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[Dr. Binoy.S.Vallabhassery]

Dear Ardavan Shahrdar and all,

Pharmacy
Wild vetch. «Jesse,» «Jarosse,» N. O. Leguminose. Trituration of
seeds. Tincture of the flower. Tincture of the green pods. Trituration
of the dried pea.

Historical dose: Tincture and all potencies, third potency.

Herbal

The .............. is a vetch and a member of the Leguminosae family
growing in India. This remedy, which produced a perfect picture of
certain spinal affections, has been known for over a century.
A paralytic affection named ............... has been recognized from
ancient times and has been commonly attributed.
As its name implies to poisoning with ............. a species of pea.
Our own Sweet Pea is ........................... The two varieties of
................ which have occasioned the poisonings are ............
and .................... The peas are very much alike in appearance.
That of ............................. is rather smaller than the other,
more square, are a lighter brown. Except for this brownish color they
could easily be mistaken for ordinary peas. ................has red
flowers, .................. bluish. Both are cultivated for food and are
sometimes cut green for fodder. In Christison's Toxicology it is stated
that ,.................. causes paraplegia, dragging gait, turning-in of
the toes, stiffness and semi-flexion of the knee-joints.
The clinical record of .........., though very meagre, gives great hope
that it may prove useful in numerous cases of bedridden paraplegias and
in infantile spinal paralysis, as well as in certain forms of myelitis.
In 1877 Clarke published cases relieved by .............., two of
Paralysis, one of multiple sclerosis, one of rheumatic paralysis with
stiff knees.

Planets: Moon.

Homeopathic

.................... affects the anterior and lateral columns of the
cord, causing many paralytic disorders of lower
limbs................does not produce pain. Reflexes are increased.
Paralytic disorders of lower limbs, spastic paralysis, lateral
sclerosis, Beri-beri. Athetosis. Infantile paralysis. After influenza
and wasting, exhaustive diseases where there is much weakness and
heaviness, slow recovery of nerve power. Sleepy, constant yawning.
Trembling of arms, worse on attempting to do anything. Athetosis.
Infantile paralysis. Useful in wasting and exhaustive diseases when
there is much weakness and heaviness and slow recovery of nerve power.
Reflexes increased.
Clinical
Athetosis. Beriberi. Impotence. Locomotor ataxia. Lumbago Paralysis
spinal (spinal sclerosis), rheumatic. Parkinson's disease. Paraplegia.
Polio-myelitis. Rheumatism. Rheumatic paralysis. Roaring (in horses).
Urine incontinence.
Modalities
Better uncovering was prominent in several cases. Better lying down,
(lower limbs move freely). Worse from cold damp weather. Worse by touch.
Worse by movement.
Symptoms
Mind
Depressed, hypochondriacal.
Abdomen
Colic.
Back
Lumbago. Pain in back so severe as to prevent movement. Pains in back
worse or excited by touch.
Kidneys
Incontinence of urine. Pressure on bladder, if not immediately
satisfied, urine, rushes out with great force. Increased bladder reflex.
Frequent, must hurry, else voided involuntarily.
Limbs
Poliomyelitis with marked spastic symptoms. Tremulous tottering gait.
Rheumatic paralysis. Excessive rigidity of legs, spastic gait. Knees
knock together when walking. Knee jerks exaggerated. Cramps in legs
worse cold and cold feet. Cannot extend or cross legs when sitting. Legs
blue, swollen, if hanging down. Heels do not touch the ground when
walking. Sits bent forward, straightens up with difficulty. Gluteal
muscles and muscles of lower limbs are emaciated. Stiffness and lameness
of the ankles and knees. Feet are dragged or put down suddenly and
forcibly while walking. Legs are cold during day, become hot and burn at
night better uncovering. While lying down legs can be moved from side to
side but cannot be lifted.
Male
Impotence. From time to time erections and pollutions.
Mouth
Burning pain in tip of tongue. Tingling and numbness of tongue and
lips, as if scalded.
Rectum
Diarrhea with urgent pressure on intestines. Dysentery. Constipation.
Sensations
Sensation as of a damp cloth around the waist.
Sleep
Continuous yawning and sleepiness.
Stomach
Weight in stomach and indigestion. Heartburn. Nausea and vomiting.
Vomiting of blood.
Vertigo
Vertigo when standing with eyes closed.
Comments
In the British Journal of Homeopathy there is found an account of a
wheat famine in India, where the peas of the plant were substituted for
wheat and used as a food. Those who subsisted on it were taken, even
during sleep with sudden paralysis of the lower limbs. This occurred
without warning in young men more than in young women and was never
recovered from.
Another observer records fifty cases who had eaten the .............
bread and all stated that they became paralytic during the wet season of
the country, that they went to bed quite well and awoke with stiff legs,
unsteady gait and aching, but no severe pain. The upper limbs were free.

Another who saw the disease in Algeria and described the symptoms found
in ten cases observed that they came on suddenly in damp weather with
some pains in the loins, trembling, motor paralysis and exaggerated
reflexes. He attributed these phenomena to an acute transverse myelitis
with degenerative changes in the cord.
O'Connor finds that marked benefit follows its use in old cases of
myelitis with marked spastic symptoms.
Bartlett recommends .......... in excessive knee jerk and rigidity.
Hart speaks of it as a remedy in locomotor ataxia, but the absence of
sensory symptoms and the presence of exaggerated reflexes would seem to
contraindicate it in this disease.
He also speaks of ......................... in spinal anemia, giving as
symptoms: «Numbness, followed by pain in the lower limbs, sensation of a
band around the body, unable to step or distinguish one limb from
another»
In the case related by Bojanus the general symptoms were the same. In
these it was the ......... which was the cause of the trouble, which
arose during the great Russian famine.
Horses fed with .......... along with oats manifested symptoms of
paralysis of the limbs and also of the throat and wind-pipe, setting up
the condition called «Roaring.» Some have died of suffocation.
The worse from cold, damp wind appears to be the leading condition of
....... so far as at present known. In the case of horses as well as of
human beings, the symptoms often remain in abeyance until cold, damp
weather sets in.
Burning heat with better by uncovering is another noteworthy condition.
Clarke has relieved with it several cases of spastic paralysis, Miss R.,
25, had been ill four years with the usual symptoms of spastic paralysis
with excessive constipation and violent urging to pass water, if she
attempted to retain it, it passed of itself. The muscles were hard and
unyielding. She had very heavy drugging under allopathic treatment
before coming under my care.
Hyper. was first given with considerable benefit. As the improvement
went no further, ..............c and 30c were given and then the
improvement was much more marked. The patient is still under treatment.
In one of the cases of ............... the back pain was induced by
touch.
W. A. Dewey has recorded a brilliant cure with ........ 3x of a case of
spastic paralysis in a man of twenty-eight. The attack had been coming
on six months. The patient was a hunchback, having been deformed since
the age of five, but this had given no more than the usual
inconvenience. On admission to hospital (December I. 1898) he was unable
to make the slightest movement of the lower limbs, even of the toes.
The adductors were in a constant state of irritable contraction, so
that the thighs were constantly crossed. Reflexes greatly exaggerated.
No pain. Spine not tender.
General health normal. The only other symptoms was a girdle sensation,
as if he had a cloth wrung out of cold water round his waist. Three
weeks after commencing Lath. sat. there was slight lessening of
rigidity.
On April 5, 1899, he could raise his limbs and move his toes. On July
2nd he walked out of the hospital without difficulty, the abnormal
irritability of the muscles having disappeared.

Compare
(1) Oxytrop., Sec.
(2) Petiveria, a South American plant. - paralysis, paraplegia with
numbness. Sensation of internal coldness.
(3) Agrostema githago - burning sensation in stomach, through esophagus
into throat in lower abdomen and anus, nausea, bitter vomiting, impaired
locomotion, difficulty in remaining erect, vertigo and headache, burning
from lower jaw to vertex.
Sources
Anshutz. Boericke. Clarke. Phatak.

Best Wishes and Regards,
Dr Binoy Vallabhassery - INDIA