, roaring in the ears, coryza, bellyache, especially mornings), note, the actual effect of a chill; not as a chill; S.
1403, note, see S.1223 and note; S.1415 for “gnawing” read “growing;” S. 1433, note, ending in death. S. 1447, bracket, note, as this eruption appeared the pain ceased.
- 1448, bracket, see note to 1447; S. 140, bracket, see note to 1447; S. 1474, bracket, note, symptom of convalescence; S. 1481, for “awake” read “wakened;” S. 1591, add “with restless sleep;” S. 1635, note, reaction from 1550.
Additions
Note omissions, owing to imperfect index; very kindly pointed out by Dr. Berridge, of London.
(Fragmentary proving by Robinson)
(>) On getting into a warm bath the feeling of formication and tingling came on again in the fingers.
Lame, sprained feeling in the right metacarpus.
Several strange dreams; woke, and found himself laughing heartily.
Momentary drawing pain in the right forefinger, and at the same time pain in the left ankle as before.
Itching, nettle-rash like eruption on the back of both hands, the spots being very well marked.
Flying, growing-like pains all forenoon in metacarpal and finger joints of both hands.
Considerable rumbling of flatulence in bowels.
On going into open air felt much relieved, but on getting within doors again all the symptoms of feverishness became greatly aggravated.
Violent coryza and lachrymation.
Harsh, dry cough.
Trifling cough, but without expectoration.
Several sharp, flying stitches in the third and fourth right toes shortly after getting to bed.
Paralyzed, inactive feeling in the intestines.
The pain over the right eye and behind the mastoid process quite persistent.
Food distresses me after eating.
Lascivious dreams.
Aphonia lasted more than two weeks.
| Rubrics: 562 | Acon [1855/562] | Total |
| [Complete ] [Mind]ANGER:Reproaches, from:Twitching of face, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]ANXIETY:Hemoptysis, in: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]ANXIETY:Sleep:Falling asleep, on:Ten to fifteen minutes after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]ANXIETY:Heart region:Sitting, while:Motion, after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DELIRIUM:Motion:Convulsive, spasmodic, in myelitis: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DELIRIUM:Crying:Staring look, with, in inflammation of brain: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DELUSIONS, IMAGINATIONS:Limbs:Displaced: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DELUSIONS, IMAGINATIONS:Lips:Thick, too: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DELUSIONS, IMAGINATIONS:Stomach:Mental operations take place in the pit of the stomach: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DELUSIONS, IMAGINATIONS:Thoughts:Stomach, coming from: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DREAMS:Clairvoyant:Solving important questions of the day: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DREAMS:Long:Anxiety in chest, with, taking breath and on waking: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]DREAMS:Reveling:Perplexed situation when waking, a: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Gnawing of fist, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Pregnancy, in:Anxiety in heart region, with: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Crossing:Streets:Pregnancy, in: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Death, of:Abortion, in:Hemorrhage, from: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Death, of:Hemoptysis, in: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Death, of:Pregnancy, in: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Death, of:Prolapse of uterus, in: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Falling, of:Pregnancy, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Jostling against everyone she meets, during pregnancy: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Panic attacks, overpowering:Alternating with tranquility: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]FEAR:Subways, of: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]IMPATIENCE:Throws himself about: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]OBSTINATE, HEADSTRONG:Red cheeks, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]OBSTINATE, HEADSTRONG:Tossing about impatiently: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]RESTLESSNESS, NERVOUSNESS:Convulsions:During:Delivery, parturition, after, puerperal: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]SHRIEKING, SCREAMING, SHOUTING:Children, in:Grasping at genitals: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mind]WEEPING, TEARFUL MOOD:Children, in:Restlessness, with, with retention of urine from cold: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]BRISTLING, STANDING ON END, HAIR:Sensation:Spots, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]FORMICATION, CRAWLING:Heat amel.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]HEAT:Forehead:Coldness of:Body, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]PAIN, HEADACHE:Burning, smarting:Boiling water, as of, brain: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]PAIN, HEADACHE:Cramping:Catarrh, from suppressed: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Head]PAIN, HEADACHE:Nail, as from a:Forehead:Room, in warm: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Eyes]PAIN:Extraction of teeth, after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Eyes]PAIN:Foreign bodies, as of:Extraction, after: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Eyes]SENSITIVE:Lids:Air, to cold: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Face]ANXIOUS EXPRESSION:Pregnancy, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Face]PARALYSIS:Tingling, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Face]PERSPIRATION:Hot:Forehead:Anxiety, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mouth]COLDNESS:Air, as of cold, tongue: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mouth]SALIVATION:Reddish:Streaks: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Mouth]TINGLING, PRICKLING:Coughing and swallowing, on: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Neck]STIFFNESS:Fever heat, during: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Stomach]INFLAMMATION:Eruptions, after suppressed: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Stomach]NAUSEA:Stool:After:Loose: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Stomach]PAIN:Burning:Fright, fear agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Stomach]PAIN:Pressing:Stone, as from a:Cold: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]HYPOCHONDRIA:Stool:Urging to: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]CONSTRICTION:Sitting agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]CONSTRICTION:Extending to:Spine, vertebrae: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]CONTRACTION:Wandering: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]PAIN:Extending:Chest, to:Stool, during: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]PAIN:Liver region:Stool:Before: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]PAIN:Drawing:Bending forward agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Abdomen]SWELLING:Painful:Touch agg.: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Rectum]DIARRHEA:Anger, vexation agg.:Cutting and griping, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Rectum]DIARRHEA:Fright, fear agg.:Cutting and griping, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Rectum]HEMORRHOIDS:Bleeding:Burning:Hot: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Rectum]MOISTURE:Warm: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Rectum]NUMBNESS, INSENSIBILITY, ANUS:Hemorrhoids: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Bladder]INVOLUNTARY URINATION:Thirst and fear, with: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Bladder]URGING TO URINATE, MORBID DESIRE:Anxious:Urination, on beginning of: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Bladder]URINATION:Difficult, dysuria:Anxiety, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Kidneys]PAIN:Cutting:Extending to:Abdomen, around: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Female Genitalia]PAIN:Ovaries:Bending:Amel., does not: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Larynx & Trachea]CROUP:Expiration agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Larynx & Trachea]GRASPING AT:Larynx, involuntary at every cough, feels as if larynx would be torn:Drinking, when: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Respiration]INSPIRATION, DURING:Sleep agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Expectoration]BLOODY, SPITTING OF BLOOD:Pregnancy, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Expectoration]BLOODY, SPITTING OF BLOOD:Wine, after: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Chest]FLABBY MAMMAE:Lochia, with suppressed: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Chest]PAIN:Pleura:Cold, after taking: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Chest]PAIN:Cutting:Chill:After: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Chest]PAIN:Rawness:Temperature, from change of: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Heart & Circulation]HYPERTROPHY, HEART:Fear, with: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Heart & Circulation]HYPERTROPHY, HEART:Restlessness, with: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Heart & Circulation]HYPERTROPHY, HEART:Sleeplessness, with: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Heart & Circulation]INFLAMMATION:Heart, carditis:Lie on back with head raised, must: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Heart & Circulation]PAIN:Stitching:Lancinating, heart region:Sit upright, erect or breath deeply, cannot, rubbing amel.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Heart & Circulation]PULSE, HEARTBEAT:Thready:Anxiety, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Heart & Circulation]WEAKNESS:Heart:Fright, fear agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Back]PAIN:Digging:Spine, vertebrae:Left: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Back]PAIN:Hacked off, as if, cervical region: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Extremities]FORMICATION, CRAWLING:Fingers:Writing, while: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Extremities]NUMBNESS, INSENSIBILITY:Lower limbs:Gouty limbs: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Extremities]NUMBNESS, INSENSIBILITY:Gouty, legs: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Extremities]PAIN:Rheumatic:Wine agg.: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Extremities]PARALYSIS:Upper limbs:Meningitis, in: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Chill, Chilliness]SHAKING, SHIVERING:Night:Lying down agg.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Fever, Heat]BURNING HEAT:Dry, burning heat, extending from head and face, with thirst for cold drinks: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Fever, Heat]PUERPERAL:Cold, after taking: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Perspiration]HOT:Delivery, parturition:During: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Perspiration]PROFUSE:Diarrhea:Urine, with: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Perspiration]ROOM:Amel.:Warm: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]FALLING:Easily:Unconsciousness, in:Turns red suddenly, during dentition: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]FORMICATION, CRAWLING:Heat amel.: | 3 | 1 / 1 |
| [Complete ] [Generalities]PAIN:Stitching:Burning:Fine: | 4 | 1 / 1 |
3.0 Acon : Aconitum Napellus
A CASE OF CONCUSSION [Case Of Concussion]
Volume
Vol-II, Issue 3 (July-September 1993)
Author
Dr. D.E. Mistry
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Arn / Acon / Nat-s / Phos / Ruta / Symph
Dr. D. E. MISTRY
M.S
Consulting Surgeon and Homoeopath
A female patient aged 16 years Miss Shah has been under Homoeopathic treatment from the age of 2 years and was diagnosed by pediatricians as a case of progressive myositis ossificans. From that day till today she has been on Homoeopathic treatment and has survived so far with some residual defect of bony formation in her muscles due to her basic pathology still remaining. Life expectancy of such children is between 8-10 years only; she has a younger sister with similar condition who is also under treatment like this patient.
However the present case is not about the whole life span treatment but about a particular incident of head injury which is as follows.
On 11/6/93 she was knocked down by a sector while walking and remembers to have fallen down on her head on occipital region, but though complaining of vertigo, pain and inability to coherently recollect the incidence she could go home and send a report to me for medication around 12.30 noon same day.
She was sent Arnica 200 8 doses, initially every 15 min 2-3 doses then hourly and two hourly.
The case was seen at her home. Following points were noted.
1) Patient dazed but conscious lying on the back.
2) Speaks well and complains of heaviness of whole head with pain over frontal area and a spot on the occipital area.
3) No C.L.W.
4) Pupils normal reacting to light
5) Pulse 80/min
6) B.P. Normal
7) No other injury anywhere
8) Patient anxious somewhat frightened and doesnt recollect the event how she was knocked down.
Clinical diagnosis: Concussion.
Rx. Aconite nap 30 1 dose was kept on the tongue and few doses of 30c were given to be alternated with previous Arnica Montana doses.
5.30 p.m. seen at her home same day. 6 to 7 vomits otherwise general condition and pupils were same. Interpretation; It looked to me that this was a reaction to concussion; here could have been a mild cerebral oedema over injured sites of the brain. Rx. Natrum sulphuricum 200 single dose was given.
7.00 p.m. same day. Patient was sleeping but was easily aroused from her sleep and complained of headache. She had vomited milk and water which she had taken after my 5.30 p.m. visit.
Clinically Pulse 80/min.
B.P. 126/86 mm of Hg.
Pupils equally reacting to light
Rx. Natrum sulphuricum 200 was kept in her tongue at 9.30 p.m. Received report from her parents that after second dose of Natrum sulph she had no vomiting and she could eat something and retain it.
Rx. Arnica 200 / 4 hourly.
12/6/93 Seen at 9 a.m. Reported that during the night she had one more vomit after Mosambi juice but after Arnica doses she slept well. She complains of headache, demands to press her head and talks well but says headache is slightly better after cold packs. Pulse, B.P. and Eye signs same.
Rx. Phosphorus 200 3 doses to be taken about 4 hourly 7.00 p.m. Patient walks in to my consulting room saying she still had some vertigo feeling but has not vomited after above dose (Phos. 200) Rx. No medicine.
13/6/93 Reports that she went for a marriage ceremony of a relative. Had no trouble there. Rx. No medicine.
14/6/93 Complains of heaviness of head and reeling of objects on moving the head especially to right side. Head is still heavy. Eyes having pain. Regular menses started today. No medicine.
15/6/93 Complains of no proper appetite still feels, a little bit drowsy. Head feels heavy and painful at the site of injury. No complains about menses. Rx. Natrum Sulphuricum 12x. 4 doses 6 hourly.
17/6/93 Less reeling, less of heaviness. Reports old complaint of pain in left knee at the site of her original operation as a child. Operation was done to remove a piece of abnormal bone from the muscle which pathological condition is a tendency to form abnormal bone in muscles as a part and parcel of her original disease Myositis ossificans. Rx. Ruta 30.
19/6/93 Patient reported bleeding from nose right side. She remarks similar episode 2 days before head injury which she had not told to me. She remarks she gets such nose bleeds often, and does not complains of heaviness of head or headaches. Rx. No medicines.
6/7/93 Patient reported complaints of mild pain still over the site of the fall on her head and says there is a swelling there. Clinically the bone over that area on touching feels slightly lumpy and elevated. Rx. Symphytum 30 4 doses only.
21/7/93 Reported no headache at all. No other complaints.
Authors Remarks: This case of concussion otherwise would have been treated in a hospital allopathically by their usual treatment of IV fluids, Mannitol and pain killers etc. However with Homoeopathic medication she responded beautifully with Arnica and Aconite doses. Then Natrum Sulph controlled her vomiting to some extent by controlling the cerebral oedema aspect. However Phosphorus seemed her basic remedy based on vomiting 15 minutes after drinking; plus headaches ameliorated by cold packs. In both rubrics from Kent Phosphorus has three marks. With previous history of nosebleeds which she subsequently gave confirmed the choice of Phosphorus. However the lingering pain over the site of head injury ceased after Symphytum, which is as one knows a useful remedy for bony traumas irrespective of whether there is a fracture or not. It should be noted that it is not always easy or possible to treat such cases at the patients residence unless one can repeatedly watch the progress and be aware of the likely complications that can intervene any time. In this case there were no signs of progressive brain compression which had they occurred would have needed craniotomy.
OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE DUE TO CARCINOMA OF THE GALL BLADDER [Obstructive Jaundice from Ca Gallbladder]
Volume
July- December 1995
Author
Dr D.E. Mistry
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Sulph / Chol / Acon / Rhus-t / Bry / Ant-t / Ars / Phos / Lyc / Cupr-ar / Kali-bi / Med / Carc / Merc / Myric / Hydr / Coloc / Passi / Aur
By Dr D. E. Mistry, Solapur
Mr. S.S., aged 55 years reported to me on 4.1.95. with the following history that he was admitted in the Railway hospital and was diagnosed as obstructive jaundice.
Subsequent investigations revealed that he had Adenocarcinoma of Gall Bladder and gall bladder malignancy. According to the scan report, the growth had already involved porta hepatis, liver substance, peripancreatic region and retroperitoneal lymph nodes. Additional multiple gall stones were also revealed.
A biopsy was performed at Bombay, an Adenocarcinoma of the gall bladder was the report.
The patient initially had a percutaneous transhepatic drainage and finally a ten Fr. teflon endoprosthesis as placed in the hepatic duct and the stent was reported to be well functioning and was expected to work for 6 months.
P/H of the patient revealed a perforated ear tympanum right side with childhood otorrhoea.
Mother Operated for gall bladder stone 25 yrs ago.
Father Expired when patient was 6 yrs. old.
One brother and one sister Hypertensive.
Patient also revealed that he had small pox as a child, but no other childhood history was forthcoming.
Some of the symptoms which I could get out of him were
Desires Ghee++, Sour + +
Thirst Normal, Drinks little at a time
Hot patient dislikes summer.
Very punctual in his habit.
Irrelevance in timings upsets him.
Likes to work.
Lot of friend.
Fond of reading.
Calm and quiet
Upset when discipline is not maintained. Fond of neatness.
Sound sleep with no dreams.
Sympathetic to sufferings of others.
Likes to dwell on nature and says he would
Like to get clues from natures secret.
When he was well, he was neither disturbed by winter nor by summer, but preferred winter
At present, he craved coconut water, sweet, ghee.
Being intelligent, the patient was aware of his problem and he could not explain why he suddenly developed this disease.
TREATMENT The case was begun with a dose a Sulphur 1M.
13.1.95. said his sleep was better and felt more energetic. Cholesterin 3x BD was given.
17.1.95. Reported with sudden pain in the sternal and intercostals region which began the previous night. Chest pain as intermittent but no vomiting and sweating. He seemed worried about his children. Seeing his anxiety a few doses of Aconite 30 were given.
25.1.95 Sudden lumbar pain, unable to lie flat on the back. Better by sitting or slow walking. Backache started suddenly last night. Chilly. Treatment Rhus tox 200 x 3 doses.
26.1.95. Pain > but complained of bitter taste in the mouth. Thirst increased, not passed stools.
Treatment Bryonia 200 x 3 doses.
28.1.95. Sudden development of hiccoughs at night with cough and pain in the liver region, unable to expectorate. Thirsty + + +, dryness in mouth taking sips of water. Chill and shivering with fever for half hour which came down automatically with sweat. White coating of the tongue.
Treatment Ant. tart. 30 and Ars. album 30 a few doses were advised.
29.1.95. Though, he was better the previous night, his relatives admitted him in the railway hospital as he complained of low backache. Muttering Delirium, incomplete answers to questions. Fever and chills. Drank little water. At the Rly hospital he as given antipyretics, Novalgin and Calmpose etc.
31.1.95. Still at the hospital
- P. 100/60 mm of Hg.
Thirsty for cold drinks. Constantly changing position. Burning in the stomach, desires ice cubes, thick coating of tongue. Treatment Phos. 30 x 3 doses.
Relatives reported that he slept well with the second dose but the hiccoughs which had stopped stared again. At this time the case was seen by Dr. H. H. Agarwal, my younger colleague as I was out of station. On seeing the following:
Red sand in urine, hiccoughs, thick coated tongue, evening to night agg. Lyco. 6×7 doses evey hour as advised in the moming.
At night one dose of Lyco 30 was put as he seemed to sleep better with each dose of Lyco. Desires to go home saying he is going to die, nervous, cried while talking. jerks of the limb, asking his visitor to forgive him.
2.2.95. Reports Sr. Biliburin -3.4; Sr.Creatine 1.5.; Blood urea 123; Urine Bile salts and bile pigments present.
Discharged by the railway doctors saying that they couldnt do anything much. He was seen at home by Dr. Agarwal and was advised Lyco 200 x2 doses to be taken 8 hourly.
3.2.95. Seen at home by me and Dr. Agarwal. Visibly jaundiced, muttering delirium, weakness, hiccoughs, thirst + + and drowsiness. Treatment Lyco 200 again single dose.
4.2.95. Sticky mucus in throat, difficult to expel. Satisfied by holding ice cubes in the mouth, Disturbed sleep awakening at 2.30 a.m. due to hiccoughs. Treatment Cuprum ars. 200 one dose was given.
5.2.95. Hiccoughs stopped but he had vomiting after drinking water, but tolerated could drinks, coconut water. Complained of thick stringy expectorate from the throat. Treatment Kali bich. 30 x 6 doses 4 hourly, sent. Evening was admitted in Homoeopathic hospital for I. V. Therapy, as he could not take adequate fluids.
6.2.95. I saw him at his residence. Sleeps on abdomen. Desires cold drinks. Treatment Medo 200 single dose was given at 11 a.m. and by 8 p.m he was much better. The sticky sputa was much less. Slept well though slightly disturbed due to intermittent cough.
7.2.95. Strong demand for ice yet in general he was deteriorating. Anxiety, nervousness, talking about death, anting family members by his side. Treatment Phos. 200 single dose.
8.2.95. Condition more or less the same, intermittent hiccoughs still disturbing him.
9.2.95. Report by Dr. Agarwal. Patient is restless, incontinence of urine, thirsty. Fever previous night, no proper ansering to questions. Treatment Ars. Alb 30 x 5 doses 3 hourly was advised.
10.2.95. No improvement with tremors of limbs and speech. Treatment Carcinosin 200 was given.
Reports Bilirubin 4.0. mg Blood urea 121 mg.
At 7 p.m. he developed oedema of the feet. Cough subsided, no fever. Trembling of limbs. The patient was going into hepato renal failure. There was still stringy saliva. Night <, Thirst for cold water. Treatment Merc. Sol 200 single dose.
11.2.95.- to 14.2.95. He was given Cholestrin 3X, Myrica 6 and Hydrastis 30. We passed a Ryles tube to feed him but there was no further improvement. Doses of Hydrastis 30 was increased on 15.2.95.
16.2.95. Condition remained the same.
17.2.95. Urine output less though, the flapping tremors of the extremities was better. He was better in bouts mentally but developed severe abdominal pain at night and Colocynth 30 was given.
18.2.95. Made an attempt to commit suicide by jumping of the gallery in the early hours in the morning and reoeated this attempt after three hours, he said he did this due to the pain, Aurum 200 one dose was immediately given along with Colocynth 30 SOS and passiflora 6 drops.
He still complained of hiccoughs, and of infrequent urination. Marked irritability yet sensitive weepy and resigned to his fate. Oedema of the feet was still there. Thirst more, urine output less. We have him Merc. Sol 30x 5 doses followed by Myrica 30 x 3 doses.
21.2.95. He passed away at 8.20 p.m. Retrospectively, it is surprising that the stent began to get obstructed so soon. All the subsequent symptoms that he developed were due to renal and hepatic insufficiency. Such cases have to be treated not only on day to day basis but even more frequently, the whole aim being to relieve the patient of his distressing complaints so that he can pass away as peacefully as possible at his residence.
It is not possible to prescribe a single remedy and expect it work all the time.
Cases of this type coming to me have been many and it is because of the help of my colleague Dr. Agarwal and other assistants that it has been possible to treat such cases palliatively. (When they have been declared untreatable by all allopathic doctors.).
OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE DUE TO CARCINOMA OF THE GALL BLADDER [Obstructive Jaundice from Ca Gallbladder]
Volume
July- December 1995
Author
Dr. Prakash Shinde
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Morph / Kali-m
By Dr. Prakash Shinde, Gayatri, Samarthnagar, Kolhapur -8,
An executive, aging around 45, approached me with the complaints of
1) Scanty urination.
2) Pruritus all over the body.
3) Depression.
4) Extreme nausea.
The case was diagnosed as of Renal Failure.
Detailed history showed that the meritorious rise of the patient from the lowest post to todays post of executive. Athlete at college, No complaint till 1990 except accidental detection of Hypertension and was taking anti-hypertensive drugs only. Was having a touring job, met with a fatal vehicular accident in April 1990, somehow survived from that deadly accident and almost 6 months after that fatal accident began to develop frequent nausea, scanty urinating many eminent urologists and continuing the allopathic treatment, when the Blood urea level remained around 102 and Serum Creatinine around 5, finally decided to seek Homoeopathic treatment.
On contemplating over the case, I took the fatal accident as an important event in his life. I thought the sudden shock of the accident might have brought about suppression of urine.
Hence, I came out with following rubrics
1) Sudden fear of death and
2) Ailments from accident. (Synthetic repertory Acon., Opium.)
Lest importance was paid to symptoms like general pruritus, scanty urination etc. as those symptoms like general pruritus, scanty urination etc. as those symptoms were considered to be sequelae of the sudden accident. Hence,
On 27/10/94 Aconite nap. 1M, single dose with placebo.
28/10/04 Improvement on urine output, decrease in nausea, could eat some food, itching decreased by almost 80%, had a nice sleep. Placebo for 5 days.
4/11/94. Recurrence of nausea. Aconite nap. 1M.
6/11/94. Allowed to go out of station with Aconite nap. 1M as SOS.
20/11/94. Reported no complaints.
5/12/94. Riding om a two-wheeler on a very rough road a day resulted into severe pain at anus, reflex constipation, drawing pain at hypogstric region, scanty urinaion, edema on face and feet, profound depression, irritability and vertigo on least moving the head. However, itching and nausea were conspicuously absent.
Considering the bruised sesation at rectum with constipation and uraemia, Morphinum 200 1BD x 3day, with kali mur 6X.
7/12/94. Improvement in urine output. Lowered edema. Blood urea down 104 to 85, and Sr. Creatinine from 7 to 4.
16/12/94. Increase in levels of Blood urea and Sr. Creatinine. Advised o refer to a higher allopathic centre at Bombay.
At Bombay, found left kidney 100% functioning and Right kidney finctioning 40%. After a dialysis, underwent a kidney Transplant Surgery succesfully.
Authors comments If Aconite nap. had been given immediately after the fatal accident, could it have prevented Renal Failure?.
OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA
Volume
Vol-V, No3 (July-Sep 1996)
Author
Dr. G. K. Shanloo
Subject
Medicine / Cases
Remedy
Nux-v / Calc / Acon / Podo / Sulph / Tub / Lyc / Puls / Merc
Dr. G. K. Shanloo
70/59. Rani Mandi.
Allahabad 211 003.
Introduction of the disease:
The name of the disease itself defines it. The disease involves bones and as the name suggests there is imperfect formation of bones. The bones are unduly fragile and multiple fractures occur following trivial injuries. Progressive deformity occurs because of the multiplicity of the fractures. A child prone to too many fractures may die before he acquires adult age.
Histology and Characteristics:
Histologically bones are normal and the fractures unites without any difficulty.
The disease has autosomal dominant inheritance and there is mesenchymal disorders characterised by increased fragility of bones and multiple fractures, blue sclera and deafness which occurs in late childhood.
The disease is of two varieties viz. 1) congenita and. 2) tarda. In congenital variety the fractures occur during intrauterine life and such children mostly die shortly after birth.
Radiologically:
The long bones hsve osteoporotic bent and slender. The bone ends may appear large and sometimes cystic.
Treatment:
As regards treatment is concerned there is no curative treatment in conventional system for this disease. The fractured bones are made to unite by the use of plaster of paris and the deformity of long bones are minimised by use of intramedullary nail.
It is a matter of great pride to me and to all homoeopathy brothers and sisters that Homoeopaths have been able to cure Osteogenesis imperfecta through homoeopathy. As we all know that in homoeopathic system of treatment each case is thoroughly individualised and uncommon and peculiar symptoms are carefully noted. Family history of the patients is also of utmost importance in such cases.
Here I will prefer to narrate the cases of osteogenesis imperfecta which I have cured.
CASE 1:
Name of the patient: SHK, Allahabad
Age at the time of admission: 3 months
Date of admission: 28.10.92
Opinion of orthopaedic surgeoons: The patient was examined by orthopaedic surgeons at local S. N. children hospital and also at Sanjay Gandhi P. G. I. Lucknow and at B.H. U. Varanasi. All of them diagnosed the disease as osteogenesis imperfecta and declared in clear terms that it is incurable.
Signs and symptoms of the Patient:
* Bones easily get fractured from slightest cause. 1st fracture occurred at one month of age.
* Excessive perspiration on scalp during sleep and also while he weeps wets his pillow
* Starts in sleep and weeps
* Coldness of hands specially of feet in the evening
* Feverish at night
*Appetite less, Bowels constipated stool large hard and foul smelling.
* Mother took too many allopathic drugs during pregnancy to prevent abortion.
* Family history asthma and diabetes in family
When the patient was brought to me his both lower limbs and left upper limb were under plaster.
Treatment:
28.10.92 Nux Vom. 200 given on the 1st day at bed time and it was followed by Calc Carb 200 the next day.
13.11.92 Acute coryza with cough and fever. Aconite Na 30 in distilled water every three hours. Relieved.
14.11.93 Relieved of coryza and cough. Diarrhoea, loose, frothy, forcible and foul smelling stools. Podo 30 in distilled water every three hours.
16.1192 Diarrhoea relieved. The patient had a fracture on right upper limb on 15.11.92 after a fall. Sul 30 in the morning followed by Calc carb 200 the same evening. Calc carb 200 was repeated succesively on 3.11.92, 3.1.93, 17.1.93,31.1.93 and 15.2.93 with marvelous result.
The patient had only one fracture on 15.11.92 during course of my treatment. Later on he had no fracture even after an injury or after a fall. The patient was kept under observation for a few months.
10.05.93: Calc Carb 1M was given. He is hale and hearty with no tracde of the disease.
CASE II
Name of the patient: Miss.A of Kanpur (UP) Age: at the time of admission: 2 years and 3 months
Opinion of orthopadic surgeon: Osteogenesis Imperfecta and being declared as incurable disorder.
Signs and symptoms of the patient:
-The disease was diagnosed when the patient had fracture for the first time after an injury at the age of one year and three months. It healed in normal course.
-Fracture occurs only after an injury or after a fall
-Sclera is bluish
-Increased perspiration specially on scalp. Wets her pillow during sleep
-Teeth erupted at 5 months of age and are slightly blackish
-Had measles twice and diarrhoea once. Desires sweets and also desires to take Extra salt.
Thirst less even in summers
Urine involuntary urination during sleep occur almost every night.
Mind obstinate and irritable
Family history mother anaemia and low B. P., Grandmother had T. B. History
Treatment:
As the patient came from a distant place, medicines were prescribed for four weeks
24.9.94 Calc carb 200 every week for three weeks followed by Tub 200 in the fourth week.
21.10.94 Fracture of right femur occurred. Bluishness of sclera is less maked, Calc Carb 200 every week for three weeks followed by Tub 1M in the fourth week.
21.11.94 The patients father told me that palms and sole of the patient remain hot. 1st part of her stool is hard and knotty and there is extreme thirstlessness. Sul 200 in the 1st week followed by Lyco 200 in the 2nd and 3rd week and Puls 1M in the 4th week.
06.1.95 Better general. No fracture occurred. Increased perspiration on scalp during sleep. Inreased salivation during sleep. Tooth look more blackish. Calc Carb 1M in the 1st week followed by Mere sol 200 in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th week were given.
21.2.95 Marked improvement. Car carb 1M in the 1st week followed by Mere Sol 200 in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th week.
21.4.95 Marked improvement. Calc Carb 1M in th 1st week followed by Mere Sol 200 in the 2nd , 3rd and 4th week.
19.6.95 Marked improvement. Calc Carb 1M in the 1st week followed by Merc Sol 200 in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th week with perfect improvement. The follow up is still continuing.
Editors Remarks:
The above two cases show the remarkable effects of Calc Carb and other remedies on these two cases. We do not commonly see blue sclera in India but if I did see such a picture my first thought would be Carcinosin. Readers must have noted that the physician had to prescribe remedies in the sequence which is not commonly followed (Lyco is given after Sul in Case II even though such sequence is generally contraindicated). Masters like Dr. Nash have rightly mentioned that they would not hesitate to give the prescription of inimical remedies if the strong indications are present.
MELANGE OF CASES
Volume
July, 99 to Dec 99, Vol-III, Issue 3 & 4
Author
Dr. Veerbhadra Rao
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Sulph / Thuj / Phos / Arn / Malar / Lach / Calc / Ars / Camph / Fic / Puls / Med / Bry
Dr. Veerbhadra Rao, M.S. (E.N.T.)
Elluru – 534 007 (A.P.)
A Case of Pyrexia
On 13.0.98 Miss V.C. F/30 consulted me for fever since 2 months. The fever starts in evening time without any definite time modality swinging between 101-105F. The pattern was chill followed by fever ending in sweat. As the patient was a nurse in a nursing home, she used to take paracetamol tablets, whenever fever crosses 102F. She desires to cover herself during chill and the chill was associated with shivering, and the chill starts along the spine and spreads to rest of the body. During fever she becomes highly sensitive to noise. Detailed clinical examination did not reveal any positive finding.
Inspite of careful probing there was no particular symptom of importance during the lucid periods because patient lost appetite, as nutritionally suffered she used to take 3 or 4 bottles of fluid every day. The allopath treated the case with routine antibiotic like ampicilline etc. As the case did not improve case was referred to a senior physician he investigated for pulmonary tuberculosis, malaria and typhoid. Inspite of elaborate laboratory investigations nothing positive could be made out. Case was referred to a teaching hospital. At this juncture patient consulted me. This patient was a bad case of rheumatoid arthritis treated with Phos and Medo 5 yrs ago. At that time except 2 small deformities of fingers the case was arrested and patient was symptom free.
Having confronted with meagre symptoms repertorisation was done with Boger Boenninghausen repertory.
Aconite 6c 4 doses were dispensed as it was the only potency available with me at that time. So adviced to take 5 pills a day. Third day patient was symptoms free. Inspite of my instruction she went out of the town returned after a month. Health was normal.
The result puzzled me as it is not the usual picture where we prescribe aconite. Hence 15 materia medicas were consulted George Royal wrote as follows – Aconite is always indicated at the beginning, the very outset of a disease. Even the exception is more apparent than real E.g, a condition which called for the remedy years before but which has not changed, will yield to the drug.
A Case of Mixed Miasm
Master V.C. aged 12, was presented with hard, rough, sessile warts on back of fingers on 10.5.06. The warts developed insidiously. Physical examination did not reveal any gross pathology in the body. Mother had MTP done once, before the child was born. The movement of the baby during pregnancy was more. Mother took pregnadoxin tablets for a long time. Family history – paternal grandfather has vitiligo, Maternal grandmother died of rectal cancer and maternal grandfather died of diabetis nephropathy. Personal history – child had infantile hydrocele subsided on its own accord. Chicken pox at the age of three and Measles at the age of five. Loose motions after eating little more than wanted. Patient had allergic reaction to Brufen given for an injury. History of urethral stricture dilated one year back.
Homoeopathic history taking revealed following symptoms.
Wounds heal slow
Cold water bath aggravates
Aversion open air
Unsatisfactory stool, hard and green in colour
Dandruff present
Desires sweets
Aversion onions
While sleeping he crosses legs at ankles
Talks during sleep
Pleasant dreams
Sweat on neck and forearms
Aggravation rain
Headache on exposure to sun
Body hot to touch
Desire company
Palpitation due to anger
Postponing all work
Aversion covering
Inquisitive.
Eleven prominent symptoms were taken and repertorisation was done in which Sulph worked out. So Sulph 0/1 was dispensed. Even after fifteen days of medication, no change was seen. In view of the stricture urethra and warts, Thuja 200 one fragmented dose was given. Warts disappeared. Patient did not turn up but sent word about the result. One year later, for no apparent reason the patient developed distention of urinary bladder. The case was thoroughly investigated by an Urologist (Super specialist), he could not find any cause for paresis, treating the condition as an Idiopathic Paresis of Urinary Bladder, he advised self catheterization and nothing more could be done. Only prescribed multi vitamin and multimineral tabs. At this stage he reported back to me. Probing patiently revealed only the old symptoms. Hence Sulph 0/1 was prescribed again. Fifteen days later Sulph 0/2 was dispensed and case was reviewed after an other fifteen days. Patient is symptom free till to date.
A Case of Hemiplegia
Master M.P. aged one year was presented on 23.10.98 with the complaint of paralysis of both right limbs since birth. The child is not able to sit but crawls on left side of the body. It was a case of postmaturity. The labour pains started but labour did not progress. So, Caesarean was conducted under spinal anaesthesia and the baby was delivered. From the time of birth there was strabismus of right eye, paralysis of the both right limbs. Past history of induced abortion with drugs in second month of pregnancy. From maternal and parternal side there were no gross hereditary disorders. It was not a consanguineous marriage. The health of mother was good during pregnancy andshe did not suffer from hyperemesis gravidarum.
After the birth, the development of the body was normal but delay in holding the head, learning to talk, learning to walk. Other symptoms noted were child cannot tolerate hunger and cried incessantly till he was fed. Thirst for large quantities frequently. Perspiration more on head, dribbling of saliva from right side. Child sleeps on abdomen. Child is sensitive to touch. These are the only positive symptoms found.
Repertorisation was done. Phos was worked out.On 23.10.98, Phos 0/1 was dispensed. A month later except slight movement in the limbs, progress was not very satisfactory. So Arnica 200 one dose was given with an instruction to use twice in a week. The child is on Phos 0/4 now child is able to run and play with the right hand also. Child is unable to raise the hand above the head. Applications of Acupuncture was contemplated, but in view of steady mprovement needling was withheld.
A Case of Hyperthyroidism
Mrs. V.V. female aged 42, working as a Lecturer consulted me on 10.07.97 with a complaint of swelling of the thyroid gland and change in voice aggravated by talking. Clinical examination revealed uniformly swollen thyroid gland without any nodules and no bruit heard on the thyroid. She is having neurofibromatosis in multiple areas on both arms. She gave history that her father suffered from glaucoma and neurofibromatosis and her own vision is deteriorating forcing her to change spectacles every six months. She is also suffering from haemorrhoids producing haemorhage of red drops before and after stool. She was thoroughly investigated at a reputed laboratory. Thyroid stimulating Hormone (TSH)-18 Units (normal being 0.3 to 6.9 Units.), T4-6.6 units (Normal range 6 to 12 Units) .Clinical examination of Ear Nose and Throat showed only thickening of vocal cords, no ulcer or polypus seen. Having noted the pathology, the case was studied Homoeopathically.
The following symptoms were noted. Itching urticaria, aggravation due to cold air, Menses dark red, leucorrhoea in between periods. Off late she was feeling hungry during night sleep. Hence she was habituated to keep some biscuits and other eatables with her. She is a highly industrious woman working as a lecturer on hourly basis in a tutorial college and giving tuitions in her house in early hours. She is avaricious to the extent that her husband is dissatisfied and children grumble. But her contention was that it is a hard earned money which should not be spent. She is intolerant of contradiction and she demands an absolute obedience from all her children. When things do not go as per her wish or a filmsy comment from her own children, she gets offended easily. She gave history of having suffered from small pox at the age of 3rd year and later infantile asthma and typhoid during high school period.
So the repertorisation done worked out to sulphur. On 10.09.97, Sulph 0/1 was dispensed. She attended on 07.09.07, Sulph 0/1 was dispensed. She attended on 07.10.97. Improvement present. Sulph 0/2 was given with an instruction to be taken once in two days. Later she was kept on sac lac for sometime. She attended clinic on 04.07.98 Sulph 0/3 was given with instruction to take drug once in a week. Two months after she was reviewed, the symptoms of hoarseness urticaria etc., subsided, but the thyroid swelling has not come down. Confronted with the situation of absence of symptoms and presence pathology, to find the way out, probing was done in different ways. She confided that all the pathology started after she suffered from malaria which lasted for one month with irregular symptoms. So Malaria Officinalis was given. She attended the clinic on 16.09.98 later 13.12.98. The change was remarkable. Thyroid hypertrophy had entirely gone, her skin became more smooth, deterioration of vision was and the glasses had to be changed again as vision had improved. TSH estimation was ordered but she refused to submit as she is feeling better and test was costly.
A Case of Hypothyroidism
Name: Mr. P.S. Date of consultation: 4.8.1988.
Female: Married occupation : House wife.
Age of presentation: 25 years. Code No. 88/M/13. Present Illness; Hoarseness of voice, Roughness of skin.
History of Present Illness. She did not conceive for four years after marriage. Gynaecologist could not find any abnormality except that uterus was bulky. So she was given only some tonics. Later when she conceived, she aborted in 5th month. In the present pregnancy she was given regular doses of progesterone injections. She had to undergo caesarean section as the membranes leaked prematurely. The present complaint developed slowly. After delivery she gained weight, complexion became dark. Sweating diminished, previously it used to be profuse. With all these complaints 2 months before consulting me she had been to her Gynaecologist who ordered for T3-T4 levels. T3 in normal range but T4 was only 4-8 so thyroid supplementation was suggested but she opted for Homoeopathy.
Past History: Chicken Pox, in childhood. Suffered asthmatic attacks before marriage. Nasal polyp was removed by me during her childhood (that was during my pre Homoeopathic period) and a village practitioner had given some homoeopathic treatment. The name of drug was not revealed. Polyp has not recurred.
Past history: Frequency of micturition with pus cells in Urine, after marriage. Jaundice at the age of 10 years.
Family History: Mother asthamatic. Grand Mother developed diabetes in old age.
Social History: Postgraduate qualified, but not doing any job. Husband is a lecturer in local college. Emotionally well adjusted.
Homoeopathic History:
Appearance; Fair complexion
Skin:-Generalised itching, modalities not marked.
Weight: 69 kgs. Height : 54. Head: Hair fall.
Dress: Tidy, Ear, Nose and Throat: Normal. Respiration: Normal.
Manner: Suspicious looks. Talk: is very guarded
Mentals: Angered Easily. Desires company
Effect of warmth: She does not like hot weather but no ailments.
Effect of Cold: Nil particular.
Generals:Likes open air Desires: Sour foods.
Sleep: Light sleep, previously she used to enjoy deep sleep she always sleeps on right side cause of which she could not explain.
Menstruation: Attained menarche at the age of 14 Years. Since the Menarche she used to suffer from loose motions for two days before every menstruation. She took many medicines but it could not be controlled. Periods 30 days cycle but always late by 5 to 6 days clots present, colour of blood red, discharge moderate, not offensive.
Bowels regular.
Physical Examination: BP: 110/80 Pulse: 70/Minute
Lungs: N.A.D Heart: N.A.D. Abdomen: Soft Extremities: Cracks on soles
Diarrhoea before Menses. Page No. (614), Menses late (727) Desires sour foods (486) Itching generalized (1327) Desires open air (1343)
Drug Selected: Lachesis:- Reasons for this drug selection. This is the only drug covering all the rubrics of her constitution and the change brought at the present stage. Her suspicious looks and jealous nature (admitted by husband) also favoured the selection of the drug.
4.08.1988. Lach 0/1 given the instructions to take daily dose
- 08.88. Sleep better feeling light in weight.
Lach 0/2. Hair fall increased.
27.08.88. Lach 0/3. Improvement steady. Sleep and thirst returned to normal.
04.09.1988. Frequency of micturition and leucorrhoea developed but subsided in 2 days without any medicine (she confessed she forgot to mention about leucorrhoea before pregnancy)
25.09.88: As the patient is improving and old symptoms are recurring it was decided to continue the medication. 0/6 dispensed
11.10.1988: She came back and reported all her original symptoms appeared gradually. So under the impression that the Lach is losing its hold on the case Sulph 200 was given. But later, on meditation it was suspected to be an aggravation. So on drug was prescribed and she was asked to get T3/T4 levels done. Placebo given.
- 11.1988: T4 level 6.8 ug. As it is normal only placebo given and advised to report later.
03.01.89: Weight: 69 kgs. No complaints so she was asked to report if there is any problems.
Appraisal:
As the drug suited her constitutionally and psychologically and also to the change in her body that occurred after pregnancy the result was gratifying. She was interviewed 3 years later and found to be healthy.
A case of Haematemesis
Name: P.G.K. Male: Aged 11 years
21.2.89. Present Complaint: Vomiting of Blood since 1 year
History of Present illness.
The child was healthy since birth. During 1988 winter pt. suddenly developed vomiting of blood roughly 5 cc in quantity. There is reeling sensation and tendency to fall towards right side. When the vomiting is free he does not have any pain. When there is nausea but if he does not vomit he gets severe pain behind sternum. He was examined by family physician, later by a General Surgeon. Routine Investigations were normal so he was referred to a Gastro Enterologist. He did a barium meal and gastroscopy but could not come to any conclusion regarding the site or the cause of bleeding. The child was kept on styptics. He continued to suffer till the summer set in. The problem subsided on its own accord. In this winter again there is vomiting of blood and he was examined by an other set of Senior specialists. There was no improvement so the parents opted for Homoeopathy.
Past History: Jaundice. Mild attack in Sixth year.
Scabies in eighth year treated by an Allopath.
Family History: Father Healthy, Mother suffering from Eczema on both ankles. Grand Father asthmatic. No History of Tuberculosis, Diabetes or Cancer on either side.
Social History: School going kid, bright in his studies, only sister healthy. No family quarrels, well taken care of by parents.
Appearance: Average Height, Black Hair, Fair Complexion, Moderate Build.
Weight: 22 Kgs. Dress: Neat. Manner: Soft spoken not anxious about health. Mind: Nothing Particular. Effect of Heat: Likes Dry warm
Weather:-Effect of Cold:- Nil. Aggravated during winter.
Scanty sweat watery/Evenly distributed. Sleep: Falling into sleep late at night.
Cannot sleep in illuminated room. Constantly moving in bed, during sleep.
Time Modality or marked: Attacks 5 to 6 times a day. Periodicity: Not Marked. Desires: Not prominent. Aversions: Not prominent. Head: N.A.D. Vertigo: Reeling sensation with tendency to fall towards right. Mouth: Tongue Clean. Eyes, Ears: N.A.D. Throat: Bleeding spot could not be located. Stomach: Nausea Associated with pain in abdomen: Bowels: Regular. Urine: N.A.D. Extremities: Normal. Skin: Normal. Physical Examination: B.P.80/ 60. Pulse: 76 per minute. Liver and spleen not palpable. No mass felt in the abdomen. Heart and Lungs: N.A.D. C.N.S: Normal.
Investigations: T.C.-B.C.-E.S.R. – C.. B.T are normal. Urine for sugar albumin: Nil.
Clinical Diagnosis: Haematemesis ? Cause.
Aggravation Winer Page No. (1422) Sleeplessness (1251) endency to fall right side (99) Suppressed Eruptions (1313) Vomiting of Blood (536)
Drus Selected: Calc carb.
Due to the paucity of symptoms the drugs which covered all the rubrics and scoring high was preferred.
21.02. 89 Calc carb 0/1 given to be taken daily.
- 02.89: No change. Had attacks of bleeding four times on different days further probing no additional information could be gained. So Calc carb 0/3 was given.
23.03.89: No improvement so next high scoring drug was given- Ars 0/1.
25.03.89: Aggravation of all symptoms loss of appetite and bleeding with stool developed. Parents were worried due to this new symptom, so Camph 200 was given to antidote.
29.03.89: As the bleeding continued on and off ficus religiosa Q five drops in one ounce of water to be taken thrice daily was prescribed. This is purely a Symptomatic prescription.
01.04. 89: had bleeding twice. Taking the location as eliminating rubric. Sulph scored high so it was given in 0/1 potency.
09.04.89: Relieved completely. Sulph 0/2 was given.
14.04.89: No bleeding at all but he was asked to take the same drug only once in a week four times.
Appraisal: As the mother is suffering from Eczema and Grand Father Suffered from Asthma the child has inherited a highly Psoric condition which produced recurrent bleeding. The precipitating factor could not be made out but it was cured by the great antipsoric. This case was reviewed annually till to day. He is OK.
A Case of Under Developed Uterus
22.02.88 Name: Mrs. N. S., Female: 22 Years.
Married: House wife.
Present complaint: Repeated Abortions:
History of Present Illness:
Uneducated village woman married at the age of 19 conceived immediately after marriage. But aborted in the 3rd month of pregnancy attended by an Allopathic Doctor. Next year again she aborted in fourth month of pregnancy. She consulted a senior obstetrician. Patient was told that her uterus is under-developed and the chance of having full term baby is very less but may have it after few more attempts. Patients aunt is a senior nurse in General Hospital. She brought the patient for Homoeopathy.
Past History: Measles at the age of 6 Years.
Family History: parents and 2 sisters are healthy.
No history of Tuberculosis, Hypertension or Diabetes.
Social History: Her husband is the only son to his parents. As the patient aborted twice, mother-in-law is threatening to arrange for divorce.
Homoeopathic History: Small Stature. 5 feet 2 inches, dark complexion wiry build weight 40 kgs. Manners casual very shy person does not talk to new people I had to spend lot of time to elicit symptoms. Very mild in nature soft spoken. Mental symptoms: Fear of crowd cannot stay alone.
Generals: Effect of Warm-Nil particular.
Effect of cold: Nil Particular.
Weather: Aversion to open Air.
Sweat: Scanty sweat on face, it is offensive.
Time aggravation: Not marked.
Appetite: Normal
Aversion: Milk
Desires: Nothing specific.
Thirstless
Sleep: N.A.D.
Menses: Menarche: 14 Years of Age. Periods: 30 days Cycle lasts only one day, offensive, red not clotted.
Leucorrhoea: Watery before menses.
Particulars: Head: N.A.D
Respiratory System: N.A.D.
Abdomen: Bloating present.
Bowels: Unsatisfactory.
Urinary System: N.A.D
Physical Examination:
B.P.: 110/70
Pulse: 76 per minute.
C.V.S. : N.A.D
Extremities: N.A.D
Gynaecological Examination: N.A.D except small size of Uterus.
Clinical Diagnosis: Under developed uterus.
Rubrics: (Kents Repertory)
Timidity: Bashful Page No. 89
Thirstless Page No. 530
Leucorrhoea before menses Page No. 722
Leucorrhoea Watery 728
Menses Offensive 727
Aversion Milk 481
Offensive sweat on face 391
Perspiration is scanty 1300
Abortion 714
Fear of Crowd 43
Drugs Selected: Puls: Reasons for selecting the Drug. Though Puls scored high marks it did not cover scanty sweat and aversion to open air. But consultation of B.B. Repertory reveals it covers both the rubrics whereas other drugs did not. As Puls has affinity to uterus mental, symptoms pointing towards Puls it was felt that the drug is similimum to the case.
22.02. 88: Puls 12 C was given as there is organic defect. She was advised to take 1 dose and 15.03.88
Practically not much of change in the body except sense of wellbeing. Offensive smell during menses has come down. Puls 30-3 doses dispensed. Report after 15 days.
01.04.88 Puls 200-3 doses given with instructions to come after 15 days.
She never returned. Through relatives it was learnt that she became pregnant and delivered 2 male babies at full term. She never became pregnant again, cause not known. She consulted for her childrens’ ailments 2 years after that. She is not willing to take medicine as she does not want more children.
Appraisal: Puls suited her constitutionally and pathologically hence the result is good.
A Case of Respiratory Allergy
Name: Miss. N.S.
02.10.1988 Age: 15 Yrs, Female.
Present Complaint: Recurrent attacks of sneezings and breathlessness since 2 years.
History of Present Illness: The complaints of sneezings started insidiously 2 years back. Cause not known. Sneezings, discharge with itching of nose, nasal block. Itching of inner canthi of eyes, watery LACHRYMATION and redness. Itching of palate and sometimes breathlessness. These attacks are more during night, during rainy season. Gets mild relief by sitting. The attacks are usually precipitated by consuming coconut. Expectoration scanty, white non offensive.
History of Past Illness:
Measles: 4th year.
U.T.I: 8th year. Had all vaccinations.13th year: She developed allergic rash to paracetamol tablet which she took for viral fever. Father states that she developed respiratory symptoms only after this incidence. For all these problems she had allopathic treatment. She used to have Deriphyllin Injection during the height of breathlessness.
Family History: Parents and one brother are healthy, no diabetes, no hypertension in family.
Social History: school going girl. Emotionally well adjusted.
Homoeopathic History:
Appearance: Lean tall girl 5 feet 2 inches fair complexion. Weight 30 kgs.
Dress: Neat and Tidy.
Manner: soft spoken, well behaved girl.
Mind Symptoms: Fear of Crowd, Desires company.
Effect of Cold and Warm: Normal.
Sweat: Moderate, watery non staining.
Sleep: Cant sleep if disturbed during sleep.
Dreams: Indescribable.
Time Modality: Agg Night.
Periodicity: Nil
Desires: Sweets++, warm food+, Warm food +, Warm Drinks+, Agg. by draft of air.
Menstrual History: Menarche: 12th year, 28 days each, 4 days, moderate quantity occasionally clotted, bright red in colour. No concomitants to menstruation. Except vague body pains.
Leucorrhoea: Not significant.
Abdomen: N.A.D.
Bowels: Regular
Physical Examination: BP:110/80
Pulse: 76 per minute.
Head: N.A.D.
Lungs: Clear
Nasal Mucosa: Pale, no pus seen.
Throat: N.A.D
Eyes and Ears: Normal.
Investigations: X-ray Chest: within normal limits.
X-ray paranasal sinuses: Mucosal Oedema. Seen in both, Maxillary antra.
Blood: T.C.8600/CMM.
D.C.P 60% L.27% E.13%
Stool: OVA Nil Cyst: Nil
Urine: Sugar: Nil
Albumin: Nil
Microscopic Examination: N.A.D.
Clinical diagnosis:- Respiratory Allergy
Rubrics: (Kent)
| Desire Company | Page No 11 |
| Fear of Crowd | 43 |
| Desire Sweets | 486 |
| Warm Drinks Desire | 486 |
| Warm food Desire | 486 |
| Agg. Cold Wet Weather | 1350 |
| Agg. Night | 1342 |
| Agg. Sitting | 1401 |
| Menses: Bright Red | 725 |
| Sleeplessness after waking | 1254 |
Drug Selected: Ars alb.
Reasons for Drug Selection: Ars alb alone has covered all rubrics and scored high marks. More over this is well indicated in allergy to allopathic drugs.
02.10.1988 Ars alb 200 3 doses to be taken at 12 hours interval. She was advised to avoid all allergic foods. She was instructed to search for allergic foods among her best loved food stuffs.
24.10.88: Improved but mild attacks still present. Ars alb 200/3 doses.
03.11.88: Recurrence of all symptoms. More over she did not respond to usual allopathic medication which she used to get in her place during the attacks. Parents were very apprehensive about it. Considering the event of allergic reaction to paracetamol tablet now Paracetamol 30/3 doses given, advised to report after 10 days with instructions not to use any allopathic drug.
27.11.88: She had urticarial rash on second day and subsided after 2 days. Since then she is very much better. Sulph 200 given, advised to return after month.
20.2.89: She wrote a letter saying that she is keeping good health. No attacks.
Appraisal: Though homoeopathic drugs are sufficient to correct the reaction to allopathic drugs occasionally Tautopathic drugs are needed, to cure the condition.
A Case of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Name: Ms. V.C. 23 Years. Female: Unmarried
17.05.91
Complaint : Pain in small joints of all limbs since 20 months.
History of Present Illness: This female is of reasonable good health, started having mild pain in right toe. It increased in severity slowly, first right ankle afterwards left ankle involved. The joints were swollen, movements gradually restricted. Later joints of both hands involved. In both fourth fingers there is flexion deformity present. Case was examined by General Physician and Orthopaedic Surgeon, later investigated by Senior Orthopedic Surgeon at Hyderabad. She was kept on Analgesics, Antirheumatics but the condition detoriated. She was unable to move and walking is very painful. The pains were agg. by pressure, slightly amel, by movement, pains associated with numbness, sensation as if dislocation of joints prominent. Sitting in sunlight gives slight relief of pain. Type of pain could not be described, pains are more in morning specially on waking. At night the pains prevent sleep and she had to take increased doses of analgesics. During last ten months she had irregular attacks of fever, had to cover herself heavily during fever.
Past History: Typhoid at the age of 10 yrs. Gastroenteritis 4 years ago. No other major illness, only occasional viral fevers.
Family History: No History of cancer, Tuberculosis, Diabetes on either side, Mother suffered from thick leucorrhoea in her youth. Father healthy.
Social History: Unmarried works as untrained nurse in a Paediatric Nursing Home. Her two sisters and one brother are healthy. Respected by her colleagues and patients due to her devotion to work and her extreme desire to help the suffering children.
Homoeopathic History: Appearance: Short Stature 4 feet 9 inches. Dark hair, lean, dark complexion of skin.Weight: 35 kgs.
Manner: Pleasing manner inspite of pain, wants in work inspite of suffering.
Mind: Fear to stay alone. Does not like to express her anger. She is not effected by sympathy.
General Symptoms: Effect of Heat: Nothing Particular.
Effect of Cold: Averse cold water bathing, likes warm water bath.
Weather: Nothing abnormal
Sweat: Moderate watery more in axilla and along spine.
Time Agg: Morning on waking.
Appetite: Normal. Aversion: Sweets.
Desires: Pickles, Sour foods, spicy foods produces constipation.
Thirst: For large quantity of water.
Sleep: Dreams unremembered, cannot sleep in illuminated room.
Particulars: Dandruff ++ Hair fall ++
Ears, Eyes, Throat: N.A.D
Respiratory: N.A.D. Stomach: Vomiting on the day of Menstruation. Feels comfortable after Vomiting.
Abdomen: N.A.D. Menstruation: 28 days cycle, 3-5 days red colour, clotted, offensive. Leucorrhoea: Insignificant.
Skin: itching on Perspiration. Physical Examination: B.P. 110/70 Pulse: 74 per minute. C.V.S. & C.N.S.: N.A.D.
Extremities: N.A.D.
Investigation: Blood, V.D.R.L.: Negative T.C.: 8,500/cm.
D.C.: P58: L-30 E.S.R.: 5 MM/1 st HR. Blood for Rh. Factor: Positive. Urine : Sugar: Nil. Albumin: Nil.
Diagnosis: Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Rubrics: Kent.
Fear of being alone Page No.43
Aversion to sweets 482
Desires sour foods 486
Menses Offensive 727
Dreams Unrememberable 1243
Sensitive to light 78
Vomiting during Menses 534
Pressure Agg. 1392
Motion Amel. 1374
Thirst for large quantities of water 529
Remedy: Phos.
Reasons for Selecting Remedy:
Though the motion amelioration was not covered by Phos constipation due to spices and her desire to help the suffering people inspite of her suffering indicated Phos and it has scored high marks.
17.05.71: Advised to stop all allopathic drugs and Phos 0/1 disposed with instructions to take daily single dose.
03.06.91: Swelling, pain in the joints reduced. Cough and cold set in. The patient admitted that she had similar problems before the onset of joint pains. So it was taken as surfacing of old symptom and it was ignored. But new symptom of pinching pain in her rectum and bleeding during stool started. So the drug was stopped. No Medicine.
12.06.91: Bleeding and pain remained static
Medo 1 M given.
07.08.91 Marked reduction and swelling noted. She is able to walk with slight limp. The finger deformity has improved to half. 25% of pain still present so Phos 0/2 given.
26.08.91: Sensation of distension, vomiting of food half an hour after meal. Very sensitive to odours. So the drug was discontinued. No medicine.
06.06.1992. Phos 0/3 given as there is mild recurrence of pain. She was asked to take on does once in week.
05.03.93: Ankylosed finger and mild swelling of ankle joints remained. No pain, she is able to walk freely. She was asked to report if there is any problem. There is no symptom to indicate another remedy.
Appraisal: the drug suited her well. The disease progress was arrested. No recurrence of fever, restitution of damaged part was partial. She was advised to have the contracture released surgically. She declined, as she is a poor women.
A Case of Wryneck
Name: B.B.R. 9 yrs. Female Student.
Present complaint: Inability to turn head to right side/since birth.
Present Illness: Child was delivered normally in a nursing home, breech presentation.15 days later it was noticed that child is keeping head bent to the right side. Examination revealed small nodule on sternomastoid area. Case as shown to an Orthopaedic Surgeon. It was diagnosed as wryneck and operation was deferred till 2nd year of age. A senior surgeon did the operation and some exercises prescribed. But the child developed contracture of ternomastoid and was unable to turn the head to the right side. So at the age of 5 yrs another orthopaedic surgeon resected on it twice at an interval of 5 months. But again child slowly developed the contracture and the Sternomastoid is now seen as a thick cord.
History of Past Illness: No Major illness except occasional viral fevers.
Family History: Parents are healthy. Grand parents Hypertensive. Mother did not suffer from any disease during regnancy.
Social History: School going bright child, Emotionally well adjusted
Homoeopathic History: Appearance: Average Height Weight 25 kgs. Fair complexion.
Manners: Soft spoken well behaved girl.
Dress: Neat.
Mental: Fear of cats.
General: Effect of weather- sun heat Agg.
Desire draft of air.
Effect of Cold: Nil
Aversion: Milk
Desires: Ices++
Agg: Only foods produces indigestion and irritability.
Sleep: Fearful dreams Frightful Otherwise normal.
Sweat: Oily, Excessive not staining.
Appetite: Normal.
Particulars:
Head: Dandruff
Eyes : Ears, Nose, Throat:- NAD, Stomach
Nausea when she is hungry.
Abdomen: N.A.D, stool: Normal
Respiratory: Nil.
Physical Examination:
Three operated scars on right sternomastoid, child unable to turn beyond midline unable to extend neck backwards.
S.M. Area: Not tender.
Pulse: 70 Min.
General condition: Good.
Investigation: Urine, stool, Blood, for TC, DC, ESR, Normal (done recently preparing for another operation.)
X-ray Neck: A.P. and lateral views normal.
Clinical Diagnosis: Wry Neck.
Rubrics:
- Oily perspiration 299
- Agg. sun heat 404
- Aversion Milk 481
- Desire Ices 483
- Nausea during Empty Stomach 489
- Dandruff 114
- Frightful dreams 1240
- Agg.Fats 1363
Drug Selected: Bryonia.
Reasons for drug selection: Though Bryonia does not cover desire for ice, fear of cats, this is the only drug which covered all over rubrics. Because of is well known affinity for fibrous tissue this was selected.
16.10.92 Bry 0/1 given with instruction to take daily dose and to continue neck exercises prescribed.
10.11.92 All her general symptoms subsided but no change in neck. Bry 0/2 given.
10.12.92 No change in neck condition. But no new symptoms. Bry 0/3 given with instruction to take only once in every week for two months and report later.
27.05.93: Neck freely mobile fibrous cord could not be palpated. Seen by Orthopaedic surgeon. No other drug was given as there are no symptoms.
Appraisal: Very good result as drug suited constitutionally and in its tissue affinity.
A case of Thromboangitis Obliterans
15.03.89 Name: Mr. P.S. Male: 46 years.
Present Complaint:- Darkening, swelling and coldness of left little toe.
History of present Illness: The present complaint started 15 days ago a mild burning pain in the little to increased gradually with swelling, and discolouration. He consulted a General Surgeon who prescribed vasodilators and advised him to stop smoking completely. He did not get any relief.
History of past Illness: Typhoid 10th year
Measles: 12th year
Fistula in ano:- 25th year.
Lumbar sympathectomy on right side in 1978, amputation of right great toe in 1980. Inspite of Vasodilators and amputation patient suffered from severe pain in the right foot. I applied Acupuncture and he was relieved of pain.
Family History: Wife and 2 children healthy, parents lived to the age of 70 years. No history of Tuberculosis, Diabetes or hypertension social history.
Social History:- He is a typist in a Government Office. He is irregular in his duties. He is inveterate smoker, alcoholic and Gambler. So there used to be frequent quarrels in his family and his wife and children left him for some time.
Homoeopathic History: appearance: Lean, short 5 feet 4 inches. Weight: 40 kgs. Dark complexion. Dress: Untidy.
Manner: Soft spoken, disheartened talk, agony of pain seen in his face.
Mental symptoms: Desires to be alone.
Generals: Draft of air agg. Hot water application agg. Winter Agg. Cold water bath produces shaking chill. Sun heat -Increases the pain in the discoloured area. Wounds heal slow.
Sweat: Scanty that too only on thighs.
Sleep: Gets up with pain, he cannot sleep in the night due to pain the only position he can sleep is propped up position with pillows. Leg raised and kept on pillow and bent at knee. In this position he sleeps an hour or two late in the night and gets up with pain.
Thirst: Thirstless, drinks while eating.
Particulars: Head: N.A.D. Face: Wrinkles, rough.
Ear, Nose and Throat: Normal, Respiratory:- Normal
Abdomen: Normal
Extremities: Sensation of coldness below the knees. Burning and shooting in the left leg. Blackness of left foot, Covering of the part agg. pain
Skin: Cold to touch. Cracks in the sole of foot during the whole year.
Physical Examination: B.P.: 110/70 Pulse: 76/Minute. Heart and lungs: N.A.D
Femoral pulsations Right +++ Left +++
Popliteal pulsations +++ ++
Dorsalis Pedis ++
Left foot cold to touch
Sensations normal about the ankle on the dorsum
Investigation:-
Blood: V.D.R.L. Negative Routine urine, Blood:Normal
X-ray foot: No destruction of bones.
Clinical Diagnosis: Thromboangitis Obliterans.
Rubrics Selected: Kent.
Lying Page No. (1371)
Desire for open air (1343)
Sun, exposure to (1404)
Draft of air (1344)
Winter (1422)
Aversion to company (12)
Drug Selected: Pulsatilla.
Reasons for selecting the Drug. Sulph and Puls scored equally and cover all rubrics present. Other minor points also thought of but both drugs were scoring equally in the particular position in which he is able to sleep while lying keeping the limb elevated and flexed at knee could not be located in repertory. So, Herrings guiding symptoms was consulted. Exact symptoms is seen under Pulsatilla so this was selected.
15.03.89: As the Vitality of the patient was low and pain was severe it was decided to go slow. Thus Puls 6C pills were given advised to take 5 pills twice daily.
30.03.89: Patient improved slightly able to sleep but logical Pathology remains same. Puls 12 C was given with instructions to take regularly one dose a day.
- 04. 89: Steady improvement but has slow action Puls 30/3 doses given.
30.04.89: Puls 200, 3 doses given improvement satisfactory.
15.05.89: As the patient improved steadily with Puls it was thought to be the appropriate medicine so it was dispensed in ascending potencies.
CLINICAL EXPERIENCES
Volume
30th November 2003, Volume 10, Issue 2
Author
Mrs. Lakshminarayanan
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Rhus-t / Arn / Mag-p / Hyper / Gnaph / Coloc / Cist / Nux-v / Puls / Thuj / Acon / Pyrog
1) SCIATICA COLOCYNTH.
Mrs. S. aged 81 years though suffering from hypertension is basically a healthy person with her anti hypertensive allopathic medicine. Of late on account of advanced age, she has become feeble with constant pain in her legs and great and permanent exhaustion.
She had been taking painkillers daily religiously for the past few years for the pain in the legs and living happily until she read in the newspaper about the danger of painkillers, which might damage kidneys. She immediately stopped the tablets and would avoid taking them until and unless absolutely necessary. It has also been found that these pain killers are not that effective any more.
In the month of July 2002, this lady suddenly developed sciatica in her left hip and the nerve along that line was paining severely. Painkillers did not help her. Her nephew and nieces are allopathic doctors. On consulting they advised her to put up with the pain and manage it with pain killers etc. as its is not desirable to operate upon her at this age. However she was advised to take an X-ray to be shown to an orthopedic.
She turned to me for relief. I advised her not to bother about X-ray and prescribed Rhus tox 200, and later 1M with little result, Arnica 200 & 1M did not give much relief. She told me then that sitting and lying on the affected side and hot application gave her good relief. I prescribed Mag Phos-200 1 dose and it aggravated the pain beyond tolerance. She suffered shooting, excruciating and unbearable pain. Hypericum 30 one dose brought down the shooting pain immediately the basic pain continued. Gnaphalium Q was being given 3 to 5 drops in an ounce of water 2 to 3 times a day, which was palliating the pain for some time. 14/7/02-as she was persistently getting relief with hard pressure. Colocynth 30 was prescribed. With only one dose, she got relief. Later she was maintained on placebo for 2 to 3 days and pain has not returned so far. So, she was cured of sciatica which would have been a surgical case had she not been old and feeble.
2) DUST ALLERGY- CISTUS CANADENSIS.
Mr. D. a businessman, shop on a busy road is subject to dust and pollution of the road. He suffered from severe dust allergy. He suffered from frequent and violent sneezes, cold, throat irritation, cough and catarrh. Allopathic tablets were not giving him much relief though they were being swallowed religiously.
I have been reading Homoeopathic Drug Pictures by Dr.M.L. Tyler. I just happened to open the drug picture of Cistus Canadensis. It was a coincidence that this persons wife came to consult me at that hour only.
This drug has frequent and violent sneezing-chronic nasal catarrh, worse for cold air etc. It fitted the case all around. This patient had great and irresistible craving for cheese. This was so marked that one went to repertory for drugs that craved for cheese and found Arg n, Ast-r, Cist, Ign, Mosch, Puls. So I immediately prescribed Cistus 30, 3 doses and he improved and got over the complaints completely. Later occasionally he would get the little throat irritation, little cold, one or two sneezes which would subside on its own. Now after a period of more than two months I am told that he is completely free from this allergy.
3) NUMBNESS AND TINGLING OF RIGHT ARM NUX VOMICA.
Mrs. R. aged 42 years, short, plump, flabby, fair person had undergone strenuous period, what with alteration done to the rooms, painting the entire house and entertaining half a dozen relatives for about a fortnight. Due to overwork and excessive physical strain for a period of about 2 to 3 months she was extremely tired. On 17/10 she complained of formication in both arms continuously for 24 hours of the day which was nagging and annoying.
She always had cold nose which lead me to prescribe Arnica which fitted the case with her exhaustion. Arnica 30 3 doses morning and almost relieved the sensation of formication except occasional formication in fingers on some strai.
14/11 previous night again felt severe numbness in the right arm. She was also having severe cold. Nose block and throat irritation. In the materia medica by Dr. William Boericke-under locomotor system upper extremities-arm- numbness, fall asleep-I found Nux vom which fitted the case with cold and blocked nose etc. Nux vom 30 dose improved everything and she was completely O.K. thereafter.
4) DREAMING ABOUT DOGS-PULSATILLA.
Miss M-18 years old had been dreaming about dogs and she was particularly being frightened by a ferocious black dog. She was scared even to close her eyes and night after night the dream was persisting. This continued about a fortnight. She was so scared that she got fever.
In Kent’s repertory in the chapter sleep under dreams page 1238 frightened by a black dog, Pulsatilla is the only drug in plain letters. This also one of the many drugs though in plain letters only under dreaming of dogs in general. I prescribed Pulsatilla 30 one dose and she has just been free from this menacing complaints.
5) HYPERPYREXIA IN THE (HIV POSITIVE?) CHILD-PYROGENIUM.
A girl child- 5 year old, was brought to me for a wart under her right eye on her cheek. She is an orphan adopted by a family in her neighborhood after her parents’ death due to AIDS. This child was not breast fed by her mother since her birth and present guardian family used to look after her even when her mother was alive. But this childs blood has not been examined so far; probably the adopted parents do not want to know the truth though the child may actually be free from this horrible disease. At present she is healthy, active, intelligent. I prescribed Thuja 6, 5 doses daily for 5 days. The warts shriveled. After 2 weeks she got fever 102 degF. and was brought to me. As it was due to expose to dry winter cold, I prescribed Acon-30 3 doses to be given at hourly interval, & were given at 9.00, 10.00, and 11.00 pm. At 10 pm the temperature rose to 105 deg but they religiously gave 2nd and 3rd dose. After 3rd dose the child slept well and the temperature came down to normal next morning. One more dose was given in the morning. The child was active throughout the day but the temperature rose again in the evening. As aconite has evening rise in temperature (Kents repertory page 1279- Aconite appears in black letter) I gave Aconite 200 1 dose. Temperature did not rise further and next morning it again touched subnormal. Next day there was again a slight rise 99 deg to 100 deg. I consulted my teacher and gave one dose of Pyrogenium 200 and she recovered completely.
I was scared to treat this case because of AIDS background and was worried when it was not controlled for 3 days though the temperature was reaching normal. But she recovered fully and uneventfully quickly after a dose of Pyrogenium.
Editors Comment: – It is gratifying to see the intense interest that Mrs Lakshminarayanan has as a new recruit to the ranks of homoeopathy of course as the wife of late Dr. Lakshminarayanan who passed away about 2 years ago. Mrs. Lakshminarayanan had the good fortune of seeing and actively assisting Dr. Lakshminarayanans therapeutic efforts. She has read and digested all the basic books of the old masters and guided by the homoeopathic presence of her late husband she has achieved remarkable successes in the cases that she has been treating for the last 2 years. As I always feel it is never too late to study homoeopathy nor ever too late to practice it. Age is no bar to genuine interest and effort in homoeopathy and myself and Dr. Meher wish her all the best in her newly discovered homoeopathic career.
CASE OF ORAL LICHEN PLANUS
Volume
10th April 2005, Vol-12, Issue 1
Author
Dr. Subhash Meher
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Merc / Syph / Echi / Calen / Nit-ac / Kali-m / Nat-m / Acon / Bry / Gels
Patient- Mr. K.S., age 21 years working as a salesman in a shop of his small town drawing only Rs 1500 per month as a salary. First consulted on Monday, Feb 23, 2004. (Report created and updated on Friday, Apr 8, 2005).
Chief complaint- Painful eruptions with burning sensation, whitish and lacy in appearance were present all over the tongue and on buccal mucus membrane. A thick black scab on lower lip was noticed. Lesions were very painful with burning sensation. Difficulty in eating, drinking and talking due to severity of extensive ulcerations was quite obvious. This complaint used to recur every 3 to 4 months and subsided for sometime after the allopathic treatment by a skin specialist. This complaint started since Oct 2000 and first eruption appeared on the lip followed by affection of oral mucosa, palms, soles and abdomen. As this case was not responding to the treatment of 2 to 3 super specialists of the city, they referred this case to an experienced specialist of Poona.
Clinical diagnosis was Oral Lichen Planus not confirmed by biopsy report.
Oral lesions were followed by itching eruptions on palms and soles. Eruptions are multiple, of size of larger than pin head, polygonal shaped, slightly elevated, flat, later on turned black and symmetrical in distribution. Other points noted during the course of treatment were-excessive salivation, ropy, thick white saliva (photograph inside back cover). Tongue-ulcerated border and larger flat reddish-white eruptions, resembling thick white patchy coating. Deep central fissure.
First eruption appeared on lip and then on oral mucus membrane and tongue.
Occasional mild burning urination. Sweating excessive. Desire for sweets, salt + Sleeps in open shade outside his house in all the seasons. Bowels constipated. Dreams of snakes chasing him. Dreams of daily chores. Mild, non quarrelsome. Cooperative, smiling, shy. Detailed history taking was impossible due to his inability to talk. Prescription – Merc sol 30 (Local symptoms).
Thursday, Feb 26, 2004. Agravated, cannot open the mouth, can not speak, eat or drink. Prescription-Syphilinum 1M, 1 dose (bilaterally symmetrical eruptions on palms resembling secondary syphilis). Echinaecea Q and Calendula Q-for gargling.
Saturday, Feb 28, 2004-Severity remains the same. Prescription-Acid nit 30, 6 doses (local pathology). Kali mur 6x (whitish discolouration of tongue with thick white ropy saliva).
Sunday, Mar 7, 2004-much better since last 2 days. Can open mouth. Swallowing and chewing is less painful. Ropy thick white saliva (not this characteristic in the photograph). Tongue thick white coating +++. Prescription-Kali mur 6x, following by Nat mur 6x, BD for 10 days.
Friday, Mur 19, 2004-almost completely better. No medicine given.
Tuesday, Mar 30, 2004- Mild diarrhoea lasted for 3 to 4 days and needed no medicine. Appetite- normal. No oral ulcers except mild painless depression on tongue. Wt- 45 kg. No medicine given.
Sunday, May 16, 2004- Small one or two ulcers appeared inside lower lip and cheek and cleared within a day or two. No medicine given.
Feb 5, 2005-Came back approximately after one year with following complaints.
Sudden high fever, severe headache and bodyache, with drowsiness. He was exposed to hot and cold weather a day before the onset of fever. Prescription-Aconite 30 followed by Bryonia 30 and Gelsemium 30 relieved him within 24 hours. Mild dryness of lips, scaly with tiny eruptions of them. Mild heaviness of head, thirst and desire for salt. All these symptoms cleared quickly after a dose of Nat mur 30.
Monday, Apr 11, 2005 – Today, no recurrence or any other complaint. No Medicine given. *In this case due to paucity of mentals and other generals-medicines were selected only on local pathological symptoms.
BEGINNERS CORNER [Beginner’s Corner]
Volume
Aug / Dec 2006 Volume No 13, Issue 2, 3
Author
Mrs. Sudha Laxminarayanan
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Rhus-t / Bell / Ars / Ip / Nat-m / Calc / Calen / Staph / Hep / Sil / Hyper / Arn / Hecla / Sep / Nit-ac / Influ / Bac / Nux-v / Acon
Fevers
Mrs. Sudha Laxminarayan
Hyderabad
Case 1
We had gone on a pleasure trip to Goa and South Canara during Dassera holidays. Suddenly the weather became damp cold, there were continuous rains and drizzling and we were getting drenched now and then whenever we alighted the bus to see places. By evening, my 8 year-old daughter was shivering with cold but she persisted with eating ice-cream and the next hour she was down with high fever. Rhus tox 200, 2 doses hourly had no effect. Fortunately for me, there was no thermometer, as high fever would make everybody panic and insist for an allopathic treatment. I resisted use of Crocin, etc. If I went to an allopathic doctor and he prescribed injections and drugs and if they produced some adverse, reactions who would help us during our journey? I then gave Belladonna 200 as I felt her face was flushed and also it was a sudden development. But it did not help her. We coaxed her to eat some biscuits and drink milk, but she refused.
We stayed in a hotel in the night. At about 2:30 AM. She woke up saying she was feeling very sick, uneasy and horrible. I was damn scared, as I had not treated fevers earlier. There was nobody whom I could consult and I did not have many medicines and potencies. However, I made her eat one biscuit and drink warm milk, which I had kept in a flask, and prescribed Ars alb 30 one dose for 2:30 AM. aggravation. Her fever came down by 5:00 AM. But it started rising again. I repeated the dose and she was better. Next day, I reversed to Rhus tox 200; a 3rd dose was given and we reached Hyderabad in the early morning. The fever was rising again slightly. I repeated the medicine and with 2-3 more doses given morning and evening, it brought down the fever and she recovered. But then she developed cough and she was coughing till she vomited. With Ipecac 30, 2 to 3 doses the cough was controlled completely and she recovered fully and uneventfully.
Thus, I succeeded in treating first case of fever.
Case No 2
19-12/2003-May ten year old daughter was getting headaches off and on. Once she complained of headache early in the morning. I gave her Nat mur 30 and she got relief.
But later, it was observed that there was always a sudden onset of headache, which was also severe. Her head in general is very sensitive. A slight plucking of her hair or a slight hit on her head was very painful, very much out of proportion to the cause.
So Belladonna 30 was prescribed, which relieved her headache within half-an-hour.
Once her headache started suddenly before going to school and she left for school without taking medicine. The headache became so severe in the school that she started crying. An Ayah of the school escorted her. My daughter could not even guide the auto driver to the house properly due to her suffering. Bell 30 did not give her relief and with Bell 200, after half-an hour, she went to sleep immediately. She woke up fresh after two hours, but headache started again and was becoming severe. Second dose of 200 did not help her and I had to give Bell 1 M, with which She was completely alright.
But after a week or ten days, she again got headache. This time I prescribed Calc carb, which is chronic of Belladonna in 30C, and with one dose she was relieved of the headache within half-an hour as usual. This also continued for some time and she continued to get headache every week to ten days and she would be relieved with one dose of Calc carb 30.
Then, as the results were not being sustained, I gave her Calc carb 200, when she had headache next time and it gave her relief within half an hour. She had a head wart of the size of a big moong on the middle knuckle of her index finger, which used to pain while writing. She also had number of small warts on her toes.
As I had not treated chronic cases, I was not treating her warts. But on the 3rd day of her taking Calc carb 200, the warts on the finger just disappeared totally as if it never existed. All the other warts on her toes also disappeared shortly. Such miraculous results left me dumb founded. Such results should be an eye opener first to homoeopaths and then to practitioners of other schools of medicine.
As I had not treated chronic cases, I was not treating her warts. But on the 3rd day of her taking Calc carb 200, the warts on the finger just disappeared totally as if it never existed. All the other warts on her toes also disappeared shortly. Such miraculous results left me dumb founded. Such results should be an eye opener first to homoeopaths and then to practitioner of other schools of medicine.
Actually, these days people are attracted towards alternative system of medicine but practitioners of the standard of Dr Tyler, Schmidt etc. are yet to be found. In the absence of good practitioners, people still dont feel very confident to consult homeopaths in emergencies. Is this not proper time for homeopaths to assert themselves with such wonderful drugs on hand?
Case No.3
On November 4th, my 10-year-old child got a deep wound in her leg while climbing a wall studded with glass pieces. It was a deep cut, with a lump of flesh coming out and blood gushing. I immediately dressed it with Calendula tincture pouring generously on the wound and gave Staphysagria 200 three doses every half-an-hour. The bleeding stopped shortly and the child was at peace.
On consulting my teacher, I was asked to give Hepar sulph if the child complained of any pain. Being winter, I expected her to have a bad night but she slept well. On the following 2-3 days, I gave 2-3 doses each of Hepar sulph and Silicea 30, whenever she complained of pain. But on the 3rd or 4th day, the wound pained and these drugs were not controlling the pain. Then I referred the book on trauma, Traumatic Diseases and their Sequelae by Dr D Lakshminarayanan page 46-47 and found Hypericum for sore and excruciating pain after cuts and surgery. Hypericum is also a drug for injury to nerves.
I gave Hypericum-1M dose and the child who was in great distress was relieved of the pain very shortly. After that during a period of 2-3 weeks, I was dressing the wound every alternate day with calendula and must have given 2-3 doses of Hypericum 1M off and on whenever the child complained of severe pain. On the whole, the wound healed beautifully without any complications and dried up completely within a month.
Such fast results have to be seen by people to believe how Homoeopathy can work with lightning speed in relieving severe pains in acute conditions. The general belief among the people that Homeopathy works slowly and is no match with allopathy in alleviating the sufferings of the people in acute conditions must be removed by Homeopathy by showing such wonderful results. They must be made to know that Homoeopathy works as fast if not faster than allopathic pain killers, and is absolutely safe without any harmful side effects. So, this wound healed beautifully without any T.T. injections, antibiotics or pain killers.
Case No.-4
On an afternoon at about 3:00 pm, I crushed my left hand thumb in the door of a cupboard. I immediately took Arnica and Ruta 30, alternately every 15 minutes, 3 doses each. The pain seemed to come down. I went for a meeting, but when I returned at about 6:00 pm, the pain increased. The thumb had become black. The above medicines in 200th potencies of 2 doses each at hourly intervals did not give any relief. I took Arnica 1 M, at 9:00 pm. It gave me little relief. Though I did not pass a bad night, 2-3 doses of Arnica 1 M, at frequent intervals did not give me substantial result. Then I took Arnica 10M one dose next morning and it relieved the pain free from the pain. I had to take a dose or two of Arnica 10M during that week and I was completely alright. The dead nail was left in its place till the growth of the new nail as recommended by Dr D Lakshminarayanan on Page No.46 of his book on Trauma. Later, the dead nail dropped off and a beautiful new nail has grown in its place. You can never make out now that any accident had ever occurred to the thumb.
Case No.5
Mr.X, a young boy 24 years old crushed his thumb while fixing a portrait in my house. I immediately prescribed Arnica 200 one dose and he left my house. Later he developed severe pain but was not available for medication. I sent Arnica 1M 5 doses, three doses to be taken at hourly interval in the evening and the remaining 2 doses at intervals of three hours. I also gave one dose Arnica 10M to be taken next morning. The boy didnt get the medicine till he returned late in the night. He was having severe pain in the thumb. He simply took all the 5 doses at one hourly interval and took Arnica 10M next morning and he was completely free from the pain thereafter.
Case No.6
A young girl 18 years of age, suffers from tonsillitis and sinusitis. She came to me for treatment when her tonsils flared up. She had heavy cold, pain in the throat on swallowing, the pain extending to the ear and tonsils swollen. It was due to change of weather.
Her general symptoms are, she sweats in the nights on the head heavily and the sweat rolls down the head, neck and face, wetting the pillow. Her hands and feet were always cold.
As it is a clear symptom of Calcarea, which is also indicated in the pain in the throat extending to the ear, being one of the drugs in italics in Kents repertory Page No. 460, pain in the throat due to change of weather, Calcarea is the only drug in black Page No.458, and sore pain Calc. being one of the many black drugs Page 463, I prescribed Calc. 30, 3 doses, to be taken morning and evening. The pain and other troubles receded and she was all right within 2-3 days.
Then she started getting fever. She is a working girl. She used to feel feverish daily in the afternoon and was returning home in the evenings with slight temperature. She would have fever the whole night. It would recede by next morning and she would go to work again. Because the fever was only about 99 degrees she never cared and this went on for about a week. Then one night, she had three vomitings. In the morning, the fever was 100 degrees. Her mother came to me. The patient was thirstless, had loathing for food and had nausea. Her face was flushed. Her flushed face suggested Belladonna, which was in black (i.e. highest degree) in Kents Repertory Page No. 504, in loathing of food and nausea, in italics in thirst less and vomiting on Page 530 and 531.
As it also happened to be acute of Calcarea, I prescribed Belladonna-30, 3 doses. By the time the mother went home at about 11:30 am, the fever was 101 degrees. One dose was given. The temperature came down to 100 degrees within an hour. 2nd and 3rd doses were given at 3 hourly intervals but the temperature didnt come down further. Next day morning, the temperature was 99 degrees, which rose to 100 degrees during the day. Another two doses were given; to take morning and evening, and 3rd day the temperature reached subnormal at 96 degrees.
Her menstrual cycle had been very irregular with some hormonal treatment during past six months, the menses would either delay or once started would not stop until further hormones were taken (she is an employee of a star hospital). Presently, she was
having discharge for the past 1-1/2 months non-stop. Her mother mentioned this while reporting aforesaid acute conditions and I promised to look into it once she got over the present acute phase.
But during this treatment of acute tonsillitis and fever, the discharge stopped and didnt recur for about 20 days. It was spotted once but stopped again. It might become regular failing which, another dose or two of her constitutional remedy i.e., Calcarea might put the cycle in order.
This result produced while treatment of her acute condition with her constitutional drug Calcarea carb. Belladonna left me with reverence and awe towards Dr Hahnemann who discovered Homoeopathy, which is nature itself. How a constitutional remedy puts the entire person, his vitality and health into order. She recovered completely and uneventfully. Not feeling weak or jaded in spite of such acute sufferings. How true my husband was when he told me just half-an-hour before his death that Homoeopathy is so great Homeopathy is God It is God indeed
NB: She had menses in time; the discharge was normal and stopped after 5th day.
Case No. 7
My left molar was troubling me off and on whenever breadcrumbs or any other food particles got stuck in the molars. It used to pain severely which was always relieved with Hekla lava-6. This recurred a few times over a period of 2-3 years and I was carrying on with it happily.
Then I developed a complaint. My right lower molars were not able to tolerate hot or cold drinks and cool air if sucked. Chewing was also difficult, but somehow, I never cared. Suddenly one day, I developed severe pain in the molars. It became so severe and unbearable that I was in tears. The pain was extending to the ear.
I repertorised and found on Page 440 of Kents Repertory Pain extending to the ear Sepia and Staphysagria among other black letter drugs. I took Sepia 30 at 9:30 am. There was no change, took a 2nd dose at 10:00 am and within 15-20 minutes, the relief ensued. I felt very much better. I should have left it at that. But forgetting the rule Never try to make a good thing better I took 3rd dose at 10:30 am i.e. 3 doses were taken at half hourly intervals. Immediately the pain shot up. I took another dose three hours later at 1:30 pm and somehow managed to have lunch but I was having lot of pain and discomfort. Then I took Sepia 200 at 2:30 pm. I had a peculiar experience and I could feel the drug working on the molars and by evening the pain decreased. The improvement continued and I was 90-95% better by next morning. I was able to tolerate hot and cold drinks and the pain was much, much better. But my eyes started watering due to inflammation of the eyes with discharge of mucus and blurred vision followed. Instead of allowing the action of the drug to settle down, I took Natrum mur-30 one dose in the evening, it being complementary to Sepia and my toothache returned with full force though my eyes cleaned.
I left all the medicines for 2-3 days as suggested by my senior homoeopath but the pain and the distress continued. I repeated Sepia 200 and 1 M, with no result.
We were to go on a pleasure trip to Goa and South Canara during Dassera holidays. As I wanted to be completely free from the pain during our trip, I took Staphysagria-30, 200 and 1 M, morning and evening in spite of my teachers advice. The pain decreased but as it had not gone completely, I took Staphysagria 10M one dose and the turbulence calmed down completely. We proceeded on our trip next day i.e. on 06-10-2002. I had been free from the pain ever since and hot and cold drinks are happily being tolerated.
What an experience Got confirmation of the rule Never try to make a good thing better. When my toothache had vanished but eyes were watering due to inflammation of the eyes, I should have left it and it would have adjusted in a day or two. Why did I disturb the working of the medicine by taking the complementary? I suffered intensely on account of my own folly.
Let such results be seen by people who think that the action of the homoeopathic drugs is only psychological and gives only placebo effect even though they have been used for infants and animals so successfully.
Another opinion prevailing among the people is our drugs never do any harm if they cannot benefit a person. But this case shows clearly how the potencies have to be handled with homoeopathy is extremely difficult and a spoilt case may sometimes go beyond repair. Beware Never take homoeopathy for granted
Case No.8
These days I feel quite confident in treating cases of trauma, burns, crush injuries etc. My neighbours cook got her right hand burnt while frying papads. The hot oil spilled on her hand and all her fingers were badly burnt. But it was still superficial only.
As per modern practice she immediately dipped her hand in cold water and blebs appeared. She went for allopathic treatment of course as the general belief is Homoeopathic treatment never helps in such acute emergencies and even if it does it is very slow. She used the ointment etc., for 4-5 days with no result. Then she was brainwashed to come to me.
As it was a superficial burn only, I asked her to apply Calendula tincture on her hand. On page 38 of Traumatic Diseases & their Sequelae by Dr L N i.e. my husband, he describes Arnica is prophylactic of pus infection (Boericke). The effect of Arnica on threatened pus formation or actual pus in injured surfaces is something that even a homoeopath has to see to believe. The absorption of pus in such cases can be observed within a few hours of Arnica in potency. The higher potencies are much more rapid and effective. I prescribed Arnica-200, 3 doses every one hour, then one dose in the afternoon and one in the evening. Next day, all her blebs broke, the serum oozed out and the pain was much less. I continued only Arnica 200 internally three times a day for next day with calendula tincture for external applications and twice a day for another two days. It started improving fast and there was considerable improvement within four days. Her middle finger had lost pigmentation completely and it had become pinkish white.
I continued to give Arnica 200 at longer intervals and stopped when she was completely relieved. The pigmentation started developing and after 2 months, the finger became so normal that one could not say which was the finger burnt and had lost pigmentation. It is a satisfying result for a beginner like me and I am thankful to my Master for this. This treatment gave so much confidence in the patient that she started consulting me all her minor complaints.
Case No.9
Mrs X is about 55 year old polio patient. Her right leg is affected and she walks because of unequal distribution of weight while walking, her back aches. She was also told that there has been a ligament tear and if she walks long distance, she feels excruciating pain in her lower spine.
Treating this as Chronic effects of shock to spine, I put her on Arnica Hypericum, Nitric acid, all in 200C potencies morning, afternoon and evening to be repeated every week for 3 weeks reference Page 104 of Homoeopathic Therapeutics of Traumatic Disease and their Sequelae. This was later followed by Calcarea 6 to be taken daily for alternate weeks for another 3 weeks and it relieved her of that pain completely for more than a year.
Again in August 2006, she had Chikungunya and developed the ligament pain along with other pains in ankle joint, feet, soles, knees specially while sitting an getting up from a seat, knuckles, fingers and swelling in all the joints. On 04-09-2006, I again gave her medicine for ligament tear, the trio of Arnica, Hypericum & Acid Nit in 200 potencies followed by S/L for a week. Immediately, all the pains were aggravated badly on 5/9. I left the patient alone and the pains started decreasing from the very next day, & within 2-3 days almost disappeared. The Chikungunya pains improved upto 40% but still very troublesome.
17/09/2006 Influenzinum-30 + Baccillinum-30 (mixture) morning & evening 2 doses followed by S/L over the next week.
There was no significant improvement. Calc carb 6 daily once for a week was repeated for another week alternately after a gap of one week. Pains decreased but still persisted. 22-10-2006 Rhus tox 30, 3 doses morning & evening. 31-10-2006 the report is that she is much better with all her swelling gone. As she had strained her right polio affected leg with unequal distribution of weight on this leg while walking, I propose to give her Arnica-200 morning & evening, 3 doses, which I think, will relieve her of this pain, which is mainly due to the strain on this leg. I have been able to relieve Chikungunya pain in few patients with Rhus tox & Calcarea carb.
Case No.10
A child, about 6 years of age used to suffer from frequent fevers at least twice a month from very long time and was constantly under antibiotics of an allopathic doctor who happened to be my friend. Then he asked the mother not to subject her to any more antibiotics and sent the case to me in November 2004. When the child came to me she was not suffering from any fever and was okay. But she was a puny dried up child, not much appetite, and no growth. As it is I have been a beginner and I do not have much confidence in treating fevers. I was quite annoyed at the doctor friend of mine. However, taking the background of heavy medication with antibiotics, I gave 3 doses of Nux vomica 30 C-3 doses to be given once daily followed by Sac lac for a week. The child started improving with improved appetite and slight all-round improvement. She got fever of about 102 F on 29-12-2004 and they came to me. As it was dry cold, I gave Aconite 30 3 doses to her given every hour to be followed by 2 more doses, one to be given in the night with a gap of 3-4 hours and 5th dose next day.
30/12/04 Though the temperature dipped in the night, morning again it was 100 F, which rose during the day. I gave Aconite 200 doses to be given afternoon and night, and report in the morning. But again the temperature dipped a little by morning. Again it was 100 F. I gave Aconite 1 M one dose and asked to report to me later in the day.
01-01-2005 I never got any report. I thought they might have gone for allopathic treatment and I thought it to be good riddance. But on 2nd morning I got their report that with one dose of Aconite 1M the temperature came down never to rise again and she became completely normal. As my phone was continuously engaged on account of new years greetings being exchanged, they could not get in touch me though they were trying for me frantically. As the child was completely normal, they were quite happy. When I recently contacted them to ascertain the childs condition, I was told that she never got fever that and has been free from fever till this day. What a satisfying result for a beginner like me
Editors remark- Mrs Sudha Laxminarayanan is a very ardent devotee of homoeopathy. She started prescribing homoeopathic remedies after the demise of her renowned husband the late Dr D Laxminarayanan. She may have the beginners luck for sure but she is also an ardent reader of homoeopathic books. Her enthusiasm is admirable and her love for homoeopathy would make even Hahnemann happy.
CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES [Chronic Eye Inflammation]
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal Of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker.
Volume
1935 Jun Vol LXX No 834
Author
Round G.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Puls.
DEAR MR. BARKER, – Knowing that “a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men,” I enclose you something which will make you smile, a cutting from the Cape Argus of November 3rd, 1934.
Evidently your most interesting and instructive articles in the “HEAL THYSELF” and your News Lives for Old annoy “Medicus” exceedingly: apparently the very idea of anyone being cured (not patched up) by homoeopathy is utterly preposterous to him. It would be very laughable, were it not deplorable, to see the attitude of the orthodox M.Ds who do very little, and who thunder (or should I say “bray” ?) at those who believe in homoeopathy and who have received lasting benefit from it.
May I, without trespassing too much on your valuable space, quote my own case: For about ten years I suffered most severely from acute inflammation of the eyes. The attacks lasted from fourteen days to six weeks during which time I was dosed by different allopathic doctors with liberal doses of Salicylic Acid and with eye drops of Atropine. During the attacks I was compelled to sit in darkness with bandages over my eyes as the least glint of light was as if a knife stabbed me.
This continued until about 1920 when I went to Kimberely and was there attacked again. Fortunately there was a homoeopathic doctor there who was called in. He gave me (I think) Aconite and Pulsatilla. In a week I was well (the shortest attack I ever had) and have never had an attack since. I wonder what “Medicus” would say to this.
Apologizing for trespassing and trusting that you will enjoy a very hearty laugh over the enclosure,
I am, very sincerely yours,
(MR.) G. ROUND.
THE TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA [Treatment Of Pneumonia]
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal Of Medical Dietetic Social and Sanitary Science By Ellis Barker j.
Volume
1935 Nov Vol LXX No 839
Author
William H Dieffenbach.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Canth / Hyos / Iod / Acon.
By DR. WILLIAM H. DIEFFENBACH
From The Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.
WHEN medical literature regarding the mortality of pneumonia treated according to orthodox methods still shows a high mortality, averaging 30 per cent, and over, for certain types, and one scans the January number of the Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy and finds an article on the treatment of pneumonia rejoicing in a mortality of 35 per cent., once is astounded at the lack of progress made in the treatment of this bacterial infection. But 10 If one investigates further, the discovery is made that homoeopathic medication is ignored in both sources mentioned.
One finds that regular homoeopaths still maintain that the average death rate of pneumonia when treated by unsoiled methods according to the principle of similar is seldom over 5 per cent. and some maintain a lower rate.
My experience when in general practice brought me in contact with a number of orthodox physicians and they all acknowledged their inability to cope with pneumonia, which is one of the shining examples of homoeopathic therapeutic success.
Our treatment of pneumonia was carried on along hygienic, dietetic, hydrotherapeutic and homoeopathic lines.
For the older dyed-in-the-wool homoeopaths, the following recital of personal experiences may be trite reading, but for the younger groups, now groping around for light, it may stimulate and encourage them to adhere to a medical system, which has proven its worth for over a century.
CASE I. After conducting a funeral service at an open grave on a cold fall afternoon, our pastor reached home with a heavy chill and promptly went to bed. His usual remedy for an acute chill or cold was hot lemonade and some quinine pills, which were taken with no results. Late in the evening the patient with the exclamation “You are too late this time_ I am going to die-I caught cold once too often.” The temperature was 103 F., pulse hard, fast and strong, respiration laboured and voice affected. Skin was hot and dry. Examination showed flatness on percussion on right lower lobe and dry rales.
Here were presented a group of symptoms:
(I) Chill after exposure to cold wind.
(2) Anxiety-fear of death.
(3) Fever with fast, hard pulse.
(4) Dry hot skin.
(5) Hoarseness and dry cough-little or no expectoration, unable to collect specimen for diagnostic purposes.
This was a picture of Aconite.
Ten drops of Aconite 3x were given in a glass of water with orders to give a teaspoonful of this dilution half hourly until improvement set in.
Fruit juice were ordered. The family had some home-made raspberry juice which was diluted with water and administered frequently as it relieved the cough.
The next day the patient was better and at the end of the week the pastor was in the pulpit and praised God for his prompt recovery. Hahnemann should have shared the glory.
CASE II. While attending to my daily service at Broad Street Hospital, New York City, the superintendent was taken with lobar pneumonia and placed himself in the care of the medical chief, an orthodox physician of diagnostic ability. All the staff regularly inquired concerning the condition of the patient and after more than one weeks illness the attending physician accosted the writer in the hall and stated, “I am afraid the superintendent is slipping away; his pneumonia is not resolving, his cough, temperature, respiration and pulse are unsatisfactory. Have you as a Homoeopath anything to suggest?” The chart showed that the patient had been ill ten days, had received codeine for the cough, digitalis to support the heart and whisky as a diffusible stimulant. Beef tea and other inappropriate foods were in the dietary.
He was placed in a semi-recumbent position to help his respiration and had excellent nursing care.
An examination of the chart showed the typing to be III and this knowledge appeared to dampen the spirits of the attending physician.
We advised suspending the codeine, digitalis and whisky at once.
The particular symptoms presented by this patient for homoeopathic analyses were the following: .
(I) Patient was anxious and nervous, scolding about his food, claiming it was not satisfying-always hungry.
(2) He had dyspnoea, a dry cough with sharp pains when coughing. Stethoscopic examination showed complete involvement of the right lung.
(3) Patient craved air, wanted the bed clothes lifted and aired, he objected to being warm. The indicated remedy, Iodine, was selected on these symptoms.
Two drops of the tincture of iodine in a glass of warmed raw milk to be given thus every two hours until further notice.
Sectional sponging of the body with hot mittens, twice a day was advised.
Fruit juices were offered hourly to increase the alkalinity of the blood plasma.
The patient responded and in one week was ambulant.
Two McGill University interns who were attending to the usual details approached the writer after attending convalescence with their little notebooks in which they had written: Dr. Dieffenbachs treatment for pneumonia: “Two drops tincture of iodine in a glass of raw milk every two hours”.
The writer was obliged to disabuse the interns and inform them that some other remedy might be indicated in the next pneumonic infection, but this philosophy was not appreciated by these physicians with orthodox training. The regular attending physician refused to admit that Homoeopathy had anything to do with the recovery, but the superintendent believes otherwise.
CASE III. Late one evening the telephone bell rang and a voice at the other end requested the writer to come to Rye, N.Y., some distance from the city, to visit a former patient who had developed pneumonia after la gripe and was attended by a a Johns Hopkins graduate. The latter had announced to the family that after battling for twelve days for his patient, he believed the end to be near and that they should prepare for the worst. After this pronouncement the call was sent to me, as the former family physician. On arrival at midnight, three nurses were found walking about in fur coats with all windows wide open. The doctor presented the chart, on which was noted a mixed pneumonic infection, with type II predominant.
The medication noted was morphine, 1/8, whisky, digitalis and urotropin. The patient was semi-conscious, muttering and unable to respond to my greeting. A rapid examination of the confirmed a bilateral involvement. Consolidation especially in the right side.
Patient was delirious at times, picking at the bed clothes and extremely restless. Head was hot and congested.
Temperature at time of visit, 104 F., pulse irregular, but fairly strong. Incontinence of urine and faeces had supervened.
After discussing the situation with the Johns Hopkins graduate he suggested that I use any method familiar to me as he was prepared to sign the death certificate the next day.
I prepared to spend the night at the home and as a first measure ordered all windows closed to prevent chilling of the body and ventilation was secured indirectly. The nurses were shown the technic for hot, sectional ablutions and were ordered to keep up this measure for several hours to increase elimination of toxins through the skin.
The remedies morphine, urotropin, urotropin, digitalis and whisky were set aside and ten drops of Hyoscyamus niger 3x were given diluted in a glass of water-one teaspoon of this dilution every half hour until improvement set in. This remedy was suggested by the following symptoms:.
(I) Congested head (pia mater); delirium; semiconsciousness; chattering; muttering.
(2) Attempts to uncover-picking at the bed clothes.
(3) Shallow breathing. Dry cough.
(4) Incontinence of faeces and urine.
(5) Difficulty in swallowing.
Fruit juices and dilute Kalak water were offered frequently to combat the acidemia.
The attending physician admitted he had never heard of the use of Hyoscyamus in pneumonia, but did not interfere with any of our suggestions. He said he was through. On his visit the next day he confirmed that the patient had improved. The patient recognized the visitors and spoke a few words. His temperature as compared with previous mornings was better; his toxemia appeared to be relieved.
The hygienic measures, the alkaline water and fruit juice were continued and the Hyoscyamus was suspended.
It had done its work.
The next day phosphoric acid controlled the incontinence of faeces and urine and this was followed by indicated remedies and convalescence was had in ten days.
The John Hopkins graduate in discussing the result attained attributed it to the hydrotherapeutic measures which relieved the toxemia and ignored the value therapeutically of the homoeopathic remedies selected.
some six months later on meeting a member of the family, I was informed that this physician had himself died of pneumonia a short time previously, no doubt under orthodox auspices.
CASE IV. A recent patient, a member of the family, aged 89, was afflicted with an cute cold which developed into broncho- pneumonia.
There was a fairly high fever, dry cough which sometimes brought up blood-streaked mucus. The pulse rate was not increased and the condition relaxed and weak.
An orthodox physician called into consultation suggested ammonium carbonate in appreciable dosage but deferred to our suggestion to try Ferrum phosphoricum ex, two tablets every three hours until improvement set in. The following day the patient developed cystitis with urging and tenesmus which a few intercurrent doses of Cantharis 6x in water controlled.
The following day drowsiness and liquid rales heard all over the thorax suggested Antimonium tartaricum 6x which was administered every three hours for twentyfour hours.
Owing to the advanced age (eighty-nine) of the patient, no active hydrotherapeutic measures were employed excepting one hot, sectional sponging daily. Fruit juice were given ad lib. and enjoyed. Other nutrition soon followed and in ten days the patient was ambulant.
The orthodox physician who visited almost daily and stood ready to give advice was impressed with the results accomplished without heart stimulants or expectorants. He was particularly pleased at the results following Ferrum phos. and Antimonium tart.
Many experiences such as the above can no doubt be exhumed from the index of cards of hundreds of Homoeopathic prescribers and clearly proves the superiority over orthodox practice in bronchial and pulmonary infections.
Why graduates of Homoeopathic hospitals and colleges should deviate from the clear indications of Homoeopathic practice and follow the ignis flatus of shifting orthodox practice is basically unsound philosophy and will lead to ruin. We should stand by our heritage and compare results at the home and clinics with current orthodox practice and the results will justify our continued adherence of Similia similibus Curentur.
TWO MEDICOS
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J ELLIS BARKER.
Volume
1939 Apr Vol LXXIV No 880
Author
Bryant C P.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Thuj.
DEAR MR. BARKER. Enclosed you will find a poem entitled “Two Medicos”, composed by Judith Hjertstedt, 14 years of age, a resident of Seattle, that I thought you might be interested in for “HEAL THYSELF”.
The poem was given to a young student of homoeopathy herein Seattle, Thomas Weiss, who, through the prescribing of Aconite and Thuja, effected a complete cure for this little patient.
Cordially yours,
C.P. BRYANT,
President,
International Hahnemannian Association.
TWO MEDICOS.
(Homoeopath and Allopath).
My story here to-day is of
Two doctors young and wise.
One of them a Homoeopath
Whose patient seldom dies.
His modern method for the ills
Is simple, yet is best,
For he uses sugar pills,
And throws away the rest.
The allopath sits in his den,
Wishing and thinking still,
Of ways to cure his fellow men,
Without the Homoeopathic pill.
Hes ready when its time to cut
A tonsil or a liver.
But he can never, never be
A good old sugar-pill-giver.
Dont get me wrong when I say
A Homoeopaths pill is just sweet.
There may be other ingredients
That are plenty hard to beat.
There may be some Aconite,
Or there may be some Thuja.
Whatever potency it might be
Its just bound to cure ya.
Now, if you dont believe this,
I will not force you to,
But take a tip from a veteran,
A Homoeopath can cure you.
JUDITH HJERTSTEDT,
Age 14 years.
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
(NOTE:- The two remedies most useful in bringing about the cure of this little patient were Aconite and Thuja. This doubtless prompted her to refer to them in the poem).
A CASE OF PNEUMONIA? [Pneumonia]
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J ELLIS BARKER.
Volume
1939 May Vol LXXIV No 881
Author
Meyer.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Bry / Phos.
A MIRACLE CURE.
DEAR MR. BARKER, I have been meaning to write to you for days on end, but I have been extremely busy with a number of things, including a very serious case of supposed pneumonia.
On Monday evening the telephone rang it was the daughter of the woman whom I attended two years ago when she had a stroke. The mother is a different woman and thinks I am wonderful .
However, on Monday, one of her daughters rang up at 9.30 to say her sister was seriously ill with pneumonia, would I go to her at once. A doctor had been looking after her for a week, and all the family thought she was sinking. She is married, with one child aged four years.
I went and the frail little thing was so altered I hardly recognized her she was deathly pale had a terrible cough her head was tied up with bandages she said the pain in her head was driving her mad. She was so wasted and weak I was afraid to move her lest the exertion killed her.
I felt sure she hadnt pneumonia. I felt her pulse it was so weak I could scarcely find it. When I did there was a feeble beat and a flutter then another beat her temperature was 103, she was frightfully ill. I asked her if she was in much pain she said the pain in her back was excruciating and had been like that for months she had pain in her right side I thought that was probably dry pleurisy her mouth.
I have never seen a mouth in such a state the back of her throat was a sheet of thick white coating. You could cut it with a knife, her tongue was like raw beef and ulcerated. She had large cracks each side of her mouth she vomited the little food she was able to take and said for that reason she had not eaten anything for five days but drank a little lemonade her bowels had not acted for five days.
The doctor had been to see her just before I arrived and told the family she was so ill it would be a miracle if she survived the next day. I am afraid I agreed with him and thought it was the only truthful thing she said. When the family told him her bowels had not acted for days, what could they do he said give her any medicine you like as long as she doesnt diarrhoea .
Whether you will think I did right or wrong I thought the first thing to do would be to get her bowels to act. I gave her a gentle enema she returned hard dark brown faces covered with mucus and very offensive, she passed urine once in twenty- four hours, it was bright with a thick sediment, she had had no sleep for weeks I gave her Aconite and Bryonia in alternation. I thought the former to bring her temperature down and the latter to help the cough. I also left Phosphorus 3 in case it was pneumonia.
I sponged her and put her as comfortable as I could and left her at 12.30 midnight and said I would return early the next morning, but her temperature dropped before I felt to 101. Next morning she was very restless and agitated and when I entered the room I heard her tell her sister to leave her alone and dig a hole and bury her as quickly as possible. She said it is too late Mrs. L., I am dying I wouldnt ask a dog to suffer so. I want to die.
I said you are much better and before the day was out she would be a different person. She was soaked in perspiration. I gave her a blanket bath, a dose of paraffin and changed her bed and was worried to death, but I thought she was a little better in some ways, her temperature was normal and her pulse much stronger I told her to buck up, she was much better, she had very little sleep during the night and was now covered with a cold clammy sweat, her eyes so sunken she looked a corpse I cleaned her mouth with vinegar and water and tried to scrape away some of the filth that plastered her mouth and throat, and asked her if she thought she could gargle once she tried and did it beautifully.
I took some vegetable soup and gave her two tablespoons and two hours later I gave her two tablespoons of milk and a few biscuit crumbs I was delighted when she kept this down. I felt orders to give her every two hours a little nourishment, I returned at once and gave her a few spoonfuls of junket, everything I gave her she retained. She had the use of her bowels a huge motion and the urine was less scanty. Evening temperature still normal and pulse steady her head a little easier but her back was breaking what could I do for her back I made her gargle again, and again I gave her mouth a good cleaning. On Thursday temperature still normal and pulse good but no sleep at last I thought I would try Variolinum. I gave her a dose Thursday afternoon at three oclock, at 3.30 she was sleeping peacefully and slept till 6.30.
When I saw her at seven p.m. she was better I left at 8.30 and told the sister to give her another dose at 10 p.m. and hoped for the best the next morning early the telephone rang. I was afraid to go the husband spoke and said you have saved my wifes life, she had slept peacefully all through the night–God bless your soul. I saw the patient at 9.30 she was much better and was sponging her face she had three good motions that day and kept all her food down and ate a potato baked in the skin and a baked apple.
Yesterday she was sitting up in bed. To-day, Sunday when I saw her after Church she was reading a book full of smiles, all the pain in her back and head gone is not this case a miracle The doctor has been visiting every day and simply cant get over it, he never once asked how her mouth was. When the sister asked what she could do to clean it he said give her some pineapple juice and all this week he had not asked once if the bowels had acted. I really do feel now that I can heal this is the fifth serious case I have had and all of them snatched from the jaws of death.
No wonder you adore your work so do I and the parents and husband of this little woman love me as I love you with that wonderful devotion I have for you, and have had and will always have I shall never forget what you have done for me and my children. I would give much to be near you, and see you work if only for an hour or so I can think of no greater joy than being able to do something like this when everyone else has failed.
BETTER PRESCRIBING IN HEART CASES
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HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J ELLIS BARKER.
Volume
1939 Aug Vol LXXIV No 884
Author
Varney J D.
Subject
General Topics / Materia Medica / Cases
Remedy
Acon / Lat-h / Cact / Spong / Naja / Crat / Dig / Cham / Adonis / Stroph.
[ Read before Bureau of Clinical Medicine at the Southern Homoeopathic Medical Association, at St. Louis, Mo., October 13, 1938.]
By J. D. VARNEY, M.D.
Dayton, Ohio.
(From the Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.).
IN the last decade deaths from heart disease (especially coronary) have been increasing with alarming rapidity. This depression with all its headaches and financial difficulties doubtless has something to do with it, as well as our fast living ; use of tobacco, liquors, etc., are all prime factors in this trouble. In a survey of 2,000 cases by the Mayo Clinic, doctors were found to head the list by two to one, bankers coming second and lawyers and preachers tying for third place and labourers constituting a poor fourth. So it would seem that the long, arduous training and mental strain of a physicians work have something to do with the condition.
A physician;s first duty in treating disease is to remove the cause, but as we cannot control the lives of our patients it is up to us to find the best method of relieving this condition and prolong lifes span as long as possible.
While my subject is entitled “better prescribing” in heart cases, I would like to make it a general plea for better prescribing in all cases of disease. Of course, in a paper of this kind time will not permit of great detail, so I shall attempt only to outline a principle (for those of you here who do not understand Homoeopathy0 and a few of the more common heart ailments which we see in everyday practice.
The longer I live and practice medicine the more I see and feel the fallacy of slipshod ,methods of prescribing, and the seeking for specifics to cure from a pathologic standpoint (there are no specifics). Of course, every system of medicine has its virtues but to my mind all are inferior to Homoeopathy, for they cure only when they are homoeopathic to the case. Those of you who prefer to use cured methods I would advise to stick to crude Homoeopathy rather than resort to poisonous drugs before their merits have been determined. To convince one of the truth of this statement, we have only to review the literature of the past decade and note the trouble caused by using dangerous drugs.
You remember a few years ago they brought out dinitrophenol and every old-school journal in the country was full of the wonderful treatment they had discovered for obesity, but soon their enthusiasm began to cool when reports of blindness came pouring in from all parts of the country. Then came cinchophen and a like advertisement, and again like reports soon began to come in from deaths of cirrhosis of the liver from its use, and after it was too late came the caution to be careful of its use, for it is dangerous. Then the last but not least was the late lamented sulfanilamide which, as you remember, has around 117 deaths officially recorded due to its use- and we do not know how many more that were not reported. Now let me ask in all candidness does it pay to fool with such remedies when we know we can save these lives if we take a little time to become more proficient in individual prescribing in a system that has been proven safe and sound ? Now lets see why this statements is true : Homoeopathy teaches us that drugs do not act directly on any pathologic condition, but act through the blood stream, assisting nature in building up anti-bodies which combat the disease. We also known that about 25 per cent. of the patients consulting doctors do not have any pathologic condition. So if you attempt to prescribe for these patients from a pathologic standpoint, you only poison your patient and create a condition worse than the supposed disease. However, we do know whether it be a a disturbed physiology or some pathology, it will produce some irritation on the organ or tissue affected and that this disturbance will be transmitted through the afferent and efferent nervous and manifest some symptoms. It may be a nerve pain, a soreness in some muscle or a stiffness in a joint. These are all subjective symptoms and can be noted only in the human, but when recorded become important guides in prescribing a drug which is know (through provings) to produce similar symptoms on the human body.
Knowing this, could there be anything more logical than to believe that this drug would have some action upon this disturbed condition ? But you say what is this action-just how does it do it ? Well, tell me just how or why does bichloride of mercury produce acute nephritis or strychnia cause paralysis of the spinal cord ? If this question could have been answered, the whole question of drug action would have been settled a long time ago. But just as we know the mercury and strychnia do cause pathologic conditions, just so do know that these same condition. If it is known that we can take these dangerous drugs and render them non-poisonous by trituration and still increase their power to cure disease, any honest unprejudiced mind would have to admit that such a system is superior to one using dangerous poisonous drugs that kill.
This is Homoeopathy and it embraces the only curative law thus far known in medicine. Its principals cannot be blotted out ; they may be exploited under another name. Still these same principles constitute the only curative measures known outside of the homoeopathic remedies. I refer to the vaccines, serum and allergic remedies which are homoeopathic in principle whether they go under that name or not. Each day the homoeopathic principle is being exploited more and more and some day will become the universal law of medicine regardless of what it is called. Remember there is a great field still to be explored under the similia law.
About four years ago one Dr. Peck of New York City came out with an article in Popular Science lauding the wonderful action of lachesis, that which he had just discovered, by using it in dilution one in 3,000 it would check haemorrhage. I answered the article and was surprised to have Popular Science give me space enough to tell its readers that Constantine Herring brought the first snake poison into America in 1828, and that the Homoeopaths had been using it ever since. Even the pictures were taken from Boericke and Tafels catalogue which they have used since opening a homoeopathic drug house.
A short time ago Dr. James Small of Philadelphia published an article in which he started by saying that this will sound like Homoeopathy but has nothing to do with it. He had found that by diluting streptococcic serum 1-16 and injecting 5/100 of cc. it would control some forms of arthritis and rheumatoid carditis. He also found that a dose small enough not to cause severe reaction was the best. So I think the trend of all schools is to the small dose. We now put 4 oz. of iodine into a standpipe of water to prevent goitre ; also a small amount of chlorine in a like amount of water to prevent typhoid and it works. No one would advise large doses of the tincture of iodine to school children to prevent goitre. So I think it is logical to see that the smallest possible dose to bring about reaction is the best treatment. This is as true in heart disease as any other. Why is it that mortality rate is so much higher in coronary troubles under other treatment ? Simply because the idea of pathologic prescribing will not work work ; their sheet anchor of the xanthine group has been proven by Gold and Otto of New York to be of No therapeutic value, so all that is left is large doses of morphine to kill the pain, and if the already damaged heart can stand the added poison, they are too often followed by a large dose of digitalis, which usually completes the job. Now do not think that digitalis is not a good remedy for heart condition, for it is one of the best, when indicated ; but it is very seldom, if ever, indicated in coronary conditions, and I very much doubt if ever indicated in physiologic doses for the so-called digitalization ; for as you know it acts profoundly upon the muscular substance of the heart and arteries through the pneumogastric and vasomotor nerves, causing violent systolic contractions which go on to paralysis in poisoning by the drug. In digitalization we get the physiologic action and if the heart muscles is not strong enough to stand the strain it is just too bad.
How many of you have ever used Aconite in coronary conditions? If you have used it or studied its action, you have noticed that it has almost a complete picture of this condition. Your severe agonizing pain often accompanied with numbness, great anguish of mind and fear of death, extreme restlessness, oppressed breathing, tachycardia, sensitiveness to all noise, intermittent pulse, increased desire to urinate, etc. Another symptoms that has been noted by several different prescribers and claimed to be pathognomonic of coronary disease is a “bright redness of the hypothenar eminences”. All these symptoms come under Aconite, and if you use it early you will not be called upon to use morphine. And while on Aconite dont forget that it is indicated in “peri- and endocarditis” of acute rheumatic origin, and when used early will prevent 90 per cent. of the trouble from ever developing. You know that many writers now believe that acute rheumatic fever is a product of heart disease in place of the heart disease being caused by the fever.
Latrodectus is another remedy that comes in for equal honours in coronary disease. It attacks the entire precordial region, causing violent griping pain extending to the axilla, down left arm and often up into the neck and back of the head. Patient fearful and screams with the pain, dyspnoea severe. Patient fears he will lose his breath. Has numbness in lower limbs and a sinking sensation in epigastrium, which increases his fear of death.
Cactus.- Indicated when you have that characteristic iron-band constriction. Patient in a cold sweat, pain running down left arm and ring finger. The pains of Cactus are not usually over the whole left chest but seem to start from the apex of the heart and shoot upwards. They are aggravated by pressure and lying on left side.
Spongia is a remedy often forgotten in these cases. Patient awakened usually after midnight with a violent pain, badly frightened and thinks he will suffocate. Has violent palpitation heart feels as if it were trying to push its way up through the chest.
These are desperate cases and a doctor is anxious and worried and inclined to resort to morphine, but if you keep your head and know you materia medica you will relieve your patient and will not have to combat the damage done by morphine. Of course, you will have to treat your patient after the acute attack and here dont forget NAJA ; it is especially indicated in thrombosis, which will rapidly form an embolus if not checked. Following this probably Crataegus is one of our best remedies, but almost any remedy might be indicated, for it is the patient you are treating and not one symptoms.
Angina pectoris often is confused with coronary disease and rightly so, as sometimes it is very difficult to make a correct diagnosis. However, there are a few symptoms that will help to distinguish between them. In angina the patient will get into a certain position and will not move for fear of increasing the pain, while in coronary trouble the patient will move about trying to find some position to relieve the pain. Angina will be benefited by the nitrites, while they have little or no effect on coronary conditions. In angina both the pulse and blood pressure will be accentuated, while in coronary trouble the pulse is apt to be irregular but the blood pressure is usually low, and a rise in same is a good symptoms. For an acute attack Amyl nitrite, Glonoin, Cactus or perhaps some of the above-mentioned remedies will usually control, but as this is purely nervous trouble the after-treatment must be directed to the constitutional nervous condition.
Mitral Cases.- Another condition that gives us a good deal of concern is the old mitral case. The heart of fifty or sixty with a history of “Flu” or pneumonia of inflammatory rheumatism, a heart that perhaps has already been weakened by heavy drinking or some other physical ailment, falls easy prey to this infection. Examination reveals dilatation, especially of the left side, marked mitral murmurs, first sound weakened or obliterated altogether, a failing compensation, oedema about the ankles, may or may not find albumin in the urine. Anyway, it is the beginning of the end unless checked immediately. You may be called in the night and find the patient rapidly failing perhaps unconscious, with weak, rapid, irregular pulse, loud irregular breathing. Often incontinence. These are cases needing immediate stimulation to support the failing heart, so a hypodermic of Glonoin or Coramin. The latter I always give into the blood stream ; it is about as quick in action as Glonoin and lasts much longer, and will usually stimulate the failing heart and keep the patient alive until you can substitute some of the more substantial remedies. You often will get fibrillation but don;t think you have to give Digitalis or Quinidine in large doses for Digitalis or China in potency will do the work for you.
Crataegus to follow up will do wonders in these old cases. It acts through the cardio-inhibitory vagus, strengthens and slow the hearts action. Especially indicated in high tension, this remedy alone will often keep these old cases alive and comfortable for years. It does not have an accumulative effect and can be given in substantial doses over long periods of time with no danger.
Digitalis in potency is indicated when the muscle is weak and accompanied with a good deal of dropsy. It stimulates the cardiac ganglion, it has an accumulative effect and is very slowly eliminated and must be carefully watched.
CHAMOMILLA
THE keynote of this drug is restlessness and peevishness with pain and all the symptoms are relieved by active or passive motion. The child is bad tempered with pain, asks for a toy and throws it at the head of the nurse and wants to be carried about the nursery all the time. It is excellent for severe pains in all potencies and occasionally high potencies, such as the 200th, are best.
Adonis vernalis often is an excellent remedy to follow Digitalis. It also has also good deal of dropsy, the weak slow pulse, low vitality, a fatty heart accompanied with a good deal of pain, and does not have the accumulative effect of Digitalis.
Strophanthus has much the same indications as Digitalis. Especially indicated in tobacco smokers, does not have the accumulative effect, does not affect the vasomotor nerves ; this it is much safer for the old, weak heart, especially when there is threatened oedema of the lungs.
The old cardiorenal case is like the poor : we have them with us always. And in the treatment of these cases I would like to give three of four outstanding cases and their treatment :.
Mrs. F.- The patient, a female fifty years old, was found sitting and partly lying on sofa with the limbs over the edge and and feet on floor. The limbs were burst open in many places and discharging serum which was running across the linoleum. Examination revealed a marked mitral murmur as well as an aortic regurgitation. The mitral murmur was well transmitted to all parts of the chest. Heart enlarged transversely, accentuation of the second pulmonary sound. Failing compensation with marked hypostatic congestion through lower lobes of lungs. Dyspnoea so great that she could scarcely talk. Abdomen seemed to contain buckets of water which was causing a good deal of pressure upon the heart. The urine when examined contained large quantities of albumin and casts and some pus cells. A short history was obtained from the husband which he admitted showed a plus Wassermann. She was given intravenous injections of a mercury preparation called Novasurol, and given Digitalis in potency, with the most marvellous action I have ever seen. Within three days the dropsy had all disappeared and the woman could lie down in comfort. She was then placed on Crataegus which carried her through for six years, and she not only did her housework but cared for a large garden.
Mr. P., captain of the Civil war, was another case given up by his physician. His examination was essentially the same as the former case except he had no aortic lesion and practically no dropsy. He was placed on Crataegus and lived for five years and enjoyed very good health, finally dying from the infirmities of age.
Mrs. A., female, age forty-eight, had been sitting in a chair for weeks unable to breathe at all lying down. Her dropsy was also extremely marked ; her limbs also had burst and were discharging serum freely. Her heart was enlarged and had all the abnormal sounds ever heard in one heart. Action was extremely weak and was accompanied by nausea and faintness. The urine was suppressed and passed only by drops. The least movements caused violent palpitation. She was given Digitalis which has removed all symptoms except the murmurs. This was ten years ago and she is able to do her own work and goes to town like any other woman. Seems perfectly well.
Mabel H.- One more case and I will stop. This was a case of a “blue-baby” in which the valve never closed, and at the age of eighteen months she became paralysed on the entire right side. At the age of four the case was turned over to me by another doctor who had failed to help her at all. She had NO use of the right leg and very little of the arm. The cyanosis was extremely marked ; her tongue was as black as that of a Chow dog. Her heart had NO normal sounds and evidence of some degeneration of the pulmonic valve which gradually increased as she grew older. Under Gelsemium she was relieved of the paralysis and got so she could walk with the support of something to steady her. She was kept on Crataegus with now and then a dose of some other indicated remedy, and lived to be fourteen, which I understand is several years longer than any other like case on record.
Of course, in treatment of these cases as well as any case it is essential to look after the bowels, the diet, see that they have proper rest, and correct any abnormal condition that they may have ; and i believe as times goes on and we better understand the vitamins, that they will become one of the greatest adjuncts we have in medical. But dont forget that even the heart may be only one symptoms of a diseased body which must be treated as a composite whole and not as a single unit.
AIR RAIDS
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HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J ELLIS BARKER.
Volume
1939 Oct Vol LXXIV No 886
Author
Dorothy Shepherd.
Subject
General Topics / Cases
Remedy
Ars / Gels / Acon / Arg-n / Ign.
By DR. DOROTHY SHEPHERD.
ALMOST overnight everything has altered, old values have gone, new values have appeared. We have got to accommodate ourselves to a totally different would, and one thing among other we have been told is to keep calm and collected. This is a difficult thing to do, when everything round one crashes; business and trade nearly gone. Many people who have responsibilities find themselves reduced almost to the point of penury. Others find their family circle broken up, fathers separated from wives and children-not because they have been called up to face the enemy on the battlefield, but because the whole of England is now a potential battlefield and the weaker vessels, old and frail people and the children and their mothers have been moved out to presumably safer areas. This brings forth many new problems, problems of adaptation. Another problem we have all got to face is the problem of air raids, and A.R.P., as it is called in the short, snappy way, does not only mean splinter proof and blast proof shelters, sandbags and the rest. It also means putting on a mental armour to protect ourselves against the insidious enemy of fear and anxiety. Here homoeopathy is a valuable friend and help against the effects of fear which produces and empty feeling round the umbilicus, a burning, gnawing sensation, a cleaving of the tongue to the roof of the mouth, a shaking and trembling of limbs; all of it due to the upset of the supra-renal gland.
There are several remedies in our pharmacopoeia which give us moral protection.
I mention the most common. There is Argentum nitricum, the fidgety, nervous individual whose nerves are all to pieces. He is always in a hurry, anxious hurry, so hurried and scared, he feels he must run or walk quickly, he can never walk fast enough, he feels he must fly, feels as if all the “furies of the underworld” were after him, and he runs until he is dead beat, always anticipates th worst, lives in a perfect welter of fear and anticipation, breaks out in a sweat at the mere though of a raid. But this anxiety and fear brings on internal troubles and disturbances of the gastro-intestinal tract, the stomach refuses to digest anything, vomiting may come on quite suddenly when an air raid warning is sounded, or even diarrhoea many suddenly set in. The stomach is full of gas and quantities of wind pass upwards which usually relieve the distension. Silver nitrate in the 3rd or 6th decimal potency would relieve such an over- anxious, frightened, hurried individual, so that he can face the inevitable with more equanimity.
A remedy with very similar effects is Gelsemium. He is also in a state of funk due to anticipation, fear, shock from fear, sudden fearful surprises. As Kent puts it: A soldier going into battle gets diarrhoea. He becomes weak and exhausted and faint, and tired in all his limbs from sudden fear, from sudden shock, such as being awakened at night by a raid warning. Palpitations of the heart accompany this sudden shock. He has not courage, his limbs tremble; but he is struck dumb, almost paralysed with fear; the restlessness and hurry and anxious running about of the Argentum nit. Patient is absent. Thus you have to individualize and find the right remedy for each state or nerves.
Another anxious, restless patient may want Arsenicum. Here you get great fear, great anxiety, great restlessness and prostration. Some people take the blackest view of any situation which might arise. These are the folk which will say, “What is the use of doing anything?” They will ring their hands and wail, :Where can I go? I am not safe anywhere; if I remain here, the bombs will drop here, and if I go away into the country, they are sure to follow me there. These over-anxious people, who are much worse when alone, will need Arsenic, and it will calm the troubled waters of their mental fear and unrest.
Aconite also had symptoms of fear. He is frightened i a crowd, wont mix with people, afraid of public places and public shelters full of anguish, full of restlessness, afraid of the dark, much affected by the black-out, dark street, darkened rooms. He gets violent palpitation of the heart, the fear, attacks the heart, not the stomach, and the umbilicus as Argentum nitricum and Gelsemium do. He predicts the next bomb will hit him, and predicts the time of death. He broods over this, and this fear makes him sleepless and restless and full of anxiety.
We have another valuable remedy for air raid fear in Ignatia. This is the hysterical individual who faints at the slightest provocation, collapses into the arms of the nearest male for protection; is tearful, nervous, full of twitches and jerks, full of grief; her husband is away, she is always sighing, she has a feeling of emptiness in the stomach and abdomen, along with trembling, is continually sighing, sad at having said good-bye to her son, or her fiancee or her husband. She is apprehensive all the time the something may happen. Ignatia is the best antidote I know for the stressed feeling one gets after a sudden bereavement, when the unfortunate person who is left behind to face the world lies there with dry, burning eyes, hour after hour, and can hardly believe that it is true that her dear one has left her.
These are hard times, but with these medicines to help us, which the genius of Hahnemann has discovered and worked out, we can face the dark days before us perhaps with a better heart.
HOW I CURED A CASE OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE [High Blood Pressure Cured]
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HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker.
Volume
1940 Aug Vol LXXV No 897
Author
Arnold Burton.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Sulph / Ars / Con / Nux-v / Ign / Acon / Verat-v.
By ARNOLD BURTON.
(This article received the prize one guinea).
I HAD been reading “HEAL THYSELF for years and had followed Mr. Barkers advice and got a number of books from the Homoeopathic Publishing Company and had become quite an earnest student of the science of healing. Theoretical study is not much use and I was anxious to practise. My first patients were my cart and my dog. The cat had an eruption which the veterinary surgeon was unable to cure. He looked dirty and mangy and shunned the fire. The s seemed to me Sulphur symptoms and I gave the poor animal Sulphur 3x night and morning and the result was amazing. In three weeks time the eruption had disappeared, the cat looked years younger and he had abandoned his dirty habits and washed himself all day long. It seems to be always wise to give Sulphur to people who are dirty or look dirty.
My second patient was the dog. I have a fox terrier who is very friendly with the cat, but he sniffed contemptuously at the cat when the cat was ill, dirty and neglected looking. He was a very merry dog, but some time ago he was obviously unwell. He refused his food, he had a hot nose, he no longer rushed about but walked sedately. He seemed to be unhappy about his hindquarters, which frequently inspected as far as he could, and he was very thirsty and apparently feverish. I did not know exactly what to do so I gave him Aconite 2x. His fever improved and he looked a little brighter but he continued to refuse food and did not look well. As there were no obvious symptoms to treat I gave him a few doses of Sulphur 3x because Sulphur is supposed to bring out symptoms and also it is an internal cleanser and drives out trouble by the skin. Sulphur disappointed me and then I thought he might be constipated so I gave him a laxative. Again there was no result. The poor dog was obviously unwell and in pain. Suddenly, to my horror, he started vomiting blood and then he had bloody diarrhoea. He looked aged, his eyes became as dull as the eyes of a boiled fist and the veterinary surgeon shook his head and spoked vaguely of injections, without telling me what he was going to inject.
I had no wish to have y dog experimented upon and, on looking through my books, I discovered that Arsenicum produces bloody vomiting and diarrhoea. An indication of Arsenicum is restlessness with weakness. The dog was restless and weak. Another very important indication is that people needing Arsenicum feel chilly and crave heat. It was winter, and the dog who used to keep away from the fire crept inside the fender and moaned dreadfully. Without hesitation I gave him Arsenicum 3x every hour. Possible I gave him doses too frequently. I dare say a homoeopathic doctor would have given him a single dose of Arsenicum 200. Anyway, the result was magical and after three doses Prince feebly wagged his tail, he looked grateful and gave e to understand that he felt better. He also looked interestedly at the little box from which I had produced the Arsenicum pillules. I then gave him Arsenicum every two hours right through the night. In six hours his bloody vomits had stopped, in nine hours his bloody diarrhoea had come to an en and he allowed me once more to feel his stomach and abdomen and he licked me with a hot tongue full of gratitude. In three days he had quite recovered.
When the veterinary surgeon called, Prince jumped at him with delight. The man of science was amazed when I told him about the Arsenicum I had given him in doses of one thousandth of a grain. He shook his head and said those little doses could not do anything, but he was pleased to see that the dog had quite recovered and it was miraculous.
My next patient was my uncle, who is a jolly old man of 56. He is a City man who attends numerous City dinners. O occasionally he make speeches. He is very popular, red-faced, red-nosed, obese; he takes no exercise and he believes in eating under-done steaks once or twice a day. He used large quantities of condiments, smokes big cigars and, like so many heavy meat eaters, believes in moistening his meals with generous libations to Bacchus. As a matter a fact he was not unlike Bacchus and most of his friends called him that name.
One day Uncle came for dinner. We gave him roast beef, which he proclaimed was the finest thing to give him strength and energy He had sherry before dinner and several whiskies, with the minimum of soda, during and after the meal. While smoking one of his cigars we noticed he looked depressed and serious. At first we teased him and asked whether he had lost money in the City or whether he was in love. He sadly shook his head and said it was no joking matter. He had had a headache at the back of his head for week and his doctor had given him some medicine but it had had no effect so his doctor had sent him to a specialist in Harley Street. He had been that afternoon and the specialist had taken his blood pressure, listened to his heart, taken a cardiogram and performed various other scientific rites. At the end of the interview the specialist told him, with a serious and sympathetic face, “I am afraid, sir, you have a high blood pressure and there is undoubtedly some hardening of the arteries, scientifically called arteriosclerosis.” The specialist had warned him that one day he might have a stroke. That horrified my uncle as he was quite unprepared for such a verdict and he asked him what could be done. The specialist told him he must live very quietly, not rush about, or stoop, as it might produce a stroke, and he must give up golf. He said his condition was typical of that found amongst successful City men, and although he could give him some medicine, it was not much use and he must make up his mind that he could no longer live the life of a young man
and he must be prepared for trough. My uncle paid the usual fee and that was that.
Curiously enough I had just read something written by our editor on high blood pressure and I was tremendously keep to have an obese City man as a patient, although I had only had a little experience in dealing with human beings, such as giving a few of my friends Aconite for colds and Nux vomica for stomach aches, etc. I told my uncle that I was an earnest student of Homoeopathy and I though that I could guarantee to put him right. Moreover, I would charge him guineas but would leave the fee to his well- known generosity, treating him on the principle, “No cure, no fee”. I told him the medicines would have very little taste, if any, and could not possible do him harm, but he would have to stick to a stick diet which I would give him.
Uncle John made a grimace and said: “Surely you are not going to take steaks away from me,” and I told him that was exactly what I was going to do. I did not want him to look like Bacchus, but I wanted to turn him into an Adonis. I said, “I mean to free you of your Bacchus paunch and shall enable you ton play golf. I am quite sure your trouble is due to over-nutrition and under exercise.” I tried to look very professional and very imposing. Anyway, my uncle was rather desperate, especially as him family doctor had confirmed the diagnosis of the specialist.
Being a disciple of our editor, I put my uncle on a fishless and fleshless diet. For breakfast he was to have bran porridge with China tea and nothing else. Instead of having a sumptuous City luncheon at the Club he was to have three Ryvita biscuit with a little chess or an egg, a large salad, raw fruit and soda water, without the whisky. For dinner I gave him any quantity of vegetables, potatoes, an egg, salad raw fruit. At first uncle was indignant and told me the diet was insufficient for a by ten. I replied that he could make up the balance by living on his own superfluous fat, of which he could consume three or four pounds a week. We almost quarrelled, but I did not give way and I did not make the slightest concession to his appetite. I also forbade all condiments and allowed him only one small whisky as a nightcap.
For medicine I gave him Nux vomica 3x before meals, Sulphur 6x as a blood clearing medicine, first and last thing, and between meals he was to have Veratrum viride 3x, which is good for high blood pressure, headaches at the back of the head, etc, My uncle made feeble jokes at the tasteless sugar pills and prophesied that he would die and that he would cut me out of his will. He said he was afraid to have meals with friends as they would laugh a him. We had an argument, but I refused to have a lengthy discussion an told him in the best Harley Street manner that he must follow my orders or communicate with his undertaker. He swore and grinned, grinned an swore, but I took no notice. Anyway, during the first week he lost 42 lbs., and confessed to me that he was much better.
During the two that followed he lost 3 lbs. a week, and I rated him, but he assured me he had kept strictly to my diet. During the forth week he lost 4 lbs. and his clothes were much too big for him, and friends told him that he was looking ill and worm, but by this time he realized that he was on the right road.
Occasionally I changed his medicines. I gave him some Conium for giddiness, Ignatia 3x for depression, and I regulated his bowels with paraffin and then induced him to take walks. He had tender feet and detested walking, but he trudged grumblingly around the park with me and then during the week-ends went for walks in the country.
I treated uncle for three months. He became more and more enthusiastic and told me I was a medical genius and introduced me to his friends as him Harley Street specialist, etc. Uncle has become a totally different man, his trousers,
waistcoats and coats have been taken in by inches and he no longer has a Bacchus paunch. He has visited his Harley Street specialist again and the specialist was amazed at his improvement. His headaches have disappeared and his nose is now pink instead of being fiery red. He is tremendously grateful to me and had promised me a car which I am to have after the war.
কিভাবে আমি উচ্চ রক্তচাপের একটি কেস নিরাময় করেছি [উচ্চ রক্তচাপ নিরাময়]
বই
নিজেকে নিরাময় করুন (হোমিওপ্যাথিক বিশ্ব) জে এলিস বার্কার দ্বারা মেডিকেল, ডায়েটটিক, সামাজিক এবং স্যানিটারি সায়েন্সের একটি জনপ্রিয় জার্নাল।
আয়তন
1940 আগস্ট ভলিউম LXXV নং 897
লেখক
আর্নল্ড বার্টন।
বিষয়
মামলা
প্রতিকার
Sulph/Ars/Con/Nux-v/Ign/Acon/Verat-v.
আর্নল্ড বার্টন দ্বারা।
(এই নিবন্ধটি একটি গিনি পুরস্কার পেয়েছে)।
আমি কয়েক বছর ধরে “নিজেকে সুস্থ করুন” পড়ছিলাম এবং মিঃ বার্কার্সের পরামর্শ অনুসরণ করেছিলাম এবং হোমিওপ্যাথিক পাবলিশিং কোম্পানি থেকে বেশ কয়েকটি বই পেয়েছি এবং নিরাময় বিজ্ঞানের বেশ আন্তরিক ছাত্র হয়েছি। তাত্ত্বিক অধ্যয়ন খুব বেশি কাজে আসে না এবং আমি উদ্বিগ্ন ছিলাম অনুশীলন করার জন্য। আমার প্রথম রোগী ছিল আমার গাড়ি এবং আমার কুকুর। বিড়ালটির একটি অগ্ন্যুৎপাত হয়েছিল যা ভেটেরিনারি সার্জন নিরাময় করতে অক্ষম ছিল। সে নোংরা এবং ময়লা লাগছিল এবং আগুন থেকে দূরে ছিল। গুলি আমার কাছে সালফারের লক্ষণ বলে মনে হয়েছিল এবং আমি দরিদ্র প্রাণীটিকে দিয়েছিলাম সালফার 3x রাত এবং সকালে এবং ফলাফলটি আশ্চর্যজনক ছিল। তিন সপ্তাহের মধ্যে অগ্ন্যুৎপাত অদৃশ্য হয়ে গিয়েছিল, বিড়ালটিকে অনেক বছর বয়সী দেখায় এবং সে তার নোংরা অভ্যাস ত্যাগ করেছিল এবং সারাদিন ধরে নিজেকে ধুয়েছিল। মানুষকে সালফার দেওয়া সর্বদা বুদ্ধিমানের কাজ বলে মনে হয়। যারা নোংরা বা নোংরা দেখতে।
আমার দ্বিতীয় রোগী কুকুর ছিল. আমার একটি শিয়াল টেরিয়ার আছে যে বিড়ালের সাথে খুব বন্ধুত্বপূর্ণ, কিন্তু বিড়ালটি যখন অসুস্থ, নোংরা এবং অবহেলিত ছিল তখন সে বিড়ালটিকে অবজ্ঞার সাথে শুঁকেছিল। তিনি একটি খুব হাসিখুশি কুকুর ছিল, কিন্তু কিছু সময় আগে তিনি স্পষ্টতই অসুস্থ ছিল. সে তার খাবার প্রত্যাখ্যান করেছিল, তার নাক গরম ছিল, সে আর তাড়াহুড়ো করে না বরং শান্তভাবে হেঁটেছিল। তিনি তার পশ্চাৎপদ এলাকা সম্পর্কে অসন্তুষ্ট বলে মনে হচ্ছে, যা প্রায়শই যতদূর সম্ভব পরিদর্শন করত এবং তিনি খুব তৃষ্ণার্ত এবং দৃশ্যত জ্বরে ভুগছিলেন। আমি ঠিক কি করব বুঝতে পারছিলাম না তাই আমি তাকে Aconite 2x দিলাম। তার জ্বরের উন্নতি হয়েছে এবং তাকে একটু উজ্জ্বল দেখাচ্ছিল কিন্তু সে খাবার প্রত্যাখ্যান করতে থাকল এবং ভালো দেখাচ্ছিল না। যেহেতু চিকিত্সার জন্য কোনও সুস্পষ্ট লক্ষণ ছিল না আমি তাকে সালফার 3x এর কয়েকটি ডোজ দিয়েছিলাম কারণ সালফার লক্ষণগুলি বের করে আনতে অনুমিত হয় এবং এটি একটি অভ্যন্তরীণ ক্লিনজার এবং ত্বকের সমস্যা দূর করে। সালফার আমাকে হতাশ করেছিল এবং তারপর আমি ভেবেছিলাম যে সে কোষ্ঠকাঠিন্যে আক্রান্ত হতে পারে তাই আমি তাকে রেচক দিয়েছিলাম। আবার কোনো ফল হয়নি। দরিদ্র কুকুরটি স্পষ্টতই অসুস্থ এবং ব্যথায় ছিল। হঠাৎ, আমার আতঙ্কে, তিনি রক্ত বমি করতে শুরু করলেন এবং তারপরে তার রক্তাক্ত ডায়রিয়া হয়েছিল। তাকে বয়স্ক দেখাচ্ছিল, তার চোখ ফুটে থাকা মুষ্টির চোখের মতো নিস্তেজ হয়ে গেল এবং পশুচিকিত্সা চিকিৎসক মাথা নেড়ে ইনজেকশনের অস্পষ্টভাবে কথা বললেন, আমাকে না বলে তিনি কী ইনজেকশন দিতে যাচ্ছেন।
আমার কুকুরের উপর পরীক্ষা-নিরীক্ষা করার কোন ইচ্ছা ছিল না এবং, আমার বইগুলি দেখে আমি আবিষ্কার করেছি যে আর্সেনিকাম রক্তাক্ত বমি এবং ডায়রিয়া তৈরি করে। আর্সেনিকামের একটি ইঙ্গিত হল দুর্বলতার সাথে অস্থিরতা। কুকুরটি অস্থির এবং দুর্বল ছিল। আরেকটি অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ ইঙ্গিত হল যে আর্সেনিকাম প্রয়োজন এমন লোকেরা ঠান্ডা অনুভব করে এবং তাপ কামনা করে। শীতকাল ছিল, এবং যে কুকুর আগুন থেকে দূরে থাকত সে ফেন্ডারের ভিতরে ঢুকে পড়ল এবং ভয়ঙ্করভাবে কাঁদছিল। আমি বিনা দ্বিধায় তাকে প্রতি ঘন্টায় 3 বার আর্সেনিকাম দিয়েছিলাম। সম্ভবত আমি তাকে খুব ঘন ঘন ডোজ দিয়েছি। আমি সাহস করে বলতে পারি যে একজন হোমিওপ্যাথিক ডাক্তার তাকে আর্সেনিকাম 200 এর একক ডোজ দিতেন। যাইহোক, ফলাফলটি যাদুকর ছিল এবং তিন ডোজ পর প্রিন্স দুর্বলভাবে তার লেজ নাড়ালেন, তিনি কৃতজ্ঞ দেখালেন এবং ই দিলেন বোঝার জন্য যে তিনি ভাল বোধ করছেন। আমি যে ছোট বাক্স থেকে আর্সেনিকাম পিলিউল তৈরি করেছিলাম সেদিকেও তিনি আগ্রহের সাথে তাকান। তারপর আমি তাকে সারা রাত প্রতি দুই ঘন্টা পর পর আর্সেনিকাম দিতাম। ছয় ঘন্টার মধ্যে তার রক্তাক্ত বমি বন্ধ হয়ে গিয়েছিল, নয় ঘন্টার মধ্যে তার রক্তাক্ত ডায়রিয়া হয়ে গিয়েছিল এবং সে আমাকে আরও একবার তার পেট এবং পেট অনুভব করতে দিয়েছিল এবং সে আমাকে কৃতজ্ঞতায় ভরা গরম জিহ্বা দিয়ে চেটেছিল। তিনদিনে তিনি বেশ সুস্থ হয়ে ওঠেন।
ভেটেরিনারি সার্জন ডাকলে প্রিন্স খুশিতে ঝাঁপিয়ে পড়েন। বিজ্ঞানের লোকটি অবাক হয়ে গেল যখন আমি তাকে আর্সেনিকামের কথা বললাম যা আমি তাকে এক দানার এক হাজার ভাগের ডোজ দিয়েছিলাম। তিনি মাথা নেড়ে বললেন যে এই সামান্য ডোজ কিছুই করতে পারে না, কিন্তু কুকুরটি বেশ সুস্থ হয়ে উঠেছে দেখে তিনি খুশি হয়েছিলেন এবং এটি অলৌকিক ছিল।
আমার পরবর্তী রোগী ছিলেন আমার চাচা, যিনি 56 বছর বয়সী একজন হাসিখুশি বৃদ্ধ। তিনি একজন শহরের মানুষ যিনি অসংখ্য সিটি ডিনারে যোগ দেন। ও মাঝে মাঝে বক্তৃতা দেয়। তিনি অত্যন্ত জনপ্রিয়, লাল মুখ, লাল-নাকওয়ালা, স্থূল; তিনি কোন ব্যায়াম করেন না এবং তিনি দিনে একবার বা দুবার আন্ডারডন স্টেক খেতে বিশ্বাস করেন। তিনি প্রচুর পরিমাণে মশলা ব্যবহার করতেন, বড় বড় সিগার ধূমপান করতেন এবং অনেক ভারী মাংস ভক্ষণকারীর মতো, বাচ্চাসের প্রতি উদার লিবেশন দিয়ে তার খাবারকে আর্দ্র করতে বিশ্বাস করেন। প্রকৃতপক্ষে তিনি বাচ্চাসের মতো ছিলেন না এবং তার বেশিরভাগ বন্ধুরা তাকে এই নামে ডাকতেন।
একদিন চাচা এলেন ডিনার করতে। আমরা তাকে ভুনা গরুর মাংস দিয়েছিলাম, যা তিনি ঘোষণা করেছিলেন যে তাকে শক্তি এবং শক্তি দেওয়ার সর্বোত্তম জিনিস ছিল তিনি রাতের খাবারের আগে শেরি এবং খাবারের সময় এবং পরে ন্যূনতম সোডা সহ বেশ কয়েকটি হুইস্কি খেয়েছিলেন। তার একটি সিগার ধূমপান করার সময় আমরা লক্ষ্য করেছি যে তাকে বিষণ্ণ এবং গম্ভীর দেখাচ্ছে। প্রথমে আমরা তাকে জ্বালাতন করি এবং জিজ্ঞাসা করি সে শহরে টাকা হারিয়েছে নাকি সে প্রেমে পড়েছে কিনা। সে দুঃখের সাথে মাথা নেড়ে বলল এটা কোন মজার বিষয় নয়।
এবং তিনি খাদের জন্য প্রস্তুত করা আবশ্যক. আমার চাচা স্বাভাবিক পারিশ্রমিক দিতেন এবং সেটাই ছিল।
কৌতূহলবশত আমি উচ্চ রক্তচাপের বিষয়ে আমাদের সম্পাদকের লেখা কিছু পড়েছিলাম এবং আমি একজন স্থূল নগরীকে একজন রোগী হিসাবে রেখেছিলাম, যদিও মানুষের সাথে আচরণ করার ক্ষেত্রে আমার সামান্য অভিজ্ঞতা ছিল, যেমন কয়েকটি দেওয়ার মতো আমার বন্ধুরা সর্দি-কাশির জন্য অ্যাকোনাইট এবং পেটের ব্যথার জন্য নাক্স ভোমিকা ইত্যাদি। আমি আমার চাচাকে বলেছিলাম যে আমি হোমিওপ্যাথির একজন আন্তরিক ছাত্র এবং যদিও আমি তাকে ঠিক করার নিশ্চয়তা দিতে পারি। তদুপরি, আমি তাকে গিনিস চার্জ করব কিন্তু ফি তার সুপরিচিত উদারতার উপর ছেড়ে দেব, “কোনও নিরাময় নেই, কোন ফি” নীতিতে তাকে চিকিত্সা করা হবে। আমি তাকে বলেছিলাম ওষুধের খুব কম স্বাদ হবে, যদি থাকে, এবং তার ক্ষতি করতে পারে না, তবে তাকে একটি স্টিক ডায়েট করতে হবে যা আমি তাকে দেব।
আঙ্কেল জন একটি ঝাঁকুনি তৈরি করলেন এবং বললেন: “নিশ্চয়ই আপনি আমার কাছ থেকে স্টেকগুলি কেড়ে নেবেন না,” এবং আমি তাকে বলেছিলাম যে আমি যা করতে যাচ্ছি ঠিক তাই। আমি তাকে বাচ্চাসের মতো দেখতে চাইনি, কিন্তু আমি তাকে অ্যাডোনিসে পরিণত করতে চেয়েছিলাম। আমি বললাম, “আমি আপনাকে আপনার বাচ্চাস পাঞ্চ থেকে মুক্ত করতে চাই এবং আপনাকে টন গলফ খেলতে সক্ষম করব। আমি নিশ্চিত যে আপনার সমস্যা অতিরিক্ত পুষ্টি এবং ব্যায়ামের কারণে হয়েছে।” আমি খুব প্রফেশনাল এবং খুব ইম্পোজিং দেখতে চেষ্টা করেছি। যাইহোক, আমার চাচা বরং মরিয়া ছিলেন, বিশেষ করে যেহেতু তার পারিবারিক ডাক্তার বিশেষজ্ঞের রোগ নির্ণয়ের বিষয়টি নিশ্চিত করেছিলেন।
আমাদের সম্পাদকের শিষ্য হওয়ার কারণে, আমি আমার চাচাকে মৎস্যবিহীন এবং মাংসহীন ডায়েটে রাখি। প্রাতঃরাশের জন্য তাকে চায়না চায়ের সাথে ব্রান পোরিজ খেতে হবে এবং অন্য কিছু নয়। ক্লাবে একটি দুর্দান্ত সিটি লাঞ্চ করার পরিবর্তে তাকে হুইস্কি ছাড়া একটি ছোট দাবা বা ডিম সহ তিনটি রাইভিটা বিস্কুট, একটি বড় সালাদ, কাঁচা ফল এবং সোডা জল খেতে হবে। রাতের খাবারের জন্য আমি তাকে সবজি, আলু, একটি ডিম, সালাদ কাঁচা ফল দিয়েছিলাম। প্রথমে চাচা রাগান্বিত হয়ে আমাকে বলেছিলেন যে খাবারটি দশ বাই দশের জন্য অপর্যাপ্ত। আমি উত্তর দিয়েছিলাম যে তিনি তার নিজের অতিরিক্ত চর্বি দিয়ে ভারসাম্য তৈরি করতে পারেন, যার মধ্যে তিনি সপ্তাহে তিন বা চার পাউন্ড খেতে পারেন। আমরা প্রায় ঝগড়া করেছি, কিন্তু আমি পথ দেইনি এবং আমি তার ক্ষুধায় সামান্যতম ছাড়ও করিনি। আমি সমস্ত মশলা নিষেধ করেছিলাম এবং তাকে নাইটক্যাপ হিসাবে শুধুমাত্র একটি ছোট হুইস্কি দিয়েছিলাম।
ওষুধের জন্য আমি তাকে খাবারের আগে Nux vomica 3x দিয়েছিলাম, সালফার 6x রক্ত পরিষ্কার করার ওষুধ হিসেবে, প্রথম এবং শেষ জিনিস, এবং খাবারের মধ্যে তাকে Veratrum viride 3x দিতে হয়েছিল, যা উচ্চ রক্তচাপের জন্য ভাল, মাথার পিছনে মাথাব্যথা , ইত্যাদি, আমার চাচা স্বাদহীন চিনির বড়ি নিয়ে দুর্বল রসিকতা করেছিলেন এবং ভবিষ্যদ্বাণী করেছিলেন যে তিনি মারা যাবেন এবং তিনি আমাকে তাঁর ইচ্ছা থেকে কেটে দেবেন। তিনি বলেছিলেন যে তিনি বন্ধুদের সাথে খাবার খেতে ভয় পান কারণ তারা তাকে হাসবে। আমাদের মধ্যে একটি তর্ক ছিল, কিন্তু আমি একটি দীর্ঘ আলোচনা করতে অস্বীকার করেছিলাম এবং তাকে সর্বোত্তম হারলে স্ট্রিট পদ্ধতিতে বলেছিলাম যে তাকে অবশ্যই আমার আদেশ অনুসরণ করতে হবে বা তার আন্ডারটেকারের সাথে যোগাযোগ করতে হবে। তিনি শপথ করলেন এবং হাসলেন, শপথ করলেন, কিন্তু আমি কোন খেয়াল করিনি। যাইহোক, প্রথম সপ্তাহে তিনি 42 পাউন্ড হারান, এবং আমাকে স্বীকার করেছেন যে তিনি অনেক ভাল ছিলেন।
পরবর্তী দুটি সময় তিনি 3 পাউন্ড হারান। এক সপ্তাহ, এবং আমি তাকে রেট দিয়েছিলাম, কিন্তু সে আমাকে আশ্বস্ত করেছিল যে সে আমার ডায়েট কঠোরভাবে পালন করেছে। চতুর্থ সপ্তাহে তিনি 4 পাউন্ড হারান। এবং তার জামাকাপড় তার জন্য অনেক বড় ছিল, এবং বন্ধুরা তাকে বলেছিল যে তাকে অসুস্থ এবং কৃমি দেখাচ্ছে, কিন্তু এই সময়ের মধ্যে সে বুঝতে পেরেছিল যে সে সঠিক পথে রয়েছে।
মাঝে মাঝে তার ওষুধ পাল্টাতাম। আমি তাকে মাথা ঘোরাবার জন্য কিছু Conium, বিষণ্নতার জন্য Ignatia 3x দিলাম এবং আমি প্যারাফিন দিয়ে তার অন্ত্র নিয়ন্ত্রিত করলাম এবং তারপর তাকে হাঁটার জন্য প্ররোচিত করলাম। তার কোমল পা ছিল এবং হাঁটা ঘৃণা করতেন, কিন্তু তিনি আমার সাথে পার্কের চারপাশে বকবক করতেন এবং তারপর সপ্তাহের শেষে দেশে হাঁটতে যান।
আমি তিন মাস চাচার চিকিৎসা করেছি। তিনি আরও বেশি উৎসাহী হয়ে উঠলেন এবং আমাকে বললেন আমি একজন মেডিক্যাল প্রতিভা এবং আমাকে তার বন্ধুদের সাথে পরিচয় করিয়ে দিল তাকে হার্লে স্ট্রিট বিশেষজ্ঞ ইত্যাদি হিসেবে। চাচা সম্পূর্ণ ভিন্ন মানুষ হয়ে উঠেছেন, তার ট্রাউজার্স, waistcoats এবং কোট ইঞ্চি দ্বারা নেওয়া হয়েছে এবং তার আর একটি Bacchus পাঞ্চ নেই. তিনি আবার তার হার্লে স্ট্রিট বিশেষজ্ঞের সাথে দেখা করেছেন এবং বিশেষজ্ঞ তার উন্নতি দেখে বিস্মিত হয়েছেন। তার মাথাব্যথা অদৃশ্য হয়ে গেছে এবং তার নাক এখন জ্বলন্ত লাল হওয়ার পরিবর্তে গোলাপী। তিনি আমার প্রতি অত্যন্ত কৃতজ্ঞ এবং আমাকে একটি গাড়ি দেওয়ার প্রতিশ্রুতি দিয়েছিলেন যেটি আমি যুদ্ধের পরে পাব।
Letters
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker.
Volume
1933 May Vol LXVIII No 809
Author
Ellis Barker J.
Subject
Reader’s Choice / Cases
Remedy
Acon.
THOROUGH TRITURATION.
DEAR MR. BARKER, I am glad to hear that the circulation of your Journal has greatly increased.
Yesterday Professor Lendner, who is Professor of Pharmacology at Geneva University, visited me with his students to attend an all-afternoon lecture and demonstration regarding the preparation and preservation of homoeopathic remedies. They saw the modern machines, such as dynamizator, auto-dynamizator and fluxio-dilutioner. The necessity of thorough trituration was shown by a trituration of Fuchsine 1 percent. It was first triturated during five minutes and then for a whole hour. After the five minutes trituration the drug was almost white. After an hours trituration it had assumed a deep red colour. It was heartening to see the interest with which this demonstration was watched by those present. The representatives of orthodox medicine were evidently deeply impressed by what they had seen.
I am,
10 Rue St. Victor, Very truly yours,
Geneva. DR. PIERRE SCHMIDT.
INFLUENZA AND VIOLENT COUGH.
DEAR MR. BARKER, I am deeply grateful to you for the article “Brief Hints for Influenza,” which you had in the February issue. It recommended Aconite 3x and some other remedies. On a Tuesday my daughter Eileen was suddenly taken ill with influenza. As her symptoms pointed to Aconite I immediately gave Aconite to her, and in a few hours her temperature dropped from 102 to 99. My little girl feared that she would die. Happily I remembered reading in your paper that Aconite should be given to patients in fear of death. The girl rapidly improved and within a week she became practically quite well, a most remarkable thing, because previous attacks of influenza were followed by illness lasting for many months. This has been the first time she has had homoeopathic treatment for influenza and the result has been wonderful.
My neighbour , Mrs. Davis, of 21 Birkenhead Avenue, has a daughter of 15, who had had a bad cough for weeks which kept her awake night after night. Everything had been tried but no medicine would stop the cough. The girl was given about four pillows to prop her head up and even then she could not sleep. I told her how wonderful had been the cure of Eileens cough and gave her four of the little pilules, two doses. She called two days afterwards to tell me that her daughter had only taken one dose, that she had not coughed since, and had slept all night. She was delighted and amazed. The cure has lasted. Four weeks have gone by and my neighbour daughter has not had the slightest return of the cough. Mrs. Davis told me that the cure was so miraculous that she is telling everybody about it. I and my neighbour bless homoeopathy and we are very grateful to you.
I am,.
15 Birkenhead Avenue, Very sincerely yours,
Kingston-on-Thames. MAUDE GOSLING.
AN APPRECIATION.
DEAR MR. BARKER, Please accept my hearty congratulations on the excellent success of Heal Thyself, a success which is all due to genius. I cannot help expressing my sense of gratitude for the world of good your fertile brain and beautiful heart are doing for dear homoeopathy. I wish ever-increasing success to you and to your journal which you so richly deserve.
I am,.
Yours gratefully,
Moga, India. DR. H. V. SONPAR.
” I BECAME ENTHUSIASTIC”.
DEAR MR. BARKER, I am writing you to let you know how much I appreciated you book, Miracles of Healing. I ran across this in our Free Public Library. The title drew my attention to the book. After reading it, I became so enthusiased that I ordered a copy from the London publishers, which arrived to-day. As a matter of fact, until reading your book homoeopathy was something I never heard of before. I have the good fortune to be friendly with a medical man. Through him I was given the address of a doctor who practises homoeopathy in a small town about a hundred miles from here. As I am a layman with very little knowledge of medicine I would sincerely appreciate hearing from you as to how I should go about to study homoeopathy.
I am,sincerely yours,
- JACOBSON,.
National Construction Company,
Saint John, N. B. Canada.
TEDDY IN TROUBLE [Dog Trouble]
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker.
Volume
1933 Jun Vol LXVIII No 810
Author
Ellis Barker J.
Subject
Cases / Veterinarian Homoeopathy
Remedy
Ars / Acon / Ipec.
CHILL, GASTRITIS, ASTHMA OR DISTEMPER ?.
MY dog Teddy did not feel well. He refused his food, looked depressed, had a very dirty tongue, his eyes were full of mucus he sneezed a lot, and wheezed slightly. Two nights previously, when it was raw and damp, he had broken open the door of his kennel and might have become chilled. There was a distinct possibility of gastritis, his wheezing made one think of asthma, and as he had a temperature and as all mucous membranes were inflamed, there was the possibility of distemper. An exact not need a pathological diagnosis. He acts upon symptoms.
Aconite is an excellent normalizer of temperature, and a princely chill medicine, while Arsenic has a wonderful effect upon inflamed mucous membranes and bronchies, and it is a good stomachic. In large quantities it causes inflammation of mouth, stomach, bronchies, etc. I gave Teddy in alternation doses of Aconite 3x and of Arsenic 3x. a dose every two or three hours, and kept him in a warm place because of the possibility of pneumonia. The two medicines rapidly brought his temperature down and improved hid condition, but the wheezing became much worse and when I took him out for a few minutes he had to stop owing to wheezing bouts which almost prostrated him. Besides he tried to vomit. The indicated remedy for asthma with nausea is Ipecacuanha, described by Dr. and Mrs. Wheeler on another page. I gave Teddy a few doses of Ipecacuanha 3x. In two days he was perfectly normal and on the hills. He joyfully rushed backward and forward during nine hours and covered at least a hundred miles. Homoeopathic treatment of dogs and human beings is infinitely superior to the orthodox treatment.
HOW TO CURE INFLUENZA [Influenza]
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker.
Volume
1933 Nov Vol LXVIII No 815
Author
Ellis Barker J.
Subject
Therapeutics / Cases
Remedy
Acon / Bapt / Gels / Eup.
ONCE more influenza stalks the land. During the last ten years about 200,000 people died in the United Kingdom from influenza and its consequences, while in 1918 the disease slew about 150,000. Orthodox medicine is helpless when faced with it. Doctors give quinine, aspirin, high diet, low diet, nothing but oranges, etc. When the modern doctor is not furnished by the laboratory with a “specific” serum or vaccine, he is as helpless as a child. The homoeopath is in a vastly superior position. He treats every disease, including, of course, influenza, according to the symptoms observed in the patient, without enquiring overmuch into the official designation of the complaint. Effective treatment without diagnosis is infinitely superior to the most scientific diagnosis without adequate treatment.
Influenza may slight or severe, deadly or very deadly. No one can foretell its course at the onset. Therefore it is wise to take the matter seriously. At the slightest indication of trouble, whether it is or is not serious, the possibility of influenza should be considered. The disease may begin with running eyes and nose, cough, a slight temperature, depression, stomach upset, etc. Under these circumstances, the best course, when influenza is about, consists in treating every doubtful deviation from normality as influenza, whether there is heart or shivering, fever or no fever, troubles in throat or chest or anywhere else. Of course, the skilled homoeopath draws on the whole rich store of our remedies in every individual case, matching disease symptoms with the indicated drug which has produced the same symptoms with the indicated drug which has produced the same symptoms in provers. My readers cannot keep in stock all the remedies which may be required, and therefore I would give a few for the principal once. However, before describing the various medicines, I would remind my readers that a most excellent medicine which should be applied at one is ordinary plain common sense. Those who feel out of sorts in influenza time should keep themselves thoroughly warm, avoid exposure, draughts, constipation, indigestion, and take an abundance of liquid, such as extremely weak China tea, lemon water, orange juice, barley water, etc., to wash themselves out.
Very frequently an attack which begins with chill or shivering can settled by common sense alone. A very hot bath, possibly strengthened with salt, soda or mustard, a hot drink, and a good sweat in bed which can be promoted by an abundance of blankets or by a newspaper between the blankets if too many would be too heavy, will frequently put matter right without medication. By a very hot bath outside and a hot drink inside we raise the body temperature, produce an artificial fever, and kill the disease organisms in Natures way. The principal influenza remedies are:-.
ACONITUM NAPELLUS 3x. this remedy should be given in the first place. It normalizes temperature and acts like quinine without the objectionable features possessed by quinine. It is indicated if there is shivering, chilliness, fever, anxiety, restlessness, far of death.
EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM 3x is a most excellent remedy for that from of influenza which is characterized by intolerable pain in the bones of limbs, back, skull, etc.
BAPTISIA TINCTORIA 3x is indicated in gastric influenza, in attacks during which the patient complains about a very foul tongue, foul taste in the mouth, nausea, evil breath, foul smelling motions and urine, foul perspiration.
GELSEMIUM 3x is excellent in all those forms of influenza where there is shivering, trembling, and where the nervous system is affected and upset.
At the first sign of influenza give doses of Aconite preferably dissolved in very hot water, every hour or two if the trouble is slight, but every half-hour, ten minutes or five minutes if the trouble is very severe and acute. On improvement, doses should be given less frequently. If the principal complaint is bone pain, then Aconite should be followed by Eupatorium, given more or less frequently, or, if the case is urgent, Aconite and Eupatorium may be given alternatively, preferably dissolved in hot, but not boiling, water. If the leading symptom is shivering, trembling, nerve affection, then Aconite and Gelsemium are indicated and should be given in the same way, and the combination of Aconite and Baptisia will be helpful if there is gastric influenza.
A patient who has recovered from an attack of influenza, particularly from a severe attack, should, after recovery, keep indoors for at least days. A deceptive sense of well-being often induces the patient to go out into the open, and he may come back with death in his chest. My gardener, a magnificent man, the fifties, had chest. My gardener, a magnificent man, in the fifties, had got over an influenza attack during which he had kept indoors. It was Saturday when he felt normal. He put on hat and coat and did the family shopping. He came back after half an hour. Next day pneumonia developed and in a few days he was dead. I dare say Homoeopathy could have saved him. Unfortunately he sent for his panel doctor. I hope my readers will err on the side of caution.
HOW I CURED A SEVERE COLD [How I Cured Severe Cold]
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker.
Volume
1933 Dec Vol LXVIII No 816
Author
Layman.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Bell / Ars / Kali-b / Caps.
By a LAYMAN.
FORTY or fifty years ago a wise old doctor told me smilingly: If your do not treat a cold it gets well in a fortnight, it you treat it carefully it gets well in two weeks. “Ever since I have treated my colds and chills by not taking much notice of them and allowing them to get well of themselves. A few days ago I went for a long country tramp in ice weather, insufficiently clad and took a cold bath on returning. A night or two afterwards, sleeping with an open window through which the wind blew straight on to, I felt very cold, but took no notice and had my usual cold bath in the morning. Soon afterwards I noticed that I had a very severe chill. I felt very miserable, icy cold, shivery, throat felt very hot and burning, and I had the distinct feeling that this was not an ordinary chill or cold, but that serious trouble was brewing. So I thought I would try homoeopathic treatment.
Homoeopathy has no specifics for colds, but it acts according to the most pressing symptoms of the moment, which have to be matched with the corresponding drug. As the trouble was undoubtedly caused by exposure to dry cold, I did not trouble to take my temperature, I took a few doses of Aconite, which promptly made me feel warm and comfortable, and then I took a few doses of Belladonna 3x, which promptly improved the inflammation and irritation of the throat. These symptoms being eliminated others appeared. My nose began to run with thin water. So I left off Belladonna and took a few doses of Arsenic 3, which caused the thin, irritating liquid to disappear. However, the trouble was not settle because then large quantities of thick, sticky, yellow mucus began to come from my nose, and I had the feeling of stuffiness which suggests inflammation of the cavities which stand in connection with the nasal passages. To deal with this trouble I took Kali bichromicum 3x, but as son as symptoms changed I changed over to Aconite, Belladonna, or Arsenic, whichever seemed indicated. The result was that in considerably less than twenty-four hours my apparently very severe chill and cold was completely gone. If I had dosed myself with aspirin or quinine in accordance with the usual practice, the cold would probably have became very fully developed and it might have lasted the usual fortnight. Homoeopathic treatment is far more complicated than orthodox treatment. It needs care, close observation, and ample knowledge of the characteristics of the various drugs, but it is worth while.
CURE OF AN INFLAMED MASTOID.
SOME years ago a naval officer bearing an historic name told me over the telephone: My wife is suffering from an inflamed mastoid and she has terrible pain. It is driving her frantic. Her sister has had the same trouble and has been operated upon. We would like to avoid an operation. What do you advise ?” I replied: Bring her a look at her.”.
The mastoid cells form a delicate and most sensitive structure at the back of the ear, and they perform very important function. Their inflammation is frequently accompanied by fever, swelling and th formation of pus, and unless help is promptly rendered there is the danger of loss of hearing and of inflammation of the brain and death. In slight cases leeches and hot fomentations are applied and sedative drops are instilled into the ear to give relief. But if the inflammation dose not subside promptly, the mastoid structure is opened surgically and drained.
The telephone call came in the afternoon about tea-time. The officer and his wife be round in about twenty minutes. I asked my secretary to get tea ready and I out some suitable medicines on the tea table. I selected Belladonna 3x, which is an excellent remedy for inflammation in general and Capsicum 3x, which is a specific for mastoid inflammation. We read in Boerickes “Materia Medica” endear the heading “Capsicum”: “Burning and stinging in ears. Swelling and pain behind ears. Inflammation of mastoid. Tenderness over the petrous bone. Extremely sore tender to touch. Otorrhoea and mastoid disease before suppuration”.
The pair arrived. The husband was very nervy. The wifes face was distorted with pain. I asked them to sit down and take tea and immediately gave to the lady a dose of Belladonna. Ten minutes later I gave her a dose of Capsicum. After a further ten minutes she had another dose of Belladonna, following ten minutes later by a second dose of Capsicum. Meanwhile half an hour gone b and we had talked with the utmost animation about her sisters mastoid operation, operations in general, and various other things. I had observed that the expression of Mrs. C. S. had changed completely in the meantime, and I asked her suddenly: “How is the pain ?” With wide open eyes of amazement the lady exclaimed: “It has gone, completely gone It is marvellous ” The pair stayed a little longer and then they went back to their car with two little boxes of pilules, one containing Belladonna and the other Capsicum, with instructions to take doses alternatively at lengthening intervals and to let me know instantaneously if there should be any further trouble. There was no further trouble.
Some time ago a Mrs. V., of Eltham, an old patient mine, was attacked by mastoid inflammation. Her husband told me this over the telephone. Instead of notifying me at once, the lady had tried treating the trouble herself with hot fomentations and she appealed to me only when the pain had become exceedingly severe. As they had no mother car to send me, further delay was occasioned by the despatch of medicines by post and again I selected Belladonna 3x and Capsicum 3x, which had rendered such excellent service in the previous case. This patient caused me great anxiety. Her attack was exceedingly severe. The pain was excruciating, the swelling very great, she feared to los her reason. I told them of the danger of delay if an operation should be needed. However, the lady, who had undergone surgical treatment, was quite determined that she would rather die then be operated upon and she caused me the gravest anxiety by refusing to call in a local doctor or surgeon. However, alls well that ends well. The inflammation and swelling became steadily worse, and then it broke open, happily discharging toward the outside. In a few she was he old self again.
HOW I HELP THE SICK
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker.
Volume
1934 Jun Vol LXIX No 822
Author
Messie Melville.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Bell / Arn / Arg-n / Gels / Calen / Ham / Spong.
BY A LADY MISSIONARY.
DEAR MR. BARKER, -Since coming to the Mission Field fourteen years ago I have had a good deal of medical work to do one way and another, as most missionaries have. I am neither a doctor nor a nurse but have had to take the place of both on occasion when I took charge of a station in my second year. Along with another colleague I was left with a few homoeopathic remedies and Dr. Ruddocks Vade Mecum which I used to read in my leisure moments. As years went by, I gradually in creased my stock and, although knowing very little of the action of the different drugs on the human system, I learned quite a from experience and had a certain amount of success.
Two years ago when at home, I met with a friend who is a subscriber to your magazine and who has given me some valuable help, and last year he sent me your magazine for the whole year. I cannot tell you what a help it has been to me, but I would just like to quote a few instances where I have used Homoeopathy with great success. I have now gathered a collection of works on Homoeopathy, but nearly always go back to Ruddock, he explains so fully.
One day I was called out to a confinement case. The woman had in labour for some hours and was making no found the patient rather exhausted, having been in labour all night and bleeding rather profusely. On examination I found the vagina sloughy, but no sign of a head. So I gave two doses of Hamamelis O and went home for other remedies. There seemed to be no abating of the haemorrhage so I gave Arnica 3x, two doses, and started off to bring a homoeopath in whom I have great faith a spare Hindu man of gentle habits but it was his day of prayer and silence and nothing would induce him to come out even to see me. So I went off a bit disappointed and went back to my patient, who by this time was getting on with the job, and within half an hour a man child, strong and howling, was born into the world, and in two days the mother got up and sat down beside me outside in the sun, having had the minimum of discomfort.
Another case was a first child (we are only sent for as a last resort) and, as I have next to no practice, having a boarding school to look after, I felt a little doubtful about being able to help. Anyhow the prospective after was very persistent. So I armed myself with a few remedies and accompanied him to the village. This case also was in rather an exhausted condition, having been in labour for a long time and the head had been in the vagina for some hours, so you may guess my hope was very slight of being able to do anything. Anyway I gave a dose of Pulsatilla and left a few more doses to be taken at intervals of half an hour, and promised to return, leaving the woman a bit more life-like. I returned in three hours but nothing had happened, so gave a dose of Gelsemium and left her again. This was about 7 P.M., and a living child was born in the small hours of next morning and I hear he is still alive and doing well.
A child of four got croup last July and I did not recognize the symptoms, never having had to deal with croup before, and so it had gone on for there days before I knew what was wrong. I gave Aconite and Spongia and called the homoeopath who gave the same and told me there was no need to get alarmed. The child was very ill indeed and I doubt very much if she would have recovered with any other remedies, as she is very obstinate in sickness. She simply refused to look at milk in any form, and if tried to force her to take anything she fought like a tigress and usually managed to upset everything. The only nourishment she would look at was lightly poached eggs and orange juice, and these I gave her. About a month later she had another attack, but I began early with the Aconite and Spongia and finished with Hepar sulphuris without having to call the doctor.
Pneumonia has no terrors for me, and I have never lost a patient through it and I have had some bad cases, too. One case of boy of about twelve went up to 107 before I knew he was ill, and in an hour with Aconite and cold packs every five minutes I got him down to 104 degree and he recovered. I am rather keen on cold packs, and often pneumonia occurs here in the very hot weather. So there is no risk.
I find Calendula very good for sores, burns and cuts. Applied immediately, it heals in a few hours. For ophthalmia, if I can get at the beginning, I always am successful with Argentum nitricum 30.
On Friday we had a play in the school and the head mistress worked very hard for two days in preparation. On saturday morning she was down with flu, panting and moaning with fever and pain all over her body. I remembered an article in one of you magazines on influenza and got he Baptisia and Gelsemium on the job. At mid-day I saw her again and she was perspiring freely but had still got pain, the fever was down to 100.6. I told her to keep on with the medicine but take it every three hours instead of every two. I saw her again in the evening and she complained of severe headache, especially on the right side of the face. So I gave her two doses of Belladonna 3x. I did not see her again till next morning, but she sat up in bed and told me her head was quite better, she had a good night and there was only a little aching in her legs. Monday morning she went off to school. I wanted her to have another day in bed but she insisted it was imperative she should go to school. I know she ought to have Quinine nitricum now to complete the cure, but I have never been able to secure it from any of the homoeopathic chemists.
These are only a few examples of my experience with homoeopathic remedies, and only wish I knew lots more.
I have been very interested in Mr. Henry Cooks articles about foodstuffs and find that, besides being more healthy to live as he says on the natural products, it is much cheaper. We get freshly ground wheat her cheaper than flour, and in the winter months especially vegetables are very plentiful and cheap. Raw sugar is also very cheap as the sugar cane grows here, and I use practically nothing else now but the unrefined cane sugar. I also find that where the food seemed rather tasteless before and required spicing up, now it is full of flavour.
I must now get off an order for some more medicines, as my stock is running low and I dont like getting too big a quantity at a time.
In closing I would just like to say what an excellent work you are doing with your little magazine, “HEAL THYSELF” and I only wish everybody would take it and keep their health.
PNEUMONIA AND ITS TREATMENT [Pneumonia & Its Treatment]
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker.
Volume
1934 Nov / Dec Vol LXIX No 827
Author
Petrie Hoyle.
Subject
General Topics / Cases
Remedy
Dig / Acon / Bell / Bry / Phos / Ant-t.
THE DEADLINES OF ORTHODOX INCOMPETENCE.
BY DR. Petrie Hoyle.
AN orthodox authority says that “ten per cent of all deaths in the civilized countries are due to pneumonia and that practically thirty per cent. of all pneumonia cases are sure to die.” When pneumonia is treated homoeopathically less than five per cent. die. These two averages are for adult cases, of all classes and all ages. What I have to say to you regarding the terrible difference in death risks demands your earnest and immediate attention.
The mortality statistics prove many things. The orthodox figures are taken from their own records. They were complied for the guidance of their own men and this guarantee likewise holds when homoeopathic figures are given. The very great difference in death rates shows the serious extra risk you run if you are being treated by orthodox methods. You are much safer if you employ homoeopathy. Of course you should try and obtain the services of a doctor practising homoeopathy, but if you cannot obtain a homoeopathic doctor you will fare better if you take a homoeopathic materia medica or family manual and match the personal symptoms of any given case, speaking now of pneumonia, and then give or take the homoeopathic remedy which produces most nearly the disease symptoms found at the moment.
It is the “peculiar personal symptoms” of any patient which point to the one drug required. Diagnosis, which may be incorrect, is of secondary importance. Nature speaks with exactness through the patients expressions of suffering and these must be matched exactly with what we homoeopaths have recorded in our materia medicas. Were I suffering with a pneumonia and were no Homoeopathic doctor at hand, I would prefer to be treated by a layman or woman of average intelligence armed with one of our books and remedies than by the most famous orthodox diagnostician and lung specialist.
There is much to be said on the subject, all of vital importance. I have several points to make:.
(1) To prove that there is a very great difference in the death risks between the two schools of medicine, orthodox and homoeopathic.
(2) To make my second point I must quote the bewildered groping of orthodoxy as to their own drugs, the use of which results in a thirty per cent. death loss. At the same time I must register some of the orthodox warnings as to the actual dangers of their own drugs and, note well, we homoeopaths never give warnings about any drug we use because we have no need to do so. There is no danger in any medicine we employ, and babies may be given any drug we name.
(3) To offset the dangers of orthodox medical measures I must lay before you a clear but brief description of a few important homoeopathic remedies which enable us to save so many lives. Each homoeopathic drug will portray clearly a particular type of phase of a pneumonia process and it is necessary to match the patients symptoms with one of the drugs described when an amelioration or cure will ensue. If you select correctly, you cannot fail.
Homoeopathy never indulges in such weak expressions as this or that drug “may be tried” which is common to many orthodox medical works. This bespeaks a bungling and bewildered groping.
Now for the contradictions and dangers of orthodoxy. It was no less a man that Dr. Blumgart who in his five public lectures sponsored by the Faculty of Medicine of Harvard University Medical School stated that “thirty per cent. of all pneumonia cases are sure to die”. He, an orthodox doctor, speaking for the “second to none” medical school in U.S.A. gave his message to the laity and we are following suit now with our side of the question and testimony.
The late Sir William Osler (Oxford University) put their orthodox death risk at higher than this thirty per cent. (see statistics). Note well that all my statistics are taken from public institutions and not from private practice. The classification and diagnoses were all made at the bedside, with many onlookers present, including the nurses, and many nurses are exceedingly intelligent. So doctors are not likely to make too many errors in diagnosis. In fact that work is left to well- known diagnosticians. We may take it that the mistake of the disease pneumonia is not often made. When death occurs, the physicians cannot be expected to enter the cause of death as Digitalis, Strophanthin, or some antipyretic or serums. So the cause of death is put down to pneumonia. Therefore we may take it that the mortality rates of the hospitals are as stated. The type or class of pneumonia which kills is more or less a matter of personal opinion. There are at present four classes or types of pneumonia. I read last week that some diagnostician has divided one class into twenty-seven varieties, though he did not pretend that this reduced the mortality one iota, and so it goes on ad infinitum, with a fairly constant death rate of orthodoxy of thirty per cent, which has held good for the last fifty years.
How many tens of thousands of lives could have been saved in this half century had homoeopathy only been employed?.
Homoeopathy has a guiding rule, Similia, to help the prescriber. Orthodoxy has no rule. It relies on personal opinions. Their works on medicine are out of date every few years as the second- hand bookshops will tell you. This quick change is not advance. It is bewilderment.
Homoeopaths, both professional and lay supporters, know what medicine to give and exactly why.
Sir Farquhar Buzzard, when addressing the Birmingham University Medical School in 1929, said to graduates and undergraduates: “If our profession as a whole is to attain its rightful position, let us cease to profess to cure.” I ask you not only how this strikes you, but what effect it must have had on all the undergraduates soon to be let loose on the suffering public?.
An Oxford University Medical Textbook (orthodox, of course), states: “In fifty years to come the lay people will stand aghast at the barbarities perpetuated in the name of medicine to-day.”.
Dear orthodox colleagues (for I know that some of you reads this journal) and my unknown lay readers, I am fighting and “HEAL THYSELF” is fighting to save peoples lives. So do not treat this information lightly, or you may live to regret it.
Listen to this levity on the part of an orthodox leader. The late Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford University, a man at the top of the orthodox medical tree, said (see page 278, Practical Medical Series, 1931): “The family as well as the patient must be treated, and any concoction with a striking colour, a definite taste and pleasant smell, and finally above all being perfectly harmless, will often aid not only the family, but indirectly the patient and the physician.” This serves to show us all how little the orthodox believe in their medicines.
The Public Health Department of Massachusetts, U.S.A., compiled the very latest information as to the orthodox practice in treating pneumonia. They inform the orthodox profession “that their much vaunted sera have fallen into disuse in consequence of their obvious disadvantages, such as the immense dosages necessary, the technical difficulties of their administration … the very serious reactions (deaths) following serum sickness being common … Theoretically sera ought to do good but they have failed. We (the orthodox) lack a serum free from defects due to the amount of protein present in horse serum, which gives frequent and violent chills, as well as very high temperatures and a number of fatal cases immediately following injections have been reported (and how many such deaths not so reported?) Specific treatment of pneumonia by serum is by no means solved.” So seemingly is the knell sounded on the much vaunted serum “experiment” of orthodoxy, and what of the recipients of such treatment? Many are beyond making any sort of report.
I only mention a few drugs in everyday use by the orthodox in their pneumonia cases. They carry innumerable and very grave warnings issued by the authors to the orthodox profession.
Heroin is a preparation derived from Morphia. It has hosts of trade names. It allays cough. I can vouch for this personally as I was treated thus in France during the War and I nearly “turned my toes up to the daisies.” It stopped my cough by drying up the secretions in the lungs which should have been coughed up. I nearly suffocated. Fortunately I was able to crawl out of my bed and get hold of my own homoeopathic remedies. It surely stops coughs; but the patient is found to be in a worse plight than before. He has a pneumonia plus a drug disease.
Orthodoxy warns its practitioners thus about Heroin: It has a depressant action on the cord and especially on the respiratory centre, very much greater than that of Morphia. It is advisable to commence with very small doses as some persons are easily affected by it. Repeated doses have produced poisonous symptoms. It is a highly dangerous drug which ought not to be allowed in practice.
Digitalis. Nearly every case of pneumonia in orthodox hands receives this drug. Let us examine as briefly as possible some of its terrible risks, which would fill a book. I have read some important orthodox medical works of reference in which not one word was said of the cumulative action of Digitalis. Yet others emphasize that its action does pile up in the patient to a most dangerous degree. This danger being known, it is little short of wickedness when this is not stated as a warning. The following are brief extracts from a number of standard orthodox medical works:.
“There is no evidence of benefit from Digitalis in pneumonia, except in a possible 5 per cent. of cases. There is actual harm to the patient if the drug is given until its toxic symptoms appear. There is no justification for its routine use as is the custom in so many hospitals. There is considerable danger in prescribing Digitalis. Digitalis requires the greatest caution to avoid toxic (poisonous) symptoms. (From Massachusetts Board of Health warnings to the profession.).
Blumers edition of Billings-Forcheimer (Therapeutics of Medicine, Vol. II, p. 782 et seq.), frankly advises thus: “It is sufficient to Digitalize the heart (which flatly contradicts the warnings of the former authority and these contradictions appear throughout orthodox medical works.).
At this point I must quote what a very great homoeopathic author and college professor had to say about Digitalis. In his materia medica Dr. J. Tyler Kent pictures the drug thus: “Digitalis has done more mischief in orthodox hands than any other drug. EVery patient who has a fast beating heart or anything the matter with the heart is given Digitalis. It has caused more deaths than any other drug. The orthodox call it a sedative; yes, it is a sedative. It makes the patient very sedate. You have seen how sedate a patient looks after he has been in the hands of an undertaker and has on his best clothes.” That is what Digitalis does and yet it is one of the three chief drugs of the orthodox for pneumonia.
When an average orthodox doctor thinks he dare not give another drop of Digitalis he turns at once to Strophanthin, or Strophanthine. It is mentioned in all their medical works.
Strophanthine (Massachusetts Board of Health advice, page 148). This drug is warmly advocated by Meara and others, but it should not be given in a case of pneumonia when Digitalis has been given JUST PREVIOUSLY, as instances of sudden death following its use have been recorded. The action of Strophanthine is but little more prompt than Digitalis and because of the danger attending its use it seems to be of little value, etc.” Keeping in mind and having to guess at what is meant by “not just previously” I turn to the Quick Reference Book of Medicine and Surgery, by Dr. Rehberger of Johns Hopkins University, sixth edition and read that “it must not be used for at least two days after Digitalis has been administered. It may cause paralysis of the voluntary and involuntary heart muscle by direct action (and this is printed notice is found under Strophanthine, yet under Digitalis there is no word of warning that Strophanthine must not follow on Digitalis. Here indeed is a very great danger and who waits “two whole days” in any pneumonia case to give the next dose of medicine?.
In this connection one more quotation is absolutely necessary and if anything I suggest that it almost puts the last two authors in the “criminal negligence category.”.
I read in Blumers Billings-Forcheimers Therapeutics of Internal Diseases, Vol. II, p. 792. “Never give Strophanthine to those who have had Digitalis. Cases of death follow. Strophanthine should under no circumstances whatever be given if Digitalis has been employed any time within at least a week.” Here are some death dealing eros in standard orthodox professional works having International sue and very large sales.
My dear orthodox colleague please explain to me, what happens to all those thousands of patients who get the two drugs after “two days interval”, whilst the number who have had the combination of these two drugs though “not just previously” whatever that may mean, why – God help them and the orthodox men who follow that advice.
If the authority who demands that “full seven days must elapse between Strophanthine and Digitalis or they will kill” is correct then many have been just “plain killed-by-misadventure-or- ignorance” and perhaps this explains the 30 per cent. death rate in some degree.
Having quoted from American authorities, I must now quote a British source, as this is mainly fro a British reading public. Turn to The Principles and Practice of Medicine written by the late Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and formerly of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and later at McGills University at Montreal, professorships which proclaim his pre-eminence in orthodox matters. Recent editions are by Dr. McCrae. It has run to the eleventh edition with well over a quarter of a million copies sold.
A weak feature in this work is that “may be tried is used, as also “may be given” which sounds like experiments on the sick. For pneumonia this work advises Optochin, a Quinine derivative, explaining that “experiments on the sick. For pneumonia this work advises Optochin, a Quinine derivative, explaining that “experimentally on mice its value is encouraging but scarcely good enough.” Further an overdose of this drug causes disturbances of vision. Bleeding is again in fashion (orthodox) to be done. “late in the disease”. If my memory does not play me false, Sir Clifford Allbutt (Regius Professor or Medicine at Cambridge University) suggests bleeding early. So the profession may toss up, having equal authority, early or late, whatever happens.
Oslers book advises Serum,contrary to many U.S.A. authorities. Vaccines are of no value “now”, though they had their experimental rage a few years ago.
Here is a jar for the profession (and some patients). Osler and McCrae advise Digitalis and Strophanthine for pneumonias in adjoining lines (page 105, eleventh edition) with absolutely no mention of any dangers. There is, moreover, no mention of any cumulative power and danger when speaking of Digitalis, and as their dose of this drug when given is XV minims three or four times daily, one must wonder what has happened to thousands of pneumonia cases so treated.
To quieten the nervous system Osler and Co. advise Bromides, Chloral hydrate, Morphia, Barbital (so recently sternly warned against by Sir William Willcox). Osler and Co. also advise Codein, Heroin, and Morphia to quieten the cough and they warn that “expectorant drugs upset the stomach”. There is not much comfort to be gained from a survey of this book which has been sold well in excess of 250,000 copies.
THE DEADLINESS OF ORTHODOX INCOMPETENCE.
I will now describe some homoeopathic remedies for pneumonia with a clearness of detail absolutely unknown an any orthodox medical work. I think a few orthodox medicos may read these lines. To such I say: Have you every watched one of your own family die, feeling that the illness need not, should not, have ended in death? Did you ever, in the chill silent hours of a long sleepless night wonder what those homoeopaths would do for such a case which was weighing you down ? Perhaps you even cursed your orthodox Materia Medica teachers and all your medical works. Well, you can learn what the homoeopaths would do and have done.
To the laity I say: Whilst you are waiting to obtain a professed homoeopathic doctor study homoeopathy seriously and “HEAL THYSELF” will help you. With care you cannot lose half the cases that the orthodox practitioner does. Shun all “fever-breakers”. They kill. The heart burdened by a pneumonia cannot stand the extra load of a fever-breaker not Digitalis, Strophanthine, Heroin, etc.
The following homoeopathic remedies help us to keep our death rate at under 5 per cent. in public hospitals though in private practice I thoroughly believe the death rate is very much lower.
Aconite (3x, 6x to 30). At the first possible moment, when it is thought that a chill has been contracted, which may turn into many things and when shivers and shudderings are first noted, take doses of Aconite every fifteen minutes. As favourable reaction is felt take every two hours. Stop medicine the moment the patient feels better. Let the drug work on. It may be found in a few hours that the chill has been conquered and the normal restored. So always have a bottle of homoeopathically diluted Aconite on hand. When a chill is more serious, besides the shiverings some fever will be felt. Continue the Aconite until it is felt that there is some local congestion, when another drug must be considered whose symptoms compare with the new disease symptoms. The new and local symptoms will fix the attention of the patient or the attendant so consider them at once. It is not necessary to wait until pneumonia is apparent. This cannot be told well under twenty-four hours, when precious time has been lost, but of Aconite has been taken immediately the slightest chill has been felt any threatened trouble will have been reduced in severity or thwarted entirely.
The most common serious symptoms requiring Aconite are as follows. Mind: Great fear and anxiety; fears he will be ill a long time, very restless. Head: Fullness, heavy, hot, bursting pain, burning heat, vertigo, worse on rising and in extreme cases the mind may wander even to some delirium. The eyes feel hot and dry. Face is red, hot, flushed, or one cheek is red and the other pale (this is more often seen in the very young). Chest: oppressed breathing, shortness of breath, hoarse dry cough, with all symptoms worse at night and after midnight. Heart beats felt, pulse full and hard, tense and bounding, arteries easily felt, especially in the temples and throat. There will be very marked thirst. The skin will be hot and dry to the touch. There will be shudderings which merge into tiny shivers. Such are the chief symptoms of an acute chill. Aconite taken early enough will thwart many such attacks overnight.
I have for many years relied on using in alternation Aconite and Belladonna which is the only instance in my work of using two drugs almost at one time. I have used them all through my four years War work and since. To mix ones drugs as a rule weakens ones judgment. Professor Hempel said that Aconite controls and corrects the arterial circulation, whilst Belladonna acts in same manner on the venous circulations. I have adopted his life-long method of alternating Aconite with Belladonna in the 3x or 6x potency in every case of chill or suspected chill, which, if not stopped, might run on into pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy etc. These two drugs are given fifteen minutes apart, alternately, for some five or six doses each, then drop to two hours apart during waking hours, not being like the night nurse who woke her patients regularly to give them their sleeping medicine.
If Aconite has been given, or Aconite and Belladonna in alternation, the original symptoms will probably be soon replaced by a different disease picture, which calls for a remedy matching these new symptoms. A few examples will show how a subsequent medicine is selected.
Bryonia Alba 3x, 6x or 30. Bryonia cures or alleviates the following symptoms: “Stitching cutting pain in various parts of the chest of lungs. Patient is irritable and fretful. Pains grow worse and at last become tearing in character. A child too young to speak will vaguely try to place it hands on the painful region. The cough is very dry and hurts acutely and, most important, the patient will try by every means to lesson the movement of the chest wall of lungs. Bryonia is particularly indicated in pneumonia, rheumatism, etc., if the patient is worse by movement. A sick man needing Bryonia lies absolutely still and as pressure relieves he lies on the painful side. Another characteristic is great thirst for large quantities of fluid, due to dryness of membranes, lips dry and parched, mouth and tongue dry, tongue coated yellow or brown. The Bryonia-needing patient is usually constipated and had dry stools. Phlegm raised by much coughing is very tough and stringy. The pains of the patient needing Bryonia are particularly of a stitching character. Bryonia is all-important in pleurisy and should be prescribed for the symptoms mentioned, whether there is pleurisy or not.
Phosphorus 6x to 30 will alleviate and cure the following very grave symptoms. The patient has high fever with a hard full pulse, expectoration are dark, blood-stained, due to dead, cast- off blood cells. This expectoration is called prune juice expectoration and it occurs in a very grave phase. The cough is hacking and weakening and there are pronounced burning sensations in many parts. Hands and feet are uncovered continually to get cool, breathing is oppressed and laboured, mucous is purulent and profuse, cough is excited by a tickling sensation, burning heat alternates with shivering and there is a great thirst for cold drink. The Phosphorus-needing patient often vomits the cold drink as soon as it has become warm in the stomach. This is a leading symptom calling for Phosphorus. Phosphorus will snatch out of the jaws of death many patients who have these most grave symptom.
For a time orthodox doctors employed Phosphorus but they had not properly learned from the homoeopaths how to use it. They grave Phosphorus in huge doses and did much mischief. Professor Schroff wrote in his Pharmacology, page 418: ” The internal use of Phosphorus has been abandoned for the reason that even the most cautious employment of this drug involves danger. Phosphorus is no longer used except by the homoeopaths and the veterinary surgeons.” In the minute doses of homoeopathy Phosphorus carries no risk whatever and is a magnificent help in cases which from the orthodox point of view are incurable.
Antimonium tartaricum 3x, 6x or 30. This drug is of the greatest value in cases where there is deficient reaction, and it is specially called for in the treatment of the old and the very young. The patient needing Antimonium tartaricum is becoming stifled with phlegm which he cannot raise. He will try to sit up in order to breathe. Attacks of coughing provoke a sensation of suffocation. Coughing is often followed by vomiting, sensations of nausea, and the expectoration is always thick and terribly difficult to bring up. The patient is always hoping that the next cough will rid him of the mucous but it does not do so and he is becoming rapidly exhausted by trying to raise the tough phlegm, which blocks the lungs and will drown the patient. Orthodox medicine gives Antimonium tartaricum in the usual large and dangerous doses which do infinite mischief.
Every phase of the disease must be matched with the corresponding remedy. The few examples given must suffice to show the principles by which homoeopathy acts and saves those who would die under orthodox treatment. I now would give some comparative statistics, giving the mortality from pneumonia under orthodox and homoeopathic treatment. These speak for themselves and they show the superiority of homoeopathy over orthodox medicine.
Series:
Dr. J. Robertson Day was Senior Physician for “Diseases of Children” at the London Royal Homoeopathic Hospital for many years, so it is to be presumed that he was thoroughly conversant with the death rates of his own and many other hospital in Great Britain. His heart and soul was in this work, and he would not juggle any figures for any price. I have known him well for about forty years.
These figures of ADULT LOSSES are worth the study by all adults, and the Governing bodies of the nation, as well as at all hospitals, if they have the public welfare at heart. The different rates in child losses should go to the heart of every woman, indeed every parent. Wont you make the study of Homoeopathy a real LIFE WORK ? and then spread the value right and left.
Book
HEAL THYSELF (The Homoeopathic World) A Popular Journal of Medical, Dietetic, Social and Sanitary Science By J Ellis Barker.
Volume
1937 Mar Vol LXXI No 855
Author
Ellis Barker J.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Sulph / Kali-bi / Ign / Thuj / Acon / Eupat.
BY Ellis Barker J.
ON January 5th I was visited by a Mr. J.P.L., a business man in the West End of London, who complained to me about psoriasis. He had a scaly eruption, very red, particularly noticeable around the abdomen. The trouble had been in existence for a great many years, and he had received numerous treatments from orthodox doctors and specialists with the usual lack of result. Only outward treatment had been given to him. At last he went to a well-known nature cure institute and was rigidly fasted for a number of weeks. As usual, the psoriasis disappeared but came back very promptly when the fast was over. I have met cases of psoriasis where dozens of long and short fasts had been tried in vain. After all, psoriasis, like every skin disease, is a blood disease which, as a rule, cannot be cured by applications on the skin, or by attending to the digestion. While fasting is usually quite ineffective, one can often cure skin disease by a vegetarian diet and by a limitation of condiments, especially salt. The patient insisted, of course, upon showing me the various parts of the body which were disfigured by the eruption, information which is not very helpful. After all, one wants to know the cause of whatever trouble the individual suffers from.
I discovered that he had been vaccinated as a baby and had had frequent dreams of falling, a sign of vaccinial poisoning. This was only one cause. Besides, he hardly perspired at all, and thus retained impurities which should have been eliminated by the skin.
The patient looked weak and pale, largely because he lived on a low diet in the hope of starving out the disease. He had a great deal of catarrh, caught colds easily, felt always chilly, largely owing to under-nutrition, was very sentimental, and could not stand fatty food. He therefore had plenty of Pulsatilla symptoms. He used no salt in the cooking or at the table. this is frequently done by nature curers and their disciples, who have the notion that nature curers and their disciples, who have the notion that the food contains all the salt they need. This is not the case. We lose salt in sweat from the pores, in tears, and in many other ways, and salt is needed for carrying on the bodily functions. Salt is particularly necessary to vegetarians. We know that wild deer and cattle travel hundreds of miles to the salt licks and that they will risk death to get the salt.
Heat aggravated the skin symptoms, a fact which indicated his needing Sulphur. He had icy feet, digestion was poor, there was splashing in the stomach, he was very depressed, he took far too little liquid, and he had been given many inoculations. He was altogether in a poor condition, and the most important thing was to feed him up.
I gave him a vegetarian diet with an abundance of wholemeal bread, and especially bran. He was to take nine heaped tablespoonfuls of broad bran, two to three eggs, 2 to 3 pints of milk in every form, 2 to 3 ozs. of mild cheese per day, increasing his intake gradually. I gave him as medicine Sulphur 6x, a dose night and morning, Kali bichromicum 3x for the catarrh, to be taken between meals, and a combination of Ignatia and Carbo vegetabilis, to be taken with meals for his digestion and depression. Once a week he got a dose of Thuja 200 as a vaccination antidote.
When he came to me he weighed 8 st. 92 lbs. Being used to a very low diet, he was horrified at the idea of eating such enormous quantities, and proclaimed that it would be quite impossible to eat so much. However, he was assured that he would be able to do it, and told that he must increase his intake gradually and cautiously.
A few days after the beginning of treatment he got influenza, which, of course, pulled him down considerably. I sent him Aconite and Eupatorium to be taken in alternation, which rapidly got him into order. On January 24th, after less than three weeks treatment, he wrote to me that his weight had increased from 8 st. 92 lbs. to 9st. 12 lbs., an increase of 6 lbs. He wrote with delight:.
“An increase of 6 lbs. even taking into account my recent recovery from flu, which had run me down severely, quite took my breath away. Friends tell me I am looking much better and fatter in the face”.
“The skin shows as yet no appreciable change. However, the skin in general is more ready to act, and I find when the night turns warm that a gentle perspiration will commence”.
“The catarrh is improving”.
Skin action was obviously considerably improved. On February 1st, after four weeks treatment, he wrote to me:.
“I am pleased to be able to send a favourable report again. My weight on Saturday in the same clothes I wore when you weighed me at 8 st. 92 lbs. touched the beam at 9 st. 4 lbs., an increased of 82 lbs. since the commencement, which is excellent. I have been feeling well and energetic and have not felt the cold to the same extent as previously. The catarrh has almost gone, except for some stuffiness in the morning, as to-day, when we have had two wet and unpleasant days, but the nose feels comfortably clear during most of the day. The post-nasal catarrh has not quite gone but is very much improved”.
“I go regularly first thing in the morning, and on most days later in the day or last thing at night. The diet suits me well, and in the day or last thing at night. The diet suits me well, and in spite of occasional fears that my bilious headaches, which used to incapacitate me for twenty-four hours, would return, I have so far had no sign of them”.
“With regard to the psoriasis it is certainly not worse, and I see slight signs of improvement. The patches are not easy to assess, as the appearance varies from day to day, according to the amount of dry skin on the surface. I quite 18 months. This was over eight years ago. I felt it had been a waste of money. After trying one treatment after another, I have so often come to a similar conclusion. This time I feel more confident, as there is a marked improvement in general health”.
Since then I have seen Mr. J.P.L. His weight has further increased. His health and strength have improved greatly. His catarrh is gone: his headache has disappeared, and the skin trouble is rapidly improving. Of course, it will take time to eliminate the skin trouble completely.
CANCER
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC HERALD By Das N C.
Volume
1951 Feb Vol XI No 11
Author
Daniel Coleman.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Nat-m / Con / Phyt / Calc-f / Mill / Kreos / Kali-c / Ars / Chel / Acon / Stram
[ Read before I.H.A., Bureau of Materia Medica, June 6, 1935.].
DANIEL E. S. COLEMAN, PH.B., M.D. F.A.C.P.
H.R. July, 1936.
Cancer, “Chief banqueter at (deaths) feast”, the Grim Reapers most faithful ally; this is the tragic subject chosen for the paper. The star tragedian in the playhouse of disease stalks on as yet unconquered. Has no therapeutic Saint George arisen to slay this morbid pathological dragon, who strikes with relentless malevolence regardless of person ? The mighty voice of Tamagno, the greatest of all tenors, was forever silenced by the vulturous claws of this hideous monster, sinking its poisonous talons into the very organ that held countless audiences spellbound with its clarion notes. Grover Cleveland, a truly great President, was secretly operated on aboard a private yacht in Long Island Sound in order that his highly efficient services at the chief executor could be continued. Alas, this rugged individualist, who believe in upholding the traditions of a government “by the people, for the people”, survived only a few short years. General Ulysses S. Grant, who saved the Union, fell by the attack of this more deadly foe than he had ever encountered in battle. Dr. William Tinninghast Bull fought with his scalpel this demon of scourges for many years. He himself fell by the hand of the powerful antagonist he had failed to conquer.
Can nothing be done for those suffering from this dread disease? Although, as I said before, this malady is as yet unconquered, much can be done to relieve, and sometimes even to cure, this dreadful enemy of mankind.
Surgery, X-ray and radium are practically the only therapeutic measures used by the majority of the medical profession today. The hundreds of so-called “cures” investigated by the various cancer hospitals have proved impotent.
Surgery says operate early, at the very incipiency of the disease. Then and only then is there hope of recovery. If operated later a return of the growth is almost certain. Operations on gastrointestinal cancers, under the most favorable conditions, can promise only about two short years of life.
X-ray and radium have the power to destroy the cancer cell in the superficial epithelial variety. It is significant that they are capable of destroying lesions similar to those that they produce. They are therefore homoeopathic. If we apply a weak emanation, as would happen with a deeply situated growth, conditions would be made worse. Small doses stimulate, large doses destroy (Arndt-Schultz). After the disease has extended to the surrounding tissues and the lymph nodes have become involved, neither x-ray nor radium therapy holds out hope of curability.
It is the object of this paper, however, to tell what homoeopathy can accomplish to combat this horrible spectre which hangs over thousands of otherwise happy homes. We must be careful to make no false claims or exaggerated statements. To do so would defeat the very object that we have in view, to show that in homoeopathy lies the greatest hope of eventually conquering this disease. We lack remedies which are capable of producing growths similar to true carcinoma. Recently three chemicals have been discovered which have produced in mice tumors similar to malignant growths. No homoeopathic provings or verifications have been made, however. I may be in a position to discuss these in a later paper. We, as homoeopaths, can do much to palliate, to prolong life, and possibly to cure some cases with the remedies already at our disposal. Many patients are seen during thirty- four years practice. The following are selected in the way of illustration.
The first set of cases comprise those in which a definite diagnosis of cancer could not be given. It has been my personal opinion that many patients successfully operated have been of this class. We could have cured them without an operation.
CASE 1. Female, age 37. Lump the size of a marble under left arm. Discovered eight months previously. Cured in six months by Phytolacca 3x.
CASE II. Female, age 45. Hard lump in left breast of two years duration. Subjective symptoms: Melancholy, depressed, trembling of the limbs, fluttering in the epigastrium, awaking suddenly at night with feeling of suffocation., etc. Lump disappeared in less than two months under Natrum mur. 30x four times daily. Lump returned in a little over a year. Conium 3x followed by Phytolacca 3x cured completely in three weeks.
CASE III. Female, age 52. Lump in breast characterized by stony hardness. Cured by Conium 3.
CASE IV. Female, age 41. History of a blow on the left breast, followed by indurated lumps. Cured in three weeks by Conium 3.
CASE V. A young lady appeared at my office in a most apprehensive state of mind. Her father had died of duodenal carcinoma. Her own doctor, an excellent prescriber, was out of town. I concentrated to treat her until he returned. She presented a lump the size of a small plum in the right breast. Considerable pain of a spreading character. I prescribed Conium 30 four times daily. I saw her again in two weeks. The pain had ceased after the first day under the remedy and the lump was much smaller. She continued treatment under her own physician.
CASE VI. Female. Lump in left breast about two inches long and one and a half inches wide. Cured in a few months by Conium 3 followed by Calcarea fluorica 6x.
I could give more similar cases, but these will suffice. Were they cancer? “Ah theres the rub.” They were saved from operation, however.
The following are cases in which positive diagnosis of malignancy were established.
CASE 1. Female, age 60. Hard swelling in left breast with retraction of the nipple. Thin exudation. Prescribed Conium 3 four times daily. Prompt and continued improvement, lump diminished in size and the lymphatics did not become involved. Remedy discontinued and resumed as indicated. In six months the tumor was greatly reduced in size. Phytolacca was then indicated. The growth was very much smaller in six weeks, but I detected another in close proximity. Perhaps I had overlooked this before because of the swelling. I prescribed Iodine tincture, gtt. v in quarter glass of water, two teaspoonfuls q.i.d. A profuse discharge resulted with complete disappearance of the growths. This condition of apparent cure was interrupted by slight relapses These were controlled by Conium 2x, Baryta carb. 2x and Kali iod. 2x as indicated. Later I prescribed Conium 30 with marked success.
I did not see her for some time. During the interval she yielded to the advice of “friends” and was operated. What remained of the original tumor was removed. The pathological examinations proved it malignant.
The indicated remedy caused marked improvement for seven years which only ceased when she discontinued treatment. Her general health was always benefited by the medication. If the treatment had not been interrupted, might not a complete cure have resulted without an operation? There has been no return of the trouble, now twenty-two years later.
CASE II. Female, age 65. Indurated tumor size of a small egg, involving nipple. I decided to remove this growth to learn its true character. I made a rapid enucleation. The axillary nodes were not involved. The tumor proved to be a scirrhus. Almost as rapidly as the heads of the seven-headed Lernaean hydra reappeared after being severed by Hercules, another growth manifested itself in close proximity to the situation of the first. I prescribed Conium 3 in repeated doses on the indication of stony hardness. The tumor disappeared rapidly. If this was simply senile degeneration, why did not the original tumor degenerate? There never was a return. She died many years later of senile cardiac insufficiency.
CASE III. Female, age 72. Inoperable mammary carcinoma of five years duration. She had been under the care of a fine homoeopathic prescriber. The growth was indurated and showed signs of breaking down. It was the size of an orange. She suffered from sharp, lancinating pains. Conium 3 stopped the pain completely. Later, the growth broke down, profuse haemorrhages appeared. Millefolium tincture, gtt. x in half glass of water, teaspoonful every five minutes. The blood would drop after the first dose, and cease after the second. Sloughing then developed. The characteristic odor was intolerable. External deodorants (used by the family) proved valueless, Kreosote 6, later 3x, prescribed on the indications, ulceration with thin discharge and bluish color of the parts, completely removed the odor and checked the ulceration.
The patients general health would improve after each prescription. The last few weeks of her life were spent in a well-known cancer hospital. They were surprised at the result of the treatment, especially the power of Millefolium to control the haemorrhages. I treated her until the last. She died in her eighty-third year, over fifteen years after the growth was first discovered.
CASE IV. Female. Carcinoma of liver. Symptoms: Great weakness, emaciation, hunger, thirst, constipation, etc. . I prescribed Natrum mur 30x several times daily. She gained weight and improved so much that the family thought she would recover. This continued several months. I told them that no cure was possible, but that I could relieve her suffering. Finally, no remedy would improve her condition and she passed on to the inevitable end.
CASE V. Female, age 70. Severe lancinating pain in the left hypochondrium with profuse bright red haemorrhage. Nodular mass present. Kali carb. 30 controlled pain and bleeding.
CASE VI. Cancer of face. Morphine, given before I treated the patient, no longer relieved the intense burning pain. The pain was relieved by heat. Arsenicum alb. 30 brought complete relief which lasted until the end.
CASE VII. Female, age 72. Cancer of the liver. Nodular growth in the abdomen. Large doses of codeine given by previous physician produced unpleasant results. Chelidonium tincture, gtt. vii in half glass of water, teaspoonful in repeated doses, completely relieved the pain.
I improved the general condition of another liver case with Hydrastis 3x. The characteristic mucous discharge from the nose and throat was present.
CASE VIII. Female, age 65. Very malignant carcinoma just above the left breast. Constitutional involvement, no hope of recovery. Had x-ray treatments. Various remedies were given at different times according to indications. The lancinating pains were controlled by Conium 3. Aconite 3 often relieved the intense fear and restlessness. Later, when she became weak, Arsenicum 3 accomplished the same. Sometimes Ignatia 3x was given for the hysteria. Mental symptoms developed. I prescribed Stramonium 3 with perfect success. The chief symptoms were great loquacity and desire for light, she wished the light left on all night. She gradually grew weaker but did not suffer. The homoeopathic remedy prevented this. Finally she passed peacefully to her final rest.
Some years ago it was believed, by many that cancer developed more readily in those suffering from acidosis. This conception has been reversed, those suffering from alkalosis are more prone to the disease. A slight acidosis is beneficial. I read an interesting article in the January, 1934, number of the Medical World on the acid treatment of cancer.
In conclusion, I wish to assert that although we cannot claim a universal cure for cancer, much can be done therapeutically for those suffering from this disease. Dr. Buckley, for many years connected with the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, believed in treating the patient rather than operating. Although not a member of our school, he possessed considerable knowledge of the homoeopathic principles. He had a vast experience with cancer.
DISCUSSION.
- GRIMMER: I want to commend the Doctors position. I am in agreement with him, especially in the proposition that homoeopathic treatment and remedies are the only things that will help to solve the cancer question.
The Doctor paints an entirely different picture from our friends of the old school. He does bring hope; at least if the case is so far advanced that we may not cure them, we can relieve their sufferings and give them a peaceful ending, without the massive doses of morphine or drugging, or the other methods the old school has to employ.
We should not criticize them for giving the things they do, when they havent the weapons we have to deal with. The only criticism I have to offer against the old school is the position they take in the face of their dismal failures. They still brand anybody else who is practicing differently, who doesnt subscribe to their methods, as a quack and a charlatan, until one wonders just who the charlatans are.
The question of potency does not need to disturb us so much. There is no doubt cures have been made with remedies from the tincture to the highest potencies. It is the question of the remedy, and every doctor must be the best judge of what he prefers to use from his experience in this work.
I think that some of our homoeopathics, notably Dr. Stearns and others, are on the road to increasing our valuable remedies for these conditions. I think we will get more searching remedies, remedies that will probably take care of cases farther advanced than we now can hope to do with our present group, because with this work we are dealing more directly with the vital processes which are, after all, more important than any chemical change that can take place, or any change of tissue. That is where it begins; that is where the beginnings of this work are in the vital forces, and even the old school has become convinced of the inherited tendencies of families. There can be no question that cancer is an inherited condition that is handed down from generation to generation and some families are much more susceptible to the influence.
Now, the homoeopathic remedy is the only one that can reach down into the germ of the chromosomes and change inherited tendencies.
There is one more thought I want to leave and that is the power that homoeopathic remedies have if we could get our patients early enough. The real cure, the real future of homoeopathy is putting that patient in such a state of health that cancer cannot attack him, and I believe that is possible. I know it is possible from my observations, personally, and from talking with a great number of good prescribes who keep records. I know there isnt one case in a thousand who has the advantage of good homoeopathic prescribing, that will develop cancer, even in cancer families.
- V. E. BALDWIN: Dr. Grimmer has given you an incentive to give homoeopathic remedies. Perhaps I can recall to him several years ago I had a case with osteosarcoma behind the ear, developing secondary to an operative mastoid. I used at his recommendation Calcarea natrum fluor. The girl had been an invalid and had spasms of a serious type and following the operation had a growth around the mastoid; that patient got sound and well and since then has been married and become the mother of children, and is in rugged health; although she has a hole back there where the old operator left, it, the other part is well.
In the last ten years I have had, I expect, as large an opportunity as anyone in my territory to prescribe for these patients because they have stayed by me. I will not take up your time but will tell you remedies and I have pictures and records with me at my hotel, of some hundred or more patients I have treated for cancer, who are at least on the way to Wellville; some are dismissed and consider themselves well.
The remedies I have used; Calcarea iodide, and I want to say this: In any type of malignancy that as hardness or involvement of glands, that case nearly always needs some form of the iodide, Cadmium iodide, Calcarea iodide, Aurum iodide, Conium and Phytolacca, for these types with glandular involvement, and especially a great deal of hardness in it. Then there is Cadmium sulph., Calcarea fluor., and Calcarea sulph. and Hepar sulph., and Phytolacca, especially for those who have softer tissue, especially in the abdomen or along the alimentary canal.
Cadmium sulph. has been remarkable in the recovery developments in most any types of malignancy that involves the alimentary canal. It hardly ever fails to give you some help and relief along that line, especially if the liver is involved.
You will be surprised how much Chionanthus will help you, in a higher potency, by the way, or Chelidonium, beginning in the lower potency and going upward. It has been tremendously helpful and I believe I have positively cured cases with the use of these remedies.
I want especially to mention this matter: So many patients come to you sent by other men, or from other institutions who claim to have cancer, who really dont have cancer. They have some form of tertiary syphilis or some outbreak of a syphilitic miasm, and in several instances I have had patients referred to me who were positively cured by Syphilinum.
Then there are Arsenicum iodide. and Phytolacca, and Asterias rubens, in those cases where you suspect malignancy, which may not be that, but tuberculosis.
I have a picture of a patient with me, here. This patient came to me with a whole breast involvement, not deep, superficial, clear out under the arm and across the breast bone. You could never two or three layers with your hand. She had been to Indianapolis and was tested out at a laboratory and they said she had cancer. She got well on Asterias rubens. It took two years, but I stuck to it to the end, and she was cured finally by the action of that remedy.
I have a patient coming to me who had radium used over the abdomen and developed a radium burn which the doctor who had been using the radium said he thought had turned into cancer. This is over two years ago. This patient got Phosphorus C.M. in the beginning, with some improvement.
I learned something in working on that patient. She wanted something to relieve the burning. She had become intolerant to the touch of her clothes over it, and Phosphorus didnt relieve it at all, so I tried several kinds of ointment. Every time I tried an ointment with a mineral in it, I dont care what it was, it irritated the surface and made the trouble worse. I finally saturated cloths with pure tincture of Calendula, and you would be surprised what happened. She got along fine and a little later I gave her a series of radium from the 30 up to CM., and that woman is perfectly comfortable, the redness is gone and she seems to be recovered.
- GRIMMER: Cadmium iodide will take that out.
- BALDWIN: Maybe I am giving the credit to the radium. I gave her Cadmium iodide and following the Phosphorus, and since then radium– nearly a year.
- GRIMMER: The three remedies I find the best antidotes to compare with for radium burns are Phosphorus, Fluoric acid, and Cadmium iodide.
Dr. BALDWIN: She has practically recovered from her inconvenience and trouble.
Dont forget Hydrastis in those stomach cases, especially where there is lots of burning and disposition to vomit, and intolerance to food, especially more suffering when hungry, how much Hydrastis will relieve them.
I am especially interested in cancer and anything that can be given me here while I am here, that will be a help to my patients I will appreciate and anything I can give to you while I am here I will be mighty glad to be of service.
- BOGER: I want to mention that I havent heard this touched on here — it is one thing to remove a cancerous growth, and it is something better possibly to remove the toxemia which remains afterward.
As has been hinted, a good many cases of so-called cancer are syphilis, especially with cancer blood. I had a case a few years ago in the left ear like the one you mentioned. It did not do well. I am satisfied today it was a case of syphilis, because she had a child and the child was an imbecile. I prescribed a few times for the child and didnt make progress to suit me; and I came to the conclusion that it needed a dose of Syphilinum. The child has been getting better ever since and making wonderful progress on the Syphilinum. I am satisfied I should have had the blood examined for syphilis instead of trying to cure for cancer.
- BALDWIN: I want to show you a picture to illustrate that point. You see how that mans nose is eaten out –a case sent from the laboratory for cancer is often nothing but syphilis, and Syphilinum and Calcarea iodide, and Aurum iodide saved that man for nearly ten years.
- ALFRED PULFORD: I have a little article here that I am sure will interest everybody interested in cancer. I will be brief.
“Readers of the Truth Teller will doubtless be glad to have the opinion of the Medical Times (London), April, 1935, on the subject of cancer research, which is as follows:.
“We submit that cancer research is being conducted on wrong lines. Our opinion is confirmed rather than shaken by a perusal of the Eleventh Scientific Report of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund which has been recently issued. We agree with Dr. Lockhart Mummery, the well known surgeon, when he says that a very real danger to the best interests of cancer research is a tendency for animal experimentalists to get out of touch with the surgeon and pathologist who are dealing with the disease in human beings.”.
We have had remedies offered for cancer. I think I have got one and that is the entire homoeopathic materia medica. I have had considerable experience with cancer. I have a case now and I reported here nine years ago a case of osteosarcoma diagnosed by the allopath, operated on, and the mans face all indented, the X-ray used, and radium used, and all failing, and he was cured by the 10M. of Phosphorus. He is now in perfect health and the parts are normal as they every were.
If we had more people investigating homoeopathy and the homoeopathic materia medica, then hanging crepe on it, we should get somewhere.
- COLEMAN: There is one erroneous statement that has come before the public of late, in the last few years, that cancer is on the increase. That, like the acid theory, has been exploded. That is not true. Cancer is not on the increase. It is simply the statistics, and in the days gone by, before diagnosis of internal cancer could be made by the X-ray examination, the superficial cancers that could be diagnosed physically were the only cancers that were counted.
Now these superficial cancers are not on the increase, no more today than they were twenty-five, or thirty, or forty, or fifty years ago, but the seeming increase of cancer is due to the fact that the gastro intestinal cases of cancer that were not capable of being diagnosed fifty years ago are diagnosed today by the aid of the X-ray, and they have been added to the present cases that can be diagnosed by a physical examination, and they have made a seemingly larger incidence of cancer, whereas actually no more cancer cases today than there were fifty years ago; in other words, cancer is not on the increase and it doesnt have to be on the increase to be a very malignant condition to treat and very dangerous to the life of the community.
BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS OF CHILDREN & THEIR TREATMENT
[Behaviour Problems Of Children & Treatment]
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC HERALD By Bose N C.
Volume
1942 May Vol V No 3
Author
Roy R.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Glon / Cupr / Acon / Hyos / Bell / Calc / Nux-v.
- Roy, M.D. (F. C. H.).
Some physicians often either get puzzled or neglect in differentiating the behaviour problems of children from that of their actual diseases from which they emanate. To avoid such mistakes or negligence, while treating children, careful consideration should at once be imparted to their behaviour before undertaking to prescribe medicine for them.
The attainment of mental health in children is now gradually receiving such attention as it has always been paid to their physical health. To understand the mind of a child a thorough study is necessary. Mental ill-health or disharmony is depicted outwardly in what are termed behaviour problems. Most of the behaviour problems in children are the result of a wrong handling of perfectly natural tendency and the lack of understanding of what is both necessary and purposeful for the development of a well-adapted and well-developed personality. To inhibit both the behaviour problems of children and the neurosis of adults, it is necessary to study and understand natural phases of development, their behaviour associated with them and their purposeful nature.
Under the classification of Normal Development it is noticeable that when children of different ages play freely and naturally, certain activities are common to certain age groups. For example, most of the 15 months old children will be occupied in some activity incorporating fitting things into one another; fitting nests of boxes, putting stones into boxes, or sand or water into buckets. On the other hand, the three years old groups will remain busy with toys which push and pull, or which they can peddle. They will fix things together, toy carts, horses or cars and then perform most complicated manoeuvres with them, trying to turn them and reverse them. In this activity two or three children may be co-operating. Through any activity the child makes contact with the objective world and is helped in his three -fold developments, physical through the use of his muscles, intellectual, adding to his knowledge of the qualities of the objects, and emotional, through having to accept the limitations inherent in any particular object. These are the outward expression of some unconscious inner urge or instinct. The year old child banging bricks together does not consciously or purposely choose that activity. He acts in this manner quite naturally when he reaches a certain phase of development of this activity. Walking can be taught. The baby walks when he has reached that phase of development when he instinctively walks. No amount of teaching him to walk before this, will do the slightest good and no teaching will be necessary when he reaches the phase, because he will just walk. Sitting up, talking, cutting teeth, are all the natural results of a process of maturation. In gauging physical development these landmarks are used as standards for assessment.
Emotional and intellectual development follow the same laws in relation to maturation, the play-activity of children being dependent on and characteristics of the childs development phase. Its play again is the outward expression of an unconscious natural urge related to its development. Lack of recognition on the part of adults of these natural tendencies leads to difficulties and problems of behaviour, hinders development, and in many cases lays the foundation of endo-physic conflict and a neurotic personality.
In dealing with any behaviour problems in childhood it must always be decided if the behaviour under consideration is not natural for that particular age. Children of 3 or 4 years are often accused of lying, whereas it is often the result of their particular way of thinking at that time and their inability to understand what they see, or their wrong interpretation of reality due to their lack of experience.
A small boy was asked why he had broken the glass, who replied that he had not done so. When his mother asked he must have dropped it he immediately replied “Oh yes I dropped it but it broke itself.” He acknowledged dropping it but the quality of “breaking” was to him something belonging to the glass. The “natural lying” however, is often the basis of lying as a problem. The child who is punished for confessing his misdemeanour will in future deny his guilt in order to avoid punishment. Therefore, to prevent lying never punish a child for a misdeed confessed.
The actual behaviour problems for treatment are many, a few examples are given below.
A boy of about 6 years was once placed under the treatment of the writer, who suddenly and completely lost his conscience and became fast asleep. In the first place I put his tongue back in to his mouth, and loosened his dress just to have free air pass into and around his body; raised his head slightly and cleansed the foam issued from his mouth. Then felt his pulse, quick, breathing difficult, his face became pale and the veins of the forehead distended; his heart action was violent and irregular. I concluded that the child got fright of being scolded for breaking anything, and on an enquiry was informed that he broke a marble Taj Mahal placed on a teapoy in his fathers room. I gave him 6 half-doses of Glonoine 30 and 6 half doses of Cuprum Met 30 in water Why both these medicines? Was there no sure indication for any medicine, one at a time? Want of repertorizing leads to such gun-shot prescriptions. [Ed.] and gave the mother instructions to sponge the boys body especially the head. It was 11 A.M., and in the evening the boys father called at my place with the news that the child got back to his sense soon and on feeling hungry was given only milk diet. I told him to continue the same medicines every three hours+ +Violation of philosophy, for the child was now normal and required no more dosing. [Ed.] and to give liquid food, such as either Horlicks or milk and sago. I did not give the boy any further medicine the next morning, but only six half doses of Sac lac.
A boy of two years was brought to me, his mother complained that he was crying at the slightest thing, sometimes becoming sick with crying. He had therefore been punished. Here is a child whose phase of development has been entirely misunderstood. Treatment in such a case consisted in giving the mother some understanding of the normal self-willed, as the child got nervous. As usual, after obtaining a short history I gave him Acon. and Hyos. both 30 alternately Alternation is violation of Hahnemanns Organon. for 3 days and after this the child was found O.K.
A girl of 3 years was placed under my treatment for screaming at night. She would not go to bed without the mother also retiring. What was wrong with the child? The causes may be hereditary tendency, tumours, inflammations, insects in the brain (?), malformation of, or deposits in, the skull, fright, nervous derangement mental and physical prostration, stomach disorder, worms, repelled eruptions, etc., etc. A very careful examination of the whole body was made, but found nothing helpful; pulse, heart seemed alright. I carefully listened to all that was said by the girls father and concluded that she must have been suffering from stomach disorder and undergoing severe pains caused by it especially at night.+ +The physical side received all attention, while the mental side was overlooked. She was afraid and timorous to go to bed without her mother. Lippes Repertory mentions 33 drugs covering this symptom and Belladonna is one of them. [Ed.] I remembered reading such a case in one of the leading authors books in which he described a similar case having been cured by giving the patient, who was brought to him after being treated by several Allopaths, a few doses of Bell 30. The girl was thus given six doses of Bell 30, the first 3 doses at two hours interval and the balance at 3 hours. The next day the same medicine was repeated and by the grace of Almighty I became successful. The childs habit of screaming at nights has since never been complained of.
A boy 4 years old was once reported to have started vomiting after half an hour he had milk to drink in the evening. In the beginning he vomited curdled milk of a strong sour smell. After a while the matters vomited looked like clear water mixed with food which he had about 3 hours before. The belly was full, hard and tender, sour or foetid eructations occurred, the bowels were obstinately constipated. There was no fever, but the temperature sank very low and the child lay with half-closed eyes and in a half-stupor condition. His skin was harsh, dry and loose, tongue ulcerated coated or cracked. Vomiting may be attributed to too early weaning and too early use of starchy food. I prescribed for him Calc. carb 6 which, I am glad to state, acted wonderfully. Instructed the parents to rub the boy with mustard oil and to sponge him at least twice a day with tepid water. After the crisis was over the boy was given Nux Vom.6 for 3/4 days.
With older children much can be done through getting the childs confidence when he will talk freely about his difficulties. Dreams are also useful in giving an indication of the conflict. In younger children contact is made through play in which the child freely expresses his thoughts, ideas and fantasies.
AN ACONITE CASE [Aconite]
Book
Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.
Volume
1938 Mar Vol VII No 3
Author
Tyler M L.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon.
A child of 1 year 8 months, brought to Casualty on the evening of January 19th, 1938. Acute bronchitis, sudden onset in cold weather; flushed face, startled look; carotids throbbing. Temp. 103.2x; Pulse 158; Respiration. 72.
Aconite 30, hourly, given.
Much improved in the morning; completely well the following day.
OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA
Book
INDIAN JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE By Praful Barvalia.
Volume
1995 Vol 30 No 3
Author
Shangloo G K.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Nux-v / Calc / Acon / Podo / Sulph / Tub / Lyco / Puls.
*Paper presented at 16th National Homoeo Congress of I.E.H.P.
held on 19th Nov. 95 at New Delhi.
Dr. G.K. Shangloo** (B.Sc. B.M.S.)
**Ex-President H.S.S., 70 / 59, Rani Mandi, Allahabad.
INTRODUCTION OF THE DISEASE
The name of the disease itself defines it. The disease involves bones and as the name suggests there is imperfect formation of bones. The bones are unduly fragile & multiple fractures occur following trivial injuries. Progressive deformity occurs because of the multiplicity of the fractures. A child prone to too many fractures may die before he acquires adulthood.
HISTOLOGY AND CHARACTERISTICS
Histologically bones are normal and the fractures unite without any difficulty.
The disease has autosomal dominant inheritance and there is mesenchymal disorder characterised by increased fragility of bones and multiple fractures, blue sclera & deafness which occurs in late childhood.
The disease is of two varieties viz.
(1) Congenital and (2) Tarda. In congenital variety the fractures occur during intra-uterine life & such children mostly die shortly after birth.
RADIOLOGICALLY:
The long bones are osteoporotic, bent and slender. The bone ends may appear large and sometimes cystic.
TREATMENT:
(A) ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT: As regards treatment is concerned there is no curative treatment in allopathy for this disease. The fractures bones are made to unite by use of plaster and deformity of long bones are minimised by use of an intramedullary nail.
(B) HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT:
It is a matter of great pride to me and to all homoeopaths that I have been able to cure “Osteogenesis Imperfecta” through homoeopathy. As we all know that in homoeopathic system of treatment each case is thoroughly individualized and uncommon and peculiar symptoms are carefully noted. Family history of the patient is also of utmost importance in such cases.
Here I will prefer to narrate the cases of Osteogenesis Imperfecta which I have cured.
CASE – I
Name of the patient: Syed Hasan Kamal, Allahabad.
Age at the time of admission: 3 months
Date of admission: 28.10.82.
Opinion of Orthopaedic Surgeons: The patient was examined by Orthopaedic surgeons at local S.N. Children hospital & also at Sanjay Gandhi P.G.I. Lucknow and at B.H.U. Varanasi. All of them diagnosed the disease as Osteogenesis Imperfecta and declared in clear terms that it is incurable.
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF THE PATIENT:
* Bones easily get fractured from slightest cause. 1st fracture occured at one month of age.
* Excessive perspiration on scalp during sleep and also while he weeps. Wets his pillow.
* Starts in sleep & weeps.
* Coldness of hands specially of feet in the evening.
* Feverish at night.
* Appetite – less; Thirst – normal; Stool – Constipation – large, hard and foul smelling stool.
* Mother took too many allopathic drugs during pregnancy to avoid abortion.
* Family History – Asthma & Diabetes in family.
When the patient was brought to me in both lower limbs & lt. upper limb were under plaster.
TREATMENT:
As the patient came through allopathic hands I began treatment with Nux Vom.
28.10.92
Nux Vom 200 two doses in 15 min. interval was given on the 1st day at bed time and it was followed by Calc. Carb 200 two doses at 15 min. interval the next day.
13.11.92
Acute coryza with cough & fever. Aconite Nap 30 in distilled water every three hours relieved.
14.11.92
Diarrhoea, Loose, frothy, forcible & foul smelling stools. Podophyllum 30 in distilled water every three hours relieved diarrhoea.
16.11.92
The patient had a fracture of right upper limb on 15.11.92 after a fall. Sulphur 30 two doses at 15 min. interval in the morning followed by Calc Carb 200 two doses at 15 min. interval the same evening. Calc Carb 200 was repeated successively on 30.11.92, 3.1.93, 17.1.83, 21.1.93 and 15.2.93 with marvellous result.
The patient had only one fracture on 15.11.92 during course of my treatment. Later on he had no fracture even after an injury or after a fall. The patient was kept under observation for a few months and finally on 10.5.93 Calc Carb 1000 two doses at 15 min. interval was given. He is hale and hearty with no trace of the disease.
CASE – II
Name of the patient – Km. Avantika of Kanpur (U.P.)
Age at the time of admission – 2 yrs. & 3 months.
Opinion of Orthopaedic Surgeons – Same as in Case I.
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF THE PATIENT.
* The disease was diagnosed when the patient had fracture for the first time after an injury at the age of one year and three months. It healed in normal course.
* Fracture occurs only after an injury or after a fall.
* Sclera is bluish.
*Increased perspiration specially on scalp. Wets her pillow during sleep.
* Teeth erupted at 5 months of age and are slightly blackish.
* Had measles twice and Diarrhoea once.
* Appetite – normal, Likes sweets and also desires to take extra salt.
* Thirst – Less even in summers.
* Urine – Normal but involuntary urination during sleep occurs almost every night.
* Mind – Obstinate & irritable.
* Family – Mother – Anaemia & low B.P., Grand Mother – Had Tuberculosis.
TREATMENT:
As the patient came from a distant place, medicines were prescribed for four weeks.
14.9.94
Calc Carb. 200 two doses at 15 min. interval – to be repeated every week for three weeks followed by Tuberculinum 200 two doses at 15 min. interval in the fourth week.
21.10.94
Fracture of right femur occured. Bluishness of Sclera is less marked. The same prescription was repeated but this time Tuberculinum was given in 1000 potency.
20.11.94
The patients father told me that palms and soles of the patient remain hot. 1st part of her stool is hard and knotty and there is extreme thirstlessness. Sulphur 200 two doses in the 1st week followed by Lycopodium 200 two doses in the 2nd and 3rd week and Pulsatilla 1000 in the 4th week.
6.1.95
Better in general, no fracture occured. Increased perspiration on scalp during sleep. Increased salivation during sleep. Tooth look more blackish.
Calc. Carb 1000 two doses in the 1st week followed by Merc. Sol. 200 two doses in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th week were given.
21.2.95
Marked improvement. The same prescription was repeated on 22.2.95 for eight weeks, on 21.4.95 for eight weeks and on 10.6.95 for four weeks with perfect improvement. The treatment is still continuing.
UNPROVEN NOSODES THEIR USE, AND SOME THOUGHTS THEIR ON
[Unproven Nosodes Their Use, & Some Thoughts Their On]
Book
INDIAN JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE By Praful Barvalia.
Volume
1995 Vol 30 No 1
Author
Fraser Kerr.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Rub / Influ / Acon / Cob / Caus / Pert / Pneu.
Case I
Priscilla B, age 9. Rubella.
A poor wee thing, three inches shorter than twin brother. Pustules on skin and in nose, these cause nose to swell. Headaches, eyes inflammed sleeps lightly, tired; tires too easily. Giant urticaria makes life a misery occasionally. Always ailing.
Had German measles at 4 years, very poorly for one week, and again at 6, when she was very ill with a vivid rash and a high temperature for a whole week. It was three before she was allowed out of bed. Rubella 30, 200. Was given, and caused a lot of reaction. Tickling here, there and everywhere (an old symptom), but no rash. Her sinuses hurt, scabs blown from nose and septic spots on skin. A nettle rash continued to come, and wax and wane, and several pustules came during six months of placebo with great mental and physical improvement.
Case II
Eileen F., age 6. Influenzinum
Weight 31 lb. (Normal 37 – 50 lb.)
Began life well, was blue-eyed with long lashes, clear skin, pink cheeks and furry back that makes one think of Tuberculinum. At 18 months had influenza, and was weeks getting over it, measles At 3 was queried as T.B. abdomen, but improved with U.V.R. At 4 1 / 2 had influenza, and a third time at 5. This left her with a pale, dirty skin, large abdomen, and pain in right side, and a head that became alive easily. She eats coal or anything gritty, and is queried as “coeliac” disease. She had Influenzinum 200. seven daily plussed doses in September, 1941. After the second dose she complained of pain in the knees, and could not walk for a few hours. In a week she was 61 / 2, I was told that home conditions were “impossible” and food of the worst. I sent Influenzinum 200, 1M. In December, 1958, When she was 24, I was informed that she had only had two days in bed in the 17 years interval, that she is now happily married and had just given birth to a lovely baby with a 3 or 4 hours confinement. Four months is rather a short interval between doses for these nosodes, but, it paid in this case. I expect you have noticed the great similarity to the tubercular child in this Influenzinum case, and the beautiful homoeopathic aggravation for the second of the seven daily doses.
Case III
Mrs. L. Yellow Fever Vaccine.
Here I have one case of infectious jaundice in a lady of 39 when I first saw her in 1955. This illness lasted a long time in the summer of 1953 in India, because she had to nurse most of her family at that time. She had never been really free from pain in the G.B. Region since, and had gone a good way down hill. Tests showed nothing but a slightly enlarged and tender liver. A growth was suspected since she had lost 35 lbs.
Various remedies helped and then failed. Those that helped longest were Aconite (the first remedy given), and Cobalt. Found by emanometer.
Working on the great similarity between infectious jaundice and yellow fever I gave one dose of Yellow Fever Vaccine 30. This helped very satisfactorily for six weeks, when up came a series of shivering turns typical of malaria but recurring every hour. Temperature running up 102 F. and pulse 120. This was symptomatical the same as the malaria which she had several times before the jaundice. I felt I had to stop the malaria with one dose of Camoquin. Two days later I had to give Causticum 200. for the cough and headache, which were also typical of the previous malaria with one dose of the previous malaria. She has improved steadily since, but this case is not finished (April, 1960. After other remedies the colour is coming back into her cheeks, but it seems to me that the yellow fever vaccine unlocked the case.)
Case IV
Miss B., age 63. Pertussin.
Indigestion with much pain and rumbling increases during the afternoon and evening, and goes on half the night, much worse during the menses. Buccal ulcers and bowels costive all her life, the stool so large it hurts. Headache constant all life so severe she would hit her on head something. Worse during thunder. Is frustrated, suffer from indecision, and has many fears. Menses had been very heavy, with sickness faintness, and diarrhoea, sending her to bed for two days. Menses had been irregular and usually late up to six weeks, but would appear if anything special had been arranged.
She had chickenpox, mumps, and measles, but whooping cough was much the worst-was in bed for six weeks, and too weak to walk for a further six weeks.
I gave Pertussin 200, 1M, 10M, and repeated this in six months. A month panicky and frustrated feelings and does not now procrastinate. Perfectly well now for two years.
Case V
J.W.K. age 41 Pneumococcin.
At 21 year had sinuses washed out because of findings of neurologist. At 30 had crop of boils, ended with carbuncle. Penicillin. Off work 8 weeks. At 32 boil in right grain-lanced- heat treatment, off work three months. At 34 growth under right axilla, thought to be a fatty tumour, removal advised Removed 14 months later, believed to be malignant. Deep X-ray with much pain after each regular dose. Age 40 lump under left arm – hospital – more radiation. December, 1958, headache came suddenly right side, worse after each sinus wash-out, worse with head down, must sit up in bed. March, 1959, right eye bloodshot and very dark under, said to be acute iritis, with even more severe headache. Cortisone eased and he got back to his work as a very expert teaching laboratory technician for one week only.
In April, 1959, his wife came for my help, because headache was continuous day and night. He is going downhill, wants to be alone, and hates noise. He is chilly, craves fresh air. His chest has always been a weak spot with a fair amount of phlegm. Coughing makes him to hold his head even though touching the hair of the right side hurts. His sleep used to be very good, now gets hardly any. Fog and mist or fumes cause cough. Sense of smell very acute, Is averse to fats. Has had some eczema for over 20 years, wool irritates.
Shy, averse company, has always been very quiet, almost morose. Lacks self-confidence though a most brilliant technician. Recently a pain in the throat, a tickle causes him to swallow all the time. Out of all this we would normally take the symptoms: Averse company, lacks self-confidence, sensitive to noise, indisposed to talk, aversion to fat, desires fresh air. There are also: Chilly, smell very acute, scalp and hair tender to touch, cough worse by fog or mist or fumes, and skin irritated by wool. Repertorizing gives Nat-Carb. 8, Phos. 9, Carbo anim. & Carbo veg. 11 each, Bry. a. and Nat. mur. 12, and Pulsatilla 15.
But I have kept you in the dark, when I dug deeper into his history I found that he had had pneumonia at 5, so badly was not expected to live, and again 18 months ago when he was 39 or 40. This attack came after Asian influenza, when he was very ill, and since this illness has rapidly gone downhill. These two illnesses had not been told to me by his intelligent and very co-operative wife as they had (to her) no obvious relation to his illness which is regarded as a probable cerebral tumour by the hospital authorities. He has no relish for further use of X-rays.
My prescription was: Pneumococcin 30, 200, 500, 1M, in daily doses. In six days he was fit to travel, in eight days he began to have a little energy, though he was wise enough to lie down for an hour every afternoon. within a fortnight the headache had gone.
It is much too early to do more than say it is a very interesting case. (He had required no further prescription up to April, 1960.). But I think I have demonstrated my point, that the history can show up an illness which almost had the patient down for the full count, and may indicate an unproven nosode as the remedy of choice. In this last case the illness was repeated and from that time the patient has been going steadily downhill, with many, from the diagnostic angle, apparently unconnected symptoms.
In writing out this case I am caused to think that here we have a great deal of suppression of disease, and the best definition I have seen is that “suppression simply causes an energy storage effect that leads to eventual explosive release.”
So far I have given you cases which everyone who has used these remedies can equals and my observation is that these unproven nosodes are less often wanted than those of our remedies which are proven thoroughly, and much.
- Fraser Kerr
Reprint from British Homoeopathic Journal, 1960.
Turtles An Approach to a Case
Book
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY By Vishpala Parthasarathy.
Volume
1996 Nov / Dec Vol V No 6
Author
Venkatesh N Hegde.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Euphr.
The marvellous power of Homoeopathic remedies is not confined to human beings but it is applicable to animals also in this case of Turtles. This fact has been universally recognised and witnessed by successful cures which are reported from time to time. In his editorial for Heritage, Nov. 1996, Dr. Alok Pareek of Pareek Hospital and Research centre, Agra says that Homoeopathy has proved useful in horticulture, flori-culture and agriculture as well, and that “diluted spray of potentised Tellurium has been found effective in preventing fungal diseases in citrus plans; and diluted potentised Urea has been found very effective in maintaining a healthy green lawn, in addition to being cost effective in terms of using large quantity of manure.” EDITOR.
Opthalmia: Treatment of Fresh water Turtles.
Records of Homoeopathic treatment of cold blooded animals like the turtle (both fresh water and seawater) are virtually non- existent. This is more so because Homoeopathic veterinary treatment has been restricted to warm blooded animals like pet dogs, cats, cattle, horses, pet birds and poultry. I have treated large sea-turtles with severe afflictions including fractures (see NJH May – June, 1993).
Fish hobbyists earlier used to keep fresh water turtles along with aquarium fishes or by themselves. The genus in demand was Kachuga tentoria circumdata – the Indian pink – ringed ten turtle which commonly occur in the Ganges and Brahmaputra. These turtles are brought to the Bombay Hobbyist Fish Market when they are about 21/2″ in length (a few weeks after they are hatched) and are palmed off at very high prices, to hobbyist, as “Singapore Turtles.”.
The hobbyist then keeps the turtles in the same tanks as the fishes. Actually the turtles require some dry rocks for resting. However not knowing this fact, the fish hobbyist does not provide a resting place, with the result they tend to cling to aquatic plants. Once they get tired they go down to the bottom of the tank. After few days the hobbyist seeing them in this motionless state at the top of the tank or at the bottom keeps the turtle in a separate tank with water straight from the tap, not “old water” which has been kept standing for at least 2 days, in cities like Mumbai where water is highly chlorinated. Therein lies the hitch.
The first case was brought to me on 6th Sept. 88 when I was working as Asst. Fisheries Dev. Officer in the Taraporewala Aquarium, Mumbai. In fact a majority of such opthalmia in these freshwater turtles were treated during my tenure there. These cases also led to the discovery of a peculiar type of opthalmia in these freshwater turtles.
The lady in question brought to me the turtle in a box filled with a little water. She informed me that the turtle suffered from swollen eyelids and had not eaten for more than a week. She had tried Neomycin eye ointment, which failed and thereafter she had taken the suffering animal to the Veterinary Hospital at Parel whose in-charge had directed the lady to us for the treatment of the turtle.
When the turtle was brought to me it had developed severe opthalmia; strong light and sunlight caused it immense suffering. I asked the lady for a complete history of events and it turned out that she had bought a pair of turtles from a pet shop at the Mahatma Phule Market [Crawford Market], from an aquarium fish seller. These were kept in an aquarium tank which was filled with regular tap water. This water was changed every 2 days, because it gave off a foul smell [due to the dead and decaying tubifex worms, with which the turtle was fed].
The turtle, one of the pair, developed opthalmia of unknown etiology. The lady also informed me that the tank was not provided any filtration unit. If refused to have any food. It sat on the rocks with troubled breathing and in great pain. I therefore decided that if it were to start eating then I would have to do something about the opthalmia.
I selected Aconite 30 and fed the turtle 2 drops every 15 minutes. This was continued with great difficulty till 10.00 p.m. after which I went home. The next day the dose was repeated but at 1/2 hour intervals. This continued for the third day as well. On the fourth day the opthalmia had reduced. Fortunately there was no encrustation or exudate or chapping of the conjunctiva. I was able to force feed it a little and Aconite was continued. On the 6th day, the inflammation had reduced greatly and the turtle was able to open and close its eyes; however the redness persisted. Euphrasia 30, followed well in reducing the redness and was administered once every 2 hours.
On the 9th day the swelling and redness were almost gone and the turtle had started feeding on its own, I felt that after another 2 days the turtle would be able to become its original self and so I called its owner to come on the 16th of Sept. to collect her turtle. When the lady came I explained to her that the method of keeping a turtle differed very greatly from that of keeping fishes and that turtles needed to come to the surface periodically to breathe air.
Based on this experience, I was able to cure a few more cases with varying degrees of affliction. However I was interested more in finding about the frequent cause of opthalmia. This would help prevent such frequent occurrence and save many other animals which would have otherwise died due to starvation, at the hands of their owners.
After much experimentation and study, the culprit was found to be chlorinated water since turtles kept in filtered fresh water did not develop opthalmia. Reversal from opthalmia took as long as 20-25 days. Therefore Aconite and Euphrasia were essential for quick healing. But prevention is always better than cure. So after this whoever sought advice on keeping pet turtles were given correct advice especially including not using chlorinated tap water directly.
A case of Hysterical Depression [Case Of Hysterical Depression]
Book
National Journal Of Homoeopathy By Vishpala Parthasarathy.
Volume
1992 Jan / Feb Vol 1 No 1
Author
Frank Johnson.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Sulph.
Dr. Frank Johnson
[We have selected this case from BHJ-1972 as it highlights the pitfalls and stumbling blocks of prescribing and the open unbiased attitude required to convert this to a self learning process. Your cases are the best teachers of drug pictures if one adopts a learners mind process. Your cases are the best teachers of drug pictures if one adopts a learners mind through out life Editor]
I wish to present a case of hysterical expression which presented itself to me two and half years ago. It made me realise that as a newcomer to homoeopathy, I could not see the wood for the trees. Secondly it made me realize that failure to succeed is not the fault of homoeopathy but so often lies with ourselves. Thirdly it made me read more and more of Materia Medica and cross reference all my remedies.
A farmers wife, aged 52, lived with her husband on a well- appointed and prosperous farm in Northumberland. She had two married sons who worked on the farm and lived in the village. She was president of the local womens institute and was fully committed to amateur dramatics and village activities.
Previous medical history
She was delivered after a long labour and was born with paralysis on the right side of her face, which had partially recovered over the years. She had some residual facial muscle weakness especially when tired.
At the age of 7, she had fallen and sustained a forced extension injury to her cervical spine which had required a couple of weeks in hospital. She had a hysterectomy at the age of 44. She had an appendicectomy at the age of 45. She had medical treatment for smallpox vaccination reaction at the age of 50. Her arm had been in a sling for ten days and she had to stay in bed.
As a teenager she had migraine, related to the commencement of the school term. The pain used to start in the occiput and rapidly move over the top of her head to her forehead, becoming most acute over her right eye and peri-orbital area. The pain was of a thumping or thudding type. It reached a crescendo at about the age of 30, when she experienced pain like a tight band more around the head. The attacks commenced at about 3 oclock in the morning and lasted for about ten hours. Better from darkness and worse for sitting or lying down. The attacks ceased after the hysterectomy.
One year earlier she experienced a numbness in her left hand and forearm, stocking love in distribution. This happened when she was lifting an ornament. After some minutes she felt as a stinging pain in the same area, which made her weep. The whole episode lasted for an hour. She had a tight band of pain around the head afterwards. She had three similar attacks about three months apart after this initial episode. The attacks had taken place after breakfast in each case and always on a Monday morning. In each instance there had been a fairly violent quarrel between husband and wife on the day preceding. She had been on phenobarbitone and amitriptylene which had been withdrawn by her husband a month before.
Family history
Her father had been a prosperous farmer who developed a dread of poverty in his middle forties, became introspective and “took to religion”. In his early fifties he began to drink whisky heavily, became unkempt and died, at the age of 52 in a mental hospital.
Present history
I was called by her husband. He told me that life had become intolerable. She had taken to whisky drinking in moderate amounts. She had become argumentative and indolent. Their social life was nil because she wouldnt bother to dress or change into evening clothes. On the rare occasions when they did go out, she would drink to excess and argue with her hostess or just sit and brood.
When reprimanded she would weep and adopt an attitude of woe is me.
I called to see her at home. She seemed pleasant in conversation. Her forebears were Spanish and her skin and hair colouring typified this. She had a slight drooping of her right facial muscles. Her husband opened the conversation with “tell the doctor about your temper and that you would argue with a fly, “I considered him to be overbearing and garrulous and asked him to leave the room.
She admitted she was depressed, and possibly causing some domestic concern. She kindly poured me tea which slopped into the saucer without comment. She had been trained as a domestic science teacher. She told me that she would quickly lose her temper if the handless of the pans on the stove were not neatly arranged. She had worked and worked to a time schedule. She was rather fastidious, but now couldnt care less. To use her words, “England is in a hell of a mess,” from this began a long dissertation on politics.
She liked fresh air but her headache which was always there in the morning was better in a warm or even a hot room. Although at times when she had hot flushes, when she didnt sweat, she had to open the window.
Music made her weep and then she became depressed. She liked company of her own choosing but never bothered now. She did not like to be consoled. She was sympathetic to others but did not like sympathy. She never read the newspapers now. Books and television were a waste of time, she felt.
She was very afraid of heights and a little afraid of her husband.
She was rather florid, skin was dry and a little hairy. It was warm. She looked minimally untidy. She wore cross-strapped shoes and these were undone. Her fingernails were not too clean. Her handkerchief was dirty.
My limited mind began to work like company., fastidious., conscientious., periodicity. There was a good history of injury. Recent illness had been a vaccinia. I wrongly gave her Arsenicum. I was soon to realize why. One week later I received an urgent call on Sunday evening around half-past nine. The house was in an uproar. Husband and two sons were sitting at the dining room table. My patient was stomping around the room in what I took to be hysterical temper. She was shouting at her husband and saying that he ought to have her headache which was sledge hammering. I placed my hand upon her shoulder which was cast aside. She was florid, not sweating. She was mentally agitated, irrational and looked frightened. She started talking about her father that he was put away, died when he was 52 and that so would she, he died on a Sunday and so on. I gave her Aconite 30c, not without difficulty. After about half an hour she settled down. She told me that the farm was heading towards bankruptcy. Her husband and sons told me this had been bothering her for weeks. I advised her to see the accountant and the bank manager. She agreed to do this.
Meanwhile on my return home I read Aconite in Tyler and found Sulphur to be the chronic. I read Sulphur. Couldnt care less, untidy. disorderly, periodicity. Desire to imbibe alcohol, which I found in Tyler. Argumentative. Mentally and bodily lazy.
I called next day and gave her Sulphur 10M.
I read Wheeler who stated “a person not notably of the Sulphur type may approximate to it under stress. “I had made the grave mistake of giving her Arsenicum which I now think she was BEFORE she became ill. I have watched her change to normal over the months without a recurrence. In two and a half years she has had only four doses of Sulphur.
Sulphur has not got many “Fears” and Kent does not give it in heavy type under this heading. In ordinary type my patient was covered with six headings. Poverty, Misfortune, Insecurity, Death, High places, Starving. Her father sounded like a Sulphur. This made me read more about Psora. I present this case as one of my early pitfalls. It taught me that knowing ones drug pictures was essential to successful practice. I soon developed the habit of reading from as many sources as possible all aspects of the remedy I used in any particular case. Remedies are learnt by reference and cross reference. Success with a case must also be gained only by seeing things as they are and not what one thinks they should be.
Cases From Great Masters
Book
National Journal Of Homoeopathy By Vishpala Parthasarathy.
Volume
1995 Mar / Apr Vol IV No 2
Author
Jagruti Jani.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Stram.
CASE 1:
Mrs. Anne, a 43 year old lady, went to the toilet in her compound premises. Suddenly she heard some unusual sound from outside and got frightened. From that time onwards she talked abnormally. Next day she was more frightened and compelled her husband and children to sit by her side all day. There was a great fear of death. She started predicting the day she would die, especially in the evening and night. She was given all possible medicines but in vain; ultimately she was recommended ECTs etc. for which they were not ready, so Homoeopathy was given a chance.
On 11-11-91 at 7 p.m., when I visited her I saw her in a frightened and agonized state. She was sitting on her bed with her husband and children by her side. She had a terrified look. At that time, a baby cried suddenly in the neighboring room and this shocked the patient because of its suddenness. She was affected much by any sudden noise. She would not allow her husband or children to leave her bed. She would often say that something bad would happen very soon and she wanted some poison. She alternately laughed and cried. In the past she perspired profusely. But since this mental trouble began the perspiration stopped. There was complete dryness of the body and mouth. Due to dryness she used to wet her lips with cold water. She passed urine in bed, she used used to say that she had passed urine and stools – once daily. For 9 days, she didnt take any food saying that she was fasting and didnt want to break her fast. However she would take a few sips of tender coconut water. She had not slept for nine days. She worshipped God often. At times laughing and gay but suddenly felt frightened and said that she would die soon. There was a history of suppressed grief. She sighed deeply and occasionally cried while thinking about her son who was away and she feared something would happen to him. Consolation gave relief. Sudden exhibition of fright when talking intelligently.
Very affectionate and sympathetic to her two children and others. She repented quickly and said that she had sinned and did something bad to others.
On the basis of this causative factor of sudden fright – Aconite 30, one powder was given at 8 p.m.
9 p.m. – Unexpectedly she took a cup of rice kanji – after 9 days of fasting.
The 2nd powder of the same medicine was given at 5 p.m. Next day she slept for two hours and took breakfast without washing her teeth and face. So Sac Lac 4 powders BD were given. After 2 days husband reported that there was no further change.
So Aconite 200, one powder was given, followed by SL for 5 days.
The next evening, husband reported that she slept well; the following morning she cleaned her teeth and took normal diet both morning and noon. Was normal in every respect and medicine was not repeated. There has been no recurrence of the symptoms since then.
(Dr. I.K. Madhavan in The Hahnemannian Gleanings – May 1995)
CASE 2:
Mr. FXR aged 56, matriculate was the third child of a family of a nine children. No mental cases in the family. Joined fathers business early in life. Business included a bakery, building contracts.
Married and has 5 sons and 1 daughter. Eldest son aged 21 failed BSc this year, 4th and 5th sons failed in 3rd and 7th stds.
Recently quarrelled with wife for giving a male servant too much of liberty in the day-to-day bakery business. As a result of wife rebuke, he would leave the house in the morning and subsisted on snacks for 2 or 3 days at friends houses to return home only at night. Wife was threatened that she did not dismiss the servant his (Husband) would leave the house.
Now he talks too much and confidently, while formerly he was taciturn. Says he believes in nature cure and not in doctors. Does not talk nonsense but repeats incidents in which he considers himself the central figure who can advise others how to run their business. Wants to help poor Christians to earn a living by taking govt contracts for fuel and charcoal and giving charity.
Takes cold bath at 1 a.m. and then prays. He rests after this and then goes early to church, and prays for 4 hours. This activity has started since the last one month appears to have commenced after the servants incident. Complains that he perspires too much.
He has developed a religious attitude and gives advice to all and sundry to attend church and receive sacraments daily. Says he has a special mission in life to do good and help people to live better. Goes out of his way to show sympathy to the less fortunate or to any person who appears to be friendly and would hear him.
Since his return to Bombay from abroad, he has been spending freely on charity for candles and small donations to the church, buying toys for children.
His wife arrived later and insisted that he should visit a doctor as he was weak. He wanted to know whether she thought he was mad and had to be sent to a lunatic asylum. However the patients brother coaxed him to see a doctor.
His wife made some remarks about the offending servant the previous night. This again upset him and both were shouting at each other at the top of their voice, until the patients brother brought peace. Wife cried in self-pity and threatened to go back the next day.
It was also surmised that the people had no sex life for the last two years but this could not be verified.
The patient felt that his sons also joined with their mother and aligned themselves against him regarding the servant.
Wife works hard in the business in confectionery section, but being full of self pity is unable to show him the consideration needed in this state of health.
Though financially sound there was constant bickering between the patient and his wife about how to run the bakery business.
Had had remorse of conscience on two occasions in the past with regard to money belonging to joint family, which his wife had concealed from other family members. The rubrics chosen for arriving at the similimum were:-
- a) Remorseful (KR 71)
- b) Loquacity (KR 63)
- c) Praying (KR 69)
- d) Religious (KR 71)
- e) Extravagance (KR 41)
Stramonium appeared to cover the case and was given three doses in 200 potency, six hourly on 17-9-60.
By the 20th definite improvement could be seen in his case and in a weeks time he became completely normal. He came to thank personally on his way back to town. Till now (Feb. 61) he is well.
Before this, he had already had several sedatives and hypnotics but they had all failed. Therefore it was seriously being considered that he should be given ECT to restore him to sanity. Surely, Homoeopathy must take credit for restoring him to health so easily, gently and quickly.
(Dr. P. Sankaran in Homoeopathic Outlook, June 1961).
Book
National Journal Of Homoeopathy By Vishpala Parthasarathy.
Volume
1995 Mar / Apr Vol IV No 2
Author
Jagruti Jani.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Stram.
CASE 1:
Mrs. Anne, a 43 year old lady, went to the toilet in her compound premises. Suddenly she heard some unusual sound from outside and got frightened. From that time onwards she talked abnormally. Next day she was more frightened and compelled her husband and children to sit by her side all day. There was a great fear of death. She started predicting the day she would die, especially in the evening and night. She was given all possible medicines but in vain; ultimately she was recommended ECTs etc. for which they were not ready, so Homoeopathy was given a chance.
On 11-11-91 at 7 p.m., when I visited her I saw her in a frightened and agonized state. She was sitting on her bed with her husband and children by her side. She had a terrified look. At that time, a baby cried suddenly in the neighboring room and this shocked the patient because of its suddenness. She was affected much by any sudden noise. She would not allow her husband or children to leave her bed. She would often say that something bad would happen very soon and she wanted some poison. She alternately laughed and cried. In the past she perspired profusely. But since this mental trouble began the perspiration stopped. There was complete dryness of the body and mouth. Due to dryness she used to wet her lips with cold water. She passed urine in bed, she used used to say that she had passed urine and stools – once daily. For 9 days, she didnt take any food saying that she was fasting and didnt want to break her fast. However she would take a few sips of tender coconut water. She had not slept for nine days. She worshipped God often. At times laughing and gay but suddenly felt frightened and said that she would die soon. There was a history of suppressed grief. She sighed deeply and occasionally cried while thinking about her son who was away and she feared something would happen to him. Consolation gave relief. Sudden exhibition of fright when talking intelligently.
Very affectionate and sympathetic to her two children and others. She repented quickly and said that she had sinned and did something bad to others.
On the basis of this causative factor of sudden fright – Aconite 30, one powder was given at 8 p.m.
9 p.m. – Unexpectedly she took a cup of rice kanji – after 9 days of fasting.
The 2nd powder of the same medicine was given at 5 p.m. Next day she slept for two hours and took breakfast without washing her teeth and face. So Sac Lac 4 powders BD were given. After 2 days husband reported that there was no further change.
So Aconite 200, one powder was given, followed by SL for 5 days.
The next evening, husband reported that she slept well; the following morning she cleaned her teeth and took normal diet both morning and noon. Was normal in every respect and medicine was not repeated. There has been no recurrence of the symptoms since then.
(Dr. I.K. Madhavan in The Hahnemannian Gleanings – May 1995)
CASE 2:
Mr. FXR aged 56, matriculate was the third child of a family of a nine children. No mental cases in the family. Joined fathers business early in life. Business included a bakery, building contracts.
Married and has 5 sons and 1 daughter. Eldest son aged 21 failed BSc this year, 4th and 5th sons failed in 3rd and 7th stds.
Recently quarrelled with wife for giving a male servant too much of liberty in the day-to-day bakery business. As a result of wife rebuke, he would leave the house in the morning and subsisted on snacks for 2 or 3 days at friends houses to return home only at night. Wife was threatened that she did not dismiss the servant his (Husband) would leave the house.
Now he talks too much and confidently, while formerly he was taciturn. Says he believes in nature cure and not in doctors. Does not talk nonsense but repeats incidents in which he considers himself the central figure who can advise others how to run their business. Wants to help poor Christians to earn a living by taking govt contracts for fuel and charcoal and giving charity.
Takes cold bath at 1 a.m. and then prays. He rests after this and then goes early to church, and prays for 4 hours. This activity has started since the last one month appears to have commenced after the servants incident. Complains that he perspires too much.
He has developed a religious attitude and gives advice to all and sundry to attend church and receive sacraments daily. Says he has a special mission in life to do good and help people to live better. Goes out of his way to show sympathy to the less fortunate or to any person who appears to be friendly and would hear him.
Since his return to Bombay from abroad, he has been spending freely on charity for candles and small donations to the church, buying toys for children.
His wife arrived later and insisted that he should visit a doctor as he was weak. He wanted to know whether she thought he was mad and had to be sent to a lunatic asylum. However the patients brother coaxed him to see a doctor.
His wife made some remarks about the offending servant the previous night. This again upset him and both were shouting at each other at the top of their voice, until the patients brother brought peace. Wife cried in self-pity and threatened to go back the next day.
It was also surmised that the people had no sex life for the last two years but this could not be verified.
The patient felt that his sons also joined with their mother and aligned themselves against him regarding the servant.
Wife works hard in the business in confectionery section, but being full of self pity is unable to show him the consideration needed in this state of health.
Though financially sound there was constant bickering between the patient and his wife about how to run the bakery business.
Had had remorse of conscience on two occasions in the past with regard to money belonging to joint family, which his wife had concealed from other family members. The rubrics chosen for arriving at the similimum were:-
- a) Remorseful (KR 71)
- b) Loquacity (KR 63)
- c) Praying (KR 69)
- d) Religious (KR 71)
- e) Extravagance (KR 41)
Stramonium appeared to cover the case and was given three doses in 200 potency, six hourly on 17-9-60.
By the 20th definite improvement could be seen in his case and in a weeks time he became completely normal. He came to thank personally on his way back to town. Till now (Feb. 61) he is well.
Before this, he had already had several sedatives and hypnotics but they had all failed. Therefore it was seriously being considered that he should be given ECT to restore him to sanity. Surely, Homoeopathy must take credit for restoring him to health so easily, gently and quickly.
(Dr. P. Sankaran in Homoeopathic Outlook, June 1961).
Book
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY by Vishpala Parthasarathy.
Volume
1995 Nov / Dec VOL VI NO 6
Author
Wadia S R.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Guaic / Cimic / Ran-b / Benz-ac / Bry / Colc /Mag / Acon / Sulph / Kali-i / Lyc / Tub / Phyt / Staph.
CASE 1:
No history taken, 6 medicines at a time. This is our college doctor who was a 1st class student – LCEH (Bom) and a house physician also. We would print original prescription but 1 full page cannot be wasted. Complaints – Rheumatoid arthritis. Occasional constipation.
Treatment:
18-10-93: Guaicum 10M, Formica 1M –
1 dram pills, Cimicifuga 10M, Actea-sp, Ranunculus 1M, Benzoic – acid 1M and Bryonia 10M.
29-10-93: a) Cimicifuga 10M
- b) Actea-sp 1M
- c) Ranunculus 1M
- d) Benzoic-acid 1M and
- e) Bryonia 10M
Bryonia 10M, Medorrhinum 1M and Calc-fluor 10M – 2d.
TDS x 2ds
30-10-93 : 1) Guaicum 10M and Actea-sp 1000 – 2d.
20-11-93 : 2) Ranunculus 1000, Formica-r 50M – 2d
6-12-93: 1) Guaicum 10M,
2) Actea-spicata 1M
3) Colchicum 10M and Benzoic-acid 1M – 2d
4) Bryonia 1M and Cimicifuga 10M – 2d
Case 2:
A case of leucoderma of a young girl; see the remedies given –
June 1990 : MG 30 and Aconite 30 for two days followed by
Lyco 30 and MG 30 for for three days followed by
Aconite 30 and Sulph 30, 6 hourly.
Kali-iod 30, Lyco 30, MG 30
June 1990: Tuberculinum 1M for 2 days
June 1990: Phytolacca 30 (6)
Staphysagria (9)
Tuberculinum (12)
Staphysagria (15)
This is a good example of the type of Homoeopathy not to be practised Editor.
Few Specimens of Quick Cures
Book
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY by Vishpala Parthasarathy.
Volume
1993 Sep / Oct Vol II NO 5
Author
Sarla Sonawala.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Ars / Acon / Apis / Podo / Sil / Cham.
CASE 1:
A seven weeks old infant had pneumonia with fever upto 102 degree F since 6 weeks despite antibiotics. Meningitis was suspected with the fever shooting further to 103.6 degree F and the child was moved to a hospital. While preparations were being made to do a lumbar puncture, the childs grandfather thought of homoeopathy and took the child home against medical advice. With a family history of tuberculosis in the background, I gave Tuberculinum 1M as a precaution against meningitis turning tubercular. This proved a waste of 12 hours. Next, I could think of nothing but Arsenic-alb in this case of wriggling child and debilitating fever. Arsenic 200 every 3 hours brought down the fever to 99 degree F within 12 hours, and then to normal.
CASE 2:
A child of 2 years had loose watery stools around 12-14 per day. Advised against homoeopathy, the parents took him to an allopath. After the medicine, the child started vomiting. He could nor retain even water. He came back to homoeopathy. Ars-alb 200 repeatedly given, stopped the vomiting but the diarrhoea persisted. Podophyllum 200 one dose was given which stopped the diarrhoea. In the evening the child passed a well formed stool.
CASE 3:
On a cold and wintery night, I was called to see an old gentleman in the neighboring building. He had sudden high temperature of 104 degree F. Aconite 1M every four hours brought the fever down to 100 degree F. The next evening the venerable old man climbed up the staircase to my house to report his good health.
CASE 4: Mrs. N.J. 29, years old, had Status asthmaticus since the last few days. No medicine helped. I saw her, folding her legs against the chest. Medorrhinum 1M every few hours took away the intensity, then the continuity of breathlessness and bronchial spasms in 24 hours.
CASE 5: The heroine was me. I was cleaning the corners of my house with great vigor and suddenly an insect bit the tip of ;my right middle finger. I had a wave of stinging burning pain along my right hand. Ledum? No Apis 200. One dose and the current of fire was switched off, as if.
CASE 6: Toothache is no emergency. However, its pain can madden even a philosopher. I, being a mere mortal, writhed in agony with my left molar aching wildly. As pain was a little better by warm drinks, I took Silicea 1M. No relief. Suddenly I realized that I pressed my head down against the table – so why not Sanguinaria? A dose or two and I could give my Materia Medica lecture in college in the next hour.
CASE 7: Forty years back, my daughter – (the editor of your NJH) – howled with colic – and raised her feet against the abdomen with every spasm. I was not a homoeopath then, but had written down a few remedies from my trusted Dr. Maganlal Desai. Reading my notes, I found Colocynth 30 suitable. The child quietened down quickly with loud flatus from the lower end Once when she was bitten by a dog, Ledum 30 helped down her cries, against all the members of the family clamouring for anti-rabid vaccine. Likewise, I once brought her fever of 101 degree f down with Ferr-phos 30 amidst my layman confusion over Belladonna – Bryonia – Rhus-tox – Ferr-phos. More often than not, I have hit her with Chamomilla pills (not with a stick) when she indulged in her temper tantrums Perhaps those titbits of quick cures paved the way to my studying homoeopathy in later years.
Angina? Homoeopathy Wins [Angina Homoeopathy Wins]
Book
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY by Vishpala Parthasarathy.
Volume
1993 Nov / Dec Vol II NO 6
Author
Ranga Krishnan.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Arn / Carb-v / Acon / Hyper / Calen / Ars / Ruta.
And the postman came late
Editor: These cases were too late for inclusion in the Emergency issue. We have therefore published them in this Rare Remedies issue.
Case 1
May 1985
Seeing some commotion at my neighbours, I went over to see what had happened. My neighbour the patient, was very restless, complaining of pain in chest and feeling very uneasy. Gelusil did not give any relief. Knowing that he had a history of hypertension, and that the medicines for dyspepsia had not helped. I suspected Angina Pectoris.
Arnica 1m every 15 minutes (3 doses) was given and advised hospitalisation. When he reached there the pain was less. The ECG confirmed the mild attack.
Case 2
June 1986
My husband had a very severe attack of belching. They were very loud, associated with pain in the chest and profuse sweat that ran down the legs. He was also turning very blue. Carbo Veg 1m every 15 minutes did the trick and relieved him. The complaint has not recurred since then.
Case 3
April 1980
Mrs. V, a young lady in the 8th month of her pregnancy accidentally hurt her right toe by a stone. It was bleeding with agonizing pain. I cleaned the area well with Calendula Q, bandaged it with Symphytum Q and one dose of Aconite 1m was immediately given for the shock. It was followed by Hypericum 1m tds for one day and Calendula 1m tds the next day. By the sixth day the toe was nicely fixed, no scar and no pain.
Case 4
Mrs. N suffered from burns on her back due to spilling of boiling water. Urtica Urens ointment was given for local application and Ars-Alb 200 every fifteen minutes internally. After an hour as there was no sigh of blister formation, I staggered the dose to tds for the next two days and the back healed well with no pain, no scar
Case 5
Mr. R, an executive suffered from recurrent non-stop dry cough at 11 p.m. since the 12 years. The only peculiarity was that it would come annually, start suddenly, last of many days and stop suddenly (after 5 to 7 days). All clinical investigations were normal and every kind of remedy tried. No relief.
On further questioning he recounted a car accident 12 years ago. When he was driving his car he accidentally hit a tree, and on impact he was jammed behind the steering wheel for some time and was pulled out much later.
I immediately saw the connection. Boericke on Pg. 886 lists Ruta under chest affections injury to chest followed by phthisis. So I gave Ruta 200 for 2 days and the cough stopped after the third dose. It has never recurred.
A WORD ABOUT PRESCRIBING IN OBSTETRICS [Obstetrics Prescribing]
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER By Rabe R F.
Volume
1948 Mar Vol LXIII No 9
Author
Royal Hayes.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Puls / Hel / Ferr / Acon / Cham / Nux.
[ Read before the Bureau of Obstetrics and Gynecology, I.H.A., June 26, 1947].
ROYAL E.S. HAYES, M.D.
If there is one book more than another than in years past has saved time and energy and provided real satisfaction in practice, it is Yinglings “Accouchers Emergency Manual.” Yet, to my knowledge not a word has been said or printed about it for many years. As this potentially most valuable book is out of print and liable to become obsolete it seems almost a duty of record that there was such a one in its time and that it was most gracious help to homoeopathic patients and their physicians in time of obstetric trouble.
Strange does it seem that such an art as the homoeopathic management of obstetric difficulties should be allowed to dissolve away. Yet it is the very effectiveness and demand for homoeopathic practice, a field in which there is no competition, that allows such an anomalous condition to exist. For as soon as the young homoeopath has acquired competence in using our remedies, he soars off into the practical mysticism of constitutional medicine, leaving his obstetric patients in the dumps. It is sad to relegate these young petitioners to the rigors of conventional methods, modern as they are in technique but antiquated in serviceability, or worse.
As to this book, excluding the possibility of irreducible malformations, were I restricted to one medium of aiding the puerperal woman Yingling would be the choice. Every word of it is rare coin and the repertory is the most dependable one of its size that I know. This work sustains unadulterated homoeopathic artistry throughout. As theoretic proof, let me quote a few dicta from the Introduction: “The patient in hand must be treated (exclusively) and the symptoms alone must point to the curative remedy. This rule must hold good in obstetrical practice as in any other: Give that remedy the pathogenesis of which entirely covers the symptoms of the patient, even though it may never have been used or even thought of in connection with such a case or condition.”.
Yet the same Yingling who says cover the symptoms entirely” taught me (in a written article) that there is such a thing as a totality within the totality, meaning essential symptoms which are the presiding genius of the condition and of the remedy. His contradiction is only apparent. For it will be safer for a while for the newcomer to homoeopathic art entirely to cover the symptoms of the patient. But with time, a persisting ideal of perfection and patients, he will inevitably recognize the prominent and indispensable features in the foreground, adumbrated on a background of controlling “generalities,” Yingling recognizes this when he writes farther on: “In the Generalities we endeavor to give a birds eye view of each remedy so as to enable the prescriber to decide definitely in case of doubt.” In this way he gave the working part of the book also its own essentials and totality. He advises part of the book also its own essentials and totality. He advises study of the book before times, not waiting for actual case of present themselves.
He makes a wise remark of page 12: “Back of the (abnormal) condition, back of the state of the parts is the nervous system, the vital force, and the cause of the derangement, either of which is reached and controlled by the homoeopathic remedy. It is wonderful, magical indeed, to observe the rapid action of the similimum in obstetrical practice.”.
Also:.
By the use of pure homoeopathy the vast majority of cases resulting in loss of life or in excruciating suffering from the supposed irregularity of the parts would terminate happily and easily. All that is needed is confidence and knowledge on the part of the attending physician.. The people have more confidence in the powers of homoeopathy than many are willing to allow. They follow implicitly the advice of their homoeopathic attendant.. if he (will) manifest confidence in his system of medicine and insist upon obedience, with the positive result of a most favorable consummation; so favorable that the glad tidings (will) go from woman to woman with the celebrity of happy news, resulting in the rapid spread of.. homoeopathy. It I am an enthusiast on this subject it results from what I have seen with my own eyes, and the result of the course I have herein advocated and advised.”.
How many times have I also seen this with my own eyes.
Speaking of haemorrhage he says, “The physician should be prepared to select the remedy speedily, but time will be saved to carefully get all the symptoms, and as carefully to select the remedy.” How many times I have verified this in various crises, and noted what a calming effect it has on the distressed people around, making them feel that time is not so mortally important after all.
Furthermore: “The more danger to life the more speedily will the homoeopathic remedy act. This is a fact corroborated by the experience of the best prescribers.” There are other gems of truth in this Introduction, especially his remarks on eclampsia, inspiring indeed; but time and space are a consideration.
I might mention that each presentation of a remedy is divided into seven sections. viz; Labor, Abortion, Haemorrhage, Retained Placenta, Convulsions, After Pains and Generalities. Gratitude to my starry fate is hereby acknowledged for the very best of assistance by way of this book with all of these conditions and complications.
Three swallows make but a small summer but I will relate three recent cases of personal interest, the patients being near relatives, such being regretfully the only engagements permitted for many years.
Mrs. T., primipara, first stage of labor, pains five minutes apart, in lumbo-sacral region and worse on the left side, radiating to the front and down the hips and thighs, better bending forward, had to stop while walking. We waited for better indications and especially because she had had Pulsatilla four days previously for griping in front and low backache. This was at noon. At seven p.m. pains harder, writhing when in bed, ameliorated by slow motion, worse in the sacral region. Wept once. Heat, sweat. Pulsatilla, 10M Sk. Pain lessened rapidly but contractions stronger, became absolutely painless. The patient laughed, joked, said she would have six “if this is all there is to it,” final expulsion absolutely painless and no complications. Marvels to this day at the wonderful change made by “that powder.”.
Same patient two years later. First stage pains with red face during them. Pain is in the sacrum and rectum radiating down the outer thighs. Discharged dark, coppery blood with the first pains. Felt too weak to walk and had to lie down. She had had glycosuria with both pregnancies, cleared each time with that remedy most frequently needed for it, Helonias dioica. Ferrum met. rendered the labor absolutely painless. But there was a complication. The baby being slow to start breathing the mother became frantic and shaking violently with fright, which she could not control even after she knew the baby was alright. But Aconite 1M did.
Mrs. W., primipara; forenoon; griping pains in the hypogastrium better when up and about, of sudden onset with one or two little jabs, then easing gradually (Puls.). Loses bloody fluid while lying, each time preceded by pressure in the forehead. Apathetic mentally but with a restless, hurried sensation, must talk to someone or she “would weep it off.”.
As with the other patient, I waited before prescribing because of a prescription of Pulsatilla 5000. two weeks previously and thinking to secure a better end result after more positive symptoms should develop. In a few hours pains were more troublesome but easier to endure lying, four to five minutes apart, extending to the rectum. Nausea at times. Heat and sweat worse during the pains. Pulsatilla, 10M K. was given. Contractions became stronger at once, painless, with a little difficulty with the perineum but not severe enough to extort a cry. No further complications or treatment. WATERBURY, CONN.
DISCUSSION.
- ELIZABETH WRIGHT HUBBARD: Madam Chairman, I should like to ask Dr. Hayes a question, in my simplicity, whether he gave these ladies any anesthetic or not.
- HAYES: No, no, never. I never gave an anesthetic after I followed homoeopathy.
- HUBBARD: You really get away with it without too much pain?.
- HAYES FARRINGTON: I cant let this wonderful paper go by without saying a few words, I dont want to talk too much and I always have to say that long ago I ceased giving a record of my somewhat over forty years experience in obstetrics, because the fellows looked down their noses and said, “Farrington must have practiced in the country where they had no germs.”.
Now, I have had positively eight cases of absolutely painless labor. I have had many cases, to the number of seven hundred, where the mothers labor was not severe, and I have seen remedies work, just as Dr. Hayes has told us, and in one of these cases the mother had six children, and four of them were absolutely painless. The first one was a breech, and they had to hold it back because I was in Philadelphia and I had to take a train, and I can still see that tall six-foot father waving his arms like a windmill at the head of the hill, and I went up in a hurry, and it was most unusual. Constitutional treatment over a period of several years got her into good health, though even when I first started she was well, as most people would think.
On a bright summer day when it was about time for the baby to come, this young lady said to her folks, “I am going to the hospital.”.
“What? You havens got any pains.”.
“I feel as though my baby was going to come. I am going to the hospital.”.
So she walked three or four blocks to the hospital, took the elevator and went up and the interns and nurses made fun of her. “You are very silly.”.
“Get me ready now. I am going to have my baby.”.
They finally acceded to her wishes and took her to the room, scrubbed her up, and did the usual things that are done for preparing the patient, but before they were through, that little head was coming down in there, and they had to hurry to the operating room, and the baby was born, with absolutely no pain, and from the time she left her house until they baby was born, was two and a half hours.
I have had them where the baby came so fast, it was horn in an automobile. One was born on some church steps. I dont know whether that had any significance or not. One remarkable case was twins, but, as I say, I ceased long ago to tell my record, but I know I will have a sympathetic ear in this audience. This girl had all the signs that were supposed to be the dangerous signals. I spoke to a surgeon in my office about the case, and he said, “Take her to the hospital and take that baby. She is going to have convulsions.”.
What I would have done in a case of convulsions in labor I dont know, because I never have had any. I had had quite a number of cases where it was possible.
In regard to the action of medicines, Chamomilla was mentioned, and with that keynote, the woman seemed to be beside herself. She says she cant stand the pain any longer. Then you have to look little further to find that Chamomilla is the indicated remedy.
This was my case but taken care of by a specialist and when I came to the hospital, because I wanted to be there of this occasion, she was lying on a cot in the hallway crying and groaning, and writhing on the little bed, and the nurse said, “she needs Nux.”.
“No, Chamomilla.”.
In five minutes they had hurried her to the operating room.
I could go on and tell about a number of others. I wanted, when I was coming here, to have an opportunity to tell you, though, of one case where Pulsatilla did its usual stunt in changing the position of the fetus. A niece of mine wrote and told me that her doctor said that the baby was crosswise, and it was rather dangerous. I knew her case very well, and I knew that in a general way she was a Pulsatilla, and I sent a dose, and in less than two hours that baby turned around and got its head into the pelvis, and in a few days, when she came to term, was in labor, it was practically painless labor, although it was her first child.
- WILBUR K BOND.: I should like to ask Dr. Hayes the remedies he prefers when there is deficient milk supply in the flow of milk.
- J.B. GREGG CUSTIS: I have never been able to accomplish painless labor, but I saw one once in a young primipara. She hadnt had any labor at all nor any difficulty at any time. She had an absolutely painless labor. I had never been able to do it with primiparas.
I feel that convulsions in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are neglected during the time the woman was pregnant. If a woman is carefully prescribed for and seen often enough, her diet probably adjusted, and she is given the right remedy, she won;t have convulsions.
Unfortunately, I have had to use forceps and I have had to do caesareans. One caesarean I did last year I reported to the institute. It was due to a septum down the center of the uterus which extended over a third of the way from the fundus down to the cervix. The baby was breech. The head was in the left side, to the left of the septum, the breech to the right of the septum. I dont believe any remedy in the world would have brought that baby through. That is a mechanical thing.
Of course most caesareans are usually from mechanical things, and we do have those mechanical things.
There is another reason for forceps and that is the so-called vertex labor, which I thick is a most pernicious practice, resulting in a good many infant deaths. I cant, I am afraid, give a record of no forceps and no caesareans, but i do feel very strongly about this convulsion business. My practice is to see the patient once in three weeks, from the first time she sees me up to the seventh months, every two weeks during the seventh month, and every week during the eighth and ninth months. I feel that with that kind of care and with careful homoeopathic prescribing, we should not have convulsions, and I have seen many case where blood pressures have crept up, not only systolic but also diastolic, and albumin in the urine, and sugar, which would have gone through perfectly all right, without the homoeopathic remedy, of course.
- THOMAS K.MOORE: There is one circumstance I am interested in. Hardly any young women ever nurse their babies any more. We see it so rarely out our way. It is exceptional and here are two cases not having had narcotics or anesthetics or anything of the sort. It would be interesting to know if they nursed their own babies. I have a feeling that there is a relation there.
- V. TABER CARR: Having cases that we know are painless under homoeopathic remedy, I raise the question, Did nature intend to have normally painless birth?.
- FARRINGTON: Not according to Scripture.
- MOORE. Not according to The Readers Digest.
- ROYAL E.S. HAYES [Closing discussion]: In answer to Dr. Bond, I havent any preferred remedies that I know of, but it is possible that Calcarea has been more frequently used than others in the past.
In answer of Dr. Moore, both these women nursed their babies.
There is one point which was rather obscures. I hoped somebody would notice it, and that is that I didnt prescribe when there was not very much need for it, but I waited for an urge for a remedy, and then it acted well.
HOMOEOPATHIC AIDS IN DENTISTRY [Dentistry & Homoeopathy]
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER By Rabe R F.
Volume
1936 Feb Vol LI No 2
Author
John S Coxeter.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Calc / Kreos / Cham / Coff / Acon.
[ Presented by title before I.H.A., Bureau of Surgery, June 8, 1935].
JOHN S. COXETER, D.D.S.
CASE I. Boy of twelve.
Upper right cuspid not erupted, all other teeth in the mouth fully erupted for a year. X-ray no mechanical obstruction. Three doses a week apart of Calcarea carb. 6X. potency. Did not see him for a month after last dose, at that time cusp of tooth was nearly through. Three months later tooth was practically fully erupted. The boy is a redhead, obstinate, snarly, gives sharp answers; has red and inflamed eye lids, sour stomach and frequent attacks of vomiting. Nine months later a very great improvement in general. Happier disposition and is growing like a weed.
CASE II. Small child.
Dirty mouth, black crescents at cervical margins of all teeth, labial surfaces of incisors black spots. Cleaned with pumice, black areas returned in several months. The childs mother brushes the teeth with power with no results. One dose Kreosote 1000. Teeth cleaned again with pumice. Six months later, mouth cleaner, teeth smooth and no sings of return of black areas. Enamel slightly stained.
CASE III. Police officer.
Mandibular nerve black, two days previous to my meeting him in a drug store, where he was cursing, swearing, thrashing around, hanging on to his face, asking the druggist to give him poison. He just couldnt stand the pain. Loaded to the gills with aspirin and bromide. Took him to my office where I gave him Chamomilla 6x. in hot water and some black tablets to chew on. As I expected, he lapped them up one a minute. Fifteen minutes later he was much quieter and said that he could finish his tour of duty. Saw him the next day and he said that the pain was practically all gone in two hours.
CASE IV. Myself.
Mandibular nerve block one hour previous. Pain almost unbearable; irritable, peevish, erratic, weepy, restless, waving of arms, cursing everything and everybody. Could not keep still, trembling upset my coffee cup, didnt care. My sister said, “Dont make a fool of yourself; why dont you take a remedy?” I got my box of remedies and upset the whole works, felt like throwing them out the window; but four little letters on the cork of a bottle were starting me in the face, CHAM. Chamomilla: Childishness, peevishness, irritability, pain. One dose, dry power, 1000th potency. I lay down on a sofa and in fifteen minutes I was asleep. Awakened in an hour, sore but no pain.
CASE V. Man aged thirty.
Mandibular nerve block two days previous. Called me at two a.m., could not get to sleep, restless, pain increasing. Came to the office carrying a small pail of cracked ice. Pain in socket rather than in ramus of jaw, no swelling, good clot, gums not mutilated, x-ray showed all of tooth removed. Sat bolt upright in chair, eyes almost popping out of his head, he was so wide awake. Could not wait an instant after ice in his mouth had melted before placing another piece in his mouth. This is how I treated his case homoeopathically. I noted that he was wakeful, uncommonly so, mind and senses were very acute, his movements were very quick. The pain he had was in and around the area of injury; this pain was relieved by cold, intense cold, i.e., ice. Look in the repertory and see what remedies have wakefulness greatly marked and pain, especially a sore pain, if it can be so described, which is relieved by application of ice, and Coffea cruda is most prominent. I gave him a single dose (probably the 200th potency). I sat down and pretended to relax but was watching him; soon I noticed that he used the ice less frequently and that his head was back in the head rest. In about twenty minutes so half an hour, he made the remark that he could go to sleep if he were home. Naturally I suggested that he go home and try it.
CASE VI. Homoeopathic physician, age fifty.
Two or three similar previous experiences from the injection of novocaine. Pain, soreness, swelling, lameness in the tendo Achilles of the left foot. He is one of the best known homoeopathic physicians in the country. When he called me up I could tell that he was quite disturbed and I thought it strange that he, with his knowledge of homoeopathic materia medica, should ask me to suggest a remedy. I went on the assumption that he was somewhat stirred up and irritable and suggested Chamomilla. I have used Chamomilla so many times after the use of novocaine where there is pain, seemingly caused by the drug rather than from the surgery, that I think that Chamomilla is a specific. In all cases previous to injection of novocaine, especially to aged, frail, weak, convalescent, fear, heart, and several insane I administer Aconite, any potency from the tincture to the thirtieth. Dose administered ten to fifteen minutes before beginning of injection. It seems to smooth the patients out, quiets them, they cooperate and they do not seem to have the all-gone symptoms that many have after novocaine. Read Kents Materia Medica wherein he describes Aconite symptoms as of sudden onslaught, violent, tempest, tornado, short duration. Perhaps the unpleasant symptoms that many have while undergoing tooth extraction with novocaine is nothing more than fear. Well, if it is, it would be perfectly natural for any one to have fear if there came a very sudden and violent storm, and Aconite has produced just that type of fear in the provers.
CALCAREOUS AND SERUM DEPOSITS ON THE TEETH.
My experience in treating these cases with homoeopathic remedies has been rather disappointing in all but a few. Calcarea phos. renalis 12th has been recommended, one dose a day for two or three weeks, then a wait for a month or so and then another period of the remedy. All deposits must be removed with instruments, teeth cleaned and polished and then the remedy given. I cannot say that I have had over two cases where I honestly felt that the remedy did prevent further deposits. In other cases further deposits were prevented but I felt that it was due more to the added interest and the careful attention given in cleaning the teeth by the patients themselves.
I know that there are many remedies listed under “tooth-ache”, but we as dentists know that there are so many causes of pain commonly called tooth-ache, and that a very large percent of them are relieved by instruments, that I have not paid much attention to relieving just tooth-ache with remedies. However, there are certain types of cases and conditions where there is the beginning of an ulceration where remedies do greatly relieve and shorten the period of discomfort. I have seen Silica and Mercury hasten the formation of pus and produce such an amount of discharge from an abscessing area as to be astounding. But pain caused from pulp stones, sudden sharp neuralgic pains and trifacial neuralgia I have cured, I trust permanently, and some greatly relieved, by using Magnesium phos. in a series of potencies over a period of a year, ranging from the ten thousandth to the hundred thousandth.
I have cured numerous cases of so called trench mouth in a few days with Mercury of a medium high potency.
CASE: Man and wife, the wifes parents and the pointer dog.
On entering the home the peculiar odor of trench mouth was well- nigh overpowering. All the members of the family were highly excited, said that the dog had gone mad, had bitten one of them: he ran around the house biting the furniture, whining then sharp nervous barks as though in pain. The dog was tied up in cellar and I watched him; he would lean his head against things and then lose his temper and bite at anything he could get hold of. I spoke to him and he looked at me with the most disconsolate expression and wagged his tail, then he would go “mad” again. He kept his lips open and his gums were greatly inflamed, swollen, gray borders, exuding a pussy serum. The people had phoned the S.P.C.A. to come and get the dog and put him out of the way. I said that I did not believe that the dog had rabies but that it was trench mouth, and that his symptoms of madness were simply from pain and discomfort in his mouth and the general feeling of discomfort.
All members of the family showed in a human way exactly the same symptoms as the dog, being rather hard to handle. I decided I needed help on the case and called a homoeopathic physician. The symptoms were all taken down and studied and Sepia was the remedy decided on. One dose of the thousandth potency was given with instructions to use no mouth wash except dilute milk. Some of the remedy was put in to some of the dilute milk well stirred, and offered to the dog. He finally took a little of it. I called up the next day and found that the family were better but that the dog had been taken away. On the second day family was much better. However, they had decided that they should have anti- rabies inoculation, which was done against our advice. The dog was electrocuted and head examined for rabies, none found.
After very hard extractions where the jaw is sore and bruised Arnica hastens the recovery wonderfully.
For about ten years, I did much extracting at a free medical clinic in Boston where only absolutely pure homoeopathic therapeutics were used. You can well imagine the type of people who came to this clinic for treatment. Calendula in aqueous solution was used in every case as a mouth wash and not a single case ever came back with any sloughing or infection. The healing of the wounds was faster than one would ordinarily expect to see, even in people of better circumstances. Many of these people were under-fed, under-clothed, under-housed and more or less vicious in mind and body.
I have had numerous cases come to me where there had been hard extraction, gum tissue practically healed, more or less discomfort, either swelling and the beginning of suppuration, or a hard sore point with the gum tightly drawn over it all due to a loosened outer alveolar plate or spiculae. A dose of Silica will hasten the suppuration and the spiculae will soon make its appearance so that it can be easily removed.
I think that I have covered the general run of dental cases wherein homoeopathic therapeutics can be used to the best advantage to the operator as well as the patient. In fact, I fully believe that the results obtained are far beyond those obtained by any other system of therapeutics and produce results where no other system of therapeutics could even make a dent.
NEWTONVILLE, MASS.
PROSTATITIS, GONORRHOEA [Prostatitis & Gonorrhoea]
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER By Rabe R F.
Volume
1936 Jun Vol LI No 6
Author
Charles A Dixon.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Sabal / Arn / Med / Thuj / Caust / Acon.
Read before I.H.A., Bureau of Clinical Medicine, June 7, 1935.
CHARLES A. DIXON, M.D.
What I have to say on this subject is rather more of an appeal to the profession not to forget their homoeopathic training.
Prostatic cases are so often referred to the surgeon because the doctor has failed to sufficiently relieve the patient with his remedies, and in cases of gonorrhoea they resort to injections and other drastic measures rather than depend on their potentized remedy. Surgery today is not so uniformly bad as it was in the day when the whole gland was removed. Yet I am convinced that ninety percent of the surgery of today can be eliminated by our carefully selected homoeopathic remedy.
Ordinarily the prostate gland will function normally clear to the end of life if the man has never had a Neisser infection and no traumatic causes.
My success with the potencies has been good enough to warrant a review of some case reports with the remedies and their potencies.
Back in 1921 Mr. B., aged 78, came to me with an enlarged and painful prostate. He had been under the care of our best G.U. man who had massaged the prostate daily or weekly, depending upon the amount of discomfort present, and had ordered diet, rest in bed, bladder irrigation, all to no avail; operation was insisted on as the only thing left to do. The patient would not submit to this and finally came to me.
I had doctored other members of his family for years but he always insisted that my sugar pills would not be strong enough to benefit him. I gave him a powder of Sabal serrulata 1M., following it with placebo. Improvement was immediate and there was never any severe trouble after that. An occasional repetition of the remedy kept him comfortable and he died of other causes at the ripe old age of 86.
This remedy has helped me out of many tight places; it is, as you know, the Saw Palmetto, an advertised remedy for prostatitis, gonorrhoea, stricture, etc. Too bad that the allopaths do not know how valuable it is in the potencies. I used it from the 1M. up to the CM. The remedy is not well proven, the little we know about it is from clinical findings. It deserves your careful study. I should hate to be deprived of its use. Its principal sphere of action is on the prostate; it is particularly a remedy for the old profligates who have had repeated gonorrhoea, with wasting of the testes and the loss of sexual power.
J.W. (back in 1930 he was 74), like Mr. B., scorned homoeopathy although it had saved his wifes mind. He had been under allopathic care for four years with violent attacks of strangury; he had catheterized himself daily for two years. When I was called he was in agony, unable to pass his catheter and frantic with pain. He expected me to pass a catheter and was angry when I insisted it was unnecessary. Yet a dose of Arnica 2c. relieved him before I left the house; a dose of Med. 10M. one week later followed in forty days by Med. 50M. in August 1930 kept him free until an attack in May 1931. His trouble now was his frequent desire to urinate. He had not used his catheter since his dose of Arnica. I now gave him Thuja 2c. and sixty days later Thuja. 10M. I have not visited him at his home since but have sent him Causticum in 1932 and once in 1933. I see him occasionally on the street and he is going good at 79.
Now for a recent case in a younger man; he is not well yet, but I have watched these recoveries so many times that I know that I am going to cure him. Again it is a Mr. B., 46 years old, with a history of gonorrhoea twenty-four years ago. He had been in very poor health for two years past, under allopathic treatment which included an observation period in Crile Clinic and 75.00 dollars for x- ray pictures. A history of rectal haemorrhage every three months for the past two years, difficulty in voiding urine, prostate quite large and very tender. He had Arnica 2C. on May 6, 1934, and four days later was able to resume his business. Later, May 15, he was given Med. 10M. There was one more haemorrhage from the bowels, not so severe, in January 1935, after which he was given Thuja 1M., which apparently cleared up the urinary trouble completely.
There are other remedies that work just as nicely as these I have mentioned, depending on their homoeopathic indication. The point I wish to stress is that the unhampered potentized remedy will do better than any polypharmacy prescription or operative procedure, and that the background of all of these cases is a suppressed Neisser infection.
Gonorrhoea does not have to be suppressed; there again our homoeopathy is capable of curing where no other measures can do anything but suppress. It is a deplorable fact that the younger men in our school are not using any homoeopathic medication in treating this disease. So far as my personal investigations go, and I will say further that there is the best of reasons for this being so, they are not being taught in our homoeopathic colleges how to do it with the potentized remedy, so why blame them? The trouble lies with our colleges.
I feel sure that success comes only when all injections are dispensed with for the remedy has to have a clear track. The same principle applies to physic, etc. I use my remedy from the 2C. up, but wont quarrel with the low potency man if he will prescribe the single remedy and eliminate all adjuvants. He will do good work and finally will raise the potencies as I have.
If you see your case early, before other measures have been undertaken and while the inflammation is confined to the anterior part of the urethra you are lucky; then your remedy may be petros. The indications are: troublesome itching inside the urethra with constant desire to urinate. Aconite is another remedy that is useful in the inflammatory stage. Remember you must have an Aconite patient, with restlessness, anxiety, fear he will die. Just forget the gonorrhoea and doctor the patient. I am not going down the list of remedies with a few indications for each; that is not impressive enough to excite your interest. What I want to do is outline the repertorial way of selecting the remedy for any case that may come to you. It will not take much of your time to run a chart on your particulars.
Chordee has been developed in the proving of thirty-six remedies, bloody urethral discharges in twenty-one remedies, pain during urination in thirty-one remedies, gonorrhoeal discharge in seventy-eight remedies. Pain in urination has been further differentiated as burning, drawing, itching, tearing, etc. So you see how closely you can cross-section your case often down to the single remedy. In the subacute, chronic or gleet type the repertory is just as useful as well as with the other complications such as chancroids, balanitis, fig warts, orchitis, etc.
The points I wish to stress are that homoeopathy – good homoeopathy – will not fail you in treating gonorrhoea and its sequelae; that it is the only treatment which completely eradicates the disease; that it is not suppressive; that this condition is not being treated homoeopathically by the younger men among our graduates; and that our only existing colleges are not teaching the students the right way.
AKRON, OHIO.
DISCUSSION.
- CAMPBELL: There occurs to me one case, not of acute gonorrhoea, but the appearance of so-called venereal warts, verrucae acuminata, and the glands of a young man with absolutely no history of gonorrhoea. I gave him Thuja, and later Staphisagria, and later Radium bromide 30, which very rapidly and completely removed it and there has been no recurrence.
- ALFRED PULFORD: I want to thank Dr. Dixon for an excellent paper and I think what he is trying to bring out in that paper is that it is no disgrace to be ignorant but the disgrace lies in the preference to remain so. (Applause).
DR.GRIMMER: The remedy Sabal is by no means confined to the male prostate. It is just as useful to the troublesome female, especially with uterine conditions, and they have just as useful to the troublesome female, especially with uterine conditions, and they have just as much of the severe pains and trials and tribulations in their urinary symptoms as the male has.
There is another remedy to compare with that in the prostatic hypertrophy of the aged, and that is Hydrangea, which will very frequently relieve some of the most stubborn cases of suppression, suppressed urinary conditions because of enlarged prostate.
Many years ago in Hahnemann College there was a doctor who had his aged father in for an operation. They were preparing him for the operation; he was under morphine part of the time and, of course, catheterized until they couldnt catheterized him any more. The young doctor wanted to know what to give him, and he came to my office. He was not a potency man at all, and at Hahnemann College they werent potency men. The surgeon in charge was opposed to it.
I suggested that he get tincture of Hydrangea and give him a few drops of that in a half glass of water every few hours, and he did, with amazing results. The old man went home without an operation. (Applause).
- MOORE: At Jefferson Medical College Dr. Brinton used to give us the advice to take care of any chronic ailment very easily. If he were a sailor, give him Mercury and Potassium iodide; and for people in a hurry, we have an easy method of treating with Medorrhinum.
In this meeting we have had a number of expressions that lead one to a great many old chronic cases and you will find Syphilinum will be the leader of the layout, so there are two remedies if you are in a hurry.
- DIXON: I am a little bit disappointed. I had hoped I would get a rise out of you with the blank statement that the colleges were not teaching homoeopathic treatment for these conditions. I wanted someone to get up and deny it.
I am primarily an investigator, and while I dont get around so much among the younger fellow, everywhere I go I cant find where our younger men are being taught to use homoeopathic methods. I can swear if I am out fishing and I feel like swearing here when I think of such a condition as that. We have something so much superior to what these health clinics and the army are recommending, and they dont seem to even take the trouble to deny that they are suppressing it rather than curing it.
Their suppressions of syphilis are filling our insane asylums, and so many things are directly traceable to this devilish gonorrhoea that is being suppressed.
The doctor said he didnt see many cases of gonorrhoea. I dont either. I should have a line-up like the City Clinic there in our home town. They have clinics there that run for hours, two or three times a week, giving suppressive treatment for that, and I don;t suppose I have had a half-dozen cases of acute gonorrhoea in the last two years and it may be in the last five; I dont know.
Fortunately, I have had a couple of cases recently and that has brought this again to my mind, so I am spilling over.
- REEL: We have a small organization in a little club called the Hahnemannian Round Table. There were very few of us in the beginning, and this is anent the teaching of homoeopathy at Hahnemann. The boys, the senior students from Hahnemann, were invited to attend our meetings. We all claim to be pure, high potency homoeopaths. At first there were probably two, and then three, and latterly there have been thirty or thirty-five of the senior students coming to the meetings because they want to understand pure homoeopathy. (Applause).
CANCER
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER By Rabe R F.
Volume
1939 Jul Vol LIV No 7
Author
Daniel Coleman.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Phyt / Nat-m / Con / Calc-f / Bar-c / Kali-i / Kreos / Kali-c / Hydr / Acon / Ign / Stram.
[ Read before I.H.A., Bureau of Materia Medica, June 6, 1935].
DANIEL E.S. COLEMAN, PH.B., M.D., F.A.C.P.
Cancer, “Chief banqueter at (deaths) feast”, the Grim Reapers most faithful ally: this is the tragic subject chosen for this paper. The star tragedian in the playhouse of disease stalks on as yet unconquered. His no therapeutic Saint George arisen to slay this morbid pathological dragon, who strike with relentless malevolence regardless of person? The mighty voice of Tamagno, the greatest of all tenors, was forever silenced by the the vulturous claws of this hideous monster, sinking its poisonous talons into the very organ that held countless audiences spellbound with its clarion notes. Grover Cleveland, a truly great PResident, was Sound in order that his highly efficient services as the chief executor could be continued. Alas, this rugged individualist, who believed in upholding the traditions of a government “by the people, for the people”, survived only a few short years. General Ulysses s. Grant, who saved the Union, fell by the attack of this more deadly foe than he had ever encountered in battle. Dr. William Tinninghast Bull fought with his scalpel this demon of scourges for many years. He himself fell by the hand of the powerful antagonist he had failed to conquer.
Can nothing be done for those suffering from this dread disease? Although, as I said before, this malady is as yet unconquered, much can be done to relieve, and sometimes even to cure, this dreadful enemy of mankind.
Surgery, x-ray and radium are practically the only therapeutic measures used by the majority of the medical profession today. The hundreds of so-called “cures” investigated by the various cancer hospitals have proved impotent.
Surgery says operate early, at the incipiency of the disease. Then and only then is there hope of recovery. If operated later a return of the growth is almost certain. Operation on gastrointestinal cancers, under the most favorable conditions, can promise only about two short years of life.
X-ray and radium have the power to destroy the cancer cell in the superficial epithelial variety. It is significant that they are capable of destroying lesions similar to those that they produce. They are therefore homoeopathic. If we apply a weak emanation, as would happen with a deeply situated growth, conditions would be made worse. Small doses stimulate, large doses destroy (Arndt-Schultz). After the disease has extended to the surrounding tissues and the lymph nodes have become involved, neither x-ray nor radium therapy holds out hope of curability.
It is the object of this paper, however, to tell what homoeopathy can accomplish to combat this horrible spectre which hangs over thousands of otherwise happy homes. We must be careful to make no false claims or exaggerated statements. To do so would defeat the very object that we have in view, to show that in homoeopathy lies the greatest hope of eventually conquering this disease. We lack remedies which are capable of producing growths similar to cure carcinoma. Recently three chemicals growths similar to true carcinoma. Recently three chemical shave been discovered which have produced in mice tumors similar to malignant growths. No homoeopathic provings or verifications have been made, however. I may be in a position to discuss these in a later paper. We, as homoeopaths, can do much to palliate, to prolong life, and possibly to cure some case with the remedies already at our disposal. Many patients are seen during thirty- four years practice. The following are selected in the way of illustration.
The first set of cases comprise those in which a definite diagnosis of cancer could not be given,. It has been my personal opinion that many patients successfully operated have been of this class. We could have cured them without an operation.
CASE I. Female, age 37. Lamp the size of a marble under left arm. Discovered eight months previously. Cured in six months by Phytolacca 3x.
CASE II. Female, age 45. Hard lump in left breast of two years duration. subjective symptoms: Melancholy, depressed, trembling of the limbs, fluttering in the epigastrium, awaking suddenly at night with feeling of suffocation, etc. Lump disappeared in less than two months under Natrum mur. 30x four times daily. Lump returned in a little over a year. Conium 3x followed by Phytolacca 3x cured completely in three weeks.
CASE III. Female, age 52, Lump in breast characterized by stony hardness. Cured by Conium 3.
CASE IV. Female, age 41. History of a blow on the left breast, followed by indurated lumps. Cured in three weeks by Conium 3.
CASE V. A young lady appeared at my office in a most apprehensive state of mind. Her father had died of duodenal carcinoma. Her own doctor, an excellent prescriber, was out of town. I consented to treat her until he returned. she presented a lump the size of a small plum in the right breast. Considerable pain of a spreading character. I prescribed Conium 30 four times daily. I saw her again in two weeks. The pain had ceased after the first day under the remedy and the lump was much smaller. She continued treatment under her own physician.
CASE VI. Female. Lump in left breast about two inches long and one and a half inches wide. Cured in a few months by Conium 3, followed by Calcarea fluorica 6x.
I could give more similar cases, but these will suffice. Were they cancer? “Ah theres the rub.” They were saved from operation, however.
The following are case in which positive diagnosis of malignancy were established.
CASE I. Female, age 60. Hard swelling in left breast with retraction of the nipple. Thin exudation. Prescribed Conium 3 four times daily. Prompt and continued improvement, lump diminished in size and the lymphatics did not become involved. Remedy discontinued and resumed as indicated. In six months the tumor was greatly reduced in size. Phytolacca was then indicated. The growth was very much smaller in six weeks, but I detected another in close proximity. Perhaps I had overlooked this before because of the swelling. I prescribed Iodine tincture, gtt. v in quarter glass of water, two teaspoonfuls q.i.d. a profuse discharge resulted with complete disappearance of the growths. This condition of apparent cure was interrupted by slight relapses. These were controlled by Conium 2x, Baryta carb. 2x and Kali iod. 2x as indicated. LAter I prescribed Conium 30 with marked success.
I did not see her for some time. During the interval she yielded to the advice of “friends” and was operated. What remained of the original tumor was removed. The pathological examinations proved it malignant.
The indicated remedy caused marked improvement for seven years which only ceased when she discontinued treatment. Her general health was always benefited by the medication. If the treatment had not been interrupted, might not a complete cure have resulted without an operation? There has been no return of the trouble, now twenty-two years later.
CASE II. Female, age 65. Indurated tumor size of a small egg, involving nipple. I decided to remove this growth to learn its true character. I made a rapid enucleation. The axillary nodes were not involved. The tumor proved to be a scirrhus. Almost as rapidly as the heads of the seven-headed Lernaean hydra reappeared after being severed by Hercules, another growth manifested itself in close proximity to the situation of the first. I prescribed Conium 3 in repeated doses on the indication of stony hardness. The tumor disappeared rapidly. If this was simply senile degeneration, degeneration, why did not the original tumor degenerate? There never was a return. She died many years later of senile cardiac insufficiency.
CASE III. Female, age 72. Inoperable mammary carcinoma of five years duration. She had been under the care of a fine homoeopathic prescriber. The growth was indurated and showed signs of breaking down. It was the size of an orange. She suffered from sharp, lancinating pains. Conium, 3 stopped the pain completely. Later, the growth broke down, profuse haemorrhages appeared. Millefolium tincture, gtt. x in half glass of water, teaspoonful every five minutes. The blood would drop after the first does, and cease after the second. Sloughing then developed. The characteristic odor was intolerable. External deodorants (used by the family) proved valuable. Kreosote 6, later 3x, prescribed on the indications, ulceration with thin discharge and bluish color of the parts, completely removed the odor and checked the ulceration.
The patients general health would improve after each prescription. The last few weeks of her life were spent in a well-known cancer hospital. They were surprised at the result of the treatment, especially the power of Millefolium to control the haemorrhages. I treated her until the last. She died in her eighty-third year, over fifteen years after the growth was first discovered.
CASE IV. Female. Carcinoma of liver. Symptoms: Great weakness, emaciation, hunger, thirst, constipation, etc. I prescribed Natrum mur. 30x several times daily. She gained weight and improved so much that the family thought she would recover. This continued several months. I told them that no cure was possible, but that I could relieve her suffering. Finally, no remedy would improve her condition and she passed on to the inevitable end.
CASE V. Female, age 70. Severe lancinating pain in the left hypochondrium with profuse bright red haemorrhage. Nodular mass present. Kali carb. 30 controlled pain and bleeding.
CASE VI. Cancer of face., Morphine, given before I treated the patient, no longer relieved the intense burning pain. The pain was relieved by heat. Arsenicum alb. 30 brought complete relief which lasted until the end.
CASE VII. Female, age 72. Cancer of the liver. Nodular growth in the abdomen. LArge doses of codeine given by previous physician produced unpleasant results. Chelidonium tincture, gtt. vii in half glass of water, teaspoonful in repeated doses, completely relieved the pain.
I improved the general condition of another liver case with Hydrastis 3x. The characteristic mucous discharge from the nose and throat was present.
CASE VIII. Female, age 65. VEry malignant carcinoma just above the left breast. Constitutional involvement, no hope of recovery. Had x-ray treatment. Various remedies were given at different times according to indications. The lancinating pains were controlled by Conium 3. Aconite 3 often relieved the intense fear and restlessness. Later, when she became weak, Arsenicum 3 accomplished the same. Sometime Ignatia 3x was given for the hysteria. Mental symptoms developed. I prescribed Stramonium 3 with perfect success. The chief symptoms were great loquacity and desire for light, she wished the light left on all night. She gradually grew weaker but did not suffer. The homoeopathic remedy prevented this. Finally she passed peacefully to her final rest.
Some years ago it was believed by many that cancer developed more readily in those suffering from acidosis. This conception has been reversed, those suffering from alkalosis are more prone to the disease. A slight acidosis is beneficial. I read an interesting article in the January, 1934, number of the Medical World on the acid treatment of cancer.
In conclusion, I wish to assert that although we cannot claim a universal cure for cancer, much can be done therapeutically for those suffering from this disease. Dr. Buckley, for many years connected with the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, believed in treating the patient rather than operating. Although not a member of our school, he possessed considerable knowledge of the homoeopathic principles. He had a vast experience with cancer. NEW YORK, N.Y.
DISCUSSION.
- GRIMMER: I want to commend the Doctors position. I am in agreement with him, especially in the proposition that homoeopathic treatment and remedies are the things that will help to solve the cancer question.
The Doctor paints an entirely different picture from our friends of the old school. He does bring hope; at least if the case is so far advanced that we may not cure them, we can relieve their sufferings and give them a peaceful ending, without the massive doses of morphine or drugging, or the other methods the old school has to employ.
We should not criticize them for giving the things they do, when they havent the weapons we have to deal with. The only criticism I have to offer against the old school is the position they take in the face of their dismal failures. They still brand anybody else who is practicing differently, who doesnt subscribe to their methods, as a quack and a charlatan, until one wonders just who the charlatans are.
The question of potency does not need to disturb us so much. There is no doubt cures have been made with remedies from the tincture to the highest potencies. It is the question of the remedy, and every doctor must be the best judge of what he prefers to use from his experience in this work.
I think that some of our homoeopathics, notably Dr. Stearns and other, are on the road to increasing our valuable remedies for these conditions. I think we will get more searching remedies, remedies that will probably take case of cases farther advanced than we now can hope to do with our present group, because with this work we are dealing more directly with the vital processes which are, after all, more important than any chemical change that can take place, or any change of tissue. That is where it begins; that is where the beginnings of this work are, in the vital forces, and even the old school has become convinced of the inherited tendencies of families. There can be no question that cancer is an inherited condition that is handed, down from generation to generation and some families are much more susceptible to the influence.
Now, the homoeopathic remedy is the only one that can reach down into the germ of the chromosomes and change inherited tendencies.
There is one more thought I want to leave and that is the power that homoeopathic remedies have if we could get our patients early enough. The real cure, the real future of homoeopathy is putting that patient in such a state of health that cancer cannot attack him, and I believe that is possible. I know it is possible from my observation, personally, and from talking with a great number of good prescribers who keep records. I know there isnt one case in a thousand who has the advantage of good homoeopathic prescribing, that will develop cancer, even in cancer families.
- V.E. BALDWIN: Dr. Grimmer has given you an incentive to give homoeopathic remedies. Perhaps I can recall to him several years ago I had a case with osteosarcoma behind the ear, developing secondary to an operative mastoid. I used at his recommendation Calcarea Natrum fluor. The girl had been an invalid and had spasms of a serious type and following the operation had a growth around the mastoid; that patient got sound and well and since then has been married and become the mother of children, and is in rugged health; although she has a hole back there where the operator left it, the other part is well.
In the last ten years I have had, I expect, as large an opportunity as anyone in my territory to prescribe for these patients because they have stayed by me. I will not take up your time but will tell you remedies and I have pictures and records with me at my hotel, of some hundred or more patients I have treated for cancer, who are at least on the way to Wellville; some are dismissed and consider themselves well.
The remedies I have used: Calcarea iodide, and I want to say this: In any type of malignancy that has hardness or involvement of glands, that case nearly always needs some form of the iodide, Cadmium iodide, Calcarea iodide, Aurum iodide, Conium, and Phytolacca, for these types with glandular involvement, and especially a great deal of hardness in it. Then there is Cadmium sulph., Calcarea fluor., and Calcarea sulph. and Hepar sulph., and Phytolacca, especially for those who have softer tissue, especially in the abdomen or along the alimentary canal.
Cadmium sulph. has been remarkable in the recovery development in most any types of malignancy that involves the alimentary canal. It hardly ever fails to give you some help and relief along that line, especially if the liver is involved.
You will be surprised how much Chionanthus will help you, in higher potency, by the way, or Chelidonium, beginning in the lower potency and going upward. It has been tremendously helpful and I believe I have positively cured cases with the use of these remedies.
I want especially to mention this matter: So many patients come to you sent by other men, or from other institutions who claim to have cancer, who really dont have cancer. They have some form of tertiary syphilis or some outbreak of a syphilitic miasm, and in several instances I have had patients referred to me who were positively cured by Syphilinum.
Then there are Arsenicum iodide, and Phytolacca, and Asterias rubens, in those cases where you suspect malignancy, which may not be that, but tuberculosis.
I have a picture of a patient with me, here. This patient came to me with a whole breast involvement, not deep, superficial, clear out under the arm and across the breast bone. You could cover two or three layers with your hand. She had been to Indianapolis and was tested out at a laboratory and they said she had cancer. She got well on Asterias rubens. It took two years, but I stuck to it to the end, and she was cured finally but the action of the remedy.
I have a patient coming to me who had radium used over the abdomen and developed a radium burn which the doctor who had been using the radium said he thought had turned into cancer. This is over two years ago. This patient got Phosphorus CM. in the beginning, with some improvement.
I learned something in working on that patient. She wanted something to relieve the burning. She had become intolerant to the touch of her clothes over it, and Phosphorus didnt relieve it a t all, so tried several kinds of ointment. Every time I tried an ointment with a mineral in it, I dont care what it was, it irritated the surface and made the trouble worse. I finally saturated cloths with pure tincture of Calendula, and you would be surprised what happened. She got along fine and a little later I gave her a series of radium from the 30 up to the CM., and that woman is perfectly comfortable, the redness is gone and she seems to be recovered.
- GRIMMER: Cadmium iodide will take that out.
- BALDWIN: Maybe I am giving the credit to the radium. I gave her Cadmium iodide following the Phosphorus, and since then radium-nearly a year.
- GRIMMER: The three remedies I find the best antidotes to compare with for radium burns are Phosphorus, Fluoric acid, and Cadmium iodide.
- BALDWIN: she had practically recovered from her inconvenience and trouble.
Dont forget Hydrastis in those stomach cases, especially where there is lots of burning and disposition to vomit, and intolerance to food, especially more suffering when hungry, how much Hydrastis will relieve them.
I am especially interested in cancer and anything that can be given me here while I am here, that will be a help to my patients I will appreciate and anything I can give to you while I am here I will be mighty glad to be of service.
- BOGER: I want to mention that I haven;t heard this touched on here- it is one thing to remove a cancerous growth, and it is something better possibly to remove the toxemia which remains afterward.
As has been hinted, a good many cases of so-called cancer are syphilis, especially with cancer blood. I had a case a few years ago in the left ear like the one you mentioned. It did not do well. I am satisfied today it was a case of syphilis, because she had a child and the child was an imbecile. I prescribed a few times for the child and didnt make progress to suit me; and I came to the conclusion that it needed a dose of Syphilinum. The child had been getting better ever since and making wonderful progress on the Syphilinum. I am satisfied I should have had the blood examined for syphilis instead of trying to cure for cancer.
- BALDWIN: I want to show you a picture to illustrate that point. You see how that mans nose is eaten out- a case sent from the laboratory for cancer is often nothing but syphilis, and Syphilinum and Calcarea iodide, and Aurum iodide saved that man for nearly ten years.
- ALFRED PULFORD: I have a little, article here that I am sure will interest everybody interest in cancer. I will be brief.
“Readers of the Truth Teller will doubtless be glad to have the opinion of the Medical Times (London), April, 1935, on the subject of cancer research, which is as follows:.
“We submit that cancer research is being conducted on wrong lines. Our opinion is confirmed rather than shaken by a perusal of the Eleventh Scientific Report of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund which had been recently issues. We agree with Dr. Lockhart Mummery, the well known surgeon, when he says that a very real danger to the best interests of cancer research is a tendency for animal experimentalists to get out of touch with the surgeon and pathologist who are dealing with the disease in human beings”.
We have had remedies offered for cancer. I think I have got one, and that is the entire Homoeopathic materia medica. I have and considerable experience with cancer. I have a case now and I reported her nine years ago a case of osteosarcoma diagnosed by the allopath, operated on, and the mans face all indented, the x-ray used, and radium used, and all failing, and he was cured by the 10M. of Phosphorus. He is now in perfect health and the parts are as normal as they ever were.
If we had more people investigating homoeopathy and the homoeopathic materia medica, than hanging crepe on it, we should get somewhere.
- COLEMAN: There is one erroneous statement that has come before the public of late, in the last few years, that cancer is on the come before the public of late, in the last few years, that cancer is on the increase. That, like the acid theory, has been exploded. That is not true. Cancer is not on the increase. It is simply the statistics, and in the days gone by, before diagnosis of internal cancer could be made by the the x-ray examination, the superficial cancers that could be diagnosed physically were the only cancers that were counted.
Now these superficial cancers are not on the increase, no more today than they were twenty-five, or thirty, or forty, or fifty years ago, but the seeming increase of cancer is due to the fact that the gastrointestinal cases of cancer that were not capable of being diagnosed fifty years ago, are diagnosed today by the aid of the x-ray, and they have been added to the present case that can be diagnosed by a physical examination, and they have made a seemingly larger incidence of cancer, whereas, there are actually no more cancer cases today than there were fifty years ago; in other words, cancer is not on the increase and it doesnt have to be on the increase to be a very malignant condition to treat and very dangerous to the life of the community.
Even before the appearance of the Organon for the first time in 1810 the foundation of potentiation was laid in this sentence, a fact which nobody can gainsay and which should be minded by the majority of our profession which continues to adopt the practice of low potencies and low triturations exclusively and have only a sneer at the high potencies which are now used more extensively than we know. “They were the product of an evolution of posology which is the greatest and indisputable discovery of Hahnemann, one of the most important inventions which ever human genius has brought to light-potentiation.” B.FINCKE, M.D., 1896.
A DIFFICULT CASE [Difficult Case]
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER By Royal Hayes.
Volume
1950 Jun Vol LXV No 12
Author
Frank J Corbett.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Bell / Ars / Stram / Verat.
Read before Bureau of Pediatrics, I.H.A., June 24, 1949.
FRANK J. CORBETT, M.D.
Mr. Chairman, officers and members of I.H.A., friends, guests, I want to thank you for the privilege of presenting this case. It was very difficult and trying to me. We general practitioners do see and have to handle very difficult problems.
The patient in question is Nancy O., an 8 year old, white, fair complexioned, slender, vivacious little girl, whose mental alertness and rapid questions and answers keep everyone around her on the alert. She is normally always on the move and full of fun and laughter.
One evening while attending a social gathering, she was suddenly seized with a spell of weakness and tiredness and wanted to go home immediately.
Her mother, thinking that she had perhaps eaten something that
disagreed, thought she would be all right in the morning. The little patient had no pain, but pale tired and weak and wanted to go to bed.
Nancy had had “spells” of weakness since she was five years old but the taking of food or rest caused them to quickly disappear with no apparent after effects. So in the morning, when she was no better, I was summoned and found a restless, anxious little girl with a slight temperature and still feeling very tired with slight flush or cheeks. Aconite 1M was prescribed hourly for three doses and to be followed by sac. lac. Word was left to call, if worse, and that she would be checked in the morning.
The next morning the patient was no better and had a slight headache, dull and bilateral in character, with no apparent extension. The patient was rechecked because headaches as a complaint in children are always important. Additional questioning brought out that she had been wading in a cold water stream a few days before and that her previous attacks of weakness had always been shortly after exposure to cold or dampness and never on warm of hot days. Belladonna 1M, q.3h., was resorted to with sac. lac. to follow. Improvement lasted a few days when restlessness again became a prominent symptom, but now there was marked palpitation of the heart with both forceful and fast beats, worse on exertion and excitement. A soft, blowing systolic murmur was heard at the apex and transmitted to the left. There were no joint pains now or throughout the whole course of this case. Endocarditis was suspected. The P M I was almost to the anterior axillary line and dropped to the 6th interspace, indicating marked cardiac enlargement and involvement of the muscle itself could not be disputed. Family history both sides was rheumatic.
Nancy was young, and chances were this could either be fatal or she could recover only to get another attack. What was I to tell her mother who was now two months pregnant? Thinking fast and trying to show no alarm, I told her mother, she was quite sick, but that I believed continued bed-rest, no company and only liquid diet, together with her prayers and some medicine would help our little patient.
Now I was in a fix. Had I trusted Homoeopathy too far? Was my understanding of its principles too limited? Would it fail me now? Realizing emotion has not too much place in prescribing, efforts were made to “think without confusion clearly”. This is not always easily done.
The old school would push sodium salicylate to the limit, flushing the bowels with laxatives, and quieting the nerves with sedatives. But Dixon and other have said that was not necessary and, in fact, harmful. Now what course to pursue?.
Well, I decided to try more Homoeopathy and repertorizing brought out Arsenicum album and it was given in 1M, 3 doses q 4 hrs., followed with sac. lac. Observation next A.M. showed some improvement and more comfortable night. At least our hopes went up and lasted a few days, when restlessness returned, palpitation and weakness began to appear and my patient’s mother asked me, “Doctor, do you think Nancy will get well? I know she is very sick. Dose she have rheumatic heart disease?” You see, she had suspected and read. You can’t put questions like this aside. So we faced the facts as gently as we could, trying to leave Mrs. O with a few rays of hope.
Now with the appearance of new symptoms of anxiety and fear of night and darkness, Stramonium 200., 4 doses, followed by sac.lac. relieved for three days.
With development of a more severe, loud machinery-like double murmur and violent heart action, it was evident that the endocardium had definitely become involved. Realizing the extreme seriousness of the condition, I suggested consultation and the pediatrician substantiated the diagnosis of rheumatic endocarditis with extremely grave prognosis, in fact, he did not expect the patient to recover. He suggested sodium salicylate, phenobarbital, and magnesium sulphate. This was done but still the temperature ran a course between 99.8 and 101.4 with a daily rise from noon to 8 P.M., its peak. The patient’s pinched, drawn facial expression indicated that she was more critical than her temperature indicated. Drenching sweats occurred about this time. After a few days of the suggested medication, with improvement, the patient was desensitized to the above mentioned medication with the idea of removing any drug aggravation from the picture.
Shortly following this, vitamin E became very much publicized and an account appeared in papers of “Rheumatic Heart Child Going to Canada for Vitamin E Treatment. So vitamin E was given in large dose for two weeks with no evidence of improvement. A sudden change for the worse, and Brucellosis, Streptococcus, and T.B. intradermal tests (Mackenzie technique) showed Brucellosis very positive and strong, with Streptococcus and T.B. indicating some action. After skin tests there was some improvement which lasted for a few days and then the patient began to grow worse until the following weeks sudden attacks of unconsciousness, extreme weakness and cyanosis developed.
“It looks like the end,” the crying mother phoned the office nurse. No being immediately available this emergency call was referred to the pediatrician who promptly told the mother after seeing the patient that she would not get well.
Arriving shortly afterwards, I found the patient with cold sweat on forehead,in shock, and apparently soon to die. Veratrum album 200. was placed under the tongue and in a few minutes Nancy opened her eyes, knew her mother, the shock condition slowly improved, but this was only temporary.
Aureomycin was just announced and investigation showed that it was particularly valuable in combating. Brucellosis to which Nancy had showed marked sensitivity. The crude drug was ordered but before given to the patient, a small amount of it was removed from one of the capsules and was potentized, first to 500 and later to 1M. Two capsules of thy crude Aureomycin was given q4 hrs. for 6 doses, then 2 capsules q 6 hrs. for 2 doses, when nausea and vomiting developed and aureomycin was temporarily discontinued. The patient was closely observed, had a crisis that night and by morning better. The potentized aureomycin was held in readiness as a desensitizing agent, should it be needed.
The patient’s condition continued to be improved. In one week the remaining 16 capsules of the “gold dust” were given, one capsule q6 hrs. for 4 days. Slight nausea developed after the last capsule and it was decided to stop Aureomycin.
After one week, the palpitation of the heart and the harsh machinery like murmur, together with the cardiac enlargement showed marked improvement. The patient was now carried along for another week on sac. lac.
Realizing that perhaps I had suppressed these acute symptoms, I gave the patient Aureomycin 1M one dose intracutaneously. This indicated sensitivity and I feel it has done much to neutralize any suppression from the new drug.
Steady improvement continued for four weeks and the patient became greatly improved and all symptoms disappeared. Fluoroscopic and X-ray examination of the heart revealed no heart enlargement: a complete blood count showed only mild evidence of secondary anemia and a slight relative leucocytosis. Sedimentation was normal and the EKG showed no evidence of prolonged P-E interval, slurred QRS complex, nor any inverting of the T wave. The patient now leads a normal, healthy life for a child of her age.
In conclusion, I want to say that I regret that my limited knowledge of Homoeopathy did not permit me to carry this case through in strictly homoeopathic manner and I hope that any suppression of these acute symptoms has been neutralized by desensitization. However, I am still endeavoring to find Nancy’s constitutional remedy and I believe it will greatly aid her in the future.
What would you have done under the same circumstances had you been, like me, an allopath, trying to work out the principles of Homoeopathy as best you knew, all things being considered?.
MEASLES
Book
THE HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER By Royal Hayes.
Volume
1949 Apr Vol LXIV No 10
Author
Anne Elizabeth Cannon & Lucy Swanton Clarke.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Bell / Bry / Penic / Ip / Ter / Phos / Merc-i / Apis / Puls / Acon / Cupr / Zinc / Ant-t / Sulph / Med / Aven.
Read before the Bureau of Pediatrics, I.H.A., June 18, 1948.
ANNE ELIZABETH CANNON,. M.D.
LUCY SWANTON CLARK, M.D.
FROM DR. CANNON:.
Treatment of measles in ten years practice has taught me several things. The first two cases got immune serum with such terrific reactions it has not voluntarily been used since. The children were more sick with the measles, had higher temperatures, and took longer to get over it, than those since treated with homoeopathic remedies.
Here are several cases haphazardly taken from the files:.
CASE 1: Boy, 5 years; Belladonna 3x, every two hours; uneventful recovery; no complications.
CASE 2: Girl, 32 years; Bryonia 3x every two hours; uneventful.
CASE 3: Brother, 18 months, caught it; mother gave Bryonia ex; child developed bronchial pneumonia on third day when doctor was called. Given Penicillin, Bryonia, Belladonna, and Phosphorus; later Ipecac, all in the 3x. One week later had bloody urine. Was given Terebinth 6x, one every two hours; also baking soda water, 4 teaspoonful to a glass; on the third day seen by urologist and no changes noticed. Better on fourth day. Uneventful recovery and, after three years, no complications.
CASE 4: Girl, 3 years Bryonia 3x given; uneventful for ten days. Then another rash appeared similar to first. Bryonia 3x repeated also a combination remedy of Aconite, Bryonia, Belladonna, Mercurius iodide. Rash cleared. Two days later hives developed; Apis 3x and Pulsatilla 3x given. Five days latter the child was carried into the office in convulsions; Belladonna; Aconite and Bryonia 3x given in combination. Rales were found throughout the left chest. By late evening the chest was perfectly well with no after effects or recurrences in four years time.
CASE 5: Girl, 5 years: Bryonia 3x; uneventful; no complications.
CASE 6: Girl, 4 years; very sick, temperature 104, pulse 120; Belladonna 2x, one every three hours, and Bryonia 3x every two hours; uneventful recovery.
CASE 7: Girl, 3 months exposed in hospital to measles; got two “shots” of immune globulin; no reaction; in measles. Perhaps maternal antibodies were still resent. This child was a breech with one leg (femur) two inches shorter than the other. X-rat showed the the entire body to be moth eaten with calcium deposits. Diagnosis: Chondrodystrophia, with a a prognosis of about one year to live. It is now 12 years old, walking and talking, about one or two months behind the first childs record which was about normal.
SUMMARY: Serum globulin used twice; both children got much worse on it. Aminopyrine used twice; both children seemed much worse afterward. Low potency homoeopathic remedies used many times and the children seemed to improve at once and continue to an uneventful recovery, even if sometimes complications developed.
Homoeopathic treatment of measles is satisfying and safe causing no serious complications.
Also I have notice that blondes get sick more easily, with higher temperatures, and also get well quicker; that brunettes, if they appear equally ill with similar temperatures, are really sick, and it takes them longer to recover. This is an illustration of the fine differential points that homoeopathy draws in the reaction of different individuals to the same diagnosis.
Also I have found that when the brothers or sisters of the measles patients develop the measles, the mothers will immediately start Bryonia with the coughing, and just phone the doctor that the measles is about to break out. Very often it will not even be necessary to see the child, and recovery will proceed normally.
FROM DR.CLARK:
Two cases of measles with the family are reported. Dr. Maybelle Gilbert saw the first case just as the cough was starting, smelt his breath, and said, “That child is coming down with measles. You can smell it. Give him a hot bath and Bryonia an the rash will come out.” On the second day of the rash the face was puffy and red. Apis 2c. cleared it right up almost miraculously. Recovery proceeded rapidly with no fever after the second day. Second case was practically the same except that labored respiration developed with the puffy face; both were quickly relieved by Apis.
I have learned that measles has a “smell” distinctive to it, and that there is a peculiar dry, having cough preceding the rash and accompanying it, and that homoeopathic remedies can effect a seemingly rapid cure.
CLEVELAND, OHIO.
DISCUSSION.
- ELIZABETH WRIGHT HUBBARD: I am very much intrigued with the notion that blondes get sick fast and get over it fast, that brunettes are apparently much more sick but get over it slower. I would be interested to hear whether anybody else has made that observation. Our typical blond Belladonna children get things suddenly and are over it, but I wouldnt have thought of brunettes as being more lingering in their illnesses, though often we have heard the old which says that “The blue eye is the merry eye; the brown eye is the loving eye.”.
I think often brown-eyed people take things harder and take longer or get over them than the blue or “glad-eyed people” in life, but I never thought of it in Homoeopathy.
- DAYTON T. PULFORD: I think as a general rule brunettes have a little thicker skin than blonds and probably more of a tendency to pigment, and it might be an exanthem would not come out as quickly a sin a blond individual.
- F.K.BELLOKOSSY: I think the brunettes are more encumbered, more loaded with toxins than the blonds.
Another point in the paper-I am surprised at the fact the higher potencies are not used. Boenninghausen, a hundred years ago, wrote of how much better higher potency, 1M is than 30. or 6x,m and still we find so many using these low potencies. When a thing has been known for a hundred years, we should take advantage of it.
I have mostly associated measles with Aconitum and Pulsatilla, not with Belladonna and Bryonia. Aconitum and Pulsatilla are more often recommended so I would like to know why these doctors use Belladonna and Bryonia. Pulsatilla and Aconitum are more related to the skin than Belladonna and Bryonia pulsatilla especially is more of skin remedy than Belladonna and Bryonia.
Apis is something interesting. Apis has been use, which I approve of very much, because Apis is such a very strong skin remedy and very often brings out the exanthem quicker than any other remedy.
- ALLAN D. SUTHERLAND: I dont know Dr. Cannon except thought the fact that she was elected to membership in the organization this morning. I do know a little bit about her, however, and I know that she has been struggling with Homoeopathy for some years, without very much help. I think perhaps her use of low potencies might be cause of her feeling of insecurity so far as the remedy is concerned. Perhaps she is not yet quite certain of herself as a homoeopath, a state through which a great many of us have gone, and through which I personally am still going, so I dont thin she should be criticized.
The essential thing is that the remedy be chosen according to the law of similars. The potency then is not so important. As far as the use of Bryonia or Belladonna for skin manifestations, we are prescribing for people; we are not prescribing for skin, whether it is measles or what-not.
I dont think it is a condition that expresses itself on the surface of the body that should necessarily be considered in choosing a remedy; if the patients indications call for Belladonna, that is the remedy to use. I have used it in patients with eruption, the eruption we call measles, with success. I have used Phosphorus, and Bryonia, and Pulsatilla; in fact, I think all of our proven remedies are at our command to use, if the symptoms indicate them.
- ELIZABETH WRIGHT HUBBARD; Bryonia is one of the five remedies most often spoken of in the literature as bringing our a rash. We think of Cuprum and Zincum, and so forth, where the rash has not come out at all, because of feebleness, or being suppressed as by a sudden chilling, or hot bath; but Antimonium tartaricum, and Bryonia, as well as our old and friend, Sulphur, bring out a laggard eruption.
Secondly, I was interested in Dr. Bellokossys remark about the toxemia of the dark people. It gives one to think. The typical darkest-skinned and darkest haired person is often the every feeble adrenal type, who is, I think, markedly toxic, and that is an interesting thought to watch.
- HARVEY FARRINGTON: Dry cough, pathognomonic of measles. Rather unusual, at least in the beginning to moist cough, therefore dry cough should be characteristic of all those remedies usually given for measles in the first stage. In the experience of many, including myself, Aconitum is usually the first remedy, but, of course, there would have to be Aconitum symptoms there. Rarely is if Pulsatilla, yet many routinists give Pulsatilla from the beginning because they think it is good for measles, and they often spoil their cases and retard the cure.
I have been Bryonia cure a case of measles without any other remedy having to be given, and there you find the dry throat, the Bryonia thirst, Bryonia cough, often headache and a rough rash, but I have seen them get well just a well under it, as quickly as under my remedy. It is routine to give Bryonia because it is supposed to bring out rash. Later on, when the rash does not come out, to if it is suppressed, then Bryonia comes in very frequently.
- LAURA B. HURD: I should like to ask Dr. Farrington if he has used Medorrhinum.
- FARRINGTON: Yes, but only as a prophylactic.
- MARION BELLE ROOD: In our neighborhood a lay remedy in to boil out straw and give as an infusion, and Avena sativa has been very helpful this spring in measles. It shortened the four days of symptoms from first fever to final eruption down to less than one day sometimes, and the people who used it were thoroughly satisfied that their children did not need any other prescribing at all but that.
- EDWARD WHITMONT: What potency?.
- ROOD: I gave ten drops of the tincture in a glass of water, a teaspoonful ever thirst minutes until the rash appeared, which would be in about two or three hours, and then stopped the remedy.
BEST TO TEACH THE STUDENT HOW TO APPROACH AND STUDY THE MATERIA MEDICA [How To Approach & Study The Materia Medica]
Book
The Homoeopathic Recorder By Allan D Sutherland.
Volume
1930 Jan Vol XLV No 1
Author
Pulford A.
Subject
General Topics / Materia Medica / Cases
Remedy
Acon.
Read at the I.H.A., Bureau of Materia Medica, June 1929.
- PULFORD, M.D.
It is the impossible for nay mind to remember every symptom of every drug or even every symptom of any single drug in our materia medica, but it is absolutely necessary that the successful physician should have an acquaintance with as many drugs as is humanly possible, and, above all, a knowledge of how to approach and study each and every proven remedy. No teacher can teach one materia medica, the very best that they can do for us is to teach us how best to approach and study it, and it is to this end that we shall attempt to take up this task.
First of all it is necessary, if possible, to find the essential symptom or symptoms which must be present in EVERY case requiring the remedy under consideration. This, or these, when found, will be easily remembered. If this cannot be done our next step will be to find that group of symptoms which is characteristic of the drug under consideration, which symptoms form the skeleton of the drug upon which the rest of the symptoms are built. Then we must find as many symptoms as possible of undoubted reliability which appear under no other known remedy than the one under consideration, and lastly, all those symptoms for which the remedy under consideration is the undisputed leader. In this way one studies from the center or heart of the remedy to its circumstance or from its most important to its least important symptoms. For the rest of the less important symptoms the repertory will be of the greatest importance.
In prescribing intelligently and accurately the first and most important consideration is a knowledge of how to approach and study the patient to accurately elicit such symptoms as are absolutely necessary for the proper selection of THE indicated remedy. This is erroneously styled “how to take the case”.
We are going to take up our task today by introducing Aconitum napellus, the common Aconite, monks-hood or wolf;s- bane. Aconite, which is a deadly poison to the human, has been eaten by elephants with impunity, showing that animal experiments with drugs for the purpose of prescribing for the human is useless and of no avail whatever.
The leading symptom which is a constant companion and requisite to an Aconite case is AGONIZED TOSSING ABOUT. According to the late DR.T.F.Allen this is essential to a case requiring Aconite and therefore should always be present when Aconite is indicated and prescribed. It is the characteristics, the red strand that runs all through the cases requiring, Aconite. These characteristics or red strands should ever be prescribed upon alone, unless they occur under no other known remedy or in a case with a paucity of symptoms, but they will serve in an emergency to point to the rubric in the repertory to confirm you finding. If it is not the ONLY remedy mentioned the rubric will give you the most logical list of selected remedies with which to compare.
Our next step is to get a list of those prominent symptoms which are the most constant from which to form a skeleton, just as one would take the common constant symptoms in a disease to form a diagnosis.
Under Aconite the skeleton symptoms would be: Agonized tossing about intense anxiety and restlessness, feat, especially of a crowd or of death, expression of fear and anxiety, dry mouth bitter taste, great thirst for cold water, full, bounding, hard, rapid pulse, and a dry hot skin, even during the chill the head and face are hot. Thus we get a skeleton of Aconite easy to remember.
In relation to other remedies having anguish, anxiety and restlessness, Aconite is one of degree of intensity just as Mercurius cor. is one of degree of intensity in tenesmus. The expression of fear is only equaled by that of Stramonium. The fear of a crowd is equaled by no other remedy. So we note from this, then, that if Aconite removes only the restlessness, the other symptoms remaining, it is time to stop the Aconite at once and look for some other remedy for that particular case. Also, when Aconite has caused the dry hot skin to perspire, it should be stopped at once. A peculiar thing about Aconite is, that while its taste is bitter to all things, water becomes an exception. Aconite and Stannum metallicum are the only two known remedies having bitter taste to everything except water.
Now that we have gotten the red strand and skeleton of the remedy let us take a glance at those symptoms that are covered by Aconite alone, found under no other known remedy, so that in cases with a paucity of symptoms we may get a strong clue to the remedy needed.
We have fear of death in pregnancy; pain in the forehead above the eyes from cold, dry wind; inflammation of the eyes from the same source; sensitiveness of eyelids to cold air; tearing pain in teeth aggravated after going to bed; inflammation of the stomach after cold things; pain in the abdomen extending to the chest during stool; burning pain in region of umbilicus; involuntary urination with thirst and fear; cutting pain in the chest after the chill; sense of boiling water poured into the chest; tingling of the foot extending upward; fever with one check red and hot, the other pale and cold.
The above group of symptoms, as far as known, belong to Aconite alone and are of the highest grade and therefore characteristic of the drug. We do not remember of their eve having been stressed or especially mentioned by any one, but whenever and whenever they occur they are final so far as the remedy goes, as well as important, but they are only final or prescribing purposes when there is a paucity of symptoms. In such cases a knowledge of them is very important, also they are important deciding factors when they occur in cases where two remedies run close together.
Our next group in enlarging the sphere of Aconite will be the symptoms for which Aconite is THE leading remedy. they are: Delusion that one is about to die; nervous excitement; fear of death, predicts the day; vertigo, sways to the right; boiling sensation in the head; stitching pain in eyes from motion; redness of eyes from injuries; sensitiveness of the eyes to cold air; face fees enlarged; pain in sound teeth; in teeth in raw, or cold dry wind; blood oozing in the throat; stools looking like chopped spinach; tension in the bladder; ineffectual urging to urinate in children; inflammation of the ovaries from suddenly checked menstrual flow; sharp pain in the uterus; palpitation after fright; sensation of hot water in chest; coldness of the toes; numbness of the left forearm, of the legs on sitting; fever alternating with chill at night. A knowledge of this group is quite important, especially in the absence of an available repertory, and very important, when a repertory is available, as a guide to the proper rubric where other remedies may be found for comparison.
It is, also, a deciding factor when in doubt about two apparently similar remedies, as a group of symptoms in which one of the remedies has the most leaders would undoubtedly fix the choice on that remedy.
The outline of this remedy is by no means final but it is a means of enabling one to find the proper lead into the heart of the remedy, and it gives the student a proper clue to the gateway of the path that will lead him intelligently to the goal he seeks.
In the absence of the above knowledge the repertory will be an important factor in the forget for one moment that the repertory is intensely mechanical and that you get out of it exactly what you put into it. It cannot sort out and classify your symptoms for you. Many collect a mass of symptoms, put them through the repertory for their failure. It is just as necessary to have accurate symptoms to put through the repertory as it is to be able to prescribe without it.
After the student has learned how to approach and study the materia medica, his next and most important step is how to approach and study the patient in order to be enabled to elicit those symptoms peculiar to the patient and his ailment. This is erroneously refered to as “taking the case”. You have already taken the case when you have accepted the patient, therefore “taking the case” does not mean anything and is a misnomer.
The greatest factors, then, in the science and art of to prescribing are, first and greatest, how to approach the patient to study him and elicit only that which bears on his individual case, in the absence of which knowledge the rest is useless; second, a knowledge of how to approach and study the materia medica, which is equally as important as the preceding; and lastly, how to use the repertory. It is our opinion that this latter has been a little overly stressed, especially to the student early in his career. The majority of the rubrics are too lean to give any degree of accuracy, therefore more stress should be laid on the materia medica in order to get a better foundation of the drugs.
A word as to the term similimum. The term similimum to us, does not really mean anything. It is simply the Latin for MOST SIMILAR. Any remedy may mean to many minds the most similar whether it be THE indicated remedy or hot, or, in the language of Pope, “Tis with our judgment as with our watches, none go just alike yet each believes his own”. So it is with those who prescribe, each is positives he has found the similimum (the most similar remedy) yet Nature fails too often to verify their judgment. We would like to suggest to this body that they cast aside blind precedent and coin the word SIMILIMUM as a changed form of the English word SIMILAR and defined as THE INDICATED remedy, which admits of no comparison, and which includes the correct potency.
We have yet to learn the relationship of the various potencies to the various forms and grades of disease, as well as to the various temperaments and sensitivities. We must consider whether the ailment is purely acute, or an acute outburst of a deep chronic ailment, or subacute or purely chronic in character, and how to apply our remedies to each. All those phases must be accurately known before we can become, or even consider our selves, thoroughly masters in th science and in the art of prescribing.
Here is a practical application of the skeleton of the drug to a case requiring Aconite. Mrs. N., age 45, robust and plethoric, a former resident of Cleveland, was the victim of what her allopathic doctors diagnosed “gall stones”. She had frequent attack of colic. The best they could do was “hypodermics”. It took her from three days to a week to recover from this treatment. Just before 8 p.m., March 22nd., the telephone bell range and a male voice asked if we would make a call on a lady who was suffering severely from an attack of gall-stone colic. We put a half dozen remedies in our vest pocket and at promptly 8 oclock the gentleman called for us. As 8:05 we were at the bedside of our patient. As we entered the sick room we heard a pitiful plea for a “hypodermic”. Here is what we found and saw: A plethoric, robust woman of 45 years, writhing and tossing about the bed in the greatest agony; extreme fear and anxiety depicted on her face; calling continually for water; dry, hot skin; full, bounding, hard, rapid pulse; high fever, etc.
There could be no doubt of the remedy. We put a few drops of the 30x in one-quarter glass of water and gave two teaspoonfuls without asking any questions. In just five minutes by the watch she lay back on the pillow and heaved a sigh of relief. Before the end of 10 minutes she entered into out conversation and her agony and tears gave way to smiles. We stayed until 8:25 when we left with the injunction that no more medicine be given until absolutely demanded. At 8:30 we were back home. No more medicine given than that single dose. We have seen the lady several times since and there she been no return of the colic.
TOLEDO, OHIO.
DISCUSSION.
DR, MACFARLAN: About three years ago I made a re-proving of Aconite but it was only in the third potency. It is a very quick acting drug. I found two symptoms, referring to modalities which are very characteristic of Aconite in the third potency. I am only speaking about the third potency. One of these symptoms, and it has never been stressed in materia medica, is aggravation after sleep. I have found this much more indicative of Aconite than of the Ophidia. The other modality is aggravation on motion which is very characteristic. I think it is much more characteristic of Aconite in the low potency than perhaps of Bryonia. Another indication which I find in the third potency of Aconite is the fact that drinking increases the thirst. I have never seen this in any repertory; I got it from practical experience. Drinking water actually seems to increase the thirst. Aconite seems to have more effect on the rapidity of the pulse than it odes on the fever in the third potency. Also I discovered that when you fail to cover them they stop sweating. Covering seems to increase their sweat very, very markedly.
DR.C.L.OLDS: I think that Dr.Pulford did not mention one very characteristic thing to Aconite, as least I have found it such. When newborn babies do not urinate in twelve or eighteen hours, Aconite will invariably bring about natural flow of urine.
- G. ROYAL: I have enjoyed this excellent paper, but there is one thing that he left out, individualization, which is a corollary of our law. It is just as necessary for the student in studying materia medica as it is in prescribing. How you are going to teach the student to approach the subject depends altogether on the individual. Let us take for illustration, someone comes from an allopathic school. She has had her anatomy her definition, her pathology, her diagnosis, etc. This is the basis of her viewpoint. This other individual hasnt had nay information at all. He comes as a novice to study materia medica. What books will he study? You certainly cant give them both the same took.
Let me tell you what my experience is. I would put into the hands of one Dr.Houghes Thermodynamics, and into the hands of the other Deweys Essentials of Materia Medica. I would say to the one, “Read, study, think.
Read Hughes through”. I would say to the other, “Study Aconite. Dont you read the book”.
One of the most important things I learned in college was how to read. The professor said, “Read a sentence, then a paragraph, then down a column, then down a page”. He would say, “Royal, I will give you two minutes to read ten [ages, and then I will give you five minutes to tell me what you saw in it”.
Individualize your students and give them the information just as you would your patient. Give them the indicated remedy.
DR.C.M. BOGER: I am going to say some things that are not exactly orthodox. The first thing is, don;t study too much materia medica, and dont study too hard. The thing to do is to watch, not you approach to the patient, but the patients approach to you. That is the thin. See ho e approaches you.
What is a symptoms complex? A symptom complex is another term for what the women nowadays call ensemble. It is a co- ordination of certain things. The first thing you want to do is to get all your symptoms co-ordinated and put in order. This isnt a very rapid process. Then hunt them out. If your predilections in the line of study are much toward this remedy or that remedy or some other remedy, you have already prejudiced the case. You want to look at it from an unbiased standpoint and you cant select a similimum with your mind already prejudiced as to what the patient should have or shouldnt have.
- A.H.GRIMMER: This is a wonderful paper. It is a matter of viewpoint a good deal. Some of our doctors didnt quite hear what Dr.Pulford was trying to put over, which is the fact that whether you use the repertory, prescribe inspirationally, or from your knowledge or materia medica, there are a few points that are essential. The first is the ability to reject the symptoms that are common to all provings, the symptoms that are common to diseases, as therapeutic guides. Of course your remedy must have the symptoms that are related to this disease, but they are not going to be the guiding symptoms for your individual case. When he spoke of the great characteristics that he spoke of those mental states, those, rate unusual sensitive characteristics that labelled this case an Aconite case, or a Belladonna case. I like that point very much, it is the essential thing. We overload our students, as Dr.Boger says. Give them the essentials; start them out with the study of sickness; let them known the things that are common to every sickness so they may known the things that are uncommon. When they learn the common things the uncommon ones stand out much better and so they understand the materia medica and are able to apply it better.
CHAIRMAN STEVENS: I would like to ask in speaking of Aconite, how the symptoms that come under chamomilla, one check red and the other pale, compare with the one you spoke of under Aconite. Will you close the discussion, please?.
- A.PULFORD: Certain children will have red cheeks on one side from hyperaemic conditions which will pass away, but the Aconite red cheek will not pass away when the pressure is taken off, and the other cheek will be pale and cold. I have found this to be true time and again, and it has been a leading symptom in a great many Aconite cases.
Furthermore, I intended to bring out that every remedy has its own individuality. When I look at Dr.Royal, I dont have to see whether he has gray hair or black hair or whether he stands five feet; I know him by his characteristics, and each remedy has its similar characteristics. When our materia medica is fully completed out prescribing will become a very simple thing. You will see the remedy as you see the individual.
THE SYMPTOM TOTALITY [Symptom Totality]
Book
The Homoeopathic Recorder By Allan D Sutherland.
Volume
1931 Oct Vol XLVI No 10
Author
Pulford A.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Ars / Rhus-t / Merc / Bell / Acon / Hepar / Sulph / Calc / Lyc.
ALFRED PULFORD, M.D.
My editorial, under the above caption, brought from one, whom I consider competent to judge, the following: “How can we get the primary symptoms from the patient? Why not explain more definitely your distinction between the similimum, and the similar remedy, and define more lucidly the primary pathogenetic symptoms? Why not give a few cases as illustrations of the difference?”.
When Dr. D. T. Pulford and I issued our little Monograph on Aconite we thought we had made all that plain. But it seems that it went over,or stopped in, the heads of all, save four, of those who either received a copy of the Monograph, or who read the reprint in the Recorder. In spite of the fact that we offered to send a copy of that Monograph, that cost us ten cents, for the sum of five cents, merely enough to cover postage, that all might profit by it, but one doctor took enough interest in the matter to send for a copy. Of the few who took enough interest to write us, none seemed to sense the real reason for its issuance, its simplicity, or what it was all about.
Before I say more on the subject of symptom totality let us thoroughly understand each other. This article is not written in destructive criticism, nor to attempt to belittle anyone, but to bring out our weak points and show them up, both in ourselves, and in our work, that we may rectify our mistakes and profit thereby, and also to add to the sum total of medical knowledge, and thereby put homoeopathy on a firmer foundation, upon a scientific plane, instead of continuing it, as the allopaths are doing theirs, a bungling art. Every one of our earlier masters did the very best he could with the knowledge, means, and funds at his command. But instead of aiming at concerted, united effort, each seemed content to go his own way, with no unity of purpose. The main effort seemed to concentrate on not how accurate, but on how large a Materia medica he could produce, or compile. Perhaps, under existing circumstances, that was the best thing to do as it gave us more proven remedies than we might have had otherwise. But, symptoms were noted, collected, and piled in, irrespective of value or classification, whether primary, secondary, or merely parasitic. All were neatly jumbled up, chaotic and gnarled, with the unfortunate results that our extremely rich materia medica, instead of being an intelligent compilation with some degree of order and discrimination, became merely a dizzy maze with neither head nor tail, a dense forest to be approached and explored without guide or path, a snarl to be unravelled and disentangled each and every time we approach it to find a remedy. It is no wonder that those who have no curiosity, or are not enamoured of our cause, find no interest in it; that the student finds it a nightmare and approaches it with a shudder, and with misgivings; and that none of us is ever sure that we have the right remedy. To the uninitiated this is bewildering in the extreme. He has nothing definite to guide him, nor to look for. Thus he is obliged to forsake that which should be, and truly is, an exact science, for the blundering method of allopathy, or to report to symptom and keynote prescribing.
There is an accurate method of drug selection, and it is this method that every honest physician should and must strive for. For medicine, contrary to our common beliefs and admissions, is an exact science and not the bungling art that its espousers have always presented to the public. It is by no means a hit and miss expedient. “All the principles of homoeopathy are logically, systematically and indissolubly bound together. There is nothing contradictory in any portion of it, and the attempt to separate one part from another would cause the whole edifice to crumble to the ground.” “In seeking for progress in our science we should never forget that it is the imperative duty of each and every one of us to bear his portion of the burden.” This recalls Hahnemanns “Any person having to do with an art whose end is the saving of human life, and neglect to make himself thoroughly master of the same becomes a crime.”.
In writing this and calling your attention to more accurate methods, I refer you to the letter of V.R. Murty on page 537 of the July 1931 issue of the Recorder, who has given additional proof. The greatest of all reasons that homoeopathy is an exact science is that it imperatively demands that each and every prescription shall bear the characteristic mark or stamp of the drug, which mark or stamp appears in the pathogenesis of every drug, in every disease, and in every individual, and which distinguishes that drug from every other drug (as Kent truly said, “The personal stamp is upon every disease and upon every proving.”); and shall include the primary pathogenetic symptoms of the drug; and be accompanied by the exact amount of potential energy. This represents, in final, the exact symptom totality. Those will indicate the drug in all cases, independent of all other symptoms, whether considered by us important or otherwise. For it is on the primary action of the drug that all the rare, strange and peculiar symptoms are brought out. When the primary pathogenesis is removed, all the other symptoms, which are of necessity dependent thereon, must and will disappear. The primary pathogenetic symptoms of each drug are distinct in themselves, or in their combinations, from those of all other drugs. While all the other symptoms, important or otherwise, as we elect to evaluate them, may be equally important, and common, to many other drugs, which we will illustrate below.
In reply to our critics query, “How can we get the primary symptoms from the patient?” let us first state that before we can boil an egg, we must first get the egg. Since we have never taken the pains to sift and classify and learn which are the primary pathogenetic symptoms of each drug, how are we to know just when we have found them? We are meeting and collecting them daily in our work, but as we are unacquainted with them we are just as frequently passing them by. There is but one way to collect and learn these most important of all symptoms, and that is, to prove each drug on at least 100 provers of equal sensitivity to that drug, and collect all the symptoms of, and from, each prover. The symptoms that are constant in every prover will be found to be those belonging to the true primary pathogenesis of the drug. The rest of the symptoms belong not to the drug but to the individual, and will vary with the individual latent predispositions aroused by the drugs primary action. That should explain more lucidly what I mean by the primary pathogenetic symptoms. It matters little whether these primary symptoms develop early or late, just so they are produced by the drug direct. We must never forget that a drug will not remove a pathogenesis it will not create; if it did, allopathy and not homoeopathy would be scientific. Homoeopathy would then be useless and superfluous. From long use, by accurate, acute, trained observers, many of these primary pathogenetic symptoms have been unconsciously discovered in the more thoroughly proven remedies, like Aconite, etc. But how many of us know even those? Very few, we fear. This is the very reason that I made the statement that no one to date is in a position to properly and understandingly teach materia medica.
Many, many times all of us have elicited the essential primary symptoms, together with the characteristic mark or stamp, of a drug, but not having a selected proving of that drug, or not being thoroughly acquainted with that drug even though it had been thoroughly proven, we have passed the similar remedy by for that, which in our ignorance of the true facts, we consider “the most carefully chosen remedy”, the similimum. And, when these “most carefully chosen remedies fail to act” we immediately start out to complicate matters by giving a non-indicated, deep acting remedy to “arouse a reaction”. This is nothing less than a temporary expedient, not always born of intelligence. To continue this method and not attempt to find the proper remedy through continued proving is a short sighted idea on our part. It may help us to get by, but it hurts us in the end and is at the same time both criminal and an injustice and an injury to homoeopathy, because we have bungled the job. No one to date can honestly lay claim to having made a perfectly accurate prescription with an undisputed knowledge before hand of having done so. He feels in his own mind that he has done so, but he cannot possibly explain the exact reason why. To be able to explain, he must know exactly the characteristic mark or stamp of the drug used, the primary pathogenetic symptoms of that drug (for no drug will nor possibly can remove a pathogenesis the like of which it cannot artificially produce), and give the exact amount of potential required. He can be assured of the first two essentials, if he cares to, but time and experience have not, as yet, been able to accurately define the third. But even that knowledge is not unattainable.
The above leads us to answer our critics request to “give our explanation of our distinction between the similimum and the similar remedy”, or what I prefer to call “the similimum”, and to illustrate it with examples. These cases I have emasculated of the primary pathogenetic symptoms, and only the important symptoms as given by the patient retained. They embrace a case of gall-stone colic, a case of mastoiditis, a case of herpes, all allopathically diagnosed, and a case of scarlet fever.
CASE I.
Gall-stone colic. Anxiety; anger; excitability; fear; irritability; restlessness; dry mouth; eructations; nausea; bitter taste; great thirst; distended abdomen; cutting pains; frequent pulse; sweat without relief; scanty urine; internal pulsations; sensitiveness to pain; worse night, cold, open air, and lying.
Those symptoms are all covered in importance by Aconite, Arsenic and Rhus. Three physicians receiving that set of symptoms, and not seeing the patient, could easily each send in any one of those three drugs as the similimum and feel in his own mind that he had the correct remedy for that particular case. On entering the room in that case I noticed the following: Patient tossing about the bed in great agony, expression of great fear and anxiety, calling frequently for water and drinking freely, dry, hot skin, full, bounding pulse, etc. Those few italicized symptoms immediately fixed the choice, and a single dose of Aconite 30x has held that case now over two years. For two years previous that woman had almost monthly recurring attacks under allopathic treatment.
CASE II.
Mastoiditis. Active, anxiety, fear, irritability; starts in sleep; vertigo; headache; photophobia; inner ear inflamed, pains, pulsates; face red, hot; throat and tonsils dry, pain, inflamed; extreme thirst; backache; fever; lassitude; pains in ear boring, stabbing; pulse full, hard; sensitive externally; affected parts swollen; worse night, every draft of air, lying on painful side, motion, before and during sleep, touch, and uncovering.
Those are all prominent symptoms of Belladonna, Hepar, and Mercurius, any one of which could be considered the similimum according to the individual prescribers view. Yet they are useless in the selection of the similar remedy. As we entered the room in that case our first gaze met a scarlet patient with a dry hot skin that fairly burned my fingers, pupils dilated to the limit, carotids throbbing violently, sudden stabbing pains in ear, unable to lie on painful side on account of the pressure, and a “please dont jar the bed”. That was the very picture that had preceded four delicate operations on the mastoid. A single dose of Belladonna 30x put the little patient to sleep in just 30 minutes. It is now over fourteen years and there has been no return.
CASE III.
Moist herpes. Dullness, worse mental exertion, irritable restless, sad, vertigo; headache; dry mouth; white tongue; bitter taste; great thirst; constipation, stools hard; urine dark, cloudy, copious and offensive; restless sleep, wakes frequently; eruption herpetic, moist, burning; worse evening, night, draft of, and open air, bathing, cold, during and after eating, before sleep, and after waking. A beautiful similimum could be found in that case for either. Sulphur, Lycopodium,or Calcarea. Here is what we observed: Extremely red lips (strange how Aconite displays its hyperaemia in the cranium, Belladonna on the skin and mucous membranes, and Sulphur on the mucous connective tissue around the orifices of the body). On further investigation I found offensive odors emanating from the body, aversion to bathing, and aggravation therefrom, burning palms and soles, especially nights, compelling putting feet out of bed to cool off soles, faint, hungry, gone feeling at stomach, especially worse at 11 a.m. (sun time), must eat a little of something, thirst increased, appetite diminished, etc. Sulphur restored the patient promptly.
CASE IV.
As a last example I will append a case of scarlet fever, whose emasculated symptoms repertorize down nicely to Acon., Bell., and Sulph., and put the three primary heads over the body of those most important symptoms:
| Aconite | Belladonna | Sulphur |
| Agonizing tossing about, extremely anxious and restless,great fear, especially of death, expression of anxiety and fear, extreme a.m. thirst, high fever, dry, hot skin, full, bounding pulse, etc. | Burning heat and redness, skin dry, heat almost burns fingers, throbbing of carotids, pupils large, eyes glisten, face flushed, scarlet red, etc. | Lips and other orifices of body extremely red, sore at times, faint,hungry, gone feeling at stomach worse 11 (sun time), must eat a little, body odors offensive, burning. palms, soles, etc. |
Anxiety, confusion of mind, delirium, dullness, excitability, fear, easily frightened, irritable, restless, sensitive, startled, weeps; vertigo; congestion to head; eyes dry, red and sensitive to light; face red, hot, expression anxious; mouth, tongue and throat dry, red and inflamed; restless sleep, anxious dreams; fever worse evening and night; skin red; pulse frequent, full, hard, small; extremely sensitive and to pain; generally worse evening and night, open air, cold, jar, motion, rising up, during sleep, and touch. Sulphur covered the case and gave an excellent account of itself.
You will note how the primary pathogenetic symptoms change the whole phase of the above case; how they change the character of the remedy; how few they are in number; how unimportant they make the otherwise important symptoms covering the body of the case; and how important it is that we properly sort and classify the symptoms in our materia medica.
The lack of knowledge of the characteristic mark or stamp of the drug, the essential primary pathogenetic symptoms of each drug, as well as what constitutes the real drug, will always make our priceless system appear a bungling art, rather than the exact science it really is. All that homoeopathy needs to make it, and complete its claim to, an exact science, are proper provings, accurate and intelligent sorting and classifying of the results of these provings, and the exact amount of drug potential required in a given case. This would lighten the burden of the prescriber fully 75 per cent or more.
You will note that, from the cases cited above, the symptoms, though important and well marked had no real place in indicating the drug, though excellent for repertorizing in order to find a similimum. The symptoms as italicized were the only ones of real value, because they were the ones produced directly by the drug, hence the primary pathogenetic symptoms, whether they appeared early or late in the proving makes no difference. It takes those to complete the base of the symptom totality, from which, when the proper amount of potential was added, there could be no appeal.
I do not believe that even Hahnemann, himself, ever dreamed fully of what he had really rediscovered, its real value, perfection when its unfolding is fully completed, and its far reaching influences, when he found that he had rediscovered homoeopathy. I fully know that we do not. Only our own ignorance of it represents its limitations. The only reason that homoeopathy has not been more openly and extensively accepted is due to our ignorance of it, and because of this our bungling presentation of it, and due also to the lack of knowledge of what constitutes the drug proper. From this lack of knowledge we were unable to explain our remedies, why they acted, and why they all tasted, smelled and looked alike. Hahnemann left us the nucleus to the full construction of the medical prize of all ages. It is too bad, it is criminal that we have neither the desire, nor the ability to complete it.
With apologies to, and paraphrasing Hahnemann: When any man (or body of men) professes openly to the world that he practises, or is prepared to practise, an art, or a science, whose end is the saving of human life, any neglect on his part to perfect the same and make himself thoroughly master of the same becomes a crime, and puts him in a position of obtaining money under false pretense.
TOLEDO, OHIO.
MIRACLES WITH HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINE
Book
The Homoeopathic Recorder By Allan D Sutherland.
Volume
1930 Dec Vol XLV No 12
Author
William H Schwartz.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Bell / Lach / Acon / Cham.
[Read before 7th session of the Teas Homoeopathic Medical Association.].
WILLIAM HENRY SCHWARTZ, M.D.
I was led to write on the subject of this paper by a casual remark made by one of the ardent members of our Society. He stated that he “had never witnessed any of these miraculous one minute cures reported by homoeopaths”. That was a very frank statement. It certainly was an admission that he had never made such cures.
Without going into the psychology of such individuals, who are ardent homoeopaths and who have fought the legal battles of homoeopathy for years, but who, nevertheless, rage at miracles and high potencies, I will present a few cases fro my own practice-personal testimony that would be accepted in any court, and I am sure no member will challenge my veracity when I attest to these facts that I am about to set forth.
But first let me remind you that our literature is filled with records of miraculous cures, some of them rivaling the masters cures. I will not burden you with a bibliography, for such a record would require more than a days time to read. I will take time for only one quotation and that from my former teacher, the late James Tyler Kent, in his lecture on Ipecac, recorded in the second edition of his Materia Medica, page 576, as follows: “A single dose of any of these medicines (Acon., Bell., Ipecac., Phos., Scale, etc.) when indicated and placed on the tongue will check a haemorrhage…The haemorrhage will be checked so speedily that in your earlier experience you will be surprised. You will wonder if it is not possible that it stopped itself.” That is pretty strong language.
I can testify from my own experience to that statement. A patient with uterine haemorrhage who has a sickening faintness with every gush of blood with perhaps a severe backache, will respond almost instantly to a high potency of Ipecac 30th, 200th, 500, 5M, 10M. The 3 will act but not as quickly, because it is on the low, food plane.
I will digress for a moment to explain the fact. Man is a trinity; a physical, mental and spiritual concatenation. He is fed and nourished on the physical plane by all articles of diet, which are digested, prepared for entrance into the blood stream, and then distributed by the system of arteries, capillaries and veins. So too the nervous system is one of circulation but not of liquid, but a form of energy. That is why we require the potentization of medicines. They do not act so readily through the blood stream but, like electrical energy, through the nervous system. Even crude medicines have some of this dynamis. No other explanation could account for the instantaneous action of hydrocyanic acid and the venom of the coral snake. A fraction of a drop of hydrocyanic acid placed on the tongue is fatal almost instantly. Perhaps that is why vitamins and hormones are so essential-they are necessary to feed the vital dynamis required of the nerve circulation. So too the spirit man needs food and is nourished not by blood nor by dynamic forces, but by the Word.
Getting back to miracle with homoeopathic medicine. I was called one evening to a patient in the country, with a ten-mile horseback ride before me through muddy black jumbo roads. Therefore it was late when I arrived, 11 p.m. The priest had already been there and departed, having given the unconscious man the last sacrament. A dead child lay on a pallet on the floor. Another child about twelve was still breathing-diphtheria. The mother sat on a chair in the corner dazed and helpless. It was the saddest picture in my experience-all living in a two-room prairie shack, a remnant of early days. They were Bohemians and I could not understand the language. I had no one to interpret for me. The man who came to my office asking me to go on this visit said, “In two days they all get sick and die”. Symptoms were scarce. Sudden rapid prostration-I made a guess of Arsenicum, giving both patients the 500 (B. & T.) in water, and by pointing to the clock made the mother understand to give a teaspoonful every fifteen minutes, leaving just enough for eight doses each.
The next morning I returned to find quite a commotion. The neighbors were there from miles around, for the priest had been there again, and one of my patients, the husband, greeted him at the door. The good Father “threw up his hands”, so I was told, and exploded, “A miracle, a has been performed” when they told him what had happened, that the “sugar doctor” was there the night before. Of course the neighbors all wanted to see the miracle.
The dead child had given antitoxin. If you know your materia medica you will despise antitoxin. If you dont know your materia medica you may save your patient with antitoxin-that is, be may get well. It is also a fact that you may kill you patient with the so-called antitoxin; (it is not anti but toxin.).
But let me assure you that when I am hunting big game I want a high power rifle and not a shotgun. And I also want to warn the hunter of dangerous game that if he is not a crack shot he had better stay out of the bush, at least until he has mastered the use of his weapon.
An emergency prescriber must be a “crack shot”. He has no time to change weapons. Dont “shoot” until you are sure of your remedy when treating diphtheria. Better wait twenty-four or thirty-six hours until the symptoms are clear rather than spoil your case and lose your patient. If there is not vitality enough for the symptoms to be manifested there is not vitality enough to cure anyway and you have the consolation at least that you have not destroyed the last chance of curing by spoiling the case. The late George Thacher was up against that problem with his own and only child. But he waited and waited, until some of his people were “up in arms” to “do something” (even if it kills, but do something, is the cry). He answered them, “It is my boy and I alone bear the responsibility”. It was thirty-six hours or longer before he finally saw the remedy unfold, and then it was only a matter of minutes until his boy showed rapid improvement and got well. The doctor told me he was sure the boy would have died had he not remained firm. We lost one of our best prescribers, friend and credit to our profession, when George Thacher was called.
I once asked Dr. Kent what results he had treating diphtheria, and he replied with a smile on his face, and how his countenance lighted up when anyone hungry was seeking information, “Why, Schwartz, I have not even seen a case in person for possibly twenty-five years. I have prescribed for most of them over the telephone, and I have not lost one although I have treated many” Is that not miraculous?.
But to perform miracles with homoeopathic medicine one must know disease Which means ITS NATURE; its onset, pace, velocity, periodicity and the trend in ultimates-its pathology. Then one must know his medicines; their nature; their pace, velocity, violence periodicity and physiological correspondence to the patient and the patient and the organs involved. Is the disease rapid or slow; violent or indolent; remittent, intermittent or continued; is it septic; what is its periodicity or cycle; what is the thermal state (is the patient chilly from uncovering, worse from hot or cold); what are the physical desires and aversions or aggravations as well as mental likes and dislikes; is he restless or quiet and why; do the pains ache, burn, sting, throb, stick, etc.; what is the color and odor of the discharge? If the symptoms are mental are they of the intellect or will? If you know the organs affected it may help you to find your remedy among the corresponding organ rubrics in the repertory. Symptoms are an orderly cross-indexed puzzle from which the remedy may be worked out from many angles of attack, and sometimes by short-cut keynotes, but the technique of Kent, working from generals down through the particulars with their modalities is the sure method of procedure.
No one is fit to doctor unless he understands, these basic principles of homoeopathy and is well grounded in them. That can scarcely be achieved without expert training. If he does not doctor that way it is little wonder that he has never seen miracles nor one minute cures. No wonder he must vaccinate and ease his conscience with antitoxin.
Who has not seen instantaneous cures?.
The other evening while sitting at dinner we were alarmed by the terrible and repeated outcry of one who proved to be a Mexican laborer living in one of the outhouses to the rear of my residence. Someone was in pain. I was about to investigate when the wife of the patient came begging me to come at once as her husband was in great distress. I found him throwing himself all over the bed, in too great distress even to answer my questions. He was in a copious cold perspiration crying out with every contortion of his body. Having had a similar case the preceding day due to drinking copious draughts of ice water, and knowing the laborers were served with ice cold water, as the weather was extremely hot, I gave the man a dose of Arsenicum 10M (Kent), Instantly the man was relieved and did not utter another cry. He needed no second dose and received no more. Morphine could not have been prepared as quickly, nor would it have relieved so quickly as did the Arsenicum.
As a student I took care of an “old school” doctors practice for two weeks during his vacation. He was a graduate of Yale and a neighbor of mine. When he asked me to help him out I told him I would have to rely on my “sugar powders” and he said, “I expect you to”.
Among the patients was a young lad I judged to be about ten years of age who came in the drug store asking for something for pink eye, with classic symptoms calling for Belladonna, and I gave him a dose of the 50M (Skinners potency, I believe it was), on his tongue, and several more doses in powder form to be taken half an hour apart. In less than an hour he was back again with the two remaining powders and said, “My mother said, “What kind of a fool doctor are you giving medicine on my tongue for pink eye?” He demanded that I should give him some medicine for his eye, not his tongue. I replied, “Son, do you remember that when you first came the light hurt your eyes and they were watering so that you held a handkerchief to them? In fact you could hardly see out of them, and now you come back and have been reading that magazine on the counter?” “Why, yes,” he said laughing, “they feel much better”. Then I explained that the medicine was for his eyes and that it worked through the blood, and incorrect statement, but even doctors cant understand how medicines work through the channel of nerves, much less the laity, so I sometimes use their own language and just say “through the blood”, It raises no issue and saves talk.
My daughter was suffering from a cold; finally after more than a day of sneezing and fluent discharge of the nose she said, “Daddy, why dont you give me something for my cold?” Because we have no medicine for colds, but if you have any symptoms tell me and then perhaps I can give you the remedy.” “Well, my throat is terribly dry and the teeth on my left side ache.” I gave her one dose of my favorite potency of Lachesis (200 B. & T.). The next morning she exclaimed in rapture, “Daddy, my cold is entirely gone; why did you not give me that medicine two days ago?” I answered, “Why did you not give me your symptoms two days ago?” For two years she had been under the influence of Natrum mur., twice going through the series from 200 to CM. This was her first call for an acute remedy, and Lachesis was indicated. Will you pardon me for saying that she is a B.A. graduate from Rice Institute with honors in history at 19, selected as one of the prettiest five girls in college-another miracle of homoeopathy; health, beauty, brawn and brain. Health makes for beauty. And a healthy brain functions.
For three successive nights one of my children suffered from a nagging toothache. I first gave him Aconite 200 without much relief, but the child finally dozed off to sleep. Next night the pain returned. I then gave him Cham. 1M as he was rather cross and irritable, and for the second time he again dozed off to sleep after an hour of the grumbling tooth. “Daddy, you must take this child to the dentist tomorrow.” “But he saw the dentist just two weeks ago”, I replied. The third night he was worse than ever. Lower left bicuspid, better from warmth; worse early part of the night. Why, Mercurius iodatus ruber, of course; and in five minutes he was asleep with an end to his ache.
Mrs. E. called me to her residence where I found her in great distress and humility. “Doctor, I have been suffering now for three days and I can stand it no longer, so I sent for you. Can you give me some morphine to put me to sleep?” “Perhaps you wont need morphine. Tell me your troubles”, I said, “I have a large abscess that feels as large as an egg” (on what I noted as the left labia majora). “And oh how it pains It even hurts my left thigh and left arm.” She received a dose of Lachesis 200 and in perhaps a minute she said, “Dr. Schwartz, do you think your medicine could work this quickly?” “Why, what makes you ask?” I replied. “My arm and leg are easy and I dont suffer any more.” It was amusing to see her bewildered expression. So I left her, saying that she would need no more medicine, but that if the abscess did not break by morning I would lance it. She told me the following day that the abscess broke within an hour. With that experience with Lachesis for abscess I was ready for another Lachesis patient suffering from abscess of the lower part of the left breast that was terribly sensitive, blue and accompanied with severe lumbar backache which gave her no peace for nearly a week of suffering. So they brought her to Houston, a distance of sixty miles, for treatment. I gave her Lachesis 200, one dose, with instructions to call me if she got worse. I received no call that night but the next morning she came to my office all smiles- and no more backache. The abscess broke about two hours after the Lachesis was administered. I am glad that I have another lance besides Silica.
I do not agree that “a miracle is a violation of all the laws of Nature”. I agree with the dictionary view that a miracle is “something wonderful; anything which excites wonder, surprise, astonishment; a marvel”. Foods perform miracles. Homoeopathic medicines work miracles; and I believe (after much research through Swendenborg; psychology; Hindoo philosophy first hand through the medium of highly developed Yogi teachers; and the science of the emotions by Bhagavan Das; and the Holy Bible) and I am satisfied that Christ was right when He said that “even greater things than these shall ye do”. How? By treatment on the Spirit plane of mans trinity. That does not include hypnotism and hysteria. It does not mean Christian Science nor Unity, but by a special science of occult development, i.e., development by scientific procedure of the hidden, latent forces inherent in all of us. The centre is, of course, in the brain, but it has its correspondence in the endocrine glands. The Holy Bible is a scientific text-book on the physical, mental and moral regeneration of the whole race. I am of the opinion there is enough literature extant to outline a course of study and training to enable the doctor to so build up and develop himself that he can within himself generate healing powers as Christ said he could. This truth has, almost, made a Christian out of me-with a few falls, and some hurdles yet to take.
As yet, not all sickness can be cured by homoeopathy instantly. The time required to cure depends on the duration of illness. Chronic cases usually take from two to five years, if curable. That depends on heredity, environment, vitality and degree of tissue change. To cure I mean taking the chronic case backward through its present life history; bringing back the old symptoms in orderly form, the original symptoms being the last ones to again come into view, and therefore the last ones to respond to the remedy. For you cannot get the spoiled potatoes out of the bottom of the barrel until you take off the top first layer, then the second layer, and then the third layer; and so on down to the bottom layer of the barrel.
There are many diseases that cannot be cured instantly. Symptoms that come on suddenly can be cured suddenly. Cramp conditions, spasm, sudden pains, vaso-motor disturbances, all respond instantly to the similimum. Typhoid can usually be aborted in ten days; intermittents in from twelve to twenty-four or forty-eight hours; diphtheria within twenty-four hours, etc. That does not imply that it takes that long for relief. Relief is a matter of minutes usually in all sickness, providing the right remedy has been administered and in suitable potency; but it is not so much a matter of potency as the proper remedy. However, the potency must be sufficiently attenuated to reach the plane of disease. Sugar or salt must first dissolve before it will be diffused in a liquid.
I have many times wired to the late Dr. Kent for consultation in my earlier days of practice in desperate cases, and if we had the time it would be profitably spent in listening to some of these experiences-miraculous results by a master who understood disease and understood the nature of his medicines, and the results were often uncanny, savouring of Divine guidance. I cant recall a single failure in cases both acute and chronic; so-called surgical cases when surgeons refused to operate, so you know they were bad cases; typhoid, diphtheria; impacted gall bladder; gall stones; kidney stones; abscess of vital organs; chills and fever; every case consulted recovered Dr. Kent would see the remedy from my telegram when I could not see the remedy with the patient before me. Can you deny that such results are miraculous? It is beyond human belief to those who have not seen for themselves.
I will rest my case with you, my professional colleagues, with one more personal experience that is of such import that I feel it should be placed on record as it is official.
Scene: Washington, D.C. The week of presidential election in 1916. Case: United States Postal Department vs. the Ensign Remedy Company. Battle Creek, Mich, Dr. Ensign was cited to appear before the postal department to show reason why a fraud order should not be issued against him barring him from using the mails on two charges. 1st, that homoeopathic medicine, or rather his medicines, contained no medicine; and secondly, that no medicine can cure. (The Ensign literature, some of which circulated through the nails, claimed that his homoeopathic medicines cured sick folks, to which the government took issue maintaining that no medicine ever cured. That being the position of allopathy.).
The trial of the case took five bitter fighting. Indeed, a biased government prosecuting attorney was so incensed during the trial one day that he had a very severe attack of acute indigestion on his return to curt after eating dinner in that angry stage of mind. They were about to adjourn court, when having my pocket case of 60x (B. & T.) with me, I offered to prescribe, which assistance the lawyer very graciously accepted while the dozen or more government physicians and other physicians called to testify from Washington and elsewhere, looked on in amazement. For several days I had been of the opinion that this lawyer needed a dose of Nux vomica for his disposition and now I knew he needed it, so I gave it to him on his tongue, and so certain was I of the result that I stated aloud so that everyone could hear that that one powder would relieve him within five minutes. One of our defense witnesses (an ex-president of the American Institute of Homoeopathy) arose from his seat and exploded, “Dr. Schwartz, I would not say that”. “Why not?” I asked in reply. “It cannot always be done”, he answered, “Oh yes”, said I, “when you give the right medicine”.
I had hardly more than reached my seat when the government prosecuting attorney called across the court room, “Dr.Schwartz, I am entirely relieved”. It is needless to say that homoeopathy itself won her own case although the statutes still forbid the word “cure” on bottles of medicine or advertising matter sent through the mail. And the government chemist from the Department of Agriculture is still wondering why he could not find any medicine in Ensigns homoeopathic sugar. “Believe it or not”, it is a matter of record.
ORIGIN OF SUSCEPTIBILITY
I still maintain that our conceptions of disease are vague. We are always tending to get away from the law which is the foundation of our method, and from everything that the law implies.
First, the law deals with action and reaction alone. This in itself rules out the material except so far as the material is a conductor, vessel or instrument through which the force acts. it implies Newtons third law, that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Therein lies the danger of the so-called physical methods in therapy. How can we measure the force of the reaction in advance? How can we know how much stimulation to apply in the first place? If we are still at sea regarding potency how can we estimate the effects of cruder methods?.
It seems to me that in the dynamic state with a certain amount of potential the reaction is greater than the original stimulus. The matter of potential and its factors are of more concern than even the law itself, for they are the conditions under which the law acts. If it be true that energy cannot be destroyed we may cause to worry about the energy itself and look to those factors which modify its action.
What we know as impaired or reduced vitality is not a diminution of the strength of the force but a leaking away of it. Life may be compared to a fully charged storage battery (a simile better than that of an engine, I think). This fully charged storage battery has a certain potential. If all the wiring from this battery is well connected and insulated the proper function of the battery results, but if there is a short circuit, function is impaired although the potential and actual strength of the battery is normal. Under proper conditions the strength and potential of the battery may be restored-D. PULFORD.
HOW “MENTALS” HELP [How Mentals Help
Book
The Homoeopathic Recorder by Rabe R F.
Volume
1952 Apr Vol LXVII No 4
Author
Rabe R F.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Lil-t / Acon / Alum.
Read before Bureau of Clinical Medicine, I.H.A., June 19, 1951.
Just to remind you how important it is to take careful case histories, I want to present a number of cases where the mentals pointed the way to curing various and interesting diagnoses.
(1) Miss. K. age 22, a stenographer. The other doctor said it was a nervous breakdown. Depressed, many heart symptoms, scanty menses, sensitive to slightest touch of vaginal tract. Upon questioning. I found she was afraid that her lover would be killed in the war, and that her illness dated back to the time he was sent to the South Pacific. Lilium tigrinum was her remedy and she was back at her office work and in normal health.
(2) A druggist in poor health for several years was finally persuaded by a mutual friend to come to me. I found on questioning him that his troubles started after his escape by inches from being hit by a fast train at a railroad crossing. He recovered after two many high doses of Aconite, but has never given Homoeopathy or me any credit for his recovery because some one persuaded him to be a vegetarian while the Aconite was working a cure So, if any of you ever have a similar case, do not forget to induce the patient to give up eating meat. It may help.
(3) This one is an infant one and a half years old. Bottle fed and strained vegetables. Always constipated, no bowel movement without an enema. The child put everything in its mouth, rags, pencils, dirt off the floor, etc. One dose of Alumina ten thousand cured. You cant call this a mental symptom but it takes careful case taking to direct the doctor to the KEY NOTE symptom and the similimum.
A HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDY AND RESULTS
Book
British Homoeopathic Journal
Volume
1912 – Volume XXVII No 2
Author
- H. Henry
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Phos / Acon / Nux-m
Adirondack Mountains, Saranac Lake, N. Y.
Whenever I produce a fine result with a homoeopathic remedy I always think of the HOMOEOPATHIC RECORDER, as this seems to be the only journal I know that insists on pure Homoeopathy.
Among my tubercular patients this winter is a young lady, aged twenty-three, sent to me front Buffalo, N. Y.
She has been under my care five months, has gained fifteen pounds in weight and has done very well in every way, but she has always complained of one symptom, which the physician before me did not help and for which I prescribed several months before I relieved.
A sensation of heaviness beneath the sternum deep inspiration uncomfortable and inclined to produce a hacking cough, which seemed to come front somewhere as low as the stomach, with only a little expectoration, though she raised quite a quantity each morning; voice sometimes rough, but not hoarse, with a tightness all along the trachea and the upper branch. Was inclined to have nosebleed. Her tongue was always coated, though she had a good appetite and seemed to digest her food.
There is always a rapid pulse and a consolidation of the tipper third of the right lung, and occasionally a few sharp pains through the lung and shoulder. But her persistent symptom was this tightness beneath the sternum.
She is, never nervous, nor does a change from warm to cold or vice versa affect her. After taking the case carefully, I prescribed Bry. with no relief, then I changed the potency, no benefit.
Then in order named Bell., Bacillinum, Iodine, Ars. iod., Sulph., Puls. and Spongia and the condition was unchanged.
Now, probably, the reader has thought of the right remedy before this and possibly I would have been able to dig it out sooner had she not been a short, fat blond and Phos. is usually called for in tall, slim women, and more frequently dark or red hair, but I finally prescribed Phos. 30th.
The next time the patient came, her first words were: “Doctor, you hit my cough all right the last time I felt relief soon after the first dose.” And she has never had any return of any of the bad feelings in her chest and throat, also the cough and expectoration have made a decided gain and she often speaks of Phos. as “that wonderful remedy.”
This patient was refused admission into one of the sanitariums here on account of her advanced condition, but she is going to get entirely well just the same.
CASE OF SYPHILIS
Book
Journal Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
Vol. I, Philadelphia, January, 1868. No. 5
Author
- C. Morgan
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Graph / Thuj
Case 48
- P., aged 18 years, “sanguine lymphatic” temperament, had fluent coryza, and an eruption on the cheeks, nostrils and lips, which, under a magnifying-glass, showed inflammation of the papillae of the skin; after scratching, these were denuded, oozing a sticky fluid; (Sulphur,Merc.s. having been previously taken.) Graphites 6 and 200 was now given, and followed by rapid improvement of the burning and itching which attended it, and the eruption began to pale and dry up. Now, he contracted a soft chancre on the prepuce; and to expose it, produced paraphimosis, and considerable oedema, but no strangulation, which was not readily relieved by moist heat; and, another chancre soon forming in the cervix, penis, and yet another on the prepuce-all on the mucous surfaces-the paraphimosis was not interfered with. Locally, Simple Cerate was applied-internally, one dose of Merc.s. 200. Immediately, the chancres became hard, not to be distinguished from the “Hunterian” sore. At the same time a bubo formed in the left groin-and the eruption got as bad as ever. Sac. lac., to await reaction three days. Worse than ever; sores discharging a thin, stinking pus, resembling soup, both sour and tainted, in odor; with inflammation, and violent burning and itching. Burning in urethra, with urination-gluey discharge. Bubo larger, and softening. The question arose: “Must Merc. binox. low be given, a la Hartmann?” Finding the oozing on the face sticky, knowing its adaptation to the burning and itching, and finding it strongly indicated by the character of the discharge, Graphites 200 was selected, three times a day, for two days. After amelioration, great aggravation of the inflammation, burning and itching of the penis. Substituted water-dressing, until relieved, then dry lint, giving Sac. lac. Amelioration, five days; then aggravation. Graph. 6000, one dose. Amelioration, only six days. Repeat Graph. 6000. Amelioration, one week; ulcers filling and contracting; bubo soft, but diminishing in size. Now, increase of burning and itching. Pale,large papules came out all over the body, with violent itching. Repeat Graph. 6000. Better for a week. Graph. sixth week, well, except the nostrils and urethra. Thuja 1000. Ten days later, fluent coryza, with sneezing; bad sleep from 12 to 3 o’clock at night. Acon. 200, in repeated doses. Cured.
- C. MORGAN.
CASE OF INSECT BITE
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
Vol. I, Philadelphia, June, 1868. No. 10
Author
- M. Boynton
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Ars / Kali-ar
Case 111
-A young man bitten upon the back by a small green spider. The symptoms were alarming. The family mistook them for a congestive chill. He was exceedingly restless, with marked symptoms of congestion to the stomach, (this may have resulted from his bilious state,) as evidenced by pain and vomiting bile. His lips and face sometimes livid, and then looking red and congested. He said that he felt as if the blood had ceased to circulate, and complained of a burning, tingling sensation over the whole body, with pains deep in the eye-balls. I saw him four hours after the occurrence. He looked very much like a person recovering from congestion, as indicated by the headache, full, strong, rapid pulse. The development of the symptoms in this case was, no doubt, from the fact that he was several times bitten. An old lady came in, before my arrival, and administered a tea made from the root of mint, much to the relief of the patient; she stated that she had cured several with the mint. I gave Aconite and Arsenicum. The young man recovered promptly.
The Ledum doubtless possesses antidotal powers to the spider virus. But to what extent it may be relied upon I am unable to determine. Arsenicum I regard the superior remedy.
Kalium arsenicosum
I will add another case, as it presents several points of interest.
A negro woman was bitten eleven years ago by a ground rattlesnake, and treated with whiskey and Lobelia. Two years afterwards, in the spring, she was again bitten by a rattlesnake; but as it did not sicken her, no treatment was given. Her health began to decline and many ulcers appeared upon her body. Every spring, about the time she was bitten, the ulcers would make their appearance. She applied to me for treatment seven years after the bite. An ulcer, nearly as large as the palm of my hand, had formed upon her left arm. I saw a number of cicatrixes from healed ulcers. Its general appearance and sanious discharge closely resembled those ulcers produced by the spider. I gave the Liquor Potassa Arsenitis (Fowler’s,) 3 gutt., 3 times per day. In four days the woman resumed her labor, and in three weeks was entirely recovered. Two years have elapsed, and no return of the disease. I should have said, after the fourth day the dose was reduced to one drop once per day.
- M. BOYNTON, M. D., Henderson, Texas.
CASE OF ACONITE NAPELLUS
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
Vol. I, Philadelphia, July, August, 1868. Nos. 11, 12
Author
- J. Barbour
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon
-A man who had been thoroughly drugged by Allopathy, had the following symptoms: Pain commences in right side, region of the liver, passing upward to fifth or sixth rib, thence across to the region of the heart; this pain is sharp; extreme anguish; dyspnoea; fear of death. Gave a dose of Aconite 200, as I knew the preparation to be good; the pain, andc., vanished almost instantly; returned slightly several times afterwards, and now over six months has elapsed and no indications of return.
- H. J. BARBOUR, Galion, Ohio.
CASE OF ABORTION
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic clinics
Volume
Vol. II, Philadelphia, January, 1869. No. 5
Author
E.R.S.
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Murx
Case 195
-February, 1856. Miss E. was reported to have inflammation of the bowels, and to have been sick about a month. On examining the patient I found every indication that an abortion had been procured. There was tenderness and tumefaction of the genital, inflammation of the right ovary, with severe pain on the right side, extending up through the abdomen, into the chest; restlessness and sleeplessness, with a profuse sanguineous discharge. I gathered from words dropped in my presence, that the young physician, who had been attending her previously, had become discouraged, probably fearful of the result, and being unable either to subdue the pain or quell the discharge, had dismissed himself.
After a dose or two of Aconite, to insure sleep, Murex. purp. 30, cured the case.
- R. S.
CASE OF CHRONIC COUGH
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
Vol. II, Philadelphia, February, 1869. No. 6
Author
John C. Robert
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Apis / Bell / Bry / Calc / Chin / Dros / Lach / Merc.v. / Nux-v / Phos / Rhus-r / Spong / Sep / Sulph
-March 11. Miss N., aged 27 years, New-Utrecht, medium height, slight built, dark complexion.
An incessant cough of more than twenty years standing; worse in the morning, and very painful all over the system; sick headaches; vertigo, fainting fits; drowsiness; fullness and soreness and dryness of the throat; swelling of the submaxillary glands; hoarseness and loss of voice when singing; menstruation scanty and irregular, at times profuse; breath not sweet; slight seminal smell from the person; nervous and excitable; loss of appetite; fullness and heat of the head.
The diseased state of her system was brought on by bad treatment of the hooping cough, when about a year old.
Gave, to be taken once a day, (all doses taken once a day,) 3 doses Sulph. Cm, (F.)
March 30. Cough much better. 3 doses Sulph. Cm, (F.)
April 14. Sick headache and fainting, but no cough. 2 doses Nux v., 94m., (F.)
April 22. Cough has returned, but the headache and fainting have left her. 2 doses Sulph. Cm, (F.)
May 2. Throat inflamed and sore, relieved by 2 doses of Apis mel. Cm, (F.)
May 4. Cough is cured by taking 2 doses of Spong. t., 105m., (F.)
May 14. Menses irregular, and delaying with headache. 2 doses Sepia Cm, (F.)
May 25. Fulness and soreness of throat. 2 doses Merc. v., 101m., (F.)
June 4. Burning pain (of ten years standing), when playing on the piano, in the spina scapulae of her right side, at the insertion of the Trapezius, which was entirely cured by 2 doses Bryon, 103m., (F.)
June 8. Headache, not a sick headache, (they have left her). 2 doses Nux v., 94m., (F.)
June 10. Debility, loss of appetite, nervousness and tingling in the ends of the fingers. 2 doses Aconit. Cm (F.)
She enjoyed good health for nearly a month, until
July 5. When the nervousness slightly returned; gave again 2 doses Acon. Cm (F.)
July 11. Slight headache; 2 doses of Nux Vom., 94m, (F.)
July 15. Swelling of the submaxillary glands, entirely cured by 2 doses of Merc. v., 101m., (F.)
July 23. Intermittent fever, owing to her spending a few weeks where the fever was prevalent; the attack was slight, but cured by 2 doses China, 87m. (F.)
Aug. 9. Gave, to counteract the effects of a blue pill, that one of her friends advised her to try for drowsiness, 2 doses Sulphur, Cm, (F.)
Aug. 13. Boils in the left arm-pit, also dryness of the throat. 2 doses Bellad. 97m.
Aug. 19. Fatigue in small of back, dryness of the throat, cured the boils by 2 doses Phos. Cm, (F.)
Aug. 24. Coughed once in the morning, as from a feather-dust in throat. 2 doses Calc. c., 107m., (F.)
Sept. 18. She caught a very bad cold, by sleeping with the window open at night, and coughed again. Spong. t., 105m., (F.)
Sept. 23. Cough gone, but her throat is sore. Merc. v., 101m., (F.)
Sept. 25. Cough has returned in consequence of a fresh cold. Dros. Cm, (F.)
Oct. 1. Throat very dry, and tonsils swelled more on the left side near the ear, and producing a slight cough. Rhus. rad. 6m, (F.)
Oct. 4, 8 P. M. Piercing pain from the point of the right middle finger, under the nail, running up as far as the elbow. (Proving symptom.)
Oct. 16. There was left only tickling at the root of the tongue, exciting cough. Laches, 41m., (F.)
Oct. 23. All well entirely, except a few small pimples on the face. She got married yesterday.
Jan. 1869. Has been well since.
JOHN C. ROBERT.
CASE OF LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
Vol. II, Philadelphia, June, 1869. No. 10
Author
- PUIG
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Bry
Case 240
-On the 31st of Jan’y last, I was called to a village 12 miles from here to prescribe for a Mr. Manouel, aged 45 years; feeble, and almost bloodless in consequence of the enormous and incomprehensible abstractions of blood during a treatment for gastritis, which had existed one year. Patient was in bed, scarcely able to respire on account of a violent pain on left side, aggravated by every effort to breathe, and by a continued dry cough; from time to time matter striped with blood was with difficulty expectorated. The pulse small, miserable, 135 per minute; the appearance pale, anxious, and the body emaciated; the skin hot and dry, the tongue parched and red, particularly toward the point.
Percussion showed a deep, dull sound over the inferior three-fourths of the left lung; auscultation-numerous, dry, crepitant rales in the same region. Great oppression.
Prescription.-Aconite 12, 8 globules; one globule every two hours, dissolved in water; allowed pure water at the temperature of the room.
February 2d, two days after my visit I was again summoned, and it appeared the amelioration which succeeded promptly my departure, gave way to a relapse with renewed intensity. I found the patient in a state of extraordinary prostration; the skin quite cold; pulse small, miserable, and 96 per minute; intelligence obtuse; tongue black and cracked; teeth and lips covered with blackish lines of unfavorable appearance; the nostrils look powdery, and the face disfigured. He spoke often to himself without paying the slightest attention to others surrounding him, occupying himself with his own state and his future. The cough continues and the expectoration is still striped with blood, and often of the color of prune juice. I could make no physical examination, as the patient fainted as soon as he tried to raise himself in bed.
His state was entirely changed since my first visit. Aside from the Pneumonia, which however, still existed, all the alarming symptoms of a typhoid state presented themselves, and I feared the end.
After due reflection, I thought the symptoms resembled those pathogenetic to Bryonia, which I administered, 8 globules of the 18th every two hours, one globule in water; broth for diet, and water with a little wine to drink.
On the 4th of February I received the following note: “Your little pearls worked like a miracle; the patient is getting along as well as can be expected. The tongue, lips and teeth have their natural color again. The face is now that of a living man; the pulse, although small, is regular. No more cough, no more expectoration, no more pain. My brother-in-law awakes from a long sleep and demands food; we have given him some porridge, and shall continue to give him to eat. We shall inform you of anything new that may occur.”
Ten days afterwards, I found Manouel sitting before the door of his house sunning himself. He was completely cured.
- B. PUIG.
CASE OF FALSE LABOR PAINS AND TUBERCULOSIS OF MESENTRIC GLANDS
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
Vol. II, Philadelphia, June, 1869. No. 10
Author
Vanden Neucker
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Calc / Op / Sep
Case 245
-Madam S., 35 years old, of good constitution, and six months pregnant, when taking a little walk, about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, was attacked by robbers, who demanded with threats her purse or her life. Frightened, she gave up all shed had with her, but her strength failed her when she attempted to run away. Found thus on the road, she was brought home and bled by a physician, who treated her for three weeks without any amelioration. I found her then in the following state: Every afternoon, at 4 o’clock, the hour when she was attacked by the robbers, abdominal spasms, radiating to the back, with expulsive pains from above downward, like true labor-pains. The pains lasted from 30 to 35 minutes. By touching the abdomen a virmicular undulating motion could be perceived in the womb, as if resulting from convulsive motions of the foetus, sudden motions at intervals, with kicking and stamping, as if the foetus suffered great pains. In the intervals of these attacks, she felt no foetal motion, the mammae preserved their normal consistency without secreting any liquid; the vagina was dry, and the abdomen kept its habitual shape and resistancy. The patient suffered from slight fever, anorexia, thirst, profuse sweat, weariness, with coated tongue, so that she was unable to attend to her usual household affairs.
Aconite 30, 8 globules in half a glass of water; several doses during the day. Saw her again after three days, when she was without fever, with good appetite, stronger, but the abdominal spasms, though less intense, returned still yet daily at the same hour. She got Opium and Sepia in alternation, and five weeks afterwards passed through an easy confinement and got up on the eighth day. The infant was small, thin and delicate, and the extra-uterine life was the counterpart of the intra-uterine, for it suffered daily, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, with terrible convulsions; its extremities cold, stretched out and stiff, or working in painful spasms; the skin blue, the lips blue, with froth escaping from the mouth. This state, lasting for half-an-hour, was always preceded by pitiful screaming, and in the interval between the paroxysms, the child was comatose, during which a little milk was once in a while dropped in his mouth, which it swallowed without awakening. The child was immediately after its birth put again in the hands of an Allopathic family physician, who treated it for two months without any alleviation. Despised Homoeopathy was at last again called upon. I put on its tongue 6 globules Opium 30, and after two days I found the child with its eyes wide open and nursing; the convulsive paroxysms had also decreased in strength, but kept still their time, and it got therefore Belladonna 30, a few pellets on the tongue, after which the convulsions disappeared as if by enchantment. The general health of the infant improved now steadily, but as it was weak and emaciated in its extremities, with a bloated abdomen and sour, fetid, diarrhoeic stools, we prescribed Calc.-carb. 1m, 10 globules in sugar-water, a teaspoonful twice a day. Under the influence of this remedy, all the symptoms of Tabes Mesenterica disappeared, and after a few weeks more the child had fully recovered. At last the family is convinced of the superiority of the small globules, because their experience is gained by facts before their own eyes.
- VANDEN NEUCKER, (Journal du Dispensaire, H. de Bruxelles.)
[Extract from Homoeopathic News, 1856.].
CASE OF SEVERE CROUP
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
1869-1870 Volume III, N-1
Author
Anacletto Crica
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon
Case 374
A child three years old was taken with severe croup, and was at the point of suffocating when I saw it one morning in January. Aconite 1, 1 drop in a glass half full of water-a teaspoonful every quarter of an hour. After a few doses profuse perspiration broke out, and the child was saved.
Dr. Anacletto Crica. (Rivista di Roma.).
CASE OF PAIN IN KIDNEYS
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
1869-1870 Volume III, N-1
Author
- Baethig
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon
Case 384
Mr. Sp., aet. about 38, shoemaker by trade, called Oct. 6, a. c., and complained of great stinging and pressing pain in the region of both the kidneys, which had prevented him from sleep for many nights and was worse during day-time; urine scanty and hot, but without color and unusual odor; walking was somewhat impeded. Patient had been treated for a week or so homoeopathically, but his physician having left for the Cleveland Homoeopathic College, he called on me for help. Acon.30, in water, every half hour, till improvement sets in, and afterwards, every two hours.
Oct. 7. Mr. Sp. much better; has slept the whole night and worked some during the day; urine in sufficient quantity, not hot any longer; pain nearly, but not quite, gone. Acon.30, every 4 hours.
Oct. 8. Mr. Sp. came to tell me that he was quite well.
- Baethig, Sen.
CASE OF MENTAL ABERRATION
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
1869-1870 Volume III, N-1
Author
Kunkel
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Thuj / Acon
Case 454
Mental aberration.-Mrs. B., 35 years of age, robust and well-built, pale face, sanguine-phlegmatic temperament, was confined for the first time, 16 years after her marriage.
A rupture of the perineum and rectum during parturition, and the lifting of a heavy weight after her confinement produced prolapsus of the vagina.
The patient belonged to a family in which mental disorders were hereditary; her father, a brother and a sister being all affected with mental unsoundness, and a second brother inclined to it. The patient herself, had a very acute conscientiousness, and was noted for her true piety. Her husband was a weakly individual, tuberculous, had cavities in his lungs, and condyloma on his genitals; the glans and prepuce were entirely covered with them, having the appearance of cancer of the penis; the extreme application of drugs, Thuya tincture, etc., made it look worse. Her surroundings were of a religious nature, which partook, somewhat, of mysticism. In the summer of 1858, she had trouble in her family. In the fall, one of her neighbour, who had been ill, and whom she had daily resolved to visit, without carrying out her resolution, died. Some time after, she heard a sermon, from which she drew reproaches concerning her neglect; her mind immediately became completely unsettled. In the summer of 1859, a doctor from an insane asylum was consulted, and she was placed under his treatment for several months; her mental condition was only ameliorated, without being cured. She became pregnant for a second time, but neither pregnancy nor confinement produced any change. Her conversation was frequently foolish.
In the beginning of January, 1860, she was attacked with sudden maniacal spells, and I was called. Two days having passed without any improvement from the remedies I had given, and she having during this time attempted suicide several times, I advised the friends to take her speedily to an insane asylum, where she remained 14 months. When she was taken away the maniacal spells had ceased, but her principal condition was the same.
I saw her again on the 22d of April, 1862; she had been in her house two weeks; during this time no lucid interval, not even of a moment; she walked her room in a circle, from morning till night, so that her feet had become quite sore; she talked to herself and sighed; there was a constant change of ideas and resolutions in her mind; she could not accomplish properly the most simple house-work; she was conscious of her confused condition, but felt that she was in the hands of a stronger power; her sleep and abdominal functions were nearly normal; in the morning she had to be persuaded to rise, and was unable to put on her clothes, had to be dressed like a child; there seemed to be no demand for food; she always had to be reminded to take food, which she did then without reluctance. With the exception of several old warts on the face, and several of later growth on the neck, there were no objective symptoms; the warts on the neck were soft to the touch, like lipoma, and were pointed. Since her last confinement, her menses had not appeared.
In view of the sykotic affection of the husband, and a great similarity of the patient’s symptoms with Wolff’s proving of Thuya, I prescribed Thuya 30 cent., 1 globule.
Several days after taking this dose, the patient was much excited; for this condition she received several globules of Aconite 30, which relieved her at once. From this time forth, the parent improved without interruption. Six weeks after, she was in full possession of her mental faculties. The menses returned, and strange to say, the prolapsus vaginae had disappeared; only after continued heavy labor, the latter was perceptible, without, however, incommoding her to any extent; several weeks later, the wart-like excrescences disappeared.
About four months ago, this woman was violently shocked by the sudden death of a relative, who lived with her in the house. Several doses of Aconite 30, however, were quite sufficient to remove the excitement. The woman is now enjoying excellent health.
Dr. Kunkel, family physician to the Duchess of Gl?cksburg.
- H. Z., vol. 71, p. 75. Transl. by C. B. Knerr.
CASE OF MENTAL ABERRATION
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic Clinics
Volume
1869-1870 Volume III, N-1
Author
Kunkel
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Thuj / Acon
Case 454
Mental aberration.-Mrs. B., 35 years of age, robust and well-built, pale face, sanguine-phlegmatic temperament, was confined for the first time, 16 years after her marriage.
A rupture of the perineum and rectum during parturition, and the lifting of a heavy weight after her confinement produced prolapsus of the vagina.
The patient belonged to a family in which mental disorders were hereditary; her father, a brother and a sister being all affected with mental unsoundness, and a second brother inclined to it. The patient herself, had a very acute conscientiousness, and was noted for her true piety. Her husband was a weakly individual, tuberculous, had cavities in his lungs, and condyloma on his genitals; the glans and prepuce were entirely covered with them, having the appearance of cancer of the penis; the extreme application of drugs, Thuya tincture, etc., made it look worse. Her surroundings were of a religious nature, which partook, somewhat, of mysticism. In the summer of 1858, she had trouble in her family. In the fall, one of her neighbour, who had been ill, and whom she had daily resolved to visit, without carrying out her resolution, died. Some time after, she heard a sermon, from which she drew reproaches concerning her neglect; her mind immediately became completely unsettled. In the summer of 1859, a doctor from an insane asylum was consulted, and she was placed under his treatment for several months; her mental condition was only ameliorated, without being cured. She became pregnant for a second time, but neither pregnancy nor confinement produced any change. Her conversation was frequently foolish.
In the beginning of January, 1860, she was attacked with sudden maniacal spells, and I was called. Two days having passed without any improvement from the remedies I had given, and she having during this time attempted suicide several times, I advised the friends to take her speedily to an insane asylum, where she remained 14 months. When she was taken away the maniacal spells had ceased, but her principal condition was the same.
I saw her again on the 22d of April, 1862; she had been in her house two weeks; during this time no lucid interval, not even of a moment; she walked her room in a circle, from morning till night, so that her feet had become quite sore; she talked to herself and sighed; there was a constant change of ideas and resolutions in her mind; she could not accomplish properly the most simple house-work; she was conscious of her confused condition, but felt that she was in the hands of a stronger power; her sleep and abdominal functions were nearly normal; in the morning she had to be persuaded to rise, and was unable to put on her clothes, had to be dressed like a child; there seemed to be no demand for food; she always had to be reminded to take food, which she did then without reluctance. With the exception of several old warts on the face, and several of later growth on the neck, there were no objective symptoms; the warts on the neck were soft to the touch, like lipoma, and were pointed. Since her last confinement, her menses had not appeared.
In view of the sykotic affection of the husband, and a great similarity of the patient’s symptoms with Wolff’s proving of Thuya, I prescribed Thuya 30 cent., 1 globule.
Several days after taking this dose, the patient was much excited; for this condition she received several globules of Aconite 30, which relieved her at once. From this time forth, the parent improved without interruption. Six weeks after, she was in full possession of her mental faculties. The menses returned, and strange to say, the prolapsus vaginae had disappeared; only after continued heavy labor, the latter was perceptible, without, however, incommoding her to any extent; several weeks later, the wart-like excrescences disappeared.
About four months ago, this woman was violently shocked by the sudden death of a relative, who lived with her in the house. Several doses of Aconite 30, however, were quite sufficient to remove the excitement. The woman is now enjoying excellent health.
Dr. Kunkel, family physician to the Duchess of Gl?cksburg.
- H. Z., vol. 71, p. 75. Transl. by C. B. Knerr.
CASE OF DEBILITY
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic clinic
Volume
1870-1871 Volume IV
Author
Arnaud
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Chin
Case 568
A boy, 9 years old, suffered several months from diarrhoea and dry cough, against which allopathic remedies had been given without any favorable results.
Dec. 12, 1845. Extraordinary emaciation, exhaustion and lowness of spirits; the patient can hardly stand up, without supporting himself; loss of appetite, nausea, thirst frequent diarrhoeic stools, black and foul-smelling, preceded by slight colic; abdomen tense, hard and tender to the touch; dry cough, normal sounds in the chest; rapid small pulse; skin dry, burning; evening, febrile exacerbation. Calc. carb.(4), 4 drops in water, a tablespoonful morning and evening.
Dec. 16. State the same. Aconite(4), 4 drops in distilled water, a teaspoonful every hour.
Dec. 22. Less fever, the skin not so dry, stools less frequent, of a better color and smell, cough diminished and feels better and a little stronger. Continue Aconite.
Dec. 29. Amelioration keeps on, abdomen softer and less tender, only two stools a day of a better consistency; pulse weak, but less frequent, skin normal, no cough, good appetite. No medicine.
Jan., 1846. The patient feels well, but is still weak. China(4), a tablespoonful morning and evening. After two weeks the cure was finished.
Dr. ARNAUD, Bull. de la M?d. Hom. 2, N-4.
Psorinum. Headache and eruptions increase during changeable weather.
WM.P. WESSELHOEFT.
Complaints return at precisely the same hour. Ant. crud., Ignat., Sabad. B. Selen, Diadema. c. Hg.
Chill in spots, now here, now here. Puls. J.C. MORGAN.
CASE OF GASTRIC FEVER
Book
Journal Of Homoeopathic clinic
Volume
1870-1871 Volume IV
Author
Macci
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Bor / Acon / Bell / Lach / Sulph
Case 700
Luigi P., 13 months old, a bright child, was taken down with a gastric fever; we found him feverish, with a red face and accelerated respiration; the knees drawn up towards the abdomen, showed us the seat of the disease, pulse frequent and vibrating, temperature increased, skin dry; tongue red at the edges, with a yellowish bilious coating in the middle line; over the whole mucous membrane of the mouth small aphthae; intense thirst, but he vomits constantly yellowish-green matter; diarrhoea, with dark green stools, mixed with mucus and undigested substances, as coagulated milk; continual borborygmus, which may be heard even at a distance; palpation shows the abdomen swollen, tense and meteoristic, percussion gives the tympanitic sound, and painfulness to the touch.
Arsenic 6 and Aconite stopped the vomiting, but diarrhoea and fever kept on; thirst persistent, and the continual crying and restlessness of the child showed how much it suffered. We changed to Chamomilla 6, which acted nicely. Our little patient quieted down and slept for several hours during the night. The aphthae became larger and more confluent; the fever still kept its high grade. Mercurius 6, was now administered for two days, without any result, and we changed, therefore, to Borax 6, during the day, and Aconite during the night.
This remedy seemed to affect favorably the abdominal symptoms, but the fever kept steadily on, a keynote that the meninges became affected, and on the morning of the 7th day, we found, therefore, acute hydrocephalus fully developed. The mother remarked that the child slumbered the whole night with eyes half closed, with subsultus tendinum; terrible screams and twitchings of the upper and lower extremities; we found a high temperature; respiration quick and irregular; somnolence; eyes convulsed, upwards; face, red and puffy; horizontal positions, with tendency to vomit at the least motion; the tremors of the night had changed to full convulsions, returning at short intervals; heat of the head excruciating, diminishing towards the body and extremities; the fever, which had been severe during the night, remitted towards morning, but the cerebral symptoms kept steadily on; thirst intense, tongue and lips dry; abdomen contracted; obstinate constipation. Considering the case as acute hydrocephalus in its irritative state, we prescribed Belladonna 30 and Lachesis 30, 5 globules of each in water, a teaspoonful alternately every hour, and arnicated water on the head. We kept on for two days, although the convulsions increased in intensity and frequency, and after two days more of the same treatment we found the pulse reduced; the heat alike all over the body; the convulsions decreasing in strength and frequency, and the constipation diminished; 48 hours more passed, but the amelioration seemed to be stationary. Considering that there was a hereditary psora, which might prevent the full action of the remedies, we prescribed Sulphur 30, 5 globules, in distilled water. In three days this heroic medicament produced a wonderful change, and without any more medicine, the child soon recovered its usual health.
Dr. Macci, (Il Dinamico, May, 1871.)
Instead of such a roundabout cure, a close examination at the very beginning would have revealed every symptom to belong to the pathogenesis of Sulphur which, in a high dilution, would have quickly restored the child to health. An interesting question is: did Borax transfer the disease from the abdominal organs to the brain, for the metastasis followed after the use of the Borax 2; as the first effect of Borax, is relaxation of the bowels, followed by no stool for several days and then hard stool once a day; the case is interesting, although shorn of its value by the slip-shod alternation of only partly indicated remedies.
- L.
Headache preceded by dimness of sight or spots before the eyes Psorinum. Haynel.
All the sutures of the skull are pressed asunder, not a single border of a bone touches its neighbor; even the eyes appear unusually protruded. Merc. sol. 12, a dose every 3 or 4 days. The child received about 10 doses. While taking the remedy there was no change in the appearance of the head, but afterwards its size decreased gradually, and in several weeks the sutures were perfectly united.
Haynel.
Chronic congestions to the head, caused by fright and grief. Phos. ac.
Haynel.
Congestion to the brain, with children, even threatened hydrocephalus. Senna.
Haynel.
Intermittent headache. Colocynth.
- Hg.
Ulcers on the upper part of the joints of the fingers and toes. C. Hg., 1830.
We all know the value of Sepia in these ulcers on the joints, which are accompanied by so few symptoms, 1860.
Boenninghausen, A. H. Z., 60, 92.
Cimicifuga. Excessive impulse of the heart over an extensive portion at the left ventricle, with dullness on percussion.
- C. M.
Nux vomica. Heart feels tired; palpitation on lying down; wind frequently raised from stomach.
- C. M.
FATTY DEGENERATION OF THE HEART
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1882-1883 Vol XIII No 1
Author
- A. Lovett
Subject
Medicine / Cases
Remedy
Acon / Ars
Physical diagnosis is yet an imperfect art, for results must be determined through a fallible mind from ever-varying symptoms and conditions. The dissecting knife often shows us not only much more than we anticipated, but many times much that we never concede. We have frequently no other way to verify weeks or months of labour save by post mortem knife, however little satisfaction it may afford the afflicted.
Within the last two years I have had under my care three or more cases of what appeared to be fatty degeneration of the heart. One point in common was that all were large, corpulent persons, and had recently become so-i.e., within a few years; one case within a few years; one case within two years. Palpitation was strongly marked in two cases, less in one; neuralgic carditis in the two cases mostly affected by palpitation. In two cases the force of the heart was weak, intermittent, and scarcely perceptible. In the gentleman, of whom I shall hereafter speak particularly (there were two ladies and one gentleman) on the contrary, the impulse was strong, force of the pulse well marked, and during exercise of any kind was so strong that it seemed to contradict the idea of fatty degeneration. One lady was badly affected, and is so yet, with syncopal attacks. The dyspnoea was very marked, giving us the “ascending and descending respiration”, commonly called the Cheyne-Stokes dyspnoea. This condition has varied in frequency at different times, but is considerably relieved by treatment. Dropsical symptoms have from time to time appeared, and again subsided, in this case; but any exertion or exercise that taxes the energies or strength is sure to bring about a return of the severe symptoms. This lady has Tanner’s wife’s appetite; hence you can judge of difficulties in the way of the physician.
My remaining lady had Tanner’s fortitude, and her restriction in diet reduced her obesity to the extent of twenty five pounds, and hence that alone, or by the assistance of remedies, gave her material relief. She has been spending the winter in Florida since November last, and I learn has suffered comparatively little.
As to the case of the gentleman in question, there was more satisfaction to the physician in regard to the disease, but infinitely less to him. The post mortem affirmed our diagnosis, and revealed much more. We saw him first on December 20,
1879, suffering with an attack of neuralgia of the heart, which we learned has been troubling him, to a greater of less degree, for several weeks. This was easily relieved by Acon. and Ars., after which we gathered the following : Tenderness in the precordial region; fullness and oppression through lower thorax at all times, greatly increased by lying down; at time she was unable to assume a recumbent position; extreme shortness of breath from the heart; exertion; frequent attacks of palpitation at other times; pulse quite regular-ninety beats per minute; not much affected by exercise, and quite strong.
His corpulency prevented me from detecting much enlargement of the heart. His nights were restless; sleep much broken and disturbed with dreams. For some months back he had developed an unnatural appetite for food calculated to favour fatty development, such as sweets, fat meats, starchy food, etc., and innocently indulged in them to the fullest extent. A few days’ treatment seemed to have the desired effect; palpitations were overcome, shortness of breath relieved, quiet sleep procured, and an almost complete relief from all symptoms. Ars. in 1st, 3d and 30th was the principal remedy used. On the 1st of January a slight oedema of the feet appeared, and in spite of well selected remedies, progressed gradually. With this exception he was feeling well, and even went into his store to attend to business. On the night of the 4th of January he retired to his room feeling exceedingly well. Five minutes later his wife followed him, and found him a corpse on the bed.
He had disrobed, and died on lying down, without a struggle.
The post mortem, twelve hours later, revealed the following : Immense deposits of fat in the thoracic cavity, and on all adjoining tissues. The diaphragm and stomach lay high up in chest. There was a small quantity of water in the right pleural cavity. The pericardium was ruptured; heart enlarged; the walls quite tender-so much so that the finger, with little force, examination was not made, but from the soft, tender condition of the muscles and the great accumulation of fat, there was no doubt in our minds but that there was fatty degeneration of the muscular fibre. The water found in the pleural cavity had evidently collected in the pericardium, and we had, as a complication, hydro-pericardium. He had undoubtedly lain down quickly, and the relaxed diaphragm had allowed the abdominal viscera to press upon the thoracic viscera, and in the weakened condition of the tissues, ruptured the pericardium, thereby producing instant death. There was no dropsical effusion in in the remaining cavities. The remarkable features of this case are, first, the fact that the impulse of the heart was not more weakened; and, secondly, the great relief afforded by remedies where the pathological conditions were so unfavourable——————-
CLINICAL CASES
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1882-1883 Vol XIII No 1
Author
- C. White
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Ars /Acon /Apis /Bry /Ip /Chin /Ham /Graph /Kalm /Merc /Sabin /Sulph /Phos /Nux-v.
M.D., Columbus. Read before the state homoeopathic medical society of Ohio
Case I.-Chronic inflammation of the fauces, with a great accumulation of thick, tenacious mucus, causing a great deal of hawking; hacking cough. The throat feels as if something was in it which she could not get out; tickling sensation worse when talking. Allopathy had been resorted to without effects or relief. Gave her Merc. sol., which effected a radical cure.
The patient was a large, fleshy woman, dark complexion, and bilious temperament.
Case II.-Same lady, some time after, was affected with facial neuralgia, depending upon paramenia. The pains were very agonizing and aggravating; sometimes she was almost frantic with pain. Gave her Sabina I; relieved entirely in about six hours. She was entirely clear from the neuralgia for three years; since that time have knowledge of her.
Case III.-A lady, aet. thirty; delicate nervous system; thin in flesh; black eyes and hair; rather lightish complexion.
Neuralgia, affecting the whole nervous system, and depending upon paramenia. Generally one week prior to her menstruation her nervous suffering was very great and agonizing. It seemed to shock her like electricity, prostrating her very much.
“Frequent shudderings”; “chilliness the whole day”; “intolerable, burning heat in the whole body, with great restlessness”; “great nervous irritability”. A great deal of pain during the first day of the menses; after that profuse flowing. she had been treated by Allopathy for seven years without any relief; she grew worse every year. I commenced giving her Sabina 2 one week prior to her menses, and during that time gave Sabina every two hours, which soon relieved her of the terrible neuralgic pains. I continued Sabina every evening for one month. Menses came without any disturbance to her nervous system.
She remained well for years afterward; never had any more trouble with neuralgia. This case occurred twenty-six years ago.
Case IV.-A lady, who was affected with neuralgia facialis; very fleshy; lymphatic temperament; soft flesh; fatty. Had been troubled with this affection for a long time; had taken a good many heroic remedies without any benefit. Her pans were relieved by going into the open air. Gave Kalmia lat., with partial relief; then gave Sabina 3, which effected a radical cure.
Case V.-A lady, aet. thirty; fair complexion; lymphatic temperament; was attacked with pneumonia, accompanied with a severe chill, followed with high fever also followed with abortion. Gave the patient Quinine and Aconite, which soon broke up the chill and fever. Copious, yellow expectoration followed. Gave Phos., Bry., and Sulph., and good, nourishing diet; patient convalesced rapidly.
Case VI.-Lady, aet. sixty; acute inflammation of the stomach; great thirst; vomiting everything in the shape of fluids; fever, 103; great prostration; great desire for cold water. She had been treated by an allopathic physician for seven days prior to my taking the case, and growing worse every hour. The characteristic symptoms were : Great thirst, vomiting, great prostration. Gave her Arsenicum 3, ten drops, third dilution, in a goblet half full of good, pure water; ordered a teaspoonful every hour until relieved. Never vomited once after the firs dose had been given. She convalesced rapidly.
Case VII.-A lady, aet. fifty; delicate constitution; was afflicted with psoriasis over the whole body, legs and arms. Had been treated with Fowler’s Solution of Arsenic for one year without benefit. Gave her Graphites 6th trit. three times a day for two weeks; after that a powder every evening for four weeks. A complete cure followed.
Case VIII.-A lady, aet. thirty-five; was pregnant three months; frequent vomiting day and night; woman in terrible distress.
Her physician had given her many remedies without effect. I was called in to sec her. Gave Nux., Ip. and several other remedies; none availed anything. I then gave her two drops of the oil of Ergot every six hours. In twelve hours she was completely relieved, and remained well until confinement.
Case IX.-A lady, aet. thirty; third-day ague, chill coming on at 2 p.m. and lasting about two hours; high fever, ending in profuse perspiration; great difficulty in urinating, with stinging sensation in the urethra; also stinging sensation in different parts of the body, as if being stung by bees. She had been troubled with the disease at different times for four or five years. She had taken Arsenicum, China and Quinine, but the paroxysms kept returning every few weeks. I gave her Apis 3, one prescription; never had a return of the fever to my knowledge.
Case X.-A lady, aet. about twenty-five years, was attacked with severe dysentery, passing a great deal of blood, attended with a good deal of pain; was treated by an allopath, and was given up to die. She wanted cooked tomatoes, but was not given any. I was called to see her; she begged me to give her some tomatoes. I did so, giving her at the same time Hamamelis I; she recovered in a week. So much for tomatoes and Ham.
TREATMENT OF THE TYPHOID SYMPTOMS VS, TYPHOID FEVER
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1882-1883 Vol XIII No 2
Author
- B. Owens
Subject
Medicine / Cases / Therapeutics / Philosophy & Discussion
Remedy
Acon / Ars / Bell / Bapt / Bry / Hyos / Stram / Sulph / Puls / Verat
Vol. XIII. Cincinnati, and Ann Arbour, August, 1882 No. 2
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Typhoid fever
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : -Our time being limited, we will proceed to offer a few thoughts upon this subject without preliminaries.
Typhoid fever has different forms, each varying in intensity, according to systems, constitutions, modes of life, and habits of the patient, also by surrounding influences, localities, epidemics, seasons, and many other predisposing and exciting causes which are productive of this, by many, most dreaded disease. It is usually divided by out authors into three forms, viz. : typhoid cerebral is, typhoid pulmonalis, and typhoid abdominal is, or versatile, stupid and putrid forms.
It is not our province in his brief sketch to discuss the pathology of this disease, neither its varied forms, but, how do we know it is typhoid fever? and from what do we conclude that it has either of the above or any other particular form? Did the patient tell us so? No. Was some kind messenger dispatched from heaven to inform us? By no means. How then? we ask. We answer, by the symptom which the disease has developed in the patient, and by which we detect if from any other form of disease, and are able to trace out all the changes and variations of which it subjects our patient. By the symptom then we are able to diagnose it typhoid fever. By the symptom we are to locate the greater points of danger. By the symptom we are able to watch and follow the disease in its varied changes, and prognose the case better or worse. The symptom then is our great Polar Star, from and by which we must make all our reckonings.
If the symptoms then be our guide in making our prognosis and diagnosis in the beginning, why shall we not so regard them and follow them in every change and variation and in every stage of the disease?
Sir Isaac Newton discovered the power of gravitation by the falling of an apple from a tree. Dr. Franklin tamed the lightning, brought it from the heavens, and called it electricity; but Prof. Morse taught it the English language, and now it is talking throughout the civilized world. But far greater than all these was the immortal Hahnemann when he discovered the power of similia. The power or influence which the drug has over, and the action it will produce in the healthy organism, thus clearly showing to the world the similia existing between the sick making properties of the drug and those of the disease; hence by giving the remedy whose sick making properties, produce symptoms like those we find in our patient, we are administering the similimum, according to this great law.
There are certain remedies, the, whose sick making properties correspond to the sick making symptoms which we find in typhoid fever, but our limited time will only allow us to refer briefly to a few.
Aconite has fever, and is usually given in fevers, but seldom is its use required in typhoid fever, for it has not the sick making properties of this disease.
Ars. has many sick making properties of this disease which we designate symptoms, viz. : in show, protracted cases, great restlessness and anxiety; constantly tossing about, especially of the head and limbs while the trunk lays still; is better from changing position; anxious expression of countenance; great thirst, drinks but little and often; aggravated at I a.m., and from lying on the affected parts.
Bry. has delirium, especially at night, or soon as he closes his eyes; talking about his business or the business of the day; hasty speech; headache, dull stitching or bursting headache, and wants to drink large draughts of water; aggravated in the evening at 9 p.m. ; can not set up; when raises up is faint; is better from laying on the painful side.
Bell. Patient is boisterous, restless and can not go to sleep; all his motions are quick and nervous; sparkling eyes; burning heat; great heat in the head; red face; hands and feet cold; heaviness of the tongue; mouth and throat dry; splitting headache; aggravated from 4 to 8 p.m., from noise, moving and bright light.
Stram. Wants the light burning; calls for his friends who are at his bedside, but does not know them.
Bapt. has dark red face, besotted expression; thinks he is scattered about and wants to get the pieces together.
Take, then, these remedies, let us individualize and compare some of their most prominent symptoms, for instance.
Ars. Patient calls for small drinks of water, and often. Bry. Patient wants large drinks of water.
Ars. Patient is worse after midnight at I a.m. Bry. Patient is worse at 9 p.m., or before midnight.
Ars. Patient is weak, feeble and trembling all the time, tossing the hands and limbs for relief, while the body lays still.
Bry. Patient is worse from motion, can not be moved. Rhus. Moves the whole and is relieved, thus differing from both Ars. and Bry.
Bell. Patient is worse from noise, from motion, and from bright lights, also differing from Ars. and Bry. The movements of Bell. are quick, while Bry. is slow, and Ars. is weak and trembling.
Bell. Patient has hot head, red face and sparkling eyes; can not sleep; while Ars. patient has pale and sallow face, anxious expression, and dry, leathery skin. Bry. Patient has flushed face, stupid expression; worse on rising up, and wants to be quiet.
Bell. Patient wants a dark room, can not bear the light; furious delirium, will strike and bite at those who are near.
Stram. Patient must have the light burning, and wants company; can not be alone.
Hyos. Patient does not know his own family; wants to be naked, must have his clothes, off, and wants to run away.
Bapt. Patient have dark red face, besotted expression; thinks he is scattered about and wants to get the pieces together, thus differing from any or either of the above remedies.
You will observe, from a careful comparison of the above symptoms, that they are not opposites and not similars.
So in like manner we may proceed to individualize and compare all the symptoms of these remedies, or, if you please, take the entire list of the proven remedies and individualize their symptoms.
You will find in many cases that a primary symptom of one remedy will become a secondary symptom of another; or a secondary symptom of the first may become a primary symptom of the second, and so on, vice versa, but in all cases the totality or similimum of the symptoms should be our guide in prescribing for the sick.
If, then, we find the similimum in Ars. why give Bry. with it when the symptoms are so opposite? Or, if the similimum be in Bry. why shall Bell. be given with it when there is not a similia existing between the sick making properties of the two remedies? Or, if the similimum be in Bell. would we for a moment think of giving Stram., Hyos. or Bapt. with it when their sick making properties are almost in direct opposition to the similimum?
If then, the principle or theory of similia be true, which we verily believe it is, then there can be but one similimum in the same case and at the same time.
If, then, Bell. contains the similimum and we give Bry. or any other remedy with it, do we not introduce into the system of our patient a new and separate disease, separate and distinct from the original similimum? and is not this being continually augmented by each additional remedy or change of remedy, unless that change be made strictly in accordance with some well marked and well defined characteristic indication?
Suppose, then, that your typhoid patient has had Ac., Ars., Bell., Bry., Rhus, and a few more remedies every hour or half hour, in alternation or succession, as if often the case, say for twelve or fourteen days, if he lives that long, has not each of these remedies exercised their sick making properties upon your patient? and each commingling has helped to prostrate the vital forces of nature, and brought up new and other more complicated conditions to be met?
The physician sees the case is becoming complicated with more alarming symptoms every day. Cerebral symptoms may have set in, or a pulmonary trouble may threaten a hasty dissolution; diarrhoea, haemorrhage from the bowel, and almost any aggravated form of the disease might be anticipated at this stage. But what has complicated it? Is it not in a great measure, if not entirely, from the continued and persistent introduction into the system of your patient, new and different sick making properties than those demanded by the similimum? And yet with all you have not now one single characteristic symptom left that would lead to a similimum, but like a vessel at sea, tossed by the tides, winds and waves, without either compass, helm or anchor.
With this heroic medication, which we may call treating typhoid fever on general principles or by name, the complications become greater and greater day by day, until the vital forces of nature must finally succumb to the combined action of these powerful agents upon the cerebro spinal and vegetative nervous systems, when the physician will see that death must be the inevitable result.
After many years of close investigation, with careful study and observation of this disease in its varied forms and changes, I firmly believe that there are more patients die in the hands of homoeopathic physicians under this so called homoeopathic treatment than from any other one cause in following the natural course of this disease.
Not so when we can read the symptom and know each and every change as it occurs and are able to apply the similimum in the case, thus allowing one remedy to exhaust its effects or to remove its own sick making symptoms from the patient before those of another shall become manifest. By so doing each remedy must have due time to act before being disturbed by the introduction of another remedy; thus each individual remedy, which has its own individual characteristic symptoms or sick making properties and each successive characteristic indication, shall, from time to time, be allowed to call for its own individual similimum.
It is, then, of the highest importance that the physician should make himself thoroughly acquainted with the sick-making properties of each and every remedy, so when he sees these symptoms as they develop in his patient, he will be able readily to call to mind the characteristic indication for the similimum.
By thus treating our typhoid patients according to this great law, and let the so called typhoid fever take care of itself, we will soon expel from the minds of our patients and their friends the dread and horror of this disease, relieve our own minds of this anxiety, avoid dreaded complications, see our patients passing quietly and smoothly from one stage to another, and to a final and happy convalescence. We say then, threat the symptom according to the similia, and let the so called typhoid fever take care of itself anon.
Case I. Aug. 12, 1881. Mr S., act. 23, had been sick for two weeks. The fourteenth day was passed under the treatment of another homoeopathic physician. Was taken very badly about 10 P.m. that night; the attending physician was called but refused to go. I was then called and arrived there at 3 a.m. As I entered the room the first thing that attracted my attention was a wild, staring expression from his eyes, very much emaciated, a pinched up appearance of the muscles of the skin of the face, while the skin seemed to be drawn tightly over this nose and face, with a contracted and pinched up appearance of the nares, all of which seemed to add to his death-like appearance.
He was holloing and writhing with pain in the bowels, holding both hands on the bowels and begging for relief. I asked him to describe the nature and character of his pain; he said it was cutting and tearing him to pieces, and burned like fire.
Without further examination at this time, the symptoms and appearance being clearly characteristic of the remedy, I at once gave a dose of Canth. Im potency, pills on the tongue; in less than ten minutes he got easier and soon went to sleep; he slept about thirty minutes when he awoke and asked for water which was given. I gave him another dose of Canth. Im potency, this time in water. He soon went to sleep again and slept, near two hours. During this time I learned something of the history of the case, which was in substance as follows. The first week the doctor called it intermittent fever, and treated him accordingly, and the next week he called it typhoid fever, and had been giving him three remedies nearly all the time, every half hour or hour in alternation or succession, ever since he was taken sick, and would sometimes leave a few powders to be thrown in at extra times.
To use their own expression, “we have gave him so much medicine and so often, that we don’t know how he has stood it this long”. They said he has had these paroxysms of pain at some time during the twenty-four hours ever since he was taken sick, coming and going at times, either night or day, without any regularity or any apparent relief until they wore out themselves. I continued Canth. every two hours that day, and in the evening found him resting quietly, very weak and feeble; had passed urine about noon, being the first for about twenty hours; pulse 120, weak and feeble, but the symptoms were so much confused (from taking so much medicine as I thought) that I could not make a satisfactory diagnosis, he being in a very exhausted condition. I stopped medicine at 9 p.m., ordered beef tea and such other nourishment as he could take in small quantities, every two hours during the night, and waited for a reaction.
Aug. 13th, S a.m. Found him somewhat revived, has a fair night and had taken some nourishment, but had passed no urine since the day before; complained or a dragging sensation in the kidney and bladder, but no pain. Gave him Lyc. 6m potency, one dose, and Placebo the balance of the day. In the evening learned that he had a free action from the kidney, and a dark, watery operation from the bowel, which looked like decomposed blood and water; seemed quiet and resting easy. Gave him one more dose of Lyc. 6m and let him rest until morning, hoping he effects of the heroic medication he had received would subside, so that other symptoms would appear, believing as I did that the strong (low potency- and often repeated doses of the various and combined remedies had aided much in producing, if not the direct cause of the prostrated condition of the vital forces of his system, and reaction must be had before further medication. I told the family I thought the next twenty-four hours would decide the case, being the seventeenth day of his sickness, and we should be prepared to meet every emergency.
Aug. 14th. Was called again at 4 a.m. They said he was taken worse about 3 a.m., was failing rapidly, was very much exhausted; was very thirsty, but could not bear the taste of water, and all the time felt like his bowels would move, but had no pan. These symptoms led me to think of Nux v. which I gave him every half hour for two doses, 2c potency, then rested an hour when we found that his feet and limbs were becoming cold and clammy. I now gave him Verat. alb. 34m, being the lowest I had with me, two doses, one-half hour apart, then every hour, and had his feet and limbs wrapped in warm flannels. At eight o’clock he seemed to be getting warm and much revived. I left him and returned at 11:15 a.m. they met at the door and said he had been sinking again since eleven o’clock. I found him lying quietly on his back and almost motionless. Said he had no pain or suffering; his limbs, feet and hands cold; pulse barely perceptible at the wrist. After examining him carefully, and finding no definite symptoms, I thought surely the man must die. Just then I observed hi swimming, watery eyes, with a small deposit of whitish-yellow mucus or matter in either canthus; his head also being hot, and cold extremities. With these symptoms I decided to rest the case on Sulphur, as it was then a case of life or death.
I prepared Sulph. 6m potency in water, and gave him one teaspoonful, then waited the result. In about one-half hour I observed his head was not so hot, eyes not so watery, and but little new deposit had formed in the inner canthi. He said in a whisper, “Dr., I felt that medicine go all over me, it is warming me up”. And true enough, for in another hour his hands and feet were warm, and he was apparently much revived, I left him at 2 p.m. and returned at 5 o’clock. Found him in a good warm perspiration, had taken a little nourishment, and was in a fair condition. Gave no more medicine, but ordered nourishment every two hours, and to repeat Sulph. at any time during the night if exhaustion or prostration should come up.
Aug. 15th. One more dose of Sulph. was given at 11 p.m. and no more medicine until I saw him next morning. Found the man was in every respect better and doing well. Gave Placebo and nourishment, and let Sulph. act undisturbed. Found him, 6 p.m. much stronger, a good reaction had set in, complained of flatulence, or wind on the stomach; Gave him Puls. 6m potency, every hour until his stomach, was relieved, which required two doses.
Aug. 16th. Found he had rested well the night before, was much stronger and better in all respects; pulse 88 in a good, gentle perspiration. All he complained of was the flatulence at times of the evening before. Puls. 6m was continued every two hours. 6 p.m. was better and stronger with no new symptoms. Gave Placebo and let him rest.
Aug. 17th. Found a good reaction, and felt that convalescence had truly set in, as a result of one dose of Sulph. 6m potency. The balance of the treatment, which consisted only of an occasional dose of medicine as the symptoms of the case required, for the succeeding few days is not of mature importance here. Suffice it to say that the case progressed smoothly and steadily to a final happy recovery, and he is to day a living, moving, walking, talking advertisement for pure Homoeopathy.
Case II. Oct. 25th, 1881. I was just recovering from a severe spell of sickness, and the first day I had been in my office, when Mr. W., act. 60, tall, spare and sanguine temperament, called to see me, he knowing I had been sick, said he came to find out whether he was sick. From his quickly spoken expression I at once observed that he was very nervous, he seemed weak and exhausted; said he had been up and down for over a week, but would not give up. He was supporting himself with a came to keep from falling, being so dizzy; his face was slightly flush or red on each cheek and whenever he moved or moved his head said it seemed like his head would burst with pain.
Upon further examination I found the following additional symptoms; pulse 120, small, feeble and wiry; tongue dry and brown, with rd tip and edges, dry in the middle; dry, brown lips; thirsty and wanted to drink large draughts of water; everything tasted bitter, even water; no appetite; craved wine, although a strictly temperate man; he was all the time tired and could not get rested, and had been aching all over for two weeks. At this moment his son came in and told me he had been flighty and delirious for four or five days and nights; soon as he lay down or tried to sleep he began to talk about his business matters, which seemed to give him a great deal of trouble and anxiety, although everything was in good condition. He would not allow them to send for a doctor or medicine, for fear they would call it typhoid fever, he and the family all being afraid of that disease, he had been so talkative and restless at night that they could not leave him alone; he would not let them come and see me except he came along; said he had been flighty and talked strangely all day.
All these symptoms considered led me to think of Bry. as containing the totality of the sick-making symptoms in the case. I gave him Bry. 2c; told him to go home, go to bed, and keep quiet, and directed his son to prepare the medicine in water and give a dose every hour until 10 p.m. if awake and let me hear from him next day, it being then 3 p.m.
October 26th. His daughter sent me the following note : “Father more quiet to-day; slept more, and not quite so flighty last night; tongue and lips dry; no appetite; pulse 112”. Continued Bry.
October 27th. Reported he rested better; tongue becoming moist, and lighter color; ate some toast and drank a little tea; pulse 108. Continued Bry. 2c every two hours.
October 28th. He seems more quiet this morning; was flighty at times during the night when he slept, and talked and muttered about everything; took some beef tea and tea; pulse 106 at 10 a.m. Sent him Bry. 40 m, to be taken in water, a dose every three hours, until 9 p.m.
October 29th. He rested better last night; says he has no pain r ache, and feels like he could be up; in a gentle perspiration; tongue cleaning; pulse 100. Sent Placebo, to be taken every two hours, and Bry. night and morning.
October 30th. He rested better, and we think he is better in every respect. Sent Placebo as before, and Bry. at 9 p.m.
November 1st. He seems to be resting quietly to-day; pulse 96. Sent Placebo and stopped Bry.
November 2d. Messenger came, requesting me to visit if able, saying he was very stupid and drowsy. I went, and found the following symptoms : Dry, hot, yellow or sallow skin; pulse 100; sleepy and drowsy; would not keep awake; would rouse up when spoken to, then drop into his stupor again; said he had no pain or ache, and complained of nothing only they would not let him sleep; tongue dry and yellow, with a bitter, foul taste in the mouth; breath very offensive; gums red, swollen and sore; tenderness over the liver. The above symptoms caused me to think of Mer., and a comparison showed me that it contained the similimum. I gave Mer. 3m (Fincke) in water, a dose every hour until a change, then only every two hours.
November 3d. Found all his symptoms improved. Continued Mer. 3 m, every three hour”.
November 4th. Pulse 92; tongue moist, and cleaning; still stupid and sleepy, but not so deep a sopor; symptoms all changing favourably. Continued Merc. as before.
November 5th. Continued improvement; in a good, gentle perspiration. Gave Placebo, and one dose of Mer. 3m at night.
November 6th and 7th. Continued improvement; gave Placebo.
November 8th. Improvement continued; many of his symptoms had entirely passed away or changed; had passed no urine for eighteen hours; had a dragging sensation in the kidneys and lumbar region, with pressing in the bladder, but afforded him no pain. Gave him Lyc. 6m potency, one dose, and continued Placebo.
November 9th. They said in about one hour after I left he had a free, copious discharge of urine, and in the evening a free operation from the bowels; said he felt well, and could get up if not so weak; pulse 88, and in a good, gentle perspiration.
Gave Placebo.
November 10th. He complained of soreness in his limbs; found his tongue red at the tip, and dry; dry, clammy, or sticky sensation in the mouth; said there was something in his mouth that he had been trying all morning to get off, which proved to be a tough, brownish mucus on the fauces ad gums; skin seemed hot, but with a gentle perspiration; pulse 88. These symptoms led me to think of Rhus, which I found covered the totality. I gave Rhus 2c, a dose every two hours.
November 11th. Found a well-marked triangle on tip of the tongue; mouth dry; not so much soreness; perspiration continued; symptoms all modified; pulse 88. Gave Rhus 2c as before.
November 12th. Tongue not so dry; mouth felt and tasted better; said he felt better; not so much soreness, pulse 86, soft and mild. Rhus. 2m (Fincke) every two hours.
November 13th. Better in all respects. Continued Rhus, every three hours.
November 14th. Continued improvement, with a good perspiration, and taking some nourishment. Rhus, as before.
November 15th. Continued improvement. Gave Placebo, and one dose of Rhus 75m at night.
November 16th. Gave Placebo, and one dose of Rhus 75m at night.
November 17th. Did not visit. Continued the same.
November 18th. Improving nicely. Continued the same.
November 19th. Did not visit. Continued the same.
November 20th. Said he would be well if not so weak; was so weak and trembling when he attempted to walk or do anything; tongue had cleaned, except a yellow coating in the middle, toward the back part; appetite was returning; food taste natural.
For the trembling and weakness, with other light symptoms that remained, I found China to be the indicated remedy, and gave him a dose every three hours.
November 22d. Felt much stronger; was sitting in his chair. China was continued at intervals of every three or four hours, and the case discharged on the 25th, reported well.
Case III.-Pulsatilla 6m potency vs.
Morphine.-Mrs. H., who has for some time been in poor health, was taken very suddenly with meteorism from the relaxed state of the stomach and bowels, which almost instantly developed a large amount of gas and threw her into most violent paroxysms of colic. Her pain and suffering was most violent and intense. Being her family physician they sent for me immediately. The messenger not finding me in my office at that moment, went for another homeopathic physician who called and worked with her for over an hour, by applying hot wet compresses, mustard poultices, etc., and gave her, as they told me, medicine every five minutes, in addition to two doses of Morphine, all to no purpose, the lady was getting worse every minute, when they again sent for me. I found her agonizing from pain and in the above condition. A clear case of meteorism, and a very large accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowel, with no action in these to expel it. They said the doctor could get no effects from his medicine, and had gone to his office to get a hypodermic syringe to give her a hypodermic injection of Morphine.
They requested me to take the case as I was her physician. I at once took in the situation and ordered the wet clothing removed, and wrap her body and limbs in a dry, warm blanket; No sooner said than done, when a quantity of wet clothing and two or three mustard poultices were piled in the corner of the room where they should have been at first. The profuse cold sweat over her face, head and hands (notwithstanding the hot applications- with the extreme pain in the stomach and great difficulty of breathing, directed my mind at once to Pulsatilla. I immediately prepared Puls. 6m potency in water, and gave her one teaspoonful. In ten minutes I repeated it, and in just twelve minutes from the time I gave the first dose she began to belch flatus from the stomach, one peal after another followed, and in half an hour she was resting quietly and easily.
In addition to the flatus, she threw up a quantity of green colored water and mucus. About fifteen minutes later the hypodermic doctor came with his syringe, only to find the lady relieved by the purely homoeopathic remedy in the case.
VERIFIED SYMPTOMS OF ACONITUM NAPELLUS
Volume
1882-1883 Vol XIII No 3
Author
- A. Allen
Subject
Materia Medica / Cases
Remedy
Acon
St. John’s, Mich
“Violent cough, with painful shootings in different parts of the chest, compelling him to lie on his back, and preventing his lying on his side”. (904, Allen’s Encyclopaedia).
I have cured many cases of cough, particularly in children, guided by this characteristic symptom of Aconite. The amelioration, from lying quietly on the back, being often met with in children, has never failed to be a “guiding symptom” for me. Here we are unable to obtain many symptoms, hence the value of the position which gives relief.
“Numb, tingling sensations in arms and hands, as though the poles of a galvanic battery were being held” (1219). “Very restless nights. Restless tossing in bed.” (1505). “Numbness in arms and hands”. (1220). Case :
Case
Mrs. J.F. –, aged about 37. Hair, complexion and eyes dark. Had been confined in April, 1879, and attended by a lady homoeopathic physician until June without improving sufficiently to be able to sleep at night or sit up an hour at a time.
Becoming discouraged, an allopath was called, who was unable to do anything without counsel; whereupon allopath No. 2 was called, who perfectly agreed with No. 1, and together they treated the patient for two months, without benefit. From September until December she occupied her time in trying to become resigned to her fate, and remaining in about the same condition.
On December 18, she decided to change her medical advisers, at which time I found her unable to stand upon her feet, which she said were “like pieces of cork under her-numb and tingling”. Little or no appetite, and sleepless at night, and almost a constant perspiration as soon as she covered up at night. Pulse small, hard, and rapid (from 90 to 110). This being about 930 p.m., I made no further examination that night, but left two doses of Aconite 3; one to be taken then, and the other in two hours, if awake; if not, in the morning. Before an hour she was carried to her bed, and slept soundly until about 4 a.m., when she awoke, changed her sweaty clothes for dry ones, repeated the dose, and slept soundly until 8.30 a.m., the first sleep without morphia in about nine months. In a week she did a large washing, and remained well.
I have frequently used Aconite in numbness of the extremities, where congestion of the spine, following confinement, or a fall, or blow, or badly treated sympathetic irritation from uterine displacements, or ovarian disease, was the cause.
Volume
1882-1883 Vol XIII No 3
Author
- A. Allen
Subject
Materia Medica / Cases
Remedy
Acon
St. John’s, Mich
“Violent cough, with painful shootings in different parts of the chest, compelling him to lie on his back, and preventing his lying on his side”. (904, Allen’s Encyclopaedia).
I have cured many cases of cough, particularly in children, guided by this characteristic symptom of Aconite. The amelioration, from lying quietly on the back, being often met with in children, has never failed to be a “guiding symptom” for me. Here we are unable to obtain many symptoms, hence the value of the position which gives relief.
“Numb, tingling sensations in arms and hands, as though the poles of a galvanic battery were being held” (1219). “Very restless nights. Restless tossing in bed.” (1505). “Numbness in arms and hands”. (1220). Case :
Case
Mrs. J.F. –, aged about 37. Hair, complexion and eyes dark. Had been confined in April, 1879, and attended by a lady homoeopathic physician until June without improving sufficiently to be able to sleep at night or sit up an hour at a time.
Becoming discouraged, an allopath was called, who was unable to do anything without counsel; whereupon allopath No. 2 was called, who perfectly agreed with No. 1, and together they treated the patient for two months, without benefit. From September until December she occupied her time in trying to become resigned to her fate, and remaining in about the same condition.
On December 18, she decided to change her medical advisers, at which time I found her unable to stand upon her feet, which she said were “like pieces of cork under her-numb and tingling”. Little or no appetite, and sleepless at night, and almost a constant perspiration as soon as she covered up at night. Pulse small, hard, and rapid (from 90 to 110). This being about 930 p.m., I made no further examination that night, but left two doses of Aconite 3; one to be taken then, and the other in two hours, if awake; if not, in the morning. Before an hour she was carried to her bed, and slept soundly until about 4 a.m., when she awoke, changed her sweaty clothes for dry ones, repeated the dose, and slept soundly until 8.30 a.m., the first sleep without morphia in about nine months. In a week she did a large washing, and remained well.
I have frequently used Aconite in numbness of the extremities, where congestion of the spine, following confinement, or a fall, or blow, or badly treated sympathetic irritation from uterine displacements, or ovarian disease, was the cause.
ACONITE 1X IN INSOMNIA
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1882-1883 Vol XIII No 8
Author
- E. Burchfield
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon
Anxiety, trembling, sleep
Case
June 1, 1882, Mr. W., aged 42; darked; stooped; nervous. Under the excitement of financial embarrassments, and the uncertainties of a new attempt to recover his losses, he became nervous, anxious, fearful, trembling, and his appetite and sleep deserted him. For relief he sought intoxicants, but soon his “night cap” failed to make him rest. Under these conditions I prohibited night drinking, and gave him a vial of No. 40 pellets saturated with Aconite 1x.; 5 pellets to be taken at 9 p.m., and repeated every hour until asleep. Under this simple soporific he soon began to recover, his anxiety and nervousness disappeared, and he went to sleep and slept naturally every night. A cure was soon effected under this treatment. I have found the homoeopathic remedy a better sleep producer than Chloral, Morphia, or Bromides, even in such severe cases as delirium tremens.
ACONITE 1X IN INSOMNIA
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1882-1883 Vol XIII No 8
Author
- E. Burchfield
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon
Anxiety, trembling, sleep
Case
June 1, 1882, Mr. W., aged 42; darked; stooped; nervous. Under the excitement of financial embarrassments, and the uncertainties of a new attempt to recover his losses, he became nervous, anxious, fearful, trembling, and his appetite and sleep deserted him. For relief he sought intoxicants, but soon his “night cap” failed to make him rest. Under these conditions I prohibited night drinking, and gave him a vial of No. 40 pellets saturated with Aconite 1x.; 5 pellets to be taken at 9 p.m., and repeated every hour until asleep. Under this simple soporific he soon began to recover, his anxiety and nervousness disappeared, and he went to sleep and slept naturally every night. A cure was soon effected under this treatment. I have found the homoeopathic remedy a better sleep producer than Chloral, Morphia, or Bromides, even in such severe cases as delirium tremens.
ACONITE IN CHRONIC CONDITIONS
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1883-1884 Vol XIV No 6
Author
- B. Gilbert
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon
Case
A young man about 5 ft. 9 in. high, thin, with light hair and blue eyes, was in the habit of being out late at night with “the boys” which finally brought on a dull pain at the base of the brain, that nothing but a good night’s sleep would relieve. He afterwards married and “settled down.” He lost his right arm just below the elbow in the late war and is a government clerk. In September 1876, his symptoms were as follows :
Walked into the office in a dull and listless way, looking as though he had not a friend inn the world. Very low spirited, and had doubts about getting well. Sudden feeling of pressure upwards in the head; feels in the head as if he would face to the right, to which side he staggers when walking. Wakes suddenly from sleep with an indescribable feeling of fear of something, he knows not what, an “all gone” feeling at the epigastrium, in which, as well as the head, there is a throbbing; draws very short breaths for ten or fifteen minutes (probably not one-half of that, G.), after which attack passes off though it may return before he falls asleep; these attacks sometimes come on while he is undressing, or in the morning while dressing, not through the day. During these attacks the heart is much quickened. Feeling of fullness in left side. Numb, prickling feeling in left arm running up, to shoulder. Eyes weak when the trouble is bad and when looking intently at anything white. Constipated. An infinite variety of sensations all over which he cannot describe or even recollect, they are so numerous. A few powders of Acon. 30. In a week he walked into the office with a quick springy step, his head up, and his countenance bright and cheerful; “have not had an attack for a week until yesterday, but I was sight seeing with friends and climbed the dome of the capitol, and last night had a slight attack.” Aconite 200.
June 1st, 1879. Had no return and had to be reminded of the symptoms one by one. Turning to guiding symptoms we find :
No. 2. Vertigo, staggers to the right.
No. 3. Fullness and heavy feeling as if something would push out of the forehead.
No. 5. Sensitive to light x x; light dazzles the eyes.
No. 8. Anxious expression.
No. 17. Palpitation in pit of stomach with peevish anxiety.
No. 29. Anxiety, difficulty of breathing, flying heat in the face, sensation of something rushing into head.
No. 32. Numbness of the left arm; can scarcely move the hand; tingling of the fingers.
No. 36. Numbness, tingling; left side. Formication now in one, now in another part.
No. 42. Direction : towards right side; staggers to right in vertigo.
No. 46. Fine pinchings as from needles here and there.
It is so common to give aconite for fever, to which I contend it is not homoeopathic, and for little else, especially in chronic conditions that I report this case with much satisfaction. Besides it shows what a valuable mirror the guiding symptoms is, for the case is perfectly pictured there. It has seemed that aconite is rarely indicated in this climate,Bryonia and Rhus tox. seeming to take the place that aconite does west of the Mississippi river.
ACONITE IN CHRONIC CONDITIONS
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1883-1884 Vol XIV No 6
Author
- B. Gilbert
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon /Rhus-t /Calc / Calc-p /Ars /Eup /Merc /Nux-v /Nat-m /Chin-s
Case
In March last, a plethoric man got chilled in a north-west wind about 4 P.M. When I saw him at 11 P.M., he was going from one side of the bed to the other, grunting and groaning, his joints all swollen and very painful, high fever (the chilliness had ceased), and very much afraid that he was going to have rheumatism. Gave aconite 200 in water, every hour; at 2 A.M. he went to sleep and when he woke at 6 A.M. the swelling and excitability were all gone and much of the restlessness, but his fever was as high as ever and it did not come down at all until he got Rhus tox. when it rapidly and permanently subsided.
“Inflammation” is not “fever.” Pathologists may theorize as much as they please in the dead house, and pathology is good, while therapeutists cure in the sick room by means of the remedy that covers the facts of the case – the symptoms. It is much better to know much materia medica and little pathology, than much pathology and little materia medica, but better still to know both. However, in the first case detailed above, I didn’t stop to ask what remedies affect the solar or other plexus, but the similimum according to the symptoms, cured.
CONGESTIVE HEADACHE
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1888 Vol XX No 4
Author
- D. Stow
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon
Congestive headache
Case
Mrs. M. S., aged 49, is approaching her menopausis. She is tall, but of good weight and has usually a florid complexion.
Hair black, but getting gray. She complained as follows, for two weeks or more prior to November 27th :
Fear of impending evil : restless.
Severe headache throughout the cranium, with sensation of fullness, dizziness, flickering before the eyes, impairment of vision, roaring, hissing in ears; nausea, anorexia, eructations of gas, tenderness in epigastrium and in lower abdomen.
She also had icy cold hands and feet, with redness of face on lying down, and great pallor with nausea and small, thread-like, doughy pulse on rising.
She likewise could not sleep, and grew poor.
One prescription of Aconite 30, a powder every four hours, acted like magic She was quite herself the next day, November 28th, and has improved daily since. She said to me to-day (Dec. 11th) : “I am well; nothing ails me, and I have not been as well for a year.”.
CASES CURED BY A FEW COMMON REMEDIES
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1888 Vol XX No 5
Author
- E. Burchfield
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon
Houtzdale, Pa.
Sunstroke
Case
David R., aged 35. A red, thin, stoop-shouldered carpenter. Working in the hot sun roofing, he was prostrated by the heat, and the following symptoms appeared when I saw him the next day : Red face, great nervousness, excitability and fear, intense thirst, hot, dry skin and a full, bounding pulse. Aconite 3x promptly furnished relief.
MEDICINE IN PARTURITION
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1889 Vol XXIII No 2
Author
- W. Brandt
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Cham / Acon
I frankly acknowledge my inability to do justice to a subject as great as this. However I will add my mite, and by so doing may encourage others who are more able. I have never been obliged to forsake the law, and I find by the close observance of it at all times you will not only shorten but lessen the pains of labor. I have used in all cases the remedy that was best indicated by taking the objective and subjective symptoms as a whole, and I have been rewarded with speedy and safe labor, but not rapid and violent, controlling spasmodic and urging lagging pains, and at all times assuring the patient of the progress made. I will give some cases and hope they will be of service to some one:
Mrs. B–, aged 31, sanguine temperament, fifth labor; had always been sick for forty-eight hours, and sometimes longer, followed by profuse and alarming hemorrhage. She was taken sick at 2 A. M., restless and tearful, and at times spiteful. I watched her for a time and decided on Chamomilla. I gave her a few doses of the 6x in water and awaited results. She soon quieted down and the pains became regular and dilatation went on. She had a very easy labor. At 7 A. M. I delivered her of a male child weighing 91/2 pounds, just five hours from first pains. She had no return of former hemorrhages.
Mrs. W–, aged 24, light complexion and high temper; second labor, her first being triplets. She was taken sick in the evening, sent for a physician, but the one sent for being sick sent another in his place. Upon his entering the room her
pains left her, as she did not wish the one who came. She remained so for at least eighteen hours, then sent for me. I found her quiet and seemingly indifferent. I made a very careful examination, found every thing in good condition, but at a standstill; her pains were far apart and seemingly suppressed. I could get no good indications for a remedy, so gave Sac. lac., being unaware of the physician’s visit before me. I waited for a couple of hours when I remarked that I wanted her to go to work or I would provoke her to anger, when one of the ladies who was in attendance said: “send for Dr. –, he had herangry last night.” The cat was out, so I took the situation in, asked some questions, -she being frightened by the Dr. as she thought he lost all of his cases, and the fear seemed to remain. I decided on Aconite 10x, and in less than an hour and a half she was delivered of a fine boy and was comfortable.
In regard to medicine prior to confinement, I believe the one chosen with strict adherence to the law of similars is the best, and will accomplish more than any of the so-called specifics. We must be careful and keep out of ruts. Better take time and do our work well and reap the reward of all who strive for eminence.-Trans. I. H. A., 1889.
CLINICAL CONTRIBUTIONS
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1989 Vol XXIII No 3
Author
- Fincke
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Merc / Calc / Sulph / Lach / Nit-ac / Acon / Plb / Arg-n / Phos / Bry
Dr. Bloede told me of a case of sciatica worse in the night, that patient must get up and walk around. Mercurius was carefully selected according to the symptoms and the 6th potency given.
The next day patient said: “You have given me Mercury.” He had salivation and a sensation at the teeth and gums as at a former time in Java, when he received large doses of Mercury for dysentery. But the pains were somewhat less. Upon a further dose of Mercurius 30 all the symptoms disappeared.
Remarks.-1. The simility was satisfied with regard to the symptoms, but not to the dose.
- Mercurius coming upon a psoric taint was probably the cause of his disease.
- Mercurius low improved somewhat, but brought out pathopoetic symptoms of Mercury.
- Mercurius high cured the old and new symptoms.
Dr. E. Stevenson, Virginia City, Nev., (Med. Inv., XI, 38), gave to a conductor for vomiting from disorder of stomach, affecting the head with neuralgia, a dose of Nux vom. 30 at 10 P. M.
Half an hour after spasms set in continuing through the night from 10:55 P. M. to 8 A. M. Patient had 25 or 30 spasms, 15 or 16 of which were very violent, and all similar to those produced by Strychnine.
The case went into allopathic hands at 10:55 P.M., patient was finally restored to consciousness and case “looked hopeful,” as the local paper remarked.
Remarks.-The high potency produced pathopoetic symptoms and probably cured that for which it was given.
From a private letter of Dr. A. Lippe: “I gave to an epileptic patient who had an attack always after a doze, at noon, Lachesis 60m (F.)”
The improvement commenced, and continued without any aggravation.
Remarks.-Simility of symptoms and dose were satisfied.
From the same source. A young lady of 18, formerly and repeatedly, quickly relieved from right-sided menstrual colic by Apis 200, complained after waking up, of cutting pains at the heart, as with knives, which decreased or increased, last a few hours, with redness of the face, followed by general coldness-had the attacks only when waking up; for two weeks in the country.
A dose of Sulphur 40m (F.) caused immediate amelioration which continued.
Remarks.-Results show correctness of symptoms and dose.
Case V.-Dr. Lippe took for diarrhea Sulphur cm (F.) and cured it, but got facial and other pains from it; and now after two months, has rheumatic pains of the inter-costal muscles and of the heart, worse on moving, short difficult breath.
Remarks.-Curative action followed by pathopoetic symptoms either from want of symptoms or dose simility.
The following remark of Dr. A. Lippe on this occasion is of importance:
“In high-sensitives the high potencies aggravate too much, and less high are better. These terrible, long-standing aggravations are not necessary, and though they are rare exceptions, we must learn to avoid them. There must be a difference; it is impossible that one and the same potency should always heal speedily and gently in all sicknesses and under all circumstances. There is a wide field open, and only the experiment and experience can decide.”
Case VI-Dr. Hawley, Med. Inv., August, 1881, page 162, gave to a syphilitic patient Nitric ac. 85m (F.) seven powders. Patient would not take more of it because every powder made him worse.
Remarks.-Selection of remedy and dose incorrect.
Case VII.-Dr. Thorer gave Lachesis 30 for poisoning by the bite of a viper. Every dose produced severe aggravation, but the case, a fearful one, got well within five days. He gave three powders in all.
Remarks.-Correct as to selection, but faulty as to dose.
For dyspeptic symptoms, probably from eating too rapidly, I gave Sulphur cm, six powders, one every night for two days. The whole esophagus from the cardia to the pharynx ached incessantly, proceeding from the place where she felt the pressure, which was felt for a few days after, and then disappeared. Since then she is like another being, perfectly well.
Remarks.-Selection of remedy right; dose faulty.
Case IX.-A girl with a soft tumor as large as a walnut upon the left seventh rib anteriorally, somewhat sore, occasionally a sharp, short pain, received Lachesis 7mm (F.). This helped her in a day’s time, and for two weeks she did not feel the least pain. The third week the nose bled almost every day, sometimes very fast and quite a quantity, and then it would bleed only a few drops from the left nostril. The pain along the rib returned quite often during the third week and then changed to a beating; but the tumor showed no change.
Remarks.-The result was pathopoetic symptoms only.
A woman got for headache over the eyes, with glimmering before them, and hammering in ears, sometimes snapping in ears, heat of cheeks, nausea; worse in evening and when sitting down, Pulsatilla 45m (F.). After one day’s headache a thick, white, shiny leucorrhea excoriating the parts, followed by itching, and a sore blister on the left labium majus; which with all the first symptoms except the aural disappeared.
Remarks.-Correct selection of remedy; incorrect of dose.
Case XI.-A young man, taken too much with political excitement at an election, got Aconite 900 (F.) to be taken in water, two divided doses. Commenced vomiting of three quarts of bile in twelve hours, and went out the next day.
Remarks.-Remedy correct, potency also.
Case XII.-Consumptive patient from Phosphorus mm (F.) had every time he took it, diarrhea, with burning in anus.
Remarks.-Dose incorrect.
Gave M. for difficult hearing in left ear lasting for several months (on hearing music and closing the sound right ear, the tones she hears are a few notes deeper) Argentum n., 40 m (F.) In the afternoon, she got a heaviness in the left upper half of the head above the ears. In the evening could hear the tones more distinctly; also the next day. The tones were equal in sound to both ears, but not so loud to the left. Later in bed the heaviness moved further upward and backward in the phrenological region of conscientiousness, and was gone the next day; and then the hearing was right.
Remarks.-Incorrect dose, with pathopoetic symptoms, namely, the heaviness in the left side of vertex.
A woman received for spitting blood with pressure on the chest and thick yellow expectoration, Ferrum met. mm (F.), which cured without any aggravation, and the symptoms were gone from the time of taking the medicine.
Remarks.-Correct remedy and dose.
Dr. Kaercher gave Plumbum 200 for colicky pain, as if the abdominal wall were drawn toward the spine with cords, with thin yellow diarrhea.
“That medicine of yours, ” said the patient, “must be of powerful stock. The night I saw you the pains were simply horrible, toward morning they lessened and within two days everything was gone.”
Remarks.-Remedy right; dose incorrect.
Case XVI.-In case where for sore throat it was distinctly indicated, Mercurius viv. cm was given, but with no effect at all in regard to the pathogenetic picture. On the contrary, a number of symptoms developed which showed clearly the pathopoetic action of Mercurius.
Remarks:-Remedy correct: dose incorrect.
After that the same patient presented a similar experience with other remedies from which the inference was now drawn that lower high-potencies 900 and 9m might act beneficially and curatively without producing a train of pathopoetic symptoms, which actually turned out to be so.
It must, however, be remarked that the pathopoetic symptoms observed upon the patient were most distinct and available for practical use, though obtained in a partially unhealthy state. Although theoretically the principle is right to prove the medicines upon the healthy, practically no such absolutely healthy persons are found, on account of the etiological influences of the arch-miasms which come down from thousands of generations upon our present age. We must be content, to test our remedies upon such persons as are in present good health and the symptoms which belong to the unhealthy conditions in former times being called out by the proving must be considered to belong to it, because the medicine had the power to hunt them up.
But to make use of such sensitive patients in their sickness for the sake of making provings is a procedure which ought not to be sanctioned. For the patient claims from our professional duty, to be healed, not made sick, and more sick than before, by remedies and doses calculated to bring out a valuable string of symptoms. The physician should strive to avoid this temptation, and to individualize the susceptibility of the patient, in order to find out which healing potency is to be given.
In addition to this personal sensitiveness must be considered; the sensitiveness produced by the distunement of the life-force during sickness; which sometimes, especially in the higher grades of sensibility where life is endangered, resents the higher potencies. It remains, however, to be gleaned from experience and experiment what the highest potencies, going beyond the millions, might do.
Not much comfort for the latitudinarian who claims the whole scale of potencies, but hardly ever rises beyond the low decimals Hahnemann shut down upon these in his 16th aphorism of the Organon where he points upward, not downward. Hahnemannians inclining downward, should study this paragraph carefully, and make up their minds, that the simility of the potency is the necessary complement of the simility of the symptoms.
Dr. Emory: I have listened to that paper with deep interest; it is along the line of thoughts which have exercised me considerably and often. Dr. Fincke has certainly thrown some light upon the question, but has left us in darkness still. Has
Dr. Fincke found out how we are to individualize our cases in regard to potencies? Is there any other way except empiricism?
Are there any rules by which we can select the different potencies for different patients? I am sure Homeopaths all over the world would be thankful to Dr. Fincke for some light on this subject.
Dr. Reed: The action of potencies on the human organization is wonderful.
A patient sick unto death from malarial fever, was treated by an Allopath, on account of the distance from a Homeopath. I was afterwards requested to make a visit. The simillimum was Sulphur, and I gave the 51m (F.).
The man was cured with one dose. In four weeks afterwards he had prosopalgia of entire right side of face, with extremely acute, lancinating, cutting pains, aggravated by heat and motion; when near the stove the pains were worse, but when cold the pains were easier; could not bear the heat. There is only one remedy; Bryonia 200. I gave him two or three powders to take with him. He went home and took the powders, four hours apart, and came back no better. I gave another dose of the same potency, he returned no better and much discouraged. I will cure you right away I said; and I gave him a dose of 76m (F.) on his tongue, and in five minutes he said, “Dr. that is my medicine.”
Why did Bryonia 200 do no good? Because he had had a potency of Sulphur 51m, and he had become used to a high potency, and a low potency could not act where a high potency had been acting.
It was the same way with a cough: here was a patient with a severe cough which Professor Kent had been treating. Phosphorus was the remedy, and the question was-as she received no benefit-why was it? Because she had always received Phosphorus cm, and Phosphorus 200 did no good, but the cm potency cured her at once.
Dr. Butler: It is all true, but how to do it is the question. My father, who was a large man, had a brother five feet seven inches; how is it they were not of the same height? We don’t know. I quite agree with Dr. Emory. The paper is valuable as to the similitude of the dose, as well as the similitude of the drug; but at present we have no knowledge how to choose the potency of the remedy, but may experiment. I believe that the lower potencies are more safe for action in acute and the higher in chronic cases; perhaps because I have a tendency to frequently repeat in acute cases. I am going to use a line of the 200 for acute cases, and will report results.
Dr. Reed: They can be safely repeated provided you do not carry it too far. Give the remedy in solution and watch the patient until you get a satisfactory action of the drug, then stop and you are safe.
Dr. Schmitt: I have had cases where only certain potencies would act.
I remember the case of a man who was a continual drinker and his stomach was deranged very often. He once came to me with colic in the stomach caused by drinking, and I gave him Nux vom. 200, and he hardly had taken it, and while I was preparing more powders, when with one eructation he said, “I am all right;” all the pain was gone. He came to me again and I gave him the cm. He returned in the evening and said, “The powders did not do any good, “-he took them on a full stomach. I gave him Nux vom. 200 and he hardly had it on his tongue before he was relieved.
I gave him during an attack of pleurisy Aconite cm, followed by Bryonia cm, but did not get a response. Then he called in another physician. I should have given him the 200 and I would have cured him.
Dr. Reed: You established a precedent in your 200.
Dr. Schmitt: That may be; although I have sent out a kind of feeler, as Sulphur or Sepia in the 30 then the 200, cm, mm; especially in cases of consumption, where Sulphur is indicated, I would rather give 200 of Sulphur first instead of the cm.
Dr. E. T. Adams: I have long known how difficult it was to find the indicated remedy; but from the present discussion I begin to realize that it is much more difficult to find the indicated potency.
Dr. Emory: Dr. Reed said that Dr. Schmitt has established a precedent in the first prescription of Nux 200. Is there anything in that? Can you establish a precedent of that kind? I think not. It certainly is contrary to my experience in the treatment of chronic cases. I nearly always begin with the 200 and let it act until it ceases; then if there is no change of symptoms I give a higher, and find it acts more efficiently. I generally give a higher potency if the remedy is well indicated.
Dr. Reed: I doubt if that is true. Here is a case that occurred after confinement. I knew her remedy was Calcarea. I had given Calcarea 200 before her confinement. I now gave her the 85m with no benefit. All the symptoms remained the same. I did not know what to do and hesitated for two or three days and then gave Calcarea 200 and she rested well afterwards. I cannot explain this thing to Dr. Emory; it will have to be explained in the future.
Dr. Custis: This is the most important discussion since the meeting convened, and it opens a subject which has shown just what this Association is in existence for, and I have studied it more than any other one. Dr. Butler will miss it if he devides his cases into acute and chronic. Some people are made for one potency and some for another perhaps, but the difference is in the nature of disease. Diseases which depend upon change of function, such as Dr. Schmitt’s man, can be met by a lower potency, with effect; but if there be organic change, I think better results come from higher potencies, and if the acute condition be engrafted upon the already organically diseased organ, the higher and highest act the quickest, but will not bear a repetition.
If Dr. Schmitt’s patient had an organic disease of the stomach and had then gone on a spree, he would have had a better result with the higher potency than the 200 or the antipsoric remedy may have killed the patient.
It depends more on the constitutional condition of the patient and whether the disease is purely functional or threatens organic changes. High potencies act more promptly, and are the only ones that will cure diseases where there are organic changes such as tubercular meningitis, and then they must be used carefully and not repeated.
Dr. Schmitt: Is pleurisy an organic change?
Dr. Custis: It is after it has progressed far enough; that depends on your man. In some cases a low potency man cannot be acted upon by high potencies. Sometimes I get patients who have been all around before they could get any results from medicines. It seems to me to be more in the peculiarity of the patient.
Dr. Biegler: This field is an unexplored one to me. I have never been able to obtain a guide by means of chart and compass, and the only point in my mind on which I am quite satisfied is, that in acute diseases such as diphtheria I have never cured a case with low potencies, and I think if I get a case in time and no interference, I never lose a case of diphtheria with the high potencies. Also my experience is that I seldom have to repeat the dose. They recover on the single dose in the majority of cases. I proved that in a very severe case, where the remedy, Belladonna, cured in four or five days with a single dose. When we say that we ought to prescribe the high potencies in chronic cases, I am doubtful. Here is an illustration that invalidates that proposition. Is there a better rule than to select the potency according to the susceptibility and sensitiveness of the organism of the patient?
Dr. Sawyer: We have had during the past autumn and winter in Kokomo, Ind., an epidemic of malignant diphtheria. Under allopathic treatment whole families died; some children died in spasms within twelve hours. I had my full share of cases and in no instance did I give any potency below the 5m. I lost no cases and rarely repeated my remedy.
Dr. Stow: However much we may search for the square rule for the selection of the potency, we shall never reach any other safe guide than that which the lamp of experience gives us. Judgment and experience must be the only guide by which to select the potency.
Dr. Long: The remedy Calcarea carb. was mentioned. Has any physician had a quick and prompt action from Calcarea carb. in chronic cases? Dr. Reed waited two or three days. I wait six weeks when I give any of the cm potencies.
President: It is moved and seconded that a vote of thanks be tendered Dr. Fincke for the able paper he has presented, and an invitation extended him to present at a future meeting the results of his observations and experiments in the use of remedies and their potencies. Carried.-Trans. I. H. A., 1889.
HOMOEOPATHY IN PNEUMONIA
Book
Medical Advance
Volume
1890 Vol XXV No 6
Author
- Crutcher
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Bell / Acon / Sulph
Pneumonia
Case
On a recent afternoon a young business man came from his desk to my office and requested me to examine him. He said he felt very weak and feverish and was fearful of some impending malady. He had pneumonia; pulse 110; temperature 103degree; appetite gone, bowels costive. Calling a carriage I sent him at once to his apartments.
Now, this is one of the cases in which we are solemnly warned not to put our trust in small doses of the indicated remedy, but to combat the disease “vigorously” with “strong” doses of this, that or the other medicine. We are told, even by those who profess to be homoeopaths, that while single remedies and high potencies may be tolerated in chronic cases, nothing short of “shot-gun” work will be of service when a violent disease takes possession of the system.
Before my patient left my office I gave him a dose of Aconite 200, to be followed by a similar dose every two hours, until I should see him. Three hours after the first dose of medicine I called at his home and found him in a profuse perspiration, with a pulse of 96 and a temperature of 101degree. A fearful headache came on, for which he begged me to give him that king of lazy men’s remedies, antipyrine. Belladonna 200, two doses, relieved all pain and brought a good night’s rest. The following morning I found my patient far on the road to convalescence. The pulse was 78; temperature 99.5degree.
Taking another picture of the disease Sulphur 200 was found to be the indicated remedy, which was given. The young man made one of the most remarkable recoveries I ever saw. The effusion into the air cells had not gone far when he reached my office, and which the Aconite promptly arrested. The fourth day after the first prescription my patient left for the East for a much needed vacation.
An extensive use of aconite has convinced me beyond all question that its most splendid effects are not attained with the lower potencies. I once used the third decimal exclusively; I now use nothing but Dunham’s 200th. I may also add that I rarely use anything lower than the thirtieth, and generally use a much higher preparation.
Chicago.
Howard Crutcher.
CLINICAL REFLECTIONS
Volume
1881 Vol I No 2
Author
- Lippe
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Bry / Bell / Rhus-t / Sulph / Acon
Mr. C. aged forty-five years, enjoying always good health, living very regular and engaged in large business, complained on the 12th of November, 1880, he felt sick all over, better when at rest, stiffness of the limbs, nausea with headache and poor appetite; received one dose of Bryonia C.M. (Fincke).
Feeling better, he followed his usual occupation but was compelled to come home in the afternoon of the 18th of November and take to his bed with a chill which was followed by high fever, cold feet, very hot head, flushed face, and, contrary to his habit, wishing to lie with his head high. Pulsating headache, pulse 96 per minute urinary secretion almost suspended, some nausea, very little thirst but great weakness. One dose of Belladonna C. M. (Fincke) was administered 7 P.M. Had a much disturbed night, many dreams and visions, slight delirium, more thirst, with scanty secretion of very dark urine, headache continues, tongue clean.
On the evening of the 19th of Nov. his pulse was 106 per minute; he complained of feeling bruised all over, motion greatly increased this soreness; coughed at times, and then complained of stitches in both sides of the throat did not feel inclined to sleep, headache was less severe, thirst increased, he wanted large quantities of water at a time, otherwise no change. At 7 P.M. he took one dose of Bryonia C.M. (Fincke). Nov. 20th. Had a very restless night, changing his position frequently. Slight delirium. The pain in the throat better; so was the bruised feeling; urinary secretion unchanged; skin very dry; thirst less; this condition continued all day.
When asked why he changed his position so frequently, he said that he did so in order to relieve pains which increased during continuation in one position; that he felt better after such a change of the painful position till he had occupied it for some time. Pulse 120 per minute. He received one dose of Rhus tox C.M. (Fincke) at 6 P.M. to be repeated if he did not perspire by 9 P.M. Nov. 21st. At 7 P.M. of the 20th his skin became moist; by 8 P. M he was in a profuse perspiration, and from that time he began to feel better. The urinary secretions gradually increased, leaving an increasing deposit of phosphates. The perspiration continued till the 23d. He showed no desire for food or drink but cold water or an occasional glass of milk. The pulse was less frequent and soft. As there was an apparent pause in the improvement on the 24th of Nov. (the 7th day of the disease) he received another dose of Rhus tox. 50 M (Fincke) at 8 P.M. Nov. 25th. Perspired very freely all night and asked for some light food. Soft-boiled eggs and toast. This food tasted good; all his symptoms gradually improved day by day without further medication.
Urine became profuse and clear. On the 30th he sat up and enjoyed a full dinner, asked for his favorite Burgundy wine and felt well. During these two weeks he had no movement of the bowels and his first evacuation perfectly natural came on the 1st December. On the 3d of December he rode out in a carriage and returned for a short time to his country house. On the 10th of December, though otherwise very well, he complained of a slight return of itching haermorrhoids which he had had years ago. One dose of Sulphur 21 M (Skinner) relieved him at once; since then he has been perfectly well.
Comments: To all appearances this was a grave case of disease, and might be called a case of typhoid fever. The patient fully recovered under strictly homoeopathic treatment without any resort to auxiliary and supplementary means, such as of late have been recommended in grave cases. The law of the similars and Hahnemann’s advice how to apply that law were our only guide. The most difficult part of the treatment of this case was the finding of the cause of the distressing and increasing restlessness; had we not patiently and diligently examined the sick, had we hastily given him arsenicum for this restlessness the much desired early crisis by perspiration would not have come to the rescue. After this important symptom worse when lying for a time in the same position and relief when that position was changed, had been ascertained it was easy enough to see the remedy. Patients do not often give us the symptoms as we would wish them given, and we have then to apply our individual judgment to find by interrogation what the real, true, symptoms of the sick are. But we must never rest till we obtain a clear conception of the case before us.
Hahnemann tells us in paragraph 4 of “The Organon of the Healing Art” that he, (the true healer) is also a health preserver if he learns to know what causes health disturbances, and what creates and supports diseases and when he learns how to remove these causes.
In the above case the question arose “Why was he sick?” A man who lived a prudent and regular life, who had not been exposed to the fever miasm of any malarial district could not well sicken without cause. His residence was a well-built house; there were no fixed washstands in it, it was well ventilated and scrupulously clean, even the cellars being very clean. After a pains-taking examination it was found that back of his counting room existed a faulty wall and on rainy days the odor from it compelled the occupants of the counting room and large store to close the windows. As soon as this discovery was made Mr. C. took much pains to ascertain the true condition of things, and at once applied the proper remedies for the removal of this disease-creating nuisance.
Mr. T., twenty-six years old, always well, having had but one attack of pneumonia three years ago (under allopathic treatment) was taken sick on Dec. 31st, 1880, and retired early. He passed a very bad night, and requested advice early on the morning of Jan. 1st, 1881. He had tossed about his bed all night without sleep, slight stitches in his sides, no cough, much thirst, and felt very much distressed, pulse 96. On auscultation and percussion nothing abnormal was observed, and it seemed to be a case of pleurisy. One dose of aconite C.M. , was given at 8 A. M.
At 6 P.M. he complained of great dispnoea, violent stitches when taking a long inspiration, much aggravation on motion. Has taken nothing but water all day. When moving he coughs very hard and suffers much pain in the lungs. Pulse 120 per minute, face flushed, head hot and painful. Received one dose of Bryonia C.M. At 10 P. M. he began to perspire profusely, and continued to do so for thirty-six hours. The cough became loose, his appetite returned, and on the 4th of January he was well enough to leave his room and go to a friend’s house. He has been perfectly well ever since.
Comments: Here we had a clear case of Pleuro-pneumonia, a much dreaded disease on account of the great mortality under allopathic treatment. As it often happens, so in this case, silly and ignorant friends looked despairingly at the simple and plain treatment. There was, in their opinion, nothing done for the sufferer; he surely ought to have a fly-blister clapped over his chest, or should be bled at once, or something energetic should be done to rescue him from certain destruction. Because absolutely nothing was done for him, even an auxiliary mustard plaster being rejected, and a supplementary mustard footbath not being tolerated at all, despairing, but ill-informed friends left him for the night with regrets that so fine a fellow as he was should so stubbornly reject the means he had seen used before to no good purposes but only to be followed by evil and sad results. When, on the second morning, these anxious friends came and were told how much better he felt; when, on the third morning they found him gobbling up a large and luxurious breakfast they were compelled either to own up to the great success of homoeopathy, or do, as they often do, take the liberty of declaring that they were mistaken, that he really was not much sick after all, else he could not have so speedily recovered. Nevertheless, they would have blistered him, and now blistered are their tongues for violating common sense, and perverting ordinary logic in order that they may in future keep on plodding along in darkness, and see mankind tortured by unscientific boluses, blisters and physics; and what will pretenders learn from such a case, pretenders who fly to aconite and Belladonna in alternation because, forsooth, there is fever Just as much as the fly-blister-worshipers learned in this case nothing. There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see.
Volume
1881 Vol I No 2
Author
- Lippe
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Bry / Bell / Rhus-t / Sulph / Acon
Mr. C. aged forty-five years, enjoying always good health, living very regular and engaged in large business, complained on the 12th of November, 1880, he felt sick all over, better when at rest, stiffness of the limbs, nausea with headache and poor appetite; received one dose of Bryonia C.M. (Fincke).
Feeling better, he followed his usual occupation but was compelled to come home in the afternoon of the 18th of November and take to his bed with a chill which was followed by high fever, cold feet, very hot head, flushed face, and, contrary to his habit, wishing to lie with his head high. Pulsating headache, pulse 96 per minute urinary secretion almost suspended, some nausea, very little thirst but great weakness. One dose of Belladonna C. M. (Fincke) was administered 7 P.M. Had a much disturbed night, many dreams and visions, slight delirium, more thirst, with scanty secretion of very dark urine, headache continues, tongue clean.
On the evening of the 19th of Nov. his pulse was 106 per minute; he complained of feeling bruised all over, motion greatly increased this soreness; coughed at times, and then complained of stitches in both sides of the throat did not feel inclined to sleep, headache was less severe, thirst increased, he wanted large quantities of water at a time, otherwise no change. At 7 P.M. he took one dose of Bryonia C.M. (Fincke). Nov. 20th. Had a very restless night, changing his position frequently. Slight delirium. The pain in the throat better; so was the bruised feeling; urinary secretion unchanged; skin very dry; thirst less; this condition continued all day.
When asked why he changed his position so frequently, he said that he did so in order to relieve pains which increased during continuation in one position; that he felt better after such a change of the painful position till he had occupied it for some time. Pulse 120 per minute. He received one dose of Rhus tox C.M. (Fincke) at 6 P.M. to be repeated if he did not perspire by 9 P.M. Nov. 21st. At 7 P.M. of the 20th his skin became moist; by 8 P. M he was in a profuse perspiration, and from that time he began to feel better. The urinary secretions gradually increased, leaving an increasing deposit of phosphates. The perspiration continued till the 23d. He showed no desire for food or drink but cold water or an occasional glass of milk. The pulse was less frequent and soft. As there was an apparent pause in the improvement on the 24th of Nov. (the 7th day of the disease) he received another dose of Rhus tox. 50 M (Fincke) at 8 P.M. Nov. 25th. Perspired very freely all night and asked for some light food. Soft-boiled eggs and toast. This food tasted good; all his symptoms gradually improved day by day without further medication.
Urine became profuse and clear. On the 30th he sat up and enjoyed a full dinner, asked for his favorite Burgundy wine and felt well. During these two weeks he had no movement of the bowels and his first evacuation perfectly natural came on the 1st December. On the 3d of December he rode out in a carriage and returned for a short time to his country house. On the 10th of December, though otherwise very well, he complained of a slight return of itching haermorrhoids which he had had years ago. One dose of Sulphur 21 M (Skinner) relieved him at once; since then he has been perfectly well.
Comments: To all appearances this was a grave case of disease, and might be called a case of typhoid fever. The patient fully recovered under strictly homoeopathic treatment without any resort to auxiliary and supplementary means, such as of late have been recommended in grave cases. The law of the similars and Hahnemann’s advice how to apply that law were our only guide. The most difficult part of the treatment of this case was the finding of the cause of the distressing and increasing restlessness; had we not patiently and diligently examined the sick, had we hastily given him arsenicum for this restlessness the much desired early crisis by perspiration would not have come to the rescue. After this important symptom worse when lying for a time in the same position and relief when that position was changed, had been ascertained it was easy enough to see the remedy. Patients do not often give us the symptoms as we would wish them given, and we have then to apply our individual judgment to find by interrogation what the real, true, symptoms of the sick are. But we must never rest till we obtain a clear conception of the case before us.
Hahnemann tells us in paragraph 4 of “The Organon of the Healing Art” that he, (the true healer) is also a health preserver if he learns to know what causes health disturbances, and what creates and supports diseases and when he learns how to remove these causes.
In the above case the question arose “Why was he sick?” A man who lived a prudent and regular life, who had not been exposed to the fever miasm of any malarial district could not well sicken without cause. His residence was a well-built house; there were no fixed washstands in it, it was well ventilated and scrupulously clean, even the cellars being very clean. After a pains-taking examination it was found that back of his counting room existed a faulty wall and on rainy days the odor from it compelled the occupants of the counting room and large store to close the windows. As soon as this discovery was made Mr. C. took much pains to ascertain the true condition of things, and at once applied the proper remedies for the removal of this disease-creating nuisance.
Mr. T., twenty-six years old, always well, having had but one attack of pneumonia three years ago (under allopathic treatment) was taken sick on Dec. 31st, 1880, and retired early. He passed a very bad night, and requested advice early on the morning of Jan. 1st, 1881. He had tossed about his bed all night without sleep, slight stitches in his sides, no cough, much thirst, and felt very much distressed, pulse 96. On auscultation and percussion nothing abnormal was observed, and it seemed to be a case of pleurisy. One dose of aconite C.M. , was given at 8 A. M.
At 6 P.M. he complained of great dispnoea, violent stitches when taking a long inspiration, much aggravation on motion. Has taken nothing but water all day. When moving he coughs very hard and suffers much pain in the lungs. Pulse 120 per minute, face flushed, head hot and painful. Received one dose of Bryonia C.M. At 10 P. M. he began to perspire profusely, and continued to do so for thirty-six hours. The cough became loose, his appetite returned, and on the 4th of January he was well enough to leave his room and go to a friend’s house. He has been perfectly well ever since.
Comments: Here we had a clear case of Pleuro-pneumonia, a much dreaded disease on account of the great mortality under allopathic treatment. As it often happens, so in this case, silly and ignorant friends looked despairingly at the simple and plain treatment. There was, in their opinion, nothing done for the sufferer; he surely ought to have a fly-blister clapped over his chest, or should be bled at once, or something energetic should be done to rescue him from certain destruction. Because absolutely nothing was done for him, even an auxiliary mustard plaster being rejected, and a supplementary mustard footbath not being tolerated at all, despairing, but ill-informed friends left him for the night with regrets that so fine a fellow as he was should so stubbornly reject the means he had seen used before to no good purposes but only to be followed by evil and sad results. When, on the second morning, these anxious friends came and were told how much better he felt; when, on the third morning they found him gobbling up a large and luxurious breakfast they were compelled either to own up to the great success of homoeopathy, or do, as they often do, take the liberty of declaring that they were mistaken, that he really was not much sick after all, else he could not have so speedily recovered. Nevertheless, they would have blistered him, and now blistered are their tongues for violating common sense, and perverting ordinary logic in order that they may in future keep on plodding along in darkness, and see mankind tortured by unscientific boluses, blisters and physics; and what will pretenders learn from such a case, pretenders who fly to aconite and Belladonna in alternation because, forsooth, there is fever Just as much as the fly-blister-worshipers learned in this case nothing. There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see.
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Volume
1881 Vol I No 1
Author
==
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Jal / Verat-v / Kreos / Nux-v / Cina / Hepar / Rhus-t / Puls / Naphtin / Iris / Hyper / Mono / Thuj / Bry / Acon / Ars / Cedr / Aran / Merc / Canth / Dulc / Cann-s / Aesc / Carb-v / Chin / Kali-c/ Dros / Sil / Nat-m / Phos
Homoeopathic Journal of Obstetrics, February.
Dr. Joslin reports several interesting cases of separation of the linea alba occurring during pregnancy and parturition.
Dr. Chapin writes upon gangrene of the mouth and vulva; gives several cases treated by swabbing with chlorate of potassa, and in the case of the vulva, “packing with camphor.” There is not a word said about giving a remedy in accordance with the totality of the symptoms.
Dr. Carmichael writes upon septicaemia following abortion and contends, very justly, that it is the most frequent cause of the dangers following induced abortion. His treatment, however successful in the cases presented, can hardly be called homoeopathic. Thus, on one day, in the course of treatment, he gives sulpho-carbolate of soda and quinine in alternation, and the next day he adds verat-vir. to this prescription. Then he changes to quinine, at long intervals, with veratrum and arsenic in alternation, at short intervals. Now, if this sort of treatment is successful, how does it differ from the old school? Are not these drugs used “by regular physicians” in similar conditions?
It is notorious that a crystal or two of quinia sulphate, even if added to the mucilage on the physician’s desk, will preserve the paste from moulding. Here, then, is a perfectly rational reason, and an apparently unanswerable one for administering this drug in septicaemia. Why, then, should it not be used in every case and with success? What reason, then, should there be for the existence of the homoeopathic method of individualizing in such conditions? Apparently none. What need, then, have the doctors who practice in this way for calling themselves homoeopathists? If they have found that there is nothing true in the creed, then they have no justification for assuming to be followers of it. Indeed, it is a duty they owe to their fellow-men to repudiate it at once, and thus assist in separating truth from error.
Dr. Wells writes an instructive paper upon “Latent Medication,” in which he shows the folly of haste and foolishly changing to another remedy before the first has had time to act. This paper should be read by all true homoeopathists. But those physicians who prescribe remedies in alternation, who give massive doses and who use the empiricism of the old school, will not be likely to learn from it. Indeed, they will not believe any of its statements, but find in them an additional argument for the belief that Hahnemannians give no medicine at all.
Dr. Mount gives an interesting “Case in Obstetrics, contrasting the Old and New School practice.” The prescriptions in this case are not up to the homoeopathic mark, however.
Dr. Betts relates an interesting case of rupture of perineum in labor, which was not discovered by the medical attendant. The uterus became prolapsed and the os became firmly cicatrized into the ruptured surface. Dr. Betts discovered this state of affairs, and remedied the difficulty with a pair of scissors.
Medical Counselor, February and March.
Dr. Conant narrates a case of infantile colic with coryza. After unsuccessful treatment with several remedies, apparently indicated, he observed that “the child was comparatively quiet during the day, and screamed all night.” Jalapa 30, cured in two or three hours.
Dr. Conant also reports the following: “A lady who was recovering from a miscarriage had profuse, offensive, dark-colored uterine discharge, with back ache, prostration and procidentia uteri, the latter especially when at stool. Creosotum 6, relieved the prolapsus in three days and made a complete cure in two or three weeks.
Another lady had profuse leucorrhoea, especially when standing or walking; so corrosive that it caused swelling, soreness and itching of genitals; weakness; exertion caused profuse perspiration, trembling and shivering. Must sit near the stove. Creosote relieved in three days and cured in a few weeks.
A gentleman having paralysis of his legs had been given up to die by his allopathic adviser. He fell into Dr. Conant’s hands, who prescribed nux vom. 1st, then 3rd, then 30th, which entirely restored his limbs to usefulness.
A farmer had floury white sediment in urine, nervous-jumping and starting at the least noise; passing of a large round worm. Cina 30, cured.
A lawyer, fond of high living and a victim of malaria and quinine, had a “mean little belly-ache” continuing all the time. Hepar 3rd, cured.
A felt-hat worker had an eruption upon his arm showing “seams, cracks and raw spots, with here and there a blister,” and intense itching. Cured with rhus tox, 3 and 30th.
Dr. W. E. Leonard writes a clear, forcible paper upon gonorrhoea, with a statement of a case partially cured. It would be well if every physician could read this paper. It contains within its narrow limits more precise and correct ideas upon this disease than can be gathered from a dozen old school works. Let this article be reprinted in pamphlet form with the addition of clear indications for remedies, and it will do much good in our school.
The case related was an instance of the bad effects of suppression of gonorrhoea. The patient lay in bed heavily blanketed, with alternate chill and fever. Dragging in right groin. Right testicle swollen, indurated, dark, red and sensitive, much depression of spirits. Pulsatilla 200. Relief in four days. Two months later there was a re-appearance of the discharge in small amount, apparently a return of the symptoms originally suppressed.
Dr. King writes upon apomorphia and advises its use in persistent vomiting. He cured two cases of vomiting with apomorphia. Indications, vomiting after eating without previous nausea. Vomiting is sudden.
Dr. Haines relates a case of paralysis, after fright, for which he gave remedies without benefit. Finally, he observed the symptoms continued talking when awake, and changing rapidly from one subject to another. Paralysis was left sided. Lachesis made a complete cure.
Dr. Deady gives a proving of Duboisin, made in the proper manner, with 1st, 3d and 4th decimal dilutions. Symptoms were sought for with the ophthalmoscope and laryngoscope. We quote one characteristic symptom of the eye. Loss of accommodation before the pupil is fully dilated, and continuing when it has regained its normal size.
Dr. Eggleston writes a condemnation of the use of the abdominal bandage in dysmenorrhoea. His argument is logical, and conclusions therefore correct.
Dr. Casseday relates five cases of severe cough cured with naphthaline 3 x. Indications: excessive spasmodic cough; paroxysms lasting a long time.
Dr. Casseday cured constant nausea with violent retching and vomiting, at short intervals, and intense headache, with iris-vers.
Cincinnati Medical Advance, March.
Dr. Brigham writes a very good paper upon gynaecology, with indications for several remedies.
Dr. Smith, editor of the microscopical department, advocates an “ideal series of objectives for microscopic work.”
United States Medical Investigator, March.
Dr. Ellis denounces the giving of “new or unchurned milk” in fevers, on account of the oil in it. He advocates instead butter-milk, because the oil has been churned out.
Dr. Morgan denounces the empiricism of the usual treatment for burns and scalds. He finds the true simillimumin cantharides, one drachm of the tincture to four ounces of water. Bathe with this dilution for half an hour or until burning pains cease.
Dr. Gilcheist points out the decline of the practice of “Listerism,” or “antiseptic surgery” among the old school doctors. He claims superior results in the treatment of strangulated hernia after the operation by following the homoeopathic law exclusively. Instead of administering morphia he gives hypericum. “It seems to make little difference whether the remedy is used in tincture, the 30th or the 200th attenuation.”
“L” reports several cures with a new remedy Monotropa Uniflora. Two cases of convulsions in children, with constipation, were cured after other remedies had failed.
Two cases of conjunctivitis one of two years’ standing were cured, whilst a third was benefitted.
Dr. Woodbury writes upon “Reflex Gastric Derangements During Pregnancy.” His most successful remedies are nux. vom., creosote and lactic acid. The last is indicated where the nausea is constant.
He relates the case of a woman who had two miscarriages as a result of severe vomiting; but afterwards, by the help of lactic acid, had gone through three pregnancies successfully.
The doctor also gives pepsin with success. He meets the objection that it is not homoeopathic, with the counter objection that it is not allopathic. “It is simply supplying an element necessary to digestion.” We may answer that this is not proved. Because pepsin will digest coagulated albumen of egg in a bottle kept at 99 deg. is no proof that it will do the same thing in the stomach. How do we know that pepsin is not attacked by the stomach juices and itself digested, just as if it were a food? Why may not this foreign pepsin act the part of a remedy one of the so-called “nosodes”? Even the druggists, in their advertisements, are heralding the inefficiency of pepsin; especially druggists who have for sale a similar digestive substance prepared from the gizzard of the barn-yard fowl
Dr. Pease had a horse that suffered from a bleeding wart two inches long and three quarters of an inch thick. Cured in two weeks with thuja 200 one dose.
Bibliotheque Homoeopathique, January, February, March.
Dr. Simon reports the following cases: Catarrhal Intermittent Fever. A girl having taken cold, was seized with a severe chill followed by fever, great heat of skin, rapid full pulse, severe back ache, great thirst, tongue covered with white mucous coat, red on the edges, abdomen tense and sensitive, dry cough in short, frequent paroxysms, sibilant mucous rales all over the chest. Relieved at once by bryonia 12. The fever symptoms then returned and were treated with acon., ars., cedron 3rd, sulphate quinine, 3rd; and, finally, aranea 12th, which cured.
Phlyctenoid Erysipelas of the face, commencing on the left side and going over to the right. “Aconite as soon as the eruption was well developed; bell. followed; rhus tox given as soon as vesicles appeared; merc.-sol. after rhus; finally, sulphur to hasten desquamation.”
Cystitis in a servant girl. “Sharp, burning pain whenever she has desire to urinate; continuing at the time of micturition and increasing after the act, with spasm. Bell. was given without relief. Cantharis was then given, which removed the spasms. Dulc. merc.-sol,, puls., cannab. and thuja were subsequently given in the order named. Cured.
The objection to this case is the frequency with which the medicines were prescribed not allowing sufficient time for any particular medicine to develop its effects.
Erythema of thighs and lower limbs, cured with rhus tox, followed by aesculus hipp.
Results of starvation in an Italian of 72 years. Treated with soups, wine and water, and the following remedies: Carbo. veg., puls., hepar., ars., china., cured.
Dr. Chancerel reports the following: chronic bronchitis. A tailor had a cough with hemoptysis for four years: expectoration streaked with blood. Dyspnoea, sonorous rales. Cough and dyspnoea relieved immediately by puls. 30. Symptoms became worse from too frequent repetition of the medicine. Ten days later they were much better, but he had great weakness and dyspnoea on walking. Arsenicum 30 relieved him immediately. Later, phosphorous 30 was given, which cured.
Chronic enteritis: a hack driver had chronic diarrhoea, worse from the least cold or change in diet; cold feet. Ars. 30th cured in four weeks.
- V. writes upon “Kali Carb. in Whooping Cough.” Its indications are: cough coming on at 3 or 4 o’clock a. m., and continuing every half hour until after 5 a. m. Swelling over upper eye lid.
Drosera has the following indications: Cough coming on at 2 p. m., so violent that it seems as if the patient must suffocate. Pain in chest when coughing. When coughing vomiting of food, or if stomach be empty, of mucus in rolls of filaments. Cough worse from heat of bed.
Dr. Kafka gives an elaborate proving of Carlsbad Water.
Dr. Simon quotes from a Mexican journal, La Reforma Medica. The journal thus deplores the progress of eclecticism: “Since this sect has commenced to dismember the new school, and to forget a great part of the sage principles of the master, there are not wanting some physicians who remain faithful to the pure doctrines; who have protested against this invasion of empiricism, routine, fantasy, and polypharmacy more or less disguised in the application of a doctrine, the unity of which enchains all the parts so solidly that if we reject or contest one, we compromise all the rest. We can never approve of the homoeopathic school stopping in its career; of its sacrificing the greater part of its teachings in the vain hope of winning over its antagonists; of its abandoning, without reason, the defense and the propogation of the doctrines of the master, and contenting itself with the law of similars, which is its fundamental base, but which cannot be established without the support of the other principles of the doctrine.”
Dr. Charge writes upon diarrhoea, and gives an extended Repertoryof indications.
Dr. Chancerel translates from the Spanish a case of “popliteal sciatica” treated by Dr. Granes. Lancinating pains in right sciatic nerve. Worse from the least pressure and the least movement. General trembling during the paroxysms. The patient was irritable; wished to be alone and despaired of cure. Bryonia 2c caused immediate relief. Then inflammatory rheumatism supervened, which was controlled by rhus. tox. 2c. The case was concluded with sulph. 200.
New World Medical Times, April.
In commencing a new volume, the Homoeopathic Times changes its name. This is an honest and bold move, which we heartily commend. The prospectus says: “There will be no change in the policy of our journal; as a matter of honesty and good taste we prefer a name which will enable us to look to the vastness of the whole of medical science rather than a single law however important.” In openly taking this eclectic position, the New York Medical Times exercises a freedom of medical opinion and action which no one can dispute, and thereby gains the right to publish and advocate any measure it deems useful or necessary. We have never objected to any one being eclectic or allopathic, or whatsoever he pleased, but we do most earnestly deprecate any attempt to pass as homoeopathic any eclectic or allopathic measures. We hope other journals, now pretending to be homoeopathic, will imitate The Times’ bold candor.
Dr. Dake “reviews” Dr. Lawton’s answer to the former’s question at Milwaukee. By noticing every portion of Dr. Lawton’s paper except the explanation, Dr. Dake is enabled to conclude that his question “is yet pertinent and unanswered.” That explanation amounts to this: when a given quantity of a drug or of a so-called “inert” substance is triturated with another substance in large excess as vehicle, there is not only a subdivision of particles occurring, but there is also a complete separation of particles to constantly increasing distances by the interposition of the mass of the vehicle. There is, then, more room for whatever molecular motion the particles of the drug are capable of. The vehicle, on the other hand, does not acquire the same condition, because there is no other substance to be interjected between its particles to keep them asunder. Thus a small portion of charcoal, if triturated with sugar of milk as vehicle, becomes potentized. On the other hand, a small portion of sugar of milk, if triturated with charcoal as a vehicle, becomes potentized. The idea may be roughly illustrated by supposing a box full of marbles to be tilted. There is comparatively little motion. If a handful be removed, there is more room for motion. Let all be removed except a few, and then these few can make an excursion from one end of the box to the other. Let us now enter the physical laboratory. We will find here a state of affairs almost exactly parallel to this illustration. If a charge of electricity be sent through the atmosphere of a closed glass tube, it will zig-zag and delay in its passage because of the resistance. Let a portion of the air be removed and the electric current passes more readily. Remove all the air but a minute fraction the millionth of an atmosphere and the current spreads out as a diffused purple light of considerable brightness, and having illuminating heating and mechanical powers. That is, these few minute particles of air are competent to rotate, at great speed, the vanes of a wind-mill. Remove the air completely and all the phenomena cease. This is Prof. Crooke’s “Radiant Matter.” An attentive consideration of these experiments will enable us to get a clearer idea of the condition of the molecules in a potency.
Dr. Eastman, in an article upon ulcers, reports cure of an immense ulcer extending from knee to ankle and infested with maggots after amputation had been decided upon Permanganate Potass. in local applications destroyed the maggots. Opium 3 was given because the man lay in a stupor with stertorous breathing, involuntary stool and urine. Later, Silicea 30 was given followed by cure.
There must be a great deal of corrupt homoeopathic practice at Ward’s Island, for the doctor reports that the administration of mercurius praecipitatus rubrum was followed by salivation to the amount of “three or four quarts a day; at the same time the ulcer became gangrenous.”
Dr. Dewey gives a case of pleuro-pneumonia. Symptoms for first prescription were: extreme restlessness, tossing about the bed, anxiety, red face, skin dry and hot, pulse full and bounding. Aconite tinct., much improved. Bry. 3 was next given because the pain in right mammary region was worse from motion and deep inspiration. After five days phos. 30 was given and later phos. 2 C. Finally, when a chill occurred at 10 A. M., with headache, nausea, and vomiting, then heat, then sweat. Nat. mur. 30 was given, which cured the case.
Dr. Conlyn reports the cure of acute croupous pneumonia by giving first aconite, then phos. 3d.
- M. J.
A CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA
Volume
1881 Vol I No 7
Author
- W. Berridge
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Sulph / Lyss / Syph / Acon / Bry
Hydrophobia, rheumatic pain
“A Fourth mode of employing medicines in diseases has been attempted to be created by means of Isopathy, as it is called; that is to say, a method of curing a given disease by the same contagious principle that produces it. But even granting this could be done, WHICH WOULD CERTAINLY BE A MOST VALUABLE DISCOVERY, yet, after all, seeing that the miasm is given to the patient highly dynamised, and thereby consequently, to a certain degree, in an altered condition, the cure is effected only by opposing a simillimum to a simillimum.”
A boy, aged 15. In 1874, had abscesses in hip and sacrum from diseased bone. It cured him of this, and he remained well for two years. On November 5th, 1877, I prescribed Sulphur for rheumatic pains. On December 5th, 1877, he was bitten by a dog on right arm and left leg. The same day I gave him one dose of Hydrophobinum c. m. (Swan). The wounded parts had been neither excised nor cauterized. All that I could learn about the dog, was that it ran into the shop, the boy shouted at it to drive it out, upon which it flew at him and bit him; the boy was then rescued by his father, and the dog walked quietly out of the shop, ran down the street, and bit another dog, which was ill for a week or two afterwards. On October 31st, 1878, I prescribed Lycop. for rheumatic pains, and on November 14th, Syphilinum. On November 26th, he was better; and I did not see him again until his present illness, November 11th, 1879.
About six or eight weeks before the fatal attack, he had tingling in the bitten wrist, where the scar was still visible, but it ceased after twenty-four hours.
On November 6th, these symptoms returned a tingling, as from an electric battery, in the wrist.
On November 7th, the symptoms increased. Pressure on the bitten wrist threw out a feeling of soreness all up arm, with a burning sensation; pain like rheumatism extending to shoulder; tingling in wrist as before.
November 8th. Dull aching pain in shoulder increased gradually, and by 5 P. M., he could not use the arm from pain. The tingling and soreness continued, irrespective of pressure on the bite, though this made them worse and caused tingling or prickling like pins and needles all up arm. The whole nervous system seemed affected by the tingling, until the vibrations became so great that his parents could feel the quivering as if he were charged with electricity. He felt sleepy and retired, but was very restless at night and did not sleep. Through the night and next day the pain in the shoulder increased.
November 9th. The aching continued, extending up neck and chest; relieved by the application of hot salt bags; there was also tighthess of chest, and he could not get his breath. About 8 P. M. he first refused water. His parents were going out for a walk, and he asked them not to be away long, as he felt he was going mad. On their return, he said he could not drink. He then tried to drink, but as the glass approached his lips he started, and said that he felt a freshness proceed from the water which made him shudder. From that time he drank nothing, and since his dinner, on November 8th (when he only ate a little), has eaten scarcely any solid food. During the night he became much worse, with craving for drink, and pain extending from shoulder to muscles of chest and throat. His father had diagnosed his case as rheumatism, and gave him Acon. and Bry.
November 10th. His father sent for a neighboring physician, who first gave him, at 10 A. M., a brown bitter powder, and afterwards Bell. and Lach. in low dilutions. What the “brown bitter powder” was, I could not ascertain; the physician told me nothing about it, but I learnt it afterwards from the father. On this day, he had frequent paroxysms, during which he would stand up on the bed, jump and shriek. When he felt one coming on, he would exclaim, “Hold me tight, I shall hurt you or myself.” The paroxysms gradually increased till I saw him, occurring every two or three minutes for an hour; then there was an interval of half an hour. Tongue and throat parched; great burning heat in throat; froth in mouth which he could not eject.
November 11th. I was called in consultation in the early morning. His father says that nothing has relieved him, but that he became worse and worse, especially since 4 or 5 A. M., till I prescribed for him, after which there was an immediate improvement. When I first saw him, he was in a violent paroxysm, crying out that he wanted water, and none had been given him for a long time, and reproaching his parents for their cruelty in withholding it; then, when they offered it to him, he told them to take it away else he should bite the spoon in two; shrieked, jumped about, threw himself about wildly, being held with difficulty, and threatened those around him. The slightest draught of air made him shudder and scream. He says he can feel a cool emanation from the water when near him. Pulse 150, feeble. Tongue covered with foam. Says that the touch of a cold hand, or the entrance of cold air into the mouth, “sends an electric battery through him.” If he tries to drink, he gasps and shudders. I gave him a spoonful of water; he took it with a sudden snap and gulp, and was then convulsed, jumped about, and seized hold of his father. Yesterday he could lie quietly for an hour unless disturbed, or unless he tried to drink; subsequently, he was unable to lie, but had to sit up; for the last hour or two, he has been obliged to stand. Since 4 or 5 A. M. the paroxysms have come on every fifteen minutes, and are decidedly more severe. He says he cannot get a full breath from a feeling of a ton weight on chest. Urine scanty. Since the 9th he has had no sleep; has not been able to swallow liquids, and has only eaten a sponge-cake and a few grapes; he has excessive thirst, and there is froth before his mouth.
At 7.8 A. M., just after a very severe paroxysm, I gave him a dose of Hydrophobinum c. m. (Swan). In a few minutes he sat down quietly, which he had not done for some time. At 7.18 A. M. a dose. He takes the globules with a hurried gulp. He now seemed quieter, repeated a prayer after his father and asked his forgiveness for what he had said to him during the former paroxysms. He was quite rational and conscious. He thinks he will die, and says he is quite ready, telling his relations not to grieve. At 7.30 A. M. I gave a dose, which he took more quietly. The other physician says that this is the best interval he has had since 3 or 4 A. M. At 7.45 A. M. a dose; has been walking about the room supported by his parents; unnaturally talkative, but rational. At 8 A. M. a dose; says head feels clearer. At 8.7 A. M., took a teaspoonful of warm tea better than he took the last water. At 8.15 A. M. a dose. 8.22 A. M. Has had no paroxysm since the first dose, except a little shuddering from a draught and when drinking the tea; but he now jumped up with momentary paroxysm of gasping. He says his breath has been shorter since the last dose, and thinks he has had too much. At 8.38 A. M. the paroxysms increased, but were momentary; he jumps up gasping, the last time with a shriek, as when I first saw him. Previous to this, he had been quieter for some time. Repeated the dose. For the first time since I saw him has had a little saliva in mouth, but he cannot swallow it. Has not craved for drinks since the first dose. At 8.45 A. M. jumped up with a shriek, a momentary paroxysm, without perceptible cause. At 8.47 A. M., two more paroxysms. Gave another dose; directly afterwards had a still more severe attack, though less severe than the first I witnessed. By 9.05 A. M. had had twenty repeated attacks every minute or half minute, but lasting only about thirty seconds. Pressing him tightly at hypochondria helps him to get his breath. He thinks he is dying. 9.12 A. M., has been better for the last five minutes; spits more. I was now obliged to leave him. After the first attack in which I saw him had passed off, while quietly walking about the room with his parents, he said he felt strong enough to take us all up and shake us. During the severe paroxysm which occurred just before I left him, he assured us that he would not hurt us, and asked us to strike him so as to make him call out, as this enabled him to get his breath.
His father furnished me with the following report of the boy’s symptoms after I left him. The spitting and vomiting of phlegm and froth continued for several hours. He could not spit before I gave him the medicine; but the ability to do so came on a little just before I left him, and was fully established immediately afterwards. No thirst or asking for drink after the first dose till just before death. The paroxysms changed in character, consisting only of catching of breath, relieved by any one jerking the hypochondria forcibly inwards and by beating the abdomen. He would ask them to strike him hard, it did not hurt him; he wished to be struck suddenly when the attack came on. This occurred every few minutes till 2 P. M. From 2 P. M. till 4 P. M. rapid vomiting of liquid, at first froth and phlegm, then dark brown liquid. After 4 P. M. he stood stooping, with his hands on his knees; he said that if he raised himself up, he should die at once. This lasted till 9 P. M., vomiting all the time. About 8 P. M., there was faecal vomiting. At 5 or 6 P. M. there was involuntary urination. After 2 P. M. the catching of breath gradually became more feeble. No pain after 2 P. M. The vomiting lasted till he died, at 9 P. M. At 8.30 P. M. he ate four sponge-cakes dipped in sherry and water, and sat up, saying that he felt refreshed by them; but he soon vomited them, partly through the nostrils, and died. An hour before death was quite conscious; just before there was a little wandering. He took four or five doses after I left him.
This case demonstrates that in incurable cases, even of the most painful character, the administration of the homoeopathic remedy is all-sufficient to procure euthanasia.
PERISCOPE
Volume
1881 Vol I No 1
Author
==
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Lac-c / Bry / Rhus-t / Puls / Calc / Lach / Ferr / Spong / Acon / Hepar / Caust / Dros / Phos / Sil
American Observer, November, 1881:-Opens with pernicious advice as to the use of ergot and the per-sulphate of iron in postpartum hemorrhage. No mention is made of the many homoeopathic remedies which have accomplished such wonders in this dangerous disease, probably because the writer knew not of them We mention this subject as such advice is just now common among a certain class of homoeopaths. In an article on “Diphtheria,” the following is given: “Dr. C. Lippe gives the specific indications for Lac. caninum as follow: The ulcers go from one side to the other and back again; the ulceration has a glistening, shining appearance (Apis); the swelling of the gland changes sides and is painful to touch, and the nasal discharge excoriates the nostrils and upper lip (Arum triph.)”
The following clinical observations in cases cured by Lac. can. are by Dr. C. F. Nichols, of Boston:
“Pains in limbs, small of back and head disappear, and the throat becomes more painful but looks better. Often the ulcers increase in size or number, but the neighboring membrane looks clearer; worse by empty deglutition; throat feels stiff; relief after drinking, warm or cold, no thirst but dry mouth; pain pushes toward left ear; right tonsil raw, swollen, gray-white membrane there and on the fauces; epistaxis when speaking or swallowing, in one case; sweat all over; great exhaustion with “poisoned feeling;” frequent micturition, urine dark; restless, legs and whole body; face burns, dry; constant spitting, drooping-in one case, a man, very quickly relieved; imagines he wears somebody else’s nose-same case; ulcers small, round or irregular, gray-white; voice hoarse; interrupted by weakness and hoarseness. Several cases cured resembled Lachesis.”
American Homoeopath, November:-A paper read before the Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Society by Dr. E. A. Farrington, on “Bryonia and Rhus tox. Considered in Reference to the Effects of Motion,” is quoted. Dr. F. says: “a general characteristic symptom of Bryonia is undoubtedly worse from motion. But such a fact ought not to prevent our employing the drug when an exactly opposite condition obtains, if other symptons aid our choice.” The same may be said of the Rhus tox. desire for, and improvement from motion. But this peculiarity (that is a drug being indicated in cases where its prominent characteristic symptom is lacking) pertains to many, if not all drugs. Thus we have known Pulsatilla to cure in cases where heat (of room and clothing) was desired and improved the symptoms. So also has Calcarea cured menstrual disorders in cases where scanty menses where observed. In short, we should remember it is the totality of the characteristic symptoms that must guide us in selecting our remedy, not any one symptom. These drug peculiarities, if we may so term them, are most clearly indicated in Boenninghausen’s invaluable “Therapeutic Pocket Book.”
Dr. Farrington adds: “In view of these facts, it concerns us not to select a drug merely because its prominent modalities are present in the case to be treated. He is a routinist who uses specifics; and he also is a routinist who prescribes for one symptom.
“Our journals teem with reports of so-called cures, in which the only apparent similarity between disease and drug is a single modality; such as, worse left side, Lachesis; wants to lie perfectly still, Bryonia.
“Rather let us follow the Master, who enjoins us to draw our characteristic picture from the totality of the symptoms.” Sound and sensible advice.
Dr. C. H. Brace writes on “Intermittent Fever,” from Cumberland, Md., a great “ague” country, yet he finds “that the law of similia similibus curantur applies to the treatment of malaria as well as to all the other ills that flesh is heir to.” If patients have been dosed previously with Quinine, Dr. Brace finds Ferrum 6x an excellent antidote; he gives his indicated remedy during the chill and fever, rather than between paroxysms.
The following, taken from the Hom. World, and written by its accomplished editor, is interesting:
A Case of Cataract, much Improved by Medicine.-Mrs. –, aet. 81. Thinking her case hopeless, principally on account of her advanced age, I did not enter with my wonted minuteness into her case, but gave Chelidonium 14, five drops in water night and morning, on pathological grounds.
Feb. 2d, 1881. -She came and said she felt more comfortable in her mouth, her tongue being less hard and stiff; vision the same (i. e., much impaired, reading impossible; can barely recognize one in the street.) I now went into her case with great care. I found that she had occasional diplopia, and things seemed further off than they really were.
But the thing that had long distressed her was this: On awaking in the morning her tongue was as hard and stiff as a board. That this should have any connection with the cataractous lenses was not apparent; still it was the most constant peculiar, and characteristic symptom, and moreover a very distressing one. R. Sulphur iodatum (see symptom 40, in Allen’s Encyclopaedia), six grains of the 4th cent. trituration, every night at bed time.
March 21. -Hardness and stiffness of the tongue gone; had had it two years. Sees decidedly better at a distance.
July.-Vision much improved; can now read an article in a newspaper. R. Iodium.
August.-Sees so well that she does not propose to continue the treatment any longer.
Allen’s “Symptom Register” gives under hardness of tongue; Atro., Hyos., Kali iod., Merc., Sul. iod. Under Stiffness, of these only Hyos. is found. Stiffness in morning, Amm. br., Dios.; on waking, Coc. c., (3 A. M.), Natr. m.
Medical Counselor, Nov. 16th.-Dec. 21st: Translated from the Allg. Hom. Zeitg., is a case of caries of wrist and elbow cured by Silicea.
A girl, aged 18, had the itch soon after her birth which was suppressed by local treatment. When 16 years old, she had caries of left foot, which was amputated. After three months, the caries attacked the elbow-joint. Nine months after she presented the following symptoms: The elbow and wrist of right arm are very much swollen, red and hot. A large number of fistulae give exit to a foetid, sanious pus, and run into the joints, where the bones are necrosed, conveying to the probe a decided roughness. She has pain day and night. Pains are stitching, drawing and tearing. She moans and sobs constantly from the severity of the pain, which is increased by any pressure, touch or motion. Great thirst; poor appetite; hectic fever, profuse sweats. Gave one dose Silicea 30. The pains disappeared entirely and never returned for three years. She took one dose of Silicea every forty days. The destroyed bone was reproduced; the joints, of course, remained immovable, but in course of time she got limited motion. She remained well.
We have cured several cases of inflammation, where beside the usual throbbing pains of Silicea, there was the annoying itching in the part.
Two letters from Hahnemann to his friend Stapf are translated by the editor. If we are not mistaken, we read these letters in the 3rd volume of the British Journal of Homoeopathy. They are well worth reproducing.
Hahnemannian Monthly, December.-Dr. Farrington, in his Studies in Materia Medica, writes on Spongia tosta, giving the following: Croup, with harsh, barking cough, worse the first part of night; sawing respiration; child arouses from sleep startled, suffocating, with long-drawn breaths and barking cough; better holding head back. Caused by exposure to dry, cold winds (Hepar). Its croup is spasmodic, and is characterized by little fever, here differing from Aconite.
Aconite is preferable when, in croup, the child arouses with suffocation, cough is harsh, barking; face expressive of anxious fear; skin hot or bathed in sweat. Caused by exposure to cold wind. If the anxiety or the heat continues or returns the next night, persist with the same remedy (Aconite), but if the respiration becomes more sawing or labored, as if forced through a sponge, the anxiety present but less marked, the fever somewhat diminished, sputum still absent or scant, change to Spongia.
Hepar often follows Spongia when the cough is accompanied with a mucous sound, though it preserves its barking tone. This frequently occurs after midnight, towards morning. Hence Hepar is generally required later than Spongia. It must be remembered, however, that Hepar also develops a tedious, dry, barking cough, coming on as soon as the child lies down at night. This cough, common in croupy children, Hepar relieves promptly. Causticum is a good substitute in some cases of catarrhal or spasmodic croup. The child, while inspiring, chokes as if clutched by the throat; raw, burning feeling, in a streak, down the course of the trachea. Kali bromatum is not to be forgotten in cases of weak, nervous children, who arouse with a dry, spasmodic cough, which greatly frightens them, causing them to cry out in terror. It has several times happened in our experience that Drosera was needed for a barking evening cough, simulating that of Spongia. The coughs were frequent and persistent, combining the spasmodic with the croupy sound. Bromine and Iodine may follow. The first suits in membranous croup, whether diphtheritic or not; the larynx seems to be full of loose mucus. The child is aroused suddenly choking; a drink of water relieves temporarily. Iodine causes a dry cough, with noisy respiration and fever. Child tears at throat (Aconite, grasps throat); raises large flakes of tough, but not stringy exudation.
“Phosphorus resembles Spongia in tuberculosis. Both are indicated in youth, with weakness and rush of blood to chest; but the cough and laryngeal symptoms differ. More nearly related are Spongia and Hepar. They suit in cases which cannot tolerate dry, cold air. The former is needed when cough is dry, hard; and worse before 12 P. M.; the latter when cough sounds hard, but there is phlegm in larynx and bronchi; in morning on going into the open air, his throat fills with mucus, making voice husky.”.
INFANTILE CONVULSIONS
Book
Homeopathic Physician
Volume
1882 Vol II No 9
Author
- P. Baer
Subject
General Topics / Cases
Remedy
Bell / Calc / Hyos / Op / Acon
(Bureau Clinical Medicine, I. H. A.)
Fellows of the International Hahnemannian Association:-I have selected for my present theme, the subject of Infantile Convulsions, for several prominent reasons. The first of which is, because parents, as a general thing, have as great, if not greater innate dread of convulsions among their children, than of any other disease. The second is, because when convulsions do occur, they often seriously disturb both parents and physician. The third is, because spasms are often the antecedents of other diseases; and fourth, because the mortality of children by convulsions, particularly in cities, is very great. The brighter the child, the more active the brain; the more nervous the temperament, the larger the head; the more exciting the surroundings, the greater the danger of convulsions. The more receding the forehead, the smaller the head, the duller the intellect, the more lymphatic the child, the less danger there is of spasms. These are axioms to be recognized by all studious physicians. Convulsions are protean in form, as they often start in highly clonic and terminate atonic. Or in other cases commence atonic and become tonic as they advance. Sometimes they start in with an intense vigor, convulsing every muscle and nerve for several minutes, then relaxing as though the sanitary end was just at hand, when lo, the whole scene is re-enacted over again and again for an untold number of times. Again, they may start in almost unobserved twitching of this muscle, then of that, here and there, marked by fretfulness and feverishness of the infant, soon to be followed by more decided symptoms. These premonitory warnings may not at all be heeded or even noticed by the parents, until the sad scene in all its horrors is upon them; then what confusion, what excitement, what bustle, what running for doctors, and above all, what an utter want of good hard sense is often exhibited by the attendants Then again, severe cases frequently present themselves in apparently perfect health. The child may be playing in all its accustomed glee and mirthfulness, and in the midst of its fun convulsed from head to foot. Moaning, tossing, jerking, frothing, grating its teeth, rolling its eyes, distorting its mouth and gasping for breath, flushed face, high fever, and worse than all, an excited brain.
Convulsions rarely exert their equal force upon both sides at the same time. The right arm and left leg, or left arm and right leg, or arm and leg of the same side may be convulsed immoderately, while the other parts may lay more or less quiet, or really be paralyzed for the time being, or even permanently so. Spasms frequently pass off but partially, leaving a tremulous weakness of the nerves for days, and an undefinable, inexpressible something in the general physique which is not natural, but not sufficiently characteristic to yield to vocal descriptive language. Other times our little patients may have two, three or more hard convulsions and get right up, as though nothing had happened. Some children have spasms on all unusual occasions, while others never have them at all. The teething period is generally the most trying one of an infant’s life. Its whole system is rendered sensitive by the constant growth and upward pressure of the coming teeth upon the gums. While among country and well-nursed babes this natural process seldom gives any annoyance, in cities, and particularly among improperly-fed children, it is much to be dreaded. Worms as a concomitant, add greatly to the strife. The children of some families are peculiarly liable to convulsions, whether from some family idiosyncrasy, or diathesis, or heredity, I am not prepared to say, but the fact of tendency to spasms exists, irrefutably. I treated one large family for more than thirty years, embracing the entire child-bearing period, twelve children in all, and not one of them escaped spasms. There was constant parental anxiety from birth until the mouth was full of teeth. I have a family now who have had four children, one of whom died for me in spasms; the others have all had spasms, frequently lasting thirty minutes at a time. The youngest, now approaching its period of freedom, has had at least one hundred hard spasms in the past two and a half years. The last one held her nearly two hours without intermission, causing all of us to doubt her recovery. I feared disorganization of the brain, but to my great relief she rallied perfectly in every respect, as well as ever, bright, cheerful and happy. Indeed, she is the most precocious of any of the children. The father, when in his seventeenth year, had a prolonged and severe attack of chorea. He developed slowly, showing more or less signs of scrofula. The mother is of a restless type.
Having generalized, I will now individualize a few notable cases, with treatment.
The child referred to above, having had so many spasms, had them at intervals of two, three or four weeks, for the space of nearly two years, sometimes very light, not requiring treatment; then again she would have four or five during twenty-four hours. She would frequently go to bed well, and rouse her mother before midnight in a hard convulsion; or, she would be playing and suddenly take a spasm; or, she would become angry, throw herself upon the floor and take a spasm; indeed, any unusual little incident might produce a spasm. The child is quite fleshy, hence very heavy upon her feet, clumsy and tottering. Her spasms most frequently commenced with a scream or grunt, then at once followed hard jerking of arms, head, trunk and limbs, in rapid succession, presenting, batting of the eyes, with twitching of the muscles of the entire face, frothing at the mouth, and occasionally biting the tongue. The extensors and flexors were both in active operation for several minutes, then a slight subsidence, not an entire abatement. In this remission the pulse became normal, the face natural, and the limbs relaxed; but in a moment, the same general contortion was enacted over again. This alternation continued for nearly two hours in her last attack, some two months ago. In several of her attacks, hemiplegia made its appearance, but in none so hard as in the last attack. The right side of the face was flushed from the beginning, while the left side was pale. As soon as the spasm entirely disappeared she dropped into a very pleasant sleep. The breathing, which had been hurried, short and stertorous, now became perfectly normal. On waking, which she did in about a half-hour, she called for water, and instead of taking both hands to the glass, as is usual, she applied her right, leaving her left motionless by her side. Her bladder and bowels were both evacuated during the spasm, and now again showed signs of repetition, when her mother took her from the cradle. In doing so, I noticed the left leg was as lifeless as the arm. This hemiplegic condition continued for some ten days, before it entirely disappeared. Belladonna 30th had always before done the work quickly and well, but in this attack it failed me; but the 200th gave prompt relief; carrying off the epileptic hemiplegia as well. The child now seems perfectly well, and has gone fully thrice as long without a spasm as she has done at any time since their commencement.
This case presented many worm symptoms, such as circumscribed red cheeks, white around the nose, swelled upper lip, picking the nose, pouched navel, distended bowels and variable appetite, and yet, as far as observation went, she never passed any, notwithstanding efficient means had been frequently used. This case clearly proves that worms are often charged for producing symptoms which really originate in, and are disseminated from the nervous centres, independent of worms.
Another case, just the opposite of the foregoing, was that of a child from parents of very similar temperaments, of a sanguineous, mercurial character. The child was of a scrofulous diathesis, very large head, forehead or cerebrum disproportionately large, trunk and extremities thin and lax; always pale, peevish and restless. The mother gave no milk, hence the child was fed from the bottle. Its teething period was greatly postponed. Its mind was all alive, quick to catch an idea, daily added words to its vocabulary, and precociously learned to combine them, and often saying things far beyond its age. When about thirteen months of age its first teething symptoms appeared. On the 10th of last December, the child became unusually ill, mentally, scolding, crying, chattering rapidly against everybody who attempted to pacify it, refused its food, threw away its choice dolls and other playthings, refused all familiarity with every one save its mother, and tolerated her only so far as she permitted her to have her own way. Fever gradually increased until 4 P. M., when a severe clonic spasm set in, wrecking her entire organism.
Having been otherwise engaged, I did not see the child until 7 P. M. Found her in one which seemed to affect the nerves and muscles of the head and chest far more than the extremities. The nerves of the face, particularly the trifacial, jerked and twitched exceedingly; her eyes and mouth were in constant motion; the lungs were greatly oppressed, the heart going at the rate of 150 per minute; the eyes dilated and rolled up, and more or less reddened; abdomen bloated and rumbling; mouth in rapid sucking motion, thrusting out the tongue with a clucking noise. She rolled her head jerkingly, with an accompanying moan, and sometimes a piercing shriek, even when she was otherwise comparatively easy. I gave her Hyoscyamus 3x, with some relief, but this only temporary. The brain, no doubt, was disorganized during the first hard spasm. The force of the convulsions gradually waned upon the extremities, but continued upon the brain and chest as long as life remained, which yielded at 11 P. M. Thus ended a precocious life, from want of structural balance, too much medullary and too little muscular substance; too much mental and too little physical-no doubt the legitimate result of an improper marriage. Two persons of analogous temperaments, or of equally scrofulous or syphilitic diathesis should never come together as husband and wife, as their offspring will invariably prove failures. Where only one parent is affected with a scrofulous, syphilitic or mercurial diathesis, then there will be a strong probability that the healthy parent will control the state of the progeny, and bring forward well-developed organisms.
Another case of convulsions occurred in a child of a nervo-bilious temperament. The child passed through all its teething handsomely, until it reached its period for the cutting of its stomach and eye-teeth, when it became very much disturbed by lumbricoides and occasional ascarides; both kinds of which, it frequently passed spontaneously. During the month of August, 1877, the child had its first spasm, under the care of one of my brother-would-be-homoeopaths; who, in his love for examining all things and disposition to hold to nothing, gave her an ordinary apothecary shop in the course of a year, without the least relief, but upon the contrary, entailed upon her a multiplicity of symptoms too tedious to enumerate, too vexatious for comfort.
The doctor finally pronounced the child incurable; saying, the child would finally become idiotic, as the spasms had assumed an epileptiform character. In this dilemma I was called in. Found the child in a hard tonic spasm, muscles hard and severely contracted, head drawn back, knees drawn up, throwing her hands and limbs about lawlessly, and vigorously extending them, then drawing them up suddenly. Bowels rumbling and tympanitic; sore to the touch and quite yellow.
I also learned that she had from three to ten spasms in the course of twenty-four hours, and that this condition of things had been repeated every eight or ten days for at least one year. Spasms were liable to come on at any time, day or night, asleep or awake. She breathed like an infant troubled with diaphragmetis, short, labored and grunting, even during her best periods of freedom. I gave her Opium during the spasms, the 30th dilution at first, but changed it for the 200th before the attack was over. Then, through the interim, I gave her Calcarea carb. 2c, every night a dose. This softened her bowels and removed both the soreness and tympanism, and also the rumbling to a great extent. The spasms returned in fifteen days, several days later than usual, with but little variation from past exhibitions. I gave her Opium2c at once, as she gasped so much for breath. Breathed so loud and heavy, with mouth wide open most of the time, and arms spread straight out, at right angles with body. The medicine acted beautifully, as she had but two, at intervals of five hours.
I gave her Calcarea carb., ad interim, again, and ordered her a daily enema, composed of two tablespoonfuls of Orleans molasses, five drops of spirits of turpentine, and one pint of warm rainwater. This greatly aided regular action of the bowels, and brought away great quantities of worms, alive and struggling. The next attack came on in just four weeks from the last. In this, she was taken during her first nap, about 9 P. M.
Her head, eyes, face and mouth remained quiet, but the body, arms and legs worked as usual. Her bowels moved during the severity of the spasm; she also passed urine. Seemed more troubled in diaphragm than during the two last attacks. It was in every sense of the word, a very decided clonic spasm. I gave her Belladonna2c, which cut it short, and she had no more for the present. The quantity of worms passed during the last attack was really incredible; fully a pint, and these chiefly ascarides, mixed with several unusually large lumbricoides.
From this time onward, the child gained in strength, appetite, general appearance and animation steadily; showing no symptoms whatever of spasms for more than three months, when she contracted a very severe cold, affecting her head, throat and chest, producing most violent fever, and finally one hard spasm. This spasm was far more energetic upon her head than elsewhere. Her head jerked backward and sidewise, with rapid snapping of the eyelids, twitching of the muscles of the mouth, with occasional thrusting forward of the tongue, accompanied with a blowing sound, as though she intended to eject some offensive material from the mouth. All the muscles and nerves of the face twitched or quivered very much; her arms and chest seemed in constant spasmodic action, backward, forward and sidewise. Sometimes the body would be thrown violently backward, and in another moment, would be thrown equally as violently forward; and yet it could not, with propriety, be called opisthotonus, neither could it be called emprosthotonus action, as it was but momentary, in either direction.
Aconite3 was given for the fever, and continued until the hardest of spasms presented itself, when Hyos. 2c was given every ten minutes, until all traces of the spasm subsided. The action of the heart was absolutely alarming, as it beat with such force and rapidity, that I could not count them satisfactorily. The whole chest shook from the extreme action of the heart. I feared disorganization, but with the spasm the fever subsided. It was the culmination. Quiet soon reigned. The great storm of arterial orgasm was over, and my little patient again herself. Hyos. 2c was given once each week for about three months, after which all medication was discontinued. More than three years have now elapsed since her last spasm. She is therefore, no doubt, radically cured of spasms. She is now the pride of the household; active, happy, energetic, and as mentally bright as any child of her age.
I might multiply such cases indefinitely, but I forbear for the present. It is full of the deepest interest to every physician to know every possible symptom of spasms, and every means calculated to cure them; hence this little mite to aid in the great work of promoting the desirable end.
Book
Homeopathic Physician
Volume
1882 Vol II No 9
Author
- P. Baer
Subject
General Topics / Cases
Remedy
Bell / Calc / Hyos / Op / Acon
(Bureau Clinical Medicine, I. H. A.)
Fellows of the International Hahnemannian Association:-I have selected for my present theme, the subject of Infantile Convulsions, for several prominent reasons. The first of which is, because parents, as a general thing, have as great, if not greater innate dread of convulsions among their children, than of any other disease. The second is, because when convulsions do occur, they often seriously disturb both parents and physician. The third is, because spasms are often the antecedents of other diseases; and fourth, because the mortality of children by convulsions, particularly in cities, is very great. The brighter the child, the more active the brain; the more nervous the temperament, the larger the head; the more exciting the surroundings, the greater the danger of convulsions. The more receding the forehead, the smaller the head, the duller the intellect, the more lymphatic the child, the less danger there is of spasms. These are axioms to be recognized by all studious physicians. Convulsions are protean in form, as they often start in highly clonic and terminate atonic. Or in other cases commence atonic and become tonic as they advance. Sometimes they start in with an intense vigor, convulsing every muscle and nerve for several minutes, then relaxing as though the sanitary end was just at hand, when lo, the whole scene is re-enacted over again and again for an untold number of times. Again, they may start in almost unobserved twitching of this muscle, then of that, here and there, marked by fretfulness and feverishness of the infant, soon to be followed by more decided symptoms. These premonitory warnings may not at all be heeded or even noticed by the parents, until the sad scene in all its horrors is upon them; then what confusion, what excitement, what bustle, what running for doctors, and above all, what an utter want of good hard sense is often exhibited by the attendants Then again, severe cases frequently present themselves in apparently perfect health. The child may be playing in all its accustomed glee and mirthfulness, and in the midst of its fun convulsed from head to foot. Moaning, tossing, jerking, frothing, grating its teeth, rolling its eyes, distorting its mouth and gasping for breath, flushed face, high fever, and worse than all, an excited brain.
Convulsions rarely exert their equal force upon both sides at the same time. The right arm and left leg, or left arm and right leg, or arm and leg of the same side may be convulsed immoderately, while the other parts may lay more or less quiet, or really be paralyzed for the time being, or even permanently so. Spasms frequently pass off but partially, leaving a tremulous weakness of the nerves for days, and an undefinable, inexpressible something in the general physique which is not natural, but not sufficiently characteristic to yield to vocal descriptive language. Other times our little patients may have two, three or more hard convulsions and get right up, as though nothing had happened. Some children have spasms on all unusual occasions, while others never have them at all. The teething period is generally the most trying one of an infant’s life. Its whole system is rendered sensitive by the constant growth and upward pressure of the coming teeth upon the gums. While among country and well-nursed babes this natural process seldom gives any annoyance, in cities, and particularly among improperly-fed children, it is much to be dreaded. Worms as a concomitant, add greatly to the strife. The children of some families are peculiarly liable to convulsions, whether from some family idiosyncrasy, or diathesis, or heredity, I am not prepared to say, but the fact of tendency to spasms exists, irrefutably. I treated one large family for more than thirty years, embracing the entire child-bearing period, twelve children in all, and not one of them escaped spasms. There was constant parental anxiety from birth until the mouth was full of teeth. I have a family now who have had four children, one of whom died for me in spasms; the others have all had spasms, frequently lasting thirty minutes at a time. The youngest, now approaching its period of freedom, has had at least one hundred hard spasms in the past two and a half years. The last one held her nearly two hours without intermission, causing all of us to doubt her recovery. I feared disorganization of the brain, but to my great relief she rallied perfectly in every respect, as well as ever, bright, cheerful and happy. Indeed, she is the most precocious of any of the children. The father, when in his seventeenth year, had a prolonged and severe attack of chorea. He developed slowly, showing more or less signs of scrofula. The mother is of a restless type.
Having generalized, I will now individualize a few notable cases, with treatment.
The child referred to above, having had so many spasms, had them at intervals of two, three or four weeks, for the space of nearly two years, sometimes very light, not requiring treatment; then again she would have four or five during twenty-four hours. She would frequently go to bed well, and rouse her mother before midnight in a hard convulsion; or, she would be playing and suddenly take a spasm; or, she would become angry, throw herself upon the floor and take a spasm; indeed, any unusual little incident might produce a spasm. The child is quite fleshy, hence very heavy upon her feet, clumsy and tottering. Her spasms most frequently commenced with a scream or grunt, then at once followed hard jerking of arms, head, trunk and limbs, in rapid succession, presenting, batting of the eyes, with twitching of the muscles of the entire face, frothing at the mouth, and occasionally biting the tongue. The extensors and flexors were both in active operation for several minutes, then a slight subsidence, not an entire abatement. In this remission the pulse became normal, the face natural, and the limbs relaxed; but in a moment, the same general contortion was enacted over again. This alternation continued for nearly two hours in her last attack, some two months ago. In several of her attacks, hemiplegia made its appearance, but in none so hard as in the last attack. The right side of the face was flushed from the beginning, while the left side was pale. As soon as the spasm entirely disappeared she dropped into a very pleasant sleep. The breathing, which had been hurried, short and stertorous, now became perfectly normal. On waking, which she did in about a half-hour, she called for water, and instead of taking both hands to the glass, as is usual, she applied her right, leaving her left motionless by her side. Her bladder and bowels were both evacuated during the spasm, and now again showed signs of repetition, when her mother took her from the cradle. In doing so, I noticed the left leg was as lifeless as the arm. This hemiplegic condition continued for some ten days, before it entirely disappeared. Belladonna 30th had always before done the work quickly and well, but in this attack it failed me; but the 200th gave prompt relief; carrying off the epileptic hemiplegia as well. The child now seems perfectly well, and has gone fully thrice as long without a spasm as she has done at any time since their commencement.
This case presented many worm symptoms, such as circumscribed red cheeks, white around the nose, swelled upper lip, picking the nose, pouched navel, distended bowels and variable appetite, and yet, as far as observation went, she never passed any, notwithstanding efficient means had been frequently used. This case clearly proves that worms are often charged for producing symptoms which really originate in, and are disseminated from the nervous centres, independent of worms.
Another case, just the opposite of the foregoing, was that of a child from parents of very similar temperaments, of a sanguineous, mercurial character. The child was of a scrofulous diathesis, very large head, forehead or cerebrum disproportionately large, trunk and extremities thin and lax; always pale, peevish and restless. The mother gave no milk, hence the child was fed from the bottle. Its teething period was greatly postponed. Its mind was all alive, quick to catch an idea, daily added words to its vocabulary, and precociously learned to combine them, and often saying things far beyond its age. When about thirteen months of age its first teething symptoms appeared. On the 10th of last December, the child became unusually ill, mentally, scolding, crying, chattering rapidly against everybody who attempted to pacify it, refused its food, threw away its choice dolls and other playthings, refused all familiarity with every one save its mother, and tolerated her only so far as she permitted her to have her own way. Fever gradually increased until 4 P. M., when a severe clonic spasm set in, wrecking her entire organism.
Having been otherwise engaged, I did not see the child until 7 P. M. Found her in one which seemed to affect the nerves and muscles of the head and chest far more than the extremities. The nerves of the face, particularly the trifacial, jerked and twitched exceedingly; her eyes and mouth were in constant motion; the lungs were greatly oppressed, the heart going at the rate of 150 per minute; the eyes dilated and rolled up, and more or less reddened; abdomen bloated and rumbling; mouth in rapid sucking motion, thrusting out the tongue with a clucking noise. She rolled her head jerkingly, with an accompanying moan, and sometimes a piercing shriek, even when she was otherwise comparatively easy. I gave her Hyoscyamus 3x, with some relief, but this only temporary. The brain, no doubt, was disorganized during the first hard spasm. The force of the convulsions gradually waned upon the extremities, but continued upon the brain and chest as long as life remained, which yielded at 11 P. M. Thus ended a precocious life, from want of structural balance, too much medullary and too little muscular substance; too much mental and too little physical-no doubt the legitimate result of an improper marriage. Two persons of analogous temperaments, or of equally scrofulous or syphilitic diathesis should never come together as husband and wife, as their offspring will invariably prove failures. Where only one parent is affected with a scrofulous, syphilitic or mercurial diathesis, then there will be a strong probability that the healthy parent will control the state of the progeny, and bring forward well-developed organisms.
Another case of convulsions occurred in a child of a nervo-bilious temperament. The child passed through all its teething handsomely, until it reached its period for the cutting of its stomach and eye-teeth, when it became very much disturbed by lumbricoides and occasional ascarides; both kinds of which, it frequently passed spontaneously. During the month of August, 1877, the child had its first spasm, under the care of one of my brother-would-be-homoeopaths; who, in his love for examining all things and disposition to hold to nothing, gave her an ordinary apothecary shop in the course of a year, without the least relief, but upon the contrary, entailed upon her a multiplicity of symptoms too tedious to enumerate, too vexatious for comfort.
The doctor finally pronounced the child incurable; saying, the child would finally become idiotic, as the spasms had assumed an epileptiform character. In this dilemma I was called in. Found the child in a hard tonic spasm, muscles hard and severely contracted, head drawn back, knees drawn up, throwing her hands and limbs about lawlessly, and vigorously extending them, then drawing them up suddenly. Bowels rumbling and tympanitic; sore to the touch and quite yellow.
I also learned that she had from three to ten spasms in the course of twenty-four hours, and that this condition of things had been repeated every eight or ten days for at least one year. Spasms were liable to come on at any time, day or night, asleep or awake. She breathed like an infant troubled with diaphragmetis, short, labored and grunting, even during her best periods of freedom. I gave her Opium during the spasms, the 30th dilution at first, but changed it for the 200th before the attack was over. Then, through the interim, I gave her Calcarea carb. 2c, every night a dose. This softened her bowels and removed both the soreness and tympanism, and also the rumbling to a great extent. The spasms returned in fifteen days, several days later than usual, with but little variation from past exhibitions. I gave her Opium2c at once, as she gasped so much for breath. Breathed so loud and heavy, with mouth wide open most of the time, and arms spread straight out, at right angles with body. The medicine acted beautifully, as she had but two, at intervals of five hours.
I gave her Calcarea carb., ad interim, again, and ordered her a daily enema, composed of two tablespoonfuls of Orleans molasses, five drops of spirits of turpentine, and one pint of warm rainwater. This greatly aided regular action of the bowels, and brought away great quantities of worms, alive and struggling. The next attack came on in just four weeks from the last. In this, she was taken during her first nap, about 9 P. M.
Her head, eyes, face and mouth remained quiet, but the body, arms and legs worked as usual. Her bowels moved during the severity of the spasm; she also passed urine. Seemed more troubled in diaphragm than during the two last attacks. It was in every sense of the word, a very decided clonic spasm. I gave her Belladonna2c, which cut it short, and she had no more for the present. The quantity of worms passed during the last attack was really incredible; fully a pint, and these chiefly ascarides, mixed with several unusually large lumbricoides.
From this time onward, the child gained in strength, appetite, general appearance and animation steadily; showing no symptoms whatever of spasms for more than three months, when she contracted a very severe cold, affecting her head, throat and chest, producing most violent fever, and finally one hard spasm. This spasm was far more energetic upon her head than elsewhere. Her head jerked backward and sidewise, with rapid snapping of the eyelids, twitching of the muscles of the mouth, with occasional thrusting forward of the tongue, accompanied with a blowing sound, as though she intended to eject some offensive material from the mouth. All the muscles and nerves of the face twitched or quivered very much; her arms and chest seemed in constant spasmodic action, backward, forward and sidewise. Sometimes the body would be thrown violently backward, and in another moment, would be thrown equally as violently forward; and yet it could not, with propriety, be called opisthotonus, neither could it be called emprosthotonus action, as it was but momentary, in either direction.
Aconite3 was given for the fever, and continued until the hardest of spasms presented itself, when Hyos. 2c was given every ten minutes, until all traces of the spasm subsided. The action of the heart was absolutely alarming, as it beat with such force and rapidity, that I could not count them satisfactorily. The whole chest shook from the extreme action of the heart. I feared disorganization, but with the spasm the fever subsided. It was the culmination. Quiet soon reigned. The great storm of arterial orgasm was over, and my little patient again herself. Hyos. 2c was given once each week for about three months, after which all medication was discontinued. More than three years have now elapsed since her last spasm. She is therefore, no doubt, radically cured of spasms. She is now the pride of the household; active, happy, energetic, and as mentally bright as any child of her age.
I might multiply such cases indefinitely, but I forbear for the present. It is full of the deepest interest to every physician to know every possible symptom of spasms, and every means calculated to cure them; hence this little mite to aid in the great work of promoting the desirable end.
Book
Homeopathic Physician
Volume
1882 Vol II No 9
Author
- W. Berridge
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Arn / Nux-v / Acon / Kreos / Bell / Puls / Chin / Lach / Op / Lyc / Sulph / Nit-ac / Kali-c / Mez / Phos / Sec / Calc / Car-v
(Bureau Clinical Medicine, I. H. A.)
Puerperal fever
Mrs. –, aged about 26, was delivered of her first child on October 23d, 1881. The labor was severe and prolonged, and I had to apply the forceps under chloroform. There was an extensive, though not deep, laceration of the perineum, which healed without sutures. I have had two other cases of lacerated perineum in primiparae, one a forceps case; in all they healed up well by granulation, without the use of sutures or local medication. Of course, the sphincter ani remained intact, otherwise an operation would have been unavoidable. One of these patients, after the laceration had healed, was free from the pain of coition, which she had formerly experienced; she subsequently had twins without much trouble, proving that an artificial perineum may be better than the original one. In the treatment of this case I had the valuable assistance of a nurse, who not only understood her own department, but also was thoroughly versed in Homoeopathy. I am indebted to her for much of the completeness of the following daily record. After the labor she complained of stiffness all over her, for which she took two doses of Arnica and subsequently Nux for ineffectual urging to stool, with spasmodic pain in rectum, coming on with forcing, like labor-pains, which the medicine relieved.
Oct. 25th. At 1 A. M., she had a rigor, lasting five minutes, but the pulse was only 78 (carefully counted four times by the nurse). She then slept till 5 A. M. All the morning was a little exhilarated, noticing and talking about things. At 1 P. M. the nurse noticed a slight odor about the patient and gave an enema of warm water, which brought away a very offensive large black clot; after which she gave an enema of Condy’s Fluid. In thirty minutes more there was pain in uterus and shivering; she felt “as if all her inside was coming away,” and an enormous quantity of nearly black clots passed from her, mixed with a little fluid blood; she shivered violently, and complained of feeling very cold. The nurse now gave her Aconitemm (Fincke), every fifteen minutes, for three doses, covered her up warmly, and put a hot-water bottle to feet. The shivering now ceased and she perspired; the pulse, which before the Acon. was 118, had fallen in an hour to 108. She then slept, the pains being better. In another hour the shivering returned, and the pulse rose to 120. The nurse repeated the Acon. every five minutes, for eight doses.
I saw her at 4 P. M.; she was quiet; no shivering; pulse, 120; perspiring; lochia scanty, offensive black clots mixed with water; there had been signs of the milk the night before, but now the breasts were very flabby. The italicized symptoms pointed to Kreosotum, according to C. Lippe’s most excellent Repertory, and I ordered a dose of 1M (Jenichen) every two hours, till better.
At 11 P. M., she felt much better; lochia freer; pulse, 120. Had taken two doses, and subsequently took one at midnight and again at 4. A M.
Oct. 26th, 9. A. M. Slept well last night. Pulse is now 96; less pain in uterus; lochia more natural in consistency, more red, less fetid. No medicine.
2.30 P. M. Soon after my last visit, had pains over right eye; then slept for a long time and was free from pain, but pulse rose to 108, and lochia became very offensive, dark, with a few black strings, but no clots; no milk; very slight tenderness of uterus; temperature, 101.8. Bellad.60m (Fincke), every two hours for three doses.
10 P. M. Pulse, 108; temperature, 99.6; lochia more free, very offensive; natural stool; milk returning; uterus tender only on hard pressure. No medicine.
Oct. 27th. Slept well from 1 A. M. to 3 A. M., when she awoke with pain in left calf, which, however, she did not mention till 5 A. M.; lochia continue free. The nurse gave her another dose of Bell. and applied a wet bandage to calf, which relieved. At 10 A. M., I saw her; there was a deep-seated hard lump in left calf, very tender, with the integuments freely movable over it; temperature, 99.4; milk disappeared; pulse, 120, irregular in volume; heaviness in left lower leg; at first the pains made her move her leg constantly; now it is painful only when moved. Under “Swelling in Calf,” Lippe’s Repertorygives Bry., Chin., Mezer., Puls. The pain compelling the patient to move the limb indicated, the last medicine (compare Dr. Walter M. James’ case in The Organon, vol. iii, p. 84), Pulsat.cm (Fincke), one dose.
At 3 P. M. I saw her again; she had improved in half an hour after the dose, the breasts became fuller, and the child fed without causing much pain. Bowels have acted naturally. Leg still swelled, with heaviness, but less pain on moving. Pulse, 114; temperature, 101.7. Lochia more natural; less dark fluid, but rather thick, and still offensive. The nurse has given her another injection of Condy’s Fluid. Feet cold and damp. The odor seems to proceed not only from the lochia, but from the entire body. I gave another dose of Pulsatillacm (Fincke).
At 9.15 P. M., pulse was 120 and temperature 100.8, lochia less offensive and more natural; milk coming in slowly; leg unchanged. The nurse repeated the Pulsat. half an hour ago.
Oct. 28th, 9.45 A. M. Slept well till 5 A. M.; leg still heavy, but swelling less, and much less tenderness; lochia of better color, and much less offensive; more milk; pulse, 100, stronger; temperature, 98.4. Has taken no more medicine.
At 9 P. M., visited her; about 4 P. M. she had had some chilliness, but not a rigor; previously the leg had been rather more painful, and about 6 P. M. decidedly so, with hard swelling extending all over calf. The nurse repeated the Pulsat. Now leg is less painful, and the swelling softer and less extensive, but the lump is still more tender than this morning. The lochia are unchanged in character, but much freer, and make her feel faint as they flow. (The nurse tells me that years ago, she verified this italicized symptom with Pulsat.30, and that she has also cured with it the same symptom, occurring during the otherwise natural menses.) Milk is less plentiful. No abnormal uterine tenderness to-day. Pulse, 106; temperature, 99. Since the last dose, there has been less faintness from the flow of lochia. From 4 P. M. to 6.30 P. M., she seemed faint and low, scarcely speaking above her breath.
Oct. 29th, 10 A. M. Has not slept so well; lochia more scanty, more coffee-colored, and still a little offensive. Natural stool this morning. Leg much better, lump smaller, with less pain and tenderness. Pulse, 108; temperature, 99. Milk less free. Pulsat.mm (Fincke), one dose.
At 9 P. M., I saw her; the nurse had repeated the Pulsat. at 2, 4 and 6 P. M. She seemed poorly all day, restless, inclined to cry, with distaste for food, except of a liquid nature. The leg became painful at 6 P. M. (about the same time as yesterday). It had been better all day, but she was not so well in herself; when the leg became worse, she felt generally better. This evening she slept well, but since the morning till this evening, she kept dozing, with absurd dreams, which are quite unusual. During this evening’s sleep, there was warm sweat over whole body, especially in legs. Lochia slightly offensive, otherwise unchanged. Breasts more flabby. Pulse, 88; temperature, 98.2. Swelling in calf unchanged.
The action of Pulsat. had evidently ceased, and new symptoms had arisen. “Sweat during sleep,” is given in Lippe’s Repertory, under Carb. an., Cic., Chin., Dros., Euphorb., Ferr., Jatr., Merc., Nux, Phosp., Puls., Selen., Thuya. Of these, only China and Puls. have the swelling of the calf; and the former medicine was also indicated by the absurd dreams and the periodicity of the pain in the leg. I gave one dose of Chinacm (Fincke).
Oct. 30th, 11 A. M. Pulse, 96; temperature, 98.8. Slept well. Lochia ceased all night, but returned this morning. No sweat; much less dreaming, and only when dozing-not during sound sleep; no uterine tenderness; more milk; ineffectual urging to stool this morning, for the first time since the second day; lump in calf unchanged, no swelling around it; appetite much better; is in good spirits. This morning, asked to have the blinds up, hitherto has desired the room to be dark.
At 9 P. M., pulse, 94, and stronger; temperature, 98.4. Lochia returning, brighter, and without odor; no sweat; slept without dreaming; no uterine pain; the pain in the leg did not return, as before, at 6 P. M., otherwise it is unchanged; appetite good; much stronger; natural stool; laceration in perineum healing; milk more scanty this evening, and causes diarrhoea in the child.
Oct. 31st, 9.40 A. M. Had restless and troubled sleep up to 2 A. M., when she woke, feeling very hot, with much sweat. The nurse gave a dose of Chinacm (Fincke). After this she slept better, and at 5 A. M. felt much better and had a good breakfast. No more absurd dreams. This morning she feels stronger and her voice is stronger. The lump in calf is not so clearly defined; the surrounding integuments are swollen, but soft; very little pain in it. Not much milk; has never felt it flow in naturally; it still produces diarrhoea and rumbling in the child as soon as taken. Lochia nearly ceased, very slightly offensive. Pulse, 96; temperature, 98.8.
At 8.30 P. M., pulse, 96; temperature, 98.8. Swelling much less and lump much smaller; no increase of pain at 6 P. M. Lochia returned freely and appear natural. She has twice (for the first time) felt the draught of milk naturally; it is more free and no longer purges the child, and he sleeps after it. No stool to-day. Is stronger and pulse stronger.
Nov. 1st, 9.30 A. M. Went to sleep at 10.30 P. M. yesterday, and at 11.30 P. M. was moaning, so that the nurse woke her; she said she had had nightmare and was restless and feverish. The China was repeated, and she soon fell asleep till 3.30 A. M., when she awoke hungry. Lochia natural. Draught of milk felt. It is morning. Last night at 9.30 P. M., the milk caused diarrhoea in the child as soon as taken; this diarrhoea has always been green, the milk would go through him at once with a rattling noise in bowels. Pulse, 96; temperature, 98.8; leg improving.
At 8.45 P. M., pulse, 96; temperature, 98.8; milk more abundant and does not disagree with the child. This afternoon had absurd dreams and nightmare again. The leg has not troubled her. Is cheerful. The day is very cold and she easily gets cold, especially about the legs, and asks to be covered up. Repeated dose of Chinacm (Fincke), at 9.30 P. M.
Nov. 2d, 9:30 A. M. Last evening was restless and felt weak. The nurse repeated the China at 11 P. M.; soon afterward went to sleep and slept well till 3 A. M.; very little dreaming and could not remember her dreams. Lochia natural. The milk agrees with child. No sweats. Before her accouchement, there had been internal and external swelling of the sexual parts; this has now disappeared. The laceration of perineum is healing. Bowels are natural. Temperature, 99; pulse, 93; the lump in calf is much smaller and less tender, no pain in it.
Nov. 3d, 9. A. M. Pulse, 90; temperature, 98.2. Slept well; looks better; swelling in calf unchanged. Milk free, but thin and blue, and soon causes profuse urination in child, who literally swamps the bed. The patient herself urinates often, passing much at a time; it is pale, like weak green tea. When the child’s bowels were acted on by the milk, the urine was not affected, and now it is vice versa. The italicized symptom pointed to Lachesis (C. Lippe’s Repertory, p. 199), and I gave one dose of CM (Fincke).
Nov. 4th, 9 A. M. All yesterday was much better in every way, and in the evening the lump was much smaller. In the afternoon there was an escape of wind from vagina, which she never had before. Slept fairly, but the night was hot and oppressive. Milk much thicker since yesterday evening; child vomits some of it but has no diarrhoea. Pulse, 96; temperature, 99. The lump is the same as yesterday, not painful, except from hard pressure.
Nov. 5th, 9.30 A. M. Pulse, 96 (was 86 last evening). Temperature, 98.7. Last night after 9 P. M., had a fright from her husband’s return home being delayed; she lay thinking over it, and at last lay with eyes starting, wide open and very bright; clutching at the bedclothes and twitching all over. When her husband returned she lay speechless, with a stony, corpse-like look, except for the color in lips, and at length drew a long sigh and burst out crying, which relieved her. The nurse then gave her a dose of Opium cm (Swan), which quieted her, and she slept well. The child urinated less, yesterday, but last evening had distention and hardness of abdomen, with pain and crying, for which the nurse gave him a dose of Lycop., with relief. The swelling of the calf is unchanged, but there is very little tenderness. Lochia natural. Milk plentiful, natural. Yesterday stools very large and difficult, causing straining.
The pulse was quicker in the morning than the evening, a very unusual symptom, which, according to C. Lippe’s Repertory(p. 264), belongs to Agar., Arsen., Kali c., Sulph. and Thuja. Of these I selected Sulphur as alone corresponding to the swelling of calf, and gave one dose of DM (F. C.).
Nov. 6th, noon. Lump smaller last evening and about the same to-day. Milk natural, but gives the child pain; child urinates less. Lochia natural; sleeps well; temperature, 98.6; pulse, 90. Tongue furred at back. For three or four days there has been sweat on the soles of the feet, no other part, and the soles are yellow; the sweat was very offensive yesterday in spite of daily washing. For two days no stool, with ineffectual urging. The sweat on the soles belongs (C. Lippe’s Repertory, p. 228,) to Acon., Amm. mur. and Nitr. ac. Of these the latter alone (see p. 135) has ineffectual urging. Had these symptoms been mentioned to me the previous day, I should have considered them as of more importance than those indicating Sulphur, because one of the Sulphur indications (the swelling of calf) was an old symptom, and therefore of less diagnostic value than the later ones. Therefore, as the Sulphur seemed to have effected nothing but the reduction of the swelling, and the new symptoms did not correspond with it, I did not wait its further action, but gave one dose of Nitr. ac.mm (Fincke).
Nov. 7th. The ineffectual urging continued increasing all the evening, so the nurse dissolved Nitr. ac.mm (Fincke), in water, and gave three doses during the night. This morning, natural stool, the first since Nov. 3d. Today (3.30 P. M.), pulse was 84; milk, natural, it does not cause any unnatural urination in the child (this improvement is marked since the Nitr. ac.), but it causes colic. The lump in calf is unchanged. Tongue still furred at the back. Sweat on soles much less, and less offensive. (The odor of the feet-sweat was something like the odor of a stable; the lochia had the odor of stinking fish.) Since her accouchement, had urinated too frequently, a copious amount each time; since the Nitr. ac., this has improved; it was never so before. Soles yellow only in patches.
About 4 P. M. she had sudden, violent cutting pains in small of back, shifting to sides, abdomen, below scapulae, etc., causing her to cry out and twist about in every position. I gave Lycop.cm (F. C.) every few minutes, but with only slight relief. I then gave Kali carb.3cm (Fincke), four doses. There was relief at once after the first dose; in fifteen minutes she took the second, and in twenty minutes more the third, as she felt the pain returning. The pain again returned about 6 P. M., and she took two doses in thirty minutes. At 10 P. M. I saw her again. She had no return of pain, but feels sore and very weak; very thirsty, craving champagne, which she has had. (She never takes stimulants when in health, nor has she hitherto craved for any during her illness.) The cause of this colic seemed to be that she had eaten some stewed celery. The nurse had eaten some, and had afterwards profuse noisy eructations and profuse flatus downwards. The child took the breast since its mother partook of the celery, since which it has lost the painful flatulence, and it now rolls up easily. Thus the celery removed in the infant symptoms similar to those which it produced in the mother.
Nov. 8th, 10.15 A. M. Took another dose of Kali carb. about 2 A. M., as she thought the pain was returning. Soon after my last visit, she had constant pain in small of back, as if strained, worse on moving; on lying on other side, pain in the corresponding hypochondrium like a dragging from the other side. Urine turbid and high-colored. Very restless last night, moaning loudly and hysterical; tongue creamy-white, coated as far as tip; breath offensive; ineffectual urging to stool; temperature, 98.5; since last night the lump has moved more to the inner side of calf, and is a little larger, spreading out more; no appetite; nausea to food; feels flatus in chest when lying, relieved by sitting up, when it rises; if it does not rise it obstructs the breathing (the latest symptom). Back relieved by lying on it; a new medicine was evidently indicated. The latest, and therefore the most important symptom, the obstruction of the breathing by flatulence, belongs to Mezereum (Lippe’s Repertory, p. 119), and it has also the swelling of calf, which was now increasing again. I gave one dose of Mezereum3m (Jenichen).
At 9 P. M. I saw her again; she had taken another dose at 2 P. M. and 6 P. M., when the obstruction of breathing returned, but on the whole has been much better. Now the pain in back, and the pain in side, when lying on it, is much better; urine less dark and thick, but became very much higher-colored and turbid after the first dose of Mezereum. No stool or urging; tongue clearing toward tip; has slept two hours; is quieter altogether; breath less offensive; lump in calf smaller; no appetite; still nausea to food.
Nov. 9th, 3.30 P. M. About 1.30 A. M. felt some return of pain in back and took another dose. Now has no pain in sides, and very little in back. Tongue clearer. Since the morning, jaundiced all over. Urine less high-colored and less thick. Bowels relieved; stools large, all in one or two pieces, which were knotty in shape and difficult; milk natural; lochia returning, a little bright, without odor; feet-sweat nearly gone, and not offensive; flatulence very slight; appetite poor; slept well and awoke refreshed; breath slightly offensive; lump in calf unchanged; temperature, 98.7; pulse, 78. Yesterday afternoon, the right side of abdomen was larger than the left; this has ceased since the last evacuation. As the patient was generally better, I gave no more medicine, notwithstanding the occurrence of the jaundice; the result proved that I was right.
Nov. 10th, 3.45 A. M. Slept soundly from midnight to 6 A. M. Much less jaundice; urine more natural, but still high-colored and strong-smelling, only turbid after standing; no stool; some swelling in right abdomen; lump in calf much softer; sticky sweat all over for two days; sweat on soles very slightly offensive; tongue still coated at back; pain in back much better; pain in hypochondrium quite gone. Is sitting up, but feels very weak, and has to sit bent forward. I left her a dose of Phosphoruscm (Fincke), in case the sticky sweat continued (see Lippe’s Repertory, p. 257).
Nov. 11th. Sweat was very sticky last evening, so she took the dose of Phosph. about 11 P. M. To-day sweats decidedly less, and less sticky. Dreamed of being pursued last night (effect of Phosph.). Less swelling of calf; less jaundice; natural stool; milk disappearing, it gives the child colic if he takes it more than once a day, and the first time it gives him wind; urine more natural; tongue clearer; stronger; pain in back and side gone; appetite returning; for four days has felt hungry soon after food.
Nov. 12th. Took another dose of Phosph. last night, as there was still sweat. Had a good night; sweat now gone; tongue clearer. Appetite better, but feels hungry very soon after eating; eructations after food. Swelling of calf unchanged. A little hysteria to-day, wanted to cry. Milk returned to-day; also, the lochia, which are bright red; no stool. In Lippe’s Repertoryp. 158, I found: “Lochia turning bloody again, Cauloph., Rhus, Secale.” Of these three, the latter alone has “irresistible hunger” (p. 88), so I gave Secalecm (Swan).
Nov. 14th, 3 P. M. Had four doses of Secale yesterday; none to-day; less ravenous since first dose. Less swelling in calf this morning; has walked a little. A little sticky sweat. Still has eructations after food. “Feels the heart beating in the throat.” Milk returning. Lochia very free and very bright, and she feels very weak. Tongue coated only at back. Is still a little yellow, but the natural color of skin is returning. Secalecm (Swan), twice a day.
Nov. 15th. About 6 or 7 P. M., yesterday, had another attack of pain in waist and abdomen, moving about; like the former attack, but less severe. She had been unpleasantly excited a short time previously. About 8.30 P. M., the nurse, who had been away, returned and gave Kali carbcm (F. C.), every five minutes, for an hour, till the pain was decidedly better, then every fifteen minutes; at soon commenced to give relief. Lochia as before, and milk returned freely in evening. Had feeling of great weakness and faint feeling for food. With this attack of pain, and also with the first one, had feeling of hot blood running down inside spine from between scapulae to waist. I saw her to-day at 4 P. M.; she had had a bad night from restlessness and flatulent pain; she had taken several doses of Kali in night, which relieved, but not nearly so quickly as before. To-day, is much stronger; bowels natural; skin less yellow. Lochia and milk unchanged. Lump in calf nearly gone, and she has walked down-stairs; sweat; ravenous feeling and sensation of blood flowing down spine all gone. The milk now agrees with the child.
Nov. 17th. Had a little pain in back yesterday, and took two doses of Kali; also, one to-day, when the ravenous appetite returned. She still feels sinking, exhausted and faint about thirty minutes after food. Lochia still very free; milk natural, but nursing makes her feel hysterical and exhausted. Lump in calf almost gone, but there is a little dragging there on walking. Has been out for a drive and feels stronger. On account of the exhaustion from loss of fluids, with the other symptoms, I prescribed Calc. carb.cm (F. C.), twice a day.
Nov. 19th. On 17th, about 6 P. M., before she had taken the Calc., she had a return of the flatulent pain. The nurse gave her two doses of Calc. and two of Kali carb., but without relief. The patient then took some brandy and soda, without relief; followed by some peppermint, which brought up a little wind. The nurse then gave her two doses of Carb. veg.cm (F. C.); the first dose checked the pain from increasing, and the second removed it. The swelling in calf is unchanged to-day, with stiffness still on walking, especially on descending stairs. Lochia nearly gone. Had two doses of Calc. yesterday, and one to-day. The hunger after food is less. Less weakness after nursing, but still weak and inclined to cry after it. Calc.107 m (Frincke), morning and evening.
Nov. 2lst. Last night at 10 P. M. had another attack of flatulent pain, relieved as before by Carb. veg.; she took it every five minutes for eight or ten doses; relief commenced after sixth dose. Yesterday the ravenous appetite had ceased, so the nurse gave her no more Calc., nor to-day either; has had two doses of Carb. veg. to-day. Lochia ceased. Lump in calf almost gone. Nursing does not affect her much now, but the milk does not satisfy the child. Only a little stiffness in both legs on going down-stairs. For three days, swelling of labia, uncomfortable on sitting. Feeling of lump in stomach after a full meal. Yellow fur at back of tongue. The swelling of labia is a symptom of Carb. veg. (see Lippe’s Repertory, p. 160), and as the patient was better, I ordered it to be repeated only if the pain returned.
Nov. 23d. Had two doses of Carb. veg.cm (F. C.), on evening of 21st, because the pain returned; no medicine since. Better now in every way; not ravenous; feeling of lump in stomach gone; swelling in calf nearly gone; only a little stiffness in legs; swelling of labia much less; return of bright lochia, yesterday; only a little yellowness of skin; milk plentiful and exhausts her less. Carb. veg.cm (F. C.), once a day.
Nov. 25th. No return of flatulent pain; is much stronger; no swelling of labia; lump in calf unchanged, but leg rather more swollen around it. Carb. veg.cm (F. C.), once a day.
Dec. 2d. No more flatulent pain; leg natural, except a little difficulty in walking down-stairs, which she thinks is only from nervousness. On Nov. 25th and 27th, had a return of the flatus from vagina. Is much stronger.
Dec. 6th.-Quite well, except that the child’s appetite has caused soreness of nipples.
BOENNINGHAUSEN’S APHORISMS OF HIPPOCRATES
Book
Homeopathic Physician
Volume
1887 Vol VII No 7
Author
- McNeil
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Cocc
Apoplexy, paralysis
We briefly mention a case of the cure of this disease, which hastened the conversion of an aged allopathic physician. During the year 1831 Drs. Feristing and Lutterbeck, the latter of whom was formerly physician-in-ordinary to the celebrated Prince Bl?cher, spent every Saturday evening with us in conversation on Homoeopathy. It was on one of these evenings that our cook, who is still living and well and very old, was stricken with apoplexy. All three of us hastened to her, when the aged allopaths were hastily drawing their lancets to open a vein, which we prevented, and instead gave a small dose of Aconite, which was perfectly indicated in her case. In a few minutes the unconscious patient had regained her senses, but there was now revealed a paralysis of the entire left side of the body. The half-convinced Dr. L. could not believe our assurance that by refraining from the lancet the paralysis would soon be removed. In the meantime the paralytic was carried to bed, and received an hour afterward a small dose of Cocculus. At seven o’clock the next morning Dr. L. returned to learn the result, and in answer to the doorbell, the door was opened, to his great astonishment, by the same person who had been struck by apoplexy with paralysis of one side in her own person, and she assured him that during the night the paralysis had entirely disappeared, and that she felt as well as ever. In consequence Dr. L. was thoroughly converted, and remained a zealous and true homoeopath till his death.
CLINICAL NOTES
Book
Homeopathic Physician
Volume
1888 Vol VIII No 2
Author
- W. Butler
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Puls / Am-m / Am-c / Coff
Nausea of Pregnancy.-Mrs. C. B., age thirty-six, at the third month of her fourth pregnancy, suffers from continuous and persistent nausea without vomiting. Ip., Sep., etc., have not relieved. Her mental symptoms, which had been concealed from me heretofore, were as follows: great fear; fears she will not survive her confinement; anxious and timorous; does not dare go on to the street alone; in constant fear when in crowded places, as church, market, etc., but does not know what she fears. Aconite 45m, F., one dose, relieved promptly not only the nervous apprehension but the nausea as well.
My friend J. H. Wilson, M. D., of Beliefontaine, Ohio, guided by the above mental symptoms, some years ago cured a case of “morning sickness” brilliantly with Acon, in a low potency.
Mrs. F. W. A., age twenty-nine, at the fourth month of her second pregnancy, complained of severe nausea and occasional vomiting, which annoyed her only late in the afternoon and evening; appetite good when not nauseated; no thirst; tendency to be chilly all the time (in August). Puls. mm (Tafel); one dose. Entire and prompt relief.
Sciatica.-Mr. H. M. R., age forty-eight, carpenter by trade, has been working during the cold weather in an exposed place. For three days has suffered from a severe drawing pain in the left leg, commencing at the nates and extending down the posterior aspect of the thigh to the popliteal space and on to the calf of the leg; better while lying quietly, with the leg extended, and while walking slowly, hut is unbearable while sitting. Rhus tox. and Pulsatilla afforded no relief (of course not), but for the two days he was wasting with these drugs he grew steadily worse till the only relief he had was by the recumbent posture. Amm. mur. cm (H. S.) relieved in two hours and cured in a day and a half. He received but one dose.
Pruritus Ani.-Mr. A. B., Jr., age thirty, a periodical dipsomaniac, tall, slender, of light complexion, and nervous temperament, has been for the last four years a sufferer from this disease. It troubles him all the time, but is much worse at night, The itching in and about the anus and forward along the perineum is so severe at night as to deprive him of sleep. It is relieved while scratching vigorously, and by application of cold water. When relieved by the compress he drops off to sleep, it quickly wakens him, and it is not unusual with him to be obliged to rise to apply these compresses every twenty or thirty minutes all night long. He has lost flesh and strength, has little appetite, and is very nervous and irritable. After several drugs had been exhibited without benefit, Amm. c. cc (Dunham), in repeated doses for forty-eight hours, cured him in ten days. For more than seven months to the present time there has been no return of the disease.
Dysmenorrhoea.-Miss L. S., age twenty-five, a school teacher, of large frame, coarse fibre, dark complexion, with tendency to adipose, has suffered for three years with dysmenorrhoea. Menses are regular as to time, rather profuse, natural in color, somewhat inclined to be offensive in odor. Leucorrhoea in inter-menstrual period. For the first twelve or eighteen hours of menstruation she has severe cramping pains low in the abdomen accompanied with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea. The bowels move three or four times, usually loose and profuse (she is habitually constipated), but the vomiting continues throughout the first day. Amm. c. cm (H. S.), one dose. Two weeks after taking the Amm. c. menstruation appeared at the regular time. One stool at the commencement, freer than usual but not diarrhoea; slight nausea but no vomiting. She taught all this first day of menstruation, which she had not been able to do before for many months. Six weeks later menstruation normal and painless; no nausea, no vomiting; no further trouble to this tune, now more than a year. No report regarding the leucorrhoea was made. She received but one dose of the remedy.
Heart Disease-Palliation. Mrs. S., age about sixty-five, has had a mitral insufficiency for several years. For the last three months has been confind to her room, and her condition is now pitiable in the extream. She is unable to lie down, her legs and left arm are enormously swollen, and the abdomen filled with dropsical effusion. The skin of the legs below the knee is dark red tense, and glistening, while upon the left calf a large ulcer marks the death of tissue from the interference with circulation. A thin, excoriating fluid oozes continually from the skin of the legs and causes a sensation of burning in the skin. Under medication she has been relieved of her suffering very largely, so that now she complains of no pain except the burning already mentioned. But she is nervous, restless, sensitive to noises of all kinds, and sleepless. A feeling of excessive “nervousness” causes the restlessness and the sleeplessness, she says, but cannot explain more definitely except that it makes her unbearably miserable. Beseeching mood. “Oh dear doctor, pray do give me something to relieve me You must do something; help me, doctor, for I cannot bear this nervousness.” Coffea cr. cm (H. S-), one dose, was followed by the most gratifying and ever-surprising relief. The first night after receiving it she slept about six hours continuously, and so quietly that her nurse repeatedly went to her to see if she was living. Several times since she has needed the same remedy, the only one she takes when she evinces a tendency to the nervous state which called for it, and it has never failed to give prompt relief. Her nurse (trained in an allopathic hospital) will not believe that it is not some preparation of Morphine, and wonders that it does not produce the unpleasant features of that drug, which she has so often observed when it has been administered to her former patients.
REPORT OF A CASE OF DIPHTHERIA
Volume
1888 Vol VIII No 9
Author
==
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Lach / Acon / Kali-bi / Lac-c
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Hahnemannian Society: The case I have to report is one of a boy five (5) years old, of very dark complexion, with black hair and eyes, previously of good health, and with a naturally strong constitution. I first saw him (Sunday) June 24th last. He had been “dumpish,” his father said, for two days; wanted to lie down. An examination showed considerable swelling of the tonsils, some redness of the fauces, and slight appearance of diphtheritic membrane. The child would not answer questions, and as both tonsils seemed equally affected, with no characteristic indications, I concluded to allow the case to develop, and gave placebos. Knowing I should be out of town on the following day, I directed the father of the child to consult my neighbor, Dr. Julius Schmitt. He did so, and Dr. Schmitt, thinking I had exhibited a remedy already, continued Sac. lactis. On Tuesday, the 26th, was called to see the child; found him with considerable fever; pulse, 114; severe pain on swallowing, and an extensive exudation nearly covering both tonsils, which were much swollen, though the left one was the worst. The membrane had a dirty yellow color; could get no subjective symptoms. Prescribed Lachesis cm, one dose dry on tongue, with Sac. lactis every hour in water.
June 27th.-Found no improvement in the case, pulse is 122; respiration somewhat impeded, and a croupy cough, which evidently hurts the patient, has appeared. Much pain on swallowing; is quite restless; no thirst. Lach. cm, one dose, and Sac. lac.
June 28th.-Continuation of same symptoms, though all are more severe, and a decided increase of the croupy symptoms. Pulse, 128. Considerable yellow, stringy mucus discharged from fauces; tongue coated yellowish white, and is hard and small. Prescribed Kali bich. cm, one dose, and Sac. lactis.
June 29th.-Child is worse; a little bloody discharge from the nose, which smells horribly and makes the nose and upper lip sore; pulse, 130; croupy cough is more severe and makes the patient cry.
June 30th.-Respiration very croupy; sawing respiration; expiration more difficult than inspiration; increase of bloody pus from the nostrils; is very restless. Prescribed Aconite 2c (Dunham), one dose.
July 1st.-Was called out of bed by father of child, who reported him much worse, said they hardly expected him to live until morning. Feeling much discouraged, I consulted Dr. Schmitt, and while awaiting him looked at Hering’s Guiding Symptoms. Under Lac caninum I found the requirements of the case, a perfect picture appearing there under the Throat Symptoms. On seeing the child I found he had had several severe hemorrhages from the mouth and nose. The odor was still worse, being almost more than one could bear. Bloody pus was discharging from the nostrils so corrosive as to produce desquamation of the skin of the upper lip. Very great restlessness, child throwing himself about the bed in his distress; pulse, 168. It required very great effort to carry on respiration; a great deal of croupy cough which caused much suffering, the boy crying nearly all of the time. Tonsils swollen until they touched, and covered with a very thick membrane; uvula nearly covered, and where clear, of a bright redness, not markedly shining. Of course, I gave a very unfavorable prognosis. Also Lac caninum cm, one dose dry on tongue. At half-past eight P. M. saw him again; was much more quiet, his father saying he has slept some nearly all day. Improvement set in one hour after taking the medicine; discharge from nose and mouth less. Pulse, 144, being a fall of twenty-four beats in twelve hours. Since six o’clock P. M. restlessness has been increasing. Still cries when coughing. Gave another powder of Lac caninum cm, followed by Sac. lactis.
July 2d, ten A. M.-Found the boy sleeping and breathing easily; no discharge from nostrils; some shreds of membrane coming from the mouth; pulse, 114. Gave Lac caninum cm, twelve powders, directing that he should receive one every twelve hours. He seemed to need a repetition of the dose at the end of that time.
July 3d.-Child is bright and playing; no cough; swelling of fauces much decreased; pulse, 96. His convalescence from this time was very rapid. He received no other remedy and had no sequelae whatever. Lest there might be some question as to the diagnosis of this case, I will add that the child’s father had only just recovered from a severe attack of diphtheria, and since there have been two other cases in the same family. The other cases all three yielding readily to Lachesis cm.
The case just reported has been of great interest to me, as a little more than two years ago I lost a case with identical symptoms. I wish to ask if the intensely corrosive discharge which accompanied this case may not be an indication for Lac caninum.
Dr. Carr-It is a question with me whether you ought to have repeated the dose once in twelve hours.
Dr. Brownell-He was always worse about that interval, and one dose of the remedy would always quiet him.
Dr. Carr-Did you try a powder of Sac. lac.?
Dr. Brownell-No, I do not think the child was old enough to know the difference. As to the cause of the disease, I believe that it was from some garbage, brought from the city by the Hookers Nurseries.
Dr. Schmitt-This case shows plainly the force of the pure dynamic remedy; this case was no coincidence.
Dr. Baker-Section 160 of the Organon reads: “The dose of a homoeopathic remedy can scarcely be reduced to such a degree of minuteness as to make it powerless to overcome, and completely cure an analogous, natural disease of recent origin, and undisturbed by injudicious treatment.”
Dr. Schmitt-Hahnemann would surely think so now if he knew we used the MM potencies.
Moved and seconded the paper be accepted and published in The Homoeopathic Physician. Carried.
Dr. Carr was appointed essayist for the next meeting. Adjourned to Dr. Carr’s office in one month.
- H. Baker, M. D., Secretary.
HEMOPTYSIS
Book
Homeopathic Physicia
Volume
1889 Vol IX No 12
Author
- P. Holmes
Subject
Cases
Remedy
Acon / Phos / Rhus-t
Mr. F., aged thirty-two, red hair, blue eyes, painter by trade. Taken with spitting of blood after painting a cornice from a rope and pulley scaffold. The attack lasted one hour. He had frequent attacks for a week, and was under the care of a regular physician.
After an attack of unusual length and severity, I was called to the case. Patient had lost at least a quart of blood. He was pale, eyes glistening, and pulse quick. He was very restless, and was fearful, and knew he was going to die.
Gave Acon. Did not try to examine the chest, as he was bleeding, and I did not wish to irritate him any more.
Nine A. M.-Slept some during the night; had a slight attack toward morning. Soreness through the upper third of left lung and says he can feel the blood start from that part of the lung. Not so restless, and feeling better than the morning previous. Sac. lac.
Six P. M.-Severe coughing started another bleeding spell. Pressure across the chest; lies on the back or right side, coughs more on the left side. Phos. 30
No attack of bleeding for two days.
Third day another attack. Restless, constantly changing position; feels so tired all the time, although moving makes him feel better; dry cough, with tickling under the sternum; worse the fore part of the night; wants to be alone; tongue dry, red, with triangle on tip. Gave Rhus. 30
No more hemorrhages. Gained strength rapidly. Took a slight cold from getting damp, which was relieved by Phos. 30. In two weeks resumed his work.
ENGLISH EXCHANGE NOTES HOMOEOPATHIC WORLD LOBELIA PURPURESCENCE
Volume
1913 Vol 2
Author
==
Subject
General Topics / Cases
Remedy
Acon / Bell / Cact / Lob
From several cases in recent years, I would like to record the following in illustration of the almost instantaneous action of Lobelia purpurescence.
A man, aet. 60, retired to rest at 8 P.M. , experienced a creeping chill in small of back. An hour later, dry burning heat, heart beats sound to him like the boom of a drum.
Cannot lie on back or left side, worse even with low pillow, has to lie on right side, – without a pillow, and with right arm stretched out behind him to give further relief.
Has taken one dose each of Acon., Bell., Cact., without relief.
Patient feels heart-beats extend as far as behind right breast, and they seem to him to fill the entire chest.
Pulse strong and bounding, ranging from 80 to 90. Complains of slime-like mucus flowing from back of nose, which he is compelled to swallow every few seconds.
I gave a quarter of a drop of a 50 per cent. mixture of Lobelia purp. (the only one at hand).
In one minute patient felt slightly easier.
I immediately gave a full drop on the tongue.
In three minutes the pulse was normal; a slight perspiration broke out, and the mucus flow ceased.
In fifteen minutes a natural sleep ensued, unbroken until morning.
A woman, aet. 55, whilst violently over-heated from over-work, had a cold bath. Four hours after took to bed (6 P. M.), drowsy, eyes closed, muttering delirium.
Face covered with a purplish network, enclosing dead-white spots as large as a sixpence;
Pulse 70 to 80 hard;
Drumming sound on auscultation.
Single doses of various remedies were given every ten minutes without the slightest relief, then guided by the peculiar drum-like sound, I gave a single dose of three drops of Lobelia purp. q in water.
Relief was instantaneous; and after one or two more doses, a slight perspiration suffused the face, which assumed a healthy pink hue.
Delirium, heart-throb, and bounding pulse ceased, succeeded by a refreshing sleep, lasting till morning, when the woman was able to resume her household duties as if nothing had occurred.
Two months after I noticed that an exophthalmic goitre, which Cactus had previously relieved, had entirely disappeared from the throat; no other drug having been used in any form.
The virus of many Australian snakes produces overwhelming drowsiness; impossible to keep the eyes open;
Irresistible desire to lie down (Baptisia without drowsiness);
Incessant vomit and retching; coma;
Heart-beats commence with rapid drum-like sound, terminating in a mere flutter.
At each stage the symptoms are antidoted by Lobelia Purp.
– Anonymous.
HOMOEOPATHY VS. ALLOPATHY
Volume
1912 Vol 2
Author
- V. Reel
Subject
General Topics / Cases
Remedy
Kali-bi / Puls / Cimic / Cupr / Gels / Nux-v / Lach / Acon / Bry / Phos
With Reports of Cases Contrasting Treatment
*Mrs. B. consulted me in her first pregnancy, at four-and-half months, because of a swelling of the ankles and face.
Examination of the urine showed it loaded with albumin, and with only one per cent. of urea. The quantity of urine varied in 24 hours, but was rarely less than normal. Only occasionally was it scanty.
She was at once put on a diet: chiefly milk, some green vegetables, fruits, poultry and fish, with all red meats forbidden. She was required also to drink very freely of water, both hot and cold. In addition she was warned about fatigue and exposure to cold and dampness.
Of medicine she was given:
Saturated solution of Epsom Salts, to be taken in teaspoonful doses in a glass of hot water, once, twice, or three times a day as needed to keep the bowels very free and loose and so help to relieve the kidneys.
Basham’s Mixture, one teaspoonful twice and three times a day, because of its action in relieving and correcting albumin in the urine, and the chronic inflammatory conditions in the kidneys.
As she was at times very weak and with some indigestion and lack of appetite, she had in addition a tonic, made up of the Glycerophospates of Lime and Calcium (without sugar) and an equal quantity of Elixir of Lactated Pepsin.
Now and then, when the action of the heart seemed to flag, she had a small tablet of Strychnia Sulphate, one-fiftieth of a grain, once, twice, or three times a day as was indicated.
(You may not believe it, but her treatment, according to Allopathy, was conservative.)
The swelling varied at times but was always more or less present. At the time of her confinement she was enormously swollen, the labia resembling huge cysts on each side and obstructing the vulvar orifice. To allow the extraction of the head with forceps, and to save the perineum (the patient being under chloroform), I nicked the sharp edge at the lower margin of the labia, making a good-sized cut on each side.
The child – an eight pound boy – was born without further difficulty.
She required nothing, apparently, except the usual care of a puerperal patient. Much of the swelling disappeared and her general condition appeared good. I warned the nurse, however, to be constantly watchful of her. She had a first-class nurse and all progressed well for a week.
I was called one morning at one-thirty with the statement that she had had a convulsion. It was only a light one. I went at once taking a consultant with me. He had nothing to suggest other than what I had been doing previous to the birth of the baby, so he went home. I remained with the patient forty-eight hours and watched every phase of the situation, being not absent from her more than ten minutes at a time.
To 10 A.M. she had seven convulsions each a little more severe than the preceding one. They were certainly frightful to contemplate.
I gave her a hypodermic injection of pilocarpine, surrounded her with hot water bottles and covered her well with blankets, but obtained no response – she continued with the convulsions. At 10 A.M. I began giving her inhalations of chloroform, just enough to control any tendency to twitching. I kept her under this anaesthetic for ten hours, continuously, guided during this period by the action of the heart which was, at times, almost imperceptible.
The faint breathing and the thready pulse made me feel that it was a losing battle, but we fought on, giving hypodermatics of digitalin and strychnia sulphate – one one-hundredth of digitalin and one-fiftieth of strychnia sulph., even the tenth of a grain of strychnia sul. These were given at intervals of two to four or five hours for about three days.
About eighteen hours after beginning the chloroform she urinated involuntarily very freely.
She was not clear-headed for at least four days, although she talked and asked questions. She had no recollection of anything – not even the fact that she had a baby. It was several days before she asked about the baby; she heard him cry and it puzzled her for some time.
In the convulsions – which were general – she rested a part of the time on her neck and heels, twitching all over; face bluish, teeth tightly clenched, and frothing at the mouth. They were very similar to epileptic convulsions. After the first one we were able to keep the teeth apart, but she bit her tongue badly in the first one, and was afterward much troubled to understand how she had done it, but thought it was done during her labor. The skin was not at all moist until after the chloroform produced relaxation, then it remained moist. After the free urination she perspired freely.
The only medicines she received for three days was by means of the hypodermic needle. Of course after this was all over she was dreadfully sore. Her arms appeared badly bruised in spots, the thighs also, for we could not give all of them in the arms. Antiphlogistine was applied to these poor maltreated parts, afterwards, to reduce the inflammation and remove the soreness. Fortunately there was no ulceration.
For weeks and months she was under the influence of saturated solution of Epsom Salts and Basham’s Mixture, with the addition of a capsule of citrate of caffein and phenacetin. This capsule was given for her severe headache, as needed.
Dr. James Tyson, of Philadelphia, in consultation the second day after the convulsions ceased, was kind enough to say that all the points were so well covered that he could suggest nothing more. I was not surprised that he decided so, for I had followed his treatment of Bright’s disease very closely.
Gradually the patient recovered a degree of health. She went about her usual duties and even resumed some of her social engagements. At times she worked very hard. She was very ambitious in many ways and did not appear to realize when she was over-doing.
When the first child was four years old, a second child – a girl – was born. At this birth there were no complications of any sort. She was not swollen, the delivery was rapid and normal and the puerperium uneventful.
From the time of her first confinement she was kept on the medicines mentioned, even nearly all of them being taken, at times – except the digitaline and strychnia. She was also kept to the careful diet after beginning it.
When the second child was one year old, she had a series of convulsions. This came without any warning – as a bolt out of a clear sky. She had, I think, five convulsions, but I can say nothing definite about the treatment although I believe it was practically the same as she had had before. I know that chloroform was given to control the convulsions. She was one week in the hospital, and was then taken home and nursed back to a fair degree of health. She was never as well as after the first siege, and two years after the second siege she died, in the last period of Bright’s disease. I never knew her age but judge she was about thirty-five or thirty-six when the first child was born. As you will easily see, this is allopathic treatment, most decidedly.
Mrs. L. was not my patient but I had the chance of observing the case.
Five months pregnant, March 18th, when she came for treatment. She felt quickening about Feb. 26th, was frightened and cried for about a half hour at that time. Her general history follows, or at least as much of it as was taken at that time.
Had always had a bad back. An osteopath brother-in-law told her she had two misplaced vertebrae. Felt better after osteopathic treatment.
Tip of spine stiffens when she sits long at a time.
Bearing down in sacral region, worse during menstrual periods.
Bowels regular – a daily stool but slightly constipated.
Had rather delicate lungs some years ago and went west for a time.
Is better, but not well. Everything affects her.
Prefers to be alone, is ashamed of her appearance. Don’t want to see people.
Hot all over if looked at; dreadful heat flushes – “body burns.”
Wants to cry; not usually tearful. Has always been restless and very active.
Always has nausea on the cars.
aggr. heat; fatigued so easily.
Is better in winter.
Perspires very freely.
Thirst less than usual. Appetite good. Craved pickles when nauseated.
Urine examined, – negative. (Note that please, March 18th.)
March 30th.
Kali bi. 10m.
June 2. Feet burn when on them.
Better wearing soft shoes.
Fillings coming out of teeth.
Right side – a tearing pain, after a long ride in a trolley car.
Difficult to rise when sitting.
June 24th. Hands and feet swollen, albumin in the urine.
Intensely nervous;
Breathing difficult, lying;
Tearful, hysterical.
Not sleeping well;
Urination frequent. Quantity for twelve hours, about a quart.
June 29th. Puls. 51m.
July 9th. Pelvic measurements were taken; they were 24,-27,-19.
July 13th. Headache, preceded by a feeling of nausea.
Nausea came on while at the table – then headache above the eyes and at the base of the brain.
Entire head – sensation as if breaking.
Nausea amel. by lying.
[The condition just described: nausea and headache, I believe to be an important danger-signal.]
Cimicifuga 2c. [A severe thunder-storm was threatening at this time.]
July 15. Improved – when the storm came – but became worse when the air became hot again.
Examination of urine, made at the Phila. Clinical Laboratory at this date, revealed albumin present; no casts; some puscells; urea 1.1 per cent.
July 24.
Puls. 51m. Because of her tearfulness.
July 29. Delivery of a boy occurred without instruments, apparently without complications except a slight tear, repaired by use of three stitches without anaesthesia.
July 30. First convulsion at 12:15 A.M. , thirty minutes after delivery.
Bladder empty, as demonstrated by catheterization.
Seven more convulsions that day, as follows:
5 A.M. , 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 A.M. , 12:30 P.M.
Gels. 77m. After the first convulsion, because of the nervous condition during labor.
Pulse at 11:50 A.M. , 160; 12:50 (shortly after first convulsion), 128; at time of prescription, 112.
Convulsions continued for two or three minutes, each.
10:30 A.M.
Cuprum 44m. Blue face; clenched thumbs.
Next convulsion appeared slightly less severe.
1:15 P.M. Urination copious, involuntary, repeated at intervals for several hours.
Evening. Asked for her baby.
Not perfectly clear-headed but had control of the various functions.
[I omitted to report that she had a dose of Nux vom. 50m. about 7 A.M.]
August 5th. A condition of hilarity and depression, alternately, was occasion for the second dose of Cuprum 44m.
Her convalescence was uninterrupted.
August 25th. She left the hospital in fair condition.
Can there be a greater contrast than the treatment of these two cases of Bright’s disease? One was more advanced than the other, but think of the simplicity of the treatment of the last case.
Think how the first case was drugged. All was done conscientiously, and in good faith, and we might say with good results, since she recovered. But can any sensible person say that the excessive use of drugs in the first case may not have had some effect in shortening her life?
There came a time in the life of this patient when everything given had no effect – Why?
Because, from the best intentions in the world, she was over-drugged. I think that then she was beyond the reach of even good Homoeopathy. I mean by this that she was too reduced; it was too late to give Homoeopathy a trial.
I know of a case – an elderly woman, sixty years old, I believe – who was unconscious for several days from uremic poisoning, following tonsillitis. She was swollen to a considerable degree, and appeared to be in the last period of life – about to die – when, under strict Homoeopathy, she was restored to a degree of health which enabled her to go about her home in almost ordinary fashion, and she lived for two years afterward.
She did not have to submit to the surgical operation of splitting the capsule of the kidney because the doctor did not know what to do next.
She was treated with the indicated remedies and they worked, because they do not know how to fail when properly given in curable cases.
The remedies never fail, it is our poor human intelligence that fails – sometimes, I believe, because we do not study our cases carefully enough and our materia media as we should. We are too apt to forget the essence of the individual, the spirit of the person we are treating, and measure everything by the material aspect.
I believe thoroughly, that –
The true success of Homoeopathy is because it deals with man as something higher than a mass of bones, muscles and nerves.
No thinking person can fail to be impressed with the fact that there is more to the individual man or woman than the tenement of clay which we inhabit for a season.
Do we find anything in allopathy to minister to a mind diseased?
We do not. After several years’ experience in one of our state hospitals for the insane, I have yet to recall anything which was ever given except on its purely physiological basis.
We need something more than a purely physiological basis to deal with many of our problems, and in pure Homoeopathy only do we find what we need.
Tonsillitis
Case I
Aching all over.
Throat very sore and swollen, no ulcers,
Painful when swallowing,
Headache intense.
Feverish.
In fact all the symptoms of tonsillitis.
Treatment. – Ice-bag to throat.
Salol tablets – three grains each – one every three or four hours till aching is quite relieved.
One teaspoonful of the following prescription every two hours, in water, through a glass tube to protect the teeth:
Tincture of the Chloride of Iron, 3 drachms,
Glycerine 1/2 ounce.
Aqua distillata to make 3 ounces.
The siege will continue from three to four days at least, and the patient will feel far from well when finally the throat is comfortable.
Condition similar to the above, only in this case a note was made of the fact that:
The patient could not bear anything around the neck. Pressure of any kind aggravated the distress.
The same condition existed in the other case but was not taken into account as having any particular significance.
Second day of the illness,
Lachesis 41m.
(This potency, because she had had the same potency of Lachesis three or four months before, though not for a sore throat.)
In about ten hours she was practically well. All the distress absent from the throat and head, swelling rapidly disappearing, and, in fact, she was quite convalescent.
[Had she had the Lachesis on the first day of the attack it would have been better.]
Two days after the remedy she was well to all intents and purposes.
Pneumonia
Case I
Man about thirty-seven years old, large, strong and vigorous: a man who at times drank more than he could care for without need of assistance. He was suddenly stricken after a wetting and riding in wet clothing. I saw him in the beginning of a siege of pneumonia, in the period of wild excitement, when he knew he was going to die, and was filled with fear.
I ordered antiphlogistine applied to his chest – the poultices changed every six hours, with the hot water bottles in constant application.
Then I gave him Dover’s Powder in 5-gr. doses, two hours apart: two doses and no more. Then I waited to watch the development of the case.
The third day I gave him capsules of –
Salol, 2 grs.
Venice turpentine 1/10 gr.
Dover’s Powder 1/2 gr.
One capsule regularly every three hours.
He had a free sweat from the first Dover’s Powders and the pain was relieved by these and the antiphlogistine, so that he was more comfortable.
With such a history as his – as to his habits – I warned the nurses attending him in the hospital, to watch the pulse carefully.
He did very well, although he was very ill, indeed, for a time. After resolution began, and the expectoration and cough started, he received that old standby – Brown’s Mixture – with muriate of ammonia, about 1/2 gr. to each teaspoonful.
This was given every two or three hours, at first, gradually increasing the time between doses, as the need lessened.
As a heart-tonic at this time, he had 1/60 gr. strychnia every four hours.
He recovered and left the hospital, well, in about four weeks.
I was called one morning to a woman seventy years old, and found her in the first period of pneumonia.
Full of excitement, eyes brilliant, face red, sure she would die.
Temperature 100.5 degree ;
Pulse full and bounding.
Acon. 40m.
Evening; she was slightly more comfortable, and arrangements were made to take her to the hospital that she might be under my care. She was taken there the following day.
This was in January, 1912. She stood the trip well.
Second day after admission to hospital Bryonia symptoms developed.
Bryonia 50m.
This carried her through until the beginning of the second week when, because of
Excessive weakness,
Restlessness and
Mild delirium with moaning, with each respiration, during sleep, she received
Phos. 2c.
The improvement in her condition was evident from this time for several days, then there was
A return of the weakness and moaning during sleep.
Phos. 1m. was given and she made a perfect recovery. With the exception of a hot water-bag at times she had no external applications of any kind.
Feeling better than she had for some two or three years, she continues in good health.
Can any sane person say that the latter case was not treated in a better and more natural manner than the first case of Pneumonia ? Certainly in the latter case there was no drugging, and that cannot be said of the first case. In each case I did the best I knew at the time.
Think of the small amount of medicine in this case? Think how beautifully it did the work.
Think how sure one can be that if the remedy is selected according to the totality of the symptoms a good result will obtain in a curable case.
Can we be sure of that in anything but Homoeopathy?
Think for a moment of the constant stream of new drugs flowing from the laboratories. They are being advertised and exploited by special salesmen at large salaries; [The better the talker the bigger the salary, presumably.] also by tons and tons of printed matter which keeps our waste-baskets filled to overflowing.
How long do these new remedies stay with us?
Are not the large wholesale and retail manufacturing concerns really prescribing for the patient rather than the doctor doing so? Of course it is less trouble to the doctor to hand out a dozen or so of Somebody’s tablets for that pain in the head, or elsewhere, but is that really taking proper care of the sick?
If you were the patient in the case, would you care to be treated as part of a job-lot, supposing that because this medicine cured (?) John Brown it will certainly cure you?
You are yourself, and not John Brown, and therefore, you need the individual treatment which is your right by virtue of your distinct individuality.
Each case must be studied as a separate and peculiar condition, in all its varying phases.
Where is there a good homoeopath physician who fails to take and keep careful note of each case with all its peculiar and individual symptoms, writing out from time to time an anamnesis to ascertain the proper remedy and the correct sequence of treatment – having always in mind the fact that this is a special and peculiar case?
Do many allopath doctors do this? How many doctors do we each know who boast of never keeping any records except of the dollars and cents.
Is not this reducing the practice of medicine to a very material basis?
From doctors who make such assertions and glory in them, can we expect a true understanding of the needs of the sick, and the proper method of treatment?
We cannot work on a material basis only, when we are dealing with so much that is spiritual. If we fail to recognize the spiritual in our cases, we stop far short of really curing them.
Homoeopathy is based on principles which govern its practice.
Allopathy has no principles, but treats symptoms and forgets the individual.
The remedies used in the practice of Homoeopathy are the same as those used by Hahnemann himself, a hundred years ago. Could we have a greater proof of their worth and efficiency? vidual that they will cure those same conditions when manifested in the sick?
We do not need to try this, that, and the other thing.
The avalanche of new remedies which is constantly put before a long-suffering public in the School of Allopathy should teach people to think that such methods are very uncertain. But the people do not think – they accept; therefore I believe it is the duty of each homoeopath physician to be the very best homoeopath possible, and also to constitute himself or herself a centre of information for the advancement of pure Homoeopathy.
It is said that the “Old School” doctors make the best homoeopaths because they are not “continually looking over the fence.” Believe me, friends, it is better not to waste any time looking over the fence. You have something so infinitely superior on your own side, that you do not need to go beyond Hahnemann, Hering and Kent, for all the information you require.
Give Homoeopathy a chance first before rushing your patient to the hospital for operation. Do not be guided by Allopathy in this. Whatever others may do, try to act for really the best interests of the patient’s future. Do not forget that the time following an operation is a very trying one to the patient. Do not be misled even for a time, by the various germ-theories. In many instances we find that they no longer receive respect even by their discoverers.
We can take proper care of all germs with pure Homoeopathy.
Rest assured that anything that is really valuable to us may be potentized and used without over-drugging or introducing that which is so crude as to be poisonous.
Remember, also, that we do not have pathological changes if we receive the patient early enough for our treatment. When we find that such changes have occurred we wait on the action of the remedy before saying that nothing short of a surgical operation will cure.
I have seen fibroid tumors of the uterus disappear under the proper remedies, though at one time I would have laughed that assertion to scorn.
You know what they do in the “Old School” when they have a chronic case of almost any kind. They say, in sincerity, that nothing can be done but make the patient comfortable, and carefully shelve the patient to wait for death; while we know that some of our most brilliant results have been demonstrated with these self-same chronic cases, even a cure sometimes resulting.
I would not have you misunderstand me in my attitude toward Allopathy. I practiced along that line for over twenty years, and had as fair success as the average doctor. If I had to make a choice between a good conscientious allopath and a poor homoeopath for a doctor, I would invariably choose the allopath. I have made my assertions rather radical because there are so many so-called “mongrel homoeopaths,” and I feel sorry that they delude themselves with the idea that they are doing the right thing.
Try to be honestly one thing or the other, and not a miserable go-between, who is not fair to either school, to his patients, nor to himself.
There are many good men and women who practice Allopathy, and believe they are doing right, and they are – they are giving the best that is in them and devoting their lives to the relief of poor suffering humanity without a thought of self. They are to be honored and not scorned. We, however, who feel that we know the truth, and have it in our power to give our patients the best, must keep our ideals pure and be satisfied with nothing short of the highest and the best.
HOMOEOPATHY AMONG DOMESTIC ANIMALS
Volume
1912 Vol 2
Author
- V. Reel
Subject
General Topics / Cases
Remedy
Kali-bi / Puls / Cimic / Cupr / Gels / Nux-v / Lach / Acon / Bry / Phos
With Reports of Cases Contrasting Treatment
*Mrs. B. consulted me in her first pregnancy, at four-and-half months, because of a swelling of the ankles and face.
Examination of the urine showed it loaded with albumin, and with only one per cent. of urea. The quantity of urine varied in 24 hours, but was rarely less than normal. Only occasionally was it scanty.
She was at once put on a diet: chiefly milk, some green vegetables, fruits, poultry and fish, with all red meats forbidden. She was required also to drink very freely of water, both hot and cold. In addition she was warned about fatigue and exposure to cold and dampness.
Of medicine she was given:
Saturated solution of Epsom Salts, to be taken in teaspoonful doses in a glass of hot water, once, twice, or three times a day as needed to keep the bowels very free and loose and so help to relieve the kidneys.
Basham’s Mixture, one teaspoonful twice and three times a day, because of its action in relieving and correcting albumin in the urine, and the chronic inflammatory conditions in the kidneys.
As she was at times very weak and with some indigestion and lack of appetite, she had in addition a tonic, made up of the Glycerophospates of Lime and Calcium (without sugar) and an equal quantity of Elixir of Lactated Pepsin.
Now and then, when the action of the heart seemed to flag, she had a small tablet of Strychnia Sulphate, one-fiftieth of a grain, once, twice, or three times a day as was indicated.
(You may not believe it, but her treatment, according to Allopathy, was conservative.)
The swelling varied at times but was always more or less present. At the time of her confinement she was enormously swollen, the labia resembling huge cysts on each side and obstructing the vulvar orifice. To allow the extraction of the head with forceps, and to save the perineum (the patient being under chloroform), I nicked the sharp edge at the lower margin of the labia, making a good-sized cut on each side.
The child – an eight pound boy – was born without further difficulty.
She required nothing, apparently, except the usual care of a puerperal patient. Much of the swelling disappeared and her general condition appeared good. I warned the nurse, however, to be constantly watchful of her. She had a first-class nurse and all progressed well for a week.
I was called one morning at one-thirty with the statement that she had had a convulsion. It was only a light one. I went at once taking a consultant with me. He had nothing to suggest other than what I had been doing previous to the birth of the baby, so he went home. I remained with the patient forty-eight hours and watched every phase of the situation, being not absent from her more than ten minutes at a time.
To 10 A.M. she had seven convulsions each a little more severe than the preceding one. They were certainly frightful to contemplate.
I gave her a hypodermic injection of pilocarpine, surrounded her with hot water bottles and covered her well with blankets, but obtained no response – she continued with the convulsions. At 10 A.M. I began giving her inhalations of chloroform, just enough to control any tendency to twitching. I kept her under this anaesthetic for ten hours, continuously, guided during this period by the action of the heart which was, at times, almost imperceptible.
The faint breathing and the thready pulse made me feel that it was a losing battle, but we fought on, giving hypodermatics of digitalin and strychnia sulphate – one one-hundredth of digitalin and one-fiftieth of strychnia sulph., even the tenth of a grain of strychnia sul. These were given at intervals of two to four or five hours for about three days.
About eighteen hours after beginning the chloroform she urinated involuntarily very freely.
She was not clear-headed for at least four days, although she talked and asked questions. She had no recollection of anything – not even the fact that she had a baby. It was several days before she asked about the baby; she heard him cry and it puzzled her for some time.
In the convulsions – which were general – she rested a part of the time on her neck and heels, twitching all over; face bluish, teeth tightly clenched, and frothing at the mouth. They were very similar to epileptic convulsions. After the first one we were able to keep the teeth apart, but she bit her tongue badly in the first one, and was afterward much troubled to understand how she had done it, but thought it was done during her labor. The skin was not at all moist until after the chloroform produced relaxation, then it remained moist. After the free urination she perspired freely.
The only medicines she received for three days was by means of the hypodermic needle. Of course after this was all over she was dreadfully sore. Her arms appeared badly bruised in spots, the thighs also, for we could not give all of them in the arms. Antiphlogistine was applied to these poor maltreated parts, afterwards, to reduce the inflammation and remove the soreness. Fortunately there was no ulceration.
For weeks and months she was under the influence of saturated solution of Epsom Salts and Basham’s Mixture, with the addition of a capsule of citrate of caffein and phenacetin. This capsule was given for her severe headache, as needed.
Dr. James Tyson, of Philadelphia, in consultation the second day after the convulsions ceased, was kind enough to say that all the points were so well covered that he could suggest nothing more. I was not surprised that he decided so, for I had followed his treatment of Bright’s disease very closely.
Gradually the patient recovered a degree of health. She went about her usual duties and even resumed some of her social engagements. At times she worked very hard. She was very ambitious in many ways and did not appear to realize when she was over-doing.
When the first child was four years old, a second child – a girl – was born. At this birth there were no complications of any sort. She was not swollen, the delivery was rapid and normal and the puerperium uneventful.
From the time of her first confinement she was kept on the medicines mentioned, even nearly all of them being taken, at times – except the digitaline and strychnia. She was also kept to the careful diet after beginning it.
When the second child was one year old, she had a series of convulsions. This came without any warning – as a bolt out of a clear sky. She had, I think, five convulsions, but I can say nothing definite about the treatment although I believe it was practically the same as she had had before. I know that chloroform was given to control the convulsions. She was one week in the hospital, and was then taken home and nursed back to a fair degree of health. She was never as well as after the first siege, and two years after the second siege she died, in the last period of Bright’s disease. I never knew her age but judge she was about thirty-five or thirty-six when the first child was born. As you will easily see, this is allopathic treatment, most decidedly.
Mrs. L. was not my patient but I had the chance of observing the case.
Five months pregnant, March 18th, when she came for treatment. She felt quickening about Feb. 26th, was frightened and cried for about a half hour at that time. Her general history follows, or at least as much of it as was taken at that time.
Had always had a bad back. An osteopath brother-in-law told her she had two misplaced vertebrae. Felt better after osteopathic treatment.
Tip of spine stiffens when she sits long at a time.
Bearing down in sacral region, worse during menstrual periods.
Bowels regular – a daily stool but slightly constipated.
Had rather delicate lungs some years ago and went west for a time.
Is better, but not well. Everything affects her.
Prefers to be alone, is ashamed of her appearance. Don’t want to see people.
Hot all over if looked at; dreadful heat flushes – “body burns.”
Wants to cry; not usually tearful. Has always been restless and very active.
Always has nausea on the cars.
aggr. heat; fatigued so easily.
Is better in winter.
Perspires very freely.
Thirst less than usual. Appetite good. Craved pickles when nauseated.
Urine examined, – negative. (Note that please, March 18th.)
March 30th.
Kali bi. 10m.
June 2. Feet burn when on them.
Better wearing soft shoes.
Fillings coming out of teeth.
Right side – a tearing pain, after a long ride in a trolley car.
Difficult to rise when sitting.
June 24th. Hands and feet swollen, albumin in the urine.
Intensely nervous;
Breathing difficult, lying;
Tearful, hysterical.
Not sleeping well;
Urination frequent. Quantity for twelve hours, about a quart.
June 29th. Puls. 51m.
July 9th. Pelvic measurements were taken; they were 24,-27,-19.
July 13th. Headache, preceded by a feeling of nausea.
Nausea came on while at the table – then headache above the eyes and at the base of the brain.
Entire head – sensation as if breaking.
Nausea amel. by lying.
[The condition just described: nausea and headache, I believe to be an important danger-signal.]
Cimicifuga 2c. [A severe thunder-storm was threatening at this time.]
July 15. Improved – when the storm came – but became worse when the air became hot again.
Examination of urine, made at the Phila. Clinical Laboratory at this date, revealed albumin present; no casts; some puscells; urea 1.1 per cent.
July 24.
Puls. 51m. Because of her tearfulness.
July 29. Delivery of a boy occurred without instruments, apparently without complications except a slight tear, repaired by use of three stitches without anaesthesia.
July 30. First convulsion at 12:15 A.M. , thirty minutes after delivery.
Bladder empty, as demonstrated by catheterization.
Seven more convulsions that day, as follows:
5 A.M. , 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 A.M. , 12:30 P.M.
Gels. 77m. After the first convulsion, because of the nervous condition during labor.
Pulse at 11:50 A.M. , 160; 12:50 (shortly after first convulsion), 128; at time of prescription, 112.
Convulsions continued for two or three minutes, each.
10:30 A.M.
Cuprum 44m. Blue face; clenched thumbs.
Next convulsion appeared slightly less severe.
1:15 P.M. Urination copious, involuntary, repeated at intervals for several hours.
Evening. Asked for her baby.
Not perfectly clear-headed but had control of the various functions.
[I omitted to report that she had a dose of Nux vom. 50m. about 7 A.M.]
August 5th. A condition of hilarity and depression, alternately, was occasion for the second dose of Cuprum 44m.
Her convalescence was uninterrupted.
August 25th. She left the hospital in fair condition.
Can there be a greater contrast than the treatment of these two cases of Bright’s disease? One was more advanced than the other, but think of the simplicity of the treatment of the last case.
Think how the first case was drugged. All was done conscientiously, and in good faith, and we might say with good results, since she recovered. But can any sensible person say that the excessive use of drugs in the first case may not have had some effect in shortening her life?
There came a time in the life of this patient when everything given had no effect – Why?
Because, from the best intentions in the world, she was over-drugged. I think that then she was beyond the reach of even good Homoeopathy. I mean by this that she was too reduced; it was too late to give Homoeopathy a trial.
I know of a case – an elderly woman, sixty years old, I believe – who was unconscious for several days from uremic poisoning, following tonsillitis. She was swollen to a considerable degree, and appeared to be in the last period of life – about to die – when, under strict Homoeopathy, she was restored to a degree of health which enabled her to go about her home in almost ordinary fashion, and she lived for two years afterward.
She did not have to submit to the surgical operation of splitting the capsule of the kidney because the doctor did not know what to do next.
She was treated with the indicated remedies and they worked, because they do not know how to fail when properly given in curable cases.
The remedies never fail, it is our poor human intelligence that fails – sometimes, I believe, because we do not study our cases carefully enough and our materia media as we should. We are too apt to forget the essence of the individual, the spirit of the person we are treating, and measure everything by the material aspect.
I believe thoroughly, that –
The true success of Homoeopathy is because it deals with man as something higher than a mass of bones, muscles and nerves.
No thinking person can fail to be impressed with the fact that there is more to the individual man or woman than the tenement of clay which we inhabit for a season.
Do we find anything in allopathy to minister to a mind diseased?
We do not. After several years’ experience in one of our state hospitals for the insane, I have yet to recall anything which was ever given except on its purely physiological basis.
We need something more than a purely physiological basis to deal with many of our problems, and in pure Homoeopathy only do we find what we need.
Tonsillitis
Case I
Aching all over.
Throat very sore and swollen, no ulcers,
Painful when swallowing,
Headache intense.
Feverish.
In fact all the symptoms of tonsillitis.
Treatment. – Ice-bag to throat.
Salol tablets – three grains each – one every three or four hours till aching is quite relieved.
One teaspoonful of the following prescription every two hours, in water, through a glass tube to protect the teeth:
Tincture of the Chloride of Iron, 3 drachms,
Glycerine 1/2 ounce.
Aqua distillata to make 3 ounces.
The siege will continue from three to four days at least, and the patient will feel far from well when finally the throat is comfortable.
Condition similar to the above, only in this case a note was made of the fact that:
The patient could not bear anything around the neck. Pressure of any kind aggravated the distress.
The same condition existed in the other case but was not taken into account as having any particular significance.
Second day of the illness,
Lachesis 41m.
(This potency, because she had had the same potency of Lachesis three or four months before, though not for a sore throat.)
In about ten hours she was practically well. All the distress absent from the throat and head, swelling rapidly disappearing, and, in fact, she was quite convalescent.
[Had she had the Lachesis on the first day of the attack it would have been better.]
Two days after the remedy she was well to all intents and purposes.
Pneumonia
Case I
Man about thirty-seven years old, large, strong and vigorous: a man who at times drank more than he could care for without need of assistance. He was suddenly stricken after a wetting and riding in wet clothing. I saw him in the beginning of a siege of pneumonia, in the period of wild excitement, when he knew he was going to die, and was filled with fear.
I ordered antiphlogistine applied to his chest – the poultices changed every six hours, with the hot water bottles in constant application.
Then I gave him Dover’s Powder in 5-gr. doses, two hours apart: two doses and no more. Then I waited to watch the development of the case.
The third day I gave him capsules of –
Salol, 2 grs.
Venice turpentine 1/10 gr.
Dover’s Powder 1/2 gr.
One capsule regularly every three hours.
He had a free sweat from the first Dover’s Powders and the pain was relieved by these and the antiphlogistine, so that he was more comfortable.
With such a history as his – as to his habits – I warned the nurses attending him in the hospital, to watch the pulse carefully.
He did very well, although he was very ill, indeed, for a time. After resolution began, and the expectoration and cough started, he received that old standby – Brown’s Mixture – with muriate of ammonia, about 1/2 gr. to each teaspoonful.
This was given every two or three hours, at first, gradually increasing the time between doses, as the need lessened.
As a heart-tonic at this time, he had 1/60 gr. strychnia every four hours.
He recovered and left the hospital, well, in about four weeks.
I was called one morning to a woman seventy years old, and found her in the first period of pneumonia.
Full of excitement, eyes brilliant, face red, sure she would die.
Temperature 100.5 degree ;
Pulse full and bounding.
Acon. 40m.
Evening; she was slightly more comfortable, and arrangements were made to take her to the hospital that she might be under my care. She was taken there the following day.
This was in January, 1912. She stood the trip well.
Second day after admission to hospital Bryonia symptoms developed.
Bryonia 50m.
This carried her through until the beginning of the second week when, because of
Excessive weakness,
Restlessness and
Mild delirium with moaning, with each respiration, during sleep, she received
Phos. 2c.
The improvement in her condition was evident from this time for several days, then there was
A return of the weakness and moaning during sleep.
Phos. 1m. was given and she made a perfect recovery. With the exception of a hot water-bag at times she had no external applications of any kind.
Feeling better than she had for some two or three years, she continues in good health.
Can any sane person say that the latter case was not treated in a better and more natural manner than the first case of Pneumonia ? Certainly in the latter case there was no drugging, and that cannot be said of the first case. In each case I did the best I knew at the time.
Think of the small amount of medicine in this case? Think how beautifully it did the work.
Think how sure one can be that if the remedy is selected according to the totality of the symptoms a good result will obtain in a curable case.
Can we be sure of that in anything but Homoeopathy?
Think for a moment of the constant stream of new drugs flowing from the laboratories. They are being advertised and exploited by special salesmen at large salaries; [The better the talker the bigger the salary, presumably.] also by tons and tons of printed matter which keeps our waste-baskets filled to overflowing.
How long do these new remedies stay with us?
Are not the large wholesale and retail manufacturing concerns really prescribing for the patient rather than the doctor doing so? Of course it is less trouble to the doctor to hand out a dozen or so of Somebody’s tablets for that pain in the head, or elsewhere, but is that really taking proper care of the sick?
If you were the patient in the case, would you care to be treated as part of a job-lot, supposing that because this medicine cured (?) John Brown it will certainly cure you?
You are yourself, and not John Brown, and therefore, you need the individual treatment which is your right by virtue of your distinct individuality.
Each case must be studied as a separate and peculiar condition, in all its varying phases.
Where is there a good homoeopath physician who fails to take and keep careful note of each case with all its peculiar and individual symptoms, writing out from time to time an anamnesis to ascertain the proper remedy and the correct sequence of treatment – having always in mind the fact that this is a special and peculiar case?
Do many allopath doctors do this? How many doctors do we each know who boast of never keeping any records except of the dollars and cents.
Is not this reducing the practice of medicine to a very material basis?
From doctors who make such assertions and glory in them, can we expect a true understanding of the needs of the sick, and the proper method of treatment?
We cannot work on a material basis only, when we are dealing with so much that is spiritual. If we fail to recognize the spiritual in our cases, we stop far short of really curing them.
Homoeopathy is based on principles which govern its practice.
Allopathy has no principles, but treats symptoms and forgets the individual.
The remedies used in the practice of Homoeopathy are the same as those used by Hahnemann himself, a hundred years ago. Could we have a greater proof of their worth and efficiency? vidual that they will cure those same conditions when manifested in the sick?
We do not need to try this, that, and the other thing.
The avalanche of new remedies which is constantly put before a long-suffering public in the School of Allopathy should teach people to think that such methods are very uncertain. But the people do not think – they accept; therefore I believe it is the duty of each homoeopath physician to be the very best homoeopath possible, and also to constitute himself or herself a centre of information for the advancement of pure Homoeopathy.
It is said that the “Old School” doctors make the best homoeopaths because they are not “continually looking over the fence.” Believe me, friends, it is better not to waste any time looking over the fence. You have something so infinitely superior on your own side, that you do not need to go beyond Hahnemann, Hering and Kent, for all the information you require.
Give Homoeopathy a chance first before rushing your patient to the hospital for operation. Do not be guided by Allopathy in this. Whatever others may do, try to act for really the best interests of the patient’s future. Do not forget that the time following an operation is a very trying one to the patient. Do not be misled even for a time, by the various germ-theories. In many instances we find that they no longer receive respect even by their discoverers.
We can take proper care of all germs with pure Homoeopathy.
Rest assured that anything that is really valuable to us may be potentized and used without over-drugging or introducing that which is so crude as to be poisonous.
Remember, also, that we do not have pathological changes if we receive the patient early enough for our treatment. When we find that such changes have occurred we wait on the action of the remedy before saying that nothing short of a surgical operation will cure.
I have seen fibroid tumors of the uterus disappear under the proper remedies, though at one time I would have laughed that assertion to scorn.
You know what they do in the “Old School” when they have a chronic case of almost any kind. They say, in sincerity, that nothing can be done but make the patient comfortable, and carefully shelve the patient to wait for death; while we know that some of our most brilliant results have been demonstrated with these self-same chronic cases, even a cure sometimes resulting.
I would not have you misunderstand me in my attitude toward Allopathy. I practiced along that line for over twenty years, and had as fair success as the average doctor. If I had to make a choice between a good conscientious allopath and a poor homoeopath for a doctor, I would invariably choose the allopath. I have made my assertions rather radical because there are so many so-called “mongrel homoeopaths,” and I feel sorry that they delude themselves with the idea that they are doing the right thing.
Try to be honestly one thing or the other, and not a miserable go-between, who is not fair to either school, to his patients, nor to himself.
There are many good men and women who practice Allopathy, and believe they are doing right, and they are – they are giving the best that is in them and devoting their lives to the relief of poor suffering humanity without a thought of self. They are to be honored and not scorned. We, however, who feel that we know the truth, and have it in our power to give our patients the best, must keep our ideals pure and be satisfied with nothing short of the highest and the best.
THE SECOND PRESCRIPTION
Volume
1912 Vol 2
Author
- T. Kent
Subject
Philosophy & Discussion / Cases
Remedy
Lyc / Kali-bi / Calc / Bell / Rhus-t / Nat-m / Apis / Ign / Sil / Puls / Sulph / Acon / Caust / Phos
Editorial Note: What perplexing problems we often meet in practice How we crave, at times, the advice of a master mind We are so often the victims of prejudice, over-confidence or ignorance, and our patients suffer in consequence of this. Could we but understand the intricate laws governing the inner man, disease, and remedies, how much more wisely might we adjust ourselves to the far-reaching problems which endanger the life of a father, a mother, a noble son or an affectionate daughter. We would not then, as is so often done, impede or pervert the action of a carefully selected remedy by our impatience to get results, or by our impetuosity in hastening certain conditions which will not be hastened, or by our ignorance in so quickly changing remedies before one of them has had time for definite action. To help us in this noble work we reproduce below a masterly paper by Professor J. T. Kent, read before the International Hahnemannian Association at Niagara Falls in 1888. – G. E. D.
What is more beautiful to look upon than the bud during its hourly changes to the rose in its bloom. This evolution has so often come to my mind when patiently awaiting the return of symptoms after the first prescription has exhausted its curative power. The return symptom-image unfolds the knowledge by which we know whether the first prescription was the specific or the palliative, i. e., we may know whether the remedy was deep enough to cure all the deranged vital wrong or simply a superficially acting remedy, capable of only a temporary effect. The many things learned by the action of the first remedy determine the kind of demand made upon the physician for the second prescription.
Many problems come up to be solved that must be solved, or failure may follow.
How long shall I watch and wait? is a question frequently asked but seldom answered.
Is the remedy still acting? Is the vital reaction still affected by the impulse of the remedy?
If the symptoms are returning, how long shall they be watched before it is necessary to act or give medicine?
Is the disease acute or chronic?
Why is the second prescription so much more difficult than the first?
Why is it that so many patients are benefited when first going to the physician and thereafter derive no benefit?
I presume that most good prescribers will say: “We have often acted too soon, but never waited too long.” Many physicians fail because of not waiting, and yet the waiting must be governed by knowledge. Knowledge must be had, but where can it be obtained? To know that this waiting is right is quite different from waiting without a fixed purpose. This knowledge can not be found where its existence is denied; it is not found with unbelievers and agnostics.
When the first prescription has been made and the remedy has been similar enough to change the existing image, we have but to wait for results. The manner of change taking place in the totality of symptoms signifies everything, yet the manner of the return of the image, provided it has disappeared, signifies more.
First. If aggravation of symptoms follow;
Second. If amelioration of symptoms follow;
- Aggravation of existing symptoms may come on with general improvement of the patient, which means well; but –
If aggravation of the symptoms is attended with decline of the patient the cure is doubtful, and the case must be handled with extreme care, as it is seldom that such patients recover perfectly.
- If amelioration follow the prescription, to what does the amelioration apply?
It may apply to the general state or but to the few symptoms. If the patient does not feel the elasticity of life returning, the improved symptoms are the facts upon which to doubt recovery.
The knowledge that the disease is incurable often is obtained only in this way. In such cases every remedy may palliate his sufferings, but cure does not come. The symptoms that are the expressions of the debility are there, and hence the totality of the symptoms is not removed.
After the curative impulse has entirely subsided, the symptoms will appear one by one, falling into place to arrange an image of the disease before the intelligent physician for the purpose of cure.
If the first prescription has been continuously given, there has been but little if any chance of a pure returning image of the disease, therefore this image must be very unreliable.
When the remedy has been fully exhausted, then, and only then, can we trust the symptoms constituting the picture.
If the first prescription was the similimum, the symptoms will return – when they return – asking for the same remedy.
Too often the remedy has been only similar enough to the superficial symptoms to change the totality and the image comes back altered, therefore resembling another remedy, which must always be regarded as a misfortune, by which the case is sometimes spoiled, and the hand of the master may fail to correct the wrong done.
Whenever the symptoms return in the same image, calling for the same remedy, then it is that we have demonstrated, that – for a time, if the disease be chronic – we can but recommend the range of dynamics to cure this case. This rule is almost free from exceptions if the remedy is an antipsoric.
What must the physician do who has not the knowledge of dynamic medicines? He must sometimes see sick images come back without change of symptoms, though I believe it is seldom.
The symptoms may call for Phosphorus as strongly as when he began, and Phosphorus 6x has served and no longer cures. What can he do but change his remedy?
Can it be possible that man can be so ignorant of how to cure as to give a drug that is not indicated because the one that is indicated does not cure?
These ignorant mortals condemn the system of Homoeopathy and feel that they have performed their duty to the sick, forgetting that ignorance was the culprit.
I have observed in cases where a low potency had been administered in frequently repeated doses, that some time must elapse before a perfect action will follow the higher potency; but where the dose had not been repeated after its action was first observed, the new and higher potency will act promptly.
When the symptoms come back – after prudent waiting – unchanged, the selection was correct, and if the same potency fail to act a higher one will generally do so quite promptly, as did the lower one at first. When the picture comes back unaltered except by the absence of some one or more symptoms, the remedy should never be changed until a still higher potency has been fully tested, as no harm can come to the case from giving a single dose of a medicine that has exhausted its curative powers. It is even negligence not to do such a thing.
Proper time to change
When the demonstration is clear that the present remedy has done all it is capable of doing – and this demonstration can not be made until much higher potencies than usually made have been tried – then the time is present for the next prescription.
To change to the next remedy becomes a ponderous problem, and what shall it be?
The last appearing symptom shall be the guide to the next remedy. This is so whenever the image has been permitted to settle by watching and waiting for the shaping of the returning symptom-picture. Long have I waited after exhausting the power of a remedy, while observing a few of the old symptoms returning; finally a new symptom appears. This latest symptom will appear in the anamnesis as best related to some medicine having it as a characteristic which will most likely have all the rest of the symptoms.
It is not supposed that this later appearing symptom is an old symptom on its way to final departure, for so long as old symptoms re-appear and disappear it is granted that no medicine is to be thought of.
It is an error to think of a medicine when a symptom-image is changing. The physician must wait for permanency or firmness in the relations of the image before making a prescription.
Some say, “I must give the patient medicine or he will go and see some one else.” I have only to say that it were better had all sick folks gone somewhere else, for these doctors seldom cure but often complicate the sickness.
The acute expressions of a chronic disease have a different management from the acute disease, e. g., a child suffers from bronchitis in every change of weather. It may grow worse if treated with the remedy for the acute symptoms.
The miasm that predisposes the child to recurrent attacks must be considered.
One recently under my care had received Antimonium tart., Calcarea, Sulphur, Lycopodium, etc., in such indiscriminate confusion that the child was not cured. The waiting on Sac.-lac. through several attacks permitted the drug-effects to pass off, and the true image of the sickness was permitted to express itself through several of the exacerbations taken as a whole.
When western ague is complicated with a miasm, a single paroxysm does not fully express the totality, but several must be grouped and the true image will be discovered. If the acute disease be complicated with a miasm, the indicated remedy will wipe it out “cito, tuto et jucunde.”
Avoid haste
All things oppose haste in prescribing. In very grave diseases haste is a common error, more frequently with the second prescription than the first. Many doctors suppose that a diphtheria demands a medicine immediately because “something must be done.” This is an error; many a life has been saved by waiting and waiting.
For example:
A little girl was suffering from a severe attack of diphtheria and the mother had treated it four days with Mercurius 3x, and Kali bich. 3x, in alternation. She was poor, and therefore I did not refuse to take the case which was then in a very bad state: nose, mouth and larynx full of exudate.
After a long study the child received Lycopodium cm. (F.), one dose, dry, which cleared out the exudate from nose and fauces, but did not touch the larynx.
I dare not tell you how long I watched that child before I saw an indication for the second remedy which it would have needed had the Lycopodium been given when the child first took sick. I waited until the poor child was threatening dissolution when I saw a little tough yellow mucus in the mouth. Kali bich., cm., one dose, cleared the larynx in one day and there was no further medication necessary.
The first prescription is made with the entire image of the sickness formed. (People usually send for the doctor after there can be no doubt of the sickness to be treated.)
The doctor watches the improvement of the patient and the corresponding disappearance of the symptoms under the first prescription, and when the case comes to a standstill he is uneasy, and with increasing fidgetiness he awaits the coming indication for the next dose of medicine.
This fidgetiness which comes from the lack of knowledge unfits the physician as an observer and judge of symptoms; hence we see the doctor usually failing to cure his own children. He cannot wait and reason clearly over the returning symptoms.
While watching the prescriptions of beginners, I have observed very often the proper results of the first prescription. The patient has improved for a time, then ceased to respond to any remedy.
Close investigation generally reveals that this patient improved after the first dose of medicine, that the symptoms changed slightly without new symptoms, and the new “photo” seemed to call for some other remedy, when, of course, the remedy was changed and trouble began. Constant changing of remedies followed until all the antipsorics in the Chronic Diseases had been given on flitting symptom-images, and the patient is yet sick. This is the common experience of young Hahnemannians trying to find the right way. Some of experience make lesser blunders and some make few, but how many have made none? All of these blunders I have made, as I had no teacher, until I blundered upon the works of the great Master.
Wait and observe
The first prescription may not have been well chosen medicine, and then it becomes necessary to make a second effort.
As time brings about the re-examination of the patient, new facts are brought out in relation to the image of the sickness, indicating that the first medicine had not been suitable; perhaps several weeks have passed and the re-examination finds no change in the symptoms.
Shall I compare all the facts in the case to reassure myself of the correctness of the first prescription, or shall I wait longer?
Yes, to the former, of course, and if the remedy still is the most similar to all the symptoms, wait, and watch, and study the patient for a new light on his feelings to which he has become so accustomed that he has not observed.
Commonly the new study of the case will reveal the reason why the first prescription has not cured: it was not appropriate.
If it still appears to be the most similar remedy the question arises: “How long shall I wait?”
At this point it should be duly appreciated that the length of time is not so important as being on the safe side, and “wait” is the only safe thing to do. It may have been many days, but that matters not, wait longer.
The finest curative action I ever observed was begun sixty days after the administration of the single dose.
The curative action may begin as late as a long-acting drug can produce symptoms on a healthy body. This guide has never been thought of by our writers, but it is well to be considered. Why not?
It is the practice for some to go lower if a high potency has failed.
This method has but few recorded successes but should not be ignored.
The question next to be considered is the giving of a dose of medicine in water and in divided doses. This has at times seemed to have favor over the single dry dose. This is open for discussion, requiring testimony of the many, not of few, to give it weight. The best reports are made from both methods, and both are in harmony with correct practice.
Improper action
The next important step to be considered is when the first prescription has acted improperly, or without curative results. Then it becomes necessary to consider a second prescription. The first prescription sometimes changes the symptoms that are harmless and painless into symptoms that are dangerous and painful.
If a rheumatism of the knee goes to the heart under a remedy prescribed for the one symptom, the remedy has done harm. It is an unfortunate prescription and must be antidoted. In incurable diseases when a remedy has set up destructive symptoms, an antidote must be considered.
If the remedy changes the general symptom-image, and the general state of the patient is growing worse, the question then comes up, was the prescription only similar to a part of the image, or is the disease incurable? Knowledge of disease may settle this question. If the disease is incurable, the action of the remedy was not expected to do more than to change the sufferings into peaceful symptoms, and the second prescription is to be considered only when new sufferings demand a remedy.
But suppose such a change of suffering comes after the first prescription and the disease is undoubtedly curable, then the conclusion must be that the first prescription was not the true specific, and that the true image has not been seen.
Wait until the old image has fully returned is all there is to do.
It is hazardous practice to follow up rapidly all the changing symptoms in any sickness, with remedies that simply for the moment seem similar to the symptoms present. The observing physician will know by the symptoms and their directions, whether the patient is growing better or worse, even though he appear to the contrary to himself and his friends.
The complaints of patient or friends constitute no ground for a second prescription.
The greatest sufferings may intervene in the change of symptoms during progress of permanent recovery, and if such symptoms are disturbed by a new prescription or palliated by inappropriate medicine, the patient may never be cured.
The object of the first prescription is to arrange the vital current or motion in a direction favorable to equilibrium, and when this is attained it must not be disturbed by a new interference. Ignorance in this sphere has cost millions of lives.
When will the medical world be willing to learn these principles so well that they can cure speedily, gently and permanently?
There can be no fixed time for making the second prescription; it may be many months.
The second prescription must be one that has a friendly relation to the last one or the preceding. No intelligent prescription can be made without knowing the last remedy. Concordances in Boenninghausen must not be ignored. The new remedy should sustain a complementary relation to the former.
Remedies suitable to follow
In managing a chronic sickness the remedy that conforms to an acute experience of the illness is worth knowing, as very often its chronic may be just the one that conforms to its symptoms.
Calcarea is the natural chronic of Belladonna and Rhus;
Natrum mur. sustains the same relation to Apis and Ignatia;
Silicea to Pulsatilla;
Sulphur to Aconite.
When Pulsatilla has been of great service in a given case and finally cures no more, while the symptoms now point to Silicea, the latter will be given with confidence as its complimentary relation has long been established.
On the other hand Causticum and Phosphorus do not like to work after each other, nor will Apis do well after Rhus.
How physicians can make the second prescription without regard to the experience of nearly a century, is more than man can know.
These things are not written to instruct men of experience in the right way, but for the young men who have asked so often for the above notes of our present practice.
I am told almost daily that this kind of practice is splitting hairs, but I am convinced of the necessity of obeying every injunction.
Careful records
You should have no confidence in the experience of men who do not write out faithfully all the symptoms of the patient treated, and note carefully the remedy, and how given. Especially is this necessary in patients likely to need a second prescription.
The physician who has in his case-book the notes of every illness of his patients has wonderful hold of any community. He has the old symptoms and the remedies noted that cured, and he can make indirect inquiry after all the old symptoms long ago removed.
The pleasure is not small found in consulting such a note-book.
Experience soon leads the close prescriber to note all the peculiar symptoms and to omit the nondescript wanderings indulged in by sick people; however, it is important to be correct in judgment.
Many physicians make a correct first prescription and the patient does well and cheers up for a while, but finally the test is made for the second and then all is lost. Homoeopathy is nothing if not true and, if true, the greatest accuracy of detail and method should be followed. It is fortunate that the physicians who repeat while the remedy is acting are such poor prescribers or their death-list would be enormous.
– The Critique, March-April, 1913.
Volume
1912 Vol 2
Author
- T. Kent
Subject
Philosophy & Discussion / Cases
Remedy
Lyc / Kali-bi / Calc / Bell / Rhus-t / Nat-m / Apis / Ign / Sil / Puls / Sulph / Acon / Caust / Phos
Editorial Note: What perplexing problems we often meet in practice How we crave, at times, the advice of a master mind We are so often the victims of prejudice, over-confidence or ignorance, and our patients suffer in consequence of this. Could we but understand the intricate laws governing the inner man, disease, and remedies, how much more wisely might we adjust ourselves to the far-reaching problems which endanger the life of a father, a mother, a noble son or an affectionate daughter. We would not then, as is so often done, impede or pervert the action of a carefully selected remedy by our impatience to get results, or by our impetuosity in hastening certain conditions which will not be hastened, or by our ignorance in so quickly changing remedies before one of them has had time for definite action. To help us in this noble work we reproduce below a masterly paper by Professor J. T. Kent, read before the International Hahnemannian Association at Niagara Falls in 1888. – G. E. D.
What is more beautiful to look upon than the bud during its hourly changes to the rose in its bloom. This evolution has so often come to my mind when patiently awaiting the return of symptoms after the first prescription has exhausted its curative power. The return symptom-image unfolds the knowledge by which we know whether the first prescription was the specific or the palliative, i. e., we may know whether the remedy was deep enough to cure all the deranged vital wrong or simply a superficially acting remedy, capable of only a temporary effect. The many things learned by the action of the first remedy determine the kind of demand made upon the physician for the second prescription.
Many problems come up to be solved that must be solved, or failure may follow.
How long shall I watch and wait? is a question frequently asked but seldom answered.
Is the remedy still acting? Is the vital reaction still affected by the impulse of the remedy?
If the symptoms are returning, how long shall they be watched before it is necessary to act or give medicine?
Is the disease acute or chronic?
Why is the second prescription so much more difficult than the first?
Why is it that so many patients are benefited when first going to the physician and thereafter derive no benefit?
I presume that most good prescribers will say: “We have often acted too soon, but never waited too long.” Many physicians fail because of not waiting, and yet the waiting must be governed by knowledge. Knowledge must be had, but where can it be obtained? To know that this waiting is right is quite different from waiting without a fixed purpose. This knowledge can not be found where its existence is denied; it is not found with unbelievers and agnostics.
When the first prescription has been made and the remedy has been similar enough to change the existing image, we have but to wait for results. The manner of change taking place in the totality of symptoms signifies everything, yet the manner of the return of the image, provided it has disappeared, signifies more.
First. If aggravation of symptoms follow;
Second. If amelioration of symptoms follow;
- Aggravation of existing symptoms may come on with general improvement of the patient, which means well; but –
If aggravation of the symptoms is attended with decline of the patient the cure is doubtful, and the case must be handled with extreme care, as it is seldom that such patients recover perfectly.
- If amelioration follow the prescription, to what does the amelioration apply?
It may apply to the general state or but to the few symptoms. If the patient does not feel the elasticity of life returning, the improved symptoms are the facts upon which to doubt recovery.
The knowledge that the disease is incurable often is obtained only in this way. In such cases every remedy may palliate his sufferings, but cure does not come. The symptoms that are the expressions of the debility are there, and hence the totality of the symptoms is not removed.
After the curative impulse has entirely subsided, the symptoms will appear one by one, falling into place to arrange an image of the disease before the intelligent physician for the purpose of cure.
If the first prescription has been continuously given, there has been but little if any chance of a pure returning image of the disease, therefore this image must be very unreliable.
When the remedy has been fully exhausted, then, and only then, can we trust the symptoms constituting the picture.
If the first prescription was the similimum, the symptoms will return – when they return – asking for the same remedy.
Too often the remedy has been only similar enough to the superficial symptoms to change the totality and the image comes back altered, therefore resembling another remedy, which must always be regarded as a misfortune, by which the case is sometimes spoiled, and the hand of the master may fail to correct the wrong done.
Whenever the symptoms return in the same image, calling for the same remedy, then it is that we have demonstrated, that – for a time, if the disease be chronic – we can but recommend the range of dynamics to cure this case. This rule is almost free from exceptions if the remedy is an antipsoric.
What must the physician do who has not the knowledge of dynamic medicines? He must sometimes see sick images come back without change of symptoms, though I believe it is seldom.
The symptoms may call for Phosphorus as strongly as when he began, and Phosphorus 6x has served and no longer cures. What can he do but change his remedy?
Can it be possible that man can be so ignorant of how to cure as to give a drug that is not indicated because the one that is indicated does not cure?
These ignorant mortals condemn the system of Homoeopathy and feel that they have performed their duty to the sick, forgetting that ignorance was the culprit.
I have observed in cases where a low potency had been administered in frequently repeated doses, that some time must elapse before a perfect action will follow the higher potency; but where the dose had not been repeated after its action was first observed, the new and higher potency will act promptly.
When the symptoms come back – after prudent waiting – unchanged, the selection was correct, and if the same potency fail to act a higher one will generally do so quite promptly, as did the lower one at first. When the picture comes back unaltered except by the absence of some one or more symptoms, the remedy should never be changed until a still higher potency has been fully tested, as no harm can come to the case from giving a single dose of a medicine that has exhausted its curative powers. It is even negligence not to do such a thing.
Proper time to change
When the demonstration is clear that the present remedy has done all it is capable of doing – and this demonstration can not be made until much higher potencies than usually made have been tried – then the time is present for the next prescription.
To change to the next remedy becomes a ponderous problem, and what shall it be?
The last appearing symptom shall be the guide to the next remedy. This is so whenever the image has been permitted to settle by watching and waiting for the shaping of the returning symptom-picture. Long have I waited after exhausting the power of a remedy, while observing a few of the old symptoms returning; finally a new symptom appears. This latest symptom will appear in the anamnesis as best related to some medicine having it as a characteristic which will most likely have all the rest of the symptoms.
It is not supposed that this later appearing symptom is an old symptom on its way to final departure, for so long as old symptoms re-appear and disappear it is granted that no medicine is to be thought of.
It is an error to think of a medicine when a symptom-image is changing. The physician must wait for permanency or firmness in the relations of the image before making a prescription.
Some say, “I must give the patient medicine or he will go and see some one else.” I have only to say that it were better had all sick folks gone somewhere else, for these doctors seldom cure but often complicate the sickness.
The acute expressions of a chronic disease have a different management from the acute disease, e. g., a child suffers from bronchitis in every change of weather. It may grow worse if treated with the remedy for the acute symptoms.
The miasm that predisposes the child to recurrent attacks must be considered.
One recently under my care had received Antimonium tart., Calcarea, Sulphur, Lycopodium, etc., in such indiscriminate confusion that the child was not cured. The waiting on Sac.-lac. through several attacks permitted the drug-effects to pass off, and the true image of the sickness was permitted to express itself through several of the exacerbations taken as a whole.
When western ague is complicated with a miasm, a single paroxysm does not fully express the totality, but several must be grouped and the true image will be discovered. If the acute disease be complicated with a miasm, the indicated remedy will wipe it out “cito, tuto et jucunde.”
Avoid haste
All things oppose haste in prescribing. In very grave diseases haste is a common error, more frequently with the second prescription than the first. Many doctors suppose that a diphtheria demands a medicine immediately because “something must be done.” This is an error; many a life has been saved by waiting and waiting.
For example:
A little girl was suffering from a severe attack of diphtheria and the mother had treated it four days with Mercurius 3x, and Kali bich. 3x, in alternation. She was poor, and therefore I did not refuse to take the case which was then in a very bad state: nose, mouth and larynx full of exudate.
After a long study the child received Lycopodium cm. (F.), one dose, dry, which cleared out the exudate from nose and fauces, but did not touch the larynx.
I dare not tell you how long I watched that child before I saw an indication for the second remedy which it would have needed had the Lycopodium been given when the child first took sick. I waited until the poor child was threatening dissolution when I saw a little tough yellow mucus in the mouth. Kali bich., cm., one dose, cleared the larynx in one day and there was no further medication necessary.
The first prescription is made with the entire image of the sickness formed. (People usually send for the doctor after there can be no doubt of the sickness to be treated.)
The doctor watches the improvement of the patient and the corresponding disappearance of the symptoms under the first prescription, and when the case comes to a standstill he is uneasy, and with increasing fidgetiness he awaits the coming indication for the next dose of medicine.
This fidgetiness which comes from the lack of knowledge unfits the physician as an observer and judge of symptoms; hence we see the doctor usually failing to cure his own children. He cannot wait and reason clearly over the returning symptoms.
While watching the prescriptions of beginners, I have observed very often the proper results of the first prescription. The patient has improved for a time, then ceased to respond to any remedy.
Close investigation generally reveals that this patient improved after the first dose of medicine, that the symptoms changed slightly without new symptoms, and the new “photo” seemed to call for some other remedy, when, of course, the remedy was changed and trouble began. Constant changing of remedies followed until all the antipsorics in the Chronic Diseases had been given on flitting symptom-images, and the patient is yet sick. This is the common experience of young Hahnemannians trying to find the right way. Some of experience make lesser blunders and some make few, but how many have made none? All of these blunders I have made, as I had no teacher, until I blundered upon the works of the great Master.
Wait and observe
The first prescription may not have been well chosen medicine, and then it becomes necessary to make a second effort.
As time brings about the re-examination of the patient, new facts are brought out in relation to the image of the sickness, indicating that the first medicine had not been suitable; perhaps several weeks have passed and the re-examination finds no change in the symptoms.
Shall I compare all the facts in the case to reassure myself of the correctness of the first prescription, or shall I wait longer?
Yes, to the former, of course, and if the remedy still is the most similar to all the symptoms, wait, and watch, and study the patient for a new light on his feelings to which he has become so accustomed that he has not observed.
Commonly the new study of the case will reveal the reason why the first prescription has not cured: it was not appropriate.
If it still appears to be the most similar remedy the question arises: “How long shall I wait?”
At this point it should be duly appreciated that the length of time is not so important as being on the safe side, and “wait” is the only safe thing to do. It may have been many days, but that matters not, wait longer.
The finest curative action I ever observed was begun sixty days after the administration of the single dose.
The curative action may begin as late as a long-acting drug can produce symptoms on a healthy body. This guide has never been thought of by our writers, but it is well to be considered. Why not?
It is the practice for some to go lower if a high potency has failed.
This method has but few recorded successes but should not be ignored.
The question next to be considered is the giving of a dose of medicine in water and in divided doses. This has at times seemed to have favor over the single dry dose. This is open for discussion, requiring testimony of the many, not of few, to give it weight. The best reports are made from both methods, and both are in harmony with correct practice.
Improper action
The next important step to be considered is when the first prescription has acted improperly, or without curative results. Then it becomes necessary to consider a second prescription. The first prescription sometimes changes the symptoms that are harmless and painless into symptoms that are dangerous and painful.
If a rheumatism of the knee goes to the heart under a remedy prescribed for the one symptom, the remedy has done harm. It is an unfortunate prescription and must be antidoted. In incurable diseases when a remedy has set up destructive symptoms, an antidote must be considered.
If the remedy changes the general symptom-image, and the general state of the patient is growing worse, the question then comes up, was the prescription only similar to a part of the image, or is the disease incurable? Knowledge of disease may settle this question. If the disease is incurable, the action of the remedy was not expected to do more than to change the sufferings into peaceful symptoms, and the second prescription is to be considered only when new sufferings demand a remedy.
But suppose such a change of suffering comes after the first prescription and the disease is undoubtedly curable, then the conclusion must be that the first prescription was not the true specific, and that the true image has not been seen.
Wait until the old image has fully returned is all there is to do.
It is hazardous practice to follow up rapidly all the changing symptoms in any sickness, with remedies that simply for the moment seem similar to the symptoms present. The observing physician will know by the symptoms and their directions, whether the patient is growing better or worse, even though he appear to the contrary to himself and his friends.
The complaints of patient or friends constitute no ground for a second prescription.
The greatest sufferings may intervene in the change of symptoms during progress of permanent recovery, and if such symptoms are disturbed by a new prescription or palliated by inappropriate medicine, the patient may never be cured.
The object of the first prescription is to arrange the vital current or motion in a direction favorable to equilibrium, and when this is attained it must not be disturbed by a new interference. Ignorance in this sphere has cost millions of lives.
When will the medical world be willing to learn these principles so well that they can cure speedily, gently and permanently?
There can be no fixed time for making the second prescription; it may be many months.
The second prescription must be one that has a friendly relation to the last one or the preceding. No intelligent prescription can be made without knowing the last remedy. Concordances in Boenninghausen must not be ignored. The new remedy should sustain a complementary relation to the former.
Remedies suitable to follow
In managing a chronic sickness the remedy that conforms to an acute experience of the illness is worth knowing, as very often its chronic may be just the one that conforms to its symptoms.
Calcarea is the natural chronic of Belladonna and Rhus;
Natrum mur. sustains the same relation to Apis and Ignatia;
Silicea to Pulsatilla;
Sulphur to Aconite.
When Pulsatilla has been of great service in a given case and finally cures no more, while the symptoms now point to Silicea, the latter will be given with confidence as its complimentary relation has long been established.
On the other hand Causticum and Phosphorus do not like to work after each other, nor will Apis do well after Rhus.
How physicians can make the second prescription without regard to the experience of nearly a century, is more than man can know.
These things are not written to instruct men of experience in the right way, but for the young men who have asked so often for the above notes of our present practice.
I am told almost daily that this kind of practice is splitting hairs, but I am convinced of the necessity of obeying every injunction.
Careful records
You should have no confidence in the experience of men who do not write out faithfully all the symptoms of the patient treated, and note carefully the remedy, and how given. Especially is this necessary in patients likely to need a second prescription.
The physician who has in his case-book the notes of every illness of his patients has wonderful hold of any community. He has the old symptoms and the remedies noted that cured, and he can make indirect inquiry after all the old symptoms long ago removed.
The pleasure is not small found in consulting such a note-book.
Experience soon leads the close prescriber to note all the peculiar symptoms and to omit the nondescript wanderings indulged in by sick people; however, it is important to be correct in judgment.
Many physicians make a correct first prescription and the patient does well and cheers up for a while, but finally the test is made for the second and then all is lost. Homoeopathy is nothing if not true and, if true, the greatest accuracy of detail and method should be followed. It is fortunate that the physicians who repeat while the remedy is acting are such poor prescribers or their death-list would be enormous.
– The Critique, March-April, 1913.
