Advanced Learner's Guide to High-end Practice of Homoeopathy
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:37 am
SINGLE-DOSE CURE FOR SWINE FLU AND EBOLA:
Those who had died in hospitals with swine flu had lung failure; disease of lung that speedily kills any patient is ‘pneumonia’
In Samuel Lilienthal’s HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS (in the chapter PNEUMONIA, under two remedies, viz., Merc-sol and Ferrum met ) we find the following words:
“epidemic pneumonia ”
If we study the two remedies in the materia medicas we find that Merc-sol agreed with ost of the symptoms than Ferrum met. Patients who had come to me after being tested positive for swine flu were given ONLY ONE SINGLE PILL of the homoeo medicine Merc-sol-200, and in just an hour all their symptoms disappeared and after a week when they tested, the result was negative (Rate of success: 99%) For prevention, the same remedy Merc-sol-200 may be given one dose (one pill, chewable, taken any time) 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
NOW, THE DREADED EBOLA: . One single pill of the homoeo remedy Lachesis-10,000, would cure victims of Ebola in an hours time. No need to repeat at all!
[Those who want prevention may take this remedy , chewable, taken any time (and, no dietetic restrictions) and this will work as prevention for one month. If taken one dose once a month continuously for three months will prevent for one year.]
The present pandemic ebola is a haemorrhagic fever. Following are symptoms of Ebola victims and also those who died of Ebola:
Amblyopia, with lung or heart affections; retinitis apoplectica; severe pain in and above the eyes.
headache, vertigo, epistaxis, cardialgia, eructations and oppression of the chest; prostration when exercising or lifting; mental depression;
Carbuncle the skin over the dead cellular tissue shows little disposition to ulcerate; dark bluish appearance; after perforation scanty discharge of thin, sometimes bloody sanies; cerebral symptoms; prostration; inability to bear any bandage over the sore.
Dark, chocolate-colored, cadaverous-smelling stools of decomposed blood, looking like charred straw; stools of mixed blood and slime; stools passed with painful straining and burning in the anus; cramp like pain in the abdomen, which feels very hot; coldness; thirst; tongue red and cracked at the tip, or black and bloody.
Cerebral typhoid. Torpor with loss of vitality, associated with nervous excitability, cutaneous hyperaesthesia and decomposition of the blood. Intolerance of pressure from the cutaneous hyperaesthesia; he sleeps into an aggravation from depressing influences on centres of respiration; both body and mind worn out, with relaxation of muscular system; heat in head, with throbbing from every movement; heaviness of head; especially occiput, with vertigo; muttering stupor; delirium with great loquacity, jumping from one thing to another; sunken countenance; tendency of lower jaw to drop, and sleeps much with mouth open; fever and delirium < as night advances; mouth dry, black, stiff with dry, red, blackish tongue, cracked on tip, trembling when protruded or catching between teeth and bleeding; abdomen hard and distended, with rumbling and gurgling in bowels before diarrhoea; stools very offensive whether formed or not; red-brown and copious urine; cough and dyspnoea, bloody, slimy expectoration; decubitus, ulcers inflamed, red, with black borders; haemorrhages, blood dark and particles looking like charred straw; coolness of extremities.
- Gums swollen and spongy, easily bleeding, aching < from warm drinks; protruding, dark-purple; haemorrhage from gums.
fainting; vomiting of blood and bloody stools looking like charred straw; periodical attacks every spring; vicarious haematemesis.
- Always when blood can be discerned like black straws as a sediment, whether from the uterus, bowels, nose, stomach, lungs, or at the bottom of the ulcer. Often used in typhoid when haemorrhages occur. Chills coming on at night as an accompaniment of bleeding.
- Haematuria from blood degenerescence as in low fevers, hence deposits of disintegrated blood-cells, of fibrine, presenting the appearance of charred straw.
- Quiet sorrowful lowness of spirits relieved by sighing; repugnance to society and dislike to talk; solicitude about the future, with disgust of life; inclination to doubt everything; mistrusts and misconstrues everything in the worst way; indolence, with aversion to every kind of labor and motion; insane jealousy
RANDOM NOTES ON PRACTICE
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS:
1. What is the remedy to be given (just one single dose) to a pregnant woman, when the foetus (baby in uterus) stops growing?
2. During epidemic encephalitis (brain fever, e.g., in Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu) what remedy would you use as prophylactic (preventive)?
3. All the children born to a woman are syphilitic by birth. What remedy in one single dose would you give her to prevent syphilis in the subsequent babies?
4. What is the remedy to be taken once a month by all practising homoeopaths? (Just because no homoeopath has been taking this regularly, is homoeopathy not becoming popular.) Also, please note that this remedy must first be given to a doctor-patient i.e., any homoeopath coming to you for treatment and also to a patient who has gone to many homoeopaths.
5. Name the two authors who had written biography of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.
6. A patient complains of pain in spots in many places. If you draw a line connecting all these painful spots it is a straight vertical line. E.g., pain in right temple, right side of chest, right side of lower abdomen. Can you name the remedy?
7. What is the chief or first remedy that you would think of for haemophilia?
8. In homoeopathy what is the meaning of ‘scrofula’ or ‘scrofulosis’ and ‘cachexia?’
9. What is the remedy for jaundice after blood transfusion?
10. In respect of the symptom ‘haemorrhage’ differentiate between the two remedies Phosphorus and Hamamelis.
11. Name the remedy for (a) violent blow on single part of the body; (b) after a person falls rolling down from a speeding train or bus; (c) falling from height (second or third floor or from a tall tree) with bleeding; (d) falling down while trying to get into a running jeep or truck from behind?
12. Under what rubric in the repertory would you search for remedies for a patient with chronic tonsillitis?
13. What is the name of the reference book (and the name of its author) you would use for complaints of women occurring directly before, during or after childbirth or abortion?
14. A lady of twenty-eight had attempted to commit suicide (by swallowing kerosene or sleeping pills) and somehow she recovered. What is the remedy for her so that she may not repeat it in future?
15. What is the remedy for ‘ghost pain’?
16. A patient had fracture of tibia bone and though it healed, he was having pain with oozing etc., at the wounded place. One single dose of a remedy cured him. What is the remedy?
17. A patient was having vision problem. Went to an eye specialist and got spectacles. After a few days that glass did not suit. Had to change his specs. It happened this way 5-6 times. He was having half-a-dozen spectacles and he would wear the one that suited him on a given day. One single dose cured him. Can the reader name the remedy?
18. Where will you look for remedies for complaints of (a) the new born within twenty-four hours of birth; and (b) within one year of age?
19. A certain old man of seventy-five, walking with a cane and standing on one side of the road, with his body trembling, asks a passerby if the latter can help him to cross the road. We have cured three such cases with one single dose of a particular remedy. Can you name it?
Answers to the above questions:
1. The remedy Secale is almost a specific when the growth of foetus is arrested. (See Repertory by Dr. Calvin B. Knerr: GENITALIA—FEMALE, Pregnancy, foetus: arrests development, Secale.) One single dose of Secale 10M is sufficient.
2. See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—Head—Cerebrospinal affections - meningitis - epidemic: Zinc.
3. See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—Stages of Life and Constitution—Constitution, syphilitic—mothers, to prevent disease in offspring: Aurum-mur-nat.
4. See Kent’s Repertory—Generalities—Irritability—When too much medicine has produced an over-sensitive state and remedies fail to act: Ph-ac., Teucr [Homoeopaths are giving medicines to patients. The homoeo pharmacists put about ten drops of the tincture to a 5 ml phial of pills. Regardless of whether the homoeopath buys the potencies in dilution or pills, the doctor inadvertently smells the medicine each time he opens the phial to give a few pills to the patient. [We must remember that Dr. Hahnemann asked his patient to smell a phial containing potentised remedy.] This repeated smelling of several potentised remedies causes irritation, making them restless and/or haughty to the point of telling that he need not learn any more thing in homoeopathy. Also when the doctor himself is sick, no homoeo medicine seems to act on himself.]
5. Life and Letters of Hahnemann by Dr. Richard Haehl and another book by Bradford.
6. (a) Oxalic acid (Myelitis acuta, inflammation of the spinal cord)-myelitis paralytica; pains occupy small longitudinal places, < on thinking of them; limbs stiff; dyspnoea and spasmodic constriction of chest, paroxysms of short, hurried breathing, with intervals of ease; acute pain in back gradually extending down to thighs, with great torture, seeks relief in change of position; back too weak to support the body; spinal softening, weakness about loins and hips extending down legs, with numbness and loss of power.
(b) Oxalic acid (Paralysis)-sclerosis of posterior column; pains shooting down from the cord to the extremities, especially lower ones, stiffness of limbs, dyspnoea, followed by a peculiar general numbness, approaching to palsy; back feels too weak to support the body; jerking pains, confined to small spots, lasting only a few seconds; pains in small longitudinal spots; paroxysms of dyspnoea. We do not have any symptoms that appears latitudinally. [Items (a) and (b) are from Lilienthal]. Have you still not bought a copy of Lilienthal?
7. Crotalus horridus is the prime remedy for haemophilia.
8. (a) See the answer to question No. 12.
(b) Diseases, more particularly acute, that are longstanding and not cured in spite of best treatment, and where patient is affected much, disturbing his daily routine. We may call them by the term 'Cachexia.' Acute diseases such cough, cold, diarrhoea, skin rash etc. normally do not last long. When you find a patient with these complaints standing long for years and bothering him much, you may use the term 'Cachexia.' This may otherwise be called as weakness of the system or of a part of body.
9. Crotalus horridus.
10. (a) Hamamelis: Passive haemorrhage. No anxiety or pain:
(b) Phosphorus: Active haemorrhage with anxiety.
11. (a) Arnica (b) Cicuta (c) Millefolium (d) Phosphorus.
12. For a patient with chronic tonsillitis, you would generally look into the Repertory against the following: Tonsils, inflamed (quinsy, tonsillitis) (page 454 of Kent’s Repertory). But remedies in this list may be useful for acute complaints of tonsillitis. For curing tonsillitis permanently, it needs ‘treatment of chronic diseases.’ Chronic tonsillitis is due to tuberculosis (See MEDICAL DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD by Dawson Williams, London: Cassel & Co. p. 338-348) When tuberculosis affects the lung it is called pulmonary tuberculosis or phthisis; with a family history of tuberculosis, when t. b. affects bones or glands it is called ‘scrofula’ or ‘struma’. All chronic affections of glands are due to tuberculosis in the family. Chronic affections of bones may be due to either tuberculosis or syphilis; (in syphilitic affections of bones we find ‘nightly boring’ pain.) Therefore, to cure a chronic tonsillitis patient, we must consider the following:
Scrofulosis
— glandular affections. Bar., Bell., Calc., Carb. an., Cist., Clem., Con., Dulc., Graph., Hep., Kali, Lapis, Lyc., Merc., Nitr. ac., Phos., Rhus, Sil., Staph., Sulph. [See p. 943 of Lilienthal]
13. The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling.
14. See Dr. Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory - MIND - Suicide, attempted: Plb.
15. Pain at the point of amputation is called ‘ghost pain’. Allium cepa is the remedy for this.
16. See Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY—GENERALITIES—Bones, injuries, ....after fracture of tibia: ANTHRACIN.
17. “. . . a patient had been travelling about from oculist to oculist, who had many visual troubles and no glasses would suit. . .Lac Felinum cured her.” (See Kent’s LECTURES ON HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA—Spigelia.)
18. Answer: (a) See the last chapter The BABY in Yingling.
(b) See (i) the Chapter GENITALIA—FEMALE—INFANTS in Dr. Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory and (ii) “Children Diseases of—Morbi Neonatorum et Infantum.” in Homoeopathic therapeutics by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal. (p. 148 to 184)
19. Physostigma (Calabar) - on walking, feeling of unsteadiness from knees downward, so that he has to tread carefully, especially when eyes are shut; he must see where he is going wants a cane to support himself; stiffness in recti femoris; languor; flatulence. Spinal irritation, loss of motility, prostration
. . . Fibrillary tremors. Rigidity of muscles; paralysis. Depresses the motor and reflex activity of the cord and causes loss of sensibility to pain, muscular weakness . . . Paralysis and tremors, chorea. — Boericke Materia Medica—Physostigma.
Trembling of legs, as if one could not walk straight. A feeling as if all power was going out of legs and they would give way; as if the cause of the weakness came from that one spot in back, between hips, and took away all power below that spot from limbs . . . Shuddering and trembling running down through all nerves of body . . . Violent trembling all over, in the street; felt for an instant as if he should lose consciousness, and could hardly get home; riding in a car for twenty minutes did not relieve sensations . . . Loss of voluntary motion without loss of consciousness . . . Complete relaxation of whole body, as if every nerve was unstrung, even to the eyes, which felt as if all power to see was going out of them. Giddiness and faintness without uneasiness. Paralyses motor nerves, but does not impair sensibility, intelligence and muscular irritability. — See The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (10 volumes) by Dr. Constantine Hering—Calabar.
Remember the remedy Physostigma (Calabar) 10M, one single dose, for an old man walking with a cane trembling and treading carefully, It is one of the old age remedies par excellence. Learn by rote the above symptoms of Calabar.
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Could the rape victim Nirbhaya of Delhi (who had died of septicaemia) have been saved with homoeopathic medicines?
What is the remedy that would have cured Nirbhaya of Delhi, in one single dose? A practitioner ought to keep these remedies in his fingertip! Dr. Hahnemann, in his own time, had remarked, “Many of my followers, I am sorry to say, are but half converts.” That holds good even today. The seminars, articles in journals, so-called research papers, etc. are nothing but mockery of not only homoeopathy but also of homoeopaths. The reader need not say that any remedy prescribed on ‘totality-of-symptoms’ would have cured the gang rape victim Nirbhaya who died of septicaemia. That is a vague statement. In emergencies nature speaks plainly. The more danger to life, the clearer the symptoms speak and quicker our remedy acts.
Treatment of the Delhi rape victim Nirbhaya: One single dose of the remedy Crotalus horridus in the 10m potency) would have saved Nirbhaya. What is the case and why Crotalus Horridus for that?
Septicaemia caused by trauma with haemorrhage. Malignant diseases with blood degeneration are magically cured with one single dose of the remedy Crotalus horridus - 10M.
What are those diseases of blood which threaten the life of the patient?
They are:
(a) septicaemia caused by trauma with bleeding
(b) uncomplicated cases of blood cancer
(c) haemophilia
(d) jaundice after blood transfusion
(e) infective hepatitis
(f) hepatitis B virus
‘Septicaemia’ is a ‘general’ symptom. ‘Traumatic haemorrhage’ is another general symptom.
A general symptom occurring as a concomitant or modality to another general symptom is like the apex court judgment.
Crotalus horridus is the only remedy for this.
On page 912 of one of the high-definition reference works, Homoeopathic Therapeutics by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, we find the following:
Pyaemia, septicaemia: Acon., Arn., Ars., Calend., Canth., Carbol. ac., Chin.arom., Chinin. mur. or sulph., Crotal., Lach., Nit. ac., Rhus, Veratr.vir., Zinc.
—for the haemorrhages: Crotal., Ergot., Kreos., Nitr. ac., Mur.ac., Fer-mur., Tarent-c., Tereb.
—for the adynamia: Mosch., Camph., Carb. v., Crotal., Lach., Phos., Sil., Veratr. alb., Veratr. vir., Sulph.
Crotalus horridus alone is common to the above three rubrics. Does any homoeopath want a better justification for the necessity and greatness of Lilienthal’s work?
During the South Delhi Homoeo Association Conference conducted at New Delhi during September 14-15, 2013, I asked an audience of about one hundred and fifty homoeopaths to raise the hands if they have a copy of the homoeo reference book The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling and/or Homoeopathic Therapeutics by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal. To my shock, only half-a-dozen homoeopaths raised their hands. Most of the homoeopaths have never referred to these two books.
Is homoeopathy to be practised out of sheer whims and fancies or is it an exact and accurate science? We have cured three similar cases of septicaemia; one case was that of a boy attacked with knives; the other two were victims of road accidents; all were bleeding and also developed septicaemia before being admitted to the hospital several hours later. In these three serious cases allopathic doctors gave up hope. We cured all these cases with one single dose of Crotalus-hor., much to the astonishment of allopaths. That is why we are now able to write boldly that the gang rape ‘victim’ Nirbhaya of New Delhi too could have been saved with one single dose of this remedy.
The anxious practitioner may ask why the high potency? Of course, Dr. Hahnemann did not use above the 30th potency. Does it mean that higher potencies are of no use? The answer, again, is given by Dr. W. A. Yingling: “Everyone acknowledges that the low potencies act, and at times most brilliantly. There is no difference in regard to this. But those who have fairly tried the higher potencies are just as sure, and from the same reason, that of experience, that they act much more promptly and efficiently, and in many cases wil cure where the low entirely fail. From actual experience we sincerely assert that the higher potencies are by far the best to use in labor cases, especially, and that their best and quickest action is seen in the most alarming emergency cases. We have seen the most profuse haemorrhage cease in a very few moments and after the exhibition of a single dose of a high potency. We have see the most distressing pains change like magic into genuine labor pains, with delivery following speedily and naturally after a high potency. My own experience with high potencies has been so satisfactory and gratifying that I feel it a duty to urge everyone to give them a fair trial. Select the remedy carefully, and the speedy result will be to make another enthusiast in favor of the highly potentised remedies. In emergency cases the action of the similimum is so speedy that there is seldom need for a repetition of the dose, if of a high potency.” [See The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual, Introduction.]
Lilienthal’s work is an outstanding and laborious effort. He is a pioneer in the field of homeopathic therapeutics. It is a complete work and an easy reference book listing various disorders alphabetically with remedy reference. This therapeutic manual offers a wide array of ailments and clinical conditions with thorough and reliable remedy differentiation. This magnificent treatise will serve as an invaluable guide to effective remedy application by comparing the characteristics of each remedy given under every pathological condition. This book will enable students and practitioners to enhance their art of prescription. No author has excelled Lilienthal, excepting, of course, Dr. Yingling. The first and last disqualification for any homoeopath is not making use of Lilienthal in his day to day practice!
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‘Uncommon symptoms’ (for selecting the remedy) are not what you have learnt but they are, in reality, something different which you ought to know and also learn by rote.
--Explanation of Section 213 and 153 of the Organon—
CASE 1: Mr. N. 57 years reported: “Doctor, daily morning I get headache; in the afternoon, after lunch I have distension of abdomen, gastric troubles. In the night I get terrible pain in the leg…” Repertory is of no use in this case. The case is very simple. His symptom is to be classified as follows: “Aggravation of head symptoms in the morning; abdomen in the afternoon and legs in the night”
Under the remedy Ammonium mur. (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) the
following is specified: 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 evenings.
One single dose of Amm-mur-10M cured him.
CASE 2: A patient consulted me for constipation. Laxatives and purgatives were said to be of no use. He further said that for several years he had been taking daily anticonvulsant drug for epilepsy and if he stops it, he would get convulsions. The following symptom under the remedy Opium (in Wilkinson’s Materia Medica) agrees with this case:
“…Increased irritability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles…”
When the intestine is full with faeces, urging is not felt (involuntary muscles.) In the instant case these muscles are not functioning. Movement of limbs is controlled by voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them (increased irritability and action). Opium-10M one single dose cured his constipation and he was asked to stop anticonvulsant drugs; he did so and to his surprise convulsions did not appear.
CASE 3: A patient showed his right leg with ulcer. He got injury a few months earlier but so far it did not heal in spite of best medical treatment. After a pause, the patient continued, “Doctor, ever since the accident I feel numbness in my right upper arm and I am unable to use it freely. Has this non-healing of wound in my leg anything to do with numbness in my arm? But my arm was not hurt in the accident.” In Wilkinson’s Materia Medica the following sentence under the remedy Pulsatilla agrees with this case: … depression of vital power on one side and increased irritability on the other… Pulsatilla-10M, one single dose, cured both the ulcer on the leg and numbness in the arm.
CASE 4: A patient came in with pain in the femoral part of urethra and backache. It was worse while riding the two-wheeler. He showed his medical file (given by allopathic hospital) and therefrom we noted the following points:
hydroureteronephrosis—Left kidney;
pain in femoral part of urethra;
pain in sacral region.
His complaint (pathology) is in ureter but he has pain in femoral part of urethra and sacrum. This is something rare-strange-peculiar. Both these painful places are at the same distance from the seat of affection—ureter. Under the remedy Belladonna (Wilkinson’s Materia Medica) we find the following: “Inflammation of internal organs… The inflammation… runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts.” (Femoral part of urethra and sacrum are more or less at equal distance from his left ureter). Belladonna-10M, single dose, cured him.
CASE 5: Two years after the above case, a lady came to me for cervical spondylitis. These patients get pain normally in the neck extending to head or one upper limb. Strangely this patient complained of unbearable pain in both shoulder tips. (Both shoulder tips are at the same distance away from the cervical vertebra.) Belladonna-10M, single dose cured her.
CASE 6: Let us now examine what is meant by uncommon symptoms: Some of the most useful uncommon physical symptoms cannot be classified under any head in the repertory or homoeo software and so it is better to memorise them. For example, under the remedy Ignatia we find the words great contradictions. (Boericke Mat. Med.) A haemorrhoid patient said at the end of the consultation. [Remember, in most cases, after the narration is over and after a pause, the patient leans forward towards you and with wide open eyes (exclaims)] “Doctor… one thing. Everyone says that pain, bleeding etc. in piles would increase while straining when constipated; but my case is different. I do not get pain or bleeding whenever I strain during constipation. But during loose bowel movement I get both burning and bleeding.” The contradictory symptom is both ways. Hence Dr. William Boericke writes in plural: “Great contradictions.” Ignatia-1M, single dose cured this patient.
CASE 7: A school boy of twelve was brought by the parents. The mother started talking: “Doctor, he has to leave the house for school at 9.30 in the morning. He gets up at 6.00 a.m. By 7.30 a.m. he becomes so restless—jumps, cries etc. This would last for half-an-hour. Then this disappears; it is followed by 3-4 times loose bowel movement. After that he becomes completely all right and goes to school.” In this case the following should come to our mind: “Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups... ” The above lines are found in the remedy Cuprum met. (Boericke’s Materia Medica.) This remedy cured the patient in one single dose in the 200th potency.
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Most of the valuable ‘mind’ or ‘uncommon’ symptoms cannot be classified under any head in the repertories and the conscious homoeopath has to learn them by rote. (‘rote’ means mechanical or habitual repetition—Oxford ). Therefore, in many cases (if not all cases), homoeopathic software is of no use, however costly it may be and however praised by the so-called leading homoeopaths.
The following actual cases cured by the author would give the reader a clear and accurate meaning of ‘mind symptoms’ in a matter-of-fact way. Dr. Hahnemann advises that without prescribing on mind symptoms a cure is not possible (Section 213 of the Organon.) ‘Anger’, ‘restlessness’ etc. are ‘common’ symptoms of mind. ‘When Section 213 is read with Section 153, we infer that we have to prescribe on ‘uncommon mind symptoms.’
Case 1: A renal failure patient under dialysis and waiting for kidney transplant, was under our treatment. We could not find his remedy. There is no guarantee for kidney transplant, because after a few years, many patients die because sooner or later the donor kidney stops functioning. After transplant he was heard saying, “Now I feel as if I am released from prison . . . as if I have taken a rebirth.” This he said because he is now freed from torturing and exhausting bi-weekly dialysis, taking rest, body becoming weak etc. This mental picture of the patient should at once bring to our mind the following words: …desire to be released from what seems to be a perpetual burden of sorrow… (See p. 111 of the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by the author) We are going to give Ignatia to him and we are confident that his other kidney would start functioning and even if the donor kidney fails he would live long.
CASE 2: A patient with 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 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 with the remarks made by the above eczema patient. This remedy was given in single dose and it cured him completely.
CASE 3: A peptic ulcer patient’s condition worsened day by day and
allopathic antacids were giving only 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. 2 above. One single dose of the remedy Petroleum-10M cured this patient as well. We do not prescribe on names of disease or pathology but on ‘uncommon’ symptoms having no relevance to pathology. Anger, irritability etc. are not ‘uncommon mind symptoms’.
CASE 4: A seventy year old carpenter was under my treatment. During one of his visits he was accompanied by his 48-year old son. The latter was coughing with chest congestion etc. The carpenter told his son; “Why don't you also take treatment from this doctor. See how much I have improved, whereas the other seven doctors to whom I consulted earlier could not do anything in my case.” To this, the son said: “The new house where I shifted has no raasi.” (‘Raasi’ in Tamil means luck). In other words the person feels that everything was going wrong ever since he started living in a particular house. So, that house has no raasi. Or, a person feels that ever since he bought and started using a car, nothing went right. He attributes his sufferings, failures, difficulties etc. to that vehicle. I hope the reader would understand this. The son continued, “Even the new work place where I am going daily is not raasi (or has no good luck.)” The other word to describe ‘raasi’ would be ‘sentimental’ ‘luck’. The carpenter’s son was not ready to take treatment from me only because he felt that the house and the work place is the cause of his respiratory complaints. I gave him one dose of a remedy telling him to take that and he need not pay me any fees. He took it. (Later I learnt that he was completely cured.). Can the reader tell me what remedy I gave the patient?
MIND Symptoms: Superiority of Lilienthal:
Read the remedy Staphisagria in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal (p. 701.) There we find the following:
Inwardly gnawing grief and anger, he looks at everything from the darkest side . . . disinclination to work and think; dread of the future and dread of being constantly pursued . . . a sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the intellect . . .
Homoeopathy is an exact and accurate subject. Precision and versatility is its culture. No one can practise it from imagination. The enthusiastic reader would be eager to know how I selected this remedy for the above case.
(a) Reproaches others (blaming the house and work place.)
(b) Sentimental. I write down the remedies common to both the above rubrics in Kent 's
Repertory (Mind) and read them in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. Staphisagria suited the symptoms of the case.
Case 5: A lady of forty-two came with a large calculus in her urinary bladder. She said that allopathic doctors advised surgery as the only answer but she declined to undergo it. She continued that she had already undergone two caesarean sections and one appendicectomy; after each one of these surgeries, her general health came down. Therefore she cannot afford deterioration of health any further with another surgery and that she must safeguard her health for the remaining period of her life. Under the remedy Nux vomica (p. 128 in the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by the author) we find the following: Afraid she may not have enough to live on. Nux-vomica-1M one single dose was given in the evening. Not only her general health improved, but also the size of the stone started reducing. (Patient still under treatment)
CASE 6: A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few relatives, all of whom were allopathic doctors. They showed me a file containing the medical papers of the patient. After this, one by one, the relatives went out. The patient was still sitting. He said, “Doctor, my sons say that I am sick and so I should not ride bicycle, go out and do our business. They say they will do everything and ask me to sit at home taking rest. As my children, they should only tell me that I am all right and I would recover soon. But instead of encouraging me for speedy recovery they have branded me as a permanent and incurable patient.” [The reader may note here that in most cases the ‘uncommon’ symptom (on which we can make a prescription) is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some cases, after you have made the prescription! In yet a few cases, during the second or subsequent consultations!] This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging, are letting him down. What one requires from the relatives is not money nor help but moral support. In this case the patient feels that this is completely missing. This symptom we find in two remedies. (See the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy) They are
“… a feeling of moral deficiency…” – Kali- brom.
… despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation…” – Tarentula hisp.
Tarentula hisp. 10M - single dose was given.
Case 7: A lady of fifty-five, school teacher, was under my treatment for three months for sinusitis with little relief. She lives thirteen kilometers away from my clinic and she works in a school which is nearer to my clinic. Before going to the school she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go to school. Seeing no relief in spite of three visits, I told her that a certain acupressure doctor would come and give just 3-minute treatment once only and for this she need not pay any fees and also I assured total relief. Since the acupressure doctor comes to my clinic on Sundays only I asked her to come on a Sunday. To this she replied, “I have to come all the way… from ... (her residence.)” During the earlier three visits she would come to me in the morning before going to her school which is near my clinic. Sunday is holiday for school and she feels it an ordeal to come for acupressure treatment all… the… way from her residence thirteen kilometers away. It is hesitation. I told her no need to pay any fees for the one-time acupressure treatment and 100% cure was also assured. Therefore, travelling thirteen kilometres won’t be a crime. But to do this she has hesitation. In the above said case, for merely travelling ten kilometres they have lot of hesitation as if I am asking them to do some crime or immoral thing. In other words, they are over conscious of a trivial thing. The apt term would be
“Conscientious scruples.”
This symptom is in the remedy Arsenicum album. [See the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by the author. p. 77.] Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one only, and the computer-software or ‘remedy finders’ are of no use. One single dose of Arsenicum Album-10M completely cured the above sinusitis patient and even acupressure treatment was not given. On this symptom, let us now see two more cases:
Case 8: This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees of six thousand rupees. To this he replied, “Money… is…” (The sentence was incomplete and hesitation was as if they are asked to do some immoral act.) He should say that either he has no money or that he would try to borrow from relatives. But he does neither. Ars. Alb-10M, one single, dose cured him. The above two cases would illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind symptoms of a patient. In some cases the repertory or software is not useful and you have to learn by rote these uncommon mind symptoms. Let no one practise homoeopathy without the help of Lilienthal. Precision and versatility is required to practise homoeopathy. The most useful books for mind symptoms are:
(1) Dr. Samuel Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics.
(2) Dr. William Boericke’s Mat. Medica.
(3) Wilkinson’s Final Materia Medica (Compiled by Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy).
(4) Final Repertory of Mind Symptoms.
It is no exaggeration when we say that for homoeopathy practitioners Lilienthal is ten times worth its weight in gold.
Case 9: A patient with chronic headache, after spending much money with various doctors, specialists and homoeopaths came to me. After finishing the history of his seven years’ pain in head, he ended up saying: “Doctor, if you or anyone can cure me of this terrible headache, I won’t mind even giving away half of my property (worth three millions) to that doctor.” Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore this statement of the patient. If a patient is ready to pay 1.5 million... I thought over this. I took this as a challenge to homoeopathy. I asked him to first pay me ten thousand rupees and also give me two weeks’ time with a promise that if I do not cure him in one single dose (or a few doses) I would pay him double the amount paid by him. Also, if he is cured he may pay me another ten thousand rupees. He agreed to this condition and paid ten thousand rupees. I took a copy of Boericke’s Materia Medica and went to a professor of English and requested him to render me a help. I told him that he has to read the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies in Boericke’s Mat. Med. and underline if any relevant line is found equivalent to the statement of a person who says that he would pay half of his wealth if his headache is cured. I paid him five thousand rupees (which the professor said is more than sufficient for the work)—It may take a few days, daily spending two or three hours to go through the lines given under the chapter ‘Mind’ in Boericke’s 688-page materia medica. To another professor of English I gave a copy of Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica and paying him the remaining five thousand rupees requested him to do the job of reading the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies (and this too would take a few days, daily working for three hours) and tell me if he finds anything equivalent to the above said statement of the headache patient. The first professor (using Boericke’s) could not find anything apt. But the second professor underlined and pointed out the following lines in the remedy Stillingia (under ‘Mind’ in Wilkinson’s). “Deplorably downhearted; suffering extreme torture from bone pains.” Stillingia 1000, one single dose cured the patient and he paid me another ten thousand rupees. After this case I cured two more patients with Stillingia. both of whom said the above words (ready to give his entire wealth to the doctor who cures him). Diligence and knowledge of English language, both to the core, are required to practise homoeopathy.
Case 10: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient remarked: “Doctor, all these years I have been having these pains; my sufferings are such that no amount of compensation would be equal to it. Even if you make me the President of all the nations in the world that would not be a sufficient compensation.” I told him the same condition which I put to the patient in the earlier case. After taking ten thousand rupees I went to the two English professors, one with Boericke and the other with Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica. In this case the professor going through Boericke’s Mat. Medica could help me. He pointed to the following found under the remedy Selenium. “Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.” Selenium 10M, one dose cured the patient and he paid me ten thousand rupees. On a later occasion the above said professors asked me what I did by their help and I showed them how I practise homoeopathy. Soon both of them started learning and practising homoeopathy. Homoeopathic system of medicine is exact and accurate. Precision and versatility is its culture. In some cases Calvin B. Knerr’s repertory is excellent to work out cases with mind symptoms.
The other day I was sitting by the side of a senior homoeopath in his clinic. A patient entered and asked, “Do you have medicine for diabetes?”
Doctor: Yes, tell me your symptoms.
Patient: (Stretching his hand towards the doctor). “see my pulse; give medicine.” [The tone of the patient was in a commanding note similar to a king, who, when anything is required would order, “Bring the head of the thief in two hours.”]
The doctor turned towards me and said, “See doctor, these patients don’t tell symptoms. How can I prescribe?” That doctor always thinks “Sensation, Locality Modalities, concomitants. What a wrong teaching?”
I took Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory and showed him the following:
MIND, Answers, imperiously: Lycopodium.
Further I showed him the following from Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica under the remedy Lycopodium: “Talks with an air of command . . . manner stiff and pretentious.” Lycopodium 10M, one single dose, cured this patient of his diabetes.
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Those who had died in hospitals with swine flu had lung failure; disease of lung that speedily kills any patient is ‘pneumonia’
In Samuel Lilienthal’s HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS (in the chapter PNEUMONIA, under two remedies, viz., Merc-sol and Ferrum met ) we find the following words:
“epidemic pneumonia ”
If we study the two remedies in the materia medicas we find that Merc-sol agreed with ost of the symptoms than Ferrum met. Patients who had come to me after being tested positive for swine flu were given ONLY ONE SINGLE PILL of the homoeo medicine Merc-sol-200, and in just an hour all their symptoms disappeared and after a week when they tested, the result was negative (Rate of success: 99%) For prevention, the same remedy Merc-sol-200 may be given one dose (one pill, chewable, taken any time) 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
NOW, THE DREADED EBOLA: . One single pill of the homoeo remedy Lachesis-10,000, would cure victims of Ebola in an hours time. No need to repeat at all!
[Those who want prevention may take this remedy , chewable, taken any time (and, no dietetic restrictions) and this will work as prevention for one month. If taken one dose once a month continuously for three months will prevent for one year.]
The present pandemic ebola is a haemorrhagic fever. Following are symptoms of Ebola victims and also those who died of Ebola:
Amblyopia, with lung or heart affections; retinitis apoplectica; severe pain in and above the eyes.
headache, vertigo, epistaxis, cardialgia, eructations and oppression of the chest; prostration when exercising or lifting; mental depression;
Carbuncle the skin over the dead cellular tissue shows little disposition to ulcerate; dark bluish appearance; after perforation scanty discharge of thin, sometimes bloody sanies; cerebral symptoms; prostration; inability to bear any bandage over the sore.
Dark, chocolate-colored, cadaverous-smelling stools of decomposed blood, looking like charred straw; stools of mixed blood and slime; stools passed with painful straining and burning in the anus; cramp like pain in the abdomen, which feels very hot; coldness; thirst; tongue red and cracked at the tip, or black and bloody.
Cerebral typhoid. Torpor with loss of vitality, associated with nervous excitability, cutaneous hyperaesthesia and decomposition of the blood. Intolerance of pressure from the cutaneous hyperaesthesia; he sleeps into an aggravation from depressing influences on centres of respiration; both body and mind worn out, with relaxation of muscular system; heat in head, with throbbing from every movement; heaviness of head; especially occiput, with vertigo; muttering stupor; delirium with great loquacity, jumping from one thing to another; sunken countenance; tendency of lower jaw to drop, and sleeps much with mouth open; fever and delirium < as night advances; mouth dry, black, stiff with dry, red, blackish tongue, cracked on tip, trembling when protruded or catching between teeth and bleeding; abdomen hard and distended, with rumbling and gurgling in bowels before diarrhoea; stools very offensive whether formed or not; red-brown and copious urine; cough and dyspnoea, bloody, slimy expectoration; decubitus, ulcers inflamed, red, with black borders; haemorrhages, blood dark and particles looking like charred straw; coolness of extremities.
- Gums swollen and spongy, easily bleeding, aching < from warm drinks; protruding, dark-purple; haemorrhage from gums.
fainting; vomiting of blood and bloody stools looking like charred straw; periodical attacks every spring; vicarious haematemesis.
- Always when blood can be discerned like black straws as a sediment, whether from the uterus, bowels, nose, stomach, lungs, or at the bottom of the ulcer. Often used in typhoid when haemorrhages occur. Chills coming on at night as an accompaniment of bleeding.
- Haematuria from blood degenerescence as in low fevers, hence deposits of disintegrated blood-cells, of fibrine, presenting the appearance of charred straw.
- Quiet sorrowful lowness of spirits relieved by sighing; repugnance to society and dislike to talk; solicitude about the future, with disgust of life; inclination to doubt everything; mistrusts and misconstrues everything in the worst way; indolence, with aversion to every kind of labor and motion; insane jealousy
RANDOM NOTES ON PRACTICE
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS:
1. What is the remedy to be given (just one single dose) to a pregnant woman, when the foetus (baby in uterus) stops growing?
2. During epidemic encephalitis (brain fever, e.g., in Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu) what remedy would you use as prophylactic (preventive)?
3. All the children born to a woman are syphilitic by birth. What remedy in one single dose would you give her to prevent syphilis in the subsequent babies?
4. What is the remedy to be taken once a month by all practising homoeopaths? (Just because no homoeopath has been taking this regularly, is homoeopathy not becoming popular.) Also, please note that this remedy must first be given to a doctor-patient i.e., any homoeopath coming to you for treatment and also to a patient who has gone to many homoeopaths.
5. Name the two authors who had written biography of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann.
6. A patient complains of pain in spots in many places. If you draw a line connecting all these painful spots it is a straight vertical line. E.g., pain in right temple, right side of chest, right side of lower abdomen. Can you name the remedy?
7. What is the chief or first remedy that you would think of for haemophilia?
8. In homoeopathy what is the meaning of ‘scrofula’ or ‘scrofulosis’ and ‘cachexia?’
9. What is the remedy for jaundice after blood transfusion?
10. In respect of the symptom ‘haemorrhage’ differentiate between the two remedies Phosphorus and Hamamelis.
11. Name the remedy for (a) violent blow on single part of the body; (b) after a person falls rolling down from a speeding train or bus; (c) falling from height (second or third floor or from a tall tree) with bleeding; (d) falling down while trying to get into a running jeep or truck from behind?
12. Under what rubric in the repertory would you search for remedies for a patient with chronic tonsillitis?
13. What is the name of the reference book (and the name of its author) you would use for complaints of women occurring directly before, during or after childbirth or abortion?
14. A lady of twenty-eight had attempted to commit suicide (by swallowing kerosene or sleeping pills) and somehow she recovered. What is the remedy for her so that she may not repeat it in future?
15. What is the remedy for ‘ghost pain’?
16. A patient had fracture of tibia bone and though it healed, he was having pain with oozing etc., at the wounded place. One single dose of a remedy cured him. What is the remedy?
17. A patient was having vision problem. Went to an eye specialist and got spectacles. After a few days that glass did not suit. Had to change his specs. It happened this way 5-6 times. He was having half-a-dozen spectacles and he would wear the one that suited him on a given day. One single dose cured him. Can the reader name the remedy?
18. Where will you look for remedies for complaints of (a) the new born within twenty-four hours of birth; and (b) within one year of age?
19. A certain old man of seventy-five, walking with a cane and standing on one side of the road, with his body trembling, asks a passerby if the latter can help him to cross the road. We have cured three such cases with one single dose of a particular remedy. Can you name it?
Answers to the above questions:
1. The remedy Secale is almost a specific when the growth of foetus is arrested. (See Repertory by Dr. Calvin B. Knerr: GENITALIA—FEMALE, Pregnancy, foetus: arrests development, Secale.) One single dose of Secale 10M is sufficient.
2. See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—Head—Cerebrospinal affections - meningitis - epidemic: Zinc.
3. See Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory—Stages of Life and Constitution—Constitution, syphilitic—mothers, to prevent disease in offspring: Aurum-mur-nat.
4. See Kent’s Repertory—Generalities—Irritability—When too much medicine has produced an over-sensitive state and remedies fail to act: Ph-ac., Teucr [Homoeopaths are giving medicines to patients. The homoeo pharmacists put about ten drops of the tincture to a 5 ml phial of pills. Regardless of whether the homoeopath buys the potencies in dilution or pills, the doctor inadvertently smells the medicine each time he opens the phial to give a few pills to the patient. [We must remember that Dr. Hahnemann asked his patient to smell a phial containing potentised remedy.] This repeated smelling of several potentised remedies causes irritation, making them restless and/or haughty to the point of telling that he need not learn any more thing in homoeopathy. Also when the doctor himself is sick, no homoeo medicine seems to act on himself.]
5. Life and Letters of Hahnemann by Dr. Richard Haehl and another book by Bradford.
6. (a) Oxalic acid (Myelitis acuta, inflammation of the spinal cord)-myelitis paralytica; pains occupy small longitudinal places, < on thinking of them; limbs stiff; dyspnoea and spasmodic constriction of chest, paroxysms of short, hurried breathing, with intervals of ease; acute pain in back gradually extending down to thighs, with great torture, seeks relief in change of position; back too weak to support the body; spinal softening, weakness about loins and hips extending down legs, with numbness and loss of power.
(b) Oxalic acid (Paralysis)-sclerosis of posterior column; pains shooting down from the cord to the extremities, especially lower ones, stiffness of limbs, dyspnoea, followed by a peculiar general numbness, approaching to palsy; back feels too weak to support the body; jerking pains, confined to small spots, lasting only a few seconds; pains in small longitudinal spots; paroxysms of dyspnoea. We do not have any symptoms that appears latitudinally. [Items (a) and (b) are from Lilienthal]. Have you still not bought a copy of Lilienthal?
7. Crotalus horridus is the prime remedy for haemophilia.
8. (a) See the answer to question No. 12.
(b) Diseases, more particularly acute, that are longstanding and not cured in spite of best treatment, and where patient is affected much, disturbing his daily routine. We may call them by the term 'Cachexia.' Acute diseases such cough, cold, diarrhoea, skin rash etc. normally do not last long. When you find a patient with these complaints standing long for years and bothering him much, you may use the term 'Cachexia.' This may otherwise be called as weakness of the system or of a part of body.
9. Crotalus horridus.
10. (a) Hamamelis: Passive haemorrhage. No anxiety or pain:
(b) Phosphorus: Active haemorrhage with anxiety.
11. (a) Arnica (b) Cicuta (c) Millefolium (d) Phosphorus.
12. For a patient with chronic tonsillitis, you would generally look into the Repertory against the following: Tonsils, inflamed (quinsy, tonsillitis) (page 454 of Kent’s Repertory). But remedies in this list may be useful for acute complaints of tonsillitis. For curing tonsillitis permanently, it needs ‘treatment of chronic diseases.’ Chronic tonsillitis is due to tuberculosis (See MEDICAL DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD by Dawson Williams, London: Cassel & Co. p. 338-348) When tuberculosis affects the lung it is called pulmonary tuberculosis or phthisis; with a family history of tuberculosis, when t. b. affects bones or glands it is called ‘scrofula’ or ‘struma’. All chronic affections of glands are due to tuberculosis in the family. Chronic affections of bones may be due to either tuberculosis or syphilis; (in syphilitic affections of bones we find ‘nightly boring’ pain.) Therefore, to cure a chronic tonsillitis patient, we must consider the following:
Scrofulosis
— glandular affections. Bar., Bell., Calc., Carb. an., Cist., Clem., Con., Dulc., Graph., Hep., Kali, Lapis, Lyc., Merc., Nitr. ac., Phos., Rhus, Sil., Staph., Sulph. [See p. 943 of Lilienthal]
13. The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling.
14. See Dr. Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory - MIND - Suicide, attempted: Plb.
15. Pain at the point of amputation is called ‘ghost pain’. Allium cepa is the remedy for this.
16. See Calvin B. Knerr’s REPERTORY—GENERALITIES—Bones, injuries, ....after fracture of tibia: ANTHRACIN.
17. “. . . a patient had been travelling about from oculist to oculist, who had many visual troubles and no glasses would suit. . .Lac Felinum cured her.” (See Kent’s LECTURES ON HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA—Spigelia.)
18. Answer: (a) See the last chapter The BABY in Yingling.
(b) See (i) the Chapter GENITALIA—FEMALE—INFANTS in Dr. Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory and (ii) “Children Diseases of—Morbi Neonatorum et Infantum.” in Homoeopathic therapeutics by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal. (p. 148 to 184)
19. Physostigma (Calabar) - on walking, feeling of unsteadiness from knees downward, so that he has to tread carefully, especially when eyes are shut; he must see where he is going wants a cane to support himself; stiffness in recti femoris; languor; flatulence. Spinal irritation, loss of motility, prostration
. . . Fibrillary tremors. Rigidity of muscles; paralysis. Depresses the motor and reflex activity of the cord and causes loss of sensibility to pain, muscular weakness . . . Paralysis and tremors, chorea. — Boericke Materia Medica—Physostigma.
Trembling of legs, as if one could not walk straight. A feeling as if all power was going out of legs and they would give way; as if the cause of the weakness came from that one spot in back, between hips, and took away all power below that spot from limbs . . . Shuddering and trembling running down through all nerves of body . . . Violent trembling all over, in the street; felt for an instant as if he should lose consciousness, and could hardly get home; riding in a car for twenty minutes did not relieve sensations . . . Loss of voluntary motion without loss of consciousness . . . Complete relaxation of whole body, as if every nerve was unstrung, even to the eyes, which felt as if all power to see was going out of them. Giddiness and faintness without uneasiness. Paralyses motor nerves, but does not impair sensibility, intelligence and muscular irritability. — See The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica (10 volumes) by Dr. Constantine Hering—Calabar.
Remember the remedy Physostigma (Calabar) 10M, one single dose, for an old man walking with a cane trembling and treading carefully, It is one of the old age remedies par excellence. Learn by rote the above symptoms of Calabar.
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Could the rape victim Nirbhaya of Delhi (who had died of septicaemia) have been saved with homoeopathic medicines?
What is the remedy that would have cured Nirbhaya of Delhi, in one single dose? A practitioner ought to keep these remedies in his fingertip! Dr. Hahnemann, in his own time, had remarked, “Many of my followers, I am sorry to say, are but half converts.” That holds good even today. The seminars, articles in journals, so-called research papers, etc. are nothing but mockery of not only homoeopathy but also of homoeopaths. The reader need not say that any remedy prescribed on ‘totality-of-symptoms’ would have cured the gang rape victim Nirbhaya who died of septicaemia. That is a vague statement. In emergencies nature speaks plainly. The more danger to life, the clearer the symptoms speak and quicker our remedy acts.
Treatment of the Delhi rape victim Nirbhaya: One single dose of the remedy Crotalus horridus in the 10m potency) would have saved Nirbhaya. What is the case and why Crotalus Horridus for that?
Septicaemia caused by trauma with haemorrhage. Malignant diseases with blood degeneration are magically cured with one single dose of the remedy Crotalus horridus - 10M.
What are those diseases of blood which threaten the life of the patient?
They are:
(a) septicaemia caused by trauma with bleeding
(b) uncomplicated cases of blood cancer
(c) haemophilia
(d) jaundice after blood transfusion
(e) infective hepatitis
(f) hepatitis B virus
‘Septicaemia’ is a ‘general’ symptom. ‘Traumatic haemorrhage’ is another general symptom.
A general symptom occurring as a concomitant or modality to another general symptom is like the apex court judgment.
Crotalus horridus is the only remedy for this.
On page 912 of one of the high-definition reference works, Homoeopathic Therapeutics by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal, we find the following:
Pyaemia, septicaemia: Acon., Arn., Ars., Calend., Canth., Carbol. ac., Chin.arom., Chinin. mur. or sulph., Crotal., Lach., Nit. ac., Rhus, Veratr.vir., Zinc.
—for the haemorrhages: Crotal., Ergot., Kreos., Nitr. ac., Mur.ac., Fer-mur., Tarent-c., Tereb.
—for the adynamia: Mosch., Camph., Carb. v., Crotal., Lach., Phos., Sil., Veratr. alb., Veratr. vir., Sulph.
Crotalus horridus alone is common to the above three rubrics. Does any homoeopath want a better justification for the necessity and greatness of Lilienthal’s work?
During the South Delhi Homoeo Association Conference conducted at New Delhi during September 14-15, 2013, I asked an audience of about one hundred and fifty homoeopaths to raise the hands if they have a copy of the homoeo reference book The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual by Dr. W. A. Yingling and/or Homoeopathic Therapeutics by Dr. Samuel Lilienthal. To my shock, only half-a-dozen homoeopaths raised their hands. Most of the homoeopaths have never referred to these two books.
Is homoeopathy to be practised out of sheer whims and fancies or is it an exact and accurate science? We have cured three similar cases of septicaemia; one case was that of a boy attacked with knives; the other two were victims of road accidents; all were bleeding and also developed septicaemia before being admitted to the hospital several hours later. In these three serious cases allopathic doctors gave up hope. We cured all these cases with one single dose of Crotalus-hor., much to the astonishment of allopaths. That is why we are now able to write boldly that the gang rape ‘victim’ Nirbhaya of New Delhi too could have been saved with one single dose of this remedy.
The anxious practitioner may ask why the high potency? Of course, Dr. Hahnemann did not use above the 30th potency. Does it mean that higher potencies are of no use? The answer, again, is given by Dr. W. A. Yingling: “Everyone acknowledges that the low potencies act, and at times most brilliantly. There is no difference in regard to this. But those who have fairly tried the higher potencies are just as sure, and from the same reason, that of experience, that they act much more promptly and efficiently, and in many cases wil cure where the low entirely fail. From actual experience we sincerely assert that the higher potencies are by far the best to use in labor cases, especially, and that their best and quickest action is seen in the most alarming emergency cases. We have seen the most profuse haemorrhage cease in a very few moments and after the exhibition of a single dose of a high potency. We have see the most distressing pains change like magic into genuine labor pains, with delivery following speedily and naturally after a high potency. My own experience with high potencies has been so satisfactory and gratifying that I feel it a duty to urge everyone to give them a fair trial. Select the remedy carefully, and the speedy result will be to make another enthusiast in favor of the highly potentised remedies. In emergency cases the action of the similimum is so speedy that there is seldom need for a repetition of the dose, if of a high potency.” [See The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual, Introduction.]
Lilienthal’s work is an outstanding and laborious effort. He is a pioneer in the field of homeopathic therapeutics. It is a complete work and an easy reference book listing various disorders alphabetically with remedy reference. This therapeutic manual offers a wide array of ailments and clinical conditions with thorough and reliable remedy differentiation. This magnificent treatise will serve as an invaluable guide to effective remedy application by comparing the characteristics of each remedy given under every pathological condition. This book will enable students and practitioners to enhance their art of prescription. No author has excelled Lilienthal, excepting, of course, Dr. Yingling. The first and last disqualification for any homoeopath is not making use of Lilienthal in his day to day practice!
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‘Uncommon symptoms’ (for selecting the remedy) are not what you have learnt but they are, in reality, something different which you ought to know and also learn by rote.
--Explanation of Section 213 and 153 of the Organon—
CASE 1: Mr. N. 57 years reported: “Doctor, daily morning I get headache; in the afternoon, after lunch I have distension of abdomen, gastric troubles. In the night I get terrible pain in the leg…” Repertory is of no use in this case. The case is very simple. His symptom is to be classified as follows: “Aggravation of head symptoms in the morning; abdomen in the afternoon and legs in the night”
Under the remedy Ammonium mur. (Boericke’s Mat. Med.) the
following is specified: 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 evenings.
One single dose of Amm-mur-10M cured him.
CASE 2: A patient consulted me for constipation. Laxatives and purgatives were said to be of no use. He further said that for several years he had been taking daily anticonvulsant drug for epilepsy and if he stops it, he would get convulsions. The following symptom under the remedy Opium (in Wilkinson’s Materia Medica) agrees with this case:
“…Increased irritability and action in voluntary muscles, with diminution of it in involuntary muscles…”
When the intestine is full with faeces, urging is not felt (involuntary muscles.) In the instant case these muscles are not functioning. Movement of limbs is controlled by voluntary muscles and he gets convulsions in them (increased irritability and action). Opium-10M one single dose cured his constipation and he was asked to stop anticonvulsant drugs; he did so and to his surprise convulsions did not appear.
CASE 3: A patient showed his right leg with ulcer. He got injury a few months earlier but so far it did not heal in spite of best medical treatment. After a pause, the patient continued, “Doctor, ever since the accident I feel numbness in my right upper arm and I am unable to use it freely. Has this non-healing of wound in my leg anything to do with numbness in my arm? But my arm was not hurt in the accident.” In Wilkinson’s Materia Medica the following sentence under the remedy Pulsatilla agrees with this case: … depression of vital power on one side and increased irritability on the other… Pulsatilla-10M, one single dose, cured both the ulcer on the leg and numbness in the arm.
CASE 4: A patient came in with pain in the femoral part of urethra and backache. It was worse while riding the two-wheeler. He showed his medical file (given by allopathic hospital) and therefrom we noted the following points:
hydroureteronephrosis—Left kidney;
pain in femoral part of urethra;
pain in sacral region.
His complaint (pathology) is in ureter but he has pain in femoral part of urethra and sacrum. This is something rare-strange-peculiar. Both these painful places are at the same distance from the seat of affection—ureter. Under the remedy Belladonna (Wilkinson’s Materia Medica) we find the following: “Inflammation of internal organs… The inflammation… runs in radii as it extends to adjacent parts.” (Femoral part of urethra and sacrum are more or less at equal distance from his left ureter). Belladonna-10M, single dose, cured him.
CASE 5: Two years after the above case, a lady came to me for cervical spondylitis. These patients get pain normally in the neck extending to head or one upper limb. Strangely this patient complained of unbearable pain in both shoulder tips. (Both shoulder tips are at the same distance away from the cervical vertebra.) Belladonna-10M, single dose cured her.
CASE 6: Let us now examine what is meant by uncommon symptoms: Some of the most useful uncommon physical symptoms cannot be classified under any head in the repertory or homoeo software and so it is better to memorise them. For example, under the remedy Ignatia we find the words great contradictions. (Boericke Mat. Med.) A haemorrhoid patient said at the end of the consultation. [Remember, in most cases, after the narration is over and after a pause, the patient leans forward towards you and with wide open eyes (exclaims)] “Doctor… one thing. Everyone says that pain, bleeding etc. in piles would increase while straining when constipated; but my case is different. I do not get pain or bleeding whenever I strain during constipation. But during loose bowel movement I get both burning and bleeding.” The contradictory symptom is both ways. Hence Dr. William Boericke writes in plural: “Great contradictions.” Ignatia-1M, single dose cured this patient.
CASE 7: A school boy of twelve was brought by the parents. The mother started talking: “Doctor, he has to leave the house for school at 9.30 in the morning. He gets up at 6.00 a.m. By 7.30 a.m. he becomes so restless—jumps, cries etc. This would last for half-an-hour. Then this disappears; it is followed by 3-4 times loose bowel movement. After that he becomes completely all right and goes to school.” In this case the following should come to our mind: “Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups... ” The above lines are found in the remedy Cuprum met. (Boericke’s Materia Medica.) This remedy cured the patient in one single dose in the 200th potency.
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Most of the valuable ‘mind’ or ‘uncommon’ symptoms cannot be classified under any head in the repertories and the conscious homoeopath has to learn them by rote. (‘rote’ means mechanical or habitual repetition—Oxford ). Therefore, in many cases (if not all cases), homoeopathic software is of no use, however costly it may be and however praised by the so-called leading homoeopaths.
The following actual cases cured by the author would give the reader a clear and accurate meaning of ‘mind symptoms’ in a matter-of-fact way. Dr. Hahnemann advises that without prescribing on mind symptoms a cure is not possible (Section 213 of the Organon.) ‘Anger’, ‘restlessness’ etc. are ‘common’ symptoms of mind. ‘When Section 213 is read with Section 153, we infer that we have to prescribe on ‘uncommon mind symptoms.’
Case 1: A renal failure patient under dialysis and waiting for kidney transplant, was under our treatment. We could not find his remedy. There is no guarantee for kidney transplant, because after a few years, many patients die because sooner or later the donor kidney stops functioning. After transplant he was heard saying, “Now I feel as if I am released from prison . . . as if I have taken a rebirth.” This he said because he is now freed from torturing and exhausting bi-weekly dialysis, taking rest, body becoming weak etc. This mental picture of the patient should at once bring to our mind the following words: …desire to be released from what seems to be a perpetual burden of sorrow… (See p. 111 of the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by the author) We are going to give Ignatia to him and we are confident that his other kidney would start functioning and even if the donor kidney fails he would live long.
CASE 2: A patient with 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 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 with the remarks made by the above eczema patient. This remedy was given in single dose and it cured him completely.
CASE 3: A peptic ulcer patient’s condition worsened day by day and
allopathic antacids were giving only 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. 2 above. One single dose of the remedy Petroleum-10M cured this patient as well. We do not prescribe on names of disease or pathology but on ‘uncommon’ symptoms having no relevance to pathology. Anger, irritability etc. are not ‘uncommon mind symptoms’.
CASE 4: A seventy year old carpenter was under my treatment. During one of his visits he was accompanied by his 48-year old son. The latter was coughing with chest congestion etc. The carpenter told his son; “Why don't you also take treatment from this doctor. See how much I have improved, whereas the other seven doctors to whom I consulted earlier could not do anything in my case.” To this, the son said: “The new house where I shifted has no raasi.” (‘Raasi’ in Tamil means luck). In other words the person feels that everything was going wrong ever since he started living in a particular house. So, that house has no raasi. Or, a person feels that ever since he bought and started using a car, nothing went right. He attributes his sufferings, failures, difficulties etc. to that vehicle. I hope the reader would understand this. The son continued, “Even the new work place where I am going daily is not raasi (or has no good luck.)” The other word to describe ‘raasi’ would be ‘sentimental’ ‘luck’. The carpenter’s son was not ready to take treatment from me only because he felt that the house and the work place is the cause of his respiratory complaints. I gave him one dose of a remedy telling him to take that and he need not pay me any fees. He took it. (Later I learnt that he was completely cured.). Can the reader tell me what remedy I gave the patient?
MIND Symptoms: Superiority of Lilienthal:
Read the remedy Staphisagria in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal (p. 701.) There we find the following:
Inwardly gnawing grief and anger, he looks at everything from the darkest side . . . disinclination to work and think; dread of the future and dread of being constantly pursued . . . a sorrowfulness ending in paralysis of the intellect . . .
Homoeopathy is an exact and accurate subject. Precision and versatility is its culture. No one can practise it from imagination. The enthusiastic reader would be eager to know how I selected this remedy for the above case.
(a) Reproaches others (blaming the house and work place.)
(b) Sentimental. I write down the remedies common to both the above rubrics in Kent 's
Repertory (Mind) and read them in the chapter Melancholia in Lilienthal. Staphisagria suited the symptoms of the case.
Case 5: A lady of forty-two came with a large calculus in her urinary bladder. She said that allopathic doctors advised surgery as the only answer but she declined to undergo it. She continued that she had already undergone two caesarean sections and one appendicectomy; after each one of these surgeries, her general health came down. Therefore she cannot afford deterioration of health any further with another surgery and that she must safeguard her health for the remaining period of her life. Under the remedy Nux vomica (p. 128 in the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by the author) we find the following: Afraid she may not have enough to live on. Nux-vomica-1M one single dose was given in the evening. Not only her general health improved, but also the size of the stone started reducing. (Patient still under treatment)
CASE 6: A chronic renal failure patient came to me with a few relatives, all of whom were allopathic doctors. They showed me a file containing the medical papers of the patient. After this, one by one, the relatives went out. The patient was still sitting. He said, “Doctor, my sons say that I am sick and so I should not ride bicycle, go out and do our business. They say they will do everything and ask me to sit at home taking rest. As my children, they should only tell me that I am all right and I would recover soon. But instead of encouraging me for speedy recovery they have branded me as a permanent and incurable patient.” [The reader may note here that in most cases the ‘uncommon’ symptom (on which we can make a prescription) is told by the patient at the end of the consultation, or, in some cases, after you have made the prescription! In yet a few cases, during the second or subsequent consultations!] This patient feels that his sons, instead of encouraging, are letting him down. What one requires from the relatives is not money nor help but moral support. In this case the patient feels that this is completely missing. This symptom we find in two remedies. (See the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy) They are
“… a feeling of moral deficiency…” – Kali- brom.
… despondency, sadness, moral depression and relaxation…” – Tarentula hisp.
Tarentula hisp. 10M - single dose was given.
Case 7: A lady of fifty-five, school teacher, was under my treatment for three months for sinusitis with little relief. She lives thirteen kilometers away from my clinic and she works in a school which is nearer to my clinic. Before going to the school she would come to me once a month, take medicine and go to school. Seeing no relief in spite of three visits, I told her that a certain acupressure doctor would come and give just 3-minute treatment once only and for this she need not pay any fees and also I assured total relief. Since the acupressure doctor comes to my clinic on Sundays only I asked her to come on a Sunday. To this she replied, “I have to come all the way… from ... (her residence.)” During the earlier three visits she would come to me in the morning before going to her school which is near my clinic. Sunday is holiday for school and she feels it an ordeal to come for acupressure treatment all… the… way from her residence thirteen kilometers away. It is hesitation. I told her no need to pay any fees for the one-time acupressure treatment and 100% cure was also assured. Therefore, travelling thirteen kilometres won’t be a crime. But to do this she has hesitation. In the above said case, for merely travelling ten kilometres they have lot of hesitation as if I am asking them to do some crime or immoral thing. In other words, they are over conscious of a trivial thing. The apt term would be
“Conscientious scruples.”
This symptom is in the remedy Arsenicum album. [See the Final Mat. Medica of Mind Symptoms by the author. p. 77.] Let us repeat, that uncommon mind symptom may be in most cases one only, and the computer-software or ‘remedy finders’ are of no use. One single dose of Arsenicum Album-10M completely cured the above sinusitis patient and even acupressure treatment was not given. On this symptom, let us now see two more cases:
Case 8: This is a cancer patient and after the consultation was over, I asked my fees of six thousand rupees. To this he replied, “Money… is…” (The sentence was incomplete and hesitation was as if they are asked to do some immoral act.) He should say that either he has no money or that he would try to borrow from relatives. But he does neither. Ars. Alb-10M, one single, dose cured him. The above two cases would illustrate the meaning and interpretation of mind symptoms of a patient. In some cases the repertory or software is not useful and you have to learn by rote these uncommon mind symptoms. Let no one practise homoeopathy without the help of Lilienthal. Precision and versatility is required to practise homoeopathy. The most useful books for mind symptoms are:
(1) Dr. Samuel Lilienthal’s Homoeopathic Therapeutics.
(2) Dr. William Boericke’s Mat. Medica.
(3) Wilkinson’s Final Materia Medica (Compiled by Dr. V. Krishnaamurthy).
(4) Final Repertory of Mind Symptoms.
It is no exaggeration when we say that for homoeopathy practitioners Lilienthal is ten times worth its weight in gold.
Case 9: A patient with chronic headache, after spending much money with various doctors, specialists and homoeopaths came to me. After finishing the history of his seven years’ pain in head, he ended up saying: “Doctor, if you or anyone can cure me of this terrible headache, I won’t mind even giving away half of my property (worth three millions) to that doctor.” Doctors of all other systems would simply ignore this statement of the patient. If a patient is ready to pay 1.5 million... I thought over this. I took this as a challenge to homoeopathy. I asked him to first pay me ten thousand rupees and also give me two weeks’ time with a promise that if I do not cure him in one single dose (or a few doses) I would pay him double the amount paid by him. Also, if he is cured he may pay me another ten thousand rupees. He agreed to this condition and paid ten thousand rupees. I took a copy of Boericke’s Materia Medica and went to a professor of English and requested him to render me a help. I told him that he has to read the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies in Boericke’s Mat. Med. and underline if any relevant line is found equivalent to the statement of a person who says that he would pay half of his wealth if his headache is cured. I paid him five thousand rupees (which the professor said is more than sufficient for the work)—It may take a few days, daily spending two or three hours to go through the lines given under the chapter ‘Mind’ in Boericke’s 688-page materia medica. To another professor of English I gave a copy of Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica and paying him the remaining five thousand rupees requested him to do the job of reading the lines given only under the chapter ‘Mind’ in all the remedies (and this too would take a few days, daily working for three hours) and tell me if he finds anything equivalent to the above said statement of the headache patient. The first professor (using Boericke’s) could not find anything apt. But the second professor underlined and pointed out the following lines in the remedy Stillingia (under ‘Mind’ in Wilkinson’s). “Deplorably downhearted; suffering extreme torture from bone pains.” Stillingia 1000, one single dose cured the patient and he paid me another ten thousand rupees. After this case I cured two more patients with Stillingia. both of whom said the above words (ready to give his entire wealth to the doctor who cures him). Diligence and knowledge of English language, both to the core, are required to practise homoeopathy.
Case 10: Here is another case of headache. This 55-year old male patient remarked: “Doctor, all these years I have been having these pains; my sufferings are such that no amount of compensation would be equal to it. Even if you make me the President of all the nations in the world that would not be a sufficient compensation.” I told him the same condition which I put to the patient in the earlier case. After taking ten thousand rupees I went to the two English professors, one with Boericke and the other with Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica. In this case the professor going through Boericke’s Mat. Medica could help me. He pointed to the following found under the remedy Selenium. “Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.” Selenium 10M, one dose cured the patient and he paid me ten thousand rupees. On a later occasion the above said professors asked me what I did by their help and I showed them how I practise homoeopathy. Soon both of them started learning and practising homoeopathy. Homoeopathic system of medicine is exact and accurate. Precision and versatility is its culture. In some cases Calvin B. Knerr’s repertory is excellent to work out cases with mind symptoms.
The other day I was sitting by the side of a senior homoeopath in his clinic. A patient entered and asked, “Do you have medicine for diabetes?”
Doctor: Yes, tell me your symptoms.
Patient: (Stretching his hand towards the doctor). “see my pulse; give medicine.” [The tone of the patient was in a commanding note similar to a king, who, when anything is required would order, “Bring the head of the thief in two hours.”]
The doctor turned towards me and said, “See doctor, these patients don’t tell symptoms. How can I prescribe?” That doctor always thinks “Sensation, Locality Modalities, concomitants. What a wrong teaching?”
I took Calvin B. Knerr’s Repertory and showed him the following:
MIND, Answers, imperiously: Lycopodium.
Further I showed him the following from Wilkinson’s Mat. Medica under the remedy Lycopodium: “Talks with an air of command . . . manner stiff and pretentious.” Lycopodium 10M, one single dose, cured this patient of his diabetes.
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