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QUARTERLY HOMEOPATHIC DIGEST

VOL. XVIII, 2001

Lead me from Untruth to Truth

Lead me from Darkness to Light

Lead me from Death to Immortality

Adyaya I Brahmana 3 Mantra 28

(This service is only for private circulation. Part I of the journal lists the Current literature in Homeopathy

drawn from the well-known homeopathic journals published world-over - India, England, Germany,

France, Belgium, Brazil, USA, 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.)

Compilation, translation, publication by

Dr.K.S.Srinivasan,

1253, 66th Street,

Korattur,

Chennai - 600 080, India.

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INDEX

S.No Topic Page. No.

1 QHD, VOL. XVIII, 1 & 2, 2001 3

2 QHD, VOL. XVIII, 3 & 4, 2001 99

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1. QHD, VOL. XVIII, 1 & 2, 2001

Part I.- Current Literature Listing

Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homeopathy drawn from the well-known homeopathic

journals published world-over - India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, 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.

I. PHILOSOPHY

1. Gedanken zur ärztlichen Ethik

(Thoughts on Medical Ethics)

RENOLDNER Klaus (DH, 18/1998)

1. 83 year-old man severely ill; only skin and

bones,cachetic, high-grade heart insufficiency.

As I was preparing to begin to give him an

infusion he raised his arm with his last

remaining strength and shook his head

forbidding me from doing anything. Earlier he

had for long refused hospitalization. Now he

has directly refused medical help, while his

wife was requesting everything possible to be

done.

Whose request should I fulfill? I waited until

the patient again fell into half-sleep and then I

decided to respond to his wife’s request and

gave the patient the infusion. The wife’s

helplessness moved me very much and tat was

the motivation. (The patient later passed away

peacefully). The theme here is the balancing

between “absolute authority of the doctor” and

“absolute autonomy of the patient.”

2. An 85 year-old patient with multiple sicknesses

clearly said that he would not go to a hospital

anymore, but would be cared for only by his 80

year-old wife. He had a suspected Colon

Carcinoma. His wife did not want that to be

disclosed to her husband. Few months later an

acute intestinal block. I explained the situation

to both and aranged for an operations. After

brief preparation the patient was operated and

he survived for six months. In restropect: did I

do right in not insisting upon the operation

earlier. We do not know. The theme in this:

We should beware of arrogance of our

knowledge. We are not prophets.

3. We are not always, in our practice, giving full

concentration and capability and feel empathy

with our patient. Often we are very tired or do

not take much care.

40 year-old female patient, a peasant. She was

very tried with farming,, household and care of

sick parents. She was much afraid that she

may not be able to carry on like this. I was so

much touched by her situation that tears welled

up in my eyes. It was clear to me that

here neither advice nor psychiatric remedies

were called for but only sympathy and

empathy. I let her tell her entire story. She did

so, thanked me and went. A month later she

came again. She felt that she was better. The

theme here is that we should let our patient let

out their inner feelings.

4. This was 20 years ago when I was a physician

in Paraguay in a development projects.

Tuberculosis was rampant there. A patient was

before me who had to be taken to a hospital for

treatment. The Chief of the tribe – Mbya

Indians did not allow this since it involved

taking the patient to another Indian

environment. That night I was witness to an

Indian ‘meet’ from a distant tribe and the tribe

with whom I was staying. For two hours there

was music, and dancing and then

everyone dispersed. The Indians had held a

healing ceremony that night in which many

Indian healers part-took.

Next morning the Chief said that I could take

the patient for treatment.We have to treat the

patient on line with his social and

environmental milieu.

2. Sind wir Ärzte oder Mediziner?

(Are we doctors or medical men?)

DREXLER Leopold (DH, 18/1998)

This is an essay on our role as doctors and also

as healers at the same time.

3. Von der Imaginaction und den Planeten?

(About Imagination and the Planets)

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MICHELS Hans Lothar (DH, 18/1998)

This interesting essay is about PARACELSUS

and the discovery of the Dynamis. The author

argues with relevant quotes that although

HAHNEMANN did not value much

PARACELSUS’ teachings, PARACELSUS is very

relevant to Homeopathy and the knowledge of

Dynamis.

4. Why Philosophy?

CROCE A J (HT, 19, 11/1999)

The author explains the significance of the

study of homeopathic philosophy for the

homeopathic students. She stresses that

homeopathic philosophy and “how to use the

remedies” aren’t two separate subjects, but one and

the same. There are three main reasons why every

homeopath needs a firm grasp of homeopathic

philosophy.

1. Because every action has a philosophy behind

it.

2. Because Homeopathy is a minority view.

3. So that we can do good Homeopathy.

5. Containing the Symptom’s Voice

BARZMAN A J (HOM. 76, 2000)

What would lead to the voice of symptoms

being hushed? What happens when that voice is

hushed? What possible effects on the patient follow

from this.

Limited self awareness within the practitioner. Lost

clinical opportunities due to this limited self

awareness.

Deleterious situations arising from the limited self

awareness Undesirable outcomes following

deleterious situations.

Boundary violation by the practitioner:

By actual physical/sexual acting out

By suggesting comments/conversations

By inappropriate self-disclosures

Undesirable outcomes from the above:

The patient could flee the treatment with the

practitioner and does not feel safe to consult with

another doctor also

The patient stays in the treatment with diminished

feelings.

The patient calls less

The patient comes less

The patient is less open

The patient is less motivated with maintaining

causes.

6. Symptoms and Symbols

JOHNSTON Linda (HOM, 76, 2000)

We live in a world of our own individual

symbols of our own making. As homeopaths, we

can use this process of symbols to help to find out

the patient’s remedy, T.

The philosophical moment of the 1800s called

romanticm is the first to hold a view which may

seem too obvious today that all symbolic language

addressed to a deeper, unconscious awareness in

human soul. Even Freudian Psychology nearly 70

years later, in its stress on what is most irrational in

man and its dependents on symbols is largely

indebted to the German Romantics of the early

1800s. From then FREUD worked with the novel

idea that humans use symbols in every area of their

life. He postulated that every part of human

behavior could be understood as logical if we

understood the meaning of a patient’s symbols to

him. FREUD gets the credit for this although

HAHNEMANN preceded him by nearly a century.

This brings us to the key feature the essence of

symbols - individuality. No two people use the

same symbol.

7. Samuel HAHNEMANNS Gratwanderung

zwischen Vereinfachung und Verifikation

(Samuel HAHNEMANN’s shifts between

simplification and verification)

WISCHNER, M. (ZKH, 44, 1 & 2/2000)

This article is an overview of

HAHNEMANN’s concept of Homeopathy.

Particularly striking is HAHNEMANN’s tendency

to simplification in almost every sector of his

teaching. The Vital Force is mentioned as an easy

answer to physiological questions. Only three

Miasms are held responsible for all diseases. The

elucidation with other concepts is restricted to the

formula:Correct = Homeopathy = HAHNEMANN,

and Incorrect = Remainder. Especially in Organon

5th edition there is a tendency to schematized

standardization of treatment. The positive point of

standardization is the simplification of therapy.

This facilitates the verification (or falsification) of

treatment results. HAHNEMANN just mentions

this epistemological model briefly. It is now for the

practitioners of Homeopathy to critically discuss

all these.

[There are homeopaths now who speak of many

‘Miasms’, for example ‘Ringworm’, ‘Typhoid’, etc.

Those who are one-up on HAHNEMANN are not

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wanting. It appears, however, safe to follow the

well-laid and well-trodden path = KSS]

8. The Doctrine of Signatures: a historical,

philosophical, scientific view (II)

C.RICHARDSON-BOEDLER

(BHJ, Vol. 89, 1/2000)

The first part of this article discussed the

history of the Doctrine of Signatures which was

given in the previous issue (QHD, XVII, 3 &

4/2000 under Philosophy). The second part as

follows: BACH developed a series of Flower

Remedies for emotional states. On the basis of the

Doctrine of Signatures, these can liberate the Vital

Force from an alien disease process or ‘archeus’.

An understanding of the role of the active principle

of a homeopathic medicine, in the physiology of its

source, may aid understanding of a curative action.

9. How Do We Acquire Knowledge Of our

Medicines?

KREISBERG Joel (SIM, XIII, 1/2000)

This article examines a variety of methods and

approaches to exploring the action of medicaments.

Two centuries ago, Samuel HAHNEMANN

developed a remarkable and innovative technique

called a “proving.” A proving is an investigation of

the action of a medicinal substance, undertaken by

healthy individuals. Aphorisms 121 to 140 of the

Organon of Medicine give specific instructions as

to the organization of what he outlined as a

hahnemannian proving. Recent homeopathic

literature discusses various other types of provings

currently being explored by contemporary

homeopathic communities. Alternatives to the

hahnemannian proving includes the dream proving,

both sleeping dreams and daydreams, and the

meditative proving. The herbal tradition of a

“journey,” a shamanic voyage to meet the plant

spirit, is very closely related to homeopathic

provings, and serves the same function. The

strengths and weaknesses of each of these types of

proving is the center of discussion of this article.

10. Contribuisão à compreensão da Teoria

Miasmática segundo Masi Elizalde

(A contribution to the understanding of the

Miasmatic Theory, according to ELIZALDE

Masi)

BAROLLO Célia Regina, RISALITI Flávia,

DE PRIVEN Sehrial Waisse (RH, 65, 2/2000)

The authors present the homeopathic doctrine

foundations according to Masi ELIZALDE, as a

contribution to the understanding of the miasmatic

theory of HAHNEMANN.

11. O vitalismo Hahnemanniano na prática clinica

Homeopática (The Vitalism of HAHNEMANN

in homeopathic clinical practice)

TEIXERIA Marcus Zulian (RH, 65, 2/2000)

The diseases genesis, for the Homeopathic

Science, comes from the Vital Force; the

homeopathic treatment aims to balance this vital

source. And what is this Vital Force? It is the

Spirit, the Soul, the Mind, or a primordial energy

responsible for the human beings life and health

care. Many doctrinaire misunderstandings come

from the incomprehension of the real meaning of

this Vital Force; beginning from the understanding

of the disease process upto the therapeutic

propositions for treating them. This may bring to

the homeopathic clinical practice aspirations that

HAHNEMANN does not expect to reach. In this

work we highlight the hahnemanniana Vital

Force’s main characteristic, making analogies of the

same with the several existing medical and

philosophic conceptions. Thus, we can visualize

the several currents that might have influenced

HAHNEMANN during the elaboration of his

vitalistic model. According to the several currents

studied, it is evident that for the organic disease

genesis is situated in the Vital Source. Tsni or chi,

linga sharina, tzetem, double electric, vital body

or ethereal body, all corresponding to the

Hippocratic, instinctive, automatic and intelligent

vis medicatrix naturae which, in its modus

operandi, is similar to the neural-immune-

endocrine-metabolic system studied by the

integrative physiology in the reactions to the stress.

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II. MATERIA MEDICA

1. Ammonium causticum

SCHOLTEN Jan (JH, 4, 1/2000)

Picture of Ammonium causticum

1. Total idealism: inclined to overlook the

negative side which results in disappointment.

2. Exhausted through ideals: disappointment

turns to discontent accompanied by bitterness

and resentment.

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3. Actively unforgiving: resentment expresses

itself in an extremely critical attitude towards

life.

4. Isolation without assertiveness: keep their

feelings to themselves, when they do it is in the

form of cutting and very cynical remark.

Expressions

Fears: Vague, unknown, life, strangers, future,

traveling, flying, open spaces, crowds, failure,

disease, operations, Cancer, death.

Dreams: lost in a large building and can’t get out of

it.

Mood: timid, uncertain, indecisive, listless,

disappointed, gloomy, suicidal.

Mental: confused, slow, orientation problems, lack

of concentration, forgetful, dementia.

Religion: magic, obsessive.

Contacts: reserved, closed, think long before they

speak, don’t say much.

Causes: neglect, abuse, incest, parents absent,

addicted or weak, loss of parents, and protectors.

Along with this Generals, Common complaints and

the Differential diagnosis between the Nitricums,

Acidums, Causticum, Natrums, Magnesiums are

given in a brief manner.

2. Themes and Cases of Laurocerasus

ACERMANN Christoph (HL, 13, 1/2000)

The many interesting themes that came up are

discussed in this article. Sources: STAPF,

HARTLAUB/TRINKS, HERING, Repertorium

(Synthesis; Additions of KENT, PHATAK),

Materia Medica: MEZGER, KENT, BOERICKE.

The two cases are from the author.

3. Eucalyptus

TALWALKAR Abhay (HL, 13, 1/2000)

The botanical features of Eucalyptus and its

use as timber, essential oils and as ornaments are

given. The characteristic of the tree is given in

detail.

4. Proving of Alnus rubra

VERVARCKE Anne (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Report of a proving of Alnus rubra. The

proving began in November 1996. It was double

blind in 30 potency. There were four female

provers. No proving data is given, but only a

distilled version of repertorial rubrics.

5. Proving of Fagus sylvatica

WICHMANN Jörg (HL, 13, 1/2000)

The proving was double blind in a 30 potency.

There were three provers: female, age 36, midwife;

Male, age 36, homeopath and nurse; male, age 38,

homeopath. The article is a summary which gives

the major items and symptoms of the original

proving in the exact words used and with no

interpretation.

6. Proving of Populus tremuloïdes

HARTOG D Hans (HL, 13, 1/2000)

The proving was double blind in a 30 potency.

Three provers were involved: two female, one male.

A summary of all the Mind symptoms and the main

remaining symptoms translated into repertory

rubrics are presented. The dreams are presented in

full text!

7. Proving of Salix alba

BALANCE Sue (HL, 13, 1/2000)

A translation of the proving into repertory

rubrics is presented in the article.

8. Proving of Sambucus nigra

BERNARD M Teresa (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Report of a proving of Sambucus nigra where

the translation of the proving into repertory rubrics

alone are given. Five female provers took part. It

was double blind in a 30 potency.

9. Homeopathic Proving of the Cola nut

(Cola nidata)

SCHUSTER Bernd (HL, 13, 1/2000)

The characteristics of the Cola tree and its use

are given. The high value placed on the drug in

Africa is illustrated by the ancient legend. The

main ingredient of Cola seeds is Caffeine and

Theobromine. Cola belongs to the group of drug

remedies. The full hahnemannian proving with 23

participants (1996, Germany) revealed feelings of

invincibility, the idea of being able to see through

the material person into the innermost being or read

a person’s thought, i.e., mainly divine qualities and

abilities which the provers ascribe to themselves,

thus demonstrating a delusion of grandeur. The

new remedy shows an effect on eating disorders

(insatiability and fear of being poisoned) mania and

hyperactivity, disturbances of sugar metabolism,

gastro-intestinal illness with diarrhea, problems

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with self-confidence, depression, sleepiness

(fatigue), anxiety dreams and migraine. A 28 year-

old woman with fear of being poisoned cured with

Cola is discussed in detail.

10. An Analysis of Betula alba

VERMEULEN F, VAN DER ZEE H, MEIJER

M, PELT M, VERHEIJ J (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Signature: a hardy but short-lived pioneer

VERMEULEN Frans

The description about the botanical features,

explanations for the name Betula, ecological

strategy of the species, the signature that though the

tree is short-lived, its oil imparts durability to other

substances were discussed. Medicinal value of the

tree, its use in copper refineries, as a protective

against evil spirits and evil eye, and also mentions

that it symbolizes fertility and love.

Toxicology

VAN DER ZEE Harry

Reports that the Betulacea do not contain

poisonous alkaloids, which means that there are no

strong toxicological effects to the nervous system in

Betula alba and the other betulaceae.

Proving by Study Group

PELT Margeurite

Proving results of eight provers were reported.

Mostly dreams of the provers have been discussed.

The themes of the remedy on the mind and physical

level are given.

Rubrics derived from the proving

MEIJER Marcel

Majority of the rubrics represents the mental

symptoms with few generalities.

Two cases of Betula alba have been reported

by Marguerite PELT and VAN DER WIEL - J V.

Synthesis:

VAN DER ZEE Harry

The author compares the Betula person to a

nurse who spends all her time and energy taking

care of others, she lacks the opportunity to develop

her own life, thus she remains in a larva like stage.

The pathology of the remedy is in the self-

sacrificing element. Just like a nurse who will not

bother the disabled person with her own complaints.

She will hide herself behind her white apron and put

on her professional smile.

On the physical level it is indicated in cases of

loss of too much fluid, like polyuria or

menorrhagia, with symptoms of weariness and

depletion.

Skin: eczema, psoriasis.

Extremities: arthritis.

11. Pseudotsuga menziesii - A Homeopathic

Proving

OLSEN Steve (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Since 1995 the author is involved in the study

of trees that grow in North America and found that

many of the conifers - Abies canadensis, Abies

nigra, Sequoia, Arbutus manziesii, Pinus contorta

have a very strong effect on the appetite.

The author also found that many of the people

that need one of the tree remedies have a profound

feeling of being isolated, and disconnected from

other people. Abies canadensis, Camphora, Thuja

are good examples.

Proving protocol

Proving started in February 1995, sixteen

provers participated. The provers were given

instructions to take three doses a day of the 30

liquid potency until symptoms started

.

Proving symptoms

This is not a complete list of the proving

symptoms.

Mind

Extremely quick to argue. Intolerant of people

so won’t return phone calls. Kicked the cat off the

bed. Anger, critical over small things, lashing out.

Others must agree to my domination. Nervous,

feels isolated, inferior, distant from people. People

don’t like me and I don’t like me and I don’t like

them.

Didn’t want to initiate a conversation, harder to

join the group of people that I usually talk with

them. Dream of killing someone. Closed to others,

oversensitive to criticism. Trying to be perfect.

Harsh self judgment.

There is no common link between me and

others, hard to fit in, to be accepted. Feel I am not

listened to, blame others for not giving me what I

feel I deserve and need. I want to jump and attack

people. Uncontrollable anger.

Head

Throbbing headaches

Nose

Sinuses are very painful

Face

Acne that is better from applying a hot cloth.

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Abdomen and Stomach

Unusually hungry after eating. I had a dream

that I ate until I felt nausea. I was worried that I

would not get enough.

Female

Menses scanty

Skin

Itching

General

More chilly and sensitive to cold .

A case of a 16-year-old female with late

menses and lots of emotional symptoms which

required a great deal of differential diagnosis

between remedies like Arsenicum album, Nux

vomica, Hyoscyamus, Platina, Palladium, Sulphur,

Aurum metallicum, Cyclamen, Hura, Natrum

muriaticum, Natrum carbonicum, China, Thuja and

Pseudotsuga. Tendency to overeat, acne, scanty

and painful menses lead to Pseudotsuga, in 30 to

take every two days for ten days and then every

three days for three weeks. For one year she had

her menses every two months regularly and she had

a dose of the same medicine again which made her

menses to appear regularly every month.

12. Athena, the maiden with owl’s eyes

VAN DER ZEE H (HL, 13, 2-3/2000)

Pelvic disorder particularly Symphysiolysis is

discussed in detail. It is said that the key to a better

understanding of the remedy Trillium pendulum

was cases of pelvic disorders. Two such cases are

presented. Pallas Athena is one of the Greek

Goddesses, and this is Trillium pendulum’s

patroness and the owl their symbol. In both the

cases the author brought out some relation with the

owl and Pallas Athena. Differential diagnosis

between Calcarea phosphorica, Murex, Sabina,

Aesculus hippocastanum and Bellis perennis were

made with regard to pelvic disorders.

Mind picture of Trillium pendulum

1. Controlled, composed, thoughtful, systematic,

well-behaved, conscientious, responsible and

intellectual people.

2. They are ambitious and do not like to be

dependent or restricted.

3. They have an aversion to being hindered or

stopped by bodily complaints.

4. They do not like childhood, but want to be

adult as soon as possible, to possess the full

capacity of their mind.

5. They want to be a good mother, but also having

children must not hinder them in pursuing their

goals, in having a career.

6. Very much oriented to intellect, with intellect

they control their emotions.

7. Dislike quarreling and do not allow themselves

to be carried away by their emotions which

helps in solving others conflict.

8. When a woman is so focused on her head and

intellect, pregnancy can be quite a challenge.

They have to bring their energy down to the

lower half of their body. Delivery is more

animalistic, quite opposite to their nature of

intellectual composure.

9. Pallas Athena is their patroness and the owl

their symbol.

13. A New Homeopathic Remedy:

Peganum harmala

TIRASPOLSKI L & TIMOFEENA T

(HL, 13, 2-3/2000)

This article is given to show the autonomous

development of Homeopathy in Russia and the

other Eastern European countries. Results from

proving and clinical experience of Peganum

harmala are given in detail. Peganum harmala is a

perennial herbaceous (grassy) plant with many

stems and a specific, acrid smell. Belongs to the

Zygophyleacea family. Peganin is the main

alkaloid. A toxic plant. In poisonous dose, it first

produces excitement with loss of self-control and

different mental disorders. After this, depression of

a different degree begins to develop. Four

homeopathic provings were made: in 1991, 1992,

1994 & 1996. Potencies used were 6 and 30.

Symptoms obtained from the provings.

MIND

Anger

Break things, desire to

Desire to kill

Desire to die

Delusion, the evil eye on him/her

Delusion, that he is vitiated by some other people

and his problems are result of vitiation

Delusion, that he/she is surrounded by energetic

vampires

Delusion, that energetic vampires get power and

energy from him

Delusion, he is a vampire

Delusion that he is an adept of the devil

Delusion, that he belongs to the devil

Delusion, that he/she belongs to the opposite sex

Desires alcohol

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Desires drugs

Desires smoking

Excitement

Fight, desire to

Hatred of mother

Hatred of close relatives

Indifference

Irritability

Love, homosexuality

Sadness

Strike, desire to

HEAD

Pain, occiput, lying down agg.

Pain, occiput, moving of the head agg.

NOSE

Eruption, pimples, with red blister surface on top

FACE

Eruption, pimples, chin on

MOUTH

Swelling of gums

STOMACH

Pain, sharp, cutting

Nausea

ABDOMEN

Pain, sharp, cutting

Pain, hypochondria, right

RECTUM

Constipation

Diarrhea, painless

MALE GENITALIA

Sexual desire increased

FEMALE GENITALIA

Menses, suppression of

Sexual desire increased

Sexual desire diminished

EXTREMITIES

Convulsions

Cramps

Twitching

SLEEP

Sleeplessness

Sleepiness

DREAMS

Devil, communication with the

Dead relatives, communication with

Death of his relatives

Homosexual, he is, and has homosexual contacts

Murders

Nightmares

Vampires

Woman, he is

SKIN

Eruption, pimples with red blister surface on top

GENERAL

Convulsions

Cramps

Twitching

A case of Congenital Adrenogenital syndrome and a

case of Diabetes Mellitus have been given to

substantiate the above symptoms. [No modalities -

temporal or spatial! Proving Symptoms must be

given as the Prover experienced. Not the ‘rubrics’

picked by the writer = KSS]

14. Amok - The Story of Stramonium

TAL Yaara (HL, 13, 2-3/2000)

The author talks about Stramonium, ‘Amok’

and the chess player - a Stramonium personality in

this article. The characteristics of Stramonium, a

Stramonium personality in everyday situations,

when he is in control and how does he react under

stress are detailed. ‘Amok’ is a short story by

Stefan Zweig. ‘Amok’ relates a conversation

between the author and a doctor on the deck of a

ship sailing from Calcutta to Genoa. The doctor’s

behavior bears striking similarities with the classical

Stramonium profile and the story includes

Stramonium elements which combine to create the

somber atmosphere typical of the Stramonium

picture. The author fishes out the Stramonium

elements from the story and gives various rubrics

for each situation.

15. Palladium

SHAH J J (HH, 24, 1/1999)

Mostly the mind symptoms of the remedy are

discussed. The emotional expressions and the inner

nature of Palladium are brought out. Graphic

representation of the mental symptoms are given.

16. Perceiving the Mind of Lilium tigrinum

SHAH J J (HH, 24, 1/1999)

Lilium tigrinum emotions typically resemble a

person whose life has been sexually restricted by

certain norms of the society. Increased sexual

desire leads to a phase of conflict of emotions

which in turn produces a sense of guilt and the

religious affections come up. To compensate the

guilty feeling they go to a phase of self-torture and

depression. The individual can be expressed in

three commonest ways:

1. Hurried, impatient behaviour

2. Extremely sensitive

3. Anger

Each symptom has been represented by many

repertorial rubrics which expresses the mind of the

remedy.

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17. Fahrt ins Staublose

ZILLER Hans (DH, 18/1998)

This is an interesting essay on some aspects of

Arsenicum album. The relevance of Jan

SCHOLTEN’S depiction of Arsenicum album

(Homeopathy and its Elements) is also pointed

out.

18. Cypripedium pubescens - eine

Arzneimittelprüfung. ( a drug proving)

(DH, 18/1998)

Proving was done in 1997 with 6 provers

( 1 male, 5 females ) Dr. Frauz SWOBODA was the

Master. There was also a 3 member Working

Group (West Austrian) who did a proving

independently under Dr. Mrs. Andrea

MARGREITER.

Following the symptom the first number given

in brackets indicates the Prover number and the

second number after the slash indicates the day on

which the symptom appeared. If more numbers

follow it means the symptom occurred on these

days too.

The Provers are numbered 1-6 ( 1 to 4 female,

5 and 6 male), the three Working Group Provers are

numbered T. 7, 8 (male) and T. 9 (female)

PROVING

MIND and EMOTION

1 Mood in the evening excited (2/01)

Colleagues thought they are work-mad,

subjectively they felt knocked out and weary

(2/02), Work-mad (2/06), (6/03 - this has

been closely noticed by the colleagues!)

Feels she could tear down everything,

Euphoric (4/06), (6/02)

5 Weariness, annoyance - nevertheless

“euphoric” (T9/01)

Knocked-out and tired (3/21) (2/02, 05)

Tired, work gives no fun, listless on forenoon

(1/07, 08, 10, 11)

Loaded with energy (1/03, 04, 05),

Excited (2/01, 10), (3/. . . ), (1/04, 08)

10 Quarrelsome (2/10)

Slip of the tongue - confuses words

(1/05, 06,...)

Hectic (1/05, 07)

Has the feeling that while her mind could take

much more work her body however is weak

(3/2/3)

HEAD

Agonizing, dull, frontal headaches beginning in

the mornings suddenly, lessening in intensity

slowly towards the evenings; lasted a

week without change (3/02 to 07), afterwards

headaches lighter and specially by afternoon -

at 12 day no headaches for the first time;

headaches better from cold.

15 Has the feeling that he must press the eyeball

to control the pains (3/03, 10)

Headache from the root of the nose to in the

back of the head (4/01)

Pressure over the left eye (4/02)

Pressure over both the eyeballs as if they

would pop out (4/02)

Again and again headaches (pressing

outward), suddenly beginning, slowly ending

(4/03 to 05, 18)

20 Severe, pressing headache at the forehead and

temples, more on the left (3/12) and pressing

pain in the right eyeball (1/13, 15, 19)

Heavy feeling in the head evenings, feeling as

if it has doubled in size (2/03)

Headache in the frontal region in the evening,

which is quickly drawn to the occiput, evening

again dull. Drawing in the forehead (5/06)

EYES

Left eye waters without any evident ground -

after 5 minutes again gone (5/05)

Pressing pain in the right eyeball (1/13,15,19)

25 Pressure on both eyeballs, as if they would

pop out (4/02)

EARS

Burning heat first in the left, then in the right

external ear also, the ears are swollen dark red,

feeling as if frozen (T7/01-05); sometimes it

appears in the evening.

NOSE

Repeated sneezing and blowing of the nose

with massive, watery secretion - almost 2 hours

nonstop (5/02, 09)

Continuous nasal flow, secretion clear, burning

and causing sore (2/01)

Nose totally blocked, secretion yellowish and

blocking along with the blocked ears (2/020

30 Left nostril blocked (4/01)

TEETH

Drawing, severe pain in the right upper jaw,

only during the forenoon (1/05, 07, 10)

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Sensitive neck of the teeth in the right lower

jaw (1/07)

Afternoon drawing toothaches in the right

upper jaw, continuously without let for an hour,

aggravated by biting upon it, spontaneously

passing off after an hour (6/22)

MOUTH

Bitter taste in mouth (2/01)

35 Sore feeling of the hard palate, in association

with burning pains; cold drinks ameliorate,

touch and eating aggravates, evenings the

complaints pass off again (2/10)

THROAT

Burning sensation in the throat (2/01)

Morning one o’clock - suddenly waking (2/02)

Stitching pains left tonsil (4/04)

Morning stitching pains in the throat right side,

pass away again (4/07), (1/02, 03)

40 On waking throat pains and scratching in the

throat warm milk and scarf ameliorates (6/15)

Itching of the right posterior nare, in the

morning, for 30 seconds (18/01)

CHEST

Intense palpitation (4/04)

Irritative cough, better from drinking water

(2/04)

Nightly irritation exciting cough at three

o’clock mornings, as if there was a feather in

the trachea, no sputum, ameliorated from

drinking and strolling about (6/23)

BACK

45 Drawing pain in the region of the left scapula

for an hour in morning (1/09)

Painless twitchings/cramps in the region of the

diaphragm, for 30 seconds (T8/07)

Dull pulling pain from nape left to the outer,

upper border of scapula left radiating, where

the pain was the maximum; amelioration from

pressure and massage of the upper border of

the scapula, aggravation from movement of the

head - bowing and sideways inclining

(5/07, 08)

For the first time hears a light scraping noise

when the head is moved rotatingly (5/08)

Heat sensation in the back, radiates to the back

of the head, with some perspiration in the back

(T9/02)

ABDOMEN

50 Diffuse, drawing - pressing pain in the

hypogastrium afternoon (1/02, 03)

Qualmishness without nausea (1/23, 24) (2/01)

Stomach pain after eating little (1/26)

Band like pain from touch in the region of the

11 and 12 rib ventral (2/03)

APPETITE

Marked desire for fruits (1/07)

EXTREMITIES

55 Tension in both little fingers (1/07)

Joint pain with swelling, livid discolouration

and isolated cold sensation in the right index

finger in the PIP - joint (1/18, 19)

Burning, ill feeling in the left hand, volar and

lateral from the base joint of the little finger to

close to the upper half of the wristwatch band -

has the feeling, that a wound is there (5/13)

Sore feeling in the right hand, from the wrist-

joint extending to 5 cm proximal, worse from

touch (5/14)

Creeping, partly burning sensation in the

anterior side of the right thigh for sometime

(6/02)

60 While walking very often for few minutes

sensation of warmth in the thigh (6/03)

SEXUAL ORGANS

Severe stitching in the region of the right vulva

(1/09)

MENSES

Menstrual bleeding came on about 13 days late

(3/13)

Menstrual bleeding heavier than normal and

whole day connected with increasing

abdominal pains; doubling up ameliorates

(3/14)

Menses bleeding came on about 3 days early

(25, day) - (6/06) or came on about 5 days too

early (6/29)

URINARY ORGANS

65 Increased micturition of small quantity (2/01)

Painless twitching/contractions in front in the

urethra, for 30 seconds (T8/09)

SLEEP

Wakes up at 5 o’clock for no reason (1/20,21)

Hourly waking without any cause - morning as

if fagged, dull feeling in head (6/20)

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Sleepless from 1 to 2 o’clock, on the next day

from 5 to 6 o’clock “cheerful”. No anger,

almost cheerful; although problems remain;

good disposition, unlike when she was lying

wakeful at night (T9/03 - 05)

70 Awakened from cough - see Chest

Summary of the Peculiar symptoms:

Mental and Emotional Symptoms:

A clearly marked energy changed state (4 provers),

almost euphoria, working capacity intensified

(partly observed by outsiders), alongside -

alternating - cheerfulness in work, depression,

tiredness (last one in physical level too with “mental

freshness” - 1 prover). As noted in the previous

provings, irritability - particularly often with

nothing (3 provers) - and quarrelsome.

General Symptoms:

A sudden beginning of the symptoms (headaches,

toothaches) first in mornings, slowly receding in the

course of the day or more days). This is a striking

“general”.

About character of the burning: a burning in small

body parts, has been noted as a “general” symptom

(throat, hands, feet, thighs), as also a pressing pain

(head, ball of the eye) and drawing pains (back,

abdomen).

Amelioration from pressure and warmth, the

modalities are not more pronounced, so also no

peculiar desires (desire for fruits was also with one

prover).

Regarding sleep: in 3 provers just as said in earlier

works sleeplessness or waking up without any

reason (2 provers), in one prover waking from

nightly cough at about 3 o’clock morning.

Local Symptoms:

Peculiarly pressing headaches, agonizing and dull

(5 provers), pressure sensation in eyes (3 provers),

burning throat pains (4 provers), tooth ache (2

provers). Further irritative cough (2 provers),

burning pains in limited body parts (3 provers).

19. Polychrests in Practice

WARKENTIN D K (HT, 19, 6/1999)

This article points out the importance of the

rare remedies. Most of us assume that remedies

become “polychrests” because they are more useful

than other remedies. It turns out that most people

will respond well to a wide range of remedies. If

we give Lachesis instead of what was needed, say

Hydrophis, we will usually get a good response.

The Myth about Polychrests is that: they are more

likely to act than a rare remedy. Our difficulty is

that we don’t have a good sense of the archetype or

the main pathology of the lesser known remedies.

The Polychrests are terribly, grotesquely over

represented in the repertory. This leads to very

misleading analysis. Some examples have been

given.

20. What to Expect When Seeking Professional

Homeopathic Care: Detective work, Natural

style.

ULLMAN Dana (HT, 19, 6/1999)

This article is worth reading as it deals with

how a Homeopath comes to know his patient and

10 important questions that are asked in case taking

are mentioned. A good homeopath does his work

very similar to a good detective who asks, what,

why, where, and when for each situation.

10 questions that Homeopaths usually ask are:

1. What are you most concerned about in your

health?

2. Tell me more about this problem?

3. What, if anything, makes this symptom or

group of symptoms better or worse?

4. What other symptoms are you experiencing ?

5. What, in general, makes you feel better or

worse?

6. What foods or drinks, if any, have you been

craving or been averse to?

7. Do you experience any symptoms in your head,

eyes, ears ...knees, ankles, feet?

8. What emotions do you feel most commonly

and most strongly?

9. Describe your mental state.

10. Is there anything that you can say to describe

any physical or psychological symptom or

characteristic?

The homeopath may concurrently order or

suggest various laboratory tests in order to properly

diagnose the patient’s condition. While such tests

are useful for proper diagnosis, such tests usually do

not play a significant role in determining the

appropriate homeopathic medicine.

21. All The Symptoms

HANSON (HT, 19, 6/1999)

An explanation has been given for what he

means by “All the Symptoms”. How can a

homeopath without gaining all the symptoms from

the patient is able to select a remedy - the one

incredible remedy that covers all the symptoms.

The One remedy that covers as many of the

symptoms as is possible to identify out of the little

that the practitioner has managed to recognize out

of the few that the patient has allowed him to see -

the symptoms the practitioner has successfully

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managed to convert faithfully and correctly to

rubrics, accounting for his own personal beliefs and

bias, his own lack of knowledge, his own ignorance,

his own woeful inadequacies. “Then this is the

remedy the practitioner has chosen out of the twenty

possible remedies, narrowing it down to a close

four, choosing the magic one by eliminating the

symptoms that don’t fit.

22. Gewürze als Heilmittel (Spices as Remedies)

SCHMID Bernhard (DH, 18/1998)

There are many substances in the

Homeopathic Materia Medica, drawn from the

world of ‘Spices’. These are used in the daily food

items of people in different countries - the most

common ones are Natrum muriaticum, Capsicum

for example. Remedies like these are well known to

all homeopaths and are used extensively.

However there are ‘lesser’ ones and these are

discussed in this article. Asafoetida, Cajeputum,

Allium sativum, Oregano, Absinthium, Artemisia

vulgaris, Sinapis nigra, Nux moschata.

The remedies with their differential diagnosis

are discussed. Case reports are also presented.

23. Osteomyelitis beider Unterschenkel - Heilung

durch Heloderma.

(Osteomyelitis of both tibia - Healing through

Heloderma)

MÜLLER Hugbald Volker (DH, 18/1998)

The author reports the successful treatment of a

case of Osteomyelitis of bilateral tibia.

The patient had suffered an accident in which

he suffered complicated fracture of both tibia. This

was 12 years ago. Now there is suppuration and

secretion grey-green, bad smelling, corrosive; high

fever. Has already consulted many specialists. Lot

of antibiotics with no benefit. Diagnosis Bilateral

Osteomyelitis tibia.

He also has a pain which comes only between

22 hours and 6 hours; the pain begins in the neck

and extends to the right eye and the eye felt as if it

would be pressed outward. Vomiting after which

some relief.

When he has these suffering more he strikes

himself severely with great rage and tears and

destroys things. He often wished to take his life

away. Sensitive to noise and can’t bear hot

weather. Desires open fresh air, wind. Can’t bear

bright light but soft light.

His liver was sensitive to pressure and an

overall sensitive abdomen.

He liked brown color.

A complete biopathographical history was

recorded and also his wife’s report.

Heloderma was the medicine that cured him.

(Dr.MULLER has linked the ‘colors’ and the

handwriting of the patients with specific

homeopathic remedies and he uses these also in his

remedy selections =KSS.)

The symptoms of Heloderma in this patient.

Preferred color: light brown

Mind: sudden rage, screams with rage, throws

things, hits his wife, tears and destroys his things,

beats himself, and has suicidal thoughts.

Realistic, would never go to fortune teller,

never made a horoscope or allowed his palm to be

read, believes in God and in the traditional

Godfather.

Can’t bear compulsion, cannot fall in line or be

subordinated neither in the Kindergarten or in the

Armed Forces.

Sensitive to every criticism, refers everything

to himself, feels that he has been taken advantage of

or cheated, insulted, denounced. No interest in

music.

Rapid alteration of mood.

25. Achillea Millefolium

WOOD Matthew (HT, 19, 7/1999)

This is an excerpt from the first seven pages of

The Book of Herbal Wisdom. Achillea

millefolium is commonly called as Yarrow. Its

habitat and the botanical origin and its uses are

discussed in brief. It is a powerful medicinal plant.

Yarrow is only slightly known in Homeopathy -

which calls it “Millefolium.” It received a modest

proving in the nineteenth century which justified the

traditional uses, but an understanding of its genius

and applications did not develop, so it is seldom

utilized in homeopathic practice at the present

time.

“Yarrow is the remedy for cuts to the bone, and

cuts to the third level of the blood,” Halsey

BRANDT gave an interpretation that “The

capillaries are the first level of the blood, the

arterioles are the second, and the arteries are the

third. Bleeding from the cuts stops immediately

and wound heals without complication. It is also a

good fever remedy. Its healing power in cuts,

wounds have been shown by various examples and

it is the remedy which stopped Dr. E.B. NASH’s

epistaxis. Learned about it from a lay herbalist - his

grandmother. Yarrow is also used to heal burns. It

is excellent for radiation burns and deeply

penetrating burns.

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25. Differentiating Belladonna from Stramonium

TAYLOR Will (HT, 19, 8/1999)

This article is an answer for the question - how

would you differentiate between a chronic picture

of Belladonna and Stramonium. Will says “that

when materia medica is taught, it be taught in a

manner that allows it to be dynamic rather than

static; perhaps it would be better to say that, rather

than teach materia medica, we should teach how to

study and understand materia medica. As Karl

ROBINSON stated so well, the listening and

analytical skills need to come first, because these

are what we need to understand and appreciate in

both our patient and our materia medica. The

difference between Belladonna and Stramonium are

made out by relating a vignette from a case of a kid

with night terrors and violence.

26. Galeocerdo cuvier hepar - Tiger shark liver

GRIMES Melanie (HT, 19, 11/1999)

Report of a new remedy - Galeocerdo cuvier

hepar. The shark used for the remedy was a

female, caught in the shark nets off the Natal coast

of South Africa in January 1995. The liver sample

was taken approximately two hours after death, and

potentized up to 30. The proving was conducted in

a double-blind, full hahnemannian manner. It was

done in the USA with eight provers. List of

curative symptoms and the strong and peculiar

sensations are given.

27. Fortlaufende, Wissenschaftliche HAMP

(Continuous, Scientific Homeopathic Drug

Provings) MÖSSINGER, H. (AHZ, 245/2000)

The necessity for the continuous homeopathic

drug provings performed by a group of practising

homeopathic physicians, is discussed. The

working method and structure of such a group are

demonstrated. It is shown that a seriously

performed homeopathic drug proving has to be

tested according to HAHNEMANN’s principles on

the one hand and according to modern scientific

developments on the other hand. The results of a

double-blind, randomized and placebo-controlled

homeopathic drug proving with the remedy Oleum

jecoris aselli (Ol-j) are demonstrated. The value of

placebo in homeopathic drug provings is discussed

in the light of the results of the proving.

28. Bufo - The Neglected Old Toad

ADALIAN Elizabeth (HOM. 76, 2000)

Bufo ‘Desires solitude to practice

masturbation.’ This is a thyroid deficient condition

which starts at birth or early months of life. Unless

it is detected and corrected immediately the child

grows up imbecile. Distinguishing feature in

disease and the remedy is protruding tongue. It is a

syphilitic miasm. The state of the mother in

pregnancy also plays a part, in tandem with the

genetic predisposition. Confirmatory mental

symptom of Bufo ‘Anger when misunderstood.’ It

is a main remedy for dislike of animals though it is

an animal remedy.

29. Phos-acid: An understanding of the state

PARTHASARATHY V (NJH, 2, 1/2000)

The mental state of the remedy is elicited well.

Other symptoms and their possible interpretations

have been given. Important locations where the

remedy has its action is listed. Case report of a

person with primary infertility treated with

Phosphoricum acidum is discussed in detail.

30. Nitric-acid Portrait through Dreams

DOSHI Nina (NJH, 2, 1/2000)

Dreams of Nitricum acidum are listed out.

Case report of a lady estranged from her family;

filled with hatred of person who had offended and

disagreeable memory. Vindictive and unforgiving

nature pointed to the remedy Nitricum acidum. An

AESOP’s fable has been given and the author says

that the moral of the story is an apt title for the

given case of Nitricum acidum - “Injuries may be

forgiven, but not forgotten.”

31. Carbolic-acid

TARKAS P I & KULKARNI A

(NJH, 2, 1/2000)

A detailed description of the remedy picture

has been given. Each symptom has been explained

well and the related drugs are given in parenthesis.

The remedy relation and the follow up remedies are

listed in the end.

32. Rumex-crispus

KULKARNI Ajit (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

The full picture of Rumex has been given with

modalities and relations. The related remedies

which should be given in acute and chronic

conditions with regard to each miasm and the

intercurrent remedies are given in tabular form.

33. Sulphur und seine ßezielung zur freien Luft

(Sulphur and its relationship to open air)

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BÜNDER, M.(ZKH, 44, 2/2000)

The desire/aversion for open air in respect of

Sulphur is discussed in detail with the help of the

source Materia Medicas and Repertories. It is

found that aggravation from open air is

predominant.

The author also proposes change of grades in

some rubrics in the repertories.

34. Die charakterischen Symptome von Sepia nach

Clemens von Bönninghausen

(The characterisitic symptoms of Sepia

according to Clemens von BOENNING-

HAUSEN) JANSEN, A. (ZKH, 44, 2/2000)

The author presents the characteristic

symptoms of Sepia according to a manuscript of

BOENNINGHAUSEN available in the Institute of

Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation,

Stuttgart.

Evidently this manuscript is BOENNING-

HAUSEN’s work for revision of his Characteristic

Symptoms of Sepia.

35. Insights Into Consciousness of the Remedy

Plutonium Nitricum

THAKKAR Sadhana (AH, 6/2000)

The author reports that the most reliable insight

of a remedy comes from the story told by the patient

who does well with the remedy. The remedies are

nothing but the inner consciousness of the

substances pressed through the patients who require

it or the provers.

He gathered much understanding of Plutonium

nitricum from his patients and presented two cases.

Case 1: Ms. J told the whole story of her problem -

which mainly revolved around the theme of

delusion of carrying everyone’s pain though she felt

healthy and it is not her pain which she is suffering.

Dreams of her co-workers feeling the pain of others.

Intense craving for pork. Increased salivation with

toxic taste. Explosive headaches in the afternoon.

Plutonium nitricum 30 helped.

Case 2: Ms. M 30 year-old had Multiple Sclerosis.

Had rheumatoid arthritis at 16, epilepsy,

mononucleosis, Reynauds disease, hysterectomy at

29 with preCancerous cells on her cervix, systemic

candida and fibrocystic breast disease in the past.

Had severe upper neck stiffness and lower left

sacral pain. No improvement inspite of osteopathic

treatment. Got much relief after Natrum

muriaticum.

Main symptoms were numbness in the right

leg, and in the rib area. Bottom of feet getting

numb. Hands falling to sleep. Problems with

vision from MS.

Had depressed expressions on her face. Flat

voice without any emotion. Black circles under

eyes. Perfectionist. Would get seizures in overcast

weather, very conscious during seizures, followed

by severe headache aggravation at 3 p.m.

Recurring dream of falling, nuclear explosions,

body being irradiated, being angry with boy friend.

Plutonium in infrequent doses produced dramatic

changes.

An interesting phenomenon with both these

patients was that after the remedy, both patients had

sense of changing forms - changing into man, then

into woman, dog into human, etc. Dream of being

male making love to a woman, then change into a

woman making love to a man in the previous case.

Dream of half animal, half human.

The common themes from both the cases are as

follows:

Explosive pains - Headaches and Backaches

Dream - Nuclear explosions

Dream - Violent - killing or murders

Dream - half human, half animal

Dream - sexual with same sex

Dream - falling

Dream - thoughts and impulse of Killing

Dream - dead people, talking with them, dead

bodies aggravation 3 p.m. aggravation overcast

weather, first ray of sun, sunset, evening-night

Craving - lamb, pork, BACON, RAW MEAT

amelioration HOT APPLICATIONS - Hot Bathing

(Radium bromatum, X-ray, Uranium nitricum)

Very serious pathologies - relating to the core of the

person for example., Nervous system, Several

Mental Illnesses, Cancers, Leukemia Extremely

Conscientious

Overcast, depressed, dark gloomy mood

Clairvoyant sense of what is going to happen or

what has happened years before birth, or in their

surrounding

Fear of one’s own impulses, fear of being too

aggressive.

Resentment, controlled anger.

Serious, no smile on the face, as if carrying burden

of world on their shoulders.

37. Physostigma - The Discarded Vine

HERON Krista (AH, 6/2000)

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This article deals with the characteristics of the

legumes in general and the remedy Physostigma in

particular and a case of Physostigma.

38. Sus: A Proving of Pig

ALLEN Karen (AH, 6/2000)

The proving was conducted gradually from the

fall of 1996 through the summer of 1997 in the U.S.

and Canada. The methodology laid out in Jeremy

SHERR’s book was used. A total of 27 provers

participated for the four remedy components. The

notable results are given below in the words of the

provers, followed by two acute cases.

While the knowledge of the remedy is

incomplete and additions to the repertory seem

premature at this stage, rubrics consistent with

Kent’s Repertory have been noted here using plain

type for lowest grade, italic for middle and bold for

highest grade. The results of the proving were so

similar from each of the four components of pig

(saliva, semen, blood and milk).

MIND

There were many symptoms related to work

including positive anticipation of work, desire to

work, increased sense of satisfaction and

accomplishment at work, anxiety about having

forgotten how to do one’s job. It was interesting to

find that almost 50% of the provers noted that they

worked overtime, double shifts, increased

responsibility, or increased hours at some point

within the first 3 days after taking the remedy.

“I had to work tonight and was actually looking

forward to it which was unusual.”

“I had a wonderful feeling that I had a task, a

purpose and I had finished it. I feel at peace now.”

“I felt like I could accomplish everything at work

today and I did. I feel great and have lots of

energy.”

“I was at work twice as long today, funny how that

happens.”

“I was at work from 9 a m to 11 p.m.; I had not one

chance to leave or take a break.”

“Someone else wasn’t coming in to work so I had to

do her job on top of mine. I lasted the entire day

without feeling drained once.”

“I thought I couldn’t do my job. In a sense I

believed that I had forgotten how to work. That’s

why my hands started to shake, because I was

actually scared. It still bothers me now, much

later.”

Two provers noted a difficulty in answering

questions.

“I have a delayed response when answering

questions. There is a brief period of blankness and

then I can respond.”

No provers reported their own violent

behavior, but in the few days prior to taking the

remedy (while keeping the records in the proving

notebooks) or the first week after taking the

remedy, several events involving conflict were

noted, and the following are representative.

“I have never been punched in a street

confrontation. Three guys came up to me as I got

off work, made various comments that I am a nerd

and have no friends. It is, in effect, playground

bullying. One of the guys punched me on the right

cheek just above the mouth, chipped a tooth. I did

not see the blow coming.”

“I struck a blow against a mouse that sent it limping

off for cover last night. I had already received the

remedy proving kit so I thought to include in my

notes.”

“I was woken up at 3 am by a couple of wailing cats

that were fighting right outside my window.”

This last is strange, rare and peculiar type of

symptom which was experienced by the one person

who seemed to experience most of the proving

symptoms.

Mind, Occupation ameliorates

Mind, Industrious

Mind, Answers slowly

Mind, Fear, work, feared he had forgotten how to

(new subrubric)

Mind, Delusion, foot split in two (new rubric)

HEAD

Almost 90% of the provers who reported any

symptoms at all had headaches. In several provers,

there were daily headaches for weeks, with intense

headaches on a weekly frequency for up to 2

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months. Invariably the same words were used; dull

ache, vague ache, pressure pushing outwards, but

too dull to be a bursting sort of pain. In fact, dull

ache was the most common description used for

every kind of pain experienced by the provers in

any symptom.

“Vague headache, centered behind the eyes.”

“Ache in the head with much dull pressure inside

the head, pushing outwards.”

“Mild headache from 3 to 5 p.m. which slowly went

away.”

“Dull ache which strengthens, then recedes every

few hours through the day.”

“An ache in the forehead at and above my

eyebrows.”

“Aching pain in my head which was better after

eating hot soup.”

Provers also noted increased itching of the

scalp which was improved by scratching and

followed by the formation of small scabs which

flaked off with more scratching.

Head, Pain, headache in general

Head, Pain, dull pain

Head, Itching of scalp

STOMACH

Approximately 75% of the provers reported

increased hunger and increased satisfaction with

food. In particular, many provers mentioned

seeking out a desired food and finding it extremely

satisfying when they had eaten it, although there

was a very wide range of the things desired with no

two the same. For a few provers this lasted for

weeks, but for most it lasted only the first few days.

Approximately 30% of the provers reported nausea.

“I was very hungry as soon as I woke up.”

“I was unusually hungry at times through the day.”

“I was ravenous, eating and eating, even when I

knew I was full I wanted to eat more.”

“Even when I felt my stomach was full, I wanted to

go on eating. I would have eaten anything. I would

have eaten garbage if you had put it in front of me.”

“By 10 am I was starved.”

“When I ate it, it was the best thing I had ever

tasted.”

“After I ate, it seemed like the end result of a

craving, when one feels accomplished that they

have fulfilled the desire.”

“I had a craving today for a blueberry bagel with

cream cheese and I wasn’t let down - it was

excellent.”

“I felt nauseated after taking the remedy.”

“From 3 to 3:30 p.m. I felt mild nausea.”

“There was a lot of cigar smoke and this made me

feel nauseated. It felt like I would have vomited if I

had not gotten fresh air.”

Stomach, Appetite, increased

Stomach, Appetite, ravenous, canine, excessive

Stomach, Nausea

ABDOMEN

“Within 15 minutes of taking the first dose of the

remedy, I felt a colicky feeling in the abdomen.”

“After the remedy I had stomach cramps followed

by diarrhea.”

Abdomen, Pain, cramping

Rectum / Stool

“I had diarrhea several times a day, after starting the

remedy.”

“After having stomach cramps, I had very soft

stools.”

“I had diarrhea which was very forceful, like an

explosion into the toilet.”

Rectum, Diarrhea

Stool, Forcible

URINARY ORGANS

Kidney pain was both produced as a proving

symptom and resolved during the proving for a

prover who had chronic pain in the kidneys.

Several provers reported waking at night to urinate,

something very out of the ordinary for them.

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“My back began to ache in the area of my kidneys,

more on the right side. This lasted for an hour and

a half then faded away.”

“I awoke again without the pain I usually feel in my

kidneys every morning. This was very different for

me - I have had this pain every day for years.” (Pain

was remitted for 3 months)

“Waking at 4:20 am with a strong need to urinate.”

“Frequent need to urinate.”

Kidneys, Pain

Kidneys, Pain, morning

Bladder, Urination, frequent

Bladder, Urination, night

EXTREMITIES

Several of the provers reported symptoms of

trembling or joint pain, and most of these were on

the left side of the body. Provers who already had

joint pain noted that it became worse after taking

the remedy, but none of those provers reported that

it improved afterwards - the discomfort gradually

returned to its previous level.

Trembling in the hands and forearms, with fear of

having forgotten how to work, lasting 30 minutes.

Cramping in the left hand lasting 3 minutes.

“While driving, my hand and foot on the left side

started to cramp up. Better after stretching.”

“My left shoulder seems to have been wrenched

somehow. It is a dull ache.”

“Dull ache in both the knees.”

“Dull aching feeling in the left hip and knee.”

“There was a feeling of wasting away in my arms.

It was mid-afternoon. It felt as if fluids and strength

of my arms was ebbing. Sapping of strength.”

Extremities, Trembling, anxious

Extremities, Pain, joints

Extremities, Cramps, hand

Extremities, Cramps, hand, left

Extremities, Cramps, foot

Extremities, Weakness, upper limbs

SLEEP/DREAMS

There were many dreams reported involving

the need to urinate, and the provers, upon waking,

actually did need to urinate. This was one of the

most commonly reported symptoms in the proving.

“I dreamed that I was at a rally where we were

forced to hear a talk about the end of technology.

In my dream I had to get up and go to the bathroom.

When I did wake up, I realized my bladder was full

and I did need to go to the bathroom.”

“In my dream I was going to see film in a big old

movie hall. On my way into the hall I had to line up

to pee - I actually did need to when I woke up.”

“In my dream I was with my brother and we were

traveling in a green countryside near the coast. My

brother and I were peeing on the grass near an old

house, and we were told off by a young guy who

said we should have used the toilet. I woke up

really needing to pee.”

There were also quite a few dreams about eating.

“I dreamed that I was sitting at a dinner table having

a meal with others. Everyone was friendly.”

“In my dream I was gathered around a bowl of food

with other greedy followers.”

“There were people wandering around in a

farmyard eating food from a huge cabinet - fruit and

veggies and bacon.”

“People are around cooking fires in the orchard.”

There were dreams from which people awoke

frightened, as from a nightmare, and some these

were dreamt multiple times in the same night.

“In my dream I looked towards the window and saw

a reflection. I thought it was me. As I got closer, it

became clear that it was someone else. At that

point I woke up, terrified that somebody was

outside my window.”

“There was a long-stemmed red rose with a note

saying ‘I don’t want you to ever do that again.’

And signed by my friend, but I did not know what

she was referring to. I awoke frightened because I

thought I had done something to jeopardize our

friendship.” (Dreamt 3 times in one night)

“I had a nightmare about a friend - a guy and his

wife who were threatening to kill me with a gun. I

tried to pretend I was already dead, but he was not

fooled. Then I had to empty out my pockets and

was surrounded by many coins. When I awoke I

was anxious and the feeling stayed with me for a

long time.”

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“I was in a bar but it was all light and sunny outside.

Whenever I touched someone, their skin would

flake off. It was creepy.”

Sleep, Dreams, urinating, of

Sleep, Dreams, nightmare

Sleep, Dreams, eating

Sleep, Dreams, frightful

Sleep, Dreams, repeating

SKIN

Dry, itching and red skin on the waist, sides,

back, shoulders, arms, scalp and face were reported.

Scratching relieved the itching, as did water, lotion,

and in one case, a mud bath.

“I had red patches of dry, itchy skin around my

waist. I put lotion on them and it felt better.”

“My skin felt dry and very itchy. Scratching felt

good, but the only thing that really made it go away

was a mud bath at a local spa.”

“My scalp has been very itchy. I have been

scratching it and now there are little scabs flaking

off when I scratch.”

“I have terrible itch between my shoulder blades. If

I scratch long enough it stops itching.”

Skin, Itching

Skin, Itching, scratching amelioration.

39. Themes of Plutonium nitricum

SHERR Jeremy (AH, 6/2000)

The article focuses mostly on the mental aspect

of the remedy. The author has also brought out the

relation of Pluto - the ancient god of the

underworld, who ruled mercilessly over the

imprisoned souls of the dead. This myth

symbolizes our connection to ancestral roots,

genetic lineage and archaeological history. A

central theme of Plutonium is a deep feeling of

suffering originating from one’s forefathers, like

punishment echoing down through the generations.

Just as the half life of Plutonium is almost 25,000

years, so the roots of our suffering may stretch far

into the past. The hundreds of tons of Plutonium

that have been manufactured over the last decades

will poison the earth for the next quarter of a

million years. Thus, plutonium will radiate our

genetic lineage through history, affecting our core,

our marrow, our DNA.

The power of the remedy manifests on the

sexual level, the generative sphere of our existence.

Powerful sexual urges, images of enormous

phalluses and dreams of sexual abuse highlight the

explosive energies of unbridled testosterone. This

aggressive and base sexuality is coupled with

aversion to ‘new age men’ or cultured people such

as art dealers - middle men who do not generate or

create. On the other hand a tendency towards

effeminate men or masculine woman was increased.

Radioactive remedies may possibly be indicated in

the AIDS pandemic. In an HIV patient, Plutonium

nitricum has cured persistent anal warts and

increased the white blood cell production.

[Speculative Materia Medica? = KSS]

40. Tuberculinimo - Tuberculose (Tuberculinism -

Tuberculosis)

DE OLIVEIRA Cibelle, SILVA Maria Gisele

Hernandes (RH, 65, 2/2000)

Symptoms of tuberculinism are related to

clinical picture of Tuberculosis. Based on these

aspects and within biochemical parameters, it is

proposed to provide prophylaxis for Tuberculosis

through treatment of the tubercular diathesis.

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III. THERAPEUTICS

[Those who follow Dr. SEHGAL’s method

of prescribing on mind symptoms alone seem to be

doing quite well. Journal of Homeopathy of

Northern India (JH) carries cases prescribed on

the mind symptoms alone. It should be clarified that

such rubrics as desire to be carried fast, shrieking

for aid, etc. are all interpretations of the patients

expressions like “Please relieve me of this pain

quickly”, “Help me urgently to overcome this

pain”. The ‘mental’ symptoms in this technique -

treating on mental symptoms alone - are the

interpretations of the patient’s expressions, not

necessarily the exact words; in a case where the

patient says “my parents are forcing me to get

married, but I am of the opinion that one should tell

clearly to the parents of the girl with whom he is

going to get married about his disease. My parents

are not ready to hear and tolerate this plain truth”;

these words of the patient are interpreted as

‘idealism’ in the repertory rubric. The following

abstracts of the cases from the JH should be

understood in this way. = KSS]

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1. Expressions of the Remedies

SCHOLTEN Jan (JH, 3, 4/1999)

The author says that the one and only remedy is

hardly ever seen in practice. There is really no

argument we could see in the fact when a patient

gets deep acting remedy his whole being reacts

positively and he improves on many levels. But

even here we often see that there are some problems

that remain totally unaffected by the remedy. More

emphasis is given on viewing a remedy from

various aspects like:

a) Remedy as a part of problem where separate

remedies are needed to remove the disease

layer by layer.

b) Remedy as psychological problem where a

remedy may be needed for a specific

psychological problem, not necessarily

accompanied by physical symptoms.

c) Remedy as physical problem where a remedy is

needed without there being any apparent

psychological problem.

The author concludes by saying that while

treating a case it reminds the biblical expression

that the “disease of the father will be passed on to

the children” for atleast three generations.

It is as if some problem arise within a family, going

on until they reach a certain height and then slowly

decreasing and disappearing again.

2. Effectiveness of Single Medicine in

Single Dose

SINGH Bhupinder, (JH, 3, 4/1999)

The author emphasizes that it is needless to

prescribe multiple medicines in acute or emergency

cases. It is a false belief that results can’t be

obtained on basis of “Law of Simplex” in acute

cases. Selection of medicine should depend totally

after listening to and observing the patient carefully.

Some medicines like Arsenicum album, Bryonia,

Hyoscyamus, Cocculus indicus, Psorinum and

Opium which are used in fever are listed out with

their characteristic symptoms.

3. Depression Cured by Jan SCHOLTEN Theory

MANN A S (JH, 3, 4/1999)

Mr. K, male 26, had depression and absent-

mindedness off and on. Anger at slightest

contradiction. Unemployed. So his father says that

he is a burden on them and contradicts him at little

things. Has anger and hate towards father.

Ammonium carbonicum 30 (“Resentment towards

Father”) made him quite normal.

4. Asthma Cured by Jan SCHOLTEN Theory

MANN A S (JH, 3, 4/1999)

A S. 27 years was suffering from Asthma.

Modern medicine opined that he should take

medication for whole life. Had thoughts of idealism

and desire to do further studies. Also had desire to

have many friends. Since the ‘idealism’ is

Ammonium and ‘many friends, desire to do further

studies’ are Phosphorus, Ammonium phosphoricum

was given (!) in 30, repeated once, then M and he

was free from asthmatic attack. [How much of

Homeopathic’ in the kind of remedy selection?

Endless combinations can be made in this manner

and all will be concoctions = KSS]

5. Diabetic Case Cured by Crocus sativus

MANN A S (JH, 3, 4/1999)

Mr. M S 58 years Male had pain in epigastrium

with vomiting. Fasting Blood Sugar 170 mg. Anger

alternates with quick repentance, Cheerful from

music which also ameliorates. Sings along with TV

or Audio. A single dose of Crocus sativus 30

brought down his fasting blood sugar to 96 mg over

a period of 9 months. Inspite of stopping the anti-

diabetic allopathic drug his sugar level remained

normal.

6. Diabetic Case Cured by Belladonna

MANN A S (JH, 3, 4/1999)

B S 50 years male, had Fasting Blood Sugar

182 mg and Urine Sugar +++. Based on ‘Light,

desire for’ (“I want to know what my disease is”)

‘frivolous’ (“I don’t take things seriously”) and

anger which comes suddenly and disappears

suddenly, Belladonna 30 given which maintained

his sugar level within normal limits. Follow up for

some months.

7. A Case of Uterine Fibroid

SINGH Bhupinder (JH, 3, 4/1999)

Ms. A K 34 years, had menorrhagia with lower

abdominal pain. Ultrasonography showed Multiple

Fibroids measuring 40mm x 33mm x 36mm. Had

fear of recovery, consolation amelioration and

yielding tendency. Pulsatilla 30, 200 did not

produce any change. On further inquiry, she

revealed that she remains quiet during anger and

she reacts only when anything was said against the

honor of her parents. Consolation aggravated.

Ignatia 30 brought a magical change in her

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menstrual cycle. Ultrasonogram after 4 months

showed fibroid 8 x 6 mm.

8. Ammonium phos. Cases

SINGH N A & MANN A S (JH, 3, 4/1999)

Case: 1 Mr. X 42 years, was mentally upset, weeps

whole day sitting alone. Started after being badly

deceived by one of his friends (his friend whom he

helped with money offered in turn his wife and this

shocked and upset him so much) and the death of

his brother. Feeling of fullness in abdomen after

eating little. Based on the ‘Resentment towards

friend’ Ammonium phosphoricum 30 given and

within two months he became totally normal.

Case: 2 Mr. X 40 years had indecisiveness in all

walks of life. He comes but either goes back

without purchase or if he makes purchase, then

would remorse all day, may be he purchased

wrongly or at high rate etc. The author prescribed

different medicines in different potencies by giving

enough time to see the actions of single dose but

without any relief. The medicines prescribed were

Graphites 30, 6, M; Alumina 30, 6, M; Baryta

carbonicum 30, 6, M. On further inquiring he

learnt that due to his father’s drunkenness he missed

the opportunities of education. Ammonium

phosphoricum 30 (“resentment” for having missed

educational opportunities) was given which

changed his hesitation to take decisions.

9. Bryonia alba Case

KAUR Karampreet (JH, 3, 4/1999)

Ms. V K, age 18, had Bronchial asthma.

Phosphorus, Sulphur and Stannum metallicum in

different potencies at long intervals in single dose

gave only moderate relief. On retaking the case, the

following symptoms emerged: Perseverance, wants

to be quiet, aversion to being disturbed, fear of

suffering, poverty, starving, bargaining etc.

Bryonia alba 30 gave good result. Follow-up, 4

months.

10. A Case of Natrum Phos

REKHI K. Jaswinder (JH, 3, 4/1999)

A girl aged 17 complained of severe headache

mostly in the evening after sunset. Also had falling

of hair from head and eyebrows. Has many friends

but will not disclose her inner feelings to anyone.

Likes music and desires salty things. No

improvement with Natrum muriaticum. As

Phosphoricum has friendly communicative

tendency Natrum phosphoricum 30 was given and

no headache thereafter.

11. A Case of Acute Depression

SAINI R S (JH, 3, 4/1999)

21 year-old boy became dull, withdrawn,

fatigued and sleepless after a defeat in the college

election. He has been cheated by his friends. Anti-

depressants helped him temporarily. Developed

fear that police will come and round up the whole

family. Kali bromatum 200 given with some

improvement but the sleeplessness persisted. The

loss and cheating by friends due to which he lost the

election was considered and Magnesium

sulphuricum M relieved.

12. Psoriasis Case

SAINI R S (JH, 3, 4/1999)

Male, 40 years, had Psoriasis all over body

with intense itching. Felt ashamed and worried

about expenditure on medicine. Based on

‘Embarrassment ailments from’, ‘Fear

extravagance’ Opium 6 given which brought

diarrhea and the old symptom of headache, only

after suppression of which he developed Psoriasis.

Opium 30 helped to bring down his weight from 95

kg to 74 kg and also improved his skin. The patient

is still under supervision.

13. A Case of Belladonna

SINGLA Naveen (JH, 3, 4/1999)

A woman aged 40, suffered joint pains and

rheumatism. Uric acid varies between 10-13.

Smiles involuntarily, Hide desire for, Light desire

for, desire to be carried fast etc. lead to Belladonna

30 which established her menses which stopped 5

years ago. Uric acid was within normal limits.

Joint pains relieved.

14. Elaps corralinus Case

VERMA Subhash (JH, 3, 4/1999)

35 year-old female, had mental depression

which she developed when her husband went out

from home. Thought that her husband will be

murdered by someone, some intruder will come and

will murder her. This fear prevented her sleep and

did not allow her husband to go out. Was given

Electric shocks every week. Fear of being alone,

solitude, delusion of being injured and rowdies

would break in. Elaps corralinus 30 given.

Developed severe cold and running nose, and none

of her fears remained.

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15. Explanation of Rubrics

SEHGAL M L (JH, 4, 1/2000)

The author gives meaning of some of the

Rubrics with his method of interpretations of the

same. For e.g.: Delusions, poor thinks he is

Mean: Poor (Adj.): Short of something.

Interpretation: One who is short of as much of

something as is required to remove poverty.

Version: “I am not quite fit. It is as if I am

lacking in general efficiency. This may be due to

age also. I accept that age has its own bearing.”

16. A Case of Hypochondriasis

KIRUSHNAMOORTHY (JH, 4,1/2000)

A lady had vague pains in head and limbs and

no uncommon symptom was forthcoming. Put on

placebo for 2 weeks. Reported three weeks later:

“Doctor, so long as I had been taking your pills I

had relief. Last one week I had no medicine and the

complaint had relapsed.” Mind, Hypochondriasis;

Rheumatic pains in head and limbs; Repertory by

Calvin B. KNERR, Mercurialis perennis 10M

single dose relieved.

17. A Case of Crotalus horridus

KIRUSHNAMOORTHY (JH, 4,1 /2000)

A lady had pain in left upper arm. When asked

how long she had been having this, her answer was

pain is worse lying down or upon lifting the arm. In

KNERR’s Repertory, Answers, disconnected:

Crotalus horridus. 10M single dose.

18. A Case of Malaria

KIRUSHNAMOORTHY (JH, 4, 1/2000)

Mr. WILSON suffering from Malaria for over

fourteen months. Daily attack of chill-fever-sweat

in the evening with headache in between the

paroxysms. No relief with allopathic drugs. Some

homeopaths also failed. In KNERR’s Repertory,

Fever, intermittent apyrexia, headache: Arn., Nat

m., Polyp., Puls. Fever, intermittent (ague) with

headache: Cina., Cist., Kali c., Polyp. Polyporus

officinalis M single dose, cured.

19. A Case of Epilepsy

KIRUSHNAMOORTHY (JH, 4, 1/2000)

A boy of seven with epilepsy had no

improvement with allopathic drugs and also from

homeopathic doctors. Got convulsions invariably

during stools. In KNERR’s Repertory, “During

stool, convulsion”: Art v. Artemisia vulgaris M.

20. Asthmatic Case

SINGH N A. (JH, 4, 1/2000)

A 11 year-old child with Asthma since 6-7

years. Wants to hold his mother and remain quiet

during the attack. Fear of darkness. Interested in

studies, very communicative and has many friends.

Phosphorus 30 repeated once after 2 months,

relieved.

21. Belladonna Case

SINGH N A. (JH, 4, 1/2000)

Ms PM, age 25 with intolerable pain in left side

of abdomen which would last for 10 - 15 minutes.

Weeps, shouts and screams during pain. All

investigations were normal. No diagnosis can be

made. Allopathic drugs failed. Doubtful whether it

is curable. Based on Weeping, pains during;

Shrieking, pain with; Light, desire for; Belladonna

30, cured.

22. Leucoderma Cured by Belladonna

SINGH N A (JH, 4, 1/2000)

Ms. SC, age 30 had white spots on her lips,

hands, foot and at some places on the body. Took

allopathic and homeopathic medication. No

improvement. Initially she hesitated to show the

spots but later uncovered. Based on: Light, desire

for; Hide things; Naked, wants to be; Superstitious;

Objective reasonable; Belladonna 30 single dose,

cured. (No follow-up)

23. Adrenaline chloride and A Miraculous Escape

From the Jaws of Death

SINGE S R (JH, 4, 1/2000)

Pregnant woman of 23 had profuse bleeding

after she tried to lift a big pot of water. Geranium

maculatum tincture, ten drops were poured into the

mouth but soon her face became bluish, saliva

sticky, eyes rolled up, body cold and pulse thready.

Adrenaline chloride 6X one grain put under her

tongue. Within few minutes began to breathe

slowly, eyes became normal and then she was

admitted for delivery in a Hospital. Her Hb level

was found to be 4.6 gm%, blood transfusion was

done and the delivery took place safely but the baby

died as the amniotic fluid leaked out.

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24. Sulphur Case

SINGH Devinder (JH, 4, 1/2000)

Mr. H L, age 58 years, with blood sugar level

385 mgs PP and urine sugar +++. Had fear of

poverty, delusion that he is getting thin, talks of

business. Loquacious, witty, egoistic, haughty but

sadness due to his disease. Frequent urge for urine

aggravation by putting hands in water. Sulphur

200, three doses brought down his sugar level

within normal limits.

25. Ignatia Case

VERMA Subhash (JH, 4, 1/2000)

35 year-old, woman had pain and swelling

around the anus. Much irritable with the pain.

Underwent allopathic, ayurvedic and homeopathic

treatment with no improvement. On the basis:

disconcerted, irritable during pain, Ignatia amara

30 relieved.

26. Rhus tox in Insomnia and Depression

VERMA Subhash (JH, 4, 1/2000)

38 year-old man, a building contractor had

sleeplessness after the owner of the building refused

to pay for the faulty construction. He expected the

same to happen in his future constructions. Fear

superstitious, thinking of sad things, aggravates,

shrieking for aid: Rhus toxicodendron 30 single

dose.

27. A Case of Fever

MANGLA S P (JH, 4, 1/2000)

26 year-old male, had mild fever since 5 - 6

months. Had loss of appetite, no desire to do work

with restlessness and bodyache. Laughing while

speaking, frivolous, desire for light and desire to be

carried fast. Belladonna 30 gave good results.

28. A Case of Inguinal Hernia

MANGLA S P (JH, 4, 1/2000)

3½ year-old female child had right inguinal

hernia. Very mild, good in studies, longs for the

good opinion of others. Palladium 30 cured the

condition within 3 months.

29. A Case of Renal Colic

SONI Rishi (JH, 4, 1/2000)

Mr. N K, 32 with severe pain in the renal angle

posteriorly, in the hypochondrium anteriorly in the

left side. Irritable and restless due to pain.

Chamomilla 30 relieved the acute pain. USG of

abdomen showed a calculi of 3 mm size in left

kidney. Had fear of operation, anxious about future

and health, despair of recovery. Calcarea

carbonicum 0/1, 0/2 expelled the stone within 20

days.

30. Magnesia phos Case

SHUKLA Chetan B.(JH, 4, 1/2000)

A lady of 48 years had back pain aggravation

motion amelioration by hot fomentation. Also had

joint pains, cramps and recurrent urinary tract

infection. Emotionally on one hand she does not

want to share her feeling with anybody and on the

other hand she wants to help everybody. Based on

Magnesium feeling of friendless and reserved

nature on one-side and Phosphorus feeling of being

sympathetic towards others Magnesium

phosphoricum 200 given with good results.

31. Hints on Assessing Mental Symptoms

MEER Amina (JH, 4, 1/2000)

Some of the mental rubrics which are

commonly encountered during case-taking and the

indicated drugs for the condition are given.

32. Cocculus indicus Cases

MANN A S (JH, 4, 2/2000)

Case 1: KS aged 16 years had acne on face.

Doesn’t get angered easily, says that: “getting anger

will not solve the problem.” Recognizes reality and

accepts, anxiety about others, aversion to being

disturbed, Cocculus indicus 30 cleared his face.

Case 2: HS aged 8 years suffering from Bronchial

asthma. Mild and obedient child, remains quiet,

very caring in nature. Cocculus indicus 30 repeated

once cured.

Case 3: HR age 55 years/M had pain and stiffness

in knees. Contented, recognizes reality and accepts,

says “ If I say something to someone in anger the

dispute will increase but he will not change. Then

what is the use of dispute.” Cocculus indicus 30

relieved.

33. Opium Case

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SINGH Bhupinder (JH, 4, 2/2000)

42 year-old woman had hemorrhoids and

constipation. In the first stage she didn’t bother

about her suffering but after sometime feared that

her problem would increase - Fear extravagance -

Opium 30 cured.

34. Cocculus Case

SINGH Bhupinder (JH, 4, 2/2000)

Gurbachan SINGH had pain in the Right

lumbar region which radiates towards back. Had

much of perseverance and patience, many friends.

Phosphorus 30/3 doses gave some relief. On

further analysis, had anxiety about others, non

religious, recognizes reality and accepts. Cocculus

indicus 30 expelled the calculi.

35. Lyssin Case

SAINI R S (JH, 4, 2/2000)

P P 47 years/M had frequent sore throat, fever,

heaviness of eyes with coryza. Suffers the same

problem which his elder brother suffers everytime.

Talks of business. Thirstless. Opium 6 given with

no improvement. “Sympathy, felt same pain, his

brother complained of,” Synthetic Repertory with

Lyssin as a single remedy. 30 single dose cured.

36. Successful Cure of Nephrotic Syndrome

SINGLA Naveen (JH, 4, 2/2000)

A man aged 45, had Nephrotic Syndrome with

Albumin+++, Blood Urea 120- 240mg. As his

father died early he had much responsibility and did

them thinking that it was his duty. Kali silicatum 30

given based on the theme “being duty bound to

keep up the family image” according to Dr. Jan

SCHOLTEN. After 9 months, Albumin+, Blood

urea 37mg, Serum creatinine 1.2mg.

37. A Case of Relapsing Fever

SINGH Jagdip (JH, 4, 2/2000)

A lady M K aged 32 had fever everytime

before menses. Sleepless due to fever, wants to

sleep. Felt that taking antibiotics will aggravate her

problems. Her main concern are study o children

and house keeping. Longing for repose and

tranquillity, Cautious etc. Sulphur 30, no relapse of

fever during next periods.

38. A Case of Thalassaemia

MANGLA S P (JH, 4, 2/2000)

Mr. TS, aged 15, was diagnosed Thalassaemia.

Blood transfusion advised. Had repeated attacks of

cough and coryza, loss of appetite. Desire to eat

flour and drinks hot drinks. Weeps in anger and

throws things away, cannot sit in one place, runs

hither and thither, jumps like a monkey. Becomes

cheerful on hearing music and dances. Tarentula

30, no improvement. Tarentula 6, Hb raised from

6.5 to 7.4gms. He was still under treatment. [The

case was given to show the importance of mind

symptoms in the selection of the remedy and to give

confidence to the youngsters that Homeopathy has

its scope even in serious pathological condition =

KSS]

39. A Case of Lycopodium

SANDHU H S (JH, 4, 2/2000)

A woman aged 60 had fever and epigastric

pain. Allopathic medication failed. Had fever only

from 4 p. m. To 8 p. m. Based on this modality

alone Lycopodium 30 given. Fever and epigastric

pain ameliorated.

40. Hyoscyamus Case

SILCHAR K P (JH, 4, 2/2000)

Mr. B. D. Aged 28 had pain in right testis.

Afraid to undergo allopathic medication and

surgery for they may give some strong or wrong

medication which would damage his organ. Fear of

being injured and betrayed. Hyoscyamus 30

relieved.

41. Nux vomica Case

SILCHAR K P (JH, 4, 2/2000)

Mrs. G. B, aged 58 had crampy pain in the calf

muscles, particularly while lying down in the bed.

Pain interrupts her sleep, would lament and moan

during pain. Nux vomica 30, 200 relieved.

42. A Case of Insomnia

SILCHAR K P (JH, 4, 2/2000)

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Mrs. H. P. aged 60, had insomnia and psychic

imbalance. Had constipation and indigestion.

Lycopodium, Medorrhinum, Sulphur and Nux

vomica given alternately by other homeopaths

with no improvement. Sleep disturbed, would wake

up in between and experience hot flushes. Had a lot

of concern about her family members. Cocculus

indicus 30 gave mild relief but improvement

stopped. Based on constipation and the feeling of

interruption and disturbance in sleep and a desire to

have quiet and sound sleep Nux vomica 30 which

relieved but during her next visit she remarked that

the gas-stove make her head hot and she remains

sleepless due to that. Laughing while talking.

Belladonna 30 relieved and no recurrence.

(Author’s comment: One can see how futile it is to

prescribe constitutional medicine/nosodes etc.

Without referring to the present mental state of a

patient).

43. Stramonium Case

SILCHAR K P (JH, 4, 2/2000)

Mr. B. K., age 30/M had pain in abdomen

around the appendix and diagnosed to have

appendicitis. Even though he experienced great

pain he refused to undergo operation, for fear of

being injured. Stramonium 30 relieved his fear and

he underwent surgery after 7 days.

44. A Case of Rheumatic Pain

SINGH Ranjit (JH, 4, 2/2000)

Mrs. J K., 60 years, with pain knees, heels and

burning of the soles. Frivolous, fear of poverty,

delusion about wealth, longing for repose and

tranquillity. Sulphur 200 over a period of 2 months

relieved.

45. Four Cases of Juniperus sabina

PELT Marguerite (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Case1: 32 year-old woman with complaints of

Arthritis. Pain and stiffness aggravation by menses,

motion, before a thunderstorm, rain, draft of cold

air, change of weather. Her menses were painful,

protracted, clotted; would nearly faint from pain

before or during periods accompanied by nausea

and lower back pain. Libido increased during

menses. Had tendency for abortion, sensed the

motions of her child at a very early stage.

Thirstless, desires open air. Fear that something

would happen to her children. In the beginning

Pulsatilla used to relieve her menstrual pains and

Calcarea carbonicum given for joint pains. No real

improvement from altering these remedies. It was

the rubric “Alive sensation Abdomen” that helped

select Sabina. Sabina 200 three times in the first

year, M about four times throughout the following

four years made her mentally strong and improved

her joint pains.

Case 2: A woman of 35 years had Allergic rhinitis.

Sneezing, itching of throat and ears after eating

fruit, painful eyes in spring. Boils after using

deodorant. Joint pains in the left knee, the elbows,

the wrists and in her hips especially after exertion.

Had myoma of uterus causing protracted

menstruation, clots and dyspareunia. A very open

enthusiastic and optimistic woman. Had a strong

sense of duty, fear of heights, dark and dogs.

Dreamt of flying or running. Desires open air, milk

and coffee, aversion and sensitive to music.

Remedies like Pulsatilla, Argentum nitricum,

Phosphorus and Tuberculinum had little effect.

After Thuja her skin problem and hay fever

amelioration to some extent. Sabina was given as it

resembled Thuja botanically and she had a

combination of joint pains, menstrual disorders and

she disliked music. Though her physical problems

amelioration by 50 to 60%, the real improvement is

on emotional level, she became more calm, less

controlled not so restlessly enthusiastic.

Case 3: A woman had pain in right hypochondrium

aggravation before menses, stress, amelioration

stool, bending double. Seemed to be related to a

lower back pain. aggravation by sneezing, lying

down, amelioration by walking. Irritable before

menses. Chilly, profuse perspiration at night. All

complaints amelioration after menses. Closed and

rigid, very fastidious, overprotective of her children

and afraid of accidents and other misfortunes. Very

impulsive and hurried nature. Had fear of spiders,

heights, the dark and narrow places. Dreams of

bridges and water, of dying or death of relatives.

First child born prematurely and had an operation

for retained placenta. Natrum muriaticum lessened

the complaints but there was recurrence. Sabina

200 relieved her physical ailments by 50% but she

is more calm overall, less hurried, less fastidious

and can let go of her children more easily.

Case 4: 58 year-old woman had headache with

stiffness of neck that started when she was 12 years

old. Aggravation before a storm, during menses,

exertion, amelioration during pregnancy, eating and

sleeping. Sympathetic, fastidious, had a high sense

of duty and responsibility. Fear of narrow places,

elevators and mice. Other complaints were:

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Extreme weariness, sun-allergy, left lower

abdominal pain after eating nuts, eggs, fat and

cheese. Pain lower back region. Natrum

muriaticum and Natrum carbonicum relieved her

headaches and skin eruption but the weariness

persisted which amelioration only after Sabina

LM6.

46. Back Pain in Pregnancy

USTINOVITSH Andrew (HL, 13, 1/2000)

A 27 year-old woman, four months pregnant

with a severe stitching pain in the lower back,

radiating downwards. Pain accompanied by

heaviness and aching pain in the thighs, with an

indisposition to walk, aggravation sitting and

standing, amelioration warmth. Had abundant sex

with many partners. Incidents of Gonorrhea and

Urethritis. Had Mumps, Rubella, inguinal Hernia,

chronic Tonsillitis, viral Hepatitis, chronic Gastritis,

Urticaria after antibiotics.

Desire for salt, aversion to cabbage. Hands

warm and wet. Mild functional systolic cardiac

murmur. Sabina 30 single dose relieved.

47. Neglect and Protection

HIWAT Corrie (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Woman age 43 with Gout, Migraine,

Metrorrhagia and high blood-pressure. Gout: Right

toe and ulnar side of foot affected. Cold compress

amelioration pain, aggravation touch. Migraine:

Right side of head extending to occiput,

aggravation before menses amelioration vomiting.

Metrorrhagia: active, clotted, dark. Increased

sexual desire during metrorrhagia. Increased blood

pressure and kidney failure during pregnancy and

had kidney transplantation after the delivery. Had a

very protective childhood but after the marriage she

wanted her mother to visit very often. Dreams of

dead people and relatives. Desires sour food and

drinks. Sabina 200 repeated thrice over a period of

seven months, 12 for a period of one month, M,

10M were given. Well, except the severe menses

with clots. Her uterus has been taken out without

any negative effect. [The author says that this is not

a cured case. As she had undergone a kidney

transplant and has been taking medication she did

not respond upto the expectations. Nevertheless she

has been reacting to the remedy over and over

again, on many different levels.]

48. In Need of Protection

RIJK Erik-Jan De (HL, 13,1/2000)

52 year-old woman, had labour-like abdominal

pains during the menses, with copious flow lasting

eight to nine days, fluid with clots. Cramping pain

in hypogastrium extending to back. Diagnosed

Myoma uterus. Backache and right shoulder pain

and Sinusitis. Desires ice-cream, chocolate, sweets,

aversion to milk and buttermilk. Mild and soft

natured, feels dominated by her employee, her

husband has to solve the problem and protect her.

Weeps easily. Sabina 200 relieved.

49. Three Cases of Hura brasiliensis

GRANDGEORGE Didier, Patricia R. Le

ROUX (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Ph. Barthelet, presented research to the

Hahnemannian School of Frejus on the

pathogeneses of Hura brasiliensis, from which the

following symptoms were of significance.

1. Dreams of children where their heads have

been half chopped off while they were in the

process of decapitating others; dreams about

death and cemeteries; putting candles on

tombs.

2. Lots of sad ideas; the person thinks they are

going to lose someone very close to them. They

cry at the slightest provocation. They imagine

that the dead person appears before them.

They think that they will be left all alone in the

world and that all is lost.

Case 1: A woman wanted to treat her child who had

Bone Tumour which spread to a Lung and Liver.

No hopes to save but the mother could not accept

the idea of loosing her child. She was given a dose

of Hura brasiliensis 30 which made her incredibly

serene. A few days later the child died.

Case 2: A man had stomach ulcer which was

relieved by Arsenicum album but the rheumatoid

arthritis with swelling, deformity and arthritic

nodules on the fingers, ESR 120mm, Waaler Latex

antinuclear antibody positive did not change on

anti-inflammatory drugs. Arsenicum album his

constitutional remedy did not produce any change

in these. Based on his meticulous character,

premature white hair and the fact that he had been

much affected by the death of his first child from

Leukemia helped to prescribe Hura brasiliensis in

various potencies of 15, 18, 24, 30 at fortnightly

intervals, cured.

Case 3: A girl of seven with rheumatoid arthritis

got her blood sedimentation rate back to normal

after Sulphur. Unfortunately on the day of her

eighth birthday had a sudden relapse with

pericardial effusion. Admitted in hospital and large

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number of anti-inflammatory drugs given. Father is

very anxious about his daughter (first born) as his

elder brother (first born) died at an early age.

Serious illness of the daughter, the death anxiety on

a birthday made the father to think that his daughter

could therefore die. Both were given increasing

potencies of Hura brasiliensis.

50. A Case of Laurocerasus

BIANCHINI Roberto (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Infant with oral thrush. Gagging while feeding,

eructations, flatus. Borax 30. Previous rash around

genital area, excoriated vulva cured with Rhus

toxicodendron. The thrush subsided but recurred

after a month. Had cough, aggravation in the

evening and night during first sleep with phlegm,

red eyes and nose. Gagging while feeding. Head

sweat. Born with cord around the neck, blue with

asphyxiation. Laurocerasus 30 cured.

51. Two Cases of Guajacum

STALLINGA Enna (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Case 1: 70 year-old woman had arthrosis of the left

hip and around left eye, left side of chest near the

ninth rib. Pain aggravation touch, lying;

amelioration stretching, cold application. Had

spondylolisthesis in L5 - S1. Sensation of

something lodged in the throat amelioration by

expectoration of green or brown ball-shaped

mucous. Profuse perspiration at night. Had herpes

labialis. Desires smoked meat, fruits, apples and

fish. Aversion sweet, salt. Nails brittle. Salivation

during night, brown film on tongue. Had a strong

sense of justice. Fear of heights. Causticum,

Coccus cacti, Psorinum and Ranunculus bulbosis

were tried in vain. Guajacum in increasing potency

over 2 years gave good results.

Case 2: 69 year-old woman with arthrosis of the

left side and right knee, amelioration sitting,

aggravation motion. Pain in left side of head and

face, cervical region. Chilly. Perspiration in sleep.

White film on tongue, salivation at night. Had

herpes labialis. She is too honest and had a strong

sense of justice. Guajacum cured.

52. A Defiant Girl

BIANCHINI Roberto (HL, 13,1/2000)

A 10 year-old child with insomnia. Mind very

active, awake until early hours of morning.

Obstinate, resistant behavior. Desires apples. Had

growing pains. Guajacum 30, 200, M acted

curatively. Was given Platina at the age of eight

for emotional sensitivity, dullness, excessive sexual

desire and constipation.

This Case draws to the attention the remarkable

similarity in symptomatology between Guajacum

and Platina.

53. Swallowed Anger

WULSBERG Terje (HL, 13, 1/2000)

68 year-old woman, had a sensation that her

tongue grows and felt that her mouth filled with

tongue and she may suffocate. But on inspection

the tongue looked perfectly normal. The problem

started after the death of her husband and a worker

in her husband’s firm came with unreasonable

financial claims. Through neighbours he gave so

many problems and she controlled herself and

swallowed a lot. Felt a lump in the throat. Had lot

of flatulence, difficulty in breathing. Had grudge

against those who offended, complaints worse when

alone and better when occupied. Very closed and

controlled emotionally. Fastidious. Desires to

travel, restless. Had nightmares. Desires chocolate.

Cajuputum 30, M improved.

54. Burning From Cold

GLAISYER Mary (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Female age 36, had burning heat in the throat

with unquenchable thirst, dull headache and post-

nasal drip. Felt cold intensely to the extent that she

wears bed-socks in summer. Her childhood was

unhappy and she felt isolated as her mother died

very early. Was placed in a series of foster homes.

Repeated doses of Camphora 30 relieved. The

rubrics which helped to select Camphora are:

“Throat, pain burning”, “Thirst unquenchable”,

“Mind; Sensation of isolation”.

55. Dying with Resignation and Indifference

BIANCHINI Roberto (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Female with inability to retain food, vomits

everything soon after eating. Confined to an

intensive care unit with a drip. Expected to die

soon if the situation continues. Had headache,

dizziness, thirsty when ill, backache, insomnia, bad

dreams, fears of being under the bed; of being

attacked; of the dark; of someone coming in.

Complaints started after a loss in the business. Had

much regret and remorse, resignation and

hopelessness. Though the failure was not due to

her, the partners blamed her. Though several

remedies like Phosphoricum acidum, Ignatia,

Arsenicum album seem to be indicated, yet neither

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seemed to satisfy this situation, one where such

guilt and remorse could lead to such an acute

situation of life or death. A “little” remedy which

would fit the physical symptoms and the

general/mentals was looked for and Laburunum 30

relieved the acute situation.

56. Recurrent bronchitis

VAN DER WIEL - J V (HL, 13, 1/2000)

A fifteen month old boy with recurrent

bronchitis, rattling continuously from 6 months age.

Antibiotics failed. Born without a thyroid gland.

Thyrax was given for it. Calcarea carbonicum M,

Pulsatilla M, Antimonium tartaricum M,

Tuberculinum bovinum M were given

consecutively. Reacted positively to Calcarea

carbonicum. Became more active, fontanels closed

but the effect on the respiratory tract was not

permanent. Seemed to stop breathing and

expiration with a sigh. Sambucus nigra 200

relieved.

57. A Suffocating Sleep

BERNARD Teresa (HL, 13, 1/2000)

A 65 year-old man, troubled with sleep apnoea,

recurrent bronchitis, and ankle and foot swelling.

Had 2-3 episodes of sudden and acute attacks of

suffocation a little after midnight, at 3 a.m. and 5.30

a.m. As the pulse continued between 140 and 160

beats per minute admitted in hospital, cardiac

function stabilized, EKG was normal and diagnosed

with paroxysmal atrial tachycardia. Advised C-

PAP oxygen mask. Bronchitis starts with influenza

symptoms, head and throat congestion, coughing up

small amounts of thick green mucus. Congestion

always worse morning. Had right heel spur and he

tried to pamper it by favouring his left foot which

resulted in left-sided hip pain and Sciatica with

swelling of the feet to the level of ankle. Treated

with arsenic injections for the swelling. Dreams of

falling off a cliff, that something was going to

happen to him and he was about to die. Intellectual

and articulate man, had a variety of professional

positions. Likes to be alone, selfish. Tall and

robust. Warm-blooded, upper body is hot, but feet

are icy cold, especially at night. Perspires

profusely, during sleep at the back of his neck.

Sleeps on either side and the nose gets stopped on

the side lain on. Breathing loud. Sambucus nigra

200, repeated once, then M improved. He never

needed to increase the air pressure in the C-PAP.

58. Longing For a Perfect Intimacy

HERON Krista (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Case 1: 26 year-old female with depression,

bulimia and constipation. Received Natrum

carbonicum, Aurum metallicum, Alumina and

Stramonium with minor improvement but nothing

deeply curative or lasting. Father incested her from

age four to fourteen. Her family was unsupportive

and she blames them and feels bitter. Feels lost and

the feeling of emptiness causes her to long for a

connection but instead she finds herself behind a

wall. Had dreams of falling into a bottomless pit.

Feels dejected and unworthy that something is

deeply wrong with her. Single dose of Pseudotsuga

menziesii in 30 potency repeated thrice and 200

twice relieved.

Case 2: SARAH, age 37, had bulimia, constipation

and amenorrhea. Felt unbearable emotional

pressure and eating displaces the pressure. Had a

strong sense of isolation from others and from the

universe. Pseudotsuga menziesii 30 brought

changes in every way except the menses. After 3

months the remedy was given in 200 potency, after

2 weeks her menses returned, after 2½ years.

59. Tilia cordata

VONDRÀSKOVÀ, L (HL, 13, 1/2000)

The strange flowering pattern (on only one

branch ) of a lime tree in a family where the child

suffered from atopic eczema. Antibiotics,

Corticoids etc. failed. Then she was given Tilia

cordata (Lime tree) by a homeopath. She began

to flourish and the lime tree also came into blossom

- in all its branches!

60. To Cure or Not to Cure, What is the Answer?

VITHOULKAS G & HIWAT C

(HL, 13, 2-3/2000)

This article is from a lecture on this subject,

given during a seminar In Alonissos, in June 1998.

Lot of importance on the understanding of the

different levels of health is placed. Symbolically

twelve levels of health are represented and further

these are divided into four groups.

Group A, level 1-3: In this upper level, the patients

are prone to getting (single) acutes.

Group B, level 1-3: Multiple acutes

Group C, level 1-3: In this group there are no longer

any acutes, or if there are, they are very mild. The

patients in this group realize that their health is not

good any more.

Group D, level 1-3: In this group we see severe

chronic conditions which are going to end in death,

sooner or later.

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The reaction of a person under treatment from

group A-D, will be very different from each other.

Many patients don’t respond according to the

general rules. Why is that? What will be their

reactions? These are discussed in detail.

61. The Way of Cure - Converting to

Homoeopathy

PERISCO Michael (Hl, 2-3/2000)

The author an ENT specialist felt frustrated

while practicing Allopathy and has converted to

Homeopathy and had found himself helping the

patient in the heart of darkness, and start a process

of true cure. He is of the idea that explaining what

is going on to the patient and discussing in general

how disease is created, and the implications in his

private case is very important. It is said in the

manner of a story with diagrammatic

representations. The disease arrangements are also

discussed.

62. Kingdoms understanding in Homeopathy

ROSENTHAL Chaim (HL, 13, 2-3/2000)

The kingdom or the source of the remedy

should be taken as a crucial factor in understanding

the nature of remedies, and in differential diagnosis

between homeopathic remedies. Our remedies

originate from the four kingdoms: Inanimate

(minerals, liquids, gases, energy), Plants, Animal,

Human. The main idea in this approach is to find

the kind of pathology of the patient. The kind of

pathology defines the kingdom of the remedy that is

needed. Each kingdom has a diffeent kind of

pathology, although they are very different in their

details. According to the kingdom approach, if the

patient had a plant kind of pathology, he would

need a plant remedy in order to cure him.

This approach is most helpful in the following:

A better understanding of the

1. Nature or essence of remedies.

2. Differential diagnosis between remedies.

3. Real meaning of each remedy as it is

included in a rubric.

4. To understand and define the kind or nature

of the pathology of the patient.

5. Provings.

6. Miasms.

7. Location of pathology in the patient – this

helps in selecting the relevant symptoms and

the right potency.

Main characteristics of the different kingdoms

have been given and the possible practical

application are discussed.

Example of understanding of different remedies

that were included in one rubric - “Antagonism

with herself” have been analyzed according to the

kingdom analysis.

A few examples of the different approach of

each kingdom towards certain issues have been

discussed.

63. Homeopathy during Pregnancy and

Childbirth

LEVANON D & PERTSOVSKY A

(HL, 13, 2-3/2000)

Principles of treatment and two case reports

have been given. The authors quote from KENT’S

“Lectures on Homeopathic Materia Medica”, in

the lecture on Chamomilla; “.....Symptoms

representative of her disordered state come out then

that do not appear at any other time. If she has a

psoric condition it may remain dormant until

pregnancy comes on, which may act as an exciting

cause to bring out the conditions that are in the

constitution. It furnishes therefore, a good time for

the homeopathic physician to study the case and

give that woman a constitutional remedy based

upon those symptomsand prepare her for

confinement, but will remove very much of the

disorder in her economy.” The two cases presented,

one with malposition of the fetus during beginning

of labour and the other with malposition of the fetus

in pregnancy, were corrected with single dose of

medicines selected mainly on the mental symptoms.

64. A Case of Borax

ROSENTHAL C & AZRIEL A

(HL, 13, 2-3/2000)

A 36-year old woman reflexologist with mental

problem. Fear of losing self-esteem and being hurt,

fear of being abandoned during childhood. Had

deep depression and suicidal thoughts. Very honest

and judicial. Recurrent dreams of going up and

down on escalators. She is an introvert, very

emotional, dependent woman, had mutual

dependency with her mother. Felt the pains of the

patients right away. Afraid of crowds, heights, feels

that there is no ground under her feet. The other

local and general symptoms pointed to Borax.

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Borax veneta M repeated once made her more

stronger and an independent woman.

Kingdom approach of the case is analysed.

65. Two Cases of Cenchris contortrix

HARDY Jonathan (HL, 13, 2-3/2000)

Case 1: Married woman aged 36 with Primary

infertility. Had severe pre-menstrual tension,

menses lasted for 11 days with clots, dark, copious,

tender breasts with itching a week before.

Leucorrhoea worse before menses. Diagnosed as

erosion cervix with warts. Had great fear of death,

of being injured. Anxious on going to sleep, lest he

would die. Dreams of being pursued. Dressed in

black, hair red that dyed red/brown giving copper

colour. Increased sexual desire. Cenchris

contortrix M repeated thrice over few months. An

year later, conceived. Had mild anxiety and fear

during pregnancy which again was relieved by

Cenchris.

Case 2: A woman aged 25 with obesity and hairfall.

Had fear of death, on going to sleep. Fear of

misfortunes. Dreams of coition. Wears black,

colours her hair with copper colour. Chilly.

Outgoing, talkative and competitive. Gives much

importance to physical appearance particularly what

others would think about her. Cenchris contortrix

M repeated once relieved though there is slow

improvement in hair fall and obesity.

66. The Separating and Reuniting Force of the

Snake

SHEMMER Yair (HL, 13, 2-3/2000)

The Dynamic, blue-print aspect of the remedy

is a realm that is unknown to modern medicine.

One discipline that resembles the dynamic approach

is Archetypal, or Jungian, Psychology. Both

Homeopathy and the Jungian Psychology deal with

psychological and energetic archetypes or blue

prints which exist in the collective vital force of

humanity. The author opines that Homeopathy

and archetypal Psychology need to find more

intimate interaction one day. He has dedicated this

article to the memory of Dr. Edward C.

WHITMONT, a great man who combined both

disciplines in his practice.

Lachesis, the “Bush Master”, is the most

prominent representative of the snake family in the

Materia Medica, symbolizes the core essence of the

serpent in the human sub-consciousness, more than

other snake remedies. The serpent is a powerful,

ancient, mythological symbol, accompanying

humanity since the beginning of its existence.

Therefore, in order to better understand the ability

of Lachesis to cure deep mental and physical

disturbances in our patients who exhibit the serpent

pathology, we must examine the interaction

between mankind and the mythology of the serpent.

The action of the Serpent Force, which symbolizes

the ability to separate the ego from the soul, is

characterized by great intensity, and the healing

process can prove to be very powerful.

38-Year-old female with a dramatic and intense

personality, and a high degree of self-awareness.

She is an actress with poetic, artistic and spiritual

inclination.

Feels huge, swollen, monstrous body before

menses. Pain in abdomen and breasts at ovulation

time. Had a number of suicidal attempts,

suppression of femininity, and a large gap between

high spiritual aspirations and the complex mental

state. Sexually been abused by her brother whom

she loved very much and gave sex to get security.

Felt abandoned when her brother went to town to

get a job. Her mother projected the character of a

prostitute and hence she hates every form of

femininity, bad motherhood, maternal authority.

Felt her blood had been poisoned and after

attending a good concert she went home and cut her

veins in happiness and saw the poisoned blood been

let out. After this she felt lighter, cleaner and more

peaceful. Received one dose of Lachesis 30 and a

second dose after two months. After six weeks of

receiving the medicine she felt that there are two

bodies existing in her - the night body fighting

horrible nightmares, jumping out of bed in the

morning as the bed was full of thorns, and the day

body which relies heavily upon its mind to

overcome the heartaches, nausea, diarrhea and

bloody excretions which first appeared now

disappeared. After four months her letter report

revealed her changed mental attitude. The force of

the snake has changed from a burning force to a

healing force, from a separating force to an uniting

force.

67. Nux vomica

WILHELMER Sieghard (DH, 18/1998)

Young girl 21 years with lack of self

confidence, weak voice, thought of suicide, fear of

death, depression periodically.

Only child. Very poor in calculation. A rose

costs 5 shillings. How much for 7 roses? And she

fumbled. Does well in Psychology and Pedagogy,

conscientious, weeps and music easily causes

weeping; hobbies are reading and drawing and

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writing poems. Loves salty fish, works smartly and

rightly, sleeps on abdomen. First she was given

Natrum muriaticum M without help.

Repertorisation again with the symptoms poor in

calculation gave Graph., Nat-m., and Nux-v.

Consulted CLARKE and found two symptoms

which matched exactly word for word.

I could not say earlier that this case was Nux

vomica. Nevertheless careful repertorisation and

study of the case pointed to Nux vomica and so Nux

vomica M. A wonderful cure was obtained.

Follow up one year later. Remains well.

Wonderful healings can be had by anyone if one

works carefully and finely

68. Die Nephrose des Bernhard K (The Nephrosis

of Bernhard K)

ROHRER Anton (DH, 18/1998)

This is an interesting report of Cure of

Nephrosis in a boy of about 5 years.

Homeopathic treatment for Nephrosis was

begun at the stage when the Hospital considered

Steroid therapie as essential.

The author gives his reasoning for each

prescription. The relationship of Helleborus and

Lycopodium, the value of time modality, the

interfering acute ailments, etc. also the value of

peculiar symptoms for choice of a remedy are all

highlighted.

The “key” symptom that opened the healing

process was the symptom: Pain in abdomen when

climbing up the stairs’. This symptom had two

remedies in the KENT Repertory: Asclepias

tuberosa, Helleborus. Comparison in the Materia

Medica confirmed Helleborus niger.

What is more interesting is that this symptom

was reported by LANGHAMMER (see Materia

Medica Pura). This prover belonged to the earliest

Prover’s Union of HAHNEMANN. He was frail,

hunch-backed, poor, aloof and was disliked by

many colleagues. There was much criticism about

his symptoms and many said that they were not

trustworthy. Only HERING defended

LANGHAMMER strongly.

[Nearly two hundred years after the “Proving”

the symptom is still valuable in healing serious

disease. Homeopathic Materia Medica can never

become outdated indeed, even a thousand years

hence! And every symtom given by the pioneer

provers is “pure gold” = KSS]

69. Borax bei Psoriasis (Borax in Psoriasis)

MOHR-BAUMANN Gabriele (DH, 18/1998)

The author considers Borax as an important

homeopathic medicine in Psoriasis. Since 1990

she had good experience in this. Six cases are

narrated. The remedy was given in low potency,

generally 12x, over a long period.

70. Malaria Cases

MASTER F J (HH, 24, 1/1999)

Six Cases of Malaria are reported. Repertorial

evaluation of each case have been given. Remedies

like Arsenicum album, China, Chininum

sulphuricum and Ipecacuana which seem to be

specific for Malaria are discussed. Comparison

between Arsenicum album and China, China and

Chininum sulphuricum are also given.

71. A Case of Zincum metallicum

JAIN A A (HH, 24, 1/1999)

A 30 year-old male with acidity - burning and

heaviness in the epigastrium and waterbrash,

aggravation night, after sleep. Headache

aggravation constipation. Perspiration acrid.

Craves fish, hot milk. Aversion sour. Timid,

cowardice, forgetful. Had increased sexual desire.

Thoughts of blashphemous language. Delusion of

hearing abusive and filthy language. Dreams of

stool and embarrassment. Zincum metallicum M

relieved substantially.

72. A Case of Natrum carbonicum

PANCHAL A D & PANCHAL N A

(HH, 24, 1/1999)

A man with constipation for 4 years. Frequent

ineffectual urging, had to strain although stool was

not hard. Postnasal discharge or incessant hawking.

Headache from mental exertion. Craves sweets,

vegetables, aversion to bread, rice. Hot patient.

aggravation strong odours, overeating. Very

honest, used to resist the bribes very sternly. Had

the habit striking himself if he gets angry or

frustrated. Been harassed by the higher officials as

he refused the bribery, which they found to be an

obstacle for them. Was a loner though had one or

two close friends. Never revealed his emotions

except in front of his wife. Dreams of going astray

i.e. accepting bribe, breaking the queue and getting

ahead, committing a theft and escaping. Natrum

carbonicum 200 gave 80% relief in the second

week, repeated once after 6 months relieved him.

73. A Case of Thyroid Nodule with Resolving

Thyroiditis: CA Endometrium with Recto

Vaginal Fistula, Diabetes Mellitus and Acidity.

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MISTRY B D (HH, 24, 1/1999)

Mrs. B. M. Aged 62 years had burning in right

throat. aggravation bending forward, sour food,

pickles, fasting. Diagnosed to have Euthyroid with

Resolving Thyroiditis. T3 - 125, T4 - 6.6, TSH -

6.2. Sonography showed large nodule in lower ½ of

right lobe and a small nodule in left lobule.

Thyroid tracer studies - T3 - 1.55, T4 - 113.0, TSH

- 4.66. An independent woman, wants to be

occupied, will not forgive people who had done

injustice, consolation aggravation, suspicious.

Loquacious. Speech hasty. Likes to be in

intellectual company, to learn new things and see

new things. Loves dancing, music, travelling and

writing. Aggravation from milk, desires pickles.

Had lot of mental strain in family and financial

problem after husband’s death. Diagnosed to have

Cancer uterus. Fistula of vagina and rectum with

physometra. Discolouration of tongue - purple.

Lachesis M repeated twice at a months interval

improved her condition.

74. Case Study of Lachesis

VED Jayashree (HH, 24, 1/1999)

A 65 year-old man with Headache and

Arthritis. Throbbing pain in left parietal region

aggravation alcohol, cheese, onion, 9.00 A. M. and

3.00 P. M. Pain in knee joints, finger joints, hip

etc., aggravation morning, while walking. Craves

sweets. Interrupted feeble stream of urine.

Perspiration upper half of the body. Decreased

sexual desire due to weak erection. Loquacious,

fear of infection and contagious disease.

Fastidious, superstitious. Feels that he had not been

appreciated and recognized for the good deeds he

had done. Lachesis 200 repeated once after 35 days

relieved.

75. Case Study of Staphysagria

VED Jayashree (HH, 24, 1/1999)

A 32 year-old woman suffered from mental

depression, sleeplessness, hair fall, cough and cold.

She developed depression due to unhappy life since

her childhood. Her mother was dominative jealous

lady who was jealous about her own child’s beauty.

Husband is also a short-tempered person who

abuses, criticizes and misbehaves with her. Though

she felt angry and hatred towards him she did not let

out her emotions or anger. Felt that “Nobody loves

her, everybody hates her”. Aversion to cheese and

raw onions. Perspiration on the face. Dreams of

her mother beating and reprimanding, war, someone

chasing her with a gun to kill her. Staphysagria

10M repeated once after 3 months relieved.

76. A Case of Migraine and Acne Rosacea

BHARUCHA P M (HH, 24, 1/1999)

An adolescent aged 18 years had supra orbital

headache, recurred annually, intense hammering

and throbbing pains with nausea, irritability and

epistaxis which amelioration the headache. Pustular

acne on cheeks and forehead. Desires curd, milk,

ice cream, bread and chocolates. Aversion to meat.

Profuse sweat of palms. Chilly, wants to cover in

all seasons. Hard worker, very conscientious.

Sympathetic and responsible person. Timid, fear of

lizards. Anxious when anyone of the family

member is sick. Psorinum M cured.

77. The Neophites’s Guide to Successful

Prescriptions

GUNAVANTE & VASANDI Y

(HH, 24, 2/1999)

The article deals with the Neophyte’s

difficulties and how to overcome them. They have

enumerated the advice of W. YINGLING, H. A.

ROBERTS, KENT etc.

78. Illustrative Cases

GUNAVANTE & YOGESH V

(HH, 24, 2/1999)

Case 1: 38 year-old woman had fear of insanity

which developed after seeing a dead body.

Stramonium 10M seemed to ameliorate the

temporarily. Repetition of the remedy did not give

lasting effect. On further enquiry she wept at the

thought of what might happen to her children and

family if she had died. This with her amelioration

in open air and worse in warm room helped to

select Pulsatilla. 10M one dose helped.

Case 2: A 35 year-old lady had vertigo with fear of

falling. Had sleepless night as she has to look after

her newborn child. Cocculus M four hourly, 2

doses relieved.

Case 3: A 40 year-old man had frequent violent

headaches amelioration by vomiting. The attacks

were periodical, weekly and paroxysmal.

Sanguinaria M, 3 doses, 12 hourly cured.

Case 4: A 40 year-old lady had inability to open her

eyes with a sense of paralysis. Very timid person

and did not like warm air. Gelsemium M, 3 doses

12 hourly cured .

Case 5: A 55 year-old lady had lightening like

flashes in front of her eyes which woke her from

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sleep. Mild natured. Phosphorus M, 3 doses, 12

hourly cured.

Case 6: A 22 year-old male had impairment in

hearing after swimming. aggravation by warm air.

The rubric “Hearing impaired from catarrh of

eustachian tube” helped in selecting Pulsatilla. 200

twice a day for three days cured.

Case 7: 30 year-old male had obstruction of nose

with pain in forehead. Had post nasal discharge

which was thick/viscid. Had nasal voice. Kali

bichromicum M, 3 doses every third day relieved.

Case 8: 8 year-old boy had inflammation of tonsils

with pain in throat while swallowing. Pain

amelioration by warm drinks. Lycopodium M, 3

doses on alternate days, repeated similarly after one

week.

Case 9: A 27 year-old primipara had severe

vomiting. Lycopodium and Cocculus failed to

relieve. On close enquiry revealed vomiting of food

one hour after eating until stomach is empty.

Vomiting of water soon after drinking. Desires

spicy food. Phosphorus M, 3 doses, one daily

relieved.

Case 10: A 35 year-old male had cramping pains in

his abdomen at about 2 a.m. at night regularly.

amelioration by bending forward. Appeared

gradually and disappeared gradually. Stannum

metallicum 200 twice a day for few days cured.

Case 11: An old lady developed diarrhea after

hearing that her daughter and son-in-law had met

with a car accident and had a narrow escape from

serious injuries. Gelsemium M, single dose stopped

the diarrhea.

Case 12: An elderly man had prolapse of rectum

which occurred during stool, though the stool was

soft. Pain during and after stool. Ignatia M, few

doses cured.

Case 13: A 65 year-old widow had to be frequently

admitted in the hospital for catheterisation on

account of painful retention of urine. Retention

from catching cold. Had tenesmus and ineffectual

urging. Causticum M, 3 doses, once a day and two

more at an interval of 5 days relieved.

Case 14: 45 year-old male had increased sexual

desire inspite of failed erections. aggravation warm

room. Slept on abdomen. Medorrhinum one dose

every 15 days for 2 months helped.

Case 15: A lady about 35 years had severe itching

of the genitalia due to leucorrhoea. The

leucorrohea was offensive, staining and caused

burning. aggravation before menses. Kreosotum

200 twice a day for two days relieved.

Case 16: 40 year-old female had frequent menses

with profuse flow aggravation standing and

walking. Full of cares about her daughter who was

not studying properly. Cocculus M twice a day for

2 days regularized her periods.

Case 17: A boy 8½ years suffered from acute

asthma. Took allopathic and ayurvedic medication

without avail. Respiration difficult aggravation

walking, panting respiration with cough. Mother

was stroking or rubbing the boy on his back which

seemed to ameliorate him. Phosphorus M relieved

the attack and he needed a repetition after 15 days.

Case 18: 40 year-old male had difficulty in

breathing amelioration open air, aggravation

exertion, warm air. Bathing cold water

amelioration. Desires salted things. Natrum

muriaticum M three doses, one dose a day,

followed by one more dose 7 days later.

Case 19: 6 year-old child had violent cough

aggravation lying down to sleep at night. Almost

suffocated during the coughing bouts which ended

in vomiting. Face became red during the cough.

Drosera 200 relieved.

Case 20: A 65 year-old male had pain in the heart

aggravation lying on left side. Pain extended to the

nape of neck and shoulder as well as to the left

scapula. Palpitations with inability to talk. Naja

200, 2 doses, 6 hourly followed by M at weekly

intervals; after 3 more doses he was free from the

attacks.

Case 21: 55 year-old lady had pain and stiffness in

the lumbar region aggravation stooping and rising

from a seat. Found difficult to straighten up her

back. Sulphur 10M, 3 doses at an interval of 5 days

cured.

Case 22: A 45 year-old man had sciatica of the

right lower extremity aggravation coughing,

sneezing and laughing, lying on painful side.

Tellurium M, 3 doses at an interval of 5 days and 2

doses at weekly interval relieved.

Case 23: A lady, 55 years, had severe pain in the

heels while walking, but diminished as she

continued walking. aggravation evening. Warm

patient, felt better when walking in the open air.

Pulsatilla M, 6 doses every third relieved.

Case 24: A girl, 14, had trembling of right hand

when holding the cup or writing. Very anxious to

get rid of this trembling as her exams commences

after two days. No nervousness or fear of

examination. Sulphur 10M one dose relieved.

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Case 25: 53 year-old female suffered from

sleeplessness until midnight. Wakes up frequently,

sleepless after waking, the thought of her 27 year-

old daughter’s marriage revolved in her mind.

Pulsatilla M three doses every fifth day and two

doses every fortnight improved her sleep.

Case 26: A newborn baby, less than 15 days old,

had high fever and was moaning. Belladonna M,

one powder to be stirred in 5 teaspoons of water.

First two teaspoons to be given at two hourly

interval and the remaining three teaspoons to be

given at three hourly interval. Fever came down

within two hours.

Case 27: A 65 year-old lady had shivering chill

with desire to take chilled water. Headache on

coughing Phosphorus M in water one teaspoon two

hourly.

Case 28: A 15 year-old girl had warts in her nose,

obstructing nose which caused difficulty in

breathing. Had sensation of crawling or itching in

the nostril. Very sympathetic. Causticum M to be

dissolved in five teaspoons of water, one

teaspoonful to be taken daily, after adding one

teaspoon of plain water and stirring. Warts fell off

within a month.

Case 29: 30 year-old female had ringworm patches

on the outer aspects of both thighs. Eruptions were

crusty and dry and the scales came off when

scratching. Tuberculinum M, two doses followed

by Sepia 200 every third day for weeks relieved.

Case 30: 27 year-old male had purpuric spots on

his legs, forearms, and back. Oral medicines and

local ointments had no avail. The red spots were

itching and when the skin peeled off , it left natural

colour of the skin. But the red spots/patches formed

again. Had profuse perspiration, could not tolerate

heat, had extreme thirst. Desires fridge water.

Dandruff. Natrum muriaticum M twice a day for

three days and three more doses at an interval of 5

days helped.

79. Some Striking Cures With the Help of Kent’s

Repertory

CHHAYA R K (HH, 24, 2/1999)

Nine cases with evaluation and repertorisation

have been given. These cases illustrate

prescriptions of lesser used remedies in so-called

day to day practice.

80. Some Common Emergencies in Homeopathy

MANIAR A C (HH, 24, 2/1999)

The main aim of this article is to provide

information and guidance, as accurate and specific

as possible, to all those who have to provide “First

Line” care whether in the clinic, at home, hospital

or at times even on the roadside. Advantages of

Homeopathy and the emergency conditions like

injuries, burns, fractures, colic, haemorrhage, fever,

fainting and the heart emergencies have been dealt

with. Few remedies specific to each condition are

also discussed.

81. Snaps

BEHRAM A K B (HH, 24, 2/1999)

These case illustrate the importance of

characterisitic symptoms - whether they are mental

or physical symptoms is not the issue.

Case 1: A fat and flabby woman with moist limbs

below the knee had sciatica. On the mere

appearance of the lady Calcarea carbonica 200 was

given which relieved.

Case 2: A tall slender graceful woman had severe

pain starting from the right groin to the labium and

down the inner side of the right thigh. Pain was so

severe that she had fever and even morphia doesn’t

seem to relieve. There was nothing special to

prescribe on except the general appearance .

Phosphorus 30, 6 doses followed by 200 relieved.

Case 3: A 6 year-old girl, had partial ankylosis and

swelling of both wrists, both elbows, right hi-joint

and both knees. Had large dark eyes, long

eyelashes, emaciated face, dry skin and felt the heat

very much. The diagnosis was Still’s disease and

the remedy was Tuberculinum 200 given once in

three months for about a year cleared up the

involved joints.

Case 4: A fat, flabby, inflatulent and chilly woman

had excruciating pain in the lower abdomen 8 to 10

days after completing her periods. Used have fits of

neurosis and Sepia helped her. Got examined and

investigated by a consultant Gynaecologist who

could not come to any definite conclusion as

everything was normal. The pain definite

relationship to ovulation. Kali carbonicum 30

every three hours abated the pain. Kali carbonicum

200 soon after menses which on repetition after a

month, completely cured. No definite reason for

prescribing Kali carbonicum except that it is

complementary to Sepia.

Case 5: A well-built woman with sedate

temperament had asthma which began with pain in

the umbilical region, and sense of pressure at the

epigastrium soon followed by breathlessness and

inability to inspire. Eating raw vegetables amel.

neither Adrenalin nor Epinephrine nor

Aminophylline. Extremely fond of sugar and

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sweets which induced gastric flatulence and usually

precipitated her asthma. Argentum nitricum 200

relieved.

Case 6: A boy had continuous fever for 12 days and

laid down listless with half open staring eyes.

Examination revealed consolidation of the apex of

right lung and a small patch at the angle of left

scapula indicating Bronchopneumonia. Based on

mental symptoms Phosphorus was given without

any effect. Tongue was coated thickly with white

fur like a carpet and Antimonium tartaricum 30,

four times a day brought the temperature to normal

within 24 hours.

Case 7: A stout lady slow and sedate had Sciatica

and the pains were worse at night, burning in

character, mitigated by heat. Arsenicum album 30,

6 doses, 3 hourly gave a bad aggravation and

complete cure.

Case 8: A young boy aged 15, had nasal

obstruction. Mucous membrane was swollen, red

dry and glazy. Phosphorus 30, soon followed by

200 relieved. Phosphorus was chosen based on the

fact that the mucous was dry and glazy.

Case 9: A tall heavy person had status asthmatics.

The usual drugs like Arsenic, Ipecac, Sambucus

etc., gave no relief. Asthma was better in cold

weather and worse in summer. Sulphur 200, two

doses relieved.

Case 10: A lady, short, too fat and very

impressionable had cough worse in the early hours

of morning and in the evening. Brought on from

any strong odour, pleasant or offensive.

Phosphorus 30 repeatedly and later 200 once a

fortnight for a period of two months completely

relieved.

Case 11: A child was suffering from rickets. A

white thick ‘fur’ on the floor when the child passed

urine. Phosphorus cured him of the phosphates in

the urine as well as his rickets.

Case 12: A maid had leucorrhoea with prostration

from least physical exertion. On examination had

extensive erosion with multiple deep ulcers on the

cervix. Very chilly and clammy and cold to touch.

Repeated doses of Silica relieved.

82. An Abscessed Tooth

NAUMAN Eileen (HT, 19, 6/1999)

The patient is author’s husband with a crack in

the front teeth after eating peanuts. It’s a pressure

he experienced rather than a pain. No modalities.

Belladonna 30, one dose. No change. Magnesium

phosphoricum 30, no change. Chamomilla 30,

nothing. Hypericum 30, disgusted. Advised to see

a dentist who diagnosed it to be an abscessed tooth

and recommended root canal. He refused asked

help from Homeopathy. As a last resort Hepar

sulphuricum 200 - the fire engine remedy 4 doses in

24 hours relieved and saved $600.

83. Drills in Prescribing

CASE Erastus (HT, 19, 6/1999)

Burning pain in prostate gland.

Ranula bluish, with pricking sensation in it.

Soreness in muscles on right side of chest.

Painful soreness of right shoulder and upper

arm.

Soreness in left sciatic nerve.

Lyssin is the remedy that cured.

[This case is from Archives]

84. Snow Days From Home

ROTHENBERG Amy (HT, 19, 7/1999)

The author used to give phone advice during

the snow days. This is one of the cases were

Calcarea carbonicum is the constitutional remedy

of the patient which kept aside her chronic sinusitis

for nearly 2 years. She developed cold in the last

winter and asked for help over phone. The author is

a strong believer in using diet, exercise, botanical

medicine and nutritional supplements not only

during constitutional care but especially to help get

homeopathic patients over and through many of the

acute illness that arise during chronic prescribing.

Many of these types of treatments (diet,

hydrotherapy, etc.) can be found in the Organon

and work harmoniously with Homeopathy. And

hence asked her to try some vitamins, herbs and

some changes in the diet. But this did not help her

and she presented herself in the clinic next day. On

observing the presenting symptoms it found to be

the recurrence of her constitutional symptoms

which helped the author in deciding to repeat the

remedy. Next day she called to say that her sinus

infection evaporated overnight.

85. A Question of Antidoting

TAYLOR Will (HT, 19, 9/1999)

The author answers the question whether mint

causes an antidoting effect on homeopathic

medicines or not. Minted toothpaste or modest

mint in the diet can never cause a problem of

antidoting. In HAHNEMANN’s day hygiene was

terrible (open sewers in Leipzig), and folks did all

sorts of things to deal with odor - including using

enormous quantities of mint. It is likely this that

HAHNEMANN was speaking about when he

suggested avoiding mint, rather than the quantities

we are exposed to from minted toothpaste,

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occasional mint tea, tabouli, etc. Regarding

“antidoting” in general, it is the impression of many

homeopaths that unintentional antidoting - from

anything - is rather rare and tends to occur

principally in patients of rather low vitality.

86. Mental Symptoms

WARKENTIN D K (HT, 19, 9/1999)

The author says that giving due importance to

mental and emotional symptoms in approaching a

case seems to be limiting, narrow, and misleading.

He has given reasons for his conclusion.

He recommends four-pronged way to approach

a case:

1. Use physical pathology with modalities.

2. Understand the mental and emotional

strategy. Then from the remedies that did

well in #1 above, choose the ones that

correspond with this understanding.

3. Verify that, generally, the patient has their

pathology in the same location and style as

the remedy selected.

4. Look for any coincidences between the

natural history or mythology of the substance

and the case.

87. Naming the Disease: how important is it?

TAYLOR Will (HT, 19, 10/1999)

HAHNEMANN offered an overview of the

classification of disease in aphorisms 72-81 of the

Organon, and this is well worth reading, even with

the refinements of pathology modern medicine has

brought us. The author has given his understanding

about it by quoting the significance of it given in

Chronic Diseases, Organon, and Observations on

the Scarlet Fever. The genus epidemicus of the

“same” disease (by allopathic standards) may be a

very different remedy - as HAHNEMANN saw with

“scarlet fever.” His differentiation of the “the new

scarlet fever” is an excellent example of the kind of

anamnesis we need to do, and which separates us

from the “diagnostic” model of allopathy. A

reliance on allopathic classification of disease

allows us to be blind aided by the general features

of disease and miss the truly characterizing features

of the case of disease which may define its

similimum.

88. Using Herbs Along with Homeopathic

Medicines

TAYLOR Will (HT, 19, 11/1999)

A brief article on whether herbs can be used

along with homeopathic medicines. The author is

against its use. He says that the Natural Health

products (e.g. St. Johns Wort, Kava Kava), each

have nine or ten things in them and nobody did any

individualizing when creating the regimen for them.

HAHNEMANN’s “discovery” of

Homeopathy dates to his recognition that the

healing power of (the herbal remedy) Peruvian bark

in malaria was due to its action according to the

principle of similars; and he gave us the

methodology to determine when it was the

appropriate remedy to use, and when something else

might be better applied. He quickly recognized that

this cure by similars was a general phenomenon and

left us with the provings some 70 herbs that could

be used on the basis of the principle of similars,

individualized to the case, rather than in the

haphazard fashion of Allopathy.

89. A Case of Persistent Discharge

CARLISLE Chris (HT, 19, 11/1999)

37 year-old woman, 35 weeks pregnant, had

increased oedema in her feet and ankles, white

vaginal discharge, experiencing contractions and

possibly in labour. Had cough with yellow

expectoration for 2 weeks and was wheezy.

Antibiotics were given. Next day experienced

continuing suprapubic abdominal pain, there was a

large vaginal bleeding suggesting premature

detachment of placenta. Lower uterine segment

cesarean section was performed and the child was

taken out but the surgeon reported a very abnormal

lower segment with anterior placenta filling it. An

accumulation of an offensive smelling placenta had

to be removed in piecemeal. Diagnosed with mild

heart failure. Frusimide and ventolin nebulisers

were given. Had chest infection. Has not passed

flatus, gas pains severe. Raphanus 30 given with

no improvement. Indwelling catheter was taken out

but after 2 days again it was inserted as she was not

able to pass adequate amount of urine. Put on

antibiotics and Pethidine. Staphysagria 30 basing

on the urinary pathology and post operative

complications and her suppressed anger which gave

negligible relief. Causticum 200 given on the basis

of the acute anxiety, and for “Paralysis of bladder

from long retention of urine. Retention of urine

after labour, after surgical operations which

relieved her within half-an-hour.

After a month, had mild greenish slimy vaginal

discharge. Very offensive. Feels uterus hard and

has not returned back to normal. Tenderness

around the scar and above it. The results of

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repertorization gave: Secale, Carbo animalis,

Kreosote, Kali phosphoricum. Secale 200, twice a

day for 2 days. The discharge stopped within a day.

After 10 days there was a recurrence of the

discharge and hence Secale M was given. The

remedy ameliorated the discharge to an extent but

did not relieve the stomach pains. Hence Sabina

200 given and the discharge disappeared but the

pain still persisted and felt angry on thinking about

her condition. Staphysagria M with no

improvement. On further enquiry she talked about

being very angry at the baby and her partner, her

libido low and craves spicy and salty things and

hates cold things. Sepia M brought lasting

improvement all around.

90. Childhood Ear Infections

HOOVER T A (HT, 19, 11/1999)

Otitis media or middle ear infections are one of

the most common childhood infections. The most

common treatment is to use antibiotics, but some

recent studies in Holland and the US have shown

that this may not be the best course. These studies

suggested that children who do not get antibiotics

actually develop fewer recurrences of infections

compared to those who do receive them.

Appropriately chosen homeopathic remedies

can make dramatic difference for children with ear

infections. A few examples of children with ear

infection treated homeopathically are given.

91. Cancer and the Sea Remedies

EVANS Jo (HOM, 76, 2000)

Sunday Times of 11 July 1999, says that

conventional medical drugs from the sea mentioned

that researchers at New Castle University had

found that the eggs of the Starfish are a good source

of a Cancer - inhibiting drug. Homeopaths have

been using Astreia rubens made from common

Starfish and it is also a remedy indicated for Breast

Cancer, for over 100 years.

The Florida Harbour Branch

Oceanographite Institute gave the explanation

‘Millions of years of evolution gave ocean animals

and microbes chemical defenses to survive.

A Sponge killing a parasitis rapidly growing

cells is the same principle as this killing human

Cancer cells. The reverse of second sentence is

true.

The Sea Sponge has survived so long because

it has hardly needed to change or evolve.

Some sea remedies Limulus, Asterias rubens,

Medusa, Gadus morrula, Oleum jecoris ascelli,

Eryngium maritimum, Corallium rubrum, Ambra

grisea, Sepia, Spongia and Murex. The author

discusses some other sea remedies also. The sea

remedies are hidden miracles.

92. Up the Swance with Kali carbonicum

Mike BRIDGER (HOM. 77/2000)

When remedies like Sepia, Graphites,

Psorinum, Phosphorus, Arsenicum, Bryonia,

Natrum muriaticum, Carcinosin, Colocynthis,

Lycopodium have failed consider Kali carbonicum.

Because many symptoms of these remedies are

found in Kali carbonicum.

93. Picric-acid Cases

TIWARI N L (NJH, 2, 1/2000)

Case 1: A 35 year-old female had migraine,

chronic constipation and haemorrhoids. Kali

bichromicum 200 in infrequent doses and

intercurrent Tuberculinum bovinum M helped her.

Nux vomica was also given for acute conditions.

Had unusual weakness and tiredness. Fasting

Blood Sugar level is 134mg% and PP 256mg%.

Became anxious and fearsome, tiredness, feels

exhausted and loss of sleep. Phosphorus M and

Argentum nitricum 200 gave no relief. Had

offensive urine. Picricum acidum 200 relieved and

the blood sugar level came down to Fasting

108mg% and PP 132mg%.

Case 2: 59 year-old woman suffered from NIDDM

with random blood sugar 200mg%, Essential

Hypertension BP 160/90 and Reactive Depression

with weakness. Kali acetate 200 gave partial relief.

Thermal reaction hot, morning diarrhoea with lack

of control. Natrum sulphuricum 200 in infrequent

dose did not relieve her depression, weakness and

loss of self confidence. Picricum acidum 200

relieved.

Case 3: Smt Y, 39 years, suffered from Essential

Hypertension, mucus colitis and LS spondylosis.

BP remained 130/80 to 140/90. Kali carbonicum

M for chronic phase, Secale cornutum and

Pulsatilla as and when needed. Veratrum album

30, 200 when BP 180/110. Anxiety, loss of self

confidence and weakness persists. Picricum

acidum 30 relieved.

94. Cases of Prolapse

CHIMTHANWALA K (NJH, 2, 1/2000)

Case 1: 64 year-old man had frequent loose stools

and extreme prostration. Restless and anxious.

Took food in hotel a day back. Stools watery,

offensive and profuse every hour. Thirst normal.

Urine scanty. Eyes sunken, lips dry. Pulse

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78/minute. BP 76/50mmHg. Mouth red, apthae.

Prolapsed rectum 2 inches, reducible, non-tender,

no ulcer. Arsenicum album 200, 0/6, 0/12 were

given in Intravenous fluids relieved his acute

ailment. But the patient had chronic watery stools

offensive, aggravation after eating. After the son’s

marriage he and his wife were sent out of their

house by the sons and the daughters-in-law. Met

hard and stressful life situations. Becomes easily

exhausted, not able to do his daily routine. A

person who is active and perfectionist, liked

company became reserved, silent and taciturn after

this incident. Phosphorus, Nitricum acidum and

Muriaticum acidum were considered and Muriatic

acid relieved his entire problem.

Case 2: A 7 year-old child with recurrent worm

infestation and constipation. Given Calcarea

carbonicum, Teucrium marum verum, Cina, Nux-

vomica, Ratanhia and Sulphur in various potencies

but the complaints persisted. There is a pea-sized

swelling at the anus, which appeared after passing

stools and reduced 3 - 4 hours after defecation.

Later developed into an irreducible painful bunch of

grapes. Burning anus after stools, slight oozing of

dark offensive watery fluid. Had itching eruptions

in both the legs during early childhood ameliorated

by ointments. Graphites 200, Aloes 200,

Hamamelis 200 given in repeated doses within 4

months but no substantial relief. Sulphur 0/6 not

much of relief. Acidum muriaticum 200 followed

by Sulphur M relieved. [Cases like this are

examples of our bungling and how as soon as the

right remedy is given there is quick relief = KSS]

95. The Acidic Action

CHIMTHANWALA A (NJH, 2, 1/2000)

Case 1: A middle aged man with Diabetes mellitus

had continuous fever for 16 days due to offensive

oozing carbuncle on nape of neck. In spite of

ayurvedic medicine and antibiotics the fever

continued and the carbuncle also began to spread.

Extremely prostrated, felt chill but did not want to

cover. Tongue coated and breath offensive. Palms

and feet cold, perspiration. Answers slowly and

moans constantly. Blood sugar random 206mg.

Arsenicum album 0/6 and Baptisia M failed. On the

basis of Extreme prostration, Septic fever,

Offensive discharges, Involuntary offensive loose

stools and Restlessness Muriaticum acidum M

given which produced remarkable improvement.

Case 2: A 28 year-old male, had feeling of

depression, sulkiness and insomnia. Desire to

escape from the house and had no interest towards

his wife and children. A small round ulcer on

Glans, little discharge, offensive, occasional pains

at night. Was present even before his marriage

amelioration ointments. Had multiple contacts.

Sepia, Lycopodium and Fluric acid were

considered. Fluric acid 200 and M over a period of

8 months relieved.

96. The Weak but Intelligent Child

DAPTARDAR B G (NJH, 2, 1/2000)

An acute case in which the chronic state of the

patient helps to find the similimum. A child aged 2

years with high fever did not respond to Ferrum

phosphoricum and Pulsatilla 200. Weak and

emaciated. Moaning and thirstless with cold feet.

Had involuntary stools and urine. Muriaticum

acidum 200/ 2 doses 8 hours apart produced good

improvement.

Premature child; born in 7th month of

pregnancy. Kept in premature unit for 45 days.

Blood transfusion - ?Septicaemia. Had recurrent

nasal congestion, sneezing, cough. Had

Phyctenular conjunctivitis. Restless hands and feet.

Starts during sleep. Fear of balloons, whistle of

pressure cooker. Timid. Likes to be alone. Fear of

strangers. Desires fruits, curd, cold drinks and ice

cream. Passed stool and urine without giving any

indication. Mother had polyhydramnios in the early

weeks of pregnancy and placenta previa. She is

very obstinate, anxious and conscientious about

trifles. She desires to be cared by others. Mother’s

history and the evolution of child: premature

delivery, septicaemia, cellulitis, low grades of

inflammations, dull, irritable nature, physical and

mental weakness with no control over stools and

urine all pointed to Muriaticum acidum.

97. Tuberculinum: as a Constitutional

LOBO Anita (NJH, 2, 1/2000)

8 year-old boy with recurrent respiratory

problem. Took antihistamines and local steroids for

7 years without much relief. Cold and cough

excited by dust, cold food and drinks. aggravation

night, cold climate, change of climate. Desires -

sweets, meat cold milk. Increased thirst for cold

water. Profuse sweat on forehead. Likes drawing,

painting. Has changeable moods, Very sensitive

amelioration by consolation. Irritable and gets

angered easily. Fear of dogs and ghosts. Sleep

disturbed due to dreams of ghosts. Arsenicum

album 6 for acute phase and Tuberculinum 200 as a

constitutional remedy cleared his problems.

98. From Irrational To Rational Medicine

SANDHU C S (NJH, 2, 1/2000)

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This is a detailed article against the use of

combination and mixture of medicines where

excerpts from many of HAHNEMANN’s writings

and his letters have been given to support this view.

It is worth reading the full article.

99. A Case of Upper Respiratory Tract Infection

JAIN C B (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

A boy aged 4, had recurrent sudden onset of

fever with chills and recurrent respiratory tract

infection since his birth. Starts after bathing in cold

water, cold drinks and ice creams. AKT treatment

for 6 months. Had jaundice. Malnourished, cranky

child, obstinate - lies and rolls on ground during

anger. Possessive about his things. Perspiration in

neck and abdomen. Milestones delayed. Does not

desire to cover. Phosphorus 200 given which

helped. But within a week he developed fever and

again he was given AKT treatment. Lost 1 Kg in 2

weeks. The present condition of the patient is

considered and AKT treatment stopped. Arsenicum

iodatum 30 was repeated as the disease was in

advanced stage. Immediate improvement. After

improving the immunity status of the boy

constitutional remedy was considered and Calcarea

iodatum 30, one dose settled the patient completely.

100. I Can’t Work. . .

JAIN C B (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

A 50 year-old male, had respiratory problem

for more than 4 years. Cough with thick yellowish

expectoration. Fever and bodyache. Cough

aggravation night 7 p m to 1 a m, drinking water,

amelioration expectoration, lying on right side with

bending. Internal and external trembling with

weakness. Appetite decreased and weight loss

present. Had crepitations more in the right side

than on the left. Thin built. Smoked bidi - but left

it since illness. Worked in a tiles factory and had

exposure to Silicon, Zinc, Barium and Soil. Took

anti Koch’s treatment for sometime without any

improvement. Extreme weakness, nightly

aggravation and the tubercular lesion pointed to

Arsenicum album. Arsenicum album 30, once a day

for about 13 days followed by twice a day for few

days. No fever. Chest findings better. X - ray

showed improvement but AFB +ve. Had acute

upper respiratory infection and did not respond to

the given medicine and took allopathic medication

with no improvement. The present symptomatology

pointed to Calcarea flurica 30 produced gradual

improvement. Tuberculinum bovinum M was given

as an intercurrent and Calcarea flurica 30

continued. X - ray showed healing. AFB -ve in 3

samples. Weight increased upto 40 kgs and the

patient remained symptomless.

101. A Case of Kali-carb

JAIN C B (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

Mr. H S K aged 38, had dry cough with

occasional whitish expectoration. Cough

aggravation morning, sleep, summer. Haemoptysis.

Breathlessness on running. Slow healing of

wounds. Craves meat and sweets. Dreams of

animals and snakes. Crepitations heard all over

lung field. Pleural rub heard in the right lower lobe.

Took treatment from a chest consultant for about 3

years. The totality pointed to Kali carbonicum and

Bacillinum was given as an intercurrent. Both these

remedies in 200 potency cleared up the case.

102. Doctor, You must See Me now!

JAIN C B (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

A 24 year-old male came with acute fever and

insisted to see him out of appointment. Had

Malaria-like fever for 3 weeks 3 months back which

did not respond properly to treatment. Temperature

102.8°F. Had weakness, bodyache, leg pain.

Redness of eyes and perspiration. Chilly.

Arsenicum album 30/ 4 hourly. Developed loose

watery stools next day. Temperature did not touch

normal. X - ray showed right sided pleural

effusion. Kali carbonicum 30/ 4 hourly for a day

produced good improvement. X - ray showed

regression of pleural effusion and remained

asymptomatic.

103. My Experiences in Tuberculosis

MEHTA Kishore (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

The author has presented 4 cases of

Tuberculosis in which Tuberculinum bovinum

seemed to be the one which brought improvement

although other indicated drugs were also given.

Though in some cases Tuberculinum was given

only as a pathological or an empirical prescription.

104. Fulminating TB with Pleural Effusion

ADONI Madhusudan (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

20 year-old girl with fever, cough, difficulty in

breathing, stitching pain on the right side of chest,

extreme debility and prostration. Diagnosed as

right sided pleural effusion of Tuberculosis and

admitted in rural hospital and treated with AKT.

Condition worsened. Tuberculinum M one daily

for 3 days. X - ray showed no pleural effusion. In 3

months, after 12 doses of Tuberculinum, all the

symptoms of the disease vanished completely.

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105. An Empirical Study - on Lymphadenopathy

SHENOY P P (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

The author met the challenge of treating the

children with Cervical lymphadenopathy,

lymphocytosis, elevated ESR and Mantoux positive.

The criteria for the challenge being increase in

weight of the children - 1 kg in a month. If she fails

in bringing this improvement the children will be

put under AKT treatment. Within a month, each of

the children gained that magical 1 Kg in weight and

AKT was averted and within three months from the

onset of homeopathic treatment, all blood

parameters returned to normal. Reports of some

children are given to substantiate her results. The

main remedies which helped were Arsenicum

iodatum and Tuberculinum.

106. A Case of Tubercular Diathesis

CHATTERJEE Sumit (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

A boy 11 year-old, had fever cold and cough.

Paroxysmal, ending in vomiting aggravation after

eating, morning after waking. Rhinorrhoea, nasal

obstruction. Dyspnoea after cough. Bilateral nasal

polyps and tonsils. Bilateral ronchi heard.

Mantoux positive. X - ray showed Hilar opacities

with bilateral patchy pulmonary congestion.

Desires meat, egg, sour, fast foods. Aversion

sweets. Sweat profuse and stains yellow. Restless,

obstinate, intelligent. Calcarea phosphoricum 200

was given based on strong craving for meat,

excessive perspiration, lean built and other

tubercular symptoms. Tuberculinum was given in

LM potency.

107. Ileo-caecal Koch’s with Sub-acute Intestinal

Obstruction

KAPSE A R (NJH, 2, 3/2000)

A 35 year-old man with burning pain in

abdomen and distention. Diagnosed to have Ileo-

caecal Koch’s with suspected sub-acute intestinal

obstruction. Endoscopy showed intestinal

congestion. Appendix retrocaecal. No local

congestion. Tenderness in right Ileo-caecal region.

X - ray chest showed active Koch’s infiltration in

left lung with cavity in mid zone. Mantoux

positive. Was given AKT treatment for 2 years

with no improvement. Likes to be alone and brood.

Feels his illness to be punishment for the anger and

violence in childhood. Dreams of snake. Uncovers

feet. Eggs, milk, sweets and tea does not agree

produces abdominal complaints. Ferrum iodatum

was selected as synthetic prescription. Because he

had low susceptibility and lowered vitality the

remedy was given in 30 potency and repeated often.

Later potency was raised to 200 as the symptoms

relapsed. Tuberculinum bovinum M was given

once when he had loose stools. He got relieved of

his sufferings.

108. Synoptische Homöopathie - Eine Utopia?

(Synoptic Homeopathy - an Utopia)

HÖTZER, K. (AHZ, 245, 1/2000)

The term Synoptic Homeopathy is presented

in the same manner as the term Synoptic

Psychotherapy. Within the scope of synoptic

Psycotherapy the indication for a certain form of

therapy is chosen with respect to the situation of the

patient; this should also be possible in

Homeopathy, i. e., according to the symptoms, the

patient should be treated in a ‘classical

homeopathic’ or ‘scientific critical way’.

109. Beginende Multiple sklerose; Z. N. Rez.

Neuritiden Nerve Optici (Beginning Multiple

Sclerosis; Neuritis of the Optic Nerve)

EICHER, R. (AHZ, 245, 1/2000)

The homeopathic treatment of a beginning

Multiple Sclerosis, is described. There was neuritis

of the Optic nerve which developed further in the

form of impaired sensibility, since six months.

On the totality of the symptoms and

repertorization Sepia was given in XM potency.

This was repeated twice and she was free from the

ailments.

110. Alopecia totalis capitis (Alopecia total)

KANT, H. (AHZ, 245, 2/2000)

30 year-old female, with Alopecia; there were

many large areas of baldness. Has taken treatment

in Skin clinic etc., for quite sometime without

benefit.

Axillary, pubic hairs were intact.

She suffered from frequent headaches since her

10 year age. She had often cold hands and feet.

Itching in the hands and feet.

Secale cornutum D30 one ampoule i.v. weekly

once for 6 weeks after which she lost the remaining

hair too! The baldness was total like a billiard ball.

Now Thallium metallicum D30 weekly one

ampoule i. v.

4 weeks later hairs had grown in some spots. 4

weeks further the hairs had grown fully.

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111. J.COMPTON-BURNETT. Analyse seiner

Behandlungsstrategie BURNETT’s

indikationen zur Nosodenvevordming

(An analysis of the treatment, strategies of

J.C.BURNETT. BURNETT’s indications for

prescribing Nosodes)

KAMMERMEIER,A.(AHZ, 245, 3 & 4/2000)

James COMPTON-BURNETT (1840-1901)

practiced in England during the end of 19th century.

He developed a characteristic style of treatment. He

used Nosodes frequently and often alternated

between organopathically chosen ones in low

potency and constitutional remedies in high

potency. He found that Vaccinocis was a hindrance

to healing. BURNETT warned about the danger of

relying on the totality of symptoms for choosing

homeopathic remedies in one-sided diseases, like

Tumors. He also considered it impossible to heal

complex diseases with only one remedy.

His case histories show short treatment times in

complicated diseases and his healing of many

Tumor patients is very impressive.

In his works BURNETT mentions his most

relevant ‘Key Notes’ for prescribing Nosodes.

Many of them are not listed in the KENT’s

Repertory nor in the newer repertories. Some

important Key Notes are listed in this article.

[Readers may please read diligently the many

monographs of BURNETT, e.g. of Diseases of the

Liver. Disease of the Spleen; Skin; Difficult,

Puny, Backward children; New cure of

Consumption; Tumors; Veins; Organ Diseases

of Females etc. There is a big treasure lying in

these little volumes. They may also read Dr. H.L.

CHITKARA’s Best of Burnett, B.Jain Publishers,

1992. = KSS.]

112. Morbus Still-Ein Plurimiasmatischer Fall -

Teil I (Morbus Still-a plurimâasmatic case-

Part I)

MEYER-KÖNIG. P., PFEIFFER, H.

(AHZ, 245, 3/2000)

This very interesting case describes the

homeopathic cure of a disease - Morbus Still - in a

seven-year old boy during the period August 16;

1992 to the end of 1996. During the treatment, the

symptoms called for Tuberculinum, Medorrhinum,

Cancerinum. For the final constitutional

stabilization, the boy was treated with Calcium

phosphoricum and Sulphur. The entire treatment

and cure was documented by laboratory tests and

drawings of the boy. The interception of the

drawings show an astonishing identity of both the

parameters.

113. Fetale Folgen der pränatalen Diagnostik (Fatal

Consequences of Prenatal Diagnostics)

STORM, W. (ZKH, 44, 1/2000)

Prenatal examinations are being carried out in

a routine manner as ‘pre-natal care’ without first

critically studying the methods. Although

considered more or less free of adverse side effects,

possible complication with regard to physical

symptoms are mentioned.

Five cases of children treated homeopathically

show that there can also arise emotional

consequences for the pregnant woman with an

indirect impact on the fetus. Although these are not

much, real side effects of prenatal procedures are

there which have to be balanced against the

advantages supposed by the physician.

114. Bagatelleverletzungen und das

homöopathische Deuken ( Simple Fractures

and homeopathic thinking )

FUCKERT, M. (ZKH, 44, 1/2000)

It is common in Homeopathy to prescribe

Arnica routinely for even trifling injury; also as

prophylactic before tooth extraction and other

surgical measures.

The author argues, rightly, that instead of

routinism the homeopathic Materia Medica has

some symptoms even in respect of injuries. As

example he briefly reports a case of Trigeminal

Neuralgia after she knocked her face against a door

edge. The remedy chosen on individualization was

Verbascum.

115. A Case of Anxiety, Guilt And Insomnia

ULLMAN Robert (SIM, XIII, 1/2000)

(From HANP Case Conference, September

1999, Portland, Oregon)

LEONARD is a 46 year-old insurance

salesman from Southern California with anxiety

(money, health, family, business), guilt, family

problems and sleeplessness. An excessive worrier

and very detail oriented. Had a number of

traumatic experiences in the past, both recent and

distant, such as divorce, business failure and being

accused of fraud. Basically sees himself as honest,

hardworking and misunderstood.

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He particularly feels misunderstood by his

family of origin. His mother and siblings no longer

trust him, and even accuse him of defrauding them

even though in the past he was their hero and the

“smart one” in the family. This is a great grief for

him and a constant source of remorse and self-

examination. Leonard is most affected in his life by

the feeling of being misunderstood and the worry

that he really may harm others, like default on his

debts or accidentally sell fraudulent insurance

policies. Even if he has committed crimes, he really

does not know what to do about it now.

The two remedies which came up most

prominently were Arsenicum album and Kali

bromatum. Though Arsenicum seems to be

indicated because of the anxiety about money and

health, the sleeplessness, the ailments from

anticipation and the frequent urination Kali

bromatum was given because of the emphasis on

family and guilt. Kali bromatum M but best results

after 10M.

116. A Case Of Schizophrenia

TENNENBAURN Robert (SIM, XIII, 1/2000)

A male 63, diagnosed with Schizophrenia had

extreme weakness that he was unable to work. On

antisychotic medication, Glyburide for adult onset

diabetes, Hytrin, a diuretic. His desire for meat,

compulsive disorders, washing hands, fear of arrest,

aversion company, fond of solitude, delusions

forsaken, friendless and persecuted, combined with

his closed, conservative demeanor and lack of

contact Mercurius was selected and given in LM 1.

A host of new symptoms were revealed with no

change in his original condition.

His feelings about animal suffering, lack of

libido alternating with voluptuous ideas, and the

very uniqueness, even strangeness, which seemed to

be characteristic of him led to a smaller remedy

Nuphar luteum was given in 30 followed by 6 in

water, sucussed, 10 drops daily; discontinue for 10

days prior to next appointment. No changes again.

Based on his early history; great mental

weakness and dullness; almost paralysis; his need to

keep all thinking simple, since thinking seems to be

a great effort Plumbum LM 1, 10 drops daily, 10

succussions. No change.

Recurrent feeling of physical weakness after

the death of father, fear of future, helplessness;

aching legs and knees led to Phosphoricum acidum.

LM 1 10 drops daily, 10 succussions. Some

positive response like he seemed more animated,

more optimistic but it did not touch his weakness.

He continued to fear policemen , fears of people in

general and of homosexual attack. Cuprum LM 1,

succussed, daily. No change.

For the compulsive hand washing and his

seemingly unproductive and destroyed life

Syphilinum 30 in water, five drops followed by 200

in water, 10 drops, 10 succussions. Syphilinum

acted in some way to clarify the symptoms, but not

necessarily curatively.

Still he was talking to himself, tired all the

time, fearful of people and of being arrested, averse

to talking, and obsessed constantly about salvation.

Kali bromatum 100 in water, five drops succussed

five times, every three days. No change. Thuja and

Arsenicum were given following Kali bromatum

depending on the symptomatology with no fruitful

results. The symptoms seem to indicate the same

remedy Kali bromatum and the author has changed

the Pharmacy and potency. Kali bromatum 200

daily in water, discontinue for one week before next

appointment. The patient was better. An

aggravation appeared from the remedy, and the

remedy was given in Q potency. Kali bromatum

LM 3, three drops succussed three times, daily in

water. He showed definite improvement after this

remedy and the potency was raised to LM 4, LM 5

and he told that it seemed to be helping his moods,

but not his energy level. Here we must consider the

medications he is taking as possible obstacles to

cure.

117. The Axis Mundi: The Use of dreams in

Homeopathic Treatment

CICCHETTI Jane (SIM, XIII, 1/2000)

Homeopaths have used dreams since

HAHNEMANN’s time. Our repertories and

provings contain many references to dreams, there

are many questions about how to effectively use

dreams to help locate the simillimum. The author

has explained why we need to use dreams more than

in the past and shows some techniques that assist in

using dreams in homeopathic practice. A case

report is presented where the remedy is found

through a dream. He has given some suggestions

for developing the ability to use dreams.

118. Finding The Simillimum In Borderline

Personality Disorder

WOLFER Susan (SIM, XIII, 1/2000)

Many practitioners believe that borderline

personality disorder cannot be helped. However,

this common belief has been dispelled with the

research and clinical work of therapists like Marsha

Linehan (1993) and James Masterson (1988, 1989).

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Their ground-breaking research can help

homeopath s in working with these challenging

clients in two ways: to understand the “false self”

and its defenses hiding the real remedy picture, and

to reduce reactivity that can tangle the homeopath

in the client’s drama.

By understanding the nature of this unique

pattern of personality organization, the homeopath

will know to look more deeply into the client’s

history and into personal relationships when a well-

indicated remedy does not work. In understanding

the common and characteristic symptoms (see

Stephen Messer’s article Simillimum, Spring 1996),

the unique aspects of the case can be used to find

the simillimum.

The reader will also be able to identify some

common pitfalls that challenge the homeopath in

working with these clients who can act out with

helplessness or rage. These pitfalls include

projective identification, countertransference (see

Nick Nossaman’s article on projection in

simillimum, Fall 1999), working with the borderline

triad and abandonment depression.

The article suggests strategies for effectively

handling the challenging cases so that the

simillimum can be found and given. Conclusion

was made with a case study.

119. Remedies and Rituals

QUARANTO Danny (SIM, XIII, 2/2000)

Many times in the homeopathic literature, we

see protocols, sometimes elaborate, for dispensing a

remedy. Some prescribers even use injectables.

This has a tendency to make homeopath y appear

more mystical than Samuel HAHNEMANN ever

intended it to be. Granted, some people,

homeopaths and alike, need to have rituals for a

sense of empowerment. However, we must never

lose sight of the fact that the most important factor

in Homeopathy is simillimum. Everything else is

secondary.

A nine year-old girl, a coy, blonde Pulsatilla

type, reported with classic symptoms: greenish,

odoriferous discharge from the ears, and a history

of recurrent ear infections with pain which had been

treated recurrently with antibiotics. Her father

picked up the aqueous Pulsatilla 200 to be taken

orally.

Two days later her dad called, incredulous that

the remedy had worked. There was no more

discharge and no more pain. He then asked,

“Should I keep putting the drops in her ears?”

So much for rituals! When the simillimum

resonates, the form in which it is dispensed is

inconsequential.

120. Three Ranunculaceae Birth Tales

MATHIEU Brent, Willow MOORE,

Robin LIM (SIM, XIII, 2/2000)

Case 1: A 30 year-old woman in the 29th week of

her second pregnancy had premature uterine

contractions that felt like a tightening, with lots of

low back pain and vaginal pressure. Had similar

contractions during the first pregnancy and

delivered prematurely. Her obstretician had

prescribed bed rest and Terbutaline. Had difficulty

complying with bed rest because of her active two-

year old. Headaches at the back of head and neck,

and at the temples and vertex. Cimicifuga 30 as

often as the symptoms return but no more than

every four hours, or once daily if unsure of a

reaction after 24 hours.

Delivered a healthy son weighing seven pounds

nine ounces, seventeen days before her due date.

Taken Cimicifuga during the labor and felt that it

had made a big difference. After 20 days she

developed yeast vaginitis and breast thrush and had

tension headaches and sinus infection which was

previously treated with Sepia and it was repeated

which relieved.

This case of premature helps to ponder the

relationship and respective uses of Sepia and

Cimicifuga for muscular and uterine disorders.

Cimicifuga is especially indicated for over reactive

muscle tone; Sepia for both lax and hypertonic

muscles.

Case 2: LINDA had her first son at home and

planned to have second child also so. The head

emerged and rotated 180 degrees instead of 90

degrees! The baby slid out after this maneuver.

Took breath only on moving, stopped if stopped.

The author remembered a chiropractic physician

saying that one has to adjust the Atlas on a newborn

to aid with breathing. Suspected a subluxation of

the Atlas during the rotation. Corrected it with

slight pressure and the breathing normalized.

About two and half hours after delivery, baby

had bright red cheeks, shiny eyes and fever of 102

degrees! “Sudden onset of fever after fright,

Aconite 30 and within 15 minutes the fever was

gone.

A few episodes of irregular breathing, which

were quickly corrected by Mom or Dad holding him

upside down to allow realignment of the upper

cervical vertebrae.

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Case 3: KITIK had been in early labor .

Contractions occurring every 10 minutes. Cervix

was six or more centimeters dilated. But her

contractions lacked power. She was rehydrated and

kept with care. The condition continued even on

the second day and Pulsatilla 30 four doses every

15 minutes were given as her labor had slowed to

almost a halt, after dilatation to six cm. She was

becoming distressed emotionally, nervous and

worried, with feelings of faintness. Felt hot, craved

fresh air, but was relatively thirstless. After the

third dose she began to leak clear amniotic fluid.

Now she was given Caulophyllum 30, she took a

brisk walk for ten minutes and then squatted to push

out her son. As the boy was a nuchal presentation

she suffered a perineal tear and a hematoma in the

clitoris.

121. The Myth of Staphysagria

GOAD Sharon (SIM, XIII, 2/2000)

The author being cured of warts in the feet and

right hand - thirty cauliflower warts by a

homeopathic remedy - Staphysagria became much

interested in the subject particularly in the remedy -

Staphysagria. She has given a new understanding

of the remedy and has presented 4 cases of

Staphysagria. Her proposition about Staphysagria

is that ANGER is the keyword, and sex is

somewhere in small type.

Case 1: A young man with phantom pains in

amputated fingers, worse from cold. Pains started

after separation from his wife though the fingers

had been gone for eight years. A tightly coiled

spring, but terribly polite. Everyone’s helper, never

said no to anyone. Staphysagria 200.

Case 2: A 42 year-old unmarried woman, after

being chased by a stranger in a wooded park,

reduced to crawling to bed on her hands and knees.

Hydrogen lifted the dullness in her thinking but

brought out the Staphysagria picture of anger,

outrage, indignation. Constantly being bitten by

mosquitos, slept under fan, woke with a swollen eye

or lip from bites. Had no more than a wholesome

interest in sex. Staphysagria 200.

Case 3: A female homeopath consulted over

phone and the author suggested Staphysagria. On

hearing the name, she just laughed and said that sex

is not an issue, in fact the sexual energy is so low it

doesn’t exist. But the remedy worked and a week

later she said that the author has given her a whole

new picture of Staphysagria.

Case 4: A 3½ year-old girl, sweetest most charming

child had the habit of masturbation. From every

other point of view the child was perfect or more

than perfect. Staphysagria 30 intensified her desire

for few days and then stopped, but her behavior

changed. She’s become more like an ordinary

child’ standing up even to her older cousins.

Concludes that in her experience none of the

cases show anything but a healthy normal or low

interest in sex. It is interesting that the only one of

her cases which showed the legendary sexual

appetite of Staphysagria should be a 3 year-old

child.

122. A Case of Staphysagria

MINICUCCI A M (SIM, XIII, 2/2000)

A 40 year-old female had severe anemia.

Childhood was not happy. She spent a lot of time

in her friend’s house. Allowed her older brother

and his friends to sexually abuse her in order to get

the affection and attention. Had a history of

childhood illness including Measles, German

measles, Mumps, Chicken pox, and Pleurisy around

age 10 or 11. Constipated as a child and remained

so as an adult.

At school she was ambivalent abut her sex and

experimented with girls at school. In college, had a

female lover and a boy friend. Every sexual

experience was humiliating at this time. After the

college, she got involved with a group of radical

political activists. Had a very bad car accident with

a fractured pelvis and a left leg broken in three

places. Took a year to heal. Married a man who

was sexually abusive. Had two children. Her

friends got into trouble and had to go to court;

proceedings continued for four to five years.

Had lots of vaginal infection with itching and

the therapist made connection between sexual abuse

and vaginal infection. On antidepressants for

suicidal feelings. Had IUD’s in her 20’s bled a lot

and became anemic.

Had an incredibly healthy life style. Got

constipation, bloating and flatulence. Irritable.

Desires coffee, soup, dark green vegetables, brown

rice and grains. Aversion to organ meats, fat, fried

foods, and slippery-slimy foods. Likes to be alone

though she enjoys company. Better by consolation.

Premenstrual right-sided migraine. Dreams of

feces, harsh, sexual, and destructive.

On repertorising three possible remedies came

up: Staphysagria, Medorrhinum and Causticum.

She was quite similar to Staphysagria. The remedy

was given in 6, 9, 12, and M over a period of 2

years and felt remarkably well.

123. Two Helleborus Cases

HERON Krista (SIM, XIII, 2/2000)

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The Helleborus belong to the Ranunculaceae

family, which is divided into the subgroups

Anemonean (Adonis, Hepatica, Hydrastis,

Pulsatilla), Clematideae (Clematis erecta),

Helleboreae (Aconitums, Acteas, Aquilegia, Caltha,

Helleborus, Staphysagria), Paeoneae (Paeonia) and

the Ranunculaceae (R.acris, R.bulbosus, R.ficaria,

R.flammula, R.glacialis, R.repens, R.sceleratus).

The patients who need these remedies in the

Ranunculaeceae family have very sensitive

temperaments. A lack of inner strength, fearful and

timid. Not only they are soft and passive, but can

be excitable, hysterical and touchy as well.

Malleability or capriciousness is characteristic of

this family.

Helleborus experiences an apathy and a state of

depression. Not being able to interpret or

comprehend their own experience, thoughts or

feelings.

Case 1: 44 year-old woman has healed a lot from a

sexual assault and childhood fears in the last seven

years. But still she felt vulnerable and helpless.

Became numb after a firghtful childhood. Doubts

herself and feels she has made many mistakes.

Feels hurried, irresolute, confused, rushed and

indecisive. Has a feeling of being assaulted. Felt

poisoned and blocked. Had head injury and

disorientation. Distinct feeling of being

disconnected from her lower body. Felt as if it was

someone else. Helleborus 200 and the remedy was

repeated 3 times in a period of 2 years.

Case 2: SALLY had been diagnosed with an

aggressive breast Cancer and had completed

traditional treatment including surgery, radiation

and chemotherapy. But the Cancer was only part of

her concern. Felt very distractible, not able to

concentrate, immobilized with fear. Felt very

unsafe, afraid of people who may torture her to take

poison. Felt that she was losing connection with

her life. Helleborus 200 helped and has not needed

a repetition.

124. A Case of Insomnia And Acute Sinusitis

LOWE J S (SIM, XIII, 2/2000)

A seven-month-old female, had been sleepless

all night, with animalistic behavior and problems

with breast feeding, since her birth. Had colic the

first three months of life. Colic stopped after

mother gave up chocolate. At month four she slept

through the night five nights out of seven, and only

nursed once or twice. Suddenly she started getting

up eight to 10 times a night. Very sensitive to pain.

Not afraid of dogs or cats. Friendly, affectionate

and loving, but demanding; needs a high level of

care, nurturing and frequent nursing. Had early

physical development - teething, sitting, crawling,

walking. Growls, kicks and snarls while nursing,

like an animal. Had eczema since receiving

immunizations. The rubrics “Delusions, he or she is

an animal,”(Chocolate) and “Biting,”(Chocolate)

with the child’s history of problems with nursing,

aggravations from chocolate and animalistic

behavior Chocolate was chosen. The remedy was

given in 200, M, 10M.

This case is an excellent example of a baby

whose chronic problems of sleeplessness with night

terrors and animalistic behavior has continued to

benefit from the remedy Chocolate for about 18

months. Over a year following the beginning of

chronic treatment with her constitutional remedy,

the child developed an acute problem of Sinusitis

which required an acutely indicated homeopathic

remedy - Hydrastis to resolve it.

125. Aconite: Unlocking the Bonds of Trauma

EHRLICH S D (SIM, XIII, 2/2000)

A sweet soft-spoken woman had depression

which started after her former boy friend tried to

murder her. Had a violent and destructive

relationship from the start. A man who abused

drugs, himself and the people in his life. During a

particularly heated argument, the boyfriend pointed

a gun at her head and shot her.

What followed was a series of life-saving

emergency medical procedures, then a long drawn-

out recovery process in which she had to learn basic

language and communication skills. Had

depression with overwhelming feelings of dread to

which she could ascribe no perceived or actual

threat. Had trouble falling asleep, and alcohol

helped. Was taking tryptophan and an herbal

sedative. Aconite 10M three doses along with the

auscope, using the headband contacts, performed

Acupuncture to the ear point called Shen Men.

There was need to re-dose her with Aconite 10M

when she started to backslide after 2 months and

this helped much.

126. A Case of Helodrilus, The Earthworm

SONZ Susan (AH, 6/2000)

BRYAN, 9 year-old boy, had Eczema on the

inner canthi of eyes, inner corner of eye, behind the

ears, two spots on torso, on penis etc. Had fungus

in the left hand fingernails. Had lots of diaper rash,

fungal also. Ameliorated from summer, ocean.

Aggravation winter, dry heat and indoors. A loner

but fears being alone at night. An awkward boy, a

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bit un-co ordinated. Unhappy in school as the

teacher accused him of many things, even stealing.

The indicated remedies Graphites, Petroleum and

Calcarea carbonica failed to relieve the condition.

The author took consultation from Lou KLEIN and

he suggested Helodrilus - as the child has a feeling

of being a criminal, even to the point where the

teacher accuses him of stealing. Seemed to be a

more morose or remorseful “loner” kind of

individual - Bryan’s semi-autistic state with

awkwardness is also indicative of Earthworm.

Helodrilus 30 once a week for 3 weeks and he

needed repetition of the remedy in 200 and M

potencies.

127. A Case of Helium

SHERR Jeremy (AH, 6/2000)

A 36 year-old female, anxious, emotional and

confused. Feels out of her body sometime.

Recurrent dreams of falling, never landing, going

quickly down from a high place. Fear of dark,

ghosts. Had pain in low back. Ovulation pain and

premenstrual headaches. Feels that there is

disconnection between head and heart. She doesn’t

lie and dislikes people who lie. Helium M

improved. Themes of Helium in relation to the

given case is presented.

128. A Case of Plutonium nitricum

SHEA Kat (AH, 6/2000)

57 year-old woman had fatigue after working

intensely. She worked in Russia with trauma

sufferers during the aftermath of the Chernobyle

disaster, and the clinic was built over a Plutonium

dumpsite. She lived and taught at UC Berkeley for

years where Plutonium was discovered and now

lives “downside” from the largest Plutonium storage

facility in the US. Had other radiation exposures.

Becomes more and more driven can’t stay up in a

place. Had weight gain which started after

menopause. Craves wheat and is worse from it.

Aggravation from pineapple, apricots and

chocolate. Sleep ameliorates. Cold person.

Dreams of liver Cancer, funeral dreams and places

where nuclear tests have been conducted.

Plutonium 30 repeated once after 2 years improved.

129. A Case of Androctonus

DALY Jo (AH, 6/2000)

J. A. A 59 year-old male, had allergies, an

enlarged prostrate, high blood pressure, and low-

grade Diabetes. A retired “operations supervisor.”

Had fascination for hunting. Felt an enormous

power in his ability. His allergies were keeping him

from hunting. Obsession with hunting seems to be

there from childhood, with his love of playing

soldiers and “kicking butt,” but what affected his

life was having to endure the excruciating pain from

his gunshot wound which he got while doing small

arms training. He was able to survive in conditions

that most others would have not been able to

withstand, and even seemed to derive pleasure from

his ability to do so. This is one of the unique

qualities of the Scorpion in the desert, that can

survive when anything else would perish. Used

phrases like “stuck with needles” and CLINTON

“sticking it to the American people.” Likes to hunt

with a bow and arrow, which resembled the one-

pointed sting of the scorpion tail. Androctonus LM

1 daily. LM 2 given after 2 months as he got some

relief with LM 1. After 9 months, reported that he

has no allergies. Improved well in all ways.

130. A Case of Iridium metallicum

INEZ Gina (AH, 6/2000)

39 year-old female had frequent urination,

Hypoglycemia, ailments from jet travel, skin rashes,

headache and sore chest. Suffered chronic

tiredness. Felt to be too sensitive in childhood and

now feels herself as two selves: as a successful

corporate business person in a corporate

environment and as a spiritual self that seeks and

desires a spiritual environment. Felt she couldn’t be

corporate and spiritual. Very changeable. Got

divorced as her husband abused her both physically

and emotionally. Had podium anxiety with heart

palpitations. Dreams: prophetic, of being chased,

working more and more, traveling, architecture.

Had weak bones, Pneumonia and Mononucleosis.

Desires spicy, salty, fish, robust and warm foods,

chocolate. Aversion to ice and ice-cream.

aggravation coffee, cold air. Two and half years

before, received Phosphorus LM 1 - 15 over a

forty-five day period from another homeopath .

Some physical symptoms improved for one or two

years. The mental/emotional picture had not

changed. Based on her antagonism of Will Iridium

M was given. Over the course of the next twelve

months, she received Iridium M twice and 10M

once. Improved in all ways.

131. A Case of Chocolate

TAFFLER Simon (AH, 6/2000)

27 year-old female had running nose, nose

block, breathes through the mouth. Constipation

with erratic stools. Headaches and Migraines.

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Eating ameliorates her mentally and emotionally.

Menstrual flow was heavy and had lots of pain.

Took pills since 12 years of age. Depressed before

periods. Either busy, frantic, doing, trying to get

projects together or half-dead, depressed, apathetic,

irritable and want to be alone. Craved much of

chocolates. Phosphorus 200 helped her for 2½

years. However she kept relapsing indicating that

another remedy was required.

Had sleeplessness, lots of tension and anxiety.

Liked to please everyone else before her. Felt like a

responsible parent. Hot chocolate helped her stress.

Felt rushing, frantic, frustrated, anxious. Chocolate

200, repeated twice over a period of 5 months

helped.

The author has also highlighted the themes of

Chocolate from Jeremy SHERR’s “The

Homeopathic Proving of Chocolate”.

132. A prática homeopática na unidade de terapia

intensiva ( Homeopathic practice in the

Intensive Care Unit)

LEAL, Silvia Mazzucato (RH, 65, 1/2000)

The author analyses the clinical evolution in

eight critically ill patients admitted to an Intensive

Care Unit. These patients underwent homeopathic

treatment besides the conventional medical

treatment. Their main diagnosis was “septic shock”

and all of them, in someway or the other, reacted to

the homeopathic medicines. There is much to be

done in this field - experience seems to be lacking

on homeopathic approach to severe acute states.

[The ‘approach’ of Homeopathy in severe

acute cases has been well taught by the past masters

= BOENNINGHAUSEN, LIPPE, KENT, et al.

One can collect many case reports if one scans the

Journals. Our Materia Medica is a big treasure in

such conditions. Unfortunately the homeopaths of

the modern days do not seem to venture into

treatment of the severely ill acute states. Although

sporadic reports do find their place in the Journals a

proper study in a ‘hospital’ has not been done. The

hospitals attached to the homeopathic colleges

must take this up earnestly = KSS]

133. Cameo Cases

MISTRY D E (NAMAH, 7, 2/2000)

Many times during the course of homeopathic

treatment of the patient’s main complaints; an

isolated but quite disturbing localized complaint

crops up. It is not an old complaint returning, but

very often a new incident that is bothering the

patient, far more than the ones for which he is

undergoing treatment. Such a symptom very often

leads to a rare or a small remedy, by the giving of

which the complaint goes away and then one can

come back to treat the constitution. If the complaint

is bothersome and distressing, and more so when

the patient demands that the new complaint be

treated first and relieved. It is unethical just to sit

quiet and let the patient suffer and hope that the

Vital Force will in due time remedy the situation.

We term these CAMEO cases.

Case 1: A woman during the course of treatment

for burning of soles, headache, varicose veins and

dysmenorrhea developed a severe vulvovaginitis

with Candida albicans during the eighth month of

pregnancy. Had vaginal itching and lumbar

backache. Candida albicans 30 twice a day

relieved.

Case 2: A boy who had temper tantrums with

breath holding attacks developed pain during

urination with passage of some drops of blood after

urination. Urine report showed: Albumin 21, RBC

21 and acidic urine. Few doses of Phosphorus 30

did not relieve. Bleeding urethra after urination,

Dysuria, Child cries before it starts, lead to

prescribe Sarasaparilla 30 for about 10 days

relieved.

Case 3: A 1½ year-old baby had chronic loss of

appetite and chronic constipation and flatulence.

Finicky eater. Liked spices and sweets, slated

cashewnuts. Passed stools once in 4 days and had

evening flatulence, itching urethra and generalized

crankiness. Sulphur, Cina, Thuja, Calcarea

carbonica were given but her constipation failed to

respond. Periodically would vomit and develop

loss of appetite with stinking stools, colicky pain in

the abdomen and a habit of pinching her parents.

Bacillus Gartner 200 helped and there was a need

to repeat it after 3 months. Subsequently she

improved on Calcarea carbonica and

Tuberculinum.

Case 4: A female who recovered from Sciatic pain

had dry cough which started after taking sour curd.

Aggravation from talking and while lying.

Manganum aceticum 30, 6 doses gave immediate

relief. But subsequently she developed urination

while coughing which returned after taking oily

food. Pulsatilla 30, 200 helped.

Case 5: A male had pain around the right big toe

from shoe bite after his nail was removed for an

ingrown toe nail. After 4 months there was

recurrence with pain in calf muscles, backache and

throbbing headaches. Rhus toxicodendron and

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Calcarea carbonica were given but there was delay

in healing and hence Silica was given which

brought about right-sided tonsillar swelling. Shifted

to left side with pain on swallowing, headache and

coryza. Mercurius iodatum rubrum was given

though it was found to be inimical to Silica. The

ingrown toe nail still persisted. Magnetis Polus

Arcticus 200 relieved the pain and the pussy

discharge ameliorated after Hepar sulphuris 200

and M.

Case 6: Mr. N C N had foggy vision after operation

for bilateral Cataract with Glaucoma. Natrum

muriaticum was given. During the course of

treatment he developed watery discharge from both

the ears with impaired hearing. Ledum 200, 4 doses

relieved the ear problem.

Case 7: A 39 year-old lady had Vertigo during

menses, aggravation lying with closed eyes. Also

had headache during menses which ameliorated

after vomiting, acidity during menses. Menses

scanty and leucorrhoea. 8 doses of Lac defloratum

30 gave relief and then 200.

Case 8: Mrs. A A B had Lumbago - ?Prolapsed

intervertebral disc. Rhus toxicodendron M was

given every month. In the meantime she had

scraping cough and had severe burning in throat on

coughing. 5 doses of Muriaticum acidum 30

relieved her cough and Rhus toxicodendron was

given in infrequent doses for Lumbago.

Case 9: A 27 year-old female had recurrent coryza

and breathlessness. Pulsatilla, her constitutional

remedy helped her. During the treatment, had pain

in breast which felt like those that had occurred

when breast feeding had been suddenly stopped. A

dose of Lac caninum 200 relieved.

Case 10: A female had dyspepsia, acidity, low BP,

headache, vertigo, constipation, burning in the

body, lumbar ache, myalgic pain in limbs and

severe anemia. Given indicated remedies chiefly

for anemic condition. During treatment had pain in

the neck more on the left side extending to the left

shoulder due to excessive exertion. Lachnanthus M

relieved the neck pain though she continued

treatment for Anemia.

134. Reflections - In Search of the key

LUCAS (NAMAH, 1, 7/1999)

A female diagnosed to have bone metastases

originating from a breast Cancer, terminal stage.

Had only a few months to live. Even at that

moment felt that there was a logic to it all. A few

months before, had the feeling that her purpose of

this life-time was fulfilled and that the real path to

Divine which is possible only by surrender was to

be taken up again in the next life. So the doctor-

patient asked her Oncologist not to prolong her life-

expectancy through aggressive Chemotherapy with

frightening side-effects, but to let her live an

expectedly short period, as well pain-free and

mentally alert as possible.

Due to backaches and other bone-aches

became bed-ridden from then on. Visited by many

people and got all kinds of advice, some moral and

some stupid, but mainly caring and good-willed and

some of it, potentially helpful. Various suggestions

and comments were discussed on the naivety of

most of the advisers believing in the absolute value

of one particular medicine or one particular

approach of work in consciousness; and, we as

doctors, once more came to the conclusion that we

do not have the key to cure and healing. Doctors

and Healers with knowledge and skill are no

guarantee for cures; sometimes the cure seems to

depend on an injection of rude vitality, sometimes

on a blind faith in an exotic cure, sometimes in a

long process of painful psychological insights - and

we do not have the key.

We should not think of her as some-one dying

soon, but as someone in the hands of the Divine,

that is: of some-one for whom everything was

possible. Everything, not in the sense of romantic

fantasy of new age miracles, but in the sense of the

Divine’s actual and perceived presence in this life.

Perhaps there is a key to healing, this may be it -

regardless of the “cure”. [Please see the review of

‘Interleaves’ in Book Shelf Part III of this QHD =

KSS]

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IV. REPERTORY

1. New Rubrics in Repertory

LAMOTHE Jacques (CGH, 3/1996)

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MIND

-Accidents, repeated (risky): ARN(3), Aur, Caps, Lyss, MED, Nat-m, Puls(3), Sep, STAPH, Sul.

-Affection: Alum (2), CARBO-V, Caust, Carcin, Con, Ign, Graph, Lyc, Nat-m,

Puls, Sep, Staph, Stram, Sulf, Thuj, VERAT.

-Comic child plays the fool, Apis(2), Bell(2), Carbo-v, Cic, Croc, Cupr, HYOS, Ign(2), Kali-bi(2),

clowns (see antics plays): Lact(2), Lyc, MERC, Nux-v, Op(2), Phos, Plb(2), Stram(2), Verat(2),

Tub.

-Death, ailments from ACO, ARS, Calc, Caps, Carcin, Caust, Gels, IGN, Kali-br,

confrontation with: LACH, Nux-v, OP, PH-AC, Plat, Sulf, STAPH, Verat.

-Docility (Obedience; CARB-V, Phos, Puls, SEP, Sil, Thuj.

see yielding):

-Very respectful of the law Ars, CALC, Calc-p, Calc-sil, Carc, Caust, Ign, LYC, Nat-m, NIT AC, (see

law): Nux-v, Sep, Thuj, Zinc.

-Dreamer (remote or isolated ANT-C, Calc-p, Cycl (3), Ign, NAT-M, Phos, Sep, Staph, Sulf, Tub.

in his world, in his thoughts):

-Energy, excess of: Agar, Arn, Aur, LACH, Lyss, MED, Nux-v.

-Excitement, sexual, in children Ambr, Calc-p, Cann-i, Carcin, Fl-ac, HYOS, LACH, Lyss, Med,

(tendency to frequent MERC, Mosch, PHOS, Ph-ac, Staph, Tub (3), Zinc.

erections or masturbation):

-Fear of contagion, microbes: ARS, CALC, CARCIN, Ign, Lac-c, Lach, Med, Psor, Sil, Sulf, SYPH.

-Impressionable, easily upset Ars, Aur (2), Aur-m (2), CALC, Calc-p, Carcin, CAUST, Chin,

(see: horrible things): CIC, Cocc, Con (2), Ferr, GELS, Hep, Ign, Iod, Lach, Nat-c, Nat-m,

Nit-ac, Nux-v, Plat, PHOS, PULS, Sep,Sil,Staph,Sulf,Teucr,Thuj,Zinc.

-Laws, rules, intolerance to CAPS, Caust, Chin, Fl-ac (3), Hep, LYC, Nux-v, Phos, PLB, Staph,

(intol. to be forced): Sulf, TARENT, Tub.

-Malingerer: Ethyl(3), Lach, Lyc, Mosch, Op, Puls, Sep, Syph (3), Tarent, VERAT.

-Moments, at certain, children ill Aco,Bell,Calc,Caps,Carb-v,Caust,Ign,Lach,Lyc,Merc,PULS, Psor,

(weekends, Birthdays, Mother’s Op, Sep, Staph, Thuj, Tub, Verat.

day, feasts, holidays, etc.):

-Precocity: Aco, Asar(3), Aur, Calc, Calc-f, Calc-p, CARCIN, Ign, Lach, Iod,

LACH, Lyc, Lyss, MED, MERC, Nux-v, PHOS, Sep, Sil, Sulph., Tub,

Verat (3).

-Stylishness (conquetry, Calc-f, LACH, PHOS, PLAT, Puls, Sulph, VERAT.

consciousness of his appearance):

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-Sympathetic: intolerance Aur, Calc-p. CAUST. Chin, , Mag-c. NAT-M. Nit-ac. NUX-V. Phos, to

injustice: Sep, STAPH, Tub.

-Winning ways (reducing ): Carbo-v, Carcin, Caust, Bach, Lyc, Med, Merc, Nux-v, Pall(3), PHOS,

Plat, Puls, Sil, Staph, Sulph, Tub, VERAT.

FACE

-Discoloration: Red, Cheeks, Calc-s, CAPS, Ferr, Iod, Ol-an(1), Phos, Psor, Sulph.

without fever:

ABDOMEN

-Pain, colic, infants: All-c(3), ARG-N. Bar-c, Bov(3), Caust(3), Carb-v, CHAM, Chin,

Coloc, Cupr, Ign, Jal, LYC, Mag-c, Mag-m, Mag-p, Nat-s(3), NUX-V,

STAPH, Sulph, Verat.

GENITALIA MALE

-Cryptorchidia: Aur, Bar-c, Calc, Calc-p, Calc-f, Caust, Con, Fl-ac, Syph.

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CHEST

-Child refuses mother’s milk: Ant-c, Ant-t (2), Bor, Calc, CALC-P, Cina, Lach, Lyc, Mag-c, Merc,

Nat-c, Rheum, Sil, Stann (2), Stram.

EXTREMITIES

-Pain, Legs, evening or night, Asaf(4), Agar(3), Aur, Bell, Calc, Calc-f, Calc-p, Cimic(1), Eup-p (1),

growing pains: Fl-ac (3), Guaj, Mang (3), PH-AC, Plant (3), Merc, Nit-ac, Sulf, Syph.

-Walk, late learning to: Agar,BAR-C,Bell,CALC,Calc-f, Calc-p, Carb-v, CAUST, Lyc, Nat-m,

Merc, Ph-ac, Phos, Sanic, Sep, Sil, Sulf.

SKIN

-Hypertrichosis: Carb-v, Carcin, Nat-m, Puls, SEP, Sulf, Thuj.

GENERALITIES

-Ailments from never Ars, CARB-V, Calc-p, Caust, Chin, Ph-ac, PSOR, Tub.

recovered disease:

-Altitude agg. (Mountain agg.): Acon, Ars, Bry, Calc, Calc-p, Carb-v, COCA, MED, Sulf, TUB, Verat.

-Convulsions, nervous, babies, Acon, Am-c (3), Ant-c, Ars, Aur, Caust, CHAM, Coff, Con (3),

from anger or pain: Cupr, Ign, Hep, Laur (3), Lach, Lyc, Mosch, Nux-v, Nux-m, Op,

PULS, Phos, Sec (3), Sulf, Staph, Verat.

-Handicapped children: AGAR, Bar-c, Bufo, Cact (3), Calc-p, Carcin, CAUST, Hell (3), Ign,

MED, MERC, Naja (3), Op.

-Urinary repeated infections Asaf (3), Caps, MED, Lyc, Sep, STAPH, Tub.

in childhood:

-Violent diseases: ACO, Bell, Coloc, Crot-t, Hep, Hyos, Lach, Nux-v, STAPH, Stram,

Sulf, Verat.

Only the remedies without any reference have been verified by the author. These are the other references:

1. Final General Repertory of KENT (+Schmidt)

2. Repertory of Barthel.

3. Didier GARNDGEORGE, Pediatrician, Frejus, France.

4. Edwig IMHAUSER, Pediatrician, Germany.

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2. The advantages/benefits of using the repertory

MADAN Arshi (HH, 24, 2/1999)

The true significance of the Repertory are:

1. To avoid the negative symptoms of the remedy

and to take only the positive symptoms alone -

while using the repertory we have the

advantage of examining only single rubrics,

which in reality are positive symptoms.

2 Facility of “combining symptoms.”

3. Easy location of symptoms.

4. Stuart CLOSE says that, “A prescription can

only be made upon those symptoms which have

their counterpart in the materia

medica.” (I.e. in the repertory too). [Repertory

2. Stirred and Shaken - Science and Technology

New Scientist (The Hindu, Thursday,

December, 3, 1998)

The words “mysterious” and “bizarre” don’t

often come up in conversations among chemists.

But that’s how they are describing a way to split

water into hydrogen and oxygen at room

temperature using a simple catalyst. Japanese

researchers now say that energy needed to break the

bonds that hold water molecules together seems to

come from stirring the liquid.

is not synonymous with Materia Medica =

KSS]

5. Comparison and differentiation

6. Ranking of Remedies

7. Addition of new remedies/rubrics from Clinical

Experiences

3. Bed-Side or Desk Use of the Repertory

KANJILAL J N (HH, 24, 2/1999)

The author highlights the use of the Repertory

especially in acute cases showing how it broadens

our vision. It is beyond human capacity to

remember each and every symptom from our vast

Materia Medica. The Repertory acts as a handy

guide both in comparing and differentiating

between remedies, thus helping us to reach the

Simillimum. [ This is a reprint of an old article =

KSS. ]

V. PHARMACOLOGY

1. Protocol Provings Linking Trees

JANSEN P Jean (HL, 13, 1/2000)

The proving protocol for the LINKING

TREES project is designed on the basis of Jeremy

SHERR’s protocol. Instructions for Provers and

Supervisors are given in detail. The author says

that the instruction is meant for so called small

Provings, that do not require the vast investment of

time and energy needed to conduct a full

HAHNEMANNian proving. [There is no half one

way and/or half other way in ‘Proving’. Proving is

a term used in Homeopathic medicine alone and

the originator is HAHNEMANN. Provings must

be, if they are to be valued only Hahnemannian.

Other wise they are worthless = KSS]

When Kazunari Domen and his collegues at Tokyo

Institute of Technology first reported that a

powdered cuprous oxide catalyst could split water

at room temperature, chemists sat up and took

notice. This reaction usually takes place at

30002°C and is driven by light. If its efficiency

could be improved, hydrogen would become much

more attractive as a cheap, clean fuel.

DOMEN initially thought that the energy

driving the low-temperature reaction came from

light - a mechanism chemists could just about live

with. But now he reports that the reaction continues

in the dark for hundreds of hours. The quicker the

container is stirred, says DOMEN, the more

hydrogen and oxygen are produced (Chemical

Communications, p 2185).

DOMEN believes that the mechanical energy is

converted to chemical energy without first being

converted to thermal energy. “This is the first

example of mechanical energy being converted into

chemical energy by catalysis,” he says. But

DOMEN cannot explain how this works.

To most chemists, the idea is heresy. And the

prospect of producing a source of fuel by a

mechanism no one understands evokes memories of

the “cold fusion” saga of 1989. But DOMEN’s

results were carefully reviewed before they were

published. He has also avoided making any bold

claims about practical application.

“A lot of colleagues were incredulous but I

think DOMEN is a very serious scientist,” says

Michael GRATZEL of the Swiss Federal Institute

of Technology in Lausanne. GRATZEL suspects

that something more mundane is occurring,

however, such as friction between the catalyst and

the glass container causing a build-up of electrical

charge. The resulting tiny sparks could break down

small amounts of water. “There’s an easy way to

rule that out,” he says. Dissolving a salt in the

water would change its conductivity and the amount

of gases produced.

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Arthur NOZIK, a chemist at the National

Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden,

Colorado, doubts if the effect is really caused by

catalysis. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they are

actually using up some of the metal oxide,” he says.

NOZIK suspects that the cuprous oxide might react

with water, liberating hydrogen. The oxygen could

come from small quantities of the gas dissolved in

the water.

DOMEN says that less than 5% of the energy

from stirring appears to end up splitting water,

producing a small amount of hydrogen and oxygen

gas. But he thinks he can improve the yield by

learning more about how the reaction works. “If we

can increase the efficiency by an order of

magnitude, then it may be possible to think about

practical applications,” he says.

“It sounds odd, but maybe it only sounds odd

because it’s new,” says Sean McGRADY of King’s

College London. He likens the situation to the

discovery in the 1980s that sound can drive

chemical reactions, which has led to the burgeoning

field of sonochemistry. “When these things show

up they always challenge people’s conceptions of

how energy can get into a chemical reaction,” says

McGRANDY. “These reports take time to confirm

or shoot down.” [This energy getting into a

chemical reaction occurs in the homeopathic

method os succussion - discovered 200 years ago by

Dr. Samuel HAHNEMANN - in spite of all these

there is still ooposition to Homeopathy! What else

is their attitude, the hounding of BENVE NISTE et

all, anything except mulish? = KSS]

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VI. VETERINARY

1. Two Acute Animal Cases of Sabina

Marc BÄR (HL, 13, 1/2000)

Case 1: A female sheep of the “White Alp Breed.”

Status after second parturition (two lambs): Since

birth (four days ago) bloody leucorrhoea. Sabina

200. Discharge stopped at once. No other

symptoms changed, but the acute situation

disappeared completely.

Case 2: Three year old female dog, mongrel. Two

weeks post partum metrorrhagia with flakes of pus.

On palpation the uterus is still too large. The blood

is very fluid, but some coagulated clots seen.

Sabina 200 bleeding stopped after three day.

2. An injured cat

SCOTT Diane (HT, 19, 7/1999)

A kitten , 5 months old injured in a car motor,

fell - unconscious, bleeding from the nose, ears and

eyes, and breathing shallow. A dose of Arnica

given at 10.15 p. m. A second dose at 11 p.m. the

cat was alive though unconscious. Eyes matted

together and seeping bloody discharge. Breathing

was nasal and noisy, head severely swollen. Had an

obvious laceration across right eyelid, the bridge of

nose and over left eye. Another dose of Arnica 30x

on next day. Her eyes were washed with warm

water with a little Calendula spray in it. A dose of

Symphytum 6x at 8.30 a.m. according to

BOERICKE’s Materia Medica. By noon washed

them again with “Calendula water” and gave her

another dose of Symphytum 6x.

3. The Case of the Rhodesian Ridgeback

EVAN Gwyneth (HT, 19, 8/1999)

Six-year-old male dog Rodesian Ridgeback,

destroys everything and behaves crankily if left

alone. Gets frightened on hearing loud noises.

Had two major life traumas. When still he was a

pup he was taken for a run in a large park several

kilometers from home, the owner drove away in the

car so that the dog would follow and get exercise

running after the car, but he freaked out and ran

away. Again once he jumped the fence and took

off. Desires to be held. A single dose of

Stramonium cured.

4. Proving that Homeopathy Works for Animals

LILLARD Joe (HT, 19, 10/1999)

A brief article on proving that homeopathic

medicine works for animals. Complications in

proving like - the cost/benefit and the methodology

are discussed.

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VII. EDUCATION

1. The Attitude of Homeopathic Education

KREISBERG Joel (HT, 19, 10/1999)

This article deals with detailed description of

“What should be taught to a student of

Homeopathy?” The authors opinion about it is that

a homeopath should learn homeopathic attitudes,

skills and knowledge - the article defines and

examines these subjects.

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VIII. RESEARCH

1. Research activity/findings in Lymphatic

Filariasis

MISHRA N (HH, 23, 2/1998)

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CCRH carried out clinical research studies in

Lymphatic Filariasis at endemic localities in Orissa

(Puri) and Andhra pradesh (Gudivada, Tirupati).

Experimental work was carried out regarding

effects of Homeopathic drugs on microfilaria in a

fixed population. A nearby village has been

selected, surveyed and trials carried on for the

purpose. In the past Rhus toxicodendron and some

of the indicated drugs were tried for the purpose

without remarkable immediate changes in the Mf

load. Basing on in-vitro study carried at RRC

(ICMR) laboratory to measure effect of

Homeopathic mother tinctures, on microfilariae

vis-a-vis effect of some drugs on RBC fragility to

rule out drug toxicity say at interval of 30 minutes,

6 hours, 12 hours and 18 hours. Few of the mother

tinctures with microfilaraecidal effect in-vitro were

tried on Beladal population with Mf in peripheral

circulation like Bryonia alba, Hydrocotyle etc. and

with Thuja and Sulphur acting as intercurrent

miasmatic base remedies. The results were not

satisfactory. With last 2 -3 years trials have been

conducted with Tuberculinum, Arsenicum album,

Coded drug and lastly Drosera. It seems Drosera

probably does have some effect on reduction of Mf

load. [Futile researchers of no use to Homeopathy

= KSS]

2. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

JACOBS Jennifer (HT, 19, 7/1999)

Like our oft-used Windflower (Pulsatilla), the

progress of research in Homeopathy seems to sway

back and forth in the wind, two steps forward and

one step back. At times, optimism reigns that

homeopathic research will eventually be accepted

as valid. AMA Journal publishes homeopathic

survey, in which homeopathic MDs and DOs were

compared to a national sample of conventional

physicians, found that homeopathic patients were

younger, more affluent, and more likely to present

with chronic complaints. Homeopathic physicians

spent more time with their patients, ordered fewer

tests, and prescribed fewer pharmaceutical

medications than conventional physicians. Another

reason for optimism - the US Army Cancer

Research Program has recommended for funding a

study examining the use of homeopathic medicines

for hot flushes and other menopausal symptoms in a

group of breast Cancer survivors. This is the first

time that such a large sum ($250,000) has been

granted by a federal agency for a study involving

Homeopathy.

At others, it seems that no matter how good our

studies are, critics always will find flaws in them.

Allopathic journals like New England Journal of

Medicine, The Lancet, Journal of the American

Medical Association etc., negate homeopathic

research. [Why keep on seeking approval from the

big brother? How do we expect the big brother to

accept Homeopathy? If he accepts then he will no

more be the ‘big’ one. There are more things

happening in the world which the establishment

does not accept, nevertheless they are happening

and thank God that they are happening despite the

establishment = KSS]

3. Allopathic Drug Research - Big Budgets,

Disappointing Results

JACOBS Jennifer (HT, 19, 9/1999)

It is difficult to open a newspaper these days

without spotting a news article or an advertisement

touting some new “wonder drug.” Frequently these

headlines are misleading with little of substance

being reported. Many of these studies have results

that are of small clinical effect or demonstrate too

many side effects of practical use. This seems

especially true for drugs that represent a great

investment in research dollars or have a large

potential market with consumers.

The smaller the difference in treatment effect

between the active medication and placebo, the

more subjects are needed in the study to obtain

statistical significance. Medical science has a cure,

Detrol, “proven effective for overactive bladder.”

In the Detrol study, in order to show a statistical

difference between a 10% reduction in bathroom

trips in the placebo group receiving the real

medication, at least 450 subjects were needed.

Since medical research is very expensive, only

companies with large budgets can afford to sponsor

studies which are large enough to prove that small

differences such as these are “significant.”

In homeopathic research, we do not usually

have the funding necessary to do studies this large,

so many of the negative results reported might

actually have been positive if large enough budgets

had been available. [Homeopathy is covered by a

totally different, an opposite paradigm and

Homeopathy needs much less money for research.

Homeopathy does very much with very little -

that’s the wonder! = KSS]

4. Homeopathic treatment of migraine: A double

blind, placebo controlled trial of 68 patients.

P. STRAUMSHEIM, C. BORCHGREVINK,

P. MOWINCKEL, H.KIERULF &

O. HAFSLUND

(BHJ, Vol. 89, 1/2000)

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To evaluate the efficacy of Homeopathy in

preventing migraine attacks and accompanying

symptoms, a randomized double-blind, placebo-

controlled clinical trial was conducted. There was a

one-month registration period without treatment,

followed by four months individualized

homeopathic treatment or identical placebo.

Patients were stratified for common or classical

migraine.

Seventy-three patients were randomized, 68

completed the trial. Baseline values were similar in

the two groups. Both the Homeopathy and placebo

groups had reduction in attack frequency, pain

intensity and drug consumption, with a statistically

non-significant difference favouring Homeopathy.

Migraine diaries showed no difference between

groups. The neurologists’ trial evaluation showed a

statistically significant reduction in attack frequency

in the Homeopathy group (P=0.04) and non-

statistically significant trends in favour of

Homeopathy for pain intensity and overall

evaluation.

Further research, with improved trial design, on

the possible role of Homeopathy in Migraine

prophylaxis is justified.

5. Efficacy of homeopathic treatment of skin

reactions during radiotherapy for Breast

Cancer; a randomized, double-blind clinical

trial

A. BALZARINI, E.FELISI, A. MARTINI &

DE CONNO (BHJ, Vol. 89, 1/2000)

The aim of this study was to assess the effects

of Belladonna 7 and X-ray 15 associated in the

treatment of acute radiodermatitis. A randomized

double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial

involving 68 patients who had been operated on for

breast Cancer and were undergoing radiotherapy

was conducted. The following parameters were

assessed over ten weeks: breast skin colour,

warmth, swelling and pigmentation.

The efficacy of the treatment was assessed by

the comparison of these parameters taken

individually and by calculating an Index of Total

Severity (sum of the scores of the four parameters)

during radiotherapy, and during recovery, 15 and

30 d after the end of the radiotherapy.

The differences of the scores of the Index of Total

Severity during Radiotherapy were not statistically

significant, but showed a trend towards a better

activity of the homeopathic medicine compared to

placebo. Analysis of the data on Total Severity

during recovery, showed a statistically significant

benefit of the active medicines over placebo. The

homeopathic medicines had particular effectiveness

on the heat of the skin.

The limited number of patients observed and the

posology employed could have interfered with the

significance of the results. Chemotherapy and

hormonotherapy do not seem to affect the results.

6. Effektivität der homöopathischen Behandlung

im Zentrum für Klassische Homöopathie

Stuttgart (Effectiveness of homeopathic

treatment in Center for Classical Homeopathy)

HUBER, H., GÄRTNER, A., RENKE,M.,

KALASCHMIDT,H., LEO, H.

(ZKH, 44, 2/2000)

The documentation and analysis of the

treatment results are in the field of Homeopathy as

important as in the conventional field. Practice-

oriented studies taking into consideration the

outcome research approach, e.g. improvement of

the general condition or contentedness of the

patients, are more suitable than randomized

controlled studies. In the Zentrum für Klassische

Homöopathie, Stuttgart 157 patients have been

interrogated retrospectively and evaluated. It

turned out that 65.9% of the patients were

symptoms-free or showed an improvement after the

homeopathic treatment. 70% of the patients also

showed an improvement of the general condition.

As a result, the contentedness of the patients was

very high, i.e. 75.3%. The classic homeopathic

method of treatment turned out to be an extremely

effective and economical possibility of treatment of

Chronic Diseases.

Comparative graphs have been given.

7. Efficácia clinica da homeopatia: revisão da

literalura (A review of clinical efficiency of

Homeopathy)

MAGLHÃES, Tania Maria

Lopes (RH, 65, 1/2000)

Over the past few years certain analyses on

homeopathic clinical trials have been published,

particularly in the British Homeopathic Journal

and the Lancet. The present study of the author

who is a cardiologist, is an analysis of the published

materials, to evaluate whether there is ‘scientific’

evidence of clinical efficacy observed in the

practice of homeopaths. The analysis also

discusses methodologies unsuitable and the

peculiarities of Homeopathy which calls for

different research methodology, for proper

evaluation.

The result of the study confirms the positive

effects of homeopathic therapy in diverse clinical

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conditions. Several faults in the methodologies

from point of view of homeopathic resreach are

identified. Some suggestions are also presented for

appropriate methodologies.

23. Potency in Homeopathic Prescribing - Survey

Results and Conclusions

BERNARD Julie (SIM, XIII, 1/2000)

The objective of the study was to determine

how homeopathic practitioners are handling

potency in the treatment of chronic patients who are

not taking allopathic medication. The study was

geared towards establishing practitioners’

methodologies and specifically how and why the

methodologies are applied.

Design: 600 questionnaires were sent to “classical”

homeopaths of varying licensure across the United

States and Canada, and a few in India and New

Zealand. For the majority of the participants,

Homeopathy comprises 60 - 100% of their

practices. Dosing as well as methodologies of

applying potency were investigated.

The questionnaire contained four sections:

I. Method of Prescribing

II. Follow-up Procedures

III. Remedy Repetition

IV. Additional Considerations.

Results

There were 300 respondents who participated

in the study. Though there were many differing

opinions on potency and how to apply potency in

practice, there were some consistent practices and

beliefs among many of the participants:

1. The majority of practitioners begin treatment

with a single dose of 200 potency.

2. Remedy and potency are very important in

effecting a cure.

3. The proper potency must match the vibration

of the patient’s illness.

4. Confusion about potency still prevails. The

simillimum will work in any potency, but not

as well as in the exact potency.

Reasons for applying each method of potency

are explained in detail in this article.

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IX. HISTORY

1. Vertreibung aus Leipzig? Hahnemanns

Leipziger Praxis: Ursachen für den Umzug

nach Köthen im Jahr 1821-Patientenfrequenz

und Polemik (Expulsion from Leipsic?

HAHNEMANN’s Leipsic practice: Causes for

moving to Koethen during the year 1821-

Patients frequency and polemics)

SCHREIBER Kathrin (MedGG, 18/1999)

HAHNEMANN came to Leipsic: first time to

study (1775); the second time 1789 as a doctor and

for the third time in 1811 in his 56 year age, from

Leipsic HAHNEMANN went to Koethen.

It has been repeatedly told in the homeopathic

literature that HAHNEMANN was hounded off

from Leipsic with the help of the Police in 1821. It

was thus made to appear that the pharmacists,

physicians in association with the authorities pushed

HAHNEMANN out.

Richard HAEHL mentions some of the causes

for HAHNEMANN’s decision to go from Leipsic -

like the secret persecution by his professional

colleagues, the court actions initiated by the

apothecaries, the hostility of the University staff.

HAHNEMANN’s letter of 5 February 1821 to

Dr. BILLIG Attenburg - Saxony (HAEHL, Vol. II,

p.125) says that he felt embittered by the

persecution activities and he wanted to go out of

Leipsic.

What exactly were the reasons for

HAHNEMANN’s decision to leave Leipsic?

Kathrin SCHREIBER’s research reveals that

Samuel HAHNEMANN enjoyed a flourishing

medical practice in Leipsic. However, a close look

reveals that his patients list was not growing.

Rather, his medical practice followed a trajectory

similar to that of a roller coaster: due to crucial

events - successful treatment during the Typhus

epidemic (1813), lecturing at the University of

Leipsic, treating influential public figures -

HAHNEMANN was able to restructure the

composition of his clientele. More precisely, he was

able to work his way into the upper classes, increase

his recognition, and spread into other regions.

HAHNEMANN’s reputation attracted patients from

all over Germany and even neighboring countries.

The improvement in the social structure of

HAHNEMANN’s clientele also reflects important

changes in the spread of Homeopathy.

HAHNEMANN’s migration to Koethen can be

explained by a number of factors: his prohibition

against dispensing medicines, declining personal

prestige after the death of the Prince Schwarzenberg

who was under HAHNEMANN’s treatment. While

the Prince Schwarzenberg (who defeated Napoleon

in the Battle of Leipsic in 1813) who began his

treatment by HAHNEMANN in 1820 and had

extraordinary progress, HAHNEMANN’s patients

increased very much. The Prince’s condition

became worse “as he fell back into his old habits of

abundant enjoyment of strong drink”, which “did

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not agree with HAHNEMANN’s dietetic

prescription; and he died. After the Prince’s death

the number of HAHNEMANN’s patients fell down

to half of 1820! Thus the declining number of

patients and prestige, the ensuing financial

difficulties, fruitless University employment,

continually increasing subjective and objective

pressures and last but not the least, the privileges of

leadership, all contributed to HAHNEMANN’s

decision to leave Leipsic.

Kathrin SCHREIBER’s research throws much

light on an important period in the life of

HAHNEMANN and Homeopathy.

2. “Und es sammettle sich ohue VendruB von

Seiten des Kranken in des Arztes Bentel -

Samuel Hahnemann und die Honorarfrage”.

(“Thus it passes from the Patient’s Purse into

the Purse of the Doctor without causing

Displeasure” - Samuel HAHNEMANN and

Medical Fees)

JÜTTE Robert (Med GG, 18/1999)

In 1834 HAHNEMANN gave the following

advice to his pupil Dr. Karl Julius AEGIDI (1794-

1874) (HAHNEMANN’s letter dated 31.7.1834):

“We are not allopaths who have high medical fees

and can legally demand high sums for their evil

deeds. We must take what we have earned on the

spot since we are not considered worthy of ordinary

justice.” In an earlier letter to the same addressee,

HAHNEMANN wrote: “No one enters my house if

he does not have with him the money to pay me,

unless he is paying me monthly, in advance ...”

There can be no doubt that in

HAHNEMANN’s times, fees were the most

important component in a physician’s income.

Dependency on fee income means that the physician

always had to worry about delayed and even

avoided payments, and patients reluctance to pay

was notorious. Many doctors lost large parts of

their nominal income through bad debts. In some

cases, installments were accepted by both parties, to

avoid costly legal action, which were usually a last

resort. In these circumstances it is hardly surprising

to find HAHNEMANN, the founder of a highly

disputed new cure, stressing to his colleagues that

for a successful medical practice, cash payments at

the time of treatment or as advance were preferable

to post-facto bills. Having been ostracized by the

medical establishment, HAHNEMANN showed a

remarkable professional awareness of patients’

propensity to debt. Long before regular physicians

propagated cash payment, HAHNEMANN derived

his income solely from ready-money payments.

However, he used a sliding fee structure to allow

for the different economic circumstances of his

patients, who came from all walks of life. The very

poor he treated for free, while members of the rural

and urban middle class had to pay considerable

fees. In some cases, HAHNEMANN was able to

charge very high fees, and his numerous enemies

used this against him.

3. Krankheitserfahrung und Arzt-patienten-

Beziehung in Samuel Hahnemanns Patienten-

korrespondenz (The Experience of being ill

and the Physician-Patient -Relationship in

Samuel Hahnemann’s Correspondence with

patients)

STOLLBERG Michael (Med GG, 18/1999)

This paper uses the extensive patient

correspondence of Dr. Samuel HAHNEMANN as

the basis for a history of Homeopathy from the

patients’ point of view. The value of these

epistolary records is two fold: first, in order to

produce their daily records as requested by

HAHNEMANN, the patients learned to pay

attention even to the slightest physical or emotional

changes. No other contemporary source from

allopathic medicine provides similarly detailed and

dense data on the very physical perception of the

body and its illness. Second, the letters and

HAHNEMANN’s answers, as far as they have

survived, provide detailed insights into the

relationship between the physician and his patients.

They help identify, in particular, the strategies used

by HAHNEMANN to maintain his professional

dignity, a good level of income, and his patients

trust - even through years of treatment without

improvement. The letters also record the patients’

response to HAHNEMANN’s unusually

authoritarian manners.

4. Die jüngsten Patienten Hahnemanns - eine

analysische Studie zur Kinderpraxis in den

Anfängen der Homöopathie (Hahnemann’s

youngest Patients - An analytical Study of

treatment of children during the early

Homeopathy Period)

RITZMANN Iris (Med GG, 18/1999)

This article develops a fragmentary history of

early homeopathic treatment of children. It begins

with an outline of Samuel HAHNEMANN’s

perception and treatment of children during the era

of “Medical Enlightenment”. This is followed by

an investigation of attitudes towards children in

early homeopathic literature, in comparison with

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those of mainstream medicine of the same period.

The central part of the article is the ensuing analysis

of letters received by HAHNEMANN from parents

seeking advice on how to treat their children’s

illnesses; this correspondence includes detailed

descriptions of diseases and therapies, and also

sheds light on parental feelings about children and

family life.

The correspondence leads us to conclude that

there was no proper model of healing children at the

beginning of Homeopathy. During the 19th

Century and perhaps later, Homeopathy was based

on medical theories prevalent in the 18th century

medicine.

The adults who wrote these letters came from

the upper classes and were always convinced

adherents of Homeopathy. In response to

HAHNEMANN’s queries, many letters contain

exact description of physical and mind symptoms.

Unlike HAHNEMANN’s brief style, many of the

parents delve into each detail of the child’s

condition, and also express themselves emotionally

on subjects such as their children, fears of sickness

and death. It is also apparent that women, who bore

the main responsibility for family life, had a good

deal of authority over the course of treatment, as

well as the choice of physician.

5. “Historiae Morborum” des Franz v.Ottenthal -

ein Zwischenbericht (The “Historiae

Morborum” of Franz v.Ottenthal - an

Interim Report)

ROILO Christine (Med GG 18/1999)

A General Practitioner in Sand-in-Taufers (the

main village in the South Tylorean Valley of

Taufers) for over 50 years, Frauz von

OTTENTHAL (1818-1899) left as legacy

descriptions of over 85,000 illnesses. Referring to

his freasant patients by name, age, and residence,

his notes describe symptoms, diagnoses and

treatments. Sometimes he also mentions former

diseases, nutritional conditions, number of children,

of pregnancies, religious inclination etc., making

each entry more of a biographical sketch than a

simple anamnesis. OTTENTHAL’s records assume

importance far beyond the primarily medico-

historical realm, by providing detailed information

on social structure, family ties, demographical

trends gender relations, working conditions and

prevalent illnesses in the rural Tyrolean World of

the second half of the 19th Century. Further studies

are on.

Interestingly Samuel HAHNEMANN also left a

large legacy of Case Record which is of great value

to Homeopathy in particular. HAHNEMANN’s

practice was mostly in Towns, Cities, unlike

OTTENTHAL’s which was in small town only.

6. Das “Lebenswarthische homöopathische

Kinderspital” in Wien (1879-1914) -zur

Geschichte des ersten homöopathischen

Kinderkrankenhauses im deutschsprachigen

Daum (The Life Saving Homeopathic

Children’s Hospital in Vienna (1879-1914) -

history of the first homeopathic Childrens

Hospital in the German speaking region)

LUCAE Christian (MedGG, 18/1999)

Homeopathy was brought to Austria in 1817

by the Military Surgeon, Dr. Matthias

MARENZELLER (1765-1854), rapidly spreading

throughout the country. In the late 1870s a

homeopathic physician started a foundation to

build a children’s hospital in Vienna. As a result,

the first homeopathic children’s hospital in the

world opened in Vienna in 1879, under the

management of the order of the Barmherzige

Schwestern. Treatment was free of charge,

allowing even the poor children of the city to be

admitted. A single homeopathic physician was

responsible for all the patients, most of whom

suffered from infectious diseases. Apparently the

success rate of the homeopathic treatments was

comparable to that of “allopathic” hospitals. The

children’s hospital remained in operation until

World War I, when it was converted into a military

hospital.

7. Patienten und Homöopathie - ein Überblick

über die soziologische Literatur (Patients and

Homeopathy - an overview of the sociological

literature)

STOLLBERG Gunnar (Med GG, 18/1999)

This paper is divided into three parts: first is an

overview of the sociology of the doctor-patient

relationship in general; second is a discussion of the

sociology of Homeopathy as a heterogeneous form

of medicine and as a form of medical pluralism;

third is a sketch of some sociological views of the

homeopathic patient. The author’s general thesis is

that the homeopathic doctor-patient relationship

may be considered both as pre-modern as well as

post-modern. It is characterized by the special

knowledge of the patient about his suffering as also

the longer patient reports which stresses the active

role of the patient in his treatment.

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8. Die Choleraschriften Samuel Hahnemanns

(Samuel Hahnemann’s writings on Cholera)

SCHNEIDER, J. (AHZ, 245,2/2000)

During the years of Cholera in 1831-32 Samuel

HAHNEMANN cleverly used daily newspapers and

other regularly published periodicals for spreading

the homeopathic science and for giving actual

information to the public. A newspaper which was

available all over Germany at that time was the

“Allgemeine Anzeiger”. It enabled

HAHNEMANN to publish his works very often.

HAHNEMANN’s works about Cholera did not

only appear in well-known publishers series, but

they were either printed in the original or as an

adapted version in daily papers. That is why he was

able to address a large number of readers within a

short time. In these articles he demonstrated an

effective continuation of his informative activities

as a writer at the end of the 18th century.

The periodicals mentioned above also offer an

interesting insight into the situation Koethen and

Halle upon Saale during the time of Cholera as well

as therapy and treatment of this disease according to

orthodox medicine.

A summarized version of these publication

concerning Cholera is presented in tabular form.

This list (17 papers) may be regarded as an

extension of TISHNER’s and can also be seen as a

survey of the current holdings in the Museum of

History in Koethen.

9. Die Gedenktafel für Constantin Hering in

Oschatz (The Memorial Tablet for Constantin

Hering in Oschatz)

SCHÜPPEL, R., WINTER, A.

(AHZ, 245, 3/2000)

It is strange that while these are, rightly,

memorials to Samuel HAHNEMANN, none of the

other great pioneers like von

BOENNINGHAUSEN, Constantin HERING

among the earliest, have been remembered by way

of erecting memorials.

However, at least in so far as Germany is

concerned, Constantin HERING has been

remembered by a commemorative plaque in his

hometown Oschatz. The plaque was unveiled on 24

June 1928.

The brief article details the erection and

unveiling of the plaque and also pictures of the

plaque and the unveiling ceremony.

10. Zum 200. Geburtstag von Constantin

HERING. eine betrachtung seiner jugendzeit

bis zum übertritt zur Homöopathie (200th

Birthday of Constantin HERING. his youth

and upto his going over to Homeopathy)

WINTER, A., SCHÜPPEL, R.,

(ZKH, 44, 1/2000)

For a single man HERING made most and

major contributions to Homeopathy. His

contributions covered Provings, Materia Medica,

Therapeutics, Journalism, Education, etc.

This article, in memory of HERING’s 200th

birthday traces his childhood, youth in Saxony and

his conversion to Homeopathy. The history of his

development in Oschatz, Zittau, Dresden and

Leipzig is outlined.

11. Contribuição ã história da homeopátia em Ção

panto (Contribution to Sao Panlo’s

homeopathic History)

PINHEIRO Dévio (RH, 65, 2/2000)

This article article traces the history of

Homeopathy of Sao Paulo during the period 1900 -

1970 with particular references to the eminent

homeopaths of the times and their contributions.

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X. GENERAL

1. Do Homeopaths treat their family?

TAYLOR Will (HT, 19, 6/1999)

The question “How many professionals out

there feel comfortable treating their own family?

Or more to the point, how many trust someone

else to treat their family? Do you work in

conjunction with your child’s pediatrician or

diagnose and treat solely yourself? has been

answered by the author by stating the conditions

and the drugs prescribed by him to his wife and

children.

2 Homeopathy in Politics

MILLER Monica (HT, 19, 6/1999)

Arizona: “Patients Protection Act” would give

patients reimbursement for chiropractic,

homeopathic, and naturopathic health care and

make it easier to sue HMOs for damages. Unlike

most other states, Homeopathy and Naturopathy

enjoy separate licensure in Arizona. Among

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consumer protection provisions that include HMO

liability is one that would provide unrestricted

access to chiropractic, naturopathic, and

homeopathic care.

Minnesota: Complimentary Medicine, A Report to

the Legislature. This is the most original and

comprehensive report yet published by a state

agency. The report deems that Regulation should

not inhibit innovation in the health care market and

the development of alternative approaches to health

care, except when necessary to protect the

consumer”. The Minnesota Natural Health

Coalition is an inspired group of homeopaths,

herbalists, old school social activists and civil

libertarians.

Ohio: House Bill by George Terwilleger (R). This

health freedom bill would permit complementary

and alternative medical therapies: The legislation

has been advocated by the Ohio Coalition for

Patients’ Rights (OCPR), which includes several

groups, among them nation’s oldest continuously

meeting State Homeopathic Medical Society.

Ohio State Board of Medicine in 1997 dismissed

the need for a bill because they had not yet pursued

any alternative doctors. Dr. Terry Chappell, an

outspoken lader in the health freedom movement

who sued and achieved a temporary restraining

order against the State Board of Medicine.

Texas: In late 1998 the State Board of Medical

Examiners that permit the use of complementary

and integrative therapies by medical doctors would

consider the bill which addresses due-process

reforms for all health care licenses investigated.

Since 1846, Texas has been the only state with a

constitutional provision for medical freedom:”....no

preference shall ever be given by law to any schools

of medicine” Since 1907, the Medical Practice Act

mandates that “Nothing in this act shall be

construed so as to discriminate against a School or

System of Medical practice.” However research

shows that these provisions alone were not

sufficiently protective.

3. Does Homeopathy Need the Medical

Anthropologist?

DOUAUD Patrick (HT, 19, 6/1999)

An interesting article where the relation

between Homeopathy and Medical Anthropology

has been explained and the need of Medical

Anthropology in Homeopathy is discussed.

Medical anthropolgy - concerns itself with

concepts of health and healing the world over, as

well as their application across the boundaries

raised by cultures, social classes, gender, age and

other such variables. It shares atleast three

characteristics with most homeopaths:

1. To contribute to the development of health care

worldwide by informing and educating

2. To consider healthcare a cultural product

3. To be a student of cultural variation in the same

way as the homeopath is a student of

individual variation.

Medical Anthropology and Homeopathy are both

empirical, research-based, and rather meaningless if

not applied; they are resting on strong yet flexible

theoretical foundations; they owe their very

existence to a desire to do away with preconceived

ideas; and finally they are highly empathetic and

view the patient as a psychological, social and

cultural individual.

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help with war traumas both emotionally and

physically. The author planned to send a small

team of homeopaths to Kosovan refugee camps to

focus on treating emotional trauma but at the

moment of writing (April 22) due to other major

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problems like the need for tents and food, airports

are closed except to military and aid agencies in the

Kosovo area there was problem in sending help.

4. Dr. Quinn speaks out

(HT, 19, 7/1999)

On February 24, 1999, actress Jane

SEYMOUR, who plays Dr. Quinn in the TV series,

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, presented a testimony

before the House Committee on Government

Reform Hearing on Alternative Medicine (

Homeopathy). It is a beautiful statement and worth

reading.

5. Homeopathy in Politics

MILLER Monica (HT, 19, 8/1999)

Homeopathy has been accepted as means of

therapy in the United States from a long time.

Three more states: Minnesota, New Jersey and

Texas also extended to accept Homeopathy as a

method of treatment.

6. Dynamic Medicine: Rage-Free Kids

ULLMAN J R & ULLMAN Robert

(HT, 19, 10/1999)

The article is an excerpt from the book, Rage-

Free Kids: Homeopathic Medicine for Defiant,

Aggressive and Violent Children. The 1996 State

of Washington’s Children report gave sobering

statistics. We firmly believe, from what we have

seen in our practice and what we know about

Homeopathy, that we as community can help

reduce rage. Difficult, defiant, aggressive, and

violent kids can be helped dramatically with

Homeopathy. A brief case of a 13 year old boy

with behavioral disorder has been discussed.

7. Der homöopathische Patient in der

niedergelassen Arztpraxis - Ergebnis Einer

vergleichenden Patientenbefragung in

Conrentionellen Arztproxen und

homöopathischen Privat - und Kassenpraxen

(The homeopathic Patient: Comparative

Results of Homeopathic and Conventional GP

Patient Interviews).

GÜNTHER Martine (Med GG, 18/1999)

This is a very interesting study. It compares

the results of Homeopathic and Conventional

Patient interviews. It is based on data from 284

patient interviews, conducted by 14 General

Practitioners in 1993-94. Homeopathic treatment

was used with 174 of the patients, while 110 were

treated using conventional methods.

In this sample, homeopathic patients were

younger and better educated than those treated

conventionally. They tended to be involved in

Teaching, Health care and Social Services. Their

knowledge of Homeopathy is often minimal, yet

their expectations concerning their illnesses and

treatment often reflect homeopathic concepts.

Apparently, their general life view corresponds with

certain parts of homeopathic philosophy.

Homeopathic patients are more critical of Medicine

in general, and often have negative experiences with

conventional medicine.

Conventionally treated patients and

homeopathically treated patients are equally

satisfied with their physicians and treatment. In

some cases homeopathic treatment also had

positive effects on the patient’s mood, sleeping

habits, etc. Homeopathic patients used to have

healthier lifestyles than the others. They tend to

choose Homeopathy for its perceived effectiveness,

which is largely based on their own experience, and

that of other persons in their social surroundings.

Most of the homeopathic patients receive social

support for Homeopathy. They actively

recommend Homeopathy and regularly meet others

who are also treated homeopathically.

Dissatisfaction and negative experiences with

conventional treatment may be one reason for

turning to Homeopathy initially. Long-lasting

reasons to continue using Homeopathy are

effectiveness, good care of the homeopathic

doctors, congruence with the patient’s worldview,

and greater patient responsibility for his/her own

health.

8. The Real Danger to Homeopathy: Pseudo-

Homeopathy

SCHEPPER L D (HT, 19, 10/1999)

The article is worth reading as most of the

homeopaths of today do this in their practice. So

the greatest threat to Homeopathy comes not from

allopathic practitioner or pharmaceutical companies

but from self-professed homeopaths who do not

follow the immortal laws and principles laid down

by HAHNEMANN. Whether out of ignorance or

laziness, or the desire to impress their patients with

their gimmicks so that they can charge more money,

these pseudo-homeopaths violate the most basic

principle of Homeopathy: to give a single remedy

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which covers the totality of the symptoms picture.

Some give three or four remedies within a single

week; others give mixtures of several or even a

dozen remedies at once. In so doing they harm the

patient, which is bad enough, but worse still, they

harm the profession and the reputation of

Homeopathy. Each remedy delivers an energetic

“punch” to the Vital Force, and it is the secondary

response of the Vital Force which acts against the

illness and heals the patient. Giving too many

remedies at once can leave the Vital Force punched

down like a boxer staggering to his knees.

We have a responsibility to educate ourselves

in the laws and principles of Homeopathy: we

must know how to give a single well-chosen

remedy, chosen by the totality of the symptoms,

based on the proving picture of the remedy. We

must educate our patients and the public that

anyone who does not follow these laws does not

deserve the title of homeopath. They may call

themselves eclectics or anything else they want, but

not homeopaths. In the words of Constantine

HERING, one of our most reverend master, “If our

school ever gives up the strict inductive method of

HAHNEMANN, we are lost and deserve only to be

mentioned as a caricature in the history of

medicine.”

9. Homöopathie heute: im Trend der Zeit oder die

wahre Mauer, die umkippt im Sturm?

(Homeopathy today: in trend of the time or the

well preserved wall which does not fall

down in a Storm?)

DEGELE, N. (AHZ, 245, 2/2000)

Periods of time in which stocks of knowledge

hold plausible and true are becoming shorter. One

fundamental reason for this is the ongoing

penetration of society with digital information and

communication technologies. In this article social

conditions of knowledge transformation due to the

widespread use of information and communication

technologies are outlined. Then the process of

knowledge transformation is portrayed within the

“Computer-unlike” domain of Homeopathy as one

of the most popular forms of holistic medicine.

Finally, the challenge for educating and training

future homeopaths are outlined.

10. Homeopathy and general practice: an urban

perspective

R.PERRY & C. DOWRICK (BHJ, Vol. 89,

1/2000)

Complementary medicine appears to be an

increasingly popular option amongst both doctors

and patients. General practitioners (GPs) in more

affluent parts of Britain have showed considerable

interest in its use. Our objectives were to ascertain

the use of and attitudes towards Homeopathy

amongst GPs working in a socio-economically

deprived urban area such as Liverpool.

A postal questionnaire survey was carried out

of all general practice principals in Liverpool, using

freepost envelopes and one reminder after three

weeks. With respect to eight common

complementary therapies in general and

Homeopathy in particular, respondents were asked

whether they treat with, refer to or endorse each

therapy; and their views were questioned on NHS

funding, effectiveness, adverse reactions, training

needs and theoretical validity, for each therapy.

The response rate was 131/252 (52%), and was

higher amongst women and doctors aged under 40.

During the previous week 37 (28%) Gps had been

involved in Homeopathy with their patients: 6.5%

had treated directly, 18.5% had referred to, and 7%

had endorsed Homeopathy. 31% of GPs reported

successful outcomes by homeopathic treatment

compared with 14% reporting adverse effects.

Respondents were generally uncertain about the

validity of the theoretical basis of Homeopathy;

only 23% considered it to have a valid basis.

11. An Interview with Louis KLEIN

HALLETT Carolyn (AH, 6/2000)

The prime focus of the interview was on the

Provings conducted by Louis KLEIN. The provers

should sign an agreement that is based on the

Helsinki Human Experimentation Accord that

basically lays out the intention of everyone’s

involvement and what can and cannot happen.

While answering the question of proving new

remedies - as homeopaths, it is our opportunity to

contribute something back to the homeopathic

community by doing and publishing provings.

HAHNEMANN urged everyone to prove and keep

proving. He proved not only medicinal substances

of the time, but substances which he said had non-

medicinal qualities, and he states that very clearly in

The Chronic Diseases:

Some of these medicines in their crude state

seem to have a very imperfect, insignificant

medicinal action (e.g. common salt and the pollen

of Lycopodium). Others (e. g. Gold, Quartz,

Alumina) seem to have none at all, but all of them

become highly curative by the preparation peculiar

to Homeopathy ”.

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We have to do very carefully and stick to some

fundamental principles, especially when

incorporating new remedies into our Materia

Medica.

At the same time, we should not limit our

prescribing to such a small number of remedies.

The remedies proved by the students in the

Homeopathic Master Clinician (HMC) are

Loxosceles , Reculusa (the brown recluse spider),

Carbon Bioxygenium (carbon dioxide),

Coriandrum (coriander), and Helodrilus caliginosis

(Earthworm). The reasons for choosing each

remedy are revealed.

Louis feels that seminar and meditation

provings help the participants in the seminar, or the

meditators, more than other people. He plans this

in the same category as signature ideas - and he is

not in favour of including any of those seeds of

information in the repertories.

Note: Complete provings of Louis KLEIN is on

the website www.homeopathycourses.com in a text

file that can be downloaded for free.

12. An Interview with Jeremy SHERR

SHEA Kat (AH, 6/2000)

The interview deals mostly with the Provings

and the relationship of proving to epidemics.

His opinion about post-graduation is that - “We

can go deeper into every aspect of Homeopathy -

philosophy, materia medica, cases. Homeopathic

learning is not linear, it is more like a spiral. We

come back to the same paragraphs and remedies

again and again, time from a higher perspective.

Becoming a homeopath is a process of personal

potentisation. We begin as mother tinctures and

slowly raise our consciousness by succussion and

dilution. Succussion is akin to the hard grind of

study. After a period of being knocked about

comes a phase of dilution, of realization, as we let

ourselves go and our consciousness expands.”

The most common pitfalls in provings as

described by him is that - “some homeopath s feel

that for a symptom to be valid, it should appear in

atleast three provers, ....with only common

symptoms and no peculiars, no character. ....By

definition peculiar symptoms are experienced by

single provers. An interesting side effect is that the

more peculiar a symptom, the less points it will

have in the repertory, so that we cannot infer that a

bold type symptom is always more important than a

low type symptom.

While talking about the relationship of

provings to epidemics he says that “They are

essentially the same things, one artificial, one

natural. ....The subject of epidemics is essential.

Until now homeopath s have been dealing with the

individual, we had to master that part of the craft.

But now we need to move to a higher level, to the

level of community. Once viewed from the

collective point of view, individual prescriptions

reach deeper and further.

...The amazing thing about HAHNEMANN’s

method is that it brings both into account, the

individual and the collective, but in the right

sequence.

...The knowledge and technique of treating

epidemics are about to become essential to the

homeopath, because epidemics as we once knew

them are about to return. The big infectious

diseases have been suppressed by allopathy, and

have gone into hiding for decades, but they cannot

be suspended forcefully for an indefinite period of

time. When they resurface, they will, unfortunately

be more violent and more difficult to suppress.

He had proved about twenty remedies. Ten

have been published: Androctonus, Hydrogen,

Chocolate, Adamas, Eagle, Brassica, Germanium,

Neon and Iridium. Other provings in various stages

of production are Helium, a new Neon, Argon and

Krypton, Salmon, Yew tree and olive.

Of these he feels the most useful to be

Germanium as it has lack of self esteem and

feelings of failure, which are so common today.

His other works are:

1. A book on syphilitic miasm - “The Joys of

Syphilis.”

2. On the homeopathic classification of disease, a

philosophy book.

13. Fools Gold

BRIDGER Mike (AH, 6/2000)

The author speaks of about the new trend

which is now being in vogue in Homeopathy -

meditative provings, Homeopathy being jumbled

up with notions based on religious and spiritualism,

psychotherapy, mysticism, magic, occultism, karma,

aquarius etc.

This trend is a move away from the language of

Homeopathy, which is a language of simplicity.

He says that the tendency to ignore physical

symptoms in preference for apparent mental and

spiritual causes is no more or less than simply

allopathic.

He concludes by saying that - “If the trends of

thinking that I have been talking about take hold of

our profession then we are turning the snake that

winds the staff of healing into the Oroborus snake

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that eats it’s own tail. We will render Homeopathy

obsolete.”

14. An Interview with David WARKENTIN

LANSKY A L (AH, 6/2000)

The interview mainly deals with the use of

computer in prescribing, developing expert systems,

to create a whole new sort of program, to have

multiple programs or not.

David says that “On the one hand, I feel that

you can’t prescribe well without a computer. I

don’t think it’s possible any more. It used to be

more possible, but as more and more remedies get

known, we just don’t know enough to remember

them. But, on the other hand, I think if you rely on

the computer and really believe that it’s going to tell

you the right remedy, I think you’ll prescribe

poorly. There’s balance between the computer

illuminating ideas for you to think about and areas

to puruse, and hoping for too much from it.

With regard to the use of Repertory and

Reference Works, David says that “Repertory is

concise, but it also divorces the symptoms from the

person. So you say, oh, these are all the remedies

that are jealous, but you don’t know how they’re

jealous. Actually, if you really understood exactly

the way the jealousy appears in each one of those

remedies, it would be easy to prescribe the

remedies. Or fastidiousness. All these remedies are

put in “fastidiousness,” but some are afraid of

germs, some are orderly, some are cleanly, but we

don’t understand that because they’re all reduced to

a single word. It makes it much easier to find

things, but it loses the spirit of the symptoms.”

He concludes that Reference Works are still

rich and we can analyze just by using them.

When talking about the kind of proving

information he says that in the past, the symptoms

are very fragmentary, few word, just lists and lists

of symptoms. A lot of newer provings include

much more of the provers’ words, and they give an

experience for each prover on a line. Then they

often put all of those provers together in groups, so

that, for example, all the people who talk about

fears are all put together. Then we can see the idea

of fear that runs through the remedy.

He concludes by saying that he wanted to

include mythology and natural history of each

remedy in Reference Works.

15. A Tribute to Samuel HAHNEMANN

(1755 - 1843)

MOSKOWITZ Richard (AH, 6/2000)

The author feels very grateful for having got

this opportunity to reflect on and pay tribute to the

life and achievements of this extraordinary man,

which are almost without precedent in the history of

science. For, Homeopathy is the only extant

methodology for medicine or any other learned

profession that was conceived and brought forth

fully-formed from a single human brain, and that

while continuing to grow and develop has remained

essentially intact for a period of two hundred years.

While the conventional method rightly prides

itself on its readiness for change, its astonishing

capacity to remake itself on short notice, not only

the Law of Similars, but the Vital Force, the totality

of symptoms, the single remedy, the minimum dose,

and the other basic principles remain as fresh and

timeless today as when the master discovered them.

Only HAHNEMANN’s brainchild,

Homeopathy has sustained itself without

fundamental change because it is both philosophy

and method, because even its practical applications,

while keeping pace with technical progress, remain

firmly grounded in principles that still generate

relevant and valid conclusions, and are therefore

still operative to that extent.

Even after his success in treating epidemic

diseases earned him a lectureship and made him

famous all over Europe, HAHNEMANN continued

to be ridiculed and persecuted for his heresies until

1822, when a wealthy patron gave him shelter and a

stipend to publish his writings. In addition to the

Organon of Medicine, his original text, which ran

to six editions, and the Materia Medica Pura and

the Chronic Diseases, his other major works, he

managed to write dozens of technical articles and

monographs, as well as maintaining voluminous

correspondence, and continuing to teach, practice,

and conduct experimental research until the very

end of his life.

Defending the principles of Homeopathy as

sacred, quasi-religious truth, HAHNEMANN and

his disciples were, as indeed many still remain,

harshly intolerant of all who appear to deviate from

his vision, creating an absolutist dogma that expects

and attracts persecution, and a tradition of

internecine ideological warfare that has continued

to divide the movement through periods of success

as well as decline.

In his old age he remarried and moved to Paris,

where he enjoyed wealth and celebrity, and died

secure in the knowledge that his students and

followers were practicing quality Homeopathy

throughout Europe and in America. Over fifty

years after his death, his body was finally laid to

rest in the Pére Lachaise, fitly crowned by his own

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epitaph, Non inutilis vixi, which means “I have

not lived in vain.” Driven by ambition and gifted

with intellect, he left us an elegant philosophy of

health and illness and a practical methodology that

have stood the test of time.

If HAHNEMANN or his disciples had been

any less zealous about preserving his principles, it is

quite likely that neither the method nor the

philosophy we find so elegant and beautiful today

would have survived in the face of the persecution

and seductiveness of conventional medicine, which

tried for so long and so powerfully to destroy it and

very nearly succeeded not so long ago.

His legacy comprises an art that is still beloved

throughout the world and a philosophy of health

and sickness that will endure long after the

homeopathic method as we now know it becomes

obsolete. For these blessings we are deeply

grateful.

17. Homeopathy is great medicine ... but not for

everyone

ULLMAN J R & ULLMAN Robert

(HT, 19, 7/1999)

This is an interesting article in which

Homeopathy’s greatness is showed in three cases

where the symptoms directly indicated the

similimum is discussed. But the prime focus is the

answer for the questions: Why do some patients

stick with Homeopathy over the long haul while

others quit treatment or are not drawn to

Homeopathy in the first place?

18. If a Homeopath is Good

ULLMAN Dana (HT, 19, 8/1999)

The article gives Seven criteria for determining

if a homeopath is good.

19. The Practitioner’s State

SMITH Jennifer (SIM, XIII, 1/2000)

The article gives a brief note on how a

homeopath evolves under years of his practice.

The author has explained his mental state of

quitting Homeopathy when she was taking

responsibility for everything and everyone other

than being the guardian of her own state and how

she enjoyed Homeopathy when she gave up the

fantasy of pleasing everyone and always getting the

correct remedy.

The article is worth reading for every

beginner as it gives a good confidence and what

would happen in the course of their practice and

how to overcome the situation.

20. Gifts from Homeopathy

SMITH Jennifer (SIM, XIII, 2/2000)

This article is similar to “The Practitioner’s

State” presented in the previous issue of

Simillimum. In this article she discussed about

Self-reflection and Humility of the Practitioner. An

interesting article to be read by everyone.

21. Understanding the Disease Beyond

Pathological Analysis

CHAWLA Y V (NAMAH, 7, 2/2000)

An extract of the important factors which were

responsible for cure apart from simple prescribing.

1. Patient’s faith in the medicines

2. His inner conflicts

3. His adjustment to his environment

4. His attitude to his daily job

5. Any recent critical incident and so on. .

In short, the patient’s view of his disease would

affect his recovery. If he worried too much as to

how to get rid of the affliction, he would be likely to

get enmeshed in it. If he saw the disease as an

affliction to his body which would pass away in due

course of time, he would understand the

significance of the disease and would find a way out

of it.

One’s mental make-up affects the functions of

the body and its immune system. This was

confirmed in a recently published work by David

SIMON. He had shown how the body-mind

approach can be related to the clinical expression of

a disease.

An explanation of health and disease was given

in the form of mind body dialogue.

There is no certainty against disease which can

express itself in the body despite all our efforts to

ward it off. The agitated mind tethered to the cause

and effect chain has to be given a respite to

understand the mysteries of life.

Three great personalities of our time, SRI

RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHANSA, RAMANA

MAHARSHI and J.KRISHNAMURTHI had to

bear the pain of the dreaded disease, Cancer. How

could one explain this phenomenon with mind-body

approach? As these personalities healed many, how

could it be that they themselves were a victim of the

dreaded disease. Let us remember that they never

felt vulnerable, their bodies did not show signs of

decay even in disease. It was our view, it was our

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analysis, that this was a dreaded disease, they never

considered themselves a slave to the body.

When it was declared that RAMANA Maharshi

was having a tumour on the arm, diagnosed as

Sarcoma, he told the devotees,

“I am only ill if you think I am; if you think I

am well I shall be well.” - and yet “even as he

weakened his face grew gentler, more gracious,

more radiantly beautiful.”

When doctors pronounced failure of the

treatment, Sri Bhagwan was asked to say himself

what treatment should be tried. He said, “Have I

ever asked for treatment? It is you who want this

and that for me, so it is for you to agree about it

among yourselves. If I were asked I should always

say, as I have said from the beginning, that no

treatment is necessary. Let things take their

course.”

When SRI RAMAKRISHNA was suffering

from throat Cancer, one of his disciples asked,

“Why do you not pray to the Divine Mother for the

cure of your illness?”

The Master: “When I think of my Mother, the

physical body vanishes, and I am entirely out of it.

So it is impossible for me to pray for anything

concerning the body....

The Mother has brought this illness on me in

order to teach man how to think of the Spirit and

how to live in God-consciousness, even when there

is extreme pain in the body. When the body is

suffering from excruciating pain and starvation, and

when it is beyond all human power to give any

relief, even then the Mother shows me that Spirit is

the Master of the body.”

J.KRISHNAMURTI wrote,

“Why do all human beings die so miserably, so

unhappily, with a disease, old age, senility, the body

shrunk, ugly? Why can’t they die naturally and as

beautifully as this leaf? What is wrong with us? In

spite of all the doctors, medicines and hospitals,

operations and all the agony of life, and the

pleasures too, we don’t seem to be able to die with

dignity, simplicity and with a smile...

We spend our days in such varieties of conflict

and unhappiness, with some joy and pleasure,

drinking, smoking, late nights and work, work,

work. And at the end of one’s life one faces that

thing called death and is frightened of it... death is

not merely the wasting of the body through disease,

old age and some unexpected accident, but that the

ending of every day is also the ending of oneself

everyday.”

We are so much enamoured by the details of

the disease that we take all the steps to alleviate it -

to get rid of it - going from doctor to doctor and

finally we put up with it when it cannot be cured,

using palliatives etc. Persons who are suffering

from chronic diseases spend much of their time in

watching the symptoms of their disease (pain etc.),

the alleviation of which becomes their daily source

of happiness and it goes on. We are carried away

by the disease and its description, may be the fear of

death stalks us.

Modern commercial propaganda about the

diseases leaves no stone unturned in putting fear

into the minds of public - beware of so and so

diseases, let us fight, let us have detailed check-ups

- a cycle of fear starts in the mind of the common

man.

But then what is to be done when one is under

the attack of a disease? First, let us not have any

fear. Take some simple natural medicines, correct

or reduce your diet. If necessary, consult the

doctor, but not with the thought that somebody else

will save you. It is only your perception of the

disease that can help. But then such a perception is

difficult during the attack of the disease. It is

during the normal period when a clear perception of

life (and death) emerges that you can deal with the

disease - otherwise you will be waylaid by the

common precepts about the disease.

Thus disease is not an isolated phenomenon

which can be studied apart from normal day to day

life. Our approach to life will determine our

approach to disease. One must see the significance

of the disease and have an inner certitude that can

deal with it without any fear (of death).

Overindulgence in the affairs of the body will

also be detrimental to the idea of true health. “This

detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a

certain attitude of indifference to the things of the

body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or

its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its

pleasure, its health or its ill-health, its vigour or its

fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or what it eats

or drinks. This does not mean that we shall not

keep the body in right order so far as we can; we

have not to fall into violent asceticism or a positive

neglect of the physical frame....

This detachment can be made so normal and

carried so far that there will be a kind of division

between the mind and the body experience the

hunger, thirst, pain, fatigue, depression etc. of the

physical being as if they were experiences of some

other person with whom it has so close a rapport as

to be aware of all that is going on within him. This

division is a great means, a great step towards

mastery; for the mind comes to observe these things

first without being overpowered and finally without

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being at all affected by them, dispassionately, with

clear understanding but with perfect detachment.”

Such an understanding of life will show the

way to medical treatment also, if necessary. But in

any case disease will not be a cause of distress for

human beings.

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XI. BOOKS

1. Cola, Homeopathic proving of the Cola-nut

(in English or German), Bernd Schuster, Verlag

fur Homoopathie Fax: 0049 6432, 5444.

Reviewed by ONNE Elia (HL, 13, 1/2000): “This

book includes information about the substance the

remedy was made from and other information. . . .

Origin, history, chemistry and pharmacology,

present homeopathic knowledge and survey of

scientific investigations of Cola are all meticulously

gathered, recorded and laid out. A lengthy part of

the book is devoted to the reports of the provers

themselves (in the provers own words). The book

also contains eye opening comparisons of Cola and

other “tree remedies” and of Cola and the drug

remedies. This book is much more than just a

proving book.”.

2. The Homeopathic treatment of Eczema,

Robin Logan, Beaconsfield Publishers LTD, UK

Tel/Fax: +44- (0) 1494-672118. Reviewed by

ANKALGI Bharati (HL, 13, 1/2000): “This book

consists of six chapters along with an appendix,

general index, remedy index, and rubric index. The

examples of twenty cases are very interesting and

useful in understanding the chapters more clearly. . .

. The new practitioner , students and experienced

practitioners will find this a most useful book while

dealing with cases of eczema. The language of this

book is very simple and easy to understand.

Everybody will benefit from it by re-verifying

previous eczema cases and also dealing with new

cases”.

3. Homeopathic Method, Implications for

clinical practice and medical science, Jeremy

Swayne, Paperback 228 pages, Published in 1998

by Churchchill Livingstone, UK: tollfree phone

0500566242, Europe: +441315351021,

USA/Canada: +12013199800, Australia/New

Zealand: +61396995400, ISBN 0 443059268.

Reviewed by WIJTENBURG Huib (HL, 13, 2-

3/2000): “The book opens the way for clinicians

who can’t imagine that an ultra-molecular dilution

can work, because the author describes not only

treatment but also what comes before and after

treatment. He uses the terms “pathograpy” and

“holography”, the description and study of the

dynamis of illness and healing, which are the

essential processes of medical practice and medical

science. I will end with the words from Professor

Harris. “Fascinating and full of wisdom... a further

joy that the book is so well written. The way in

which complexities are teased and crucial

distinctions drawn is obviously the result of much

reflection and hard thinking. I recommend this

book to everyone who treats patients”.

4. Homeopathy in Russia, Mishenko V.S.,

Patudin A.V., Trubitzin A. G. Moscow, 1998 18

pp. Reviewed by Alexander KOTOK (HL, 13, 2-

3/2000): “The goal of the authors is to briefly

present the history of Homeopathy in Russia from

the time of the Russian Empire, as it developed later

in the Soviet Union, until now, in the present day

Russian Federation or simply Russia. The reader of

this brochure deserves to be provided with more

contemporary information. Unfortunately,

however, the bronchure contains no references, so

we do not know the source of the data and the facts

presented by the authors.... It is also to be regretted

they do not provide any statistics on homeopathic

drug-stores, homeopathic outpatient clinics and

homeopathic practitioners. Lacking this data, we

cannot compare the level of the development of

Homeopathy and its spread throughout Russia and

to other countries. ...research into history requires

an especially accurate and assiduous attitude.

Unfortunately, we did not find this in the pamphlet

“Homeopathy in Russia”.

5. The Homeopathic Proving of Plutonium

(nitricum) including the toxicology of ionising

radiation, Jeremy SHERR and the Dynamis

School, Dynamis Books 1999. (52, Priory Rd.,

Malvern, Worcestershire, WR 14 3DB, England)

ISBN 1901147037, 306 pages. Reviewed by Jörg

WICHMANN (HL, 13, 2-3/2000):“The reviewed

book gives the text of the original proving grouped

under the themes and follows the head to foot

scheme. This is followed by a repertorisation of

Plutonium on the basis of the proving, and by six

cases provided by different practitioners. The book

not only provides the homeopathic proving but

also a lot of interesting information on the

toxicology of Plutonium and radiation in general.

The last chapters give a repertory of radiation

toxicology, a list of radioactive isotopes and

bibliography of books about the influence of

radiation on health and the environment.”.

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6. Prozac Free: Homeopathic medicine for

Depression, Anxiety, and other Mental and

Emotional Problems. ULLMAN J R and

ULLMAN Robert, Picnic Point Press, WA, 1999,

300 pages, softcover, $15.95. Reviewed by Todd

ROWE (HT, 19, 6/1999): “Prozac Free is a

beautifully written and well crafted book. It is easy

to read and non-technical. It is similar in design,

scope and format to the author’s previous book,

Ritalin Free Kids. There are many books in

Homeopathy but few bridge that gap between

conventional and non-conventional medicine as

well as this one. ...Prozac Free is an important

book designed for patients with mental illness who

are looking for alternatives to traditional care, as

well as for mental health practitioners interested in

alternative options. This is not a book for

homeopathic practitioners to learn more about the

treatment of mental health disorders. Although the

book will not change the mindset of the allopathic

community, it will help bring to awareness natural

alternatives to antidepressants that are safe and

effective. The authors should be congratulated on

bringing forth such a well written and useful book”.

7. Homeopathy hits the big wide world: The

Law of Similars by Chris BOHJALIAN.

Harmony Books, division of Random House,

1999, hardback, $23.00. ISBN 0-517-70586-9.

Reviewed by Three people - Randall

NEUSTAEDTER, Donna POWERS, Linda

JAROSIEWICZ. (HT, 19, 6/1999)

Randall NEUSTAEDTER: “Bohjalian is talented

writer, and his novel is propelled along nicely by a

carefully crafted set of literary devices, anticipatory

foreshadowing, heart-rending flashbacks, and

obsessive internal monologues. Anyone who picks

up one of his novels must discover the inevitable

conclusion. The writing style is compelled and the

story demands resolution. What Bohjalian does

best, and what will keep readers returning to his

books, is to capture the subtleties of human

interaction, tapping the emotional tone of delicate

situations, transforming the slight gestures of

personal moments into enduring memories, a

widowed father reading to his young daughter, a

family friend visiting the wife of a man about to die.

Personal fates take on a higher significance for us in

his books, but isn’t this always the good writer’s

great accomplishments?”

Donna POWERS: “This book is a work of fiction

not a text-book, treatise or self-help book on

Homeopathy. ... The Law of Similars is the story

of Leland FOWLER, lawyer and father of a four-

year-old daughter. His wife has died 2 years earlier

and recently he has developed a sore throat that just

won’t go away. After trying the conventional route

without success, he turns to the small town’s

homeopath, Carissa LAKE, for help. He falls in

love with her and against her better professional

judgment, she falls in love with him. Matters

become complicated when one of her asthmatic

patients falls into an allergy-induced coma and

because Leland is a State’s Attorney, he gets

professionally involved. Both Leland and Carissa

are then faced with all kinds of moral, ethical,

professional and personal issues. That’s the

storyline, but more than a review of this book, I’d

like to offer my ramblings and responses. It seems

to me, that with the publishing of this book,

Homeopathy will really be “out there” in the public

mind”. “Being a person who loves pity quotes

smattered throughout books, I did enjoy that about

this novel. Each chapter is prefaced with a quote

from the Organon or from the Chronic Diseases

and each section has a drawing of constellations”.

Linda JAROSIEWICZ: “Chris BOHJALIAN is a

good storyteller, and The Law of Similars is a good

story. Although the book is not really about

Homeopathy, Homeopathy is the background on

which Mr. Bohjalian paints his tale. This story is

really about the fragility of human life and human

relationships; about seeing what we need to see, and

not what is really there; about doing what we need

to do, and not what we should do”.

8. The Book of Herbal Wisdom by Matthew

WOOD. North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA,

paperback, 580 pages, $16.96. Reviewed by Maria

BOHLE (HT, 19, 7/1999): “A difficult concept to

understand is the place where herbal medicine ends

and Homeopathy begins. We easily become

accustomed to attenuated doses of medicines from

little white pills, and we often see no correlation

between their herbal beginnings and the finished

product. ....Matt Wood offers good insight from the

traditional use of medicinal botanicals leading up to

their use as homeopathic medicines. Case

histories gleaned from his files serve to further

illustrate the uses of these medicines. This book is

a “should buy” before the summer season. These

are herbs you will want to harvest for drying, and

for making tinctures and remedies. These are useful

medicines to have on hand whether you are a

professional or newly embarking on a healing

journey. All in all, The Book of herbal Wisdom is

a most enjoyable and informative book and worthy

of a place on your bookshelf.”

9. Homeopathische Hilfe (Homeopathic Help)

by U.FRIEDRICH, Althea Verlag, 2. Auflage,

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Zürich 1999. D.M.12/- (German) review by

BLEUL (AHZ, 245, 1/2000): “The book market has

many books on advises to the patients.

Unfortunately most of these are insufficient and

without explaining the specialty of homeopathic

method and give merely loose prescriptions of

thoughtless initiations.... Here in this pocket book

we have some welcome exceptions. In the first

part. FRIEDRICH explains what Homeopathy is,

how it is applied in practice.... In the second part

he writes about fundamental procedures for self

treatment of acute ailments.... For our patients it is

well recommended.

10. Homöopathische Menschenbilder:

Erscheimingsformen, Handlungsmotive,

Verwantschaften by ZIPPEMAYR, P. 280, S.

Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart 1997. DM 68/-

(German). Review by APPELL (AHZ, 245,

1/2000): “. . . .The curious reader will learn from

this what he already wanted to know about

homeopathic personality portraits but never

ventured to ask. . . . . ZIPPERMAYR personifies

the drug pictures: The German Tennis star Steffe

Graf could, if one thinks of her defensive, never

giving up, and her nordic blonde appearance, be a

classical Arsenicum type” . . . . . “but beware, a

similar performer could also be a Calcium

carbonicum”....He caricatures politicians too

“BISMARK was a Nux vomica example.”

He gives case reports.

11. Eigentümlichkeiten und Hauptwirkungen

der homöopathischen Arzneien (Characteristics

and Main Effects of the homeopathic

Medicines), BÖNNINGHAUSEN, C. v.. 525s. V.

A. JANSEN, Verlag für homöopathische

Literatur, B. Von der Lieth, Hamberg, 1999.

DM. 98/- (German) Review by APPELL (AHZ,

245, 1/2000): “...The present edition which follows

the personal copy of BOENNINGHAUSEN

deserves wide circulation and use. Perhaps there

will be some readers who may fulfill

BOENNINGHAUSEN’s wish to be thorough with

the contents of this book with serious Will and

diligence.”

12. Homeopathic First Aid for Animals by

Kaetheryn WALKER. Healing Arts Press,

Vermont, 176 pages, softcover, $14.95. ISBN 0-

89281-737-2. Review by John SAXTON (HT, 19,

11/1999): “This is a good book in a market that is

rapidly becoming saturated with offerings of

varying quality. ....the book is not written for the

experienced homeopath. Compared to other

similar works the list of remedies is limited, but

from the point of view of a worried animal guardian

this is an advantage - it is not confusing.”

13. The System of Homeopathy by Rajan

Sankaran. Homeopathic Medical Publishers,

20 Station Road, Snatacruz (W), Mumbai - 54.

Price: Rs. 350/- Pages 494. Review by

VISWANATHAN T K (NJH, 2, 3/2000): “....book

explains in detail, his methods of case taking and

analysis as evolved over the years in his practice. A

large number of case studies presented with actual

interview records, detailed case analysis and basis

of remedy selection make this book very absorbing.

It is a remarkable book. . . . . This book will serve

as a simulator (as in the case of pilots and

astronauts) for Homeopaths.”

14. Eros und sexuelle Energie durch

Homöopathie (Eros and Sexual Energy through

Homeopathy) by P. RABA 816 S, 120 Bilder

geb., bibliophile Ausstattung. Andromeda

verlag, Muman 1998. DM 180, - (German)

Review by GENNEPER (ZKH, 44, 2/2000): “

Homeopathy and Sexuality, a complex theme

which has not been so far so thoroughly handled as

RABA has in his book. Taboo themes like

Masturbation, Masochism, Necrophilia, Sadism,

Celibacy, etc. have been considered. Practical

problems often encountered often like menstrual

disturbances, ailments during pregnancy, etc.

receive thorough consideration. ... The illustrations

are aesthetic. Only the title of the book is

misleading, it should not be thought it is primarily

about obtaining limitless satiety of pleasures but it

is about treatment of sick people”.

15. Homöopathie und die Sprache des Körpers

(Homeopathy and the language of the Body) by

SANANES, R. Ubens. Von W. BÜCHLER, 277

S., geb. Santag Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, DM 64,

90 (German) review by BÜNDNER (ZKH, 44,

2/2000): “This German translation is from the

original French. “This work is by a French

homeopath translated fluently and nearly

encyclopedia, in different chapters written in a

“living phenomenology” the basic principles,

possibilities and limitations, questions and answers,

remedies and remedy portraits, as a global

homeopathic concept, under the aspect of

“language of the human body.” Physical structure,

Typology, Constitution, Biochromology and

Biorhythms as also Psyche and Soma - all these

from the center of the spectrum ....There are further

works of the author in French - we eagerly await the

next translation.”

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16. Therapiehandbuch Homöopathie Materia

Medica mit fallbersrielen (Homeopathic

Therapy handbook - Materia Medica with Case

examples) by M. TAUSCHER. 272 S., geb.,

Gustav Fishcer Verkag, ulm - Stuttgart - Jena -

Lübeck 1998, DM 68, - (German) review by

BÜNDNER (ZKH, 44, 2/2000): “As the Master has

imposed upon us, the regular study of the

homeopathic Materia Medica is absolutely

necessary and is of greatest significance. The

“Therapy Handbook” has been written under this

promise. The intention was to offer a Materia

Medica for the Beginners and not much

experienced which would be a valuable help for

choosing a remedy. ...With 203 remedies in

alphabetical order presented in the book, it is useful

to the beginners. The aim has been achieved, one

can work well with it. ....”

17. The Homeopathic Treatment of Influenza:

Surviving Influenza Epidemics and Pandemics

Past Present and Future with Homeopathy by

Sandra PERKO. San Antonio, Texas:

Benchmark Homeopathic Publications, 1999.

$24.95. Review by Peter WRIGHT (SIM, XIII,

1/2000): “Dr. Perko’s book on influenza cuts across

categories to provide a multidimensional view of

this extremely prevalent illness. ....The book

begins with an account of flu in history, with special

attention to the global influenza pandemic of 1918 -

1919, which killed more than twice as many people

throughout the world the world as had died in

combat during the First World War. ...As

homeopaths, we are privileged to posses the means

to confront the threat of another influenza

pandemic: proven medicines in potency, and

,matrices of vital information, of which this

disturbing and inspiring book is a prime example.

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XII. NEWS & NOTES

I. Eight Day Teaching Programme (8th to 16th

April 2000, Sangrur) A Report: Mini Materia

Medica (JH, 4, 2/2000): The main teaching was

based on Mind symptoms, the SEGHAL technique.

The Principles and teachings of Dr. SCHOLTEN,

Dr.SANKARAN, Dr. VIJAYAKAR was also

discussed. A gist of teachings made by different

practitioners and teachers were given. Various sets

of Rubrics were discussed for some of the remedies

according to SEHGAL’s method.

II. Factors That Might Effect a Remedy

Seminar by Vassilis GHEGAS November 1994 -

Cape Cod (USA) August 1996. Report by Fons

Vanden BERGHE - Enschede (NL) (HL, 13, 2-

3/2000): The lecture was focused on the subjects

“Dynamics in Homeopathy”, “Miasms”, and

“Layers of remedies”.

Man is a dynamic creature who constantly

changes and is liable to changing circumstances.

Even the homeopathic image of a patient can

change in the course of time.

Miasms or layers of remedies can cover the

original remedy picture, so that the original is no

longer visible or a mixed image appears of the

original remedy together with one or more

concealing remedies.

The difficulty in Homeopathy is to find the

remedy which lies on the top of the others, covering

the earlier remedies. Only this remedy should be

given, because this is the correct remedy at the

moment will make the upper remedy layer

disappear, so that afterwards we will have a better

view of what lies beneath it.

If the image of a remedy in a patient changes, it is

very important to check the following things:

1. Is the cause of this change of a mental,

emotional or physical nature?

2. Where is the central point of the suffering after

that change: on the mental, the emotional or the

physical level?

3. If the central point of the suffering is physical,

try to find exactly what it is, where it issituated

and if it is only physical, or a physical

expression of a hidden emotional or mental

suffering.

Factors which change the image of the remedy

completely are:

A. Factors in the Physical sphere which include

1. Pathology

Cancer

AIDS

Rheumatoid arthritis

Epilepsy

Hepatitis

Neurological problems

Measles

Psoriasis

Asthma

2. Vaccinations

Mental problems after vaccination

Neurological problems after vaccination

Epilepsy after vaccination

Physical problems after vaccination

3. Accidents

Mental changes after an accident

Physical changes after an accident

4. Menopause

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5. Alcohol and drugs

6. Aging

7. Religious fanatism

8. Marriage

9. Other factors

B. Factors in the Emotional sphere

Grief and shock

Emotional suppression

Social factors

C. Factors in the Mental sphere

Heredity

Trauma

Drugs

D. Epilepsy as a factor that changes the remedy

E. Menopause as a factor that changes the remedy

F. Alcohol and drugs are factors that change the

remedy

G. Old age as a factor that changes the remedy

Each of these factors are explained in detail with

reference to the remedies which seem to be

indicated in each condition.

III. Teachers meeting with George

VITHOULKAS, held on August 1998 in

Alonissos. Report by ROHRER Anton. The report

was focused on 3 heads.

1. Homeopathic research

2. The repertories

3. Remedy provings

Homeopathic research: Anton reports that,

before we do homeopathic research, we have to be

very careful in planning studies. We should not fall

into the allopathic trap of testing a remedy for a

nosological entity. We have to impose our

principles and ways of working with classical

Homeopathy.

The Repertories: Repertories are expanding very

fast. It is difficult task to clear misinformation that

has infiltrated the repertory already but it is

necessary in order to prevent new misinformation

from coming into the repertory. It is important to

select the additions. GEUKENS appreciates very

much the additions of BOGER,

BOENNINGHAUSEN, HERING, ALLEN,

KNERR or GALLAVARDIN. All these are

serious homeopaths. Only clinically confirmed

remedies should enter the repertory. We could

work for years just finding confirmation for our

remedies in many of the old journals from the last

century. We have to create a system for clinical

confirmations of the symptoms of our Materia

Medica. To find a good system to clarify the

symptoms is a project for the next years atleast.

Remedy provings: HAHNEMANN has given us

guidelines about how to do provings and it is very

important to follow these guidelines. Apt criticisms

were made about the current day provings where a

remedy is given to a group of people and the next

day all the people have a lot of symptoms and then

whole books are written about it.

IV. Open Seminar with George VITHOULKAS

Alonissos, June 2nd 1998. Report by ROBERTS

Ernest.

George opened with a detailed version of his

“Levels of health” models based on

HAHNEMANN’s concept of “state” of health.

There are four groups each with three levels, used

to define the state of health of each patient. With

this model it is possible to really understand what is

going on in each case: to know the prognosis, to

know the meaning of the acutes that occur during

chronic treatment, and to recognize those cases

where it is necessary “not only to find the remedy

but to find a correct series of remedies”.

The levels of Health

GROUP A

Level 1 In this group there are infrequent acutes in

the history of the patient with fairly quick recovery

Level 2

Level 3

GROUP B

Level 1 In group B there are frequent acutes every

month or so and the necessity of frequent antibiotic

and

Level 2 other treatments.

Level 3

GROUP C

Level 1 There are infrequent acutes but there is

serious systemic diseases, acutes are flare-ups of

these deep

Level 2 diseases

Level 3

GROUP D

Level 1 There are no acutes whatsoever, even great

stress and exposure produce no acute; especially

Level 2 observed in mental disease.

Level 3

Consideration of these different levels of health

gives clear guidelines on:

1. The expectation, desirability and impact of an

aggravation after a prescription.

2. The probable best potency and frequency of

prescribed medicines.

3. Prognosis, especially with reference to the

expectation and meaning of the timing of acute

illnesses which subsequently occur. These

guiding principles were demonstrated in the

analysis of the cases presented on subsequent days.

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Seven live cases and two video cases with follow-

up interviews were presented. It was noted that

vaccination easily lowered vitality, so patients move

down from Group A to Group B or even Group C

as a result. Vaccinations change acute diseases into

chronic diseases.

The refined model of levels of disease is a keen

tool for case analysis. VITHOULKAS was able in

each case to use this model to demonstrate the

principles of Homeopathy clearly without any

doubts, giving guidance for potency choice,

prognosis and subsequent likely changes and

prescriptions.

V. Inflammation of the middle ear, A Case of

Silicea, Seminar by Alfons GEUKENS, Belgium.

This article is a transcript of a seminar presentation.

Case of a nine months old boy was presented in the

form of an interview. Chronic inflammation of the

middle ear with thick discharges and a coryza with

cough which started after vaccination. Mild,

yielding disposition. Anxious from noise and

fright. Seaside air ameliorates. Face waxy,

abdomen enlarged. Thuja given without any relief.

Silicea 200 and then M relieved. The symptoms of

the boy with the respective rubrics and the remedies

are given. Alfons comments are given in between

which are thought provoking.

VI. Pain the Soles of the feet, A Case of Silicea,

Transcript of a Seminar by Alfons GEUKENS,

Belgium. Case of a 12-year-old boy with pain in

the soles mostly in the evening and night. Had split

nails and white spots in the nails. Pain in the

abdomen amelioration lying down. Fear of crowd.

Perspiration in the feet. Tendency to tooth

abscesses. Silicea M relieved. The Case is

presented in the form of an interview with

respective rubrics and remedies with authors

comment in between.

VII. In an interesting discussion of successful

treatment of Nephrosis in the Document

Homeopathic No. 18/1998, Dr. Anton ROHRER

refers to a “peculiar” symptom of Helleborus

niger. “Pain in the abdomen when going upstairs”

which helped very much recovery of the patient; of

course Helleborus was followed, in this case with

Lycopodium to take the patient on to further

improvement. We are however, concerned with this

“peculiar” symptom observed by Dr.

LANGHAMMER who was one of the provers of

HAHNEMANN.

Richard HAEHL says that Christian Friedrich

LANGHAMMER was “a small, weakly man and

not very gifted mentally. The results of his

provings were by no means accurate or

unimpeachable. They gave rise to disputations in

the Homeopathic Journals. Constantine HERING

took LANGHAMMER’s part and vigorously

defended his statement’s.” Over a period of 12

years, LANGHAMMER, proved 54 medicines. He

was one of the earliest associates of

HAHNEMANN during the days of Provings

between 1790-1805. In his article Langhammer

und Kein Ende’ (AHZ 68/1864) - [ in GYPSER’s

‘Herings Medizinische Schriften’ Vol. III - pp.

1373 - 1413] HERING has made an exhaustive

analysis of the several provings and pointed the

baseless, prejudiced criticism of LANGHAMMER.

HERING says that “LANGHAMMER was one of

the most zealous provers, and one of the most

careful and successful.”

HAEHL says further ‘In later years

LANGHAMMER disappeared from the public eye.

...In order to assist and show his gratitude to the

widow of Dr. LANGHAMMER, a homeopath, and

once a pupil of HAHNEMANN, who was living in

very poor circumstances and also, if possible, to

procure cheaply a home medicine chest for a poor

homeopathic physician abroad, M. LUX of Leipsic

took over the 432 homeopathic medicines

prepared by Dr. LANGHAMMER and offered them

for sale through the newspapers. Through this the

Medical Officer of Health for Leipsic, Hofrat Dr.

GUNTZ, was induced to seize this store of

medicines; . . . on November 25, the 432 medicinal

substances were buried with the bottles, corks and

labels.” (AHZ, 32/1847). [So much for the rabid

oppositions Homeopathy and the Homeopaths

had to endure = KSS].

VIII. American Association of Homeopathic

Pharmacists celebrates its 75th year. Report by

FOXMAN E. L. (HT, 19, 6/1999): The American

Association of homeopathic Pharmacists (AAHP)

celebrated 75 years of leadership in the health-care

industry with a public celebration in September

1998. Dr. Henry WILLIAMS, Dr. Alan

TRACHTENBERG, Dr. Samuel HAHNEMANN,

Mary Beth WATKINS, Dr. Sandra CHASE spoke

in the celebration.

IX. Amy ROTHENBERG on Treating

Depression at the Annual Meeting of Licensed

medical Professionals for Homeopathy

February 14, 1999. Orlando, Florida. (HT, 19,

6/1999) Report by HOAGLAND Jean: Amy talked

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about Case-taking in patients with depression. Two

types seek medical help. The first type has

headaches, premenstrual symptoms, migraines etc.

But the physician can see they appear depressed.

Look for the evidence of flatness. The voice may

be a flat. Posture can indicate lack of interest.

Observe how they are dressed. They may not shake

your hand or make eye contact when we meet. Dr.

ROTHENBERG has found that giving them the

remedy for the migraine or their chief physical

complaint, will often cover the emotional problem.

The other type is where their chief complaint is

depression. In these patients if the given correct

homeopathic prescription does not give good

results, look for the obstacles to cure in the form of

drugs. Someone who knew them before taking the

drugs should be called and ask for the symptoms

prior to the usage of the drugs and prescribe

accordingly. While dealing with these patients we

should show much attention and should practice

calm breathing to keep ourselves in the right state.

X. In Memorium, Rodman E. SHIPPEN, 1909 -

1999 by Joya L. SCHOEN. (HT, 19, 7/1999): Dr.

Rodman E. SHIPPEN, Jr., MD, moved to another

realm on March 18, 1999, at the age of 89 years.

He graduated from Haverford college in 1931 and

attended Hahnemann Medical College, graduated

with a Doctor of Medicine degree in Homeopathy

in 1935. He practiced medicine until 1940 when he

enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a Medical Officer,

serving as a Ship Physician in the South Pacific area

until the end of World War II in 1945. It was in the

Navy that he was given the opportunity to study

psychiatry. He moved to Winter Park in 1951,

becoming one of the first Board Certified

Psychiatrists in the Orlando area at a time when

Psychiatry was in its infancy as a medical specialty.

He served as Staff Physician or Consultant in all the

local hospitals.

Dr. SHIPPEN was a Life Fellow of the

American Psychiatric Association. He was one of

the first physicians in the community to utilize

Psychodrama as a therapeutic modality. He also

introduced group therapy to the Orlando psychiatric

community. The Florida Homeopathic Medical

Association has long held him in high esteem, and

he was seen by Floridian homeopaths as the father

of them all - a Homeopathic Patriarch.

XI. Misha NORLAND’s Seminar in Golden,

Colorado, March 1999. Report by ROWLAND

France (HT, 19, 8/1999): Misha encourages to

honor our intuition and to truly see the whole

person by picking up the subtle clues. Details such

as body posture, a tilt of the head or turn of the

phrase, or even the way they part their hair can

often tell more about the state of the patient than

their symptoms alone.

A courageous woman gave her case as one of

the provers of the AIDS Nosode. Made from the

blood of an AIDS patient who has subsequently

died of the disease.

Another useful tool Misha taught is Mappa

Mundi, the map of the world of archetypal

energies. This can be invaluable aid in charting

aspects of the case, helping to recognize facets of

the patient’s personality, pathology, remedy

polarities and modalities.

Misha addressed some of the issues concerning

the changing face of Homeopathy in today’s

complicated world compared to when

HAHNEMANN developed and first practiced the

art.

XII. In Tribute: Maesimund Banning PANOS,

MD, DHt June 12, 1912-July 29, 1999. Founder

and First NCH President. (HT, 19, 9/1999): Dr.

PANOS was a great pioneer, an outstanding

educator, and an extraordinary physician. Henry N.

WILLIAMS, Sandra M. CHASE, Michael

SOMERSON, Richard MOSKOWITZ, Nicholas

NOSSAMAN, Bill GRAY and Catherine

COULTER have all given their tribute in this issue.

They shared their views and memories about her.

Descendent of a prominent Homeopathic

physician (Edmund Prior BANNING), widow of a

homeopathic physician (John PANOS, MD);

mother of two daughters (Anne PANOS and Della

PANOS); dedicated to Homeopathy, she went to

medical school as a widow, became a physician

herself, took a preceptorship with Dr. Julian

GREEN in Washington, DC, and later took over

that practice and herself became a preceptor of

many; a gifted teacher of case taking, Materia

Medica, and KENT’s Repertory at the

Postgraduate School for Physicians in

Homeopathy and later under the National Center

for Homeopathy, as well as serving as the

president of both.

Dr. PANOS came from a long line of

homeopaths. Both her father and grandfather were

homeopathic physicians. Her grandfather and

father developed the “Banning Brace” a mechanical

support for spinal problems. Dr. BANNING took

in a young preceptor - John PANOS - a Greek

immigrant who came to the United States to study

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medicine. John Panos finished medical school and,

in 1939, married Maesie.

Maesie by her own admission, didn’t pay much

attention to the practice of Homeopathy; she was

busy with her house-hold and her children.

In 1947, John PANOS died, and Maesie found

herself faced with all his patients asking for advice.

She then received graduation. She was well

acquainted with the best homeopathic physicians

of her day. In 1969 she met George

VITHOULKAS and their correspondence

continued for quite sometime. Brought him to

United States and introduced to a whole new

generation of homeopaths.

Maesie married John HOLTVOIGT in 1970,

and with him founded the Woodward Foundation

for Homeopathy for the education of licensed

physicians in homeopatherapeutics.

She wrote a book Homeopathic Medicine at

Home published in 1980. Dr.PANOS and her

daughter have published the Cumulative Indices of

the Homeopathic Recorder and The

Proceedings of the International Association for

the years 1881 to 1958, and have also edited a

collection of the writings of Dr. Elizabeth WRIGHT

HUBBARD, Homeopathy as Art and Science.

XIII. Codependency: A New Rubric by Bill

GRAY. 25th Anniversary NCH Annual

Conference, April 16-20, 1999 - ft. Lauderdale.

Report by DANCU David (HT, 19, 9/1999): Bill

has created a new rubric for the symptom of

“codependency.” Bill’s views on codependency is

the myth of Narcissus and Echo. Bill discussed this

myth and correlated it to the present day definitions

of codependency, in which one sacrifices his or her

identity for the sake of others, resulting in an

unstable self-worth.

Repertory rubrics he chose to come to his

single new rubric included: abrupt, yet affectionate;

desire to achieve; ailments from: abuse, alcoholism;

anxiety of conscience; delusions that duty has been

neglected; compulsive; delusions of persecution or

separation; low confidence; dictatorial; abusive.

Remedies included for the rubric are also

given.

XIV. The Kingdoms in Homeopathy: A

Practical Technique for Everyday Consulting

by Jonathan SHORE. 25th Anniversary

NCH Annual Conference,April 16-20, 1999 -

Ft. Lauderdale. Report by CROCE A J

(HT,19, 9/1999): “Jonathan offered the wealth of

his wit and experience as well as his particular

observations on the kingdoms. He pointed out that

the remedy’s kingdom may not be evident in all

cases. He advised, “If you see it, great; if you don’t

forget it” and move on to another tool for case

analysis. Comparing case analysis to opening a

locked door, he noted, “First we need to have lots

of keys, then we need to be able to recognize which

key goes into which lock.” If the kingdom

identification is clear in a given case, Jonathan

urges using it as one path into a deeper

understanding of the case, but he also acknowledges

that in many cases it is not clear, and in these cases

other analytical tools will be more useful.

He has introduced the main attributes of each

of the three kingdoms, and also compared them on a

series of particular points.

People needing mineral remedies tend to

convey their symptoms in an organized way, and

they may come in with an orderly way, and they

come with an orderly list. They proceed at a

regular, controlled pace; they monitor their energy

and move in straight lines. Those needing plant

remedies may be hard to pin down, variable,

constantly changing and going off in a new

direction; their lives may resemble the shape of a

climbing vine. The pattern of animal remedies is

active and quick. They can be very intent in their

energy, directing it as a sudden strike or a zigzag

line as in a hunt and pursuit.

Also presented several cases on video which

demonstrated some of his casetaking techniques.

XV. Homeopathy in Breast Cancer: A Bright

Outlook by A. U. RAMAKRISHNAN. 25th

Anniversary NCH Annual Conference, April 16-

20, 1999 - Ft. Lauderdale. Report by CROCE A J

(HT, 19, 10/1999): Dr. RAMAKRISHNAN, a

prominent Indian homeopathic physician,

enlightened and challenged American homeopaths

by providing a window into the treatment of Breast

Cancer in India. He explained it with some

philosophical observations. Says that etiology is

very important and emphasized that it is crucial to

understand the patient’s mental-emotional picture

and the impact or function of the illness for them.

He described the dynamics of human existence - life

and death, well-being and sickness, balance and

imbalance, cure and destruction, energy and

debilitation, benevolence and vivaciousness,

happiness and misery - and explained that Cancer

can result from being torn by dualism. He noted

that the remedy Carcinosin “has a dualistic situation

in their moral and spiritual outlook.”

In treating Cancer, “at one end of the spectrum

are the people who deal with the cell, its structure,

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function, control, etc. At the other end are those

who deal with the spirit. Dr. RAMAKRISHNAN

distinguished among the various stages of Cancer

and discussed how Homeopathy can be used at

various stages. Many people do not turn to

Homeopathy until the disease has reached a very

advanced stage, but even they can be helped. For

him, “helping does not necessarily mean curing

them of Cancer; you can also help people extend

their life and have a better quality of life and a more

comfortable death,” allowing them to die with

dignity.

Dr. RAMAKRISHNAN described

Homeopathy’s tremendous effectiveness in the

prevention of Cancer, using as an example a person

who has a high PSA (prostrate-specific-antigen) test

or preCancerous Pap test and who receives the

correct remedy and does not develop Cancer.

He related his protocol for treating Breast

Cancer at various stages.

XVI. The 6th Annual Irish Homeopathic

Conference, Galway, Ireland. June 25-27, 1999.

Report by OWEN Joni (HT, 19, 10/1999): Report

of provings of drugs Succinum(Amber) by Nuala

EISING and Lakeland SLATE by Sue ASQUITH

and Dave EVANS. Bernd DANKERT lectured on

the successful uses of LM/Q (50,0000

dilution/ratio) potencies and included in-depth

references to HAHNEMANN’s Organon and

Chronic Diseases.

XVII. Nash Second Annual Conference:

Diversity and Collaboration. August 28 -29.

Vancouver, BC. Report by ELLIS Gini (HT, 19,

11/1999): Louis KLEIN introduced a methodology

and Materia Medica that enables to focus on what

is important in the study of a remedy. He also

shared a case of Lecithinum (a remedy prepared

from the yolk of an egg) and a case of Niobium, a

metal in the silver series of the periodic table of the

elements.

Basil ZIV encouraged to pay attention to our

intuition and use the pathological symptoms that are

there - the mental, physical, general - and then

watch for the bump in the road! That “bump” is the

unusual part of the case and often can point to a

characteristic symptom in the middle of many

general symptoms.

Alize TIMMERMAN discussed different

approaches to finding the simillimum, then

emphasized the many points to consider, noting that

case taking skills include non-verbal observations.

She also shared a “funny case” that featured a new

remedy, Lac felinum (cat’s milk).

Jo DALY gave a new way of exploring the

study of materia medica. She says that the feel

when we read a case will help us to know the soul

of the remedy, which is not an emotional feeling but

is something very deep within us. Shared a case of

Androctonus - a 59 year-old male, described as

“criminally violent.”

Mirando CASTRO helped to explore “soft

ethics” as they apply to confidentiality - “respect for

a person’s right to determine the contents in which

personal information may or may not be revealed.

The purpose was to help practitioners understand

their ethical code and to examine their own

practices in this regard.

Steve WALDSTEIN explained the changes that

HAHNEMANN made to dosing instructions in the

5th and 6th editions of Organon. The 4th edition

of the Organon contains the “watch and wait,” dry

dose method that we are most familiar with. In the

5th edition, HAHNEMANN introduced the liquid

dose (centesimal potencies [C] diluted in water),

which allows for more frequent repetition of the

remedy and more control of the dose. The 6th

edition (not published until 1920) added the LM

potency. WALSTEIN told that liquid doses and

LMs add the possibility of repetition, but that

routinism never works in Homeopathy. He

believes that automatic daily repetition, instead of

dosing based on the individual’s response, is the

biggest mistake made by most people who use LMs.

Hypersensitive patients can be treated with LM

potency without any undue aggravation.

XVIII. Vithoulkas Seminar: The Homeopathic

Extravaganza!! Held in Shanmukananda hall,

Mumbai. Report by PARTHASARATHY

Vishpala (NJH, 2, 1/2000): VITHOULKAS

discussed about the levels of health. He depicted

the levels from A-Z where the vitality is good when

the person is in the level A and it gets deteriorated

as he goes to the next levels. He discussed some of

the video cases in which a case of Adenocarcinoma

with gangrene of legs treated with homeopathic

medicines and avoiding surgery which the allopaths

felt to be necessary to save her. Materia Medica of

Aurum group were discussed in brief. A case of

Ignatia at the end.

XIX. VIth Sarla Sonawala Seminar was held on

30th January 2000 at Choksey Auditorium, Tata

Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. Report by

SHAIKH Neelofer (NJH, 2, 1/2000): Dr K N

PRASAD presented a treatise on classification and

clinico-patho-physio and mental co-relation of

Acids. Gave the PQRS symptoms of acids. He also

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reported two cases treated with acids. Dr. Visphala

PARTHASARATHY gave a deeper understanding

of the remedy Phosphoricum acidum.

XX. Institute of Clinical Research Workshop,

April 2000, Vile Parle, Mumbai. Report by

KATIRA D T (NJH, 2, 3/2000): 3 cases are

discussed. A case of chronic Migraine and a case

of extensive Psoriasis: guttate-pustular type with

Reactive Depression are given in detail.

XXI. Seminar on Materia Medica on 16th July

2000, Ludhiana (Pb). Report by SANDHU G S

(NJH, 2, 3/2000): A case of Tuberous sclerosis

treated with Mercurius solubilis, a 7 year-old girl

with behavioural disorder of SHE becoming HE

and secondary deafness and dumbness after

vaccination treated with Platina M and a renal

colic case treated with Natrum carbonicum were

discussed. Following this the central idea or

Nucleus or the Crux of about 20 remedies were

discussed. Differentiating point of few remedies

like Carc, Carb-v, Gels, Ign, Iod, Ipec, Kali group,

Natrum, Lyc, Sulph, Lach, Tub, Med etc. were made

out.

XXII. A Tribute to Dr. Nina DOSHI (NJH, 2,

3/2000): The eldest daughter of Laxmikant and

Manorama. Passed away on 25-6-2000 due to some

disease (The post mortem report said: Cerebral

Malaria - but with no symptoms???) Tribute is

given by her husband, relatives and her patients. Dr

Vishpala PARTHASARATHY also poured her

feelings about Nina.

XXIII. In his article ‘Homeopathy in the last 25

years’ (HL 13, 2-3/2000) Pieter KUIPER of The

Netherlands has traced the progress of

Homeopathy during the last quarter of the 20th

Century and paying, rightly, rich tributes to the one

man who has done the most, at least in so far as

the West is concerned, to the spread of Classical

Homeopathy - George VITHOULKAS.

Interalia KUIPER has also praised the ‘dream’

provings as also the technique of Jan SCHOLTEN

and Massimo MANGIALAVORI.

In the same number of the Homeopathic Links

(HL 13, 2-3/2000) there is a lengthy ‘Interview’

which the editors of the HL had with GV in June

1989.

[In this Interview GV has taken strong

exception to certain new ideas that were being

‘taught’ - and continued to be taught as on date - all

over the World of Homeopathy. In this criticism

GV used harsh terms, which would sometimes

appear insinuating, which would certainly be taken

as insulting the, well, - ‘new teachers’. These

teachers are all highly respected in the

Homeopathic world and there was naturally an

avalanche of protest letters; there were some who

agreed with GV’s objections to the ‘new ideas’ -

which GV termed ‘nonsense’ - but even this did not

justify the harshness of GV.

We cannot but accept when GV says that

‘fantasy’ ideas like the ‘signature’ (which

HAHNEMANN did not agree), or the ‘group’

proving (which includes those who did not take the

remedy, or the ‘dream’ (only dream) proving, are

all not Homeopathy.

We also agree with GV when he says that the

creation of Materia Medica by combining the

characteristics of Calcarea and Sulphur and naming

this mixture as Calcarea sulphurica and assign

symptoms to it, is not homeopathic Materia

Medica. May be KENT did so with remedies like

Calcarea silicata. These are synthesized Materia

Medica and are not ‘pure’. HAHNEMANN

qualified his Materia Medica as Pure admonished

his followers to study pure Materia Medicas.

Even Julia GREEN’s small book People of the

Materia Medica World is fascinating to read but

when she speaks of the Calcarea symptoms and

Phosphorus symptoms and then speak of the

symptoms of the Calcarea phosphorica as

something of the combination of the two, it is not

correct.

Jan SCHOLTEN’s Materia Medica based on

the ‘periodic table’ is another speculation. May be

the prescriptions given on this basis produced

happy results. But does it justify to be called

‘Homeopathy’?

The only way by which I can learn what is

curative in each individual substance is by taking it

in and experiencing the changes it brings within

me. There is no other way, according to

HAHNEMANN. Putting the packet of a powder of

say Arnica montana 30 under my pillow will not

produce dreams which are peculiar to Arnica. And

will it produce symptoms even if the powder is put

in the next room and may be next home and so on!

These all appear, to me, as caricatures of

Homeopathy, and certainly GV was right in raising

his voice against these.

I have read that one well known teacher has

said that it was a spider remedy if the patient was

interested in playing with ropes, and loved knitting

and climbing - (probably because spiders spin

‘threads’ and crawl over walls). In my younger

days - 50-60 years it was common for small girls to

play ‘skipping’ with ropes for hours, climb up small

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trees; and it was common to see in the northern

India for women to be engaged in knitting woolen

sweater before the onset of winter particularly. Do

all these persons, when they fall ill call for a

‘spider’ remedy?

What is Homeopathic Principle? To find out

what is curative in a medicine by testing it on

healthy persons and collect the symptoms that was

produced by this medicinal substance only so as to

apply this substance in suitable dose to a person ill

with similar symptoms. Plant/animal/insect /behave,

eat, react, etc. and give it to persons who are

similar? It certainly is not how one cannot extend

the ‘similar’ to the length and breath of one’s own

inspiration. It has to be understood only if the

contextual frame of HAHNEMANN’s directions. If

we do away with ‘proving’ what there is left in

‘Homeopathy’? Was it not by testing it upon

himself that HAHNEMANN knew what is curative

in the Cinchona bark? And has not the

HAHNEMANNian method stood the test of the

times? Are not the text books we all have read

written by those masters who followed

HAHNEMANNian theory? Therefore by putting

forth theories which may be fantastic and even

produce in some cases fantastic results, happy

results are we not being untruthful to the grain. we

have eaten and indeed continue to eat.

Let me also say in my personal capacity as a

humble practitioner of Homeopathy among the

common people for nearly four decades that the

good old HAHNEMANN still holds good enough.

Honestly, have we been able to cure better and

quicker, and more cases of for example Asthma,

rheumatoid Arthritis, Diabetes, Uterine disorders,

or Cancers. AIDS, etc. - with the ‘new ideas’ than

what the ‘olden’ like BOENNINGHAUSEN,

LIPPE, BOGER, etc. did with their

HAHNEMANNian? The clear and honest answer

is No. Our homeopaths, numbers have increased.

But our cures have not apace.

Let us stick to the basics follow

HAHNEMANN and his genuine band.

When we criticize, let us be clear and firm but

never harsh.

In the Letters to the Editor pp. 56-70 many

have expressed feeling of being insulted especially

those who have experienced good results by

applying the ‘new ideas’. Many say apply it and

judge by results - like what - HAHNEMANN said

in his ‘Nota Bene for my Reviewer’. Well, may I

say it is not just the result. There are other ideas too

besides that under criticisms - where successes are

claimed . It is a question of a general, a basic Law -

applicable by all which is the Law of similars laid

down by HAHNEMANN; only that, that alone is

Homeopathy. While there is freedom to adopt

techniques, the technique should be within the basic

frame work - the Provings obtained by taking the

substance and collecting the Pure symptoms

aroused by the proving substance (not mental only,

or dreams only, but total) their similarly with the

illness, the minimum dose required in the particular

case - if one strays from these, then one is, in my

understanding of HAHNEMANN and his Medicine,

not a homeopath: may be an eclectic = KSS]

It is quite justified that Rajan SANKARAN felt

hurt at GV dumping SANKARAN as one who has

done most damage to Homeopathy. SANKARAN

feels that his ideas have disturbed GV.

SANKARAN has said that he “always taught and

practiced that we must examine everything in the

patient and not concludes on the basis of one or two

things however tempting that might be. The entire

totality of the case needs to be understood in order

to prescribe deeply. And after all the aspects of the

case are studied, a thorough reference to all

available literature on the remedy is made before

you reach a remedy.” This is clear and genuine

Homeopathy and there is nothing at all to

criticize in this. About the ‘Kingdom’ approach

and ‘dreams’ SANKARAN asserts that in his

experience these have been very helpful in treating

cases.

Referring to GV’s view that it was not

necessary a woman with ‘Sepia-leucorrhoea’ have a

‘Sepia -mind’ SANKARAN disagrees with this and

affirm that ‘you cannot have a ‘Sepia-leucorrhoea’

without a ‘sepia-mind’. These ‘hair-splitting’

confuse ordinary practitioner who gives Sepia if

there is a ‘Sepia-leucorrhoea’. Can we not or have

we not prescribed - with good results - Sepia even if

the woman does not have a ‘bearing d feeling? Is

it wrong to prescribe Sepia for Sepia-cough even

though there may not be a Sepia-mind? And what

is a Sepia-mind or for that matter an Ipecacuanha

mind? Can anyone limit the ‘mind’ or any other

therapeutic action of any homeopathic remedy

to what is so far known only? If so how is it that

our Repertories have been growing to unwieldy

proportions. A ‘mind’ that was not earlier

attributed to a remedy becomes an attribute of that

remedy in the light of further clinical experience. In

one’s experience these arguments, for or against,

are only confusing and they satisfy the ego of the

‘teachers’ but do not help the homeopath much.

We will read these ‘views’ or opinions of GV,

SANKARAN and SCHOLTEN but read more

carefully and closely HAHNEMANN, HERING,

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BOENNINGHAUSEN, BOGER, KENT etc.

wherein are contained all that are necessary for a

homeopath . This is not to mean that we should

remain shut from ideas or techniques that would

help us to prescribe and ‘really cure’ better; that our

failures become lesser and lesser. New ideas that

are and do not collide.

I have observed that after one teacher

‘expounded’ Opium with the rubric, Fear of

extravagance - I did not find corroboration of it in

the Encyclopedia or other ‘source’ Materia

Medicas - there were many cases reported with

‘grand successes’ with this rubric and remedy; then

came the next age ‘Belladonna’ and lo! case after

cases; then the season of ‘Staphysagria’,

‘Stramonium’, Hura brasiliensis, Hyoscyamus.

Honestly, let us ask ourselves whether all these are

‘genuine’ or ‘mass hysteria’.

Jan SHOLTEN asks “Why fear ideas? When

ideas are powerless and worthless they will die soon

enough. So why bother about such ideas. In the

scientific process of trial and error, they will be

sorted out.” (P.74) Right, but not before some

damage has been wrought about. The

‘Homeopathy teachers’ should beware themselves

that they do not become ‘Cult’ leaders = KSS.

XXIV. Alize TIMMERMAN on Identity and

Relationship, held in 1998 in New Zealand.

Report by Lyn SNOW and Suzanne Marlow FRIES

(SIM, XIII, 2/2000): The seminar was based on the

work of JUNG, WHITMONT, etc., on the

development of the Self, the Ego, and the totality of

the individual’s psyche. It focused on treatment of

patients with relationship problems, and particularly

with the relationship between the Self and the ego.

These patients can be difficult to treat because their

inner state may be masked by physical problems.

The presenting complaints, casetaking, and,

ultimately the selected remedy, may not reach the

core of the problem. This was illustrated by cases

whose underlying illness stemmed from a wide

variety of relationship problems, including

individuals with multiple personalities and

depersonalization.

Materia medica at this seminar centered on

remedies from the Periodic Table of Elements.

Alize discussed the appropriateness of heavier

elements for the more solid and stable personalities.

In contrast, she also showed many cases that

revealed an “underdeveloped Self,” and in these

cases the lighter elements were often needed, such

as Aluminum, Beryllium, Lithium, the Natrums,

Carbons, Magnesiums, Nitrogens, Kalis, and Argon

and Hydrogen. She also discussed similar remedies

from animal and plant sources, with special focus

on Lac felinum, Lac leoninum, Lac humanum and

Thuja.

Alize converges natural sciences and social

sciences into a whole that conveys her deep

understanding of health, disease and healing.

Alize concluded her discussion of treating the

disordered self with some general principles of

treatment:

1. Long-term follow-ups are necessary

2. Stimulation of personal development occurs.

3. The patient starts to live in her body again.

There can be long aggravations, as complaints

come and are felt on the physical plane,

eczema, for example. These should not be

spoiled by giving remedies in these instances.

4. The patient must have a holistic outlook.

5. Sometimes, one must begin by prescribing on

the exterior of the case, the outside state

instead of on the innermost state. The remedy

makes the patient go through the pain, and

provides the strength to go through it. Without

the vital force strengthened, the patient cannot

do the deeper work.

6. Family support is very important.

7. The patient needs to understand these things, or

else they may say, “I don’t want to go through

this,’ or “this is not working,” and drop

homeopathic treatment.

8. There is no therapy where there is not a

therapeutic relationship, so the view on the

disease depends on the relationship and rapport

between the patient and the prescriber.

To summarize Alize’s unique understanding of

disease and healing, we learned that we must

observe where it is, from a human development

perspective, that over or underdevelopment occurs

in our patient. Whenever we observe that over or

underdevelopment is on the instinctual/physical

level, in the emotional realm, the actual root of

much of the disease we see today becomes

apparent. Symptoms will show themselves as

extremes of one’s over or underdevelopment, at

specific psychological development stages, viewed

from the patient’s Embodied Self, Self Image, or

Observed Self vantage points. These vantage points

indicate just how close or far from health the patient

may be at a given point. These maladaptive

perspectives also signify the depth of pathology and

are valuable indicators for a homeopath to

understand just how much treatment will be

required.

Four very interesting cases were offered.

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Case 1: A 9 year-old girl did not have a sense of

self. The girl was living very much in the Observed

Self, mimicking what other children would do, eat,

and wear. Her instinctual behaviors were out of

control, e. g. Could not control her food intake.

Alize said that ideally, development proceeds from

gaining control over needs and instincts, to the

development of intellect. This girl had a problem at

this level with the lack of control over food and

urine. Did not want responsibility or to grow up,

and behaved like a baby in one sense, yet on the

other hand she was growing breasts and pubic hair

and was inappropriate with her sexual interests.

Baryta muriaticum M given. Became violent after

a dose of the remedy. Later developed coryza that

lasted a while, and had pain in ears followed by

greenish discharge and the pain subsided. Had

more control over her instincts, was more in her real

Self and less in the Observed Self.

In these cases the higher potencies, 10M, 50M,

etc., may need to be repeated, maybe even daily. In

this case the girl was coming back into her age-

appropriate behavior.

Case 2: A 3 week-old infant was unreactive, gazing

upwards and never looking to her mother. Not

eating well, and even had trouble swallowing milk

or water. The baby had trouble coughing, became

red, and her cough sounded like a scream. The

child’s respiration was quite high and did not react

to any stimuli.

The infant was very sleepy, didn’t cry and had

a vacant look. There was a disassociation and lack

of reaction on all levels. Opium 200. After 24

hours there was no reaction, and the next day

Opium M was given. Within two or three hours

there was a reaction, and the remedy was repeated

two or three times over the next six months. The

infant developed severe constipation, Opium LM 1

was given, and the problem cleared immediately.

After three years the child was more normal, very

intelligent, with an excellent memory; a long-term

case, reacting very well. Was given Opium LM 2,

LM 3, etc. As physical symptoms came, then Opium

10M, etc., as mental/emotional symptoms and

generalities showed up.

Case 3: A 16 month-old boy was very restless and

did not want to listen or co-operate with his family

members. Most aggressive, would hit and beat his

older brother and shriek loudly. Quarrelsome. Had

eczema on his cheeks, elbows and knees. Would

not tolerate any dirtiness, and had to have his diaper

changed right away. Very allergic to milk and eggs.

Received Tuberculinum, Medorrhinum, Mercurius

and Sulphur. Pushing his will too hard and the

disposition to contradict, obstinate and strong

characters of Ferrum and his obsessive and

fastidious nature of Arsenicum together helped to

select Ferrum arsenicosum. Ferrum arsenicosum

200 helped.

Case 4: A 46 year-old woman with melanoma on

her hand and fibroids in her uterus. Very suspicious

and insecure. Had fear of death and went from

doctor to doctor in panic. Had a fear of failing and

a delusion that she was under the superhuman

control. Had been very depressed. Had an anxiety

about not being allowed to exist, and felt others

were always better and more important. Felt

something heavy and hard in the uterus.

Delusion: made of glass, cannot exist any

longer, of animals in the abdomen, divided into two

parts. Thuja 10M was given. After 9 months there

was a need to repeat the remedy.

XXV. Andre SAINE at Breitenbush, Pure

Water, Pure Food, Pure Air and Pure

Homeopathy . Report by Nicholas NOSSAMAN

(SIM, XIII, 2/2000): “The course was entitled,

“Resolving Difficult Cases,” and was grounded in

basic, original and undiluted homeopathic

principles from the source, HAHNEMANN.

Dr. SAINE presented four cases.

Case 1: A 9½ year-old child with agenesis of the

corpus callosum, severe chronic diarrhea and

mental retardation with many features of autism.

Disconnected from his environment and barely

functional. After 2 doses of Aloe socotrina,

dramatic improvement resulted and the child

experienced transformation to the point of complete

functionality. The boy had begun to respond

initially to Calcarea carbonica, including

disappearance of some physical symptoms, and

some clear improvements in his overall awareness

and connection with the world. The fact that his

diarrhea became worse after the Calcarea , rather

than better, led to conclude that there was a better

remedy, even though he had responded to it.

Case 2: A 5 year-old boy with primary idiopathic

glomerulonephritis (IgA nephropathy) had

persistent gross hematuria and a prognosis for renal

failure within 10 years. A long and tortuous course

of prescribing 12 well-chosen remedies showed

only marginal success until an acute sinusitis, and

the awareness of the persistence of the symptom of

constantly licking his lips, led to the remedy which

transformed his state of health. Numerous careful

repetitions of the medicine in ascending potencies

over the next year were required in the process.

Normally functioning and energetic now, with no

sign of autoimmune disease.

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Case 3: A 22 year-old man with severe obsessive-

compulsive initially treated by mainstream

psychiatrists for psychosis, ultimately with Zyprexa.

With partial subsidence of his previous psychotic

symptoms, he developed severe obsessive-

compulsive symptoms, such as requiring three to

four hours to pass stool, and being unable to bathe

because of the hours of ritualistic behavior required

to accomplish it. These symptoms, along with his

continuing thought disorder, rendered him barely

functional and unable to participate in school.

Baryta carbonica included the exact symptom

of the patient. Finally and dramatically, the case

began to yield, with aggravation after each

successive dose of the medicine, followed by

incremental and ultimately remarkable improvement

to the point of virtual total subsidence of his OCD

symptoms, and his discontinuation of the

antipsychotic drug.

Case 4: A 22 year-old woman suffered with

attention deficit disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome,

severe environmental allergies and depression. Had

tremendous fear of and resistance to change,

watching the same movie or reading the same book

over and over, and showing strong resistance to all

changes in her life, including moving. Aloe

socotrina proved to be her simillimum and a series

of ascending potencies over the next year and three-

quarters helped her resolve the emotional, energetic,

allergic and mental-functioning aspects of her

pathology.

The cases and their management were

impressive in many respects:

1. All of them had severe pathology, and most of

them did not show dramatic signs of yielding to

the first, or even third or seventh prescription, but

Andre persisted.

2. The cases were not solved with emphasis on

mental or emotional or “essence” features, though

they weren’t disregarded, but on matching the

striking individual symptoms of the patient

(often particular symptoms or modalities) with

those of the medicine, mostly from the original

provings as recorded by HAHNEMANN, and

sometimes those of HERING.

3. Common symptoms were not totally disregarded,

but were usually only confirmatory of the correct

prescription, at most. The striking and peculiar

symptoms, were the ones which led to the correct

medicine.

Andre emphasizes the significance of acute

illness in leading to the cure of chronic illnesses.

For example, chronic cases which are defective or

one-sided can be started toward resolution by

precise prescribing in the case of emergence of an

acute illness in the patient, when it finally occurs,

and he asserted that half the time the simillimum for

the individual can be found through careful analysis

of the symptoms of the acute.

The correct remedy for the back pain symptoms

of the patient is the correct remedy for the whole

patient, 80% of the time.

Sometimes patients can have idiosyncratic

responses in that they respond better and longer to a

certain potency of the correct remedy during a long

course of treatment with the same remedy and this

happen each time this potency is started anew, even

if it is given years later. Dr. SAINE suggests giving

the same medicine in the same potency two or three

times in a 24-hour period if the patient hasn’t

responded to a single dose, and if one is convinced

it’s the correct one. Also, one can give two or three

doses of the medicine if the patient is responding

less to a series of single doses with the same

potency, including in times of more stress. In

addition, his observation has told him that patients

will often respond better to the 50M potency than to

any other when the medicine has a high degree of

similarity, and that the response will be the same

when it is given again years later. Also, if the

choice of medicine is correct, the second dose

repeated after a relapse should elicit a stronger and

longer-lasting response. If it doesn’t, it is likely to

be the wrong choice.

He emphasizes that Homeopathy is based on

laws of nature and can promote cure in situations

when nature can reverse the pathology. Functional

symptoms (such as rashes, local inflammatory

processes) should respond quickly to the correct

remedy, more structural problems (ulcerations,

biochemical abnormalities, neoplastic changes) will

be slower to change, and scarring will change little

or not at all, for example in long-term cases of

Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Fibrosis

and Scarring of joints from rheumatoid Arthritis,

etc.

In accord with HAHNEMANN’s teachings, he

avoids intentional palliative measures, such as

herbs, salves, analgesics, etc. which serve to blunt

the full expression of the vital force and thereby to

obscure the clear emergence of prescribing

symptoms.

He doubts the medicine is correct if it doesn’t

elicit an aggravation within a few days, although the

aggravation can be subtle and/or brief.

He says that our weakness makes us unable to

practice Homeopathy correctly and thoroughly, and

encourages us to “let Homeopathy make us strong”

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by practicing it correctly, through pure observation

and prescribing using the pathogenesis of the

original provings and reliable confirmed symptoms.

Andre SAINE challenges us to use the

principles which we already know from the

Organon, in a complete and comprehensive

fashion, to solve our cases much like Sherlock

Holmes, using sound conclusion based on pure

observation.

NATURE IS GENEROUS - Report by Peter

WRIGHT

The causes of failure in homeopathic

treatment, according to Andre, are related to

deficiencies on the part of the prescriber about 70

percent of the time.

Fully 40 percent of treatment failures are cue to

inadequate casetaking.

Defective case analysis is responsible for

about 15 percent of failed cases.

10 percent of the time, the case has been taken

adequately, but the wrong remedy is chosen.

Defective tools are responsible for failures in

about 10 percent of unsuccessful cases. The tools

potentially at fault include problems with intake

forms, poor notetaking (especially a lack of

emphasis to guide prioritization of symptoms), and

unreliable or inadequate materia medica and

repertory data. Most of our books of materia medica

have been compiled from successive previous

compilations, with many mistakes and unverified

symptoms added into the data base along the way.

To avoid this obstacle, Andre emphasized returning

as much as possible to the original source.

Failure can be attributed to defective patients

in about 10 percent of failed cases. We may need

to train some of our patients to better observe and

report their condition and inner state in order to be

able to help them.

Defective diseases, as described by

HAHNEMANN, are obstacle to successful

treatment in something less than five percent of

treatment failures. Homeopathy ’s range of action

is limited to dynamic disease. Anatomical defects

which the organism cannot reverse on its own

remain outside of that range.

Also he discussed about the question of

Curability, Simple remedy, Complex remedy, a

brief note on Provings, on Posology, LIPPE and the

lessons of history, Clinical pearls etc.

Andre concluded with the following points:

1. Beware of palliation

2. The doctrine of signatures is a concept which

HAHNEMANN specifically criticized in his

essay “The Genius of the Homeopathic Art.”

The more we indulge in speculation about our

medicines, the farther we depart from strict

reliance on solid provings, the deeper we go

into error.

3. It is all allopathic, using crude doses, and

resulting at best in palliation only. When

contagious infections raged around the world in

the 19th century, the Eclectic physicians

prescribing herbal medicines were no more

effective at saving lives than their orthodox

contemporaries, while homeopathic

physicians met with impressive success.

4. Your weakness and strengths are inevitably

reflected in how you practice Homeopathy. If

you follow Nature, and you attend to the

lessons which arise from that effort, you will be

changed.

XXVI. The following Report has received by

Dr.Ramanlal P.PATEL, Kottayam.

1. Kent’s Repertory is the only unabridged

Repertory extant.

2. By reason of a later imitated edition(s), it is the

most recent and therefore contains remedies in

relation to confirmed and verified symptoms not

found elsewhere.

3. It’s construction conforms to the Hahnemannian

idea of the patient, and in the arrangement of

symptoms: from general to particular groups.

4. It follows also the Hahnemannian scheme of

working from Mind to Generalities (Para:210,

211, 212) thence to particular parts. It has also

HAHNEMANN’s groundwork for Homeopathic

case analysis according to para, 153.

5. It is self-indexed in each chapter/section.

6. Clinical symptoms, “Contradictory of the

provings, and so were rejected. Those that were

consistent with the provings I admitted it to the

repertory”, Dr.KENT.

7. It is the one and the only most reliable,

dependable, systematic and general Repertory

which has stood labourious and acid tests of

confirmation, verification and repeated

verifications by cures for nearly 100 years under

our ablest teachers and Homeopaths.

8. Beware of imitation, plagiarised, enriched,

expanded and pirated works (editions) of the

original Dr.KENT’s Repertory, 6th edition. Use

QUARTERLY HOMOEOPATHIC DIGEST Year 2001, Vol.XVIII

only corrected 6th edition for more success in

your practice.

Avoid EDITION(S) which has, “Additions are

made from various sources without confirmation

and verification and hence grading of remedies

are doubtful. Mathematical calculation with

marks or evaluation may go wrong.”

(Deubelius Wolfgang and Funk Elwar W.-

ACD, 3,3/1994, Germany)

9. It’s utility and style and accuracy have remained

highly prized and enduring to the profession.

10.If you feel to add the rubric(s) or the remedy(ies)

you can do so in your personal Kent’s

Repertory only after confirmation and repeated

verifications of provings by you in your practice.

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Issued in the interest of Homeopathy by:

DR.HAHNEMANN HOMeOPATHIC SERVICE

TRUST

Service Project under construction: Institute for the

study and research in the Repertory & Chronic

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LIST OF JOURNALS

Full addresses of the Journals covered by this

Quarterly Homeopathic Digest are given below:

1. AHZ - Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung,

Karl F. Haug Verlag, Hüthig GmbH, im Weiher 10,

69121, HEIDELBERG, Germany.

2. BHJ - British Homeopathic Journal, 2, Powis

Place, Great Ormond Street, LONDON, WCIN

3HT, U.K.

3. DH - Documenta Homeopathica,

Herausgeben; Ludunig-Boltzmann Institute für

Homöopathie, Mariahilferstraze 110, A - 1070,

WIEN. (VIENNA).

4. HH - Homeopathic Heritage, B.Jain

Publishers (Pvt.) Ltd., 1921, Chuna Mandi, Street

10th, Post Box 5775, Paharganj. NEW DELHI -

110 055.

5. HL - Homeopathic Links, Homeopathic

Research and Charities, “Dinar”, 20 Station Road,

Santa Cruz(w), MUMBAI - 400 054.

6. HT - Homeopathy Today, National Center for

Homeopathy, 801, North Fairfax Street, Suite 306,

ALEXANDRIA, VA. 22314, USA.

7. HOM - The Homeopath, Journal of the

Society of Homeopaths, 2, Artizan Road,

NORTHAMPTON NNI, 4HU, U.K.

8. JH - Journal of Homeopathy of Northern

India, For Association for Scientific Research In

Homeopathy (ASRH), 108, Street No. 1, Mubarik

Kothi Area, Sangrur (PB) 148 001, INDIA.

9. Med GG - Medizin, Gesellschaft und

Geschichte, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der

Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart.

10. NAMAH -

The Editor, Sri Aurobindo Society,

Pondicherry - 605 002.

11. NJH - National Journal of Homepathy, Milan

Clinic, Saraswathi Road, Santa Cruz(w), MUMBAI

- 400 054.

12. RBH - Revue Belge Homéopathie, Dr. J

Alaerts, Av., Cardinal Micara, 7, B - 1160,

BEUSSELS Belgium.

13. SIM - Simillimum, The Journal of the

Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians

11231 SE Market Street, PORTLAND, OR, 97216,

USA.

14. ZKH - Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie,

Karl F. Haug Verlag, 6900 HEIDELBERG 1,

Germany.

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PART II

(This section contains condensations/extracts/whole of selected important articles)

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1. PULSATILLA AND KALI SULPHURICUM

GLADWIN F E

(Read before I. H. A., June, 1928, Bureau of Materia Medica)

Science of today is truly wonderful. It throws light on so many things that otherwise would remain in

darkness.

My neighbor had a little waif dog that looked something like a Scotch terrier. In order to ascertain its

breed a veterinarian would take some of its blood to the university for examination. He reported the result

to be 75% Scotch terrier, 12½% fox terrier and 12½% hound. Someone has evidently been examining the

blood of Pulsatilla and while they didn’t give the % of each, they found her ancestors to be Calcarea

phosphoricum, Kali phosphoricum, and Kali sulphuricum. The fourth ancestor is still an unknown quantity.

Pulsatilla shows her heritage, in fact she hasn’t vim enough to get away from it. See her standing there,

dull of mind, tearful, anxious, sad, restless, over-sensitive, aggravated by physical exertion. She is

ameliorated by motion, aggravated by touch and aggravated in the evening. These mental symptoms and

modalities we all recognize as characteristic of Pulsatilla, but do they mean Pulsatilla? There stand her

three ancestors each claming them all. Silica has many of Pulsatilla’s symptoms. Could it be possible that

he is that fourth ancestor? Here we have ten good generals, all of them characteristic of Pulsatilla and her

three ancestors. Continuing with the characteristics of Pulsatilla we find her changeable, timid, better in the

open air and when walking. These bar Calcarea phosphoricum, Pulsatilla has wandering pains, is

aggravated in a warm room and on waking in the morning, and is ameliorated in the open air. These

symptoms bar Kali phosphoricum, but Kali sulphuricum still remains steadfast. Indeed Pulsatilla

resembles her ancestor Kali sulphuricum so closely that it is easier to tell wherein they differ than wherein

they are alike.

PULSATILLA KALI SULPHURICUM

MIND MIND

Mild, Yielding, timid, sullen, whining, Obstinate,easily angered, timid, very irritable, cannot

peevish, irresolute. make up his mind.

Usually thirstless but sometimes she has thirst. Burning thirst,desires cold drinks though cold drinks

Then she drinks often and but little at a time as cause nausea.

it provokes an inclination to vomit.

Thirst for beer in the morning.

Desires sour things, refreshing things, herring Desires sour things but likes sweet things better.

Lemonade.

Aversion to pork and fat things. Aversion to eggs.

Catarrhal, discharges, white, yellowish, Catarrhal discharges, yellow, bright yellow or

greenish and bland. greenish and more likely to be excoriated.

Fears ghosts in the evening and at night. Dreams of ghosts.

Absent-minded, silent mood, sits silently with Seems to be thinking of something far away.

hands folded.

Anxiety, has no rest at night from heat. Anxiety in bed in evening, during the night on

in evening after lying down. waking.

Flees from his work, shuns business, aversion Aversion to work, to business, to company.

to work, seeks consolation.

Dreads people, frets him to answer, confused, Confusion of mind in morning, in warm room,

fretful, chilly; confusion as after intoxication ameliorated in open air.

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or watching.

Disgusted with every-thing, tearful, easily Dullness of mind, discouraged and discontented

discouraged.

w

ith everything.

Mental labor fatigues and affects the head. Extremely excitable, mental exertion aggravates.

Aggravated by mortification, fright, vexation,

excessive joy, even by slight emotions.

Fear of ghosts at night; anguish in region of Fear at night, of death, of falling, and of people.

heart even unto desire for suicide; weary of life

thinks with pleasure of drowning.

Loathing of life, desires death, fear of death. Fear of death, frightening at trifles.

Does things hurriedly. Always in a hurry.

Impatient. Impetuous, impatient.

Hysterical laughter after meals. Hysterical and excited in the evenings.

Omits letters in writing. Misplaces words in writing.

Depressed in the morning; gloomy Low - spirited morning and evening.

melancholy.

Changeable, alternating moods. Changeable disposition, alternating moods.

Weeps easily. Weeps.

General aggravation morning and evening. Aggravation morning and evening but more

symptoms are worse in the morning than in the evening.

VERTIGO VERTIGO

Vertigo excessive when rising from bed in the Dreadful vertigo aggravated when rising from lying

morning; when rising from a seat; when standing, sitting, looking up. Feels that he is falling.

looking up, as if he would fall; agg. sitting or

lying; amel. Walking in the open air.

V

ertigo as after turning in a circle with nausea. Vertigo in the evening in a warm room, after eating,

Agg. in morning and evening; amel. by talking, during headache, with nausea, must lie down. Agg.

when sitting, when stooping, when turning the sitting up, rising up, and standing. Amel. open air

eye upward.

Objects turn in a circle. Feels that he is falling

forward.

Staggers when walking Staggers.

HEAD HEAD

Throbbing headache. Boiling sensation in the head.

Headache as if in a vise. Coldness in vertex.

Constrictive headache above the eyes. Constriction like a band or close-fitting cap;

Constriction of forehead.

Headache as if one eaten too much.

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Pains pressing, throbbing, stitching, twitching, Pains in forehead over eyes, occiput, side of head,

tearing, bursting, semi-lateral, as if in a vise; temples; pulsating, boring, burning, bursting,

drawing, agg. by warm applications. Jerking, pressing, stitching,tearing,stunning, shocks;

agg. on right side

Headache in the evening agg. from mental Pains morning on waking, evening, night; agg. from

exertion, when lying or sitting quietly or in the draft, during chill, sneezing, standing, from taking

cold; agg. on moving the eyes; agg. when Cold, coughing, after eating, when heated,in a warm

stooping. room, from a jar, during menses, after sleep, from

motion and from moving head from side to side.

Headache amel. by external pressure and Ameliorated in the open air, cold air and lying.

walking in the open air, in cool open air, by

quick hard rubbing with dry hand, and by

compression.

Congestion of blood

EYES EYES

Like a veil before the eyes, amel. by rubbing

them.

Transient obscuration of vision. Dim vision, foggy vision, sparks before the eyes.

Flame surrounded by starry halo. Dark colors, variegated, color, yellow halo around

the light; black floating specks, dazzling.

Dryness of eyes and lids. Inflammation of conjunctiva and lid edges swollen.

Burning itching in eyes, styes on upper lid. Dark veins; eruption about eyes on lids.

Child frequently rubs its eyes. Lachrymation, itching.

Stitches from light, lachrymation in open air. Pains, pressing, burning, tearing photophobia.

Agglutination of lids in the morning. Lids agglutinated.

Ulcer of cornea; thick white or yellow, bland Discharge yellowish, greenish.

discharge.

EARS EARS

Deafness as if ears were stopped. Ears feel stopped, pulsate.

Noises in ear, humming, tinkling, ringing. Impaired hearing. Noises in ear, buzzing, chirping

cracking.

Profuse, thick, yellowish or greenish discharge. Pain, oversensitive to noise. Discharge bright yellow

or greenish, bloody, offensive.

NOSE NOSE

Loss of smell. Sense of smell lost.

Thick, yellow or green, offensive discharge. Thick, yellow, offensive discharge, alternating with

watery discharge. Discharge bloody, burning,

excoriating, greenish, yellow, thick viscid.

Itching on nose, swelling, sneezing.

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FACE FACE

Pain left face; amel. in the open air.

Prosopalgia; agg. in warm room in evening, Faceache; agg.in a warm room,in the evening. Amel.

lying and by heat. in the open air.

Face alternating red and pale; one cheek red,

the other pale. Yellowish.

TEETH TEETH

Drawing, tearing, stitching pain along the Toothache; agg. in a warm room, in the evening.

alveolar border; agg. warm room. Amel. in the evening, on entering in the open air.

Amel. in the open air.

THROAT THROAT

Dryness of throat, agg. Mornings. Dryness and constriction of throat.

Tough mucous night and morning. Mucous in throat in morning.

Stinging pains in throat agg. on swallowing. Pain on swallowing, rawness, burning; sticking.

STOMACH STOMACH

Pulsating. Pulsating.

Thirstlessness. Burning thirst.

Usually eructations, bitter, sour after eating Eructations after eating, bitter, empty, of food, sour

cakes, water brash. water brash.

Hungry, knows not for what. Appetite increased or wanting.

Desires sour refreshing things. Desires sour things but likes sweets better; desires

cold drinks, cold food.

Sensation as if he had eaten too much. Fullness after having eaten ever so little.

ABDOMEN ABDOMEN

Distended after eating, must undo clothing. Distention after eating.

Rumbling and gurgling in abdomen. Rumbling before stool.

DIARRHOEA DIARRHOEA

Diarrhoea watery nightly, greenish yellow, Stool yellow, stringy or watery.

stringy, changeable, no two alike.

Rumbling before stool. Rumbling before stool.

Alternate hard and soft stool. Constipation alternating with diarrhoea.

Offensive, putrid flatus ameliorates many abdominal

symptoms.

GENITO - URINARY GENITO - URINARY

Irritability of bladder. Frequent desire to Chronic catarrh of bladder. Urging to urinate agg. at

urinate. night.

Urine loaded with urate of ammonia. Urine albuminous.

Gonorrhoea with thick, yellow or yellow green Gonorrhoea in advanced stage, with green and

discharge. yellow discharge.

Discharge of dark blood from urethra. Haemorrhage from urethra.

Menses delayed, too late; agg. after getting Menses too soon or too late.

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feet wet.

Leucorrhoea, rather thick mucous, color of milk, Leucorrhoea burning, excoriating, greenish, yellow,

burning, acrid; agg. lying. purulent, thick or watery.

LARYNX LARYNX

Hoarseness and roughness of voice. Hoarseness.

Loss of voice. Aphonia.

Whooping cough with vomiting of mucous Whooping cough with yellow slime or yellow

and food. watery expectoration.

RESPIRATION RESPIRATION

Asthma in children after suppressed rash; Asthma agg. in warm room; amel. in open air.

asthma after suppressed menses; agg. in Wheezing in a warm room.

evening after eating.

CHEST CHEST

Catching pain in the cardiac region. Pain in heart, stitching pain in heart.

Rheumatic irritation of the heart; pain shifting

rapidly from one portion of the body to the other.

Palpitation. Palpitation with anxiety of heart; tumultuous

palpitation.

BACK BACK

Pain in lumbar region as sprained on motion. Pain in lumbar region during menses, while sitting,

and while walking.

Lumbago, must move yet pain has no relief.

EXTREMITIES EXTREMITIES

Pain rheumatic; wandering pains, shift rapidly Pain in joints, wandering, wandering pain in limbs,

from one part to another. Amel. by walking in open air.

Red hot swelling of feet. Burning soles. Cold hands and feet.

SKIN SKIN

Burning, itching of whole body, on becoming Burning of the skin,burning after scratching.Itching,

warm in bed; agg. by scratching. crawling, stinging, burning amel. by warmth of bed.

Urticaria, erysipelas, pimples, ulcers, measles. Liver spots, eczema, herpes, pimples, psoriasis,

pustules, rash like measles, scaly eruptions on moist

face.

CHILLS CHILLS

May have quotidian, tertian, quartan ague or Quotidian chills.

changing type.

Chills may begin at 10 a. m., 11 a. m., 4 p. m. Shaking 5 or 6 p. m. until midnight.

6 p. m. First attack may come at 3 p. m., and

a later one at 1 a. m.

Sometimes thirstless during chill and sometimes

thirst for much water as for lemonade. Chills

begin in back, hands, feet, tips, of fingers or

umbilical region. Shaking chills.

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2. HEPATITIS-B VACCINE - ALL DON’T

NEED IT DR. P.V.R. BHASKARA RAO

(CARE AND CURE, Vol. II, 13 & 14/2001)

94% of people exposed to Hepatitis B recover,

in 1% the disease may become fulminant and may

result in death. In 5% the disease may become

chronic out of which 4% may become healthy

carriers and 1% may develop Cirrhosis of liver and

Cancer. Actually it is for fear of the patients

becoming chronic and possibility of Cancer liver

that vaccination is being propagated.

HEPATITIS B AND CANCER LIVER

How real is the danger of Cancer liver

occurring in a patient in whom the disease has

become chronic? It is already stated that only 1%

of all people infected by Hepatitis B may develop

Cancer liver. Cancer occurs after a long period of

chronic liver disease frequently associated with

Cirrhosis. It is reported that chronic infections

resulting from maternal and neonatal transmission

present a greater risk of Cancer liver than those

acquired as adults.

It is also suggested that other independent or

co-operative factors might be implicated. In

certain parts of South Africa and in southern

province of mainland China, an association of

dietary aflatoxins and Cancer liver has been

recognized in several studies (Yeh and other in

1989 and Bosc & Munoz 1991). The carcinogenic

potential of aflatoxin B in liver cells is well known.

Excessive alcohol intake also increases the risk of

Liver Cancer in Hepatitis B patients. In addition,

preliminary data indicate that infection with the

Human Hepatitis Delta Virus, which causes

extremely severe hepatic injury and cirrhosis might

be associated with a more rapid onset of Liver

Cancer (Oliver and other 1991). Hepatitis B

infection alone or associated with co-operate factors

can be implicated in only 20% Cancer liver patients

in low endemic regions. In Japan where the

incidence of Cancer liver has been continuously

increasing, the number of cases related to Hepatitis

B remains constant. It is therefore clear that the

danger of Cancer liver occurring in Hepatitis B

patients is very small and when it occurs it may be

due to the other factors also working.

WHAT IS HEPATITIS B VACCINE?

Hepatitis B vaccine is used to prevent the

disease. There are two types of vaccines available.

a) First generation, plasma derived heat

inactivated vaccine and

b) Second generation genetically engineered or

recombinant vaccine.

Presently the recombinant vaccine is widely

used. In the technology a gene from the Hepatitis B

virus could be introduced into yeast cells so that

they produced a viral protein. After purification

this viral protein could be given as vaccine.

Two strains of yeast are used for producing the

vaccine i.e. (a) Sacch aremyces cerevisine or (b)

Pichla pastoris.

Vaccines using hybrid particles and chemically

synthesized vaccines are also developed presently.

DURATION OF PROTECTION AFTER

VACCINATION

According to Merck and company the duration

of the protective effect of the vaccine in healthy is

unknown at present and the need for booster is not

identified. In fact approximately 10% of patients

who receive vaccine will fail to develop immunity

DANGERS OF HEPATITIS B VACCINATION

There are many side effects of Hepatitis B

vaccination. In India there is no follow up of

patients after vaccination and hence the

complications and adverse reactions are not

reported. Doctors refuse to believe that any adverse

reactions reported by the patient are due to the

vaccination itself.

Professor Bonnie DUNBAR Ph.D., a Professor

of Cellular Biology (Houston, USA) has

investigated the Hepatitis B vaccine reactions and

found that many people were affected with severe

autoimmune and neurological complications in

children and in adults serious Rashes, Joint pains,

chronic Fatigue, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus like

symptoms, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Neurological

dysfunction.

Dr.Philip INCAO M.D., a private physician in

a testimony before Ohio house of representatives,

Columbus, Ohio, on March 1, 1999 stated that there

are many reports in international medical literature

even dating as far back as 1987 stating that

Hepatitis B vaccination is causing chronic

autoimmune and neurological diseases in children

and adults.

In 1996 alone there were 872 serious adverse

reactions in children under 14 years (NVIC, USA)

and there were 13 deaths after Hepatitis B vaccine

alone. On May 18, 1999 there was a U.S. Senate

Congressional Hearing by its Sub Committee on

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Criminal Justice regarding Hepatitis B vaccine

complications like autis Sclerosis, Paralysis,

Arthritis, mental confusion and death have

occurred. Prof. Bonnie DUNBAR stated that many

of adverse reactions are similar to those of virus.

Dr.Barthelow CLASSEN, M.D. claimed a 60%

increase in Diabetes in New zealand following

massive Hepatitis B vaccination. After reviewing

81 scientific articles Dr.Buston A.WAISBREN has

tabled the neurologic and auto immune diseases

attributed to Hepatitis B vaccine.

1. Convulsions

2. Bell’s Palsy

3. Lumbar Neuropathy

4. Optic Neuritis

5. Transverse Myelitis

6. Polyneuropathy

7. Myasthenia Gravis

8. Demyelination

9. Multiple sclerosis

10. Guillian - Barre syndrome

11. Encephalitis

12. Uveitis etc.

During a testimony before the Sub committee

on Criminal Justice, drug policy and human reforms

in the U.S. House of Representatives, Ms. Patti

White, a registered nurse stated that the children

who received first trial of Hepatitis B vaccine in

1990 developed developmental disorders, learning

disabilities, attention deficit disorders and serious

chronic illnesses such as Diabetes, Asthma and

seizure disorders. As the Hepatitis B vaccination

increased, the percentage of damaged children also

increased. She also stated ‘in twenty five years of

nursing I have never seen so many damaged sick

kids’. The NVIC U S A reported that new born

infants are dying shortly after their shots. Dr.

Byron HYDE has testified before the Quebec

College of Physicians that there were many reports

of chronic fatigue syndrome after Hepatitis B

vaccination. A report was presented at the National

Rheumatology meeting in 1997, entitled ‘An

epidemic of rheumatoid arthritis caused by

Hepatitis B Vaccine’. There was an FDS (Food and

Drugs Administration, USA) list of 23,000 adverse

reactions after vaccination, mostly occurring in

adults. The symptoms included chronic Fatigue,

Neurologic disorders, Neuritis, Rheumatoid

Arthritis, Lupus like syndrome. The head of FDA

remarked that the list represents only 1/10th of the

total number of reactions.

New Zealand Medical Journal (24.5.96)

reported a 60% increase in Diabetes following

vaccination program. On 27.1.1999 NVIC

(Washington) released figures which show that the

number of Hepatitis B vaccine associated serious

adverse events and death reports in American

children under the age of 14 out-number the

reported cases of Hepatitis B disease in that age

group.

VAERS (U.S.) reported that between July 1,

1990 and October 1998 there were 24, 775

Hepatitis B vaccine related adverse events in all age

groups, including 9,673 serious adverse events and

439 deaths.

In May 1999 during a hearing by House

Oversight Sub Committee on Federal Health Policy,

Rep. John MICA stated that he found that serious

reactions after Hepatitis B vaccination was 16 times

greater than the incidence of the disease.

AMERICAN DOCTORS CALL FOR

MORATORIUM ON HEPATITIS B VACCINE

FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Representing the Association of American

Physicians and Surgeons Dr. Orient, the Executive

Director demanded a moratorium on Hepatitis B

vaccination for school children. He stated that

children younger than 14 are three times more likely

to die or suffer adverse reactions after receiving

Hepatitis B vaccines than to catch the disease.

Dr. ORIENT also condemned the practice of

giving Hepatitis B vaccine combined with other

vaccines. He further states that using school

children as research subjects, subjecting them to

unproved medical treatment without informed

consent is in violation of the Nuremberg code and if

school administrators and government bureaucrats

were subject to that code, they could be prosecuted

as War Criminals.

ONLY FOR CHILDREN BORN TO

INFECTED MOTHERS

U.S. federal authorities no longer advocate that

new borns receive Hepatitis B vaccine, unless they

are born to infected mothers.

FRANCE SUSPENDS MASS IMMUNI-

ZATION OF HEPATITIS B VACCINE

In 1998 French attorneys representing 15,000

French citizens have filed a law suit against French

Government, accusing it of understanding the

vaccine risks and exaggerating the benefits for the

average person. One French physician collected

data of more than 600 people suffering from serious

reactions after vaccination.

In 1998, following a court order to pay roughly

23,000 dollars against Smith Kline Beecham,

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France has suspended mass Hepatitis B vaccination

four years after the mass immunization program

started. Smith Kline Beecham company produces

Hepatitis B vaccine and victim of Multiple

Sclerosis which appeared as complication of

Hepatitis B vaccination filed the suit. Another

ruling is pending against another French

pharmaceutical company for a similar complaint.

Nothing is known about the long term effects of

this vaccine as no large scale, long term controlled

studies have been conducted even in USA

HEPATITIS B VACCINE CONTAINS

MERCURY

A joint statement issued by U.S. Public Health

Services and the American Academy of Pediatrics,

in a joint statement on 7.7.1999 demanded that

Mercury content in Hepatitis B vaccine must be

eliminated and all new born infants should not be

vaccinated. Thimersol, a Mercury compound is

used as a preservative in Hepatitis B vaccine and

other vaccines also. It can cause brain damage.

WHO SHOULD RECEIVE VACCINE?

According to recommendation of

Communicable Disease Control and Epidemiology

(CDC-USA) vaccination should be given in the

following situations:

a) Parenteral exposure of an infant born to HbsAg-

positive mother.

b) Inadvertent exposure to HbsAg-positive blood.

c) Sexual exposure to HbsAg-positive person and

d) Household exposure of an infant less than 12

months of age to a primary care giver who has

acute Hepatitis B. Hepatitis B.

MASS VACCINATION CAMPS UN-

JUSTIFIED

Mass vaccination camps which are in vogue in

some parts of the country by some organizations are

wholly unjustified. Mass vaccinations camps

against Hepatitis B or for any communicable

disease are justified only when there is an epidemic

or a threat of outbreak of an epidemic of the

diseases. In the absence of such a situation mass

vaccination camps are thoroughly unjustified and

are being promoted for reasons other than scientific.

NEXUS BETWEEN MEDICAL GROUPS AND

VACCINE MANUFACTURERS

Nexus between individual physicians or medical

groups or voluntary organizations and equipment/

drug / vaccine manufacturers is a well known

phenomenon. In this regard Dr. ORIENT, the

Executive Director of American Association of

Physicians and Surgeons has this to say: “We

suspect financial ties between medical groups such

as American Medical Association and American

Academy of Pediatrics (APP) which endorse the

vaccine”. he pointed out the substantial donation

by Merck and Co. To A.P.P. Dr. WAISEBERON,

M.S. in his paper, “Universal Hepatitis B

vaccination - Is it a sword of Damocies hanging”

says “In view of what has been discussed, it is a

source of wonderment that members of the Center

for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC & P)

and the American Medical Association, State

Medical Societies, the Academy of Pediatrics and

many other public health agencies have endorsed

the idea that Hepatitis B vaccine should be given to

every newborn in the USA

How has this come about inspite of the fact that the

Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had

not approved of this use and that this has to be

considered “an off-label use.” An important factor

in this regard is undoubtedly the fact that market of

Hepatitis B vaccine can run into billions of dollars.

Merck, Sharpe and Dohmeis said to have sold 240

million dollars worth of this vaccine in 1992.

Imaginative and effective promotional methods

have been developed by American pharmaceutical

industry. They have hired scientists who publish

articles in prestigious journals about vaccines but

also fail to mention their dangers. They often fail to

mention authors’ connection to the manufacturers of

the vaccine. They also hire scientists who just prior

to their employment were in charge of monitoring

the safety of their vaccines. Whether the

promotional methods mentioned are ethical and

desirable will have to be decided by the profession

and perhaps the courts.

In India presently two companies Shanta

Biotech and Bharat Biotech located in Hyderabad

have been manufacturing Hepatitis B vaccine and

also promoting vaccination programs very

aggressively.

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BOOK SHELF

I. 1. Samuel HAHNEMANN Krankenjournal

D34 (1830), Transcription von Ute

FISCHBACH-SABEL,

Karl F. Haug Verlag, Hidelberg . S . 999.

2. Samuel HAHNEMANN Krankenjournal

D34 (1830), Kommentarband von Ute

FISHBACH-SABEL,

Karl F. Haug Verlag, Heidelberg, S. 290.

Since 1991 the Robert Bosch Institute,

Stuttgart have undertaken the task of transcribing

verbatim into print one after another the 54

volumes of Case Registers of HAHNEMANN left

to posterity. The printing and publication work has

been undertaken by Karl F. Haug Verlag.

Over the past 8 years six (6) volumes, viz. D2

(1801-1802), D3 (1802), D4 (1802-1803), D5

(1803-1806), D34 (1830) and DF5 (1837-1842).

have been published. Further volumes are expected

in the coming years.

D = German

DF = German French

While HAHNEMANN kept his Case Registers

in German language as long as he lived in Germany,

he wrote them in French while in Paris. While the

German registers are published as they are, the

French Registers are published in French and

German.

Of these we review here the D 34 (1830).

From this edition, the Case Register will also

have a Commentary Volume which is a study and

analysis of the Case Register.

The Case Registers are published as an exact

transcription of the originals in the Archives of the

Institute for the History of Medicine of the

Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart.

About the importance of the Case Registers

Richard HAEHL has said “But as to the importance

of the 54 histories of patients (written partly in great

detail but always very accurately and concisely) for

the observation of disease and for a clear perception

of individual diagnosis - only the professional man

who can practically peruse these reports will be able

to appreciate. At any rate there is here a source of

homeopathic medicinal knowledge promising rich

yield of treasure for many long years. The same

applies to the repertories which will never have

their equal in accuracy and conscientiousness of

tabulation.”

(P. 372 of Vol. II of Richard HAEHL’s Samuel

HAHNEMANN - His Life and Work; translated

from the German by Ms. Marie L. Wheeler and Mr.

W. H. R. Grundy, reprint B. Jain Publishers, New

Delhi.)

It is not possible for every reader to decipher

the abbreviations, signs etc., used by

HAHNEMANN; even among the German

homeopathic doctors there are not many who can.

It is therefore very necessary that we have a guide

to the Case Register. The Commentary by Dr. Ms.

FISCHBACH-SABEL is such a guide and analysis.

I have accordingly used the commentary here while

studying the Case Register, and follow this

commentary in this review.

The D34 refers to a period in

HAHNEMANN’s life - he was 75 years old then -

when he had well settled down in Koethen.

HAHNEMANN lived in Leipsic for about 10

years, and he was constantly being harassed. He

therefore sought to leave Leipsic. The Duke of

Koethen was also, like HAHNEMANN, a

Freemason. The Duke therefore gladly invited

HAHNEMANN to Koethen. In 1821

HAHNEMANN came to Koethen where he lived

until 1835.

The Case Register D 34 has 476 pages of

17cm. x 21.5cm. size pages. The notings in the

Register begin from 6 Feb. 1830 and ends on 28

August 1830. These 476 pages of 17cm. x 21.5cm.

in HAHNEAMNN’s small writing has, when

transcribed, come to 990 printed pages! Some

pages are more closely written than others. On an

average 45 lines have been written per page but in

some pages even upto 53 lines (p. 190 of the

Register)

It was during HAHNEMANN’s Koethen

period that the 2nd and 3rd editions of the Pure

Materia Medica were published. The Chronic

Diseases also which was conceived in the light of

HAHNEMANN’s observations and reflections for

20 years, written and published during this period.

Also it was in Koethen that HAHNEMANN’s

50 years Doctor Jubilee was celebrated.

HAHNEMANN hoped, after many years of

persecution, to live in peace in Koethen. However

soon after the Jubilee there was split among the

homeopaths. HAHNEMANN called those who did

not follow his teachings faithfully. as “half-

homeopaths”. The split was so complete that the

two groups held separate annual meetings.

Part III

( While Part II features articles from other journals, Part III contains the editor’s own contributions and

other original ariticles. )

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On 31 March 1830 HAHNEMANN’s wife

JOHANNA HENRIETTE LEOPOLDINE, passed

away, 65 years of age. Strangely no entry is seen in

HAHNEMANN’s Case Register about his wife’s

illness, or her treatment and death.

HAHNEMANN kept himself very busy;

besides patients who came to him, but also by

correspondence consulting him, references and

consultations by other physicians. Many applied to

him for ‘Domestic Kit’.

HAHNEMANN worked for 5 hours a day in

his clinic (according to Richard HAEHL). It is seen

from the Case Register D34 that he saw on some

days 12 to 16 patients; but on an average it was

seven patients which would work to about 45

minutes per patient. He saw patients on Sundays

too.

His writings are very small and therefore

sometimes difficult to decipher. In many places he

has, by way of further addition to a main symptom,

written in smaller letters according to space

available and that is still more difficult to decipher.

The author of this Transcription, Dr. Ute

FISCHBACH-SABEL deserves all our gratitude for

her effort in deciphering and bringing to light this

treasure.

60 Medicines have been prescribed in which

Sulphur is by far the most frequent. Following it, in

frequency are: Kali-c., Sil., Lyc., Sep., Ars., Nit-ac.,

Nit-s-d., Nat-m., Phos., and Camph. As against this

Puls., and Bell. only once Ign. 5 times, Cham. 7

times. HAHNEMANN gave in most cases Sulphur

30 immediately after the first anamnesis and waited

for sometime and observed before reaching out for

another medicine.

In all cases in D 34 he gave only the 30th

potency to be dissolved in water and taken.

In 83% he prescribed only one remedy. In

some others he gave more than one, but not mixed

together, but to be taken at specific time schedule.

He did not reveal the name of the medicine to the

patients; in some cases, he has made a notation that

he informed the family physician the name of the

medicine after sometime.

In most of the cases he has not mentioned

disease name, that is, no diagnosis in the allopathic

medicine sense. However, he mentioned terms like

Leucorroheas, Jaundice, Rheumatism, etc. without

giving any value to these or however these pointing

to the choice of any medicine.

Most of the patients complained of pains and

HAHNEMANN took details of that as also the

appetite, sleep, nausea, vomiting, body temperature,

thirst, menses. He also noted the pulse, tongue,

pupils reaction, although these did not seem to be of

primary importance for choice of remedy.

HAHNEMANN noted the name of the

remedies that occurred in his mind in the course of

writing down the anamnesis. If more than one

medicine came up he consulted The Pure Materia

Medica, The Chronic Diseases and WEBER’s

Sytematische Dartellung der antipsorichen

Arznemittel (G.A.WEBER, 1830).

When he found the similarity between the

proving symptom and the disease symptom of the

patient he noted the symptom number (in the

Materia Medica). Although 1830 was the early

days of Homeopathy, there were already quite a

few homeopathic doctors. Many of these from

Leipsic, Karlsruhe Berlin, Prague, etc. consulted

HAHNEMANN through letters. During this period

in Koethen, HAHNEMANN treated 308 patients -

143 men, 110 women and 55 children. Generally

his patients were the whole families including those

in their service and therefore the age of the patients

treated varied from 9 months to 70 years. In many

cases almost all members of a family as also their

servants were his patients.

He had patients in Koethen, as also from

distant places in Germany and from such far places

as Nepal, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, England,

Copenhagen, Poland, etc.

The patients were from different social classes.

1. The Nobles

2. Town, State Administration, Police, etc.

3. Intellectuals, Academicians.

4. Artisans.

5. Traders, Hotel keepers, etc.

6. Manual workers, Domestic servants and other

workers.

HAHNEMANN had not indicated in the

Register the fees received by him. But, from some

entries that have been made it is seen that he

charged according to the paying capacity of the

patient. It seems that according to the cost of living

in those days HAHNEMANN’s earnings were

appropriate. In respect of patients of other

physicians who consulted him, it appears that

HAHNEMANN received his fees from the

concerned physician directly.

Physicians like BAKODY, CASPARI,

RUMMELL wrote to HAHNEMANN about some

of their cases and also about their daily practice.

Some of these patients came under

HAHNEMANN’s treatment and in acute necessity

they consulted their physician; in some cases he

wrote his advice to the referring physician.

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When HAHNEMANN treated patients by

correspondence, he wrote down in his Register

exactly as the patient wrote to him.

Generally HAHNEMANN did not reveal to the

patient the name of the medicine he gave. In case

he was consulted by another physician he then

suggested one or two medicines.

HAHNEMANN noted the date of consultation,

and in respect of follow-up he noted the date of the

previous consultation, and the medicine given. The

consultation of the patient follows these details.

HAHNEMANN listened to the patient carefully and

wrote down with almost precision. The symptoms

of importance for remedy selection were noted with

still closer exactness. For example in the case of

“S” (p.244) he has written first “chest pains”.

Since, this pain was stitching kind he noted it again

as “chest stitches”. Further, in “much

expectoration” “much” has been struck off since the

expectoration was only normal. More specific

information relevant to the complaints, like

modalities, were obtained by interrogation and these

were entered in still smaller letters under the

relevant symptom (ref .§ 86). The right-side margin

HAHNEMANN used for specifically making a

sketch of the lesion or a face, etc., e.g. “there are

small dots which are somewhat red” and here he

makes a simple drawing of the lesion.

In the left margin he made a notation of the “N.

B.” (Nota Bene) symptoms, i.e. those that are

underlined and those which appeared after the

medicine, and these symptoms were taken into the

Chronic Diseases. This has been the practice of

HAHNEMANN with his earlier Registers too; the

“N. B.” Symptoms in his earlier Registers were

added to the Fragmenta, the Pure Materia

Medica. The exclamation mark “!” symptoms in

this Journal (D 34) mean cured symptoms. Helene

VARADY who edited the D 5 Register (1803-

1806).

It is seen that unlike our present day practice of

giving a high potency and receiving after few

weeks/months, HAHNEMANN gave, in this period

(1830), the C 30 (even by olfaction) and reviewed

at quite short intervals. Evidently he expected rapid

response for the remedy. Much, much more can be

ascertained from a close study. It is not surprising

that in his practice HAHNEMANN has followed

what he has taught in his basic works.

II. Karl Julius Aegidi - Leben und Werk des

homöopathischen Arztes - Quellan und Studien

zur Homoopathie geschichte Band - 6, by Raulf

Vigourens (German). 220 pp. Karl F Haug

Verlag, Heidelberg, 89/- DEM.

Dr. Karl Julius AEGIDI (14 May 1794 - 11

Maý 1874) details how he came to be a

homeopath.

AEGIDI was an army Surgeon. In Spring 1820

he suffered a road accident in which his left

shoulder received a contusion; also caught a severe

chill. The blood letting, antiphlogistic measures

then in vogue were taken which relieved the most

painful symptoms; leaving a paralytic - type of

heaviness of the left arm. After some weeks he

began to suffer from severe periodic pains from

shoulder to elbow. The paralytic pain became

worser and worser and least pressure in the part was

unendurable. The limb also began to thin down,

and a swelling also developed. All the medicinal

help I took did not help and I called in some of my

colleagues. It was now nearly an year and all my

symptoms were worse. He was thought to be

suffering from Tuberculos inflammation of the

shoulder joint.

Now AEGIDI took ‘drastic’ measures -

Fontanelles, Seton, burning the shoulder joint with

white hot steel etc., and he became better, but only

for a short time. Now in the beginning of 1823 he

wrote to HAHNEMANN: “The most efficient

measures and the medicines in the allopathic

medicine according to the indication have only

made the disease go deeper and my general

condition worser. The elbow is worse. I have

therefore kept aside all medicines and request you

to give me one homeopathic medicine which is the

most suitable... The affected are becoming worser

and the skin is becoming paler”.

“All information about my ailment I conveyed

to Samuel HAHNEMANN” and AEGIDI

received from HAHNEMANN nine powders

which set him on a true curative process. After this

personal experience , AEGIDI became a strong

proponent of Homeopathy.

Karl Julius AEGIDI was born on 14 May 1794

in East Prussia. He obtained his medical degree in

1819 in Berlin. He was practicing in Johannisburg

(East Prussia) and then in Düsseldorf in Tilsit.

Through HAHNEMANN’s recommendation he

became the Physician to the Princess Friedrich in

Düsseldorf in 1831 where he founded the first

Children’s Hospital. After leaving the service of

the Princess he continued to live in Düsseldorf and

then in 1846 went to Berlin from where he went to

Freienwalde. He passed away on 11 May 1874 in

Freienwalde. (Ref. TISCHNER, 1939).

AEGIDI was mainly responsible for bringing

about HAHNEMANN into considering the use of

“double remedies.” However, soon

HAHNEMANN retracted and stuck to the single

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remedy. [AEGIDI’s experiences as also Arthur

LUTZE’s application of double remedies seem to

be the inspiration for some persons once again

strongly arguing for double remedies. To the

extent it would be favourable to their argument in

favour of application of more than one remedy at a

time , a new ‘translation’ and ‘interpretation’ of the

Organon has been made in a new book -

‘Homeopathy re-examined beyond the classical

Paradigm by Rudi VERSPOOR in resonant

collaboration with Steve DECKER’

Discussion/review of this book separately = KSS]

However, according to HAEHL, AEGIDI gave

up double remedies practice in his later life.

The book under review discusses in detail the

Life, Work and times of Dr. AEGIDI. The book is

filled with copious extracts from correspondence -

14 letters of AEGIDI to HAHNEMANN.

The book is a great contribution to the history

of Homeopathy relating to a very important and

hectic period.

A very welcome addition to the history of

Homeopathy.

- K S Srinivasan

III. Interleaves: Ruminations on Illness and

Spiritual Life by LATA MANI, distributed in

India by Goodbooks Marketing Pvt. Ltd. 76, IV

street, Abhiramapuram, chennai - 600 018,

India. 137 pages, I edition, 2001. Rs 240/-

This interesting book is the story of the author

Ms Lata MANI’s suffering a severe head injury and

her slow and steady recovery.

In 1993 while she was driving on the highway

in California, a large truck highjacked and being

driven by a young man who was being pursued by

the police, crashed into her car. Consequently Lata

suffered severe head injuries. She suffered a

closed-head injury from which she is yet to recover

fully even after eight years.

The author says that in ‘Interleaves’ she

chronicle’s her awakening to God, the form of Devi,

the Divine Mother “who came to fetch me from the

debris in which I had crash-landed.” She expresses

her gratitude “to the Divine Mother” for rescuing

me into her arms and for pouring into my

consciousness instruction in the art of living

consciously in incarnation.”

Lata MANI says that Interleaves is not a

narrative of ‘individual triumph in the face of

adversity’ but the tale of being rescued by grace and

dusted off each time.

Describing ‘Pain’ Lata MANI says that pain is

not beyond the horizon of meaning, beyond

conceptualization. Rather it is squarely within the

world of signification. “Pain throbs. Pain shreds.

Pain darts. Pain weaves shy patterns across the

length and breadth of the body. Pain stabs. Pain

pulses. Pain plummets the body into a vortex

unknown and at times fearful. Pain nags. Chronic

pain drones repetitiously, monotonously, ad

nauseum. Pain flays the surface of the skin, turning

it almost translucent with frailty. Pain makes one so

weak that the whole world is experienced through

its omnipresent filter. Pain drains everything into

its core. Pain can be as focussed as the point of a

pinhead or as dispersed as one’s consciousness and,

if suffered long enough, the pinpoint can seem to

grow and swallow one’s entire physical being. Pain

can be as hard as steel or as soft as a ripe pear. Pain

shudders. Pain shivers. Pain is depleting. Constant

pain can blunt one’s perception of the external

world even as it heightens one’s consciousness of

one’s universe - Pain can draw one inward into

deeply stilling practice of mindfulness. . . . . We

experience the truth that pain, for all its seeming

density, is no more solid than air. It is only our

resistance that makes it so . . . . Pain offers the

same potential for learning, as any other

experience.” So much about ‘pain’ on the basis of

her own experience. One who takes the trouble of

looking into the homeopathic ‘Repertory’ can well

appreciate every word of the author.

The feelings of a person chronically ill,

suffering much pain, expects understanding,

compassion from the doctor. At every visit the

doctor and the Neurologist expects her to speak of

improvement; and if no such improvement is

reported, the physician panics and urges the patient

to ‘try hard’. Lata MANI writes “Visits to the MD

and Neurologist have become a tiring, often

humiliating, almost always infuriating chore. I have

felt obliged, because of their attitude, to have some

improvement to report, and have experienced grief

and fear when for the longest time I was unable to

do so. The power of the allopathic physician makes

the consequences of communication dire. Their

evaluations rank consistently higher in the eyes of

the insurance industry than that of the osteopath-

homeopath who is, infact, my primary physician.

Despite having a treatment plan for my condition,

this practitioner is considered an inessential service

by my health plan. So like many who are ill, I faced

and continued to confront, the needless additional

obstacle of managing doctors and negotiating

profit-driven insurance companies, fully aware that

either group can at any time and for any reason

perceive my continued disability as an affront to

their well being.”

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In her story Lata MANI, refers to her friend Ms

Happy WINNNGHAM who had been “living with

full-blown AIDS for over eight years, surviving,

learning and teaching from school room of her sick

body. Her healing is grounded in her practice of

Yoga, her surrender to God. I have never met

someone else whose entire journey through illness

has been the unfolding of her spiritual path.”

In Part II of this book rightly titled

‘Contemplations’, Lata MANI has written brief

chapters ‘Silence, Courage, Acceptance,

Concentration, Faith, Surrender, Renunciation.

This part is the actual experience of the author. It is

full of insights.

This is a book which every Healer should read

to understand the thoughts of a chronically ill

person. Generally we read books written by

physicians but rarely one from a person who is

actually suffering.

- K S Srinivasan

IV. Homéopathie, médecine de l’individu by Dr.

Jacques BAUR, Editions Similia, 1999. 71, rue

Beanbourg - 75003, Paris. 736 pp. (French)

Dr Jacques BAUR of Lyon, France with his

more than 50 years of rich experience has now

brought out his many so far unpublished articles.

Evidently he has given us the benefit of his

learning from the Master Dr Pierre SCHMIDT.

The book opens with a ‘dedication’ to Dr

Pierre SCHMIDT.

The book is divided into four major sections:

1. Doctrinal elements and history(15 chapters)

2. Homeopathic Materia Medica (7 chapters)

3 Homeopathic Techniques (10 chapters)

4. Homeopathy and Society (8 chapters)

Dr BAUR has studied deeply the Ayurvedic,

Hellenic, Arabic medicine texts, particularly with

reference to the rule of “similars”.

The first section is the longest.

In the second section beginning with the

homeopathic ‘provings’ ending with KENT’s

Repertory, Dr BAUR writes on Aconitum napellus

and Thuja, the formulation of HAHNEMANN’s

Materia Medica Pura and Chronic Diseases.

HAHNEMANN’s other works and translation of

CULLEN’s Materia Medica (1790), Essay on a

New Principle (1796), the Fragmenta de Viribus

medicamentorum (1805), the Medicine of

Experience (1805), Materia Medica Pura (1811 -

1820), the Chronic Diseases (1828 - 1830) are all

discussed in this section. These are followed by

chapters on JAHR’s Manual, ALLEN’s

Encyclopaedia, HERING’s Guiding Symptoms,

Richard HUGHES’ Cyclopaedia, CLARKE’s

Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, the

Condensed Materia Medica - BOERICKE,

LIPPE’ etc., and then the different repertories -

BOENNINGHAUSEN, KENT - as well as the

‘special repertories’ - YINGLING, BERRIDGE,

etc.- upto and including the infamous incident of Dr

K C MITTAL of India stealing from Dr.Pierre

SCHMIDT his copy of KENT Repertory, the later

printing of the ‘Final General Repertory’, by Dr

Diwan Harish CHAND; then the BARTHEL and

KLUNKER’s Synthetic Repertory, F

SCHROYEN’s Synthesis and Roger Von

ZANDVOORT’s the Complete Repertory are all

discussed in this II section thoroughly.

Section three is on the homeopathic

techniques like the case analysis, symptoms

selection, posology evolution, with a bibliography

of homeopathic periodicals.

The last section Four is on the relevance of

Homeopathy to Society, Homeopathy and

Ethology etc. And ends rightly on the promises of

Homeopathy .

A complete and very well - written book by

a senior student of Dr Pierre SCHMIDT. We

have not come across a similar work in English. It

is hoped that someone would translate this into

English, since in its present form it is limited to

French-knowing people.

- K S Srinivasan

V. The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla

Nasrudin by Idries Shah. Drawings by Richard

Williams and Errol Le Cain Publishers -

Penguin books 1968 ; price Rs.150/-.

This book is a collection of tales depicting

various aspects of Sufi wisdom according to the

central character of these stories going by the name

of Mulla Nasrudin. Nasrudin appears to be a

character like Omar Khayyam whose appeal is

universal and timeless, because of the truths that he

illustrates. Nasrudin appears to have been a real

historical figure who even as a boy had the strange

power of keeping his school fellow’s attention upon

his stories, the result being their academic work

suffered. The school teacher however was himself

a sage, though he could not prevent Nasrudin’s

magnetism working on his classmates, he managed

to modify it. In this century (1968) the author in his

introduction has mentioned that the United States,

the Soviet Union and Communist China were

equally involved with Nasrudin if with nothing else.

The Chinese published in English and Chinese

a folk lore book having the stories about Mulla

Nasrudin. The Russians made a film about him.

And the Americans used Mulla Tales to illustrate

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scientific phenomena which could not be put in the

limitations of ordinary technical terms. Over the

course of years since 1968 I have read this book

many times; On occasions I have wondered whether

the Mulla was a madman, a fool, a wag of extra-

ordinary humor, a sage or some ancient Don

Quixote who astride his donkey is seen to poke fun

at the foibles and frailties of mankind. Each story is

a lesson in itself. Sometimes I have held my head

with both hands telling myself “now, what does the

Mulla mean? Is it simple as it appears or is it less

confusing than what it is?”

Some stories you just cannot understand, and

some stories reveal more than one meaning, at times

even three meanings can be discerned. There are

times when like a Zen koan, the reader’s mind

comes to a full stop. He waits for the enlightenment

of the answers which usually eludes him. But the

purpose has been served. The transient stopping of

the mind is like a transient Sartori.

The Mulla spares no body, neither himself, nor

his donkey, nor his wife nor his friends, tavern

keepers, fellow philosophers, lords of the land and

even kings. Perhaps he even does not spare Allah,

because I have a sneaking suspicion that ‘Allah’

must be enjoying the Mulla’s stories the most.

Naturally it was Allah who created Mulla Nasrudin,

part fictional part real when He saw we human

beings becoming too serious and making a mess of

our individual lives and of the world.

There are 218 such stories in this book with

black and white drawings by the artists Richard

Williams and Errol Le Cain, the drawing

themselves are pretty funny in their own way. I

would suggest to my homeopathic friends that if

you get tired ,disillusioned, sad or angry after

seeing your patients please take a Mulla Nasrudin’s

book, open it at any page, read the stories and come

out at least refreshed and laughing.

Idris Shah has collected these stories from the

works of Sufi masters, Rumi, Jami and Attar plus

stories from Persian, Afghan, Turkish and Arabian

cultures. For its price the book is worth its weight in

gold. To end my review there is a small story

depicted on the page 56 of this book,

titled “Congratulations”. It runs like this-

“Congratulate me”, shouted Nasrudin to a

neighbour. “I am a father”.

“Congratulations” said the neighbour, “is it a boy or

a girl?”

“Yes, But how did you know?”

-D E Mistry

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COMING EVENTS

1. Congress of Homeopaths on Exploring

New Dimensions of HOMeOPATHY through

Raja Yoga Meditation, September 7th to 11th,

2001 at Shantivan, Abu Road - 307510.

Organised and Hosted by Medical wing of

RajaYoga Education and Research Foundation, J.

Watumull Global Hospital and Research Centre,

Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa

Vidyalaya. As a special tribute to Homeopathy, at

this congress, there are no registration charges, and

lodging and boarding to the participants also will be

provided at no cost on the premises of the

Vidyalaya.

2. Homeopathic Research and Charities

presents BOMBAY SEMINAR 2002

HOMeOPATHS MEET TO POOL IN

EXPERIENCES ON FEBRUARY 01 - 06, 2002

AT BIRLA MATUSHRI SABHAGAR, 19 NEW

MARINE LINES, NEAR BOMBAY

HOSPITAL, MUMBAI - 400 020. Fees: for

Doctors Rs.1000/- until September 30, 2001.

Rs.1200/- from October 1, 2001. For students

and Interns Rs.750/- until September 30, 2001.

Rs. 1000/- from October 1, 2001. Students must

produce copies of their I.D. Cards. Spot

Registration Rs.1300/-. For other Details

contact: Homeopathic Research & Charities,

201, Dinar, 20 Station Road, Santacruz (West),

Mumbai - 400 054.

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2. QHD,

VOL. XVIII, 3 & 4, 2001

Part I.- Current Literature Listing

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Part I of the journal lists the current literature in Homeopathy drawn from the well-known homeopathic

journals published world-over - India, England, Germany, France, Brazil, USA, 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..

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I. PHILOSOPHY

1. Homoeopathy and the Principles

CREASY Sheilagh (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

In this brief article the author has mentioned all the Principles of Homoeopathy with reference to the

Aphorisms of Organon.

Further he mention that “The legacy of HAHNEMANN, his Philosophy, needs to be studied. It is as

applicable in the new millennium as it was during HAHNEMANN’s time.

These Principles were known by all the famous homoeopaths of the past, BOENNINGHAUSEN,

LIPPE, NASH, BOGER, KNERR, KENT, FARRINGTON, DUNHAM, ALLEN and should be known by

every modern homoeopath. They give us direction in practice.

Without the philosophy, many a practitioner is bewildered, and hurriedly treats symptomatically, to the

detriment of the whole patient and causing confusion in the case. What does the average homoeopath,

untrained in the philosophy, make of all this? Is it too much to comprehend and apply? Have we reached

the point where too few minds can grasp the basics of Homoeopathy in practice? Is it too much to

understand that practitioner must adapt according to the individual case?

2. Why Mental Symptoms?

CROCE A J (HT, 20, 1/2000)

The author gives in detail the need of the mental symptoms in treating every patient with abundant

quotes from Samuel HAHNEMANN’s Organon, Rajan SANKARAN’s The Spirit of Homoeopathy,

George VITHOULKAS’s The Science of Homoeopathy and Homoeopathy: Medicine of the New Man.

The mind and emotions occupy the dynamic level of the person and are first to respond, however

subtly, to the changes occurring within it; the physical body will show the results of this process only later

and in a weaker and less characteristic way. The mental state, therefore, is the one which soonest and most

clearly reveals the nature of the person both in health and disease.

Moreover, as the deepest level of the person, the mental state is the key to deep healing throughout the

person. It is common that patients come for relief from physical complaints without either noticing their

mental and emotional problems or expecting that these can be relieved as well. This kind of healing can

happen only when the remedy resonates with the mental level as well as the physical; it comes from the

homoeopath’s “prying” into the mental characteristics of the patient.

3. The Miasm of Modern Homoeopathy in the United States

ULLMAN J R and ULLMAN Robert (HT, 20, 1/2000)

The authors has presented the evolution of homoeopathy in relation to the miasm.

HAHNEMANN fervently believed that the methods of medicine used by his contemporaries were far

too extreme to result in real benefit to patients. He expressed an urgent need to find a better way before

innocent people were vomited, purged, leeched and lanced, drained of their bodily fluids in a vain attempt

at purification and rescuing poor souls from impending death. Homoeopathy at this time was in a syphilitic

state: a revolutionary and desperate departure from conventional medical thinking, meant to bring a drastic

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change in medical practices before it was too late.This is the state of the syphilitic medicines, such as

Aurum and Mercurius, in which people must do or die, performing drastic acts in order to avert the utter

destruction of themselves and those around then or to atone for their failure to do so.

As homoeopathy found converts and adherents among HAHNEMANN’s students and contemporaries,

and success with patients, the movement spread beyond its native Germany to other countries in Eurpoe,

including France and Great Britain. It then travelled even farther, to the Americas, and even as far as India,

by the time of HAHNEMANN’s death. This was the tubercular phase of homoeopathy.

The tubercular miasm denotes discontent with present circumstances, the desire and hope for change,

and the desire to travel to a better place, to greener pastures. Medicines such as Tuberculinum, Silicea and

Phosphorus are among the many in this group. In the Phosphorus compounds there is also a strong

tendency to sympathy for others and s desire to love and be loved. In its tubercular phase, homoeopathy

went places and reached out in sympathy to the suffering millions in the world. Homoeopathic hospitals

and dispensaries were developed, many of them charitable.

By the early twentieth century, though, Homoeopathy’s heyday had passed and it began to decline and

nearly disappear as “scientific medicine,” drug-based, and still, at times barbaric, became the standard.

Homoeopathic medical schools, clinics and hospitals closed their doors. Homoeopaths were unable to

obtain medical licences and were refused membership in medical societies. Homoeopathy went virtually

underground, kept alive by a handful of dedicated practitioners who could not bear to let it die and a lay

movement of those few among the public who knew its true value. Homoepathy had entered its sycotic

phase, no longer growing, hiding it face from public view, treated with scorn by mainstream medicine due

to its perceived inability to compete with scientific and technological medicine such as wonder drugs,

imaging techniques, and more advanced forms of surgery.

In this sycotic, characterized by the “fixed ideas” of sycosis, represented by medicines such as Thuja,

Natrum sulphuricum and the gonorrheal nosode, Medorrhinum, homoeopathy was largely stagnant.

In the modern period of homoeopathy, there is resurgence of interest and practice in homoeopathy in

the last twenty-five years or so. Homoeopathy Today, Simillimum, the New England Journal of

Homoeopathy, and most other modern journals come from this period.

What, then, is the miasm of today’s homoeopathy? We believe it is psora: the itch that needs to be

scratched, with the hope that the irritation will go away eventually if you keep at it long enough with enough

determination. What is the disease of meodern homoeopathy? It lies somewhere in the lessonsof Psorinum

and Sulphur, between poverty conciousness and lack of ambition, between despair and egotism.

4. Waiting Before Prescribing: How Long?

TAYLOR Will (HT, 20, 3/2000)

A good article that should be read by every classical practitioner. The author answers for the issue of

long-term waiting after giving a homoeopathic remedy - by giving suitable quotes from KENT’s “Lecture

on the Second Prescription.” Also recommends to read KENT’s chapter on Helleborus in his Lectures

on Materia Medica. Gives a small account of Doc STRONG, an OB/GYNs who showed the “Powers of

labor,” by waiting. Concludes by giving one of the quotes from KENT, “I presume that most of good

prescribers will say: We have often acted too soon, but never waited too long.” “The knowledge is there to

be had.

These same issues apply to decisions to change dosing frequency and potency, and to change remedies

in the course of treatment, as the patient gradually responds over time.

5. Homoeopathy: Art or Science?

PITT Richard (AH, 6/2000)

The author has enlightened briefly about the homoeopathic Case analysis with relevance to art and

science. There is always some tension between the two equally important position of scientific objectivity

and artistic subjectivity. The fact that homoeopathy accepts the subjective experience of both the patient

and homoeopath is already a more evolved position than the insistence of medicine to reduce the disease

process to objective classification, making both patient and doctor subordinate to the protocol of disease

diagnosis. It is interesting to see how the contrast between objective methodology - based on provings,

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clear signs and symptoms of disease, and characteristic mental, general and keynote symptoms - is being

played out with the more subjective aspects of interpretation and anlysis in homoeopathic prescribing today.

These two positions are not predominate too much then homoeopathic practice becomes routine and

unimaginative or too imaginative and fanciful, with a tendency to project into the case things which simply

do not exist.

6. Die Homöopathie in 21 Jahrhundert (Homoeopathy in the 21st Century)

SPINEDI, D. (ZKH, 44, 5&6/2000)

Homoeopathy in the 21st Century is the Homoeopathy of HAHNEMANN and KENT.

The Mainstream Medicine is critisized now by its own Practitioners, of serious adverse effects. That

the mechanistic methodology does not succeed is very well seen in the Cancer treatment. Aphorism 9 of the

Organon is relevant. The ‘magnet dynamical, field energy’ of the modern physics agrees so well with

HAHNEMANN’s ‘Dynamis’.

In his Introduction to the Organon Emil SCHLEGAL wrote in 1925, that KENT was the closest

follower of HAHNEMANN. KENT gave a complete base for therapeutics: his Materia Medica Lecture,

Lectures on Philosophy and his Repertory.

KÜNZLI said that HAHNEMANN was perfectly logical, clear, coherent; there is no place for one’s

own opinions or interpretations. Everything which later KENT formulated so well had already been

formulated in HAHNEMANN’s writings. When one accepts Homoeopathy, one automatically accepts what

HAHNEMANN has taught and then their is no discussion whether KENThas been accepted or not. The

critics of KENT have not read him well just as those who criticise HAHNEMANN have not read the

Organon.

If the many controversies, explanations, splits within homoeopathy are considered and analysed, it is

easily seen, there are many mistakes because the original sources have not been well understood and the

historical dimensions within homoeopathy and one’s own fantasies have been added to the pure teachings.

The sources have often not been well understood because of incorrect transalations and the twisting of

the sense.

HAHNEMANN was the exalted, while KENT influenced and further spread homoeopathy and refined

it. Pierre SCHMIDT spread this through the entire Europe and for many years further spread it along with

KÜNZLI.

We should read and understand well the Organon and Chronic Diseases. The Chronic Diseases is a

prophetic work which is Centuries ahead and therefore misunderstood. The Vol I (Theoretical Part) of the

‘Chronic Diseases’ must be repeatedly and carefully read.HAHENMANN has given clear instructions with

regard to the size of the globule and also the method of preparation of the Q potency. Many manufacturers

do not follow this.

We are grateful to J. SCHMIDT for publishing a ‘text critical’ of the 6th edition of the Organon which

gives the connections made by HAHNEMANN.

KÜNZLI has in his decades of experience observed that most of the long continued treatment of

Chronic Diseases are better with the C potencies. The Q potencies act mildly and at the same time

effectively onlt if they are prepared exactly according to HAHNEMANN’s directions in the Organon 6.

Unfortunately because of the different methods of administration of the remedy in Q potency there are

chances of overdosage which may be fatal especially in Cancers.

In KENT’s “Lectures on Homoeopathic Philosophy” the pure teaching is mixed with Swedenborgian

Philosophy. Thus came the maxim “The Mind is the Key to the Man” and which caused many

homoeopaths to place the Mind and Emotional Symptoms is the first place in the evaluation of symptoms

which in many cases led to fatal results.

In the daily practice we do the mistake of this grading. While the mental symptoms are important, they

are only in second place in the valuation of symptoms.

KÜNZLI explains this with regard to the value of the Mind symptoms a wrong idea has ben spread.

Many consider the mental symptoms as the most significant, while HAHNEMANN designates the peculiar

symptoms as the most significant but the mental symptoms often tip the scale.

While discussing mainly mental diseases in the Aphorism 210 HAHNEMANN impresses in Aphorism

211 that the mental state most often tips the scales in the selection of the homoeopathic remedy. Read

carefully ‘tips the scales’. In one case where the choice is between Sulphur and Nux vomica the mental and

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emotional are so different between these remedies and it is then that the mental state ‘tips the scales’

decidedly in favor of one of these remedies.

KÜNZLI stresses again that the mental state do not claim to be absolutely of the highest rank. If the

mental symptoms are taken as of the highest importance.

7. Is there any role of miasms and Vital Force in Homoeopathy?

MANN A S (JH, 4, 3/2000)

The article gives the meaning of miasms from Parr’s Medical Dictionary, London and what exactly

Hahnemann meant by the word miasm. Also the author stresses that “ We should accept and include in our

Organon the ‘Susceptibility and Immunity’ terms, the bacteria/virus effects the person, who is susceptible,

there is no need to say it is the dent/weakness in the ‘Vital Force’ e. g. if 10 persons are exposed to cold,

only those will be effected whose Vital Force is weak, no, not at all only there will be effected who are

susceptible, why we, homoeopaths take unscientific when Hahnemann himself has no such meaning of

miasm.

8. Art of Case Taking

KRISHNAMORTHY (JH, 4, 3/2000)

The author pondered over a few points on how to take a case and has shown the mistake of homoepaths

in interpreting the patients symptoms by giving two by illustrating two cases.

II. MATERIA MEDICA

1. The Study of the Materia Medica

SCHEPPER Luc de (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

The aim of the author in writing this article is to support both beginning and more advanced

homoeopathic practitioners, by presenting a method of learning and retaining the maximum information

about a remedy in order to find the simillimum for our patients. Undoubtedly more than one useful method

exists. The author surveyed several approaches and then proposed a model that any practitioner can follow

with success.

1. Provings

2. Keynotes

3. Hierarchy

4. Delusions and the most important mental/emotional symptoms

5. Reading the Materia Medica of the Human Mind

The author says that “After any beginning or advanced practitioner has determined the top two remedies,

it is useful exercise to read books such as The Materia Medica of the Human Mind by Dr. M. L.

Agarwal and New Comprehensive Homoeopathic Materia Medica of Mind by Dr. M. L.

Chitkara.

6. Classification according to the Periodic Table and Plant or Animal Families

7. Reading Materia Medicas

The author warned the reader that a materia medica is not as easy as to read as a novel. There are,

however, some exceptions that the author would heartily recommend. Some materia medicas are so well

written in a humorous or literary style that they are a joy to read. Some are books about different clinical

acute situations or in-depth studies of a remedy, but the bottom line is that they are “light” reading on

vacation or in the evening, relaxing yet very educational.

His favorite ones are:

1. Homoeopathic Drug Pictures by Margaret TYLER. Very light, wonderful reading by a great English

physician who constantly refers to herself in the third person as “one: who made such or such a clinical

mistake.

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2. The Magic of the Minimum Dose, two volumes by Dorothy SHEPHERD. Another great English

homoeopath who delights us with her acute cases.

3. Portraits of homoeopathic Medicines by Catherine COULTER. Three volumes, certainly a great

literary achievement.

4. The Homoeopathic Domestic Physician by Constantine HERING.

5. Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. CLARKE. Three volumes, edifying by his interjection

of clinical examples.

The author concludes by saying that “You must breathe and live homoeopathy while you see our

wonderful remedies in books, films, your cats, dogs, friends, neighbors... and hopefully in yourself”.

2. Arnica monata: Its Unknown Role in Diabetes Mellitus

MITRA Somnath (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

In the first place the author gives the habitat, botanical features with the family name, synonymus of

Arnica montana and the parts used in medicinal preparation and its constituents.

The author accidentally finds its use in Diabetes mellitus.

68 year-old man had left-sided hemiplegia following a cerebro-vascular accident which occurred 2

years ago. Recovered but had slurring speech, deteriorating vision due to diabetic retinopathy and some

aches and pains due to arthritic changes in different parts of the body. Suffering from Diabetes since 11

years. Arnica monata M was given based on the causation. Improved in all aspects. Blood sugar profile -

post-prandial prior to taking Arnica was around 300 mg/dl but his recent one showed 198 mg/dl. Arnica

was given in 10M, 50M, and CM potency in infrequent intervals. In the subsequent year, following up at

monthly intervals, the fasting and post-prandial blood sugar levels have come down almost to normal levels,

remaining around 90 mg/dl and 140 mg/dl respectively.

The author gives his explanation for Arnica’s effectiveness in septic and putrid conditions and its

prophylactic of pus infection. It is by reducing transient blood sugar levels, and thereby depressing sugar

metabolism in infections, that Arnica inulin content helps so profoundly in septic conditions. Moreover he

says that diabetes mellitus is from destruction of the cells of the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas due to

injury from a host of biological and chemical agents.

3. Materia Medica in Verse: Plumbum

CHATROUX S. S. (HT, 20, 1/2000)

The nature of the Plumbum personality, the pathologies and the sexual sphere has been given

beautifully in the form of verse.

4. The “essence” of a Remedy

TAYLOR Will (HT, 20, 1/2000)

In this brief article the author answers to the question - Is “essence” of a remedy a useful way to

understand materia medica? There is a terrible misdirection in contemporary homoeopathic education that

tries to educate us on materia medica using “essences.” This is like teaching that cute women with short

blond hair and nice smiles are Meg RYAN. We will end up giving a lot of remedies that we’re familiar

with, or that we’ve just learned about at a seminar, while being diverted from looking deeply at the truly

characterizing features of a case and the corresponding characterizing features of a remedy.

The way to begin to appreciate the “essence” of a remedy is through systematic and comparative study.

Then we begin to recognize the fine points, and we begin to appreciate the difference, for example, between

the bearing down pains of Sepia and Lilium tigrinum; between the spot-pains of Spigelia and Kali-

bichromicum; etc.

The author gives an excerpt on “essences” from the introductory lecture in FARRINGTON’s Clinical

Materia Medica, a transcribed collection of lectures given at the Hahnemann Medical College in the

1870s saying that it might be productive if he shares it here.

5. The Undiscovered Country

HERSHOFF Asa (HT, 20, 1/2000)

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A brief article which discusses about - “Is there any need for homoeopaths to know about the

relationships between the individual plant (or animal) species, and the overall meanings inherent in natural

groupings of species families, orders and superorders beyond them. Also gives the pitfalls of this new road

of discovery and how to overcome this pitfalls.

6. Materia Medica in Verse: Pulsatilla

CHATROUX S S, MONROE A L (HT, 20, 2/2000)

The mental state, food desires and the female symptoms are given in verse.

7. HAHNEMANN and The Early Provings

ELLITHORP Christopher (AH, 6/2000)

In this brief article, the author gives precise details about those who antedate HAHNEMANN with

provings upon the healthy. Further gives the exact details about the publication of HAHNEMANN’s

articles and books with regards to provings. The medicine in HAHNEMANN’s first record of provings

‘Fragmenta di viribus Medicamentorum Positivus’ are listed out. The number of remedies published in

Materia Medica Pura and The Chronic Diseases are also given.

In all HAHNEMANN proved over 90 medicines - 110 are attributed to him by HAEHL, a dozen more

carried out under his supervision. He was assisted by his family, students, and his disciples who formed the

Group of Collaborators for The Proving of Drugs. Of this group of provers, 37 in all including his son

FRIEDERICH, the most notable were FRANZ, GROSS, HARTMANN and STAPF, who alone proved 32

medicines upon himself.

A very detailed account of the early proving procedures can be found in HARTMAN’s accounts in

HAEHL’s Life of Hahnemann.

8. Sanicula aqua

SEHGAL M L (JH, 4, 3/2000)

The author has presented the important mind rubrics of the remedy with brief explaination for each of

them.

9. Medicines for Children on Mind Symptoms

MANN A S (JH, 4, 3/2000)

The author has elicited the characteristic mind symptoms of some important remedies which will help

the practitioners to differentiate and select the indicated remedy.

10. Magnesium

SAINI (JH, 4, 3/2000)

The common traits/concepts of magnesium like Aggression, Pessimism, fear of loss of relations,

uncertain within relationship excluded pain are explained in detail with reference to their development.

Prominent rubrics of the remedy is also depicted and difference with Ammonium and Natrums are given.

11. Calcarea carbonicum

AMRIT Geetha (JH, 4, 3/2000)

Important mental rubrics which depict the character of a Calcarea personality are given. Difference

from Bryonia alba with a case report are given.

12. Bellis perennis

TARKAS P I & KULKARNI Ajit (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

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Its action on the tissues, important paticulars where it acts and its effectiveness in injuries and briab fag

have been discussed.

III. THERAPEUTICS

1. Anger Like an Exploding Volcano

SHARFSTEIN Catherine (SIM, XIII, 3/2000)

A 40 year-old female, suffered spells of anger, apathy, and addiction to smoking; constipation and

painful menses. Slender, tall, neat. Pale face, swelling under the eyes, the swelling under the right eye was

larger than under left eye. Some vertical wrinkles above the nose, and above, some horizontal wrinkles.

Tongue had a deep crack at the tip; a wide tongue, with white discharge at the end. Ridged nails with some

horizontal white lines. Seemed sad. Somewhat masculine-looking.

Anger about little things; tired; does not want to do anything; cannot stop smoking. Cystitis with desire

to urinate every second, painful burning at the end of urination, chills, everything hurts.

Likes to be by water, heat aggravates, likes to look at fire, smoking ameliorates, desires coffee, herring.

Fastidious. Has a bowel movement only after coffee and a cigarette. Likes to keep all doors open, needs

more air, keep the doors of closet open to air them out. Desires wine. Likes to read, cold drinks. Averse to

meat.

Difficulty falling asleep. Wakes up several times. Dreams of being choked, not enough air, falling and

flying.

Fear that something will happen to husband/family. No sexual desire. Religious.

Her desire for wine; kidney complaints in general; dreams of falling; delusion, she will be choked;

anger at trifles all lead to the remedy Cantharis. Cantharis was given in LM 1, LM 2, LM 3 followed by

repeated doses of Cantharis 30 for about 3 months which produced some aggravation and hence the same

was given in water, then Cantharis 200, few doses improved greatly.

2. A Case of Zincum metallicum

POPEN A Y (SIM, XIII, 3/2000)

A 49 year-old female, had convulsions which started after a fall at the age of 20 years during her last

pregnancy. Blood pressure became high. Allopathic medication for high blood pressure suppressed her

menstrual cycle; the blood pressure is high all the time, and uncontrollable. Whole body starts to jerk

during convulsions and she has to lie down. Chiropractic treatment helped with the convulsions. Then

started developing panic attacks, felt afraid to be alone. Allergic to propane gas. Developed brownish

spots on whites of eyes after being poisoned by propane gas.

Based on the rubrics “Convulsions from spinal injuries”, “ailments from suppressed discharges”, and

“Delusions; he is intoxicated from coal gas” Zincum metallicum was selected and it was given in LM 1 for

about 2 months, cured.

3. Acute Episode /Chronic State

OWEN Jonice (SIM, XIII, 3/2000)

An Aikido student had inflammation of the left eyelid. He gets this every three months or so, usually in

his left eye. Wakes up at 4 a. m. with the complaint. Eyelids feels sore, better by warm applications.

Subsides by about 2 p. m. the same day. There was no pus or suppurative material around his eye.

BOENINGHAUSEN’s Characteristic Materia Medica and Repertory and BOGER’s Synoptic Key to

Materia Medica helped in clinching the remedy. Staphysagria 200 every 15 minutes for the first 1 hour

followed by a dose at 2 hour interval until better. Felt remarkably better by 8.30 a. m. 3 photographs of the

patient which demonstrates the remarkable improvement in the condition of the patient is also presented.

The author concludes by saying that treating the acute, sudden, self-resolving painful situation is

worthwhile and reasonable. The individual is made more comfortable; their immune system is strengthened

by aiding, speeding and supporting the individual’s response and many more serious situation can be

circumvented. However, the chronic constitutional characteristics of an individual’s health picture may

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very likely become more pronounced or clear following the resolution of the surge of activity of the immune

system, the acute, sudden, self-resolving painful situation.

4. Seizure Disorders

RAMAKRISHNAN A U (SIM, XIII, 3/2000)

The author has given a brief introduction as to, how to handle epilepsy and has listed a questionnaire

for epileptic patients; which will be very helpful for every practitioner.

Three cases of epilepsy are presented where the remedy selection is based on the peculiar symptoms.

In all three cases a single remedy with a Nosode as needed cured the condition.

Case 1: A 37 year-old man, had seizure during sleep. His wife noticed him in a state of unconsciousness,

frothing at the mouth, etc. Dull, uncommunicative, stubborn and unrelenting. Convulsions first starts in the

hands or the feet, thumb would be tightly clenched. Aura is always trembling of legs and little later

trembling of abdominal muscles.

Repeated doses of Cuprum metallicum 200 for a period of 1½ years followed by few doses of M

relieved.

Case 2: A 2 year-old boy was diagnosed to have epileptic seizures, and was prescribed Dilantin and

Gardinal. During fits, became unconscious and eyes rolled down. Had an extreme intolerance of milk since

childhood. Repeated doses of Aethusa cynapium 200, M, 10M at regular intervals stopped the convulsions.

Parents took a bold decision of stopping allopathic medication inspite of the neurologist’s advice and the

boy is well even after stopping.

Case 3: A 31 year-old female, with seizure which occurred once a month or once in 45 days. Had an aura

of rushing of blood to the head before the actual attack. She would lie down and on waking after the attack

would have headache, on the side not lain on. 5 -6 doses of Calcarea arsenicosum 200, with Tuberculinum

bovinum 200 as an intercurrent followed by Calcarea arsenicosum M relieved. Finally, she was off all

allopathic drugs except for Tegretol 100mg/day.

5. A Case of Life-Threatening Hydrothorax

CHAN Isaac (SIM, XIII, 3/2000)

A 43 year-old female, suffered from a chronic persistent cough, which was misdiagnosed and treated as

allergic bronchitis instead of treating Carcinoma lungs. As she was afraid of the sufferings and side-effects

of Chemotherapy decided on taking homoeopathic drugs. After three consultations stopped taking

homoeopathic treatment and underwent Chemotherapy. This abrupt decision was made as she did not find

the homoeopathic treatment acting quickly enough and was afraid that Homeopathy would not stop Cancer

from spreading.

After Chemotherapy, she developed fluid in both pleural cavities, causing severe dyspnoea and

increased cough. Deteriorated rapidly. Not responding to any of the conventional treatments hence

homoeopathic help was sought for again. Breathing was so accelerated, had great difficulty to talk, eat or

drink. Hard breathing with profuse perspiration. Coughed violently, spat out copious amounts of frothy

white mucus. Percussion revealed marked dullness. Auscultation revealed marked coarse rales and absence

of vocal fremitus. On analysis Sulphur 200 was given. An amelioration lasting no longer than three

minutes. Within 30 minutes 10 doses of Sulphur 200 was given without improvement. With no hope a few

grains of powdered Sulphur 200 was put into a glass of warm water and advised to sip the medicated water

every one to two minutes. Surprisingly she improved after taking the medicated water every two hours.

Hydrothorax cleared within three days after taking the remedy.

As she is not convinced that the homoeopathic medicine could cure her cancer she went to a Chinese

herbalist and also underwent chemotherapy again and died after two weeks of chemotherapy.

From treating the above patient, the author learned the important lesson that, in order to allow

recuperation to take place rapidly and smoothly, the remedy must be repeated frequently, at a rate such that

each dose of remedy is given well before the effect of the previous dose is finished, especially during acute

and crisis situations.

Following this the author has given detailed description of :

1. The Rapid Dose technique and improved versions of the techniques

a. Rapid Dose

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b. Ascending Rapid Dose

c. Cyclic Ascending Rapid Dose

2. Validity

a. Frequency of doses

b. Potency and method of remedy preparation

3. Effectiveness

a. What is proper diagnosis?

b. How to determine the correct remedy?

c. Retrogression of reduced symptoms.

4. Safety

a. Aggravation

b. General rules.

5. Repeatability

6. A Case of Facial Paralysis

CREASY Sheilagh (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

A 54 year-old female had left-sided paralysis, started after viral influenza four years ago. Facial

numbness agg. with change of temperature, wind and stress. Continual weakness in the left cervical region

extending down the left arm; both shoulders remained very stiff. Her sister, husband and father died in the

one year. Bladder incontinence. Suffered from depression at certain times. Anxious, a fighter, can

confront and hold her own, yet is weighed down with worries, grief and carefulness. Causticum from LM 1

to LM 7 relieved. After 3 years, had depression, hairfall and a weakness with trembling. In the meantime,

she self-treated depression with St. John wort; without relief. The concomitance “weakness with trembling”

is taken as elimination and Carbo vegetabilis LM 1, 2 helped greatly.

The Complementary of Carbo vegetabilis is shown in the form of a chart.

7. Acute versus Chronics

CREASY Sheilagh (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

This brief article deals with

1. What an acute and chronic disease is

2. Acute exacerbations of a chronic illness

3. How to differentiate between the acute states which takes precedence over the chronic

4. Certain essential distinction that should be made to succeed in homoeopathy. Whether the state or

condition presenting is:

a. Mechanical (e. g. From dental treatment) or trauma,

b. An acute miasm as infectious, contagious disease as in influenza, measles, chicken pox

c. An acute exacerbation of a chronic illness,

d. A curative exteriorization, which should not be interfered with unless very troublesome

e. A symptom pattern which belongs to the chronic state, that we may mistake for acute, or

f. An iatrogenic illness caused by drugs or symptomatic homoeopathic complicating the natural disease.

Above all, we must know the philosophy of homoeopathy. It was most definitely understood by the

Philadelphia’s, FARRINGTON, KENT, BOGER, LIPPE, HERING, NASH and ALLEN, and later on by

CLARKE, BOERICKE and PULFORD. These great homoeopaths understood the intricacies of both acute

and chronic diseases, and the relationships of one to the other.

8. Clinical Observations

LIPPE Adolph (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

The full case, with LIPPE’s comments, was first printed in the journal The Organon, Volume I, 1878.

Later a shortened version was published was published by NASH in his Testimony of the Clinic. Editor

have included this case for its instructive value on one of the most common areas of difficulty in case

management: evaluation after the correct remedy has been given. In the given case, LIPPE, who was one of

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our greatest prescribers, makes a very common error in evaluation followed by wrong prescription. His

detailed commentary is most valuable, particularly regarding the little mentioned issue of “critical days.”

9. Three Cases of Aurum sulphuratum

WULFSBERG Terje (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

Case 1: A 24 year-old woman with gastric catarrh had constant nausea, worse after eating, from stress,

better relaxing, drinking mineral water. Empty feeling in stomach better by eating. Periodical vertigo,

worse during menses. Severe menstrual pains, becomes pale, perspires over whole body. Desires sweets,

spicy, shrimp and chicken. Hurried, critical person, judgmental, tries to improve and reform others.

Anxious, has anticipatory anxiety, restless, ambitious. Fear of recovery, undertaking new things, about

future. Fastidious. Depressed, weeps easily. Dwells on past relationship and regrets. Had otitis media,

tonsillectomy and eczema during childhood. Over the years Calcarea arsenicosa, Medorrhinum, Nux

vomica, Mercurius solubilis, Sepia, Carcinosinum and Sulphur was given with limited effect, finally Aurum

sulphuratum 200 and repeated thrice which relieved.

Case 2: A young man 15 year-old had depression, behaviour problems and lack of energy. Forsaken

feeling, felt abandoned by his father. Feels better when alone. Had chronic inflammation of his left testicle

and got removed. Had suppressed anger and emotions. Mischievous, cruel and inhuman. Had violent

anger. Delusion that he is unfit for the world. Desires sweets, fried eggs and pizza. Eczema in the elbow

flexures. Aurum sulphuratum M, repeated four times relieved.

Case 3: 10 month-old boy had recurrent attacks of croup, barking cough, especially at night better with cold

humid air, warm drinks. Had red cheeks and eczema in his face and the skin on his hands was dry and

cracked. Stool strong and offensive. Tendency to take cold. Liked warm drinks, spicy food and aversion

to cold drinks. Started easily, especially from loud noise. Liked music, put everything in his mouth.

Mischievous. Spongia in 30 and 200 improved.

Relapse came after a two weeks course of antibiotics, for tick bite at the age of four. Pain in throat,

mostly on the left-side, tonsils swollen. Pain in inguinal region. Nose obstructed, snores a lot, sleeps with

mouth open. Sensitive, proud and strong willed. Feels rejected. Sensitive to reprimands. Wants revenge

and very jealous. Cannot tolerate in any way to be governed or directed by others. Desires sweets. Spills a

lot while eating. Aurum sulphuratum 200 repeated once followed by M relieved.

10. Palliation, Cure, and Recovery

NIGHTINGALE Rose (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

The author has mentioned the dictionary meaning of these terms; and discusses about each of them in

detail.

Palliation is a very necessary stool of prescribing, not just in terminal illness but in any situation where

there is extreme pain or urgency. As holistic prescribers, our natural tendency is to want to always

prescribe on the bigger totality of symptoms, understanding the case on a constitutional, physical and

mental level. We know that prescribing on anything less than this lead to suppression. Primarily palliation

by homoeopathic remedy is less toxic in the short term than most allopathic medication, it is a vital tool in

terminal cases, and it may convert a few people to belief in homoeopathy. The disadvantages, as most of us

have seen in practice, are that it does nothing to improve the chronic condition which, like all chronic

disease by its very nature will progress.

The author gives three cases of homoeopathic suppression:

Case 1: A boy developed tendency to kidney and lung symptoms after his eczema being suppressed by

steroid, antibiotic ointments, and homoeopathic medication and local applications. Sulphur 12 was given.

Within a few hours of the child receiving his remedy, there was profuse discharge of pus from every pore.

Though Belladonna 6 and Calendula tincture were used the boy was taken again to allopathic care.

Case 2: A young man of 17 suffered recurrent bronchitis. His mother had some knowledge about

homoeopathy and was given Silica 6 repeated for acne vulgaris. Skin improved chest deteriorated. His

constitutional remedy Lycopodium brought back the acne and eventually subsided.

Case 3: A man diagnosed with duodenal ulcer treated symptomatically got worse and with severe pain his

abdomen was opened and found to have malignant tumor in the duodenum, spreading through the pancreas.

The surgery bypassed the duodenum, relieving the jaundice, but the tumor was inoperable and the prognosis

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- a few weeks to live. Conventional pain relief, even morphine, was not touching the pain. Homoeopathic

medicines gave him palliation. His wife agreed that although the outcome was not ideal, Homoeopathy had

been more helpful than allopathic drugs in many ways.

Occasionally palliation turns into Cure. The author, as a second year student had given such cure. He

knew a man with a malignant tumor of the eyelid awaiting surgery. Had a nasty patch of infected impetigo

on the arm. Sulphur 30 was given. Developed a delirious fever of 102 for four days, felt hot and cold;

sweat bright yellow and had profuse vomiting and extreme thirst. Several large boils erupted on upper arm

and buttocks at vaccinated spots. The tumor on his eyelid also erupted into a huge pustule and discharged a

vast quantity of septic matter to which Calendula solution was applied. The surgeon was amazed that the

tumor had shrunk to an insignificant size.

The author concludes by saying “Palliation versus cure is a thought-provoking topic for discussion

because there are so many gray areas.

11. Fear and the Flu

PERKO S. J. (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

The author has enlighted the failure of allopathic medication in treating the flu pandemics. He has also

given some details about the spread of the virus and the properties of the Influenza virus has been given in

detail.

The allopathic solution - Relenza and Tamiflu has been approved for preventing the flu. The Director of

the Division of Antiviral Drug Products stated, in a memo dated July 26, 1999, “Overall, the totality of the

data provides evidence that treatment with Relenza confers a modest reduction in time to alleviation of

influenza symptoms.... approximately one day on average.” Yet, for a “modest” one-day reduction of flu

symptoms, the average cost of a five-day supply of this drug is over $50. Since Relenza “has not been

established for prophylactic use to prevent influenza,” and adverse reactions can include headaches,

diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and dizziness,” in addition to the very respiratory symptoms one wants to be rid

of, i. e., “bronchitis, cough, sinusitis, nasal symptoms, and ear, nose and throat infections,” and since people

with underlying respiratory problems are warned to use the drug with great caution, one can’t help

wondering why this drug is even on the market.

The allopathic medicine has left the immutable practice of homoeopathy in the dust when it comes to

tackling these mighty viruses. The actual truth is that homoeopathy has been conquering mighty viruses

since it began, from chickenpox, measles, mumps and shingles, to yellow fever, typhus and yes influenza. It

took 15 years of painstaking investigation before medical researchers were able to discover viruses as the

cause of influenza. By contrast, homoeopaths in 1918 didn’t need to “name the disease” in order to

successfully treat their patients.

Two years after the 1918 flu epidemic, the Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy

reported on the then-recent results of homoeopathic doctors treating this plague, and how their success

vividly contrasted with the results obtained by their allopathic colleagues.

12. Homoeopathy for Headaches

(HT, 20, 1/2000)

This article is largely adapted from First-aid and Acute Care: The NCH Study Guide. The article

briefly discusses about the causation of headache, how to select a useful homoeopathic remedy, and a short

list of some of the common remedies that can be helpful for headaches.

13. When is the Acute Remedy the Chronic remedy ...and When isn’t it?

SAMET Lisa (HT, 20, 1/2000)

The author a naturopathic doctor presents two of the case treated through phone in which the acute

condition indicated the chronic constitutional remedy.

Case 1: one year-old girl with low fever, wakes up screaming with pain in abdomen from gas each night at

about 11 p. m. Stool hard round balls. Appetite decreased. Desires milk. Perspiring on the head only.

Desires company. Vaccination a day before. Though Sulphur and Silicea seemed to cover the case the

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author gave Sulphur 1M every 2 hours until better as it is her chronic remedy. No amelioration even after a

day. Silicea 200 every 2 hours relieved.

Although it often happens that the acute remedy needed can be the same as a chronic remedy, it is not

always the case.

Case 2: A boy with left ear infection - swollen and red. Disobedient, stubborn and obstinate. Had large

stool with greater circumference, passes once in 3-4 days. Sweats a lot in his sleep, drenches the bed.

Worse from skipping a meal. Calcarea carbonicum 200 every few hours until better. Relieved even his

chronic condition.

14. Infectious Mononucleosis

MESSER S A (HT, 20, 2/2000)

“Mono” is a disease caused by Epstein-Barr virus, though 90% of the people are immune to the disease

few come with infectious mononucleosis syndrome - fever, sore throat, swollen (often painful) lymph glands

in the neck, and serious fatigue.

Conventional treatment is largely supprotive: rest, fluids,and sometimes pain medicine. Homoeopathy

offers the possibility to shorten the course of the disease, reducing suffering, and return people to work

quickly. Presumably, homoeopathy can also reduce the rate of complications.

Case 1: 15 year-old girl, had fever, fatigue and swollen lymph glands. Also had thirstlessness, dizziness,

the headache in the back of her head, didn’t want people around and felt apathetic which pointed to

Gelsemium. Gelsemium 30 three times a day for three days relieved.

Case 2: 21 year-old girl had pain on the left side of throat and sinuses, lots of sneezing, poat-nasal dripping

and laryngitis. Headache on the top of the head with increased frontal pain. Felt dizzy, weak and fatigue.

Appetite decreased. Thirstless and indifferent to company. Gelsemium M every 6 hours, after 4 days had

hands and feet cold and her smelled like onions. Calcarea carbonicum 10M, one dose, cured.

Case 3: 16 year-old boy had severe abdominal pain. Had fever, throat red with pustular exudate on the

swolen tonsils. Abdomen tender to palpation. Had outbursts of anger. Felt chilly, desires ice cold drinks.

Felt dizzy and moaning with the pain. Had nausea and vomiting after eating or drinking something cold.

Phosphorus 10M every two hours. Next day his vomiting and nausea were better but had coughing,

irritation in throat and nose as from dust and odors. Pain in abdomen while coughing. Craving for oranges

and cold drinks. Medorrhinum 10M, one dose, cleared his condition.

15. What Potency Should I Use?

HOOVER Todd (HT, 20, 2/2000)

A brief article which deals with the potency problem. The author has given a bit of background about

the potencies used in homoeopathic pharmacy. He has also enlightenend about several factors specific to

the individual being treated and how it influences the choice of pontency.

16. Laboratory Tests and Homoeopathic Prescribing

TAYLOR Will (HT, 44, 2/2000)

The author has answered for the question “What is the value of laboratory tests in homoeopathic

prescribing?

There are two major obstacles in using lab-test results in homoeopathic case analysis:

1. The first and most obvious is that these findings are not recorded in our provings or in the accumulated

clinical experience of the past 200 years of prescribers, so we have little to go on in appreciating lab

abnormalities as part of the pathogenesis (disease process/ “picture”) of our remedies. This could be

remedied of course by including such investigation in future provings.

2. The second and perhaps much more important obstacle is that the lab tests we have at our disposal

generally represent the common endpoint of multiple processes. As such, they are most often less

characterizing/individualizing of the disharmony of the patient than are the most local of the local

symptoms.

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Even in conventional medicine these tests are used to confirm an already strongly-suspected clinical

diagnosis. And for us, in the cases where they apply, the information needed to discern the remedy needed

is not really aided.

In the patient with hot swollen painful joints, better soaking in ice water, would the differential between

the remedies Apis mellifica and Guaicum be aided by the Rh factor titre results? Bear in mind that even a

negative result would not preclude the conventional diagnosis of “rheumatoid arthritis.’

The author concludes by saying “I’m not suggesting that such laboratory findings are not candidates for

inclusion in our materia medica, but I would caution about expecting too much regarding their usefulness to

us in determining similitude to a remedy, even if such findings were consistently collected in our provings.

I suspect that, in general, they would be less useful than the much more diverse manifest symptoms and

signs available in the classical homoeopathic interview and exam.

17. The Myth of the Polychrest

ULLMAN J R and ULLMAN Robert (HT, 20, 3/2000)

The authors emphasize the importance of knowing the small remedies. By giving the number of

remedies listed in each of the Repertories like Complete repertory, BOERICKE’s repertory, KENT’s

repertory, and BOENNINGHAUSEN’s repertory, the authors say that even the use of two thousand

remedies would barely be scratching the surface. We have nearly four times as many remedies at our

disposal than HAHNEMANN did. Though it is comforting that our knowledge of homoeopathic medicines

is expanding, we have a long way to go to fulfil our ideal of true individualization. In many cases, we must

only be approximating or simply incorrect about what the patient needs. We settle too easily for long term

mediocre results with a series of partially effective remedies when we could be actually curing patients with

their simillimum. This zigzag prescribing is no substitue for finding the correct medicne, even if it is the

best we know how to do at the time. A rough approximation of the correct remedy may lead to relief of

certain symptoms but is not the highest ideal of cure. It is much gratifying to find the simillimum than to

bounce aimlessly from remedy to remedy as the symptoms change, without a clear concept of what we are

prescribing and why.

Therefore there is need for expanding our limited remedy repertoire.

How to know when we need a small, under-used or undiscovered remedy and how to find them are

listed out.

18. What is it for?

CROCE A J (HT, 20, 3/2000)

An interesting article which gives a brief account of the range of action of the allopathic and the

homoeopathic remedies. In allopathy it is “for” a particular ailment, and the effect of the given medicine

includes both “intended effects” and “side effects.” While the medicine may be taken “for” a particular

ailment, its actual effects are much more wide-ranging. While homoeopathic remedies operate very

differently in the body and do not produce “side effects” in the same way, the principle holds true with them

in another sense. There is no remedy which has only one single purpose; like allopathic drugs - indeed, like

any substance - homoeopathic remedies produce broad range of results when ingested.

When we understand why there is no single homoeopathic remedy which is “for’ any specific

complaint, we begin to see why homoeopathy is so challenging to practice. There are no easy rules that

apply to every case, and there are no shortcuts to finding the correct remedy. Every time, every aspect of

the person must be explored and considered in relation to each of the possible remedies. Moreover, when

we think remedies as addressing not a single symptom but the person as whole, we can appreciate that the

remedy is directed at the deepest core, the vital force which produces all of the organism’s characterisitics

on every level. This is the sense in which homoeopathy is said to be holistic, because it encompasses the

organism as a whole. The remedy is “for” the person, to strengthen him or her in every aspect of being.

To be exact with our language, we are not really using medicines “for” a cold or pain or a sting; we are

actually using medicines against them.

19. Menopausal Symptoms and Homoeopathic Treatment

FRYE Joyce (HT, 20, 3/2000)

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The author seeks homoeopathy as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy and encourages

patients to return for constitutional homoeopathic care. Presents a case and gives some remedies for

menopausal symptoms.

63 year-old lady had long-standing severe hot flushes and profuse perspiration. The hormone regimen

did not improve her. Frequent dizziness with tendency to fall to left and frequent headaches agg. By

exertion and excercise. Belladonna and Natrum carbonicum covered her symptoms. Doesn’t seem tobe a

Natrum type and hence Belladonna 30 which relieved her perspiration and gave clear vision within minutes.

The author has done some laborious work of searching in Mac Repertory and in the Complete

Repertory for rubrics using the words climateric, climaxis, or menopause in the sections of Mind, Head,

Vertigo, Skin, Sleep, Chill, Perspiration, and Generalities, which yielded some interesting results and it has

been given.

20. Mittelfindung nach C. M. BOGERs

HOLZAPFEL, K. (ZKH, 44, 3/2000)

In this long article the author discusses the case analysis and repertorisation according to BOGER.

Cyrus Maxwell BOGER (1861 - 1935). BOGER was thorough with the KENT as well as the

BOENNINGHAUSEN repertories. In this article, it is shown with the help of a case how BOGER imbibed

from BOENNINGHAUSEN. Infact BOGER used 4 different repertories according to the case before him.

In the case analysis given in the present article while BOGER’s method is discussed, it also brings out the

development of BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Therapeutic Pocket Book (1846) (PB) upto his later work

Aphorisms of Hippocrates (1863) (AHP). This is studied since BOGER appears to have imbibed this.

We should also understand BOGER’s the Synoptic Key and General Analysis and how they are related to

the PB.

The author discusses how BOGER’s Card Repertory method is useful in certain cases, how the

Pocket Book (BOENNINGHAUSEN’s) was used and how the ‘General Analysis’ helped, etc.

21. Sabadilla - Die Methode der Mittelfindung “nach Bonninghausen” (Sabadilla - Remedy choice

“according to BOENNINGHAUSEN” method)

WEGENER, A (ZKH, 44, 3/2000)

58 year-old female, pain since 7 months in the left Ischium; Orthopaedic treatment and Physiotherapy

did not relieve.

Main Symptoms:

Sensation in Bones “as if inflamed”

Sitting, particularly on hard chairs, agg.

Lying agg:, must stand up because of the pains

Lying on the sides amel.

After rising from sitting, amel.

Accompanying Symptoms:

Chilly, needs sun and warmth

Cramps in the thigh

Hairfall

Finger nails split since some months

Burning in tongue

Blister on the soles of the feet

Previous history:

Total hysterectomy for Myoma 4 years ago. Earlier she was irritable before menses on 9. 2. 1998. 5 drops

daily once, Sepia Q6 (LM 6) while some chronic symptoms (hairfall, muscle cramps) became better, the

main symptoms however remained; now accompanied by nausea.

16. 3. 1998: Sulphur Q6

11. 5. 1998: no amel. But Sulphur changed the symptoms. Pains were now: beating and were worse nights.

Less energy, motion amel. The pain now was torturing and needed relief. Since it was considered from the

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beginning as a chronic disease, the local symptoms were of secondary importance. But the main symptoms

were now taken up and worked out with the PB:

Sensation, Bones, beating;

Agg. Nights

Agg. External pressure

Agg. Sitting

Amel. Standing up from sitting;

Amel. From motion

Sensation, Skin, Nails, crumbling.

Sabadilla came up and it was given in XM potency, single dose. With this the pains were relieved and all

the chronic complaints remains cured.

As our experience would show the full symptoms may not always be available with certainty in the

Materia Medica. But the sensation of ‘beating’ in the bones together with the characteristic modalities

pointed to Sabadilla which in XM potency healed rapidly. Please read the Proving Symptoms in STAPF.

The article highlights the important role BOENNINGHAUSEN’s Pocket Book has in our daily

practice.

22. Chronisches Ekzeen (Chronic Eczema)

KLUNKER, W (ZKH, 44, 3/2000)

This is a good case explaining at every stage how to go about with the treatment of serious chronic skin

disease in a 71 year-old man: the selection of the symptoms, the hierarchising according to their importance

for repertorisation and lastly the choice of the remedy and prescription in suitable potency.

In this case, the ‘artistic’ method of repertorisation explained by Dr. R.P. PATEL in his edition of

KENT Repertory is followed and a rapid, complete cure is obtained.

23. Manisch - depressive (Manic - depressive)

KLUNKER, W (ZKH, 44, 4/2000)

Girl about 15 years age, with periodically recurring manic-depressive phases. Has undergone

anthroposophic treatment, but now on no medication.

The manic phase lasts for 2 - 4 weeks, while the depressive phase 1 - 2 weeks. The ‘normal’ duration

is getting lesser and lesser.

Independent of the phases she was very thirsty for milk.

Out of 23 symptoms collected, an analysis was made and those symptoms of value in the given case -

the minimum syndrome of maximum value - were decided upon and repertorised. Out of the remedies that

came up five were taken up for study and Sulphur Q 3 once daily was given, then Q6. Then Belladonna

XM for manic phase and then when out of the manic phase Sulphur Q 9, Q 12, Q 15, Q 18, Q 21, Q 24, Q

27, Q 30 as he went on progressing.

Again Sulphur Q 2 , Tuberculinum 200, Sulphur Q4, Q 6, Q 8, Q 10, Q 12, Q15, Q 18, Q 21, Q24, Q

27, Q 30. Improved well. Studies well, weight increased. Cold hands, somewhat less drive. Pulsatilla

200. Alopecia areata Tuberculinum 30. She got outstanding certificate in all subjects. Ice cold hands.

Pulsatilla 200.

Now has slipped back into buying 88888 loquacious, Sulphur Q 3. After a censure in the School was

weeping and shrieking, confusion. Ignatia 30, then Sulphur Q 6. Better but again makes large buying, for

others too Sulphur Q 6 to continue., then Q 9.

She is now pregnant. Sulphur Q 12. Foetus 12 weeks. Calcium and Multivitamins. Sulphur Q 15.

Well, very well, in the school and with the pregnancy, mentally. Sulphur Q 18. All well.

The treatment began in December 1989 and ended in March 1995.

The Q potencies were given in fluid form, 3 drops in some water, sometimes daily, sometimes more,

sometimes weekly once, according as the actual state of the patient called for.

24. Homöopathie in der Psychiatrie

Stúrová (ZKH, 44, 4/2000)

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The author is from Slovakia.

Homoeopathy in Psychiatry. Modern psychopharmaceutical products are effective by speedily

weakening the psychopathological symptoms, but they also make the patients dependent upon the drugs. It

is surprising that most of the pychiatrists are against homoeopathy and it is not only just in Slovakia. There

are only few monographs on homoeopathic treatment of psychatric disturbances.

Our limited experience with homoeopathy confirms the satisfactory results. The Psychiatrist must gain

the confidence of his patient so that the patient relates.

The author has a long practice in Bratislava for children upto 18 year age. Every year he takes in 350

new children for treatment. He also treats 100 adult new patient per year.

The author summarizes the majority of paediatric diagnosis in the light of his homoeopathic practice:

Special Emotional disturbances acon., ars., calc., calc-p., sil., lyc., cina., gels., stram., phos., arg-n., puls.,

in childhood (702 children): sulph., bar-c., bar-m.

ADHD/ADD Hyperkinetic bell., stram., tarent., zinc., hyos., cupr., rhus-t., arg-n., phos., calc-p., merc.,

syndrome (486 children): cham., tub.

Mixed, confused and emotional stram., tub., cupr., arg-n., cham., bell.

disturbances (387 children):

Anxiety state (350 children): calc., calc-p., phos., bar-c., acon.

Somotoform disturbances gels., calc., ign., acon., phos., puls., bar-c., bell., nux-v.

(350 children):

Sleep disturbance stram., phos., calc., caust., coff., carc., psor., jalap., bell., bor., cham.

(276 children):

Speech disturbances stram., caust., sulph., bell., calc., tub., nat-m., lyc., verat.

(170 children):

Behavioural disturbances stram., med., tub., cupr., bar-c., bell., nux-v., cina., cham., ign., sulph., calc.,

(166 children): op., lach., hyos., verat., arg-n., tarent.

Bed wetting (142 children): bell., tub., med., caust., ars., phos., ferr., sep., sil., lyc., calc., psor., thuj.,

puls.,

cocc.

Intellectual disturbances syph., bar-c., calc-p., tub., merc., bufo., op., bell., caust., calc., lyc., hell.,

(114 disturbances): phos.

Combined specific syph., bell., bar-c., med., calc., calc-p., tub., vaccine nosodes.

developmental disturbances

(58 children):

Rarely occuring but serious diseases, like for example Autism in children (hyos., caust., tub., thuj.,

verat., stram), as also Anorexia mentalis (nat-m., kali-br., carc., tarent., verat.) have also been treated

successfully.

Grown up patients can be categorised in the following main categories: reactive and depresive state,

Neurosis, Sleep disturbances (migraine, Gastritis, Immune-disturbances, Sterility....).

It is well-known that a good homoeopathic treatment in childhood is the best known preventive of

psychiatric diseases in the grown-up.

In his experience, the author says, his paediatric patients needed hospitalisation to the minimum of only

5 - 6 cases per year unlike the ealier 80 per year during allopathic practices.

He further says that his psychiatric clinic alone has saved US 25,000 per year in Medical Insurance.

(This is the cost of the allopathic medicine).

25. Two With One Pansy

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TAYLOR Will (AH, 6/2000)

4 month-old girl, had eczema in face and scalp with thick damp yellow crusts. Started during first week

of age. Cortisones did not give much relief. Had discharge from vagina which smells like cat urine.

Round-head baby with big open fontanelles. Though the author was tempted to give Calcarea carbonica he

went in for repertorization which poited a small remedy Viola tricolor. Viola tricolor 30 in water (1 pellet

in 4 oz water); 6 succussions and ½ daily to the nursing mother.

In The Chronic Diseases, HAHNEMANN recommends treating infants-at the breast routinely giving

the remedy to the nursing mother or the nurse-maid.

Viloa tricolor was repeated briefly, in the same manner, at months and directly to the weaned child at 4

months which relieved.

It is interesting to note that, the mother had similar eruptions during chilhood and got suppressed by

cortisones. Presently she couldn’t trust her husband all that much, to keep a job, to take care of her and the

baby. Herself lacked confidence in bringing up the baby.

These conditions indicated Viola tricolor for the mother.

Obvious, the remedy also had a beneficial effect on the mother. The influence can go strongly in either

direction. A severe maternal fright can bring about a Aconite or Stramonium state in the child; or carrying a

child with Viola tricolor disharmony may bring about a Viola tricolor disharmony in the mother. Perhaps

this mother’s cradle cap and eczema as an infant, suppressed with cortisone creams resulted in a more

central expression of her Viola tricolor disharmony, manifesting as a life-long lack of self-sacrifice and

suspiciousness, “erupting” in her during her pregnancy, as well as in her infancy.

26. A Case of Oncorhynches tschawytscha (Salmon)

SHERR Jeremy (AH, 6/2000)

79 year-old woman had indigestion, allergic to certain foods like wheat, smoked foods, coffee, fried

food, chicken, eggs. Feels sluggish. Profuse water from nose. Memory poor. Feels neglected by her

mother nad rejected by her daugters. Likes to travel. During her teens fell in love with a man and thought

that he was her soul mate but that didn’t work out and they seperated. Dwells constantly on sex and had

many sexual dreams.

Receding gums, profuse salivation, tearing of her eyes and frequent urination during night. Bouts of

diarrhea with constipation at night on waking. Vertigo with a swimming sensation. Worse in damp

weather. Sympathetic to animals. Remedies like Arsenicum album, Rhus toxicodendron, Lycopodium,

Ignatia, Tuberculinum, Calcarea phosphoricum, Hyoscyamus, Natrum arsenicosum, Platina, Mercurius

gave some improvement.

Oncorhynches tschawytscha (Salmon) 30, 2 doses relieved.

Oncorhynches tschawytscha

Made from a wild Chinook salmon using eggs, sperm and blood. Proved by Jeremy SHERR’s

students.

Provers experienced deep intense grief and sadness, not knowing here they were going but longing and

searching for a home. Conversely, they felt trapped in the house, desired to walk for miles and wanted to

travel great distances. There was yearning for a soul mate, for finding true love and great disappointment

for lost love. Control is a big issue in the remedy, either loss of control or overcontrol, especially a

motherer’s tendency to control her children.

Having babies is a dominant feature of Oncorhynches with many symptoms related to conception,

infertility and high sexual energy. Water figures prominently in the proving in many physical symptoms

27. Chronic Pancreatitis: Multiple Dimensions

BARVALIA Praful (IJHM, 33, 1/2000)

The author has given a brief account of changes in the form, function and structure of pancreas if it gets

affected. Also mentions about the phase, susceptibility, miasm and posology. Prognosis and Homoeopathic

projections are also discussed.

43 year-old man, suffered 7 episodes of Jaundice since 1984. Jaundice accompanied by fever, acute

abdominal pain radiating to back and dyspepsia. Itching all over body. Prostration. Sclera yellow. Blood

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sugar levels erratic - insulin irregularly taken. Craves spicy, pungent food. Profuse perspiration. Hot

patient, wants fan always. Extremely violent and impulsive. Egoistic, contemptuous, censorious,

egocentric - mean and selfish. Had intense need for relationship and anxiety about his health. Addicted to

beer, charas, ganja, had lots of sexual thoughts, habit of masturbation, gambling and prostitution were

inevitable accompaniments. Had oligospermia and spermatorrhoea. Liver function tests and blood sugar

level showed abnormal ranges. Ultrasonography showed dilated CBD, dilated pancreatic duct with calculi.

Kali iodatum was selected as his constitutional. Repeated doses of Kali iodatum 200 was given. Needed

Magnesium phosphoricum 200 for the acute pains. Tuberculinum M was given as an intercurrent.

28. Pancreas Ill But Strong Will

SHAH P M (IJHM, 33, 1/2000)

12 year-old boy with recurrent epigastric pain since 1984. Pain agg. after midnight, milk products,

amel.

Bending forward with knees drawn up and hot water fomentation. Diagnosed to have Chronic Pancreatitis.

Ct Scan abdomen showed cluster of minute calcific foci ranging in size from 2 to 5 mm within head of

pancreas and in uncinate process. Serum amylase ranged from 198 - 346, serum lipase ranged from 201 -

1464. Allopathic medication failed to relieve. Craves sweets, fried items, milk products. Aversion to milk,

curd. Lies on abdomen during sleep. Performence high inspite of gross diffficulty, assertive, sensitive to

scolding, ambitious, irritable but polite, industriousness, and anticipatory anxiety about performance.

Silicea 3x in infrequent doses followed by Silicea M in infrequent doses and Tuberculinum M as an

intercurrent relieved.

29. Perceiving Essence thro’ New Perspective

SANKARAN Rajan (IJHM, 33, 1/2000)

The article is a detailed narration of the mental symptoms of a 46 year-old woman.

The essence being: Fear of being killed and desire to kill, jealousy and deceit. Feels that she is better

than everyone else. Affectionate and aggressive towards family members. Talkative and her talk wanders.

Talks as though she is two person instead of one. Sees everything as wrong and negative. Hopeless

despair. Religious, feels no one as saintly as her. Feels that she is under the control of a greater power,

either God or the devil. Antagonism between the two sides of her. Feels as if someone is behind her and

will grab to kill her. Hates animals. Based on the understanding of the case Crotallus cascavella 200

given. The remedy was repeated in the same potency 4 times within 4 months and Crotalus cascavella M

repeated once relieved.

30. Paediatric Emergencies: Intussusception

SUBRAMANIUM R, MOTA M, RANE S (IJHM, 33, 1/2000)

Pathogenesis, Prognosis, Clinical presentation, its management and the surgical approach are briefly

discussed.

A 16 month-old baby had vomiting and severe abdominal pain amel. bending, pressure. Passed

brownish stool with foul smelling gas after 2 days. USG showed Intusussception, Ilio-caecal. Colocynth

200 and 10M repeated frequently, gave symptomatic relief but no further reduction in size on USG.

Plumbum metallicum was given because of its spasmodic effect in acute stage and paralysing effect in later

stages. Plumbum metallicum 200, 2 hourly on the first day and M on second and third day relieved. Based

on the totality of the chronic symptoms - obstinate, fear of dark, shy, perspiration scalp, dentition and hot

patient Calcarea iodatum and Tuberculinum as an intercurrent was given later.

31. Acute Pancreatitis Managed at Hospital Bed

JAIN C B, NANDU H T (IJHM, 33, 1/2000)

A 39 year-old male had frequent paraumbilical colicky pain associated with vomiting. Did not pass

stool for 5 days. Sonogram showed mild hypoechoeic pancreas. Initially had gradual loss of appetite and

fever for 2 days. Has diabetes since 2 years and was on diaonil ½ od. Took some ayurvedic medicine for

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infertility. Diagnosed to have acute pancreatitis. Serology and other investigations done. Admitted in the

hospital and the pain killers gave no relief. Homoeopathy was called in. Had strong foetor oris, intense

pain on touching the abdomen. Indifferent. Had profuse perspiration in palms about an year ago and

Silicea was given. Prior to his illness there was strong refusal by the patinet for establishment of a new

factory which his brothers insisted to do. Though Calcarea carbonicum and Silicea was considered Kali

bichromicum 200 was given based on 2 pm and 2 am agg., the deep seated pain, indifference and indolence.

Kali bichromicum 200 was given daily for few days and the patient refused to undergo surgery and no

relapse of the pain. Later received Thuja 200 for anal itching during sleep at night and severe nose block.

Blood fasting sugar was 105 and overall relieved.

32. Passion, Pancreatitis and HIV

BARVALIA Praful (IJHM, 33, 1/2000)

31 year-old man had pain abdomen, yellowish vomiting, loss of weight 5 kg in 2½ months, cough with

yellowish white expectoration, evening rise of fever low grade, generalized body ache. Diagnosed to be

HIV positive. Bubo treated with allopathic medicines. Penile ulcers - cauterised in past. Mantoux

Positive. Other investigations also showed abnormal results. Sonography showed pancreatitis with

associated pseudocyst and mild splenomegaly. Carefree with happy go-;ucky frinds circle. Immersed in

alcohol at 17 years and had venereal disease at 18 years. Intensely restless and inability to undertake any

activity for a sustained period of time. Desires to travel. Lean, thin. Aversion to milk. Addicted to

smoking in alcohol. Chilly patient. Tongue: thick yellow, coating, cervical glands++ enlarged. Spleen+

liver fullness and tenderness+. Tuberculinum 200 and M helped a great deal, other remedies were

Phosphorus, Calcarea fluoricum, Magnesium phosphoricum and Hepar sulphuricum in infrequent doses

helped in regressing his problems. Sonography showed total regression of pancreatic cyst and biochemical

recovery.

33. Stress Symdrome of Natrum Muriaticum

GOEL N O (IJHM, 33, 1/2000)

A short description have been made about the mental condition and the central theme of the remedy.

A 34 year-old male had recurrent attacks of loose motions since past 6 years, with occasional pain in

abdomen.

33. I Am In A Dark Tunnel

SHARFSTEIN Catherine (HOM. 76/2000)

A young man, slim, dark hair, deep-seated eyes and heavy black eyebrows had anxiety attacks

frequently after having been hypnotized by a group of people. Feels that he never came out of that

hynotized state. Had many clairvoyant dreams and scary hallucinations - nuclear war, radiation passing

through his body. Feels he lost his identity. Feels he is being poisoned with gas and someone poisoned him

with a nerve paralyzing energy. Feels that his childish enthusiasm was converted into a big depression,

complete darkness. Fears that he is in a dark tunnel that has no end, feels that the future is a long dark

tunnel. Had an inflammation of the prostrate gland, though not painful, the unpleasant sensation passes

through the body. Had burning in nose, bad teeth, palpitations during night. Feels that his body is filled

with a disgusting fluid and everthing is in atropy. Had discharge from his penis at the age of twenty. Sex

drive was very high and it is completely gone now. Needed a radioactive remedy, either a heavy metal or a

mineral. Radium bromatum LM 1, LM 2, LM 3 over a period of six months improved.

31. A New Homoeopathic Approach to Neoplastic Diseases: From Cell Destruction to Carcinogen-induced

Apoptosis.

H.MONFORT (BHJ, 89/2000)

Neoplastic diseases are now among the most commonly seen conditions. Orthodox, non-surgical

approaches, includes including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, have variable results, but many adverse

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affects that limit their use. These are sometimes the direct cause of death. More patients are choosing

alternative treatments, mainly the homoeopathic and herbal-nutrition approach.

Homoeopathy does not have high effective remedies for cancer in its literature, and has been limited to

palliating the adverse effects of chemo/radiotherapy. Research into substances that can produce neoplastic

diseases (carcinogens), may lead to them being used to treat the cancer they cause, according to the

principle of similarity. I have used ultra-low doses (1x10

-10

to 10

-12

molar) of chemical carcinogens for 3 -

24 months, which have been given to cancer patients, usually in conjunction with conventional treatment.

Using this procedure, complete remission of life extension has been achieved for some cancer cases. Three

clinical cases are presented: a man with undifferentiated lung cancer; a child with an astrocytoma and a

woman with leiomyosarcoma.

32. Comparitive study of Rubrics and Medicines

KAUR Jagtinder (JH, 4, 3/2000)

Some of the mind rubrics of few remedies (Phosphorus, Hyoscyamus, Calcarea phosphoricum, Natrum

muriaticum, Mercurius solubilis, Nitricum acidum, Nux vomica, Lachesis muta, Lycopodium and Cuprum

aceticum) which are verified on different cases are listed out.

33. Different shades of Opium

SINGH N A (JH, 4, 3/2000)

Case 1: 40 year-old male with pain in neck, had fear to drive scooter and had poor memory which started

after an accident. Opium 30 relieved.

Case 2: 20 year-old girl was mentally upset after she met with an accident. Felt that her parents died in the

accident though her parents survived in it. Opium 30 relieved.

Case 3: 50 year-old female had pruritis vulvae and felt shy to express it. Using the rubric, Indignation,

discomfort from, general – Opium 30 given which relieved.

Case 4: 42 year-old male was restless. Sleepless and had loss of appetite after he had left his bank job in

order to look after the agricultural work as his younger brother who was looking after the land died. A

sinking sensation goes through his body on thinking about this. Blames himself for his action. Opium 30

gave good result.

Case 5: 32 year-old man became much timid during his college days and there came the necessity of

leaving the college because of this. Indifferent to his suffering, had fear of extravagance Opium 30

improved.

34. Opium Case

SAINI R S (JH, 4, 3/2000)

31 year-old female had recurrance of surgically removed vaginal cyst. Along with this had pain in

stomach, lot of acidity, feverish feeling, boils under axilla, headache, disturbed menses, constipation with

occasional loose stools.

Fear of extravagance and embarassement from ailments led to prescribe Opium 6. 3 doses at intervals

of ½ hour followed by 30 after a month cured.

35. A Case of Plumbum metallicum

SAINI R S (JH, 4, 3/2000)

A 52 year-old male had warts on prepuce adjoining and along the inner rim. From the way he

described his complaints, the author interpreted his symptoms into these rubrics. Suspicious, Groping as if

in dark, light desire for, mood repulsive, ailments embarassment from, gestures violent, gestures strange

attitudes and positions, begging for relief. On the basis of these rubrics Plumbum metallicum, single dose

relieved.

36. A Case of Bronchial Asthma

KAURA S P (JH, 4, 3/2000)

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The author narrates a case of 10 year-old boy with chronic bronchial asthma. As the author is an

allopathic doctor who knew Homoeopathy, he gave allopathic and homoeopathic medicine and he noticed

that the need for allopathic medcines and the frequency and the intensity of the asthamtic attacks reduced

considerably after the use of homoeopathic remedies.

37. A Case of Moschus

SINGH Ravinder (JH, 4, 3/2000)

A girl aged 17 years was suffering from severe pain in right pectoral region. Pain appears suddenly and

disappeared suddenly. Would make her weep. Cries that she will die and abuses the family members if not

taken to the doctor. Done all necessary investigations in order to know what disease she is suffering from.

Belladonna 30, 4 doses did not relieve. Based on the symptoms: Weeping pain from, tightness of cjest, is

obliged to take a deep breath, spasm of glottis, spasm of chest, abusive, nervous suffocative constriction of

the chest, Moschus 30, s doses gave relief.

38. A Case of Crocus sativus

KAUR Jasbir (JH, 4, 3/2000)

17 year-old girl has headache, pain in eyes, and using spectacles for myopia of number 2.25 in both

eyes. Had anger alternating with quick repentence. Music ameliorates and cheerful from music. Crocus

sativus 30, 3 doses at months interval correctd even her myopia.

39. A Case of Conium maculatum

KAUR Jasbir (JH, 4, 3/2000)

24 year-old girl had her right breast smaller than left brest. Refused to go for mammography. Based

on the rubrics: Light shuns, Frivolous, Atropy of breast, Conium 30 single dose brought out miraculous

change.

40. Merc.sol Case

DHILLON Kiranjeet (JH, 4, 3/2000)

70 year-old male with cracks in palms and soles got temporary amelioration of his complaints with

Belladonna. Entered the consultancy room before his turn though he was reprimanded for it a number of

times. Indifference to reprimands, Mercurius solubilis 30 gave good result.

42. A Case of Ignatia

DHILON Kiranjeet (JH, 4, 3/2000)

60 year-old male had skin disease. Had introspection, aversion to amusement, aggravation from music,

cannot tolerate injustice, audacity, hot and thirstless. Ignatia 30 improved

43. Platina Case

MITTAL B B (JH, 4, 3/2000)

A woman aged 45 had chronic urticaria with pain in urticarial spots. Belladonna 30 given based on

laughing when speaking, Frivolous, unconciousness interrupted by screaming, without any relief. Her

narration was interpreted as Delirium help calling for, Delusions things appear small, Boaster, Egotism and

Platina 30 given with good improvement.

44. Muriatic acid Case

SINGLA Naveen (JH, 4, 3/2000)

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9 year-old boy had enuresis, clings to his mother, fear of being alone, does things in great haste.

Gelsemium 30, 200 and Bismuth were given without relief. Based on SCHOLTEN’s approach Muriaticum

acidum was selected. Mother love and feels alone indicated muriaticum and hastiness indicates acids. 30

and M were given with good improvement within 2 months.

45. Poisonous Arsenic – a great remedy when potentised.

VIJ Ritu (JH, 4, 3/2000)

The cases are taken from the author’s father case record - an engineer who practised homoeopathy.

Case 1: A resident geologist in Salal Hydroelectric Project fell sick. Couldn’t digest anything and had great

aversion to food. Found to be very restless, depressed. Felt that his death is near, and was explainingabout

his assets and inabilities. Takes small sips of water frequently. All sorts of allopathic medicines tried

without effect. Arsenicum album 30 brought back the patient to normalcy within 2 days.

Case 2: A male patient felt sick after taking ‘langer’ in the temple. Restless, rubbing his arms and legs,

begs to be saved from impending death. Took an allopathic tablet ½ hour before. Arsenicum album 30

given considering it as drug poisoning which relieved.

Case 3: The author’s grandfather was seriously ill and lost control over stool and urine, extremely weak,

was taking allopathic medication. Very restless and wanted somebody to support him so that he could walk.

Stopped all allopathic medicines and Arsenicum album 30 was given with goo improvement.

Case 4: An old lady, unable to digest any food or drink, used to vomit immediately after taking anything,

craved cold drinks which were also vomited after some time. Unable to recognise people and places.

Phosphorus 30 gave happy results.

46. Aconitum napellus Case

VERMA Subhash (JH, 4, 3/2000)

A little boy had acute attack of restlessness with fear of death. Felt that his heart is deformed. Had fear of

death. Aconite 30 relieved.

47. Some Important Medicines with Rubrics

SEHGAL M L (JH, 4, 4/2000)

The mental rubrics of Carbo animalis, Grindelia robusta and Lac canninum with inference and version

are given.

48. Some cases of Iodum purum

CHITKARA H L (JH, 4, 4/2000)

Important mental rubrics and singular rubrics are listed out.

Case 1: 10 year-old boy had cough, hoarseness and blockage of nose. Restless, timid, desires to travel.

Anxiety when hungry, amelioration on eating, physical exertions ameliorates. Iodum 30 relieved.

Case 2: 11 year-old boy had white discoloration and brown patches on both sides of face which was

diagnosed as ringworms. Doesn’t bother about it. Very restless, even while sitting, physical exertion

ameliorates, desires to travel. Shouts if food is delayed. Iodum 30 gave happy results.

Case 3: 56 year-old man had pain and swelling in the heel, flatulence and headache. Indifferent to pain,

desires to travel, loses temper when he is hungry. Horrible things, sad stories affect him profoundly.

Physical exertion ameliorates. Iodum 30 relieved.

49. Some Cases of Pulsatilla

MANN A S (JH, 4, 4/2000)

Case 1: 35 year-old female had chronic coryza with continues sneezing in the morning. Laughs while

narrating the symptoms. Gets angered suddenly buts repents quickly. Belladonna 30 did not give relief.

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Her avarice, bargaining nature, fastidiousness, weeping, consolation amelioration all led to Pulsatilla.

Pulsatilla 30 relieved and even made her courageous.

Case 2: 35 year-old female had pain in joints – knees, ankles, hands, shoulders. Laughs involuntarily.

Taking the rubrics: Supertitious, frivolous, light desire for – Belladonna 30 which failed to relieve and on

further enquiry her nature revealed to be mild, yielding, forsaken feeling, fear of being neglected and

offended, weeps easily and consolation amelioration - Pulsatilla 30, 200, M improved.

The mental rubrics of Pulsatilla and its differential diagnosis with Cocculus indicus, Arsenicum album,

Nux vomica, Sepia and Kali carbonicum are listed out.

50. A Case of Fibroid Uterus

SINGH Bhupinder (JH, 4, 4/2000)

A female aged 42 had menorhagia. US report showed bulky uterus, 40mm x 28mm echogenic mass.

Sleeplessness and itching over whole body. Fear of operation and even for injections, fear of being in any

closed places, sobbing, angered easily and want to strike her head against the wall during angerand also the

desire to kill during anger led to Stramonium. Stramonium in 6, 30 and 200 was given for a period of 7

months in infrequent doses. US showed normal uterus.

51. A Case of Ulcerative Colitis

SINGH Bhupinder (JH, 4, 4/2000)

68 year-old female had bleeding per rectum for about 10 years with unsatisfied desire for passing stool.

Had religious disposition, anxiety about others and fear that something bad will happen. Calcarea

carbonicum 30, 200 M in infrequent dose over a period of 6 months relieved.

52. Pace Maker Avoided!

MOHAN Dinesh (JH, 4, 4/2000)

A female aged 40 was diagnosed to have complete heart block with complete A-V dissociation. Had

bradycardia, dyspnoea, leucorrhoea, offensive, whitish, stains. Abdominal dyspepsia and scanty menses.

The patient was treated homoeopathically for about eight months which produced good improvement in the

patient’s condition. [Name and mode of administration of the remedy has not been mentioned in this case.]

53. A Miraculous Cure by Walnut

MANN A S (JH, 4, 4/2000)

28 year-old female got married and after going to in-laws house she was not able to adust with her in-

laws family as they had different way of living,eating habits, system of dressing up etc. Came to parents

house for vacation and refuses to go back to in-laws house saying, that they will kill her, they are all

robbers. Sits in her room by bolting her room inside. ‘Unable to adjust’ was taken as the central theme and

Walnut/TDS was given for about 6 months which removed her mental block and she went back to her in-

laws house cheerfully.

53. Rheumatic Endocarditis – Lachesis Case

SHARMA Yogesh (JH, 4, 4/2000)

50 year-old male had pain in left side of chest which extends to the left arm up to little and ring finger.

Numbness of fingers present. Stitching, cruciating pain with cold clammy limbs and apprehension. Thirst

and cold sweating increases during pain. Diagnosed to have Rheumatic Endocarditis with superimposed

Angina Pectoris. The rubrics taken from his narration are: Frivolous, Malicious, Audacity, Religious

affection, Objective reasonable, Benevolence, Loquacity jesting with, Sentimental, Dancing, Wander desire

to be, Hot patient, Thirsty etc led to select Lachesis. Lachesis 30 brought out the old symptoms and after 2

months there was a need for repitition of the remedy in a higher potency – Lachesis 200 relieved.

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54. Calc phos Case

SAINI R S (JH, 4, 4/2000)

46 year-old female had headache with vomiting since childhood. Desires chilled water during

headache. Wants to maintain good relationship with the relatives. Must tie her legs to get relief from pain.

Pain all over body, Aggravation fron fried food and tea. Leucorrohea ++++. Restless, runs from one rrom

to another and want to go out of home. Delusion, wealth imagination of; delusion, ruined she is. Calcarea

phosphoricum 12 according Jan SCHOLTEN’s approach – desiring support indicates Calcarea and desire

for chilled water indicates Phophorus. Single dose of the remedy relieved.

54. Medorrhinum in Depression and Sleeplessness

SINGH Ravinder (JH, 4, 4/2000)

A female aged 55 had severe depression and sleeplessness. Weeps vehemently and says that her son-

in-law or brother or some other close relative is dead and compels her husband to go and attend the funeral.

It takes a long time to convince her. Consulted several Psychiatrists without any improvement. Taking,

delusion, talks about the death of relatives, suspicious etc Medorrhinum 200 given with remarkable

improvement.

55. Apis mel Case

SANDHU K S (JH, 4, 4/2000)

A 53 year-old male had persistent pain in heart region and his Echocardiography showed Left

Ventricular Hypertrophy of the Heart. Triglyceride level is 1014.2mg/dl. Frivolous, easily amgered, hot

person, dominating, fearfulness alternating with boldness, loqacious, cheerful, simulates hilarity, though

internally wretched. Oily shining, puffed face. Soreness of the whole body – Rt. Knee painful, Rt. Sciatica.

Urine scanty, painful, frequent, always burning. Desires open air, feels suffocation in closed room, hot

places and hot weather. Thirstless. Restlessness. Nymphomanic. Apis mellifica 200/3 doses, in half an

hour interval followed by 2 doses at 1 hour interval after a month brought his blood bichemistry to

normalcy and relieved his pains. Natrum muriaticum 6x was given for his acute pains.

56. Hyoscyamus Case

SINGH Jagdip (JH, 4, 4/2000)

A boy aged 12 years had recurent fever for about 2½ months. Routine examination of the urine

showed: Pus cell: 20-25/H.P.F, Albumin: +++, Cast-Granular cast seen, Urine Culture: E-coli micro

organism. Was given prolonged treatment of strong antibiotics. Countenence was dull, pale and puffy.

The boy was indifferent to his sufferings. Desires to remain in bed. Hyoscyamus 30 gradually brought

down the temperature and he remained without acquiring fever thereafter.

57. Cinnabaris Case

VITHAL S S (JH, 4, 4/2000)

15 year-old boy had dyspnoea and cough. Cough aggravation in the midnight and while lying. Had

skin eruptions, tonsillitis, warts on groin region. Desires citrus fruits, spicy food though it aggravates. Jerks

during sleep, dreams of succesful businessnessman. Increased thirst and perapiration. Likes to be alone.

Hurried and anxious. Desire to travel but has travelling sickness. Doesn’t like to be teased. Memory weak.

Tuberculinum M improved him to some extent. Physically better mentally tired, doesn’t like to study.

Desires cold, ice cream though it aaggravate it. Cinnabaris 200 brought back his old skin symptoms and

improved his mental and physical activity.

58. Pulsatilla Case

MATHAROO H S (JH, 4, 4/2000)

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11 year-old girl had pain in abdomen since 5 years of age. Using the objective symptoms alone the

author prescribed Pulsatilla 6 with good improvement. Rubrics were: Complaint cannot describe, Gesture

folded hand, Answer with ndding, Mild, gentle and yielding.

59. Bryonia Case

MATHAROO H S (JH, 4, 4/2000)

A female with acute cholelithiasis sat on the bench with tight grip on her abdomen with both hands.

Least movement of the bench made her pains worse. Bryonia alba 30 relieved pain within 5 minutes.

60. Calc carb Case

PRAKASH Om (JH, 4, 4/2000)

45 year-old man had warts around the anus. Painful while walking due to friction. Had fear of getting

piles. Calcarea carbonicum 30 based on the rubrics: Anxiety with fear, Laughing spasmodically, Fear

disease of impending, Fear superstitious – warts dried off.

61. Camphor Case

PRAKASH Om (JH, 4, 4/2000)

6 year-old girl had cough, aggravation on lying down during night. Based on the desire to lie on floor

Camphor 30 was given which relieved.

62. Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Constitutional Approach

LOBO Anita (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

Aetiology and the pathogenesis with diagnostic evaluation are discussed in detail.

32 year-old male, had pain in gastro-intestinal tract of 10 years duration. Pricking pain in abdomen

with loose mucous offensive stools. Loose stools alternating with constipation. Aggravation in the

morning, fatty food, travelling. Pain in rectum while passing stool. Irritable, anxious with mental

depression as he was married to a woman with mental illness. Thirst increased, debilitating offensive

perspiration, stains the linen yellow. Craves hot food, sour things, meat and aversion for milk. Sleep

disturbed due to complaints and thoughts. General weakness and tiredness persistent. Ferrum metallicum

200/4 pills once in 3 days relieved.

63. Few Cases of Haemorrhoids

KRISHNAN Ranga (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

Case 1: A 35 year-old lady had severe pain in both legs. Aggravation walking even few steps. O/E veins

of both legs distended. Had piles and erratic bowel movments. Aesculus-hippocastanum 200 relieved.

Case 2: 25 year-old man had headaches, constipation, piles and occasional bleeding PR. Meat, bengal

gram, fluor items aggravated. Desires sweets. Initially he responded to Nux-vomica and Paeonia but the

relief failed to last long. Had marked symptom of sweating in the buttocks and anal region. Desired cold

atmosphere. Alumen 200/ 3 doses relieved. But there was recurrance of complaints. Lycopodium 200/3

doses didn’t give lasting effect. Again Alumen M with Hydrastis Q helped greatly.

Case 3: A 75 year-old lady had pain in rectum while passing stool and slightly protruding piles. Had pain

in the colon area and diagnosed to have Cancer rectum. Had past history of cysts in the liver and

masectomy due to Cancer. Based on the deeper pathology and the particular affinity for rectum Paeonia 30

a few doses given. Also she was given Paeonia Q, Phosphorus 200, Gaertner 200, Carcinosinum-

adenostomach 200. After an year, her clinical reports at Cancer hospital showed everything to be normal.

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Case 4: A 69 year-old male, had enlarged prostrate with bleeding piles which developed after straining to

micturate. Cancer and heamorrhagic tendency runs through the family. Urethral stricture removed by

surgery but on removal of catheter he had burning and scanty micturition. Had constant pain in anus due to

piles which prolasped even during urination. Based on the history of long hours of sitting, haemorrhagic

tendency, constant pain and trauma of the catheter, Arnica M/ 3 doses given which ameliorated pain

temporarily. The other remedies which gave lasting improvement were Chimaphila-umbellata Q Aesculus

200/3doses, Cobaltum 200, M, Carcinosinum 200 and Hamamelis Q.

64. Haemorrhoids, Fissure and Fistula

SIVARAMAN V K (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

Case 1: 38 year-old male had piles with pain in anus. Stools initially hard followed by soft stool. Piles

aggravation form flatulent food and fish. Avoids cold drinks. Tight feeling in abdomen alternating with

distended feeling after stools. Desires company but aggravation from crowd nad noise. Pre-mature

ejaculation during coition and constipation after coition. Lycopodium 200 weekly once for 3 months cured.

Case 2: 29 year-old female had piles with burning pain in rectum after stools, amelioration from hot

application and washing. Desires spices. Desire for loneliness, dislikes crowd, aggravation from noise, and

sunheadache lead to Sulphur. Sulphur 200 weekly one dose for 6 months releived.

Case 3: 30 year-old male had fissure in anus which aggravated on taking eggs and other non-vegetarian

foods. Headbath aggravation. Desires company. Calcarea carbonicum 200 weekly once cured in a few

months.

Case 4: A 25 year-old man had anal fissure with burning pain, bleeding, prolapse of rectum and

constiptaion.

More irritable during summer. Desire for company and loneliness depending on his mood. Nux vomica

200 weekly once for 4 months relieved.

Case 5: 40 year-old male, had fistula-in-anowith bleeding and pussy discharge. Pain in penis during

discharge. Urination more after coition. Palpitation aggravation lying on left sideand from loss of sleep.

Desire for company. Aggravation from noise, crowd. Sepia 200 once a week for 7 months gave good

result.

65. Two sides of the same coin

GOVINDARAJAN Raji (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

Case 1: 26 year-old young man had profuse bleeding per rectum. He is mentally retarded and has

congenital hydrocephalus. The mother was vaccinated for small pox during third month of pregnancy.

Fair, tall, slim and good-looking. Very affectionate, happy, cheerful and behaves like a 5 year old boy.

Likes to take care of other children in special school and his father who is bed-ridden due to Parkinson.

Though mentally retarded he was capable of reacting to both joy and sorrow. His father’s illness affected

him much. Infrequent doses of Phosphorus 30, 200, & M helped in reducing the bleeding. O/E rectum – a

mass (size of lemon) half filled with solid matter and the other with fluid. Thuja 30 in repeated doses

completely shrinked the cyst.

Case 2: 71 year-old man, a bachelor who took care of his parents, brothers and sisters. Very helpful, warm

and affectionate. Desires reading, painting, lot of meditation and visiting temples. Had profuse bleeding per

rectum due to haemorrhoids. Bleeding even while passing flatus. Flatus hot. Pain during and after stool.

Distension of abdomen after eating. Carbo vegetabilis 30 repeated doses and Phosphorus 30/5 doses one

daily relieved.

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66. A Case of Rectal Polyp

PARTHASARATHY Vishpala (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

27 year-old male, had poor appetite which developed after irregular eating habit. Uneasy, raw, sand

paper like feel; bitter taste and bloated abdomen. Aggravation from fatty food, butter, bread, eggs.

Amelioration leaning back, loose clothes, exercise, fasting. Stools are small, dark, with not-done feeling.

Sigmoidoscopy revealed rectal polyp. Diagnosed to have Amoebic Colitis. Patchy hair loss on chin, 2

circular spots of about 1½ cms – totally devoid of hair. Craves alcohol, beer, black coffee, fish and sweets.

Impatient, irritable, frustrated easily, suppressed anger. Constantly thinks about future and plans for it.

Takes work seriously. Very fastidious. Talks hurriedly and excitedly. Likes winter and dry weather. Nux

vomica 30, 200 gave temporary relief and Sulphur as Constitutional remedy helped. Though Tuberculinum

M and Carcinosin M given considering Alopecia, they did not produce any change.

67. Psychosomatic Concept of Ano-Rectal Disease

BALIGA Amitha (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

Case 1: 35 year-old male had fissure in the anus. Severe pain with burning and hard stool. Dark red

bleeding, aggravation during and after stool, worry, meat, sitting, amelioration cool breeze, washing with

cold water. Death of 2 brothers produced much grief. Much attached to family members but due to his job

he went away from the family. Anticipatory anxiety about the future, irritable, indecisive, likes company,

amelioration consolation. Timid, fear of snakes, Craves sweets, cold food. Aversion to sour food and meat.

Perspiration in head and legs. Sulphur 200 relieved the pain and Pulsatilla 200 given as constitutional

remedy.

Case 2: 46 year-old male had an ano-rectal mass which protrudes during stool then recedes back.

Constipation with ineffectual urging and dissatisfied feeling. Bleeding present. Developed after prolonged

mental stress due the criticisms of his mother and his sisters. Irritable, violent, abusive, quarrelsome.

Responsible and careful with perfectionism. Aggravation from contradictions. Craves meat, fish, tea and

coffee. Thirsty, perspiration on head. Nux vomica 200, M weekly for 3 months with Sulphur 200/2 doses

inbetween relieved.

68. Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Ulcerative Colitis: A Common Thread

VENKATARAMAN (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

The author presents four cases were anxiety, worry and depression are present along with either

ulcerative colitis or irritable bowel syndrome.

Case 1: 36 year-old male, diagnosed as Idopathic Procto Colitis had bloody stools with frequent urging and

unfinished sensation. Wife lives seperately due to some misunderstanding.

Case 2: 47 year-old male had frequent urge to defecate, difficult to control. Stool pasty, semisolid and

offensive. Occult bloody stool with mucus. Has 14 year-old mentally retarded child.

Case 3: 27 year-old man had frequent stools, pasty, sticky, semisolid, must sit for a long time to clear,

unfinished feeling. Worries much about his health condition.

Case 4: 58 year-oldwoman had severe burning in abdomen with painful stool, either constipation or loose

stool. Underwent Hysterectomy, cholecystectomy, Appendicectomy and omentectomy and was diagnosed

as ulcerative colitis. Had severe depression without apparent cause. Had Hypertension and peptic ulcer.

All these patients received Aloes, Argentum mitricum, Mercurius corrocivus, Nitricum acidum,

Pulsatilla and Sulphur.

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69. A Case of Opium

PAWASKAR Navin (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

60 year-old male had balanitis. Stocky person with grey hairs. Intolerant of hunger, desires cold water,

tasty food, alcohol. O/E – fibrosis, sensation prepuce not retractable, Glans – red, raw, tender++. Anger

from least contradiction, Fear of death, Trance, Rudeness, Contended, Meditation, Indignation, discomfort

from general, Egotism, self-esteem, Hatred and revenge, Courageous, Earnestness, Benevolence, Rage,

fury, Dictatorial, domineering, dogmatic, despotic. Opium 200 weekly for about 6 months helped.

70. Opium – My understanding

PARTHASARATHY Vishpala (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

The author has given the primary, secondary and tertiary stages of the remedy followed by a case

presentation.

71.

IV. REPERTORY

1. Clemens v. Bönninghausen und di Sicherheit der Arzneinnerordnung - 156 Jahre Therapeutisches

Jaschenbuch (Clemens von BOENNINGHAUSEN and the certainty of remedy prescription - 156th

year of the Therapeutic Pocketbook)

HOLZAPFEL, K. (ZKH, 44, 4/2000)

A revised edition of the Therapeutic Pocket Book has been published in May 2000, 155 years after

the first publication. The reliability of the original as well as this new edition is examined with the aid of a

handwritten copy as also the ‘DUNHAM copy’ containing additions.

The Systematic Alphabetic Repertory of Homoeopathic medicines, BOGER’s Boenninghausen

Characteristics and Repertory and other ‘sources’ have also been studied in this connection.

Photocopies of some pages further manuscripts originals of which are in possession of the Institute for

History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, have been given.

2. Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Repertorien und Materia Medica (Corrections of the Repertories and

Materia Medica)

ANDERSCH-HARTNER, P. (ZKH, 44, 4/2000)

Wrong entries of Calc-p.

Sexual desire, insatiable after menses. Calc-p. (SR. III, p. 607 - source KNERR)

Source:

Calc-p.: “After menses, sexual excitement, insatiable desire; Calc-p.” (KNERR, p.667) Such a symptom is

not found in the GS we are find following symptom in the modality otherwise.

“Nymphomania; all organs in erection, with insatiable desire, particularly before catamenia” (GS, vol. 3, p.

232)

“Before catamenia: Great sexual desire, followed by a copious flow.” (GS, vol. 3, p. 232)

Sexual desire, increased, after menses: Calc-p. (SR III, p.605 - source KNERR and BOGER -, CR. P. 1517)

Source’ In KNERR this symptom was found with the modality “after menses” (KNERR p. 667)>

“Menstruation, concomitants after menses, sex instinct: Calc-p. (BB, p. 686).

Possibly a wrong modality has been obtained from the KNERR repertory and from there into the SR - the

source GS however points out that the modality is “before menses” and not “after menses.” Only the

modality in the BB, p. 686 agrees with the modality in the SR. In the I edition of BB in 1905 no rubric as

“sex instinct” is found. Evidently this was added by the editor of the II edition of BB. The entry in the

reprint of the BB later is therefore to be viewed skeptically.

Wrong entry of Carbn-h

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In the English Edition of the Dictionary of Materia Medica by CLARKE (vol. I p. 409) under Carbn-h

“Characteristics” is given: “amel by open air (vertigo, convulsions).”

When compared with the modality in the EN, it is otherwise: “After making a few steps into the open air,

his head became giddy, his knees trembled, and he had just sufficient power to throw himself on the grass.”

EN, II p. 606. Sy. No. 164).

In the MM itself CLARKE says under “Head”, “Vertigo agg. Going into open air...” (vol I, p. 403)

Further in the chapter “Characteristics” in vol. I p. 409 the modality is correctly given as agg.

A study of the symptoms of Carbn-h and Carbn-o in the EN shows surprisingly a ‘Sleep’ symptom is given

exactly similarly under both the remedies - even though the symptom sources are different. “Sleep

prolonged and very deep, interrupted by cramps in the jaws and toes” (Carbn-h. EN. II, p. 609, Sy, No.

185). As against this the Carbn-o symptom: “Sleep deep and prolonged, interrupted by cramps in cheek

and toes” (EN. II, p. 616, Sy. No. 349)

While an appropriate entry of Carb-h is not found in the repertories, under Carbn-o, in SR III, p. 49, CR, p.

223): Sleep, interrupted, Cramps, toes.” As Source SR mentions the Index of EN wherein in p. 979, vol.

XII Carbn-h - not Carbn-o - is found. Although Carbn-o is given in the MM Section of the EN (Sy. No.

349) with a similar symptom there is entry of this in the Index to the EN

Evidently the Proving of Carbn-h. is not free from errors: the Proving Symptom No. 185 (EN, p. 609) of

the Prover GAERTNER comes from a poisoning in Coal Damp state - footnote p. 606 - explains it as a

blending with Carborous oxide. How much of the symptom was influenced by oxide content can only be

guessed. Better would be to ignore the symptoms of provers 2 - 16 in the EN, since pure Carbn-h. was

there.

Wrong entries of Carbn-s

Skin eruptions, Herpes : Carbn-s. (CR, p. 2362, K. 1314)

Carbn-s: Source in EN , GS, negative

Carbn-o: “Herpes zoster on the left side of the face along the course of the trigeminus, ...” (EN. II, p. 616.

Sy. No. 338)

In CR besides Carbn-s (source KENT) also Carbn-o. (Source BOERICKE): Search in this connection in

the BOERICKE MM positive. (P. 175)

Fever, child bed fever, Carbn-s. (CR, P. 2320, K. p. 1289 (sic!)

Carbn-s.: source in EN, GS. Negative.

Carb-ac.: “Involuntary stools of intolerable odour Puerperal fever” (GS, vol. 3, p. 389)

“Puerperal fever” (GS, vol. 3, p. 388)

“Puerperal fever;...” (GS, vol. 3, p. 388) CR (p. 2320) has besides Carbn-s. also Carb-ac. Possibly

incorrect entry in Repertory should be Carb-ac., in the Repertory.

Extremities, skin, cracked, hands: Carbn-s., (sic!) (KD, m. z, p. 427, CR, p. 1875, K.970).

Carbn-s.: Source verification negative in GS and EN (vol. 2 and 10)

Carb-ac.: “Chilblains and chapped hands” (GS, vol. 3 p. 396)

Possibly this is confusion of remedy Carbn-s. and Carb-ac.

Wrong entry of a modality of Lac-c. in the Materia Medica

In the MM of nosodes of H. C. ALLEN, under Lac-c. p. 87 there is a contradictory modality:

“Cough from tickling in the upper anterior part of larynx, amel. talking and lying down” - and in the next

line- “Cough caused by irritation in upper part of throat, agg. lying down at night also after eating and

drinking and after talking....”

When GS is consulted both the above symptoms in H. C. ALLEN are found including the modality but the

first symptom has opposite modality.

Similarly “Lying down: Cough agg.” (GS, vol. VI, p. 538)

In view of the source GS, giving the modality as “agg.” It remains same in H.C. ALLEN’s MM which in

respect of this cough symptom is wrong.

In this connection the repertorial rubrics agree with the GS in respect of the following repertories. CR p.

1606 and 1619, K, p. 796 and 807.

Wrong entries of Lac-c

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Morning, morning of one day and the afternoon of the next: lac-c. (SR, II, p. 3 - Source BOGER, CR, p.

2409)

A corresponding entry is found in the Indian Reprint edition of BB (p. 1103) - but is missing in the 1st

edition of the BB.

Source verification:

Lac-c.: “Aggravation in the morning of one day and evening of the next “ (H. C. ALLEN, p. 52)

“Worse morning of one day and evening of the next” (C. M. BOGER: A Synoptic Key to the MM, p.

227)

This entry in Synoptic Key is identical with that in the 4th edition of the Synoptic Key revised by

BOGER.

Similarly in BB and also in SR and CR a wrong entry and it should be “evening” instead of the “afternoon”

Faintness, pressure in waist, by: lac-c. (SR, II, p. 201)

According to KNERR (p. 1019) as also GS (vol. VI, p. 557, section “Touch”), lac-c. in SR in this rubric

must be replaced by lac-d. - which is correctly entered in the CR (p. 2479).

Remedy error Lapa-lappa

Pulse intermittent: lapa (SR II, p. 542 - Source EN; CR, p. 2591)

Source verification:

lapa.: In the index of the EN a corresponding entry confirms. “Pulse intermittent” (EN, vol. 12, p. 897),

there it is “lap.” (Which is the abbreviation in the EN for Lapattum)

In the MM section no corresponding rubric, symptom (EN, vol. 5).

lappa.: “The pulse becomes fuller and slower, but seldom more than three pulsations without any

intermission.” (EN, vol. 10, p. 571)

“Extremely rapid pulse, with frequent intermissions” (EN, vol. 10, p. 571)

An erroneous entry in the Index of the EN has been taken in the SR and CR. lapa. must be corrected as

lappa.

Pulse frequent: lapa (SR, II, p. 531 - source EN; CR. P. 2588)

Source verification:

lapa: Source verification positive in Index of EN (vol. 12, p. 898). “Pulse quick: lap.” - but negative in the

MM part of the EN (vol. 5)

lappa: Extremely rapid pulse, with frequent intermissions” (EN, vol. 10, p. 571)

In the SR and CR lapa may be corrected as lappa.

Possibly an erroneous entry of lyc.

Mind, fear, may not reach his destination: lyc. (CR p. 191; K 44, SR I p. 492)

Source verification: “Weariness and exhaustion while walking, so that he feared that he would be unable to

reach his destination at 5 p. m.” (EN, vol. 6, p. 53, Sy. No. 2466)

Likely this is the basis of this medicinal proving symptom (no other corresponding symptom is to be found

in the EN, GS, CK). It may be that the prover because of his extreme weakness came to the conclusion

(clearly justified) whether he would be able to make the remaining distance by foot and reach his

destination by 1700hrs., in which case lyc. in the above rubric appears alright.

Remedy confusion and Sed-ac. - Sed-t.

Menses, copious: Sed-ac. (SR III, p. 532. Source O. BOERICKE, CR. P. 1479)

Source verification:

Mennorrhagia: Sedum (abbreviated in this way) O. BOERICKE, p. 836.

Sed-ac.: A corresponding symptom is not to be found in the MM section of W. BOERICKE (p. 581, 582,

523)

Sed-t.: Uterine haemorrhages, also of bowels and rectum, menorrhagia, especially at climateric” (W.

BOERICKE, p. 581)

In SR and CR Sed-ac. should be corrected to Sed-t.

V. PHARMACOLOGY

1. Potentization and Potency: A Scientific view

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SHARMA Rati Ram (JH, 4, 4/2000)

The homoeo-cure of author’s wife aroused his scientific curiosity and did experiments in rats. Only the

dynamised medicine brought good results. Explains the mechanism of dynamisation in brief.

VI. VETERINARY

1. KEYLOR: An End of Life Story

LEVY Jeff (HT, 20, 2/2000)

14 year-old KEYLOR had adenocarcinoma in the left anal gland. Had perhaps six to eight weeks to

live. Carboneum sulphuratum maintained him and basically showed no signs of cancer. However the

tumour continued to grow slowly. After 5 months, felt restless during night, yelping, and frequent need to

urinate, and seemed unhappy. Arsenicum album 200 worsened him. Euphorbium was found in both the

rubrics: Generalities: Pain in cancerous affections” with remedies that antidote Arsenicum. The author did

not have the remedy and hence he picked some “garden spurge” ground it in a mortar and pestle with

vodka, diluted it about 1:100, succussed it about 100 times, made a second dilution, and gave it to him.

Within a minute, he put his head down and went to sleep. A higher potency was given which caused

distension of his abdomen and couldn’t stand up any more. The author gave him the injection that ended

his life.

It is not always Ignatia for grief, Arnica for injuries, and Arsenicum at the end of life, there are other

remedies to consider in any of those situations.

Another good lesson from this experience is that the universe provides what we need if only we can see

it before us.

2. A Terrier With a Tumour

JENSEN Wendy (HT, 20, 3/2000)

A six year-old male Cairn terrier with a cutaneous lump (0.5 x 1.0 cm) on his throat pigmented dark

purple diagnosed as a hemangioma. Prior to this, Sulphur was give for summer itching which also cleared

up the yellow foamy bile vomiting when he skipped meals. Overwieght. Fear of vacuum cleaner and if the

furniture is moved, fear of ghost. Had an oily coat and liked ice cubes. Lachesis M cured.

3. A Case of Crotalus Horridus

PARTHASARATHY Vishpala (NJH, 2, 4/2000)

A pet dog had some bleeding spots in the mouth and bleeding per rectum. There was profuse bleeding.

The veterinarian gave him a shot of Teramycin, prescribed antibiotics and haematinics. But the dog being

the author’s pet, she stopped antibiotics and started with homoeopathic medicines. Crotalus horridus 200,

2 hourly for the first day followed by 4 hourly on the next day etc. By fifth day the bleeding stopped

completely and the colour of the stool turned from black to yellow. Tuberculinum M, 3 doses were given in

between. The blood investigations which were during the bleeding episode on 14-10-00 RBC: 3.85

million/cc; morphology – abnormal 1+: WBC Total 20,000/cc Differential - Band cell – 5, N 72 L 16 B 07

Platelets 10,000/ul (N = 150,000 – 3, 00, 000). Urine showed Bile pigments ++; SGPT – 26 (N). On 6 –

11- 00 Hb 12.5 WBC 8,200. N67 L27 E1, M5, RBC 5.60 Platelets 288,000/ul.

VII. EDUCATION

VIII. RESEARCH

1. Statistical Analysis of the Effect of High Dilutions of Arsenic in a Large Dataset from a Wheat

Germination model.

(M.BRIZZI, D.NANI, M.PERUZZI & L.BETTI, BHJ, 89, 2/2000)

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This paper describes the statistical analysis of a series of experiments using a simple biological model

(wheat germination in vitro), where a large number of wheat seeds were treated with homeopathic

potencies of Arsenic trioxide. Some potencies, such As

2

O

3

40x, 42x and 45x, have repeatedly shown a

significant stimulating effect on germination compared to controls, whereas As

2

O

3

35x has a significant

inhibiting effect. In some experiments the seeds were stressed before the experiment with a sublethal dose

of the same substance. We performed a statistical analysis, both for stressed and non-stressed seed groups,

using Poison distribution as a suitable model for representing the number of non-germinated seeds in a

standard experiment with 33 seeds in the same Petri dish. Finally, we have considered the most repeated

potencies (30x and 45x), computing the sample odds ratio (OR) and a 95% confidence interval (CI) for the

population OR. Our results show significant reproducible effects of some As

2

O

3

45x. In stressed seeds,

even decimal potencies of water seem to give significant results compared to control, whereas high dilutions

of As

2

O

3

without potentization never show significant effects.

2. Patient Benefit Survey: Tunbridge Wells Homoeopathic Hospital

(CLOVER, A. BHJ, 89, 2/2000)

We report an outcome study concerning patients treated by homeopathic medicine at the Tunbridge

Wells Homoeopathic Hospital for the whole of 1997. The study aimed to assess: (a) the range of diagnoses

presented by patients, and (b) patients’ own impressions of benefit. 1372 questionnaires were completed by

patients after consultations to record their impressions of the effects of homeopathic treatment. Patients

were asked to score their responses on a + 3 to - 3 scale. The three main diagnostic groups were,

dermatology, musculo-skeletal disorders, and malignant disease, especially carcinoma of the breast.

Overall, 74% of patients recorded positive benefits, with 55% recording scores of +3 or +2.

3. Effectiveness Research in Homoeopathy: Report from the London Conference

JACOBS Jennifer (HT, 20, 2/2000)

The conference was converged on:

1. Improving the Success of Homoeopathy

2. Developing and Demonstrating Effectiveness.

The meeting was held to stimulate work and discussion around evidence-based research in

homoeopathy. Evidence-based research looks at practical results in typical clinical settings, rather the

ivory-tower type of research that creates artificial and ideal conditions in a study. In homoeopathy,

evidence-based research is a natural fit. Rather than looking at the results of specific laboratory tests, we

look at the whole person. Cost and safety issues are also part of effective research, both areas in which

homoeopathy could be expected to have an advantage.

Dr. Flavio DANTES, a professor of homoeopathy and mdical ehics in brazil, presente the results of his

expensive review of the literature on the side effects of homoeopathic medicines. He concluded that side

effects are rarely reported and often not distinuguished from aggravations. He urged the international

community to begin a standarized collection system for evidence about which homoeopathic remedies are

most likely to cause adverse effects and at which potencies.

4. Effect of Homoeopathic Drug Phosphorus 30 on Carbon Tetrachloride Induced Hepatotoxicity in Rats.

BEGUM Rasheedunnisa (IJHM , 33, 1/2000)

Studies were carried out to explore the hepatoprotective action of Phosphorus 30 on CCI4 induced

hepatitis. Moderate CCI4 toxicity was induced in rats. The drug Phosphorus 30 could not effect the serum

ALT activity, however the drug showed significant decrease in liver ALT activity of CCI4 intoxicated rats.

Histologically the drug showed marked recovery of the liver damage.

IX. HISTORY

X. GENERAL

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1. The Choice of Homoeopathic models: The Patient’s dilemma MACEOIN Denis (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

An interesting article which exposes the patient’s dilemma in a very detailed manner.

Patient’s as their name implies have restricted freedom of action. They depend on practitioners for

advice as to treatment options, and for whatever range of treatments is available to them. The extent of

patient freedom is, of course, dependent on a number of factors, many of them political and, therefore, in

theory, open to patient manipulation: whether medicine is state-subsidized, private, or financed by some

system of health insurance; the level of individual education; the availability of information in the media,

libraries, and public education courses; and so on.

The alternative medical market presents particular problems to the patient. Whereas orthodox practice

tends to be physician-driven, with an establishment (medical schools, royal collages, medical associations,

etc.) determining what is proper practice at any given time, and patients accorded relatively few

opportunities for genuinely informed consent, to the extent that the system itself provides relatively few

options, the alternative scene is patient-directed and burdened by the problem of choice.

The first choice facing most patients is that of therapy. For many people, the decision to visit an

alternative practitioner is poorly formulated and prompted by necessity (orthodox treatment has not worked,

and symptoms persist), fear (orthodox treatment can offer no cure for a chronic for a chronic or fatal

condition), or dissatisfaction (the GP or consultant is responsive to patient demand). Few people which of

the many alternative systems available will be likely to benefit their particular condition. They may know

the names of only one or two such systems, and know less of how they work, and they will probably have

no idea how best to find competent practitioner.

Such dilemmas are normally pragmatically.

Coming from a situation of absolute or relative ignorance the patient is faced with considerable

problems of adjustment.

It is clearly not enough for patients simply to take whatever medicines they have been given, or to be

manipulated, or to receive acupuncture, etc. Most alternative systems require a little more. The first and

most obvious area for the exercise of further initiative will be deciding whether or not the practitioner has

after all been the right choice.

The patient still has a lot of work to do. There may be changes in life-style, diet, or habits to make.

A failure to communicate properly will often lead both patient and physician into mutual

incomprehension. The author remembers being treated for quite a long time by a doctor homoeopath who

put him on all sorts of bizarre exclusion diets and tested him for numerous allergies. It was only after nearly

two years without progress on any level that he began to understand that what was happening had little to do

with homoeopathy, and that the doctor in question considered herself to be a clinical ecologist, albeit one

using homoeopathic remedies often in bizarre ways.

So there is chances of getting disillusioned with homoeopathy and other alternative systems because of

such failures in communication.

Assuming that issues of demarcation (homoeopathy versus Clinical ecology, Homoeopathy versus

herbalism, homoeopathy versus allopathy, homoeopathy versus isopathy) have to be tackled, things should,

in theory, run more s monthly. In practice, of course, they may not. There is a very basic problem of how

far to take patient education. All medical practitioners, orthodox and unorthodox alike, are obliged to tread

a fine line between keeping their patients in ignorance and giving them information with which they may

inadvertently do themselves harm or impede their treatment.

In the case of homoeopathy, it is obvious that a poorly-informed patient may become a liability to

himself. It is at the very least important to understand; what constitutes a dose, and why; the nature of

homoeopathic aggravation, should it occur; the direction of cure; suppression; and the need for patients in

awaiting results.

But somewhere around this point we enter a more difficult area. Not all homoeopaths practice alike.

As far as distinctions may be made, there are classical and non-classical homoeopaths, high- and low-

potency prescribers, constitutional and routinist practitioners, and advocates of single and complex

remedies. Normally, the patient will have come into the hands of one or another of these without being

aware that he has done so, and that other approaches exist. As far as he or she is concerned, the practitioner

is a homoeopath tout simple.

Well, choosing the right sort of homoeopath is obviously not just a banal matter of consumer choice.

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A final dilemma facing some patients is the medical competence of a practitioner. Medical competence

does not stand in isolation from other factors. Eminent among these must be the philosophical stance of the

homoeopath.

Put in the simplest terms, there is a sharp division between those practitioners whose approach is, shall

we say, “scientific,” and those who subscribe to some degree of occult or “New Age” belief. The division

in Homoeopathy has been eloquently analyzed by Anthony CAMPBELL, in his well-researched study, The

Two Faces of Homoeopathy, to which the interested reader is referred.

On the one hand, there are homoeopaths whom are considered to be most committed to the ideal of

providing a real alternative to suppressive orthodox treatment and to making homoeopathy available to the

public as an integral, and not integrated, system of medicine, but many of whom insist on mixing it up with

a congeries of doctrines and ideas which are bunkum and likely to alienate the majority of patients and

would-be patients, and the whole of the medical establishment.

On the other hand, there are homoeopaths who share rationalist view of the universe, are guided by

broadly scientific principles rather than esoteric dogma, and are in a position to advance the cause of

Homoeopathy within the ranks of medical and scientific orthodoxy, yet whose training, professional

interests, and career prospects make it difficult for them to advocate the kind of radical alternative that

many patients demand.

[The author - a former lecturer in Arabic and Islamic studies and a specialist on Shiíite Islam, his academic

work has also involved extensive studies of mysticism and New Religious Movements.]

2. Fads in homoeopathy

LEE John (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

This article deals with the various fads which have come and gone in homoeopathy throughout the last

two decades. Some of them are:

1. In 1995, there was a talk about Milliem potencies, remedies made by one part in 1,000 instead of 100.

Several prominent homoeopaths wanted to try this, but no pharmacy wanted to remake all the remedies

again.

2. In 1992, Robin MURPHY introduced Aqua Pura as a panacea. Popular for several weeks but now in

cobweb encrusted box, untouched for years.

3. In 1980, New Styles of analysis - like the Circle of Elements, where symptoms in the case are supported

to represent either earth, air, fire or water and match this to a remedy with the same affinity.

4. Jan SCHOLTEN, FARRINGTON, BORLAND and others have contributed some ideas on utilizing the

periodic table of elements to find the remedy. Combination of elements that cannot possibly exists in

nature, such as Helium chloride and Aurum fluoricum or ridiculous combinations such as Yttrium

molybdenum sulfate are being ordered. Hundreds of possible compounds are stocked with very few

orders.

5. Astro-Homoeopathy! Birthdate and a check is enough to get a prescription. Advertisements claiming

that there are remedies available to remove karmic blocks abound!

6. In 1999, the new fad is Bio-Resonance machine - by plugging the patient to a machine we get the

prescription.

7. As per the SEGHAL method, the first words that patient utters on entering the consultation room

indicates the remedy. e. g. “OOPS-a-diasy!” then Bellis perrenis is the remedy.

8. An artistic prescribing fad - where a Spanish patient, a website designer, say “I am in a spin,” and be

given Tarentula hispanica without hesitation?

9. In mid-90’s, Prithan SINGH’s miasmatic Homoeopathy, with ascending and descending potencies, had

a brief flurry of interest.

10. In 1996, SANKARAN’s Substance of Homoeopathy came out, complete with four tapes as one

section of the book was concerned with music provings. Supposed to meditate to the Indian music

and undergo a music proving. Few tried and got only a headache. But soon, these music provings were

all conveniently forgotten.

11. George VITHOULKAS - Materia Medica viva, starting at “A,” was heralded as the new, indispensable

multivolume materia medica, which has remained unfinished. Really bad luck if we need

Hyoscyamus, and even worse if you need Zingiber, as we could be in for a long wait!

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12. In 1998, Conte! Just spit in a vial and all the high tech machinery analyzes and prescribes a remedy

through sophisticated physics that only gifted could ever understand.

13. In meditative provings, “provers” sit around a vial and channel remedy information psychically through

spirit guides. Some remedies have been proved meditatively and this has produced meditatively and

this has produced symptoms and ideas totally different from when the same remedy was proved

classically.

14. Intention! Forget physical remedies, and just “intend” the remedies to the patient.

3. The Life and Work of Frederick HAHNEMANN, Son of Samuel HAHNEMANN

LITTLE David (AH, 6/2000)

Fredericke HAHNEMANN (1786 - ?)

The story of the son of Samuel HAHNEMANN, Fredericke HAHNEMANN is one of mystery,

madness and genius. Fredericke HAHNEMANN was born in Dresden, Germany on November 30, 1786.

He was always an anxiety to his parents due to his poor health. As a child he suffered from a rickets -like

disease which left him high-chested and with a curvature Of spine. In 1799, the hostility of the apothecaries

and physicians drove HAHNEMANN from Konigslutter. On the road, the HAHNEMANN family met with

a terrible accident in which their large carriage overturned and the entire family injured. On of the girl’s leg

was broken. Frederick’s spine was possibly broken (HERING’s account) and his younger baby brother died

from his injuries.

It seems the combination of Frederick’s congenital weakness and possible spinal injury left him

hunchback. Although his frame was weak, he had a brilliant mind and mastered many languages and

sciences. He passed his degree in medicine in 1810 at the age of 24 and began the practice of

homoeopathic healing arts. In the following year, he was chosen by his father to answer the bitter criticism

of the first edition of the Organon.

As time went on, Fredericke became more and more eccentric in his appearance and behavior. He did

not cut his hair nor beard, always wore Oriental clothes, did not mix with Society, and often withdrew into

his own world. From 1818 onward, his letters began to show traces of temporary mental disturbance,

causing his father to cry in 1819, “My poor son is certainly insane!.”

Fredericke eventually moved to a small town called Wolkenstein in the Erzgebrige where he bought the

chemist’s shop. In no time he had such a large following that patients sometimes had to wait for days for

their turn. The mad genius was loved by his patients and despised by his critics.

The author further gives the great man’s like HUMPHREY, HARTMANN, Richard HAEHL, William

WESSELHOEFT, accounts of Fredericke each in their own words.

The allopathic conspiracy against Fredericke and how he helped in the cholera epidemic in Mississippi

valley is also given in detail.

4. Dr. HERING’s Preface

(AH, 6/2000)

The article is - Dr. HERING’s preface to HAHNEMANN’s Chronic Diseases. Taken from an old

volume in the library of Francis TREUBERZ. Dr. HERING gives much details about the psoric miasm,

anti-psoric remedies and an abstract from “Guide to the Progressive Development of Homoeopathy”

which deals particularly with his ‘Law of the Direction of Cure.’

At the end Dr. Hempel gives a brief note on HERING’s article.

XI. BOOKS

1. Hahnemann Revisited: A Textbook of Classical Homoeopathy for the Professional by

SCHEPPER L D. Full of Life Publications, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Published in June 1999. 573

pages, $100. Reviewed by MORREL Peter (SIM, XIII, 3/2000): “This new, large-format textbook is

composed of three sections: “The Foundations,” “The Healing Process,” and “The Chronic Miasms,”

divided into 25 chapters and four appendices. It also contains 44 diagrams. This is undoubtedly an

important new textbook that is comprehensive, detailed and authoritative. It provides the reader with a

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sound introductory grounding in every aspect of Homoeopathy, apart from Materia Medica, although it

does give some brief guidance on that too. It is supplemented by detailed information on case analysis

(replete with numerous examples), Miasms, Nosodes and LM potencies. It is rounded off with a useful

bibliography and a “further reading” section.

“This book gives a very clear and detailed exposition of some topics only previously explored

superficially, if at all, by other authors.

It is especially valuable in its detailed treatment of LM potencies, which will be welcomed by all

students. A detailed description about this topic is also given in the same issue of Simillimum. Extracts

from this section are: HAHNEMANN developed LM potencies at the end of his life to accelerate the cure

while minimizing aggravations, because he felt that aggravations caused by centesimal potencies caused too

much suffering for the patient. Being a master pharmacist, he developed a technique for making the

remedies deeper and faster acting while at the same time more gentle.

LMs are also called Q potencies, both of which refer to the 1 in 50,000 dilution. (L and M are the

Roman numerals for 50 and 1000 respectively, while Q is an abbreviation for “quinquagintamiillesimal,”

derived from the Latin quinquagesimus [50th] and millesimus [thousandth]). The specific potencies are

notated 0/1, 0/2, or 1/0, 2/0, or Q1, Q2, etc in which the 0 stands for the tiny poppy seed granules on which

they are prepared. Sometimes the notation LM is used to mean 50M in the progression 1M, 10M, LM,

100M. In that case LM means 50,000C, which is entirely different from LM or Q potencies, as will be

explained in detail below. In brief, LM potencies are diluted one in 50,000 times but succussed 100 times

at each step. A 50,000C would be diluted 100 times and succussed 100 times at each step, and the process

repeated 50,000 times - a much higher dose, especially in terms of succussions.

The Myth of Aggravations

Why do we advocate using LMs to avoid aggravations? Some homeopaths believe that an aggravation

is necessary in order to procure a healing.

Most homoeopaths practicing today treat chronic diseases with high centesimal potencies such as

200C, 1M and 10M and actually look for an aggravation to demonstrate that the remedy is working. ...They

attribute this approach to KENT, which is why I refer this method as Kentian Prescribing. But in fact

KENT himself did not approve of bringing about aggravations, as we can see in his Lesser Writings:

“Keep the mild potency as long as it works. It is not well to jump degrees. The best action is the slight

aggravation, the ideal one is the one that does not aggravate but ameliorate. We do not seek to produce an

aggravation, that is not the best, not the longest curative effect.

An aggravation is the primary action of the remedy which is so strong that it represses the secondary

curative response from the Vital Force for a longer or shorter period. This will slow down the cure.

Historical background... explains the source of discord in potencies.

How the sixth edition of Organon came to light and the LM pontencies are put into practice by Dr.

Charles Pahud of France and then by the famous homoeopath Dr. Pierre SCHMIDT of Geneva are detailed.

How the LMs are made, Details of making LM 2 from LM 1, Making the remedy solution bottle,

Standard succussions for the Non-Sensitive Patient, Dosage and administration for a non-sensitive patient,

Adjustments for the hypersensitive patient, Advantages of LM Potencies vs. The Centesimal scale are all

given in detail.

Practical advice for LM Prescribing

Adjust for hypersensitives: Ascertain the sensitivity of the patient by asking them whether they have

previously aggravated on homoeopathic remedies; whether they are sensitive to environmental chemicals,

fumes, or weather changes; whether they have difficulty coming out of anasthesia; whether they typically

reduce their dosage of allopathic medicine to ½ or ¼ the recommended amount; and/or whether they tend to

have allergic reactions to vitamins and herbs. If you suspect the patient is hypersensitive, it is better to be

conservative and give her an eight ounce bottle with two succussions. The worst that can happen is that the

cure takes a little longer than it otherwise would. For example, you tell the patient to do two succussions

and it turns out she needs four. If you err in the other direction, and tell a patient to use four succussions

when they really need two, the resulting aggravations will slow down the process of cure much more.

Remember than an LM is much more powerful than 30C (which why I have seen that a hypersensitive

could tolerate 30C but not an LM 1, two succussions). So if the vitality and sensitivity is such that one

would be concerned about giving a 30C, then do not give LMs in a normal dose. Use eight or sixteen ounce

bottles with two succussions, dilute in several cups if needed, give one dose as a test dose and repeat only if

necessary.

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Giving an initial test dose: When starting a new remedy, give a test dose by asking the patient to take one

dose and then skip the following day so that he has a full 48 hours to observe the effect. Make sure that the

patient does not interfere with this first dose (by avoiding coffee and starting any other new modality or a

new diet at this time) and see how the reaction compares to the (following) three scenarios... Assuming that

you have chosen the right remedy, the first possibility is a strong positive reaction such that the patient feels

an extra amount of nervous energy (taking off like a rocket). Much as the patient might like this, stop the

remedy for several days and reduce the amount of succussions because it means that the dosage is too

strong and will lead to an aggravation. Normally the number of succussion is reduced by two (e.g. from

eight to six) if there is an aggravation. But in this case you can consider reducing much more, e.g. from

eight to four or even two, depending on how intense the reaction is.

A second scenario is a similar aggravation: stop the remedy until the aggravation is over and adjust the

succussions and/or the amount given. (Consider adjusting the succussions down to two if the reaction is

intense, as in the first scenario.) The third scenario is the ideal one, the “Driving Miss Daisy” response: a

gentle beneficial reaction (a sense of well-being, sleeping longer and deeper, etc.). There may or may not

be any improvement in the Chief Complaint at this point. The patient can then resume the remedy at the

same number of succussions. A fourth possibility.... is a striking improvement in the patient’s chief

complaint. In this case, HAHNEMANN said do not repeat until the improvement stops, which can take

several days or even weeks. (A final scenario is not a reflection on the potency but on the choice of a

remedy: a dissimilar aggravation indicates that the remedy and the case must be re-analyzed.)

There are several ways of adjusting, by decreasing or increasing the following:

1. The number of succussions

2. The amount of water in the solution bottle, by using an eight ounce or 16 ounce bottle

3. The dilution (number of teaspoons taken from the bottle and put into the four ounce cup of water)

4. The quantity of the dose from the cup itself (½, ¼ or 1/8 teaspoon; two teaspoons or one

tablespoon, etc.)

5. The number of cups used to dilute the remedy the days of intake (skipping days or every day).

Normally I adjust the number of succussions first, down to the minimum of two before applying the

other measures.

Reduce succussions between LM potencies: When the patient goes from LM 1 to LM 2 she reduces the

number of succussions by two e.g. from eight to six, then when going from LM 2 to LM 3 from six to four.

When the number of succussions has been reduced to two, you cannot go any lower so the patient starts

taking ½ teaspoon from the bottle and from the cup (written ½-½).

Ending with 200C or 1M: Depending on the compliance of the patient, after LM 2 or LM 3 I sometimes

give the same remedy (if still indicated) in a 200C or 1M potency. This has certain advantages. First, some

patients get tired of taking a dose prn, which becomes especially confusing when the remedy is needed less

and less often. There is a real danger that they will overdose themselves because they do not pay much

attention. At the same time, as we progress with our LM potency, with each dose slightly stronger than the

previous one, the natural disease grows smaller while the artificial disease created by the remedy grows

larger. Therefore, there is growing danger of accessory symptoms of the remedy, unhomoeopathic to the

case, if the dose is repeated too soon. A 1M has less penetration power than LM 3 (which has built in all

the succussions of LM 1 and 2). This “lesser” potency therefore might correspond more closely to the

diminished natural disease, keeping accessory symptoms to a minimum. Of course, when you have an

intelligent and diligent patient, you certainly never need to use another potency but LM. A very sporadic

LM dose prn when symptoms resurface speeds up the healing process. But the above method can be

applied if the patient is too busy and does not attention to his progress (which happens more often than one

would think), or the patient becomes confused as to when to repeat the LM potency...

Plussing the bottle: For sensitive patients, in order to dull the possibly aggravating step from LM 1 to LM

2, I would tell them that when the LM 1 bottle has only one teaspoon remaining, to fill it with purified water

half-way (2 oz. for a 4 oz. for an 8 oz. Bottle), and then continue with the same number of succussions (this

is the plussing method). Since the last teaspoon of LM 1 contains all the added succussions, it is the

strongest teaspoon of LM 1 and is therefore the ideal one to be diluted. This way, when the patient finishes

this plussed bottle and takes the first teaspoon of LM 2 (if still needed), any aggravation will be minimal or

non-existent. This is only necessary when going from LM 1 to LM 2, not from LM 2 to LM 3 etc., and only

for sensitive patients.

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Plussing is a good way to test whether a patient still needs the remedy. I might do this when I think the

patient is at the end of the remedy. If the patient is about to finish LM 4 and I not sure if she will need LM

5, I might have her plus the bottle. If her symptoms return slightly, she needs the added stimulus of LM 5.

If not, the plussed LM 4 might coast her gently to a complete cure. Another situation in which I might do

this is a practical one: if the patient is about to run out and cannot refill in time, I tell her to plus the bottle.

If she continues to progress, then I know I can definitely reduce the succussions and maybe the frequency or

dosage for the next LM bottle. If there is no progress she definitely needs the next LM and possibly at the

same number of succussions.

Nosodes: Nosodes are sometimes found in LM potencies, but as a rule, I would advise using nosodes in

200C potency, as the old masters did. 200C is more appropriate for their deep working and slow-acting

nature. (I start with a 200C and then if I need to repeat it I have the options of repeating 200C or going

directly to a 1M.)

When not to use LMs: Exceptions for the use of LM potencies are few, but they exist. LM potencies are

not indicated in the treatment of the three great miasms as long as their external manifestations are: recently

erupted itch (scabies), or syphilitic chancre, or figwarts. These situations require large doses of the remedy

from the beginning with higher and higher potencies daily or even more often. This procedure has no

danger of causing medicinal aggravation since the practitioner can observe the progress of treatment day by

day until disappearance of these local symptoms signal a perfect cure. (As modern practitioners we are not

normally confronted with these situations. By the time patients come to us, the condition has usually been

suppressed and we see it in the chronic miasmatic state. But it was a very common occurrence in

HAHNEMANN’s time. American homoeopaths may see it if they volunteer to work in Third World

countries, because suppressive treatments are not so widely available there.) LMs may also be

contraindicated depending on the patient’s temperament or forgetfulness...

In ascending order: Some Indian practitioners start with LM 6, for example, giving it for three days,

stopping for a month, then giving three doses of LM 12, waiting another month, giving three doses of LM

18, and so on. This method may work in the hands of a very skilled and experienced practitioner, but would

not recommend it to a beginner and I have not found it necessary in my practice. I always start with LM 1

and proceed to LM 2, LM 3 etc. Without skipping potencies. The only exception was that HAHNEMANN

advised sometimes starting with LM 3 in very hyposensitive individuals. But practitioners should follow

the basic rules until they are thoroughly familiar with the phenomenal power of LMs before they start

experimenting with different methods of administration.

Other Indian homoeopaths give the remedy in descending potencies. Dr. CHOUDHURY introduced

this method in India, giving sensitive patients first a few doses of LM 1 and then, when the patient regained

his vitality, raising the potency to LM 3 or 4 and after that gradually descending the scale again. We can

understand the reasoning. After application of the simillimum the disease state becomes weaker, the patient

feels improved on all planes, yet by going to LM 2 the remedy becomes stronger. So he preferred the

descending method, going down from LM 4 to LM 3, etc. But we can adjust for this by reducing the

succussions, giving the remedy less frequently and in smaller amounts. Also, as a practical matter, it seems

difficult to judge how far to jump with a particular patient once the initial doses of LM 1 are given, whether

to LM 3 or LM 6, etc. Like the ascending potencies, this method may give very good results in the hands of

an experienced practitioner but is not recommended for the beginner. HAHNEMANN did use descending

potencies at one point in the beginning, but later, he used ascending potencies throughout his cases, which

CHOUDHURY attributes to his senility and the heavy burden of more important assignments. But we

know from historic accounts that HAHNEMANN remained mentally sharp and able to do his best work up

to the time of his death. In my own practice, I always use the ascending scale HAHNEMANN

recommended, with excellent results.

Overreaction by hypersensitives: A few hypersensitives can be so sensitive that they seem to react to any

seemingly well-indicated remedy with many new symptoms. The accessory symptoms can even

overshadow the patient’s clinical picture, giving the practitioner the false impression that the remedy is

wrong. After several false starts, the practitioner realizes that the problem is not his choice of remedy but

the patient’s extraordinary hypersensitivity. (If they were truly accessory signs, the remedy wouldn’t have

to be changed, only the potency.) I would not use LMs in this case because they will react to even the

smallest dose due to their deep penetration power. I would first try 6C dry, one pellet per day, adjusting up

if necessary by putting it in water and giving one, two or three teaspoons a day, or adjusting down if

necessary by going to the olfactive or skin method.

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Administer in water: The famous Indian homoeopath PATEL tried giving LM potencies dry on the

tongue, claiming they worked that way too. But he admitted that the medicines in liquid worked better.

One should never use the LM potencies dry, only in water as HAHNEMANN prescribed.

Always start with LM 1: In a footnote to Aphorism 246, HAHNEMANN states: “Use begins with the lowest

degrees [i.e. LM 1].” He did not say, “Start with LM 6 or LM 10.” “Imitate me, but imitate me well” is

HAHNEMANN’s motto.

When we finish a layer, for instance with an LM 3, and new symptoms requiring a new remedy show

up, what should be the potency of this second prescription? For instance we finish a layer of Sepia at the

end of a bottle of Sepia LM 3. Now the totality of symptoms of Natrum muriaticum appears, representing

an earlier layer in the patient’s timeline. We have to start again with LM 1 of Natrum muriaticum. This is a

new layer, the patient has no Natrum muriaticum in her system, so it is logical that we start over again.

However, if returning to the same remedy after a lapse of time (the patient seemed to be cured but

symptoms recur later), resume where you left off that remedy. If she is halfway through a bottle of LM 3,

she must start at the same place. If the remedy has spoiled (flecks are floating in it), she will have to take a

new bottle of LM 3 and pour half of it out, also succussing it approximately the same number of times as the

accumulated succussions in the previous bottle.

End at LM 30: HAHNEMANN made LMs up to LM 30, because as he stated, “everything has to come an

end.” In fact when his medicine chest was discovered, it had all the remedies proven at that time in

potencies to LM 10 with only Sulphur and Mercurius solubilis up to LM 30. He had about 1700 LM

potency remedies in this chest versus about 500C scale remedies (which indicates his preference at the end

of his life)! Most chronic cases are cured by the time we reach LM 10. (Occasionally a hyposensitive with

a disease layer of many years’ duration will need more.) An exception occurs when palliating incurable

diseases. I used Arsenicum in a cancer patient whose oncologist gave her two months to live. She lived

another three years and reached LM 16, enjoying good health, energy and moods to the very end. Some

practitioners like PATEL in India have reached LM 50 (especially in Nux vomica and Sulphur) but PATEL

started his cases with LM 10 and jumped potencies from there.

Administer correctly: Many modern homoeopaths think that LM potencies are a type of low potency

remedy that can be repeated daily “because they don’t aggravate.” Nothing is further from the truth. We

already know that LMs are not repeated automatically, day after day. And it is mainly the incorrect use of

the LM potencies (starting with LM 5 instead of LM 1, giving the pellet dry, giving a dose directly from the

bottle, etc.) that gives the mistaken impression that “LMs also aggravate,” as I have heard some Kentian

prescribers say. A very small aggravation is possible and easily corrected through the various means we

have of adjustment of the dose. But that is not what these homoeopaths refer to. Some of them even claim,

“I used the LM potency and my case aggravated. Then when I used the centesimal scale, I had no

aggravation and my patient was cured.” If this were true, why would HAHNEMANN in the 6th edition

declare LMs his greatest achievement and encourage his readers to discard his previous discovery, the

centesimals? I believe that many of the problems reported with LM potencies stem from an unfortunate

lack of training and textbooks available for LMs. For example, I have heard of homoeopaths giving the LM

pellet dry on the tongue, or starting with LM 6, or giving a teaspoon directly from the remedy bottle, or

jumping from one LM to the next after only a few days. Almost every time improper application was the

sole reason for aggravations from LMs.

Do not automatically give the remedy daily: It bears repeating that an LM potency is not repeated

indiscriminately day after day just because, as many believe, “ it is such a gentle potency.” In Aphorism

246 HAHNEMANN said: “Every noticeably progressing and conspicuously increasing improvement. .

.excludes any repetition of the medicine.” Cases with such “conspicuously increasing improvement” are of

course the most wonderful reactions we can have, and if the patient is sensitive enough I have seen a layer

resolved with a single dose of LM 1.

Alas, as HAHNEMANN said himself in the same paragraph, these cases are rather rare, and he

continues in a footnote to the same paragraph, “The same well-chosen medicine can now be given daily,

even for months when necessary.” We need to pay great attention to each word HAHNEMANN said,

particularly to the words when necessary. We need to educate our patients as to the different outcome

scenarios so they know how to adjust on a daily basis and when to stop taking the remedy. In addition to

the patient instruction handout... I give them ...a basic rule of thumb. “When in doubt, stop the remedy and

call me.”

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Administering in eyedroppers: Most homoeopaths who tell me that they use LMs seem to administer them

in eyedroppers rather than four or eight ounce bottles. This is not the method HAHNEMANN

recommended, and I am not sure where it started. It is definitely more convenient for the patient, and I am

open to the possibility, although I have never tried it this way myself. I do have several concerns about

giving LMs in this way. The wave forms of the succussions (and thereby the power of the energetic imprint

of the remedy picture) would be altered if almost the entire volume of the bottle is penetrated by the

dropper. Most practitioners who use LMs in eye drops say that they aggravate or that they are no better

than centesimals, which tells that eyedroppers may not be as effective a method as the remedy bottles.

David LITTLE’s research with hundreds of patients in India over the past 12 years indicates that the size of

the remedy bottle has a significant impact on the effectiveness of the remedy...

Along with established texts by such greats as KENT, CLOSE and ROBERTS, it seems certain that this

book will quickly and easily establish itself as a popular textbook on homoeopathy. It seems destined to

become a favorite in the colleges and to become a classic text in the field for many years to come. Its

detailed appraisal of many subjects is much better than that found in some smaller texts.

“Remedies such as Carcinosin and Staphysagria [which complement each other] should always be in

the differential diagnosis for children with emotional or physical symptoms due to authoritarian and

domineering parents.” [P. 135]

A superb diagram on page 148 shows how a typical Calcarea carbonica child can change at age two to

become a Lycopodium, Phosphorus or Sulphur type and then at puberty to change again. This is very

useful and insightful approach to materia medica and viewing the case, as well as the diagram being a good

way to illustrate this idea.

“Surgical removal of polyps, hemorrhoids, fistulae, and inflamed tonsils, adenoids and appendixes

should be postponed until homoeopathy has been given a chance to heal them, which it often does.” [p. 256]

“...bowel nosodes can produce miracles in tenacious, difficult cases. But always use the similar remedy

first unless you absolutely cannot find it.... using a bowel nosode ...[really] has moved these cases along. I

have found them most helpful for eczema, asthma, enuresis, and anticipation anxiety, in that order.” [p. 345]

“Hahnemann also mentions that pregnancy is an ideal time to treat the mother with an antipsoric

remedy, because the woman’s increased sensitivity makes her internal psora manifest more plainly.” [p.

375]

“...homoeopaths avoid tonsillectomies through careful prescribing, to avoid depriving the child of these

valuable immune-system glands. Homoeopaths instead of having a multiplicity of vaccinations, in which

foreign substances are injected into the bloodstream. Childhood illnesses boost the Vital Force rather than

lowering it.” [p. 438]

The following remedies have been found so effective for cancers in specific areas that they can almost

be prescribed by the location of the tumor: Graphites for cancer in cicatrices; Phosphorus for hepatic and

pancreatic cancer; Ornithogalum [Star of Bethlehem] for cancer of stomach and cecum; center of action is

the pylorus.” [p. 444]

2. The Method: Lectures on Pure Classical Homoeopathy II by André SAINE. Lutra Services, BV,

The Netherlands. Hardback, 204 pages, $39. Reviewed by Barbara JUNIPER (SIM, XIII, 4/2000):

“The Method is a transcription of a seminar Dr. SAINE conducted in 1993 in the Netherlands”. “The book

is essentially divided into three parts. The first part includes an in-depth discussion of the direction of cure.

...The second part is titled “Case Handling”. ....The third point of the book is on “Evaluation of Symptoms”.

“I believe this book will be very helpful to the serious student of Homoeopathy and also to any practitioner

who might be feeling the need of some clarification regarding the methodology and principles of pure

classical Homoeopathy. Abundant with quotes from the Organon and other works of HAHNEMANN, we

are reminded once again of the genius of the founder of this great science. As Dr. SAINE quotes, from

LIPPE, “If we are true to Homoeopathy, it will be true to us.”

3. Handbuch der Haupt - Anzeigen für die richtige Wahl der homöopathischen Heilmittel, GHG

JAHR, Reihe Klassische Werke der Homöopathie, Band 3, 1004 S., geb., Verlag Homöopathischen

Wissen, Euskinchen 1998 DM 240, - (German) review by BÜNDER (ZKH, 44, 4/2000): Hand book of

the Chief Indications for the correct selection of the homoeopathic curative remedy. “With this new

reprint of the 4th edition of 1851 (then 867 pages) from JAHR, a close student of HAHNEMANN, the

publisher has brought a work which has been recommended already by HAHNEMANN in the footnote to

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Aphorisms 153 of the Organon. This work which in HAHNEMANN’s concept was suitable to the

beginners but obviously was not suitable only for them but ultimately used it in his own practice as a

reference work.

“Every new edition including the then 9th edition were more encompassing even though some

remedies for the earlier edition were discarded. By this JAHR would ensure that the more frequently used

medicines were given more importance in his improved, revised editions....

“The second part of the work contains a condensed ‘Repertory of the valuable material from the

Pure Materia Medica and from practice’.....

“The ‘Handbook of Chief Indications for the Correct Selection of the Homoeopathic Curative

Remedy’ is a book of high reliability value and is therefore recommended without hesitation.”

4. Homöopathic und ihre religiösen Gegner, KLEINSCHMIDT., FRICK, H. 126 S., brosch., Erust

Fraug entag Metzingen 1998, DM 15, 80 (German) review KLUNKER (ZKH, 44, 3/2000):

(Homoeopathy and its religious opponents). “Within the fundamentalistic Christian circle Homoeopathy is

reviewed in these modern days suspiciously as an Occult one, if not directly linked with Occultism, whereby

theologically its connection with antigod satanic provers will be implied. Within fundamentalistic Christian

circle there is another opposite movement of homoeopathic physicians who deny this apologetically. Such a

denial attempt is in this book....

5. Homöotanik, VONARBURG, B. 602 S., 470 farbige Abb., geb., Karl F Haug Verlag, Heidelburg

1999, DM 198, - (German) review by KLUNKER (ZKH, 44, 3/2000): “...One feels that here is an

excellent expert in Botany, and also a genuine classical homoeopath and he fits both and also knows to

differentiate and grant each its due without overstepping the boundaries. ...Very much recommended.

6. Inhaltsregister für das Archiv für homöopathische Heilkunst, BITZARAKIS, P., mit einem

Vorwort von Prof. Robert JÜTTE 283 S., Werner Dingler Verlag, Koustanz 1997, DM 138, -

(German) review by KLUNKER (ZKH, 44, 5/2000): Index to the Archiv für homöopathische Heilkunst -

STAPF’s Archiv.: “It is amazing that Homoeopathy in its characteristic way had, in its early days and

progress, genuinely traditional literary testimonies, be they being books or journals and these are not only of

historical value but rather in their practical actuality. One such work of genuine Homoeopathy is “Stapf

Archiv”....

7. Homöopathie in der Kinderheilkerade (Homoeopathy in Paediatrics) IMHÄUSER., 12 Auflage,

368S., geb., Karl F. Haug Verlag, Heidelburg 2000, DM 79, - (German) review by NIEBLINS (ZKH,

44, 5/2000): “The valuable practical handbook is after 30 years of its first publication, without changing its

contents but modern in format and get-up. The observation in the Foreword to the I edition that children

diseases are not to be treated basically otherwise, but the Anamnesis in Paediatric practice requires a

different procedure, is also now actual..... The novices will find much valuable help but the well-

experienced also can profit, particularly in acute situations and take rapid decisions. However,

unfortunately only the low potencies have been recommended throughout.

8. Erste-Hilfe-Handbuch Homöopathie (First-Aid Handbook of homoeopathy), KRUZEL, T. Ein

Zeitfaden für die Akutbehandlung. 504S., geb., Karl F. Haug Verlag, Heidelburg 2000. DM 89, -

(German), review by FREYER (ZKH, 44, 5/2000): “The author studied Homoeopathy in National College

of Naturopathic Physicians, Portland, Oregon (USA). The book is based on our practical experience

and the appreciation that in acute cases and in hectic clinical training there is, as a rule, very less time for a

thorough Materia Medica comparison. It must nevertheless be clear that it is not a substitute for thorough

study of the materia Medica ...... In alphabetical serial order acute disease pictures are discussed - non

abdominal inflammation, abscesses, asthma, excessive bleedings, dysmenorrhoea, problems of child birth

and gynaecology, grippe, haemorrhoidal inflammations, hayfever, insect stings, convulsions, Headache,

croup, pneumonia, backaches, shock, collapse, burns, poisonings, wounds. ....Handy size, stable binding, it

would withstand many years of practice, house visits and journeys.

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9. Mittelbezogenes Repertorium der Speisen und Getränkesymptomatik (Remedy related

Repertory of Food and Drink Symptoms), DEISER, R., Homöopathisches Vademecum, 176S., geb.,

Sonntag Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, DM 49.90. (German) review by BÜNDNER (ZKH, 44, 6/2000):

10. The Homoeopathic Treatment of Influenza: Surviving Influenza Epidemics and Pandemics, Past

Present and Future with homoeopathy by Sandra J PERKO, PhD, CCN, 395 pages $ 24.95

paperback, reviewed by Maggie TAEGER (AH, 6/2000): “PERKO clearly intends her book as a wake-up

call. Part I of her book (112 pages) is largely the story of the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 - 19. This is a

chapter in historywhich many of us know too little about.” ....Conventional doctors were helpless against

the disease, and were probably responsible for greatly increasing the death rate through the heavy-handed

use of aspirin. ....Homoeopathy was the light shining in the darkness. In roughly 50 accounts from

homoeopaths of the time we hear how they treated patients successfully mostly with a few well-known

remedies (Gelsemium looms largest) and lost astoundingly few patients.”

PERKO’s book is written in a clear accessible style and is well-researched. It is an important effort to

spread awareness and increase readiness among homoeopaths concerning the danger of future pandemics.

For this alone I think the book is worth the price. If the predictions of virologists are true, world

communities will once again find themselves in dire circumstances, and homoeopathy will be the only

known effective medicnal tool for saving millions of lives. In such a circumstance, the specialized materia

medica which PERKO has compiled will certainly of good use.”

11. The Homoeopathic Proving of Plutonium nitricum by Jeremy SHERR, reviewed by Diana

GUBBAY (AH, 6/2000): “The Homoeopathic Proving of Plutonium nitricum is a valuable resource for

healers entering the new millennium. It provides a wealth of information on radioactive toxicity in general

and on plutonium in particular. The proving is extensive, clear and well documented. We can expect that

people will be healed from a number of deep pathologies as its clinical use is more widely documented.”

12. Universal Mineral Materia Medica by Ramesh D JAIN, January, 2000, Dinak Prakashan, Jain

Homoeopathic Pharmacy, 2nd Gavthan Lane, Opp. Post Office, Andheri (W), Mumbai 400 058.

Reviewed by Nimish MEHTA (IJHM, 33, 1/2000): “The author presents this work as a treatise of teaching,

research and clinical pracitce for more than 20 years. One of the much needed “Unique Addition” to the

homoeopathic literature as commented in the foreward by Dr. Anil BHATIA. ...The author strongly backs

views about the drugs prescribed as “Pathologic Simillimum” as per sayings of Dr. C. HERING and Dr. J.

BURNETT.” ...The book also tries to cover the points related to miasm, constitution, sensitivity,

susceptibility, and remedy relationships of these drugs. The compilation of the data related to mineral drugs

with certain arrangement is quiet useful.”

13. Skin Problems: Healing from within by Ian WATSON. Recording of a one-day seminar in

Sutton Coldfield, 28/11/98. Central Homoeopathy, 120A Norton Road, Pelsall, Walsall WS3 4NU,

tel: 01922 685 544. Four tape boxed set, £20. Reviewed by Katherine ARMITAGE (HOM, 76/2000):

“There are very comprehensive handouts that come with the tapes, including general hints on treating skin

problems, the Chinese meridian clock, the planetary seasons and planetary relationships to the skin (to help

with diagnosing using the planetary system) - and more, including some tips for soothing topical

applications. These tapes show us new ways of thinking about cases, and this is challenging. All in all I

think there is lots of food for thought here and Ian’s lively presentation style makes for interesting

listening.”

14. The Soul of Medicine by Peter ADAMS, Penguin 1999, Paperback, 293 pages, £12.99. Reviewed

by Anna BRYANT (HOM. 76/2000): “This book is billed as ‘An Anthology of Illness and Healing.’ It is

more accurately described as a dictionary of quotations without the benefit of an index and sorely limited

as to its scope. ...Allegedly the book came about as a result of the author’s need ‘to understand his role as a

healer in a deeper, more soulful way’. Frankly this is hard to believe given the superficial nature of the

comments which link the quotations, the brevity of the extracts themselves, the hackneyed character of

many of the choices and the lack of development throughout the book. It seems likely that such a volume

could be cobbled together in a fortnight’s holiday with an Oxford Dictionary of Quotations to hand. The

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author had a good idea but the execution killed it. ...The pieces of writing in this book will map out step by

step the way illness touches our hearts and moves our souls.”

15. Homoeopathic Methodology: An Introductory Workbook, Todd Rowe MD, North Atlantic

Books, 1998. 158 pp, paperback $ 18.95, ISBN 1-55643-277-1. Reviewed by Fiona HEUBECK (HOM.

76/2000): “If you are already familiar with KENT’s Repertory and HAHNEMANN’s instructions for case-

taking, and have a good dictionary, then you won’t need this book. If you have read the self-help works of

Phyllis SPEIGHT, Herbert ROBERTS or George VITHOULKAS, then you have already covered much of

the work contained here. Ian WATSON’s Guide to the Methodologies of Homoeopathy will give a broader

view of the many possibilities in analysing cases, and David SAULT’s Modern Guide and Index lists far

more updated rubrics from the mind section of the repertory. Your lecturers will undoubtedly have taught

most of this material already. However, if you have missed your lectures, or feel that you are in need of

extra help or revision, or you just can’t get enough repertorising, then you are likely to ifnd this book

worthwhile.

16. Homoeopathy before HAHNEMANN (The Forgotten Men) by Ian Oliver, Midas Graphics:

London, 1999. Pamphlet, 44 pages, £4. 00. Reviewed by Julian WINSTON (HOM. 76/2000): This little

pamphlet is yet another work that sticks a pin in the bubble of HAHNEMANN. The author’s premise is

that while HAHNEMANN was the person who codified the system of treating by similars, there were many

others along the way who made partial efforts - and HAHNEMANN, for reasons of his own, chose not to

acknowledge them. ...The author is very clear of his admiration for HAHNEMANN and the system he

developed, but reminds us that there were others who did work as well and although HAHNEMANN failed

to recognize them, we should not accord them the same fate.

17. Homoeopathy Re-examined: Beyond the Classical Paradigm. Rudolf VERSPOOR in resonant

collaboration with Steven DECKER. Hahnemann centre for heilkunst, 1445 St Joseph Blvd,

Gloucester ON K1C 7K9, Canada, 1999 ISBN 0-9685166-2-9 print version., ISBN –2-7electronic

version. Reviewed by Nick HEWES (HOM. 77/2000): “I would criticise the book not on its content, which

is very intereting, but on the tone and the style. The tone is constantly abrasive, with classical homoeopaths

continually accused of ‘failure… confusion… lack of clarity’. Many of the points could have been made in

a more genial way;..” On the question of style, the book can be a struggle to read. For example: ‘What we

have in the tonic aspect of disease is phenomenology in polarity with the pathic aspect. Nosology is the

Common Functioning Principle encompassing both the phenomenology and the pathology.’

18. Homoeopathy for Sports, Exercise and Dance. Emlyn THOMAS, Beaconsfield Publishers, 2000.

322pp, thread-sewn paperback, £25. ISBN 0-906584-48-5. Reviewed by Katherine ARMITAGE

(HOM. 77/2000): “This is a beatifully produced, compact handbook full of easily accessible information,

written by a man with years of homoeopathic experience and who is himself no stranger to physical

endurance, having led major expediotions to many great mountain ranges, including the Himalayas and

served as a physical education officer with the RAF for amny years.

As well as for the homeopath, and for anybody who participates in sport or dance, at whatever level,

this book is intended for club managers, coaches and dance directors, who, it is hoped, once familiar with

the contents, will be able to maintain their team, club or company’s performance by ensuring more effective

recovery from injury and overstrain and by using homoeopathy to maximise their athelets’potential.”

19. The Tongue: Mirror of the Immune system, Jacque LEE, Helios Books, Tunbridge Wells, 1999.

Ringbound, £8.50 Reviewed by Jerome WHITNEY (HOM. 77/2000): “This book is an important

practical contribution to homoeopathic case-taking. …It can also be used to confirm information gained

from the verbal symptoms presented by the patients as well as their overall ambiance as observed by the

practitioner. As such the book has value across the spectrum of practitioner interests and background

knowledge. Those with an understanding of Chinese organ relationships will find it supportive, just as will

those who wish to extend their skills in vitalistic homoeopathic diagnosis.

20. Refernce Works, by David Kent WARKENTIN and Kent Homoeopathic Associates. For Mac

and PC. UK prices on application to Diane GOODWIN, 0131 557 2927. Reviewed by Nick

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CHURCHILL (HOM. 77/2000): “Eleven years on Refernce Works contains 390 volumes of materia

medica, cured cases, journal articles, new provings and theoretical books such as Jan SCHOLTEN’s

Homoeopathy and the Elements. But as Kent said in a different context, ‘the end is not yet’, for the goal is

to publish everything that has ever been written in the homoepathic literature.

Refernece Works and its sister programs by Radar and cara are indispensible tools for every

homoeopath in the 21

st

century. We need to thenk David Kent WARKENTIN for his poineering work in

this and other fields.

21. Aspects of Homeopathy: Musculo-skeletal problems, a transcript of a one day seminar in

California in 1997, by Ian WATSON. 100pp, softback, £ 6. 95, available from the Lakeland College,

tel. 01539 737 540. Reviewed by Fiona HEUBECK (HOM. 77/2000): “New students may find this a

useful purchase, if they are willing to work on the editing! In its favour, it’s cheap, it is clearly printed, and

it does cover musculo-skeletal problems with a very good range of remedies. If you can cope with the style,

you will unearth some gems.

XII. NEWS & NOTES

1. Samuel HAHNEMANN and the Causes of Failure in Homoeopathy

SAINE André (SIM, XIII, 4/2000)

(The talk was presented at the NASH Conference in New York City, September 9, 2000)

The article first deals with some of the parameters of Homoeopathy followed by the Causes of failure in

Homoeopathy.

The author says that the reason for wide variation in the rate of success is the failure to master the

discipline. Further adds that the two physicians who obtained the greatest success in homoeopathy were

LIPPE and BOENNINGHAUSEN. Other great prescribers include P.P. WELLS, H. N. GUERNSEY,

Carroll DUNHAM and Constantine HERING.

The key of success of these masters was that they studied all of HAHNEMANN’s writings and were

great students of materia medica.

The author listed out the key steps of the method of HAHNEMANN.

He gives three reasons for the failure of the current generation of homoeopath.

1. Lack of thoroughness in case taking

2. Using unreliable materia medica

3. Poor knowledge of basic sciences

Dr. SAINE gives solution to our current difficulties:

1. Rediscovering the strict inductive method of HAHNEMANN. Read HAHNEMANN, LIPPE,

BOENNINGHAUSEN, P. P. WELLS, DUNHAM. Never forget the last admonition to the profession:

“If our school ever gives up the strict inductive method of HAHNEMANN, we are lost, and deserve

only to be mentioned as a caricature in the history of medicine.”

2. Rediscovering the basics in taking a thorough case, as instructed by HAHNEMANN.

3. Rediscovering the study and use of the reliable works of materia medica. The rest needs to be sent to the

paper shredder, as LIPPE often said when referring to the unreliable texts.

4. Obtaining the necessary knowledge in basic sciences of anatomy, physiology, pathology, differential

diagnosis, etc.

2.

LIST OF JOURNALS

Full addresses of the Journals covered by this Quarterly Homeopathic Digest are given below:

1. AHZ - Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung, Karl F. Haug Verlag, Hüthig GmbH, im Weiher 10,

69121, HEIDELBERG, Germany.

2. BHJ - British Homeopathic Journal, 2, Powis Place, Great Ormond Street, LONDON, WCIN 3HT,

U.K.

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3. CCR - Homeopathic Clinical Case Recorder, Phule Road, Maliwada, AHMEDNAGAR - 414 001,

INDIA.

4. HH - Homeopathic Heritage,

5. HL - Homeopathic Links, Homeopathic Research and Charities, “Dinar”, 20 Station Road, Santa

Cruz(w), MUMBAI - 400 054.

6.HT - Homeopathy Today, National Center for Homeopathy, 801, North Fairfax Street, Suite 306,

ALEXANDRIA, VA. 22314, USA.

7 HOM - The Homeopath, Journal of the Society of Homeopaths, 2, Artizan Road, NORTHAMPTON

N, 4HU, U.K.

8. JH - Journal of Homeopathy of Northern India, For Association for Scientific Research In

Homeopathy (ASRH), 108, Street No. 1, Mubarik Kothi Area, Sangrur (PB) 148 001, INDIA.

.9 Med GG -

10 NEJH - New England Journal of Homeopathy, 356, Middle Street, AMHERST, MA 01 002 USA.

11. NJH - National Journal of Homepathy, Milan Clinic, Saraswathi Road, Santa Cruz(w), MUMBAI -

400 054.

12. SIM - Simillimum, The Journal of the Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians 11231 SE

Market Street, PORTLAND, OR, 97216, USA.

13. ZKH - Zeitschrift für Klassische Homöopathie, Karl F. Haug Verlag, 6900 HEIDELBERG 1, Germany.

PART II

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1. The relevance of homoeopathy

RAMANATHAN A N (ANTISEPTIC, 97, 1/2000)

Homoeopaths usually maintain a muted profile. In their talk, they extol the system but side-step many

questions. One feels that the treatment message of HAHNEMANN is not properly conveyed.

HAHNEMANN did not want to blast the entire allopathic system but to strengthen it by reforming the

therapeutic part which was crude and irrational and incapable of improvement because it was in the hands

of powerful vested interests. Further, he could not figure out how any improved diagnostic approach could

directly pick up a curative remedy. While in this predicament he was intrigued by the ayurvedic riddle.

“There is nothing in the realm of thought or matter that cannot constitute a medicine depending on the

circumstance”. He finally guessed that the common factor hinted at was energy and that it could be trapped

by the technique of ‘dynamisation’.

Every substance, including poisons of all kinds, contained a different healing energy which can be

transferred to an inert diluting agent like water or lactose by the simple act of serial dilution coupled with

succussion and triturition. The resulting substance called ‘potency’ is given to a number healthy human

beings and noting the symptoms produced in them. They are collected and called ‘provings’. On the basis

of these provings, clinical trials are conducted according to the ‘Law of Similars’. The ‘provings’ are the

keystone of homoeopathy and they are standardized. In Homoeopathy one is trying to match the remedy,

symptom profile with the patient profile. This in essence is a therapeutic diagnosis - the ultimate realization

of doctor’s dream.

Many progressive homoeopaths have enlarged the scope of homoeopathy by further provings and

improving diagnostic methods. Dr. Dudgeon was involved in this activity and invented the blood pressure

measuring instrument. Now that old animosities have died down with the passage of time, it is well that we

project homoeo-therapeutics as a true innovative offshoot of allopathy. There should be no hesitation in

giving homoeo-therapeutics the same status which nuclear medicine enjoys today as the offspring of modern

medicine.

Why have synthetic drugs gained popularity?

It is sad to record that the present day prescriptions are no longer botany oriented but consist wholly of

synthetic products. These synthetic drugs are in reality the intellectual property of multinationals who

employ organic chemists. The targets are the patients and many of them cannot forget they where recipients

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of drugs with short life-span and which were later black-listed as harmful drugs. This contrasts sharply with

the complete confidence with which natural products have been employed for centuries by other systems of

medicine. Modern advertising has created myths about the efficiency of synthetic drugs and had played

down the cost factor. In this background, the patient is no longer happy or satisfied with an easy cure to any

health problem but expects and demands a high-tech diagnosis and treatment at any cost.

How do young allopaths view homoeopathy?

Many postgraduates, in training, remember have witnessed homoeopathic cures of some chronic

conditions and feel like using this method when starting practice. They wished they had a briefing on other

therapeutic systems during their MBBS course. These opinions were elicited through a questionnaire.

This state of affairs puts in proper perspective the statement of Dr. FOUBISTER, “Acceptance of

homoeopathy does not mean rejection of other forms of treatment”. It simply means adding another

therapeutic skill to those taught in medical schools.

Can the two therapeutic systems coexist?

They can, because both are of allopathic origin. Early homoeopaths spurned the old therapeutics but

lived to see the system revamped and using the plant tinctures in a scientific manner. The general hospital

pharmacopoeia of 1938 testifies to the generous use of plant tinctures as medicinal agents. In the Post-War

era there are many notable gains but there are misgivings about the long-term effects of synthetic drugs of

the human frame. Many patients now prefer the gentler methods of homoeopathy, acupuncture and

electrotherapy. Homoeopathy which had a highly successful run for more than a century now finds some of

its limitations met by modern therapeutic methods. As yet, homoeopathy scores in treating ailments from

grief, anger, chagrin and also behavioral disorders of children and adults. It has effective antidotes

for the side effects of allopathic medication and complement allopathic medicinal support. The potency

preparations of Arnica, Ledum and Hypericum (all of herbal origin) have earned renown as trauma

remedies. Homoeopathic referrals are quite common today and the patients benefit by it. But homoeopathy

demands more time from the doctor in prescribing for chronic diseases as he has to refer to the Repertory

and Materia Medica to differentiate the remedies. Offhand prescribing for chronic cases is considered a

scamping device because it is likely to palliate and not cure. Good homoeopathic work demand four kinds

of diagnosis;

1. Therapeutic diagnosis

2. Nosological diagnosis

3. Diathetic or miasmatic diagnosis

4. The constitutional type.

It is after compounding these four findings that a final prescription is to be made. An experienced physician

has said that one cannot really practice homoeopathy without being at the same time an excellent allopath.

What is the relevance of homoeopathy today?

It is relevant in two directions.

1. For the home

2. For the national health service.

In the days gone by, mothers shared with their daughters their repertoire of ayurvedic prescriptions.

This chain is now broken because of the emergence of nuclear families. Yet, present day mothers are better

informed on health maters and nutrition and it is therefore easy for them to pick up the elements of

homoeopathy. Homoeo-therapeutics was conceived at a time when there was no medical gadgetry and

diseases were recognized only by symptoms and signs. An eminent doctor has remarked that homoeopathy

is such an extraordinary method that some persons who have not studied medicine can practice and cure

many patients. Many households now stock a few homoeo remedies and the medicines are applied for

curing trivial illness with the help of a guidebook. When there is doubt or when the chosen remedy gives

relief, the family homoeopathic physician is contacted on the phone. This arrangement allays tension at

home besides saving a sizable amount of commuting expense to reach a clinic.

There should be a place for homoeopathy in the national health scheme. In England, Sir John Weir

saved from amputation the limb of a V.I.P thereby bringing credit to homoeopathy and endearing himself to

the British Royal family. His talk to the Royal Society of Medicine is a landmark in medical literature. He

was one of those instrumental to include homoeopathy in the British National Health Service.

Homoeopathic medication is absolutely safe besides being inexpensive. No government can afford to

exclude it from the health care of the sick.

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Homoeopathy has settled down in India and the teeming millions have come to regard it as God’s

greatest gift to mankind.

2. Windows to the Baby’s Soul: Skills in Treating the Newborn and Materia Medica of Some Common

Remedies for Babies.

ZAREN Ananda (NEJH, 6, 2&3/1997)

In treating babies, we almost completely have to rely on observation, be it our own or the parents’> It

is not only the physical signs we observe. If we master the subtle art of perceiving the inner state of the

bady, our prescription becomes more accurate.

The child comes into this world in trust and innocence, trusting it to be a safe place and believing that

he/she is being loved and cared for. Infants whose needs are met in this critical time are netter adjusted, cry

less, and have fewer symptoms during the first year of life.

If this sense of security is not felt by the child, symptoms will occur. When the needs of a baby are not

met, the resulting behavior may fully disrupt the lives of their parents. This is a survival mechanism of the

dependent organism.

The newborn is fully capable of perceiving and expressing emotions. Understanding the emotional

state of an infant is requisite to finding the correct remedy and coming to a deeply curative prescription. In

the infant, the body posture and position, facial expression and eyes all present windows into the emotional

realm. Newborns are capable of feeling and expressing anger, sadness and fright, as well as feelings of

disgust.

They develop interest in their surroundings and are sensitive to stimuli such as light, noise, and motion.

They respond to the environment in a variety of ways, such as being alert, startling, running away or falling

asleep.

When taking the case of an infant, it is critical to understand the family system. The homoeopath must

sense the current emotional climate and understand what the parents are feeling. If a child is nursing, there

is a direct line of emotional communication. The emotions experienced by the mother are transmitted to the

baby and can be engrafted onto the infant. For example, if the mother is upset, the baby will often reflect

the mother’s distress with tension, tears, anger, etc.

The history of the birth experience may provide clues to the similimum. It is important to know the

attitude of the mother during labor. If the mother experienced undue fear, pain, or trauma, the baby may be

affected. Other significant elements may include:

how long did the labor last, was much pain involved, was the labor well tolerated by the mother?

* what was the medical condition of the mother?

* who was present at the birth, and what were their attitudes during the process?

*was medical medical intervention performed, e.g. pitocin, suction, extraction or Cesaerean section?

*what was the condition of the infant at birth, including the Apgar scoring?

Bonding at birth is one of the most important events in the development of trust in the infant. If there is

interference in the bonding process, problems and symptoms will manifest. Bonding can be affected by a

temporary or lengthy separation at birth, illness in the mother or infant, or feelings of inadequency and

tension in either parent.

Observation of the interaction between the infant and mother is very important. How does the mother

interact with the baby? Is there close contact and easy communication between the mother and child? How

is the child responding to the mother? Does the child appear to be relaxed and comfortable in her arms or

near the mother’s body? Can seperation or aversion to touch be perceived? Finally, observe the child’s

ability to make contact with other people in the environment and to interact with the outside world.

Observing the expression in the eyes of an infant is important and will allow the sensitive prescriber to

gain insight into the emotional state of the organism. Anger may be observed in eyes that are crunched or

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slit, fear may result in protrusion of the eyeballs, and sadness may manifest in a very little blinking with a

fixed gaze and a lack of reaction.

Crying is another way the baby communicates his/her emotional state. We can learn to differentiate

one type of cry from another, and understand the meaning of each type to determine whether or not the cry

is a symptom. For example, the hungry cry is recognised by the soft moaning tones which, if ignored, will

transform into a more vigorous cry. An angry cry can be vigorous from the start. Babies will often turn

qhite red when expressing anger in the cry (Hyoscyamus, Sulphur). The cry of the pain starts with a scream

which is followed by a long pause for breath and then proceeds with vigour. It is important to listen for the

type of crying that indicates pain. There is also a fake cry or fussiness whichdevelops after the first month

of life when the baby is expressing a demand for attention (Medorrhinum), in some babies, the cry is more

of a whine (Calcarea phoshorica).

All children experience fear at various stages of life, and infants are no exception. Depending on the

remedy, newborns can be particularly fearful of sudden shifts or extremes of stimulation such as sudden

noises, lights, or rapid mopvements. They also have an instinctive fear of being dropped when their heads

or limbs are not being fully supported (Borax, Phosphorus). Some babies, out of a sense of fear, can dislike

being dressed and undressed (Sulphur, Medorrhinum).

Certain infants can also become quite upset when there is a sudden shift in routine, or an alteration of

the reality they have learnt to expect. This can be interpreted as a violation of trust. For example, the sight

of a parent wearing a mask (Calcarea carbonicum, Medorrhinum), or a dad using shaving cream

(Phosphorus, Medorrhinum), may cause agitation and fright. Phosphorus, Carcinosin and Calcarea

carbonica babies have a dramatic fear reaction to pain.

Reactions to external stimuli may differ according to the remedy of the child. For example a Calcarea

carbonica baby will be afraid of the vacuum cleaner, while the Sulphur baby approaches it without any fear

at all. Some infants want to tbe tightly bundled in blankets (Arsenicum album, Psorinum, Pulsatilla) and

others desire more freedom of movement (Medorrhinum, Sulphur). Some infants prefer to stay covered

because they would rather not be in the draft (Nux vomica, Calcarea phosphorica).

Infants can show signs of seperation anxiety at an early age. They will cry and shriek toward the

departing parent, acting as if they will die without the presence of the parent (Phosphorus, Calcarea

carbonica, Medorrhinum, Calcarea phosphorica, Lycopodium, Silicea). Some babies develop stranger-

anxity early on (Baryta carbonica, Calcarea carbonica).

In order to gain understandin gof the baby in the waking hours, the homoeopath should observe the

infant at the breast. How well does the baby latch on to the breast? How long does she desire to nurse?

Does she like small snacks or large meals? (Eating to satiety (K. 1357); Eating fast (K. 1357); Appetite

ravenous soon after eating (K. 479); Appetite returns after a mouthful (K. 480). Is there a preference of one

breast over another? (see “sides” in Generalities). Some babies prefer the left breast (Sulphur) and other

prefer the right breast(Lycopodium, Nux vomica). Is the bay sleepy on the breast? Is ther a tiredness after

eating? (Sleepiness after eating (K. 1250); Is there an amelioration after the meal? (Eating amel. (K.

1357).

Inquire as to the frequency and duration of feeding. If the mother keeps the baby on a strict shedule, it can

indicate that the mother is a fastidious remedy type. The babies who self-regulate seem to have fewer

symptoms and develop more basic trust in the world.

Determine if the baby is beginning to masturbate. Sulphur babies can have erection at times of the

diaper change and during their bath. The Medorrhinum baby will explore their genitals at any opportunity,

just as they play with their hands and toes.

Inquiry into the topic of sleep provides a wealth of information that will guide in the selection of a

remedy. Many babies do not sleep through the night. There are numerous causes of wakefulness including:

hunger, teething, gas pains, a wet diaper, or being too warm or cold. Sometimes the baby will awaken

because a paifier has slipped out of his mouth (Medorrhinum, Calcarea carbonica). The homoeopath must

determine the etiology of the problem and the chosen remedy must address the problem at its source.

The position of sleep can also be a sympotm. The knee chest position seen in some babies may help to

confirm a prescription of Tuberculinum, Medorrhinum, Lycopodium, or Carcinosinum. Restlessness during

sleep is also characterisitic of certain remedies such as Arsenicum album, Baryta carbonica, Cina,

Lycopodium, Rhus toxicodendron, Sulphur, and Medorrhinum. A very sound sleep may be indicative of the

remedies Belladonna and Pulsatilla. The time the bay falls asleep and when she awakes may provide

important clues to the constitution of the child. Sulphur and Medorrhinum infants can be ‘night people,’

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preferring to stay awake until late.Cypripedium infants wake at night with a desire to play. Does the baby

wake refreshed or unrefreshed from the sleep or after napping? Unrefreshed sleep is characteristic of

remedies such as Lachesis, Nux vomica, Medorrhinum, and Tuberculinum. Babies that often sleep with

eyes half open are Sulphur and Chamomilla.

In the first year of life, the infant has a critical need for communication. The homoeopath should find

out wether the mother talks to the baby. When a mother talks to her baby, the child is reassured by the

sound of her voice and comforted by being the object of her attention. This encourages the development of

self-cofidence, and prescriptions like Lycopodium and Anacardium can often be discarded. The amount of

time the mother spends with the child will have a great effect on the development of health and well being

in the infant. Children who are nutured in a calm atmoshere of love and support from early infancy on will

be hopeful, unafraid, and comfortable with themselves and therefore may not be in need of a remedy. The

ability to observe and interpret the expresion of emotion and sensitivity to the inner state of the organism is

paramount to th homoeopathic treatment of children.

Nux Vomica Babies

For the Nux vomica infant, the expression of anger is a protective mechanism. These infants must

defend themselves from a parent or somebody who is unfairly controlling, abusive or neglectful. The

wound is caused by an emotional environment of oppression in which the Nux vomica baby must respond

by showing only strenth and resistance, hiding weakness or vulnerability at all costs.

*distressed expression (Face, Expression, distress (K. 374).

*frown on the face (Face, Expression, sullen (K. 375).

*constipation (Rectum, Constipation (3) (K. 606).

*averse to a tight blanket, desire to escape from the blanket. (Generalities, Clothing, intolerance of (3) (K.

1348).

*problems with nursing; they want it their way or they won’t nurse properly (Mind, Obstinate (3) (K. 68).

*jealous; won’t let mother on the telephone and will cry or shriek when this happens (Mind, Jealous (2) (K.

60).

*sensitive to any kind of light (Mind, Sensitive to light (3) (K. 78)

*grief from the birth experience (Mind, Grief (2) (K. 50 and Mind, Ailments from grief (2) (K. 51).

Dislikes diaper changes due to the draft (Generalities, Air, draft, aggravates (2) (K. 1344).

*prefers the right breast (Generalities, Side, right (3) (K. 1400).

*inversion of the feet (Extremities, Inversion, foot (K. 1019).

*averse to touch, only from a certain person, does not feel it can be accepted (Mind, Touch, aversion to

being, (K. 89).

*fussy (Mind, morose (3).

*fastidious, wants blankets a certain way, or wants to breast feed at a certain angle (Mind, fastidious (2) (K.

42).

*irritable bowel, prone to colic and other symptoms (Abdomen, Pain, cramping, griping (3) (K. 574).

*hernias (Abdomen, Hernia (3) (K. 552).

*many bubbles blown out of frustration and impatience (Mind, Impatience (3) (K. 531).

*abdominal complaints with jaundice (Abdomen, jaundice during (2) (K. 613).

*colic with croup.

*diarrhoea from too much nursing (Rectum, Diarrhea, eating after (2) (K. 612).

*fiery temperament, get excited easily, and have spells of anger (Mind, Anger (3) (K. 2).

*easily offended (Mind, Offended easily (3) (K. 69).

*sensitive to reprimand.

*other worst time of day is the mornig (Generalities, Morning aggravates (3) (K. 134).

*much time spent, overeating (Generalities, Eating, to satiety (2) (K. 1357).

*don’t like to be in their carriage during the dry, cold weather, prefer the warm weather (Generalities, cold,

dry weather aggravates (3) (K. 1349).

Sulphur babies

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The wound in Sulphur is a type of abandonment. The Sulphur baby existed in an emotional environment

that was tough and controlling. The dynamic interchange between the parents and the infant (usually

between the mother and the infant) left the child with a feeling of powerlessness. These infants are sensitive

to the perception of domination and attempt to gain security by acting angry and controlling.

*They are very demanding babies.

*They want to be in control of everything. They dislike having a schedule and will let the mother know this

(Mind, Disobedience (K. 37).

*They are rather lazy at the breast and if they are hurried by the mother, they do not like this.

*They have alternating moods that go from happy, tearful, angry (Mind, Mood, alternating (2) (K. 68).

*If they are reprimanded, they are offended easily, and get angry from it. (Mind, Selfishness (2) (K. 78).

*They are selfish bebies only wanting what they think is the best for them (Mind, Selfishness (2) (K. 78).

*They frequently yawn from boredom (Sleep, Yawning, frequently (3) (K. 1257).

*Thay have serious expressions on their faces.

*They are often averse to being spoken to. It must be in their control as to when they want to be spoken to

or not (Mind, Spoken to, aversion to being spoken to (2) (K. 82).

*They have a hearty appetitie when first latching onto the breast, then get lazy. Thay prefer frequent snacks

from the breast (Stomach, Appetite, increased (3) (K. 477) and Stomach, Appetite, easy satiety (2) (K. 476).

*At times, the mother’s milk disagrees with them and they get diarrhea (Generalities, Food, milk aggravates

(3) (K. 1363).

*They have difficulty with digestion when their mother eats eggs, milk or meat, while thay are nursing

(Generalities, Food, milk aggravates (3) and meat aggravates (K. 1363), Stomach, Aversion eggs (K. 480).

*They prefer the left breast for nursing.

*As infants, they like the taste of beer, wine, or any type of alcohol (Stomach, Desires, alcoholic drinks (3)

(K. 484).

*They get very exciteable when they know they will eat. They are very oral babies and often like pacifiers

in their mouths.

*Their fingernails are strong, but their toenails soft.

*They have a red facial discoloration (Face, Discoloration, red (K. 361).

*They often have red orfices – eyes, nose, ears, anus (Eyes, Redness (3) (K. 264), Nose, Discoloration,

redness inside (3) (K. 334), Ears, Discoloration, redness (K. 287), Rectum, Redness, or anus (3) (K. 632).

*They have cradle cap and/or eczema (Skin, eruptions, eczema (3) (K. 1312 Head, Eruptions, yellow crusts

(K. 116).

*They scratch themselves due to their long fingernails and their skin becomes red.

*They like cat-naps and are ameliorated from them. They get so tired by the overwork of nursing that they

can fall asleep on their mother’s breast (Sleepiness, after eating (K. 1250).

*They often have neonatal jaundice (Skin, Discoloration, yellow (K. 1307).

*They have left sided ailments (Generalities, Side, left (3) (K. 1401).

*They have night sweats all over their body (Perspiration, night (3) (K. 1294).

*They have good eye contact.

*They like company in the room, but on their terms.

*They are ameliorated by going in the open air and ridinf in the car or on the back of a bike (Generalities,

Air, open air ameliorates (3) (K. 1344).

*Their extremities are often cold (Extremities, Coldness, hand (3) (K. 958), Extremities, coldness, foot (3)

(K. 962).

*They dislike the bath and diaper changes,because they are the ones that want to be in control and not

infered with (Generalities, bathing dread of (3) (K. 1345).

*Their energy and emotional level is worse at 11 a. m. (3) (K. 1341).

*They want to escape from the blankets due to the heat. (Generalities, Heat sensation of (3) (K. 1366).

*They do not like the warmth of the bed and often wake in the middle of the night due to being too warm.

(Sleep, Waking, from heat (K. 1256).

*They often sleep with their mouth open or during the day you will find their mouth open (Mouth, Open (3)

(K. 409).

*They are restless in bed, often tossing about (Sleep, Restless (3) (K. 1247).

*During sleep, thay have a tendency to moan (Mind, Moaning, sleep during (K. 67).

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*They startle when falling aslep for their naps and in the evening when they are put to bed (Mind,

Irritability, waking on (K. 60).

*They have a 5 a. m. waking with or without stools (Sleep, waking 5 a. m. (3) (K. 1255).

*They prefer men and can have an aversion to women, except their mother.

*They deisre to have the best things. Even with their blankets, they prefer to have silk to polyester.

*They do not like to fondled unless on their terms.

Borax Babies

The wound of the organism in Borax is some type of abandonment that has produced feelings of grief.

It may consist of problems the mother had in the pregnancy, trauma during the birth process, or interruption

or absence of proper bonding.

Borax has long been known as a remedy for the nursery and like many nursery remedies, it has been

greatly abused.

Homoeopaths tend to administer it based on its two prominent keynotes: A soreness in the mouth and

being worse from downward motion. Borax, however, has many other sriking features on a deeper level.

*Borax babies tend to be loners and do not often like to be fondled. They may spend long hours alone in

their playpen or crib, lying passively without showing interest in anything. (Mind, Sit, inclination to, (K.

80).

*Borax is in the Natrum family, thus it is useful in ailments from grief. Usually, they have some kind of

trauma at the delivery or during the pregnancy.

*They are very sensitive babies (Mind, Sensitive, oversensitive (3) (K. 78).

*Borax babies have a kind of suffering expression on the face (Face, Expression, suffering (K. 374).

*The face can be pale and have shriveled skin that has a reddish-blue hue to it (Face, Discoloration pale (K.

359).

*They prefer not to have people around them and do best when in a one-to-one situation with their mother.

*They have a difficult time expressing their emotions and only cry when they are hungry, or their diaper is

wet. They do not like to be in wet or dirty diapers for long periods of time.

*They can have frightening dreams and shriek in their sleep and then cling to their mother as if the world

would come to an end. (Sleep, Dreams, frightful (3) (K. 1240), and Mind, Shrieking, children in (3) or

Mind, Shrieking sleep during (3) (K. 80).

*They are sensitive and nervous babies. The slightest noise or the mere rustling of paper, as well as strong

noises will fighten and arouse the baby (Mind, Sensitive to noise (3) (K. 78).

*The Borax baby startles easily and this characteristic along with sadness can distinguish it from other

remedies. They have startling on almost or every activity. They startle when falling asleep, from pain, from

noise, or even when they hear a voice. The sensitivy of the organism is very strong and this can distinguish

it from the other Natrums (Mind, Startling (K. 82), Mind Starting easily (3) from noise (3) from sleep (3)

sneezing at (3) (K. 83).

*Even if the baby is sound asleep in her mother’s arms, as the mother makes an attempt to lay her down in

the crib or just put her on the bed, she gives a start and awakens. As the mother is walking down the steps

the child clings to her. It is not only the downward motion, but the surroundings that cause the Borax baby

to be frightened. (Generalities, Descending aggravates (3) (K. 1356).

*The Borax baby likes to be carried, but it has to be picked up very gently and put down very gently. The

mother knows she has to be sensitive to this child and very careful in how she handles the baby.

*The Borax baby will wake up several times during the night. If the mother talks quietly in a soothing tone,

the baby will quiet down and fall asleep again (Sleep, Waking frequently) (K. 1255).

*The Borax baby shows lack of reaction, is sad, quiet and withdrawn (Mind, Weeping, tearful mood) (K.

92).

*Borax babies ger frightened to sensitivity (Mind, Frightenedeasily (3) (K. 49).

*Borax babies do not care to be touched or spoken to. They do not like deep contact and this can cause

them to dislike nursing when they are not hungry. The child may actually push the breast aside.

*Borax prefers the right breast to the left breast.

*There is not much of an appetite due to depression (Stomach, Appetite diminished) (K. 476).

*There can be a discoloration around the mouth, as if it were burnt, and this also can be seen inside the

mouth.

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*Sometimes the palate is shriveled (Mouth, Shriveled, palate) (K. 418).

*The skin is unhealthy (Skin, Unhealthy (3) (K. 1339).

*Every little scratch suppurates easily (Sulphur, Natrum carbonicum) (Skin, Inflammation, inclination to

(K. 1326).

*The Borax baby has the peculiar symptom of screaming before urination

*If the mother is in the process of diapering te baby and the baby urinates, the mother will report that the

urine is hot, with an offensive odor (Urine, Burning (3) (K. 681) and Urine Odor offensive, (K. 687).

*The Borax baby will be constantly yawning [Sleep, Yawning] [K. 1257 ]

*It is sleepy in the daytime and sleepless at night, and tends to have days and nights mixed up.

*Another peculiar symptom is that the hairs of the eyelashes grow inward instead of outward and irritate the

eyeball (as in Graphites).

3. Remedies and their Characteristic Symptoms During Pregnancy

GHEGAS Vasillis (NEJH, 6, 2&3/1997)

During the pregnancy, the patient can completely change and the usual remedy doesn’t work. If so, try

to find out if there is a new polycrest that fits her. If you don’t find one, look for a remedy that fits with the

main complaint. Some remedies have a special affinity for pregnant women and thus occur more in

pregnancy than other remedies. Here are twenty-four remedies with their characteristics during pregnancy,

in hierarchical order according to my practical experience.

Sepia

Many women need Sepia during pregnancy. Think of it when a women has had frequent spontaneous

abortions. Consider Sepia in women who didn’t plan to become pregnanct and who are now unhappily

pregnant.

Consider Sepia in the woman who hates her baby. Consider Sepia in woman who already has 5

children and who gets pregnant unexpectedly.

They can develop a strong disgust for their husbands. It is really disgust, they don’t tolerate their

husband’s odor anymore, don’t want to sleep with him, etc. (K 9: aversion, husband).

They can have a strong aversion to sex during pregnancy. They sometimes want to have sex, but the

aversion to their husband is too strong (“My husband stinks.”) (K 715: coition, aversion to).

Sepia can have an aversion to any odor: they can be nauseous or vomit. They can be averse to

perfume, aftershave, odors in a restaurant, etc. (K 509: nausea, pregnancy during; K 508: nausea, odors

from).

Consider Sepia in toothache during pregnancy (K 438: teeth, pain, pregnancy, during) or in facial pain

during pregnancy (K 382: face pain, pregnancy, during).

Prefer Sepia to Natrum muriaticum in oregnant women with leucorrhoea with severe itching (K 722:

leucorrhoea, pregnancy).

Sepia is chilly and often has very cold extrelities.

Sepia weeps more than any remedy: they even wep in the waiting room. They can weep because they

don’t want the baby, sometimes they weep without reason (Don’t confuse with Pulsatilla).

At the 5

th

or 6

th

month, Sepia has brown spots on the face, the so-called mask of pregnancy (K 391:

face, saddle across the nose).

After the 6

th

month, Sepia can have a heavy sensation in the abdomen swith the feling as if the delivery

would begin (K 732: pain, uterus, bearing down, as if everything would come out). They were a corset to

endure this sensation.

After the 6

th

or 7

th

month, they sometimes have the sensation that there is something in their anus (K

623: rectum, lump sensation of). If they have a constant ineffective urge for stool, consider Sepia’s

complementary remedy, Nux vomica.

If the leucorrhoea remains after Sepia and the patient develops vaginal herpes, prefer the

complementary remedy, Petroleum. (K 717: genitalia female, eruption herpetic) to the other

complementary remedy Natrum muriaticum.

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Nux vomica

Occurs more frequently after the 5

th

or 6

th

month of pregnancy.

Consider Nux vomica in women who are very irritable and hot-tempered.

Consider Nux vomica in women who weep when they are angry (K 93: weeping, anger after).

Nux vomica is indicated if the pregnant woman has abdominal complaints with ineffectual urging for

stool (K 607: constipation, ineffectual urging and straining).

Nux vomica is always chilly.

Sometimes they have strong aversion to tobacco smoke although they used to smoke themselves (K

1407: tobacco agg.).

Nux moschata

Consider Nux moschata if the woman’s personality completely changes during pregnancy.

Consider Nux moschata if the pregnant woman can do less mental work than before: their mind is

confused (K 15: confusion of mind during pregnancy). They can’t possibly concentrate.

In addition, Nux moschata feels sleepy, as if they would go into a coma, as if they have taken sleeping

pills (K 1250: sleepiness during pregnancy).

A keynote during the pregnancy is that the skin feels icy cold. This troubles the patient and she wants

warmth on her skin to relieve that unpleasant feeling (K 1305: coldness skin during pregnancy). This

symptom of Nux moschata can occur in pregnant women who are chilly or warm blooded.

They have a dry mouth and the saliva is too thick: their tongue tends to stick to the palate (K 403:

dryness mouth thirstless: dryness mouth sensation; K 404: dryness tongue sensation). This symptom can be

very severe and very bothersome. They sometimes use lemons to get the tongue off the palate although they

don’t desire lemons.

They can have menses although they are pregnant (K 728: menses during pregnancy).

They easily faint during pregnancy (K 1360: faintness; pregnancy; K 1361: faintness, stool, during).

The partner will tell you that his wife’scharacter has changed completely since she became pregnant:

she used to be extroverted and now she is introverted and depressed.

If the patient becomes very sleepy when the due date approaches, consider Nux moschata. If she is

sleepy during labor and can’t keep her eyes open, prefer Gelsemium.

Lachesis

Lachesis becomes melancholic and depressed during pregnancy (K 77: sadness in pregnancy) so that

you can confuse with Natrum muriaticum.

Very often, they have palpitations when lying on the left side.

They can have nocturnal attacks of shortness of breath with a sensation of suffocation (K 771:

respiration difficult, sleep during).

Their hair can fall out during pregnancy (K 620: hemorrhoids, pregnancy, during).

Natrum muriaticum

During pregnancy, Natrum muriaticum can become depressed and melancholic (K 77: sadness,

pregnancy, in).

They have more vertigo when they are pregnant (K 102: vertigo, pregnancy during), while they have

more headache when they aren’t pregnant. In case of headache during pregnancy, prefer Sepia to Natrum

muriaticum.

If a pregnant woman is depressed and has herpes round the mouth, give preference to Natrum

muriaticum, even if she was well on Calcarea carbonica or Phosphorus.

Usually, a pregnant Natrum muriaticum has a strong desire for salt: they can lick salt with a finger (K

486: desires salt things).

Natrum muriaticum is very thirsty during pregnancy (K 529: thirst, large quantities, often for).

Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla is the strongest remedy for atony of the uterus (K 715: atony of uterus). If the baby is not in

the correct position before labor, this is usually due to atony of the uterus and therefore, Pulsatilla is given

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priority. In case of breech presentation just before labor, you can give Pulsatilla and thus often avoid

section.

Pulsatilla can suffer severe pains during labor, and as a kind of protection against these pains, they

become sleepy. So, if a pregnant woman in labor becomes more sleepy in accordance with the pain, prefer

Pulsatilla (K 1250: sleepiness during labor, pains).

In cases of infalmmation of the bladder during pregnancy, Pulsatilla is most indicated: sometimes, the

only symptom is that the patient has to urinate frequently.

In cases of involuntary urination during pregnancy, Pulsatilla is given priority and not Causticum (K

660: urination, involuntary during pregnancy), even when this is caused by sneezing or laughing.

You will usually find the other characteristic information for Pulsatilla: hot flashes, hot feet, uncovers

them, thirstless, easily weeping, softly, gently.

Gelsemium

In any kind of hysterical behavior during pregnancy or during labor consider Gelsemium.

Gelsemium is very useful in anxiety before delivery, especially the day before labor (K 4: anticipation;

K 8: anxiety time is set, as if a ). If the patient shows signs of this fear, give Gelsemium the day prior to

delivery. (K 896: back, pain, labor, during).

In case of back pain during labor, give priority to Gelsemium (K 896: back, pain, labor, during).

Gelsemium can have a neurologic affection of the eyelids with ptosis of the upper eyelid (261: paralysis

upper lids).

Sometimes, the patient has difficulty talking because of a heavy sensation in the tongue (K 419: speech

difficult, heaviness of tongue). Nux moschata on the contrary has difficulty talking because of a dry tongue

which sticks to the palate.

Calcarea carbonica

Consider Calcarea carbonica in bleeding gums during pregnancy (K 398: bleeding gums, menses

supressed). Also picture Calcarea carbonica in bleeding gums after hysterectomy.

They easily have cramps in the soles (K 977: cramp, foot, sole, during pregnancy).

All the well-known keynotes for Calcarea carbonica should be present: cold feet in bed, perspiration

on the neck and chest, desire for eggs and sweets, brittle nails, fear of heights.

Phosphorus

During the pregnancy, Phosohorus develops anxiety for others (K 7: anxiety for others): especially for

the future baby and the future father. They wonder if there is anything wrong with the baby. They are

afraid that something may happen to their husband, and what will be the consequence for the baby?

Phosphorus is also afraid of all kinds of things that might happen (K 45: fear, something will happen):

afraid of a possible miscarriage, of the delivery, hospitalisation, afraid to undergo section, etc. They can

have dreams and nightmares of hospitals and surgeries.

A pregnant Phosphorus talks to her baby, rubs over her abdomen, puts music to her abdomen, etc.

They consequently want contact with the unborn child. They wil also speak to every mother and ask about

her experiences.

If a pregnant woman has a blue discoloration of the face or if she ahs a poor circulation, give priority to

Phosphorus and not Lachesis (K 358: discoloration, bluish, face, during pregnancy).

In gastro-entritis and diarrhea during pregnancy, you have to prefer Phosphorus to Podophyllum. (K

614: diarrhea, during pregnancy).

If the pregnancy woman is very thirsty and has pain in the stomach, consider Phosphorus especially if

she drinks cold water and vomits as soon as water becomes warm in stomach (K 532: vomiting drinking,

soon as water becomes warm in stomach: 1

st

Phosphorus, 2

nd

Veratrum album and 3

rd

Bismuth).

They can have an empty feeling in the stomach during pregnancy.

Veratrum album

In physical restlessness during pregnancy, prefer Veratrum album to Arsenicum album (K 74:

restlessnss during pregnancy).

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Veratrum album is a good remedy for vomiting accompanying diarrhea. Vomiting and diarrhea are

frequent complaints during pregnancy, and for that reason Veratrum album is often indicated. Always

consider Veratrum album in vomiting or diarrhea during pregnancy, even when not accompanying each

other.

Desire for lemons can be very strong, desire for salt, too. They desire vey cold drinks and as soon as it

becomes warm in the stomach, they have to vomit. (d. d. Phosphorus).

Some parts of the body are very cold (K 1305: coldness icy in spots) and yet they perspire on those

parts (K 1296: perspiration during coldness), i. e. the armpit can feel cold while they perspire there.

If Veratrum album is indicated during pregnancy, it is important to give it because you also treat the

baby ib the uterus, and you can prevent the child from becoming hyperactive or maniacal.

Aconitum napellus

Give Aconitum napellus in fear of death during pregnancy or labor (K 44: fear of death during

pregnancy).

Aconitum napellus can be sure that they will die: “If I have to undergo section, I won’t survive it” (K

44: fear of death, predicts the time).

If the pregnant woman starts bleeding after a serious shock and she is fearful and restless, prefer

Aconitum napellus to Arsenicum album (K 730: metrorrhagia after fright; K 49: fright, complaints

from).

Carbo vegetabilis

If the pregnant woamn becomes short of breath when the abdomen swells, give Carbo vegetabilis (K

769: respiration difficult, from flatulence). Consider Carbo vegetabilis in asthma or bronchitis which come

up in the 8

th

month of pregnancy. This shortness of breath is caused by pressure of the enlarged uterus

against the diapharm.

They can perspire and yet like to sit in cold air or before an open window: they need fresh air which

makes breathing easier (K 769: difficult respiration, fanned wants to be; K 770; difficult respiration, open

wants doors and windows).

They are chilly and usually weak and they desire sweets.

Magnesium carbonica

Consider Magnesia carbonica in liver disorders during pregnancy.

They feel weak and very tired in the morning (K 1255: slep unrefreshed).

They frequently weep during pregnancy (K 94: weeping, pregnancy during)

Sometimes, there has been an aversion to vegetables since the beginning of the pregnancy (K 482:

aversion vegetables).

They usually like bread (K 484: desires bread).

Cimicifuga

Cimicfuga is a strange hysterical remedy. They can sigh as much as Ignatia (K 80: sighing).

During the pregnancy, they can complain of a sensation of mist or clouds around their eyes, head or the

whole body. Vassilis once saw a patient who acted as if she was removing the smoke round her head

although there was nothing: it can really be a delusion (K 22: delusion clouds, heavy black enveloped her).

They can feel curious things on their jead: e.g., that there is a tree growing on their head, that there is a

hole in their head where cold wind is blowing (K 132: head opening, sensation as if opened and let in cold

air).

They can be very sensitive to noise: noise can produce pain, especially during labor (K 79: sensitive to

noise, labor during).

Cimicifuga is the best remedy to help the cervix dilate during labor. Don’t give allopathic medication

here. A mature cervix can dilate a few minutes after Cimicifuga.

In case of a dead fetus in the uterus, you can give Cimicifuga 200 to make the expulsion easier.

Stannum

If the pregnant woman is so weak that she can’t undress herself anymore.

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If the pregnant woman is so short of breath that she can’t talk any more (K 1420: weakness from

talking).

Stannum can smell so far away that they can be troubled by odors at a large distance (e. g., in the next

village is a barbecue).

Arsenicum album

During pregnancy, Arsenicum album is indicated for fainting after vomiting (K 1361: faintness

vomiting, after. They are anxious often in combination with panic. Nux moschata can also have this

symptoms during pregnancy, but they show more signs of sleepiness instead of panic.

Arsenicum album can’t be alone.

The other keynotes of Arsenicum album are usually present: Aggravation 1 a. m., restlessnes, anxiety,

frequently drinking little sips.

Kreosotum

In case of severe vaginitis with a burning sensation and leucorrhea during pregnancy, prefer Sepia to

Kreosotum (K 722: leucorrhea pregnancy).

Kreosotum has copious salivation during pregnancy: the pillow can be completely wet (K 418:

salivation during pregnancy) and very often, their breath is offensive (K 409: odor offensive, mouth).

Kreosotum easily has vaginal bleeding after coition (730: metrorrhagia after coition).

If the leucorrhoea becomes chronic in Kreosotum, consider the possibility of cancer (K 715: cancer,

vagina).

Laurocerasus

Consider Laurocerasus in pregnant women with tendency to vomit or vomiting associated with

palpitations. Characterisitic of Laurocerasus is that all complaints disappear when they lie on their back (K

513: stomach pain, lying on back amel.). If this symptom is present during pregnancy, give Laurocerasus.

If it is a chronic complaint, also in non-pregnant women, prefer Calcarea carbonica.

They sometimes have an aversion to any kind of food.

Laciticum acidum

Consider Laciticum acidum in the very pale pregnant woman who has nausea in the morning on rising

from bed or who has to vomit then (K 509: nausea pregnancy during). She additionally has eructations and

salivation (K 418: salivation during pregnancy).

If there is salivation accompanied by vaginitis during pregnancy, consider Kreosotum; if, however, the

salivation is accompanied by stomach disorders, prefer Laciticum acidum.

Laciticum acidum has an aversion to milk.

Petroleum

Petroleum has mausea and vomiting from the odor of exhaust fumes (or petroleum). They also get

easily carsick.

Petroleum can have herpes on the genitalia (K 717: eruption herpetic) although less frequently than

Sepia.

Dioscorea villosa

Characterisitic of Dioscorea villosa is that leaning back (hyperlordosis) ameliorates all complaints, and

leaning forward aggravates their complaints (K 556: abdomen, pain, beinding backward amelioration).

Some pregnant women feel well when they exaggerate the lumbar lordosis, and they feel bad when

bending forward or bending double. Give Dioscorea villosa in these cases.

Dioscorea villosa can’t sit on a couch, they can only sit straight on a hard chair.

Dioscorea villosa complains of problems in tne abdomen or the stomach.

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Asarum

Characterisitc of Asarum is that they are oversensitive to the least noise. Even scratching on linen, silk

or paper is intolerable to them.

Consider Asarum if a pregnant woman can’t tolerate her husband reading the newspaper or her child

leafing through a book. This slightest noise causes nausea and they can even vomit from it (K 509: nausea

during pregnancy; K 534: vomiting during pregnancy).

Louder noises will disturb them less than very slight noises.

They sometimes have a bitter or sour taste in the mouth.