Accurate and Exact Practice of Homoeopathy--Cachexia

[krishna murthy]

Treatment of swine flu
By Dr. V. Krishnamurthy (Thirty-eight years of teaching experience in
Homoeopathy, Chinese Acupressure & Dr. Bach Flower Remedies of England)
During the years 2006-2008, almost all homoeopathic practitioners had been
giving different remedies for chikungunya disease (mainly Rhus. tox and Eup.
perf.) to be taken for days and weeks with little relief. The undersigned was
the first to declare that the homoeopathic remedy Polyporus Pinicola-10,000x is
almost a specific for chikungunya and with this remedy GIVEN IN ONE SINGLE DOSE,
my students had cured lakhs and lakhs of chikungunya victims during the years
2006 to 2008. (Rate of success: more than 97%).
I am not proud of the above, because it is my duty, as Professor of homoeopathy,
to find out the remedy for any epidemic. [A teacher is he who makes difficult
things easy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson.] Be that as it may.

Though, all practitioners had cured several cases of chikungunya with one single
dose of Polyporus, what was disappointing is that not even a single homoeopath
came forward to ask me as to how I selectedPolyporus Pinicola for chikungunya.

These homoeopaths (who had cured chikungunya with one single dose of Polyporus)
are now asking me what homoeo medicine is to be given for swine flu. I am not
satisfied with this query. But I would be much pleased if they had asked me how
I arrived at Polyporus Pinicola for chikungunya and further how to find out the
remedy for the present pandemic swine flu.

I don't mind declaring the name of the correct homoeopathic remedy which would
be almost a specific for swine flu. Before this I would, first of all, like to
teach the practitioners as to how I found out the remedy for chikungunya. This
is more important. Such a teaching alone would help the reader to find out by
himself a remedy for future epidemics.

Chikungunya disease begins with fever, shivering and joint pains. Many patients
had to crawl for going to the toilet etc., because of crippling joint
pains. Their faces were “gloomy.”

(See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—MIND AND DISPOSITION—Gloomy, in ague: Poly.)
(ague: malaria or another illness involving fever and shivering)
Now, coming to the much dreaded swine flu.
(a) those who had died in hospitals with swine flu had lung failure
(b) swine flu starts with fever, sore throat and body pain.
Step 1: Fever with body pain, sore throat. The rubric that you must take for
this in Kent 's Repertory is under GENERALITIES. Inflammation, internal:

Step 2: Disease of lung that speedily kills any patient; the equivalent rubric
in Kent 's Repertory is Pneumonia (CHEST: Hepatization of lungs)

The remedies scoring more points (being common to the above two lists) are
Cactus=4, Iodum=5, Kalic-c.=4, Kali-iod.=4, Lach.=5, Lyc.=4, Merc-sol.=4,
Nux-v.=5, Phos.=6, Sulph.=5, Tereb.=5

These remedies were studied in Samuel Lilienthal's HOMOEOPATHIC
THERAPEUTICS under the chapter PNEUMONIA; Under Merc-sol we find the following
words

“epidemic broncho-pneumonia”.
On the same page under the remedy ferrum met. also, we find the words "epidemic
pneumonia". But we do not get this remedy in repertorisation.

Patients who had come to me after being tested positive for swine flu were given
the homoeo medicine Merc-sol-200 one single dose only) and after a week when
they tested, the result was negative. All their symptoms disappeared. (Rate of
success: 97%).

For prevention, the same remedy Merc.sol.200 may be given one dose once a month
for three months. This prevents swine flu for six months from the date of taking
the first dose.

In homoeopathy, cure is easier and quicker than prevention.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: In Section 213 of the Organon Dr. Hahnemann tells us that
without prescribing a remedy on mind symptoms a cure is not possible. Let us now
see how the remedy Merc-sol satisfies this requirement.

In big organizations when a person is affected with fever, sore throat and body
pain he is advised NOT TO COME TO OFFICE. In other words, the awe-stricken
non-affected persons run away from the victims as if they are their enemies, for
fear of contracting swine flu.

A lady took her 5-year old son to a doctor. There a patient came to consult the
doctor because he was declared positive for swine flu. Immediately on hearing
this that lady started running away with her son, lest he may be infected.

The otherwise healthy person considers the victim of swine flu as his enemy. The
victims are asked to keep off till cured.

Under the Chapter “MELANCHOLIA” in the reference book HOMOEOPATHIC
THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, (page no.700 under the remedy Merc-sol.)
we find the following words:

…anxious restlessness as if some evil impended… constant suspicion, considering
everybody his enemy.

The following extracts from the WILKINSONS’ MATERIA MEDICA (under the chapter
‘Mind’ in the remedy Merc-sol.) also confirms my selection of this remedy for
swine flu.

...Desire to flee, with... anxiety and apprehension.... did not know what to
do... Inexpressible pain of soul and body, anxious restlessness, as if some evil
impended...

As this mind symptom is found in those who had not got the disease, the remedy
Merc-sol. is indicated as a preventive. In one of the big multinational
companies office at Chennai, about 300 persons were working on the first
floor. Immediately on hearing that two of their colleagues tested positive for
swine flu, all of them started fleeing. This attitude is found in almost all
persons who are running here and there for prevention of swine flu. Therefore,
Merc-sol is almost a specific both as a preventive and curative.

What is most disappointing is that no one talks about
Dr. Lilienthal's work HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS, 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 HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS
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."