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world-over — English, American, German, French, etc., discipline wise, with brief
abstracts/extracts. Readers may refer to the original articles for detailed study. The
full names and addresses of the journals covered by this compilation are given at
the end of Part I of this journal and readers are requested to refer to them for full
articles.
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I. HHIUJSUHHY
1. Chaos Theory: Implications for
Homoeopathy
SHEPPERD Joel (JAIH, 87, 1/1994) The new science of
Chaos Theory contains ideas that help to
communicate homoeopathic processes in a way that
researchers can understand. Chaos refers to the irregular,
unpredictable behavior of deterministic, non-linear
dynamic systems. Dynamics is the study of change
observed in natural phenomena. A system is the object
of observation from which variables are measured. The
language of the mathematics of non-linear dynamics
contains concepts that describe homoeopathic
observations. The basic terms of this mathematical
language are presented. Applications in physiology and
medicine are noted from current literature. Homeo-
dynamics is proposed as an update for homeostasis.
Examples of how Chaos theory language can
model homoeopathic mechanisms are described.
(Please refer Philosophy section of QHD, X, 1 and
4/1993 for earlier references to Chaos theory = KSS.)
2. Das Symptom - ein Grundbegriff der
Hombopathie (Symptom - a basic idea in
Homoeopathy)
KLUNKER W. (ZKH. 38, 1/1994)
The important task of laying adequate base of
Homoeopathy implied, amongst other things, the
determination of its fundamental concept. The
understanding of the idea of Symptom is one of these.
This is different from what is understood in the
traditional medicine. Within the frame-work of the
phenomenological foundation of Homoeopathy the
analysis of its own concept of Symptom vis-a-vis
Symptom as understood in the traditional medicine has
be differentiated. Whereas the latter is understood as a
mere indicator of the real disease, the
homoeopathic concepit is that the symptom is the
disease itself, i.e. as privative existential phenomenon of
the Dasein. The author discusses the subject
thoroughly.
3. Was heisst "Ahnlich"? Gedanken zu
HAHNEMANNs Fundamentalsatz Similia
Similibus (What is "Similar"? Thoughts on
HAHNEMANN's Fundamental tenet Similia
Similibus)
FURLENMEIER M. (ZKH. 38, 1/1994)
in i /yo nMniNciviMiNiN spun UUL IUI uiw nisi
Lime "... Similia Similibus" in his essay 'On a New
Principle for ascertaining the healing powers of
medicinal substances, with a few glances at those
hitherto employed' (Versuch iiber ein neues Princip
zur Auffindung der Heilkrafte der Arzneisubstanzen,
nebst einigen Blicken auf die bisherigen). The
fundamental tenet of Homoeopathy was thus laid. What
exactly is "similar" is not clear although there have
been disputes whether the law is "Similia similibus
curantur" or "... curentur". The author discusses the
"similar"; what exactly is it? Where does the similarity
begin and where does it end? He concludes that
similarity can never be clearly defined, it is not
possible to define. When we search for a similar
remedy, the similarity should be quantitative ('totality'
of the symptoms, the number of symptoms) and
qualitative ('characteristic', 'essence'). "Similia
similibus" is indispensable for homoeopathic practice.
II. MATERIA MEDICA
1. Zincum metallicum
GHEGAS Vassilis (NEJH, 2, 2/1993)
This is an 'up-date' on Zincum metallicum by one
of the foremost teachers currently. This is a beautiful
exposition of this remedy. "Zincum metallicum
produces mostly 'noises' with very few symptoms,
which hinders us greally. And so we are in despairfrom
having given Nitricum acidum; kilograms olArsenicum
and Nitricum acidum, the person comes again and again
and complains and complains and complains, and all
the people in the family are suffering. That is the
reason that it is written in capital in the repertory,
"Torments everyone with his complaints." The only
remedy is Zincum metallicum.
So go to your practice to see how many cases
torment you, blame you that you have never given the
correct remedy, you have given the whole Materia
Medica with no results. The cause of the
misdiagnosis is due to the central Idea of this
remedy-the lack of productivity on all levels,
leading to scant production of symptoms." The
author goes on to explain this theme.
The following hint is valuable: "After giving Zincum
metallicum the case may not appear to be going well-
with the patient developing trembling, jerking,
vomiting, confusion, perspiration or weakness. If
these symptoms develop you can be certain that the
remedy acted. Do not repeat the remedy and, of
course, do not change the remedy. Give the remedy
time to act and improvement will follow."
2. Materia Medica of Rhus diversiloba
ALBIN Steve, (NEJH, 2, 2/1993)
There is very little written about this remedy. The
Materia Medica of this remedy has been compiled by
the author from information contained in CLARKE,
BOERICKE and symptoms taken from his own cases.
3. A Brief Clinical Materia Medica of Cocculus
indicus
HERSCU Paul (NEJH, 2, 2/1993)
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Key-symptoms: Vertigo, Nausea, Weakness,
Vomiting, aggravation from missed sleep, constant
worries, and especially nervous system disorders.
Clinical conditions: Strokes, Head and Neck
injuries, Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy, Vertigo
with any disorder, aggravation by motion (ifthe patient is
actually in the driver's seat, in control of the driving the
dizziness and motion sickness may not occur),
incredible sleepiness when travelling in car, Anxiety
that takes the form of constant worry about some
family member or person near to one's heart, missed
sleep.
4. Piper methysticum
GHEGAS Vassilis (NEJH, 2, 3/1993)
This is an extract from a seminar given by
Vassilis GHEGAS.
Piper methysticum has this modality:
"amelioration of pains for a time by diverting
attention." This modality can be found in the following
rubrics (KENT):
Amusement, desire for (K.2) Ennui,
entertainment amel. (K.39) Excitement
ameliorates (K.40) Occupation amel.
(K.69) Thinking of complaints, agg. (K.87)
5. Zincum metallicum a walk through the
Repertory
HERSCU Paul (NEJH, 2, 3/1993)
This is an understanding of the remedy
Zincum's theme, by studying the repertory rubrics; a
beautiful, brief study. A valuable hint: "Some parents
will describe the following scenario: 'my child was
healthy, bright and lovely. It seemed as if she had a
light within her that draw others to her. She was the
center of her class and social life. Then something
happened which seemed to take the best part of my
child's ability from her,' The event could be an acute
infection, or a treatment that supressed a portion of the
case. I would like to state categorically that
inappropriate homoeopathic treatment fits this
description. From that point on, the light was blown out
of the child. The child may be either dull or be hyper and
inattentive. The child may be friendly, yet not sensing
an appropriate border, may stand only two inches away
from you joyfully asking you questions, oblivious of the
fact that you are conversing with her parents."
6. lodum & lodum children
GHEGAS Vassilis (NEJH, 2, 3/1993)
These two are information gathered from
Vassilis GHEGAS' books. Needless to say they are very
valuable.
7. Cina
GHEGAS Vassilis (NEJH, 3, 1/1994)
Dr. GHEGAS says that it is dangerous to start a
child with a remedy like Stramonium and perhaps the
child needed Cina. Cina has many similarities with
remedies like Stramonium, Tuberculinum. Cina may not
touch the soul of the patient; so it is better to start with
Cina and after calming the case one can go further
with a deep polychrest.
The central idea of Cina - in the mental sphere - is
itching, itching on the emotional sphere and itching on
the physical level, itching without relief even after
scratching.
The author goes on to briefly discuss the remedy
schematically. Valuable study.
8. Stramonium The Suppressed Basic Instinct.
LASCHKOLNIG Christine (NEJH, 3, 1/1994)
Fear of the dark, which is one of the main
themes of Stramonium, confronts us with our fear of
coming into contact with our basic instincts. We
should not overlook Stramonium in eroticism and
sensuality. Suppression of basic instincts may need this
remedy.
An interesting study.
9. Perceiving Rejection: Psychological
Philosophical Perspective
BARVALIA Praful (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
Rejection, i.e. Forsaken feeling is the central
theme taken up for study and perceiving differential
Materia Medica.
The author says "unless you establish similarity with
the state of disposition which is in centre, you can never
find curative medicine (Aphorism 211)"
Case of Magnesium muriaticum, Lac caninum,
Pulsatilla (all 'Forsaken' remedies) are cited. 10.
Perceiving Rejection through Repertorial
Perspective
MEHTATejal and DALVI Alpana (IJHM, 29,
1/1994)
Following words are used to classify various
'rejection's: Forsaken, Deserted, Abandoned,
Isolation, Repudiated, Neglected, Slight, Ignored (all
'direct relationship' to 'rejection') and Despised,
Loathed, Insulted, Degraded, Wronged (all 'indirect
relationship' to 'rejection').
The authors discuss these terms in the light of
Dictionary meanings and follow it with a study of the
relevant rubrics in the Synthetic Repertory. Rubrics
from Dreams Chapter like 'Dreams, desert'; 'Dreams
forest, going astray in a forest' are also linked in this.
11. Portrait of Platina
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SANKARAN Rajan (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
Three cases are narrated briefly. The author says
"to me, main feeling of Platina is 'she must be
something special, super special, a great performer,
then only she will be loved or accepted by others.
Otherwise she will be cast aside, thrown, no one will
value her.' This high performance, high status calls for
some amount of 'cold bloodedness', cruelty.
Achievement and ambition are the central points and for
that they could do anything e.g. kill or be really cruel.
The author goes on to make a fine study of Platina.
This article also under 'Perceiving Rejection'
12. Lady who has suffered wrong.
BARVALIA Praful (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
A 49 year-old married lady, who had a paralytic
stroke. Past history revealed jealousy, forsaken
feeling, excitability, anger, etc. She had dreams of a
hooded cobra. She felt that she had suffered wrong.
Naja was her medicine.
13. The Child who was'slighted'
MATHUR Vanitha (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
A11 year-old girl with Urticaria. Her mother had
'mania for cleanliness', washed hands frequently and
insisted her child also clean frequently. The girl felt that
mother never had time to even plait her hair. The girl
was mild, wept easily. Pulsatilla was her remedy.
14. Remedies of Rejections - Some Reflections
through a Clinical Experience
MOHAN Vijaya and KASAD Kershasp N.
(IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
The natural desire for love, acceptance, respect,
honor, dignity etc. when thwarted leads to 'rejection'.
A 40 year-old male, born poor, grew up in
poverty, later in the home for the poor, then had to lead a
life of humiliation in his sister's home, became a
rickshaw-puller and suffered various ailments
including joint diseases, impotence and became
disabled even before 40 years, was very much
improved with Pulsatilla and he could resume his
rickshaw-pulling. The mental status also improved
considerably; only the impotence remained.
15. Sensitive, Strict, Stoic Lady -Aurum
metallicum
MATHUR Vanitha (IJHM, 29,1/1994)
A 72 year-old widow; recurrent attacks of
bronchitis since about 30 years; these date back to her last
pregnancy when she was diagnosed to be suffering
from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. She also had
Hypertensin; indigestion; Constipated (takes large
quantities of laxatives daily).
After her husband's death in an accident her sons
fought among themselves and separated, while she kept
neutral; her middle son is an alcoholic. All the family
tensions made her 'stoic'; very religious; although she
felt forsaken, outwardly she bore everything quietly,
kept herself always occupied with household work; felt
that her sufferings were due to her 'karma'.
Aurum metallicum improved her very much.
16. Belladonna als Mittel bei chronischen
Sehstorungen (Belladonna as medicine in
chronic visual defects)
WEGENER A. (ZKH, 37, 1/1993)
Belladonna is considered an 'acute' remedy. This
is not true. HAHNEMANN has said in his
Introduction to Belladonna "Belladonna, in the small
dose just described is, ifthecaseishomoeopathically
adapted, capable of curing the most acute disease (in
which it acts with a rapidity proportionate to the nature of
the disorder). On the other hand, it is not less
serviceable in the most chronic ailments, to which its
duration of action, even in the smallest dose, amounts to
three weeks and more."
A 25 year-old man with visual problems since four
years: dark circles, and flakes appear before him during
daylight; these are worse in sun-light inspite of his
wearing very tinted glasses. Sometimes he becomes
enraged due to this that he would knock his head against
the wall or hit his head with his fists; restless; he
himself thought that a ski accident was the cause.
Belladonna XM brought about a steady
improvement and complete cure. An year later it was
repeated for headaches without the visual
disturbances.
The changed state of mind of the patient (paras 210
and 211) was the decisive criteria.
17. Clematis und der Zustand unserer Materia
Medica (Clematis and the status of our
Materia Medica)
v. KELLER G. (ZKH, 37, 1/1993)
Generally what we mostly learn about
Homoeopathy is through "secondary" literature i.e.
other than the original sources, namely the Provings.
Over the years many errors have been added to the
Materia Medica, including the Encyclopaedia of TF.
ALLEN due to imperfect translations from the original
German Provings. Especially after the publication of
KENT'S Lectures it was thought that whatever
essential was contained in such condensed articles and
the study of the original Provings was abandoned.
The author attempts to show that such
knowledge is not sufficient to select the correct
homoeopathic remedy. One should not restrict
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oneself to 'standard' pictures of the remedies, but
should intensively study the Provings and find the
remedy which most similarly matches the symptoms
expressed by the patient.
With the help of a Clematis case the author
demonstrates this point.
18. Phytolacca- Organon. VI, paras210-212
(Phytolacca - Organon VI, Paragraphs 210 -
212)
WEGENER A. (ZKH, 37, 2/1993)
The importance of the 'Mind' symptoms in the
choice of the similar remedy is shown by a Phytolacca
case. The relevant paragraphs of the Organon are
cited.
In para 21 Oof the Organon HAHNEMANN says
"... even in every so-called physical disease... the
emotional and mental state is always altered..." And in
respect of the medicines in para 212 he says "... there is
no potent medicinal substance in the world which does
not very markedly alter the emotional and mental state
of a healthy man testing it, and each medicine does this
in its own distinctive way."
Since every disease alters the emotional and
mental state and every medicine during its proving
produces alteration of the emotional and mental state,
one must while comparing the symptoms of the
disease with the remedy under consideration always
look for the emotional and mental state in the remedy.
A correct interpretation of these paragraphs must
be made.
19. "Cancerinum" und seine Beziehung zur
Unterdruckung ("Cancerinum" and its
relationship to suppression)
MEYER-KONIG P. (AHZ, 239, 1/1994)
An important aetiological aspect indicating
Cancerinum is physical and emotional suppression. The
author describes a case in which events in the life of a
person arouses the latent cancerine miasm. This
manifests when emotional and physical suppression
takes place. In such cases Cancerinum helps self-
realisation. The author also lists 21 questions which
would help verify indications for Cancerinum:
1. Do you have stage-fright?
2. Is it very important for you for keeping
appointments very punctually?
3. Do you experience Nature inwardly?
4. Must you adjust yourself to external
compulsions from parents, teachers, employer
or other fellow-men?
5. Have you observed in yourself a tendency to
adaptation to others' expectations so that you
should not disappoint others?
6. Was your self-realisation obstructed thereby?
7. Were you during school days socially
integrated or were only a marginalised person?
8. Have you fear of being disapproved?
9. Do you avoid altercations?
10. Can you repulse desires?
11. For this reason do you do your best to do right
by everyone?
12. Has this development in you gone so far as to
make you tired in fulfilling your duties?
13. Can you concede your own wishes?
14. Do you have a bad conscience when you fulfill
your own wish?
15. Can you turn away your own right to live or do
you have the feeling that you must gain your
own right to live through accomplishments and
good deeds?
16. Do you suppose yourself to be under pressure
and thereby settle yourself under pressure?
17. Are you always dominated by the feeling that
you must Justify and vindicate yourself?
18. Does the saying that a friend in need goes all
out to help suit you? You help all, none helps
you?
19. Do you feel uncertain when you make demands
- also when you are entitled to it?
20. Do you have the feeling that others come to you
and seek your friendship or must you go after
others to make friends?
21. Have you determined that your children should
not follow you and quarrel much with each
other?
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20. Homoopathie in der Betriebsarztpraxis -
Kasuistik Vegetative Regulationsstorung,
Schwindel (Homoepathy in Industrial medical
practice - Case - Vegetative Regulation,
Vertigo)
GLUCK W. (AHZ, 239, 1/1994) The author demonstates
the relevance of a General (Modality) Symptom in
finding the curative remedy as well as the importance of
referring to the Materia Medica through a case. This
Rauwolfia case should stimulate further provings of the
remedy. The author is consultant to the Austrian
Society for Homoeopathic Medicinal Provings.
A 24 year-old man with circulatory disturbances
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consulted the author. His disease was diagnosed as
Vegetative regulations disturbance, Vertigo with
chronic Obstipation. A suitable medicine could not be
found with the aid of the presenting symptoms.
Therefore the General Symptom "Physical exertion
amel." and "Physical exertion, in open, amel."
indicated Rauwolfia as the only remedy. (SR. Vol. II
p.177) The remedy was studied in VOISIN's Materia
Medica and found to fit the case. Rauwolfia 12 daily,
cured.
Computer Analysis from
Mac Repertory
by
David Kent WARKENTIN, gives a complete
picture of this remedy, which is listed below:
1.
Mind; ABRUPT
2.
Mind; ANGUISH
3.
Mind; ANXIETY
4.
Mind; CATATONIA
5.
Mind; COMPANY; aversion to; alone;
amel. when alone
6.
Mind; CONCENTRATION; difficult
7.
Mind; CONFUSION
8.
Mind; DEATH; thoughts of
9.
Mind; DELUSIONS; unreal, everything
seems
10.
Mind; EXCITEMENT, excitable
11.
Mind; EXCITEMENT, excitable;
alternates with; sadness
12.
Mind; EXERTION; mental agg.
13.
Mind; EXERTION; mental amel.
14.
Mind; FEAR
15.
Mind; FEAR; evil, of
16.
Mind; INDIFFERENCE
17.
Mind; IRRESOLUTION; indecision
18.
Mind; IRRITABILITY
19.
Mind; KILL, desire; herself, sudden
impulse to
20.
Mind; MEMORY; weakness of
21.
Mind; MEMORY; weakness of; done, for
what he has just
22.
Mind; MISTAKES; speaking; spelling, in
23.
Mind; MISTAKES; writing, in
24.
Mind; MOROSE, cross
25.
Mind; PROSTRATION of mind
26.
Mind; RESTLESSNESS
27.
Mind; RESTLESSNESS, night
28.
Mind; RESTLESSNESS; bed, in
29.
Mind; RUDENESS
30.
Mind; SADNESS; mental depression
31.
Mind; SCHIZOPHRENIA; catatonic
32.
Mind; SCHIZOPHRENIA; paranoid
33.
Mind; SUICIDAL disposition
34.
Mind; THOUGHTS wandering
35.
External Throat; GOITRE
36.
External Throat; GOITRE;
exophthalmic;
Basedows disease
37.
Stomach; AVERSION to; sugar
38.
Stomach; AVERSION to; sweets
39.
Stomach; DESIRES; cold drinks
40.
Stomach; DESIRES; delicacies
41.
Stomach; desires; sour, acids
42.
Male; PASSION, sexual, diminished
43.
Female; DESIRE, sexual, diminished
44.
Female; MENSES; frequent, too early, too
oon
45.
Female; MENSES; painful, dysmenorrhoea
46.
Sleep; DISTURBED; dreams, by
47.
Sleep; DREAMS; accidents, drowning
48.
Sleep; DREAMS; accidents; drowning;
mother
is, his
49.
Sleep; DREAMS; anxious
50.
Sleep; Body ; parts of; jaw broken
51.
Sleep; DREAMS; body; parts of; teeth;
breaking of
52.
Sleep; DREAMS; dead; people of
53.
Sleep; DREAMS; death of
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Sleep; DREAMS; death, of, dying, of
55.
Sleep; DREAMS; disease; fracture of; jaw
56.
Sleep; DREAMS; disease; teeth; breaking
off
57.
Sleep; DREAMS; drowning
58.
Sleep; DREAMS; drowning; mother had
been drowned, that her
59.
Sleep; DREAMS; journey
60.
Sleep; DREAMS; teeth; breaking of
61.
Sleep; DREAMS; wasps
62.
Sleep; SLEEPINESS
63.
Sleep; SLEEPINESS; overpowering
64.
Sleep; SLEEPLESSNESS
65.
Sleep; WAKING; midnight; after; 1a.m.-
5a.m.
66.
Sleep; WAKING; midnight; after; 3a.m.
67.
Sleep; WAKING; midnight; after; 3a.m.-
4a.m.
68.
Sleep; WAKING; early
69.
Perspiration; CLAMMY, sticky, viscid
70.
Perspiration; HOT
71.
Generalities; EVENING; 6p.m.-8p.m.
72.
Generalities; AIR; open; amel.
73.
Generalities; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
74.
Generalities; COLD; amel.; air
75.
Generalities; CONVULSIONS
76.
Generalities; CONVULSIONS; epileptic
77.
Generalities; CONVULSIONS;
epileptiform
78.
Generalities; DROPSY; external
79.
Generalities; DROPSY; heart disease, from
80.
Generalities; DROPSY; kidney disease,
from
81.
Generalities; EATING; while
82.
Generalities; EXERTION; physical; amel.
83.
Generalities; EXERTION; physical; amel.;
air,
open in
84.
Generalities; FOOD; cold; drinks, water;
agg.
85.
Generalities; HEAT; flushes of
86.
Generalities; HEAT; sensation of
87.
Generalities; HYPERTENSION
88.
Generalities; HYPOTENSION
89.
Generalities; MOTION; amel.; continued
90. Generalities; OBESITY
91. Generalities; PAIN; amputation, after
92. Generalities; PAIN; muscles, of
93. Generalities; PAIN, burning; externally
94. Generalities; PAIN; stitching
95. Generalities; PARALYSIS agitans
96. Generalities; PLETHORA
97. Generalities; PRESSURE; amel.; hard
98. Generalities; PSORA
99. Generalities; PULSE; hard
100. Generalities; PULSE; hard; climbing, after
101. Generalities; PULSE; hard; exertion, after
sudden
102. Generalities; PULSE; irregular
103. Generalities; PULSE; slow
104. Generalities; ROOM; agg; closed
105. Generalities; STOOL; amel.
106. Generalities; SWELLING; in general
107. Generalities; SYCOSIS
108. Generalities; TENSION; internally
109. Generalities; TREMBLING; externally
110. Generalities; WAKING; on
111. Generalities; WALKING; amel.; air, in open
112. Generalities; WARM; agg.
113. Generalities; WEARINESS
114. Generalities; WEATHER; wet; agg.
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HYETT Sue (HLK, 3, 1/1994)
This study and comparison of the Creature and the
Remedy - Scorpion - is based on the provings recently
made by Jeremy SHERR. It includes material drawn
from the Provingsas well as Repertory rubrics.
In some works Scorpion is entered as
Androctonus Amurreuxi Hebraeus (as in the
Complete Repertory).
"The main areas of the Repertory where
correlations between remedy and creature occur are
Mind, Generalities, Sleep and Eyes. It is interesting to
note some of the thoughts and language used by the
provers, which I have listed here as 'scorpion
language':
"Tried to squeeze a laugh from anything."
"He felt it was a game of who was cleverer and
tried to lie and outwit his friend."
"Irritable, snappy."
"Felt like tearing offenders to pieces with his
bare hands."
"Felt everyone were creeps."
"Fretful biting at times."
"Wanted to kill husband and children."
"Lashed out at everyone."
"Impatient, snappy."
"In the street felt aggressive and very strong, that
his umbrella was a knife."
"Desire to smash people up."
"Desire to pick an argument or fight."
"Great hostility to those around him."
"Stinging observations and comments
directed at his friends."
There is no guilt or remorse in Scorpion, like the
female scorpion who eats her mate after copulation, or
her own young.
"Pushed kids out of bed with no compassion."
"Things she would normally feel guilty about
don't bother her."
"Cancelled an appointment without any
remorse."
"I feel much more self-centred."
"Very changeable moods, one minute
extremely friendly, nice, amiable, then irritable."
"Incredible upsurge of energy - laughing, felt very
high, then low, then high again."
"Great swings of mood, better for eating."
The author compares the rubrics and
symptoms as reflected in the study of the creature and the
attitude towards it.
There are many similarities between the remedy and
the zodiac image of Scorpio, and the polarity that is
fundamental to any remedy is also present.
There are many similarities between Scorpion and
Anacardium and they can easily be mistaken for each
other.
(Attention is drawn to QHD, X, 1/1993, Section II.
Materia Medica. wherein information on the
Proving by Jeremy SHERR and others before him, may
be found = KSS)
22. An Inadvertent Proving of Ammonium
Hydroxide
WILLIAMS Henry (JAIH, 87, 1/1994) A 53 year-old
jeweller suffered hypertension, chest pain, dizziness,
dyspnoea, abdominal bloating, and Diabetes mellitus.
His high diastolic pressure was controlled by Equisetum
6x t.i.d. Diabetic diet and Insulin controlled his
Diabetes. The patient ultimately found out that all his
ailments could be attributed to Ammonium hydroxide
toxicity. Household Ammonia was in an open vat in his
shop and he found that when he covered the vat his
troubles became less, and in about 5 years he became
completely well and without Insulin or oral medicines.
23. Pyrite - A Proving
WILLIAMS Henry (JAIH, 87, 1/1994) Having found in
practice that Pyrite is useful in the persistent dry cough
that has recently followed many cases of viral
bronchitis, the author carried out a Proving of the drug
on himself. For 7 days one grain of Pyrite 3x was taken
twice a day.
The Symptoms that appeared are given below:
On the second day I became conscious of a
tendency to cough which seemed to arise just below the
Adam's Apple and be relieved by a slight cough, but
returned in full force one-half to one hour later.
On the fifth day I became conscious of a degree of
constipation without any change in diet or change in
the size, volume, consistency or color of the stool.
A week after stopping the 3x all symptoms
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subsided and Pyrite 6x was started four times a day.
After the first day the tendency to cough
returned, this time becoming more frequent, worse on
expiration, and relieved by inspiration, By the seventh
day the cough was suffocating and produced a small
amount of thick, mottled, yellow-buff and greenish
sputum that came with little effort in globs that were
not tenacious.
There was the need for more sleep.
A clarity of thought developed enabling me to see
the solution of problems in logical steps.
The dosage was stopped after a week. After a week
without medication, Pyrite 12xwas started twice a day.
No new symptoms developed, and the cough was never
as frequent as with the lower potency, and no
expectoration in relation to time of day, weather, or
circumstance was noted.
The clarity of thought returned.
The medication was continued for a week and then
stopped.
After three weeks Pyrite 30x was started twice a
day.
Again, the day oough returned with the same
characteristics as with Pyrite 6x
Constipation wa:s again noted.
The need for sleep to feel refreshed was also noted.
The clarity of thought and ability to plan was not
noticeable greater than with the Pyrite 6x.
Six cases treated with Pyrite have been
reported.
24. Anhalonium lewinii
TARKAS P.I. (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A brief Materia Medica of the remedy
25. Anacardium orientale
KASI VISWANATHAN T.K. (NJH, 3, 1/1994) A
brief Materia Medica of the remedy.
26. Ginkgo biloba
GHOSH Jyoti (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A brief Materia Medica of the remedy.
27. Vanity: Thy name is Platina
SONAWALA Sarla (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A beautiful poem on the characteristics of the
remedy.
28. Ein kleiner Indiumfall (A small case of
Indium)
KLUNKER W. (ZKH, 38, 2/1994)
A 63-year-old woman was suffering since
months with leftsided Peri-arthritis hurneroscapularis.
The condition did not respond favourably to certain
medicines administered. However, the patient said that
the shoulder pain radiated to the elbow. The KENT
rubrics of "Shoulder pains radiating to elbow" was
added to the rubric "Shoulder pains left" and the only
remedy that came up was Indium metallicum. The
symptoms were verified in the Guiding Symptoms and
found similar to the patient's complaint. A dose of
Indium metallicum XM relieved the pains; however,
three months later another dose was given for
recurrence of the pains and since then the patient is free
from the pains. The characteristic shoulder pains of
Indium is thus confirmed.
29. Unusual Aspects of Remedies
GRAY Bill (The Homoeopath, 52/1994)
The article is based on a paper presented at the
Society of Homoeopaths 1993 Conference at Keele
University.
Remedies are understood from their Provings, the
Key-Notes are discerned, then their 'essence' as one
proceeds to gather personal experiences and when the
remeedy acts deeply in a patient some of the 'edges' of the
remedy is understood. Three remedies are discussed in
this regard: Cannabis indica, Nitric acid and Ledum,
each with a case.
A 28-year-old young man, powerful,
unbounded energy, rage; he could single-handedly
assault and injure many persons when enraged. In the
course of the interview when he actually exhibited
such a rage, it was also observed that he had a quality of
ecstasy. He felt 'high'; his eyes were unfocused as if he
were stoned and in an etheric state; laughing in an
irrational manner in the midst of the rage he was
describing. Cannabis indica cured his condition
completely including the Hypoglycaemia for which he
had originally seen the physician.
Two cases to illustrate the ability of Nitric acid to
read others' minds. One 35-year-old female in business
of antique pottery. She was a hard, hostile person,
involved in numerous lawsuits. She did astral travel in
the night and in these astral travels to the Mid East she
searched for old ruins for pottery. During her waking life,
she physically travelled to these sites and dug for the
pottery and this was so successful. She could read
minds readily. Nitric acid was her remedy. Interesting
changes came about her.
Another female 44 year-old psychotherapist with
complaints of hair falling (in fact she had a very large
amount of hair). Nitric acid brought about interesting
changes in her; she could read the minds of others. All
the thoughts she picked from other minds were negative.
Ledum is normally used for insect-bites. A 45-
year-old male, Gay: loner, very fastidious, orderly and
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irritated when anything happened out of
expectation. The peculiar symptom was that he went to
bed in the night with burning in his legs
necessitating large applications of ice. After Ledum his
arthritis symptoms dramatically disappeared and he
calmed down considerably.
A 40-year-old Chiropracter with Lyme disease.
This patient too was very orderly, etc. He was
systemically chilly yet his joint pains were better by
plunging into a swimming pool. Ledum single dose
cured the Lyme disease completely and his
personality also became soft and generous.
The author points out that he found
fastidiousness as an element in Ledum.
The article is woith reading in full.
30. Ca/carea muriaticum and Group Analysis
SCHOLTEN Jan (The Homoeopath, 52/1994)
This article explains a method of case analysis
called 'Group Analysis'. With this method it is possible
to solve many difficult cases with little known remedies
like Calcarea muriaticum and Baryta nitrica. This
method is explained extensively in Jan SCHOLTEN's
book 'Homoeopathy and Minerals'.
31. Opium
DEEKS Stewart (The Homoeopath, 52/1994) Opium is
perhaps under-used in homoeopathic practice currently.
This article is derived from various writings about the
uses and abuses of Opium. A very interesting and
educative one.
32. Remedy Masquerades
THOMPSON Michael
(The Homoeopath, 52/1994)
This brief article shows Aristolochia clematitis
masquerading as Pulsatilia. Edward WHITMONT's
Psyche and Substance has a chapter on
Aristolochia, in which one could find many symptoms
from his clinical experience.
33. Key-Notes of Uterine Haemorrhage - lesser
known haemostats
Compiled by the Editor
(The Homoeopath 52/1994)
Erigeron canadense:
Affinities: UTERUS, BLADDER, stomach
Type: Bright red profuse
Modalities: agg. exertion
Concomitants: violent irritation of the rectum,
bladder or urethra. Congestion of the head.
Peculiarities: epistaxis instead of menses.
Lochia agg. motion
Ustilago maydis
Affinities: UTERUS - climacteric and
Type: mainly passive. Dark red with clots or dark
stringy blood oozing or paroxysmal.
Concomitants: alopecia, recurring tonsilitis,
FIBROIDS
Peculiarities: pain in ovaries during
haemorrhage. Knotted sensations.
Trillium pendulum: all the mucous
membranes
Type: active and passive
Modalities: agg. motion, amel. TIGHT
BANDAGING
Concomitants: faintness, vertigo, bearing down
sensations, fibroids
Peculiarities: as if back and hips would fall to
pieces. Menses every two weeks lasting one week.
Other symptoms: bleeding after tooth
extraction
Millefoliurn.
Affinities: capillaries of lungs, nose and uterus
Type: bright red, fluid
Concomitants: HIGH FEVER. Piercing pains
Haemorrage after falls and injuries if Arnica fails
Mitchells:
Uterine haemorrhage with concomitant bladder or
kidney complaints where no other remedy is indicated.
Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris:
Affinities: UTERUS
Type: very prolonged metrorrhagia and
menorrhagia. Blood stains indelibly.
Concomitants. Fibroids. Aching and bruised
soreness in uterus and back, cramps and neuralgic
pains.
Vertigo, Chronic cystitis.
Other important haemorrhage remedies worth
studying: Crocus sativa, Hamamelis, Sabina, Secale
cornutum, Ipecacuanha, and the characteristic
symptoms of polychrests such as Phosphorus,
Aconite, China and the 'snake' remedies. 34. Two
Opium Cases
McNEIL Russell (The Homoeopath 52/1994)
Case 1: A cat which was attacked by either
another cat or dog and suffered from the fright
although the mauled marks healed. Opium 30 relieved the
fright; a strange symptom however remained, viz., it
crept under the carpet and slept for hours under the
carpet and this too gradually wore off. A black letter
symptom of Opium is "people want to hurt him,
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creeps under covers".
Case 2: A diabetic male with a sore on base of big
toe, which was not painful. Opium 30. (Absence of
sensation indicated Opium)
III. THERAPEUTICS
1. Rarely used...
KANSAL Kamal (NJH, 2, 6/1993)
Case 1: 36 year-old school teacher, with
right-sided hemiplegia from cerebral infarction. He
was afraid of rain. Elaps corallinus 200 one dose daily
I
for 3 days and he improved.
Case 2: 60 year-old lady, with hemiplegia,
(
complete left side. She was an old diabetic and ,
hypertensive. Felt as if her whole left side was in ice.
(
Extensive feeling of coldness in left side; hands and
feet as if frozen. Heloderma 200 three doses brought ,
about improvement.
Case 3: A lady with allergic rhinitis, with itching
nose, as if ants creeping with violent sneezing and
running nose. Arundc mauritanica 30 t.d.s. for a
fortnight improved.
2. A Case of Epilepsy
SINHA Jayant Kumar (NJH, 2, 6/1993) Case 1: A 25
year-old man, with epilepsy since 20 years.
Convulsions more in the evening and with
consciousness. On the basis of the totality Sulphur
200 one dose daily for 6 days and he did not get
attacks over 6 months.
Case 2: A 10 year-old boy, with convulsions
since last three months, 12 to 14 times a day. He was
always drowsy. Oenanthe crocata mother tincture 3
drops t.d.s. and improvement began immediately.
Follow-up for over a month and no convulsions.
3. Angina? Homoeopathy wins
KRISHNAN Ranga (NJH, 2, 6/1993)
Case 1: Chest pain, restlessness in a man.
Angina pectoris. While arrangements were being
made, Arnica montana M every minute was given,
three doses and when he reached the hospital he was
calmer and pain was less.
Case 2: Author's husband with loud belching,
with pain in chest, sweat running down his legs. Carbo
vegetabilis M every 15 minutes relieved him.
Case 3: An executive suffered from recurrent
non stop dry cough at 11 p.m. since 12 years. It would
come annually, start suddenly, last for many days and
stop suddenly (after 5 to 7 days). He had a car accident
12 years ago; he was jammed behind the wheel for
some time and was pulled out some time after. Ruta
graveolens 200 cured. The cough never recurred.
4. An Anxious Patient-III
ELMORE Durr (NEJH, 2, 2/1993)
In the previous issue of the journal NEJH Roger
MORRISON'S Materia Medica of Cooculus indicus
was given as also illustrative cases. In this article Durr
ELMORE presents a case of Cocculus. The case is
given in first person. The case stresses the importance
of waiting, says the author, instead of interfering. A
/ery interesting and educative case.
5. An Anxious Patient - IV
HERSCU Paul (NEJH, 2, 2/1993)
What happens to the top layer if one does not
recognize it as distinct from an underlying layer and
nadvertently prescribes for that underlying layer? One Df
several possibilities is that the pattern of symptoms Dn
the top layer can become accentuated, making it sasier to
perceive the symptoms which will guide you to the
simillimum. In the case presented, Silicea 200 brought
severe aggravation. On re-examination it was Dlear that
whereas Silicea was the remedy for the underlying layer
of the disease, it brought fuller immage of the top
active layer. Now, Cocculus 6 was prescribed t.d.s. and
after a month a single dose of the 200 cured rapidly.
6. One Euphoric Patient
SHERR Jeremy (NEJH, 2, 2/1993)
A 34 year-old woman whose main problem is
obesity; eats a lot to suppress her emotions.
Clairvoyant. Confused identity - am I tall and thin or
fat? am I masculine or feminine? etc. Felt as if there is a
very bright light in the head as if more more sun in my
head than outside. Felt everything big, bigger than big".
Hydrogen 30 improved her.
Hydrogen has been proved by Jeremy SHERR and
the Materia Medica of the remedy has been published
by The Dynamis School.
7. Ovarian Cysts
FASSUER Kristy (NEJH, 3, 1/1994)
A 38 year-old woman with chest pain
corresponding with ovulation, ovarian cysts, and
eczema. Also recurrent urinary infections. Her
predominant emotion was shame. Concerned about what
others will feel. Strong need to please people.
Ovarian cyst right side, urinary tract infection, love
of approbation:
Palladium.
8. Fear of vomiting
SALTZMAN Susanne (NEJH, 3,1/1994) A 9 year-old
girl. Childish and silly sometimes; sudden tantrums;
unmotivated to do any school work; inattentive at
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school; constantly distracted; dislikes music; feels like
vomiting when she sings. Extremely clingy to mother.
Fear of sleeping alone, fear of dark. Lots of energy at
night and doesn't settle down to sleep. Sleeps curled up
like a ball on her belly. Loves to chew on ice.
Medorrhinum 200.
9. Dermoid Cysts
ADAMS Suzanne C. (NEJH, 3, 1/1994) 44 year-old
woman with dermoid cysts on right ovary. Her parents
were alcoholics. She was always on guard to handle
volatile situations. Forsaken feeling. Nightmares.
Walked in her sleep and broke things near her bed.
Tense. Fearful of closed places. Fear of being raped
expressed in her dreams. Stramonium M.
10. The Way to the Beast of Prey
LASCHKOLNIG Christine (NEJH, 3, 1/1994)
A woman with pains in her hands and feet; nodes
on her fingers and she also had pains in her Achilles
tendon. Worse when she moved, when it was cold and
during the night. Knees hurt especially when bent down.
Her skin was dry, flaky, unclean, very sensitive and
irritated.
Stramonium selected on the Mental symptoms and
Dreams cured. The analysis of the case is interesting.
11. Acute versus Chronic - An Unusual Otitis
Prescription
HERSCU Paul (NEJH, 3, 1/1994)
A 44 year-old female with complaint of bleeding
and pain in her right ear. A week before she had been
given Staphysagria M. Her acute symptoms were
repertorizeed but none of the remedies that came up
seemed to fit the acute state well. However, since the
patient had responded deeply to Staphysagria, the
remedy was given ir 200 potency and the pain
resolved within few hours.
Lesson: The otitis was a return of an old
symptom, and it returned two months after taking the
remedy. After deep action at the emotional level the
physical illness came up and since patient was still in the
Staphysagria state responded well to the same remedy
in a different potency, although the remedy did not
cover the pathology well.
12. A Seizure Disordered Child
MITTMAN Paul (NEJH, 2, 1/1993)
An eight year-old boy with tonic-clonic seizure,
characterised by an up-and-down movement of the
mandible. The 'characteristics' of the patient indicated
Stramonium and there was no seizure. His over-all
behaviour etc. also were normal.
13. Aversion to Nursing in an Infant
CLARKE Savitri (NEJH, 2, 1/1993)
A six month-old Doy with history of Otitis media,
and refusing breast feed. The remedy characterised by
his other symptoms (Calcarea carbonica) acted very
swiftly and he nursed within two hours of the remedy,
his mood improved and he slept through the night. The
remedy also highlights the lesser-known aspects of the
remedy: aversion to certain family members.
14. A Case of Being Accident-prone
JONAS Julian (NEJH, 2,1/1993)
This brief case is interesting because of an unusual
chief complaint (tendency to have accidents) and the
relationship of this symptom with the curative remedy
(Natrum sulphuricum). It also makes one wonder
whether anything ever really happens by chance in our
lives.
15. Asthma in a child
CROCKER Pamela (NEJH, 2,1/1993) A two year-old
boy with asthma and allergies. Homoeopathic remedy
and naturopathic life style (dietary advices) brought
about very quick recovery.
16. A Case of Panic Disorder
VAUGHTERS Lucy (NEJH, 2, 1/1993)
Patients who are very anxious may call up the
physician very often and keep demanding,
complaining that their progress is not appropriate and
their pressure may be so that the physician may be
persuaded to change the prescription when it is not
required to. The physician must be careful and
evaluate appropriately if he does not wish to spoil the
case. A case report.
17. The Sunshine Woman
HERSCU Paul (NEJH, 2, 3/1993)
A 45 year-old woman who works as a nurse;
below average height and obese. Problem with
adrenal gland, nervous break-down, tonsils removed as
a child, mild hayfever, trouble sleeping, difficulty
concentrating at work, difficult to do work on a timely
fashion, depression with light menses.
Zincum metallicum
18. Common Complaints of Old Age
AMEJA Manmohan Singh (mfH, 4, 3/1994)
This is a collection of repertory rubrics
pertaining to 'old age', from Mind to Generalities.
Baryta carbonica covers almost all the rubrics.
19. Hiatus Hernia
MALHOTRA V.D. (mfH, 4, 3/1994) In a brief article
the author says that Lycopodium 6 is a 'specific' for
Hiatus Hernia; the author asserts that in his 50 years
practice he never got a failure but that he saved many
people from surgery. He also asserts that no other
potency of the medicine (Lycopodium) will do good in
these cases.
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20. Therapeutic Pointers
LAKSHMINARAYANAN D. (mfH, 4, 3/1994)
This journal proposes to publish 'Seasonal Remedies'
and begins with the winter (cold) season, and discusses
the leading remedies for this season. For 'frozen
shoulder' it is suggested that Leuticum M - three doses
once a day morning on waking and placebo 4 doses
and if no relief give Sulphur 30 - 3 doses once a day
and placebo for two weeks and if necessary then to
repeat Leuticum M at longer intervals and if necessary
higher potency.
21. Paralysis - Rectum - Involuntary stools after
enema
LAKSHMINARAYANAN D. (mfH, 4, 3/1994) The
author makes a very interesting observation in
the opening paragraph thus: "This case is cited to
illustrate my assertion that even in a comparatively
small practice, the homoeopath can expect almost
everyday something to interest and excite and there
is no reason why veteran homoeopaths with
sumptuous practice should go on repeating stale old
cases of 20 or 30 years vintage when writing articles to
journals."
A 72 year-old woman with paralysis and in
hospital suffered from invountary urination and stools.
The involuntary stool came on after 'stretching' of the
rectum sphincter for removal of impacted stools.
Staphysagria not only stopped the involuntary stool but
also the urination and later other homoeopathic
remedies improved the paralysis also.
22. A Case of Persistent Nephrotic Syndrome
WADIA S.R. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
A 2 year-old boy with Persistent Nephrotic
Syndrome. Treatment lasted two years and the main
remedy was Natrum muriaticum from the 6 to CM
potencies with intervening doses of Sulphur whenever
the boy developed rashes during the course.
Follow-up 20 years.
23. Mumps with Pancreatitis
MISTRYD.E. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
An 8 year-old girl with Mumps with Pancreatitis.
This case shows how such serious diseases can be
managed. This child was put on i.v. fluid, Gelsemium
because of its listlessness and thirstlessness with
Sulphur intercurrently. There is an interesting question
raised by the author, vi;:. although the child was given
Pulsatilla at the commencement for Mumps the
diseases metastasised to the Pancreas.
24. Case of Chronic Rhinitis with Lower Limb
Myalgic pains
MISTRY D.E. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
A 42 year-old male. In this case the myalgic pains
of the legs were the most troublesome and the remedies
used in order of sequence were Arsenicum album
(without any effect), Penicillin (to drain the earlier
Penicillin injections), then Sulphur and lastly Thuja
which was the most effective and led to the cure. The
whole treatment lasted for about six months.
25. A Case of Recurrent Bell's Palsy
MISTRYD.E. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
This is a very interesting case of a 32 year-old
woman with Bell's Palsy of the left side. The remedy
that cured her rapidly (within two weeks) was
Cadmium sulphuratum The patient had suffered Bell's
Palsy four years ago. "he author remarks that in his
exprience that was the first case of a recurrent Bell's
Palsy. It is also interesting that the patient did not have
the other symptoms of Cadmium like extreme
chilliness, coldness and prostration.
26. Case of Gall Bladder dysfunction with
Calculus
MISTRY D.E. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
Repeated doses of Sepia (constitutional
remedy) with Colocynth (SOS) relieved the ailments of
this 36 year-old female.
27. Case of Haemophilia
MISTRY D.E. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
A six month-old boy, haemophilia This child was
well taken care of by homoeopathic medicines, mostly
by post, for a period of three years. Unfortunately at
three years age he again suffered a trauma the child
was operated for sub-dural haematoma and
Homoeopathy was discontinued and Eptoin was
substituted and within a few days the child suffered a
second cerebral haemorrhage and died on the way to
hospital.
28. Case of Oligospermia
MISTRYD.E. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
A 36 year-old male with Oligospermia; semen
count 13.6 millions /m. Sulphur based on his totality,
followed by Tuberculinum. Sperm count 40
millions/m.
29. A Case of Anal Fistula
MISTRYD.E. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
This 52 year-old male with multiple fistulae, and
history of repeated vaccinations was given Thuja
which improved him very much but before a cure
could be had he went abroad. Vaccinosis and doubtful
gonococcus led to the prescription.
30. Jaundice and Mumps
MISTRY D.E. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
Such diseases as Hepatitis and Mumps in children
are a matter of daily practice in India, with almost
always success. While in many potentised remedies are
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used, in some mother tinctures of Chelidonium, or
Carduus marianus are given with equally good result.
31. A Case of Sciatica
MISTRYD.E. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
Left-sided Sciatica in a 46 year-old male; besides
the sciatic pains, he had chronic coryza, sneezing,
asthmatic attacks once or twice a year, history of
eczema treated homoeopathically 20 years ago, history
of dog bite and anti-rabies inoculations: father T.B.
spine.
Lachesis, Sulphur, Tuberculinum (in that order);
with the return of coryza Tuberculinum aware and the
sciatica was relieved and the coryza also much
improved.
32. A Case of Enteric Fever
MISTRY D.E. & AGRAWAL H.
(CCR, 3, 1/1994)
A 16 year-old male, with family history of
Tuberculosis. History of repeated coryza, coughs and
blocked nose. A dose of Tuberculinum was given two
days after which he developed fever which was
confirmed as Typhoid. There was his brother also with
Typhoid and admitted in the hospital. However,
patient also was admitted in the hospital and
continued with homoeopathic rerredies,
Bryonia, Natrum sulphuricum as indicated.
Blood tests showed positive for Typhoid and
Paratyphoid. Typhoidinum and then Baptisia,
later Thuja; after about a week, the symptoms
indicated i.ycopodium which brought about
the cure. About 5 months later this patient came
with fever which tested positive for plasmodium
vivax; alternate day, 10.30-11.00 hours; Natrum
muriaticum on days he had the fever (after the
paroxysm) and on the apyrexial days China.
Within a week patient became normal and
remains well.
33.
A Case of CSF Rhinorrhoea due to
cerebrospinal leakage
SHINDE Prakash (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
This is a 'strange' case in more than one
way. An army-retired male was suffering from
rhinorrhoea since about five months; it was
dropping only from the left nostril, worse 1700
hrs. - 1100 hrs. No history of allergic rhinitis,
etc. No relief despite consulting ENT surgeons
and Neurophysician and Neurosurgeon.
Teucricum Marum verum 30 t.d.s. for 7 days
brought about 50% relief and when the relief did
not proceed further after stopping the medicine, it
was given in 200 and the symptoms began to
become aggravated, and Teucrium M also did
not improve. Now Teucrium 30 was again given
t.d.s. for a month and there was progressive
improvement, leading to complete relief.
The nasal discharge was tested and it was
confirmed to be CS
Puid.
There was no history
of trauma, no headaches, etc. Perhaps the patient
had a concussion without his knowledge.
It is also interesting to note that the remedy
acted curatively
only in 30 potency whereas
the higher ones did not.
(Perhaps the many
failures, or lack of reaction etc. which we
attribute to Homoeopathy, may actually be due
to the fact that one has not, besides choosing
the
remedy, chosen the right potency and the
repetition as may be needed =
KSS)
34.
Case of Nasal Polyp
SHINDE Prakash (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
This case is also interesting because the
medicine was chosen on the basis of confirmed
pathology but the symptoms nevertheless
matched the remedy.
Author's father with history of chronic
catarrh for which he was on allopathic
medicines which kept him temporarily palliated.
His rhinitis persisted and he was always on some
drug or other (allopathic). After retirement also
the trouble persisted. Decongestants and Nux
vomica all did not give relief.
Consultation with an ENT Surgeon;
diagnosed as bilateral nasal polyps obliterating
the post-nasal region and advised surgery.
Consultation with another senior ENT Surgeon
was arranged and in the meantime the patient
was put on Teucrium 30 (K.349; BOERICKE,
p.638; CLARKE Vol. Ill p.1402-all pointed
clearly to Teucrium).
Within an hour of administration of
Teucrium 30 sense of well-being developed,
slept better. He went on improving and in the
next week when he consulted the senior ENT
Surgeon the Surgeon was surprised at much
smaller polyps. In 3-4 months complete cure.
Teucrium was used upto XM.
35.
Case of Pulmonary Koch's
IRANI S.H. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
A 40 year-old married female with cough,
high temperature, greenish rusty expectoration,
shortness of breath, anorexia, tremendous
weakness.
Past history of bilateral pulmonary Koch's
treated homoeopathically. The patient's
condition deteriorated, probably due to too
frequent repetition of high potencies. All
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medicines were stopped and put on dried figs
soaked overnight and taken in the morning,
white onion juice one teaspoonful with honey.
Acupressure thrice daily, some points every two
hours and in 15 days she felt better. X-ray after a
month later showed regression in the lung
lesions. Acupressure was continued which went
on improving her and she put on weight too.
After three months X-ray revealed further
regression in the lung lesions. After eight
months of Acupressure treatment the patient is
on the road to total recovery and is leading
normal happy life.
Simple home remedies and Acupressure
cured this case totally.
36.
Case of Cracks on Finger tips
AMBADAKAR Mrs. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
A 38 year-old male with deep cracks on
fingertips worse on thumbs, severe burning,
occasional itching in cracks worse from contact
with spices, salt, etc. slight bleeding from deep
cracks. He was obese, dirty, not bathing daily.
History of right-sided Bronchiectasis treated
allopathically.
Sulphur followed by Graphites and in 7
days after Graphites there was rapid
improvement; but his nails became painful,
black with fungal type horny growths under the
nails. Antimonium crudum 200 b.d. for 10 days
and lastly one dose Nux vomica.
He now puts on clean dress, bathes every
day.
37.
Cyst - A Case Report
MISHRA S.C. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
A 51 year-old unmarried man with
Meibomian cysts left eye. Over a period of three
years he was given Nitric acid, Hepar and
Conium, and the cysts completely cured.
38.
Case of Urinary Infection
KOTHARI Santosh R. (CCR, 3,1/1994)
A 21 year-old female, married. Recurrent
attacks of urinary infections; began after the
second child.
Pain abdomen 3 hours after eating, amel. stools.
Dreams of black ghosts, snakes. Menses irregular.
Family history of Diabetes, Hypertension, Cancer
cervix, Cancer.
Pyrogen M and Mercurius corrosivus and then Lac
caninum (in 50 millesimal) all remedies repeated over a
period of about 10 months relieved the patient.
39. Short Cases
KEMKAR S.D. (CCR, 3, 1/1994)
37 year-old male with chronic Sinusitis since
about 4 years; running nose, yellow watery discharge.
Allopathic treatment produced gastric upset. Present
complaint hoarseness of voice, burning in chest,
bilious headache, nausea, headache worse morning and
evening. Generally worse rainy weather. Aversion to
company, to work, :o talk. Natrum sulphuricum cured.
17 year-old male with corn in the right sole;
painful, worse touch. Corns recurring which when cut
grow. Sweat on forehead, arm-pits malodorous, stain
yellowish. Offensive breath. Silica from 6x to 200 once
daily for 15 days cured.
40. Avascular Necrosis: Homoeopathic
Management
SHAH Pravin M. (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
Case 1: 28 year-old man, mountaineer, suffered
accident at a height of 21,000 ft. on June 13, 1974. He
was hospitalised with dislocation of left hip-joint.
After 6 weeks x-ray showed Avascular Necrosis of
left head of femur. Advised total hip replacement
surgery.
Calcarea carbonica 30 to M brought about
remarkable improvement in about three months and in
six months he recovered completely. Follow-up 20
years.
Case 2:22 year-old female with severe pain left hip
joint Diagnosed Avascular Neecrosis, of both femoral
heads.
Calcarea phosphorica 30 t.d.s., then 200,
Tuberculinum M; this cycle repeated again and cured.
Physiotherapy and non-weight bearing
exercises like swimming go a long way in the treatment
of Avascular Necrosis.
41. Sensitive 'jealous' child: Case of Mucocele
BARVALIA Praful (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
A 9V2 year-old boy with frontal Sinusitis and
Mucocele. Brought up by a mother who was very
strict and punished him for every minor 'mis-
behaviour', jealous of his sibling and his mother's
attention to other children who came to her for 'tuition'
fear of dark, fear of being alone.
Silicea, Tubercuiinum bovinum. Borax again
Tuberculinum bovinum, Hepar sulphuris were the
remedies given to him over a period of about 5
months.
42. Abdominal Emergencies in Practice
MADHOK P. (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
This is a brief write-up on Scrotal and Testicular
diseases emergencies.
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43. A Case of Oesophageal Diverticulum
KAPSE A.R. (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
A 72 year-old woman, widow, complained of
Dysphagia. Diagnosed to have traction diverticulum of
the middle third of oesophagus following a barium
swallow, since 2 years. Pain back, hypertension;
history of fainting on contradiction. Diminished
hearing. Plumbum was chosen on the basis of the
particulars (Can swallow fluids only, but solid foods
gag; stool balls like, black.) Plumbum repeated doses 30
to XM. Cured in about six months.
44. Diabetic Gangrene
SHETTY Prabhakar (IJHM, 29,1/1994)
Two Cases are narrated to point out that a
Diabetologist, A Vascular Surgeon and a Homoeopath
together can cure many cases of Diabetic Gangrene. In
both cases Insulin was continued and homoeopathic
remedies were repeated (Arsenicum album M t.d.s. in
the first case; Sulphuric acid 200 every hour for 10
days, then Arsenicum album M three hourly).
45. A Case of Fistula in Ano
NIMESH Shukla (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
This case very well points to the common error
which almost every homoeopath commits, viz.,
prejudiced, biased judgement of the patient. In this case
of a 64 year old writer Director, the physician was led to
prescribe because he thought that the patient's
description of himself was boasting. Sulphur was
given which indeed gave palliation; later
Tuberculinum given on the basis of family history
brought about cure. The author learnt in due course that
whatever the patient had said of himself was true and it
was not boasting.
46. A Case from the hospital
GESOTA Beena (IJHM, 29, 1/1994)
A 25 year-old lady with pain, discharge from left
ear; as a child of 3 years underwent right side
tympanoplasty.
She had suffered a severe emotional trauma
during her adolescence and took to alcohol;
attempted suicide many times. Chronic nasal blockfor
which uses decongestants. Being a sportswoman she
suffered injuries and severe back pain. Averse to men.
Sepia M relieved her. ENT Surgeon confirmed that the
Cholesteatoma had indeed been cured.
47. Homoo-Quiz Herzneurose (Homoeo-Quiz -
Heart Neurosis)
MULLER H.V. (AHZ, 239, 1 and 2/1994)
Dr. MULLER contributes a 'quiz' (a Case) in each
issue of the AHZ and the solution i.e. the medicine
chosen and the repertory analysis, in the next number
of the journal. In this issue he has narrateed verbatim
the patient's report.
He has mad anxiety of heart infarct and fear of
death and the complaints that develop due to this make
him panicky. Because of this he is restless. When he
feels confined as in the Church he feels constriction
and breathless. Pain in the elbows. Recurring pain in
the left knee particularly when beginning to move but
beginning to improve when moving, again worsening
when resting; worse when ascending stairs. Very
sensitive to everything. He becomes sleepless whein in
anticipation. He prefers sky-blue color.
Psychoanamnesis follows in the patient's
words. In the next number of the journal the repertory
analysis (20 rubrics) and the remedy (Plumbum
aceticum) is given and discussed.
An interesting exercise.
48. Der interessante Fall - Dermatomyositis (An
interesting case - Dermatomyositis)
KOHLER G. (AH2:, 23, 2/1994)
This article describes the long-term treatment of a
patient with the clinical diagnosis of
Dermatomyositis. The patient had undergone
immuno-suppressive treatment and therefore there was
lack of individualizing symptoms, and it was very
difficult to select the remedy. The therapy was begun
very carefully; first Ignatia (paralysis after emotions)
was given and then the polemized blood of the patient
(because of the previous immuno-suppressive
treatment); followed by Kali muriaticum as indicated
by the toxicological picture (muscular paralysis and
spasms). After this last remedy a significant
amelioration of the disease took place. The dysphagia
which was part of the disease was not ameliorated until
Causticum was prescribed. Plumbum was then given for
increase of spasms. Nux moschata was the last remedy;
the indication was the return of the sensation of
dysphagia after anger and grief.
49. Erkrankungen bei HIV-lnfektion (Diseases
from HIV-lnfections)
SCHWARZ Erik {ACD, 3, 1/1994)
Two cases are presented; both are women with HIV
positive. Both were treated with (50 millesimal)
Potencies. Whether they have got over the AIDS
infection is uncertain, since differential serological
tests are not available. It is, however, certain that they are
now in a stable state. This is quite remarkable that they
both have been HIV positive since long.
50. Dokumentation einer Langzeitbehandlung
(Documentation of long term treatment)
MULLER Karl-Josef (ACD, 3,1/1994)
A large percentage of published cases have
generally been stating that the patient received the
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suitable medicine and a rapid permanent relief and cure
followed. In day-to-day practice howeveer, it would
appear otherwise. A case report is presented here in
which an elderly woman (66 years) underwent treatment
for five years; the course of the treatment is reported.
Interestingly the action of Tuberculinum Koch in an
acute situation has been verified with a headache
symptom. It also shows how important it is to improve
the Materia Medica with reliable symptoms and
link it to the Repertory. It is also interesting to observe
the action of an unknown "small" remedy in a specific
situation.
51. Chronische Pankreatitis (Chronic
Pancreatitis)
RECKERS Winfried (ACD, 3, 1/1994) A clinically
confirmed chronic Pancreatitis in a 69 year-old woman.
She complained of abdominal colic, loss of appetite.
She has been on allopathic medication. She also
suffered from rheumatic pains. She had lost much blood
due to a surgical operation for removal of cysts. It took
her long to recoup. She suffered until four years ago,
severe occipital pains almost every day and one day it
simply vanished. Since the disease began and since her
husband's death 14 years ago she has been taking daily
Praxiten to go to sleep. Since some years she is worried
about one of her sons who had given up a secure job
and now works as a 'casual worker' without intention to
obtain a regular good job. This has caused anxiety to the
patient who is a widow of an Officer with a very keen
sense of order. She took to heart even small matters;
kept her house very clean and orderly. In spite of all these
cares and worries she did not show it outwardly and
moved about cheerfully. In autumn she always suffered
depression and takes long walks and that made it better.
Fear of thunder.
Natrum muriaticum Q6 and then Q12, Sulphur Q6
and then again Natrum muriaticum Q12 restored health.
Follow- up: five years - remains well.
52. Fakta om HIV och AIDS (Facts about HIV and
AIDS)
ANDERSSON Magnus & LUNDBORG
Annette (HLK, 3,1/1994)
The information in this article was first compiled as
part of a study course for alternative health
practitioners. It includes information about the virus
and how it is transmitted, the first stages of AIDS, the
symptom picture, tests available to the Swedish public
and a chronology of the disease. An appendix gives
statistical information about the spread of HIV and
AIDS in Sweden.
53. Case Report
ALMQUIST Lena (HLK, 3, 1/1994) This is a case
of a 10 year-old boy who was suffering from recurrent
infections of ears, nose and throat and who was treated
successfully with Silica.
54. An audit of prescribing Natrum muriaticum
BLACKSTONE Victoria (BHJ, 83,1/1994)
The author says that out of 274 cases seen by her in
private practice 73 have at some point been
prescribed Natrum Muriaticum (26%) All
these patients had chronic diseases. While this
comprised of persons of all ages, 15 to 90 years
age, 31.5% were between 31-40 yrs. 21.9%
between 21-30 yrs., 20.5% between 41 and 50
yrs. and the lowest % were at both ends of life i.e.
15 and 20 yrs. and 71 and 80 yrs. 72.6% were
female and 27.4% male. M was most frequently
used potency and 200 the next. 20.9% showed
no improvement. Interestingly Natrum
muriaticum was very helpful in cases of
musculoskeletal diseases; also menopausal
vasomotor instability responded well to this
remedy. The reputed indication of Natrum
muriaticum in acne, depression, headache and
oedema linked with salt and water metabolism,
was confirmed in this audit. Prescribing was
mostly on the mental picture of the remedy with
consideration of the physical generals.
Overemphasis on the pathology
was
possibly
linked to treatment failure.
Two cases have been reported in detail.
55.
Three 'anecdotes' - Food for Thought
SOMPER Dennis (BHJ, 83, 1/1994)
Sixteen years from onset, a patient with
motor neurone disease lives a normal life. A lady
presenting with chronic myeloid leukaemia,
the diagnosis confirmed by bone marrow
studies, was treated with Busuiphan for a total of
5 weeks. 14 years later, bone marrow
examination was normal and the condition
could only be diagnosed from the Philadelphia
chromosome. The course of treatment is indeed
'food for thought'.
56.
Commentary - Clinical Pearls or Quackery?
HOAGLAND Guy (JAIH, 87,1/1994)
The author discusses the application of
'unproven' treatments when experience, safety,
and indications warrant. Such treatments
constitute the 'art' and take into consideration the
individual patient, as the situation may demand.
It is also stressed that Acupuncture,
Homoeopathy, Manipulative techniques are
gaining popularity and primary care physicians
are being called more and more to exercise this
type of clinical judgement in order to provide
most appropriate treatment to the patients. How
should one decide on the appropriate technique?
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The author proposes a systematic consideration
and has put it into a diagram which is a
breakdown of a medical decision process that
allows for the integration of unproven
treatments with a known record of safety. (It is
unfortunate that Dr. Guy HOAGLAND has
lumped Homoeopathy with 'complementary
medicine', 'unproven medicine' etc. = KSS.)
57.
Results of a Stud/ of the Homoeopathic
Treatment of PMS
CHAPMAN Edward H, ANGELICA Jade,
SPITALNY Gloria, STRAUSS Milinda
(JAIH, 87, 1/1994)
The treatment of Pre-Menstural Syndrome
by homoeopathic medicine was tested using a
placebo washout, double-blind, placebo
controlled trial. The low percentage of women
recruited who were able to participate (5%), and
a very high response to placebo (57%) were
unexpected findings. These factors led to
inconclusive results with regard to the efficacy
of homoeopathic treatment of PMS. A high
correlation between PMS and a history of abuse
was discovered in participating women. The
implications of these factors for homoeopathic
practice and research are discussed.
58.
Clinical Snapshots
JACOBS Jennifer (JAIH, 87, 1/1994)
Case 1:
Coryza with Headache: 43 year-old
male, small business owner, with a bad cold
since a day before. Sneezing paroxysms (1).
Stuffy nose with watery discharge(1) Sore throat
in a small area, worse swallowing, better warm
drinks(2). Headache during the night -
throbbing(1) in forehead and temples; better
today than the preceding night. Chilly during
the evening(2), until about 11 p.m. with slight
fever.
Sabadilla 200
Case 2:
Conjunctivitis: 33 year-old female
with a "pink eye" since the day before with a lot
of pus in the right eye(2), redness(2) and
tenderness of the eyeball(1). Agglutinated on
waking in morning(1). Burning and pulsating(1).
Blurry vision. Has had a cold with swollen neck
glands(1) for the past 4 days. Slight cough. Quiet
mood.
Belladonna 30 3 doses, 4-6 hours.
Case 3:
Viral Syndrome: 38 year-old
female. Chief complaint of a bad cold for the past
2 days. Neck glands ache while swallowing or
touching them(2). Ears ache. Dull frontal
headache(1). Stuffy nose; sinuses congestion.
Very little discharge. Eyes hurt(1) and feel
dull(2), heavy. Wants to close the eyes;
difficult to think or focus; feels dull. Slightly
warm, thirsty for cold drinks; aching back and
neck.
Gelsemium 200.
59.
The History of Schizophrenia
VANKAR G.K. (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A brief exposition of Schizophrenia, the
disease.
60.
Schizophrenia - A Brief Outline
GOBINDA SEN (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
This is also a brief exposition of
Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is classified and
then sub-classified into ten. The causative factors
are (i) Biological - Genetic disposition
Metabolic disturbances; Infectious disorders;
(ii) Social factors - Maternal deprivation;
Reversal of parental roles; Repeated exposure to
stress and strain. The primary symptoms of
Schizophrenia are under 4 heads: (i) Affective
disturbance; (ii) Associative disturbance; (iii)
Autism; (iv) Ambivalence.
Prognosis of Schizophrenia is generally
good.
61. Schizophrenia - A Sane Reaction to an Insane
Society
KOTHARI Manu (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
This is a brief but very enlightening article. In his
characteristic way the author puts things succintly.
Symptoms of Schizophrenia are such that clinical
diagnosis differs from clinician to clinician, continent
to continent. The medicalese, the jargon used in texts
and journals needs special lexicons to compound the
confusion. The lay or learned reader is guaranteed a
sense of schizophrenia while perusing any writing.
"Schizophrenia has a life time prevalence rate of 1%
across all cultures." If one lives in a placid and self-
contained manner, believing that "what is, is right",
there will be no dissatisfaction and no dementia.
LAING described Schizophrenia as a sane reaction to an
insane society.
62. Split Personality Disorders
BARVER. (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
While the Allopathic medicine offers limited
pharmacological support in such states,
Homoeopathy thinks that it can play a significant role in
removing the symptom complex.
63. Understanding Schizophrenia
SHAW Jawahar (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
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64. Isn't each one of us schizophrenic...?
SONAWALA Sarla (NJH, 3,1/1994)
A small and beautiful poem of four stanzas by this
well-known homoeopath, who unfortunately is not
amidst us anymore.
65. Nol Saddam No!
CHOKSI Mukul (NJH, 3, 1/1994) An imaginary story
of the development of Schizophrenia.
66. Help! Help!! Help!!!
HUMRANWALA
3
arinaz (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A 15 year-old boy with Anxiety, Fear, Paranoia, etc.
was improved with Anacardium orientate
67. The Son caused it.
SONI P.K. (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A 35 year-old woman with discomfort and
burning in epigastric region. Her son, 6 years, who
said that he was accused and punished unjustly by the
school, instead of his friend, came down with fever
same day and since then feared going to school and
slided down in school studies. The father said the
mother was responsible for this sliding down and since
then she developed the gastric problems. The boy was
given Opium M and the mother placebo. Soon both
became well.
68. Mamma -1 wanna be married
PARTHASARATHY V. (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A 30 year-old girl who developed relationship
with a man many years older and also not suitable for
her (in her parent's opinion), developed severe
Schizophrenia, after this relationship was stopped by her
parents. She was improved with Veratrum album, though
she is yet to be 'cured'.
69. A Case of Schizophrenia with Renal Failure
KONDEKAR Prakash (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A 17 year-old girl who had contested and won
beauty contests, self conscious, artistic, fun-loving and
easy-going developed delusions, heard voices. She also
suffered right kidneyfailure. Thuja and Platina were her
remedies.
70. The injured Innocent
GANDHI Mahesh (NJH, 3,1/1994) A 29 year-old man,
engineering graduate became mentally ill after his
marriage. Does not like his wife talk to any male other
than himself; suspicious of all males; no courage to face
reality. Mania for cleanliness. Obsessed with particular
association of names. He had categorized everything
and had so many categories that they got mixed up in
his mind. He does not like anyone telling him to do this
and do that. He opposed whatever his father said.
Sensitive and distant from his parents. Appeared to
be absorbed. Becomes angry when obliged to answer.
Very much dependent on his wife. Feels he is a big
man. Undergone treatment from many psychiatrists
without result; also had undergone homoeopathic
treatment. There was history of concussion to head at 22
years age. Arnica XM brought about dramatic
improvement.
Keeps distance, as if injured and hence wishes to
keep off persons approaching him, was the state of mind
which in essencee indicated Arnica.
71. Ssh! I am hearing voices
SEHGAL M.K. (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
This interesting case of a 25 year-old girl in
London, suffering from Schizophrenia, was cured with
Helleborus 30, then Gelsemium 30 and lastly
Belladonna 30, one dose each at long intervals. The
treatment was on the famous Dr. Sehgal's method of
'mind' alone. The consultations were over the
telephone.
72. The Dumb-struck Girl
GUNAWANTE S.M. (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A 12 year-old girl, suddenly lost her speech. A
cousin of hers, a boy of 14 years age, was to be brought
to her house, which the girl stoutly opposed. She refused
to say why and behaved angrily. Inferring that the
opposition was due to possible misbehavior with her
earlier and her anger, etc. Natrum muriaticum XM was
given and next day she spoke!
73. The Girl who soiled her Linen
SONAWALA Sarla (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
Case 1: A16 year-old girl lost her mother when she was
12 years age; she took charge of the house after mother's
death. Her father remarried (his wife's sister) and all
was well, when one day the girl was
pulled up by step
mother for breaking a precious glass. Since then the girl
sat in a corner, did not move from there and soiled her
clothes too! Hyoscyamus 200 once daily for 15 days
made her clean but she still held the corner. The
medicine was repeated for another fortnight and
nothing further was heard.
Case 2:
A widow with 3 sons, one of whom was
well-settled, died leaving a widow and 2 children. The
second son lived in Canada and refused to return home.
The third son was; more or less a vagabond. He spoke of
his interest in a married woman near his house; he
showed temper tantrums, breaking things etc.
Staphysagria M one dose daily and in a week he stopped
throwing and breaking things. Natrum muriaticum M
one dose daily for three days followed. This prescription
of Staphysagria and then Natrum muriaticum in
ascending potencies was continued for a long time with
intercurrent doses of Tuberculinum and the patient began
to help his mother in household work. He however
remained a parasite on his mother.
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74.
Living in her own angry World
ROY Sosi (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
A girl (age?) who has been ill (Schizophrenia) for
past ten years; she did not respond to anyone but went on
chastising someone before her; she had an angry look;
did not bother to eat, excrete, etc. The elder sister of the
patient was requested to give details about her own life
which revealed that she was very meticulous,
fastidious, etc.; also that her schizophrenic sister too
was same. The ailment began one day when the patient
and her brother had been to the market where they met a
friend of her brother and as they were conversing, some
persons came and began to mercilessly stab this friend;
the girl ran back home crying "the police are coming".
The mania for cleanliness and fear of police coming
indicated Arsenicum album. A 50m was dissolved in
water and administered every 15 minutes, everytime the
solution to be given ten succussions. Three days later
the patient came and declared that she was well and she
did behave well!
75.
The Resurrection
BALAKRISHNAM E. (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
Case 1:
22 year-old young man suddenly ran away
from home; when traced after three days in another city
and brought back home, he was in a state of disinterest
in studies, uncleanliness about surroundings and his
own self; he remained closeted in his room without
mixing with anyone; sleepless nights. After two months
treatment with Psychiatrists, he was brought for
homoeopathic treatment. The patient confided to the
homoeopath that he was constantly preoccupied with
sexual thoughts with great desire to masturbate.
Staphysagria did not help. He was then given Ustilago 6
b.d. and in a week recovery began. He graduated and is
working well as an Engineer.
Case 2:
A 57 year-old man was assaulted and
robbed while travelling in train; was hospitalised and
developed prolapse of rectum and an abscess; he was dazed
and couldn't recognise his people. After failure of
treatment at the Govt. hospital (including
psychiatric) he was brought for homoeopathic
treatment. Arnica, followed by Calcarea carbonica and
then Ruta relieved the prolapse and abscess. He now
began to be violent, keeping on chanting mantras,
talking of Vedanta, etc., praying; spoke as if in
communication with God. Stramonium M t.d.s. for 3
days and Passiflora 20 drops t.d.s. for 3 days cured.
76.
The Soft-hearted Professor
PAUL Subash Chandra (NJH, 3,1/1994) A 49 year-old
man, Professor of History, with mental depression,
sinking feeling on hearing any bad news, fear of death,
fear of disease, irritable, angry when contradicted,
indignation about his political career, sad but could not
weep, soft-hearted; weak digestion, appetite wanting.
After his father's death, he felt very sad, but could not
shed even a drop of tear. Nux vomica 200 two doses one
per day followed by Thuja 30 (history of vaccination in
childhood) four doses, one every week and then Natrum
muriaticum M two doses 12 hourly, repeated after about a
month and half (had tooth extraction for which took
allopathic medicine). Doing well. Occasional doses of
Rauwolfia serpentina 3x when blood pressure is high.
77.
Am I a Fool?
UPADHYA Sameer (NJH, 3, 1/1994) A 23 year-old
muslim young man, developed vertigo, with tinnitus; the
vertigo was worse when he stooped and bent during
prayers. Irritable, angry, denying all religions, but
believing in God, violent for least cause, obstinate. When
angry would throw things at persons and break them.
Quarrelled and abused at every minor incident at home
and the office. He instigated people to riots, communal
tensions, etc. However, he repented to every act of anti-
religious nature. Indolent and feeling of being unfit for
every work.
Crocus sativus M two doses on one day brought
about improvement (after Anacardium, Lyssin and
Mercurius failed) after aggravation of the tinnitus for
week. After four months the remedy was repeated when
he complained of vertigo. Remains well.
78.
Homoeopathy; The healing touch
RANGA KRISHNAN (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
Case 1:
A young female doctor, wife of an Air Force
Pilot, suffered from remnants of extensive burns of third
degree in the left leg and thigh with thick keloids of
various thicknesses. Although an allopathic physician she
refused hospitalisation and allopathic treatment
(grafting). She also suffered from Dysmenorrhoea,
Dysuria and Anal itching worse nights. History of
fracture of L2-L3 transverse process
after a fall in 1988.
Chicken Pox in 1991. Family history of Breast Cancer
and suspected Hodgkin's disease. Nightmares in which
she saw her near and dear ones burning. Intense
depression.
Radium bromatum 200 was given. Over an year it
was repeated six times. The healing was steady and
remarkable all round. Her mental state improved and the
keloid went on thinning. Tuberculinum M one dose and
Calendula 30 and Bellis perennis 200 were also given
later as required. Healing was total.
Case 2: 23 year-old research scholar with
epigastric burning pains since 3 months, which lasted 1 -
3 hours. Pain better lying prone, bread and cold milk.
Worse in morning between 5-6 a.m. Desire for spicy
and oilyfood which aggravated. Loved Music, reading
History and Philosophy. Tendency to sprain ankles.
History of Measles, Chicken Pox and Mumps prior to
puberty. Family history of Gout, Diabetes and Cancer of
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stomach. Frightened of small insects, darkness and cats.
Has an ugly thick scar on face, neck, upper shoulder,
and forearm on the right from third degree burn at
about 5 years age, from a cracker accident. In spite of
plastic surgery there was keloid formation. She said that
every wound would invariably heal with keloid.
Radium bromatum 200 one dose and her
epigastric pains vanished and her skin improved.
79. Schizophrenia: Homoeopathic Approach
DHARI Dushyant Kumar (NJH, 3, 1/1994)
The author discusses 12 remedis: Anhalonium
lewinii, Chlorpromazine, Haloperidol, Kresol,
Levomepromazine, Psilocybe caerulescens,
Rauwolfia serpentina, Reserpine, Sulfonilamide,
Thalamus, Thioproperazine, Thuja lobii.
80. Behandlung eines chronischen Falles unter
Beriicksichtigung der Gesamtheit der
Symptome (Treatment of a chronic case
considering the totality of the symptoms)
FURLENMEIER M. and STAHLKOPF A.
(ZKH, 38, 1/1994)
In actual practice much difficulties are
experienced when cases present with poor number of
symptoms or poor in characteristic symptoms. In the
latter case we have to find the suitable remedy by
considering the totality of symptoms for which we
must have efficient instruments and the user must also
know how to use these instruments.
The authors report a case of Psoriasis which was
eluding improvement for over an year. The case was
worked out with the aid of Repertory Cards (based on
BOENNINGHAUSEN and BOGER) which carry the
Genius symptoms. Graphites came up as the similar
remedy; this was verified with the help of KENT'S
Repertory. Graphites cured. The case highlights the use
of BOENNINGHAUSEN Cards.
81. Casuistic: Apis (Case: Apis)
KELLER G.v. (ZKH, 38, 1/1994)
This is an interesting case in which the author has
verified a 'peculiar' symptom. A female patient 26 year-
old, was earlier prescribed Sulphur tor eczema of the
palm, itching nightly, worse warmth. Every drop of
water on the part caused burning like fire. Although Apis
was thought of it was not given because of the
aggravation from water. The patient when she came
again said that the eczema which now was interdigital
was worse from perspiration, and itching and
scratching and that now the itching was better from
cold bathing. The earlier prescription of Sulphur was not
correct and Apis should have been given; in 'American
Provings' (HERING) of Apis the following symptom
is mentioned: Never before has she experienced such
a rapidly appearing and such rapidly disappearing
swelling, as after taking the tincture. Cold water on
the affected part could not be tolerated, she said: it
burnt like nitric acid.
82. Eine typische "Placeboheilung" (A typical
"Placebo cure")
KLUNKER W. (ZKH, 38, 1/1994)
Through this case the author impresses that the high
potency, single dose cures are not placebo action but
pure homoeopathic remedial action. A female patient
reported that her husband, an inconspicuous political
worker, drank every evening beer and brandy, became
aggressive, violent, abusive, chased her with a knife
threatening to kill her, etc. All his symptoms fitted Nux
vomica and a XM powder was given to her directing
her to give it to her husband in his drink. The result was
as expected. No more violence, no more agressiveness
and no more drunkenness.
The case is reported only to point out that neither
the wife, nor her husband knew anything about the
remedy; the remedy was given unknown to the patient.
The effect cannot therefore be attributed to "placebo".
83. Werden Krankheitserreger durch
hombopathische Erstverschlimmerung
vermehrt? (Do the disease-causing organisms
increase during the homoeopathic preliminary
aggravation?)
SRINIVASAN K.S. (ZKH, 38, 2/1994) The author
observed that in three different patients - all the three
girls in their teens - who were being treated with
Psorinum for eruptions on the scalp and lice, the lice
population also increased dramatically during the
period of aggravation of the lesions on the scalp. The
question raised is whether the homoeopathic remedy
could cause increase of organisms and when the
aggravation is over the organism also decline?
84. Case of the "Cool" Man
MANKANI MeenaT. (HH, 19, 1/1994)
A 37 year-old man, tall, dark and well-built, married
with two children, with complaints of urticaria,
dyspepsia
and recurrent left-sided headaches since four years.
Although he spoke softly and very politely he seemed to
be having much rage inwardly. He described himself as
being always cool, never wept or felt anxious at any time
of his life, not got ever depressed or highly elated. He
said that he never got involved with any members of the
family, was not sentimental, etc. Although cool, when
he becomes angry he became very bad. He gets attacks
of dyspepsia and then he becomes panicky and rushes to
his cardiologist. No abnormality was found by the
cardiologist.
Anacardium orientate XM (Contrariness;
Unfeeling, hard hearted; Egotism; self-esteem; violent,
rage leading to deeds of violence)
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85.
A Case of G-6-P-D deficiency
DEY S.P. (HH, 19, 1/1994)
A 6 year-old boy with Glucose 6-phosphate
dehydrogenase deficient syndrome on allopathic
treatment in the hospital. In spite of two years of
treatment no satisfactory progress was found and hence
came to Homoeopathy. He had: susceptibility to colds,
chronic dry cough worse in the summer and rainy seasons
and in the morning after waking and in the evening;
cough better in winter; extreme anorexia with progressive
weight loss; urine occasionally mixed with blood; allergy
to Sulpha group of drugs; itching anus in evenings.
History of Ophthalmia neonatorum, haemoglobinuria at
4 years age. A number of homoeopathic remedies as
indicated from time to time from lodum to Nitric acid,
Pulsatilla, Morbillinum, syphilinum - during the period
from March 1987 to August 1993, until the G-6-P-D
deficiency was no more.
86.
Cure of a Haemorrhagic Papilloma within
Thirty seven Days
CHATTERJEE Ardhendhu Sekhar
(HH, 19,2/1994)
A boy of 13 years, with a haemorrhagic
papilloma under the tip of tongue for which surgery has
been proposed. The papilloma has been there since
three months, repeated bleeding when it got bitten
accidentally. He had urinary problems, strong smelling
urine, irresistible urge since circumcision; frontal
headache since 5 years age, agg. in sun; amel. pressure;
sleep; rheumatic pain of legs agg. at new moon and full
moon; amel. on tight binding.
Acidum nitricum 200 and 28 days later M
completed the cure.
87.
Keloid cure
RAMANATHAN A.N. (HH, 19, 3/1994) The author
draws attention to a study by the Swedish Medical
Council which revealed that application of ordinary
Zink tape on the scars reduced the keloids to the level of
the skin and also reduced the itching and redness.
Possibly Zinc. 6 may be applied externally in Oil of
Olay base and the results watched.
88.
Medorrhinum
in Management of
Schizophrenia
RAPHEL SUSHIL (QHQ, 3, 1/1994) Schizophrenia is a
difficult condition to be cured totally. The author reports
six cases of Schizophrenia from his practice; in the first
two cases he was not successful; however, the next four
cases in which Medorrhinum was given in high potency,
the results were satisfactory. The author feels that
Medorrhinum is a very important remedy in this disease.
89.
Asphyxia due to suppression of eruptions
cured with Cina
MISHRAS.C. (QHQ, 3, 1/1994)
A 9 year-old girl was prescribed Pulsatilla 30 three
doses, one pill per dose, for clustered pimple-like
eruptions on the cheeks and the next day she
developed Asphyxia-like breathing difficulties.
Treatment in the hospital and later by a Psychiatrist did
not cure. She was again brought to the author who had
given her earlier Pulsatilla 30 which being
unhomoeopathic to the patient's condition,
suppressed the eruptions and brought on the
respiratory distress. Cina 200 (Constant disposition to
swallow, during sleep) which brought out the
eruptions on the cheeks on the next afternoon and then
faded away. The Asphyxia also disappeared.
90.
A New Research Field
JAMES K.J. (QHQ, 3, 1/1994)
The author says that following the theory of
Tridosha expounded by Dr. BHATTACHARYA, he has
found great success with 'septanate mixtures' and other
mixtures; these are mixtures of homoeopathic potencies
of different remedies.
IV. VETERINARY
1. Chronic Heamaturia in a Dog: Finding the
Small Remedy
LEVY Jeffrey (NEJH, 2, 1/1993)
Veterinary Homoeopathy provides a unique
opportunity to treat end-stage pathology, because
veterianarians frequently encounter seriously ill and
dying animals. In Veterinary cases we can see the direct
effect of the homoeopathic remedies without the doubt of
a placebo effect.
Prescribing for animals is a challenge because there
is no 'Sensation as if, or 'Mind', 'Dreams', 'sleep position'
etc. The article describes one way of finding a small
remedy in a veterinary case. The patient is a five year-old
spayed female German Shepherd cross. Haematuria was
her main symptom. After studying all the symptoms she
was prescribed remedies such as Pulsatilla, Phosphoric
acid, Hepar sulphuris, etc. which all helped, but it was
Terebinthina which ultimately brought about full
restoration of health.
2. Hyperkitty and Lumpy
LEVY Jeffrey (NEJH, 2, 3/1993)
"As is the case for nearly every remedy, the
pictures of lodum and lodum salts in dogs and cats are
essentially the same as in humans, but a canine or feline
version. The remedy essence is the same."
A 15 year-old male cat with elevated Thyroid
hormone (T4), rapid weight loss and lethargy,
tachycardia, profound hypokalemia. External throat:
Goitre. All symptoms including Generals, behaviour,
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etc. and Sulphur iodatum in ascending potencies
brought about remarkable improvement.
A5 V2 year-old dog (male) with sebaceous cysts
two years earlier. Six months ago impacted glands and
in 1992 suddenly developed several cysts. Alopecia,
itching, treated with steroids. Developed immediately
two scapular masses, right sided, and enlargement of
the prescapular lymph node, these were surgically
removed, and histopathology said Basal Cell
Carcinoma.
Past history, the totality of presenting
symptoms, all considered and Calcarea iodata was
given and he became "his old self".
In the first case the Sulphur symptoms as well as
lodum ones in part came up and in the second
Calcarea carbonica and lodum; hence the
prescription of Sulphur iodatum and Calcarea
iodatum.
3. That Old Gray Mare: She Ain't What She used
to be
GRAY Bill (NEJH, 2, 3/1993)
A horse that was given injections of Iodine for
lameness of knee developed lodum state, glands
swollen, dry skin, appetite big but becoming
emaciated, lodum brought back the knee pains;
Chamomilla cured the lameness.
V. PHARMACOLOGY
1. Importance of the 3c trituration in the
manufacture of Homoeopathic Medicines.
DELLMOUR F. (BHJ, 83, 1/1994)
Based on the original trituration of gold made in
1818, HAHNEMANN introudced the trituration to the
3c as a general method for use in homoeopathic
pharmacy from 1835 onwards, thus distancing himself
from the use of solutions and mother tinctures. He
found that 3c triturated medicines were more effective,
with constituents retained to a much higher degree and
improved storage qualities.
This article is a revised version of a paper read in
the LMHI Congress held at Vienna (see p.93 of QHD, XI,
3&4/1994). (Are our pharmacies manufacturing
homoeopathic medicines in this manner? = KSS)
VI. RESEARCH
1. Ways to enhance the quality and acceptance
of Clinical and Laboratory studies in
Homoeopathy
LINDE W., MELCHART D., JONAS W.B.,
HORNUNG J. (BHJ, 83, 1/1994)
Three ways to enhance acceptance and
publication of clinical trials in Homoeopathy and
confirmatory laboratory studies on serially agitated
dilutions proposed. First: the use of methodology and
presentation check-lists to increase the quality of
original papers on research. Second: to prepare an
extensive report available to interested persons if a
published report does not include all relevant details.
Third : establishing a pre- registration data-base for all
confirmators projects of research in Homoeopathy.
VII. HISTORY
1. Epjsodale Homoopathie - Erinnerungen an Karl
KOTSCHAU (1892 - 1982) (Episodal
Homoeopathy- reflections on Karl KOTSCHAU
(1892-1982)
SCHMEER E.H. (AHZ, 239, 1/1994) This is a brief
history of the so-called 'Scientific Homoeopathy'
School in Germany which dealt with low potencies,
animal experiments, etc. and attempted to integrate
with the Allopathic School of Medicine.
The experiments and role of Dr. Karl
KOTSCHAU in this regard are recalled.
2. History and relevance of the 6th edition of the
Organon of Medicine (1842)
SCHMIDT Josef M. (BHJ, 83, 1/1994) For the first time,
150 years after HAHNEMANN completed his VI
Edition mss. of Organon a 'text-critical' edition of
this valuable work has been made available to critical
readers, thanks to Dr. Josef SCHMIDT. In 1992 he
published (Haug Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany) the
text-critical edition, exactly as found in the
HAHNEMANN hand-corrected copy, i.e. the
manuscript of the VI edition. The most important
deviation in the VI edition, viz. the LM potencies can
now be verified to be HAHNEMANN's own and need
not anymore be doubted.
The author traces the history of the manuscript of
Organon changing hands, preserved carefully by
devoted homoeopaths and its current safe-custody with
UCSF Library, USA. The course of development of
potentisation culminating in the LM potencies are
discussed.
VIII. GENERAL
1. Dysis VS. Disease
KOTHARI M.L and MEHTA LA. (mfH, 4, 3/94)
The authors are well-known for breaking a bold
path and breaking many medical myths, including
many unnecessary EKG, ECG, heart surgeries, etc. A
highly stimulating, thought-provoking article.
2. "Cure for T.B." Myth or Mystery?
VIJAY KUMAR R. (mfH, 4, 3/1994)
The author traces briefly the history of the
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discovery of the Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in 1882
by Robert KOCH, the BCG and the subsequent
attemtps to cure and prevent Tuberculosis and
concludes that "though man has become clever, the
bacteria has become cleverer and the issue of
treatment of Tuberculosis appears more a mystery than
a myth."
3. Zum Verhaltnis von Hombopathie und
Psychoanalyse/Psychotherapie (Relation of
Homoeopathy and Psychoanalysis/
Psychotherapy)
APPELL R.G. (AHZ, 239, 2/1994)
Homoeopathy and Psychoanalysis show
interesting similarities in their essential aspects. These
begin with the life of their founders HAHNEMANN and
FREUD, the development of the theory and practice,
and extends to their respective case-taking
techniques and Mela-theory. As theory of the
Individual Homoeopathy as well as Psychoanalysis
represent an opposite pole to the Social and Scientific
mainstream-ideas, an opposite pole which should be
insisted upon.
4. Klinische Symptome and Verbffentlichtungen
von Kasuistiken (Clinical Symptoms and
publication of Cases)
REIS Stefan (ACD, 3, 1/1994)
The development, evaluation and usefulness of
clinical symptoms are discussed in this article. The
"Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica" is
critically examined. Attention is invited to the Foreward
of HERING to his "Guiding Symptoms" wherein it
has been pointed thai a cured symptom is not as
valuable as a symptom that has been produced and
cured. The author points out that HERING edited only
the first two volumes and a part of the third volume of
the Guiding Symptoms and the subsequent volumes
were, after HERING's death, edited by C.G. RAUE,
C.B. KNERR, and C. MOHR, who did not follow
HERING exactly. The symptoms of Palladium are
examined in this reference. Some guiding principles for
publication of case reports are proposed.
5. The Semantics of Homoeopathy
GUAJARDO German, SEARCY Roberto,
REYES Oscar (BHJ, 83, 1/1994)
Homoeopathy is receiving more attention from
the Print Media; it is often referred to as a form of
'alternative' or 'complementary' medicine. This results in
the marginalisation of Homoeopathy and tends to
equate Allopathy with Medicine. In fact Homoeopathy is
a medical speciality and our semantics should reflect
this. The authors quote the following from the
Homoeopathic Research Reports, Winter 1991: "...
Dutch physicians, 45% of whom think that
homoeopathic medicines are efficacious in treating
upper respiratory tract infections or hayfever. It may no
longer be appropriate to consider Homoeopathy a part of
'alternative medicine', especially when you consider that
surveys have determined that 32% of French family
physicians and approximately 25% of German
physicians prescribe homoeopathic medicines and
42% of British physicians refer to homoeopathic
physicians."
There is need to improve our courses and
incorporate inter-disciplinary topics. The use of the
terms 'dilutions' and 'potency' is also discussed.
6. Respecting the Patient
CASTRO Miranda (JAIH, 87, 1/1994) This paper was
presented at the 1992 AIH Conference, Falls Church,
VA, USA. It deeply explores many issues relevant to
clinical practice today; among them, the imperative that
we respect the patient; power in the consulting room -
imploring us to utilize the power our patients bestow
upon us in a wise and conscientious manner; the
value of clinical supervision to clarify our perspectives
and defuse our emotional reactions to some of the
stories we hear; the flaws of the practitioner, - how our
blind spots for patients may reflect blind spots within
ourselves; the perils of projection (transference and
counter-transference) and the many benefits gained
from recognizing it; sexual abuse in the clinic - its
inappropriateness and how to recognize the more
subtle forms of it; the value of practitioner-patient
communication and the importance of simplifying it.
(Please refer to 'General' section of QHD, XI,
1&2/1994also = KSS.)
7. Deutsche Hochschulschriften zum Thema
Hombopathie aus den Jahren 1986-1992
(Articles on Homoeopathy in the German
Scientific journals)
VOLZ, P.D. (ZKH, 38, 1/1994)
This is a bibliography of articles on
Homoeopathy that appeared during the period 1986-
1992 in German Scientific journals. 43 articles have
been listed.
8. "Hydrohombopathie"? - Die Kaltwasserthera-
pie (Hydrotherapie) in der hombopathischen
Literatur um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts
("Hydrohomoeopathy" - The Cold water
therapy (Hydrotherapy) in the homoeopathic
literature of the mid-Nineteenth Century)
WILLFAHRT J. (ZKH, 38, 2&3/1994)
Already before the middle of the Nineteenth
Century, notable homoeopathists tried to unite "cold
water cures" (Hydrotherapy) with
Homoeopathy. Their intention was to heal
signs of diseases, which should have been
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more difficult to manage with Homoeopathy
alone. This medical endeavour was doomed to
failure. No compelling approach to the way, in
which this procedures should be combined,
could be formed. Though both are based on the
support of the "self healing" powers of nature,
they are not at all dependent on each other.
The conceptions of humoral pathology
were not compatible with classical
Homoeopathy. Nevertheless many
homoeopathic physicians and lay healers under
the influence of the "the Nature Cure"
movement applied hydro-therapeutical methods
in their practice till the 20th century -
incidentally within or beyond their proper
homoeopathic therapy. 9. Why our daughter
will not be having the
Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccinations.
THOMPSON Trevor (The Homoeopath,
52/1994)
Much has been written over the years on
the adverse effects of the vaccinations and also
the question whether they are essential. In this
article the author, an allopathic doctor studying
Homoeopathy with the Homoeopathic
Physicians Training Group, discusses the
advantages and disadvantages and decides that
his daughter will not have the MMR vaccine.
IX. BOOKS
1.
Provings and Clinical Symptoms of
New, Old and Forgotton Remedies by Dr.
Prakash VAKIL
reviewed by Dr. D.E.
MISTRY (CCR, 3, 1/1994).
"In this small booklet of about 76 pages
Dr. VAKIL has described his findings on
provings of 10 remedies. Most of the subjects
have been presented as papers in All India
homoeopathic Congresses or International
Homoeopathic Congresses. Some of the
remedies proved are entirely new and are food
products like
Citrullus lanalus
... Recently in a
Seminar at Solapur Dr. VAKIL demonstrated the
use of a single dose of
Leprominium
in a case of
AIDS from USA which caused a remarkable
return to normal energy levels and an active life
for over one year.
This booklet will prove useful to many
practitioners in treating difficult cases by these
newer remedies which still need further
extensive provings and clinical applications.."
2.
Vergleichende Arzneimittellehre
(Comparative Materia Medica),
CANDEGABE, E.F., Burgdorf-
Verlag, Gbttingen 1990. 426 S. Ln., M
130
- review
by GEBHARDT (AHZ, 239,
1/1994)
This German translation from the original
Spanish by Dr. SABEL, Dr. HEE, Irmtraud
ROTH and Birgit PAROSSEL has been
very warmly recommended by the learned
reviewer.
The miasmatic views, the pathogenesis of
the remedies, the insights of CANDEGABE's
teacher Dr. PASCHERO are all well laid.
3.
Die "hombopathische" Frau. Ein esebuch
Liber die Leiden der Frau - auch fur
anner (The "homoeopathic" woman. A
textbook on the diseases of Women - also
for Men) N. ENDERS. Karl F. HAUG
Verlag, Heidelberg 1992. 339 S., geb.
DM 48/-
reviewed by BERGHOF (AHZ,
239, 1/1994)
While the idea of writing this book is noble,
the book itself is basically miscarried.
4.
Bach-Blutentherapie fiir Hombopathen
(Bach's Flower Therapy for omoeopaths),
HACKL, M. Johannes Sonntag
Verlagsbuchhandlung Regensburg 1990.
199 S., geb., DM 29,80
reviewed by
GABLER (AHZ, 239, 1/1994)
This book is on BACH Flower Remedies. It
is wrong to call BACH's Flower Therapy
homoeopathic.
5.
Methoden der Hombopathischen
Fallanalyse. Materia Medica
hombopathica Teil I (Methods of
homoeopathic Case Analysis.
Homoeopathic Materia Medica Part I)
MORRISON R. Aus d. Amerik. libers.
von K. KROGER. Kai KrogerVerlag
fur homoopathische Literatur, Rendsburg
1989, 447 S., geb., DM 86,50.
review by
GEBAHRDT (AHZ, 239, 1/1994)
This is a German translation from the
American. The book doubtless opens many new
aspects of homoeopathic theory. The book
is warmly recommended.
6.
Die Farbe als Mittel zur
Simillimumfindung in der Hombopathie
(Color as means of
finding the Simillimum in Homoeopathy)
Bd. II. H.V. MULLER Karl F. Haug
Verlag, Heidelberg 1992. 280 S., geb.,
DM 70,
review byZEEDEN (AHZ,
239,1/1994)
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The author has, in Vol. I of his book
already established that the color which a patient
loves, may be reckoned for the finding of the
Simillimum just as the Mind and General
Symptoms are. This Vol. II contains 27 cases
analysed in detail (Psycho-anamnesis).
7.
Reine Arzneimittellehre, C.G.
HARTLAUB/C.F.TRINKS: Nachdruck
der Ausgabe Leipzig 1828-31, drei
Bande in einem Band, erganzt um die
Arzneimittel priifungen aus
Annalen der Homoopathischen Klinik,
zusammen 1093 Seiten,
Bibliotheksleinen, Bernd von der
Leith Verlag fur homoopathische
Literatur, Hamburg o.J., DM 198,-.
review by Stefan
REIS(ACD, 3, 1/1994):
HARTLAUB and TRINKS were contemporaries of
HAHNEMANN. HAHNEMANN considered TRINKS
as his mortal enemy. Nevertheless symptoms from the
"Pure Materia Medica" of HARTLAUB and TRINKS
were integrated in his Materia Medica by
HAHNEMANN, some in abbreviated form, some in full.
This Materia Medica contains provings of many
remedies like Bovista, Castoreum, Indigo, Magnesia
sulphurica, Natrium sulphuricum, Niccolum,
Plumbum, Secale, Strontium, Tabacum. Besides new
provings the work contains reprovings of some earlier
provings. With this publication a rare source material is
once again available for the profession.
8. Samuel Hahnemann: Krankenjournal D2
(1801-1802) - Nach der Edition von H.
Henne, bearbeitet von A. Michalowski,
herausgeben von R. JUTTE (Institut fur
Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch
Stiftung Stuttgart). 136 Seiten, Haug-Verlag,
Heidelberg 1993, DM 68,-. review by Stefan
REIS(ACD, 3, 1/1994)
With this edition the earliest Case Register of
HAHNEMANN (the first Register has been lost) is now
available for the homoeopathic fraternity. This edition
is based on the earlier 1963 commentary by Heinz
HENNE. The Register pertains to the years 1801 -1802
when HAHNEMANN lived in Eilenburg.
HAHNEMANN had started to use medicines according
to his Simile principle and in dilutions. Although there
is not much to be learnt in so far as homoeopathic
therapy is concerned, it is of great historic interest
since the social milieu, the patients, nature of diseases,
and the remedies used by HAHNEMANN, etc. can all
be gathered.
9. British Homoeopathic Journal, Index
1911-1990, The Faculty of Homoeopathy,
London 1993, 168 pages, Spiral binding,
£40, - review by Stefan REIS. (ACD, 3, 1/1994).
Contains the list of articles that appeared in the
BHJ during the years 1911-1990. One comes across
names such as: M.G. BLACKIE, D.M. BORLAND, J.H.
CLARKE, D.M. FOUBISTER, D.M. GIBSON, W.
GUTMAN, E. WRIGHT-HUBBARD, O.A. JULIAN,
O. LESSER, T.P. PASCHERO, J. PATERSON, P.
SANKARAN, P. SCHMIDT, M.L TYLER, L
VANNIER, J. WEIR, C.E. WHEELER, E.C.
WHITMONT. The listing is under four heads. 10.
Methodik der Homoopathie. Artur BARUN, 4
erw. u. verb. Aufl. Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart
1992 234 S., Kart., DM 44-. reviewed by
GENNEPER (ZKH, 38, 2/1994)
This book came first in 1975 and has since then
gone into 4 editions. It did not obtain the
"Alfons-Stiegele" Price unjustly... The book has been
written by an experienced practitioner who has also
written in such way that it can be learnt quickly and
practically without in anyway sacrificing the
fundamental concepts of Homoeopathy.
11. A Textbook of the Principles of
Homoeopathic Practice by Ernest
ROBERTS, Winter Press, 29, Horniman
Drive, London SE23 3BJ. ISBN 1 874581010.
12. The Principles of Homoeopathic Philosophy
- A self-directed Learning Text by Margaret
ROY, published Churchill Livingstone, 1994,
ISBN 0 443 04821 5. both reviewed by Ian
TOWNSEND (The Homoepath, 52/1994)
"Not since KENT in 1900 and VITHOULKAS in
1980 have we seen an attempt to unfold the
complexities of our philosophy... Now we have two
books available to us... Both are written by well-
established practitioners with a wealth of practical
experience behind them and both are designed as the
starting points for a proposed series."
13. Treatise on Homoeopathic Medicine,
EIZAYAGA, F.X., Ediciones Marecel, Buenos
Aires 1991.315 S. geb. reviewed by KLUNKER
(ZKH, 38, 2/1994)
This systematic presentation of Homoeopathy
appears for the first time in the English language
translated from the original Spanish third edition. The
entire work is in six chapters... The book contains more
in terms of practical Homoepathy and it would
stimulate the experienced practitioner also. The
beginners also could find it useful; particularly in the
present context of New Age Homoeopathy without any
basis. The book has a very useful introduction to
KENT'S Repertory and its use in the Clinic. New points
could be found in every chapter...
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14. Die philosophischen Vorstellungen Samuel
Hahnemanns bei der Begrlindung der
Homoopathie. Johannes Sonntag
Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munchen 1990. 520
S. Leinen, geb. DM 132,-. (The philosophical
ideas of Samuel Hahnemann at the foundation
of Homoeopathy) Josef M. SCHMIDT, review
by KLUNKER (ZKH, 38, 2/1994).
"The philosophical ideas of HAHNEMANN with
reference to his unique experiment has not been studied
in detail so far. Neither Richard HAEHL nor
TISCHNER, the authors of the two large biographies of
HAHNEMANN filled this gap. Now after 150 years of
HAHNEMANN's demise Josef M. SCHMIDT has done
this. His research work has been accepted by the
Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Munich.
HAHNEMANN has not only laid a new foundation for
Medicine and every new foundation has its
philosophic basis and to that extent this is relevant...
The author of this study required access to the
complete literature of HAHNEMANN for which
purpose he had to draw a list of the complete works of
HAHNEMANN. Although the literature relevant to his
research referred to the period upto 1810 (the first
edition of the Organon) SCHMIDT prepared a
complete list of works of HAHNEMANN upto the
end. (This list is appended to the book)... The book is
divided into three main parts: i) The writings of
HAHNEMANN studied in relation to his philosophic
content; ii) Reconstruction of the important concepts of
HAHNEMANN; iiii Philosophical-systematic
reconstruction of the foundation of Homoeopathy...
The book contains besides an introduction and a large
reference index, an index of subject and object
(names of persons etc. and subjects)... It is hoped that
this publication which is an important one for
Homoeopathy gets the attention due and that readers
will be interested to learn. Get-up and price
appropriate."
X. NEWS & NOTES
1. The AHZ, 239, 1/1994 furnishes some
information from the Annual report of History of
Homoeopathy in the Robert Bosch Foundation, for the
year 1993.
The Institute fur Geschichte der Medizin (IGM)
der Robert Bosch Stiftung (RBSG) contains 4176
volumes (an increase of 347 volumes); this is the
largest special library of the history of Homoeopathy.
More have been purchased from the market for
antiques from the Hans Walz Stiftung. The number of
users of the Library ha& increased; from 1990 there is
also the arrangement for borrowing books from
outstations and the number of such borrowers has also
increased.
Restoration of the stores is also on hand. 529
letters of HAHNEMANN have been restored by Mrs. S.
HAHNER-ROMBACH. BONNINGHAUSEN holdings
have also been listed, indexed afresh.
The volumes in the Library of IGM have been
added to. Manuscripts of Dr. O.A. JULIAN have been
acquired and added (the first overseas addition). The
Archiv is interested to make further additions from
Physicians, Heilpraktikersand other Associations and
institutions so that its function as the centre for
homoeopathic history is truly fulfilled.
The most important project is the publication of the
HAHNEMANN Case Registers by Karl F. Haug
Verlag. Already D2, D5 and DF5 have been published
and nine volumes are under preparation.
There have boen increasing number of
enquiries, (both within and outside the country -
doctors, students and nurses, etc.); editors and
scholars have also been using the IGM more in
numbers.
A far-sighted work is the preparation for the
Deutschen Hygiene Museum in 1996 in Dresden in
which the homoeopathic theme is "Die Aktualitat der
Homoopathie". All the objects .in the IGM are being
photographed and protected properly. The Institute for
Pharmacy of the University of Regensburg has begun a
pharmacological analysis of the material in the Home
remedies chest and the Traveller's chest of homoeopathic
remedies in the HAHNEMANN house.
Many research projects have also been planned.
2. Report of the Second International
Hainsteintagung, 25-28 August 1993 (AHZ, 239,
1/1994): Different Schools and Orientations in
Homoeopathy took part in the Meeting under the
theme "Homoeopathy 150 years after HAHNEMANN
& Points of view and Perspectives". The delegates not
only affirmed their viewpoints but also the
comparisons and contrasts, and also discussed
Psychoanalysis, Depth psychology, Anthroposophy and
Constitutions theory, all from the clinical medicine and
the modern Physics.
Edward C. WHITMONT began. He spoke of
fusion of the principles and ideas of Depth
psychology, Dreams, modern Physics and Asian
Thoughts with Homoepathy so as to enrich thereby.
For WHITMONT Transmaterial-Forms-field as
archetypal information store are the foundation of the
material universe. The Spiritual mental and the
Material correspond, as different condensation forms of
these trans-material form-fields, the basis of our
experience of our Self and the World. A granule of a
medicine is, for him, a concretised, condensed,
Energy-field of Behavioural-, Emotional- and
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Biological Functional form.
The Pharmacist Heide BRUNNER's lecture was
very lively; afresh insight into the intermediate function
between the Physician and Patient which the
manufacturer reaches through the potentisation
process, was explained. BRUNNER spoke of the
spiritual material which is met with in the potentisation
process whereby the intensive unfoldment of the
medicine in its many-layered emotions are brought
about.
That the similarity of men in their lives is
deterministic in laying their future relatively in that a
repetition of the life occurs in the death, is a thought
which Franz SWOBODA attempted to seek in the
homoeopathic sense in the life of SOCRATES.
SWOBDA did not go about the symptoms of the
Hemlock in death, but he looked for the elements of
Conium picture in the life of SOCRATES. Further he
spoke with case reports how deterministic it was for
him a "anamnesis in the hall of mirrors", an
introspection of the physician for discovering the
opposite state by the choice of the medicine.
Rainer APPELL in his "Trials on the Similarity"
described it as the source-phenomena which in Art and
Philosphy strives to take in totality and health.
Although the Similie principle and Cure through
Homoeopathy eludes the understanding by the
modern science, there is always attempts to explain. The
model proposed by the Viennese Physicist Karl-
Wilhelm KRATKY is to be considered so.
Roland BAUR spoke on the verifiability and
claim of factuality. The work of BAUR and WILLICH in
which they documented situation of patients in an
epidemiological heart infarct study clearly showed the
connection with the leading symptoms of the
homoepathic remedies. This could be a plane of
understanding between Homoeopathy and Allopathy.
Dario SPINEDI spoke on the strict experiments of
HAHNEMANN, his continuous experiments and
search for new solutions; a case of HAHNEMANN
cited. As against this a chronic case of KUNZLI in
which an exact exegesis of the homoeopathic writings
were borne out.
Ulrich FISCHER spoke on the Latin-american
School, particularly ORTEGA and the theory of the
Miasms.
Matthias GIRKE spoke on the understanding of
disease and healing in the light of Anthroposophy
which could belp.
Michael HADULLA spoke as SWOBODA earlier;
with extracts from "Agamemnon" by AISCHYLOS and
the matching of the symptoms and the rubrics.
The crucial points in the dream analysis was the
subject of Uta AANTOS and Peter KONIG.
3. A Cola Case. Dr. Ch. SANDEN, Munchen
communicates (AHZ, 239,1/1994): A 27 year-old man
with watery-splattering diarrhoea since three months
with flatus, 2-3 times a day, the stool is bright brown,
pasty, very tired after the stool. He was very tired, dull.
Clinical examination and microbiological tests did not
point any pathological find. The patient was given Co/a
vera 6x daily morning and within one week the
diarrhoea was cured as also the general condition of
the patient clearly improved.
4. 54th Pan-American Congress of Homoeopathy
held in the City of Ribeiraro Preto, 350 km from San
Pablo, Brazil, on 25-29 July 1993. The Congress was
organized by the Instituto Homoeopatico Francois
Lamasson' (IHFL), which works for the investigation
and teaching of Homoeopathy under the presidency
of Dr. Izao SOARES. Representatives of different
institutions from Venezuela, Columbia, Chile,
Argentina, Cuba and Mexico gave the event an
international character. The need for a methodology
in doing research was stressed from the first day of the
Congress. The search for solutions within
homoeopathic medicine for regional endemic
parasitic pathologies led to clinical and experimental
studies in animals using bio-therapeutic Trypanosoma
cruzi. A paper presented by the authors Albuquerque
RIBEIRO, LOPES, et.al. of the College of Pharmacy of
Ribeiraro Preto. Using Trypanosoma cruzi 3c, 6c, 12c
and 100c in rats previously infected with strains of T.
cruzi, they achieved a decrease in parasitaemia,
reduced mortality and higher cure rate. Control
groups were used. Dilutions 30c and 100c proved to
be more efficient at rates of 68% and 75% respectively.
Among the clinical papers, one by BORGO,
LIMA, PITARELO, et. al. stood out. They demonstrated
the therapeutic action of Thuja (mother tincture) on
vaginal ovules and Thuja 12c and 30c per os on
gynaecological lesions induced by human papilloma
virus (HPV). 198 patients were treated, obtaining
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positive results in 84% of cases after 90 days of
treatment.
Considerable attention was given to the need for
strict quality control in homoeopathic
pharmaceutics. A picturesque detail of the Congress was
the adoption of Esperanto as one of the official
languages, the others being Spanish and Portuguese. The
IHFL publishes a bilingual journal of
homoeopathic medicine in Esperanto and
Portuguese.
The Congress was a good starting point to help
homoeopaths of Latin American countries become
aware of the need to face the problems of
Homoeopathy in a practical way, using scientific
methodology instead of theoretical speculations
which have divided homoeopaths.
The next congress will take place in Cuba in 2
years. In Cuba there are groups of doctors interested in
Homoeopathy. Cuba has an excellent welfare system
which would make the diffusion of Homoeopathy
easy once it has received the necessary support.
(Abstract from a report in the BHJ, 83, 1/1994)
5. In a letter to the Editor of the BHJ (BHJ, 83,
1/1994) with reference to his article on 'Evaluation of
homoeopathic therapy in 129 asymptomatic HIV
carriers' published in the BHJ January 1993 Dr. D.P.
RASTOGI says: "Sera of 9 of the 12 sero-reverted HIV
carriers were subjected to Western Blot assay at the
National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New
Delhi, in June 1993. All of these were found to be
non-reactive. The remaining 3 have since changed
residence and are not traceable. Since publication of
our report, 2 more individuals have sero-reverted to
HIV negative status on ELISA and Western Blot
assays..."
6. Dr. Edward CHAPMAN, President of the
American Inst. of Homoeopathy, writes (JAIH, 87,
1/1994) that the commitment of the AIH in
homoeopathic education, "Dedicated to Advancing
Health Care through Homoeotherapeutics" is to be
achieved through continuing homoeopathic
education of practicing homoeopaths, the
introduction of new physicians to Homoeopathy and
the assurance of quality. These are all important areas
to which the AIH has committed resources. Teaching
on the model of Dr. David TAYLOR REILLY is
proposed. The AIH has created a public foundation to
receive charitable donations and administer these
funds for the educational and research projects of the
AIH.
7. Responding to the warm review by Dr.
MOSKOWITZ of his Materia Medica Viva George
VITHOULKAS says (Letter to the Editor, JAIH, 87,
1/1994) that he hoped that the subsequent volumes
(four are ready for publication) may appear in 1995.
He also assures that the binding and paper will be of
excellent quality and these volumes will be much less
expensive than the first volume; in subsequent
volumes he had decided that sections such as
Toxicology, Provings, etc. would be deleted.
8. Recent changes in the leadership of the
American Association of Homoeopathic Pharmacists
(AAHP) have served to energize and revitalize the
trade organisation which has been representing the
interests of homoeopathic manufacturers for the past
70 years. The AAHP has created an atmosphere of
open cooperation and mutual trust among
homoeopathic manufacturers. The AAHP is strongly
committed to making safe and legal homoeopathic
products available to the American public. They are
committed to increasing the quality of homoeopathic
products and ensuring the long-term viability of
Homoepathy. The AAHP has represented the
homoeopathic industry for over 100 years. Currently,
the AAHP members represent 75% of the
homoeopathic industry and employ over 500 people
in America. (Extract from a Report from Frank RUFFIN,
President AAHP, JAIH, 87, 1/1994)
9. The simple problem of nocturnal leg cramps
remains unexplained medically and poorly treated
with conventional medication. It is estimated that
50-70% of adults over the age of 50 experience
nocturnal leg cramps. While there are many
hypotheses, no theory has gained general
acceptance. The mainstay of conventional treatment
is Quinine, which has no consistent proof of benefit in
controlled studies. (From Internal Medicine, Vol. 14,
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9/1993 quoted in the JAIH, 87, 1/1994)
10. George VITHOULKAS' Seminar was arranged by
the Foundation for Homoepathic Research, Bombay,
on 20-22 January 1994. VITHOULKAS said that there
are four important ways for the selection of remedy: i)
Totality of symptoms; ii) Essence (psycho-
pathology); iii) Key-notes; and iv) Causation. He cited
examples. A case of Astacus fluviatilis was discussed.
Paris quadnfolia was also discussed. Case taking was
demonstrated alive. A 9-year-old girl was interviewed
and Argentum nitricum (impulsiveness) was
prescribed. VITHOULKAS also presented the case of
a man who recovered from coma with renal failure
after an open-heart surgery. Stramonium cured (the
patient started talking in French which was not his
regular language of communication). The use of
repertory was shown live while narrating the case of an
epilepsy with aura of a boy who would lose vision
before fits. Causticum was selected on the basis of the
actual observation of the patient during the fit.
VITHOULKAS also spoke on the Miasms theory. He
cited the case of a 30-year-old woman, an introvert and
inhibited, with desire for sweets and alcohol,
perspiration at night, vertigo from high places. A
sycotic remedy, Medorrhinum produced very good
result.
While streassing the mental symptoms he said that
the cerebral symptoms should be taken and not
imaginary ones, i.e. the patient symptoms should not be
imagined by the physician.
The flower of Agnus castus is eaten by monks so
that their sexual energies are kept down and they remain
chaste. Agnus castus is given to create purity in impure
people. VITHOULKAS stated this to explain the
Doctrine of Signatures. He advocated the use of
potencies from reliable pharmacies. He rejected the
doctrine of Constitutional remedy and single remdyfor a
patient in the patient's entire life span. (NJH, 3,
1/1994).
11. A 'Symposium' titled 'Opening Avenues' was
organized by the Foundation for Homoeopathic
Research and Charities on the 22 January 1994. The
Speakers were: Dr. Rajesh SHAH, Dr. KUMAR
DHAWALE, Dr. K.H. MATANI and Dr. Kasim
CHIMTHANAWALA. Dr. MATANI spoke about
selection of rubrics on the basis of objective findings
in emergency cases. Dr. CHIMTHANAWALA spoke on
the 'Calcutta School' approach. Dr. Rajesh SHAH
spoke on the 'Phenomenological approach'. He said
that empty speculation of a cause which cannot be
explained is useless, but only the effect of the cause
should be studied and remedy selected. In a case of
Fissure in Ano the striking symptom was sadness
better by telling to someone and Alumina silicata
cured. In a case of Asthma there was indolence,
irritability and despondency, weeping with discontent;
Zizia was the remedy. Dr. Kumar DHAWALE spoke on
the approach taught in the ICR, Bombay (Institute of
Clinical Research). In this the treatment is planned in
advance and an intercurrent remedy and consitutional
remedy are selected. The physician must understand
the how and why of the disease, what are the
complaints and what is the suffering. The case of a
26 year-old lady was narrated.
The common factor that came out at the end was
the importance of observation. All paths lead to the
same goal and one must choose one's way. (NJH,
3,1/1994)
12. Homoeopathy is the art of transformation. A
crude substance is taken and energized and divided
to the extent that only its spirit shines through: this is
given to a person whose being is asking for it, and the
crude in the person is altered. Homoeopathy shows
that everything is light - existing as a wave
(information) or particle (matter) and becoming
whichever is asked of it. This is the heart of Alchemy.
Homoeopathy makes resurgence whenever the
culture prepares foraprofound change. Our remedies
are only archetypes. A girl had iritis and Uric acid was
her remedy. The remedy was written on a slip of paper
and she put this slip in her bra, and the iritis completley
cleared the same night! The slip of paper has worked for
months except when she has not worn it. This was
placebo effect. In placebo effect the person is
somehow able to activate his own healing powers.
Symptoms are a major way that our subconsicious uses
to get our attention. Cure is at various levels; some of
our patients much more than the rest - they are
transformed; real cure is only as insightful as our level
of wisdom. Curing is done by our patients. We learn to
heal by learning our tools, our remedies and also our
patients. (Extract from 'Opening Address' of David
WARKENTIN, in The Homoeopath, 52/1994)
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13. In Discussion wiih Harris COULTER by Maria
McMANUS: Harris COULTER explains as to how he
came to Homoeopathy, his views about
Pluralist/Unicist medicine in Homoeopathy, the writing
of the books 'Aids and Syphilis - The Hidden Link' and
'Vaccinations and Criminality', the reasons why in USA
the medical practitioners do not accept or even
consider the link between Aids and Syphilis "because
Syphilis and VD are a backwater of medicine... the
patients are poor and black or do not speak English'...
'It is low prestige. And there is no money in it, so when
I try and assimilate AIDS to this area of medical
practice, there is a lot of resistance... Syphilis is one of
the big failures of modern medical practice... The
medical establishment has been trying to force down
our throats that AIDS affects everyone in the whole
world... They try to make out we will all be victims of
this new plague. In fact it is not true. The people who
are getting AIDS after 15 years or so are drug addicts
and homosexuals in 95% of cases, therefore it is their
own behaviour that is creating it. No one wants to
blame the AIDS sufferer, but present them as victims.
The final reason is over-prescribing of drugs...' About
massive vaccination programme in the US Dr.
COULTER says that there is lot of money in the
vaccination programme. Three quarters of the income
of the paediatricians; come from vaccinations.
Research done in Germany in the 1980s showed that
antibiotics affect every element of the body and very
likely the suppression of the microbes is the
secondary effect that antibiotics have on the body,
rather than a direct effect on the microbe. COULTER
says that Homoeopathy is becoming mainstream in
the US and its spread is very encouraging. There has
been an enormous increase in Homoeopathic
awareness. Dr. COULTER proposed starting an office
of Alternative Medicine at the National Institute of
Health in Washington. [The Homoeopath 52,1994).
14. All India Seminar on June 4th and 5th 1994 at
IMA Auditorium, New Delhi; Kent Memorial Lectures'
94: Dr. Parimal BANERJI: Dr. BANERJI felt that there
has been no real research in Homoeopathy after
HAHNEMANN. He claims to have observed some
anamolies and fallaces in the proving methods,
recording systems of provers symptoms and building
up of our Materia Medica. Dr. BANERJI said that each
prover had a composite group of symptoms produced by
a drug; he also said that similar symptom-group in a
composition can be manifested exactly in many provers
which meant that there was similarity of reaction to a
drug by many provers. He claimed that the similarity of
a composite group of symptoms of a particular drug
produced in a prover can be matched with the
composite group of symptoms of a specific disease. Dr.
BANERJI also claimed to have discovered the energy
source of life force in every living organism which
animates it. He also said that different potencies of the
same remedy produced different actions and the
curable symptoms of each drug has been segregated
according to the constitutionally based composite
group of symptoms of the disease that can be found in
various persons. Every drug in different potencies
behaved like a different drug. (From a Report in the
QHQ, 3, 1/1994)
15. Dana ULLMAN on the "Clinton's Plan" for
health care (HT, 14, 1/1994): Proposals are generally
efforts to change how health care should be financed,
not how the type of care that is being provided should
be improved. Until these plans actively integrate
homoeopathic and various other natural therapies it is
unlikely that health care will be accessible, effective,
safe, and economically viable. One of the important
features of the Clinton plan is its emphasis on primary
care and its de-emphasis on highly specialized
medical care. It also takes forthright position in
advocating for increased use of non-medical doctor
providers of primary care, including nurse
practitioners, nurse midwives, and physician
assistants. It is difficult for homoeopaths to support the
Clinton health care plan due to lack of its specificity in
regard to homoeopathic medicine and natural health
care. However as there are enough elements within
the plan for these natural therapies, the plan can be
considered as a reasonable step toward health care
reform.
A correspondant (Dr. Mark GOREN, MD) writes in
the same issue: He is very much concerned since the
Clinton plan is (i) a complete and clever attempt to
provide allopathic care to everyone; (ii) a political
document subject to lobbying and pressure from
powerful interest groups; For non-MD practitioners,
the Clinton plan doesn't even address the legitimate
existence of Homoeopathy or alternative methods.
16. Carol BEGIN's Report on Richard
MOSKOWITZ's lectures on homoeopathic philosophy
(Summer School 1993): MOSKOWITZ first spoke on
the philosophy of the conventional Medicine. He said
that there was a series of beliefs behind the
conventional Medicine. It is based on the notion of
various disease "entities" - that these entities have
their particular clinical signs and symptoms which act
independently from the individual patients who
happen to exhibit them. The concern is to know these
"entities" and their "abnormalities" and to find ways
to "control" them. The goal of treatment is to "control"
the "abnormality" of a disease and to try to learn of its
origin or necessary conditions, in a sense to become its
master. The whole idea grew from Claude
BERNARD'S statement in the late 1800s. What
BERNARD envisioned and what modern medicine
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now routinely seeks to accomplish, is essentially to
acquire the knowledge and to devise the means to
regulate biological phenomena artificially and more or
less at will. On the next two days the speaker taught the
Organon. The speaker's multi-dimensional view of
health and healing and his love for Homoepathy
emanates from his entire being. (HT, 14,1/1994) 17.
Marsha MEEHAN reports on the Veterinary
Homoeopathy Course (Summer School 1993): The
teacher Christina CHAMBREAU's lectures and
practical information were excellent. She spoke on the
differences and similarities of using Homoeopathy for
animals and people. Repertory is gone through
section by section and in some parts page by page, for
(a) a clear picture of each section's place within the
whole; (b) tips for using the repertory more easily and
effectively; and (c) symptoms and remedy information
specific to animals (primarily cats and dogs, but also a
smattering of horses), interspersed with philosophy. The
class performs several elimination analyses and
additional case discussions. She uses a standard
repertory (for humans), Bearing in mind the occasional
differences. In addition to KENT or KUNZLI's
repertories HERING's Guiding Symptoms is useful for
animals, because it is so physically specific. The food
preference section in the Synthetic Repertory is broader.
For prescribing for animals rely more on the
"modalities" and ask about behaviour. Successful
treatment for animals occurs more quickly because
their life spans are so much shorter. But animals are
more suppressed than people, so cure is a long-term
process. Remedies are rarely antidoted in animals.
Young animals pass through some phases that may
call for remedies different than the progression for
young humans. Before the bony- growth remedies,
animals often need remedies for grief afflictions, from
whelping, weaning and going to different homes.
Then, while the stresses of bony growth are occurring,
there are also stresses due to training, household
adaptations, and vaccination.
In animals, the polychrest remedies are very often
the most useful, rather than the small remedies, even for
acute situations. The following are most frequently
called for in animals: Arseniucm, Aurum, Calcarea,
Carbo vegetablis, Hepar sulphuris, lodum,
Lycopodium, Mercurius, Nitric acid, Phosphorus,
Sepia, Silica, Staphysagria and Sulphur.
Some rubrics: for an animal that continuously
turns in circles, use the rubric "vertigo". For coughs
note the type of cough, (dry and hacking would
correlate to kennel cough). Wounds that won't heal,
Cicatrices for new scars that break open are some
important rubrics. Also an important symptom in
animals: Mouth, gums, redness, margins, bright red
(this is a red line where the gums meet the teeth) and the
following remedies should be added to the rubric:
Arsenicum, Kali phosphoricum, Lachesis, Nitric acid,
Phosphorus, Sulphur. (HT, 14,1/1994)
Full addresses of the journals covered by this
Quarterly Homoeopathic DIGEST (QHD) are given
below:
1. ACD: Archiv fur Homoopathik,
DYNAMIS-VERLAG, AM Vogelherd 18, 4200
OBERHAUSEN 11, GERMANY.
2. AHZ: Allgemeine Homoopathische Zeitung,
Karl F. Haug Verlag, 6900 HEIDELBERG 1,
GERMANY.
3. BHJ: British Homoeopathic Journal, Royal
London, Homoeopathic Hospital, Great
Ormond Street, LONDON, WC 1N 3HR, U.K.
4. CCR: Homoeopathic Clinical Case Recorder,
Dr. Subhash Meher, Phule Road, Maliwada,
AHMEDNAGAR -414 001, INDIA.
5. HH: Homoeopathic Heritage, B. Jain Publishers
(P) Ltd., 1920 Street, 10th Chuna Mandi,
Pahargnj, Post Box 5775, NEW DELHI -110 055
INDIA.
6. HLK: Forum for Homeopatisk Lakekonst
Svenska Akademin for Klasisk Homeopati,
Folkungagatan 84 (Itr), 116 22 STOCKHOLM.
7. THE HOMOEOPATH: The Journal of the
Society of Homoeopath, 2, Artizan Road,
NORTHAMPTON NN1 4HU, U.K.
8. H.T.: Homoeopathy Today, National Center for
Homoeopathy, 500, Massachusetts Avenue,
N.W. Suite 42, WASHINGTON D.C. 20005,
U.S.A.
9. IJHM: Indian Journal of Homoeopathic
Medicine, CMP Homoeopathic Medical
College, N.R. Gadkari Marg, Irla, Vile Parle
(West), BOMBAY - 400 056, INDIA.
10. JAIH: The Journal of the American Institute of
Homoeopathy, 1585, Glencoe, DENVER,
Colorado 80220, U.S.A.
11. mfH: Medicina futura Homoeopathy, 1 -2-217/7,
Gaganmahal Road, HYDERABAD - 500 029,
INDIA.
12. NEJH: New England Journal of Homoeopathy,
356, Middle Street, AMHERST, MA 01002,
U.S.A.
13. NJH: National Journal of Homoeopathy, Milan
Clinic, Saraswati Road, Santa Cruz (W),
BOMBAY - 400 054, INDIA.
14. QHQ: Quinquina Homoeopathic Quarterly, Sri
Sathya Sai Publications, Main Road,
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15. ZKH: Zeitschrift fur Klassische Homoopathie,
Karl F. Haug Verlag, 6900 HEIDELBERG 1,
GERMANY.
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PART II
1. Palladium
REIS Stefan (ACO, 2, 4/1993)
Palladium was proved by Constantine HERING in 1850 but was published in 1878 (North American Journal of
Homoeopathy, Vol. IX, 1878, Chicago).
1
A comparison of the first publication of the proving symptoms (this
publication is now in the Institute for History of Medicine, Stuttgart) with the Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia
Medica (EN) byT.F. ALLEN revealed that ALLEN'S does not give the complete material inthe first publication; besides
there are some errors. HERING's Guiding Symptoms (GS) contain errors in the names of the provers and
bibliographical errors with regard to the clinical symptoms.
In the following work the correct and complete proving symptoms as far as traceable have been given. New
Clinical symptoms which HERING could not have given, have been integrated in so far as they are relevant to the proving
symptoms verified.
A. PROVERS
1. C. HERING. Effects of trituration (5 April 1850
first day);
took at 11.30 hours a teaspoon of the dark water obtained by washing the mortar after the first trituration was made (7
April 1850, third day); a sip of the rinsed water at 9.00 hours (9 April 1850, fifth day)
2. Mrs. MARGARET C, an intelligent young lady
with clear head and calm mind, took three
drops of the fou -th potency at 6.30 hours (16
June 1850, first cay),
samedose at 5.45 hours (17 June 1850, second day),
four drops at 5.30 hours (18 June 1850, third day);
after all the symptoms had gone away, she took six globules of the fifth potency,
then the seventh on three mornings, without anything noticeaole.
(A large number of the symptoms observed by this prover and reported in the North American Journal of
Homoeopathy has not been published by T.F.ALLEN (EN), the reasons for which could not oe found)
2a. The same prover took further four drops at 6.00 hours and further dose before retiring to bed (on 12 July 1850).
3. Dr.C.G. RAUEtookadoseofthethirdtrituration
in the morning (8 April 1850, first day), the second dose on the fourth day (11 April 1850 a third dose on the
evening of the eighth day (15 April 1850).
4. Mr. OSCAR TIETZE took the third trituration at
9.30 hours, three hours after breakfast (10 April
1850)
5. Dr. PEHRSON, Philadelphia, took a drop of the
third trituration at 9.00 hours (25 April 1850).
(Testimony from this prover has been taken in
the Symptoms compilation, which however are
not to be found in the proving records; this
peculiar situation has not been explained in the
Original.)
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The provings 6 to 11 were from Dr. J.R. COXE with the third trituration on six different provers.
6. A.S.C.S. a 20 year-old woman, took a dose of
the third trituration at 22.00 hours (16 November
1850, first day),
further doses at 7.00 hours and at 22.00 hours (on 17 and 18 November 1850, second and third day),
the sixth dose at 6.00 hours (19 November 1850, fourth day), (the seventh dose on the same day evening),
the eighth powder on the morning of the fifth day (20 November 1850).
7. M.I.C. took two grains of the third trituration
daily for six days.
8. S.A.C. 10 year-old took two grains of the third
trituration daily for five days.
9. D.C. 15 year-old, took the same daily over four
days.
10. L.C.C. 13 year-old took eight grains of the third
trituration within a period of four days, without
noticing any symptom.
11. I.R.C. took a grain of the third trituration daily
for eight days.
12. Dr. C. NEIDHARD, Mrs. N., a nursing mother,
took one grain of the third trituration between
3.00 hours and 7.00 hours, two days before the
expected menses, which appeared during her
nursing period, she took on the second day a
cold bath which she had not done for a long
time.
13. Dr. GEIST.Boston. (This prover was of course
cited by HERING
3
, his name however does not
appear in the proving proceedings. T.F. ALLEN
(EN)
4
and R. HUGHES
5
have therefore
overlooked these symptoms. In the Guiding
Symptoms although the name of this prover is
not mentioned, the symptoms are
6
.
B. Cases and therapeutic observations
Only the relevant bibliographical details have been listed in the following; to give the complete cases would involve a
journal publication. However, the symptoms have been integrated in the symptoms listed below. For those interested
the individual references and complete cases will be available with the author.
References requiring discussion have been given in relevant footnotes.
Important Note: The listing of clinical symptoms which have been observed in isolated cases and singular
cases only, should not be taken unreservedly as "certain". On the contrary -they must go through further verifications, so
that they can be classified as clearly belonging to Palladium. For the same reason they have been integrated: namely, to
enable verification altogether.
- WILLIAMSON, Ovarian complaints, cured with
Pa//.C4 in one case, in another with Pall.
without indication of the potency; in: NAJ.
- C. HERING, More cases of Uterus - and
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Ovarian complaints, without indication of the
potencies; in: NAJ.
- A. LIPPE, right-sided Ovaritis, with
Leucorrhoea in a 30 year-old woman patient,
without indication of the potency used; in: NAJ.
(The remarks 'second day, third day, etc." in
the clinical symptoms reported by LIPPE refer
to the day after taking Palladium, not the
Proving but to the Curative action. Symptoms
without indication of the day comes generally
from this patient's case.)
- KIMBALL, Right-sided sciatica cured by Pall.
30 and 200; from the Homoeopathic Times
(NYJ), 1879, cited in: The Organon (ORG),
Vol.II, 1879, p. 113.
- D.S.R. Sciatica of the right leg, cured by Pall.
30 and 200; cited in: ORG, Vol.ll, 1879, p.236.
- B.H. CHENEY, Chronic Ovaritis, with ovaralgia
and Menstruation ailments, Pall. 200; in: United
States Medical Investigator (USI), 2nd Series,
Vol.V.1877, p.586-588. (In this case before the
use of Pall, come Apis, Ip. and China, and the
last two remedies exercise their influence in a
genuine and required manner)
- H.P. HOLMES, Palladium (Lecture on the
remedy with dinical experiences); in: The
Homoeopathic Physician (HPH), Vol. XVII,
Philadelphia 1897, p.27-30.
- A. VOEGELI, Enuresis, Pall. C.200; in: Warum
so krank? p.17Sf., Bochum 1980.
- O. EICHELBERGER, Warze (Warts) Pall. D.30;
in: Klassische Hombopathie: Lehre und Praxis,
case 280, p.486, 2. edn. Heidelberg 1979
- H. LEERS, Adnexitis bei einer 22 jahrigen
Patientin, Pa//.D.2OO; (Adnexitis in a 22
year-old female patient), in: Einfache
Hombopathie in Fallbeispielen, Fall 162, p.204,
Heidelberg 1990.
- P. DRANSART, Verhaltensauffalligkeiten bei
einem 13 jahrigen jungen, (Behavioral
peculiarities in a 13 year-old boy) Pa//.3O; in:
Cahiers du Groupement Hahnemannien, 26
(1989), p.352-357 cited in: Zeitschrift fur
Klassische Hombopathie ZKH, 34, (1989),
p. 179.
- In the NAJ, H.N. GUERNSEY in the first
publication gives indications from therapeutic
observations; however, no bibliographical
sources have been mentioned. The brief MM
which comes alongside also does not clarify.
- The current literature contain a case of H.V.
MULLER who however does not present new
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symptoms (see References)
Explanation of the Signs, Numbers and Abbreviations used
(GS) = Symptoms from HERING's "Guiding Symptoms", which are not found in the first publication and for which
no source could be traced. Not all the Symptoms listed in the GS could be taken down here; the choice of the
symptoms was in the first instance dependent upon whether the symptom was already confirmed.
11 = Frequently confirmed Symptoms
| = Cured Symptoms
11 = Repeatedly confirmed Symptoms
Ө - Therapeutic observations
These four signs have been adopted as in the GS and used in respect of new symptoms taken from the later new
literature.
1-13= the respective Provers.
COMPILATION OF THE REMEDY SYMPTOMS
I n the Proving as also in the Case Reports there are symptoms which besides the main ailment which sets apart the point
of entry within the symptom-range, concomitant symptoms which may have been mentioned with a different catchword.
In this respect HERING has in his "Guiding Symptoms" placed these symptoms separately as if they have occurred
separately and put them under the catchwords as such. To avoid repetition of the already large volume of work, in the
following work the symptoms are mentioned only once and under the main ailment of course.
MIND
Extraordinarily tired in evening, feels mentally gone; is |
averse to speaking a foreign language, which he
otherwise spoke fluently; it is too much of an
exertion to him, he is tired of it (4th day) 3
Time seems to him longer, whenever he looked at the
time only less time has gone by than what he had
expected (fifth day). 1
In the evening while walking in the street it seemed to \ him, as if he has become very tall; the feeling returns again; he
had not thought of Platina and the similarity to Platina struck him only later. This < symptom did not anymore arise,
whether while walking or while lying (third day). 1
11 Great inclination to weep. 9 Uterus prolapse (GS)
| They set great store on other people's opinion and consider it as very important, what others think, and therefore they
are very excitable while in company and on the next day their ailments are ^ worser. (HERING)
| Anxious apprehension as if something horrible would happen. (GS)
11 Imagined herself neglected;
11 Wounded pride. 6 H>steria (GUERNSEY)
7
]
The child was irritable (first day). 12
Bad temper in the evening (fifth day). 1
She is in an annoyed mood; felt she cannot bear anything or brook anything, without anything having occurred
before. The child is the only [ person with whom she is not impatient (second day). 6
| Everything she says or does makes her annoyed, she trembles, her facial expression is changed, even her eyes, as if
she is going crazy. (WILLIAMSON)
| Greatly inclined to use strong and violent
expressions, (first day). 1 (confirmed by
CHENEY) !
| She tries to appear aslovable as possible, but is very obstinate. (GS)
| Depressive news worsens all her symptoms (HERING)
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| Mental excitement, especially in company, also walking aggravates her complaints in the right ovary and in the
groin; she is particularly worse after a musical evening or party. (WILLIAMSON)
| Feels best in company and desires to be flattered. (GS)
| Arrogant. (CHENEY)
| Changing mental disposition: sometimes amiable and cordial so that the child constantly hugs the mother, but then
devastating rage and so aggressive that he lits her. (DRANSART)
| Fear of insects and spiders. (DRANSART)
| Cursing. (DRANSART)
Jealous of own sister. (DRANSART) Unusual carefulness regarding his dress and personal things; Desire for
orderliness. (DRANSART)
The mental symptoms guide me; when it is in agreement the remedy has accomplished much good. (LIPPE)
NTERNAL HEAD
'ery painful dullness in head, stitches go in- and out-wards in the left side of the head (after half an hour, third day). 1
Slight headache. 8
Headache in morning (sixth day). 6
Jnbearable headache, (seventh day) 6
Sequent headache, as before, within, in spots the size of an apple or a fist, or dull, crooked stitches (eighth to eleventh day).
1
Headache which makes her irritable and impatient; she feels that it would do her good if "she could knock the head
against something", but she is able to bring it under control. Disposed to be unabashed, makes face like a savage
(fourth day) 6
"he headache is better from lying down and from sleep, which indicates his neurasthenic character. Epiphegus has
the same amelioration from lying down and sleep (HOLMES) Headache only after taking coffee. (LIPPE)
Dullnes in the forehead as if a heavy weight was lying in the brain, every expiration
8
is accompanied by the sensation as if
this weight were pushed from the occiput to the forehead. (This affects more the central portion of the brain, the temples
are not affected), this state began an hour after the medicine was taken and reached its peak half an hour after, and
began to go down gradually and after three hours it was gone. 5
Slight fullness in the forehead and a sensation as if the brain would be shaken; lasted 36 hours but was not troublesome. 7
| The symptom "Sensation as if the brain was pushed from the back to the front, as if the brain was shaken", has been
verified by me on my own with the 200 potency. (HOLMES)
Dull pain in the afternoon and heavyfeeling diagonally over the forehead and over the eyes (first day). On the next morning
again heaviness over the eyes and in the forehead. 12
During and shortly after the trituration a pressure on the right forehead was felt, also on the hair borders in a finger-point
spot which lasted for half to an hour; the sensation is of cooling or slightly burning pressure and is totally new. 1
A pain moving back and forth, on the right side, between stitching and burning, disappearing from touching or when
mind is fixed on it. (first day). 3
Very marked tension in the temples (after four hours).
2a
Pain in the temples and on the top of the head, lasting some hours (four hours after). 2a
A dull pain in the temples and in the eye sockets while
walking in the open air (after one and half hours).
2a
Light fleeting pain left of vertex (after some minutes).
6
Pain the right temple and in the right arm, after a walk T in the noon (third day). 2
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Most often the pain returns to the temple and remains It
there for longer time than at any other place (third
day). 2
At mid-day meal (six hours after) pain in vertex, a s
severe pressure, which caused a numbness as g
from severe heat or cold. Between 14.00 hrs. and
15.00 hrs. the headache was worse, she must lie
down. She had a feeling as if the head were swung
back and forth, fron back to forward, not from B
one side to another. She slept an hour after the
headache was better (second day). 6
h
She has a dreamy headache, more in the upper and
back part of the head, differentfromthe headache P
which she suffered in the last few days (second
day). 6
C
Sensation of constriction in the right side of the head,
at 12.00 hrs. mid-day, at 13.00 hrs. a different pain -j
in the left side of the head, which extended to the
entire inner head (fourth day). 1
.
In the evening severe, sharp pains and neuralgia, left sided. Took Nitricum acidum without . amelioration
(seventh day). 6
Headache across over the vertex, from one ear to the other; the pain is worst in the right parietal protuberance; giddy
while lying (Pall. 20M)
9
| Headache from one ear over the vertex to the other. M.M. (It has not been mentioned who or what is indicated by this
initials)
Headache directly over and behind the top of the right
c
ear. (Pall. 20M)
10
Dullness in the occiput, lasts the whole evening
(third
day).
1
EXTERNAL HEAD
For some days two pimples on the scalp behind the left ear, which developed slowly (fifth day). 1
Feeling of roughness on the forehead and slight | itching, now and again, for two days.
8
EYES
I
A dull, heavy pain in the left eye and in the back part h of the eye orbit, after a walk, which lasted an hour; the pain was
worse in that it extended over the forehead and vertex, then disappeared; after 12 p hours, at 18.00 hrs. (first day). 2
Pain in the right eye, in the right temple and ear region, at 8.00 hrs., after a walk; after she had taken a
dose at 5.45 hrs. During the mid-day meal at 13.00
hrs. Pain in the right temple near the eye; at the
same time an unpleasant sensation in the left eye
(second day). 2 ain around the left eye, extending behind the right
eye-brow, while walking (after four hours). 2a he eyes are dry and itching, almost every evening,
rubs them but without any relief (fifth day). 1 he eye-lids feel heavy, afternoon (first day). 12 he edges of the eye-lids feel
dry (fourth and fifth day).
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1 ching of the lids, must be rubbed, more the left than
the right side (first day). 4
OSE
light cold (third day). 1 urning in the nose, as from horseradish, followed by
watery secretion, evening (third day). 1
ACE
urning pain in a small spot on the right cheek bone
compelling rubbing; after 15 minutes. 13 le thought, there was a marked slowness of the
growth of the beard (sixth day). 1 ain in the back part of the left lower jaw near the
articulation; in the first 25 minutes. 13 Jonstricting pain in the left articulation of Jaw, with
slight pain in the epigastrium; in the first hours. 13 he right corner of mouth pains as if sore (fourth day).
1 Facial color pallid, blue semi-circle under the eyes.
8 Ovarian complaints
(LIPPE) 1OUTH, TONGUE AND TEETH
i burning sensation on the tongue surface near tip,
also in the left ear in different spots in face, in the
first 30 minutes. 13 lince some days, and particularly today perceptible,
a sensation as if the second left upper incisor was
elongated and a feeling as if this is a dull foreign
body, (seventh day). 1 iensation as if the upper incisors were elongated and
projecting and interfering in an unpleasant
manner with the lower lip, while touching it; lasted
24 hours. 5 fluch tough mucus in mouth, and a slimy taste which
recurs again after thoroughly rinsing the mouth
(second day). 5
Accumulation of mucus in throat and mouth.
(CHENEY)
NTERNAL THROAT
He frequently hawks up small solid mucous lumps, which he is obliged to swallow (eighth to twelfth day). 1
Peculiar pain in throat while swallowing as if something was hanging near the hyoid bone, as if bread-crumb
had lodged there; the pain
disappears for some minutes, then suddenly returns, while the throat muscle was in a
passive state, an unpleasant, tickling sensation as awn has lodged in throat (first day). 4
Dryness of throat and the tongue; the tongue appears red in the middle; no thirst in the morning (fifth day). 1
Slight throat pains, (after Pall. 20M)
11
Egg-white like mucus from the throat.
12
STOMACH
Complaints of dyspepsia after food. (LIPPE)
No longer any desire for beer (eighth to twelfth day).
Tasteless eructations some number of times between 10.00 hrs. and 11.00 hrs. (after half an hour). 4
Few eructations, the last one leaving an acid taste in mouth (immediately after taking the medicine). 5
| Acid eructations with spasmodic pains in chest, back and abdomen, at 18.00 hrs. (fifth day). (LIPPE)
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| Acid eructations, pain and soreness in abdomen with downward pressure, at 19.00 hrs. (eighth day). (LIPPE)
| Vomiting of undigested food, evening (eighth day). (LIPPE)
Severe pain, as if poking with the end of a stick, in the right side two or three inches to the right of the epigastrium where
the eighth and the ninth ribs jointhesternum; then pressing pain underthe ribs left side (third day) 1
Pressing pain in epigastrium; in the first 30 minutes. 13
| Nausea in the evening (fourth day). (LIPPE)
ABDOMEN
Pain and soreness in the liver (seventh day). 6
| Flatulence. (CHENEY)
Stitches in the abdomen (second day). 4
Abdomen pain before rising in the morning, then pain in the right temple (third day). 2
Pain in abdomen particulalry in the region of the spleen (third day). 6
Soon after rising, between 6 and 7 o'clock, violent, sharp, cutting in the lower part of the abdomen; never had such pains
before. It was so bad that she could not carry the child, disappeared after passing stool. Two light attacks after the
breakfast, with urging for stool; however only air was passed, no stool (seventh day). 6
(The Prover) was afflicted sometimes with tapeworms. Palladium appeared to be having a particular action on that.
Sensation as if the abdomen became enlarged, very soon (after taking the medicine).
Some stitches in the left side in the region of the hip bones, but more internal; in the intervals a peculiar pain, as if air
bubbles were pressed upward through the intestines forcibly. The stitches and the peculiar sensation in the
intestines recur again and extends to the right side. After 11 o'clock a transient pain in the lower intestines, on the right
side, as if the testicles would be crushed. About an hour later, after a meal, the above mentioned stitching pains
appear again, but lasted only for a short time. It recurs few times more, first on the left side, then with lesser pain on the
right side. Often only single stitches, or better, as if bites, an animal is snapping and tearing off bits from the inside.
Swelling and distension of the abdomen.
Sensation as if the intestines are strangulated and twisted in different directions, more in the upper part than in the lower.
Frequent flatus discharged.
Painful stitches in the left side, like cutting, more right than left, more or less unendurable, lasts some minutes; these recur
after a brief pause again and lasts longer then (first day).
Stitches in abdomen.
Copious urination (second day)
Unpleasant sensation in the region of groins, painful from pressure.
Sensation as if the intestines were not any more in the abdomen
15
(third day).
The prover did not have tape-worm symptoms after this for longer than an year. 4
Pain in the left groin with every step (seventh day). 3
| Swelling, induration and pain in lower abdomen, right side. Sensation as if struck and sometimes from umbilicus to
pelvis shooting pains. (LIPPE)
| The entire right side of the lower abdomen is very painful from touch. (LIPPE)
| Soreness in abdomen and downwards pressure. Ovarian ailments. (LIPPE)
| Swelling and induration of the lower abdominal region, right side. Ovarian pains. (LIPPE)
| Severe pains in the morning on rising in the right side of abdomen which is much distended; lasts upto 17.00 hours (second
day). (LIPPE)
| Cramping, colicky pains in right lower abdomen with constant eructations; she could hold it on if she quietly lies on her
right side. Sneezing, cough and urination worsens the pains very much; at 17.00 hrs (second day). (LIPPE)
| Colic at 15.00 hrs., lying quietly on the right ameliorates (third day). (LIPPE)
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| Severe pains in the abdomen and cramps in the lower legs after going to bed; it was impossible to turn in the bed; this
lasted for over an hour and was worser than at any time before; better from hot, wet cloth (fourth day). (LIPPE)
I In the right groin a feeling of inner soreness; she must
keep the thigh drawn up, otherwise it felt as
something torn. (WILLIAMSON) | Soreness in the abdomen, particularly in the right
side; pain shoots from the right groin downwards
in the right thigh. (CHENEY) | Sensation of a heavy weight and pressure deep in
pelvis. (LIPPE)
| Pain in the liver and in the spleen. (CHENEY) RECTUM AND ANUS Frequent small quantity of odorless flatus (third
day).
1 Frequent, unusually small and short flatus discharged
(sixth day). 1 By the approach of a stool dull stitches or dull, painful
twitches in the left side of the rectum. The dull
stitches recur in the evening (tenth day). 3 Pain in the rectum from stool retained, without urge;
the pain increased upto 13.00 hrs. shortly before
the lunch as a soft stool was passed and the pain
disappeared (third day). 1 After stool with much pressing, sensation of fullness
in the anus, evening (fifth day). 1 | Constipation (CHENEY) STOOL Was rather constipated for an year, now the
stools
were soft and remained so upto after the proving,
after which again constipation came on as before.
7 First a hard, then a pappy, thin stool, with anal
prolapse, at 22.00 hrs. (first day). 1 Slight urge for stool, as if a diarrhoea would set in,
while going on the road, towards the evening
(third day). 1 Thin stool, with rapid and heavy urge, as if diarrhoea
would set in (fourth day). 1 Since the beginning of the proving all the stools came
on, except on the fourth day, in the afternoon or
evening (fifth day). 1 Frequent stools, after which a slight colic follows (first
day). 12 Stool often and soft. Stops two days after the end (of
the proving). 9 Diarrhoea with very little pain, day and night; cured by
China. No daily stool anymore, but every second day (eighth
day). 3
| Obstipation, stools often whitish (LIPPE) | Constipation from cold feet. Adnexitis. (LEERS) URINARY ORGANS
Pressing pain in the region of the left kidney, as if the urine has been retained for long; worse from sitting; pressure
does not aggravate, but feels better much more, although subsequently it would be worser.
Pain the bladder.
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Pain in the kidneys towards evening very markedly
(fourth day). While sitting it was also somewhat painful in the left
kidney (fifth day). 3 Pressing in the bladder as if it was full of urine (first
day). 4 Stitches through the bladder and painful weakness
(tenth day). 3 Stitches through the urethra to the glans (first day). 4
Increased urge for urine, he voids more, but not frequently, evenings (third day). 1
Frequent urination; the bladder feels full, but actually only small quantity will be voided (thirteenth day). 3
Frequent urination during the day; frequent urging for urination and scanty (first day). The urge and scanty urination
remained long (third day). 4
| Frequent urination with stitching in the urethra. (CHENEY)
| Urine dark, with a sediment which appears like red sand or the chamber pot is stained red. (LIPPE)
| Urine cloudy, but not dark (second day). (LIPPE)
| The urine appears as if blood and water (third day) (LIPPE)
| Milky sediment in the urine (fifth day, eighth day). (LIPPE)
| Urine cloudy, with a milky sediment (tenth day). (LIPPE)
| Bed-wetting (in children). (VOEGELI)
SEXUAL ORGANS - MALE
Erections every morning, but nothing in the evening and in the night, not even with stimulation (eighth to the eleventh day).
1
SEXUAL ORGANS - FEMALE
| Throughout the day an unpleasant sensation in the genitals (fourth day). (LIPPE)
Pain in uterus and in the region of bladder, in the evening after exertion (fifth day). 6
In the evening while she was in the church had to rush suddenly to the house as menses appeared as it occured frequently
after exertion; it was the seventh day since the beginning of the menses, and since 36 hours it was not anymore. The
appearence of the menstrual bleeding could be ascribed to the medicine because it was of a different character than the
usual which appeared after exertion, it apeared more as pure blood (second day). Menses continued although not
copious and watery (fourth day). 6
The proving began a day after the menses stopped, the next menses came some days earlier. 2
The menses came without the usual pain (thirteenth day).
The subsequent menstruations came promptly and were painless (curative action) (LIPPE)
The menstruation appeared late, by full moon instead of new moon, it was accompanied by headache and other
symptoms, which were relieved with Glonoinum and Belladonna. (HERING)
11 Acts preferably on the right ovary.
| Swelling and hardening of the right ovary, with soreness and tearing pain from navel to pelvis. (LIPPE)
| The right ovary is swollen, sore when pressed, with downward- pressing pains. Ovaritis. (GUERNSEY)
| In the right ovarian region, a drawing down and forward, better rubbing (in two cases). (WILLIAMSON)
| Tormenting pain in the right ovary with downward drawing. The pain is more or less constant, particularly worse
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however, before, during and after the menstruation. It is aggravated from standing and from motion; somewhat
better from rubbing and warmtn as also from lying down. It is accompanied by a feeling of downwards pressure, as
from a weight in the pelvis or as from a prolapsed uterus (CHENEY)
| Pains in both ovaries, worse in the morning and evening in bed and from walking fast. The pains were wandering and
were accompanied by a sensation of swelling. During the periods the pains were worser. It was better lying on the
abdomen. The pains radiatetothe hips. Adnexitis; sonographically confirmed strong thickening of the right ovary.
(LEERS)
| Downwards pressing. (HERING and others)
| Weakness and pain with sensation of sinking in the region of the lower abdomen, all movements were painful, she could
not at all stand or walk. (HERING)
| Symptoms of uterus sagging, with weepy disposition. (HERING)
| Sore sensation in the abdomen after menses, with fear and anxious apprehension that something terrible would happen.
(GS)
| Thin, yellow leucorrhoea, became (after Pall.CA), whiter and thicker, then disappeared. (WILLIAMSON)
| Transparent, jelly-like leucorrhoea, worse before and after the menses. (LIPPE)
| Egg-white like leucorrhoea. (CHENEY)
Egg-white like Leucorrhoea, before and during the menses.
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| Profuse yellowy-milky leucorrhoea. (LEERS)
In a nursing woman, who almost regularly again menstruates, the menses did not appear during the proving. 12
| Every month the menstruation appeared during lactation. The cycle ran to five weeks once, and the next time three
weeks, regularly alternating in this manner. The menstruation which came in the five weeks cycle manifests as
menorrhagia, copious and prolonged bleeding; the period that came in three weeks was normal. (CHENEY)
(Pall.) is indicated in the gynaecological ailments, in which the disease begins in the right overy and uterus prolapsed and
retroversion, sub-acute peritonitis of the pelvis and the accompanying symptoms are secondary. (Dr. AGUILAR)
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1. North American Journal of Homoeopathy (NAJ), New Series, Vol. IX, S.129-169, Chicago -1878.
2. C. HERING, Amerikanische Anzneipriifungen, Erster Theil, Leipzig und Heidelberg, 1857, S. XI.
3. NAJ. P. 148
4. T.F. ALLEN, Encyclopaedia of pure Materia Medica, Vol. X. p.610-616, Reprint, New Delhi, 1988.
5. R. HUGHES, A Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy, Vol. Ill, p.543- 545, Reprint, New Delhi, 1988.
6. GS VII, p.247-263.
7. Compare H.N. GUERNSEY, The application of the principles and practice of Homoeopathy to Obstetrics,
Reprint New Delhi, 1988, p. 161.
8. Original : expiration. In ALLEN (EN) it is wrongly given as "experiment" instead of "expiration".
9. HPH, Vol. XIII, Philadelphia 1893, p.297. In the Kent Repertory Palladium is the only remedy in the
relevant rubric, however Nitricumacidum should be compared here for similar symptom:
"sensation, as if head is clamped by a vice from one ear to the other over the vertex." (EN VII. 13)
10. HPH. Vol. XII, Philadelphia 1892, p.60.
11. HPH, Vol. XIII, Philadelphia 1893, p.435
12. Cyrus Maxwell BOGER, A Synoptic Key to the Materia Medica, Reprint New Delhi 1988, p.269
13. Original: "No longer any desire for beer." Taken exactly it would mean that there was a desire for beer
earlier. In this sense
the symptom is to be understood only as a curative symptom, in which the appropriate Palladium-
symptom must be "Desire for
beer". A lack of desire (consequently the absence of a pathologic sign) is not the same with an Aversion.
This same mistake occurs in T.F. ALLEN'S ("Encyclopaedia" has it as "Aversion") and J.T.
KENT'S Repertory has it against the rubric "aversion for beer" and not under "Desire for beer"
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14. an inch = 25.4 mm.
15. This symptom clearly presents an example of the sometimes distortion of the entry in the Repertory. The
publisher of the Synthetic Repertory, for example, has taken the rubric "Delusions,
whole body is hollow": pall, (with the source indicated as EN, ALLEN) Among the Symptoms quoted
from ALLEN there is no other symptom further which in the least shows any connection with this. That
the inclusion in the SR is erroneous is clear from comparison.
16. CM. BOGER, A synoptic Key to the Materia Medica. Reprint, New Delhi 1988, p.269.
17. Cited from W. BOERICKE, Handbuch der homdopathischen Materia Medica, Heidelberg 1992, p.583.
BOOK SHELF (Reviews of books recently published)
1. A Proving of Aegle Marmelos (incorporating
Clinically Verified Symptoms) Central Council
for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India,
D-Block Institutional Area, Janakpuri, New
Delhi-110 058. pp.45, Rs.15/-.
The Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, New Delhi have published Monographs on
Ab/oma Augusta Folia, Kali muriaticum, Cassia sophera, Cynodon dactylon and Aegle folia. This Monograph is the
6th in the series.
Aegle marmelos is a tree indigenous to India. The leaves of the tree are used for worship of Shiva. It is also valued in
indigenous medicine.
Fresh pulp of the fruit has been used in this proving. The remedy was obtained from Hahnemann Publishing Co.,
Calcutta in the 6, 30 and 200 potencies, and mother tincture was prepared by the Central Drug Proving-cum-Data
Processing Cell (CDPC)oftheCCRH.
Double-blind method was followed during the entire course of the Proving. One-third of the provers were given
placebo (control group). At the end of the proving data was sifted and compiled. As far as possible the expression used
by the prover (ipsissima verba) has been retained. The symptoms have been arranged a la KENT Repertory. The
symptoms clinically verified have been compiled and reported in this monograph.
2. A Proving of Aegle folia (incorporating
Clinically Verified Symptoms) Central Council
of Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India,
D-Block Institutional Area, Janakpuri, New
Delhi -110 058. pp.39. Rs.15/-
Aegle folia is the leaves of the tree Aegle marmelos (Linn). Dr. Pramada Prasanna BISWAS of Calcutta had made a
short proving of this and it has been included in the Drugs of Hindoosthan by Dr. S.C. GHOSE.
Proving methods have been as stated above in the case of Aegle marmelos.
While there are many common symptoms between the fruit and the leaves, there are also distinguishing
symptoms as among them.
It is very important that these remedies which are indigenous are used in the clinic and the results reported to the
CCRH.
Both the monographs deserve to be carefully read and tested at least in the homoeopathic colleges in India wherein it
is possible to make systematic studies.
Printing, paper etc. good.
3. Chapter Eye and Vision - Additions from
BOERICKE's Repertory, Central Council for
Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), New Delhi,
pp.66, Rs.20/-
The CCRH has been systematically reviewing the KENT Repertory for revision in relation to other sources and
suggesting additions particularly with reference to Oscar BOERICKE's Repertory. So far the Chapters Teeth, Mouth
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have been done and published. Now the Chapters Eye and Vision has been published.
Whereas in the earlier two works on Mouth and Teeth the KENT Repertory has been kept as the basic in this work on
Eye and Vision, the KUNZLI's Repertorium Generale (which is KENT plus additions from many sources). For this
purpose besides the sources cited in the KUNZLI few other sources have been added, viz. TF ALLEN (Handbook of
Materia Medica), FARRINGTON EA (Clinical Materia Medica), NORTON AB (Ophthalmic Diseases), GHOSE SC
(Drugs of Hindoosthan) and the CCRH's own. All these surely enhance the value of this book-let.
This work is richer with additional rubrics not found even in the Synthesis of Frederick SCHROYENS, for
example: Neuralgia, Cellulitis, Edema of retina, etc. Similarly remedies not included in the Synthesis have been included
in this work.
The book-let will surely be of great use in day-to-day practice.
4. New Comprehensive Homoeopathic Materia
Medica of Mind by H.L. CHITKARA, B. Jain
Publishers Pvt. Ltd., Delhi. Second Edition
1995. pp.692. Rs.200/-
The First Edition was reviewed in the QHD, Vol. XI, No.3&4/1994. That a second edition has been called for so soon
signifies the reception this work has from the Profession.
As mentioned in the earlier review the book is of great relevance and use for the practitioner. Printing, paper, get-
up, very good.
An important revision in this work is that the rubric 'Ailments from embarrassment' as in the Synthetic Repertory
has been corrected to read as 'Embarrassed after ailments'. This 'correction' does not seem to be right as may be seen from
verifying the source, e.g. KENT on Gelsemium says "Complaints from fear, from embarrassment..." and CLARKE on
Kali bromatrum "worry. Business losses and embarassments" as causation.
Under Tabacum we find an addition 'Anger waking, on'. This symptom belongs to Tuberculinum and a few other
remedies, but not in Tabacum. Obviously the obbreviation Tub. in phatak's repertory under the above rubric has been read
as Tab. and the symptom put under Tabacum.
We find a new 'mental' symptoms ' smooth" under three remedies, viz. Alumina, Phosphorus and Terebenum addition
from Phatak's repertory. The rubric "smooth" in Phatak is not a mental symptom the above remedies have 'smooth
tongue' 'teeth as if smooth' etc. Whereas Phatak has given Tereblnthina under 'Smooth', it has been added under Terebenum
in the present work.
K.S. SRINIVASAN
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PART I - CURRENT LITERATURE LISTING
I. PHILOSOPHY
1. Can there be a rational basis for the
classification of doses into large, small, minute
etc. in the case of well-potentised
homoeopathic drugs?
RAVINDRAN T.G. (QHQ.3,2 & 3/1994) The subject
discussed will be evident from the title of the article. The
author has quoted profusely from the Organon. He has
also pointed out that there is some difference between what
HAHNEMANN has said and KENT'S. The article is
rather confusing.
2. From the Heart
GHEGAS Vassilis (NEJH, 3, 2/1994)
This is the condensation of the beginning of the
Vassilis GHEGAS Seminar, part of the Level 3 Course of
the New England School of Homoeopathy. Vassilis is
unique in never repeating material he has covered in past
seminars. This Seminar focussed on how one goes about
the identifying of cases where we do not prescribe on the
totality of symptoms, where we focus only on the major
themes of the disorder. To do this we must get away from
the simplistic view of taking every symptom as equal,
and instead emphasize the patient within the context of
their whole life. To help us along in this transition,
Vassilis's opening remarks opened our eyes to the
potential of what we are doing when we prescribe these
remedies. From there, the rest of the Seminar was a
mixture of down home therapeutics, with remedies for
earaches and bladder infections on the one hand and very
philosophically complex discussions on the other. The
Editor sums up the Abstract of the article: I just finished
reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen HAWKING,
a book that goes into great detail in physics trying to
explain to the public the structure of the universe. Aside
from some different terminology the explanation is
extremely similar to the remarks that follow.
Guidelines to Practising Homoeopathy:
1. Our unique goal is to give thereapy to sick
patients. This therapy comes from the love of
humanity.
2. We must believe in this, Homoeopathy, as our
mission in our early life
3. We have to be spiritually alert, and to
continuously seek the truth in our therapeutic art.
4. We must be able to distinguish this truth so it will be
parallel to the universal truth. Love is the way. We
must not practice for our spiritual ambition, but
rather for the love of our patients.
5. We must be disappointed by the
materialistic (allopathic) therapy and not mix
Homoeopathy with Allopathy.
6. Within ourselves, we must overcome the
subconscious vibrations from technological
achievements. We must not be enslaved by them. We
should not try to impose our opinion through them.
Let the smile of your patient prove that our therapy is
successful.
7. We should not care about what is currently
accepted as the standard medical therapeutic art, but
must courageously practise our unique therapeutic
art, Homoeopathy.
8. We should be humble and unselfish. We
should strongly believe we are not the therapists, but
we are a tool of the omniscient creator, who uses us,
at the right moment, to offer positivity in a situation
where negativity has no further reason to exist.
9. We must be unprejudiced. We should be
present during the interview. This interview time must
be a kind of presence, with love for humanity.
10. We should know very well the means with which
the creator himself has given positivity to replace
negativity i.e., we must know our remedies.
3. Homoeopathy and Morphic Resonance
Van GALEN E. (BHJ, 83, 2/1994)
The author discusses Rupert SHELDRAKE'S theory of
'morphic resonance'and its possible contribution to
establishing Homoeopathy in a scientific frame.
SHELDRAKE'S theory is that evolutionary forming
and learning bring about a collective kind of memory
which may manifest infuture generations. This kind of
memory transforms itself into a morphogenetic energetic
unit which exists outside the species and which may
influence the form of future processes, and this is called
'morphogenetic field'. SHELDRAKE says that the idea of a
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process whereby the forms of previous systems
influence the morphogenesis of subsequent similar
systems is difficult to express in terms of existing
concepts. The only way to proceed is by means of analogy
and the physical analogy which seems most appropriate
is that of resonance. Morphic resonance takes place
through morphogenetic fields and indeed gives rise to their
characteristic structures. Not only does a specific
morphogenetic field influence the form of a system but also
the form of this system influences the morphogenetic
field and through it becomes present to subsequent
similar systems. SHELDRAKE'S hypotheses on
'formative causation' and 'morphic resonance'have been
verified by psychological experiments.
The theoretical background of SHELDRAKE'S may
also be relevant to forming hypotheses on a yet unknown
physical principle, which are to explain the working of
homoeopathic potencies.
4. Psychiatry and Homoeopathy - Basis for a
Dialogue
DAVIDSON Jonathan (BHJ.83, 2/1994) A comparison is
nade between Psychiatry and Homoeopathy, with
reference to five homoeopathic principles. Therapeutic
principle, Self-healing principle, Microdose effect,
Sequencing of symptoms and Diagnostic process. All
these have been incorporated into contemporary
psychiatry. Recent neurological research provides a
measure of validation of these age-old teachings.
The following 'testable' questions are proposed:
- Does Homoeopathy produce health or remove
disease?
- Does Homoeopathy produce cure?
- What is the effect of combined homoeopathic
and allopathic treatment?
The author also speaks of the 'compelling need to
undertake double blind clinical trials which evaluate
Homoeopathy', Homoeopathy as preventive
treatment. Further he feels that a new round of provings
is needed to which psychiatric insights can be applied.
5. Mind your matter.
RASOOL Jazz (The Homoeopath, 53/1994) This article,
the first of two investigating the physical nature of the
Vital Force, the healing agent of Homoeopathy, will
discuss the background of the theory in which
conventional science describes an equivalent, Quantum
Supergravity. It looks into Quantum Physics and uses it to
investigate the nature of bizarre predictions physicists say
it makes for the behaviour of matter and mind.
The author teaches Physics at the London College of
Classical Homoeopathy and is a researcher at Birkbeck
College, University of London.
II MATERIA MEDICA
1.
Ginkgo biloba
GHOSH Jyoti (AHJ, 4, 1/1994)
Gingkgo biloba was proved in 1933 BY E.A.
MAURY, first in the mother tincture on seven provers (5
men and 2 women) and then in 6 potency (Korsakoff)
on two males. The following important symptoms were
obtained in these provings:
- Irrational fears, with rapid speech
- Suppressed anger, critical nature
- Heaviness in the frontal region of the head
- Pain above the left orbital nerve
- Vertigo
- Buzzing in the ears
- Excessive sweating on the nape of the neck
- Pallor, general weakness with shivering
- Colic followed by diarrhoea-like stools
- Sensation of heat in the digestive tract
- Parotid congestion
- Laryngeal irritation with cough
- Sensation of impaired vision
- Oliguria
- Weak legs (legs feel like jelly)
- Cold feet
LEESER and VOISIN in another proving stated the
following symptoms as being frequently noticed:
- Paraesthesias: pricking, tickling, and tingling
of the fingers, forearms, shoulders and face
- Cold extremities
- Pallor
- Auditory dysfunction
- Nausea and vomiting
- Tendency toward capillary haemorrhage
- Itching
- Tendency toward right-sided cardiac
insufficiency
- Blood coagulation dysfuntion
- Muscular weakness and debility
2. Ferrurn magneticum
REIS Stefan (ACD, 3, 2&3/1994)
Ferrum magneticum was introduced into the
homoeopathic Materia Medica by Carl G. CASPARI
(1798-1828). The results of his provings of the Magnet stone
(Lapus magneticus) was published in the third volume of
his work "Bibliothek fur die hombopathische
Medizin und Materia Medica". Thereare two reasons for
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republication of this proving:
I. This was not republished after its first publication and
therefore not accessible. G.H.G.JAHR has of course
published it in condensed form in his "Ausfiihrlicher
Symptomen-kodex der hombopathischen
Arzneimittellehre, Erster Teil, Erster Band". In this
many important symptoms have been left out and there
were errors too. For example, the modality "worse from
descending stairs" wrongly put as "worse from ascending
stairs". T.F. ALLEN has also in his Encyclopaedia taken
the symptoms from JAHR's Manual of Homoeopathic
Medicine translated by HERING (Allentown, 1836, Part
I.) and therefore whatever errors were there in the JAHR
entered into the Encyclopaedia. Ferrum magneticum is not
dealt with thoroughly in other works and there are also
only very few cases published.
ii. By publishing this the mineral magnet and its
employment in Homoeopathy is portrayed.
A deficiency in the CASPARI proving is that neither
the number of provers nor their sex have been mentioned,
also the size of the dose. 3. Klapperschlangen (Rattle
snakes)
MULLER Karl-Josef (ACD.3. 2/1994)
Three kinds ol rattlesnakes have been introduced
into Homoeopathy:
- Crotalus horridus, the most often known kind
of rattlesnake, mainly living in North America.
- Crotalus cascavella which is seen in South
America. Now it is known as Crotalus terrificus
terrificus.
- Crotalus durissus, which is spread in Florida,
Central- and South America. Its full name is
Crotalus durissus terrificus.
The author points out the errors in the different
Materia Medicas in identifying the rattlesnakes. The
medicine procured from the DHU indicated that
Crotalus cascavella was same as Crotalus durissus
terrificus. MEZGER in his Materia Medica gives
Crotalus horridus (^Crotalus cascavella). CLARKE also
has confused. The repertory Synthesis also identifies
Crotalus durissus with Crotalus horridus!
Two case reports have been given to point out that
the three snakes and their venoms produce and cure
symptoms peculiar to them.
4. Remedies and their Characteristic Symptoms
in Prostate Gland Problems
GHEGAS Vassilis (NEJH, 3, 2/1994)
This article is an excerpt from the book of Vassilis
GHEGAS, M.D.
The learned author gives the differentials of the
remedies that have specific action on the Prostate gland;
in hierarchial order these remedies are:
Conium maculatum, Clematis erecta, Selenium,
Digitalis purpurea, Chimaphila umbellata, Baryta
carbonica, Pulsatilla nigricans, Thuja occidentalis, '
Sepia, Zincum metallicum, Staphysagria, Causticum,
Nitricum acidum, Sabal serrulata, Cannabis sativa, Prunus
spinosa.
5. A Comparative Study of Remedies with
offensive Discharges
BANERJEE U.S. (IJHM, 29, 2/1994)
Comparisons of Arsenicum album and Pyrogen - their
similarities and differences - are brought out in this article.
This is followed by three 'illustrative cases' of
Arsenicum album, Pyrogen and Carbo vegetabilis, by Dr.
N.V. MEHTA and Dr. Gokul GANDHI.
6. Les pathogenesis hahnemanniennen oubilees
(The Forgotten Hahnemannian
Pathogeneses)
BAURJ. (CGH, 1/1994)
In this article Dr. BAUR mentions the medicines
proved by HAHNEMANN and his collaborators but
which are not found either in the Materia Medica Pura
and/or the Chronic Diseases. These are found in the
different works: (See detailed article in Part II of this
QHD.)
7. Remedy Masquerade: Caladium
THOMPSON Michael (The Homoeopath, 53,
1994)
In each issue of The Homoeopath, the salient features
of a remedy which looks like another remedy but the
'masquerade'could be seen through from the finer
characteristics of the remedy, is potrayed. In this article the
remedy Caladium which may look like Lycopodium, is
studied in the light of the distinguishing symptoms in
the Complete Repertory. Sexual Desire:
Erections, incomplete, painful. Impotence.
Tobacco agg. Amorous. Lascivious. Lust. Violent
desire. Ejaculation, premature. Skin & Asthma:
Alternating. Suppression. Concomitant.
Urticaria. Tobacco, Smoking:
Forgetful, and restless from
Desires, and Agg.
Modifies the desire for.
Headache from smoking, forehead, pressing.
Eye pain from, pressing. Noise:
Anger, fear, waking from slightest noise. Fish:
Fish agg. especially pickled fish. Causes
irritability. Injuries:
Eye injuries.
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Itching after mosquito bites.
Bites of dogs, mosquitoes, poisonous animals, snakes.
Sweat:
Sweetish. Attracts flies.
Here are a few unique symptoms to muse on:
ANXIETY; shaving, while
COURAGEOUS; foolish
DREAMS; events; long past, forgotten; after
awaking falls to sleep again and continues same dream
DREAMS; people, of, seen for years, not; twenty years
FEAR; cutting himself when shaving
FEAR; shadows, of; his own
FORGETFUL; sleep, during, he remembers all he had
forgotten 8. Angustura vera - in the shadow of a
polychrest
WARD Andrew (The Homoeopath, 53, 1994)
The close similarity between Nux vomica and
Angustura vera makes us overlook the latter remedy often.
Two case reports are presented to highlightthis.
The summary of confirmatory symptoms of
Angustura:
- Timidity of character
- Lack of self-confidence and self-worth
- Oversensitive
- Slightest offense irritates.
- Irritated at trifles
- Sensitive to noise
- Embitterment
- Cowardice -i.e. courage in self and also in a
squeamish sense in facing operations, the
sight of blood and needles
- + + + + Coffee (a desire for real and strong
coffee)
- + + savoury food/ spices
- meat especially oork
- Lack of vital hea;
- Restles sleep and unrefreshed in mornings
- h/o injury and falls
- Peculiar bitter taste especially after smoking
tobacco
- Caries of teeth i.e. many fillings/poor teeth
- Stomach/bowel pain agg. after milk especially
warm (only 7 other remedies)
- Diarrhoea, night and day, with crampy colic
and nausea in mornings
- Rheumatoid/arthritic Joint pains especially
fingers, agg. when moved
- Cracking of joints
- Numbness and tingling in lower limbs severe
agg. when crossed
- Heaviness of extremities - especially thighs
- Hip joint disease
- Stiffness and inflammation of joints
- weakness of lower limbs
- Back stiffness and pain
- Pain in sacral region amel. walking around
Angustura will often look like Nux vomica - they are
very closely related. Also compare Bryonia, Ruta, Rhus
toxicodendron, Lycopodium.
Antidote: Coffee
9. Datura stramonium L
BHARATAN Vilma (The Homoeopath, 53,
1994)
This is a brief study of Stramonium and its
hallucinogenic symptoms. 1 o. Nicotinamide Adenine
Dinucleotide (NAD)
- A Proving.
RILEY David S. (JAIH. 87, 2/1994)
Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD) is a
pyridine dinucleotide that serves as a coenzyme for a variety
of oxidation/reductions. NAD was first isolated in 1935 by
Dr. WARBURG from the red blood cells of a horse.
12C potency was used for the proving; 17 provers
(11 women and 6 men) took part in the proving. The
results are given in the schematic form;
Mind
Difficulty concentrating. Sudden prostration of the
mind accompanied by weakness of the memory;
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particularly for dates and places. Mental irritability.
Delusions that the world is artificial or made of man-made
objects. Heightened mental sensitivity, particularly for
noises. Head Tingling of the head. PAIN, in the
temples. Pain, worse on the left side. Pain extending to the
jaw. A fleeting sensation of pain, heat or hotness of the
head.
Ears
SHARP, STABBING PAIN IN THE EAR, at
random moments throughout the day or night. Ear pain
worse on the left side.
Nose
Coryza (Clear and not irritating) occurring
throughout the day, but worse in the evening. Face
Tingling in the lower jaw and chin. Tingling
extending from the right lower jaw to the chin.
Mouth
Small painless bumps all over the tongue, but worse
on the left side.
Throat
PAINFUL, SORE THROAT. Throat pain worse on the
right side. Throat pain is worse from swallowing.
Stomach
NAUSEA, sometimes strong, sometimes mild. Loss
of appetite. Loss of desire for foods that she used to crave.
Desire for alcohol.
Abdomen
ABDOMINAL PAIN. Gas pains, usually worse
during the night after going to bed. Sharp, intermittent,
fleeting pains in the abdomen.
Rectum/Stool
Constipation with ineffectual urging and
straining. Stool comes out hard and size of marbles. Loose
stools accompanied byflatus. Flatus increased. Female
Increased sexuai desire. Intermittent vaginal
itching, sometimes worse in the morning and
sometimes worse at night.
Bladder
Decreased frequency of urination.
Chest
Sharp pains in the left ribs. Chest pains that is
worse on inspiration. Sensation as if there was
something bubbling inside the chest (that she later
realized was her heart).
Back
Stiffness. Extremities
Cramping pain in the thighs on both sides. Pain in the
upper limbs, particularly in the left shoulder.
Sleep
Deep heavy sleep. Slept through her normal waking
hour (Which she had not done in years). Restless sleep,
tossing and turning. Dreams of bizarre and unusual things,
sexual dreams, anxious dreams.
Generalities
Aggravated by hot, humid weather.
Repertory Rubrics have been drawn from the above
Materia Medica. It now remains for the Profession to
verify the symptoms. The remedy for the proving was
prepared by Simile GmbH. 11. Baptisia tinctoria -
Wild Indigo
WOOD Matthew (HT, 14, 4/1994)
Baptisia - Wild Indigo - was adopted from the Native
Americans by the pioneer "root doctors" and its earliest
uses were as a remedy for infected and gangrenous
wounds. It is easy to see how the application arose: the
leaves and pods, upon injury or maturity, immediately
change from a lively green to a dark black. The injured
leaf looks necrotic. By extension, Baptisia came into use
as a remedy for low-grade, septic fever, where there
were deteriorating materials in the blood and putrid
discharges. The homoeopathic provings in 1857
validated the traditional uses and enriched the
symptomatology. Allopathic doctors undertook
research which proved that the plant possessed an
ingredient which was toxic to the typhoid bacteria. All
these schools utilised the remedy on essentially the same
indications. Baptisia is one of the most important
among a class of remedies suited to "septic infecttion", as it
would have been described in the 19th century. Septic
fever with deterioration and putrefaction. The putrid
element is what distinguishes Baptisia from similar septic
fever remedies like Echinacea. Pulse and tongue
indications were widely observed by allopathic, eclectic
and homoeopathic practitioners in the 19th century.
12. Thyroidinum: Discovering a Treasure
GHOSE S.K. (HTIMES, 1, 1/1994)
This is an extract from a book titled 'Clinical
Experiences with some Rare Nosodes' by Dr. S.K.
GHOSE, which is out of print now. The following is
abstracted: Thyroidinum is one of our best remedies for the
new-born babies and very useful in all cases of convulsions
when it is not due to any trauma during delivery or when it
is not attended with a rise of temperature. For
convulsions of babies born of mothers suffering from
Eclampsia or of parents suffering from various nervous
and metabolic disorders or when the cause is obscure
and it is difficult to ascribe or locate the cause and also in
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convulsions of children during dentition without fever this
remedy holds a unique position with its modality
'aggravation from cold water as against Opium where hot
water aggravates'.
Vomiting and nausea with any disease
particularly when it is chronic is a key-note symptom of
Thyroidinum. In cases where after the second and the third
day of delivery a vicious type of toxic vomiting starts
without any apparent or tangible cause and brings on a
deathly pallor and extreme prostration. In desperate cases
of jaundice in newborn babies, Thyroidinum will bring
back the patient almost from the jaws of death. It is also
efficacious in various obscure troubles of new-born
babies when there is reason to think that both the growth of
the organs and the general vital force are not keeping pace
with the general growth of the baby.
In chronic and obstinate diarrhoea of under-
nourished children during dentition and also in other
metabolic disorders. Puffiness of the face, oedema of legs
or general anasarca are very very suggestive indicating
symptoms in cases of obstinate diarrhoea of under-
nourished children. Vomiting with chronic diarrhoea in
children should always remind a physician of
Thyroidinum. In Insanity when it is connected with
menstrual disorders in young girls. Any constitution
showing an abnormal aggravation of various troubles
during menstruation should be considered as a very
good field for the action of Thyroidinum.
It is one of our pre-eminent medicines in cases of
early abortion and tendency to premature labour when the
cause is not of mechanical origin; when due to retroverted
uterus Thyroidinum 30 in repeated doses from the early
months will prevent abortion which takes place generally
in the third month.
In very severe cases of nasal oedema and with
obstructed respiration it is one of our sheet anchors.
It is almost a specific for Urticaria and
Angioneurotic oedema. It is one of the most important
remedies in Homoeopathy for Diabetes mellitus when
symptoms appear with great rapidity and extreme
weakness. Also in cases with history of allergy in the
patient or his family and also when diabetes appears after
the cessation of allergic manifestations.
Some more Symptoms: Mind
Homicidal tendencies
Suspicious
Ideas of persecution
Rage over trifles; worse opposition
Grumbling
Obesity with Rheumatoid Arthritis, puffiness
Easy fatigue, wants to lie down
Rapid emaciation, goitre
Hypo and Hyperthyroidism, Cretinism,
Acromegaly
Tetany, hypotension
Craving: Sugar, Sweets
Palpitation worse least exertion
Enuresis in weak children
Uterine and breast tumours, Agalactea
Skin: Psoriasis with obesity, Eczema, Icthyosis
Symmetrical, bilateral.
13. Some light on the (mis)/understanding of
Aurum metallicum
SHAH Rupal (HTIMES, 1, 2/1994) Symptoms not
supported by provings would lead to distortion of
Homoeopathy. This is highlighted by study of the remedy
Aurum metallicum.
14. Astacus fluviatilis - Some Notes appended
SHAH Rupal (HTIMES, 1, 1/1994)
George VITHOULKAS described a case cured by
Astacus fluviatilis in his Seminar at Bombay on 20-22
January 1994. Here are some further notes:
Some guiding features:
- Sphere of action: Liver, Skin, Lymphatic
glands
- Skin: Urticaria with liver complaints (jaundice),
Crusta lactea with lymphadenopathy;
Erysipelas
- Stinging pains
- Fever with red, glowing face
- G.I.T.: constriction of duodenum, especially at
the site of the opening of gall duct into the
duodenum
Mind:
- Apprehension with anxiety in chest
- Delirium with nettlerash
- Anger with redness.
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1. Promising Role of Homoeopathy in
De-addiction
BHARGAVA Aneesh (AHJ, 4, 1/1994)
This is a brief study of Drug addiction and its
de-addiction. The author has undertaken study of this
problem in Lucknow, New Delhi, Bombay and Madras.
The advantages of homoeopathic treatment of
de-addiction has been outlined.
2. Bilateral Ovarian Cysts - A Case Report
KRISHNAN Sanjay (AHJ, 4,1/1994)
A 32-years-old female with bilateral ovarian cysts
was treated with Thuja, Conium, Lapis alba, Phytolacca,
Aurum muriaticum natronatum over a period of nine
months and the Cysts dissolved completely.
3. Headache - its Signs and Symptoms
(Differential diagnosis & Aetiology)
BANSALV.P. (AHJ, 4, 2/1994)
Headache is one of the commonest ailments.
Although common sometimes it is of grave
significance. The author discusses in brief the
pathology, the causes and the different types -
Neuralgia, Referred pain, Meningeal, Vascular,
Traumatic, etc.
4. Preventive Homoeopathy - An Unfathomed
Facet
NARASIMHA RAO, K. (AHJ, 4, 2/1994)
This is a detailed study of various diseases which can
be prevented by homoeopathic medicines. Our repertories
are replete with rubrics such as 'Coryza, aborting
remedies', 'Sensation as if diarrhoea would set in',
'Abortion, tendency to', 'Predisposed to lung troubles', etc.
Knowledge of common causes or precursors of such
ailments as Myocardial infarction, Diabetes, etc. Would
help prevent their occurrence by the appropriate
homoeopathic remedies. A well-researched article.
5. Measles - The Strategy of its Treatment
BANERJI Parimal and MUKHERJEE
Santwana (AHJ, 4, 2/1994)
The authors aver, on the basis of their experience
that Bryonia 30 is the best medicine for Measles! Other
remedies like Antimonium crudum, Hyoscyamus, Rhus
toxicodendron may be required in some cases.
6. Tuberkulosebehandlung heute (Current
treatment of Tuberculosis)
BANDELIN K. (AHZ, 239, 3/1994)
In the AHZ, 237, 2/1992, Dr.R.ROMER reported the
treatment of three cases of lung diseases (a case of bilateral
cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis, one case of right-
sided Seropneumothorax and a case of bilateral infiltrafive
pulmonary tuberculosis right sided Pyopneumothorax)
with Homoeopathy. On the basis of these cures the author
affirmed that the exact homoeopathic remedy cures even
the severest disease.
In this article of BANDELIN a case of successful treatment
of Pulmonary Tuberculosis is reported. The cure is
confirmed by X- ray. The author rightly argues that
keeping in mind the economics homoeopathic therapy is
the most suitable in this serious disease. 7. Kurzer
Uberblick iiber die Entwicklung von Hahnemanns
Behandlungstechnik mit praktischen Beispielen (A
brief survey on the development of Hahnemann's
treatment technique with practical examples) SEILER H.
(AHZ, 239, 3/1994) Hans-Peter SEILER is the author of the
book (in German) published in 1988 in which with help of
case reports spanning the whole medical practice of
HAHNEMANN he shows the development of
HAHNEMANN's practice - from the drop doses of
mother tincture to C and then Q potencies.
In this article Dr. SEILER shows with three selected
cases from the original records of HAHNEMANN
and partly from the existing literature how
HAHNEMANN actually practiced.
The following four stages in the development can be
differentiated:
1. At the beginning HAHNEMANN uses
unpotentised medicine according to the Law of
Similars in daily or even more frequent doses, even in
chronic cases.
2. On account of the severe reactions of his
patients to the treatment, HAHNEMANN increasingly
changes to higher potencies in increasingly larger
intervals until finally a mere smelling-doses in the 30th
centesimal potency is given.
3. To accelerate the therapy HAHNEMANN
afterwards returns to repeated doses of the same
medicine in decreasing C-potency scale. The single
doses are now dissolved as glouble in diluted alcohol
and are usually taken daily over a period of 7 to 20
days.
4. Finally to reach an optimal effect of the
homoeopathic potency the LM or Q-potencies are
introduced. The LM-potencies are applied in the same
manner, but in increasing potency scale.
8. Rajan Sankaran und die Situtational Materia
Medica - Eine Einf'uhrung (Rajan Sankaran and the
Situtational Materia Medica - An Introduction)
RETZEK H. (AHZ, 239, 3-5/1994)
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RETZEK's article on the Situtational Materia
Medica of Rajan SANKARAN has been published in
three issues of this journal, 3 to 5/1994. The author writes
of some insights into the Situtational Materia Medica
(SMM), a theoretical-philosophical concept of
understanding disease and remedies, as developed by Dr.
Rajan SANKARAN.
The basis of the SMM is examined for consistency
with HAHNEMANN's findings as well as factual medical
knowledge. Then a theoretical and practical method to
approach the primarily 'unmeasurable' state of
disposition is presented as well as a method to deduce
from the hard facts of a remedy - the rubrics - its
underlying state of disposition. Finally the core of the
SMM, disease as an altered state of perception (delusion),
is presented. Lastly, a comprehensive review of the entire
concept as well as some open questions. 9. AIDS and
Homoeopathy, is there a cure?
LEWIS Joe A. (QHQ, 3, 3&4/1994)
This article, like many others, is only a
theoretical one. 10. The Role of Nosodes
TIWARI Sashi Kant (QHQ, 3, 3&4/1994)
Nosodes can be used as (i) indicated remedy (ii)
intercurrent remedy (iii) anti-miasmatic remedy, (iv)
Constitutional, and (v) empirical remedy. Cases have been
discussed under the above five divisions.
Case 1: 51-year-old man with gastro-intestinal
complaints (acidity, flatulence) skin eruptions (large bullae
on the left thigh with fever; skin had a bluish appearance
all over). Complained of severe burning, pulling sensation,
dryness of mouth with thirst, chilly patient. Arsencium 30
given after which the eruptions broke and discharged and
the whole area looked like raw flesh. Slow healing of the
ulcers and burning pains continued. Anthracinum 30 b.d.
(Burning ulcers, itching, discharge - ichorous and
offensive pus) and from the next day the ulcer started
healing and burning came down. In a week healed
completely. HIV investigation (Sot and Elisa test)
positive. Anthracinum the indicated remedy cured even
though the patient had an incurable disease (Was he not
treated further for the HIV? = KSS)
Case 2: An 80-year-old nun with herpes zoster on the
chest and back; burning and offensive discharge.
Anthracinum 30 b.d. cured in one week.
Case 3: Two-year-old male child with low-grade
temperature ranging from 99-100T since 7 months of age;
temperature has never touched normal; two episodes of
febrile convulsions with high temperature, hospitalised.
Wants to lie down on cold floor. Irritable, peevish, cranky,
hyperactivity followed by dullness and inactivity. Taking
into consideration these and other symptoms, Bryonia M
q.d.s. for 4 days Tuberculinum bovinum M.
Tuberculinum M was repeated twice at intervals of about
a week. The child became normal in all respects.
Case 4:22-years-old man with constant cough since a
month; dry, spasmodic. Singer by profession but couldn't
pursue due to this cough. Aggravation at night, Company,
Warm drinks. Ambra grisea 30 b.d.
completely cured in 4 days.
Case 5: Unmarried 31-year-old female with
n
irregular bleeding since puberty at 13 years age. E
Bleeding lasts many days, profuse and mixed with
clots. Sometimes the cycle is short and sometimes r
late. In this case Tuberculinum was given as an [
'intercurrent' remedy while Calcarea carbonica was t
her 'constitutional.
Case 6: Two-year-old male child with
v
Thalassemia major and was on regular blood F
transfusion. Calcarea carbonica was given repeatedly ^
(30 potency) with an intercurrent dose of Syphillnum.
c
Whereas he needed transfusion every 15 days now it
was required only once in two months.
Case 7: In this case the Nosode is used as
c
'anti-miasmatic' remedy. A 61-year-old female, '
insulin-dependent diabetic, with pain in the major
joints of upper and lower extremities. Osteo- arthritis t
confirmed by X-ray knee. Thuja 30Ca/carea fluroica t
30,Sylvestra gyrnnema <J>, Rauwolfia <J>. After
about 6 months Medorrhinum M gave much relief of the
joint I pains.
Case 8: In this case Nosode is used as
'constitutional' remedy on the basis of 'Mental and
Physical make up'. A 3-year-old female child with
chronic coughs, colds; enlarged tonsils, cervical
glands, white spots on nails. While remedies like
Antimonium tartaricum, Ipecacuanha were given for
'acute' stages, Tuberculinum M was given at month
intervals as 'constitutional' and the child improved
steadily
Case 9: This is also a case of Tuberculinum in a 7
year- old boy with recurrent coughs and colds.
Case 10: In malignant cases like Carcinoma,
Carcinosin, 200/M were given which helped the cases.
In a case of gastro-intestinal disorder after
Typhoid, the remedy Lycopodium worked more
efficiently after a dose of Typhoidinum.
I n a 13-year-old boy who suffered with sneezing
and coryza every day in the morning since 6 months,
although Natrum muriaticum was indicated, the
remedy worked better after a dose of Influenzinum M;
there was history of Influenza after which these
complaints came up.
These cases snow the 'empirical' use of Nosodes.
11. Vertraglichkeit Zahnarztlicher Werkstoffe aus
homoopathischer Sicht (The Compatibility of
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Dental materials (Amalgam) in the
homoeopathic view)
BARTAK Jan (ACD, 3, 2/1994)
Pierre SCHMIDT has advised that the
troublesome teeth must be removed. Amalgam, and all
other metals and other materials used in dental work
including synthetic ones can affect those sensitive to
them. This is not well-known. In dental fork we come
across more persons who are allergic D this or that
material. All dental alloys contain more natal. Even pure
gold has to be critically viewed, example:
56-year-old woman had all the Amalgam fillings
emoved after reading in a newspaper media, and had )egulor
(70% Au) put in instead. Whereas she was well lefore the
gold filling, she became after this lepressive, feared
death, BP 250/110, headaches and ertigo, all symptoms
worse in warm room, ihotophobic, diplopia. Her
Dentist removed the Jegulor fillings and she was given
Aurum LM 12 1 x laily 5 drops and she became well since
then.
Just as in the homoeopathic provings not all irovers
react exactly, and some don't react, it will be dear as to why
some luckily don't surfer with any unalgam or metal-
containing fillings.
Patients complain of a metallic taste often, like jitter,
sour or say that such and such thing does not aste anymore.
Leading symptoms that may rise as a esult of dental fillings
with incompatible material, are isted below: Jlercurius
- sweaty type with soft muscles; sthenic or
asthenic
- delayed psyche; arithmetical errors
- copious sweat, which does not relieve
- large, flabby tongue with imprint of the teeth;
Thirst - despite profuse saliva
- catarrhal headach; Vertigo
- characteristic foul odor
- Salivation
- Tremor
- worse from cold and also from warmth
- worse nights and from humid weather
- worse from lying on the right side
Argentum metallicum:
- lean and old appearance
- weakness of memory, restlessness, vertigo,
neuralgias of the head
- loquacious or taciturn in company
- hoarseness; thin sputum, like boiled starch
- Backache, must walk bent
- worse travelling on car; from touch or
pressure; by talking or singing
Hurum:
- Full-blooded, hypo-manic persons, often
successful; cannot wait and would like to talk
with the chief straightaway and complain
- Severe melancholy, with thoughts of suicide
- violent headahces; high blood-pressure;
palpitations
- photophobia, sparks before the eyes, diplopia
- worse cold, in winter, daytime
- better air, summer, morning, cold bathing
Cuprum:
- cerebral irritation, headaches, vertigo,
salivation
- Spasms, spasmodic coughs, dyspnoea,
cyanosis, gastrointestinal colic
- Grinding teeth, Angina pectoris, Cramps of
calves at nights
- Thumbs clenched down into the palm of the
hand
- Worse cold air, night, suppressed eruptions or
footsweat
- nausea, vomiting and cough better from a
swallow of cold water
Palladium:
- loves approval, easily offended
- headaches from ear to ear
- shooting pain from navel to back
- pain and swelling in the right ovarian region
- itching
Platina:
- extravagant personality, dresses in finery.
Proud, arrogant, scorns others. Delusion that
everything around is small, all persons are
physically and mentally below
- pressing headache limited to a small spot
- Nymphomania, menses too early, too heavy,
too long; with dark clumps
- worse sexual excitement, caress, touch, sitting
and standing; evening
- better walking in cold air, sunshine
Stannum:
- hollow face with sunken eyes, much weakness
in the chest; chronic bronchitis with sweet
expectoration; so weak that she cannot even
speak; that she would like to fall into a chair
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- extreme weakness of mind and body
Titanium:
- Vertigo with Vertical Hemianopsie
- poor vision; can see only one half of the object
- Rhinitis. Nausea; loss of appetite
- Bright's disease
- sexual weakness with premature ejaculation
during coition
- Eczema; Tuberculosis cutis luposa
- the patient generally feels and looks very sick
Zincum:
- general weakness and tiredness, weakness of
memory; grinding teeth
- headaches and vertigo; muscle twitchings,
palpitation
- sleeplessness and restlessness of the legs
- worse alcohol
Two case reports are given to show that the medicine
(Lac caninum) selected on the basis of the Generals and
Mind cured the joint pains etc. in one patient - these pains
were clearly traced to the dental Amalgam fillings and in
another the sufferings were due to dental fillings and the
patient became well after removal of the metal.
12. Allergisches Asthma bronchiale und
Heuschnupfen (Allergic Bronchial Asthma and
Hayfever)
RECKERS Winfried (ACD, 3, 2/1994)
A 33-year-old woman with Bronchial asthma since
her sixteenth year. It began after her parents acquired a
dog; contacts of animals like cats, horses also caused the
dyspnoea. From 19th year of age she developed Hayfever
symptoms during the period March-September. Apples,
Cherries and Plums caused itching mouth. Since years
she used inhaler spray, and other medicines. If she reduces
the doses of these medicaments asthma symptoms would set
in. If she enters a room in which any of the pet animals
like dog had been in, then too the asthmatic symptoms
would recur. She was also taking L-Thyroxin 150 since 15
years for a Struma. Tonsillectomy was performed in 1978.
After further examination the following
symptoms were chosen for repertorization: Jealousy;
Laughs involuntarily over serious matters; Irritable on
waking; Salivation night; Menarche late.
Lycopodium and Pulsatilla came through in all the
rubrics. Careful comparison with the Materia Medica
decided for Pulsatilla which was given in Q 18 potency
once a day three drops. Improvement set in very rapidly
and the medicine was continued according to
requirement and soon the patient became free from the
ailments. The treatment began in March 1992 and the
follow-up has continued upto the time of the reporting of
the case.
13. Stamper
KAY Dennis (NEJH, 3, 2/1994)
A 34-year-old man with complaint of recurrently
being ill since a flu; had been "worn down" and stressed
before the onset, mostly due to a job change and move.
Very high vitality; slightly "hyperactive" and restless
as a child. Had great rages with greatly increased strength.
Even in his twenties these rages would "surge up" like a
"superadrenalin-thing". He was always looking for
positive ways to channel this energy, be it in sports, karate,
or playing in a rock and roll band. After an explosion he
would feel weak and drained but his mind would be "very
clear". He felt then that he had "drained the monster". His
family called him a "Stamper". Driven by achievements
and challenges; "the harder the better". He is particular
and organized and "needs to be under control".
Everything he does he "goes for it totally". Fears
heights, narrow spaces. Stramonium 200
14. A case of Intractable Constipation
ACKERLEY Sarah (NEJH, 3, 2/1994)
45-year-old woman with chronic constipation of
over twelve years drug rehabilitation for abuse of Heroin.
No urge at all. Stools extremely hard, small, and dark
colored. Burning pain when there is bowel movement.
Abdominal examination and X-ray revealed gas and
fecal material throughout the entire colon. History of
Hepatitis A at 22 years age and three months ago Hepatitis
B. Depressed since last 7 years and started Desipramine.
Thirsty with dry mouth.
Opium 30 and improvement began promptly. Five
months follow-up: Opium was never repeated and she has
been having bowel movements on her own and depression
has decreased.
15. Remedies and their Characteristics/Symptoms
in Prostate Gland Problems
GHEGAS Vassilis (NEJH, 3, 2/1994)
This is an extract from Vassilis GHEGAS' book. The
differentials of the remedies most often indicated in
Prostate Gland problems have been discussed. As 'follow-
up for Prostate gland problems' the author advices:
If it concerns an enlargement of the Prostate gland, it
is good to send the patient - after a successful homoeopathic
treatment of three to six months - for a new ultrasound scan
to see whether the enlargement has lessened.
If the allopathic specialist puts the patient under
pressure and wants him to undergo surgery, I give the
following advice: under the age of 65, there are often
psychological problems by which the patient does not feel
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like a "real" man anymore, and for this reason, I don't
easily allow the patient to undergo surgery. Above the
age of 65, there are usually less problems.
If there is a malignant evolution, I advise to always
have the patient undergo surgery. After the operation,
homoeopathic treatment can be continued with good
results.
16. Some Reminiscences of the Use of
Homoeopathic Remedies in Surgery
MISTRY D.E. (IJHM 29, 2/1994)
A Surgeon by training and profession, turned
homoeopath and records some of his about 30 years
experience with Homoeopathy. Cases which came to the
hospital for surgery but were cured with
Homoeopathy, surgeries in which Homoeopathy was used
as an adjuvant - pre-operative anxiety, stresses during
operation, and postoperative problems, Burns, stitch
abscesses, such emergencies as Appendicitis, Prostate
troubles, Piles, Head injuries, Fractures, Tubercular
cases, etc. all were helped by Homoeopathy. A
rich field of homoeo-therapeutic excellence was
demonstrated.
17. Abdominal Emergencies-II
MADHOK P. (IJHM, 29, 2/1994)
Diagnosis of common colics.
18. The Amorous Saint: A Case of Osteomyelitis
GOKULGANDHI Vanraj (IJHM, 29, 2/1994)
58-year-old man, married with three children, Insulin-
dependent diabetic, with Osteomyelitis of the little toe.
Besides diabetes the patient had other complications also
like blood-pressure, etc. Much financial strains. Since last
30 years he was involved with spiritual mission and worked
for the mission. He was capable of good preaching. The
one thing that came through the interview was that there was
a very strong sex-drive all through his life and it was
predominating although the patient of late tried to subdue
it. Fluoric acid improved this patient.
19. Perceiving Rejection - Psychological
Philosophical Perspective - II
BARVALIA Praful (IJHM, 29, 2/1994)
Infancy and childhood experiences leave their
impressions and determine the personality and reactive
patterns of persons. To select the similar remedy,
therefore, one must enquire for these early life experiences
and their reaction. Two Cases as example:
Case 1:48-year-old man came for consultation for
Herpes genitalis. He also had STD. Born in an affluent
family, he was sent to boarding school and he felt rejected;
he could never relate with his siblings even later. While he
went to London for higher studies he developed
relationship with a Czech girl who however did not want
to leave her country whereas the patient longed to come
back to India. This relationship broke and it took him long
to overcome the trauma. He loved to move with Gypsies;
had multiple sex encounters, mostly with commercial sex
workers. He smoked and drank.
Magnesium carbonicum 200
Case 2: 28-year-old man, unmarried with
complaints of chronic colds, coughs and frontal
headaches. Episodes are worse in summer and associated
with giddiness and much weakness. Perspiration stains
yellow fast; Chilly. His father left the family and went with
another woman and hence the family had to live with
relatives where they were not treated well. Patient excelled
in studies and qualified professionally and employed.
Forsaken feeling, Resentment, Reserved, Repression and
Denial = Magnesium muriaticum.
20. A Sensitive, Conscientious Lad: Cyclamen
PATWARDHAN Prabha, GANDHI Priya
(IJHM, 29, 2/1994)
35-year-old housewife with three children. Chief
complaints: Recurrent coughs and congestions with fever
and occassional attacks of wheezing since two years (since
death of cousin). Worse in summer, better by steam
inhalations. Associated complaints: Acidity, fullness and
burning sensation in right hypochondrium worse
eating even small quantities, worse spices and mental
tensions; depression and mood swings worse before
menses; disturbed sleep. Past history revealed much
mental trauma (alcoholic father beating mother, mother
abandoned family but returned for the sake of the children)
patient felt guilty, reproached herself, conscientious
about trifles, Forsaken feeling, Sadness before
menses = Cyclamen 30.
21. Fastidious old Lady with Gangrene
MENON CM. (IJHM, 29, 2/1994)
85-year-old woman: left foot ankle down jet
black, cold to touch, appeared shrivelled; no
pulsations. A month ago had developed severe bronchitis
with high fever, became delirious and was hospitalised. In
this state she turned violent and had to be physically
restrained to the bed. Her son felt that she developed this
gangrene because of this. She was got discharged against
medical advise. Consultant Surgeon opined amputation
urgently.
Arsenicum album 200 in deviated doses in water
was given and in about 3-4 days the foot felt warmer and
small blister developed at the end of the big toe and
gradually pulsations could be felt and she began to
complain of the big toe. The tip of the toe started
sloughing. The medicine was continued for three weeks,
and then in ascending potencies upto CM.
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Healing was complete.
22. A Case of Vocal Cord Noduie
SHUKLE N.P.flJHM, 29, 2/1994)
67-year old lady, stage artist, short and stout, unable
to give performance due to hoarseness since last four years.
Loses control over timbre of voice while talking. She was
diagnosed as suffering from nodule in the vocal chord.
The nodule was considered as a Polyp.
Thuja 50M cured.
23. A Clinical Case of Lichen Planus
MEER Amina (IJHM, 29, 2/1994)
A 4-year-old boy with Lichen Planus on arms and
legs. Dulcamara 50M cured while the lower potencies
(M, 200) did not have any action.
24. A Case of Baker's Cyst
WADIAS.R. (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
52-year-old man with a 'Maran Baker's Cyst' behind
the right knee. Surgery was proposed. There was also pain
in the right knee joint. X-ray showed early degenerative
patellar spurs. History of fall two years ago. Arnica 200
for a week followed by Rhus toxicodendron 200 for
another week did not have any influence over the Cyst.
Now Magnesium carbonicum 30 (KR. 1200) for one month
completely cured.
25. A Chronic Skin Case
KLUNKER W. (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
4-year-old girl with complaint of chronic
eczema and herpes simplex of the lips since 6 months.
Plaques of eczema on the face, elbows, nates, knees and
feet, but not in the bends of the joints.
Tendency to frequent colds, coryza, cough and otitis.
Fear of dogs, Sensation of heat, Desires eggs, Perpiration
occiput: Sulphur 30 and four months later Tuberculinum
200 and after about four months Calcarea, and again three
months later Tuberculinum 200 and later Calcarea XM,
50M, followed by Herpes 200 and lastly Calcarea CM.
Cured.
26. Paroxysmal Spasmodic Left Paretic Affection
SHINDE Prakash (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
58 year-old man; hypertensive since 10 years, Pain
lateral aspect of left leg since 4 years, agg. by
sleeplessness, vocal cords too weak whenever he raises
the voice, occasional swelling of the upper eye-lid (which
eye?) Pains shifting; painful part warm. Worse left side.
Cocculus indicus 30 b.d. for 5 days, then b.d. for 10 days,
then 200, seven doses alternate day, and then 1M weekly
for four weeks.
15-year-old girl developed convulsions suddenly
and on the same day she was menstruating. The convulsions
were followed by paralysis of the left upper limb.
Admitted to the Hospital where the condition
deteriorated.
The patient was now put on Homoeopathy. The
peculiar feature was the left upper extremity paralysis with
convulsions; convulsions during menses. Artemisia
vulgaris 30, then Cocculus 30, Belladonna.
45-year-old woman; with brownish red allergic rashes
at different places with intense itching and occasional
oozing all over the body some two years ago. This
problem has been with her since 25 years and despite
many remedies has not been relieved. It was observed that
the patient being dictatorial, ambitious, strong-willed,
was also very hopeful despite the fact that she has not
been in any way relieved by the many medicines so far.
'Hopeful' has Ferr., Hydr., Senega, Tub. Ferr. 30 brought
sound sleep within two days (such sleep she has not had for
well over 20 years) and the entire case came under control
with Ferr. 30 and then 200. (Ferr.: iron-willed, strong,
swords & dictators).
25-year-old woman, married and with a child 2 yrs.;
allergic dermatitis. Itching and swelling all over the body
with restlessness, worse 12 noon, awakened frequently at
night due to the itching and scratching until raw and relief
in morning until 12 noon. Has been prescribed earlier Apis,
with no relief; then Arsenicum album with slight relief. She
had an IUCD (Copper T) after which her problems
began, including painful swelling of knee and ankle
joints and when the IUCD was removed these swellings
cleared.
Cuprum arsenicosum 30, 200 brought about good
improvement but the 1M aggravated; hence Cuprum
arsenicosum 6 totally relieved.
35-year-old woman with skin eruptions on contact
with ornaments except pure gold. Eruptions red at the sites
where the ornaments came into contact simulating
Telangiectasia, burning, worse from perspiration, warm
room. Itching severe. Patient was dictatorial.
Ferrum metallicum 6, 30, 200M and 50 M, over a
period of six months completely cured.
27. A case of Primary Sterility
PACHEGAONKAR U.S. (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
22-year-old lady with complaint of sterility.
Remedies used: Sepia, Phosphorus, Ferrum
picricum, Ferrum phosphoricum, Natrum
carbonicum, Tuberculinum, Petroleum.
28. Cases of Tuberculosis
SHINDE Prakasn (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
65-year-old lady with fevers with rigor since a
month. Fever agg. evenings; Chill with external
coldness; Profuse perspiration with transient amel. of
temperature; General malaise. Tubercular or
malignant effusion from study of X-ray chest.
Remedies used; Tuberculinum, Bryonia, Calcarea
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phosphoricum (in that order) cured.
44-year-old male with complaints of fever daily
evening since 3 months; fever worse 2 a.m. - 4.a.m.
Stitching pains in chest; hypersensitivity to pain; nose
stuffs up in warm room; lying on painful side agg.;
Better by moving about the room; Warmth amel.;
Flatulent dyspepsia. Closed personality; did not want his
disease to be disclosed even to his wife. X-ray: Patch of
consolidation seen at right apex, pneumonic tubercular?
Kalium carbonicum 30 repeated doses and in two
months X- rays revealed complete resolution of
pneumonic patches.
25-year-old lady with pain in cervical region,
lumbar region; the cervical pain and lumbar pain
alternate. Rhus toxicodendron amel. the lumbar pain.
Arsenicum album amel. the cervical pain, but mental
depression came up for which Natrum sulphurlcum was
given, but lumbar pain returned. The case went up and
down and prescriptions were based not merely on the
physical but on the constitutional (Mental and General)
symptoms. She had right ovarian cyst and Tuberculin test
was positive. Arsenicum iodide 30 and her improvement
was rapid.
(The three cases of Dr. SHINDE show the very
effective role of Homoeopathy in the treatment of
Tuberclosis. =K.S.S.)
29. Cases
KRISHNA DAS Jiban (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
An 8-year-old girl with septic tensils for which
surgery was suggested. There was also an
erysipelatous ulcer with vesicles covering right cheek upto
behind the ear. Hepar sulphuris 200 single dose cured in 3
days.
A woman with bleeding piles, myopia. The piles came
on after child-birth. Physostigma 200 single dose cured
the piles rapidly.
Same woman, 15 years later suffered bleeding piles
(too much of pungent food). Keeping in mind the sycotic
background (her father had several warts), a single dose of
Medorrhinum M cured.
30. Cases
VOHRA D.S. (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
Four cases treated with mixtures of BACH Flower
Remedies.
31. A Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
VENKATESWARAN (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
A Male with diagnosed Pulmonary Tuberculosis and
was on allopathic medications from 1982 to 1993 after
which Homoeopathy. Many remedies as required at the
specific times were given, beginning from Thuja,
Bacillinum. Homoeopathic treatment from July 1993 to 15
Jan. 1994; after this X-ray showed 'old cavity lesion but no
active lesion'. In May 1994 the patient wrote to the author
that he had no problems.
A Case of Asthma: 52-year-old male with Asthma.
Anti-sycotic remedies Natrum sulphuricum and Thuja
were the main remedies which improved this patient.
Towards the end he developed oedema of feet (the Editor
has rightly remarked that in cases where anal fistula has
been closed surgically feet oedema occurs at the end and
perhaps further use of anti-sycotic remedies may be
required to completethe cure.)
32. Child Psychiatry and Homoeopathy
KULKARNI Ajit (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
An 8-year-old boy with frontal headaches. He was a
much-pampered, over-protected child of rich father.
Various investigations revealed no patholoty; antibiotics
and psychiatrist's treatment also did not help.
Homoeopathic investigation revealed that the boy
suffered punishment at school and couldn't retaliate; he
was also destructive and irritable. Staphysagria 200
single dose relieved the headache.
The case is followed by detailed study of 'child
psychiatry' and two more cases are given:
An 8-year-old girl with nocturnal Enuresis and
asthma. Irritable, weepy, worse from consolation;
continual tension in the family; masculine constitution.
Sepia was her remedy.
12-year-old boy; gradual decline of performance at
school; frequent sleep disturbances; nightmares. Father a
vagabond and drunkard who beat his wife frequently.
Mother was calm, quiet, submissive. After one such
behavior of the father the
mother and boy came away,
lived separately and the boy's poor performance at
school began after this. Natrum muriaticum
(Desire for salt, hot patient, desire meat) was his
remedy.
33.
How I Treat Seasonal Allergies
SHORE Jonathan (BHJ, 83, 2/1994)
Under 'Education and Debate' the BHJ has
been publishing articles wherein the authors say
'how I treat'. In this article Dr. Jonathan SHORE
(USA) explains his methodology of treatment of
'seasonal allergies'.
SHORE says that the question to be asked in
this (allergy) as in any other condition is whether
the prescription would reach the deepest level at
this time. "That is to say, the symptoms of the
past, the presenting or main complaint, should
supply additional information which confirms the
pattern of the whole rather than supplants or
substitutes for it. In any case, where the
underlying constitutional medicine can be clearly
perceived, even if the allergic symptoms are not
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well covered by that medicine, it is more likely to
be curative than a medicine chosen on allergic
symptoms alone. This presupposes that the
consitutionai medicine is clear, and that the pattern
of the local symptomatology does not reflect a
clear and complete drug picture."If the allergic
symptoms overwhelm and obscure the underlying
constitutional image, then he suggests the 'main
symptom technique'. In this, Sabadilla, Nux
vomica, Aralia racemosa, Euphrasia, Dulcamara,
Allium cepa, Arum triphyllum, Bromium, Kali
iodatum, Arsenicum album, Arsenicum iodatum,
Sticta, Psorinum, Kali bichromicum, Sinapis
nigra, Arundo, Wyethia, Ranunculus bulbosus,
Silicea, Agaricus muscarius, Pulsatilla,
Ambrosia, Apis, Rhus toxicodendron,
Gelsemium and Carbo vegetabilis, come in
mainly; the specificity of these remedies to the
Nose, Ears, Palate, Mouth and generalities are
briefly discussed.
Five cases are giv/en.
34.
A
Gratiola
Case
BIANCHINI Roberto (The Homoeopath,
53/1994)
A 25-year-old female with history of drug
abuse, (alcohol, LSD); Anorexia, depression, guilt
feelings, low working of mind, difficult
concentration, as if dazed.
Gratiola was her remedy. (Confusion, dream as
if in; Answers, reflects long; Fear of eating)
The author also points out that the KENT
Repertory
has a sub-rubric "Fear, eating of,
hungry, when" which seems to be incorrect,
especially in the light of the case reported.
35.
Hell hath no fury
MARTANDA Adam (The Homoeopath,
53/1994)
The many facets of the remedy Platina are
presented in this article with illustrations from
stories, films, own cases. Some states of the mind
of those who feel scorned by the ones they love
are studied.
36.
The Case of Pat
LEVY David (The Homoeopath, 53/1994) A 62-
year-old lady, divorced, one child, suffered from
severe neuralgia of the left side of face after (two)
operations. She was loquacious, rather garrulous,
demanding, dreamt of being in a strange place,
also waking thinking that she was not in her own
home.
Pan's quadrifolia, removed the neuralgia and
also her excessive loquacity.
37.
Hysteria
MEYER Sarah (The Homoeopath, 53/1994)
According to FREUD hysteria is derived from
injuries or traumata whose imprint persists
unconsciously for years. According to JUNG,
apart from the traumata, another special class
of disturbance in the province of love, with a
disturbance in the erotic sphere was responsible.
Hysteria being a cry for love and for the 'listen to
me', or 'they never listen to me' is often
ameliorated by magnetism and consolation. It
can also be recognized by the attention-seeking-
rubrics or escapist-rubrics.
38.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis - A Case Report
GOYAL K.K. (Simile, 4, 2/1994 issued with
the BHJ, 83, 2/1994)
25-year-old male: loss of appetite, could not
sleep on left side, cough, left-sided chest pain,
dyspnoea on cough and continuous low grade
fever for the last two months.
He came to the clinic alone remarking
'nobody never helps the other'.
Phosphorus 30 and clinical investigations
ordered.
Sputum highly positive for AFB, ESR raised,
chest X-rays: left- sided tubercular lesion with
effusion, right lung showed infiltration in upper
and middle zones.
Phosphorus 30 one dose repeated after three
days. He was also given Arsenicum album 30
which he was to take if fever did not come down.
However, the patient took the Arsenicum also for
a week.
X-ray taken about 7 months later showed very
good improvement and another X-ray about 8
months later showed complete normal state. The
tuberculosis healed without fibrosis.
39.
Berger's Disease cured by Homoeopathy
SURYAMANI (HH, 19, 4/1994)
Berger's Disease of the left big toe in a man who
sustained a trauma to the toe developed after 8
months inflammation, pus, corroding ulcer.
Lycopodium 200 prescribed on the totality (2 doses
at 20 days interval) cured.
40.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
KARMAKAR A.C. (HH, 19, 4/1994)
Briefly describes the disease and mentions names of
some medicines as being 'generally used'. No cases cited.
41. A Case Report
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SINHA Jayant Kumar (HH, 19, 5/1994) 45-year-old man
with headache of 4 years duration; pain left temporal
region extending to the frontal. History of head injury 5
years ago. Natrum sulphuricum 200.
42. Case Report
DEYS.P. (HH, 19, 5/1994)
A case of chronic Osteomyelitis of lumbar vertebrae
cured within one year with homoeopathic treatment.
Carcinosin 200, then M, XM in view of mixed miasm with
predominance of syphilis; tendency to bone destruction at
an early age without history of trauma. After Carcinosin,
Fluoric acid M, XM cured. Carcinosin was given for:
Mixed miasmatic patient; Tidy; Causeless insomnia;
Desire for salt, fish, meat; aversion sweets and milk; Fear
of dogs and snakes; Fear of Cancer; Multiple warts and
moles.
43. Myristica sebifera - Some Clinical Cases
SHAH Sandesh S. (HH, 19, 6/1994)
A young student of Homoeopathy was bitten by a
rabid dog and underwent anti-rabies injections around
umbilicus; abscesses developed in the spots of injections,
with severe pain. Allopathic medicines did not give the
result expected. Myristica sebifera 200 in repeated doses
cured in 3 days.
Recurrent whitlows in a 30-year-old dairy worker.
Belladonna and Hepar sulphuris did not help and he
continued to suffer from severe agonising pains.
Myristica sebifera 200 two hourly for 3 days gave relief;
repeated the medicine t.d.s. for three more days. No
recurrence of whitlows.
12-year-old boy, both legs amputated, suffered from
electric burns three years ago. Had a deep wound and
bed sores of the whole back; wound non-healing;
antibiotics without relief. Hepar sulphuris 200 q.i.d. 15 days,
then M once a day for 7 days without benefit; Anthracinum
200 q.i.d. 15 days, then M alternate days for 15 days
without much change. Carcinosin M and then Silica 200
t.d.s. 15 days and all superficial wounds started drying
but the deep wounds remained same. Myristica sebifera
200 q.i.d. produced remarkable improvement and healing
took place.
Injection abscess over left gluteal region of a baby of
three years age Myristica sebifera 200 cured.
44. Clinical Verification - Belladonna in Bladder
Weakness
MISHRA S.C. (HH, 19, 6/1994)
5-year-old boy with dribbling urine involuntary;
when asked his name the boy spat on the face of the
physician; angry and irritable; obstinate. Belladonna 30
three doses in one day cured.
45. A Case Report - Diabetes Mellitus
BHATTACHARYA Kalyan (HH, 19, 5/1994)
47-year-old lady, with DM; her PP blood
glucose was 471 mg% while the fasting was 337 mg%!
Polyuria, cramps legs during sleep, etc. She was
nonchalant about her ailments. This nonchalance in the
face of alarming pathological state pointed to Phosphoric
acid Q5 (50 millesimal) then Q10, Q15, Q18; blood sugar
remained 205 fasting. Causticum Q3 (she prayed for relief
so that she can pursue her spiritual sittings),
Q5,Q8,Q10,Q12 and within one month of beginning
Causticum her blood sugar came to 142 mg%,PP. She
continues to be under treatment.
46. Using Homoeopathy during Pregnancy
COOK Yvonne (HLK, 3, 2/1994)
Discusses the advantages of homoeopathic
treatment during pregnancy. It takes a look at
conventional ante-natal care and also lists common
ailments during pregnancy together with the most
commonly indicated remedies for each ailment. A
questionnaire was sent to 18 homoeopaths and 10 were
returned for evaluation. The consistent approach seemed to
be constitutional homoeopathic treatment and diet; also that
pregnancy not being an illness there should be no
interference unless necessary.
47. Mum, What else can I do?
LASOW Yvonne and DAM Kees
(The Homoeopath, 53/1994)
This is a case of a 23-year-old man with loss of blood
during bowel movements, two or three times a day. He
seemed to be always dependent on his mother, uncertain
of succeeding, becoming very much concerned over
small losses or misfortunes, upset by the smallest thing,
always wanted to go out. On the basis of his life history
and totality, remedies like Calcarea carbonica, Graphites,
Baryta carbonica, Staphysagria and Argentum nitricum
were given but he still had not got over his timidity,
sulked, tense, depressed and negative about everything and
he ever more frequently asked "Mum, what else can I do?"
Was very much discouraged. Muriatic acid cured.
48. Homoeopathic Cardiac Medicines and Cases
HILTNET Richard E. (JAIH, 87, 2/1994)
Over the last 200 years of its history
Homoeopathy has offered medicines for a variety of
cardiac problems including vascular disease,
arteriosclerosis and high cholesterol levels. In this article
some major cardiac and vascular medicines in
Homoeopathy are highlighted. Cases also are given.
Crataegus oxyacantha: A German Shepherd dog with what
the Veterinarian had diagnosed as terminal heart problem
and he was unable to help. The dog was a few hundred miles
away and its symptoms were listed on which he was
prescribed Crataegus D30 t.d.s. which improved the
dog but cough persisted for which Spongia D30 was given;
the cough became better but the dyspnoea and listlessness
of the dog again became worse. Now Crataegus and
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Spongia morning and night respectively were given and
there was marked improvement. The dog survived for two
more years.
Strophanthus hispidus: 30-year-old man with labile
hypertension and mitral valve prolapse; Strophanthus
D6 t.d.s. which was gradually lowered to once a day as the
patient improved and then PRN. A repeat Echocardiogram
done after this a few years later revealed that there was no
mitral valve prolapse. No heart murmur. Patient remained
active.
Cactus grandiflorus: 75-year-old woman with history
of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Had
Tuberculosis at 20 years and she received treatment of
bilateral pneumothorax. X- rays revealed severe pleural
parenchymal fibrosis and calcification with thickening of
the apices. Shortness of breath and feeling of "band"
around her lower rib cage. B.P. was 90/70. Haemoptysis,
mild edema, and frequent insomnia. Cactus grandillorus
tincture 7 drops before meals and bedtime. The favorable
effect came the very next day. She received later Psorinum.
Digitalis purpurea: 86-year-old moderately obese
woman with history of intermittent palpitations for ten
years. Intermittent ankle edema and general weak feeling
in chest with occasional difficult breathing. Her
periodical constrictions chest and knees quickly
responded to doses of Cactus.
Digitalis D6 t.d.s. and improvement soon
followed.
49. Asthma: Case Study
RUDICK Carey (JAIH, 87, 2/1994) A case of Asthma is
presented in which the principal prescribing symptoms
consisted of visible heart palpitations, neglected
lung- pleura inflammation, hydrocele, aggravation from
heat and cold, etc. Arsenicum iodatum was curative.
50. A Case of Arthritis
CHASE Sandra (JAIH, 87, 2/1994) 40-year-old woman
with Rheumatoid Arthritis which was cured over a period
of about 5 years with Naturm muriaticum, Lachesis, Rhus
toxicodendron, Pulsatilla - each remedy given singly
except Rhus toxicodendron which was supplement to
Lachesis.
The whole case and its response to the medicines,
the reasoning forthe medicine prescribed, etc. have all been
described in detail. Forthis one must congratulate the
author. In the analysis of the case report Drs. Karl
ROBINSON, Ed. CHAPMAN, Michael CARLSTON and
George GUESS, have given their comments. Quite
interesting over-all.
51. Clinical Snapshots
Ross ANTONOFF and George GUESS ' (JAIH,
87,2/1994)
Case 1: Interstitial Cystitis: 31-year-old woman with
"interstitial cystitis", of years duration. Burning
pain of the bladder with no modalities except occasional
mild frequency and "panic" during exacerbations.
Detailed examination however revealed characteristics
of "carcinoma" miasm. Carcinosin 200 one dose daily for
4 days and then 6c b.d. and gradual improvement
proceeded. Yet to be completely cured.
Case 2: Acute Pharyngitis: 30-year-old male with
"sore throat" which he described "like an open sore".
Other symptoms all clearly pointed to Mercurius and
Mercurius corrosivus 6x t.d.s. relieved in 24 hours.
52. Two Clinical Cases
GURDIAL SINGH (mfH, 4, 4/1994) Pancreatic cyst in a
woman was cured by Bryonia, followed by Sulphur and
then Tuberculinum. A young and well-educated girl
suffered from pain in the chest with palpitations
periodically; these began after her brother left for studies
abroad and shortly after that her sister-in-law died
suddenly. This patient was very much attached to these two
persons and their absence gave her great grief. Ignatia M
(6 doses, 3 on first day, then 2 next day and 1 last)
followed by Kalmia 200 b.d. for 10 days cured her pains
and palpitation. (What is the excuse for a M potency 6
doses? And why Kalmia 200 b.d. for 10 days! = KSS)
53. In Sorrow shalt Thou Bring Forth Children -
Not when Homoeopathy is used properly
LAKSHMINARAYANAN D. (mfH, 4, 4/1994)
This article discusses as the title rightly speaks
that bringing forth children need not be sorrowful. He
points out that Pulsatilla in high potency has repeatedly
made imminent caesareans into normal deliveries.
54. Pain - Homoeopathy's Promise and
Supremacy
LAKSHMINARAYANAN D. (mfH, 4, 4/1994) This
article clearly discusses how
Homoeopathy relieves pains quickly and safely.
55. A Pot of Boiling Tea
BRILLANT Amita (HTIMES, 1, 2/1994) 23-year-old
female with chief complaint of dysmenorrhoea right
since the menarche and leucorrhoea which is sticky
thick white in colour. Menses scanty++, duration three
days. Other complaints include: hair falling + +,
Dandruff + +, Recurrent painful ulcers in mouth, Tall and
well-built. The following symptoms were taken for
repertorization: Fear of sudden death; Activity with
sleeplessness; Fear something will happen; Jumping from
window; Suicidal, throwing herself from window;
impulsive; Kill herself, sudden impulse to;
Quarrelsome; Restless at night on waking; Thoughts:
frightful; Tormenting; Senses acute.
Thea M one dose.
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56. Haemangiomas of Tongue - its
homoeopathic cure
TIWARI R.N. (HTIMES, 1, 1/1994)
Haemangioma of tongue is one sort of blood tumour,
rare in occurrence, very painful and seldom responding to
medication. Surgical measures are frequently
recommended.
7-year-old boy: Dorsal and ventral side of tongue
with blood tumours with oozing of blood from the base of
the tumours. Had undergone Cryosurgery 12 times within a
span of 6 years.
After detailed case taking and reference to the
Repertory (DOUGLAS' Repertory of Tongue),
MercuriuscorrosivisQI (millesimalpotency) 10doses for 5
days and observed that the remedy was acting curatively.
It was repeated for 10 more days and Q2 once a day for 10
days. After this, Crotalus horrldus Q1,10 doses once a day
repeated in Q2 potency b.d. for 10 days and the
improvement proceeded. Placebo for 20 days and then
Baryta carbonica 200 two doses (swelling of sub-
mandibular gland on left side). Very much improved, but
yet to be totally cured.
57. Some interesting Cases
UDOROK Enobong R. (HTIMES, 1, 2/1994)
Case: Acute Abdomen: 1 year-4 month-old male
child crying much with lower limbs adducted against the
abdomen with inability to urinate or defecate; a palpable
hard mass in the left groin with great sensitivity to touch.
Plumbum 50 M was given and within 5 minutes the child
was quiet, calm and slept normally. No relapse.
Case: Post-operative pain: A 24 year-old lady
underwent Appendiceciomy on January 6, 1993 and
discharged on 10th Jan. 1993 and was on a course of
Antibiotics but 5 days later she had enteralgia. Pain
concentrated around the navel, could hardly drink or eat,
profound restlessness, anxiety and fear of death, no
position relieved the pain. Abdomen very sensitive to
touch. She urged me to do something quickly. Plumbum
50001 ml injected intramuscularly made her peacefully
sleep and there was no further complaint. (Why injectin?
Doesn't the remedy powder work with same speed? : KSS)
Case: Poisoning: 21-year-old man drank rat poison
accidentally and was admitted to the hospital but the
treatment did not bring about relief, and the attending
physician said that the case was proceeding to be fatal; the
patient was pale, collapsed and was discharged same day.
He was found to be restless, prostrated and very weak and
there were no other details. Arsenicum album 30, three
globules every 15 minutes. Recovery began with the
second dose and he came out of the coma and demanded
water to drink. After the third dose he slept soundly and
woke up after 6 hours to ask for food. There was no need
for further medicine.
Case: Most memorable case: 11 year-old boy who
was born at 45 weeks and one day gestation by caesarean
section. At 6 months age he suffered tetanic spasms. At 9
years he could neither count or differentiate numbers nor
colors; looked silly, could not look at people on face,
attention deficit, talk incoherent, muttering, all like a 2
year-old. Always quarrelled, scolded, cursed, swore,
destroyed things when angry; depression, fear,
xenophobia, laughs and smiles foolishly even at serious
matters, ate voraciously. Diagnosis; Hebephrenia.
Baryta carbonica 200x once a day for 3 days; then
Hyoscyamus 200 2 ml. i.v. once a day for 3 days; then 4
weeks later Lycopodium M, 2ml. i.v. once daily for 5 days
and lastly Anacardium M 2ml. i.v. once daily for 4 days. He
has remained healthy both physically and mentally since
then. 58. Dyslexia: A Case of Reversed Polarity
WEISS Shandor (Simillimum, 7, 2/1994)
A12-year-old girl with slurred nasal speech; she has
also other symptoms of Dyslexia. She is restless, moves
quickly and speaks quickly.
When one year of age she had high fever with seizures
and loss of consciousness. Spinal meningitis was the
positive diagnosis. She recovered after a spinal tap
procedure. There was no other treatment. She became
aggressive after this and bit other babies and adults and
developed fear of the dark. All these symptoms were
mostly gone by the time she was two and a half years age
and she remained normal until 4 years age. Her speech
began to be garbled at this stage. She began seeing speech
therapist regularly.
Her voice is nasal and difficult to understand unless
one is used to her. It is worse when she is excited or upset.
She had difficulty in reading and writing in her class.
Made mistakes in writing by reversing words, letters and
numbers, like b and d, p and q, 2 and 5, or for example,
writing 7 backward or confusing it with 3. She preferred to
print her letters rather than use script. She draws them
slowly and carefully. Her writing is neat. She wrote
slowly. She made mistakes in spelling too.
She also had problem with balance; also with
learning to tell time with an analog (dial) clock, to learn
right-and left- handedness; and to learn directions.
She is extremely neat and tidy.
After full case-taking, she was given Magnetis polus
arcticus 12 b.i.d. Review after about two months revealed
that she has made improvement. Her speech has not
noticeably improved. Her physical coordination
seems slightly better. Magnetis polus arcticus M. q.d. for
3 days.
Review after about 4 months: she is a new person.
Her speech therapist is amazed. (The remedy was repeated
several times since the last prescription). No further
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remedy given.
Review after 5 months: Further improvement.
Speech is 75-80% better according to the speech-
therapist. From being classified as learning
impaired she became one invited into the gifted
programme.
The rubric that was used to find the remedy was 'Mind,
Slowness, work, in: Cactus, Magnetis polus arcticus were
the only remedies listed.
A very interesting article. The full case should be
read in detail.
59. An Acute Case of Lyssin
KIRK Joan (Slmillimum, 7, 2/1994)
42-year-old woman bitten in the crotch by a
Doberman dog. The injuries were on the pubic bone, labia
and inner thigh. The labia swelled quickly and bruised
almost immediately, turning a dark blue, purple. In front
of the pubic bone there was a painful bump. Arnica
montana, Ledum palustre, and finally
Hypericumperforatum over a one week period and the the
contusions improved, the puncture wounds healing well
and pains decreased.
She now developed symptoms: Anxious, scattered
feeling; feared that something terrible would happen; did
not feel safe in the world; afraid that people would yell at
her; afraid to drive her car; snow distracted her and made
her crazy; felt homeless, isolated, and overwhelmed; felt
sick in pit of stomach, appetite was decreased; hot bathing
soothed her; fear of dogs.
Lyssin 200 one dose, cured. It is interesting that her
mental symptoms >:ook over a week to develop after the
acute symptoms were relieved.
60. An Acute Case of Otitis Media
IMMELWm.Mark (Simillimum, 7, 2/1994)
Otitis media in a 5-year-old girl for which first
Phosphorus was given and then Hepar sulphuris. The pain
had gone but now she had cough which was worse at
night when first lying down. She was impatient, taking
the toys from her brother and hitting him, grinding her
teeth at night, fear of dark and when asked a question she
would whisper the answer loudly in her mother's ear, a loud
hissing sound. Hyoscyamus 200 cured.
61. The Case of the Irreversible History.
TREUHERZ Francis (Simillimum, 7, 2/1994)
A Woman with menopausal hot flushes, cyclical fluid
retention. On the basis of the totality Sulphur 6, then 12
and then 30 (repeated) over a period of 5 months and
lastly Ratanhia 6 (for bleeding piles).
This patient was referred to the author after
irreversible gynaecological surgery, while taking an anti-
depressant and after an apparently irreversible surgery on
anti-coagulant treatment. Despite the irreversible
changes, and up to a certain limit of curability,
Homoeopathy had done its work.
62. Two More from Elangalore
BALAKRISHNAN N. (Simillimum, 7, 2/1994)
A 40-year-old woman after her ovarian cancer (left
sided) had been operated on and subjected to
chemotherapy. She had cell Carcinoma mixed with
Endometrial Adenocarcinoma. Chemotherapy was of no
avail; the suffering increased.
First prescription: Tuberculinum CM
A week later Medorrhinum CM
Five days later Lapis albus 3 q.i.d. 10 days
Very good improvement; almost all the symptoms
disappeared.
Fourth prescription: Carcinosin 30, There was very
severe aggravation, same day.
Carbo vegetabilis 200 and Arnica 30 to be alternated
at half hourly intervals, two to three times each. She got
over the crisis.
Sixth prescription: Lapis albus 200 t.d.s. for 3 days.
All tests including Ultrasound showed that there was
no free fluid or abnormal mass.
A Case of Bulky Uterus with Multiple fibroids:
Enlarged, retroverted uterus with multiple fibroids, the
largest being 4.8 sq.cm. Hysterectomy proposed but
refused and chose Homoeopathy.
16 Jan. 1991: Since the trouble seemed to have begun
after the suppression of the pruritis vulvae, Penicillin 30
(tautopathic) one dose.
5 Feb. 1991: feels much improved in all
symptoms. Medorrhinum 200.
18. Feb. 1991: Pregnancy test: positive; treatment
of the fibroids was therefore postponed till after delivery.
4 Mar. 1991: Tuberculinum 200
During the pregnancy remedies as required from
time to time were given (Arnica, Ledum, Hypericum,
etc.) On October 1 she delivered a girl.
14Jan. 1992: Lapis albus 200
15Feb. 1992: very much better.
4 June 1992: Ultrasound scan: normal; no mass present.
28 July 1992: Scan repeated: normal
10 Aug. 1992: Blood and urine tests: normal.
(Let those who want 'proofs' of homoeopathic cures
of Cancers read these = KSS) 63. A Case of Chronic Low
Back Pain
HUDSON Tori (Simillimum, 7, 2/1994)
41-year-old male, with chronic low back pain.
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Suffered a Sacroiliac joint tear and subsequent
separation of the joint in 1985. Although the totality
seemed to be similar to Lycopodium, the severity of the
chief complaint - back pain - demanded that a remedy for
that should be given. Aesculus hippocastanum 6 for a
month.
The patient continued to do hard labor. The third day
after starting the medicine, he awoke without any pain. The
remedy was discontinued.
Eight months later pain in the exact same spot and of
the same character and he started the remedy again, on his
own, and the pain disaappeared.
One year later: no recurrence.
IV. RESEARCH
1. Scientific Evaluation and Explanation of
Homoeopathy
SHARMA R.R. (AHJ, 4, 1/1994)
Double-blind drug trials are not applicable to
Homoeopathy. Other appropriate controlled
treatments of human diseases and of Alloxan induced
diabetes in rats establish that homoeopathically
dynamized medicines do cure even when the
probability of finding a molecule of the drug in the dose is 1
in 10
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' but undynamized simple dilutionsto the
same extent are ineffective. Mechanical dynamizations i.e.
forceful agitations of every step of dilutions and the
presence of -OH group(s) in diluant molecules are
necessary for potentization effect. Chemically
exchangeable energy is basic to the chemical specificity
and positive recognition of a molecule. The diluant
medium, via resonant promotions of lone pair electrons
of oxygen atom in its -OH group(s) acquires chemically
exchangeable energy to mimic the chemical specificity of
sol ute drug and thereby act as therapeutic agent, the dose is
not 'micro' but contains plenty of medicinally active
diluant molecules. Thus, Avogadro's Law becomes
irrelevant. According to the law of similars that
potentized medicine is given to cure a natural disease
whose material doses in healthy persons produce
symptoms similar to those of the disease. The pathogen,
the drug and the dynamized medicine produce similar
symptoms because they all have similar chemical
specificity and affect same biomolecules. The cure is
effected by stimulating defence mechanisms and by
dislodging pathogen molecules from the affected
biomolecules via competitive chemical exchanges. Theory
is supported by experiments at crucial stages and is
internally consistent. Three naw sciences of inductive
Chemistry, Xenobiology and Inductoxenopathy are
proposed to elucidate scientific bases of
Homoeopathy.
2. A working hypothesis to explain the Mechanism
of Action of Potentized Homoeopathic Drugs in
Vivo
BUKHSH Khuda A.R. (AHJ, 4, 2/1994) A working
hypothesis to explain the mechanism of action of
potentized homoeopathic drugs in vivo has been proposed.
The model is partly substantiated from own research daia
on repair of chromosomal damages in X-irradiated or
toxic-chemical treated mice by the oral administration of
some potentized homoeopathic drugs, and partly
from some unpublished works and also some of the
published works of other researchers in Homoeopathy. In
this model strong scientific arguments have been made to
hypothesize that the potentized homoeopathic drugs act
through regulation of gene expression, presumably
through hormone-hormone-protein complex-sensor
genes-integrator genes-receptor genes-producer genes-
pathway of BRITTEN and DAVIDSON model or else,
through regulator/mutator genes-operator genes-structural
genes pathway of JACOB and MONOD Model among
some other independent mechanisms. Some
pathways admittedly speculative for some steps, have also
been provided.
3. Research studies in HIV infection with
Homoeopathic Treatment
RASTOGI, D.P.; SINGH Vikram; DEY S.K.
(CCRH, 15,38.4/1993)
Latest estimates released by the WHO estimate that 14
million people have been infected with HIV worldwide
and by 2000 A.D. it will be between 30 and 40 million. In
India the number is estimated to be between 0.44 to 0.61
million.
Regional Research Institute (RRI) for
Homoeopathy, Bombay under the Central Council for
Research in Homoeopathy has undertaken the project of
research studies in HIV infection with homoeopathic
treatment.
The conclusion on the basis of 4 years' study is that
homoeopathic treatment in HIV+ subjects helps in
improvement of the immune status and relief in HIV
related complaints, besides maintaining the
haematological status.
The report is supported by Tables; two case reports
have also been given.
4. Research studies in Malaria and Role of Malaria
officinalis
RASTOGI D.P.; PAL Girinder; SINHA M.N.;
PODDAR A.
(CCRH, 15, 3&4/1993)
The studies were carried out in the
Homoeopathic Research Institute for Malaria, Jaipur
(Rajasthan). From the study it is concluded that Malaria
officinalis can be considered in cases of chronic malaria
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or malarial cachexia; this remedy has given good response
either as the main prescription or as intercurrent. This
remedy may also be tried as preventive in areas where the
disease is endemic.
5. Sickle Cell Haemoglobinopathy and
Homoeopathic Research
SARKAR D.B.;JHA D.K. (CCRH, 15, 3&4/1993) Sickle
cell gene was identified in the tribal population of the
Nilgiri Hills in Southern India. Later it was found that
Western Orissa has relatively greater prevalence of Sickle
Cell patients, and indeed all over the country.
The research study was carried out by
Homoeopathic Research Institute, Sambalpur
(Orissa).
Homoeopathic medicines were prescribed on the
totality of the symptoms and the remedies Biyonia, Rhus
toxicodendron, Arsenicum album, Belladonna, Kalmegh,
Ceanothus americanus, Magnesium Phosphoricum etc.
were used for the acute states and for the chronic states
Calcarea carbonica, Natrum muriaticum, Lycopodiurn.
Syphilinum, Tuberculinum, Lycopodium, Natrum
muriaticum were used as intercurrents. In acute
Splenomegaly and Hepatomegaly Kalmegh <p and
Ceanothus americanus <p were found to be very effective.
6. Allergic Manifestations and Homoeopathy
SINGH S.M.;ANSARIK.U.
(CCRH, 15, 3&4/1993)
Brief discussion on the types of allergy, diagnosis
and homoeopathic treatment. While it is stressed that the
homoeopathic treatment is on the basis of the similarity
with the individual patient yet it is possible to identify
certain homoeopathic remedies as more often indicated
symptom vis-a-vis patient (individual) type (e.g.
apprehensive = Argentum nitricum, irritable = Nux
vomica)
7. Psoriasis and Homoeopathic Management
FAVEENDER Ch. (CCRH, 15, 3&4/1993)
Homoeopathy has a definite scope in the
treatment of Psoriasis.
The relevant rubrics in the KENT Repertory and
PHATAK Repertory are given and the homoeopathic
remedies that come up against these rubrics also
tabulated. Two cases have also been cited.
V. GENERAL
1. Hydrotherapy
SHARMA S.C. (AHJ, 4, 2/1994)
This short article highlights the advantages of
Hydrotherapy. With its properties of buoyancy,
cohesion, viscosity, turbulence and friction water is of great
therapeutic use. Hydrotherapy is an adjuvant of other main
therapy.
2. Transformation and Social Dynamics in
Homoeopathy
KREISBERG Joei H. (NEJH, 3, 2/1994) Homoeopathy
offers a profound means for transforming our lives. Not
only does the simillimum offer this transformative
potential, but the process itself stimulates deep healing.
As the patient and the homoeopath interact, they engage
many levels of transformation within themselves and the
greater community. This paper examines the social
dynamics of these homoeopathic interactions. An
exploration of Homoeopathy as a ritual for transformation
reveals tremendous potential for homoeopathic practice
as well as many shortcomings homoeopaths may
experience.
This article draws its inspiration from the work of
Richard KATZ, an anthropologist/educator, formerly
of Harvard U niversity. Throughout the course of his work
Dr. KATZ spent much time studying natural healers. The
observations and conclusions drawn from this
exploration are directly relevant to our subject.
3. Immunization: A Pharmacist's View
SEVERYN Kristine M. (JAIH, 87, 2/1994)
Dr.SEVERYN discusses the efficacy and safety
of vaccines. A number of examples are given which bring
into question the purported effectiveness of many of our
common vaccines: e.g., measles, pertussis. There is
undoubtedly a far higher incidence of vaccine adverse
reactions than commonly believed; for example, only
10% of physicians reported adverse reactions to the
Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Service (VAERS). She
highlights a number of problems relating to the
manufacture and regulation of vaccinations and
litigation of vaccine-related injuries. Now that
vaccines are mandated and the Government compensates
those injured, drug companies have no incentive to improve
the safety of their vaccines; additionally a false sense of
safety has been created. Drug companies are effectively
avoiding legal accountability for vaccine reactions by
publishing product inserts detailing the host of reactions
possible; of course, these inserts are not immediately
available to parents. Those who write the laws mandating
vaccination are not accountable. In essence, the current
situation surrounding vaccination, denial of parental
prerogative, inaccessibility to timely information about
vaccine safety amounts to denial of informed consent. An
alarming number of new vaccines, some against diseases
to which children in this country are unlikely to ever be
exposed, are about to be introduced and mandated for our
children. In addition, legislation is expected to be
introduced which would establish a national tracking
system which would maintain surveillance of children's
vaccine using their social security numbers. (This situation
in the USA)
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4. Suppressions in Homoeopathy
GARN Michael (JAIH, 87, 2/1994)
This is directed primarily towards laypersons; it may prove
useful as a model for hand-out literature for our patients.
Definitions of disease suppression are provided. A full
array of suppressive influences, medical and non-
medical, is described. Virtually any therapeutic technique
(meaning any agent which is capable of affecting us
psychologically or physiologically) can be
suppressive. Whether a particular therapy is acting
curatively, suppressively, or merely holding symptoms "at
bay" depends on the knowledge and skill of the
practitioner as well as the patient, which makes it
extremely important for all of us to remain vigilant about
the results of specific therapies. We also must not
ignore the disease-producing capabilities of the human
psyche, since many authorities attribute up to 80% of
human illness as having its origin in the imbalance of the
psyche. The possible consequences of suppression are
discussed. Finally a guide for how to avoid suppression,
both as a lifestyle choice and medical strategy, is
provided.
VI. BOOKS
1. Hombopathie in der Sportmedizin,
CONNERT, P.J.: 70 S., kart., Institut fur
hombopathische Heilweisen, Newmarkt
1992, bS 220,- (in German) (Homoeopathy in
Sports medicine) reviewed by APPELL (AHZ,
239, 3/1994)
"...A book-let that can be recommended sincerely
to non- qualified homoeopaths and interested patients
for study"
2. Empowerment through REIKI, by Paula
HORN, Lotus Light Shangrila, USA 1990
reviewed by Dr.D.E.MISTRY (CCR, 3, 2/1994):
"This slender book of about 100 pages covers
the principles and brief outline of the art of healing by
doing REIKI which is a form of healing in the holistic
tradition. Reiki is a word n Japanese for Universal Life
Force Energy.... In various chapters the book also gives
much valuable information and precepts in which one
finds many echoes of resemblances to homoeopathic
principle."
3. Bach flower remedies for Women by Judy
HOWARD, Indian Books and Periodicals,
New Delhi, reviewed by D.E. MISTRY, (CCR, 3,
2/1994):
"This book extensively covers in eight chapters the
topics of menstruation, fertility, pregnancy and
childbirth, and advancing age. ... The book also contains
a useful bibliography at the end..."
4. The Healing Power of Illness, - The Meaning
of Symptoms, how to Interpret them by
Thorwald DETHLETSEN and Rudger
DHALKE - translated by P. LEMESURIER,
published by Element, Rockport,
^ Massachusetts, 1990. reviewed by
D.E.MISTRY (CCR, 3, 2/94)
"This book is written by a spiritual psychologist, a
person who has trained himself as a Psychologist with
deep insight of many spiritual traditions, particularly
Zen, Tao and the Indian ones. His co-author is a doctor,
together they have written this book, the like of which
comes out once in a decade... Basically the book stresses the
fact that people cannot take illness as an alibi for their
unresolved problems. The patient is no longer the innocent
victim of some malevolent bacteria, viruses or quirks of
fate and destiny, but actually "authors" his or her own
sicknesses. It refuses to credit the ills of civilization to
convenient scapegoats like environmental pollution,
tension and stress of modern living, etc., but proceeds to
reveal symptoms as bodily expressions of
psychological conflicts,. -... one must understand the
language of symptoms which is dealt exhaustively in the
second part of the book. This demands a degree of honesty
that is not at all easy for after all, they add, it is always
easy to be dishonest to ourselves. Essentially therefore it
is knowing the difference between fighting illness and
transmuting illness. Healing arises exclusively from the
transmutator of illness never from conquering
symptoms..."
5. Peace, Love & Healing - The Path to Self
healing, by Bernie S.SIEGEL Arrow Books
Ltd. Rs.100/- reviewed by D.E, MISTRY (CCR,
3,2/1994):
"This book by Dr. SIEGEL - a Surgeon cum healer is
a sequel to his earlier best-seller Love, Medicine and
Miracles. The main thrust of both these books has been the
author's efforts of making the American medical education
more humanising and making the doctors there more
aware of the intricate unity of the Mind-Body connection.
Dr.SIEGEL's latest book is a moving masterpiece giving
innumerable examples of patients who had achieved
remarkable remissions and even cures from serious
terminal illnesses... This book offers a challenge to doctors
of both orthodox and homoeopathic medicines and
provides refreshing insight into the lives of many heroic
unknown and unsung warriors-patients condemned,
and doomed by their Oncologists, Pathologists and other
doctors quoting statistics of doom and despair and who
have survived both the dire statistics and the equally
confused treating doctors."
6. The Homoeopathic Proving of 'Chocolate',
published by Jeremy SHERR, Dynamis,
1993, 195 pages, paperback £9.95 reviewed
by Andreas N. BJORNDAL (The Homoeopath,
53, 1994):
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"....I have enjoyed reading the book. I am waiting
for my first case to turn up and for the experiende of
homoeopathic community of this new remedy. We can see
that the dichotomy between animal instinct and over
civilised behaviour which is obvious through the proving,
is a theme prevalent in our modern society both in the
most civilised parts of it and in the lower end of the
socio- economic spectrum."
7. Vaccinations - The Rest of the Story. A
selection of Articles, Letters and Resources
1979--92, publishd by Mothering ISBN
0.914257.10.2. Available from Mothering,
P.O.Box 1690, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504
USA. 240 pages, $14.95 + p&p. reviewed by
Sue ASQUITH (The Homoeopath, 53, 1994):
"In the emotionally vulnerable early period of
parenthood, the question of vaccination arises... I have
found this book to be an excellent introduction to the
complex issue of vaccination - it is accessible, helpful and
informative without being overwhelming... As a tool in
empowering patients to make their own health choices, I
can highly recommend this book."
8. Homoeopathy: An introduction for Skeptics
and Beginners, by Richard GROSSINGER,
North Atlantic Books, 1993, paperback, 162
pages, reviewed by Alison MARSLAND (The
Homoeopath, 53, 1994):
"... For the beginner, this book will provide a more
interesting and contextual introduction to the subject than
one based solely upon homoeopathic principles and
methodology..."
9. The Manual of Conventional Medicine for
Alternative Practitioners Volume I. by
Stephen GASCOIGNE. Jigme Press, 1993,
231 pages, soft cover.$22. (The Homoeopath,
53, 1994):
"...This is a book that has been begging to be
written for a long time and could become a standard
textbook at homoeopathic colleges."
10. Dirty Medicine by Martin WALKER,
Slingshot Publications, 1993, 729 pages,
paperback, £15. (The Homoeopath, 53,1994):
"...It will reinforce everything you always
suspected and feared about our antagonists.
Disturbing stuff, not for the faint- hearted."
VII. NEWS & NOTES
I. The 6th Congress of the Asian Homoeopathic
Medical League was held in Dhaka City, Bangla Desh,
on 15-17 January 1994. The Congress was
inaugurated by Bangla Desh Minister for Information,
Mr. Nazmul Huds. Delegates from India, Pakistan,
Bangla Desh, Malaysia, Singapore, Hongkong and
Australia took part. Scientific sessions were held on
Family Planning, Geriatrics, Child Health, Open
subjects (AHJ, 4,1/1994)
II. Proving of Latrodectus mactans by H.
LESIGANG, Documenta Homoeopathica, 1992, 12:
271-82. (Austrain Journal annual in German): Two
Austrian provings in 1989, yielded 11 records suitable
for evaluation. Another 16 records come from a
proving done by 16 physicians using the Becker
method in 1992.
General symptoms were of no particular interest.
Headache and dryness took various forms. The most
remarkable symptoms related to the whole of the
musculature, skeletal muscle, smooth muscle and
myocardium. Spasms and colics were dominant and also
feelings of constriction. With reference to the heart, provers
described feelings of tension, feeling as if the heart was
leaping out through the throat, with variable degrees of
fear. The proving yielded no symptoms relating to
bronchial musculature (known from the toxicology).
Effects on the digestive tract were powerful, with colic
predominating. Stools were sometimes soft, even
explosive, but more characteristically small, hard
nodules difficult to pass. The symptom 'painful stool', as if
lower part of intestine were contracting! describes the
contractive, spastic effect in this area extremely well and is
a valuable 'as if'symptom. Two provers reported aversion
to, or intolerance of nicotine and alcohol.
Spasm and colic were also reported in the genital
region. Muscle stiffness was a feature relating to skeletal
muscle, and the symptom was also reported in the
tongue. No distinct laterality emerged, though the right
side was more frequently affected. Modalities were 'better
in the evening and at night' and 'pain better from pressure'.
(BHJ, 83, 1/1994) (See excellent study of this remedy
By Edward C. WHITMONT in his book Psyche and
Substance = KSS.)
III. Modification of Korsakoff's method of
producing high potencies by hand by H. BRUNNER,
Documenta Homoeopathica, 1992: 271-82 (Austrian
annual Journal in German): The author uses the multi-
vial method of the homoeopathic pharmacopaeia up
to the 200c. He then puts 1 drop of the dilution into a
5 ml. vial, adding 99 drops of 43% ethanol. Succussion
is by Hahnemann's method, using 20.succussion
strokes, but instead of striking the vial against an
elastic base he makes a lemniscate (figure of 8) motion
in the air. The vial is emptied with a vigorous downward
shake, which leaves 1 drop inside. 99 drops of ethanol
are added and the process is repeated 800 times to
obtain the 1M. A careful record is kept of every
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potentizing stage.
The 300c, 400c, 500c etc. are kept for later use to
produce the higher potencies. They are succussed 50 times
to improve stability.
Advantages of the method are reduced risk of
introducing impurities and a reduction in time and
materials required. Homoeopathic physicians have
reported that medicines produced by this method show
particularly good efficacy. The author has clearly given
much thought to potentization methods and careful
consideration to the literature. (BHJ, 83, 1/1994)
IV. The growing demand for Homoeopathy in
veterinary practice is reflected by the increasing
number of articles appearing in the journals. The
British and the Germans have made most progress,
with the French not far behind as a result of their work
in proving medicines on animals. FARRE, the French
veterinarian, is reported to have tested around 90
medicines on a variety of animal species. His results
reveal that the drug pictures are similar to those
obtained in humans as far as objective symptoms are
concerned. In this reprinted introductory paper some of the
advantages of veterinary Homoeopathy are discussed and
a few examples of treatment given. (P. HAMLICK in
Biol.Ther. 1993; 1:15-17. BHJ, 83,1/1994)
V. In the NEJH, 2, 3/1993, Dr. Vassilis GHEGAS
has reported a case of arthritis deformans. The only
clear physical modality in the whole case was the fact
that the pain was aggravated by change of weather
and ameliorated by thinking of anything but his pains
(Thinking, complaints of, agg.) and Piper methysticum
gave relief. Inthe NEJH, 3,1/1994, Dr. D. P. RASTOGI
reports (Letter to the Editor) his experience in which a
11-year-old boy with frequent episodes of Asthma was
cured with this remedy on the same modality (he got
the attacks when he realized that it was quite some
time since the last time he had had an attack).
VI. Dr. Bill GRAY spoke in the Level III Course of
the New England School of Hooeopathy on August
14, 1993 in Northampton, Massachussetts (USA). It
was divided in three parts: evaluation and discussion
of a single case with follow-up that covered seven
years ("the long-term case"), an extensive
introduction to the Materia Medica and essential
nature of Thujaand a differential into various types of
anger with relevant Materia Medica.
Paul HERSCU made atwo hour presentation on
various models with which practitioners can perceive
complete cases.
VII. Representatives of twelve American
organizations which teach Homoeopathy met in
Minneapolis (USA) during the week-end of March
11 -13 to discuss the present and future of American
homoeopathic education. The meeting was
sponsored by the Homoeopathic Community Council
and was largely organized by Edward CHAPMAN M.D.
The two main points which was agreed to were: the
need to increase the total number of seats for
homoeopathic students and the glaring need at all the
educational institutions lor increased clinical training.
Without the latter, all of our programmes fall short.
(NEJH, 3,2/1994)
VIII. Auroville Healing Centre, Pondicherry, India: A
collective, spiritual experiment was started with the
name of Auroville, "City of Dawn" a town project with
the ideal of realizing human unity as envisioned by SRI
AUROBINDO and THE MOTHER of Sri Aurobindo
Ashram, Pondicherry. The Auroville community
comprises of over 800 members from more than 25
nations. The main work of health care for the native
and immigrant population has been taken up by the
Auroville Health Centre at Auroville-Aspiration, which
has been functioning since 1972.
It is proposed to integrate the most extremes of the
entire field of medical care and healing, where the monism
of modern Physics meets the monism of timeless
spirituality, where the knowledge of scientific medicine
meets the knowledge in detail of occult sciences, where
physico-chemical approaches and psychosomatic
approaches will be seen as complementary and where
the knife and the healing by silent psycho-spiritual means
can cooperate for the sake of health and well-being. There
should be a place for the latest scientific developments, for
systems of energy healing like Homoeopathy and
Acupunctre,for knowledge of various occult and Yoga
schools, and for new methods not yet known.
The project envisages besides hospital facilities,
research and education also. (CCR, 3, 2/1994)
IX. International Research Group on Very Low Doses
and High Dilution Effects, Vllth GIRI Meeting 20-21
November 1993, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of
Montpellier, 34060 Montpellier, France: (BHJ, 83,2/1994)
The Annual meeting of GIRI consists of invited
lectures and presentation of scientific papers. The aim of the
Society is to stimulate research in the particlar field of
very low dose and high dilution effects, including
Homoeopathy. This kind of research requires the co-
operation of many scientists -physicists, biologists,
mathematicians, physicians, philosophers and
pharmacologists amongst others. Year by year the
number of presentations on high dilutions increased
while the dose has decreased!
The following questions are posed:
How can high dilutions act efficiently when they
theoretically contain no molecules?
Why do some in-vitro or in-vivo experiments using
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high dilutions not show consistent results?
A whole new paradigm has been proposed and built
around these unanswered questions. A new theory of
Physics which explains the effect of high dilutions which
is supported by new statistics which enable us to
comprehend the inconsistency of the experimental
findings. The theory and the new statistics inevitably lead
us to a new paradigm distinct from the mechanistic one--a
paradigm of information. We must now take into account
the receiver and his ability to deal with the information of
our high dilutions.
1. Radiation hormesis: LUCKEYT.D.: A recent review of
current literature on radiation hormesis considers cancer
mortality in humans following whole-body exposures to
ionizing radiation. Other physiological functions show
radiation hormesis. Studies of chronic exposure to
ambient levels of ionizing radiation show an inverse
relationship between dose rate and cancer mortality.
The decreased cancer mortality rates in exposed nuclear
workers confirm the biopositive effect of low-dose
irradiation. Acute exposure to ionizing radiation is
exemplified by the ageing Japanese survivors of atomic
explosions. The total cancer mortality and leukaemia
mortality rates of lightly exposed survivors is consistently
less than that of the control population. The evidence
provides a new and scientifically valid concept. Cancer
mortality rates are lowered by exposure to low dose of
ionizing radiation. This invalidates the zero thesis that all
radiation is harmful. The use of linear, no-threshold models
should cease. New concepts raise new questions. Questions
like the optimum level of radon, alpha, beta, gamma and
X-rays for babies, children, old, etc. whether whole
populations should be supplemented, the relationship of
radiation hormesis to other medical treatments,
particularly to Homoeopathy are raised.
2.Mechanistic approach to the effect of high
dilutions of cadmium to protect from cytotoxic
cadmium doses in renal tubular cell cultures:
DELBANCUT A., BARROUILLET M.A.,
MARY-BRACHET R., BOUDO A., DORFMAN P.,
CAMBAR J.: Cadmium and Cisplatin both have strong
toxic effects on renal tubules. A study to assess the
protective effect of very high dilutions of Cadmium and
Cisplantin was carried out. The study has shown that
very high dilutions of heavy metals have a protective
effect in cells exposed 10 cytotoxic concentrations of
the same metals after a 5-day pre-treatment. This
study opens the way to further investigation in order
for us to clearly understand the mechanism of the
protective effect of very high dilutions against
nephro-toxic agents so that we may reduce their side
effects in clinical use.
3.Mild stepdown arsenite treatment causes
increased levels of heat-shock proteins and
enhances development of tolerance: WIEGANT
F.A.C., OVELGONNE J H., SOUREN JEM, VAN WIJK
R.: Do pathological conditions as a result of
stress-damage regress on exposure to a low-dose of
the stressor, as in Homoeopathy? Do biological
systems in pathological conditions show enhanced
sensitivity? Does low-dose treatment improve the
regulatory ability of biological systems in pathological
conditions? The experiments give a positive answer.
4. Biological effects of low-dose radiation
from a TV set on embryos and chicks: Study of a
protective material: BODARD B.J., YOBICIER-SIMO
B.J., BAYLE J.D., BASTIDE M.: The study was
performed to evaluate the effects of radiation from a
TV set on fertilized eggs and chicks for 47 days after
hatching. The protective material was TECNO AO
antenna.
5. Preventive effects of monoclonal
anti-idiotypic antibody compared to a hormetic
model on rat sarcomas: FAIDERBS S., CHAGNAUD
J.L, BASTIDE M., DORFMANN F., GEFFARD M. : A
chemically induced malignant tumour model was
obtained by subcutaneous administration of a single
dose of benzo (a) pyrene (B(a)P) diluted in sesame oil.
The results suggested possible relationships between
carcinogen ligand/receptor interactions and Ptdlns
turnover. To examine tne possible vaccine effects of
AIBI Ab, this was administered to rats prior to
carcinogen administration, another group was given
B(a)P and the control group an equivalent volume of
solvent. Eight days later all SD female rats were given a
sub-cutaneous injection of 2 mg. of B(a)P diluted in sesame
oil. Anti-Ptdlns autoAB levels observed in AIBI Ab-treated
rats sera were around 70% weaker than those observed in
rats treated with 1 /jg of B(a)P or control animals.
6. Perennial challenge of anomalies at the
frontiers of science: RUBIK B.: Anomalies are of
critical importance to science. The history of science
is full of some very notable rejections of novel
discoveries that challenged the status quo. Always
unacceptable at first, anomalies promote continuous
scientific innovation. Many of the too challenging
anomalies are from 'frontier sciences' i.e. whole areas
of scientific inquiry that lie outside conventional
science. Despite its failure to explain many
phenomena science maintains a facade of unity and
of being nearly complete. Frontier scientists
apparently have a higher tolerance for ambiguity and
cognitive dissonance, which in psychological testing
highly correlates with creativity. Whereas
conventional science maintains that biological
information is stored and transferred via biomolecular
structures such as DNA, the findings from the four
frontier areas (1. Epigenetics, 2. Acupuncture,
3. Bioelectromagnetics, and 4. Homoeopathy and
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infinitesimal doses) suggest that other informational
signals not stored in chemical structures may elicit
biological effects by altering the subtle signals
involved in biological regulation of the whole
organism. It is crucial for scientists working in various
unconventional areas to come together and explore
how their anomalous discoveries fit together to form
the rudiments of an emerging theory or paradigm.
7. Certain specific functional responses of
human neutrophil exhibit different
dose-dependence on formyl peptides:
BELLAVITE P., CHIRMBOLO S.,
SOANTONASTASO C, GUZZO P., SIGNORINI A.
8. Experimental Pharmacology: action of
Chamomilla in homoeopathic dilutions on the
CNS: CRISTEA A., TEODORESCU, S.,
PARASCHiV, L: The effects of Chamomilla as a
homoeopathic medicine on the central nervous
system were studied in mice and rats using the blind
screening methodology known in conventional
Pharmacology. Low-3 and 5-and high—15 and 30
dilutions were prepared by the Hahnemannian
technique, and these were used. Comparison was
made to untreated control and placebo groups
(treated either with the corresponding undynamized
Chamomila dilution or with the solvent).
The results indicate that in 'sensitive' healthy animal
organisms with hypomotility, low dilutions of
Chamomilla had a stimulating effect on the central
nervous system. The results also showed high dilutions
to have some effects in the opposite sense, namely
inhibition of the central nervous system (calming,
anticonvulsant, analgesic) in 'sensitive' healthy animal
organisms (with hypermotility, hyperexcitability and
hypersensitivity) or in animal organisms with
experimentally induced morbid syndromes
(convulsions, pain). These pharmacotherapeutic
effects experimentally prove the validity of the
homoeopathic principle Similia Similibus Curentur.
The results also confirm the concept of organisms
'sensitive' related to certain homoeopathic medicines that
is implied and used in homoeopathic treatment.
9. Effect of potentised interferon alpha on
tumour cell growth: MARTHEL, M.: The study was
carried out in the Department of Applied Microbiology,
University of Lublin, Poland, by Martina KANDEFER,
Esbieta MALARCYZK and Michael BARTHEL.
Interferon can stimulate and inhibit the antiviral
resistance of cells as was shown in the experiments with
dilutions upto 1 : 1080. The results also show the
importance of vigorous shaking for the activity of very
high dilutions in comparison with merely using a pipette
without shaking, in which case no activity was observed
with higher dilutions than 1 : 104.
10. Effect of Arnica montana and
Symphytum officinalis on bone healing in guinea
pigs: OBERBAUM M., YAKOVLEV E, KAUFMAN D.,
SHOSHAN S.: The present preliminary study was
designed to test our working hypothesis according to
which the administration of both Arnica and
Symphytum to guinea pigs, following experimentally
induced bone fractures, would both accelerate and
improve healing.
The results showed that by X-ray criteria none of the
untreated controls or saline-treated fractures were
completely mineralized. Histological examination
revealed there was still conspicuous presence of cartilage
and also some fibrous tissue at the fracture site. In the
animals which received either of the two dilutions of
Arnica and Symphytum, and irrespective of the mode of
administration, both X-rays and histology showed
completely mineralized new bone through the entire
fracture site in 33% of the fractures. The experiments were
repeated three times, with the same result.
11. Effect of in-ovo administration of high
dilutions of bursin in bursectomized chicks:
YOUBICHER-SIMO B.J., BOUDARD F.. GUELLATI M.,
BAYLE J.D., BASTIDE M.: Chicks bursectomized as
early embryos can produce different classes of
immunoglobulins (IgM, IgG and IgA) but are unable to
generate specific antibodies in response to antigenic
stimulation. The aim was to study the effect of high
dilutions of bursin, a tripeptide synthesized by the
bursectomized chickens.
12. Arsenicum album and neurotoxic
poisoning in dogs and cats: BLOSTIN R.: Veterinary
surgeons have to give emergency treatment to dogs
and cats with acute poisoning by neurotoxic agents,
without knowing the toxic agent and the doses
absorbed. For more than 6 years, we have been
systematically and solely using Arsenicum album (AA) with
remarkable success. AA is only prescribed when 3
symptoms appear together:
- muscular hyperexcitability,
- aggravation through visual, auditory and
tactile stimuli,
- anguish
AA in 15 c potency was used, per os, in repeated doses,
half-hourly at first, then less frequently following
improvement. A bibliographical study of the toxic agents
responsible for neurointoxication in dogs and cats shows
that the 3 above symptoms are present in poisoning
with arsenic, strychnine, organophosphorus compounds
and carbamates, but not with methaldehyde which is
confirmed by the clinical results. The results are much more
satisfactory than those obtained from the classic
conventional treatment. In 6 years, only 4 out of 50
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animals died, 80% returned home within 12 hours and
100% within 24 hours. No side effects were noted.
13. Climbing activity of frogs: Recalculation
and further discussion: ENDLER P.C., PONGRATZ
W., HILLGERS H., MALTI K., GEHRER M.,
BRANDMAIER R.: In previous communications it was
claimed that homoeopathically prepared highly
diluted Thyroxine (aqueous 30th diultion) is able to
accelerate development from the two-legged tadpole
to the air-borne juvenile in highland frogs, under the
condition that the dilutions of Thyroxine 30x (Water
30x for control) are sealed in glass vials placed in the
aquaria and remain in the aquaria during
metamorphosis. High statistically significant levels
were observed and these were communicated earlier.
Further critical discussions and recalculations of the
data have confirmed the earlier findings, thus
confirming what have been observed in Homoeopathy
for about 200 years. (See also BHJ 80, 4/1991. QHD
IX, 4/92 p.68).
14. Effects of Ocimum basilicum 5x in
workers chronically exposed to Chlorine: CHIRILA
M., LAZAR T., BADULICI S.: The hypothesis was that
Ocimum basilicum may help prevention of
occupational diseases in workers exposed to various
agents. Its effects on the clearance activity of
oxygen-free radicals were investigated in 31 workers
chronically exposed to Chlorine for an average period
of 10 years. These were compared to 9 non-exposed
workers. Ocimum basilicum 5x was chosen for study.
Its direct action on on Polymorphonuclear cells (PMN)
and its effects in comparison with various stimulants
such as Zymosan (Zo), Phytohemaglutinin (PHA),
concanavalin A (Con A) were followed up in order to
assess its mechanism of action.
Our data demonstrate the plant action of clearing the
oxygen-free radicals, which could account for the anti-
inflammatory effect of Ocimum basilicum that was
already observed by HIPPOCRATES. The anti-
inflammatory and antitoxic activity of Ocimum basilicum
demonstrated in this paper recommends it as a widely
available means for the prevention of occupational
diseases in workers chronically exposed to chemical
noxious agents.
15. Zinc: immunoglobulin relationship to
patients with cirrhosis of the liver before and after
treatment with Zincum metallicum 5cH.: BADULICI
S., CHIRULESCU Z., CHIRILA P., ROSCA A.: Zinc
deficiency in patients showed substantial
improvements after treatment with homoeopathic
Zincum metallicum; the study also supported the
conclusion that Zincum metallicum is effective in the
treatment of liver cirrhosis.
16. AIDS and integral medicine: A controlled
time-serial design: BRANDS M., BALLIEUX R.,
WAGENAAR R, GODEART G., VORST H, GARSSEN
B., MULDER C: With a network of researchers from
different disciplines, such as
psycho-physio-immunology, psychology,
bio-psycho-social medicine, movement sciences
protocol has been designed for 1993 and 1994 to be
carried out. This research is the first part, or pilot-study
of a study to assess efficacy of Homoeopathy,
Detoxification and Imagination therapy in AIDS
patients. The common denominator of the three
therapies is that they are supposed to stimulate the
immune system. Homoeopathy does so by releasing
an energy stimulus which is highly specific for the
person and his reaction to the disease; detoxification
purified by dynamized solutions and symbiotic
therapy the intestines, liver and kidneys, while
Imagination therapy relieves stress by bringing fears
and pain into consciousness.
17. Electromagnetic bio-information and
water: SMITH Cyril W.: The phenomena of
bio-information and water are considered in relation
to electromagnetic phsnomena involved in treating
electromagnetically hypersensitive patients, and the
therapeutic use of water imprinted with an alternate
magnetic field. Frequency information can be written
into water by magnetic fields or by succussion
(mechanical shock waives) and it can be read out
subjectively. Under suitable conditions it may be
detectable with a low-noise, narrow-band high-gain
amplifier or a signal analyser. It is suggested that the
frequency information is carried on the magnetic
vector potential and that the magnetic field or
succussion 'formats' the water. The dimensions of the
container used in potentization are also significant.
Patient's body frequencies can be imprinted into a
glass tube of water if held in a hand and preferably
succussed. This has been used for surrogate
diagnosis and subsequent therapy. A close similarity
exists between the potentization of homoeopathic
preparation and the production of neutralizing
dilutions of allergens by serial dilutions as used for the
treatment of allergy oy provocation neutralization
therapy. This reflects the fundamental duality between
coherent frequencies and the chemical bond.
18. Properties of water in relation to
homoeopathic preparations: ANTONCHENKO V.,
DELINICK A.N., ILYIN V.: Water has special physical
properties that allow it to carry information through
specific conformations or clusters via proton transfer
solitori mechanism. This is also specified by the
'impurity' or homoeopathic substance dissolved in the
water since there is a specific hydratic shell (cluster)
structure for each particle of a dissolved substance.
Statements concerning relationships between the
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characteristic processes occurring in water systems
and in homoeopathic preparations have been
prepared. Substances dissolved in water form
hydration shells. For certain substances these shells
have specific internal structures. There exist
substances which dictate specific internal structure of
hydration shells. Like human fingerprints, such a
structure is distinct for each substance. The internal
structure consists of closed chains of water
molecules. Protons can move along these chains
allowing for the earth's electromagnetic field. But only
internal structures possessing 'radiant' characteristics
are responsible for the homoeopathic effect. The
cellular water (aqua citi) in fact consists of such
electrically active clusters.
19.Potency measurement of homoeopathic
preparations: DELINICK A.N., BOURKAS P.,
KARAGIANOPOULOS C. : We are endeavouring to
qualify or standardize homoeopathic preparations by
basing them on measurement of the electrical
properties of different potencies and have developed
an electrical device for this purpose.
20.The Chamomilla experiment: DELINICK
A.N.: The aim of the study was to try and discern a
difference between double distilled water, potentized
Chamomilla (1 cH, 6cH, 12cH and 30cH) and
non-potentized Chamomilla by means of differential
scanning calorimetry, which measures changes in
enthalpy or integral heats of dilutions.
The experiment showed a difference between the
potentized and non-potentized Chamomilla and double
distilled water, as well as differences between potencies
and that everything holds, even past Avogadro's
number.
21. Physico-mathematical interpretation of
the pharmacological effect of high dilutions:
BERLIOCCHI, H., CONTE R.R.: In order to interpret
hormesis curves, we have introduced a new statistic:
the contonian statistic. The underlying mathematical
theory of this statistic is the theory of Ethers. This
theory is not prob abili st ic but is based on
indecidability. The physical frame which we are in is
related to the quantum theory of fields, in which the
central problem lies in the construction of a field. This
is solved by using the Ethers theory.
Examples of the method will be presented for different
types of contonian appearance outside hormesis and also
for the absorption of infrared in various products
(N03Na, hydrazine and acetic acid) at different decimal
dilution levels in water (1 to 30).
22. Physico-chemical approach to
homoeopathic drugs: LASNE Y.: Theoretically the
homoeopathic medicines are devoid of any molecule
of the substance used. How then do they work? This
prompted me to look for a method potentially allowing
us to differentiate between a homoeopathic solution
and the solvent used for its preparation. Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Infrared
Spectrometry were used with these two method sets
of dilutions were investigated and the results about the
homoeopathic solution showed:
- They were different from those arising from the
water used for their preparation.
- There was a difference between highly diluted
Natrum sulphuricum and Kalium iodatum.
- There is a difference between the different
dilutions inside one set corresponding to a
given substance (5 to 30cH for instance).
Indeed the two parameters measured in NMR
investigations which reflect of the structure and
molecular dynamics of the tested solution, showed great
variations between successive dilutions of one set within
one substance.
23. Validation of a contonian process on a
biological model: Antifungal substance high
dilution effects on Candida albicans: JOUVERT S.,
CONTE R.R., HERLIOCCHI H. BASTIDE M. : This
experiment has been proposed according to a new
physico-mathematical model called 'contonian
statistics' applied to the study of a hormetic effect
using high dilutions of toxin. The hormetic effect is
obtained with pretreatrnent of a pathogenic yeast,
Candida albicans, with high dilutions of an antifungal
substance, 5-fluro-cytosin (5-FC).
The results demonstrate the utility of contonian
statistics to assess the activity of hahnemannian dilutions
with in-vitro models. Using these new statistics, we
have demonstrated that the pathogenic yeast Candida
albicans is able to recognize high dilutions of an
antifungai substance like 5-FC, in order to present a higher
resistance to that substance: this phenomenon indicates an
information process in hormesis.
24. Study of dynamizations and
homoeopathic mother tinctures using Kirlian
spectrography: STELLING N.: Experiments were
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conducted with the aim of explaining the concept of
dynamization, its various forms and quality control,
and to estimate the dynamic quality of mother
tinctures. It seems that the Kirlian spectrography
method is simple and reliable to be put forward as a
routine method of quality control both for the
manufacturing laboratory and for the practitioner
issuing the prescription.
The Kirlian method enables the differentiation
through its vibrating energy of one product from
another, and to understand that information so provided
will be different depending on quality of the
dynamizations.
25. The concept of information: LAGACHE A.:
Until now, classical science has always used the same
fruitful pattern: the mechanistic paradigmwhere reality
is considered as a substantial piece of matter, with
mass and resistance, whatever the place or the time.
Something new has, however, happened in the
process. The refinement of observational capacities
has provided new objects. The new information as a
result of refinement of observational capacities have
become new objects of science. They have escaped
from the explanatory power of the mechanistic
paradigm. The new paradigm is paradigm of
information. Information is the result of the encounter
between two structures. The paradigm of information
is wholly applicable to living structures. They build
themselves by interacting with the world, and by
dealing with information from their surroundings.
Organisms can be described as informed- informing
structures.
26. Homoeopathic treatment of URI:
SCHUPPEL R. : Highly potentized medicines can
greatly influence the migration and phagocytosis of
macrophages and granulocytes. The stimulation of
lymphocytes has also been observed. These drugs
may also alter the humoral immune system. In fact, no
specific antibody-titre may be detected after the
prophylactic administration of diluted
influenza-vaccine, but a change in the pattern of
immunoglobulins has been observed. There is
evidence of some success in the treatment of upper
respiratory infections of Homoeopathy. Some clinical
data point to immunomodulation as a working
mechanism, but future research work shall have to be
carried out in order to clarify numerous unanswered
questions.
27. Cancer probability and remission:
QUERINJEAN P.: Chaodynamic theoretical
considerations and availability of immunoenzymatic
predictive tests allow to draw some models explaining
the predictability and the so-called 'spontaneous'
remission of cancers. Scientists need to build up a
multidisciplinary network where general practitioners
and voluntary citizens will participate in the
evaluations. Such a call has been launched through a
medical weekly in Belgium. The network is open to
any
scientist and doctor ready to share the feasibility of
preventive and predictive medicine.
28. Change-to-open label (COLA) design: A
modification of the conventional parallel group
design: WALACH H.: Research in alternative
medicine is sometimes hampered by the restraint
imposed on the researcher by conventional
methodology. A new design is introduced which
overcomes some of the ethical and organizational
problems of the traditional double-blind or controlled
parallel-group design, while preserving its scientific
rigour: the 'change-to-open-label (COLA) design'.
29. Long-term efficacy of combined classical
Homoeopathy, fasting and whole-food diet in atopic
dermatitis: A retrospective questionnaire study:
WALACH H., REISENEGER I., LINSENMANN E.:
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic skin condition. The
pathogenesis is only partly understood. Classical
Homoeopathy is purported to be an effective form of
treatment. We evaluated the long-term efficacy of a
combined treatment of AD, conducted under inpatient
conditions for 4-6 weeks. The treatment consisted of
classical Homoeopathy, fasting, and a whole-food diet,
together with radical termination of any conventional
treatment, including ointments. The data seem to suggest
that this type of treatment can be effective for AD, even
in the long-term, and warrants closer scrutiny of this type
of treatment, possibly by controlled trials.
X. The following abstract from the Revista
Homeopatica (Barcelona, Spain) 1991; 16: (BHJ, 83,
2/1994): The sensitive type and the essential points of
Causticum by Dr. Jacques LAMOTHE: LAMOTHE,
a french Paediatrician, gives an interesting account of the
Causticum child, stressing that this polychrest is generally
only used for the elderly or handicapped children. After 6
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years of investigation he places Causticum in 12th
position among the important paediatric medicines. He
describes 3 levels:
- The genius of Causticum
- The sensitive type of Causticum child
- The essence of Causticum in paediatrics
summarized in 15 characteristic symptoms.
He draws attention to the fact that the sensitive type,
although important, has no great value for prescribing,
but the patnogenetic symptoms, on the other hand, are
important. Such characteristics as large abdomen, thin,
hypotonia, flat feet, halluxvalgus, hernias, sweetness of
nature, generosity, tolerance and happiness indicate the
sensitive type of Causticum child but are not important
for prescription.
Finally, Dr. LAMOTHE describes the 15 essential
symptoms of Causticum in Paediatrics:
- Physical and mental constitution
- Frightened of real/imaginary dangers
- Alternate good humour and irritability
- Although happy and gentle, offers frequent
opposition
- Late walking
- Stammering
- Dysphonia
- Incontinence of sphincters
- Uncoordinated in sports, clumsy
- Chronic constipation
- Chronic productive cough, otitis with serous
discharges, associated with warts
- Hypersensitive to cold baths
- Desires salt, aversion to sugar
- Thin but good appetite
(See also 'The Causticum child': QHD VIII, 4/91, p.68)
XI, Second International Congress on Ultra Low
Doses, Bordeux, October 1-2, 1993: (Report in the
BHJ, 83, 2/1994): Except for a few contributions from
Moscow and one from the USA all speakers (and the
audience) were natives. The Scientific Committee
used very strict criteria for the selection of papers and
60% of contributions were refused. For
methodological reasons all clinical studies had been
rejected. This is why it became a Congress on high
scientific level, but without bridging the gap between
theory and its concrete relevance to Homoeopathy.
Christian DOUTREMEPUICH, Professor of
Haematology demonstrated the clear influence of high
dilutions of Acetylsalicylic acid in ultramolecular range
(upto10-6mol) on bleeding time and thrombus formation.
Benjamin BONAVIDA, Professor of
Immunology in Los Angeles, spoke about his in vitro
experiments on anti-tumour cytotoxicity of Ultra Low
Doses with potential to overcome the problems of
treatment resistance.
Ms BURLAKOVA from the Academy of Sciences
in Moscow showed the bimodal nature of dose-effect
dependence, using many examples.
Prof. ASHMARIN was an exception among the
Russian speakers. His study on the reduction in the
convulsion threshold of rats given thyroxine-releasing
hormone in ultra low dose produce a cascade effect in the
neuronal system with far-reaching consequences.
Dr.JONAS from Washington in co-operation with
Dr.LINDE from Munich, carried out a meta-
analysis of serially agitated dilutions in experimental
toxicology.
A.REBER, Neurophysiologist in Rouen,
demonstrated the clear influence of Cocculine (a mixture
of 4 substances in 10-8 mol) on motion sickness in rats.
BELON and SAINTE-ALUDY discussed the current
status of their experiments with Histamine in ultra low
dose on the activation of basophils and continued with a
study on the influence of an H2-antagonist (Cimetidine)
in this model.
TESSIER et.al. were not able to prove that Cuprum
4cH and 15cH stimulates intestinal transit in mice,
because numbers were insufficient and the statistical
method did not suit the purpose.
The Congress closed with an interesting
discussion.
XII. The Editorial by Dr.D.T. REILLY (BHJ, 83,
2/1994) reveals a proposal by the Faculty of
Homoeopathy, London, for Certificate of Primary Care
Homoeopathy: "The Academic Department of Glasgow
Homoeopathic Hospital is about to pilot a Certificate of
Primary Care Homoeopathy. This experiment on behalf
of tne Faculty of Homoeopathy, is scheduled for Spring
1994. We believe it is timely, and this editorial is asking
you to contribute to refining its aims and scope."
"In the future, primary cares will use what are
now seen as complementary therapies as first-line
treatments. The more costly and risky conventional
interventions will become second-line alternatives.
You may think this exaggerated: 10 years ago it
seemed untenable. Interest in so-called alternative
medicine lay hidden underapparently smooth medical
waters, visible only through the imaging technique of
an anonymous questionnaire. The interest has since
surfaced, and the medical Titanic may not yet have
grasped the significance
"
XIII.
In a communication Dr.Jennifer JACOBS writes
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(Homoeopathy and Paediatrics: Our responsibility for
the Future, BHJ, 83, 2/1994): The best way to the
advancement of the planet is the raising of healthy
children and there is no better way for that than
Homoeopathy; children who are emotionally and
physically healthy. The medical problems of the
developing world and the technologically advanced
world are different. The rise in mental and emotional
problems is due to the suppressive treatment and the
excessive medication. Mental diseases in children
such as hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorder and
minimal brain dysfunction are all increasing. Similarly
emotional disorders like depression and violence,
suicide, children murdering children, guns and knives
carried by 11 year-olds to the schools etc. are all
experienced in the advanced countries.
A typical suppressive treatment is seen in the asthma
of children. The result is that over the years of suppressive
treatment by strong drugs the child develops emotional
and mental disorders. By treating the children from early
age through Homoeopathy these mental and behavioural
disorders can be prevented and sound health maintained.
In the developing world Homoeopathy is a safe cost-
effective treatment modality for the many common
childhood illnesses that claim lives.
Several research and educational initiatives must take
place and Homoeopathy must step out into the world of
Public Health.
XIV.
The British Homoeopathic Society,
incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1950 to
become the Faculty, completed 150 years in 1994.
(BHJ, 83,2/1994)
XV.
The British Labour Party has called for
'complementary therapies' to be made more readily
available under the NHS The Faculty has proposed
for making high-quality Homoeopathy fully integrated in
the NHS structure, readily available to all sections of the
British people. (BHJ, 83, 2/1994) XVI. The Midlands
Branch 19th Annual Symposium was held in Selly Oak PGC
on 13th November 1993. (BHJ, 83, 2/1994) Paediatrics in
Homoeopathy was the theme for the forenoon session.
Dr.GOODYEAR described five cases he had
diagnosed using Psionic medicine and which all needed
nosodes.
Dr.V.KLEIN: 6-year-old boy with soiling; small, thin
child with offensive stools and wet trousers. Serious
person affected by music. Phosphorus and a month later
Natrum muriaticum followed by Carcinosin.
4-year-old boy with behaviour problems, Asthma,
cough and catarrh, Sulphur 30, then Drosera 30 and
Antimonium tartrate made him a different boy.
Dr.D.LEWIS: 11-year-old boy: Asthma,
anticipatory fears especially of dying, sweaty and musical.
Lycopodium 30 tds for 3 days helped to stop Becotide and
reduce Ventolin.
11 year-old boy: having needed a heart transplant,
presented with bilateral discharging ears, unresponsive to
antibiotics. After a dose each of the Nosodes E.Coli, Proteus
and Staphylococcinum, the ears dried up in 24 hours.
3-year-old girl was admitted agitated and confused;
developed a le f t hemiplegia; all investigations negative.
She had chickenpox a month before and a dose of Varicella
followed by Arsenicum album had her up and walking after
four weeks.
Dr.Mollie HUNTON: 4-year-old boyxhest
infections, wheeze, sweating, loss of weight and clubbing.
Diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma, stage ivB and a
quadruple chemotherapy was started immediately.
Severe reaction to the second triple-vaccine was
elicited and later he suffered a severe thrombocytopaenic
reaction to Chickenpox. Thuja 30, Variolinum XM and
Carcinosin 30 brought about a dramatic improvement.
3-year-old boy: Chest infection after
Chickenpox. Given Amoxil and next day worse.
Belladonna and then Variolinum brought
improvement.
3-month-old girl, with a strawberry naevus on her
occiput and neck. Phosphorus 6 t.d.s. and in two months the
naevus disappeared.
Dr.June BURGER: 3-year-old boy diagnosed
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
in 1983. Never been well
since measles an year before. Morbillinum followed by
Silica 6 (muscular spasms). Muscle tone gradually
improved.
13-year-old boy with
Myalgic Encephalitis.
Never been
well since a flu-like illness with nausea, headaches,
lethargy and insomnia. Sulphur, Lycopodium, Natrum
sulphuricum 6 and Echinacea 6 all b.d. for three months at
the end of which he was 70% on the ME scale (from 30%).
Dr. R. LIVINGSTON (post-lunch session) on 'The
intuitive in Medicine': Instinct and Intuition are very
important in medicine and show as empathy, timing,
silence, chance remarks, strange, rare and peculiar
symptoms and moderation in the degree of involvement
with the patient. The doctor's intuition may help to decide
to visit the child who turns out to have meningococcal
meningitis. Touch is the most sensitive sense. Intuition is
difficult to define as it is intangible but George
VITHOULKAS defines it as an overall view from facts
unconsciously or consciously founded.
Dr. D. CURTIN: on 'The Totality of Symptoms': ref.
paragraphs 15, 18 153, 210 of the
Organon,
KENT'S
Lecture (hierarchy of symptoms)
(Simile,
4, 2/1994 issued
with the BHJ, 83, 2/1994)
XVII.
Dr. Steven KAYNE of the British Faculty reports
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(Simile,
4, 2/1994 issued with the BHJ 83, 2/1994): a
total of 59 pharmacists enrolled for the 1993 Basic
Homoeopathic Pharmacy Courses in London and
Glasgow with 53 completing the assessment
satisfactorily and gaining the Faculty certificate.
Teresa CATHERALL said that since neither
Homoeopathy nor Allopathy is able to explain itself
fully nor is always able to provide a cure, both should
enterthe 21 st century in a complementary mode. John
LENZAN outlined how the development of new
concepts and theories; in Physics had influenced
homoeopaths in their quest for a rational explanation
of the mode of action of homoeopathic remedies.
Hilary PEARMAIN and Alison KEANE dealt with the
difficult subject of homoeopathic legislation. The
standard of the students who took part was high.
XVIII.
This news must cheer the heart of every
homoeopath. In November 1993 an M.Sc. programme
in homoeopathic medicine was successfully validated
at Liverpool John Moores University. It may well be the
first ever M.Sc. award in homoeopathic medicine, and
is certainly the first in the European Union. The M.Sc.
programme will run frcm October 1994 and will be
based in the Centre for Health Studies. The course has
three levels: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate
Diploma and M.Sc.
(Simile,
4, 2/1994 issued with the
BHJ, 83,2/1994).
XIX.
Edward CHAPMAN and Guy HOAGLAND's
views of the American Institute Homoeopathy's
positions regarding MD homoeopaths and allopaths,
has been commented upon by Randall
NEUSTAEDTER in th e JAIH, 87, 2/1994.
NEUSTAEDTER calls the attitude of the above two as
"courting the allopaths"; he forcefully argues that it
was such a desire which led to the downfall of
Homoeopathy in the USA; he also points out that it is
the non-medically qualified homoeopaths -
VITHOULKAS, CATHERINE COULTER, Paul
HERSCU, et al, all well-known classical homoeopaths - who
have not only trained good homoeopaths but also written
such books and repertories as to be considered highly useful.
He asserts that allopaths can never absorb, integrate, or
accept Homoeopathy.
Edward CHAPMAN replies that it is time we stopped
speaking of "we and they", and that the divisiveness has
deterred Homoeopathy in the past and "continues to
threaten to do so again". He feels that the allopaths - our
colleagues - and ourselves must attune to each other.
XX.
The Homoeopathic Links (Indian Edition) Vol.7,
2&3/1994 was a 'compilation' of the Homoeopathic
Links Vol.1-3. The
Materia Medica
Section has some
nice pictures. Some extracts:
Nux Vomica: Ambitious, hard, sexual people. One of
the most sexually aggressive remedies like Tarentula,
especially in men.
Natrum muriaticum: Impossible for them to go into
detail about emotional traumas, they replace sexual needs
by internal fantasies. Dependency is a humiliating state for
them. Presents a face to the world that they think is right
regardless of how they feel. Alternating headaches with
stomach problems.
Magnesium muriaticum: Unusual personality, cannot
accept the way things are. These are the people that fight
for the minorities in society. Cannot tolerate injustice but
won't use violence of any kind. Peace-makers, cannot bear
conflict.
Sulphur: The egocentrism of Sulphur is sometimes
unbelievable to see! lives for self, not really caring for
others. "Playing comedy" full of self-importance and
haugtiness. Think of Sulphur when you see the over made-
up woman or the man with too much perfume or after-shave.
Sulphur is very sensitive to smell, even the smell of their
own body. 30% of Sulphur cases can be chilly. Frequent
waking after midnight; Vertigo: water, crossing, running;
Walking over water; cannot look down from a bridge at
running water below. Motion of tongue lapping to and fro.
Phosphorus: Give themselves totally, they become
overwhelmed by their feelings. Easily angry but also
sensitive and sentimental and regret their action
immediately. They cannot hold in theirfeelings, bad or good
they have to come out, may even stutter because they can't
articulate at same speed as their feelings. Great storytellers,
say everything with such enthusiasm and richness.
XXI.
Remedy Pictures: Notes from
GEUKENS-Seminar by Victor JENNI: (HL, 7, 3&4/94)
Bufo: It is to GEUKENS' credit that he has shed new
light on this remedy, showing that it is more applicable
to our modern age than we imagine. This remedy is
not limited to the feeble minded and senile.
Summary
of the remedy
Bufo:
Epilepsy with skin symptoms or inflammations.
Sensuous people, may have a sexual look in eye,
slightest touch arouses instinct.
Sleeps with finger in vagina.
Handles genitals
Rage when alone. Rage comes from irritation of brain
whereas in Stramonium it comes from unconscious
fears.
Foolish expression, childish behaviour, thick lips,
protruding or lapping tongue.
Prograthy.
Bites tongue during convulsion.
Biting tongue in spasm.
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Weeping at trifles
Hurried, restless and impatient.
Think of this remedy in autistic children.
Although BOERICKE says music is unbearable,
GEUKENS cases show that most like or have a special
affinity to music.
Comparison of Baryta carbonica and Bufo
Baryta carbonica Bufo
Feeble-minded Single minded; bright in one
specific subject
Timid - hides behind No timidity; does not take
mother notice of surrounding.
Sensual approach to others.
Slowness Impatient
Inactivity Restless; easily angry.
Sexually active.
Slow to learn Abnormal development
Focus: Glands Focus: Nervous system
and skin.
XXII. Nancy HERRICK in Berne Seminar: (HL, 7,
3S4/94)
Aurum: Importan: Key-notes: Moaning in sleep,
praying/meditating, talking a lot about business, suicidal
thoughts with rage or revenge, cryptorchism.
Modalities: better warmth, music.
GEUKENS in Berne Seminar:
Mercury: The cause comes from: Anger that is held
inside. (Colocynthis - cramp; Staphysagria -
hypersensitive; Causticum - fight). Inflexibility. Very
correct (Kali), with strong feelings towards traditions.
Mercury has a strong sense of national socialism, he reacts
to what he feels is unjust and can kill. Doesn't react
immediately bui boils inside and when the control goes it
all bursts out. Quiet on the outside but seething inside,
given away by the tremulous voice. Has the impulse to
kill but may not admit this.
XXIII. The Homoeopathic Links, 7.2&3/1994, carries
interesting articles from the first four years of the
journal. Many 'Seminar Reports' have been published
in these pages. Some extracts:
Roger MORRISON & Nancy HERRICK Seminar in
Berne in Sept. 1987.
Case Analysis: Seventeen ways to look at the case,
listed in hierarchical order:
1. Essence. Totality and Keynotes.
(Frequency approx. 1%, Results 100%)
2. Essence confirmed by Keynotes (F.15%,
R.95%)
3. Totality plus Keynotes (F.25%, R.85%)
4. Essence alone. (F.20%, R.70/80%)
5. Totality alone. (F.35%,R.50/60%)
6. Confirmatory Symptoms, (e.g.3
underlines, intensive)
7. Main Pathology. (Distinctive features of
Pathology)
8. Recent Pathology (repertorise as a layer)
9. 3 keynotes for 1 remedy (3 legged stool)
10. Keynote-essence, (essential point for
remedy usually a small remedy)
11. Combination of Symptoms.*
(Doublet/triplet)
12.3 Keynotes from one area.** (Mostly in
desires and aversions)
13.Combination of remedies (Keynotes for 2
remedies + at least one good symptom for the
combined remedies (e.g. Nats.)
14.2 strong Keynotes.
15.Nosode. (corresponding family history plus
at least 1 keynote)
16.1 very strong keynote.***
17.To open the case.
(When none of above are possible, try Sulphur when
the patient is hot, Nux vomica when patient is cold or
Sepia when the patient has no energy).
Essence is 3 dimensional including: Causation (grief),
Tempo (Sudden, gradual) Centre of pathology (headache),
it also includes the physical appearance and the
personality; Sometimes the essence can be described in a
word or a phrase e.g.- cowardice; soft and yielding.
Totality is 2 dimensional, i.e. rep.ertorisation. Keynote is
a particular symptom which points to a specific remedy.
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Uranium Sciatica agg. cough, bearing down at stool and
sneezing Tellurium
** Desires chicken, Averse sweet, fish = Graphites ***
Nocturnal emission is strong Keynote for Natrum
phosphoricum. Numbness of hands in morning is strong
Keynote for Phosphorus
Ananda ZAREN Seminar in Berne - Obstetrics and
Gynaecology: She gave a useful list of what she considers
to be the main hormonal remedies and introduced unusual
remedies like:
Viburnum opulus a major remedy for cramping pains
Aletris farinosa a polycrest in pregnancy for anaemia
and weakness
Symphoricarpus racemosa an important remedy
for nausea in pregnancy.
Hormonal remedies: i.e. anything to do with a
hormonal situation e..g headache since birth, menses
problems, etc. Arnica, Belladonna, Caulophyllum,
Cimicifuga, Gelsemium, Lachesis, Medorrhinum, Nux
vomica, Sabina, Secalu, Sepia, Sulphur.
Placenta praevia: important remedies: Calcarea
carbonica, Ipecacuanha, Kali carbonicum, Natrum
muriaticum, Nux vomica, Phosphorus, Sabina, Sepia,
Silicea, Veratrum album. To prevent perineal tears prepare
the perineum 5 weeks before the birth with regular
Calendula hot-packs, i.e. put 2 tablespoons of Calendula
on a wet flannel, place on the perineum with a heated
pad on top. This encourages softness and flexibility in
the perineal tissue. For healing of tears: Calendula30 plus
hot packs and sit-baths. Consider also Arnica,
Staphysagria, and BelHs perennis.
John HICKS and Angela BARRON gave a Seminar
in Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and how to
interpret the vast amount of non-verbal communication
that goes on during a consultation.
Often we unconsciously match our patients to put
them and ourselves at ease; if this is done consciously we
can elicit more information from our patients. It is difficult
to get information from a Mercury patient until they feel
really understood, i.e matched. If you lay back in a sloppy
Sulphur way with an Arsenicum patient you will get more
vital information. The more experience we have with
patients and the deeper understanding of Materia Medica,
the easier it becomes to elicit what lies behind the patient's
mask.
Some Notes from the Seminar of George
VITHOULKAS: We must be careful to discriminate the
real symptoms from those produced by the wrong remedy
given earlier. A case of a 6 year-old-child was heart-
rending. The case had developed due to the child being in
a state of grief when he contracted chicken pox. The
weakened organism thus developed a cerebellitis as a
response to the chicken-pox virus. Despite the paralysis
VITHOULKAS pointed out that the most important
symptom was the child's inability to keep down the food
and the remedy, to be correct, must change this life-
threatening symptom first. The overwhelming aura of
sadness, unusual in a child of 6, led to the prescription
oflgnatia. 3 days later he walked into the consultation.
"How are you?" VITHOULKAS asks "GOOD" was the
loud, definite reply. "And how were you before?" "SAD"
the reply, equally loud and definite! In acute cases it is
vital that the most life-threatening symptom must
show signs of improvement first.
VITHOULKAS' Seminar in Edipsos, Greece,
September 1988: Aurum: is an introverted character,
closed, responsible, refined and serious, they avoid
superficial contacts. They want to be the best and show
their capabilities by always working hard and keeping
busy. However, their tendency to self reproach, self
criticism and self distraction can lead to a suicidal
disposition. Two types of Aurum: the successful,
workaholic manager, and the anarchist or terrorist. Aurum
types have the impulse to jump from a high place to be free
from the inner suffering. This is a syphilitic remedy with
aggravation at night and general amelioration from cool
bathing, from music -especially classical music - from
walking in the open air + moonlight.
A patient with Crohn's disease began with gastric
problems 7 years ago, and later devloped severe
haemorrhage. The key to the case was shown when
VITHOULKAS brought out the tremendous sympathetic
character and intolerance to injustice in this patient. The
problems began after he witnssed the difficult labor of his
wife where he was unable to help. Following this he was
unable to have sexual contact for one year. This was a
Causticum case.
The second Causticum case was a follow-up of an
AIDS patient. He was sympathetic, a moralist and had a
fear to be alone. The follow-ups showed a decrease of the
cervical lymph nodes and the patient had also matured in
himself.
GEUKENS Seminar, Berne, April 1988:
Kali bromatum: may have general Kali picture with
swollen eye lids, bloated face, etc. Remedy has tendency
for apoplexy. Note unusual rubrics: Delusions, God, is
object of God's vengeance K.26; Restlessness, hands,
K.1187 Patient may be constantly wringing hands.
Cimicifuga: Loquacious, similartoLaches/s but chilly.
Stiffness in cervical region, amel. riding in a car, agg. draft
of air. Feels as if enveloped by a cloud when driving a car.
Neuralgic pains in ovary, false contractions. Sighs like
Ignatia XXIV. Rubric definitions from ElZAYAGA
Seminar: (HL, 7, 3&4/94) Fever:
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Body temperature: normal low point is 3 a.m.,
highest point between 5-6 p.m.
Intense heat = above 3C
Continued fever = continuous fever, variation not
more than 1°C.
Hectic fever = consuming fever causing great
weakness.
Insidious = slightly raised temperature.
Intermittent = malaria-like, temperature returns to
normal for some hours
Long-lasting = chronic fever without a clear reason.
Relapsing = Long periods with normal
temperature but fever keeps returning.
Remittent = Variation more than 1 degree C but never
normal.
Heat = Patient teels hot inside or on body. Patient or
single parts are hot.
Fever = Raised temprature as measured by
thermometer but patient can feel subjectively cold. Fever
with chill is possible but not heat with chill.
Fever, burning heat = one can feel the radiating heat.
Fever, delirium and cramp can be found under fever,
intense heat
Weakness fever = physical weakness on motion.
Weariness = weak and tired on slightest exertion.
Mind:
Despair of recovery = hopeless mood (feeling)
Doubtful of recovery = intellectual doubts about
recovery.
Vertigo = dizziness, but can also mean insecure
feeling on standing or walking.
Timid = feelsheisoflessworthwhen in contact with
others.
Lack of self-conf dence = feeling of insecurity and
worthlessness also when alone.
Introspection = absorbed with self and own
problems, self-analysis.
Reserved = does not outwardly show feelings.
Mind speech = refers to content of speech. (Mouth
speech = to dc with articulation of the words; lesion of
nerves). Multiple Sclerosis symptoms:
Awkwardness = clumsy in movements.
Vertigo reeling = almost falls while standing
(Romberg +). Swaying of upper body while standing.
Walking infirm = insecure walking
Incoordination = disturbance in fi ner
movements, e.g. tying shoe laces.
Ataxia = more pronounced and more general loss of
control over body movements.
Scotoma = loss of vision due to nerve damage.
Twitching = involuntary muscle-fasciculations
without movement of extremity.
Jerking = sudden movement of part of body in one
direction.
Trembling = movement of extremity which does
not change position.
Convulsion = uncontrolled movement of whole body
in all directions.
Tonic = small, I mited attacks.
Clonic = whole body affected.
Tetanic = Stiffness and rigor of affected muscles.
XXV. Report from the Ohio Meeting, Dayton,
November 1993 (HT, 14, 3/1994)
Osteoporosis: A Homoeopathic Feminist
Perspective: Jacquelyn WILSON: For those who fear that
they are going to die from a broken hip - the biggest risk
factor is not Osteoporosis - it is a lack of balance. She
suggested testing your balance when you arise each
morning. Stand on one foot and stretch out your arms. Then
close your eyes and hold for 5 seconds. If you can do that,
you're fine. If not you need balance treatment-six weeks of
Tai chi will improve your balance, "The less you move,
the closer you are to death," If you are at high risk for
broken bones, use garments with padding the hips to
protect in the case of fall. Vitamin K increasesthe healing
rate of fractures, and Vitamin D is also helpful, but what
keepsthe bones strong is weight bearing--you must stand
up. Walking, dancing, Tai chi, and even bouncing on a
trampoline will help the bones stay healthy.
Fluoride results in stronger looking but weaker bones.
Estrogen replacement will increase bone density but it
might cause breast cancer, and definitely can cause uterine
cancer.
Chaos Theory: Implications for
Homoeopathy: Joel SHEPPERD: Chaos theory
describes non-linear dynamic systems. One of the
implications for health is that from the standpoint of
chaos theory, all crucial body functions oscillate. When
the oscillations become unstable, illnss results. These
complex oscillations are chaos—which is healthy. "The
word homeostasis has outlived its usefulness. We should
now think of homeodynamics" said SHEPPERD. To show
the meaning of this in very real terms Dr. SHEPPERD
showed a graph of several heart rates. The normal heartbeat
is seen as a very complex wave, whereas the wave form of
diseased heart has lost all its complexity. Regular rhythms
signify problems. When brain waves lose their
complexity and variability, the result is seizure. Chaos
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theory describes whole behavior. Double-blind testing,
with its emphasis on a single variable and one outcome
point, could make Homoeopathy disappear, said
SHEPPERD. "You can't judge health by one variable."
Can Anthroposophical Medicine offer
something to Homoeopathy? Mark EISEN:
Anthroposophical Medicine founded by the
German mystic Rudolph STEINER is recognized as a
medical specialty in Europe and in South America.
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge of the spirit
through rational thinking and clear perception. The
speaker gave a fascinating talk which is available in
audiotape.
The State of Homoeopathic Clinical Research by
Michael CARLSTON: Research in Homoeopathy is
needed inthreeareas: 1) randomized
controlled trials, 2)
outcomes research, 3) basic science research. And research
should not only be used to show that Homoeopathy works,
but also to have us improve how we do what we do.
Research tells us about absolute truth in the world. Dr.
CARLSTON spoke of the formation of the
Homoeopathic Research Network, a loose grouping of like-
minded people, who are working to develop academic and
community concerns. There should be discussions about the
methodology of the trials. It is important to do classical
homoeopathic trials. The research needs to be done so our
science can grow to its full potential as quickly as possible.
Results of the study of the Homoeopathic
Treatment of Premenstrual Syndrome and its
Implications for Homoeopathic Practice: by Ted
CHAPMAN:
Dr.CHAPMAN's presentation brought up all
the factors and problems that Michael CARLSTON had
mentioned in the previous talk. Although 7 million (in the
USA alone?) are affected the "disease diagnosis" has been
contested. In CHAPMAN'S trials none of the data was
statistically significant. And none showed the efficacy of
Homoeopathy in treating PMS.
Panel Discussion - Health Care Reform:
This pertains
to the reforms required in the USA.
Suppression
in
Homeopathy: by Michael GARN:
Suppression in Homoeopathy can be seen as the local
symptoms improving while the person in general worsens.
Dr. Elizabeth WRIGHT-HUBBARD said "The disease
manifestations go before the disease is cured. H.A.
ROBERTS said "The manifestation is cut off, forcing it
to express itself nearer the center of Vitality." The
effects of suppression may go beyond the individual, and
be passed on to future generations.
A Case of Rheumatoid Arthritis: by Sandra
M.CHASE:
A difficult case of arthritis of 32 years
duration. (The case has been publised in full in the JAIH,
87, 2/1994. Please see Therapeutics, No.49. of this issue of
QHD)
Case study: A Classical Approach by Carey
RUDICK:
The speaker stressed the importance of strange,
rare and peculiar symptoms in the analysis of
a
case. A 42-
year-old male with a five year history of Asthma. History of
hay fever and allergies. He was worse from fresh-cut grass
(hay). Has had visible chest palpitations. Born with
undescended testicle. History of Pneumonia with two
occurrences by age five, and several more between age 20
and 30. Had an inguinal hernia. Arsenicum iodatum 200
was the remedy. (Dr.Julian WINSTON says that when he
analysed the case with
Mac Repertory
in his Computer
Arsenicum iodatum came only in the 9th place, and with
the
KEiNT Repertory
it came only in the 21st place and
when Hay asthma was added the remedy reached 7th place.)
Immunization: Publich Health, Private Choice,
and Homoopathy: by Dennis CHERNIN:
The question of immunization is a very emotional topic.
The relevant points are discussed and the homoeopathic
medicines generally used in the infectious diseases for
which the immunizations are mandated are mentioned.
Immunization: A Pharmacist's View by Kristine
SEVERYN:
The speaker pointed out that many of the
epidemic cases are happening in vaccinated population.
37% of the children who had whooping cough in the latest
epidemic in Ohio had been vaccinated against the
illness. It is now recommended that babies get the
pertussis vaccine at one month old. There are more vaccines
coming. Ms. SEVERYN pointed that the insert which is
packaged with the DPT vaccine describes it as
"unavoidably unsafe." Yet parents are not shown the
package insert, nor do the doctors tell you what it says, (see
No.3,
General
section in this QHD)
Making inroads into Orthodox Medicine: by
Michael CARLSTON:
An academic foothold for
teaching Homoeopathy has been established by
Dr.Michael CARLSTON teaching Homoeopathy at the
University of California in San Francisco within the
residency programme at the Community Hospital of
Sonoma County in Santa Rosa, CA. It is the only
homoeopathic training within an academic institution. Dr.
CARLSTON has also given some 'tips' howto open inroads in
the conventional medicine.
Homoeopathy and High Altitude Sickness by EOS
Nancy:
Coca is the medicine for high altitude sickness. The
speaker described the work she did as the Physician for a
1993 Sierra ClubTripouting to high altitudes in the Uintas
Mountains in Utah. She prepared her own potency of Coca
from a single drop of Cocaine hydrochloride 4%
XXVI.
A new Masters degree in Homoeopathy has
been launched by the Liverpool John Moores
University. The course has been aimed at doctors and
has been developed with the Department of
Homoeopathic Medicine at Mossley Hill Hospital in
Liverpool. Post graduate certificates and diplomas will
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also be available for nurses, midwives, pharmacists,
dentists and vets. (HT, 14, 4/1994).
XXVII.
Some extracts from the interesting 'discussion'
on the lecture
Dysis vs Disease
by Drs.Manu L
KOTHARI and Lopa A. MEHTA (mfH, 4, 4/1994): The
so-called 'routine check-up' flaunted about by many
of the Hospitals and Doctors are only 'commercial'.
Doctors suffer from what may be called the
'l-told-you-so' syndrome. It became fashionable for
many women in the US to undergo mastectomy. 33%
of the breast cancers were diagnosed pragmatically.
It was Prof.RAEBURN who in an article wrote in 1972
"immunodeficiency in children because of antibiotics"
stated 'microbes come as friends for a dialogue but are
suppressed by the doctor and as a result th e child goes
in for a life-long immuno-deficiency. At the moment it
would seem that the AIDS virus is the gift of antibiotics. It
will not depart until we change our antibiotic policy.
Prof.RAEBURN said "future generations will see antibiotics
as nature's most malicious trick played on mankind".
It is only in 10% of illnesses resulting from extrinsic
factors as traumas and such other physiological
disturbances that are reversible, replacement of fluids,
maintaining electrolytic balance, surgical repairs etc. that
Allopathy is called for. In the remaining 90% Allopathy is
ineffective.
Even homoeopathic medicine has its
limitations. All medicines are only temporary
measures. Fever has to be considered as the best friend.
About pain, it has to be borne patiently.
A prescription is a tie that binds a doctor to a patient.
A drug is a symbol that the doctor has done something. In
every pathy, the physician is paid for doing something
assertwe and positive and will not be paid for not doing
something. That is why most of us are forced to do at least
something. This is where we lack the humility to admit that
this is an area where we are ignorant.
The ICC unit may be called the Intensive Cardiac
Scare Unit because it scares the patient out of his wits and
now global studies have shown that mortality is least when
a heart patient is nursed at home, greater in the general
ward and highest in the ICCUs. We should not be blinded
by technical gadgetry.
A significant remark by Swami RAJNEESH was cited,
that it was not the fall itself that hurts as much as the
attempt to save oneself while falling. This is very apt in the
context of disease and healing. The disease
Full addresses of the journals covered by this
Quarterly Homoeopathic DIGEST (QHD) are given below:
1.
ACD:
Archiv fur Homoopathik, DYNAMIS-
VERLAG, AM
Vogelherd 18, 4200 OBERHAUSEN 11,
GERMANY.
2.
AHJ:
Asian Homoeopathic Journal, 37, South
Anarkali
Extension, DELHI- 10 051.
3.
AHZ:
Allgemeine Hombopathische Zeitung,
Karl F. Haug
Verlag, 6900 HEIDELBERG 1, GERMANY.
4.
BHJ:
British Homoeopathic Journal, Royal
London
Homoeopathic Hospital, Great Ormond Street,
LONDON,
WC1N3HR, U.K.
5.
CCR:
Homoeopathic Clinical Case Recorder,
Dr. Subhash
Meher, Phule Road, Maliwada,
AHM6DNAGAR • 414 001,
INDIA.
6.
CCRH:
Quarterly Bulletin, Central Council for
Research in
Homoeopathy, B-l/6, Community Centre,
Janakpuri,
NEW DELHI -110 055, INDIA.
7.
CGH:
Cahiers du Groupement
Hahnemannien,
MEDECINE ET HYGIENE, 78, avenue de la
Roseraie, Case
456, CH-1211 Geneva 4.
8.
HH:
Homoeopathic Heritage, B. Jain
Publishers (P) Ltd.,
1920 Street, 10th Chuna Mandi, Pahargnj, Post
Box 5775,
NEW DELHI • 110 055 INDIA.
itself does not hurt as much as when we try to interfere, we
interfere with the body's healing powers. XXVIII. In the
SimiHimum, 7, 1/1994, Stephen KING had reported of ear
pain in a eight-year old girl during the night; she was
walking around the room when in pain, wept because of the
pain. Remedies
Ferrum phosphoricum, Chamomilla,
Pulsatilla, Arnica
(pain was described as if a blow to the
ear). At last
Rhus toxicodendron
(She was also coughing
during the pain) gave quick relief.
In Simillimum, 7,2/1994 Dr.Dennis H.KAY writes that
the most likely source of the ear pain was from the
temporomandibular joint. In adults with either acute or
chronic ear pain, over 90% are f r o m the
temporomandibular joint. The TMJ pain presenting as ear
pain, although not common is not rare in children. 90% of
all ear pain originates from three sources:
1)
inflammation of middle ear,
2)
inflammation of the ear canal, and
3)
the temporomandibular joint.
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Except in very young children, you can ask the parent
or the patient to do three simple things during a phone
consultation to help determine the source of the ear pain.
First, middle ear infections will almost always be
accompanied by decreased hearing in the affected ear. A
simple whisper test will tell if the hearing is affected.
Second, pulling gently on the auricle will cause increased
pain if the pain is from external otitis. Third, gentle finger
pressure over the TMJ (just in front of the ear) and having
the patient open and close the jaw and move the jaw side to
side will elicit pain if the TMJ is the problem.
9.
HL: Homoeopathic Links, Homoeopathic
Research & Charities, "Dinar", 20 Station
Road, Santacruz (West), BOMBAY - 400 054.
10.
HLK:
Forum fbr Homeopatisk La'kekonst
Svenska
Akademin fbr Kiasisk Homeopati,
Folkungagatan 84 (Itr),
116 22 STOCKHOLM.
11.
H.TIMES:
Homoeopathy Times, 805-Giriraj,
Neelkanth
Valley, Ghatkopar, Bombay 400 077,
INDIA.
12.
H.T.: Homoeopathy Today, National
Center for
Homoeopathy, 500, Massachusells Avenue,
N.W. Suite 42,
WASHINGTON D.C. 20005, U.S.A.
13.
THE HOMOEOPATH:
The Journal of the
Society of
Homoeopath, 2, Artizan Road,
NORTHAMPTON NN1
4HU, U.K.
14.
IJHM:
Indian Journal of Homoeopathic
Medicine, CMP
Homoeopathic Medical College, N.R. Gadkari
Marg, Irla,
Vile Parle (West), BOMBAY - 400 056,
INDIA.
15.
JAIH: The Journal of the American Institute of
Homoeo
pathy, 1585, Glencoe, DENVER, Colorado
80220, U.S.A.
16.
mfH:
Medicina futura Homoeopathy, 1-2-
217/7,
Gaganmahal Road, HYDERABAD - 500 029,
INDIA.
17.
NEJH:
New England Journal of
Homoeopathy, 356,
Middle Street, AMHEBST, MA 01002, U.S.A.
18.
QHQ:
Quinquina Homoeopathic Quarterly, Sri
Sathya Sai
Publications, Main Road, Taliparamba,
KANNUR - 670
141, INDIA.
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PART II
Les Pathogenesies hahnemanniennes oubliees
(The forgotten Hahnemannian Pathogeneses)
BY Dr. J. BAUR (CGH, 1/1994)
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A certain number of pathogeneses carried out by HAHNEMANN and his collaborators does neither figure in
his
'Chronic Diseases'
nor in his
'Materia Medica Pura'.
One finds their mention in the little work of G.O.
KLEINERT
"Sources des experimentations physiologiques des medicaments"
and in the
"Index of
Provings"
of Thomas L BRADFORD. One is astonished that in the 150 years which have followed their
publication in Germany, not one author has thought of reassembling them in a work which followed the
Materia
Medica Pura.
These pathogeneses have been published in
the
different works as follows:
STAPF's Archivs
They were published between 1822 and 1843 and consist of numerous pathogeneses of
HAHNEMANN. In particular:
Antimonium tartaricum - 1824 Viola tricolor -1829
Sabadilla
- 1825 Agnus castus -1831
Sabina
-1826 Lamium album -1832
Colchicum
-1826 Cantharis -1833
Paris quadrifolia
-1829
STAPF's Addition to the Materia Medica
Under the ti t l e
"Bei tra ge zu r Arzneimittellehre"
STAPF published at Leipzig in 1836 a volume
containing other pathogeneses. Certain entries have been made with the participation of HAHNEMANN in
particular:
Agnus castus - a first pathogenesis of which has been published in Volume X of
"Archivs"
Senega &
Valeriana officinalis (or V.minor)
Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum (1805)
This work constit jtes the first publication of the
Materia Medica
of HAHNEMANN. It was published in two
volumes, the first containing the pathogeneses of 27 substances, and ihe second consisting of a reportary of
symptoms: 23 of these medicines entered the
Materia Medica Pura
published subsequently. The four
others which have not been included are
-
Cantharis - which was published in 1833 in the
STAPF's Archivs.
-
Copaiva, Cuprum sulph.
-
Valeriana officinalis - which was published in
1836 in the 'Beitrage' of STAPF.
The Lesser Writings of HAHNEMANN
Underthe title
"Kleine Medizinische Schriften von Samuel HAHNEMANN"
STAPF reassembled
a
certain
number of studies and minor writings which were published in two volumes in 1829. There we find the indications
for
-
Coffea arabica (essay on the effects of Coffee).
-
Taxus baccata.
The Pharmacopaeia (Apotheker lexicon):
Apotheker Lexicon
was published in two volumes in 1793 & 1798-
99. This work is interesting for it constitutes the sum of knowledge of pharmacology possessed by HAHNEMANN at
that epoch. Furthermore one finds theintroductionofcertainobservationswhichhavebeen included in the doctrine of
Homoeopathy.
This work has been elicited by T.L BRADFORD with regard to
-
Cetraria islandica
-
Millefolium
-
Oenanthe crocata.
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Other Medicines introduced by HAHNEMANN.
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Cuprum ammoniae sulphuricum: in the
Journal of HUFELAND; Vol.V.2, 274, cited by
BRADFORD.
-
Jalapa
in
the
Organon
5th edition, cited by
G.O. KLEINERT. This citation of Jalapa is really
found in the 4 edition -1829.
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Dr. Frederik SCHROYENS
1
Synthesis has replaced Kent Repertory which has been used for decades.
Synthesis is an advance of KENT.
I have been using the Synthesis exclusively in my practice for the last few months. Certain 'errors' and
confusions noted are given here. Further would follow:
1. ANGUISH: Clothes
TOO
tight when walking in open air; as if: (p. 10) arg-met.
EN I, p.448, No 417: "Lassitude and heat all over when walking in the open air; he has no sweat, and feels
a sort of anguish, as if his clothes were too tight. ALLEN gives this under Generalities. This is obviously a
physical sensation and not a mental anguish (evidently a sensation of heat giving the feeling of the clothes
being too tight). Many relevant rubrics exist in the Synthesis: e.g.
LASSITUDE: Walking in open air (p.1624) (there is only amel. mentioned in the rubric); HEAT: Sensation
of: Walking (p.1613) (there is no sub-rubric for walking in open air); HEAT: Flushes: Perspiration:
without (p. 1613) None of the above has arg- met CLOTHES: (p. 1562) does not have a sub-rubric 'tight; as
if
One would not iook for this symptom in the Mind section, and should therefore be added in the relevant
Generals rubrics.
2. ANXIETY: Faintness; after: (p. 16) ars-s-f.
FA1NTNESS: Anxiety, after: (p. 1587) cench. It is suggested that the rubrics be rewritten as: ANXIETY:
Fainting; after: ars-s-f. (GS II, p.145: "... greatest apprehension after a swoon.");
ANXIETY: Faintness; anxiety causes: cench.
3. ANXIETY: Sexual excess, from suppressed
(p. 19)
This rubric may read: ANXIETY: Sexual desire, from suppressed.
4. CONFUSION: Walking amel. (p.36): agar.
Search in EN and GS under agaricus muscarius was negative. Under Asarum europeum (EN I, p.583,
Nr.14): "Confusion of the head, less perceptible when walking than when sitting." Confirmed in GS also.
Hence agar. should be corrected as asar. Same error appears in SR I also.
5. HOMESICKNESS (P.116): eup-per.
This is an addition from the Index to EN, to SR I and Synthesis. EN has no mind symptoms at all under
Eupatorium perfoliatum, but under Eupatorium purpureum homesickness is mentioned (which is already listed
in Kent, SR I and Synthesis. Hence eup-per. should be deleted from SR I and Synthesis.
6. TOUCHED: Aversion to being (p.198):
lachn. This is an addition from the Index to EN (Vol.XI,
p.133)
Search under lachnanthes was negative, but under lachesis we fine: "Slight touch is intolerable, almost puts
him into a rage." (EN V, p.463, Nr.1308). Hence lachn. should be corrected as lach. in SR I, Synthesis and the
Index to EN.
7. VERTIGO: LYING, While: sinking down
through or with the bed; as if: (p.218) benz-ac.
EN and GS do not list this under benzoic acid; but under benzenum: "Sensation of falling through bed and
floor."
(EN II, p.130, Nr.33). Hence benz-ac. should be corrected as ben. both in Kent and Synthesis.
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8. HEAD: CONGESTION: Suppressed: from:
(p.229) verat-v. This rubric does not convey any
meaning; Materia medica confirms that after
suppressions, for example, of menses, congestion to
head may result, in Veratrum viride. CLARKE mentions
under Causations: Suppression of menses
(Dictionary of Materia medica III, p..1322):
HEAD: CONGESTION: Menses: suppressed, from (p.229) already lists verat-v. Does Veratrum viride
include congestion to head after any suppression, for example discharges or eruptions? In which case, the rubric
may read: HEAD: CONGESTION: Suppressions; from
9. HEAD: PAIN: agg.: (p.267) phyt.
This rubric should read: HEAD: PAIN: Rain agg. (Source: Boger- Boenninghausen)
10. HEAD: PAIN: Forehead, in: diversion:
(p.277) pip-m. Source verification: "Pains, (especially
of the head) relieved temporarily by turning the mind
to another topic." (EN VII, p.543, Nr.16). Kent as well
as Synthesis have omitted the modality amel. in the
rubric, which should be added. (KUNZLI has
corrected this in his Repertorium Generale.)
Whereas EN does not specify pain in forehead amel.
by diversion, Kent (and Synthesis) has included the
remedy only under pain - forehead, and not in the
rubric Head - pain in general, with the specific
modality. Should be added.
11. HEAD: PAIN: Forehead: Nasal discharge (p.278) appears as a sub-rubric under
HEAD: PAIN: Forehead: Motion; whereas it should be placed as the next rubric. The complete rubric
should read:
HEAD: PAIN: Forehead: Nasal discharge amel.
12. HEAD: PAIN: Bursting, Temples,
alternating: (p.301) ip. Does it mean 'alternating
sides?' This could not be traced in Boger's
Boenninghausen.
13. APPETITE: Increased: Fever: during:
(p.618) eup-pur. after: (p.618) eup-per,
Source verification: "Canine hunger with or before ague." (Eupatorium perfoliatum: GS V, p.222);
"Loss of appetite with fever; desire to eat immediately after." (Eupatorium purpureum: GS V, p.237)
Hence eup-pur. and eup-per. in the above rubrics should be interchanged.
14.KIDNEYS: PAIN: Sore, bruised, region of:
(p.820) mang. Verification in GS negative. But under
Mancinella: "Sensation of weakness, as if bruised, in
region of kidneys." (GS VII, p.266) Hence mang.
should be corrected as mane.
15.CHEST: PAIN: Heart, extending to leg,
right: (p.1029) alumn. "Fromthe hearta pain shooting
to the lower part of the right lung." (EN I, p.200, NR.
288) Hence in the above rubric, leg should be
corrected as lung.
The same error appears in GS I, p. 143, as well as Knerr's Repertory, lung is given wrongly as leg. J.H.
CLARKE has corrected this error in the 'Errata' in his Materia Medica.
16. EXTREMITIES: PAIN: Lower limbs:
Sciatica, right: (p.1234) graph. Verification in GS
negative. But under Gnaphalium: "Pain dull or darting
or cutting from right hip joint posteriorly downward to
foot." "Intense pain along sciatic nerve." (GS V,
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p.434). Wrongly mentioned as graph, in Boger's Boenninghausen and added as it is in Synthesis. Should
be corrected as gnaph. in both the repertories.
17. BATHING: Feet: Cold water, in: (p. 1554)
led.
The modality amel. has been omitted in the rubric, and it should be added.
18.FOOD & DRINKS: Beer agg. intoxicated
easily: (p. 1594) chim. Verification in GS negative for
Chimaphila. Under China: "Beer intoxicates easily."
(GS IV, p.178). Hence chim. should be corrected as
chin.
19. GROWTH in length too fast: Young people,
in: (p. 1611) hippoz. Addition from Knerr'sto SRII and
Synthesis. Verification in GS for Hippozaenium
negative. Under Hippomanes: Stages of life,
Constitution: "After growing too fast (Chorea)" (GS VI,
p.46). Hence hippoz. should be corrected as hipp. in
Knerr, SR II and Synthesis.
20. SYNONYMOUS RUBRICS: inconsisten
cies:
i) ANGER: Trembling, with (p.9)
TREMBLING: Anger, from (p. 1693)
TREMBLING: Anger, with (p.1693)
All three rubrics mean the same and in fact list the same remedies: one rubric with cross references is
enough.
ii) ANGER: alternating with: repentance (p.7)
IRRITABLE: alternating with remorse (p.132)
These should naturally list the same remedies.
Both mean the same, but different remedies listed.
iii) ANGER: Jaundice, from (p.8)
SKIN: DISCOLORATION: Yellow, anger, after (p. 1508)
Different remedies listed.
iv) ANGER: Talking of others; from (p.9)
ANGER: Voices of people (p.9)
Different remedies listed.
v) CONFUSION: Identity, as to his: head separated from body, as if (p.34)
DELUSION: Head separated from body (p.61)
Remedies differ in the rubrics.
21. CREATION OF NEW RUBRICS:
i) ARTISTIC: (p.21) care. Is not phos. artistic?
ii) LOOKING BACKWARDS: as if followed (p.140) (New rubric)
DELUSION: People behind him (p.69) and FEAR: Behind him, some one is (p.100) also mean the
same.
iii) NATURE: Loves: (p.154) care. We find also under Coffea cruda:". .contrary to his custom is very
much charmed by the beauties of nature, descriptions ofwhich are related to Mm." (EN III, p.435,Nr.1). Study of
the provings could reveal more of this kind!
iv) SPEECH: Nasal (p.182) This rubric does not belong to Mind. The right place is LARYNX
TRACHEA: VOICE: Nasal (p.941)
Remedies that are in this Mind rubric should be carried to p.941 (bar-i. bar-m. sul-i. teucr.) as additions.
v) TIDY: (p.197) care. Are not any of the other Fastidious remedies Tidy?
22. ADDITIONS from other sources:
Omissions
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HEAD: PAIN: Chewing, while (p.257) Additions to this rubric have been made from Boger's
Boenninghausen, but two remedies are left out, viz. thuj. and verb.
(We have also noticed a few other inconsistencies in additions made to Synthesis from Boger's
Boenninghausen. These will be communicated later.)
23. DELUSIONS:
Many 'Sensations as if from ROBERTS, H.A. which are not delusions, inaginations, hallucinations have
been put into the Delusions section. One may ultimately arrive at the remedy, knowing that the sensations have
to be looked for in the Delusions section, in the Synthesis. But,
(i) a real sensation as expressed by the patient to explain or make clear his symptom cannot be called a
'delusion'; Kent lists many 'Sensations as if in the appropriate chapters, and any additions to the Repertory
should be only in a similar way.
(ii) Many a time, a sensation expressed by the patient is not a sensation by itself, but only a manner of
speaking; for example, one migjit express heaviness of head as 'a boulder placed on top of the head' or as 'as if
someone sitting on head'. The patient uses whatever expression comes to mind, to make the symptom clear to the
physician. These cannot always be taken as delusions. A few examples from Synthesis:
i) DELUSION: Ball, sitting on: (p.47) cann-i. chim. Verification of source: "Sensation in the anus as if he
were sitting on a ball." {Cannabis indica: EN II, p.461, Nr.557); "Sensation of swelling in perineum on sitting
down, as if a ball were pressing against it." (Urinary troubles) (Chimaphila umbellate: GS IV, p.56)
Obviously, then, in both remedies this is a real sensation expressed to explain the kind of discomfort the
patient was suffering from and not a 'delusion'. Chimaphila has enlargement of the prostate, which probably
produces the 'ball' or lump' sensation in the perineum; in Cannabis indica the sensation is in the anus.
ii) DELUSION: Beside oneself, being, trifles, with: (p.48) carl. Source verification: "Very excited and
peevish, and often as if beside himself with trifles..." {Carlsbad: EN III, p.1, Nr.1) The proper rubric is
IRRITABILITY: Trifles, from (p. 134) where carl. should be added.
iii) DELUSION: Brain: Looseness: (p.49); This is a 'sensation'. HEAD: LOOSENESS of the brain;
sensation of (p.250) lists many remedies, and is the right place to add phos. found in p.49.
iv) DELUSION: Climbing up: mountain; climbing up a steep:(p.51) prun. Source verification:
"Shortness of breath, while walking; sighing, as if he were climbing a high and steep mountain." (Prunus
spinosa: EN VIM, p.161, Nr.154). This is a respiratory symptom and no delusion, as confirmed also in the GS
VIII; this expresses onl/ the degree of shortness of breath by an example of 'climbing up a mountain'. Such
dyspnoea Is usually found with emphysema or cardiac disease etc., where walking even on level ground is as
difficult as climbing up an elevation.
v) DELUSION: Creep into his own body; he would crouch together as much as he could and:
(p.51)c/mx. (Originally the remedy listed was cimic. In the Synthesis, later corrected as cimx.) Source
reference in the EN and GS clearly shows that sensation of shortness of hamstrings (during chill) causes pain
while extending the leg; to avoid pain, crouches as much as he could, 'almost creeps into himself.' This is only
an expression of a feeling that extreme crouching is needed to avoid pain, and no delusion.
vi) HARD BED sensation (p.1611) LYING: Bed, in: hard bed sensation (p.1628) The latter rubric is cross
referenced to DELUSION: Bed, hard, too (p.47). and not to HARD BED sensation (p.1611) ! In my opinion,
DELUSION, Bed hard, too (p.47) is neither complete nor appropriate, canth. morph. and san/c. should
be added from p.47 to HARDBED sensation (p. 1611)
- K.S. SRINIVASAN
BOOK SHELF
(There is tremendous interest from the people to learn Homoeopathy properly and thoroughly and this
interest is observed all over the world. Many teaching institutions have come up in Europe and the USA and a
'model' of the course of studies has been drawn and certification standards have also been set. There are many
who are unable to attend such courses but wish to study at home. In the light of such interest books which will
help the ardent student have also been published and the following two books are directed towards such self-
learners.) 1. The Principles of Homoeopathic Philosophy
- a self-directed learning text by Margaret
ROY, Churchill Livingstone, 1994. pages
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150. Price £19.95.
Homoeopathy is unlike every other Medicine. It insists on the administration of only one remedy at a time
and that too in a 'potentised' form; it also insists that the sick 'person' as a whole must be the target and not an
arbitrarily diagnosed disease name. The potentised homoeopathic remedy transcends the hitherto known
molecular sciences and acts in a way which is still not clear, but that it does act and transforms a sick person
into a healthy one has been seen to occur daily. Homoeopathy speaks of a 'Vital Force' within every being. It
would be evident that such a science would have principles and philosophy and that these must be thoroughly
grasped before one attempts to study the Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
Many books hav'e appeared in this regard but not many of them have served the purpose. It is to the credit of
Margaret ROY that such a difficult subject has been explained in a lucid, easily understandable form.
In 14 'lessons' each of which has at its end 'Activity' exercises - thinking, writing, observing etc. which the
learner should do before proceeding further on - the entire subject has been ably covered. At the end there are
'Hints to study', 'Guidelines for Proving', 'Some Model Answers to Activities',
Fromthe beginningthe book is directed straight at the self- learner.
ROY makes difficult-to-understand principles easy to understand. The homoeopath should understand
that it is the disturbed Vital Force which produces the perceptible symptoms. Therefore the question is asked
'what is happening to the Vital Force...' (to the overall harmonious balance)? What has so disturbed this person
(the patient) as a whole that the Vital Force has had to produce this group of symptoms to overcome it? Like
Sherlock HOLMES searching for the point of the original disturbance, the homoeopath should search about. Like
for example in The Hound of Baskervilles HOLMES asks 'why did the dog bark at night'? Thus, the inexplainable,
peculiar, rare, symptoms should be searched for, which would lead to the homoeopathic remedy.
Lessons have: 'Headings'; 'Aims'; 'objectives', For example, Lesson 4: The Symptoms: Headings;
Definition of a symptom, Types of Symptom, Hierarchy of Symptoms. How to construct a Hierarchy, A
complete symptom. Grades of symptom in the Repertory. Aims: To understand the role of symptoms.
Objectives: By the end of this lesson you should be able to recognize the type of symptoms; recognize if a
symptom is complete; construct a hierarchy of symptoms; recognize a grade of symptoms in a repertory.
This lesson has 'Activities'; Activity 1: Give at least five examples of prescribing, presenting and
concomitant symptoms. Go back and check your examples with those in the text. Activity 2: From your own
experience, give five examples each of objective and subjective symptoms. Activity 3: Give at least ten examples
of characteristic symptoms from the remedies you have studied...
Specific readings are suggested at the end of the Lessons.
The aims of the text "to guide the student step-by-step through a learning programme on homoeopathic
philosophy" has been well achieved.
The book can be warmly recommended without any hesitation to every student, even those who already
have some knowledge; group learners also will be immensely benefited.
2. A first Materia Medica for Homoeopathy - a
self-directed learning text by Margaret ROY,
Foreword by Vassilis GHEGAS, Churchill
Livingstone, pages 261.
Since Homoeopathy employs only one remedy at a time for a given patient, it is absolutely essential that the
homoeopath must master the essences and peculiarities of the leading remedies to begin with and proceed to the
lesser used remedies.
Many books by fading authors have appeared in the past which have been and still are the basic texts in this
regard viz, NASH, H.C. ALLEN- to name only two of the most well-known.
The question arises as to the need for this book when well-known ones like the two cited above and indeed
cited by the author of this book also as 'Recommended further reading
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are already there.
Well, Margaret ROY's book is different, Since it is for 'self-learners', the 'essence' is given first, followed
by the Key-Notes/Characteristics and then Activities (i.e. Exercises) for the student. These exercises are
devised so as to make the student think, observe, do further researches of his/her own and put self-test questions;
all just as if one is attending classroom regularly The learner is advised to memorize the characteristics of
the remedies and work them out in different ways like building up typical acute symptom pictures, personality
pictures, note exciting causes, etc. etc.
The Materia Medica portion is preceded by an Introduction which briefly but clearly introduces the
remedy source and provings, the essential character of a remedy, the homoeopathic approach to disease, the
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minimum dose to arouse a reaction, the hierarchy of symptoms and ends with 'recommended further reading'.
(There is an error in this list of recommended further reading, viz. the author of 'Keynotes and
Characteristics with comparisons' is H.C. ALLEN and not J.H.ALLEN. J.H.ALLEN wrote 'Diseases of the Skin'
and 'The Chronic Miasms').
45 remedies are studied in 14 lessons. In the manner of E.B. NASH, the remedies are studied in groups,
mostly three in a group: The ABC remedies; The First Aid remedies; The Solonaceae remedies; Four irritable
remedies; Three remedies of suppressed anger; and so on. At the end are 'Answers to Activities', 'Answers to Self-
test Questions', 'Some test cases to try to solve', 'Answers to test Cases', 'Modality tests'. There is Bibliography,
Glossary of Terms and at the end a full index.
Beautiful small drawings of the remedies are given alongside the lessons at the beginning.
This is a good text book and it can be recommended to anyone who is genuinely interested to learn the
homoeopathic Materia Medica.
Both the above books are very well printed, on good, thick paper, clear print, 30cm x 21cm size format
with sufficient margin to note down additional notes.
The publishers may consider marketing these two books in India at a price affordable to the student
here. 3. Collected Writings of CM. BOGER edited by
Robert BANNAN, foreword by Jeremy
SHERR, Churchill Livingstone, 1994, pp.365
paperback, £19.95. Available in India from
B.I. Publications.
Works of Cyrus Maxwell BOGER (1861-1935) are most welcome. We already have the very useful and
well-known 'Synoptic Key and Repertory', 'BOGER's BOENNINGHAUSEN's Characteristics and
Repertory', 'General Analysis', 'Times of Remedies and Moon Phases', 'Additions to Kent's Repertory'
and 'Studies in the Philosophy of Healing'; The last one is a small collection of 28 articles culled from the
Homoeopathic Recorder, and "other writings", published in 1952 by Roy and Co., Bombay. One who has read
BOGER will certainly look about for more from him, Robert BANNAN has done a great service to
Homoeopathy by collecting most of the writings of BOGER and making them available culled from
Transactions of the International Hahnemannian Association and the Homoeopathic Recorder spanning
the years 1902 -1938.
The writings cover Philosophy, Materia Medica, Repertory, Therapeutics and there are quite a number of
cases.
Many 'gems' are scattered throughout the work. Let me extract a few:
"GROSS tells us in the first volume of the AHZ, p. 15, that HAHNEMANN obtained his antipsoric
symptoms only from doses of the primary sort almost exclusively and as primary symptoms stand in the front
rank for curative purposes far outclassing the secondary ones, the way is plain and it only remains for us to
follow it".
"It has been my fortune through reading and otherwise to observe quite a few as pathogenetic symptoms
which were formerly classed as exclusively clinical. Such observations should be carefully collected and
added to our general fund of observations; among others the following are deserving of special mention:
1. Nails ridged transversely: Arsenicum.
2. Seems to be endeavouring to get pieces of
body together: Baptisla.
3. Gums tender, blue and inflamed: Borax.
4. Yellow vision: Calendula."
Twentythree such symptoms of different
remedies have been cited.
"The getting of mental expression is greatly facilitated by allowing the mind the greatest possible play and
watching the effect. It will then reveal itself to the careful observer more fully than in any other manner,
particularly mo'e so than if we try to force it, for the soul speaks the same language, clearly and simply in every
race and every clime." Since the clear picture of the remedy is revealed only when the disease progresses to a
considerable degree and the remedy must be found ahead of such worsening of the disease we should be "thorough
enough in our first examination."
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"The larger part of sickness is composed of morbid feelings and sensations, which necessarily bear the
impress of the sufferer, which also holds true of drug symptoms."
Proving of remedies like Xanthoxylum fraxineum, Polymnia uvedalia, Actaea spicata, Thlaspi bursa
pastoris, etc. Since most of the articles are Dr. BOGER's presentation before the members of the International
Hahnemannian Association there were 'discussions' in which such stalwarts as H.C. ALLEN, J.H. ALLEN, W.P.
WESSELHOEFT, G.B. STEARNS, STUART CLOSE, E.B. NASH, OLDS, PULFORD, FARRINGTON,
UNDERHILL, GRIMMER, ROBERTS, R.E.S. HAYES, E.E. CASE, took part. All these enhance the value of
the book.
Many valuable additions can be made to the repertories currently in use (eg. Synthesis of Dr. Fr.
SCHROYENS) and also certain errors corrected with the help of these papers of Dr. BOGER.
Incidentally there are 10 articles in Roy & Co., Bombay Publication (1064) which are not found in this
collection.
Such recent Publications as Kent's Minor Writings (HAUG, 1987) have been published in India (B.Jain
Publishers, 1988) at a price affordable by readers in India. It is suggested that the Publishers of the work
under review may consider similar publication.
Printing, paper, good. Price reasonable. The book deserves to be hard bound'.
The book will oe a very useful addition to every practitioner's library.
4. Perceiving Crucial symptoms by S.M.
GUNAWANTE, B.Jain publishers (P) Ltd.,
New Delhi - 110 055. Pages 162 paperback
Rs.25/-.
It has always been a pleasure to see a book by Sri GUNAWANTE. He has, in his book-lets "Probing the
Mind and Guiding Symptoms" and other articles in the journals (the NJH, HH and JAIH) focussed attention
on the essentials of practical Homoeopathy.
The book under review is also of great value and well worth being read and fully digested by all
homoeopaths including the experienced ones. There are always certain points, at least in so far as
Homoeopathy is concerned which can bear repetitions any number of times.
With the great resurgence of interest in Homoeopathy world-over (new editions of the Organon are
being reprinted in all the European languages and soon sold out) many 'teachers' have evolved their own
techniques of case analysis and symptoms-evaluation; the Repertory rather than the Materia Medica has
become the most often consulted book of reference. In all these the ordinary practitioner loses his way about
and becomes confused. It is therefore essential that the practical methodologies enunciated and practised by the
great homoeopaths of the past are reiterated; at the same time the newtechniques that are taught like SEHGAL's
and Rajan SANKARAN's are also highlighted appropriately by Sri GUNAWANTE.
In 17 brief chapters the teachings of BOENNINGHAUSEN, LIPPE, BOGER, ROBERTS, CASE,
ALLEN, GUERNSEY, KENT, RAJAN SANKARAN, SEHGAL besides others are succinctly discussed, with
plenty of cases to illustrate the points.
Sri GUNAWANTE has very thoughtfully given three Appendices at the end including important
Aphorisms from the Organon.
The book can be recommended for all levels of students and practitioners. Unfortunately the publishers do
not seem to have bestowed appropriate care in avoiding so many printing errors. In the next edition, which I
hope will be soon called or, these errors may be corrected. 5. Homoeopathic Gems by Dr.D.P. RASTOGI,
B. Jain Publishers (P)_ Ltd., 7. Wazirpur,
Ring Road, Wazirpur, Delhi-110 052. Paper
back 222 pages. Rs.60/-.
It is quite long since we have come across a whole book which is filled with practical statements; tips,
hints etc. which can be profitably used in the day-to-day practice by the busy practitioner. Sincethe collections
are from the classroom lectures of eminent British homoeopaths connected with the Royal London
Homoeopathic Hospital, much of it can be used in the out-patient hours.
The book has been prepared from the classroom lectures and observations; Dr. RASTOGI was a
student in London.
The article s cover Materia Medica, Therapeutics, including the Bowel Nosodes and a beautiful one on
Some Characteristic Features of KENT'S Repertory, by Dr. T. Fergus STEWART.
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During the middle years of this century, before the names of VITHOULKAS and the stream of renowned
teachers after him upto Rajan SANKARAN and SEHGAL now, Homoeopathy was poor in the USA although
great persons such as Elizabeth Wright HUBBARD, BELLOKOSSY, GRIMMER, etc. were there; and in the
U.K. it was Sir John WEIR, FOUBISTER, TEMPI-ETON, GIBSON, ROSS, RAESIDE, BLACKIE et al.
It is these people who kept the torch of KENT alight in both the countries across the ocean.
On 18 June 1972 a great disaster struck British Homoeopathy when no less than 15 persons died in an air-
crash at the Heathrow air- port; those 15 persons were leaving for Brussels to attend the International
Homoeopathic Congress. How much this affected the British Homoeopathy is hard to say now, but the
Faculty's Journal - the British Homoeopathic Journal - soon thinned and became quite small in size and
contents. However, in the recent years there has been a tremendous renaissance and the Journal has once again
become great.
Dr. RASTOGI's compilation recalls to memory such great names as Kathleen PRIESTMAN, Margery
BLACKIE, GIBSON, ROSS, FOUBISTER, RAESIDE, KENNEDY, Fergus STEWART, Sir John WEIR, etc. It
is therefore with nostalgia that I read these pages, full of practical gems.
The book is full of hints, tips etc. and everyone who reads it will definitely profit. I will urge everyone to
buy it.
Printing errors very rare, (page 163; Cicuta niger should be Cicuta virosa) The 25 different types of pain
mentioned in page 217 should actually come under the heading, in page 216, "25 different types of pain".
Print, paper very good.
6. The Celestine Prophecy, by James REDFIELD, Bantam Books, pp.282, Rs. 195/-.
This is indeed an extraordinary book. It was first published in 1994, reprinted thrice in the same year, and
already thrice in 1995!
The story begins, with a heightened perception of the way our lives move forward. It moves on to unfolding
the mystery Df the happenings and how to engage this process and maximize its occurrence in our lives so that
human society will take a quantum leap into a whole new way of life. The book indicates, as certain other books
already have the paradigm shift that is occurring in our time.
The story is the discovery of an ancient Manuscript in the forests of Peru. This Manuscript contains nine
"insights". The hero of the story goes in quest of this Manuscript and makes startling discoveries. The Nine
Insights are:
1. A Critical Mass: A new spiritual awakening is occurring in human culture, an awakening brought about
by a critical mass of individuals who experience their lives as a spiritual unfolding, a journey in which we are led
forward by mysterious coincidences.
2. The Longer Now: This awakening
represents the creation of a new, more complete
worldview, which replaces a five-hundred-year-old
preoccupation with secular survival and comfort.
While the technological preoccupation was an
important step, our awakening to life coincidences is
opening us up to the real purpose of human life on this
planet and the real nature of our universe.
3. Matter of Energy: We now experience that
we live not in a material universe, but in a universe of
dynamic energy. Everything extant is a field of sacred
energy that we can sense and intuit. Moreover, we
humans can project our energy by focusing our
attention in the desired direction ("where attention
goes, energy flows"), influencing other energy
systems and increasing the pace of coincidences in
our lives.
4. The Struggle for power: Too often humans
cut themselves off from the greater source of this
energy and so feel weak and insecure. To gain energy
we tend to manipulate or force others to give us
attention and thus energy. When we successfully
dominate others in this way, we feel more powerful,
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but they are left weakened and often fight back.
Competition for scarce human energy is the cause of
all conflict between people.
5. The Message of the Mystics: Insecurity and
violence end when we experience an inner connection
with divine energy within, a connection described by
the mystics of all traditions. A sense of
lightness-buoyancy—and the constant sensastion
of love are measures of this connection. If these
measures are present, the connection is real. If not, it
is only pretended.
6. Clearing The Past: The more we stay
connected, the more we are acutely aware of those
times when we lose connection, usually when we are
under stress. In these times, we can see our own
particular way of stealing energy from others. Once
our manipulations are brought to personal awareness,
our connection becomes more constant and then we
can discover our own growth path in life, and our
spiritual mission, the personal way we can contribute
to the world.
7. Engaging the Flow: Knowing our personal
mission further enhances the flow of mysterious
coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies.
First we have a question, then dreams, day-dreams,
and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which
usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom
of another human being.
The Interpersonal Ethic: We can increase
the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting
every person that comes into our lives. Care must be
taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. Uplifting others is especially effective in
groups where each member can feel the energy of all the others. With children it is extremely important to their
early security and growth. By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase
the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.
9. The Emerging Culture: As we all evolve toward the best completion of our spiritual missions, the
technological means of survival will be fully automated as humans focus instead on synchronistic growth.
Such growth will move humans into ever-
higher energy states, ultimately transforming our bodies into spiritual form and uniting this dimension of
existence with the after-life dimension, ending the cycle of birth and death.
There is also a tenth 'insight'; the author is writing a book on this.
A companion to the 'Celestine Prophecy' is an 'Experiential guide to the Celestine Prophecy' which has
already come out (available in Bantam Paper Back). This 'guide' is to help Individuals and groups who practice
the 'insights'.
- K.S. SRINIVASAN
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I. PHILOSOPHY
1. Der Wissenschaftscharakter der
Homoopathie (The Scientific Character
of Homoeopathy)
BRAUN, A. (A HZ, 239, 4/1994)
The repeated negation of the scientific
character of Homoeopathy by the so-called
Scientific Medicine, is rejected. The Scientific
Medicine cannot at all, is not competent enough
to, judge the scientific character of
Homoeopathy. Such judgement is reserved only
to the meditative thoughts in the sense of the
primary philosophy. Indeed Homoeopathy is
undoubtedly science -according to the German
Grundgesetz as well as to the modern concept
of science stated by KANT in 1781. A decisive
scale of the scientific character of medicinal-
therapeutic methods can be only their
methodological adequacy in respect to their
scientific object (the suffering individual). You
cannot cure collectively; you can cure the
individual patient. Scientific object of
Homoeopathy is the individual patient.
2. Connaissance de soi et homoeopathi
(Self-knowledge and Homoeopathy)
IMBERECHTS, J. (CGH, 31 16/1994)
Disease symptoms, like Fever with or
without thirst, sweat, etc. -such common
symptoms by being certain and specific are of
value for choice of the medicine, they become
pointers. The patient should learn to observe
himself and reveal these in the interview with the
physician. It is not necessary to know why there
is or is not thirst, sweat, etc. Such theoretic
clarifications are not required. The modalities
considered useful may be marked in 10 groups:
1. Circumstances under which it
appears;
2. The kind of sensation which
should be noted only by careful observation;
(warmth or burning, cutting or stitching, bruise or
dislocation, etc.);
3. Exact location and side
involved;
4. Change of place, Change of
organ, Radiation;
5. Times of day and Periodicity,
including occurrences before, during or after a
symptom;
6. The grade of intensity (e.g.
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slowly or suddenly occurring);
7. Alternation of Symptoms;
8. Symptom accompanying another
symptom;
9. Aggravation and Amelioration,
with by far significant modalities, in which the
aggravation appears to be more valuable than
the amelioration, with the exception when the
latter is particularly striking;
10. Chronological, i.e. the
pathobiographic commencement and d
isappearance of the symptoms.
The author finally thanks Or. REZZANI
and the Group Lycopodium in Mailand for the
Computerisation of the Homoeopathic
Investigation Program (CHIP) made possible by
the work of the Homoeopathia Europae over
the period of 20 years.
3. Franz von BAAOER und die
Homoopathie
(Franz von BMOER and Homoeopathy)
PIETSCH, R. (A HZ, 239, 5/1994)
Franz von BMOER (1765-1841) belongs
to the great German philosophers. In his works
there are certain observations on Homoeopathy
which are significant to the extent that these
endeavour to show at). inner connection
between the teachings of Jakob BOHME (1575-
1624) and Samuel HAHNEMANN's
Homoeopathy. This connection is the multi-
layered concept of spiritual-corporeality.
4. Aspekte der Ahnlichkeit -Vorstellungen
und Erfahrungen des Alfonso MASI-
ELIZALOE (Aspects of Similarity -
Concepts and experiences of Alfonso
MASI-ELIZALOE)
PREIS, S. (ZKH, 38,3/1994)
An overview of the theory of the South
American homoeopath MASI- ELIZALOE, which
is increasingly accepted in Germany is
presented. MASI differentiates the pure doctrine
of HAHNEMANN from the interpretations of his
followers. He also elaborates the conditions for
obtaining exceptional healing-results, quantum
leaps in healing. MASI draws attention to
HAHNEMANN's concept of unity of Spirit and
Body, with reference to the Organon and
various other writings of HAHNEMANN.
The inner conceptual world, MASI
observes, may be classified into five major core
points: Loss or bereavement, Guilt or wrong,
Yearning or longing, Punishment and
Justification or vindication.
Loss: the feeling that man has lost
something - a perfection, a competence.
Guilt: the awareness, a conscience that
he himself was responsible for this loss.
Longing: A yearning for a state of
fulfilment, perfection in which the specific loss is
not encountered.
Punishment: Fear of punishment in
connection with the specific guilt.
Justification: the man concedes a
wrong or guilt, he refers to another who has
tricked him, enticed or compelled him to commit
the offence.
The description of the inner experience
of the man with the help of these "five cores"
reminds of the 'existentialism' which describes it
similarly: He is thrown into the world without
knowledge and understanding, his origin, his
goal, his environment, constantly threatened by
dangers and caprice -his loss. Against this
uncertainty he reacts with guilt feelings and
yearns for peace and security. Anxiety and
justification are the further ubiquitous
connections and experiences. This existential
drama which is lived through byall men is
experienced in an individual manner. In the
provings of the individual medicines symptoms
are experienced which in each case affect a
particular aspect of the existence. In a particular
domain the loss which will be experienced by all
may become particularly painful. The guilt, the
fear of punishment, the yearning and justification
are related with this particular aspect of
existence. These are grouped in a leading or
guiding motive. Every medicine has the imprint
of a leading, guiding motive. Every medicine
shows loss, guilt, punishment, yearning and
justification, in relation with this aspect of human
existence.
This is MASI's basic line of thought. The
criterion and aspects of similarity are
determined. The similarity is to be searched in
the domain of power of imagination. When one
succeeds in recognising a guiding motive in a
patient and when the appropriate medicine with
similar leading motive is also recognised, one
can then with high certainty expect a quantum
leap in healing.
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5. Why do We Get Sick and what Do We
Do About it?
I.WILLIAMS Henry (JAIH, 87,3/1994)
Dr.WILLIAMS, with profound insight
discusses the true nature and significance of
illness, as well as preferred approaches to
achieving cure. He begins by quoting PLATO.ln
PLATO's "Atlantis", TIMAEUS says "Now
everyone can see whence diseases arise. There
are four natures out of which the body is
compacted- -earth and fire and water and air--
and the unnatural excess or defect of these or
the change in any of them from its own natural
place into another, or --the assumption of any of
these of a wrong kind, or any similar irregularity,
produces disorders and disease". Further on he
quotes Virginia WOLFF "Considering how
common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual
change that it brings--it becomes strange indeed
that illness has not taken its place with love and
battle and jealousy among the prime themes of
literature." Perhaps the reason, recalls Kate
DUFF, is that "Memories of illness fade quickly
under the glare and hubris of health, dropping
into the background of life, only to rise to the
forefront with the onset of yet another illness."
Many of us as homoeopaths, in allowing illness
in children to run its course, have seen the leap
in development, physical, mental, or emotional,
that comes after we allow a child to have a
fever, a cough, diarrhoea, without prescribing
suppressive or palliative measures. There is a
remarkable report from Africa of a German
mission hospital, that found itself, because of
blockade during the World War II, without drugs.
The mortality rate for measles was reduced from
47% to 7% when antibiotics, antitussives, and
antipyretics were not given, only good nursing
care. In a nearby British mission hospital the
mortality rate remained at 47% using the usual
drugs. This gives the homoeopath reason for not
embracing superficial palliation and challenges
us about the true nature of illness. (I remember
to have read a few years ago, in the British
Medical Journal about a doctors' strike in Israel
for a few weeks when the mortality rate came
down! = KSS). Dr. WILLIAMS states that we
must actively cooperate with illness and disease.
The causes of illness go further back than we
are taught. It is not what the healer is rather than
what she or he does that helps."
6. The Mythology of Modern Medicine -
Part I "Scienstition". Part II "Cocoon of
Causalism"
KOTHARI Manu L. and MEHTA Lopa
A. (HH, 19, 12/1994)
In this two-part thought-provoking article
the authors examine the so-called 'Modern
Medicine'and its obsession with 'science' and
'causation'.
7. On Pseudo-classical Homoeopathy
SHAH Rajesh (HTIMES, 1,3/1994)
With so many 'teachers' within the
country and from abroad, teaching their own
methods -Essence, Delusions and Dreams,
Fairy Tales, Central Disturbance, etc. etc. -quite
a good number especially the younger,
homoeopaths, feel bewildered and by adopting
whatever they hear from a teacher soon falter
and express dejection; while the experienced
homoeopath knows how to adapt these different
teachings into his practice and benefit. It is
therefore essential that the teachers take care
as to whom they teach. While everyone speaks
of 'Hahnemannian Homoeopathy' (where is the
need to strees 'Hahnemannian'? Homoeopathy
is what HAHNEMANN taught -not what
exactly he himself practised) each one differs!
The intelligent homoeopath will follow what
HERING did: "put everything to test and follow
what stands that test".
II. MATERIA MEDICA
1. Thyroidinum bei Morbus Basedow
(Thyroidinum in Basedow's Disease)
WEGENER A. (ZKH, 38, 3/1994)
Thyroidinum was proved only after
KENT's Repertory was published; the proving
was by H.P. GILLINGHAM and published in The
Homoeopathic Recorder (1922) .This remedy
comes up in the Synthetic Repertory only in a
few places. It should not therefore be excluded
in daily practice. The remedy is indicated in
many kinds of thyroid gland diseases, Psoriasis,
arrested development in children, undescended
testes, mammary tumours, rheumatoid arthritis,
diabetes, epilepsy, acromegaly.
With two cases the author shows the
efficacy of Thyroidinum in Basedow's disease
and verifies some of the symptoms obtained in
the proving. (See also OHD, xii, 2/1995, p.42-
43)
2. Casuistik: Jatropha curcas, die
schwarze Purgiernub (Case: Jatropha
curcas, the black Physic nut)
von KELLER G. (ZKH, 38, 3/1994)
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This is very interesting although the
case report is brief. It draws one's attention to
the important fact that although small books
containing only the so-called Key-notes are very
helpful, one should always study the complete
proving symptoms. It is also wrong to fix certain
disease-syndromes to certain medicines viz.
diarrhoea that drains a patient = Jatropha
curcas. Since most of the symptoms collected
by HERING in respect of Jatropha were from
cholera patients or heroic provings, it is
generally restricted to such serious diarrhoeas. It
is surprising that this remedy can work as well in
other conditions.
64-year-old woman complained of sleep
disturbances; restlessness with constant turning
about causes sleeplessness; Palpitation about
15 mts. after going to bed; cannot sleep
because of the palpitation feel must kick about
with the arms and legs and then weep. The
patient had many other symptoms of Jatropha
and the remedy in O potencies cured.
3. Casuistik: Selbstbehandlung mit
Allium cepa (Case: Self- treatment with
Allium cepa)
von KELLER G. (ZKH, 38, 4/1994)
The author suffered from pruritus in the
face while sleeping, in the dorsal back and in the
waistline. After Apis the character of the pruritus
changed and now it was more diffuse and the
itching was so that he couldn't know where to
scratch; there was also fleeting heat alternating
with cold mostly leftsided of face, trunk and legs;
the heat and cold seemed to come from within.
The symptoms were similar to Allium cepa which
cured. (See Symptoms No.475, 476; 155; 493.
EN)
4. Uber Veratrum album (Veratrum
album)
BAUER E.A. (ZKH, 38, 4/1994)
Veratrum album is one of the three
remedies recommended highly by
HAHNEMANN during the Cholera epidemic of
his time. However, the remedy is of great use in
chronic diseases. The author narrates five cases
in which Veratrum album was the curative
medicine prescribed on the characteristic mind
symptoms.
5. Parasthesie - Onosmodium
(Paresthesia - Onosmodium)
EICHLER E. (ZKH, 38, 4/1994)
A 49-year-old patient complained of
numbness of calves; he was a teacher and the
numbness was felt more during the teaching
hours better in the evening when he removed
the rather narrow trousers. This was since 6
months and it had begun suddenly and there
was no cause he could recall; there was nothing
more to say either .
Onosmodium 200 one dose cured.
("Tired, weary, and numb feeling in the legs and
popliteal space."; Feeling of numbness, mostly
below the knees"; "Sensation as though the legs
were partially anaesthetized" -Provings of
Onosmodium virginicum, The Hahnemannian
Monthly 1885).
6. Pulsatilla und Steisslage (Pulsatilla
and Breech presentation)
MEYER-KONIG, P. (A HZ, 239, 6/1994)
It is said that Pulsatilla can turn a breech
presentation to a vertex presentation. Since this
is difficult to prove because of spontaneous
rotations, the author records a case, where a
foetus turned during treatment with Pulsatilla 03
and 04 from breech presentation to normal
position. When the treatment was interrupted the
child turned back to breech presentation and
when further treated with Pulsatilla 05 the foetus
again changed to normal (vertex) position and
was born without complication.
7. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der
homoopathischen Mil tel aus spinnen:
Aranea species - Kreuzspinne (On the
knowledge about the homoeopathic
remedy from Spiders: Aranea species-
cross spiders)
SCHOBER, u. (ZKH,39,6/1994)
Some spider remedies are prepared out
of cross-spiders -Aranea species. There is
sufficient documentation about Aranea diadema
and Aranea ixobola. But about Aranearum tela
and Aranea scinencia there is not. Aranearum
tela is spider web triturated. No proving
symptoms available. HERING has mentioned
that spider web was an important medicine.
HERING'S communications to ERNST STAFF,
vide GYPSER: Herings Medizinische
Schriften, Vol. II, 1988 = K.S.S.
8. Migrane - Aranea diadema (Migraine-
Aranea diadema)
WEGENER, A. (ZKH, 38, 6/1994)
A 26-year-old woman who was suffering
from Miqraine since her 11th year (onset of
menses) was cured with Aranea diadema. The
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leading symptoms were flickering before eyes,
numbness of the leg during the headache and
the characteristic modalities of the cross spider:
periodicity of the ailments and aggravation from
cold wet weather. The origin of the proving
symptoms is presented and discussed.
The leading modalities and some
characteristic symptoms of this till now not well-
known but great remedy are shown:
- Aggravation from cold-wet weather,
from change of weather, damp houses, inland
lakes, swamps.
- Better in fresh air, from pressure, in
summer, headache is better from smoking.
- Chilliness and general feeling of
coldness.
- Periodicity of the ailments.
- Numbness -, itching - and enlarged
sensations.
- Periodical bleedings from nose, uterus
and lungs.
- Neuralgic pains, sudden toothache in
the upper jaw on going to bed.
- Menses too early, too long and too
heavy.
- Intermittent fever, enlarged spleen.
- Bone pains with cold sensation, heel
bone pains.
Compare with Cedron, Natrum
sulphuricum, Thuja, China and Arsenicum
album.
9. Magnet - Arzneimittelprufungen und
klinishe Symptome (Magnet - Remedy
Provings and Clinical Symptoms)
REIS Stefan (ACD, 3, 4/1994 and 4,
1&2/1995)
"The homoeopathic literature has only a
few cases of cure with Magnet although the
Proving symptoms indicate many opportunities
for its use..." This assessment of BECKER (in
Hygea, Band 21, 1846) holds good now 150
years later.
The first extensive observations on the
therapeutic possibilities of Magnet comes from
PARACELSUS. Also Anton MESMER, the
discoverer of animal magnetism (Mesmerism)
employed it. However, as in many remedies it
remained for Samuel HAHNEMANN to
systematically describe its pure action and lay
down a reliable basis for its therapeutic use -the
Provings have been given in Vol.2 of the Pure
Materia Medica. (see also § 287 Organon VI)
Samuel SWAN seems to have been the
first to potentize Magnet with milk sugar (or with
water); cases of potentized Magnet used as
remedy were reported by him. That Magnet has
therapeutic values is doubtless; the reason why
it has not been used as often as it should be is
for two reasons: neither T. F . ALLEN nor C.
HERING have detailed anything about this
'imponderable'. HERING has said why he has
left out these (see Preface to the GS). Only H.C.
ALLEN published (Materia Medica of the
Nosodes, 1910)
Collecting the verified symptoms and
clinical symptoms and going through the
"Provings" and the Repertories, it is now
possible to furnish the complete
symptomatology of the Magnet.
Magnetis polus australis (The South
pole) and Magnetis polus arcticus (The North
Pole) have been verified and the complete
Materia Medica of these have been furnished in
this article. A very valuable work.
10. A Case of Anxiety in an elderly woman
ZAREN, Ananda (NEJH, 3,4/1994)
This is from the recording in Ananda
ZAREN's Seminar in Munich in February, 1994
by Karen COHEN.
In this case of an elderly woman with
fear and anxiety and goitre, the remedy was Kali
bromatum.
The Materia Medica of Kali bromatum
(Extracts):
Properness and rigidity.
Anxiety ridden and hysterical because
they have lost the ability to control their anxiety.
Become suspicious and paranoid when they
imagine the thoughts of other people. Chronic
state of intensity and crisis.
A state of Monomania or persistent
thoughts. In their compulsion, many wring their
hands or repeatedly sigh.
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Irrational fears -looking for reasons to be
afraid. They live under a cloud of dread,
absolutely certain that something horrible is
about to happen to them. The smallest of
incidents are blown completely out of proportion
until they become reason for add itional fear or
paranoia.
Paranoia that grows out of their low self-
esteem. They feel conspiracies everywhere, feel
that others are plotting against them, and feel
persecuted by others, especially those in
authority. They are convinced that other people
are trying to punish them for their past failures.
Two types of Kali bromatum patients:
The Active type is hysterical, with uncontrolled
weeping where everything pours out. Extreme
anxiety. Hypochondriasis. Anxiety experienced
in the solar plexus. Suspicious and fear they are
being taken advantage of by others. Inside they
feel defeated and this results in a form of self-
destruction. They can exhibit compulsive
behavior to ward off the persistent thoughts.
There is an element of mania. Compulsive
quality to their moods.
The passive type are inward, paralyzed,
with melancholy, wordless grief. Insecure,
clingingly dependent, very poor self-esteem.
Sense of hopelessness, despair of recovery.
The sighing of Kali bromatum is often heavier
and harder than that of lgnatia.
Lamenting, complaining, and whining.
Constantly reproach themselves and
feel they are inferior to other people.
Restless and manic.
Absent-minded, memory loss, and
tendency to make mistakes.
Unstable in both their behavior and their
moods.
Many delusions.
They are self-defeating people who
often become their own worst enemies.
11. The Movers and Shakers; Notes on the
Female Sulphur
DELANEY Susan (NEJH, 3,4/1994)
It is not enough to know that Sulphur is
a 'ragged- philosopher', etc. but one should
comprehend the remedy fully. The original
understanding of our remedies is gender-based,
e.g. Sepia, Pulsatilla as female, Sulphur as male
with skin eruptions and diarrhoea. Although
KENT gives several indications for Sulphur in
women throughout the article he uses only 'he'.
The constitutional female Sulphur hardly
emerges from KENT's article.
Case 1: 52-year-old female with Colitis,
which began 4 years ago with spastic colon.
Tests revealed Crohn's disease, and was on
allopathic medicine; in spite of medicines she
had 4-5 loose gassy bowel movements a day.
She had hot flushes and post-
menopausal. Hot-natured and easily fatigued in
the heat. Sweats a lot and becomes flushed with
exertion. Uncovers her feet.
Sulphur 200 repeated once after six
months (on the totality of her symptoms) cured.
Case 2: 54-year-old woman, a film
director. Chief complaints were: menopausal
symptoms and uterine fibroids. Small ovarian
cysts. Sweated at night. Worse at 5 a.m.
Restless sleep.
She moves around a lot; fast mover;
always driven; passionate about her work. She
wilted in the hot weather. U ncovered her feet
although she covered otherwise. Sulphur 200
was given.
Very interesting picture of the Sulphur
has been depicted by Nancy HERRICK, Amy
ROTHENBERG, Judyth REICHENBERG-
ULLMAN. Sulphur women are 'movers and
shakers'.
12. The Kali Group
HERSCU, Paul (Simillimum, 7,3/1994)
The Kali group is an illusive set of
remedies to grasp. As a group they tend to be
more withdrawn in symptamatology and harder
to understand. (see KENT on Kali carbonicum).
Each of the remedies in this group resembles
other remedies that we prescribe more
commonly, and so we prescribe them when the
patient needs a Kali. Another problem in
learning the Kalis is that the cases that have
been written to illustrate these remedies are
often described too little, not giving enough to
grasp the idea of the remedy.
Four cases are presented and
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discussed by the author: Kali arsenicum, Kali
bichromicum, Kali carbonicum, Kali sulphuricum.
13. Jealousy, the Green-eyed Monster
ASSILEM Melissa (Simillimum,7,3/1994)
This is a differential of 7 ' Jealousy'
remedies: Lachesis, Hyoscyamus, Nux vomica,
Anacardium, Apis mellifica, Ignatia and
Pulsatilla.
In summing up: The Lachesis jealousy
manifests as suspicion based on hurt and guilt;
Nux vomica can never accept limitations. They
are overly conscious, fast moving and come
across as bossy; the jealousy of Nux vomica
manifests in possessiveness; The jealousy of
Hyoscyamus is built around the fear of being
forsaken; Anacardium jealousy is because of a
sense of inferiority; Apis jealousy comes out of a
constant campaign waged against a loneliness
which is countered by the quest for perfection;
the jealousy that Ignatia feels, is about betrayal;
Pulsatilla is so very needy, and the needs are
immediate. Need physical and emotional
cuddling and it is a major remedy for healing the
needy and hurt child within us as adults. It is
often a remedy filled with jealousy.
14. A Homoeopathic Proving of Sequia
sempervirens (Redwood)
BIRCH Kate and ROCKWELL Jennifer
(Simillimum,7,4/1994)
The tree Sequia semperviens grows to
incredible heights and girth. It is native to
California (USA) .Like the chipko movement in
the western Ut tar Pradesh in India protesting
against the indiscriminate felling of trees (the
protesting volunteers hugged the trees daring
the lumber contractors to cut them alongwith the
trees, (hence the name of the movement
Chipko) there is a movement in California
protesting against the cutting of these great
trees.
The Sequia (Redwood) came prior to the
Ice Age, over 200 million years ago. Now there
are only two species of the Sequia left -Sequia
sempervirens and the Sequia gigantum. The
Sequia live to very old age - some 2200 years
and one has been recorded to be 5000 years!
The Sequias are the oldest plant on earth. They
grow fery fast.
There were 11 provers (7 male and 4
female). The Mother Tincture was prepared from
60 g of fresh shoots, bark and that which lies
just under the bark from a burl growing on the
side of a 200 to 300 year old tree.
This remedy affects the lungs, heart,
eyes, gastrointestinal system, musculoskeletal
system, the mind and emotions. It seems to
affect some people in one way, while in others
the effects are opposite. In the lungs there is
either ease of breath or there is difficulty of
breath. In the heart we find pressure, shooting
pains and symptoms from grief, or an absence
of symptoms except for complete happiness.
Blurry vision or clarity of vision. There is nausea.
Pains all over the body which are gripping,
constrictive, aching. The body feels stiff and
tight. Over all, there is either great exhaustion or
well-being. The fluid balance is affected either
by an absence of fluid collecting or more fluid
being retained. In the mind there is difficult
concentration or clarity of thoughts, emotional
sensitivity, especially as to feelings of love, grief,
rage and calmness.
The authors have given the proving in
the Schema form, in detail.
15. The DPT Picture
MARLOW Len (The Homoeopath,
54/1994)
The author has collected and collated a
picture of DPT from symptoms before and after
the administration of DPT in potency to persons
who were 'never well since' the vaccination by
DPT. This is given in the Schema form.
He also collated and drew up a Materia
Medica picture of DPT from Harris COULTER's
book Vaccination, Social Violence and
Criminality. These symptoms are also given in
the Schema form.
Concluding this very interesting and
educative study the author reports a case: A
child who had only the first DPT and Polio
vaccination and subsequently had no other
vaccine or medical treatment (no antibiotics etc.)
and had a sugar-free healthy diet.
She had glue ear, was deaf to both ears
and the doctor referred her to a specialist.
Personal history: Nappy rash + + after
vaccine, high temperature once a month for six
months, chest infections, no thirst.
Mood swings, temper tantrums, 'drifts
off' in company, likes travel, not car sick, happy
staying at friend's.
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Hot person, kicks covers off, sleeps
long, screws up sheet and holds on to it.
Prescribed DPT 30.
Five weeks later: confidence + + ,energy
+ + , awake more hours, tantrums gone, not
confrontational any more. Hearing much
improved, writing and learning improved. No
physical aggravation at all (sister had cold in this
period). Report from cranial osteopath -very
good progress. No prescription
Two months later Tuberculinum M. No
further treatment from specialist.
16. Melilotus Revisited
GRINNEY Tony (The homoeopath
54/1994)
In The Homoeopath, 53/1994 the
author reported a case of Melilotus. In this issue
the author continues the follow-up. An important
point that Melilotus has craving sugar and in this
patient's case this craving is going away.
17. Remedy Masquerade
(The Homoeopath, 54/1994)
A reserved nature, a tendency to weep
when listening to music, dreams of falling,
consolation aggravates, condylomata on the
penis, benign cystic tumours, a sensitivity to
tobacco and a craving for refreshing things. The
remedy appears to be Thuja. However, the
patient is very warm-blooded and has a strong
desire for open air. The remedy is Sabina.
18. A Mercurius case
GOODWIN Diane (The Homoeopath,
55/1994)
Woman (DOB 8/10/1950). Occupation:
Political activist. Two children. Presenting
complaints: Persistent sinusitis.
Although she presented a number of
physical disorders nothing was characteristic.
She has been ill from an early age. History of
tonsill itis and sore throats. Glandular fever. As
she grew up Fibroids, Thrush and Warts.
Asthma develops when she is pregnant. Her
family is a battle ground and she was in the
middle of it, as a judge and she was railed for
her decision. Her father is a brute and physically
and mentally abused her. Her mother is an
international class athelete and an alcoholic. All
her life she has been unable to satisfy the
expectations of her family. She is discontented
with her own life, unhappy with her marriage, her
children. the world she lives in is a haphazard
place. There are environmental dangers,
political threats and she actively tries to do her
part to change it. She wants to ramble through
hills and explore the world. Yet she hates being
aimless.
Mercurius LM1 and then LM3, 4,
brought about the expected improvement.
Mercury in nature gives us clues to its healing
properties. The metal has a very narrow
boundary between freezing and building.
Compared with other metals it operates on a
very narrow band of existence. Extreme
sensitivity to both heat and cold is only one of its
manifestations. When mercury is dropped, it
scatters into droplets, it is a lively, volatile
substance and it bounces around because it is
ready to boil, to evaporate, it is very reactive but
it will not combine. It has an uneasy relationship
chemically, it forms an alloy but it does not
combine. When it meets with other metals what
happens is not a chemical change but a physical
change. Mercury slips into relationships, it is not
a conscious relationship.
19. A Magnesia muriatica case
BIANCHINI Roberto (The Homoeopath,
55/1994)
15-year-old girl. The mother says that
she is puny, not growing up, too short for her
age. Her personality is immature. Does not mix
with her peers, let alone other children. Frequent
colds, suffers from cirrhosis of liver with chronic
active low grade hepatitis. She goes to a special
school, has difficulty in comprehension, learns
poorly and is reluctant and unwilling to learn
anything. Very sensitive to criticism. Obstinate.
Poor sleep but needs little sleep. Averse to
talking, and answering. Morose. Miserable. Her
temperament can be colloquially summed as
being sour. According to VITHOULKAS this is a
general feature of the Magnesias, of which the
physical reflection is found in the sour
discharges. Magnesia muriatica 6, then 30, 200.
Interesting discussion.
12. Some thoughts about Mercurius.
NORLAND Misha (The Homoeopath,
55/1994)
This is a very interesting article. It is an
attempt to tie this into an appreciation of its
principles or essence.
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The article is summed up by the author:
The patient for whom Mercurius is the remedy is
eaten away within, as is a corpse, auto-digested
from the rotting gut outwards towards the
periphery, as is a guilty criminal; as is the
excrement eater who is filled with disgust and
self-loathing, who is in Hell, who is surrounded
by enemies or who flees, who is mentioned in 55
general rubrics of aggravation or - if they are
compensated and functioning - do so by
adhering to a dogma or a fixed form (I would
suggest that Mercurius be added to the rubric
Monomania). Everything in nature may be
viewed from two sides. In the case of Mercurius
these two aspects are symbolised by the black
and white, snake entwining Caduceus of
Hermes, the staff which is symbolic of healing.
The portrait of Mercurius, received from
toxicological and proving evidence, is the
pathological down side of the messenger of the
Gods, the carrier of pure light of truth and life,
the Vivus principle. Just as Mercury corrupts, so
it may also elevate, raising the spirit of humanity
out of filth into purity -this it can do because of
its essentially fluid and amalgamating nature, its
ability to experience by entering into the
opposing qualities, the two sides of things.
Therefore, Mercurius people may rise to act out
the life of the messenger of the Gods of the tribe
and be a communicator of life and death
principles. As we know from the evidence of
practice, Mercurius persons may be filled with
bubbly enthusiasm for life, desiring to make
deep and intimate connections with people and
society. They often retain childlike qualities.
Hermes is portrayed as a young man with wings
upon his heels, whereas other Gods are older
and wiser. In KENT's repertory Mercurius is the
single remedy in the rubric, Precocity. Such
people show great receptivity to all stimuli. Their
antennae are always out. They often find a place
in the family or in society as entertainers,
performers and mimics, taking on many
personae with greatest dexterity. These aspects
of the Mercurius personality are most clearly
seen in children (of course, they may also live
out the down side, and most especially so in
adolescence!)
21. How Strange, Rare and Peculiar
Symptoms may be Emblematic of the
Theme of A Remedy
-DELUSIONS, neck is too large: Kali
carbonicum (the only remedy)
NORLAND Misha (The Homoeopath,
55/1994)
This symptom is explained in the light of
VITHOULKAS' exposition of the distinctive
personality of Kali carbonicum.
22. Occupational Pathogenesis of Chlorine
CHIRlLA M., BADULICI S., FRElLICH
A, BICA N. (BHJ, 83,3/1994)
The occupational pathogenesis of
Chlorine in exposed workers are described and
compared with the classical pathogenesis. The
exposed group consisted of 82 men with
occupational exposure to Chlorine. The control
group consisted of 46 men who were not
exposed, all of them working in the same
cellulose processing factory. The exposed group
had the symptoms of the classical pathogenesis
to a highly significant degree (p. 0.001)
compared to the unexposed control group.
We found a number of symptoms, signs,
disorders and syndromes which are not
described in the classical pathogenesis,
including diminished tolerance to alcohol, back
pain, pains in the joints dependent on weather
conditions, dependent oedema, diminished taste
sensitivity, persistent chronic hepatitis, hepatic
steatofibrosis, chronic obstructive airways
disease, polycythaemia with haemosiderosis
and chronic conjunctivitis.
The intensity of symptoms and signs
was in direct proportion to the duration of
exposure to Chlorine.
23. Calcarea carbonica
SHORE Jonathan (BHJ, 83,3/1994)
This very interesting article has been
summarised at the end as follows:
The things you need to know by heart,
the good confirmations are: chilly people, worse
for cold, worse for cold damp, worse for
exertion, worse for ascending, worse at the full
moon. Frequent colds, sleeps on left side, strong
desire for sweets, eggs, salt, cheese, icecream.
Fear of heights, insanity, cancer, mice,
infections. Despair of recovery. Vertigo
especially turning quickly or from heights. Low
back pain. Lumbago. Nails break easily. Feet icy
cold and then warm up later. Leg cramps
especially at night during sleep.
These are symptoms which you must
know, not just individually but as a pattern. We
are pattern recognizers and if you know these
symptoms as a coherent whole when you take
your case you have all this information. You
spend hours with a patient and collect this
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volume of inforamtion and then do not know
where to begin. But look at your case and see
first one symptom, then another-- overweight,
chilly, worse damp weather, desires sweets and
salt-- and you can forget anything else and give
Calcarea carbonica for this is a Calcarea case.
You have these things as a pattern. It is actually
a fairly simple medicine and you will mostly miss
it because it is a very big one. The patients will
give you many symptoms and you will get lost in
them, missing the simple pattern that makes
Calcarea. Most of the Calcareas I miss, which
are then pointed out to me by my colleagues,
are of that nature.
24. Carbo vegetabilis
WOOD Mathew (HT, 14, 7/1994)
This is a beautiful article. It is based on
the provings and on certain ideas 'which unite
our traditional applications and homoeopathic
experiences'. -"Congealed blood" is a syndrome
in Chinese medicine. Carbo vegetabilis is the
archetypal remedy for this. The characteristic
symptoms are a bluish complexion and tongue,
choppy pulse, (irregular in power and beat, but
not intermittent) and sharp, shooting, non-mobile
pains emanating from what is taken to be a lump
of "stagnant blood".
-Blood stasis
Arnica is suited to conditions where
symptoms of blood stasis and inflammation are
combined, while Carbo vegetabilis is suited to
conditions where there is only stagnation, not
inflammation. Arnica when the bruise is new and
there is still inflammatory process at work; Carbo
vegetabilis when the inflammatory process has
died down and blood has remained behind.
Carbo vegetabilis for patients where blood forms
into adhesion which resists reabsorption even
morlths or years after the initial formation.
The characteristic symptoms calling for
Carbo vegetabilis are the cyanotic complexion,
darkish or bluish tongue and the choppy pulse.
The pulse is the most reliable indication. The
beats are irregular in frequency and direction.
They hit the artery in a different place each time,
and at a different rate, but do not actually
intermit. It feels as if the pulse was wobbling on
its axis, or like the patient had been hit by a big
stick and knocked off its fulcrum. This is called
the choppy pulse in Chinese medicine.
Three cases are cited in which trauma
was the cause.
25. A Peculiar Symptom
MIDGLEY James (HT, 14, 8/1994)
The author who suffered from kidney
pain due to infection. The 'peculiar symptoms'
that led to the curative remedy, Berberis
vulgaris, were: "sensation of coldness in various
parts as if splattered with cold water"; "sudden
sharp pains occuring first in one place, then in
another, so sharp that the patient cries out".
Although the peculiar sensation of "spattered
with water" is given under 'Fever' in PHATAK
and BOERICKE in this case this sensation was
not connected with fever. Lesson: the key to the
case may come from symptom which has no
direct relationship to the chief complaint. Also
that a "peculiar sensation"
mentioned under a particular part may be taken
as a 'general'.
26. Phosphorus: A Peculiar Symptom
CAMPBELL J.B. (HT, 14,8/1994)
"Muscular motion centered in the hips,
which were jerked up and down, having exactly
the same appearance as at the completion of
the sexual orgasm" was the peculiar symptom
that led to the successful prescription of
Phosphorus in a case of convulsion in a 48-
year-old man.
27. Dioscorea villosa Wild yam
WOOD Matthew (HT, 14,9/1994)
The portrait of this remedy is drawn by
the author from his own experience. For women
in their early forties, suffering from spasmodic
affections or hip-joint pain. Characteristic of this
is: pain, sometimes dull, sometimes sharp, in the
hip joint, worse in the night, sleep disturbed and
the pain is dramatically aggravated by lying on
the joint the wrong way while tossing and
turning. Sometimes worse before the period.
The affinity this remedy has to hormonal
production, spasm, and hip-joint disease was
demonstrated bya case of a woman in her mid-
forties, whose gall-bladder had been removed
some years ago suffered suddenly from severe
spasm in the right kidney area through to the
liver. Remedies like Ipecacuanha, Berberis,
Arsenicum etc. did not give relief. Re-
examination: mild deterioration of the right hip-
joint which was putting stress on muscles in the
abdominal area. Because of the scar tissue
(after the gall-bladder surgery), the muscles
went into spasm. Dioscorea promptly removed
the pains.
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Mental: The name Dioscorea comes
from a Greek root which means "the point along
the circumference of a circle which stands in no
relationship geometrically to any other point".
This is often what the patient feels like; she was
falling apart, has lost the thread holding
everything together, has poor judgments, and
doesn't understand herself, but senses that
something is wrong. This results in a degree of
hysteria or despair and irrational activity. "Calls
things by the wrong name" (CLARKE's
Dictionary of Materia Medica). Wild Yam was
being used by a herbalist for "birth control" and
in three cases of women, the women developed
aversion to sexual relations -or even any
relations at all -with their husbands.
Physical symptoms: Mouth dry, taste
bitter. Heartburn, hiccough, belching. Sinking at
the pit of stomach. Sharp pain in the epigastrium
relieved by standing up. Pains in the abdomen.
Pains shift suddenly. Rumbling, flatus. Colic,
better walking, standing up, bending backwards.
Pains radiate from the abdomen. Sharp pains in
the region of liver, gall bladder. Pain in chest,
tightness along sternum. Oppression of
breathing; Angina pectoris. Feeble action of
heart. Flatulence and pain through the chest.
Hemorrhoids, with pains darting to the liver.
Exhausting diarrhoea. Relaxation and coldness
of male sexual organs. Pains from the kidneys to
the testicles. Emissions during sleep, sexual
debility, weak knees. Weak lower back, worse
bending over. Menstrual pain, uterine colic. Vivid
dreams. Aching and stiffness in joints. Pain in
the hip-joint, especially the right--sharp or dull,
aggravated at night, or changing position in bed,
but accompanied by restlessness. Nails brittle.
Cramps in fingers and toes, worse on flexors.
Worse at night, after sleeping, lying down, and
doubling up. Better standing erect, bending
backwards, moving around in the open air, and
from pressure.
28. Thuja - A Great Antidote of Sera,
Vaccines and Many Other Modern
Remedies
WADIA S.R. (HH,19,9/1994)
Thuja, in the author's experience, was
needed in all cases where many vaccinations as
in the case of military personnel and their
families, have been done. Many children who
have been given BCG and other vaccines
become restless especially at night, scream or
go off their feeds following these vaccinations
and Thuja in 30 (repeated doses) or 200 (few
doses) restore them. There are some people
who have taken not only the routine vaccinations
but also some 'fancy' ones like Catarrh
vaccination or Auto vaccine, etc., and Thuja is
very helpful in such cases. Two mental
symptoms have often been noted: (1) as if body
and soul are separated (2) sensation of
something alive moving in the abdomen. While
Thuja is the great 'wart' remedy, it is not the only
one. Dr. WADIA writes about a man with about
200 warts onthe face which did not disappear
despite Thuja M b.d. for 6 months given by a
homoeopath but which disappearedd with Nitric
acid and this patient's son who too had many
warts on the face received Belladonna
curatively.
Dreams are the fascinating aspect of
Thuja. Dreams, of falling; anxious; of dead; of
misfortune; dead bodies or dying; teeth falling.
29. Why we need a new Proving on
Parthenium Hysterophorus
SOLAIYAPPAN N. (HH, 19,10/1994)
In the recent years Parthenium has
produced many allergic disorders, particularly
skin itching and, and hay-fever like symptoms.
The earlier provings of this remedy have no
reference to these. Hence the great need for a
proving now.
30. KENT's First Grade Symptomatology
of Thuja GHOSH Madan, THAKUR P.
(HH, 19,11/1994)
The authors have picked out the highest
marks (bold letters) rubrics from the KENT and
formed into a Materia Medica.
31. Oscillococcinum
PIETERS G (HH, 19,12/1994)
Oscillococcinum is spoken of as being a
specific for 'flu. In the case of the author's wife
who had 'flu it worked while in his own case it
didn't and Nux vomica cured. There can be no
specific in Homoeopathy.
32. Oscillococcinum
MISRA P.C. (HH, 19, 12/1994)
The author says that this medicine may
heighten the immune response to many
common viral infections.
33. A Discussion of Arnica
SINHA Amitabh Kr. (HH, 19, 12/1994)
There was a report in the HH, 18 by
Prof. VEROUX of Italy that in his experiments he
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found that Arnica increased platelet aggregation
and in Arnica cases Factor XII and Prekallikrein
factor initiatiorfactor of blood coagulation were
higher. The author raises the question as to how
then Arnica used in bruises etc. in which it helps
blood coagulation.
34. Vanadium metallicum
SCHOLTEN JAN (HL, 7, 4/1994)
Apart from what has been given in
CLARKE, BOERICKE and BURNETT not much
is known about this remedy. Through two cases
the author offers new insights into this little-
known remedy. The concluding picture of
Vanadium that he gives:
Essence: The idea that they have to be
successful but they are not allowed or they are
incapable. They feel obliged to live up to many
tasks, but they are confused as to what tasks
and why.
Mind: They don't really know what they
want. They make plans, but they think "I won't
succeed anyway". Feel they have to achieve a
lot, but are not sure what. Doubtful and unable
to make choice. The doubt is a result of their
failure. "I can't succeed anyway". In their dreams
of missing the train, of not getting to the
telephone on time, etc. this theme comes up.
They tend to suffer from anorexia or bulimia.
They are always kind and gentle. They feel the
need for warmth and company and they always
try to please others. They cry easily. They would
like to remain a little child. Often a bit anxious,
with restless and itching legs.
General, Characteristics:
Location: Right-sided
Physique: Blond
Temperature: Cold, cold hands and
feet. Raynauds.
Time : Agg. 7h.
Desires: Sweet, liquorice.
Menses: little, or absent. Pre-menstrual
complaints. Agg. Ovulation.
Complaints: Eye problems. Pain in
throat, coughing up little lumps of yellow and
green, bitter mucus. Stomach and bowel
problems. Degeneration of liver, Cancer,
Constipation. Pain in the ovaries. Sciatica.
DD: Anac., Bar-c., Carc., Hyp-ant., Ign.,
Lyc., Mang., PuIs., Thuj.
35. Tarentula hispanica
RIGHETTI Marco (HL, 7,4/1994)
Starting with a Case illustration from his
psychiatric practice, RIGHETTI evolves the
picture of Tarentula. He points to the necessity
to differentiate between 'local symptoms' and
Singular, Rare, Peculiar-Symptoms within the
mind.
36. Dream Proving of Berberis
SANTOS Uta & KONIG Peter (HL, 7,
4/1994)
Dreams are windows to the patient's
unconscious and unlived life. If accurately
understood they reflect much of the essence of
the person and his struggles. In this proving
emphasis is made on evaluating the dreams
objectively, on avoiding 'slipping off into fairy
tales'. New and interesting symptoms of
Berberis vulgaris have emerged from this
proving which are waiting to be confirmed in our
daily prescriptions.
37. Fumaria officinalis
RILES David S. (HL, 7,4/1994)
Fumaria officina/is is a plant with the
common English name of "Earth smoke". Its
herbal usage is for jaundice, bowel obstruction,
and general debility of the digestive system.
There were 17 provers, -12 women and 5 men,
15 provers receved Verum and 2 Placebo. Age
range of the provers was 23 to 59. The results
are given in Schema format. This is compared
with repertory rubrics.
38. Cimicifuga
LlDCHI Maggi (HL, 7,4/1994)
A seven-year-old girl who suffered from
chest pains, hand pains, vomiting blood,
headaches, etc. all very severely, after the death
of her sister was given lgnatia, Natrum
muriaticum, Sepia, etc. but nothing helped her.
Vassilis GHEGAS says that when you give
lgnatia, Natrum muriaticum, Sepia and nothing
helps give Cimicifuga. Accordingly Cimicifuga
brought about a rapid improvement in this girl.
An intercurrent dose of Sulphur was needed in
between after which again Cimicifuga gave
lasting improvement.
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39. X-ray
TARKAS P.I. (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Materia Medica of x-ray. Unfortunately
the author does not furnish the sources of the
information.
40. Bowel Nosodes -An Introduction
LAKSHMINARAYANAN D. (mfH,
5,2/1994)
This is an interesting brief history of the
Bowel Nosodes and their important role in
Homoeopathy. In his Repertorum Generale Dr.
KUNZLI left out these remedies and when Dr.
LAKSHMINARAYANAN wrote to him for
reasons, Dr. KUNZLI replied that "the Bowel
Nosodes in my opinon should not be included; in
many countries you cannot get them and as with
allopathic drugs, nobody will prepare them in the
year 2020", He also argues that the Bowel
Nosodes are not Nosodes in the sense that they
are not disease products. Two cases of temper
tantrums successfully treated with Proteus are
narrated.
III. THERAPEUTICS
1. Therapie einer epidemischen Krankheit
(Therapy of an epidemic disease)
EICHLER, R. (ZKH, 38, 3/1994)
Paragraphs 100-102 of the Organon
are referred to; it is possible to find an epidemic
remedy by taking all the symptoms into
consideration. However, even in cases of
epidemic diseases it is necessary to
individualize so that different remedies can be
revealed.
Three cases of Scarlet Fever in one
family are reported; in two Apis was the remedy
while in the third it was Lachesis.
2. Alumina
SRINIVASAN, K.S. (ZKH, 38, 3/1994)
Because the full range and depth of a
homoeopathic remedy can never be known and
the basis of selection of a remedy is also
similarly varying, one should not fault a
colleague, who adopts different methods as the
circumstances may require without however
deviating from the basic principles. A case of
aluminium intoxication, treated with Alumina and
Spigelia is reported.
3. Uber das intuitive Verschreiben (On
intuitive prescription)
von KELLER, G. (ZKH, 38, 5/1994)
Some symptoms in the Materia medica
are highly singular which enable the prescriber
to act "intuitively" to be almost sure of success.
4. Rheumatoide Arthritis -Hepar sulphuris
(Rheumatoid Arthritis -Hepar sulphuris)
MAROLIA Z.P. (ZKH, 38, 5/1994)
A case of Rheumatoid Arthritis was
healed with Hepar sulphuris. (Kill, offense,
sudden impulse to, from a slight"; "Kill, desire
to"; "Irritability, trifles, from"; "Impulsive"; "Food,
fat, desire"; "Weather, wet, agg."; "Fasting,
while".)
5. Hyperhidrosis bei einem Kind
(Hyperhidrosis in a Child)
RECKERS Winfried (ACD, 3,3/1994)
A seven-year-old boy with complaints of
excessive perspiration; from least exertion;
sweating whole body, even in sleep. As an infant
droplets of sweat could be observed on his
forehead while nursing. No cause could be
found. Therapies so far, many laboraory
investigations etc. have not given relief. He has
never been ill otherwise and has never had
fever. Teeth grinding at nights. Symptoms
chosen repertorisation:
1. Grinding teeth at night.
2. Sea air amel. (additions from
E.SCHWARZ: arg-n., carc., iris, Iyc., sep., sul-
ac., sulph.)
3. Perspiration from least exertion
completely well.
Aconitum, Sepia and Tuberculinum
appeared in all the rubrics. After a comparative
study of the Materia Medica I chose Sepia after
confirming with the help of WEIHE's Pressure
points (WEIHE's point for Sepia), Sepia 200 was
administered.
During the first week a severe cough
appeared with whistling respiration and on the
next morning this cough passed away; a few
days later his face became red, he felt very
weak, the pulse rose to 140 and a fever above
39° came on, the first in his life. On the next day
everything normal The general perspiration
became less.
27 Oct.19,91. Sepia. The Improvement
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proceeded. His hair (on head) does not become
wet and In between there was another brief
fever after cold. He, continued to be well. Only
the grinding of teeth persisted.
21 Jan 1992: Tuberculinum Koch 200.
Grinding teeth no more. After four weeks further
there was si ight perspiration from little exertion.
Sepia XM.
In May 1992 his mother reported that he
did not need spectacles (which he was
wearning) anymore (Opthalmologist confirmed
this) and also his handwriting became very
good.
March 1994: remains cured.
6. Spastische Bronchitis (Spastic
Bronchitis)
MULLER Karl-Joself (ACD, 3,3/1994)
A 27-year-old female who had earlier
(about an year before) been helped by
Anacardium 30, 200 for Depression, came with
complaints of severe Bronchitis since two
weeks. She was in "panic" since her ex-husband
suffered from Asthma and bronchitis and she
had seen him suffer much. She had certain
anxieties and fears. After complete anamnesis
the following symptoms were chosen for
repertorisation:
- Breathlessness when inspiring
- Desires to hide
- Attempts to run away
Only Ars., and Chlor. came through all
the three rubrics (See Synthesis Rep.) Materia
Medica was consulted (Archiv fur
homoopathische Heilkunst, R.A.D.A.R.
Software Materia Medica Hering) and Chlorum
was found to be similar which was given in 200
potency. In two days there was improvement.
Then Chlorum in 01. Soon she improved further
and was cured. Chlorum also set right her
psychic situation.
7. Drei Sulfur-Falle (Three Sulphur
cases)
SCHWARZ Erik (ACD, 3, 3/1994)
1. A 31-year-old man came (in 1983)
with tonsillitis. He took Sulphur Q 18, over a
period of 9 months and was relieved.
In 1987 he had stomach ailments and
other gastric problems, appearing every
forenoon 11 hrs. Fingernails deformed. Sulphur
200. After a few days completely well.
In 1989: stiffness in hips in mornings,
better movement for sometime. Pain rising from
sitting. Thuja 30 relieved.
2. A woman (born 1923) with 3 children;
hysterectomy in 1960 due to irregular menses.
Since over 10 years nodular fingerjoints which
pain during winter. Sometimes they become red.
Also problems with the veins of the legs,
sometimes pain toe-joints. In summer when it is
warm, the hands and feet swell more. Since 2
years she has allergy: on the ball of the thumb
and in the palm she gets small pustules which
itch much. She put on 25 pounds of weight
additionally after external applications and
injections given by the Dermatologist. After
thorough anamnesis the repertorisation brought
Sulphur as the only medicine. It was given in
012 potency on 21 Nov.1986/5 drops dailyonce.
From 1 Jan. 1986 5 drops every two days and
she went on improving. From 1 Mar. she began
to take 5 drops every 4 days; from April every
week, from June every two weeks until end
1986, when she became completely free of her
ailments although she subsequently had a drop
in the blood pressure.
3. A man (born 1929) .Since 1965
suffering from Boeck's Disease. He had taken
Cortisone and when he came to me he was
taking 32 mg. In spite of this his dyspnoea from
least exertion, walking and climbing stairs.
At 11 years he suffered Psoriasis worse
on head and eyebrows; in 1954 he suffered an
accident with brain concussion; in 1979 hearing
defect; in 1978 an allergy due to a mental stress.
He needed much warmth. Sleepless on full
moon nights. He worried a lot about his ailments
and brooded. He recalled all bad events in his
life. He was pedantic, demanded orderliness;
often nightmares, he laughed now and then.
Sulphur Q 18, 5 drops daily, prescribed
on 26 June 1984. His consumption of Cortisone
came down, he continued on Sulphur 0 18 at
longer inteNals. On 4 Sept. 1984 Calcium
carbonicum 0 18, 5 drops daily, and byand by
the inteNal increased to once in 4 days and from
1 November he did not need anymore
Cortisone. From April 1985 to end June he took
weekly doses and then once in two weeks, of
Calcium carbonicum. Since then remains well.
8. Amalgamvergiftung - Einechronische
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Krankheit und ihre Therapie (Amalgam
poisoning - a chronic disease and its
therapy)
PSCHEIDL Heinz (ACD, 3, 4/1994)
In § 74 and the following paragraphs
HAHNEMANN classifies chronic diseases as:
the artificially created, the not real, and the
natural chronic miasmatic. This brilliant
classification holds good even today as in those
days, and it should be assumed that under
artificial diseases should be included everything
which the Industry have bestowed upon us in
the past decades in the name of scientific
progress (Bhopal, Chernobyl, etc.), the
electrosmog, the ozone problem etc. Everyone
of these is an "artifical disease". HAHNEMANN
considers these as "... the most tragic, the most
incurable, and I regret that when they have
reached a height, no curative remedy appears
available or could be thought of." (Organon VI,
§ 75) This is particularly valid when the person
suffered already from a natural – chronic –
miasmatic disease and then both become
complicated. "One who was simply ill, became
thus doubly sick, that is to say, becomes very ill
and incurable, sometimes makes totally
incurable, often even dies." (Organon VI § 41).
The chronic intoxication with Amalgam is an
"artificial disease". This has not been considered
by many homoeopaths. Only H.C. ALLEN in his
Key Notes writes under Mercurius dulcis
"Deafness and catarrhal complaints of Nose,
Throat and nares from Mercurial fillings".
The author proceeds to mention a few
facts about the Amalgams, the symptoms, the
cause and the differential symptoms of the
different metals, the cost of the health insurance
the removal of the Amalgam and the 'cleaning
and the improvement of the patient, infants and
children, etc. and cites cases from his practice.
A valuable article.
9. Behelfsmassige Homoopathie
(Temporary Homoeopathy)
MULLER Karl-Josef (ACD, 3, 4/1994)
What to do when a troublesome acute
disease occurs in the course of the treatment of
a chronic disease? Every homoeopath would
"interfere" in the course of the treatment of a
chronic disease. Some homoeopaths would
prescribe physical actions and similar measures
or allopathic medicines with least adverse
reactions in the hope that these will least
interfere with the cure of a chronic disease.
Sometimes it helps to prescribe a Q potency if a
C potency had been prescribed for the chronic
disease. There is another method: the
administration of a homoeopathic medicine in
low potency. Nine cases have been reported to
explain this point. One example:
Acute infection with a purulent
Catarrh: Girl child, Laura, has received a few
weeks ago Natrum muriaticum 200 for her
recurrent catarrh, which extended to the ear.
Since two days Laura was again suffering from a
purulent catarrh and feared a terrible week-end.
I advised spoonful table-salt (Natrum
muriaticum) in a half-full glass water to be
potentised upto 3x. This was to be given to
Laura every four hours one spoonful -after
stirring it vigorously -upto the week-end. By that
time the catarrh has improved 95%. Similarly an
acute state after a C- potency of Calcium
carbonicum could be helped with a D3.
10. Zwel Natrium muriaticum Falle (two
Natrum muriaticum cases)
SCHWARl Erik (ACD, 3, 4/1994)
Case 1: 14-year-old Frederic came on
12 April 1985: Warts, on the right hand more on
the thumb; in the left hand on the thumb, middle
and index-finger; left foot more on the toes, a
large one pressing the nail of the big toe up; and
a few on the soles; three warts on the right foot
on three toes. He has had inguinal Hernia, also
scrotal Hernia, Phimosis and his Appendix has
been removed. His tonsils had been removed at
3 years age. Up to his fifth year he had been
receiving iron preparations. His sinuses were
frequently infected, and has taken repeatedly
Penicillin. He had diarrhoea often. He is tired in
the mornings; he is very weepy, drank very cold
and much. Can't stand room full of people. Sleep
disturbances during the ascending moon. Found
Physics and Mathematics difficult. His hands
trembled when he concentrated in his studies.
Had received from a homoeopath Thuja, Zincum
valerianicum, Causticum and from the author
Calcium phosphorium in different Q potencies.
After repertorisation, Natrum muriaticum
30 was dissolved in a glass water one sip was to
be taken thrice a day for three days. On 23 May
most of the warts had gone; 29 May 200
potency was given dry on tongue. Improvement
continued. In September again one dose 200.
Again for lack of concentration he received on 4
November 1986 Natrum muriaticum M and in
December 1987 XM.
Case 2: 35-year-old female has Allergy
since two years, itching under the arms, under
the bosom and the thighs. It was worse after
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undressing. Tests revealed allergy for many
things including things with which she had no
contact. So far external salves and powders.
She suffered from Asthma from the third to the
eleventh year of age; why it did not appear again
she could not say. Her brother had hay-fever
and parents Cancer. Since two years she was
very tired and her feet are swollen. She
appeared to be suppressed. When she had
been to the beach her skin was very well.
Irritable before menses. Leucorrhoea after she
had a copper- T inserted. She desired fresh air.
Natrum muriaticum Q 12 (Lack of self-
confidence; Irritable before menses; Sea-air
amel. ; desire for fresh air) and later XM.
Remains well.
11. Phobies d'impulsion meurtrieres (Fear
of Impulse to Kill)
SUERINCK J. (CGH, 31,6/1994)
A case of compulsory impulse to kill.
Repertorisation gave choice between three
remedies. The third remedy cured. Since three
weeks the patient woke up at middle of night
with the obsession to stab to death his wife and
dog. Repertorisation: Kill, sudden impulse; Fear
of killing with a knife; Censorious, critical;
Fastidious; Cold agg.; Thirst; Desired sweets.
First dose: Nux-v.30. Massive aggravation of the
mental state, without improvement.
Hospitalisation necessary. Would like to do
away with the idea of suicide and the drugs for
the mental illness. Due to an error of the
pharmacist Merc.30 (instead of Ars.30) was
taken. The patient had terrible headaches, and a
powerful analgesic injection had to be given.
Finally Ars.30 (selected on the basis of a
symptom observed - joy at the misfortune of
others) was indicated. Rapid improvement
followed, and the drugs were withdrawn.
Remains cured when followed up over a period
of two years.
12. Condition de 1 'efficactite optimale de la
prescription (Requisites for the optimal
efficacy of remedy prescriptions)
LAMOTHE J. (CGH, 31, 6/1994)
The finding of the simillimum is not
everything; a wrong prescription can hinder
cure. To beware of:
1. The Time of taking the medicine: It
is same whether morning or evening. But
essential is the right moment: (a) at the end of
an acute episode of a chronic disease -is ideal!
(b) Sometimes at the beginning of the episode of
chronic disease where only one medicine is
indicated (both in the acute and chronic stages)
Recommendation: more doses (C9, C15, C30)
in 24 hours and when improved to give after 2- 5
days one dose of the 200. (c) in the apparent
static state of the chronic disease which is
conditioned by external factors (e.g.in Hayfever
six months before the outbreak, in high summer
before the Otitis of children in winter) (d) at any
time you like in the course of a developed
chronic disease when the patient has least of
the symptoms of the chronic disease but not in
the latent situation. Examine always whether an
intercurrent remedy (which is often intelligent)
has to be given after the simillimum in
accordance with the symptoms. If some
symptom of the chronic disease is missing at
times it is best to wait! It may be curative stage?
The wrong times: (a) during an acute
disease without connection to the chronic
disease. The prescription of the simillimum is
strictly forbidden! (b) In the phase of a deeply
based static state of the chronic disease (i.e.
after an effective cure, that or in a curative
process according to HERING perhaps to
please the wishes of the family. This is the worst
point of time! The case is confused or faced with
aggravations for months. One can imagine what
the multiple method prescribers would do in this!
(c) simultaneous with non-homoeopathic and
suppressive treatment (i.e. that which has in
view only the symptoms and not the chronic
disease contrary perhaps to desensitizing,
immune stimulation, Gamma globulin etc.), and
also climate and Thermal cures, Surgery,
Behavior- and Rehabilitation therapy, since
these go in the return direction of the
Simillimum and make it at least ineffective, but
worse still is: make the chronic disease
imperceptible or cover it up; that means to treat
with eyes closed (d) during the decisively
changed life style of the patient Gourney,
change of residence, change of school, change
of environment, Psychoanalysis). These are not
indeed suppressive, but they can alter the
chronic disease for the worse deeply. This holds
good if the psychotherapy has worked. In
thinking that the Simillimum had worked
treatment time is lost while the chronic disease
has progressed clandestinely.
2. When to repeat? (a) Once: when the
chronic disease is stable; at the end of an acute
episode; in high potency. (b) More than once: to
take the chronic remedy in 1-2 days interval,
maximum for 6 days, if the energy is very weak,
i.e. in low temperature, inflammatory fevers of
children, in enfeebled children or children who
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suffer from serious complications in ordinary
diseases. Here the Q (50-millesimal) potencies
are indicated (for details see original),
3. Which Potency? (a) C-potencies
upto C30 is good in daily practice, but
insufficient if the patient reacts only to high
potencies. The Simile is then lost and is not
found again. Hence: not the remedy is to be
changed, but the high potency is to be given! (b)
KORSAKOW-potencies with the advantages of
their high and gentle action. With 200 or M to
begin with, XM in reserve. One dose will be
sufficient. (c) Q-potencies (50-millesimal). They
work deep and long in functional diseases in
those with good energy but short and superficial
in those with low energy. Disadvantage:
complicated -in procuring and dispensation.
4. Prescriptions for children and
infants: Dispensation in vials is not
recommended. Give direct in the mouth. Time
not significant but evenings before going to bed
seems to be the best time.
5. Choice between the many methods
indicated: Two methods: (a) according to the
energy-Ievel. If low: the actual medicine and
also when it could "suppress". If high: the earlier
medicine, particularly, if it has deep-acting
indications. (b) According to the Miasm, first
Syphilis, then Sycosis, then Psora.
13. Apropos de coqueluche (About
Whooping Cough)
MILONGO G. (CGH, 31,5/1994)
Report of three cases of Whooping
Cough within a family: two children and the
mother.
1. 4-year-old girl, ill since two weeks,
worse despite treatment with Globulin. Rapidly
following attacks (K800), Worse on going to
sleep (K796), Attacks with vomiting (K532):
Dros. without success. Accompanying symptom:
bloody secretion from the nose during the cough
(K330): Caps. 1 grad. only remedy. Capsicum 7
CH, 9 CH, 15 CH. The attacks became lesser in
intensity and number, no more vomiting.
2. 3 month-old infant, ill for three days.
Attacks in the evening and night (K799),
Abdomen distended (K603), Gurgling before
flatus (K601 ), Rumbling, flatus amel. (K601):
Carb-v. 7CH, 9CH, 15CH. cured in 10 days.
3. Mother: constant attacks, particularly
severe between 3 and 5 hours (K810): Kali-c. 7
CH. Quick amelioration leading to cure.
14. Bilateral & Symmetric
MOREAU Jacques (RBH, 27, 3/1994)
This is a very interesting study of
'bilateral' and 'symmetric' occurring in the
homoeopathic Materia Medica.. Some extracts:
Absin.: WARD. ALLEN Enc. - Very
tranquil, as if brain were rounded and
symmetrical.
Acon.: GIBSON. - These blooms,
shaped like a monk's cowl, are no longer radially
symmetrical like those of the spring
Ranunculaceae, anemones, aquilegia, paeonia,
but are bilateral. They have given up the radiate
flowers form and attained a higher form of
symmetry suggestive of the animal kingdom.
The higher invertebrates as well as all
vertebrates possess bilateral symmetry as
their fundamental morphological concept.
Aethi-a. : ANSHUTZ. -Numerous parts
of her face were literally covered with thick,
elevated fissured scabs. A scrofulent liquid was
oozing out, and the worst were those parts on
the side of the lower lip, the nostrils, and the root
of the nose. On the whole, a certain symmetry
could be observed in the arrangement of these
frightful disease products.
Agav-t.: JULIAN New -Acute bilateral
pain in the ovaries.
Anthr.: ALLEN HC Nosodes. HERING. -
Here and there in all parts of brain small and
large haemorrhages of embolic origin; from
anthrax. Membranes of brain exhibit
circumscribed or symmetrically extended blood
infiltrations.
Arn.: van ZANDVOORT - Symmetrical
complaints (0,5,0) (BOGER)
BOGER - symmetrical eruptions. Very
sore acne or crops of small boils.
GUESS - Symmetrical eruptions.
BOERICKE - Acne indurata,
characterized by symmetry in distribution.
- Acne simplex: symmetrical
distribution, with (0.1.0)
MORRISON - Symmetrical eruptions.
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van ZANDVOORT - Eruptions -
symmetric. (1,5,0) (VOISIN)
Ars-s-f.: HERING - After drinking beer,
pain above occiput in both sides; violent
pressure in two places, right and left side
symmetrical.
KNERR - Occiput: pressing: right and
left, in two places, symmetrical, after beer. (0,
1,0)
Beryl.: JULIAN New -Mid-pulmonary,
bilateral hazy opacities.
Calc-p. : HOYNE, case 1159. - Her
lungs were large and well developed; her chest
was symmetrical, with no apparent signs of
pulmonary disease. Percussion revealed no
abnormal sound. Auscultation detected a
peculiar sound at the apex of the right lung.
BONNINGHAUSEN - Bilateral pains,
on both sides of throat, bladder, uterus, and
chest, all going upward, upward pressure in
many parts.
Cann-i.: HUGHES -In this, my sight was
doubled. Two images of each object were
reflected on my retina and produced a complete
symmetry; but soon the magic paste, being
entirely digested, acted with more powers on my
brain, and I became completely mad for the
space of an hour. All kinds of Pantagruelic
dreams passed through my fancy; goat suckers,
storks, striped geese, unicorns, griffins, night-
mares, all the menageries of monstrous dreams,
trotted, jumped flex, or glided through the room.
The eruption was symmetrical, but yet
more abundantly developed upon the upper than
upon the lower segment of the body.
The patient in this instance had survived
that period of syphilis in which we look for
superficial, symmetrical and short lived
cutaneous manifestations.
ALLEN Enc. - Unblemished in its purity
of whiteness, faultless in the unbroken
symmetry of every line and angle, its pediment
was draped in odorous clouds, whose tints
outshone the rainbow.
Cassia sophera (Cassi-s.): CCRH
Provings - Pricking pains in the throat on right
side, with weakness agg. swallowing, talking
(throat examination revealed bilateral follicular
tonsillitis and congestion of post-pharyngeal
wall); with soreness and hoarseness of voice,
agg.morning, talking, amel. warmth, hot drinks.
Stabbing pain in the throat on right side, amel.
swallowing, cold things.
Cer-b.: Int.Hah.Ass. ALLEN Enc.,
CLARKE, ANSHUTZ - On closing the eyes
perception of cluster of round shaped,
symmetrical orange colored spots.
Cham. : MOSKOWITZ - Examination
revealed bilateral otitis media, which quickly
resolved with the help of Chamomilla 30 every
two hours and did not come back.
Chin-s.: HUGHES - In another case, in
which 1.8 gm. was taken daily for same
purpose, and in which bilateral amblyopia of
high degree appeared, full power of vision
returned spontaneously in left eye, but right
regained only power of reading large print.
Chlorpr. : JULIAN New - Bilateral
cataract.
Colibacillinum: JULIAN New - Bilateral
pains of the ovarian region.
Crot-t. : ALLEN Enc. -Papulous eruption
on the face. Erythema of the face (not
unusually), often symmetrical, lasting for a few
days, with distinct heat; and this when there
could have been no direct application of the
remedy to the face.
DNA (Des-ac.): JULIAN New –
Persistent bilateral conjunctivitis.
Dipht. JULIAN Nosodes - Polyneuritis,
incomplete sensitive - motrice, symmetric, flax,
with distal predominance and loss of deep
sensitivity.
Dulc. : HOYNE, case 1359 - My own
little girl, aged two years. The eruption extended
over the whole thorax and upper arm, except as
much of the chest and arm as comes in contact
when the arm hangs down at the side. The
inferior border in front as well as on the back
was covered. At a distance it appeared as if the
child had a cape on, and my wife would not have
been at a loss for a good cloak pattern. It was
perfectly symmetrical on both sides.
Lophophytum leandri (Flor de piedra):
JULIAN New -Juliette Fourmon reports equal
clinical successes in cases of goitre.
Hyperthyroidism, and in one case of bilateral
degenerative labyrinthitis.
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Hoitzia: JULIAN New - Menses late by
two to three months, then menorrhagia, with
intense bilateral ovarian pains.
Kali-bi.: van ZANDVOORT - Eruptions:
symmetric. (0, 1,5) (817).
Kali chlor. : COWPERTHWAITE -
Symmetrical ulcers on sides of tongue.
HUGHES, ALLEN Enc. - 12.a. A young
man suffering from an acutely inflamed
carbuncle on the nape took the chlorate in 15 gr.
doses every 4 hours for 2 days, and then had 2
symmetrical ulcers form on the side of the
tongue, each being about the size of a four-
penny piece. There was no general stomatitis,
and the sores healed slowly when the remedy
was suspended.
ROYAL, CLARKE - Symmetrical ulcers
on the side of the tongue; mucous surface of
tongue, mouth and lips covered with follicles and
gray based ulcers with the mucocus surface red
and tumid; salivation acid.
Kali-i. : HUGHES - 4. HUTCHINSON
describes an eruption resembling hydroa as
resulting from Kali-i. It is sudden and
symmetrical and prefers the face and forearms.
There are vesicles and small bullae, from the
size of a shot to that of a pea, or even to that of
half a small cherry, and usually surrounded by
an erythematous and sometime inflammatory
swelling of the skin.
:van ZANDVOORT - Symmetrical
complaints. (0,5,0) (BOGER)
:BOGER. PHATAK. - Bilateral
beadache.
:HERIN,G -Man, age 85; bilateral
croupous Pneumonia.
After great bodily exertion, shaking chill;
deep sleep, out of which he could not be roused;
lies upon back, snoring loudly, eyes closed,
injected conjunctiva, hot head, dry tongue,
bluish lips, sunken lower jaw; bluish finger nails;
irregular, intermitting pulse; extremities, when
raised, fell back as if paralysed, dull percussion
sound in both clavicular regions, on right down
to third, on left down to second rib; bronchial
breathing, crepitation; no cough, but on putting
ear to chest, appeared to come out of these
parts as if through a tube; Bilateral croupous
pneumonia.
:KNERR - Lids: closed and closing,
close: pneumonia, closed, in bilateral croupous.
(0, 1,0)
Lips: blue;pneumonia,in bilateral ,
croupous. (0.1.0)
Tongue; dry; pneumonia, in bilateral
croupous, (0, 110)
Lungs: auscultation sounds; crepitation
in bilateral croupous pneumonia. (0, 1,0)
Lungs: percussion sounds; dull, in
clavicular region, on right down to third, on left to
second rib, in bilateral croupous pneumonia (0,
1,0)
Lungs; pneumonia; croupous, bilateral
(0,3, 1)
Kali-m.: KNERR - Lungs: pneumonia;
croupous; bilateral (3,1,0)
Lac-c.: van ZANDVOORT -Eruptions:
Symmetric. (1,5,0) (8, l' 7)
Lac-d.: Hom.Phys. ALLEN HC Nos.(3).
CLARKE, HERING, KNERR. - symmetrical
patch of herpetic eruption on each side of the
neck, itching and burning after scratching.
:van ZANDVOORT: Symmetrical
complaints.(0.8.0)
:PHATAK - Symmetrical patches,
causing itching and burning after scratching.
Lach.: MOSKOWITZ - Bilateral
Asymmetry - Many Crotalid venoms produce
asymmetric or one-sided disturbances of the
bio-energetic field, but none more so than
Lachesis, whose symptoms are markedly
skewed to the left or at least tend to start on the
left and proceed from left to right.
Lept.: New MM. - Involvement, bilateral
of the testes.
Lyc.: MOSKOWITZ - Bilateral
Asymmetry. Many Lycopodium symptoms are
one-sided, and most are predominantly right-
sided or begin on the right side and proceed
from right to left.
Mag-p.: HERING - Twitching allover
body during waking hours, better during sleep;
walked fairly well and could feed herself; speech
very defective, meaning of her utterances a
matter of pure conjecture; heart's action
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accelerated, no abnormal sound, later a
presystolic blowing sound, as if muscular fibres
of heart parucipated in general spasms pupils
symmetricslly dilated scared expression
Mandragora: JULIAN New Bilateral
conjunctivitis
Merc.: HUGHES There is symmetric
wasting of muscles of both arms no anaesthesia
Then the throat became sensitive and
on the tonsils were formed symmetrical ulcers
witha greyish base.
The eruption on the body, though on
both sides, was not strictly symmetrical
(HUTCHINSON. On Syphilis, 1889, Obs.lii.)
Monilia albicans : JULIAN Nosodes -
Symmetrical eczema of the thorax, arms,
forearms.
Nat-m.:GIBSON - Dandruff, alopecia,
acne, boils, pustular eruptions may also call for
the consideration of the remedy, especially if the
lesions are symmetrical.
Nux-v.: Medical Advance (Vol.XLIII.
No.11, Nov.1909) - Chancroids spread around
and make ineffectual efforts to become
symmetrical.
Parotidinum: JULIAN Nosodes -
Bilateral renal pains, spreading towards the
lumbar and sacral regions.
Pexid (Perh.): JULIAN New - Bilateral
papilloedema (T)
Plumbum: BLACKWOOD - The function
of both the sensory and motor nerves, but
especially the latter, is interfered with and wrist
drop, often bilateral from paralysis of the
extensor muscles of the forearm, is observed.
BURT's Physiological - The symmetry
and localization of the paralysis in Lead
poisoning would seem to indicate a spinal origin,
but, so far as I know, no very distinct spinal
lesion has as yet been found out.
ALLEN Enc. - Then followed bilateral
facial spasms, trismus, frequent spasmodic
lerkings of the upper limbs, the flexors of which
were firm and rigid, while the lower limbs were
rigidly extended.
Bacillus Proteus (Prot.) - JULIAN
Nosodes - Finally in the month of December
1966 Mme P., underwent a surgical operation
for glaucoma and bilateral cataract and had a
second relapse.
Psor: JULIAN Nosodes - Bilateral
adenopathy of the neck, painful, radiating
towards the head.
Ran-b.: SOGER, PHATAK -Sharp,
cutting, stitching chest pains, bilateral.
Sec.: HUGHES - The microscope
showed these degenerated parts to be very
advanced atrophy of the nerve fibres, the
degeneration is symmetrical in both posteror
columns, and extends through the whole length
of the cord up to the medulla oblongata.
Sep.: KNERR - Wrists; eruption: bullae,
symmetrical, as large as a hen's eggs. (0,1,0)
HERING Numerous bullae, on face near
moulh on wrists and backs of hands two largest
were on wrisls, symmelrical in posilion and size
Spong.: KNERR - Lungs pneumonia
croupous bilaleral. (0,3,1)
Sulfanilamide (Sulfa) JULIAN New -
Bilaleral diminulion in auditory acuity
Progressive symmelrical muscular alrophy.
beginning in the hands .
Syph.: JULIAN Nosodes - (b) eyes:
Ptosis, unilateral or bilateral, the patient seems
sleepy.
Recorder - Tubercles on lower limbs.
Bilateral exostoses.
van ZANDVOORT - Symmetrical
complaints (0,5,0) (PHATAK) Eruptions;
symmetrical. (1,5,0) (817)
BOGER - Bilateral exostoses
PHATAK - Bilateral exostoses sore and
painful.
Tell. : JULIAN New -Occipital and
temporal, bilateral headache.
Thalamus (Thala): JULIAN New -
Thalamus, or optic layer, belongs to the group of
grey nuclei around the encephalon. It is a large
ganglion, even and symmetrical, situated in
front of and outside the quadrigeminal bodies,
the striped bodies, laterally bordering the third
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ventricle, surrounded on its convexity by the
caudate nucleus. It is egg-shaped, and the distal
end is large.
Thymol: JULIAN New - Bilateral
temporal headache, and at the occiput.
Thyroidinum: van ZANDVOORT -
symmetrical complaints. (0,5,0) (76) Eruptions:
symmetric. (1,5,0) (817)
ALLEN HC Nosodes
CLARKE
Crusts separated, leaving faint red skin;
eruption, not nearly so painful.
(Symmetrical serpiginous eruption;
dark red, edges raised and thickened.)
PHATAK - Symmetrical erpiginous
eruptions.
Tub.: JULIAN Nosodes Bilateral
conjunctivitis.
Bilateral ovarian pain, radiating to the
lumbo-sacral region with difficulty to walk.
ALLEN HC Nosodes - CLARKE -
Pleurisy, for the most part very severe, simple
and tuberculous, frequently hemorrhagic, and
not infrequently bilateral.
Marmorek (Tub-m.): JULIAN Nosodes -
Impetigo; erythematous lupus; symmetric
cyanosis above the malleoli, of young girls.
Ust.: - (The Homoeopathic Physician,
Aug.1888, page 430. "On The Nervous
Disturbances of Pellagra and Ustilago maidis" by
S.L) -The gray substance, Clark's columns, are
nearly always intact. The affection of the white
matter is in all cases bilaterally symmetric.
Variol. : JULIAN Nosodes - (a) Urinary:
Bilateral renal pain always accompanied by a
dorsal pain.
Verat. : KNERA - Lungs: pneumonia:
croupous, bilateral. (0.3.1)
15. Dulcamara - Cas clinique (Dulcamara -
Clinical Case)
COPPE V. (ASH, 27,4/1994)
An interesting case of Pyelonephritis in
a post-climacteric woman The medicine was
chosen on the basis of the development of the
case from the beginning of the acute flare-up of
chronic disease and those symptoms taken up.
The indicative symptoms chosen are: (i)
Dictatorial, domineering (ii) Anxiety for others (iii)
Avarice (iv) Mistakes, speaking (v) Epistaxis
during headache (vi) Skin, Psoriasis. All the six
symptoms are found in Dulcamara; given in 200
potency and there was a spectacular and
wonderful result.
16. A la decouverte du Similimum. Une
autre maniere de prescrire (On the path
to the Similimum. Another method of
prescription)
COQUILLAAT G.(ASH,27,4/1994)
The author selects the medicine
according to SONNINGHAUSEN method. Five
cases are discussed. Paragraphs 153 and 178,
the author says, lead to the way of finding the
simile: the peculiar, characterstic symptoms of
the disease similar to the peculiar, characteristic
symptoms of the remedy. The symptoms chosen
must be complete -location, sensation,
modalities, and concomitants. "The concomitant
symptoms are to the totality of symptoms what
the modality of aggravation and amelioration are
to the single symptom." The symptoms in the
repertory are 'fragmentary' symptoms.
BOENNINGHAUSEN says that if an individual
symptom is found in several conjunctures it will
become a general condition. The danger in
SOENNINGHAUSEN method is also that a
medicine may be prescribed on the basis of the
local common symptom and thus cause
suppression (KENT's Lecture 32).
SOENNINGHAUSEN's method includes the
KENT repertorisation and which bases choice of
the remedy only on the Materia Medica.
17. Au fil des consultations (From the
consulting room)
KEASTEN J. (ASH, 27, 4/1994)
A 36-year-old male with gastric
problems. The remedy was Abies nigra 30.
("Total loss of appetite in morning but great in
the evening for food at noon and night" -
SOEAICKE; KENT rep. "Appetite wanting,
morning, Appetite increased, noon, Appetite
increased, .night"). This was followed with
Phosphorus, the chronic remedy. Comment - is
Abies nigra a small remedy?
38-year-old female who had not got over
the brutal treatment of her stepfather in her
childhood. She still recalls it and revolts.
Somnambulism and cries out in sleep. Travel
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sickness. Crocus sativus was her remedy. (See
F. GLADWIN's Materia Medica Family)
7-year-old boy with Warts: one on the
foot, one on the big toe and one on eye lid. The
symptoms taken up for repertorisation:
Slowness, Concentration difficult while studying,
Strabismus, Reserved. The remedy was
Hel'eborus.
The remedy discussions are quite
interesting.
18. A propos de 15 d'algies faciales (15
cases of facial neuralgia)
GAMBY F. (CGH, 31, 10/1994)
The facial Neuralgias are put in three
groups: Vascular pains (arterial extension range,
relationship with migraine, long duration, often at
nights), locally caused pains (Sinusitis, Pulpitis,
Glaucoma). If definite basic complaints are
excluded, good results can be expected from
Homoeopathy. Cases of Spigelia, including a
case of extension of the pain from brain
metastasis, Kalm., FI-ac., Verb., Chin-s., Urt.,
and PuIs. are presented. The important
indications for the remedy choice are localisation
and laterality, clear modalities, times of the day,
clearly marked quality of pain. Chronic
medicines are not called for. Not more than 3-4
symptoms are considered and verified in the
Materia Medica. Not lost in too many
explanations. If no differentiation is possible, to
reckon on localisation and consult HERING or
BOERICKE. Key-symptoms are: (Principally
from HUI BON HOA) Chel. (Right eye-brow,
Pain wakes up), Chin-s. (Forenoon. in and
around left eye. Chin. Sulf. Coloc. (Upper lip or
lower gums left, "electrical") FI-ac. (behind eye,
eye-tooth, cold amel.), Kalm. (right side, in and
around eye, "electrical"), Nux-v. (severe agg.
from least draft), Sil. (lower branch of trigeminus,
warmth very much amel.), Spig. (left, in and
around eye. come and go with the sun,
palpitation), Stann. (beginning and ending
slowly, lower jaw), Verb. (cheeks, especially left,
crushing, Temperature change agg.).
19. Quelques observations a propos de
nosodes (Observations on Nosodes)
MOUSSIER F. (CGH, 31, 9/1994)
Case 1: 40-ear-old man. A small non-
healing suppurating spot on the tibia, with a
black crust; stitching pains. Discharges blood.
Dark red circle with heat and burning pains.
Anthracinum 9 cured in 24 hours. For recurrence
the 15 potency which cured totally a slowly
developing, chronically recurring infection which
was only palliated by antibiotics.
Case 2: 7-month-old boy was suffering
from Urticaria pigmentosa. Restless sleep, blue
sclera. The dermatosis is characterized by
brown flecks. Carcinoma in the family. Carc. 200
and a progressive improvement. The sleep
became peaceful, the sclera became white.
Case 3: Crohn's disease since years. At
20 years age BCG and since then wasting,
fevers, nocturnal perspiration. Nat- s., and Verat.
gave only partial relief even after 6 more
remedies. Ultimately a fever came on with
Erythema nodosum. The diarrhoea disappeared.
The erythema recalled Tub. Tub-k. 15 improved
and the Erythema disappeared. And diarrhoea
re- appeared. Tub-k. 18, 21, 30, M improved the
Crohn's disease and the patient felt better.
Case 4: 15-year-old girl, daughter of the
above patient; sporty, excellent in school and
equable temperament. She suffered from
Anorexia mentalis. The indicated medicines did
not bring forth the relief. The extreme
weepiness, desire for company and aggravation
from company, desire for salt, back-ache when
resting, better from movement and the other
symptom variables, the loathing of food and the
thinning pointed to Tub. Tub-k. 15 and then 18
brought complete cure.
Case 5: Severe palmo-plantar
Hyperhidrosis in a young man. Sil. with
intervening Tub-k. acted well.
Case 6: Constrictive headaches.
Bulimia, heat in nape of neck, general
formication, nausea on waking, in a 29-year-old
pregnant woman. Clinically n.a.d. Characteristic
symptoms: severe weeping while narrating the
symptoms, time passes too slowly, better at sea-
shore. Medorrhinum healed.
Case 7: 78-year-old woman with life-
threatening heart insufficiency. She strongly
refused hospitalisation, wanted to die
immediately at home. Many symptoms pointed
to Kali-c., which did not work; while Ars., brought
some relief of the Generals, the
Tachyarrhythmia was aggravated. Ultimately
after low potencies of Dig. failed, came to the
mother tincture. After one year slight
Apoplexywith motor weakness and troublesome
itching of the left arm which was cold, worse by
warmth. Sec. 9 and 12 brought a wonderful
amelioration: The consequences of Apoplexy
healed without residue, and the pulse became
strong and regular, voice energetic and the
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mood brightened up considerably. Digitalis could
be put off. The sense of smell which had been
lost years ago was restored. Finally the patient
even decided to visit the Dentist and also go for
a cataract operation. Ultimately death overcame
her at the end of two years of therapy with
Secale when the remedy was stopped when she
was being examined for a cerebral injury.
20. Turning off the Alarm
MITTMAN Paul (NEJH, 3,3/1994)
11-year-old boy with history of Insomnia
and severe Anxiety his entire life. Nervous;
constant Fear and Anxiety; lived constantly in an
"Alarm State". Worried about many things; if his
mother was out at night he could not begin to
even think of going to sleep until she returned.
He would enter an alarm state when in crowd
and in public; would panic. Nightmares. Fear of
animals, dark, violence, abandonment, wolves,
bears, robbers; checked the doors at night.
Desired cold drinks; picky eater. He would not
like the foods in his plates to touch each other,
each item should be separate and mixed foods
were out of question. Pre - occupied with order,
often arranging objects by color, pattern and
size; counting things over and over. His
Insomnia dated back to his birth. A Psychiatrist
made a multiple diagnosis.
The mother summed up the case as
"alarm state". Aconitum napellus M was given
and there was a dramatic response. The remedy
was repeated 2 weeks later. There was marked
amelioration.
Veratrum album 200 followed (Attention
Deficit Disorder, Food desires -sour and ice).
Drastic improvement at school. Four months
later Stramonium M.
At 12-year-age he began to have
nocturnal emissions, began cursing and talking
in the bus about sex. Hyoscyamus M and he
continued to improve further .
21. Grief?
JONAS Julian (NEJH, 3,3/1994)
Telephonic consultation: Three-and-half-
year old boy- acute vomiting at night during the
preceding week; gurgling and motion in the
intestines especially around the umbilical area. 3
to 4 hours after the vomiting he was having
completely liquid diarrhoea. Veratrum album
200. He was doing well. About 4 days later he
again had some diarrhoea and the mother in
panic went to a Gastroenterologist, whose
prescription brought a relapse of the whole case.
Veratrum album 200 and 5 days later
interviewed in person. The boy was
asymptomatic. His mother remarked that
whereas he used to throw terrible temper-
tantrums, he has, after the Veratrum album
become mild. Full interview revealed that
although the remedy was prescribed for the
acute ailment the remedy was also constitutional
and acted so.
22. Daydreamer
JONAS Julian (NEJH, 3, 3/1994)
9-year-old boy with mild environmental
allergies: sneezing and profuse lachrymation
during summer. Also difficulty of concentrating at
school, easily distracted. Became angry when
forced to do homework; whining and
complaining about things that did not please
him; did not like new or pressured situations
feared being beaten up or being hurt;
uncomfortable in the dark; in unknown or new
situtions, in high places, during thunderstorms.
Nightsweats; chilliness; stomach aches, desire
for ham and hot dogs. Calcarea phosphorica
was his remedy.
23. Eruptions I
FLORES Matilde (NEJH, 3,3/1994)
9-year-old girl. Eruption around the
mouth that covers the skin from the upper part of
her mouth to her nose, the sides of her nose, the
sides of her mouth, and her chin; red, dry, and
slightly scaly; corners of the mouth cracked.
Worse in winter, when stressed and better in the
summer and she has long hours of sleep. The
problems began at age three. Psoriasis on
paternal side and Eczema on maternal. Many
warts on both hands. She missed her mother
who is attending school, a lot. Feared dark,
needles, "monsters in the toilet when I flushed
it". Loves animals. Phosphorus 12 t.d.s
Follow-up. Her parents pushing her a lot
expecting her to behave larger than her age.
Phosphorus was not her remedy. Staphysagria
200 was given and she started improving.
Five months later follow-up; Due to
much stressful situation the rash is reappearing.
Staphysagria 200 again and she has been
progressing well in the next follow-up six months
later.
24. Encopresis After Fright
FLORES Matilde (NEJH,3,3/1994)
Rachael born 1988. While her mother
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was delivering the second babyat home, there
was much difficult contractions. The mother sat
on a toilet, as the water broke and labor began.
Rachael saw her mother in this state and in fear
went up and hid in the room. When her father
found her later she lay curled up in a corner.
Since then her bowels moved only once in few
days. She cried a lot and feared going to the
toilet. Afraid to be alone. She complained that
her bottom hurt when she sat on the toilet.
Stubborn and passive; aggressive. Silicea 200
Her behavior was getting worse;
became more possessive, more intense and
crying a lot. Tuberculinum 200 (She had
responded well to this medicine before.) She
improved.
She was put on antibiotics by her
Paediatrician for an ear infection and again her
bowel movement diminished and she feared to
go to the toilet. Irritation in the anus and vagina.
She has been masturbating. The mother said
that the girl thought that she was a princess,
entitled to certain privileges and liked to order
everybody. Although Platina was indicated,
because of physical generals Medorrhinum 200.
The physical symptoms became better but she
became more demanding and acting out. It was
suspected that she was masturbating again. Her
vulva looked swollen and raw. Her display of
sensuality at this age was causing concern. Now
Platina 12 once aday for 3 days. Improved. She
did not masturbate and she moved her bowels
daily, behaving nicely.
25. Attention Sensory Deficit FASSLER
Kristy (NEJH, 3,3/1994)
This very interesting case of a seven-
year-old girl who suffered much due to
abandonment by her parents and then by the
grandparents and then had to move from her
foster family to finally adoption by a loving family
with a sister of her own age. She has suffered
much emotional trauma. She suffered from
Attention Sensory deficit. There were ups and
downs during the course of the homoeopathic
treatment but ultimately got well. The remedies
were Ignatia and Veratrum album.
26. Eruptions II
THOMPSON Gregory (NEJH, 3,3/1994)
This case teaches what 'suppression'
could do to a five-year-boy, who was with foster-
parents. The boy had suffered many ear
infections. He was very violent, broke things,
had no shame, sensitive to cold. He received
many homoeopathic remedies without significant
improvement. AI last when the boy developed a
severe cold with yellow catarrh and was given
Hepar sulphuris calcareum 30 and in two hours
developed a terrible ear pain. He was put on
antibiotics for this and after 10 days when the
ear symptoms were better given Hepar sulphuris
calcareum 12 and in 24 hours again severe ear
pain, but this time antibiotics were not given.
The pain diminished gradually and his behavior
improved. The next week there was a return of
the symptoms and so Hepar sulphuris
calcareum 6 daily was given and over the next 6
weeks he kept improving. He began to regress
after six weeks and so the remedy was given
twice a day and again there was significant ear
infection with behavior improvement. The dose
was increased to 4 times a day. After 3 months
the remedy was discontinued, and he remains
well.
An interesting article which shows the
need of repetition of a low potency.
27. Aging as a State of Mind
REICHENBERG - ULLMAN Judyth
(NEJH, 3,4/1994)
It is not how long one lives but how one
lives, what one makes of one's days, the quality
that is more important. The most important thing
about aging is to be young at heart and to keep
active.
A 41-year-old woman who was married
to a man twelve years younger than her. She felt
very conscious of this difference and thought
she should divorce. Felt unhappy; felt like
commiming suicide. Ignatia M, then Aurum
metallicum, Natrum muriaticum were given but
without appreciable improvement.
The patient said that she doubted who
she was. Identity lost, desired potatoes, bread;
and suffered constipation. Alumina 30. There
was quick response and proceeded to improve
and the dose needed to be repeated only after
six months.
28. Hot Flushes
HEUDENS-MAST Henny (NEJH,
3,4/1994)
47-year-old woman who was under
homoeopathic treatment since 1986; it was for
frozen shoulder, migraine and nervousness and
Lycopodium was the remedy.
She now came for irregular menses and
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hot flushes, which troubled more at nights.
Nausea accompanied the flushes. During the
flushes her nose became clogged. She used to
be very interested in her job but now had no
interest at all.
Kali bichromicum 200 (Perspiration,
upper lip; Clothing agg.; Perspiration, sticky;
Flushes of heat; Indifference to business affairs -
all from KENT, and Nausea with heat of body
from the Complete Repertory.). Remained well.
29. The Rock of Gibraltar - An Older
Woman with Multiple Health Problems
SKINNER Sidney (NEJH, 3,4/1994)
This is a case of a woman with a strong
constitution, but her physical body succumbed to
a lifelong, nutrient-poor, high-fat diet.
69-year-old woman. Gall bladder pain,
felt mainly in the back. Her past medical history
included amputation of the second toe of the
right foot due to gangrene, myocardial infarction
at age 26, reconstructive surgery to the uterus
for injury during delivery, basal cell carcinoma
removed from near the right eye, and a heart
murmur due to childhood Rheumatic Heart
Disease.
She felt anxiety for others; was very
sympathetic; didn't like consolation. Wanted to
be alone when she felt bad. Loved
thunderstorms. Desired soups, tapioca, jelly
pudding, creamy foods, cheese, buttered toast,
eggs, plums, cashews, and pistachios. Gains
weight easily, very thirsty; hates cold drinks.
Sleeps on stomach, arm over head.
Calcarea carbonica 6 three times a day.
The remedy was continued from December
1993 to September 1994 when it was learnt that
she was still on the allopathic medicine besides
the Calcarea carbonica 6
This patient had a rare disease and the
homoeopathic medicine was able to eliminate
most of her allopathic medications; though her
diabetes and cholecystitis improved
dramatically, her cataracts and osteoarthritis
continued to progress.
30. Exuberance
ROVETTI Corinne (NEJH,3,4/1994)
46-year-old woman, hair-dresser;
complaints of hormonal imbalance, mood swings
and severe hot flushes. Also continual
depression, fatigue, and spells of crying. Her
totality of symptoms was diagnosed as
Perimenopausal woman with hot flushes and
mood changes and Lachesis 200 was given.
The remedy brought the expected improvement.
31. Off Kilter
HERSCU Paul (NEJH, 3,4/1994)
49-year-old woman came with the report
that her PAP showed dysplastic cells. She had
five years ago received Natrum muriaticum 200.
She now came for peri-menQpausal state. Her
symptoms indicated that from a confident, self-
assured person, she had become fearful,
insecure and confused. The remedy was
confirmed bv soreness of breasts before
menses - Lac caninum 200 acted well and she
continued to be well when followed up several
years later.
32. Wild Yam
SHEVINSJodyK. (NEJH,3,4/1994)
The lessons that one should draw from
this case are basic ones which however most of
us overlook. Is it right or harmful to use natural
progesterone supplements in women who reach
the age when the progesterone levels become
low and do such supplements produce adverse
effects? In a culture where demands are to
remain young for ever should we not distinguish
between a natural disease and one brought
about by lifestyles and environment, what should
a homoeopath do?
In the instant case of a 46-year-old
woman who suffered from excess 'gas' with pain
in the liver and gall bladder region, better by
extending her back, arching backwards. The
symptoms indicated Dioscorea villosa. It was
learnt that she had been using a natural
progesterone cream, derived from the Wild Yam,
Dioscorea villosa. The cream was discontinued
and Dioscorea villosa 200 given and she
improved.
33. Victims of Sexual Abuse -Two Cases
FLORES Matilde (Simillimum,
7,3/1994)
This was presented originally at the
Homoeopathic Academy of Naturopathic
Physicians Eighth Annual Case Conference,
Seattle, 1994.
Child sex abuse leads to severe
disturbance of the psyche and Homoeopathy
helps heal this trauma and the consequences of
such a trauma. Two cases are cited.
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Case 1: 46-year-old female with Asthma
and Epstein Barr Virus. She has a long history;
underwent surgery at 35 years age for cervical
cancer; Herpes Zoster at 19 years. Chest
problems, severe migrating pains. She was
sexually abused by an uncle at age 5. Taking
into consideration her emotional state,
repressed anger, repressed sex, generalities
and all the other symptoms Kali bromatum 6
q.i.d. was prescribed on May, 19, 1992. And in
August, 1992 the remedy was given in 30
potency one dose, followed by the 200 an hour
later. Next follow-up December 1992:
progressing well. Follow-up in February 1993:
doing well. While repertorizing this case the
author has mentioned following 'additions' to
KENT Repertory:
Fear, losing self-control, K.47 add:
Cann-i., Merc. (H), Kali-br., Anh., Thea (AZ)
Sighing: K. 80 add: Nat-m. (V), Kali-br.
(AZ)
Rage: K. 70 add: Kali-br. (RM)
Delusins, hollow, whole body is: K. 27
add: Aur, Kali-c.
Pall. (all from the SA which has been
added from KENT 1897)
Generalities, Trembling, externally and
internally, K.1408, 1409, add: to Trembling
internally: Kali-br. (AZ)
Key to the additions: H. Paul HERSCU,
AZ. Ananda ZAREN, RM Roger MORRISON, V.
VITHOULKAS, K. KENT.
Case 2: 40-year-old woman with
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) and overeating.
Her father is an alcoholic, mother died of Cancer
11 years ago, her brother has Down's Syndrome
and her mother's sister committed suicide. She
suffers from depression but she suppresses it by
being very active. Her MPD episodes occur
generally when in therapy session. All her
complaints get worse 10 days before menses.
She is obsessed about fire. She checks and
rechecks that her door is locked, that the gas
been turned off etc. She grew up in an
environment where chaos, drinking, screaming
and superstition were predominant. The thread
that runs through the whole case is the deep
sense of guilt as if she has committed a crime
for which she is anticipating a punishment.
Although Aurum, Cimicifuga and Asarum
appeared to be the remedies Kali bromatum was
given and it improved her.
Both the cases are very interesting and
need to be read in full.
34. A Case of Distortion
MANKANI Meena T. (Simillimum, 7,
3/1994)
A two-year-old male child with recurrent
attacks of Asthmatic bronchitis since last six
months. Allopathic medicines gave temporary
relief. A month ago he developed sudden
convulsions from high fever and was
hospitalised for 5 days. He was gradually
thinning and losing weight. The child's mother
had a disturbed childhood. Her father was an
alcoholic and beat his wife and daughter. She
therefore developed intense hetred for all men
and much sympathy for all women. She spoke
very harshly of her son (the patient), as stupid,
foolish, devil, etc., and that while he had
convulsion his face was completely distorted
and "looked like the devil". The child had profuse
sweat around his head during sleep.
The child was said to eat raw onions,
raw garlic, raw ginger, shoes, lime off the walls
etc.; he danced with his hands up and down and
on one leg to the tune of a chiming doll.
Cicuta virosa was the remedy for both
the child and later to the mother. The rubrics
were entirely different for the child and the
mother.
Lesson: while Cicuta virosa has
'distortions' at the physical level, it also 'distorts'
at the mental level too, i.e. perception.
35. A Case of Acute ViralEncephalitis
HERDENER Larry (Simillimum,
7,4/1994)
A 31-year-old female with severe viral
encephalitis. Belladonna 200 was her remedy.
(Head felt severely swollen and paJnful; worse
any motion; constant pain; Nausea; Headache
worse bright lights; very weak and dizzy; low
thirst and appetite; alternating chills and heat. )
The remedy was repeated once within 2 days.
She was also given nutritional support and also
immune support. She was given a good
electrolyte replacement sports drink along with a
balanced meal replacement drink to consume
every four hours. Also a botanical immune
support (Echinacea, Hydrastis, Garlic, etc.) and
Thymus glandulars at regular intervals. She was
improved 70% in two days and 90% in four
days.
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36. Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
JACK R.A.F. (Simile 4,3/1994 issued
with the BHJ, 83, 3/1994)
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is
a metabolic disorder in which, as a result of an
inborn error of metabolism, there is defective
synthesis of corticosteroid hormones by the
adrenal cortex. CAH is inherited by the
autosomal recessive mode and the abnormal
gene is thought to be in chromosome six.
CAH is rare and the synonyms include:
Adrenogenital syndrome, Adrenal vitalism and
Ambiguous genitalia.
Treatment comprises lifelong
replacement of Corisol with Cortisone,
Prednisolone Oi Dexamethasone (DM). The
dose needs to be increased at any stressful
event, at which time salt losers also need urgent
i. v.saline. Treatment is usually regulated to
measuring serum 17-0H.
32-year-old female, married,
complaining of infertility, asthma for 7 years
increasing progressively and for 9 months has
required a nebulizer b.d. besides routine use of
Salbutamol and Becotide inhalers. Allergy to
horses, dogs, cats and parrots. Cramps.
Arthropathy, most joints hurt, requires calipers
for her weak ankles. Stools always loose, which
sometimes precipitated a crisis.
Has had many times hospitalisation for
emergency i.v. saline and steroids. In 1990 she
became pregnant. In 24 weeks she developed
asthma and pre-eclampsic toxaemia, followed
by intrauterine death of the foetus.
She was desperate to conceive. Since
she still had anovulatory infertility the daily dose
of DM was increased. Despite taking
maintenance dose of DM for atleast 9 years, she
had become virtually incapacitated by her
Asthma and allergies and she was worse now.
She couldn't walk farther than across the
farmyard without acute dyspnoea, ; enter the
stable or go close to the horses, or clip poodles
which was her profession. Awoke each morning
at 3 am with Asthma, was chilly like an 'ice box',
perspired profusely and felt very weak.
She was prescribed:
1. AI mixed inhalants 30c weekly.
(Isopathic allergen preparation)
2. Aconite 30 quarter-hourly at Asthma
whilst in distrees and palpitations are excessive.
3. Cuprum metallicum 30 prn. (3
a.m.Asthma & Cramps)
4. Dexamethasone (DM) 30 alternate
days.
5. No change of the conventional
medicine.
She began to improve steadily.
Subsequent remedies according to the progress
of the case: Kali carbonicum 30, Colocynth 30,
Nux vomica 30, Folliculinum 30, Oophorinum.30,
Acid phosphoricum (diarrhoea). Remarkably well
with regard to the Asthma. Could work in the
stable, fields, clip poodles, etc. She now takes
only DM 30. Referred to an Obstetrician for her
anovulatory infertility.
A remarkable case justifying fully the
homoeopathic multiple prescriptions.
37. Arthralgia
HART Michael (Simile, 4,3/1994 issued
with the BHJ, 83,3/1994)
53-year-old female, with flitting joint
pains, recently much worse, especially in the
knees, elbows, hands and back. 'Never- well-
since' German Measles. Stiff in the morning,
better as the day goes on, worse cold, worse
heat. Pains come and go.
Rash raised and sensitive. No itching.
Worse pressure. Rash mainly round neck, waist
and hips. Chilly, worse heat, desires salt,
dislikes sympathy, bottles things up, weepy.
Many problems in life, divorced, problems with
children, emotional and weepy.
Rubella 30 t.d.s. once a week and
Natrum muriaticum 30 t.d.s. on the other days.
The treatment began on 26.10.1985 she
obtained great improvement and on 18.1.1986
she was totally free from pains.
On 8.6.1992: various joint pains
returning over past few months, worse evening,
worse wet weather. Rubella 30 t.d.s. one day a
week and Rhus toxicodendron on the other six
days. In the next two months all the symptoms
settled completely.
38. Alopecia
HART Michael (Simile, 4, 3/1994 issued
with the BHJ, 83, 3/1994)
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5-year-old male child, with Alopecia.
Almost completely bald. Headstrong, very
sensitive, thirsty, sweaty head, unpleasant
breath, sensitive skin, recurrent colds and
coughs, ear infections and tonsillitis. Very large
cervical glands.
The hair-Ioss began an year and half
before, at the time of brother's birth. Developed
ear and throat infections, put on continuous
antibiotics by GP. Hair started to fall again.
Teased at school.
Silicea M t.d.s. on one day a week,
Natrum muriaticum 30 t.d.s. on the other days of
the week. (Silicea was the constitutional and the
Natrum muriaticum for the pathology).
Treatment commenced on 3.5.1991 and on
12.8.1991 less infections, no new hair loss,
some sign of hair growth. 14.10.1991 : happier
child, hair starting to grow. 17.3.1992: has
complete head of hair; has been continuing to
take the medicines regularly, but when try to
reduce them, hair starts to fall again.
39. Ruptured Spleen
MASTER Farokh J. (Simile, 4, 4/1994
issued with the BHJ, 83, 4/1994)
36-year-old male who suffered a car
accident and had severe injuries with
intraperitoneal haematoma, left-sided moderate
pleural effusion. The patient opted for
Homoeopathy. Arnica and Bellis perennis three
hourly in alternation and then Arnica CM and
Ceanothus americanus mother tincture 5 gtt.
t.d.s. were given and in 12 days he improved.
No antibiotics were used.
40. Sub-arachnoid haemorrhage
MASTER Farokh J. (Simile, 4, 4/1994,
issued with the BHJ, 83,4/1994)
45-year-old male with sudden onset of
severe throbbing pain in the occipital and
temporal regions. Cold shower gave him relief,
but afterwards became miserable with pain and
physician was called. Sub-arachnoidal
haemorrhage was diagnosed, and allopathic
treatment began. Despite treatment by the
Neurosurgeon there was not much
improvement. He then opted for Homoeopathy.
Cravings sugar, fish, especially shell-fish.
Aversion spicy foods, pickles. Perspiration
profuse on covered parts, on head after eating
spicy food. Very hot patient, even in winter
required air- conditioning.
Mental: Very good administrator,
aggressive nature, blunt in talk. Always wants to
be occupied. Does everything fast, decisive,
never keeps work pending, very ambitious,
honest, conscientious. Fears snakes, being
dependent, would rather die. Cannot sit idle.
Weeps from sad movies.
16.7.1992: Lycopodium 200 repeated on
17.7.1992,21.7.1992, 11.8.199212.8.1992: No
evidence of aneurysm or arteriovenous
malformation.
41. Childhood Ear Infections: A
Homoeopathic Model for Diagnosis,
Treatment, and Research
MOSKOWITZ Richard (JAIH,
87,3/1994)
Dr.MOSKOWITZ discusses his
experience in treating chronic Otitis Media in
children. Several case histories are provided.
Homoeopathic management has proven very
successful in these cases. Dr.MOSKOWITZ also
suggests that many of such cases will benefit
from simply breaking the repeating infection-
antibiotic- cycle. He implicates both childhood
vaccination and the excessive use of antibiotics
as likely causes forthe pandemic of chronic
Otitis Media we witness today.
42. A Glimpse of the Continent
MARTENS Ruth (JAIH, 87,3/1994)
Some fascinating examples of cases
presented by Dr. Alfons GEUKENS in his
seminars are presented here:
Case 1: 5 weeks-old infant, breast-fed,
with complaints of chronic nasal obstruction,
painful abdominal cramps after eating, thrush in
the mouth, had to be rocked constantly, difficult
eructations, vomits sometimes after nursing,
tongue very thickly coated at the back, rash on
upper body. The mother ate tremendous
amounts of sweets and desserts. Saccharum
lactis brought very prompt improvement. The
child which was plump became much thinner
although it had put on weight.
This remedy had many similarities with
Calcarea. The symptoms that would distinguish
Saccharum lactis are: Aphthae in children;
strong desire for sugar; rocking ameliorates;
mental picture similar to Chamomilla.
Case 2&3: A mother and daughter: Both
seemed to have similar complaints and tastes -
the mother spoke mostly using "we", although
the daughter was 25 years old. A few symptoms
came up in which the daughter was different.
She described her job as 'interior decorator' in a
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hospital operating room, but in fact she was a
cleaning woman! The daughter also had
breathing problems in foggy or wet weather,
abdominal pain with nausea before menses and
irritability before; she was also fastidious. The
mother got Naja and the daughter Nux vomica.
(Naja has delusion of being victimized by
environment, of being injured by their
surrounding, the whole world looks dark and
hostile)
Case 4: 40-year-old woman, with heart
palpitations and obesity. She was abused or
raped by her husband years ago but she would
not talk about it. They never had intercourse
after this. She had aversion to her husband and
was afraid of him although she tolerated his
caresses when they were in company. She did
not know what to do, always asking "What
should I do? Should I leave him? etc." She felt
that she had two characters. Her heart
palpitations made her fear that she would die.
Strong lack of self-confidence.Naja was given
and her heart problems disappeared. The
differential between Naja and Anacardium is that
in Anacardium there is no clear perception of
what the patient ought to do, they are torn
between two equally attractive possibilities, Naja
knows exactly the direction to go but cannot go
there.
Case 5: 22-year-old woman with
headaches. She pointed to a spot where she
had the headache. She had sinusitis associated
with headache for 6 months. The headache
came randomly at any time of day/night; mainly
on right. She couldn't judge distances.
Onosmodium was her remedy.
Onosmodium should also be considered
for the symptom-group: deep sense of
insecurity, forgetfulness and female complaints.
Case 6: 6-year-old girl with eczema and
disorder of muscular coordination and speech.
Eczema very itchy, scratches until it bleeds and
tears the skin with her nails; cannot articulate
well and talks rapidly; inclination to clench her
teeth, she could not drink from a glass because
her mouth would go into a spasm and she would
bitethe glass; inversion of feet; could not walk in
a straight line; could not find her balance when
walking; enuresis nearly every night, in the
beginning of the night. Excitement caused
itching. Desires oranges and spices. Chloralum
brought good and rapid improvement.
43. Small Remedies in Everyday Practice
WEMBER David (JAIH, 87,3/1994)
Dr. WEMBER presents us yet again with
many 'clinical pearls' regarding the utility of
smaller remedies for everyday clinical practice.
44. Clinical Snapshots
(JAIH, 87, 3&4/1994.)
Case 1: An adopted girl child. Generally
in good health. She did have severe temper
tantrums and obstinacy. She often became
easily distracted, often would not do her
homework, and when she did, often did only part
of it, which engendered some friction and fights
with her mother.
At the age of nine she began to have
serious craving for ice cream. Pulsatilla from 6 to
30 brought about the desired improvement.
Evidently the child suffered from a sense of
abandonment by the birth mother and
transferred that feeling to the adoptive mother.
Case 2: 57-year-old woman with a
history of hypoglycaemia since age of 26 years
with symptoms of feeling weak and shaky, better
by eating. By her mid-thirties she was worse
with a sudden feeling of shaking, weakness and
a feeling as if about to cry, not always better by
eating. After a traumatic divorce and 20 pound
weight loss, she became weak, shaky, began
bumping into things and was very forgetful. She
began to have episodes which felt like a horrible
surge of Adrenalin followed by headache,
weakness, blurred vision and anxiety. She
began to get sudden sinking feeling as if a
curtain is coming down over her. Her energy,
vision, emotions and mental functioning all feel
like they are failing. She may feel as if in slow
motion. She may be totally unable to speak. All
this may happen in a space of 10 minutes. She
gets relief from eating Kudo bar. Her life now
revolves around these and she has gained 20
pounds. Family history of Diabetes. Cold
weather agg. Bites nails and cuticles; nails thin
and break easily; recurrent cold sores; recurrent
vaginal infections; Gonorrhoea at age 24 treated
with Penicillin. Infertility, irregular periods.
Hysterectomy in 1972. She always has had a
very strong sex drive. Medorrhinum 200, and
then Phosphorus 200. There were further
adverse developments like Insulinoma, tumor at
the tail of pancreas, benign insulinoma which
was removed surgicallyand since then has had
no more symptoms of hypoglycaemia.
Case 3: 48-year-old male with mild to
moderate hearing impairment which began
approximately 6 years previously. Probably due
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to excessive listening to audio tapes. The
impairment was worse after waking up in the
morning, improved during the day; restless at
night, often moving from room to room; craving
for cold milk (at night). Rhus toxicodendron 6 to
30 in ascending scale was given and he made
50% improvement. Further plan Calcarea
carbonica or Rhus toxicodendron in LM.
Case 4: 43-year-old woman with
complaint of cough for two weeks since a bout of
flu. Cough dry, paroxysmal due to a tickle in
throat pit, worse at night, lying down, lying on
sides, better lying propped up. Yellow nasal
discharge, post-nasal drip; hoarseness. Onset of
pain in the right posterior chest, under the
scapula, and also a stabbing pain in an area
deep in her right breast; as if respiration
incomplete. Sanguinaria canadensis 30.
45. A case of Mastitis SCHAFFER
Rodney (JAIH, 87,4/1994)
This case of acute mastitis
demonstrates one of several courses that an
acute illness may take and the remedies that
may be required for such changed symptoms.
Remedies were given whenever symptoms
changed and thus a rapid cure was obtained.
Croton tiglium 200 was given because
of the key-note: breast pain every time the baby
suckled, the pain in the inflamed breast radiated
directly to the scapula (compare Paris
quadrifolia, Phellandrium, Berberis vulgaris and
Phytolacca). 36 hours later (after two doses of
Croton tiglium) Belladonna (breast bright red
over a wide area covering 1/3 of the breast from
the nipple laterally; sensitive to touch; sensation
as if the skin there is burnt). 24 hours later
Arnica montana (onlya bruised sensation
remained).
46. The Homoeopathic Interview RUSSELL
W.Less (JAIH, 87,4/1994)
The homoeopathic interview is one area
of practice, that perhaps causes more failures in
prescription than any other single area, There
are a number of skills that need to be learned by
the homoeopath that will enable interviews to
become more enlightening and thereby improve
the prescription. The following skills are not the
only answer, but they may prove useful to some
practitioners. (Readers are directed to the
source article: KSS)
47. Ett fall av ta!)dlossning (A Case of
loosening of the teeth) JORGENFEL T
Chris (HLK, 3,4/1994)
The presenting problem in this case is
loosening of the teeth. However, the patient also
suffers from, panic attacks, loss of memory and
palpitations. His problems started after he had
some mercury fillings as a young boy and
Mercury was the curative remedy in this case.
48. Etiologi: vaccination (Aetiology:
Vaccination)
SAWYER Liz (HLK, 3,4/1994)
This is a case of Endometriosis. The
essence appears to be Natrum muriaticum, but
this remedy does not cure the patient. Further
questioning reveals that the problem started
after vaccination and Thuja proves to be
completely curative.
49. Lyme Disease and Homoeopathy
TOBIN Stephen (HT, 14,6/1994)
The author who generally treats
veterinary cases says that he found Ledum M
effective in Lyme disease in animals and also
found the same remedy useful in humans too for
the disease. He has used it in cats, dogs and
horses and it does not seem to matter whether it
is a recent infection, a year old, treated or
untreated and they all respond curatively.
One homoeopathic MD runs titers on all
his Lyme disease patients, both before and after
treatment with Ledum and has found that there
is a constant decline in titer after Ledum.
One pellet Ledum M three times a day
for three days is given. As preventive for Lyme
disease in dogs, Borrellia burgdorferi 60x, a
nosode, is given, one dose daily for one week,
then one dose a week for one month, then one
dose every six weeks. Out of over 500 dogs
given so, only two dogs have contracted Lyme
disease both of which cleared with Ledum.
50. Dreams and a sore throat
SCALES Sally (HT, 14,9/1994)
80-year-old woman with complaint of an
extremely sore throat which began after she
dreamt of her diseased sister-in-Iaw smoking
while talking to her. Although she begged her
sister-in- law not to smoke as the smoke was
giving her a sore throat, it was of no avail. She
awoke with a severe sore throat, a feeling that
her lungs and throat were full of smoke, and dry
mouth. Her nose has been pouring. Voice very
hoarse. After complete case taking, the remedy
was worked out to Baryta carbonica (Dreams of
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the dead; Dreams of dead relatives; Nose, odors
of smoke; Chest as if smoke; Dreams of
disease;) A single dose of the 30 brought relief
within 24 hours although the cough lingered for
a week.
51. Addressing the Needs of the Elderly
with Homoeopathy
SOMERSON Michael (HT, 14, 10/1994)
This presentation was made in the NCH
Conference 1994. Dr. SOMERSON was
practising in rural Ohio which has a rich
homoeopathic heritage where once there were
1000 homoeopathic physicians. He took over
the very busy practice of Dr. PANOS upon her
retirement. He said that while some elder
patients are vibrant, and retain a youthful
appearance, others have vitality which may be
slowly diminishing or rapidly deteriorating. A
carefully chosen remedy for any individual must
take into consideration the potential in that
individual to respond, and the potency of a
remedy must be compatible with the level of
vitality of the patient. There may come a time in
a patient's life when an overwhelming barrier is
met, the obstacle is too great. At this time the
physician must seek to provide palliation, cure
may not be possible. Now the goal of the
thoughtful physician must be to provide comfort
and relieve the distress of the patient by
providing symptomatic relief. Many mental
symptoms which are common to an older
population respond very well to homoeopathic
treatment.
Dr. SOMERSON treats mental and
emotional ailments, vision and hearing changes,
vertigo, digestive problems, prostate problems,
cardiac complaints, stroke, musculoskeletal
problems and last stage of life.
52. A Short Discussion on Depression
SEN Gobinda, SINHA Swagata (HH,
19,7/1994)
A brief and interesting exposition of
Depression which can sometimes mimic
physical illness. Three cases are cited.
53. Meningitis
BANSAL V.P. (HH, 19,7/1994)
A text-book exposition of the disease; a
list of some homoeopathic remedies is also
appended.
54. Homoeopathic Medicine in Sexual
Debility HOSSAIN Md.Azmal (HH,
19,7/1994)
A brief exposition of sexual debility, the
different forms of such debility and the
medicines generally considered in
Homoeopathy.
55. Experience with Bowel Nosodes - Case
Reports
MUKHERJEE Debasis (HH, 19,7/1994)
Two case reports are given:
Case 1: 42-year-old man, married.
Chronic Colitis since 10 years. Losing weight
progressively. Weak, tired feeling, even while
rising from bed. Uneasiness after sleep. Urine
strong smelling. Dysentery compound 200 one
dose given on 2.10.1993. 18.10.1993:
Arsenicum album for cold and coryza with
burning, Pyrexia. 6.11.1993: Placebo.
27.11.1993: Placebo. 27.11.1993: Placebo.
21.12.1993: Sulphur 200
Case 2: 56-year-old widower. Chronic
Dysentery aggravated from night-watching and
mental anxiety while nursing paralysed wife for
2-3 years who died in October 1990. Stool,
sometimes 10-15 times a day. Severe, constant
pain in left lower abdomen. Occasional burning
urination and mild Pyrexia. Very poor appetite.
Craving for spicy food, fish, milk and milk
products, rich food, sweets. Stool foul smelling,
flatus + with stool, cannot control the urge -
passes with great noise and force.
Gaertner (Bach) 200, 2 doses morning
and evening the same day.
In the first case the mental tension and
anticipatory fear about loan repayment lead to
the choice of Dys.co. In the second case the
malnutrition of the body with an overactive brain
and hypersensitivity to external impressions lead
to Gaertner.
56. Acute Respiratory Tract Infection in
Children MUKHERJEE Nirmalendu (HH,
19,7/1994)
This is a brief exposition of this ailment.
57. A Case of Torticollis
CHATTERJEE Ardhendu Sekhar
(HH,19,8/1994)
A 29-year-old, unmarried man suffering
from Torticollis since an year. After treatment in
hospitals (allopathic) did not improve,
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homoeopathic treatment was sought for which
ameliorated for a short time only to relapse. The
case was retaken and anti- miasmatic treatment
cured. Thuja was used to remove the sycotic
block and then Lyssin and Staphysagria brought
about the cure.
58. Common Geriatric Disorders BATRA
Mukesh (HH,19,9/1994)
Common ailments in old age, the
relevant rubrics and a comparative Materia
medica; all in brief.
59. Stubborn Epistaxis
SARAB A.N. (HH, 19,9/1994)
55-year-old woman with bleeding per
nose since that day morning; Crocus sativus
three doses and advised to apply ice packs, but
there was no relief until night. Since she had
surgical menopause she was given Lachesis
500 followed by Crotalus horridus 30 (stringy
blood). Still no relief and so Arnica 200, four
doses every hour. No relief by next day. Two
towels have been soaked with blood and the
smell in the house was like a butcher's shop. No
bleeding point could be located in the nose.
Millefolium tincture ten drops every hour
followed bya biochemic mixture, but still no
relief. Bryonia 200, 6 doses every 15-20 minutes
which too did not relieve. Hamamelis 30, 8
doses, hourly. No relief at 7a.m. next day.
Shewas precarious and smell of blood was
overwhelming. She was not, even at this stage,
prepared for I. V. fluids and blood transfusion.
After further questioning, Tuberculinum
M (anti-miasmatic) was given followed by
Hamamelis, half-hourly. She needed to take only
one dose of the Hamamelis.
Lesson: the miasm should be taken into
consideration even in acute prescribing.
60. Rheumatic Arthritis MISHRA
Nityananda (HH, 19,9/1994)
29-year-old man with pain in all joints -
big and small - since 12 years. For 11 years on
allopathic medicines. Worse in wet weather,
daytime, and warmth in general. Better by
pressure, but lying on the affected side agg.
Desired cold food, aversion to sweets. Twice
vaccinated which did not take. Recurrent
dreams of falling from height till he was 17.
Pulsatilla 200, later Sulphur200.
61. Skin Diseases and Homoeopathy
GHOSE 8.8. (HH, 19,10/1994)
Treating skin diseases on local
symptoms does not give lasting cure. Whereas
prescription on the basis of the totality including
the miasmatic block cures.
62. Malignancies/Cancer
BATRA Mukesh (HH, 19,10/1994)
A brief study of the remedies in the
rubric 'Cancerous affections' in the KENT
Repertory.
63. A Case of Insanity
SARKAR Soumitra (HH, 19, 10/1994)
18-year-old male, malnourished
appearance, with mental illness; history of Tinea
Capitis in infancy treated with topical
applications. Sulphur in different potencies did
not help. It was observed that he kept walking
for hours in sun/rain perspiring profusely, drew
water from the well for hours and bathed, sat up
in bed the entire night and talked to himself.
None of these seemed to tire him. Had ravenous
appetite, eats much quantity at a time. This too
did not tire him. 'No tiredness even after
excessive activities' pointed to Acidum fluoricum
which was prescribed in 200, later repeated. For
a relapse 4 years later this remedy was
repeated. He now engages himself in a
remunerative job. The skin eruption (Tinea
capitis) did not reappear.
64. Finding the Homoeopathic Symptoms
HOSSAIN Azmal (HH, 19, 11/1994)
Case 1: A young housewife came for a
wart on her face. Although she had a host of
other problems - menstrual disturbances,
gastric, psychological, etc. - she only wanted the
wart to go. Many medicines for wart on face
failed. At last Hyoscyamus M (Delusions, crabs
moving around. 2. Fear of being poisoned. 3.
Talked to herself) removed the wart within a
fortnight.
Case 2: 56-year-old man with sedentary
habits. He consulted a Neuro-physician for an
irregular pain in right temporal region with dim
vision. The pain did not go. After CT Scan brain
tumour was diagnosed. Surgery was suggested
as the only therapy, which was rejected by the
patient and Homoeopathy was called for. Thuja
was prescribed (1. Head, pain left side. 2.
Anxiety about salvation. 3. Dream of battles).
The farther peculiar the symptom, the more
valuable for choice of the homoeopathic
medicine.
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Case 3: 28-year-old woman with chronic
piles. Pain so violent that surgery was
suggested. Kali carbonicum M - after four earlier
prescriptions based on the symptoms failed -
based on the peculiar symptom "General relief
when she rode" (see PHATAK Repertory).
Case 4: A young man with excruciating
pain in lower abdomen, aggravated when
voiding urine, sometimes Dysuria. Multiple radio
- opaque calculi in bladder. Calcarea carbonica
relieved (Symptoms for the prescription, far
from the pathology: 1. Fear of mishap. 2.
Obesity. 3. Craving for ink. 4. Palpitation with
coldness in the praecordium. 5. Doesn't like
passing stool (better when constipated).
65. A Case of suspected Multiple Myeloma
BHATTACHARYA Dilip (HH, 19,
11/1994)
75-year-old, bed-ridden man, with
suspected Multiple Myeloma. At the end of
homoeopathic treatment (1 Nov.1992 to 27 June
1994) the patient was standing erect, moved
about well, although a 'cure' cannot be claimed.
Acidum nitricum, Kali iodatum, Lycopodium,
Acidum benzoicum, Sulphur, Guaiacum were
given.
66. A Case of Epilepsy
DEYS.P. (HH,19,11/1994)
7 Year-old boy with repeated seizures,
recurring at 1-2-3 months since the age of
years following a surgery for cleft palate. EEG
report confirmed idiopathic generalised epilepsy.
His symptoms indicated mixed miasmatic state
with syphilitic predominance and he was given
Plumbum metallicum beginning from 0/2. He
was then given Sulphur 200 anticipating psoric
block. He was incident free for three months
after this and then had a major attack. Lyssin
200. There was no further attack for more than
16 months. However he was given one dose
Sulphur 200. The EEG then taken said "interictal
neuronal hyperexcitability" and so he was given
Calcarea carbonica 200 as complementary to
Sulphur. Two months later he had a mild
seizure-Iike episode with high fever which may
not be an epileptic attack.
The patient is still under treatment which
will continue till the EEG tracing becomes
normal.
67. Heredity and Aids
JHA Sushil Kumar (HH, 19, 12, /1994)
Transmission of immunity factor through
mother's milk or placental circulation indicates
that genetic factors might be of extra -
chromosomal nature and be present in the
cytoplasm as well and transmitted like "Kappa
particles" of Paramecium or "sigma particles" of
Drosophila.
68. Plague - Its Homoeopathic
Treatment and Prevention
SARANGI Annada Prasad (HH, 19,
12/1994)
The pathology of Plague is scantily
sketched in a few lines. A small list of
homoeopathic medicines is also appended.
69. A Case of Chocolate
GAY M.A. (HL,7, 4,/1994)
24-year-old female consulted on 16
Dec. 1993. Colds, exhausting, "boring, go on
and on". The analysis of her case: She needed
to be nurtured, hadn't had nurturing as a child.
Has no feelings about her parents or children.
not able to nourish and nurture herself. Has
delusions about time going too fast because she
didn't have a good childhood or is going too
quickly towards death.
Rubrics: Desires Chocolate; dislikes
children; Dreams of people; Time passes too
quickly; Nose - discharge thick; Desires - red
fruit.
Chocolate 30 two doses.
24 March 1994: much better. Had a
minor cold after the remedy, which came and
went in 3 days. Very unusual for her. Stopped
eating Chocolate completely. General
improvement. The remedy was repeated for her
knee problem. Next follow up: O.K.
70. A Case of Calcarea sulphurica going
to Ferrum iodatum
JOSEF-MULLER Karl (HL, 7,4/1994)
31-year-old female teacher. Menses
stopped a complete cycle after she had been on
a holiday. Not pregnant. Problem with the
tendon sheaths. Left arm is worse in motion.
Feels there is something narrow around the
throat. Thyroid gland is enlarged. Very obese.
Pulsation in the heart when lying in bed, is
warm-blooded and can't stand warm room.
Easily irritated, very impatient and nervous.
Aggressive with her three daughters. Craves
sweet and in the summer likes to drink milk. She
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doesn't know why it is always she who has to
suffer disregard. Often feels that she is not
appreciated.
Calcarea sulphurica 30/200 and she
made very good improvement. During the next
11 months she received her "miracle remedy" in
M, XM and LM. Six months later she came with
the complaints: 4 weeks she had influenza with
ear pain. Penicillin was given to her by a doctor.
For 3 weeks now she has violent pain in the
right upper arm extending to the shoulder joint.
Crossing the arms agg. Pain in cervical and in
the middle of the right shoulder blade. Takes
Thyroid hormone. Now she is much
acknowledged in the school, engaged by pupils,
parents and colleagues and therefore she
cannot now allow for any mistakes or failures.
She likes the position. The situation to be the
centre of critical observation and to have not to
fail is a typical Ferrum situation, and the remedy
and the pains disappeared.
71. Revolutionary Homoeopathy - An
Impression VAN TWILLERT Ci (HL,
7,4/1994)
The author came to India to study with
Dr. SEHGAL who teaches and practises a
technique in which the patient's expressions are
converted into 'Mind' rubrics in the repertory and
a remedy selected on that basis. The author
asserts that this method gives quicker and sure
results. He has cited two cases from his and his
colleague's practice.
72. Uncommon Remedies in Some
Common Ailments and Common
Remedies in Some Uncommon Ailments
OUADER S.F. (mfH, 5, 1&21994)
This is a very interesting paper read
before the A.P. Homoeopathic Association
Clinical Meeting on 26 December 1993. Dr.
QUADER presents many cases and remedies,
briefly. The remedies discussed are: Lithium
carbonicum in heart case, Calcarea arsenica in
Epilepsy, Platina in heart disease, Coccus cacti
in Microcephalus, Laurocerasus in Valvular
heart disease, Ammonium muriaticum in
Sciatica, Gnaphalium in back sprain, Squilla in
Measles, Caladium for sleeplessness in heart
disease, Stramonium in speech loss after
convulsions, Hyoscyamus in Paranoid
Schizophrenia, Carbo animalis in injury to
Coccyx, Tuberculinum in Microcephalus in a
child, Aurum metallicum in heart disease,
Euphrasia in stammering in a young man of 18
years, Pulsatilla in Thyroid enlargement,
Belladonna in a hyperactive child, Anacardium in
Paranoid Schizophrenia, Carbo vegetabilis in
Myocardial infarction, Lycopodium in recurrent
Epistaxis in a 9-year- old girl, Arnica montana in
(palliation) of Osteo-sarcoma with metastasis to
lungs.
73. Unusual Clinical Cases
MISHRA S.C. (mfH, 5,1/1994)
Case 1: 40-year-old dumb man with
swollen gland on the right-side of his throat.
Belladonna and then Rhus toxicodendron
(cause: bath at night after attending a
cremation), did not give relief. He now drooled in
sleep. Mercurius relieved.
Case 2: 32-year-old lady suffered an
accident injury (neck). Treated for about three
months by Allopathy without result. She was
given Arnica,Ruta and Rhus toxicodendron with
only partial relief. The pain extended to the
head. She said that she was terribly frightened
as a result of the accident. She also had a
presentiment of death. Aconite 200 gave prompt
relief.
74. Angio-CelVical Spondylosis
MUDALIAR V.P. (mfH,5,1/1994)
This case points to the close
complementary relationship between Rhus
toxicodendron and Calcarea carbonica.
75. Problematic Warts
HARISHCHANDRA B.B (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Brief essay about warts.
76. Warts and Naturopathy
KONDEKAR Prakash (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Besides dietary regulation, neem
enema, cold or contrast shower, fasting are
important in Naturopathy for treatment of warts.
77. The Application of Nosodes in
Homoeopathy PATRO K.K.C. (NJH,
3,2/1994)
The Nosodes are an important part of a
homoeopath's armament. The Nosodes can be
prescribed (i) on symptom-similarity, (ii) as a
second prescription (a Calcarea child with
severe pains in the bones at night -Syphilinum),
(iii) as an intercurrent (iv) where a simillimum is
not clear, (v) To begin the treatment where no
other remedy is clear, (vi) as a complementary,
(vii) for sequelae and complications of acute
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infections, (viii) when the patient "has never
been well since", (ix) in prolonged
convalescence, (x) when a patient does not pick
up health after a particular illness, (xi) when
several past treatments were unsystematic and
hence unsuccessful, (xii) in inherited familly
diathesis including miasmatic consideration (xiii)
the tautopathic use of nosodes and sarcodes,
(xiv) Nosodes as better prophylaxis.
78. Role of Nosodes
BHATNAGAR Padamprakash (NJH,
3,2/1994)
This is a brief run-through of the
Nosodes and their source, including the Bowel
Nosodes.
79. Lycopodium in Warts
GUNE Mohan (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Two cases of warts cured by
Lycopodium prescibed on the 'Generals'.
80. Mummy, I hate Veggies!
MAMGAIN S.K. (NJH, 3,2/1994)]
A 8-year-old girl with lot of warts on her
right hand (after Thuja M t.d.s. for two weeks!
There was only one wart when the prescription
was given first), was cured by Ruta. (Aversion to
vegetables and to antidote Thuja)
A 13-year-old girl with a large pea-size
wart on the back of right hand between the index
and thumb. She also had pain in calves, menses
late, copious and painful, severe hypogastric
pain on the first day. Phosphoric acid 30 t.d.s.
for 5 days. Total cure.
82. Surgery? Not a chance! RANAUT
Kulbir Singh (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Case 1: 40-year-old lady, with small
warts on her breasts, cracked and ulcerated
nipples, dry skin of hands. Castor equi 30 one
dose daily for 10 days.
Case 2: 10-year-old boy with hard warts
covering both his hands; he avoided bathing.
Desired sour. Antimonium crudum 200, three
doses for one day.
Case 3: 20-year-old girl with warts on
the back of hands and feet, face. Past history of
vaccination. Dreams of falling from height. Thuja
XM
Case 4: 50-year-old man, with large
smooth warts on his neck since 6 years age,
chronic coryza, nose block during rains. He used
foul language, "I cannot control it". Dulcamara M
three doses for one day.
82. Now Here, Now Gone
WADIA S.R. (NJH, 3,2/1994)
The octogenerian homoeopath presents
seven cases, briefly, .of warts.
Case 1: An elderly man with over 200
warts on his face. Thuja M b.d. for six months (!)
had been prescribed by a Dermatologist without
benefit. Dr.WADIA gave first Sulphur and when
the detailed history revealed Cancer in the
family Carcinosin 200 and then M and all the
warts disappeared.
Case 2: 40-year-old male with 30-35
warts on the face and neck. Black warts. Some
large, some small; isolated warts on other parts
of body. Has taken lot of local and oral
Corticosteroids. Cortisone 200 three doses; no
improvement. Calcarea carbonica 30 repeated
doses and in 15 days 50% of the warts
disappeared. The remedy was repeated in 200
all warts disappeared.
Case 3: 12-year-old boy, with 20-25
warts on his hands, sides of fingers and legs
since 6 months. Most of them fairly large, hard
and jagged, two orthree were soft. Silver-nitrate
had been applied which had caused burns, and
warts remained as they were. Since he had
been vaccinated every year in his school Thuja
M and no improvement in 15 days. It was
revealed that whenever he was injured while
playing, the warts would bleed. Now Causticum
30 b.d. and in eight days, the warts had gone.
Case 4: 45-year-old female with warts
like corns on the hands, fingers and toes. A corn
on the thumb very painful. Soles and heels
cracked. Dreams of snakes since childhood.
Menses every 3/4 months. Sulphur 200 three
doses and then Lac caninum.
Case 5: 3-year-old girl warts on the face
- Molluscum contagiosum. Thuja.
Case 6: 36-year-old male with callosities
which were hard like rock on the tips of his
fingers and near the nails for several years. Past
history of several vaccinations, suppressed
ringworms and a wart on the forehead. Thuja,
Antimonium crudum, Sulphur and then
Carcinosin (family history of cancer). Causticum
finally cleared.
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Case 7: 45-year-old man with chronic
dysentery. Two warts on face had been
cauterized. Nux vomica and then Sulphur.
83. Warts: The Bane of Homoeopathy
BALAKRISHNAN E. (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Four cases of warts.
84. A Bottle of Warts
PARINAZ HUMRANWALA (NJH,
3,2/1994)
13-year-old boy with plenty of warts on
palm (right). Lycopodium given on the basis of
the Mentals and Generals cured.
85. The Rosary
PARTHASARATHY Vishpala (NJH,
3,2/1994)
13-year-old boy with warts (Molluscum)
on his face and neck; he was obstinate; violent
anger, Fear of thunder and darkness, Craving
for sweets, Enuresis. Tuberculinum bovinum
50M, three doses, cured.
A lady with more than 100 warts on face
was rid of them all with Lachesis then Rhus
toxicodendron and Tuberculinum bovinum.
cleared.
86. Tellurium
SHAH Jawahar (NJH, 3,2/1994)
A man with multiple warts on face and
armpit and ringworm in the groin. Tellurium 6x
t.d.s. for 7 days.
87. A Case of Multiple Warts
UPADHYA Sameer (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Calcarea carbonica M cured a 28-year-
old man of multiple warts (75-100) on face,
88. Warts, Polyp, Molluscum….. and
Homoeopathy
SONAWALA Sarla (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Five interesting cases from this veteran
homoeopath. She also refers to two cases which
did not respond to the homoeopathic medicines
89. Learning from Experience
NAGAR Rashmi (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Ranunculus bulbosus for warts on
palm/fingers, pedunculated and horny.
90. Causticum and not cauterization
PATEL Paresh (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Two Causticum and one Silica, cases
91. Warts: Cases with brief Philosophical
Background
JAISWAL G.D. (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Sycosis and Warts are related in this
brief article.
92. And They All Fell Down
TALATI Farida A. (NJH, 3,2/1994)
40-year-old man with 200 small,
pedunculated warts on his face and neck. He felt
that the warts appeared after he took
homoeopathic treatment for his chronic
dysentery. The dysentery came on after
cauterization of a few warts, and these warts
came on after the homoeopathic treatment.
Sulphur cured.
93. A Smoker's Warts
SHETH Parag (NJH, 3,2/1994)
22-year-old male with 11 clustered warts
on his chin since 2 months. Chronic smoker.
Diabetes in both parents. Warts in mother.
Nitric acid did not help, but after
Caladium not only the warts went away but his
craving for smoking also became less. (Both the
remedies are complementary)
94. World: A Better Place Without Wicked
Warts... ?
SONAWALA Sarla (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Interesting poem.
95. Angio -Cervical Spondylosis
MUDALIAR V.P. (NJH, 3,1/1994)
The author, 72-year-old, with a history of
three heart attacks; chews tobacco regularly,
cataract both eyes. History of inguinal hernia
and eczema in the lower extremities. Left
ventricular failure was diagnosed. He also
developeo cervical pain, and his neck became
paretic. Rhus toxicodendron and Kalmia in
alternation gave good relief. He was also taking
Sorbitrate. He now took Rhus toxicodendron and
Calcarea carbonica in alternation.
96. Gastro-enteritis
LAKSHMINARAYANAN D. (mfH,
5,2/1994)
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The author asserts that Homoeopathy is
the only medicine which will cure this condition.
He narrates his personal experience in this.
Surely, none will disagree.
97. Capsule Cases
LAKSHMINARAYANAN D. (mfH,
5,1&2/1994)
1. T emper tantrums: Proteus again - 6
year - old boy; bed - wetting 2-3 times each
night; temper tantrums - throw things, beats
mother, screams, bangs doors, etc. Proteus M
one dose daily and at the end of the week,
improved. For later symptoms Ignatia and
Natrum muriaticum made him completely well.
2. Naja in a Cardiac patient: 64 year-old
lady with dyspnoea on walking up a slope.
Pressure on upper chest, shoulders and back.
Chest pain extending to left arm down to finger
tips with numbness. Latrodectus mactans 6,
three doses helped her sleep on her right side
and Magnesia Phosphorica 200 palliated acute
pain. Pain on stepping out in cold, open air;
Phosphorus 200 and Magnesia Phosphorica
200 palliated. Subsequently Aurum metallicum
30, Spigelia 30- M. Diagnosed as Coronary
Artery disease and prescribed usual drugs, viz.
Sorbitrate, Tenormin, etc., but she took only
Spigelia and Sorbitrate as and when needed.
Now she reported that she had pain when she
slept on her left side. Naja 30 cleared this.
3.Osteomyelitis(byDr.SURYAPRAKASA
RAO): Osteomyelitis at the head of the tibia in a
woman in her last months of pregnancy.
Calcarea sulphurica followed by Calcarea
fluorica removed the pains and she moved
freely.
4. Temper tantrums - Double quick
change (Dr.LAKSHMINARAYANAN): 6 year-old
boy, peevish, unsmiling, undersized with sub-
acute cough; very irritable, throwing things,
beating people, etc. Proteus 30 b.d. for a
fortnight. After a week he developed an egg-
sized blind abscess on the frontal aspect of the
right axilla. Myristica 30 and Hepar sulphuris
200, followed by Silica 200. So far 14 doses of
Proteus. Lessons from this case: The abscess
appeared within 12 hours of the first dose of
Proteus. The cough subsided. Irritability and
temper tantrums markedly better. Proteus must
be a great Antipsoric to produce a skin abscess
within 12 hrs. and clear the temper tantrums.
5. Ascarides (by Dr.
D.LAKSHMINARAYANAN): Sabadilla cured anal
itching from ascarides in a boy who had craving
for sweets. Desire for sweets is a more
important symptom than aggravation from
sweets, in this case.
98. Erythroblastosis Foetalis (Ah.
Incompatibility - Icterus Neonatarum)
SUAYAPAAKASA AAO B.A. (mfH,
5,2/1994)
In the author's experience Neo-natal
icterus of children born to mothers Ah. negative
can be prevented by Crotalus horridus given to
the mother during pregnancy.
99. A Dejected Case of Bronchitis
SHAH Aupal (HTIMES, 1,3/1994)
33-year-old male with Allergic Bronchitis
since 20 years every winter. His Father was an
allopathic physician. Has been treated by
specialists many times.
Remedies like Arsenicum album,
Antimonium tartaricum, Coccus cacti, Kali
carbonicum were all in vain. The 'totality' again
pointed to Calcarea carbonicum which too did
not bring lasting relief. On reconsideration
Psorinum came through and the remedy
immediately produced expected results; M to
CM was administered and for last four years
when the case was last reviewed no problem
during winter. Dejection, was the guiding
characteristic. Also the remedy in the highest
potency was repeated at more frequent
intervals, to even twice a week towards the end-
phase of the treatment!
100. An Obstinate Case of Urticaria
VORA Mukesh A. (HTIMES l' 3/1994)
55-year-old male; Urticaria of two years
duration; worse sunset, night, 2-4 a.m., cold
drink, cold food, spicy; better by hot application.
Desire for sweets, Anxiety if time is set, Fear of
being late, of high places, narrow places, of
impending disease, etc. Argentum nitricum 200
brought no relief at all. Aurum metallicum 200
given on reconsideration of the whole case also
did not help. Now the patient bitterly complained
of the itching, despaired. Psorinum 30 was
followed by M and then XM, 50M. Then Sulphur
XM followed by Psorinum CM and itching again
became worse. Sulphur 50M and then Psorinum
CM gave lasting relief.
101. Cough: A Repertorial Study
SHAH Rajesh (HTIMES 1,3/1994)
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This is an interesting exercise in the
study of some coughs and their remedies in
accordance to the repertory. Cimicifuga, Arnica
montana, Kreosote, Conium, Collinsonia,
Coccus cacti, Ignatia; etc. are some of the
remedies studied.
102. A Rare Respiratory Remedy
TRIVEDI Bhavana (HTIMES, 113/1994)
47-year-old man with chronic bronchitis
since 15 years. Hydrocyanic acid cured. (Fear,
trouble, of imaginary; Sentimental; Tranquility.)
He had fearwhile walking along the road that the
tall buildings may fall upon him.
103. Cancer of Left Breast -Metastasis to
Liver and Ribs
BANERJEE Sanjay (HTIMES, 1,4/1994)
Treatment of a Cancer of the left breast
in a post-menopausal woman of 61 years age.
The patient has been on Arsenicum album LM3
to LM14 during the period 30 April 1993 to 10
December 1993 and the patient was relieved of
the pains, could do household work, gained
weight. Continuing treatment.
104. Breaking The Delusion
VASANDI Yogesh (HTIMES 1,4/1994)
60 year-old man with anxiety, distension
of abdomen, gases, irregular bowels since 6-7
years. Alcoholic since 35 years but has given it
up since 5 years. Had been hospitalised for
alcoholic liver. Frequent jerking of limbs during
sleep. Recurrent dreams of falling and bad
automobile accidents. Sympathetic to the
suffering people, to those being exploited. Fear
of accident while travelling in fast trains. Vertigo
on rising from squatting position. Nux vomica 30,
200 and M relieved fully. Lesson: remedies
should not be stereo-typed into fixed images.
105. Two Cases with Lesser Used Remedies
SHAH Rupal (HTIMES, 1,4/1994)
Case 1: 5 year-old girl; sudden high rise
of temperature. Woke up at 1500 hrs. With high
fever. Very irritable, cranky, crying and
screaming. Generally kept awake a good part of
the night. Short sleep and waking crying,
restless, tossing about, muttering in sleep.
Tonsils inflamed. Face fiery red. Belladonna
200, then M did not help. Next day: Fever
persists. Threw off the covers at night. Fever
goes up in the afternoon and night after sleep.
Demands things and on offering refuses.
Constantly weeping, whining, screaming and
restless. Jealous of her elder sister. Tonsils:
suppuration. Lips, Face and Skin all red all over.
Apis M t.d.s. for two days rapid improvement.
Case 2: 28 year-old woman. Sudden
spells of dizziness, giddiness, momentary
deafness, clouding of vision and ringing in ears.
Occurs every alternate day since a few months.
Joints, especially fingers, swelling; right sided
Sciatica; Warts on palms and fingers. Sensitive,
easily hurt. Prefers to be alone; Keeps her
feelings to herself and brood over; hates to be
consoled. Quiet, silent and reserved. Goes out
of the way to help people in trouble, financially
and otheriwse. Generally gloomy and
despondent. Chin-sulph. was her remedy.
106. A Case of Wilson's Disease
DEVADIGA P.Y., SARDA Chetna
(IJHM, 29,4/1994)
9 year-old boy: Weakness began in the
lower extremity (left side) six months ago and
now extending to the upper. Abnormal gait and
coldness of the affected parts. Choreo-athetoid
movements. Strabismus. The Totality: Fear of
strangers; of being alone; Dreams of relatives;
Coldness of extremities; Hot patient; Craving
green vegetables; cold drinks; Aversion, sour;
sweets; Grimaces. Cuprum metallicum 200, M,
XM. Improving progressively.
107. The Hyperkinetic Child
BARVALIA Praful (IJHM, 29,4/1994)
5 year-old boy, hyperactivity, mild
mental retardation. Extremely restless; gets cold
very often; school performarlce poor; dull and
moody; gets irritated and scratches his head and
body. Breach caesarian baby. Hospitalised
thrice. Can write only if someone holds his hand.
Sensitive and adamant. Affected by changes of
weather. Enjoys music, travel. Pneumonia at 3
years. Talked at two and half years age.
Attention deficit at school. Desires salty things
and fruits. Mother underwent lot of mental
tensions, vexation, etc.
Natrum muriaticum 200 for three
consecutive days and improvement began.
Suitable counselling was given to the parents
particularly the mother, the school also was
advised and thus a cohesive structure to the
child's environment was provided.
108. Pneumonia Cases
MEHTA Nimish (IJHM, 29,4/1994)
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15 month-old girl; second attack of
Pneumonia. Recurrent Tracheobronchitis; with
Tracheomalacia. This attack of Pneumonia after
a cold drink. Very high fever with deep rattling
cough, desired to be carried and caressed,
clung to mother. Startles in sleep during heat;
thirst small quantity frequently. Inflammation
right lung. Phosphorus 200 four hourly until
positive reaction and in two and half days
complete recovery.
30 year-old female, unmarried with
recurrent chest infections. Currently high fever
for last three weeks with rattling cough. Body
ache, chilly, lot of gas, severe headache,
increased thirst for small, frequent quantity,
weepy, burning sole. Lycopodium 200 without
benefit. Taken off medicine and observed. The
totality pointed to Rhus toxicodendron which
was given in M potency four hourly and in four
days improved.
109. Pneumonitis - Treated with
Arsenicum album
TRIVEDI Bhavana (IJHM, 29, 4/1994)
3 year-old boy with Pneumonitis.
Bryonia 30, then Arsenicum album XM with
Tuberculinum aviare intercurrent.
110. Bronchial Asthma: A case study from
the Research Department
BHATIA Anil, ENGINEER laxmi (IJHM,
29,4/1994)
11 year-old boy with childhood bronchial
Asthma; on large scale steroids and
bronchodilators.
Tubercular miasm; emotional
disturbance was found to be the dominant
provocation; does not express anger; family
history of asthma suppressed by steroids. .
Antimonium arsenicosum for the
episodes; Tuberculinum forthe underlying
miasm; Ignatia forthe inferiority complex, grief,
conflict, etc. The bronchodilators and steroids
were withdrawn and the above remedies
administered according to indications and over a
period of eight months there was very good
improvement.
111. The Superstitious Man
BARVALIA Praful (IJHM, 29,4/1994)
65 year-old man with severe backache
since last ten years, at times paraesthesia.
Severe dyspepsia and poor appetite, slow
digestion; feels lot of gas trapped in the joints,
limbs, etc. with marked Polyuria. Worse after
nocturnal emissions and suppression of sex
desire. Suffered Tuberculosis in 1981 and
treated with anti-tuberculous medicines and
since then tinnitus.
Obsessed with consistency of seminal
discharge and loss of vitality. Sexual desire
increases if he takes meat and fish. Weak after
coition. Feels chilly.
He was brought up by grandparents,
strictly religious; his parents had quarrelled and
separated. Came away from home and worked
in Cloth mills, felt that workers were being
exploited etc. Amorous dreams from age 20
caused him much remorse. Guilty feeling and
being punished by God. Superstitious. Fixed
ideas. Married and did not get along with his
wife. Aggressive and violent outbursts. His
children do not have free communication with
him Zincum phosphoricum 200 at infrequent
intervals. Allround improvement.
112. Concientious Straight-forward
Industrialist: Aurum metallicum
A case of Osteo-myelitis
BARVE Rajesh (IJHM, 29,4/1994)
40-year-old male with non-healing ulcer
in the left tibia after an accident two months ago;
the wound did not heal inspite of secondary
sutures and a course of antibiotics. Offensive
pus oozed from the gaping ulcer. X -ray
confirmed Osteomyelitis of left tibia. Patient is
short, stout, soft-spoken and is an Industrialist.
Loves milk. Aversion to sour food. Sluggish
bowels. Occasional bleeding per rectum. Family
history of Diabetes and Hypertension. Described
as a "simple and straight- forward person"; hates
dirty games in business. Angry if any family
member goes against these principles. Father
came from a village and with his hard work built
up an Industry. Honest in his dealings. Loves
animals and would like to see them in their
natural habitat and not in cages.
Due to certain events he now feels
forsaken; spends his time analysing his past.
Aurum metallicum M, four powders were
prescribed for one day. Ulcer healed, and x-ray
showed sclerotic healed lesions. within a month.
113. A case of Thalassemia
DEVADIGA P.Y., SARDA Chetna
(IJHM, 29,4/1994)
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5 year-old-boy with fever since last 3
years, every two months. He keeps playing even
during fever. No chill or sweat. Bodyache,
fatigue, increased thirst for about half glass of
water every few minutes and intolerance of heat
in any form, during fever.
History of repeated attacks of upper
respiratory tract infection precipitated by
exposure to cold. A mild and reserved child.
Weeps when scolded, better by consolation.
Scared to face people. Craving for biscuits.
Scanty perspiration. Blue discoloration of gums.
Mild Splenomegaly. Both father and mother
showed positive for Thalassemia Screening
Test. Haemoglobin Electroporesis was carried
out for the patient and it revealed Thalassemia
and thus diagnosis confirmed. Plumbum
metallicum M four doses were given and
Mercurius, Cuprum, Bryonia, Pulsatilla
according to symptoms in-between. At the end
of four years he was asymptomatic and was on
placebo.
114. Perceiving Conscience Through
Repertorial Perspective
GORADIA Tarun (IJHM, 29,4/1994)
This is a brief study of the 'Conscience'
(Guilty feeling) rubrics: Anxiety of Conscience (K
6) ; Delusion, that he is a criminal (K 23);
Delusion, that he has neglected his duty (K 30);
Delusion, that he has neglected his duty and
deserves reproach (K 31); Fancies, he has done
wrong (K 45); Remorse (K 71); Conscientious
about trifles (K 16).
IV. REPERTORY
1. Analyse haufig konsultierter
Repertoriums - Rubriken (Analysis of
frequently consulted repertory rubrics)
TERLINDEN Michael (ACD, 2, 4/1993
and 3, 2/1994)
The rubric "External throat, collar,
clothing aggravates" in the KENT Repertory
was taken up for study. Also similar rubrics in
KNERR's Repertory of HERING's Guiding
Symptoms and BOGER's Boenninghausens
Characteristics and Repertory were studied.
The subrubrics were also analysed. There are
many remedies in the latter which are not found
in the former. The source material,
viz.Encyclopaedia, Pure Materia Medica,
Chronic Diseases, etc. were gone through and
many remedies that could be added to the rubric
came up. The gradation of the remedies have
also been examined.
2. Industrious: A Repertorial Journey
SHAH Rajesh (HTIMES, 1, 1/1994)
The study of Repertory is challenging
because every rubric that you study in the
repertory demands that you differentiate the
drugs given in that rubric; thus knowledge of the
Materia Medica improves. The rubric
'Industrious' is taken up for study is this article.
Tarentula, Sepia, Bryonia, Coffea, Drosera,
Stannum, Baryta carbonica have been
differentiated well. Interesting study.
3. Sympathy and Consolation
SHAH Rajesh (HTIMES, 1,2/1994)
In this article the rubrics 'Sympathy' and
'Consolation' are studied and differentiated
between the remedies.
4. Zur Quellenlage des "Therapeutischen
Taschenbuches" von
BONNINGHAUSEN (The source of
BOENNINGHAUSEN's Theapeutic
Pocket-Book)
WEGENER, A. (ZKH. 38, 4/1994)
Although Alumina is represented in
HAHNEMANN's Chronic Diseases with the
symptom 'Sadness', the remedy is not found
under this rubric in the Therapeutic Pocket
Book of BOENNINGHAUSEN. The author
explores the methodologies and rules adopted
by BOENNINGHAUSEN for entering remedies
under specific rubrics. The principle of the
Therapeutic Pocket Book is also explained.
5. Ankundigung einer neuen Bearbeitung
der vorhandenen Repertorien
(Announcement of a new compilation of
the available repertories)
von KELLER, G. (ZKH, 38,3/1994)
The author proposes to publish a 4
volume repertory which will be differently
arranged from the existing repertories. It will
contain the complete symptom - location,
sensation, modalities and concomitants. While
the location and sensation may be to some
extent well represented in the existing
repertories, the modalities and concomitants are
wanting. He has begun his work with 'Modalities'
and hopes in 4 or 5 years to complete the work.
6. Beitrag zu den Rubriken des grundlosen
und unwillkurlichen Weinens im
Repertorium KENTS (On the rubrics
"causeless weeping" and "weeping,
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KLUNKER, W. (ZKH, 38,5/1994)
Analyses KENT's rubrics "Weeping,
causeless" and "Weeping, involuntary". Limiting
the examination to the Encyclopaedia and
Guiding Symptoms the former rubric could
contain only the remedies bell., camph., graph.,
hura, kali-ar., kali- br., kali-c., kreos., Iyc., nat-
m., nit-ac., rhus-t., sep., staph., sulph., tarent.,
viol-o., zinc. The latter rubric (involuntary) is
superfluous, because all weeping is involuntary.
This small rubric with only 8 remedies is
identical with the general rubric "weeping".
7. Ein System fur Abkurzungen
homoopathischer Arzneinamen und
deren Anordnung in Verzeichnissen (A
system for the abbreviation of
homoeopathic remedy names and their
order in the index)
PATEL,R.P. (ZKH, 38,6/1994)
A system of abbreviations of remedy
names and their arrangement in order to these
abbreviations and not to their full names chiefly
in repertories is presented, as there are many
deficiencies.
8. Die Therapeutische Taschenkartei nach
BONNINGHAUSEN/BOGER (The
Therapeutic Pocket Cards following
BOENNINGHAUSEN/ BOGER)
DEUBELIUS Wolfgang & FUNK Elmar
W. (ACD, 3, 3/1994)
According to HAHNEMANN two things
are essential for "true" homoeopathic
physicians: the diligent study of the pure action
of medicines on the healthy persons and the
unprejudiced observation of all altered
symptoms and signs of the sick persons. Both
these required time and long, patient
experience, and there was no short -cut -either
in the form of tables or a system of quick
expositions. In this connection please refer to
HAHNEMANN's preface to Volume IV of his
Materia Medica Pura and also the relevant
paragraphs in the Organon (paras 83-90 as
also the foot-notes to paras 128-134)
.Homoeopathy is practical therapeutics. He also
warned of "theoretical therapeutics" and also
more so about the attempts to speculate about
the nature of the diseases or analysis of d
isease processes. T oday we see that in this
regard there are many homoeopaths who are
unable to keep off from these attempts and we
see books titled "Nature of the Remedies".
"Psyche and Substance" or "Essences of
homoeopathic remedies". How Hahnemannian
is KENT when in his lectures he talks about Will
and Understanding? Surely it is not
HAHNEMANN's spirit that is reflected in this.
And KENT's Repertory and now the Synthesis-
Repertorium with over 220000 additions, over
2000 remedies (the first KENT had 700
remedies). How many of these remedies have
been proved in the Hahnemannian sense? It is
all a question of Quality and not Quantity. The
Computer is a useful one in Quantity.
That homoeopathic repertories would
suffer with such deficiencies was well foreseen
by HAHNEMANN and von BOENNINGHAUSEN
as may be seen from the Preface to the
Therapeutic Pocket Book.
The Publisher Bernd yon der Leith of
Hamburg published a few years ago a Card
Repertory with the works ofvon
BOENNINGHAUSEN and BOGER.lt has two
parts totalling'1117 cards and has 270 remedies
- a very meagre number when compared with
"super repertories". However, after working with
this Card Repertory for three years in the daily
practice we can say that it is a big repertory with
regard to effectiveness.
Five cases worked with this Card
Repertory have been given which shows how
with only 3-5 cards one can reach the required
remedy.
9. How to Study Repertory
TARAFDAR (HH 19,7-12/1994)
A very brief study in each issue, of the
repertories of BOGER- BOENNINGHAUSEN,
KENT, PHATAK, SANKARAN's Pocket
repertory, BOERICKE's, SYNTHETIC
repertories.
10. Repertorisation - The Art of Selecting
RUEDI Hoppler (HL, 7,4/1994)
The Repertory can be used to have a
glimpse of a few rubrics, to just get an idea what
remedy one should consider or to exclude in the
case. One may of course also use it to do a
structured repertorisation. This becomes a must
in cases where Materia Medica knowledge
doesn't bring us any further; but also when we
use the .Gomputer to get one of these nice
outprints. -Dr.Jost KUNZLI has taught this art of
repertorisation, and Ruedi HOPPLER, one of his
students put together the steps and structure of
a proper repertorisation, illustrating it with case
examples.
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THE STEPS OF REPERTORISATION
Suppositions:
1. Medical diagnosis?
2. Acute or chronic ailment?
3. Living circumstances: Age, Social
position, Profession?
The steps:
1. The strange, rare and peculiar
(characteristic) signs and symptoms (§ 153)
relative to the three suppositions mentioned
must be selected (What is most striking? What is
outstanding?)
2. From these SRP-symptoms those are
to be chosen which are definite and clear
without 'its' and 'buts'. Assumptions and
interpretations are dangerous, may mislead.
3. Now weigh and order all these
peculiar, definite symptoms which characterise
and individualise the patient best. (See "Value
of Symptoms")
4. Now search for the corresponding
Rubrics in the Repertory. Always consider
cross-references and combine similar rubrics,
otherwise the remedy might be missed.
5. Study, compare and verify the
remedy in question in the Materia Medica, only
then should the remedy be chosen.
Important:
- The peculiarity of the individual must
be grasped.
- The patient will never show all the
symptoms of the remedy but the
remedy must cover all characteristic
symptoms of the patient.
Value of Symptoms:
1. General Symptoms:
- What influences the over-all condition,
- What concerns the patient as a whole
person, or
- What he experiences subjectively as a
whole person,
- What influences many (more than 3)
symptoms.
1.1 Mind (§ 211 )- often determining):
a. Emotional sphere (i.e.love, hatred,
rage, instincts, fears, imagination, worries,
sorrows, aversions, desires, relation to people,
life, death)
b. less important are intellectual power
and memory.
1.2 Modalities concerning the person
as a whole (temperature, weather, body
movement, body position, touch/pressure, time
of day,etc.)
1.3 Desires and Aversions (Food,
Drinks)
1.4 Sleep and Dreams
1.5 Sexual symptoms, (including
Menses)
1.6 Secretions/Excretions
2. Causation:
The causation and the individual
reaction to it are sometimes of high value.
3. Concomitant Symptoms
4. Local Symptoms:
Pronounced modalities of local
symptoms, which are contrary to the modalities
of general symptoms, can be very important, i.e.
Phosphorus generally asks for warmth but the
stomach does not tolerate warm food or dinks.
5. Pathognomonic Symptoms, Pathology.
Extrenely important §258: The
determining factor is the totality of the
characteristic symptoms.
11. i. Warts - A Repertory
TARKAS, P.I.
ii. Warts & condylomata - a Repertory
from DOUGLAS' Skin Diseases
iii. Rubrics for Warts in Kent's Repertory
WANI, Dyaneshwar R.
(NJH, 3,2/1994)
The titles are self-explanatory.
V. VETERINARY
1. Homeopatisk behandling av kor
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(Hom.oeopathic treatment of cattle)
JORGENFELT Chris (HLK,3,2/1994)
This article is based on a compendium
produced by the author for farmers. It includes
therapeutic treatment of a number of common
bovine ailments.
2. Veterinary, Materia Medica, and more -
Northeast Regional Study Group
Meeting
ISISON Eileen (HT, 14, 7/1994)
Ilse GARRIS spoke on Veterinary tips.
She spoke of the treatment of a cat who had
thrombosis of the femoral artery with Lachesis.
Treating animals is similar to humans, only you
must be more perceptive. Smell is important
because illness changes an animal's odor. Also,
notice changes in the animal's body language
and texture of the fur. Blood studies are also
useful since they can help you know what to
treat since the animal can't tell you the problem.
She also gives such tips as Cantharis
for Cystitis, Argentum nitricum for fears with
diarrhoea, etc.
Some ideas of some general breed
constitutional remedies.
German Shepherd - Lycopodium
Irish Setter - Calcarea
Greyhound - Silica.
Terriers - Nux vomica
Birds - Argentum nit. and Thuja
Horses - Arsenicum and Phosphorus
3. Dennie's Mystery Illness
LOWE Joan Scott (HT, 14,9/1994)
Dennie the 15-month-old cat which was
usually lively, with good thirst and appetite, was
found suddenly to be moping, anorexic and
thirstless; and tom cats suddenly appeared, and
hang around the house; whenever petted in the
behind Dennie arched her behind as if she might
be in heat. Aconite did not help and so she was
taken to a homoeopathic Vet, who gave besides
Aconite, Cantharis and Pyrogen to be
alternated, after tests for everything was found
negative. No improvement. She sat at the open
window and moped and refused all food.Now
Pulsatilla 200 was given and very rapid
improvement set in. The Vet. who had neutered
Dennie said that in his career he had seen two
neutered females go into heat; if even one cell of
the ovary was left behind, it could divide and
produce enough Progesterone. However, before
a blood test could be done on Dennie, she
became her normal self.
The simillimum does so many
wonders!
4. Blue Cross to Pay for Homoeopathic
Services
JACOBS Jennifer (HT, 14, 6/1994)
Blue Cross of Washington and Alaska
has recently announced a programme, that will
cover services from a select group of
homoeopathic and naturopathic physicians, as
well as acupuncturists. It is available to all
residents of Washington state and will be limited
to 1000 subscribers.
VI. PHARMACOLOGY
1. Are we using the Medicines Potentised
according to Hahnemannian Ways?
CHOWDHURY P.G. (NJH, 3,2/1994)
Dynamisation of the drug is one of the
basic principles of Homoeopathy. Is the
dynamisation now being followed according to
the method laid down by HAHNEMANN?
2. Do Biochemic Salts act as Placebos?
BANSAL V.P. (NJH, 3,2/1994)
In the homoeopathic Colleges much is
taught about the Biochemic salts and their
usage in Homoeopathic Practice. Is it right to
consider the Biochemic salts as homoeopathic
medicines? Dr. BANSAL and Dr. RANA qive
their views.
VII. RESEARCH
1. A double-blind randomized placebo
controlled study of Cholera treatment
with highly diluted and succussed
solutions
GAUCHER C., JEULIN D, PEYCRU P.,
AMENGUAI C. (BHJ, 83, 3/1994)
A pilot study of homoeopathic treatment
of Cholera during an epidemic in Peru appeared
to show that it was effective. A subsequent
double blind study showed no difference
between active homoeopathic treatment and
placebo treatment. Various technical problems
were encountered. (This only shows the
purposelessness of 'double blind' studies insofar
as Homoeopathic medicine is concerned = KSS)
2. Critical evaluation of papers reviewing
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controlled clinical trials in Homoeopathy
LlNDE K., MELCHART D.,
BRANDMAIER R., EITEL P. (BHJ, 83,
3/1994)
An analysis was made of papers
reviewing controlled clinical trials designed to
assess the efficacy of homoeopathic treatment
strategies, the aim being to demonstrate
selective and critical assessment of such
papers. The papers were systematically
collected and evaluated for content and quality
using predefined criteria, finally comparing the
results. 9 of 41 papers considered in detail after
screening the literature met the criteria for
inclusion in the analysis. Each considered
between 22 and 107 trials. 7 papers met 2 or
less of the predefined quality criteria, one met 5
and one 8 criteria. Only 1 of the papers allowed
full representation and reproducible evaluation
of treatment strategies for the controlled clinical
studies considered in that paper. The analysis
has shown that review papers must clearly
specify issues, objectives, methods of literature
screening and qualityassessment.
3. A pilot statistical study with
homoeopathic potencies of Arsenicum
album in wheat germination as a simple
model
BETTI L., BRIZZI M., NANI D.,
PERUZZI M. (BHJ,83, 4/1994)
A blind, randomized laboratory trial to
study homoeopathic potencies of Arsenicum
album on wheat germination is proposed as a
simple model which allows a rigorous statistical
analysis. The parametric tests show that the
differences between the treatment groups
cannot be explained as a mere effect of intrinsic
seed variability.
4. Viscum album preparations inhibit DNA
methylation by preventing DNA
methyltransferase-induced methyl group
transfer.
DEFilE J., lWIERS A., PALS G., KIPP
J.B.A. ERIKSSON A. W. (BHJ 83,4/1994)
Interactions between Viscum album
(Iscador) and DNA sera studied by amplification
of specific human pepsinogen A gene promoter
sequences by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Gel retardation assays showed no binding of
Viscum album to these promoter sequences. I
ncubation of plasmid constructs consisting of
human pepsigen A promoter fragments coupled
to the chloramphenical acetyltransferase (CAT)
reporter gene with Iscador had no effect on
transcriptional activity. Promoter sequences
incubated with Iscador became insensitive to
methylation by specific DNA methyltransferases
by destruction of DNA methyltransferase activity.
5. Effect of homoeopathic treatment on
Filariasis - A single blind 69 months
follow-up study in an endemic village in
Orissa
KUMAR Anil, MISHRA N. (BHJ, 83,
4/1994)
A single blind follow-up study was
undertaken to assess the effect of homoeopathic
treatment on microfilarial clearance and
frequency of filarial fevers in an endemic village
in India. Homoeopathic treatment effectively
reduced the frequency of filarial fevers by 20%
among amicrofilaraemic cases with a higher
reduction in cases with genital involvement
(36%) and mastitis (57%). However, among
asymptomatic microfilaraemia cases, the
frequency of filarial fever (attack) had doubled
following treatment. There was no additional
effect on microfilaria clearance in asymptomatic
carriers.
6. Enuresis and its homoeopathic
treatment - Study of 20 cases treated
with Ilex paraguensis
CORTINA Jorge (BHJ, 83, 4/1994)
20 children with Enuresis were treated
in an open trial with Ilex paraguensis (mate tea).
The treatment lasted 2 months. The results were
complete disappearance of the Enuresis and
improvement of psychological symptoms in
50%. 10% of the patients improved at the start
of the treatment but relapsed. 40% did not
respond to treatment. The medicine was given in
6x for the first month and then 6c for another
fortnight.
Ilex paraguensis is a tree native to
South America - Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and
Argentina.
The tree grows to a height of 6 - 7
metres. The alkaloid mateine has the properties
of Caffeine without its disadvantages. Dr. A.
LANCASTER states that the use of mate as an
alimentary drink should be encouraged since the
chemical analyses show this plant to have
almost twice the Caffeine content of Coffee. The
celebrated novelist Alexander DUMAS was also
a proponent, asserting that he took nothing more
than mate with his meals and his dyspepsia
disappeared.
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In the present investigation the mental
picture of the drug presented the following
important features: Depression, exaggerated
reflexes, anxiety, lack of concentration,
irritability,sleepiness, aggressiveness, mental
and physical restlessness, talkativeness and
taciturnity.
7. Future Directions in Homoeopathic
Research
JACOBS Jennifer (JAIH, 87, 3/1994)
Homoeopathic research is important
both to demonstrate the efficacy of
homoeopathic medicines as well as to improve
the practice of Homoeopathy. Three main areas
of homoeopathic research are discussed: basic
science, clinical, and epidemiological.
Suggestions for research in each of these areas
are made.
VIII. BIOGRAPHY
1. Professor William BOERICKE
LEWIS Joe A. (HH,19,7/1994)
A brief life-sketch of Dr. Wiliam
BOERICKE
2. Great Masters: Dr.M.W.HOLCOMBE
CHAUDHARY Pran Gobind (NJH,
3,2/1994)
A brief article edited from “The Truth
about Homoeopathy and how I became a
Homoeopathl! by Dr.M.W.HOLCOMBE.
3. E.A.FARRINGTON
FARRINGTON Harvey (mfh,
5,1&2/1994)
In this two part article which is an
extension of an earlier article on the life of the
great homoeopath Dr.E.A.FARRINGTON,
extensive quotations from Dr.E.A.FARRINGTON
are given. Very intersting indeed.
4. Dr.N.M.JAISOORYA, M.D.
LAKSHMINARAYANAN D. (mfh,
5,2/1994)
This is a beautiful tribute to the 'many
splendoured life' of Dr.N.M.JAISOORYA,M.D.
(1899-1964). The author writes with first-hand
knowledge of this great personality, Physician,
Parliamentarian, Trade-unionist, and
Homoeopath. From the day he got converted to
Homoeopathy, he never wrote a single
allopathic prescription, but if he failed in a case
he admitted it to his patients and advised them
to try any other therapy of their choice. He never
kept any secrets but allowed even the raw
homoeooath to witness his work and dis~tJSS
with him "It was even said that when he was
paid a four-figure cheque by a VIP family who
had flown him to Madras to visit a terminally ill
patient, he returned the cheque with the
observation, 'I take fees for treating the living
and not the dead'. I was an eye-witness to a
remark he made to another physician whose son
was seen by him in consultation. The physician
offered fees. Dr.JAISOORYA's words still ring in
my ears 'Dog doesn't eat dog, take back the
fees doctor'!"
IX. HISTORY
1. American Medicine: Where We've Been
and Where We're Going.
COUlTER Harris l. (JAIH, 87,3/1994)
This is a paper presented at the 150th
Anniversary celebrations of the AIH, 1994.
In this presentation Dr. COUlTER
contrasts Empirical Medicine, of which
Homoeopathy is a part, with Rationalistic
medicine, the culmination of which is modern
Allopathy. He then details the history of the split
that occurred in American Medicine in the 1830s
which eventually led to the organization of the
AIH in 1844 and the AMA in 1846. The rise and
later decline of Homoeopathy within the United
States is discussed. A most important factor in
the near demise of Homoeopathy in this country
proved to be the desire of Raationalist
homoeopaths--those using Homoeopathy
according to the prevailing allopathic mode--to
join the ranks of the AMA. From 1903 to the
1960s Allopathy flourished, but in the 1960s the
alternative medicine movement began to grow
and has since gained considerable momentum.
Once again the Empiricist-Rationalist dichotomy
is manifest. Dr. COUlTER goes on to identify
examples of Empiricist trends within modern
allopathic Rationalism, specifically in the fields of
Immunology and Pharmacology. Especially
interesting are his illustrations of the
homoeopathic genesis of preventive and
therapeutic immunizations. He closes with the
conclusion that Empiricism and Rationalism
cannot be reconciled. Our task as homoeopaths,
therefore, is to facilitate Homoeopathy's growth.
In the 1 9th century our disastrous error was in
letting the gulf between hahnemannian and non-
hahnemannian practitioners too wide, resulting
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in excessive antagonism between the two
groups. We must be certain that we avoid such
an error in the future. Dr. COUlTER calls on us
to weaken the political and institutional power of
Allopathy by working toward the passage of
more liberal medical practice acts in each State.
2. Endangered Species
PANOS Maesimund (JAIH, 87,3/1994)
Dr.PANOS speaks of her introduction to
medicine and Homoeopathy, of her
apprenticeship with Dr.Julia GREEN, and of her
homoeopathic practice and teaching duties. It is
very intersting to read that she had the privillege
to know stalwarts like Arthur H.GRIMMER, Allen
D.SUTHERLAND, William A.BOYSON, T
.K.MOORE, Wilbur BOND, Juila Minerva
GREEN (with whom she studied), Edward
C.WHITMONT, etc. Dr.PANOS' father and
grand-father, her uncle were all homoeopaths.
She affords us a perspective on what it was like
to practise when there were so very few
homoeopathic physicians holding the fort, and
when doctors engaged in a more personal and
informed style of medicine. She speaks of the
present day"defensive medicine" and that the
family physician is the "Endangered species"
and that may be it is the patient who is now
"endangered"!
3. Reflections on Fifty Years of
Homoeopathy NEISWANDER Allen
(JAIH, 87,3/1994)
Dr.NEISWANDER reviews the
fascinating history of Homoeopathy abroad
and in the United States with Special focus on
the momentous political developments that so
greatly influenced our ability to practise
Homoeopathy now and the staunch
homoeopathic physicians who gave unselfishly
of their time and energy to assure the survival
and growth of Homoeopathy in the USA.
4. Excerpts from the History of
Homoeopathy and its Institutions in
America (HH, 19, 7-12/1994)
The Homoeopathic Heritage has been
publishing "excerpts" under the above title since
last two years and with the December 1994
issue have covered 30 parts.
X. GENERAL
1. Neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse
und ihre Bedeutung fur die Klassische
Homoopathie (New scientific knowledge
and their significance to Homoeopathy)
FURLENMEIER, M. (ZKH, 38, 4/1994)
The author refers to paradigm shift; from
part to the whole, structure to process, objective
to "epistemic" science, discussed by Fritjof
CAPRA in his book The Turning Point. In 1996
it will be 200 years since the Principles of
Homoeopathy was born. In these two hundred
years the principles of Homoeopathy have
proved to be the ideas that point the way ahead.
Nevertheless Homoeopathy must keep itself
open for further progress in accordance with
new facts and findings.
2. Von manuellem zu maschinellem
Potenzieren: Geschichte und
Entwicklung von Potenziermaschinen
(From manual to machine potentization:
History and Development of Potentizing
machines)
GRIMM, A. (ZKH, 38, 5/1994)
The development of potentizing
machines is investigated from the first ideas to
their construction.HAHNEMANN (1755-1843)
has only made a brief reference in one place
about machine potentising (footnote to § 270
Organon VI edn.) The author examines what
HAHNEMANN, BONNINGHAUSEN (1785-1864)
and HERING (1800-1880) opined about
machine potentization. He goes on to detail the
history of machine potentization and deals with
nine inventors of such machines and their
processes (succussion/fluxion). In this Benoit
MURE (1809-1858), Carrol DUNHAM (1828-
1877), Bernhard FINCKE (1821-1893), Henry
C.AllEN (1825-1906), James Tyler KENT (1849-
1916) are mentioned. That machine potentised
remedies were widely used successfully is also
cited.
3. Samuel HAHNEMANN und Beziehung
zwischen Homoopathie und
Mesmerismus (Samuel HAHNEMANN
and the relationship between
Homoeopathy and Mesmerism)
EPPENICH, H. (ZKH, 38,4/1994)
Starting with a hitherto unpublished
manuscript of HAHNEMANN the author shows
that the founder of Homoeopathy considered
Mesmerism as a method of treatment equally
entitled to Homoeopathy, though other
contemporary homoeopaths tried to classify
mesmerism as a homoeopathic remedy. The
combination of Homoeopathy and Mesmerism
was for HAHNEMANN the most accomplished
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4. The Periodic Table, Central Mind
Symptoms, Chemical Properties & Uses
ANDREWS Mike (Homoeopath,
54/1994)
The Periodic Table was originally
formulated in 1869 by MENDElEYEV, according
to the.atomic weights of the elements. Rajan
SANKARN stimulated the interest in the study of
the Periodic Table and understanding the
homoeopathic remedies on that basis. This is
used more in understanding of the compound
remedies. Remedies can be understood in their
relationship to the other elements. Just as
remedies are studied as Plant remedies and the
relationship of the plants, study of remed ies in
groups, etc. the Periodic Table helps
understanding of the Elements in their own state
and in their compound state and their
relationship. (Read Dr.Rajan SANKARAN's The
Substance of Homoeopathy).
5. The Periodic Table
HOl T Helen (The Homoeopath,
54/1994)
This article briefly makes one
acquainted with the 'Periodic Table'. Attention is
drawn to Dr. Rajan SANKARAN and Jan
SCHOlTEN and their work in this regard.
6. Need Homoeopathy be a Science?
CASSAM Amir (The Homoeopath,
54/1994)
There have been several articles in the
past on this subject ('Is Medicine a Science', 'Is
Homoeopathy a Science', 'Is Homoeopathy a
Science or Art', 'The Scientifictiy of
Homoeopathy', etc.) Several writers, very well
qualified in the Sciences, have 'researched' on
the bio-medical models (double-blind, cross -
over, et al.) to prove that Homoeopathy is a
'Science'. Somehow all these authors have been
trying to 'fit' Homoeopathy into 'Science'.
The author in this article therefore rightly
raises the question whether Homoeopathy need
be a Sience. He also brings evidences from
such scholdars as Paul FEYARABEND, Ashis
NANDY, Fritjof CAPRA to understand as to what
'science' actually is.
7. Towards a Research & Development
Strategy for Complementary Medicine
St.GEORGE David (The Homoeopath,
54/1994)
Complementary Medicines cannot fit
into the bio-medical paradigm and therefore
researches in complementary medicines which
transcend the view of life as mere molecules,
have to follow the new paradigm evolved in the
second half of this century. Intra professional
research will improve and strengthen the
complementary medicine's ability to meet the
needs of the patients who consult
complementary practitioners. The time has
come for complementary medicine to turn away
from the need to obtain legitimacy from orthodox
medicine.
8. The Responsibility for Healing: The
Patient and The Practitioner COOPER
Guy (The Homoeopath, 54/1994)
Homoeopathy helps persons to heal
themselves by stimulating the individual's own
Vital Force. This makes the patient responsible
for his/her healthy state.
The author has drawn inspiration from
Dr.Rajan SANKARAN and Edward WHITMONT.
While we help one to heal oneself, the healer
has to heal his wounds also, deal with his own
delusions. The healer may also cause wound.
9. Full of soul SOBOL Serena (The
Homoeopath, 54/1994)
With the help of Depth Psychology, the
author concludes that Homoeopathy Practice is
'full of soul'.
10. Dedication and Professional
Homoeopathy
WHITNEY Jerome (The Homoeopath,
54/1994)
The history of Homoeopathy in the USA
and Britain is mentioned. It was the non-medical
people who spread Homoeopathy in USA until
medically qualified 'doctors' were found. In
Britain the Institute of Homoeopathy was formed
in 1946, of truly professional homoeopaths. I n
1970 a small group of non-doctor homoeopaths
joined together and founded the Society of
Homoeopaths and this has progressed and has
been responsible for the spread of quality
Homoeopathy in the U.K.
Homoeopathy has now to face two
materialistic challenges, from two directions:
From without: the materialism inherent in the
Common Market. Technical directives to control
all aspects of human activity in order to create a
homogenised consumer base. From within: The
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desire for status, as many homoeopaths yearn
to be accepted by and as doctors, by having
letters and degrees after their names.
What is needed is to keep the spirit of
Homoeopathy alive, to keep our vision focussed
on Homoeopathy, as the story of the evolution of
professionalism, not for certification as a medical
technology, but as dedication to the principles of
healing.
The author rightly recalls that it was
dedication that motivated lay homoeopaths to
teach Homoeopathy in homes during the blitz
and to hold classes after the war when all of
society became transfixed by the apparent
miracles of antibiotic medicine. The era of the
doctor-dominated Homoeopathy was
symbolically signalled by the tragic Trident plane
crash in 1972, and non-doctor homoeopaths
rose to provide the growing need for
professional homoeopaths.
As long as we are led by dedication to
the spirit of Homoeopathy, and not the minimum
materialistic needs of performance, then the
golden age will continue.
11. Describing and improving Homoeopathy
- Use of systematic data collection
VAN HASELEN R. (BHJ, 83,3/1994)
Large scale data collection combined
with modern information technology is a
powerful tool to evaluate the efficacy and safety
of Homoeopathy. It also has great potential to
improve homoeopathic practice. Data collection
has not been widely used in Homoeopathy. This
appears to be due to the clumsiness of the
methodology and the perception that it is of little
value to daily practice. 3 protocols addressing
different aspects of this issue are presented.
- A proposal to establish common basic
data collection methodology for homoeopaths
throughout Europe.
- A systematic survey of the results of
homoeopathic treatment of patients with
Rheumatioid Arthritis judging by the
improvement in the quality of life and objective
assessments.
- Verification of a set of the results of
homoeopathic prescribing features for Rhus
toxicodendron.
These proposals are designed to be
'user-friendly' and to provide practical
information relevant to daily homoeopathic
practice.
12. The perennial challenge of anomalies at
the frontiers of science
RUBIK Beverley (BHJ, 83, 3/1994)
The history of science is full of rejections
of novel discoveries that challenged the
dominant paradigm. The reasons for rejection on
the part of the scientific community are
discussed. Nonetheless, scientific anomalies are
crucial to promoting continuous scientific
innovation and breakthroughs. The most
challenging anomalies are recongnized only
after a reasoned explanation has been offered
and accepted. Many of these anomalies come
from the 'frontier sciences', areas of scientific
inquiry that are not yet mainstream. The
extraordinary obstacles that frontier scientists
face are elaborated. In the light of this,
strategies are offered toward progress,
particularly for research in Homoeopathy and
low dose bio-effects.
Several frontier areas of research in
biology and medicine relate to the subtler
features of life that seem to defy explanation by
conventional molecular mechanism. Frontier
scientists working in the areas of consciousness
studies, epigenetic inheritance, certain topics in
bio-electromagnetics, and Homoeopathy and
other low dose bio-effects offer science the gift
of new questions that go beyond the dominant
paradigm of mechanical reductionism. Often
regarded as isolated anomalies by the
mainstream, the results of their investigations
taken collectively show the need for a larger
paradigm to accommodate them. Biology
appears to be entering a crisis. Whereas
conventional science maintains that biological
information is stored and manifested via
biomolecular structures such as DNA, the novel
frontier findings suggest that other informational
signals not attributable to discrete chemical
structures may elicit biological effects. These
signals may be interacting with a more subtle
bioregulatory system that is a property of the
whole organism, such as its endogenous
electromagnetice field.
13. Homeoindex New computerized
bibliographical database of
homoeopathic literature
MESQUITAA., MARTINSC.C.,
CEPEDAL.M.R. (BHJ, 83,4/1994)
Homeoindex is a bibliographic
database in which everything published in the
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field of Homoeopathy is progressively filed. The
methods adopted are those used by major
international medical databases (MEDLINE,
LILACS), allowing data exchange.
Homeoindex radically changes the
situation for dissemination, study, preservation
and research of homoeopathic works. It takes
Homoeopathy out of an archaic phase when
work was inaccessible and fragmented and into
the modern era.
The developmet of this work included
some unique achievements:
Introduction of Homoeopathy as
recognized literature in international institutions
- Adoption of homomopathic terms (key-
words) in official Latin American medical
catalogues
- Creation of a Latin American reference
centre, for cataloguing and
disseminating homoeopathic literature
- The introduction of homoeopathic
papers to international medical
database.(Readers' attention is invited
to the fact that the Quarterly
Homoeopathic Digest -QHD -has been
doing similar service since some years
although not on computer databse; the
QHD has quite a vast 'Index' and what is
more, also abstracts/summaries.
Unfortunately the subscribers for this
unique literature are far too few. = KSS)
14. The Future of Homoeopathy in the
American Health Care System
CHAPMAN Edward (JAIH, 87,3/1994)
In this far-ranging review of the state of
Homoeopathy in the United States, Dr.
CHAPMAN comments upon the impact a
national health care plan could have on us, our
relationship with other homoeopathic
professionals, directions for future homoeopathic
medical education, and the controversial topic of
certification and licensure of non-medically
qualified practitioners. He shares his vision of
the future and the choices we must make.
15. Who Needs the A.I.H. ?/ A Brief Pep
Talk.
MOSKOWITZ Richard (JAIH,
87,4/1994)
Dr. MOSKOWITZ speaks of the role the
medical and Osteopathic physicians in the AI H
can play in facilitating communication with the
non-homoeopathic colleagues and the general
public. By developing a rapport with these
colleagues and establishing a common
language to explain our unique perspective on
health and disease we could eventually
profundly influence the course of medicine and
medical research. He also suggests that all
homoeopaths of whatever stripe disrgard our
philosophical and methodological differences
and unite on the basis of our shared ethics
pertaining to our very special relationship with
our patients.
16. Fads, Trends, and Dogma
Underminining the Quality of The
Practice of Homoeopathy in America
SAINE Andre (JAIH, 87,4/1994)
This is a very interesting presentation.
The development of homoeopathic therapeutics
right from its inception, and in the process the
teachings of the many famous figures are
considered: BOENNINGHAUSEN, KENT,
H.C.ALLEN, LlPPE, HERING, PASCHERO,
PIERRE SCHMIDT, SWAN, SCHUSSLER,
BACH, HUGHES, etc. He differentiates the
'opinions' from 'factual'. He also points out
certain contradictions in HERING's Law, the
Miasms. The importance of understanding the
genuine Provings and the verification by cures,
is stressed. He also says that many Materia
Medicas that have been appearing recently are
non-Hahnemannian. A scholarly presentation.
17. The Tissue Remedies their Minuteness
MANNA P.K. (HH,19,8/1994)
This is a very brief essay on the Tissue
Remedies.
18. Yogic Thought in Homoeopathic
Principles and my Personal Experiences
BIHARI Golok (HH, 19,8/1994)
Both Yoga and homoeopathy target tha
Prana. The author suggests that every Yoga
institution maintain a homoeopathic doctor too.
19. Scope of Surrogate in Homoeopathy
SARKAR Soumitra (HH,19,8/1994)
There can be no 'surrogate' medicine in
Homoeopathy, only the only medicine would be
the similimum.
20. The Mythology of Modern Medicine - IV
KOTHARI Manu V.L., MEHTA Lopa A.
(mfh,5,2/1994)
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The authors, in their characteristic
manner, dispel the myth of HIV virus causing
AIDS. Exhaustive references have been given.
The pun: HIV - Heuristically Important Virus;
AIDS - Advances Induced Deficiency
Syndromes, tell what the article will reveal. To
be read and pondered over, byeveryone
particularly the homoeopaths.
21. Where is Science in the Medical
Establishment?
LAKSHMINARAYANAN D. (mfh,
5,2,/1994)
"This question applies mostly to the
orthodox medical practitioners, their civil, military
and research wings in colleges, laboratories and
includes the individual lone shark intent on
research. It applies with equal validity to the
modern breed of homoeopaths, some of them
messiahs of individualised brand of
homoeopathy, the itinerant preachers spreading
their gospel across the continents. "Some two
years ago xeroxed copies of my article on the
futility of the modern methods of scientific
assessment of the validity of homoeopathic
immunisation were sent by an American friend
to about a dozen leading names in the US
homoeopathic scene with a request to offer
comments. This article proposed the revival of
an earlier aborted study, scientific, approved and
irrefutable…… All that my article elicited was a
thundering collective silence. This bunch of
people selected, included at least one name with
strong anti-immunising views, expressed in
writing in a book, highly priced and reviewed by
many modern homoeopathic journals."
Dr. LAKSHMINARAYANAN proceeds to
quote Dr. Elizabeth Wright HUBBARD regarding
her futile attempts to make the American
Medical establishments carry out some simple
test "of great importance to mankind" i.e., a test
that would help find out as to who is susceptible
to polio and who is not - and thus eliminate the
mass immunisation.
XI. BOOKS
1. Tinnitus -Ganzheitlich behandelt mit
Homoopathie und Akupunktur (Tinnitus -
wholistically treated with Homoeopathy and
Acupuncture), T.ALTROCK, 371 pp. Karl
F.Haug Verlag, Heidelberg 1993, DM 98, -
(German) reviewed by A. WEGENER (ZKH,
38,3/1994): "The authoress has dedicated
herself in the recent years to the treatment of
Tinnitus patients and writes her experiences in
this book. She could heal most of the patients
with a combination of Homoeopathy and
Acupuncture... What is remarkable is that in
more than 50% of the cases dental amalgam
has been found to be the main cause of the
tinnitus The best success seem to have come
from a combination of Ear-acupuncture and
Homoeopathy."
2. Homooquest -- Lernkarten
(Homoeoquest - Study cards), A.HOLLING,
1500 karten. HomooMedia- Verlag, Munster
1994 DM 199,- (German) reviewed by A.
WEGENER (ZKH, 38, 3/1994): "1,500 record
cards in DIN A7 format with a question on one
side and the answer on the other. 1000 cards
sub-divided as beginners and advanced cover
the well- known material from the Materia
Medica of NASH and 500 cards trains for
repertorisation. Warmly recommended as
learning material for learning the Materia Medica
and Repertory."
3. Homoopathische Behandlung Ihres
Kindes (Homoeopathic treatment of your
child), by I. PLATTNER, J. GRATZ.
Fragebogen 16 S. Vertrieb A.Gratz. Starnberg
1993 DM 5, - .(German) reviewed by A.
WEGENER (ZKH, 38,3/1994: "In 16 pages all
the questions required for obtaining information
necessary for treating children have been
thoroughly dealt with..."
4. Die homoopathische Praxis
(Homoeopathic Practice) by W. OUlLISCH. 4.
unverand. Aufl. 192 S., kart., Hippokrates,
Stuttgart 1993, DM 48, (German) reviewed by
A. WEGENER: (ZKH, 38, 3/1994) "In his book
which appeared first in 1955 QUlLISCH helps
the beginner to learn the 'Leaders' for
homoeopathic practice. Alphabetically arranged
the frequently met with diagnoses and their
remedies with differential diagnosis of the
leading symptoms, have been given... The book
can be therefore recommended despite
somewhat high price."
5. Zu Zeiten Hahnemanns (The Times of
Hahnemann), H.SPEISER, 209,S., 16 Abb.,
Kart., Selbstverlag. Goppingen 1993, DM 45,
(German) reviewed by GENNEPER (ZKH, 38,
3/1994): "The development of a man cannot be
dissociated from the historical, political, and
cultural milieu with which he is connected. In the
accompanying factors in the life of S.
HAHNEMANN, the author endeavours to have
glimpses of the beacon lights in the important
developments around the world. ...an interesting
and well written book in which flow of the writing
is marred by countless errors of punctuation
which should not be in a self-publication."
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6. Ischias-Repertorium (Repertory of
Sciatica) by F. WITZIG, 113 S., Barthel &
Barthel Verlag, Sch8ftlarn 1993, DM 38, -
(German) reviewed by A. WEGENER (ZKH, 38
3/1994) "The author has expanded the Kent's
Repertory with reference to the rubrics for
sciatica, from various old and new sources and
made it more complete. It has so much material
that out of one rubric a whole booklet could be
had..."
7. Documenta Homoeopathica, Bd. 13,
DORCSI, M., SWOBODA, F. (Hrsg.) 260 S.,
Verlag Wilhelm Maudrich, Wien 1993, DM
115. -(German) reviewed by GENNEPER
(ZKH, 38, 4/1994): "As in the earlier years, the
editors of the "Documenta Homoeopathica"
have been successful in bringing about a book
with contributions representing different streams
in Homoeopathy. The essay of J. BAUR
"Allgemeine Prinzipien der homoopathischen
Anamnese" (General principles of homoeopathic
anamnesis) and F. DELLMOUR's "Die
Entwicklung der Potenzierung bei Samuel
Hahnemann" (Evolution of Hahnemann's
potentization) may be regarded as the
connecting link; both are very interesting.
Homoeopathic history, Cases and Materia
Medica are the further main articles..."
8. Unsere Katze - gesund durch
Homoopathie (Our Cats - health with
Homoeopathy), H.G. WOLFF, 6 Aufl. 160 S.,
Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart 1994 DM 29, -
(German), review by KLUNKER (ZKH, 38,
4/1994): Very highly recommended.
9. Homoopathie in der Sportsmedizin
(Homoeopathy in Sports Medicine),
REUTER,H., 184 S., geb., Sonntag Verlag,
Stuttgart 1994, DM 54, - (German) reviewed
by GENNEPER (ZKH, 38, 4/1994): "...In view of
the therapeutically interesting sections this is a
practical book for every homoeopathic
practiitioner."
10. Homoopathie und Schulmedizin. Zur
Soziologie eines Konflikts. (Homoeopathy
and the Orthodox Medicine. On the sociology
of a Conflict, R. TWENHOFEL 102 S., Karl F.
Haug Verlag, Heidelberg 1994, DM 34,80.
(German), review by KLUNKER (ZKH, 38,
4/1994): "The conflict between the Orthodox
medicine and Homoeopathy has been carried on
between the parties since 200 years indeed, but
no attempt has been made to examine it against
a sociological background... Overall the author
appears to have succeeded..."
11. Marihuana - The Forbidden Medicine by
L. GRINSPOON, J.B. BAKALAR, 185,pp. Yale
University Press, New Haven, London 1993 £
15.95 reviewed by APPELL, (A HZ, 239,
4/1994): Upto the 19th century the healing
power of Cannabis indica and Cannabis sativa
was known to be valuable and HAHNEMANN in
his Materia Medica Pura detailed the many
diseases in which the juice of Hemp could be
used with success. For various reasons however
Marihuana was not only incriminated as
hallucinogenic drug but also as a curative
remedy - even as a homoeopathic medicine
although the high potencies do not, according to
the licensing authorities, manifest any action.
When now a reputed American University
publication comes to verify the restrictive status
against Cannabis with the examples selected
well-documented patient protocols and refers to
therapeutic needs, it cannot be without
significance to Homoeopathy... The indications
listed by the authors include among others, the
sicknesses from Chemotherapy, chronic pains,
Migraine, Insomnia, Glaucoma and Epilepsy...
An important book..."
12. Uber die Verborgenheit der
Gesundheit, (On the Secrets of Health) H. - G.
GADAMER, 215 S., geb., Suhrkamp Verlag,
Frankfurt 1993. DM 22, 80 -, (German)
reviewed by APPELL (A HZ, 239, 4/1994):
"...Hans-Georg GADAMER, the nestor of
German Philosophers expounds in many essays
and lectures on the theme of Health and
Disease. Reading his reflections will soon make
us wise that the daily intimate acquaintance with
disease has blocked our view what health could
be, that health is found hiding in the inner
harmony or better again will be achieved. Thus
considered, the question is what proper cure is,
a newdeeperdimension, which every therapist
should apply daily. ..."
13. Zwischen Feuer und Wasser.
Gestalten und Prozesse in Mineralreich.
(Between Fire and Water. Forms and
Processes in Mineral kingdom),
WIMMANAUER, W. 312 S. 144 meist farb.
Abb. 93 Zeichn., Verlag Urachaus, Stuttgart
1992, DM 88, - (German). reviewed by
APPELL (A HZ, 239, 5/1994): "The
understanding of Nature has come closer due to
the researches in recent years. From simple
signature theory, free associations, archetypes,
to literary remedy portraits. Not only for example
from GUTMANN, WHITMONT who found much
which have been added to our knowledge of
remedies. The lack of further knowledge about
mineral remedies could be filled in by this book
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by WOLFGANG WIMMENAUER..."
14. Homoopathische Reisefibel. Ein
Begleiter Fur unbeschwertes Reisen.
(Homoeopathic Primer for Travel. A Guide for
easy travel), N. ENDERS, 138 s., brosch. Karl
F.Haug Verlag, Heidelberg 1992, DM 24, 80.
(German) review by BERGHOF (A HZ, 239,
6/1994) : The author, a homoeopathic physician
from the Vienna School has put together a
complete homoeopathic travel medical
pharmacy. The author has rightly said that the
book cannot be used without knowledge and
understanding of the principles of Homoeopathy.
15. Homoothera pie psychiatrischer und
psychosomatischer Erkrankungern. Ein
klinisch-homoopathisches Kompendium.
(Homoeotherapy of the psychiatricaly and
psychosomatically sick. A Compendium of
clinical Homoeopathy), GAISBAUER, M., 2.
Aufl. 179 S., kart., Sonntag-Verlag, Stuttgart
1992, DM 44, - (German) review by BERGHOF
(A HZ, 239, 6/1994): The author, Chief of
Wholisitic and Nature therapy Clinic in
Hohenkirchen, Munich has placed before us a
compendium on the therapeutic possibilities of
Homoeopathy in the Psychiatric and
Psychosomatic ailments.... A compendium
which can handle in only 173 pages such a
complex and specialty subject can only give
guidelines for the remedy and the authour rightly
says that the choice must be the medicine
indicated on the totality "
16. The Homeopathic Emergency Guide,
Thomas KRUZEL, ND. Berkeley, California,
North Atlantic Books and Homeopathic
Educational Services, 1993 ISBN 1-55643-13-
6. $16.95. reviewed by Andrea J. PEISER
(BHJ, 83,3/1994): "... Conditions are listed in
alphabetical order, and for each there is a brief
description, followed by an indication of what
constitutles an emergency or requires a doctor's
evaluation ...The book, then, is best viewed as a
tool. In the right hands it can be a useful quick
reference guide, a memory jogger rather than
fundamental source, whereas in the wrong
hands harm could be done "
17. Temas de Investigacion en
Homeopatia. Jacques BENVENISTE and
Josefina SANCHEZ RESEINZ. Mexico:
Propulsora de Homeopathia S.A. Pp.151.
Pesetas 3,500. reviewed by Louisa QUERALT
.(BHJ, 83,3/1994) : "This is the only book I have
come across which treats research in
Homoeopathy in modern terms The book views
several scientific investigations of homoeopathic
medicines in animals, provings and clinical trials
Publications of this kind have previously only
appeared in jounals. I recommend this book to
all homoeopathic physiGians, and also members
of the medical profession who are intersted in
the therapeutic method called Homoeopathy but
do not practise it. To sum up, the book is a
useful contribution to be included in the data
base on scientific research in Homoeopathy."
18. Homoeopathy for Pregnagncy and
Nursing Mothers ISBN 0946670 17 X.
Homoeopathy for Babies and Children ISBN
0946670 15 3. Both books by Trevor SMITH.
Worthing: Insight Editions. £6.95 each.
reviewed by Christina SCOTT MONCRIEF
(BHJ, 83, 3/1994): " Both these books can be
safely recommended as guides to self-
medication as the author clearly limits what can
be safely tackled by parents without medical
knowledge " .
19. Mental Symptoms in Homoeopathy,
Luis DETINIS, MD. Clinical Professor at the
Argentine School of Homoeopathic Medicine.
Translated by J.N. CHURCHILL. Beaconsfield
ISBN 0-90584-34-5. reviewed by
J.M.ENGLISH (BHJ, 83,4/1994): "Although
Homoeopathy flourishes in Argentina, translated
publications thence are regrettably rare, so
Beaconsfield Publishers are to be congratulated
on producing this most welcome volume. Let us
hope it is first of many. After asserting, with
Organon support, the prime importance of
mental symptoms, and their relative difficulty in
case taking, Dr. DETINIS seeks to explain and
interpret some of the entries in KENT's or the
Synthetic Repertory, which he annotates I think
this is a book more for the advanced learner
than the beginner."
20. Effects of Homoeopathic medicines
on Children with Recurrent Respiratory
infections. Elly DE LANGE. Amsterdam: Vrije
Universiteit 1993. ISBN 90-9006151-7.
reviewed by J.M.ENGLISH (BHJ, 83,4/1994):"
an excellent book." (A lenQthy and critical
review).
XII. NEWS & NOTES
I. "Is there such a thing as the Nature of
the Remedy?" was the theme of discussion in
the 48th Congress of the LlGA, Vienna, 1993.
Is there a Nature of a remedy and if so how to
recognise it? The following were the participants
in the Round - Table discussion: (i) Dr.Rainer
G.APPELL, Berlin (ii) Dr. Werner BUCHMANN,
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Hamburg (iii) Dr. Alexander DELINICK, Athens
(iv) Prof. Dr.Mathias DORCSI, Vienna now in
Munich (v) Dr.Juan S. SCHAFFER, Buenos
Aires. Following is an extract from the Summary
given in the AHZ, 239, 4/1994 by Dr.Helga
LESIGANG:
Dr.BUCHMANN: Basically the Nature of
the remedy may be defined as the energy.
HAHNEMANN was unswerving in this idea. He
called this energy or power as a "Power to alter
the health of the human". This specific power
which a remedy has is revealed in every remedy
in its different structure and disposition. A
remedy proving shows what remedy-effect will
be produced in me. The physician should ask:
"who am I? , what is it that is deepest in me?"
How difficult the answer is, Friedric NIETZSCHE
tells us in a poem. He uses two words in the
beginning which you should please take note of:
the foe and friend are the words and this can be
extended and said, that is indeed precisely the
situation which we find in Homoeopathy. The
remedy which is my friend in the healing is the
foe in toxicology.
A second aspect is the Energy Field.
Prof.Dr.DORCSI: We speak words
without knowing at all as to what they indicate,
e.g. the word "Nature". Reference to the
Dictionary does not only give the meanings
"actual", "particular", but also "decay",
"disorder". In my opinion the actual nature of the
homoeopathic remedy, that it comes from the
same Nature from the same creation like Man,
that they have kept apace with history and
therefore similar to us. Like Man every remedy
has its name. The name of the remedy is a
source of its Nature. Every remedy has its
name, its origin, history and place and family,
like a Man.
Dr.SCHAFFER: I will attempt to present
a comparative study from which it will be seen
that Nature is expressed in the symptoms, and
also in the language of symbols. As a Spanish
writer said: "When the structure of the soul
collapses, the body manifests the ruins." Let us
consider the physical symptoms of Lycopodium
speaking to us and think of the mental
"synthetic" symptom for which it is the only
remedy: "Fear, that he would not reach his
goal", and study the Symptoms No.580, 622,
1457, 1458, 1411 and 1549 in HAHNEMANN's
Materia Medica; also the stammering speech in
the last word in a sentence and the "dream of
tree". Lycopodium appears only as Moss now
and which thousands of years before was a tree;
cannot attain its destiny (as tree)! That is the
synthesis of the essential thing: cannot reach his
goal.
Dr.APPELL: When we speak of the
Nature of the remedy it means that we accept
this Nature. I do not think that an Orthodox
physician will speak of the Nature of an
Antibiotic or an Antihistamine. We are, as Prof.
DORCSI said, in the presence of a primary
similarity-relationship with a remedy, since we
are part of the evolution and bear in us history,
the present and the potentiality. When we
accept this evolutionary moment, the division as
organised and unorganised substance is purely
arbitrary, since ultimately we have to do with the
so-called inorganic field with congealed
experience. The inorganic field is governed by
form-giving power, think of the multiforms of the
ice crystal. We have to do with the multiform of
the living. This congealed experience, through
the process of potentisation and dynamisation,
recalls the process of life, so as to disengage
itself from human rigidity and entanglement and
constraints as disease. When we obtain
toxicological symptoms by provings on the
healthy and what we obtain as symptoms from
the sick persons, we get an idea of the nature of
the remedy.
We may recall two homoeopaths who
emigrated from Austria - GUTMANN and
WHITMONT, who have written many essays on
the Nature of the remedy (Das Wesen der
Arznei)
Dr.DELINICK: I would like to begin with
a situation: Imagine that an accident occurred on
the road and the Police came and asked the
passers-by who had seen the accident: "What
happened here?" If there .were 5 people who
had seen, there will normally be five different
reports. What does it mean? These 5 individuals
have different view points because they saw the
accident from different places. There is also a
difference in their views. The nature of the
homoeopathic medicine can also be so
considered. There are different opinions, what is
more there is a historic perspective. The Nature
of the remedy is a Dynamism, a Power,
Dr.BUCHMANN said. That is so with
HAHNEMANN. He is also a product of his social
milieu, his experiences. For him Vitalism was an
Idea, the Life Force very important, that was the
historic perspective of that time. Now, 200 years
later we see the homoeopathic medicine as not
merely a plant, an organic substance, but it is
above all a potentised substance. The dilution,
the succussion that actually is the nature of the
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homoeopathic remedy.
Dr.LESIGANG: It is important that we
are all able to get on with this thought process. I
would like to put a question and that is about the
nature of humans. We all work with humans.
The person is better understood by me rather
than the medicine. I am myself a man. I can
think about me myself, and I can also
contemplate on my "you". I request you to
please give your views about this.
Participant from the Congress: I am
from Germany. I think that the remedy by itself
as such has no Nature but only when it acts in
us, it becomes so. Without the partnership
relation no one has Nature because one cannot
as such perceive it.
Pulsatilla cannot itself perceive its
Nature but only by its action on another Nature.
The question now is: Why in a man a Nature
arises which is without him in another
substance? PARACELSUS says that everything
is poison and it is a question of the dose. And
we are all poisoned by this world. From all
substances that are there, acids, etc. ; it is only
on the dose and our responsibility on which
depends whether we avail of it for ourselves as
toxin or remedy. I would like to say that it is only
in the encounter there is Nature spirit and
without encounter it is not possible to perceive it.
Dr. LESIGANG: Thank you very much
for this very wonderful idea. Let us go a little
further. How is this encounter indicated? Where
do you find it in the homoeopathic medicine?
How do we experience it?
Dr. SCHAFFER: The process of
dynamisation points out the spirit of the remedy.
The physicists also say so. If we are attentive
and observe the Materia Medica exactly we
then see that the character of the remedy is
defined in its characteristic symptoms. Only in
the interaction with man can the remedy
manifest its Nature.
Dr. LESIGANG: The remedy must be
released from the material in which it is held
captive. It must be brought to a form in which it
can speak of itself.
Dr. DELINICK: As humans we are part
of the Universe. We are living organisms and
belong to the laws of physical and
thermodynamic nature. All living organisms die
one day and then they have reached their
ultimate equilibrium where between the energy-
niveau in organism and in the milieu no more
difference prevails. Life can therefore be defined
only by this difference. We are in interaction. We
receive things from the environment:, Mass,
Energy, Information. We give these back in
death and thereby have a static state, the
permanent state. In the process of dynamisation
-the word means: energy, power, life -we vitalise
the Homoeopathikum. We take it out of the
static, the permanent state and inspire it with
life.
Dr. BEHNISCH: To come back to the
problem once again. How will the Nature of the
remedy be clearly perceived? After all the
discussions it is quite clear that it is an
individuality of a plant, a mineral, an animal
secretion, a nosode. To perceive this
individuality HAHNEMANN has already done
provings. The nature of a remedy can be known
only from the provings of a remedy. It is a
difficult work to understand it as a picture, to
make out the mosaic. In our times it was MASI
ELIZALDE who first made the efforts to
understand the nature of the remedy, he harked
back to BOENNINGHAUSEN who spoke of the
"Genius of the remedy". Others like
VITHOULKAS and EICHELBERGER have
enquired in their own way. It is clear that only in
the provings with high potencies it is possible to
decode the remedy. Without proving and without
understanding what has been found in the
proving it is not possible to do this "decoding".
Therefore I call you to do remedy provings from
which the nature of the remedy will be
perceived. Proving itself is only one part of the
work and the other is the penetration of the
proving symptoms by the spirit of man which is
positively essential and perhaps the most
difficult part of the work.
A participant in the Congress from
Venezuela: We try to understand what moves us
all and what we have made of our life: the
understanding of a homoeopathic medicine, that
every remedy may be a real way of life. This
nature is like a microfilm in the medicine. In
Pulsatilla, for example, the timidity, in Plumbum
the kidney disease and the pains connected with
it, in Lycopodium the hindrances, the migraine.
We can track this in repertory. All these are
present in the substance in a manner and way
which we cannot understand since it is outside
of what we indicate as the normal human
understanding. You speak of it as nature and we
call it as genius.
Dr. APPELL: The medicine gives us
proveable positive knowledge of experience and
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is in conformity with the tradition of
enlightenment. The poisons are also the curative
remedies and the potential for our progressive
development. We should be aware that we are
connected with the creation and therefore
ponder how we prescribe these medicines, how
we handle them.
Dr. BAUR (Lyon): I think that what has
been launched here is a kind of brainstorming,
something highly interesting, and I wish that our
discussion here is published. There is a point
which one should not let go. The veterinary
individual nature as in the case of the herds.
There are references, aspects which are very
close to what we here are discussing, when we
speak of humans. In veterinary the language is
not so different. For our examination of the
patient, namely the intimate understanding of
the remedy there are many sources which can
be mentioned:
HAHNEMANN traced back to Latin,
antiquity, the physicians of the middle ages,
irrespective of whether from Italy, Holland or
Germany. HERING referred to the Indian
medicine. GOETHE, PARACELSUS and other
Greek and Latin mythologies are all also
relevant here. Another source of our
understanding of the source is the modern
science. More research in these directions are
required.
Dr.LESIGANG: I think that the
medicines in veterinary practice are used
according to the proving symptoms. No regular
provings on animals have been done.
Prof.Dr.OORCSI: Let us study the inner
substance, the active substance and the toxic
substance of a medicine. Further, when we
know that the inner substance analogical to the
constitution and the toxic substance to the
diathesis. To me, only then comes the medicinal
proving, only then the remedy experience.
Dr.HACKER-STROHBUSCH: Everyone
of us has different possibilities of coming across
the nature of the remedy. HAHNEMANN has
propounded his coming across the way of
remedy proving. The problem arises only when
we communicate our experiences as we should.
P.BARTHEL: I think that the nature of
the remedy comes not only from the remedy
proving. When for example the flower is looked
at, its nature is expressed in its habitus, its color,
its smell. We can also know the nature of the
plant through a photograph and if this
photograph is poorthen we can understand the
nature only poorly. The same, I think, is about
the remedy preparation. HAHNEMANN has
given rules for the remedy preparation which
unfortunately is not followed. So for example, a
plant is better understood in its habitus when it is
fresh. HAHNEMANN has also advised to
process with as much fresh plants as possible. I
think that if we follow this instruction the nature
of the remedy through the remedy proving as
also through its use may be better perceptible.
Dr. LESIGANG: Yesterday I came upon
a picture during the course of discussion with a
colleague. Suppose we are a beam of light,
consequently an energy, power dynamis. This
light comes towards us without hindrance, we
see a clear, colorless light. If now you propose
to send this light through another medium, then
it is broken and we do not see colorless light, but
colors. It then begins to bloom, to live, to display
the most different structures, according to the
density and quality of the medium. This picture
appears to be very much analogus to the
process of a remedy proving. The light is the
power, the nature, which we surmise to be in the
remedy. This power cannot be known further,
we cannot behold the light source. We learn of it
through its passage through a living medium, the
human -in the sick person from the therapy, but
above all from the proving on the healthy.
II. Paul HERSCU on Troubled Children
(Seminar Report -NEJH, 3,3/1994): This was a
three-day Seminar. Four Stages of children - I to
IV - were considered; The stages represented
an ever-decreasing capacity of the patient's
psyche to contain subconscious thoughts and
urgings from breaking into the conscious realm
of daily life.
Stage I children tend to be in a relatively
balanced state in spite of the inherent
vulnerabilities of their consitutional condition.
(Calcarea Carbonica, Natrum muriaticum).
Stage II the boundaries between the
conscious and unconscious mind remain
relatively strong. Naturally, in these remedy
states there is a genetic or miasmatic disposition
or weakness that leads to certain states of mind
and behavior.
Stage III remedies represent the
breaking of the unconscious into the conscious
mind in an uncontrollable fashion (Baryta
carbonica, Stramonium)
Stage IV signifies a further development
and intensification of the tendencies.
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Many remedies have been discussed.
Ill. How safe is the Hormone
Replacement Therapy in Perimenopausal
Women? Christine C.CIAVAAELLA, in a
detailed article, (NEJH, 3,4/1994) holds that the
hormone replacement therapy is inadviseable
since it causes many adverse effects. Hormone
replacement therapy (HAT) is used by allopathic
physicians to treat women symptomatically in
the menopausal years, but more significantly, to
protect them from osteoporosis and coronary
heart disease as they age. Dr. Geborah GAADY
M.D., after extensive research, prepared
comparison charts on the lifetime probabilities of
major diseases of women (on the efects of
hormone therapy) at age 50. Two of these
charts are:
Diseases affected by hormone
therapy - Lifetime probability
Occurence % Death %
Coronary Disease 46 31
Stroke 20 8
Hip fracture 15 5
Breast cancer 10 3
Endometrial cancer 3 0.3
Lifetime probabilities of selected
conditions for a-50 year-old white woman
treated with long-term hormone replacement
No treatment Estrogen Estrogen &
Alone Progestin
Coronary heart 46 34 39
Disease %
Stroke % 20 20 19
Hip fracture% 15 13 12
Breast cancer % 10 13 20
Endometrial 3 20 3
cancer%
Life expectancey 83 84 83
(years)
The author concludes this long and
interesting article "Coronary Artery Disease and
Osteoporosis are serious diseases and are
highly probable risks for women in the second
half of life Hormone replacement therapy seems
now, more than ever, a misguided approach to
the treatment of women. Ongoing homoeopathic
treatment is essential during these years. The
role of natural progesterone may expand the
ability of homoeopaths to offer women a safer
passage through menopause. The time is truly
ripe to pool our energies into a coordinated long-
term study of the use of homoeopathic medicine
in relation to the incidence of Coronary Artery
Disease and Osteoporosis in menopausal
women."
In another article that follows the above,
Susan DELANEY says that Osteoporosis has
become the great dreaded disease of every
ageing woman. She says that Osteoporosis is
not a Calcium deficiency, but rather that several
factors in the western way of I ife contribute to
this disease, like animal protein, high- protein
diet, overuse of salt, fluorinated water, etc.
Osteoporosis is not a necessary consequence of
growing older nor does it require that everyone
be placed on hormone replacement therapy to
prevent it. By living a more active and balanced
life it is a disease syndrome that can be
prevented.
IV. The Advanced Study Group of the
South West branch of the Faculty of
Homoeopathy met on 14 May 1994 and
considered the medicine that would be suitable
for inclusion in a new rubric: Resentment. After
careful study of the Mind Section of the different
repertories and the remedies contained in
rubrics which contained some aspect of
resentment, the new rubric and the remedies
meriting inclusion in it came as follows:
RESENTMENT: Calc-c., IGN., Lyc.,
NAT-C., NAT-M., Plat., SEP., Staph.
slighted/ignored (real or perceived), at
being: PALL.
suppressed resentment, ailments from:
STAPH.
(Simile, 4,3/1994, issued with the BHJ,
83,3/1994)
V. The Pharmacy Section of the Faculty
continues to hold courses for Pharmacists.
Earlier such training courses were held for
Boots' pharmacists and further seminars have
been in progress for others. The aim is that the
staff understand the basic principles and make
clients make informed decisions to the suitability
of homoeopathic treatment. Pharmacists from
New Zealand have attended two week-end
seminars. Homoeopathy is growing in New
Zealand rapidlyand a per capita public spend £ 1
per annum which is about 4 times the UK rate.
(Simile, 4,4/1994, issued with BHJ, 83,4/1994)
VI. American Institute of Homoeopathy:
a Sesquicentennial celebration by Sandra
CHASE with additional comments by
Nicholas NOSSAMAN (JAIH, 87,3/1994): Some
extracts from this article: Senior leaders Drs.
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WHITMONT,Henry N.WILLIAMS, Allen
NEISWANDER -a fine galaxy -took part in the
Sesquicentennial celebration of the American
Institute of Homoeopathy, April 8-10, 1994, in
New York. Dr. Edward WHITMONT spoke on
"The Interface Between Psychotherapy and
Homoeopathy", representing thoughts
expressed in his new work The Alchemy of
Healing. David WEMBER spoke about his
wealth of experience with little-known "Small
Homoeopathic Remedies in Everyday
Practice", Richard MOSKOWITZ on the
peidatric epidemic of Otitis Media, in which all
allopathic antibiotics (and now myringotomy and
tubes) have been unsuccessful in the final
resolution. Dr. MOSKOWITZ asked that we put
down the Otoscope and look at the patient.
His experience has been particularly cautionary
for universal immunizations. Dr. David RILEY
presented "Contemporary Drug Provings", Dr.
Jennifer JACOBS spoke on "Future Directions
in Homoeopathic Research". "A Glimpse of
the Continent" and "Different Ways of Tuning
in on the Remedy" by Roger MORRISON, Dr.
CHAPMAN on "The Future of Homoeopathy
in the US Health Care System" were
presented. Further were MOSKOWITZ's
"Homoeopathy in the Medical Care Model"
and Harris L. COUL TER's "Medicine's Future:
Low-tech vs. High-tech." and Edward
CHAPMAN's "Perspectives".
A commemorative volume of Anthology
published from the best of the archives of the
Jounal of the American Institute of
Homoeopathy was released. There was also an
interesting exhibition including memorabilia of a
letter from HAHNEMANN.
Most of the papers presented have been
published in the JAIH, 87, 3&4/1994.
VII. Harry T.SWOPE writes of his
'Pilgrimage to HAHNEMANN's Grave' in the
Spring of 1993 (HT, 14, 7/1994). He writes of the
route he took to reach the pere La Chaise
Cemetery and the exact location of the grave.
SWOPE says that the monument was. one of
the most imposing seen on that day, and that
the monument and its setting conveyed a sense
of honor and distinction befitting one Qf the
greatest medical minds of all times.
VIII. Andre SAINE Seminar in October
1993 in Chicago. Some excerpts: A well-taken
case greatly simplifies finding the simillimum.
But a poorly taken case makes it nearly
impossible for even an expert to find it. The
Basics of case-taking: Allowing the patient to
talk with the least amount of interruption
possible, avoiding leading questions, objective
observations, etc. After the spontaneous
description by the patient of their problems, the
information must be supplemented with details
about the onset of condition, the evolution of the
problems, other treatments received and their
outcome, the frequency and duration of the
problem, the modalities, the times associated
with it, and the concomitants. Then the
Generals: the person as a whole and particularly
the temperature sensitivities of the patient.
Oftentimes they will be the key to the case.
SAINE's answers to questions revealed that he
had read the original source material. Next,
Case Analysis: Symptoms are rated and
assigned a numerical value according to three
criteria. 1. intensity of the symptom (0 being not
very frequent or clear and 4 being extraordinarily
intense). 2. how peculiar or characteristic the
symptom is (0 being very common--like a fever
with a flu; while 5 is very uncommon and
characteristic--Iike nausea not relieved by
vomiting, a strong characteristic of Ipecac.). 3.
hierarchy, (i.e., a local symptom rates a 0, a
physical general rates a 1, and a
mental/emotional symptom or a clear etiology
rates a 2). The three numeral values are then
added together. Those totalling seven or above
constitute the genius of the case. It is those
symptoms that will lead you to the simillimum.
[HT, 14,7/1994]
IX. Northeast Regional Study Group
Meeting: Ilse GARRISS gave some nice tips in
Veterinary practice and some 'specifics'.
Pearlyn GOODMAN-HERRICK spoke
on Natrum carbonicum: The Natrum carbonicum
people are generally of a sweet disposition and
warm-blooded. Most self-sacrificing and extend
themselves for others at their expense. History
of silent grief but can be cheerful. They fear
people, men, are frightened easily, fear
thunderstorms and are hypochondriacal.
Sensitive to music, music is important in their
life. Sensitive to the heat of sun; worse from
errors in diet, fat, milk, and rich food; can be
worse around specific people and very
prejudiced and intolerant of certain people.
Compelled to perform anonymous acts of
charity. Overwork themselves and don't know
when to stop. They suffer as outcasts but are
warm, soft, tender and likeable. They can
become quarrelsome when sick. Physically and
emotionally sensitive and have many allergies.
Desire potatoes. (HT, 14, 7/1994)
X. Louis KLEIN Seminar in January 1994
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in Orland, Florida, USA: The conscientious
prescriber must strive to analyze the case with
an open mind, free from attachment to a
particular remedy. Three steps: 1. Identify the
most important components of case. 2.
Translate these components into repertory
language (rubrics). 3. Select the correct
simillimum. Identify two to four rubrics central
to the case and repertorize. Louis KLEIN drew
circles around these main components. Small
and unusual remedies including Kali bromatum,
Oophorinum, Folliculinum, Malandrinum,
Tarentula, Lilium tigrinum, Kali sulphuricum and
Cicuta can be utilized in 50% of the cases. (HT,
14,7/1994)
XI. "The Alternative Medical Practice Act
of 1994, sponsored by Senator Holland and
Assemblyman Coleman, was officially signed
into law by New York Governor Mario Guomo in
late July. New York has become the fourth state
to pass such legislation, following in the
footsteps of Alaska, North Carolina and Arizona.
This effectively prevents a finding of medical
misconduct against a physician based solely
upon the practice of a "non conventional"
medical treatment... This is the latest in a string
of events that bodes well for the future of
Homoeopathy in the United States, and we owe
our deepest thanks to those who have worked
so hard for the freedom of medical choice.
Which lucky state will be next to step up to the
place?" (HT, 14,8/1994)
XII. Mitzi LEBENSORGER writes of her
visit to KENT's home (HT, 14,9/1994). After
NCH Annual meeting in Chicago in May 1994,
the author and three other colleagues visited the
house. They were greeted by the new owners
who had just moved in a week ago; they had
been told that a 'famous doctor' had lived in that
house. One of the new owners was a doctor too
and although not a homoeopath was familiar
with Homoeopathywhen in France. They were
interested to hear of the house's history and
mentioned that they had immediately sensed
a "good feeling" about the house.
(Subsequent news in HT, 15, 10 /1995
informs of plans for purchasing the house and
converting it into a memorial and nice
meeting/teaching center in Homoeopathy =
KSS)
XIII. Dr.J.A. RIVERA writes (HT, 15,9/1994)
that holistic medicine is being incorporated in the
medical services of Cuba. The Cuban authorities
are looking for alternative forms of medicine to
meet the needs of 11 million inhabitants.
Homoeopathy is one of the modalities which will
be taught. The Editor of HT, Mr. Julian
WINSTON adds "It is interesting to note that
between 1856 and 1889, twelve people from
Cuba graduated from the Hahnemann Medical
College of Pennsylvania--with the majority
graduating between 1856-1861. What was their
legacy in Cuba?"
XIV. Letters are received often from a
member who has had a bad action from a
homoeopathic remedy and therefore questioning
the claim that Homoeopathy is "the safer
medicine" In the HT, 14,8/1994 a correspondant
has written a lengthy letter narrating the effects -
deeply positive and deeply adverse - obtained
from single homoeopathic medicines. In HT,
14,9/1994 another correspondant has written
about the adverse or side effects of
homoeopathic medicines. He cautions "The
more one learns about Homoeopathy -the
Philosophy -the more one learns not to "take
anything lightly" - to avoid that urge to take
something for the little symptom-" He also
recalls KENT's advice - when in doubt about
what to give, don't give anything. By way of
an 'editiorial reply' Michael SOMERSON
explains the role of physician in general and the
homoeopathy physician in particular, the
homoeopathic philosophy, etc. He says that at
times even the most skilled practitioner cannot
be absolutely certain whether the symptom
changes are completely due to the remedy or a
manifestation of the progression of the natural
history of the "disease process". Fortunately, our
collective experience and the contributions of
HAHNEMANN and HERING give us much
insight and understanding of this and provide
valuable interpretation of the changes which
may be observed following a homoeopathic
prescription. "In Homoeopathy, the question of
side effect stakes on a different meaning. A
remedy may stimulate responses in different
spheres of the individual. It may attend to many
of these spheres. A complex response by the
individual to include aspects of mental,
emotional, and physical states, these are
certainly not what we mean side effects. In
cases where the situation does not improve, or
continues to decline, the prudent practitioner
must make use of the knowledge of anatomy,
physiology, pathology, and bio-chemistry to best
address the total needs of the patient rather than
persist in employing a therapy which is not
effective in that situation. (But in many cases in
which the case baffles the physician who has
considered the anatomy, physiology, pathology
and bio-chemistry and where despite the anti-
biotics etc. there is a worsening trend of the
disease, what should the prudent practitioner
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do? = KSS) The modern homoeopathic
physician should educate the patient on
homoeopathic aggravation. When the chronic or
progressive problems are under treatment, the
practitioner must be well-trained, knowledgeable
and capable of providing or directing to other
therapy as required. A different form of the
therapy may best meet the individual needs of
the patient. The potential may exist that even
when a remedy is prescribed by a qualified
practitioner there may be an untoward event. In
general, the use of Homoeopathy by skilled
practitioners may provide a safe and effective
therapy for many people in a manner consistent
with the principles and philosophy of those
individuals.
The safety of Homoeopathy depends on
a solid understanding of its principles, on the
judicious use of remedies, and on the judgement
which allows us to know how to evaluate change
and respond appropriately.
XV. In the USA the attack on Homoeopathy
goes on simultaneously with the resurgence of
Homoeopathy! HT, 14, 10/1994, reports of a
petition given bya group of 41 persons, to the
FDA, seeking 'safety' regulations of OTC
homoeopathic remedies; the usual 'no
molecules' etc. arguments.
XVI. It is strange that in this century still mis-
information, pure prejudice etc. hold the
'scientific' community in the USA. The mother of
a 7-year-old girl has to devise surreptitious
methods to provide homoeopathic remedies to
the child when the child goes on camp, because
anything other than old-school medicines are
forbidden! So what did she do? She soaked note
cards of 1 " x 3" size (used for writing notes such
as Thank you, Get well soon, etc.) with
homoeopathic dilutions like Arnica, Hypericum
(first-aid remedies that may be required when
going on camp), and at the bottom of each card
she wrote such words as "Take care of you"
(Arnica), "I love your pretty smiling teeth"
(Hypericum), etc. Each card was kept in a
separate bag. When needed the child (who
knew the basic first-aid homoeopathic remedies)
would tear a small piece and chew it!
Mr. Julian WINSTON says "It has been
said that when Constantine HERING, MD, Was
in South America in the early 1830s, he
constructed a remedy book similarly. He
saturated pieces of blotting papers with liquid
dilution, dried them, and then bound them into a
book with a sheet of waxed paper between each
remedy page. When a remedy was needed, he'd
open the book to the remedy page and tear off a
piece of the blotter paper for the patient to suck
upon." (HT, 14, 10/1994).
XVII. "For the first time in U.S. History, the
Federal Government has funded a clinical
efficacy trial of Homoeopathy. After a one-year
delay, researchers Elaine WOO, Ted
CHAPMAN, MD, DHT, and Richard
WEINTRAUB, MD have been granted funding
from the National Institute of Health, Office of
Alternative Medicine to conduct a study on the
homoeopathic treatment of mild traumatic brain
injury (MTBI). MTBI is a syndrome with a vJide
variety of symptoms including chronic pain,
fatigue, vertigo, visual impairment, deficits of
intellectual functioning and emotional control,
often with secondary depression. The
researchers will follow 70 subjects who
experienced a mild brain injury at least three
months prior to enrollment. Half will be treated
with an individually prescribed homoeopathic
remedy, the other half with placebo. I n addition
all will continue any rehabilitative therapies they
were undergoing. The subjects will be followed
for a four-month period and the study spread out
over a year. (HT, 14, 11/1994)
XVIII. The journal Homoeopathy Today (HT),
14, 11/1 994) has been publishing in each issue
a small case of Dr. Erastus CASE, as "Drills in
Prescribing". These were taken from his book
Clinical Experiences. A reader who has been
very carefully and interestingly following these
'drills' has asked Dr. CASE as to where one
could find the symptoms mentioned in the cases
since they could not be found in the KENT
Repertory! Evidently this reader did not know
that Dr. CASE died in 1917. The Editor of HT
has clarified and said that Dr. CASE gained his
knowledge from reading the Provings, and
not from the Repertory.
XIX. Since January 1994 homoeopathic
education has been officially recognised in
Austria bya Diploma of the Austrian Medical
Association. This is a major step in the process
of recognising Homoeopathy in Austria. (HL,
7,4/1994)
XX. Herbal drugs like Comfrey and Colts
foot containing Pyrrolizidine Alakaloids (PA) are
banned below D6 potencies in Austria. (The
drugs covered by this ban include the plant
genus Cynoglossum L., Petasites Mi"., Seneccio
L., Symphytum L. and the specimen Eupatorium
cannabinum L., and Tussilago farfara L. The
plant Rubia tinctorum L which contains
Anthrachinones is also banned in any form. (HL,
7,4/1994)
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XXI. A doctor reports (HL, 7,4/1994, Readers
Forum) that Osteoporosis is like other diseases
a psychosomatic process and not a normal
concomitant of menopause, but a typical trace of
the life history of many women with severe life
conditions and adverse fates. All the women
with Osteoporosis she treated had been
suffering from at least one of the following
burdening conditions many years before
developing an Osteoporosis:
- some of them were refugees or
emigrants
- some had remarkable financial losses
with the need to sell their own houses;
one of them felt very despised because
of now being poor and being forced to
be on public relief.
- some were married with a dictatorial
husband and had to swallow a great
deal of anger; a couple of them were
financially deceived by their husbands
- some had to bear a combination of the
above mentioned psychic traumata.
All of them had very low self-esteem,
most were depressive or desperate. The right
remedy was found from such rubrics as Ailments
from: suppressed anger; financial losses; grief;
homesickness; mortification; scorn, etc. Deep
acting remedies like Aurum, Lycopodium,
Natrum muriaticum etc. were required.
XXII. Seminar Reports: Some Extracts:
(HL, 7,4/1994)
Jayesh SHAH Seminar in Erlenbach,
Switzerland: Go for what is really peculiar to
find a remedy. Don't think of a remedy while
taking the case, only concentrate on the case
unfolding before you.
Case 1: 18-month-old girl who indicated
all features of Phosphorus which however did
not succeed. She developed acute fever, very
irritable, jealous, very possessive of her mother,
moving her tongue sideways quickly. Her eyes
followed the object which was swung before and
she responded to percussion on the table. Elaps
cured. (PHATAK - Motion, rhythmic and Motion,
oscillatory)
Case 2: Lady, 30-year-old. Painful
varicose veins worse after exertion and coition.
Dreamt a lot about black and white or black and
yellow snakes. She was obsessed with these
colors and she wore dresses with these color
stripes. Bungarus was her remedy. (see
BOERICKE)
Case 3: 9-year-old boy. Asthmatic
attacks with vomiting. He responded to
Lycopodium (Dictatorial, domineering,
competitive, active, mischievous, precocious,
etc.) He got into a crisis when his school was
changed. Severe anxiety state, restlessly
pacing. Hewas completely dependant on his
mother, clinging to her. Fear of losing her.
Bismuth. (Clinging, always holding hand of
mother, Very restless, lots ofvomiting) A good
question to ask when treating a child: When
does he or she get really upset?
Case 4: Two ladies with menstrual
problems. One is a devotee of Sai Baba and the
other a Buddhist. Very compelling personalities,
strong, magnetising the listener. Clairvoyant
dreams. Their remedy was Crotalus cascavella.
This remedy has tremendous fear of being
alone, of being pursued, intense clairvoyance.
Strong need of a spiritual leader. (DD.Crot-c.,
Elaps: both have fear alone, but Elaps
nevertheless wants to get away, into the
country; Crot-c. loves bustle, crowds, activity.
Lachesis has more hidden deceit and overt
jealousy. More intense competition.
Case 5: A lady livingwith her mother-in-
lawwho makes her life difficult. She has a
tremendous sense of duty towards the latter and
her whole family. Naja.
Case 6: A to-be married lady had a
crisis; she was fighting with her fiance, couldn't
keep peace 5 minutes. She was also sweating
profusely on lower lip. She quarrelled because
he wouldn't purchase her a house. Rheum was
her remedy (Vehement desire for one peculiar
thing - PHATAK. Restless. Possessive.
Capricious. Urgent desires)
Case 7: 3-year-old boy with a bad cold.
After antibiotics for this he developed fear of
dogs. Gets annoyed very quickly then scratches
and bites, very acute anger, which disappears
without a trace. Lyssinum.
Case 8: 69-year-old lady. Gas,
distension, bloating, very offensive secretions
from the whole body. Passes gas instead of
stool, "bombardment", few drops of liquid stool.
Smell is decomposed, rotten. Sweat stains linen
dark. Very industrious, a fighter. Had to fight in
the office against an all-male staff who always
tried to put her down. Stood up against them.
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She is very strong, dignified, proud of her family.
Osmium.
Case 9: 60-year-old man, hasn't been
out of his house for months or out of his room for
weeks. Usually stays in bed. Claims he's too
weak and breathless to get up. Hardly eats
anything, fears to get sick. Never washes or gets
dressed, not even when the doctor visits him.
Fears of robbers, electric switches. Doesn't
respond to any drugs. Guilt about neglecting his
family. Wanted to jump from the terrace and kill
himself. He was a clever businessman, enjoyed
his business very much. Loved gambling.
Always very careless about his appearance,
about cleanliness. Aurum arsenicosum. (see
KENT's Lectures).
Case 10: 40-year-old lady. Sinus
problems, joint problems. Talks in a
disconnected way as if she was way above
everyday, ordinary matters. Disconnected from
her body. Very loquacious. Philosophises about
the origins of life and its purpose, eternity. "Life
is a continuation". The vastness of ocean gets
her particularly exalted. Weeps about her
separation from God. Sees herself as a beam of
light travelling through space. Anhalonium.
Case 11: 4-year-old boy. Frequent very
high fever. Doesn't want milk or food. Very
emotional, stammering. Innocent, very cuddly,
hugs strangers, puts his fingers into their
mouths. Goes with anybody. Gives all his things
away or loses them. Doesn't heed traffic. Likes
to dress in women's clothes. Very dependent,
won't go to the toilet alone. Sleeps with eyes
open wide, arms and legs sprawled.
Anhalonium.
Vassilis GHEGAS Seminar, Enschede
(NL) February 1994: Materia Medica
information: Remedies with severe Weakness:
Differentiation:
Stannum weakness is situated in the
chest, the chest feels empty, without any force.
During weakness they perspire in the external
throat. Very slow aggravation/amelioration.
Characteristic -slow aggravation in the forenoon
and slow amelioration in the afternoon.
Helonias dioica - any kind of uterine
problem that is combined with extreme
weakness (with or without fits of warmth).
Diabetes with severe weakness and raging
thirst.
Aletris farinosa -particularly in women
who are always tired. Very often uterine
problems with or without leucorrhoea,
sometimes anaemia. The physical weakness
may show itself on the mental and emotional
level.
Selenium - severe weakness combined
with sadness. There are usually sexual
problems: impotence, prostate gland problems,
AIDS. Weak memory. Cannot bear sun or
warmth. Dislike draft of air, even warm air.
Aggravated by tea, wine, salt and lemonade.
Conium -weakness from suppressed
sexual desire. Profuse perspiration during the
night. Weakness with tumors, vertigo, weakness
and numbness of the legs should make one
think of Conium.
lodum Weakness combined with
emaciation despite increased appetite.
Capsicum Characteristic is strong
aversion to any physical effort. Want to keep
lying down whole day and become very irritable
if this is commented upon. DD-Ferrum. In
addition to their obese and flabby appearance,
they can be very lazy. Hate the least effort and
are also afraid of it. (DD. Sulphur). The most
characteristic point in Capsicum is nostalgia,
this can be like a neurosis in which the patient
lives in the past, occasionally or for a longer
time. This nostalgia can take the shape of a real
delusion in which the patient comes to think that
he is now living in the past. Often wakes up at 3
a.m. (DD. Kali-c) and sleepless with nostalgic
thoughts. Can be irritable from the least thing
(Nux-v.). Characteristic is the strong sensation
of coldness after drinking. It is indicated in acute
tonsillitis or acute pharyngitis with the
characteristic strong burning sensation as if
pepper in the throat; may be together with a
feeling of coldness in the height of the scapulae
or between them. Capsicum follows well after
Med. if there is still discharge from the urethra
(the discharge can look like cream) after Med. or
if a constriction of the urethra remains after a
good reaction to Med. In gonorrhoea Med. may
possibly be complemented with Caps. to
complete the cure. The characteristic symptom
in these cases is the sensation of coldness in
the scrotum.
XXIII. The Editorial of mfH Jan. - April 1994
wrote on 'Enemies of Homoeopathy'. In the mfH,
5, 1/1994 the Editorial proceeds to speak of
'quackery' by qualified and the lay homoeopaths.
A South African MD wrote in 1954 from
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which is quoted "He is really a therapeutic
anarchist, causing rebellion, revolution,
disruption in the vital economy of the body,
destroying all law and making such a hopeless
muddle of the symptoms that it is often difficult
to establish order and make immediately
effective and worthwhile prescriptions. It has
been the misfortune of this writer to deal with
many cases who came to him from----so called
homoeopathic practitioners who are in the habit
of giving at least a dozen different low potency
homoeopathic pilules, herbal extracts and patent
nostrums all to be taken at least once a day, so
that their patients have hardly time for anyting
else except taking medicines from morning till
night. Some of these people claim excellent
results, but the trained physician is not at a loss
to understand such results --".
XXIV. In the 'discussion' part of Drs. Manu
KOTHARI & Lopa MEHTA lecture on Dysis vs.
Disease, (mfH, 5,2/1994) many interesting
points were made. Some excerpts: The idea that
a microscope can diagnose a cancer or a cancer
cell, was given up long ago. Even the people
working on electron microscopy in this field for
decades in a cancer hospital have no
confidence in this method. The pathologists
there confess that many times they could not
make out what is what and throw the
responsibility on God before giving a diagnosis.
If there's one strangulating
phenomenon, it is Johnson's band-aid
…..causes oedema, lack of sweat and extends
the life of the wound. Animal wounds heal on
their own. Every woman wounds herself every
month during menstruation and that large wound
heals invariably.
Allopathy has a word even for gray hair -
canitis -which means it is diseased and we go to
someone for help.
Disease charts its own course.
When we see cancer, heart attack, as a
curse, we are quarrelling with what the body had
decided. Untreated breast cancer has a survival
rate of as much as forty-eight years.
The healthy do not necessarily survive
and the diseased do not necessarily die.
The creator decided to create 'Disease'
so that everybody would condemn it and not
blame 'Death' (parable). Do not tell me hedied
because he had fever, but because he was to
die, had fever (MARCUS AURELIUS). Lord
YAMA comes to us as kala (time) and not as
cancer, diabetes or hypertension.
It is shocking to hear that homoeopaths
are using computers -computerised
Homoeopathy? Computers are an insult to
human mind and will end up destroying it.
There are overwhelming graphs
(statistics) which show that there are no shifts in
mortality rates due to the arrival of antibiotic or
vaccination.
Increased life expectancy is an illusion
because British epidemiologists say that man's
life expectancy has not increased even by six
months in the last 280 years.
Whoever claims cure as a cure of
disease is a quack.
Friendship between microbe and man is
the rule and enmity is the exception.
Anatomy is ana -aatmi, a science of
cadaver in which atma is absent.
From the Common Cold to Cancer
diseases are beyond science.
Cancer temperament is, that we shall
know nothing which will alter the course of
Cancer favourably.
Angioplasty tears the artery, so we shall
have a new slogan 'coronary tear as part of
coronary care'.
XXV. Very interesting and challenging
information and discussion has been made by
Dr.D.Lakshminarayanan (mfH, 5,2/1994). The
author maintains that an ancient scourge like
Small-pox cannot be destroyed although the
WHO has, years ago, celebrated the 'eradication
of Small Pox'. He narrates with first-hand
knowledge that small-pox has not been actually
wiped out and that such 'myths' of eradicating
from the face of the earth Tuberculosis, Malaria
and the current asserting of eradicating Polio are
all 'fiction'. Very interesting arguments,
convincing indeed.
XXVI. Sale of homoeopathic dilutions
containing more than 12% alcohol v/v. in
packings of more than 30ml., was banned by
Government of India (Ministry of Health)
Notification in July 1992. Prevention of
inadvertent consumotion of these as alcohol.
and ensuring quaility of medicines (since the
30ml. packings will be sealed originals from the
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manufacturer) were given as reasons for the
ban. But pharmacists and consumers strongly
felt that this was influenzed by the
pharmaceutical giants' attempts to crush the
small manufacturers. Prices also rose as a
consequence. The decision remains pending at
various courts where pharmacists have filed
suits against the ban. Meanwhile it was
rumoured that the health ministry might also ban
dispensing of medicines by the homoeopaths,
making prescriptions mandatory. (VI, Vol.l, 1/93-
Vol.3, 10/95).
XXVII. Malaria is said to be on the verge of
eradication. But during 1994 the State of
Rajasthan registered 80,000 cases, about 65%
of these falciparum malaria. In an epidemic
between sep.-Nov. 94 more than 400 deaths
were reported from cerebral malaria. The
parasites are resistent to Chloroquine and
Primaquine; the latter causes hamemolytic
jaundice too. Yet prophylaxis and therapy with
these drugs goes on. (VI, 2, 10/94)
XXVIII. Nitro Sodimethyl urea (NDMU), a potent
bio-stimulator, was intended for use in
agriculture and animal husbandry to enhance
'productivity'; while this outcome was hopeful,
the cell-character-changing capacity of NDMU
also could result in carcinogenesis. Ghen
Shangin BEREZOVSKY of Moscow veterinary
academy sought to remove this adverse effect
by diulting NDMU. But tests revealed that cell
multiplication was stimulated more by the
highest dilutions (10-60). For BEREZOVSKY
this was an astonishing discovery in 1979, six
years previous to BENVENISTIE's similar
findings. (from Sputnik, VI, 2, 9/94)
XXIX. More chemothrapy in cancer was
thought by some as the way for better chances
of cure. A clinical study on 2300 breast cancer
patients by Dr. Lawrence WICKERHAM OF
Pittsburg university, randomly grouping them
and giving standard and extra dosages to these,
refuted the above claim; more drug therapy only
resulted in more adverse drug effects, survival
rate remained the same. (VI, 2, 8/94)
Full addresses of the journals covered by
this Quarterly Homoeopathic DIGEST (QHD) are
given below
1. ACD: Archiv fur Homoopathik,
DYNAMIS-VERLAG, AM Vogelherd 18,
4200 OBERHAUSEN 11, GERMANY.
2. AHZ: AIigemeine Homoopathische
Zeitung, Karl F. Haug Verlag, 6900
HEIDELBERG 1 , GERMANY.
3. BHJ: British Homoeopathic Journal,
Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital,
Great Ormond Street, LONDON, WC 1
N 3HR, U.K.
4. CGH: Cahiers du Groupement
Hahnemannien, MEDECINE ET
HYGIENE, 78, avenue de la Roseraie,
Case 456, CH-1211 GENEVA 4.
5. HH: Homoeopathic Heritage, B. Jain
Publishers (P) Ltd., 1920 Street, 10th
Chuna Mandi, Pahargnj, NEW DELHI -
11o 055.
6. HL:Homoeopathic Links, Homoeopathic
Research & Charities, "Dinar", 20
Station Road, Santacruz (West),
BOMBAY -400054.
7. HLK: Forum for Homeopatisk Lakekonst
Svenska Akademin for Klasisk
Homeopati, Folkungagatan 84 (Itr),
11622 STOCKHOLM.
8. THE HOMOEOPATH: The Journal of
the Society of Homoeopaths, 2, Artizan
Road, NORTHAMPTON NN1 4HU, U.K.
9. HT.: Homoeopathy Today, National
Center for Homoeopathy, 500,
Massachusetts Avenue, N. W. Suite 42,
WASHINGTON D.C. 20005, U.S.A.
10. HTIMES: Homoeopathy Times, The
foundation for Homoeopathic Research,
805-Giriraj, Neelkanth Valley,
Ghatkopar, BOMBAY -400 077.
11. IJHM: Indian Journal of Homoeopathic
Medicine, CMP Homoeopathic Medical
College, N.R. Gadkari Marg, Irla, Vile
Parle (West), BOMBAY -400056.
12. JAIH: The Journal of the American
Institute of Homoeopathy, 1585,
Glencoe, DENVER, Colorado 80220,
U.S.A.
13. mfH: Medicina Futura Homoeopathy, 1-
2-217/7, Gaganmahal Road,
HYDERABAD - 500 029.
14. NEJH: New England Journal of
Homoeopathy, 356, Middle Street,
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AMHERST, MA 01002, U.S.A.
15. NJH: National Journal of Homoeopathy,
Milan Clinic, Saraswati Road, Santa
Cruz (W), BOMBAY -400054.
16. RBH: Revue BeIge d' Homoeopathie,
Editor: Ch. Schepens, rue Groselnberg,
39, 1180 BRUSSELS, Belgium.
17. SIMILLIMUM: The Journal of the
Homoeopathic Academy of Naturopathic
Physicians, 11231 SE Market Street,
PORTLAND, OR 97216, U.S.A.
18. VI: Vital Informer: ED-94, Tagore
Garden, NEW DELHI -110027.
19. ZKH: Zeitschrift fur Klassische
Homoopathie, Karl F. Haug Verlag, 6900
HEIDELBERG 1 , GERMANY.
PART II
1. Additions to the Repertory:
Tuberculinum SANNAN, Robert
(HLK, 2, 211993)
(Robert SANNAN has collected from
H.C. ALLEN's Materia Medica of the Nosodes,
and C.M. SOGER and proposed these additions
to KENT's Repertory. A random check reveals
that many of these are not found even in
SCHROYENS' Synthesis. The 'page' column
refers to KENT's Repertory; the numbers in
parentheses following the symptom denote the
symptom number in H.C. ALLEN's Materia
Medica of the Nosodes; letter (S) denotes C.M.
SOGER. = K.S.S.)
PAGE RUBRIC
MIND
4 Anxiety (1 )
7 Anxiety, future about (16)
12 Complaining (22)
13 Concentration difficult (15)
14 Confusion (38)
17 Dazed (38)
17 Death, desires (47)
18 Delirium (43)
25 Delusion, enlarged, persons are (B)
33 Delusion, strange, familiar things seem
(B)
43 Fear at night (48)
43 Fear Cats (B)
44 Fear evil, impending, to family (B)
48 Fight, wants to (13)
49 Frightened easily (27)
54 Indifference (B)
56 Insanity (45)
61 Lamenting (26)
63 Loquacity, changing subject quickly (B)
67 Moaning (3)
68 Morose (19)
70 Quarrelsome (22)
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72 Restlessness (26)
72 Restlessness, evening, aroused, when
(29)
74 Restlessness internal (26)
75 Sadness (B)
78 Sensitive, music, to (B)
79 Sensitive noise, to, music agg. (B)
80 Shrieking, convulsions, before (524)
80 Shrieking, dreams, during (491 )
85 Sulky (20)
86 Talking, sleep, in (233)
88 Throws things at persons (13)
89 Unconsciousness (42)
93 Weeping, night (496)
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93 Weeping, causeless (22)
93 Weeping, fear, with (496)
VERTIGO
96 Morning (49)
97 Bending forward (49)
98 Dinner, after (49)
99 Headache, during (54)
102 Nausea, with (49)
103 Rising from stooping (49)
HEAD
107/ Beats strikes, against wall, floor or fists
231 524)
110 Congestion (62)
120 Hair, pulls the (B)
120 Hair sticks together (90)
121 Heat (50)
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121 Heat, evening (50)
122 Heat, flushes of (50)
122 Heat, flushes of, dinner, after (50)
128 Inflammation, meninges (87)
129 Looseness of brain, sensation of (65)
136 Pain, air, open, amel. (69)
139 Pain, epistaxis, with (60)
143 Pain, motion, agg. (63)
150 Pain, vomiting, with (64)
150 Pain, vomiting, amel. (187)
151 Pain, wandering (67)
152 Pain, wrapping (8)
153 Pain, brain, deep in (8)
154 Pain, forehead, deep in (51)
159 Pain frontal eminence, right, ext.
occiput (81 )
165 Pain occiput, ext. to forehead (51 )
167 Pain sides, lying: side lain on (64)
168 Pain side, mastoid, left, ext. right side
(73)
169 Pain, temples, deep in (51)
172 Pain vertex, heat, sense of with (51 )
172 Pain vertex noise, from (8)
181 Pain cutting, forehead, eyes,
above, right (79)
200 Pain, pressing, vertex (52)
201 Pain pressing, vertex, inward (8)
203 Pain, shooting, occiput, ext. spine,
down(66)
222 Perspiration, night (515)
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231 Striking head against wall, etc. (524)
232 Swollen, distended feeling (80)
EYE
238 Dullness (93)
239 Eruptions, lids, on, herpes, conunctivitis,
with (100)
241 Heaviness (93)
243 Inflammation, conjunctiva, right (92)
247 Nodules in lids (98)
247 Opacity, cornea (97)
266 Styes, upper lid, right eye (102)
267 Swollen lids (91 )
270 Vesicles on cornea (99)
VISION
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282 Loss of vision, headache, during (53)
EAR
287 Discharges, painless (111 )
287 Discharges yellow (109)
301 Noises, rushing, heavy head, with (105)
308 Pain, aching, teeth ache, with (108)
NOSE
325 Coryza (113)
327 Coryza fluent (124)
331 Discharge, grey (125)
333 Discharge, viscid (114)
333 Discharge, yellowish green (114)
338 Heat in (126)
349 Sneezing (123)
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FACE
355 Cancer, lupus(467)
356 Chapped lips(158)
357 Convulsions (133)
359 Discoloration, brown patches (459)
365 Dyness, lips (150)
366 Eruption, nose, inside (131)
367 Eruption boils, nose, tip of (122)
368 Eruption crusty, scabby, nose, inside
(128)
373 Eruption, vesicles, black, lips (151)
373 Erysipelas (132)
375 Falling moustache (136)
393 Swelling oedematus (129)
MOUTH
397 Aphthae (148)
397 Aphthae, tongue (148)
402 Discoloration, tongue, white (156)
404 Dryness, thirstless (158)
405 Granulations, palate (152)
406 Inflammation, gums (142)
407 Mucus, blood streaked (154)
412 Pain, burnt, as if, tongue (157)
414 Pain sore, tongue, tip (157)
421 Swelling, gums, sense of (143)
422 Taste, bitter (155)
425 Taste, purulent (147)
425 Taste, saltish (147)
TEETH
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431 Dentition slow (393)
431 Discolored, greenish (581 )
432 Looseness, sensation (139)
432 Many, too; jammed together,
sensation (10)
447 Sordes (141 )
THROAT
448 Choking (169)
453 Hawks cheesy lumps (B)
453 Inflammation (166)
454 Inflammation tonsils (166)
457 Mucus, drawn, posterior nares, from
(174)
457 Mucus, eating, after (127)
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459 Pain, swallowing (172)
460 Pain, burning (168)
461 Pain, burning ext. to ear (106)
461 Pain, burning, oesophagus, eructations,
from (201 )
467 Pain splinter, as from a (175)
467 Pain, splinter, as from, swallowing agg.
(175)
466 Scratching (162)
470 Tumour, in, sensation as of a (165)
STOMACH
479 Appetite, ravenous, eating does not
amel.(184)
480 Aversion, coffee (181 )
485 Desires fat (8)
486 Desires warm water, thrist not
quenched; but (207)
488 Emptiness, eating, after (208)
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489 Emptiness, stool, before (204)
489 Eructations (185)
498 Fullness (185)
501 Heaviness, morning (191 )
505 Nausea (186)
510 Nausea, thirst increased (195)
517 Pain, cramping (193)
522 Pain, pressing, as from a weight (192)
523 Pain Stitching (198)
528 Thirst, vehement, morning (180)
529 Thirst extreme (180)
529 Thirst, small quantities, for (159)
530 Twisting (204)
533 Vomiting, eating, after (190)
533 Vomiting, headache, during (187)
ABDOMEN
541 Clothing, sensitive to (226)
542 Constriction (211 )
545 Distention (226)
547 Eruptions, pustular (218)
547 Eruptions rash (463)
549 Fullness (221 )
561 Pain, thirst, with (213)
565 Pain, ileo-caecal region (216)
568 Pain, liver (214)
573 Pain, bursting (227)
574 Pain, cramping (210)
582 Pain, dragging, bearing down,
hypogastrium (254)
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585 Pain, lancinating, spleen (214)
600 Rumbling (222)
603 Swelling, spleen (230)
RECTUM
606 Cholera infantum (260)
608 Constriction (234)
610 Diarrhoea, morning, 5 a.m. (245)
619 Haemorrhage (261 )
624 Pain. cough, from (243)
630 Pain, tearing, coughing, on (243)
630 Pain, tenesmus (238)
630 Pain. tenesmus, motion agg. (244)
631 Pain, tenesmus, stool, during (240)
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633 Urging, constant (237)
STOOL
637 Dry (232)
637 Forcible (387)
640 Odour, cheese. rotten like (257)
643 Watery (249)
644 Yellow (253)
BLADDER
657 Urination, feeble stream (262)
661 Urination retarded; stool, while pressing
at, urine, can pass, only (262)
URINE
682 Bloody (269)
691 Sediment yellow, reddish (272)
GENITALIA
702 Pains, testes (274)
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702 Pains spermatic cord, left (274)
705 Pains drawing, spermatic cord. left (B)
710 Seminal emissions. dream, without
(275)
710 Seminal emissions. erections, without (
275)
721 Leucorrhoea (282)
721 Leucorrhoea, acrid (288)
721 Leucorrhoea, brownish-yellow (288)
721 Leucorrhoea copious (288)
722 Leucorrhoea offensive (288)
726 Menses dark (286)
727 Menses offensive (286)
728 Menses scanty (286)
732 Pain, ovaries, menses, during (277)
736 Pain burning (281 )
736 Pain, burning, ovaries (284)
737 Pain, cramping, uterus (283)
LARYNX
746 Constriction, larynx (169)
749 inflammation, larynx (291)
756 Swolien larynx (291)
758 Tickiing, throat-pit (163)
758 Ulceration, larynx (291)
RESPIRATION
766 Deep (317)
775 Panting (316)
COUGH
787 Dry, night (308)
804 Sleep, preventing (305)
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808 Tickling, throat-pit, from (163)
811 Whooping cough (307)
EXPECTORATION
814 Copious (314)
818 Puruient (304)
820 Watery (314)
CHEST
823 Anxiety, hean (373)
830 Eruptions, rash (463)
833 Haemorrhage (353)
834 Heal (325)
827 Constriction, iower (327)
836 Inflammation, iungs (360)
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836 Inflammation, pleura (359)
841 Oppression, heart (394)
842 Pain, night (331)
845 Pain, wandering (373)
845 Pain, axiila, elevating arm, on, agg (337)
845 Pain, clavicle, below, coughing, on (341)
845 Pain, clavicle ex1 throat (343)
846 Pain, mammae, evening (276)
846 Pain, mammae, menses, beginning of
276)
846 Pain, sides, ex1 to back (328)
848 Pain, iungs, apex, radiating, axiiia and
arms (344)
852 Pain, aching, heart (397)
853 Pain, burning, air, open, amel (367)
863 Pain, stitching (326)
864 Pain, stitching, motion agg. (345)
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868 Pain, stitching, sides (330)
873 Palpitation, morning (393)
875 Palpitation, cough, during (312)
875 Palpitation, inspiration, deep, during
(340)
876 Palpitation, rising, bed, from (398)
877 Palpitation, vertigo, with (49)
878 Paralysis, heart (400)
BACK
885 Coldness, evening (494)
886 Coldness, up and down back (510)
887 Eruptions, boils, cervical region (414)
889 Eruptions, rash (455)
889 Eruptions, rash, cervical region (470)
889 Heaviness, cervical region, weight on
(B)
895 Pain, coughing, when (312)
901 Pain, cervical region, turning head (418)
909 Pain, lumbo-sacral region, menses,
during (277)
909 Pain, lumbo-sacral region, walking agg.
(278)
910 Pain, sacral region (242)
937 Pain, stitching, scapulae (408)
944 Prickling (406)
945 Shivering, ext. down back (514)
948 Swelling, glands, cervical (110)
948 Tension, cervical region (B)
949 Twitching, scapula (419)
951 Weakness, lumbo-sacral region (407)
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EXTREMITIES
952 Abscess, elbow (423)
955 Chilblains (459)
959 Coldness, hand, damp (288)
963 Coldness, foot, damp (288)
963 Coldness foot, evening in bed (478)
975 Cramps, calf (445)
979 Discoloration, hand, blueness (230)
981 Discoloration, fingers, tips, bronzed
(451)
983 Dislocation, sensation, wrist (424)
992 Eruptions, wrist right, (471 )
993 Eruptions, hand, boils, right hand (464)
997 Eruptions, lower limbs, burning (465)
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997 Eruptions, lower limbs, cold bathing
amel. (465)
997 Eruptions, lower limbs, eczema (465)
997 Eruptions, lower limbs, moist (465)
1001 Eruptions, leg, eczema (465)
1001 Eruptions, leg, itching (465)
1001 Eruptions, leg, moist (465)
1006 Formication (433)
1047 Pain, bones (441)
1066 Pain, bones, leg, walking, after (441 )
1086 Pain, aching, hip (429)
1084 Pain, aching, forearm (422)
1181 Perspiration, hand, cold (512)
1212 Trembling, hands, headache, with (82)
1215 Twitching (440)
1226 Weakness, upper limbs (426)
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1230 Weakness, knee, morning (517)
1231 Weakness, leg, morning (517)
1232 Weakness, foot, morning (517)
SLEEP
1235 Disturbed, 3AM, after (480)
1235 Disturbed, dreams, by (482)
1236 Dreams, anxious (482)
1239 Dreams, family in danger (488)
1240 Dreams, frightful (482)
1243 Dreams, sad (482)
1243 Dreams, shame, of (482)
1247 Restless (483)
1248 Sleepiness, morning (476)
1252 Sleeplessness (82)
CHILL
1276 Warm room, not amel. in (75)
FEVER
1279 Evening (384)
1280 Alternating with chills (491 )
PERSPIRATION
1294 Night (504)
1297 Exertion, slight (506)
1300 Profuse, walking, while (509)
SKIN
1307 Discoloration, tans unduly in Sun (385)
1307 Discoloration, yellow, jaundice (460)
1310 Eruptions, burning (465)
1312 Eruptions, eczema (465)
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1312 Eruptions, eczema, cold bathing amel.
(465)
1318 Eruptions, rash, red (448)
1318 Eruptions, scaly (469)
1319 Eruptions, stinging (475)
1326 Indurations, nodules (449)
1327 Itching, evening, in bed (453)
1338 Ulcers, swollen (529)
GENERALITIES
1344 Air, open, desire for (112)
1344 Air, open, draft amel. (B)
1359 Faintness, morning (517)
1366 Heat, flushes of, eating, after (499)
1367 Induration, glands (84)
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1368 Inflammation, glands (526)
1371 Lie down, inclination to (17)
1399 Shocks, electric-like (466)
1400 Shuddering (467)
1407 Touch agg. (75)
1414 Weakness, morning (517)
1417 Weakness, exertion, from slight (519)
1420 Weakness walking, from (519)
1421 Weariness, morning (76)
1422 Wind (B)
2. Small Remedies in Everyday Practice
David WEMBER (JAIH, 87,3/1994)
[David WEMBER's interesting
presentations on small remedies appeared in
OHD VOL.X, No.4/1993 and Vol.XI No.1 &2/94.
A third article is presented here: K.S.S.]
I would like to talk about remedies I
have learned to use in the past several years.
Most of these are small remedies which I have
found quite useful in acute situations. Often
specific rubrics have led me to these remedies.
One of the special qualities of Homoeopathy, for
me, is how a strange, rare, and peculiar
symptom can make a difference in finding
the correct remedy. Obviously, the practitioner
must pay attention to the entire picture, yet
these small differences allow us to experience
the uniqueness in each patient-human being.
Let me begin by talking about several remedies I
have used for asthma.
We all know how disruptive wheezing
can be to someone's life. Sometimes it occurs
only in a specific situation. A patient recently told
me she cured her allergy to dust. She was in a
health food store and told them she became
asthmatic everytime she dusted. The proprietor
looked up his computer program and said that
Pothos foetidus was the only remedy listed for
that condition. She took the remedy and can
now clean house without wheezing. We never
stop learning from our patients. They are often
our best teachers. Remember the keynotes of
Pothos: asthma relieved by stool; a red,
butterfly-type rash across the bridge of the nose,
like that in Lupus; and an overlooked symptom,
severe tension and tympanitis in the abdomen,
often described as "hysterical tympanitis."
Another remedy involves an allergic
sensitivity to horses. I have had several cases of
asthma related to horses that have been cured
by Castor equi
. This remedy comes from the
rudimentary thumb-nail of the horse. I can think
of one particular teenager who very much loved
to ride, yet she was having great difficulty just
being around her horse. She needed an inhaler
everytime she entered the barn. With this
remedy, Castor equi, she was able to continue
her riding without the need of drugs. Sometimes
the sensitivity is due to the mold in the barn. For
this, I can't give you a ready solution.
I often see patients, especially young
patients, with exertional asthma. As in other
asthmatic conditions, it is always important to
identify and eliminate the offending allergens;
most often dust, mites, mold, foods, etc., In the
past I talked about Ichthyotoxin, Eel serum,
which is called the Digitalis of the kidneys.
Aspidosperma, from Quebracho, is called, by
HALE, the Digitalis of the lungs. One of its main
symptoms is exertional dyspnoea, like Lobelia
inflata. I use it in the tincture.
In congestion, the first thing I ask my
patients to do is to stop eating dairy products.
HAHNEMANN was not opposed to proper
nutrition. The high molecular weight proteins,
like casein and whey, are often allergenic and
cause congestion. Some extra Vitamin C acts as
an antihistamine. I use these as adjuncts to the
remedies. If you did nothing else but stop dairy
products, it is my opinion that 50% or more of
these children would cease their recurrent
congestion and otitis media. When a dairy-
sensitive child is doing well and suddenly comes
down with congestion, I question the mother
carefully. Often the child has either gotten
icecream at a school birthday, or the father, who
doesn't believe in this, sabotages the program,
or the grand-parents took care of the children for
the day. It is difficult to change the habits and
attitude of grandparents.
One of the remedies that has cough on
lying down is Sticta pulmonaria. It has a short,
dry, hacking, incessant, annoying cough. It
doesn't necessarily wake the child up. It hurts
the parents more than the child. They hate to
hear the child coughing. A dose of Sticta makes
very appreciative parents. Sticta is listed
for"housemaid's knee". It is useful for chronic
synovitis of the knee, like Calcarea fluorica, and
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can be helpful for rheumatism of the small joints,
like Viola odorata and Caulophyllum. A patient of
mine once took Caulophyllum, herbally, to abort.
She developed severe knee pains while taking
the remedy, which persisted for a long time
thereafter. Add Caulophyllum to the rubric: knee
pain. It has helped me in several other cases.
For chronic knee pain try Niacinamide, Vitamin
B3. I don't know the physiology behind it.
Jonathan WRIGHT suggested it at one of his
nutritional seminars, and it works.
Another cough remedy that I have used
in the past, mostly for hay fever, is Aralia
racemosa. It too has the cough on first lying
down. But more specifically, it is aggravated
after the first sleep. It keeps the parents awake.
Aralia also has asthmatic symptoms, and waking
up with wheezing after first sleep is a good
indication for Aralia. Lachesis has cough and
wheezing at night; the classic sleeping into the
aggravation. It is usually later on at night, and
the cough doesn't necessarily wake the person
up. A sound-alike remedy, Aranea diadema,
from the spider, has been very helpful in heel
pain, pain in the os calcis, as from bone spurs. It
is worse, especially on first motion. Pulsatilla
and Valeriana can also be considered in this
condition.
Patients also talk about a cough excited
by tickling or irritation in the throat, which seems
to be a generic term in this instance. One has to
be more specific. Is it in the pharynx, larynx,
trachea, bronchi, chest, etc? Senega has a very
irritating, scraping sensation high up in the throat
and fauces, and it is often used in elderly people
with chronic coughs. NASH says it's useful in
obstinate coughs of old people with difficult
expectoration. It has peculiar symptoms of
catarrh of the chest alternating with diarrhoea
which once led me to the cure of a case.
I had a patient with a post-influenzal
cough lasting two months. After using many
remedies to no avail, I finally cleared the cough
with Cimicifuga racemosa. This remedy has a
very dry, short, cough, with irritation from a dry
spot in the larynx and marked aggravation from
talking. Spasmodic coughs often yield to
Hyoscyamus, when other remedies fail, as does
frequent urination from bladder irritability.
Hyoscyamus is similar in its nature to
Belladonna, in being able to relieve the spasms
of smooth muscle. Likewise, on an emotional
plane, Ignatia will cure the nervous cough of
globus.
This reminds me of a special use of
Belladonna in the spasm of circular smooth
muscle, like bile ducts, where, as KENT says, in
gallstone colic, it relaxes the muscles of the bile
ducts allowing the stone to pass. DEWEY says
the same of Dioscorea villosa. The patient will
be forever grateful. Cholesterinum has also
been a powerful remedy for me in this regard.
It is most frequent to have a cough that
is loose in the morning and tight in the evening
or at night. Ammonium muriaticum has the
reverse modalities dry in the morning and loose
in the afternoon and/or evening. Ammonium
muriaticum has several keynotes. One is
coldness between the shoulder blades. The
symptom I have used it for most frequently is
Sciatica, better only when lying down. It is
similar to Dioscorea in this respect. Remember
Aesculus hippocastanum for lumbosacral pain,
especially when standing.
Most coughs are worse lying on the left
side. I believe there is a physiologic explanation
for this. I had a patient who complained of a
recurrent severe cough every fall, often
progressing to Pneumonia. His strongest
modality was worse lying on the right. Stannum
metallicum cured the case. Most coughs are
worse lying down. Try Manganum or Manganum
phosphorica when better lying down. It also has
the hoarseness, worse cold and damp like
Dulcamara, and better lying down.
Coughs of gastric origin have been
helped with Sanguinaria, when the cough is
better after eructations or passing flatus.
Veratrum album, from the White Hellebore, has
a cough coming from deep in the abdomen,
better eructations, or with concomitant
diarrhoea. It is similar to Senega in its chest
symptoms, with lots of mucus in the bronchial
tree and difficult expectoration. It is also one of
the few remedies worse in a warm room or on
entering a warm room from the cold, like
Bryonia. I remember Dr. Rood discussing
Veratrum viride, from the White American
Hellebore. It has rapidly progressing lung
congestion, dyspnoea, heaviness of the chest,
livid and bloated fauces, and drop in blood
pressure. I suggest thinking about it for Adult
Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
Remember Castanea vesca for its short,
tight, "ringing," cough; Coccus cacti for its
spasmodic cough, tinuous "minute gun" type
cough during the daytime and whooping-type
cough at night. Corallium has a profuse
postnasal drip which is a good keynote for this
remedy. Recently, a patient of mine had
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bronchitis. She told me she felt as if there were
a long, thick string of mucus hanging down the
back of her throat. Corallium saved the day.
Antimonium sulphuratum and Lemna minor also
should be considered in postnasal drip.
Naphthalinum is another hayfever remedy that is
efficacious in long-contimued paroxysms of
cough, worse at night, with tenacious mucus,
and inability to catch the breath, worse
inspiration, like Bromium, Manganum, and
Rumex. Mephitis has severe, suffocative
coughing spasms at night, with contraction of
the glottis, worse expiration, Cough "till blue in
the face" is BOERICKE's description of Mephitis.
I always ask my rheumatic patients to
refrain from eating the nightshade family of
foods: tomatoes, white potatoes, green peppers,
and eggplant. These foods have been
associated with arthralgic pains, and I have
found this to be true. Solanum Iycopersicum,
from the tomato, has many arthritic-type
symptoms in it. I have successfully used it in
right-sided pains, like Sticta. KENT lists it for
paresthesias in the ulnar distribution. In
fibromyalgia-type symptoms remember
Rhamnus californica and Cascara sagrada,
especially when associated with constipation.ln
a speech I gave several years ago in Ohio, I
talked of Sarcolactic acid as an acute flu
remedy. I suggest you also consider it for
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the type in which
there is recurrent sore throat, with achy, fiu-type
symptoms and malaise. I also talked of Formic
acid for chronic arthritis. Consider, too, Lactic
acid, in the differential for chronic arthritis.
I had a patient with a long history of
rheumatoid arthritis. She had been on plaquenil
for the past ten years, plus many anti-
inflammatory drugs. It had always flared in the
winter for which she was given steroids. The
most significant part of her past history was
recurrent Strep infections throughout childhood.
I gave her Streptococcinum 1OM, one dose.
She was about thirty percent better from that
single dose, despite the heavy allopathic
medications. She did not need steroids that
winter. I remember a homoeopathic doctor in
Michigan who was very successful in treating
arthritis with homoeopathic bacterial nosodes.
Recent literature has shown positive
identification of bacteria and viruses in the
synovial tissue of arthritic joints. If we could
identify this early in the disease, what benefit
might we bring to mankind!
I am indebted to a patient for helping me
to find a remedy that I now use more frequently
in my practice. She was a thirty-five year-old
woman who came to me for chronic acne since
her teenage years. She worked in a veterinary
clinic and said that sometimes she went home
and her urine smelled like cats' urine. Now may
be that is not unusual for someone who works in
that occupation, but on checking the repertory it
led me to Viola tricolor. This remedy is quite
useful for acne and impetigo-like lesions about
the face, especially in children. When chronic or
recurrent pustular-type lesions do not respond to
the seemingly correct remedies, try a dose of
Arsenicum album. It has been my "sheet-
anchor"in this circumstance.
Anyone who has had children knows the
agony of the colicky baby. I have oft quoted the
old-time. statement that "Homoeopathy can rest
its laurels alone on Arnica." Second-best might
well be Chamomilla. To lower the pain threshold
in any illness, notwithstanding the colicky child,
is surely a blessing. Chamomilla has made
millions of grateful patients. But alas, when it
doesn't work, how can we individualize for the
correct remedy? Certainly Colocynth or
Magnesium phosphorica, with flatulent colic,
when the knees are pulled up and better with
pressure and/or heat on the abdomen. Stannum
metallicum saved me once, when other
remedies failed. It has that strong symptom of
better with hard pressure on the abdomen,
especially better walking with the child on your
shoulder, so as to put pressure on the child's
abdomen. Illicium, from anise, has a wonderful
track record for baby colic. Or Dioscorea, when
the child is worse bending double and is better
arching backwards. I remember Dioscorea
curing a case of renal colic with the two strong
symptoms being pain in the kidney region
radiating to the testicles and better bending
backwards. Have you ever noticed that colic is
usually worse in the evening, just as the father
comes home from work? What remedy has child
good all day and troublesome all night? If you
said Jalapa, then you have probably helped
many a colicky bady and frustrated parent.
Sinusitis seems to be increasing in
recent years. It is now thought to be the culprit
for asthma and even Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Two main remedies are Kali iodatum and
Arsenicum iodatum, especially when there are
thick, acrid nasal discharges. Arsenicum
iodatum has more glandular involvement and
night sweats. Kali iodatum has more acrid
discharges and pain at the root of the nose,
pulsating or lancinating in nature, extending to
the frontal sinuses. Sticta has dull pressure in
the forehead and fullness at the root of the nose,
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with dry nasal passages. BOERICKE says
Cochlearia, from the horseradish, has pressing
and boring pains in the forehead ''as if the frontal
bone would fallout". Cinnabaris, from mercuric
sulphide, has pressing pain above the root of the
nose and shooting pains in the bones of the orbit
"running from the inner to the outer canthus."
Several years ago a patient of mine
called to say that for the past week he had been
experiencing chest discomfort while mowing the
lawn. He was a pleasant, mild-mannered, mostly
sedentary sixty six-year-old male. I immediately
sent him to a cardiologist. Two days later he was
recuperating from triple bypass surgery. He has
continued to do well. Last spring, he called to
ask me to send him another bottle of his allergy
medicine, I told him, frankly, that I hadn't
remembered him having allergies. He reminded
me of the severe coryza he would have every
spring and fall, until he started using the
granules I gave him. I told him I would look it up
and send him some more. To my surprise, the
remedy was Bovista. This prescription was
based on the symptom, "nose obstructed, with
watery nasal discharge, only from the left side."
He had neglected to mention his allergies in
recent visits, since he experienced no troubles
while using the remedy. Last month, I treated a
woman for acute sinusitis. Her symptoms were:
pain in the left frontal and maxillary sinuses, with
obstruction of the left nose with fluent discharge
at the same time. I gave her Bovista and
awaited her call. The next day she told my
secretary the pain was all relieved.
3. BOOK SHELF:
1. The "Genius" of Homoeopathic
Remedies by Dr.S.M.Gunawante
B.Jain Publishers, New Delhi. 1995.
pp.Viii+611. Rs.150/-.
One has always been struggling to
grasp the essence of a remedy, expressed in as
few words as possible. The 'Key-notes',
'Essences' etc. were born this way. Gradually
these began to be misconstrued as the all of
that remedy. The fact remains that studying the
proving symptoms only will provide the correctly
matched remedy. Nevertheless, we do need
some basic information which will 'lead' us to
study a particular remedy in the Materia Medica.
Sri GUNAWANTE has been
endeavouring to help students of the Materia
Medica to grasp the essential features. His
latest book is the fruit of his study of years.
Sri GUNAWANTE rightly observes that
the 'Genius' of a remedy cannot lie in 'mentals'or
'generals' alone, but that even particulars,
modalities etc. can form part of the 'genius'.
Each remedy has been described under
the headings: keywords, synopsis, mind,
objective, causation, modalities,
cravings/aversions, male/female, child, peculiar,
uncommon symptoms. The information has
been drawn from a brilliant galaxy of great
authors. Of great interest is also the 129
exercise cases given, which aid the study and
daily practice.
No doubt this is a valuable addition
to the library of students and practitioners
alike. It will serve as well as a Desk Top
guide. The printing is good, but a work of this
type which will serve for years, surely deserves
better quality paper.
Very Warmly recommended.
K.S. SRINIVASAN
2. i. SAMUEL HAHNEMANN -
Krankenjournal D2 (1801 -1802) Nach der
Edition von Heinz HENNE. Bearbeitet von
Arnold MICHALOWSKI, Herausgegeben von
Robert JUTTE, 1993.
ii. Samuel HAHNEMANN -
Krankenjournal D5 (1803 -1806). Nach der
Edition von Helene VARADY, Bearbeitet von
Arnold MICHALOWSKI, 1991
iii. Samuel HAHNEMANN -
Krankenjournal DF5 (1837-1842)
Transkription und Ubersetzung von Arnold
MICHALOWSKI. 1992
Until recently the homoeopathic world
only speculated as to HAHNEMANN's own
practice, how he prescribed, what potencies he
used, how did he repeat, etc. Richard HAEHL
whose indefatiguable work in obtaining the
literary legacies of HAHNEMANN including the
case registers -all of which later found a safe
place in the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart -
gave us glimpses into the life of the Master.
However, with regard to the case registers he
said they were a source of homoeopathic
medical knowledge and treasure which would be
quite valuable for many years. HAHNEMANN
had left behind 54 case registers. So far the
interested persons could gain access to them in
the Institute for the History of medicine in the
Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart. Such
persons were quite few. Unless these were
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published the majority of the homoeopathis the
world over will be in the dark about
HAHNEMANN's practice. Personally, I was very
anxious that there was always the chance of
some of these, if not all, being lost due to
violence that seem to be onthe increase all
overtheworld.lfthese records could be published
and made available to homoeopaths they will
not be totally lost. In my personal letters to some
colleagues in Germany I was suggesting this. It
was therefore of immense joy to me, a life-time
fulfilment, when I learnt that the well-known
publishers of homoeopathic literature, Messrs.
Karl F. Haug Verlag, Heidelberg undertook the
work of printing several volumes of this treasure.
Robert Bosch Foundation came forward to
fund the entire project. Then came the problem
of finding competent persons who will be able to
read the manuscript and interpret correctly.
While the entire project.Y"as upon the shoulders
of Prof. Dr. Phil. Robert JUTTE, the
responsibility for transcription and editing was by
Dr. Arnold MICHALOWSKI.
It was resolved that the first of these
publications would be released in the year in
which the 46 LlGA Congress met in Germany, in
May 1991. Accordingly the first publication came
out in 1991. This book -D5 -pertained to the
years 1803-1806), when HAHNEMANN lived in
Wittenberg and Dessau (1803-1804), Torgau
(from 1805).
In 1992 the next volume-DF5 -pertaining
to the period 1837 -1842, when HAHNEMANN
practised in Paris, was published. In this period
the case register was in French; the editors have
therefore given German translation.
In 1993 the register 02 pertaining to the
period 1801 -1802 when HAHNEMANN lived in
Molln, Machern, Eilenburg, was published.
Further volumes are awaited.
Study of these volumes in depth require
long hours to obtain information as to the
remedies used, the potencies, the repetition, the
patients whom HAHNEMANN treated. etc. etc.
Hopefully I will be able to provide some glimpses
of these volumes in the ensuing numbers of the
Quarterly Homoeopathic Digest (QHD)
- K.S. SRINIVASAN
3. Herings Medizinische Schriften - in
drei Banden, Herausgegeben von Dr
.med.Klaus - Henning GYPSER. 1638 pages,
Ulrich Burgdorf, Gottingen, 1988.
Let us now come to the foremost of the
disciples of HAHNEMANN, Constantin HERING.
To this day there has been none who
excelled HERING in every aspect of
Homoeopathy - Propagation, Teaching,
Provings, Organising, Literary works. A full,
detailed biography of this colossus of
Homoeopathy does not appear to have been
published; chronological listing of his works is
also lacking. The slim volume by Calvin
B.KNERR, 'Life of Hering' is too brief. It is also
not clear whether all the letters, notes, etc. of
HERING have been scanned through, and
whether these are still in safe custody and
ifsowhere. We know that a good part of
HERING's library including his collection of
PARACELSUS'works was donated to the
Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia.
In this regard, Dr.K.-H.GYPSER's
editing of the complete German Writings of
HERING, is most welcome. GYPSER has
collected all the published articles, arranged
them chronologically and the well - known
German Publishers, Ulrich-Burgdorf, Gottingen,
have published these in three volumes in 1638
pages! (Vol.l, 422 pages, Vol.ll, 508 pages, and
Vol.III, 708 Pages.) Of these 1148 pages are in
Gothic script and it takes time to read this script.
The articles - there are 96 articles in
these 3 Volumes - cover History, Philosophy,
Therapeutics, Materia Medica, Provings,
Repertory, Profession, etc.etc. All these are
very relevant even today, it is a treasure
house. I give below the titles of the articles and
as and when possible, and if colleagues so
demand, intend to translate at least some of
these for the benefit of individual readers in the
future numbers of the QHD.
1. Letter Communications (from
Dr.Constantin HERING to Dr.STAPF. 28 Sept.
1827)
2&3. Communication on the Lepra,
native to Surinam, and its homoeopathic cure
from letters of Dr. Constantin HERING in
Paramaribo, Surinam.
4. Cure of a Haemangioma.
5. Some observations on the quarrel
between the therapists and pathologists.
6. On the Snake Venom.
Lachesis trituration
First experiment -1 grain of 1/100 in half
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a cup of rain water.
Second experiment -1/100 1/2 grain in a
cup of rain water.
Third experiment -1 grain Lachesis
1/1000
Fourth experiment.
7. The story of the bite of
Trigonocephalus lachesis in Surinam, observed
by Dr. KUHN (See "Hippokrates, magazyn door
Sander en Wachter 5 Deel, Rotterdam, 1813".)
8. Additional observations on the Snake
Venom.
9. Fragmentary observations on
Hufeland's latest opinions on Homeopathy and
its founder.
10. The antipsoric medicines in their
relationship to Lepra -a contribution from West
Indies by Dr.Constantin HERING.
11. Fragments from lectures :
i. Some observations on the method of
study of the remedies and a diagnosis.
ii. On the drawing up of a disease
picture.
iii. On the book-keeping of homoepathic
physicians.
iv. On a collected edition of Materia
Medica.
12. On a proof of the drug indications
13. What is wrong with the profession in
practising beneficially the homoeopathic healing
art?
14. A survey of the whole treasury of
medicines - A provisional attempt as guide to
artistic experiments.
15. Casual reflections on the Hypothesis
and Experiment, Miasma and Contagion,
Pathogenesis. patho-erodus, besides different
significantly new ideas.
16. Some observations on Psorinum.
17. About the repetition of the remedies,
and some useful supplements on War and
Peace.
18. Brief notes, extracts from Constantin
HERING's letters to the editor.
19. Supplement to the "Communications
from C.HERING's letters to the editor".
20. Philological annotations to the name
Psorin (Psorinum)
21. Brief remarks, excerpts, from
Constantin HERING's letters to the Editor
(Continuation).
22. The Snake Venom as curative
medicine. Supplement Case reports
Symptoms and indications of the Snake Venom,
a brief survey.
23. To the homoeopathic physicians. On
the advantages of the provings of new remedies.
24.Heat from distance, application for all
poisonous wounds.
25. The influence of mass.
26. Suppurations.
27. Demands.
28. Suppurations.
29. Symbols for indicating the
potentised medicines.
30. Communication with regard to
medicinal provings.
31. Observations on Charcoal.
32. Pointer for judging the Organon.
33. On the study of the homoeopathic
Materia Medica.
34. Introduction to JAHR's Handbook.
English-American edition as also criticism of the
German original.
35. Forward! by Dr.Constantin HERING
IN Philadelphia.
36. Milestones and Signposts for further
development of Homoeopathy. Written between
1833 to 1843
37. Open letter to the Meeting of
Homoeopathic Physicians in Magdeburg on 10
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38. The Milestones -Part II. What is
similar?
39. Observations on JENICHEN's high
potencies. Braunschweig, August 1845.
40. Continuation to the debate on
JENICHEN's high potencies.
41 .Correction.
42. Some recollections on the Scarlet
fever epidemics.
43. On the relationship of the plants and
their effects.
44. Remarks on the Citatenvisitation.
45. Proposal for improving the standard
of our medicines.
46. The pathological anatomy from the
viewpoint of uselessness.
47. The new drug provings.
48. Marginal notes to the Materia
Medica.
49. Cures with Fluoric acid.
50. Survey of our drug provings in the
order of the provers -a contribution to this history
by C.HERING.
51. What is Similar? The Milestone, Part
II.
52. Requirements for just judgement of
HAHNEMANN.
53. Introduction to the American
translation of JAHR's Symptomencodex. (an
exact copy of the original German)
54. The Times of the Day of the
Remedies
55. High Potencies.
56. A proposal from Dr.C.HERING.
57.Psorin and its chemical preservation.
58. Annually at the same time.
59. Reply to the "Open letter" in No.17
of the Volume 44 of the AIigemeine horn.
Zeitung, to Constantin HERING.
60. Protest against falsifying history.
61. The pathologising of the Materia
Medica.
62. For Comprehension.
63. Regarding the printing of the
American Drug Provings.
64. The Discovered Secret.
65. JENICHEN and no end!
66. Justifications for the scientific
proving of Snake Venoms.
67. Where is the proof for this
symptom?
68. The Dispute is over - why then the
shibboleth and for that an obscure one. For
discussion of GRAUVOGL's propostion, to strike
off Homoeopathy, in the Vierteljahrschrift XI"
479 by Dr.C.HERING.
69. Moves. Expansion of the studis of
Dr.ROTH in Paris.
70. Warning on the Paris "Lachesis".
71. Anecdotes from Life.
72. On Dr. KLEINERT's "Source Record
of the Physiological Drug Provings".
73. Historical comments on Euphrasia.
74. The Paris "Lachesis" and a proposal
for good.
75. Request for information.
76. LANGHAMMER and no end.
77. The pathological fear of
Hydrophobia.
78. The destruction of Trichnea by
Tellurium.
79. Announcement of a large collected
work of our Materia Medica.
80. The superficial and the intrinsic of
our Materia Medica.
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81. Address at the opening of the
Lectures on Therapy on 13 October 1864.
82. Some well-meaning words for the
beginners about our Materia Medica.
83. The New Editions of our Materia
Medica.
84. The sifting of the remedy indications.
85. Smelling and tasting.
86. The importance of complete
collection of symptoms.
87. The intentional distortion.
88. Our results.
89. Spongia in heart ailments.
90. Skirmishes in our East Coast.
91. To all friends of homoeopathic
medical art.
92. The Ant as medicine.
93. A hotch-potch for criticism.
94. Sulphur in Cholera.
95. VIRCHOW's verdict on "our future" a
textbook for physicians.
96. Dr.X. Y's inaugural address on
taking over as Professor of Homoeopathy in the
University of Strassburg in the year
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