single-dose-cure for swine flu and chikungunya

[Krishna]

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 selected Polyporus 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-10,000x (daily
one dose for three days 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.10,000x
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...

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
Dr. Samuel Lilenthal, M.D.

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
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."

Most people think that as we have remedies for diabetes
in other systems (like insulin in allopathy) there would be
corresponding remedies in homoeo. This is not so. There is one
marked difference between homoeo and other medical systems
(allopathy, ayurveda, siddha etc.)
In allopathy no doctor would give insulin for typhoid; also
no one would give antibiotic for diabetes. This is because
insulin is for diabetes and no amount of insulin will be of any use
in typhoid.
But in homoeo, one remedy given for eczema patient may
be indicated for jaundice in another; the same remedy may be
needed in the third patient suffering from cancer. In such a case,
the question that would naturally arise in the reader's mind is,
"If so, then what is the basis for prescribing or selecting the
remedy in homoeopathy?" Answer to this question will throw
light on the uniqueness of homoeo.
Theory (if we may still use such a term) is good so far as
it goes but he who infuses theory into practice lives in, with and
for the student. A teacher is he who makes difficult things easy.
For learning swimming you do not read any text-book at
home but first get into water. Therefore, let us start with actual
cases treated.
CASE 1: A patient with peptic ulcer, weeping eczema etc.,
came to me and said, "Doctor, I am not taking the treatment to
live long. But I have an aged daughter to be married and a son
who is looking out for a job. Who would come forward to
marry my daughter, if I have a weeping eczema? Only because
of that, I want to get 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. This remedy was given in
single dose and it cured him completely.
CASE 2: A peptic ulcer patient's condition worsened day by
day and allopathic antacids were giving temporary relief. At the
height of his suffering (hunger pain with burning sensation in the
food pipe, temporarily relieved by eating) he was heard saying,
"I think that my end is approaching; I must call the lawyer to
write the will; that 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 which I bought recently."
This mind picture agrees with the remarks made by the
patient in case No.1 above. One single dose of Petroleum-10M
cured this patient also. We do not prescribe on names of
disease or pathology but on `uncommon' symptoms having no
connection with pathology.
(a) the above two cases would show the reader that one
and the same remedy may be called for in different
persons with different diseases; also,
(b) persons suffering from one and the same disease
may need different remedies.
Let us now see further three actual cases treated where
three patients, all of them having the same complaint, viz.,
`headache', were cured by different remedies:

CASE 3: A patient with chronic headache, after spending
millions with various doctors and specialists came to me. After
finishing the history of his seven years' sufferings, he ended up
saying: "Doctor, if you or any one can cure me of this
terrible headache, I won't mind even giving away half of
my property (worth three millions) to him."
Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore these
words told by the patient at the end of his talk.
If a patient says that he is ready to pay 1.5 millions for
getting his headache cured, we can say that he is "deplorably
downhearted." [deplorable = shockingly bad]
Under the homoeo remedy Stillingia (Wilkinson's
Materia Medica), we find the words "deplorably downhearted;
suffering extreme torture from bone pains;" Stillingia, one dose
cured him.

CASE 4: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old
male patient remarked: "Doctor, all these years I have been
having these torturing bone pains in head; my sufferings are such
that no amount of compensation would satisfy me. Even if you
make me President of all the countries in the world that would
not be a sufficient compensation."
The equivalent words or phrase for this statement of the
patient would be:
Extreme sadness, abject despair,
uncompromising melancholy
The above is found under the remedy Selenium (See
Boericke's Mat. Med.)
Selenium, one dose, cured him.

CASE 5: A middle aged man of forty walked in complaining of
headache for a few months. After telling me that he tried
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allopathy, ayurveda, homoeopathy etc. he told me that the pain
in head started the previous year when he was having malarial
fever; though malaria was cured, pain in head continued.
(Certain cases are the easiest to work out; certain cases are
difficult)
Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory: Chapter No. 40.
Fever, intermittent (ague):…. with headache; Cina,
Cist., Kali-c., Polyp.
Fever, intermittent apyrexia:… headache, Arn.,
Natr.m., Polyp., Puls.
Polyporus Pinicola, being common to the above two lists
was given in single dose. Total relief felt for a month after which
he reported relapse. The same remedy was given this time in
single dose in a higher potency and it is now more than seven
years and he is free from headache. Also, his chronic
constipation was cured.
Thus, in cases No. 3, 4 and 5 above though the complaint,
viz., `headache' is same in all of them, each patient got different
remedies.

To be precise, those symptoms which doctors of other
medical systems would ignore, we take that and that alone
for prescribing or selecting the remedy in homoeopathy.
There are no specifics in homoeopathy.
Why should we do like this? Why not have a specific
remedy for jaundice; and another for headache and so on and
so forth?

Our answer: Dear reader, the above method of
prescribing on `uncommon' symptom alone can cure patients
with ONE SINGLE DOSE or a few doses.

[In each medical system there may be something unique,
and without arguing which one is the best, the intelligent man
takes the best from each.]
70 to 90 PER CENT OF CAESAREAN
SURGERIES CAN BE DONE AWAY WITH
THREE DOSES OF HOMOEOPATHIC
MEDICINE.
The foetus (baby in the uterus of the pregnant mother) 1-3
weeks prior to delivery date (so long remaining in upright
position) turns upside down, and the uterus descends down in
such a way that the head of the foetus remains fixed in the pelvic
floor of the mother. 1-3 weeks later, at the delivery time the
mouth of the uterus dilates and the child comes out. Even after
the full term of ten months if the child does not turn upside
down, or turns half-way and lies crosswise,
or
having turned upside down, does not