Pathological entity in homoeopathy practice

[Dr Krishna murthy]

PATHOLOGICAL ENTITY IN HOMOEOPATHY PRACTICE

Entity – a thing with distinct and independent existence. Something that exists as or is perceived as a single separate object. (Oxford)

Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy

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Chill, fever, and sweat occurring one after the other and appearing periodically (in the evening daily or on alternate days) and blood test showing presence of malarial parasites is called malaria or intermittent fever. So is typhoid, jaundice, cirrhosis of liver etc. In allopathy and other medical systems, a diagnosis is made and the patient is treated for that disease.

Difference between treating the disease and treating the patient: In homoeopathy too, a diagnosis made is as above. However, a prescription is not made on that basis alone; one more point is considered.

Case: A patient complained: “Daily morning I get headache; in the afternoon, after I take lunch I feel flatulent distension in abdomen followed by watery stools; in the evening I get itching of skin in the legs.” This too is a pathological entity. In allopathy, they consider only those pathological entities, which they have read in textbooks. However, in homoeopathy we mainly consider those pathological entities, as they exist in humans from time immemorial. In the remedy Ammon-mur (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) we find the following:

Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus, the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evening.

Single dose of Ammon-mur. cured the above patient. Thus, we do not give three different remedies for the patient’s head, abdominal and skin complaints. The above modalities co-existing in one and the same patient and at one and the same time, is also a pathological entity (not found in allopathy textbooks but they are as they exist in humans from time immemorial.)

Why to do this? This method alone can cure the patient gently, quickly and permanently.

Without actual cases of patients, no one can learn homoeopathy. Let us now go to the second case.

Case: A patient with chronic headache with torturing bone pains consulted various allopaths and homoeopaths, all in vain. This patient came to me too. After describing the history of his sufferings etc. he ended up saying, “Doctor, if you or anyone can cure my headache, I would give away half of my wealth running to millions.”

Doctors of all other medical systems would ignore this statement of the patient because they think of remedy for headache and thus miserably fail. This statement too is a pathological entity (considered for prescribing in homoeo.) The reaction of the patient can be termed deplorably downhearted. We find this symptom in the remedy Stillingia [See WILKINSON’S MAT. MED. Stillingia.] This remedy cured the patient in one single dose.

Case: A woman brought her son, a boy of eleven and she said, “Doctor, daily morning at 8 a.m. he would become restless and start running here and there; this would last for fifteen minutes and thereafter he would pass watery stools. After coming from the toilet, he would lie down and sleep for twenty minutes after which he becomes normal and goes to school. This is repeated day after day for the last four months. We have done endoscopy etc.”

In this case, a homoeopath does not merely look at the endoscopy findings, but would simply give one dose and the patient is cured. Can the reader tell what remedy to prescribe?

In the remedy Cuprum-met. (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) we find the following:

Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups.

Cuprum met-1M, single dose cured the patient.

The pathological entities, not found in allopathy textbooks but which are as they exist in humans from time immemorial, is otherwise called rare-strange-peculiar or uncommon symptoms. [Section 153 of the Organon.]

The above method of prescribing alone is homoeopathy practice. Practitioners talk of ‘miasm’ ‘constitutional treatment’ etc., all vague terms which no one understand. Before coming to me, the above three cases were treated by more than one homoeopath in turn, every one of them prescribed different, and more than one remedy, that too in repeated doses.

“Homoeopathy has not become popular because of defective books as well as because of defective use of books.’ [See Kent’s LESSER WRITINGS.]

Almost all homoeo practitioners have a copy of Boericke Mat Medica but no one seem to have used it correctly.

Examples of pathological entities as found in humans from time immemorial and the corresponding remedies, are given below:

Theridion – Sensitive to noise; it penetrates the body. . . Noise seems to strike on painful spots over the body.

Belladonna: (a) A hydro-uretero-nephrosis patient complained pain in the lumbar region and femoral part of urethra. (The reader must note that both the painful places are exactly the same distance from the seat of affection viz., ureter. (b) Another patient points to both the shoulder tip with her index fingers and said that she has pain there. She continued to say that an allopath, whom she consulted earlier, after taking x-ray, said that it was having spondylitis. In this case too (instead of pain extending from cervical region to right or left arm) the two painful places (shoulder tips) are at the same distance from the cervical bone.

In case (a) and (b) above, (though diagnosis or pathological entity as found in allopathy textbooks are two different entities) the pathological entity in both the cases as considered in homoeopathy is something different, one and same remedy viz., Belladonna-10m, single dose cured both of them. In Wilkinson’s Mat. Med. We find the following in the remedy Belladonna:

The inflammation . . runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts.

To most of the readers, the above may appear something different and strange; but this and this alone is the correct method of prescribing homoeo remedies. First time the reader is learning the best and the only best way of prescribing. There can be no other method to cure patients gently, quickly and permanently

Selenium: Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.

Moschus: Complaints appear atypically.

Sulphur: Complaints constantly relapse.

Calcarea carb: Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence.

Lycopodium. Answers are imperious; talks with an air of command. Manner stiff and pretentious.

Nux-vom. Anxious reflections about his complaints; fiery, zealous temperament.

Bryonia: The complaints (pain better by rest, thirst for large quantities of water and dry lips) appear one day after climbing a hill or 500 stairs of a hill temple.

Railroad accident (Patient falls rolling down from a speeding train or bus or the two-wheeler skids and he falls rolling down or rolls down inside a car during accident/in all these cases the spinal cord is spun or twisted. Only two remedies are to be kept in mind. They are Cicuta and Eupatorium purp.

Cicuta visosa: Violent hiccup or convulsion after railroad accident.

Eupatorium-pur: Kidney failure after railroad accident. [In Wilkinson’s Mat. Med. we find thus: “Through renal plexus this remedy has a specific and special action upon the kidneys . . .”

Petroleum – Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs.

The above are also pathological entities as found in patients from time immemorial, otherwise called rare-strange-peculiar-uncommon symptoms, which are our sheet anchors for prescribing.

Lycopodium – In nearly all cases where Lycopodium is the remedy, some evidence of urinary or digestive disturbance will be found. Abdominal and mental torpor

Pulsatilla - Torpor of body and mind.

Some more pathological entities as found in patients and the corresponding remedies are given below:
[HEART ATTACK] PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH

(Note: Anguish means extreme suffering which the patient cannot bear.]
Arsenicum album :: Emotions, Ill Effects of Fear, Dread, Fright

Dread of death when alone or going to bed; excessive anxiety and restlessness, aggr. after midnight; great anxiety, jumps out of bed and hides himself; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH with constriction, cold sweat, trembling, prostration.

Arsenicum album :: Febris Intermittens

Intermittents contracted in the salt marshes near the sea shore; intermittent neuralgia affecting one side of face, almost maddening pain, driving sufferer from place to place, at its acme nausea and vomiting, buzzing in ears; Apyrexia; great weakness and prostration with desire for stimulants, wine and coffee; pale, sunken face; abdomen bloated; foetid watery diarrhoea, great desire to lie down, great PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH; violent pains or lameness of extremities; hungry after paroxysms; tendency to degenerate into remittent fever; dropsy as the result of enlarged spleen and liver. The paroxysm is generally not complete. One (especially the cold) stage is generally wanting

Arsenicum iodatum :: Heart, Diseases of

CHRONIC weakness of the heart muscle, whether the result of valvular disease or not; irregular fluttering of heart with tendency to faint; difficulty of breathing when ascending; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH, dry cough, great pain in cardiac region going through to back.

Aurum metallicum :: Emotions, Ill Effects of Fear, Dread, Fright

Great ANGUISH, coming from PRAECORDIAL region, driving him from place to place; has no confidence in himself and thinks others have none; deep tearing headache, abating in the fresh air; oversensitiveness of the senses; immoderate appetite and thirst for milk, wine, coffee; aversion to meat; palpitation.

Berberis vul - Arthritic and RHEUMATic troubles with urinary, hepatic,

haemorrhoidal or menstrual complaints; fretful. [fretful – be constantly or visibly anxious.]

Camphora officinalis :: HAEMORRHAGEs

HAEMORRHAGIC DIATHESIS; excessive bleeding from capillaries, without other prominent symptoms; lightness or dizzy heaviness of head, ringing and buzzing in ears; nose cold and pointed; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH; sighing respiration; great ANGUISH.

Carbo vegetabilis :: Angina Pectoris

Suffocative constriction of chest, mornings in bed; burning in cardiac region; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH as though he would die.

Carbo vegetabilis :: Heart, Diseases of

Carditis, visible palpitations, internal heat, especially when sitting; ANGUISH and great thirst; pulse very irregular, intermittent, frequent; excessive palpitations for days, after eating, when sitting. Aneurisms, blue varicosities, fine capillary network having a marbled appearance. PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH as if he would die. Impending paralysis of heart, complete loss of vitality, cyanosis, blood stagnates in capillaries, cold face and limbs, cold sweat, filiform pulse.

Carbo vegetabilis :: Pancreas, Diseases of

Raising of a watery fluid from stomach; foul taste and offensive odor from mouth; pains deep in between stomach and abdomen; distention of stomach and abdomen; aversion to meat and fat things; to milk, which causes flatulence; plainest food disagrees; burning, light colored, foetid stools; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH.

Conium maculatum :: MELANCHOLIA

The great inhibitory remedy of the sexual passions; excessive nervous prostration, with vertigo when lying down and when turning over in bed; great concern about little things, and becomes easily excited; dreads being alone, and still avoids society; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH; superstitious and full of fear, with frequent thoughts of death; loss of memory; alternate fits of silent depression and quarrelsome liveliness; mood serious; unsympathizing, from indolence and want of proper will power; cannot endure any kind of excitement, it brings on mental and physical depression, with weakness; confused feeling in head, often sits lost in thought.

Cuprum metallicum :: Insanity, Mental Derangement

Mania, with biting and tearing things to pieces; insane foolish gestures of imitation and mimicry; full of insane spiteful tricks, illusions of imagination, does not recognize his own family; unhappy, apprehensive anxiety and despair; absence of thought and weakness of memory; stupidity and insensible prostration in a corner; patient shrinks with fear, drawing himself away from every one who approaches him; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH, pale, miserable look, general chilliness, not relieved by heat; decrease of brain functions.

Curare :: Cough, Tussis

Dry, spasmodic cough, shaking whole body, provokes vomiting and often followed by fainting; worse by breathing cold air, laughing, eating, moving; burning and shooting in larynx; hoarseness and aphonia; expectoration yellow, gray, greenish, nearly black; burning heat in chest, with sensation of distention; breathing difficult; stitching pain in right side; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH; palpitation and stinging pains in heart.

Glonoinum :: Angina Pectoris

Great ANGUISH in PRAECORDIAL region; sharp shocks and stitches in the heart, with pricking pains in arms and hands; labored action of heart, with oppression and frequent pulse, he feels the palpitations all over, even to the tip of fingers; sensation of weakness and trembling, even to fainting, aggr. on stooping and lying on left side.

Latrodectus mactans :: Angina Pectoris

Angina pectoris vasomotoria; apnoea; violent PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH, with sense of impending dissolution; skin cold, pulse rapid and feeble; pains extend down axilla and left arm and forearm to the fingers, with numbness of extremity; black vomit and stool with relief. (S. A. J.)

Mercurius solubilis :: MELANCHOLIA

Inexpressible pain of soul and body, anxious restlessness, as if some evil impended, worse at night, with PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH; sweat of the hands and heat of the face; disgusted with himself, has not enough courage to live; constant suspicion, considering everybody his enemy.

Platinum metallicum :: Insanity, Mental Derangement

Nymphomania; puerperal MELANCHOLIA and mania; indifference, does not care for anybody; low spirited, reserved, fearful; inconsolable violent weeping; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH, with palpitation and fear of death and of imaginary forms, ghosts; nervous excitement, pride, arrogance, considers everybody below her; vacillation; attacks of cheerfulness, increased feeling of strength; inclination to embrace everybody; slight vexation affects the patient for a long time; anxious when in company; dulness or absence of mind; ill humor in the morning (Pallad., evening); everything seems too narrow and strange; the thought of death horrifies the patient, any serious thought is displeasing; mental symptoms associated with GASTRIC symptoms, both originating in sexual sphere, worse afternoon and evening; alternate appearance of the symptoms of body and mind, as soon as one group predominates, the other ceases.

Pulsatilla pratensis :: MELANCHOLIA

Religious MELANCHOLIA which finds consolation in prayers; grief and sorrowful timidity on account of his worldly and eternal affairs; anxious and weary of life, sad and gloomy, easily bursting into tears; dissatisfied; very easily frightened; frequent profuse epistaxis; anxious dreams with PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH and ideas of suicide; mild, yielding disposition, clinging to others and seeking consolation; earthy, dark ring about eyes; dislike to bread and meat; nausea and bitter, slimy vomiting, flushes of heat, pale face and cold hands.

Silicea terra :: Menstruation and its Ailments

Irregular, every two or three months; too early and profuse; too early and scanty; too late and profuse; protracted; milky, watery or brown leucorrhoea discharged instead of menses; profuse menses during lactation; offensive, acrid and excoriating; discharge of blood between menses. Before: diarrhoea; constipation from loss of power to expel faeces; icy coldness of body at commencement of flow. During: cold feet; paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body; melancholy; momentary blindness, PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH; drawing between scapulae only at night, amel. by bending backward; burning soreness of pudenda with eruptions on inside of thighs; sensation in vagina, which is very sore, as if everything were pressed out; strong odor of secretion. After: dispirited and melancholy; bloody discharge of mucus from vagina, itching at vulva; acrid, serous or milky leucorrhoea.

Spigelia anthelmia :: Neuralgia

Neuralgia begins in back of head and comes forward; left prosopalgia, with severe burning, sticking pains, aggr. from heat of bed, amel. walking about; neuralgia comes and goes with the sun, reaches its height at noon and decreases towards evening; sensation as if eyeball were enormously large; neuralgia of head, involving cheeks, aggr. from any noise or jarring of body and from stormy weather; ciliary neuralgia; sharp stitching pain in left chest, shooting into arm and neck, aggr. from slightest motion of hands and arms; cannot lie down; fear, anxiety, as if something would happen, PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH.

Tabacum :: Angina Pectoris

Violent beating of heart and carotids; sudden PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH; violent palpitation lying on left side, passes away when turning to right; nocturnal attacks of tightness of chest, with palpitation and paroxysmal oppression; neuralgia up to the neck; pale face, cold extremities and clammy sweat; glowing heat in face, with redness frequently only on one side.

Tarentula hispanica :: Epilepsy

Hystero epilepsy; sensation of dizziness before the fit, followed by convulsions and great PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH.

Tarentula hispanica

Palpitation; PRAECORDIAL ANGUISH sensation as if heart twisted and turned around.