Advanced Learners Guide to Homoepathy practice

[jaykrish1966]

MEDICAL EMERGENCIES IN HOMOEOPATHY PRACTICE
By

Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy, A-1, Mahati Apts., 52/14, Jubilee Road, West Mambalam, Chennai – 600 033, India. E-mail:

jaykrish1966@gmail.com Phone : 9789069362, 9884612450.

[Forty-five years of rigorous, vigorous and relentless search, study, practice, teaching and observation in the clinic, not as a breadwinning profession, but out of sheer academic interest)
“Theory is good so far as it goes; but he,

who can infuse theory

into practice lives in, with

and for the student.—R. Del Mas.
The teachings in this paper are beyond

everything on homoeopathy practice.
Many homoepaths are not familiar with those reference books, which are indispensable and essential in day-to-day practice.
Pregnancy/childbirth, post-partum haemorrhage, threatened and habitual abortion are emergency conditions and the indispensable and No. 1 reference book for this is The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by one of the No.1 authors, the great Dr. W. A. Yingling, M.D. of U.S.A. It is no exaggeration to say that to be fit to practise, a practitioner must have cured at least three cases of childbirth emergencies by using this reference work.
Case 1: Boiling tea was splashed on the face of a woman and she lost her eyesight. Allopathy doctors told that nothing could be done. Single dose of Carbolic acid-10M restored her eyesight in thirty minutes time. [See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—GENERALITIES--Injuries, burns, extensive: Carbol. ac.]
Case 2: What is the remedy (in one single dose) that would have cured the rape victim Nirbhaya of Delhi?

Symptoms in this case are:
Ichorrhaemia, pyaemia, septicaemia: Acon., Arn., Ars., Calend., Canth., Carbol-ac., Chin-arom., Chinin-mur. or sulph., Crot-h., Lach., Nit-ac., Rhus, Veratr-vir., Zinc.
—for the haemorrhages: Crot-h., Ergot., Kreos., Nitr-ac., Mur-ac., Fer-mur., Tarent-c., Tereb.
—for the adynamia: Mosch., Camph., Carb. v., Crot-h, Lach., Phos., Sil., Verat- alb., Verat-vir., Sulph.
We find the above on page 912 in the HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal.
Crotalus horridus alone is common to the above three lists, and one dose in 10M potency would have saved Nirbhaya.
[An important note on Crotalus horridus-10M: From the above, one can easily infer that diseases of blood that threaten the life of the patient can be completely relieved by this remedy—Septicaemia, leucaemia, infective hepatitis, hepatitis b-virus, haemophilia (bleeders.). A patient came from Bellary and was admitted in a leading hospital in Bangalore in i. c. unit. Since the allopathy doctors in that hospital did not object to any external application, one drop of Crotalus-hor-10M was put on his forearm. After twenty-four hours, he was shifted to the wards and the second day he was discharged. He came in an ambulance and upon discharge travelled by bus to Mantralaya.] Homoeo medicines act by coming in contact with the skin. If you buy in tincture, put one drop on the centre of forearm. If you have the remedy in pills, just put 3-5 pills in 1-3 teaspoonful of water and apply this solution as above. No need to rub. Once only. Whether given orally or applied externally, both will have the same effect, provided your remedy selection is correct!
In emergencies, nature speaks plainly. The more danger to life, the clearer the symptoms speak and quicker our remedy acts.
In homoeopathy practice, everything is practical and practical only. There are no theories. For learning swimming, first you get into the water. So also, for learning car driving, you are made to sit on the wheel and drive in the traffic. Unless and until a teacher points out actual cases, you may not understand what is in the materia medica or repertory.
Aethusa cynapium: “Before this remedy was known, a certain class of cases of cholera of infants, and vomiting and diarrhea in children, all resulted fatally, and because there was no remedy that looked like such serious cases. Death is stamped on the face from the beginning, and if there are any remedies in the book that save life, this is one of them.” [See Kent’s Lectures on Mat. Medica.] You are called in to see a child of five months, in the early morning between 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. Convulsion, moaning, thumbs drawn towards palm, eyes drawn downward. Without a dose of Aethusa, that child would die by 6 a.m.
What is the remedy for the last stage of cholera? It is Hydrocyanic acid.
Cases that end fatally:
In encephalitis of children, single sharp, shrill screams while sleeping. Raises hand to back of ears while it screams—Apis. [Lilienthal]
Sudden crying of the child, with clutching of hair or nurse's face: Digitalis. (Cerebro-spinal meningitis)—See Knerr’s Repertory—MIND AND DISPOSITION.
Case 3: A child was in the i. c. unit for treatment of basilar meningitis. I called aside the mother and asked what happened before hospitalisation. She said that the child during sleep, started crying, jumped and fell on the floor.
In Lilienthal (page 709) in the chapter Basilar Meningitis, among other things, we find the following in the remedy Zincum met.:
. . . cries out, starts and jumps during sleep.
Zinc-met. cured the child and next day discharged.
DROP THE SYMPTOM IN LILIENTHAL AND YOU GET THE REMEDY IN NO TIME. It is less than the time needed for switching on your computer software.
Preventive for epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis: Zinc. (See Knerr’s.]
You must keep the remedies similar to the above emergencies at your fingertip!
Case 4: A chronic renal failure patient with fever and ascites or, for that matter, any bedridden patient goes into coma at 2-30 p.m. He is hospitalised and in a few days dies. What is the remedy?
Answer: Helleborus. See Kent’s Repertory: GENERALITIES—Afternoon: 2-30 p.m.
“Homoeopathy has not become popular because of defective books as well as because of defective use of books. “ Thus writes Dr. Kent in his book Lesser Writings.
What are the most useful books in day-to-day practice? The one book that tops the list is Lilienthal. Dr. Samuel Lilienthal is our senior. Do not call any other homoeopath in India your senior. Next in the list is the Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual By Dr. W. A. Yingling.
Case 5: A pregnant woman was shedding tears. Upon inquiry, her mother told me that the next day was delivery date and the doctors said that she was very weak and so would not be able to develop labor pain; therefore, caesarean alone was to be done.
In Yingling (page 231), we find the following:
LABOR--Weak, patient too weak to develop normal

pains: Caul., Mur-ac.
Muriatic acid has symptoms of weakness more than Belladonna. A characteristic symptom in the remedy Muriatic acid is “Mouth and anus chiefly affected.” [See Boericke’s Materia Medica.]
I asked the patient if she was having soreness or any complaint in mouth and she replied in the affirmative. I further asked if she had similar complaint in her anus and she confirmed this. [You can put questions after selecting a few remedies through the Repertory, to decide one remedy—the similimum.]
Within minutes of taking a dose of Muriatic Acid-10M, she developed labor pains; was rushed to hospital. After half-an-hour, it was a normal and safe delivery. Homoeopathy is an exact and accurate method. Precision and versatility is the culture of Homoeopathy. Homoeopathy will ever remain supreme among pharmacologically oriented system of therapeutics!
Case 6: A pregnant woman in a village went to a town for delivery. The doctors in a nursing home after examining her, declined to admit her because instead of descending, the uterus was in the upward position. She was then taken to the Govt. hospital. Upon examining her, even they said that a major surgery had to be done and since the senior surgeon was not available, they would not admit her. She came home weeping. When I heard this, I wanted to find out if homoeopathy could help her and so turned to Yingling. On page 229, we find the following:
Upward, uterus seems to go: Cimic.
Just one single dose of Cimicifuga (Actaea recemosa)-10M was given. Within minutes, she felt some movements in her abdomen, the uterus coming down to its correct position and developed labor pains: so, was rushed to the hospital. This time, upon examining her, the attending doctor found everything to be normal and so admitted her and it was a caesarean-free delivery! Does the reader need any further or better justification for having a copy of Yingling?
Yingling’s Emergency Manual is for medical emergencies in abnormal conditions of parturition, those which occur directly before, during, or after labor or abortion. It does not deal with those conditions wherein the physician has plenty of time for consideration, as in many ailments during gestation, and those following some days after delivery. It is strictly an emergency manual, yet containing all the symptoms of the rubrics treated of, and many indication of remedies not usually considered critical, as it is impossible to tell beforehand what symptoms may be the keynotes in the emergency hour to either save life or prevent undue suffering. Strictly speaking, only those conditions endangering life would be emergency conditions, but as any undue suffering or abnormality may be the precursor or direct cause of the emergency condition, indications of remedies covering these must, of necessity, are included in the book The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual. This work contains both repertory and materia medica.
For treatment of emergencies other than labor, Lilienthal is by far the best work to be made use of. He is the only author who has not only treated large number of diseases, but also used several remedies for each disease. HE IS OUR SENIOR. HE IS OUR GUIDE. HE IS OUR TEACHER. So also Knerr, Yingling and Hering!
Next in the list of useful books come the 10-volume Hering’s Guiding Symptoms.
Not the whole of the ten volumes are useful. Only the chapters “MIND AND DISPOSITION” “TISSUES” and “STAGES OF LIFE AND CONSTITUTION” under each Remedy are the most useful for us.
I have taken out the three paras and made a compilation with the title WILKINSON’S MAT. MEDICA. [Available with the author of this book.) Apart from Lilienthal and Yingling, the next in order of importance are
Boericke’s MAT. MEDICA

Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY
Cases treated with the help of WILKINSON’S MATERIA MEDICA are given below:
Case 7: A case of spondylitis. A woman of thirty-two, pointing to both shoulder tips with her index fingers, said, “Doctor, I have pain here and doctors said that it is due to spondylitis. (The suffix ‘-itis’ means inflammation.)
In Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica, in the remedy Belladonna we find the following:
The inflammation . . . runs in radii

as it extends to adjacent parts.
Belladonna-10M single dose cured her.
Case 8: A woman of 38 years complained that any little strain caused bleeding from uterus—while travelling or lifting weight, or by sudden jar etc. How would you treat this case? This is haemorrhagic exudations. Under one remedy alone, viz., Anthracinum in Wilkinson’s do we find this symptom.

Fracture of tibia does not readily heal. Though the fracture might have healed, the victim would be having its chronic effects of oozing serum from the injured place etc. All homoepaths give Symphytum etc. and it does not work.
Knerr’s Repertory is useful for this. There we find the following:
GENERALITIES: INJURIES, Fracture of tibia: Anthracin.
Salient features of KNERR’S REPERTORY: For intermittent fevers, he alone gives symptoms during apyrexia.
Case 9: A patient with malaria for more than six months was treated in vain by allopaths and homoeopaths. During consultation with me, he ended up saying, “Doctor, I get the chill-heat-fever syndrome in the evening. However, ever since the onset of this malaria, I get pain in my chest in the morning, what is it due to, doctor?”
A symptom occurring during the evening chill-fever-sweat syndrome (such as headache, etc.) belongs to the pathology of malaria; hence common. However, symptom occurring during apyrexia does not belong to malaria, but belongs to the patient; hence ‘uncommon’ and so more valuable.
KNERR’S REPERTORY—FEVER, intermittent, apyrexia: pain in chest: Sabad.
Sabadilla cured the above 6-month old case of malaria. Salutes to the later authors of Hering’s Guiding Symptoms. Which other Repertory gives symptoms in malaria during apyrexia?

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Dr. Constantine Hering proved Lachesis and he died with the symptoms of Lachesis because he took it in low potency for proving. What is the remedy that would have saved him?
“When Lachesis has been given in too low potency, and the patient has been poisoned with the crude medicine, this remedy (Ammonium carb.) then becomes an antidote, used in a high potency, because of the similarity in its action. [See Kent’s Lectures on Hom. Mat. Medica-- Amm-carb.]
Snake poisons were proved by taking one single pill in the 3rd or 6th potency. Beware! Never give metals, poisonous chemicals and virulent poisons below the 10M potency and do not give repeatedly. Many ignorant homoeopaths argue that Boericke recommends 6th or 30th potency at the end of many remedies. However, in the Preface to Ninth Edition he writes, “The dosage needs some apology. It is, of course, suggestive only; more often to be wholly disregarded.”
Almost all homoepaths have a copy of Boericke’s Mat. Medica. Has anyone ever used it wisely is a question mark. [In some cases, we have to make combined use of two reference works, as the next case would show.]
Case 10: A 32-year old woman was treated for terminal cancer; after repeated chemotherapy, she got frequent and profuse leucorrhoeal discharge and consequent dehydration. Doctors told that she would live for another few months only.
When she was in my clinic, she told, “Doctor, people of my village do not have any regard because they say that after all, I am going to die in a few months. Cure me and I want to live for more years and tell my villagers, “Look, I got cured.”
Again, I read all the remedies in the chapter Leucorrhoea in Lilienthal and I could confirm Hamamelis because of the following symptoms therein: “. . . Profuse fluor albus, constituting a drain on the system as severe as a bleeding…”
I read Hamamelis in both Wilkinson’s and Boericke. The following in the para “Head” in Boericke caught my attention:
“Wants the respect due to me shown.”
Hamamelis-10M, single dose, cured her and she lived a healthy life for many years.
Case 11: A victim of burns from feet to hip was admitted in government hospital and Cantharis etc. gave no relief. For superficial burns, there is no need for urgent treatment, and therefore, the house surgeon did not call the senior doctor who would come in the evening rounds only.
The patient was heard saying, “No senior doctor or specialist has come to see and treat me.” He asked to be taken to a private nursing home and there too just the house surgeon attended on him. Here also the patient was repeating the same thing that no senior doctor was attending on him immediately.
As far as the patient is concerned, immediate attention of a senior doctor is necessary.
Boericke’s Repertory—GENERALITIES, INJURIES—Burns, scalds—(21 remedies are listed.) I read all these remedies in Boericke’s Mat. Medica (the first para, ‘Mind’ and ‘Skin’) and the words “Wants the respect due to me shown” in Hamamelis caught my attention.
What a serious patient needs is immediate attention by a senior doctor and according to the patient, he did not have that. I gave him Hamamelis-1000, single dose and asked him to get voluntary discharge and go home.
After three days, the patient was cured almost completely and when he went to the doctors who had seen him earlier, refused to believe that he was the one whom they saw a few days ago. Wounds heal without leaving a scar only in homoeopathy.
The short cut to selection of the remedy is Lilienthal and the short cut to Lilienthal is the chapter MELANCHOLIA therein.

Dr. Hahnemann advises that without prescribing on mind symptoms a cure is not possible (Section 213 of the Organon.) ‘Anger’ ‘restlessness’ etc. are ‘common’ symptoms of mind. When Section 213 is read with Section 153, we infer that we have to prescribe on ‘uncommon mind symptoms.’ Such symptoms in any given case would be one only, or, at the most two. Our actual cured cases alone will make the reader to realise the value of Lilienthal.
Case 12: A renal failure patient under dialysis and waiting for kidney transplant was under our treatment. We could not find his remedy. (There is no guarantee for kidney transplant, because after a few years, many patients die when the donor kidney stops functioning.) After transplant, he was heard saying, “Now I feel as if I am released from prison . . . as if I have taken a rebirth.” This he said because he was then freed from the torturing and exhausting bi-weekly dialysis, taking rest, body becoming weak etc. This mental picture of the patient should at once bring to our mind the following words:
…desire to be released from what seems to be a perpetual burden of sorrow…
This symptom is found in the remedy Ignatia in Lilienthal under the chapter ‘Melancholia’ (page 698.) Ignatia-10M, single dose, was given and his other kidney started functioning normally.
Case 13: A seventy-year old carpenter was under my treatment for skin complaint. During one of his visits, his 48-year old son accompanied him. The latter was coughing with chest congestion etc. The carpenter told his son; “Why don't you also take treatment from this doctor? See how much I have improved, whereas the earlier doctors whom I consulted could not do anything in my case.” To this, the son said, “The new house where I had gone has no raasi.” [‘Raasi’ in Tamil means luck). In other words, the person feels that everything was going wrong ever since he started living in a particular house. Therefore, that house has no raasi. Alternatively, a person feels that ever since he bought and started using a car, nothing went right. He attributes his sufferings, failures, difficulties etc. to that vehicle. I hope readers understand this. The son continued, “Even the new work place where I am going daily is not raasi (or has no good luck.)”] The other word to describe ‘raasi’ would be ‘sentimental’ or ‘luck’. The carpenter’s son was not ready to take treatment from me only because he felt that the house and the work place is the cause of his respiratory complaints.

Kent’s Repertory: MIND: Reproaches others (blaming the house and work place.): 24 remedies are listed here.
Sentimental: (25 remedies)
Ars., Calc-p., Chin., Ign., Lach., Lyc., nux-v. and Staph. are found common to both the lists.
For ‘mind symptoms’ Lilienthal (Chapter MELANCHOLIA) is the best. I read all the above eight remedies and confirmed Staphisagria, because of the following lines under that remedy in the chapter Melancholia.
Inwardly gnawing grief and anger, he looks at everything from the darkest side . . . disinclination to work and think; dread of the future and dread of being constantly pursued . . . sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the intellect…” (See Lilienthal page 701).
Case 14: A woman of forty-two came with a large calculus in her urinary bladder. She said that allopathic doctors advised surgery as the only answer but she declined to undergo it. She continued that she had already undergone two caesarean sections and one appendicectomy; after each one of these surgeries, her general health ran down. Therefore, she could not afford deterioration of health any further with another surgery and she had to safeguard her health for the remaining period of her life. Under the remedy Nux vomica (Lilienthal, Melancholia, page 700), we find the following:
“Afraid he might not have enough to live on . . .”
Nux vomica-1M, one single dose was given in the evening. Not only did her general health improve, but also the came out in pieces. (Patient is still under treatment.)
Case 15: A chronic renal failure patient came to me. [In most cases, the ‘uncommon’ symptom is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some cases, after you have made the prescription! In yet a few cases, during the second or subsequent consultations!]

In the end, the patient said, “Doctor, my sons say that I am sick and so I should not ride bicycle, go out and do our business. They say they will do everything and ask me to sit at home taking rest. As my children, they should only tell that I am all right and would recover soon. But, instead of encouraging for speedy recovery, they have branded me as a permanent and incurable patient.”
This patient feels that his sons are letting him down. What one requires from his relatives is not money nor help but moral support. In this case, the patient feels that it is completely missing. This symptom we find in two remedies. They are:
“… a feeling of moral deficiency…” – Kali brom.

“… despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation…” – Tarentula hisp. [See Lilienthal’s, Melancholia page 698 and 702]
Tarentula hispania 10M - single dose cured
Case 16: A woman of fifty-five, was under my treatment for three months for sinusitis with little relief. She lives thirteen kilometers away and she works in a school, which is near my clinic. Before going to school, she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go to school. Seeing no relief in spite of three visits, I told her that a certain acupressure doctor would come and give just 3-minute treatment once only and for this, she need not pay any fees and I assured total relief. Since the acupressure doctor comes to my clinic on Sundays only I asked her to come on a Sunday. To this, she replied, “I have to come all the way… from ... (her residence.)” During the earlier three visits, she would come to me in the morning before going to her school that is near to my clinic. Sunday is holiday for school and she feels it an ordeal to come for acupressure treatment all… the… way from her residence thirteen kilometers away. It is hesitation. I told her that she need not pay any fees for the one-time acupressure treatment and one hundred per cent cure was assured. Therefore, travelling thirteen kilometres would not be a crime. However, to do this she has hesitation. Before we show the reader how to classify this as a ‘mind symptom’, let us now see two more cases.
Case 17: A lady allopathic doctor was learning homoeopathy from me. She consulted me for her own complaints; we could not readily find her remedy. Once she said, “Doctor, can you give one-dose treatment for my son? Since birth he is having perennial cold; now he is five years and almost every week he has to take drugs.” I told her that she must bring her son at least once and I would cure him completely. Bringing her son once (and I am not going to charge her since she is my student) is not an ordeal or something immoral. To this she replied, “For this I have to… bring him all the way from my home” (which is just ten kilometers away.) She hesitates for this small thing of bringing the boy once only to me and for which the boy is going to get total relief permanently. Only if you actually listen to the patient’s reply in person may you understand this. Let me explain and elaborate on this. Suppose you are asked by your teacher to murder a certain person. What would be your reaction? Immediately you would reply as under:
“Sir, I . . . have to. . . ” (The sentence would be incomplete. Because you have hesitation in doing, this job as it would prick your conscience.) In the above said two cases, for merely travelling ten kilometres, they have a lot of hesitation as if I am asking them to do something immoral. In other words, they are over conscientious of a trivial matter. The apt term would be “Conscientious scruples.” This symptom is in the remedy Arsenicum album. [See Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics, page 694.] Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one only, and the computer-software or ‘remedy finders’ are of no use. One single dose of Arsenicum Album-10M completely cured the above sinusitis patient and even acupressure treatment was not given.
Case 18: This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees of six thousand rupees. To this he replied, “Money… is…” (The sentence was incomplete and hesitation was as if they are asked to do some immoral act.) [He should say that either he has no money or that he would try to borrow from relatives. However, he does neither.] Ars. Alb-10M, one single, dose cured him. The above cases would illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind symptoms of a patient. In some cases, the repertory or software is not useful and you have to learn by rote these uncommon mind symptoms. Case No.11 to 17 quoted above would convince the reader that if a practitioner can memorise the symptoms of various remedies given in the chapter MELANCHOLIA in Lilienthal he would be able to select the remedy in more than fifty per cent of cases, that too at the very first attempt. We now hope what the reader understands when we write that the short cut to Lilienthal is the chapter MELANCHOLIA therein. Jai Lilienthal!

It would be no exaggeration to say thus: Let no one practise homoeopathy who does not make use of Lilienthal. It is most disappointing to find that no one talks about Dr. Lilienthal’s work, be it in seminar papers, monthly meetings or articles in journals.
Said Charles Gatchell in a review of HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, “… it is an extraordinarily useful book and those who add it to their library will never feel regret…”
In a review, Samuel A. Jones said about Lilienthal’s as under: “For the fresh graduate this book will be invaluable… to the older one who says he has no use of this book, we have nothing to say. He is a good one to avoid when well, and to dread when ill.” Three more authors who have correctly written mind symptoms that are useful are Wilkinson, Knerr and Boericke.

The value of ‘mind symptoms’ in Boericke’s Mat. Medica can be realised by the following two cases:
Case 19: A patient with weeping eczema etc. said, “Doctor, I am not taking the treatment to live long. However, I have an aged daughter to be married off and a son who is looking out for a job. Who would come forward to marry my daughter, if I have this weeping eczema? Only because of that, I want to be cured. Before I die, I want to settle things in my family--my daughter getting married and son getting a job. Then I can die peacefully.” Under the homoeopathic remedy Petroleum (Boericke’s Materia Medica), we find the following:
Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.
Now, this sentence fits in approximately with the remarks made by the above eczema patient. Petroleum-10M, single dose, cured him.
Case 20: A peptic ulcer patient’s condition worsened day by day and allopathic antacids were giving only temporary relief. At the height of his suffering (hunger pain with gastralgia, temporarily relieved by eating) he was heard saying, “I think that my end is approaching; I must call the lawyer to write the will; this hotel of mine should go to my wife; money deposited in the bank is for my son. My widowed sister who has been living with me for several years and helping me should take the house that I bought recently.” This mind picture fits with the remarks made by the patient in the last case. One single dose of Petroleum-10M cured this patient as well.
We do not prescribe on names of disease or pathology but on ‘uncommon’ symptoms having no connection with pathology. The above two cases would show the reader that (a) one and the same remedy may be called for in different persons with different diseases; also, (b) different persons suffering from one and the same disease may need different remedies.
There are no theories in homoeopathy. It is practical and practical only.
I asked the audience of about seventy-five, most of them BHMS or M.D. to raise the hands of those who have a copy of Yingling and/or Lilienthal; only a handful of practitioners responded and they have rarely used these books.
What difference does it make between an unqualified practitioner and a B.H.M.S./M.D. if he does not have any knowledge of Lilienthal and Yingling? Merely uttering the words “miasm” “constitution’ ‘totality-of-symptoms’ will not make you wiser. The wisest things are use of Lilienthal, Yingling, Wilkinson, Knerr and, of course, Boericke/Kent. No one knows how to use Kent. ‘Wonderful cures are made by selecting the remedy on generals’ so writes Kent in the Preface to his repertory. To explain this, another paper is required.
No one can talk on medical emergencies who has not successfully treated a minimum of fifteen emergency cases with the use of Yingling/Lilienthal/Calvin B. Knerr.
For malignant jaundice, haemorrhagic jaundice or jaundice of infants, a practitioner should keep the following in his fingertips.
Malignant icterus: Acon., Ars., Ars. iod., Chin., Chin. mur., Chel., Crotal., Elaps, Dig., Lach., Picr. ac., Vip.
Haemorrhagic jaundice: Chel., Crotal., Phos.
Jaundice in the new-born: Bry., Cham., Ign., Nitr-ac., Merc., Nux v., Puls., Sulph.
Jaundice of infants generally passes off by itself in a few days; a few doses of Acon. removes it quickly; for genuine jaundice, from the unhealthy state of the mother's milk, study Chin., Merc. or Bov., Bry., Cham., Nux v., Sulph., etc.
For terminal cancer, or, for that matter, any terminal illness, Lilienthal is our guru.
Neither repertories nor materia medicas are sufficient to find the remedy quickly; therefore, lateral thinking is needed. And the outcome is Lilienthal. Practitioners repeatedly talk of ‘totality-of-symptoms’. However, they forget to remember Section 153 of the Organon, which says that we have to prescribe ‘uncommon symptoms’ only. Therefore, let us hereafter always say “totality-of-uncommon symptoms”. Such uncommon symptoms (on which alone we have to make our prescription) may be one or, in rare cases, two symptoms only. Lilienthal contains uncommon symptoms only, and therefore, it is only a few lines under each remedy in various diseases.
We must use reference books by authors who have worked in hundred-bedded hospitals where homoeopathy medicines alone are used and where even acute emergencies are treated. Therefore, we have to ignore all Indian authors.
“Before the First World War, there were in the United States 56 purely homoeopathic general hospitals with 35 to 1,400 beds each, nine hospitals for women (inclusive of midwifery) with 30 to 100s bed each, besides nine children’s hospitals with purely homoeopathic treatment. The Hahnemann College in Philadelphia with hospitals attached and its extensive polyclinic was, in the year 1922, the most important homoeopathic educational institution in the world. Even in those days, its buildings were valued at several million dollars. For practical training, the Hahnemann College offered advantages, which were scarcely to be equalled at that time in any European University. The large number of cases in the hospitals and polyclinics (more than 50,000 patients and 6,000 accident cases were treated every year) afforded the professors abundant material for their clinical instruction. The college possessed a special institution for midwifery, directly attached to it, and allowing the students many opportunities for observing obstetrical cases. In addition, numerous confinements were attended to amongst the poor people in the town and these also served for instruction.” [See Richard Haehl, SAMUEL HAHNEMANN; HIS LIFE AND WORK].
The reader should remember that Yingling, Lilienthal, Knerr etc. worked in these hospitals.
Are homoeopaths at the top [whether it is govt. recognized homoeo college or the Central Council of Homoeopathy] prepared to make efforts for constructing at least one single hospital where homoeopathic medicines alone would be given?
Before concluding, we would also like to mention that in his paper Medical Literature (published in the TRANSACTIONS; OF THE 43rd SESSION OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY) (Wisconsin, 17.6.1890) Lilienthal very aptly concludes thus: “If you cannot find the remedy by studying the various books, drop a nickel in the slot and you will find the desired symptom in Lilienthal.” To illustrate the superiority of Lilienthal’s work, let us quote a few cases where other reference works did not help.
Case 21: A middle-aged man of 37, suffering from loss of voice for a few years also had another complaint. Whenever he touched any metallic object he would feel electric shock and so was always wearing gloves; would avoid steel cot or metallic bucket etc. In Lilienthal under the chapter Aphonia, twelve remedies are described. Under the remedy Sulphur, we find the words “excite animal electricity”. Sulphur 1M, single dose cured both aphonia and electric current sensations.
DROP THE SYMPTOM IN LILIENTHAL AND YOU GET THE REMEDY IN NO TIME!
Case 22: A boy of eleven was brought by his mother for worm affections. He was having frequent spasmodic movement of arms and his features were violent. In allopathy, they gave double the adult dose of santonine, all in vain. A homoeopath gave Cina-30 (to be given daily morning) and Graphites-30 (daily evening) for the boy’s another complaint—sin eruption on his left forearm with sticky discharge. The mother said that even after giving these two medicines for one month there had been no relief. I was noting down on the case sheet without interrupting her. [Section 84 of the Organon is as important as Section 153 and 213. A case well taken is half-cured. [Ignorance of Section 84 means 50% failure in practice. That Section reads thus: He (the patient) details the history of his sufferings; those about him tell what they heard him complain of, how he has behaved and what they have noticed in him… He (the practitioner) writes down accurately all that the patient and his friends have told him. Keeping silence himself, he allows them to say all they have to say, and refrains from interrupting them. Every interruption breaks the train of thought of the narrator, and all he would have said at first does not again occur to them in precisely the same manner after that.’] After a pause, she concluded, “Doctor, ever since the onset of this worm complaint six months ago, he is often complaining of vertigo and headache. What is it due to, doctor?”
I read all the thirty-four remedies in the chapter WORM AFFECTIONS in Lilienthal. Both ‘vertigo’ and ‘headache’ were found under one remedy only viz., Cicuta Virosa. I gave one dose in the 1M Potency. He was completely cured (both skin and spasmodic violent movement of limbs.) Thanks to Lilienthal! Cina is not the only one remedy for worms.
Epidemics are relieved in an hour’s time.

SWINE FLU PATIENTS DIE OF PNEUMONIA. In Lilienthal, under the chapter Pneumonia we find the words “epidemic pneumonia” in two remedies only viz., Ferr-met. and Merc-sol. MERC-SOL agrees with symptoms of swine flu. My students and I have relieved seven swine flu patients completely in an hour’s time with Merc-sol.
The Central Council of Homoeopathy has issued a circular around the year 2011 that homoeopathic doctors should not treat swine flu. What a folly, innocence and ignorance? Without Lilienthal, such blunders would continue to happen.
Conclusion: After reading this report, it is hoped that homoeo college principals would buy and keep, at least twenty copies of the above said reference works in their libraries and professors spend at least a few months to teach the use of the above books.
The epidemic (and currently becoming endemic) dengue fever is totally relieved within an hour of taking one dose of Bryonia-200. Dryness of lips, thirst for large quantities of water, desire to be at complete rest . . . What other remedy one can think of for dengue other than Bryonia. Even those in hospitals got relief in an hour’s and asked for voluntary discharge. When tested after ten days, platelets count came to normal. We have been successfully treating hundreds of dengue cases with one pill of Bryonia-200, given once only.

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The one cured case I can never forget is that of a girl of six years where cancer specialists said that she would not live for more than six months. First, the parents consultd me for skin complaint on the left thigh of their daughter. I refer skin cases to a skin specialist only for purposes of diagnosis and report. When this case went to him, he referred to an oncologist who confirmed it is carcinoma and said that the patient may live for another six months only; the parents consulted two more oncologists who too gave the same opinion.
In rare cases, as a matter of exception, when I am not able to pinpoint the remedy for a patient, I copy and give the patient the remedies with their symptoms given under their disease in Lilienthal and ask them to underline whatever symptoms are applicable to the patient.
In this case, too, I showed the remedies from Lilienthal, given under the chapter Carcinoma and Tumour and asked them to underscore portions applicable. The parents confirmed the following found under Muriatic Acid in the chapter ‘Tumour’ in Lilienthal:
(Lilienthal page 1054) Carcinoma linguae, when the edges of the ulcers and Surrounding parts are of a blue color
Muriatic Acid-10M, one single dose, cured the patient. While writing this paper, the age of the girl now is eigAdvancedhteen years and she is in good health. For all homoeo practitioners Lilienthal is indispensable and a must.
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