Diabetes mellitus - Glycosuria

[krishna murthy]

[Important Note No. 1: Those using homoeo softwares miss many remedies because they simply search for ‘diabetes’ or ‘diabetes mellitus.’ But in the materia medicas we find that for diabetes mellitus in some places the authors use the term ‘glycosuria.’
Before including the materia medicas in their software they should give in brackets the word “glycosuria” after ’diabetes’ or ‘diabetes mellitus’ wherever it occurs. Also they must include in brackets the word ‘diabetes mellitus’ after the word ‘glocosuria’ wherever it occurs. But those developing so-called softwares cannot be educated and they don’t care as they lack academic interest in homoeopathy.]
[Important Note No. 2: If the reader feels that with the aid of this booklet he can treat and cure all cases of diabetes, he would be at a loss. Here comes the question as to how to select the remedy.

'Treating diabetes' should be kept away from the mind of the

prescriber. The term 'diabetes' is not altogether useless. You should

know how to prescribe.]
Diabetes is a symptom of an organ—the pancreas.
If there are no 'general' or 'mind' or 'uncommon symptom' in

a given case, you may, as a matter or exception, go into this book

for finding the remedy. Thus, this work is not exhaustive to treat

all cases of diabetes.
Let us take an actual case. This 74-year old gentleman consulted me for diabetes. He also asked if I can do something for his overweight. Upon questioning I found out that his diabetes is twenty-five year old. He started putting weight after sixty years of age. No other symptoms were forthcoming.
‘Obesity’ has not much value in prescribing; so also

‘diabetes’. But when these two symptoms are compared, obesity,

being a general symptom (though of least value among general

symptoms) has more value than diabetes.
When two or more symptoms are in a case, we must arrange

them in order of their 'grade' or 'value'.
Final Repertory of General Symptoms:

Old people - aged persons get very fleshy: [his

overweight started around sixty years of age.] Am-c.,

Aur., Fl-ac., Kali-c., Op., Sec. (Let us call this as List 'A')
Now, instead of looking for these six remedies under

'Diabetes' you must take another general symptom.
Syphilis and Sycosis + List 'A' above = Aur., fl-ac.,

Sexual symptoms are ‘generals’.
These two remedies viz., Aur. and fl-ac., were studied in the

chapter Sexual Instinct (p. 951-959) of Lilienthal’s. [The reference

book HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS by Dr. Samuel

Lilienthal would hereafter be called ‘Lilienthal’s.’]
In Fl-ac., we find the following:
Increased sexual desire in old men.
Fluoric acid-1M single dose and placebo were given. [Patient

is under treatment.]
By this reader should not run to the hasty conclusion that the

remedy Fluoric acid should be included under 'Diabetes' in this

bulletin.
Remember the golden words of W. A. Yingling. You must

read once a month the Preface and Introduction to his

ACCOUCHEUR'S EMERGENCY MANUAL. “Give the remedy

indicated by the totality of (general and/or uncommon and/or mind)

symptoms irrespective of the fact whether such a remedy was ever

given in that disease before.”
Keep away from pathology. The more you do this the better

will be your success.
This paper is not totally useless. Apart from common

symptoms of diabetes it gives symptoms not commonly found

among diabetics - e.g., furunculosis in Phos-ac. etc.

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REMEDIES OFTEN CALLED FOR IN DIABETES:

Diabetes due to diseases of pancreas: Ars., phos., uran. nitr.

Acetic-ac.: (Debility, asthenia) - great debility, polyuria and

glycosuria, intense thirst; sensation as if an ulcer were in

stomach, giving great uneasiness.
Acetic-ac.: Abundant sugar in urine, increased and light-colored,

great thirst, but cold drink lies heavy on stomach; ascites and

hydrothorax, oedema pedum; gangrenous ulcers; pale, waxen

skin; extreme prostration; decomposition of animal matter.
Adrenalin: slowing of pulse, (medullary vagus stimulation), and

strengthening of heart beat (increased myocardial

contractility), resembling digitalis; increased glandular4

activity, glycosuria; depression of respiratory center;

contraction of muscular tissue of eye, uterus, vagina;

relaxation of muscular tissue of stomach, intestines, bladder.
Arg-met.: Profuse, turbid, sweetish urine; by rest;

after urinating sensation in bladder as if one must go again

soon or as if some urine remained behind; pale-yellow urine,

with a gelatinous sediment; weakness of sexual organs; pale,

sallow face, sunken cheeks; sickly expression; dryness and

sticky feeling in mouth and fauces; sticky, frothy saliva, like

cotton; increased thirst and appetite, > by eating; pulse slow

and weak; paralyzed, bruised sensation in back, by bending forward when sitting,

by lying on back; glycosuria, with intense itching at introitus

and hyperaemia, > by cold water.
Cuprum met.: Urine acid, straw-colored, turbid after standing, a

reddish, thin sediment adhered to vessel, viscous, offensive,

bloody, scanty or suppressed; great and slowly progressing

emaciation; suppurating tuberculosis of lungs and evident

signs of depression of brain; very great thirst; increased

hunger; sweetish taste of mouth; increased urination,

especially at night; dry, very infrequent stool; decrease of

sexual desire.
Curare: Diabetes acutissimus, threatening life; clear and frequent

urine, with digging, crampy pains in kidneys; shooting in7

stomach; dry mouth; great thirst, especially evenings and at

night; sugar in urine; great emaciation. Glycosuria with motor

paralysis. Emaciation.
Eup-pur: Albminuria, diabetes, strangury, irritable bladder,

enlarged prostate are a special field for this remedy.

Helon: (Diabetes with dyspepsia, weakness of stomach) - great

prostration of nervous system; anaemia; pulse small and

feeble; paleness and icteric color of skin; loss of appetite,

bitter taste; constricting, pressing pain in stomach; empty

eructations; vomiting, borborygmi and sensation as if

diarrhoea would set in, but stools are regular; tongue red at tip

and borders, white in centre; albuminuria, diabetes,

sorrowfulness and melancholy; patient excitable and wishes to

be let alone; renal and uterine troubles.
Helon: (Diabetes with menses complaints) - too frequent, too

profuse and too exhausting, blood dark and smelling badly,

especially in women, feeble from loss of blood; flow passive,

dark, clotted and offensive; profuse flooding during

menopause. Before: pressing pain in sacrum and soreness of

breasts. during: sharp, cutting and drawing pains from back to

uterus; pruritus of vulva and vagina; albuminous urine;

depressed, melancholy; breasts swollen, nipples tender, cannot

bear pressure of clothing; sallow face with an expression of

sorrow and suffering; backache, constant tenderness in renal

region; great general languor; loss of sexual desire with or

without sterility. woman, aged 65; diabetes .
Hepar sulph: The slightest contradiction makes him break out into

the greatest violence, he could kill somebody without

hesitation; sight gets dim when reading; heaviness and

pressure in stomach after a moderate meal, unusual hunger,8

much thirst; desire for acids and wine; sexual desire

increased, erections feeble; urine acrid, burning, making the

inner surface of the prepuce or of the pudenda sore and

ulcerated; emission of much pale urine, with pressure on

bladder; emission of pale, clear urine, which on standing

becomes turbid, thick, and deposits a white sediment.

Insulinum: besides the use of insulin in the treatment of diabetes,

restoring the lost ability to oxidize carbohydrate and again

storing glycogen in the liver, some use of it homoeopathically

has been made by dr. wm.f. baker, showing its applicability in

acne, carbuncles, erythema with itching eczema. - in the

gouty, transitory glycosuria when skin manifestations are

persistent give three times daily after eating.
Inula: Diabetes.
Kali-br.: (Diabetes with urinary difficulties) - irresistible desire to

urinate, but no flow except with urging and difficulty;

glycosuria, urine loaded with sugar; dribbling of urine at

beginning of stool.
Kali-br.: Emaciation, paleness, skin cold and dry, pulse rapid and

feeble, tongue red and tender, gums spongy and bleeding;

thirst excessive; appetite voracious; bowels constipated; urine

pale, frequent, of great density, and loaded with sugar; liver

tumid and tender (Ars-brom.).
Kali-mur.: Excessive and sugary urine; itching in urethra; stomach

and liver deranged; dry and light-colored stools; pain in

kidneys; great weakness and somnolence.
Kali-phos.: Nervous weakness; breath peculiar, of haylike odor;

thirst, voracious hunger, emaciation; hepatic troubles.

Kreos.: Perfect depression of the trophic nervous system.

Heaviness all over, with drowsiness; depression of spirits;

head feels confused and dull; dimsightedness; flat, bitter taste;

appetite, with sensation of fulness; intermittent, hard, dry

stool; frequent and copious emission of hot, clear urine;

bruised sensation in chest and all along the back; physical

exhaustion, worse from rest; great itching of genitals during

and after micturition
Lac-def.: Excessive aching of back; enormous quantities of urine

voided daily, with excessive lassitude and prostration; intense

throbbing headache, especially in forehead, with nausea,

vomiting and most obstinate constipation.
Lachesis: Despondency and peevishness; dimness of eyes; livid-

grey complexion; readily bleeding gums; sweetish taste;

constipation; violent urging to urinate, with copious

discharge; impotence; difficult suffocative breathing; laming

pain and weakness in back and extremities; gangrene;

emaciation with muscular relaxation.
Lact-ac.: morning sickness, diabetes, and rheumatism offer a field

for this remedy. boy, aged 16, suffering six months; diabetes. - man, aged 62, phlegmatic, dark complexion, dark hair and eyes, has had dropsy several times; diabetes.
Lact-ac.: Excessive thirst; frequent and copious micturition; urine

contains sugar; skin rough and dry; obstinate constipation;

tongue dry, sticky; gastric ailments; debility and emaciation;

feels constantly tired and exhausted from slightest exertion;

rheumatic pains with profuse urination.
Lith-c.: Very frequent urination, disturbing sleep; turbid urine,

with much mucous deposit; dark reddish-brown deposit in

urine.
Lycopodium: Peevish and depressed in mind; thirst and hunger

constant, but worse at night; flatulence; faeces small in

quantity; want of natural warmth; sexual desire and power

gone; lithic acid gravel; pulmonary phthisis, pituitosa and

purulenta, with hectic; great emaciation; mental, nervous and

bodily exhaustion; gouty lithaemia
Lycopus: Diabetes mellitus and insipidus from some derangement

of the central nervous system or sympatheticus; morbus

Basedowii; copious flow of clear urine of great density,

containing sugar; intense thirst; great emaciation, etc.;

increased bronchial irritation, with sighing respiration; cardiac

depression. woman, mother of two children, suffering about a year

with diabetes.
Mag-p.: child, teething, mother died of diabetes; profuse and

frequent urination.
Mag-sulph.: Gloominess, especially mornings, and disinclination

for work; mouth and throat very dry, as if numb, with a

sweetish-bitter taste, in the morning, disappearing after

breakfast; aversion to all food; slight thirst which can be

resisted; urine copious, light-yellow, soon becomes turbid and

deposits copious red sediment; erections without desire for an

embrace; exhaustion and prostration, > by rest momentarily.
Magnesia usta: Sad mood; dryness of the eyes; dulness of hearing;

pale, earthy complexion; looseness of the teeth, with swelling

and bleeding of the gums; dryness of the mouth, especially at

night and in the morning; burning in the throat, with dryness

and roughness; urine increased, pale, watery, with white

sediment; itching and great dryness of the skin.
Menyanth: Diabetes.
Mineral waters: Carlsbad, Gastein, Vichy, Buffalo Lithia Springs,

Bethesda, Gettysburg, Napa Soda, Cal., the Geysers, Brom.

ars., water of Ashe Co., N. C. - clysmic water may be used

with equal benefit in polyuria and glycosuria.
Moschus: Unquenchable thirst; great emaciation; costiveness;

impotence; frequent passage of large quantities of saccharine

urine; paralytic condition of the brain; dimness of sight; earthy

complexion; great dryness of the mouth and putrid taste; great

thirst for stimulants and aversion to food; prickling in the

skin; general exhaustion, with coldness all over. Man, aged 43; married; diabetes with impotency.
Nat-mur.: Diabetes.
Nat-phos.: (Diabetes with hepatic derangements) - Cirrhosis of

liver; hepatic form of diabetes, especially when there is a

succession of boils; intense pressure and heat on top of head

as if it would open; yellow, creamy coating at the back part of

tongue and roof of mouth; acidity and acid dyspepsia; weak

feeling in back and limbs.
Nat-sul.: Depressed, irritable, taciturn, tired of life; dulness in

head and weakness of sight; dryness and burning in the eyes;

nosebleed; dryness of mouth and throat; great thirst for very

cold drinks; voracious appetite, with a boring pain; disgust

while eating; foetid flatus; increased urination, especially at

night; pains in small of back, with burning urine; haemoptoë;

cough, with purulent expectoration. Man, aged 43, middle height, father of two healthy children, blonde hair, grey eyes, gonorrhoeal cachexy, hydrogenoid constitution; diabetes.
Nux-v.: Good livers and sedentary habits. Acidity, with dyspeptic

troubles; constriction of the throat; dry cough; pains in the

back; numbness; paretic condition of the lower extremities;

after ineffectual desire to urinate, frequent and more copious

urination than could be expected from the quantity of liquid

taken; sexual desire strong; spinal lesions exciting cause.12

Opium: After mental shocks or injuries. Dulness, sadness, weak

memory; vision obscured as by a fog; face bloated, congested

or sunken and pale; tongue thickly coated, dry mouth and

oesophagus dry; frothy sputa; ravenous hunger and

unquenchable thirst; constipation more than diarrhoea; great

pain and difficulty in expelling urine; no passage of urine or

faeces; urine turbid, brown, with an iridescent film, scanty;

weariness and numbness all over.
Phaseola: Diabetes.
Phos-ac.: Neurogenic glycosuria. Debility from loss of animal

fluids; bad effects from grief, anguish, sorrow and care; all the

joints feel bruised; very sensitive to fresh air; lassitude and

heaviness; weakness of mind; falling out of the hair; dimness

of eyes; excessive thirst; eructations from acids; pressure in

stomach; hard, difficult stool; shortness of breathing; urine

thick, like milk (chyluria) or lime-water, with whitish curds,

with stringy, bloody lumps, or clear, limpid, and containing

much sugar; pain in back and kidneys; dull pressure in

bladder; great weakness and emaciation; furunculosis. Man, aged 40; diabetes. - gentleman, aged 52, stout, well formed, of active habits, had myelitis; diabetes.
Phos-acid.: pyrosis, flatulence, diarrhoea, diabetes, rhachitis and

periosteal inflammation.
Phosphorus: (Diabetes with diseases of pancreas) Tuberculosis

and fatty degeneration in different organs, especially of heart,

liver, pancreas or kidney; distressing burning pains in coeliac

axis; stools undigested, containing particles of fat or looking

like cooked sago; pale, yellow face; anaemia; atrophy of

pancreas with diabetes ; neuralgia of coeliac plexus; morbus

brightii.
Phosphorus: (Diabetes with duodenitis and duodenal catarrh) -

tuberculosis; distressing, burning pain in coeliac axis; stools

undigested, containing particles of fat; pale, yellow face;

anaemia; atrophy of pancreas with diabetes.
Phosphorus: Atrophy with diabetes. Diabetes, with phthisis; urine profuse, pale, watery; or turbid, whitish, like curdled milk, with brickdust sediment and variegated cuticle on surface; gouty diathesis; cerebral disease; cheesy degeneration of lungs.
Picric-ac.: Cortex of brain congested; urine contains sugar and

albumen, dark red, of high specific gravity; great indifference,

lack of will power to do anything; eyes feel dry, as if full of

sand, sight dim and confused; saliva white, frothy and stringy;

disgust for food; very great thirst for cold water; great sexual

desire with emissions; excessive languor and prostration, it

seemed difficult to move the limbs; feet cold, chilly, cannot

get warm, followed by clammy sweat; chilly all over, except

head and spine; throbbing, jerking of muscles with great pains

between hips.
Plumbum met.: Lowness of spirits, anguish and melancholy;

diminution of sight; dryness of mouth; dry, cracked tongue;

feeling of contraction and constriction in throat; fever with

unquenchable thirst; dingy color of skin; gangrene;

constipation; hectic fever with dry, hacking cough from

suppuration of lungs; great exhaustion; impotence; excessive

emaciation; great hunger; obstinate belching and vomiting.

Chronic lead-poisoning produces a perfect picture of

glycosuria and of morbus Brightii, and Hering considered it

one of the most important drugs in this form of disease.

Podophyl.: Chalky stools; profuse and frequent micturition

immediately after drinking; excessive hepatic action; hot, sour

flatus. boy, aged 1; diabetes. - boy, aged 9; diabetes insipidus.
Ratanhia: Considerable emaciation and weakness; limbs sore and

aching; great appetite; insatiable thirst and constant dryness of

the mouth; gums livid and swollen; soreness in the kidneys;

severe pains in small of back, improved by motion; hard stool,

with straining; frequent urging to urinate, with scanty

discharge, or passes large quantities of light-colored urine.
Rhus aromatica: renal and urinary affections, especially diabetes.
Secale: Great general lassitude; heaviness of limbs; loss of

strength; emaciation; gangrene; skin dry; and withered;

furuncles; petechiae; fever, with unquenchable thirst;

diminished power of the senses; dryness of the mouth;

morbidly great appetite; cardialgia; costiveness; diarrhoea;

watery urine; increased quantity of urine. Diabetes with

opthalmia.
Syzygium: Diminishes the amount of urine secreted and causes

sugar to disappear. No proving!
Sulph-ac.: Lassitude; debility; despondency; dimness of mind and

sight; itching over the whole body; flatulency upward and

downward; stitches in hepatic region; skin completely

inactive, cold and dry; large quantities of sugar in urine;

typhoid condition.
Syph.: mrs. suffering from diabetes , subject to rheumatism in

rainy weather; rheumatic ophthalmia.
Syzygium: a most useful remedy in diabetes. - has an immediate

effect on blood sugar.
Tarent-hisp.: Profound grief and anxiety; great prostration, and

pain as if the whole body were bruised; loss of memory and

dimness of sight; constant craving for raw articles; intense

thirst; lips and mouth so dry that he wants to moisten them15

with his tongue; insatiable appetite; disgust for meat and

general wasting away; constipation; polyuria, with violent

pains in the lumbar region and paralysis of the lower

extremities; miliary eruptions and furuncles.
Terebinth: Inability to concentrate the mind; dull, languid mind,

relieved by frequent micturition; despondency; wearied of

life; obscuration of sight; sunken features; lips cracked and

slightly bleeding; epistaxis; spongy gums; tongue dry and red;

foul breath; hunger and thirst, with debility; aversion to meat;

rancid or acrid eructations; burning in stomach and

hypochondria; tympanitis; albuminuria, with frequent

micturition; sugar is noticed in urine after large doses of Oil

Tereb.
Thuja: Glycosuria after a long-suppressed gonorrhoea, frequent

desire to urinate day and night; craving alternates with want

of appetite; longs for cold food and drink; urine contains

sugar, foams, deposits a brown mucus; debility < mornings.
Uran-nit.: Defects of digestion and assimilation; hepatogenic

diabetes. Causes sugar to be deposited in the urine. General

languor; debility; cold feeling; vertigo; purulent discharges

from eyelids and nostrils, with ulceration of cheeks from the

acrid discharge; copious salivation; vomiting, with great

thirst; putrid eructations; urgent desire to evacuate bladder and

rectum; frequent micturition; cough, with purulent discharge

from nostril; lung infiltrated with gray tubercles; stiffness in

loins; languor on rising from bed, with fishy smell of urine;

prostration, somnolence, and shivering during the day; restless

at night.
Uran-n.: Diabetes mellitus and insipidus. great emaciation;

tendency to general dropsy; effusion of serum from all serous

membranes, especially pleura and peritoneum; brights disease,16

and kindred renal maladies; contracted, gouty kidneys, with

gastric disturbances; irritable condition of renal plexus, of

sympathetic. Boy, aged 3; diabetes. - man, aged 70, hale and hearty; diabetes. Uran-nitricum is known to produce nephritis, diabetes and increased urine, degeneration of the liver, high blood pressure and dropsy. (Diabetes with albuminuria) - patient is compelled to rise often during the night and urinate, which disturbs his sleep; ill-tempered, cross and irritable; pains over left eye; disturbed stomach, faintness of stomach, even after a hearty meal;

cardiac complications; diabetes; pregnancy.
Uran-n: (Diabetes with diseases of pancreas) - ulceration of

duodenum and pyloric end of stomach; vomiting of a white

fluid; putrid eructations, pains < from fasting; urine deposits

a muco-purulent sediment, containing albumen, phosphates,

lithic acid in excess; glycosuria.
Uran-n: (Diabetes with duodenitis and duodenal catarrh) -

Ulceration of duodenum and pyloric end of stomach; vomiting

of a white fluid; putrid eructations, pains < from fasting; urine

contains albumen, phosphates and lithic acid in excess.

glycosuria.
Urea pura: Albuminuria, diabetes; uraemia.
Vanadium: Tuberculosis, chronic rheumatism; diabetes.
Vincetoxicum: Arthritis, bleeding of gums, insatiable hunger;

impotency; emaciation.